If Sonia Sotomayor grew up in the "projects" then how did she go to Princeton and that other swanky joint? Could her good grades and the fact that she was hispanic maybe qualified her under some racial quota system? Did she get a grant from the Rockysmellers or the Carnegies (may their oligarch carcasses rot in hell for all eternity)? Did she hit the lottery? Did she pay the tuition with food stamps? Maybe Margaret Sanger left her an endowment from the profits of her chain of abortion clinic franchises? Did she work three jobs and pay her own tuition?
Inquiring minds want to know. Anybody got any answers? I just thought I'd ask.
The reason I ask this about her is I just have to wonder why her,and why at this particular time in the collectivist takeover that is replacing our once representative republic. Does she owe any group or institution? Will she give us only a slight raping or a barbed wire wrapped telephone pole? Please forgive My pessimism,I only get like this when under a fascist regime sworn to My destruction.
It's easy to find the answers to the questions you ask- just do some searches. From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor
ReplyDelete"Celina Sotomayor put great stress on the value of education, and bought the Encyclopædia Britannica for her children, something unusual in the housing projects.[9] Sotomayor has credited her mother as being her "life inspiration".[22] For grammar school, Sotomayor attended the parochial Blessed Sacrament School in Soundview,[23] where she was valedictorian and had a near-perfect attendance record.[18][24] Sotomayor passed the entrance tests for, then commuted to, the academically rigorous parochial Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx.[13][25][26] Meanwhile, the Bronxdale Houses had fallen victim increasing heroin use, crime, and the emergence of the Black Spades gang.[13] In 1970, the family found refuge by moving to Co-op City in the Northeast Bronx.[13] At Cardinal Spellman, Sotomayor was on the forensics team and was elected to the student government.[25][26] She graduated as valedictorian in 1972.[9]
College and law school
When Sotomayor entered Princeton University on a full scholarship,[27] there were few women students and fewer Latinos (about 20).[9][28] She later described the experience as like "a visitor landing in an alien country."[29] She was too intimidated to ask questions for her first year there,[29] her writing and vocabulary skills were weak, and she was lacking knowledge in the classics.[30] She put in long hours in the library and over summers, worked with a professor outside class, and gained skills, knowledge, and confidence..."
And of course if you don't like that one, there are plenty of others. But frankly one Hispanic woman on the SC isn't going to make much difference to the staggering privelege of white men, fascist or otherwise.
Anyone remember the Social Contract?
ReplyDeleteWe seem to be returning to the old feudal days when birth condition was everything, and anyone born to the elite was guaranteed the right to feed off those who weren't. We hear continual argument for more rights for predators, and questions of every little move the prey (us) makes to get out from under.
I guess I am a "minority" here "still clinging to My gun and religion". I still cant see how flooding the nation with illegal immigrants as a cheap labor pool for bussiness will get us "out from under the predators".
ReplyDeleteI see a lot of shame in working people financing the "underdog". I cant start a business when I see a dozen or so taxing entities lined up to feast on My bank account.
So whats next for the supreme court,a gay chinese commie? I can tell you all for sure what you will not see in the halls of the government,a poor or middle-class anglo that is honest and who believes in hard work to get ahead in this world.
The soviet-styled collective seems to have some cheerleaders here.
The fact that ivy-leaguers paid for her education is what makes Me tremble. Those more intelligent than us who influence the NEA,members of foundations and just plain wealthy oligarchs have given us the soviet styled cess-pit we see emerging now.
ReplyDeleteAnd on "affirmative action" when I was in the now exported industrial workforce I did the work while a black and a woman took the credit and made the bucks. Neither could have done the work.
A color and gender-blind society cannot promote one race or gender and have an equitable system. I never bought into political correctness and never will.
I once thought myself liberal or left leaning but not anymore after witnessing the destruction of a once prosperous nation that was the envy of the world.
No group can really truly be advanced by pulling down another.Maybe I just miss the "good old days" when I actually believed in My country and didnt have scores of parasites sucking My blood,from classes above and classes below. Third world here I come.
The group that has profited from the dismantling of America is a very small one- most likely none of us has ever met any of them. They greased their rapine by encouraging the rest of us to fight amongst ourselves. Most of your resentments are misplaced- by design.
ReplyDeleteWhy confuse debating a subject with "fighting amongst ourselves". I could never take on you ladies in a fight, I am not educated and have few computer skills.
ReplyDeleteIf we can understand our own differences we will be one step closer to world peace.
Mensch- do I EVER get TIRED of people yapping about their "hard-earned tax dollars" paying for this or that or chikken fat. I am seriously thinking of making these lines part of my signature:
ReplyDeleteThe System works this way: you work, you pay, you stay out of prison (until it’s decided that you don’t).
Arbeit Macht Frei.
That said, I TOO have been the "victim" of "reverse discrimination" (whatever-the-hell-THAT-is) and it certainly made ME a tad grumpy.
But compared to the damage the "shareholder value" fucks have done to the US, the dinky little "social programs" are a fart in a typhoon.
As a wise old "Ivy League" prof once explained: "...for every GW Bush we pass through the system. we get to subsidize a Maya Angelou." ...or anybody else who has lots of talent and no money... and it appears that Sotomayer was clearly one of those.
In academia, they don't need to fill quotas with just any old qualifying-label-person (like they do in what used to be "industry" or "government")... because there's a huge supply of people with great talent and no money.
If your experience in "industry" was like mine, you just needed to show up with a dark face and clean piss... and you were IN.
And watch out with the word, "collectivists" It's an Indego Montoya thing: "...I don't think that word means what you think it means."
Well I dont complain about My "tax dollars" cuz I no longer play the game. I do often bitch about sales tax,fishing tax,hunting tax,auto registration tax,mandatory insurance tax,property tax etc etc ad infinutum(read nauseum). I am dropped-out of the system. GOD ALMIGHTY himself has delivered Me from the jaws of the beast.
ReplyDeleteI own a farm,I pay no rent or mortgage. I have been blessed with a tractor and implements,a machine shop,vehicles,trailers and a fence around My "compound,sweet compound". By direct divine intervention My mind has been freed from the corporate hive-mind. I have good upstanding neighbors that mind their own business but are right there when I may need them. I have irrigation water for the crops and a BIG air-conditioner (take that you green-weenies) a well and modern kornputer internet.
All these things were bestowed on Me and I did not have to work for it or pay for it.
"Let GOD be true and every man a liar"
The promises made in the BIBLE are true. GOD can deliver us from the beast system.
HOO BOY KIK... you is in TALL COTTON!! I is GREEN wit ENVY!!!
ReplyDeleteSorry... didn't mean to imply you were grumping about taxes (hell, don't we ALL). Yep, Romans 3:4... where they were arguing about that clipped-weenie thing. Sheesh. Talk about missing the point.
I'm an agnostic... but a "text" guy... I sorta work on text the way you might work on machines. I DO wish it were the other way around... that is, I wish I knew how to do something REAL... but I bought into all that "knowledge worker" shit years ago... and got rid of everything I had with a handle on it. Dum on my part.
So where does the "Law" come from? Whether of Divine origin or culturally evolved, we are in need of Jurists who can understand and interpret the text. If you're looking for a token hack, look no further than Clarance Thomas, who is about as deep as piss on a plate. From what I have read about her (Sotomayor), she is a good Jurist... which is about all we can ask for in a SC tilted with hacks and stooges.
IMHO... Paul's letters to the Romans are a crafty argument for throwing aside OLD precedent... but insisting on the validity of a NEW precedent... which he does quite smartly. In the Literature, I have great admiration for Paul's intellect-- but serious doubts about his "faith." To me, he sounds like any marketing person on the ground-floor of an emerging industry.
The "central protagonist" in the New Testament calls for compassion. brotherhood and mercy... qualities sadly lacking in US kultur. Whether the "judgement" is natural or Divine (hmmm... maybe they're the same thing), it appears that it will be a harsh one. Sotomayor has been emphasizing her "underdog" perspective. Fits right in with the "central protagonist" to me.
Time will tell.
A jury of My peers saved Me from a forty year stretch that a cop that was stalking My ex accused Me of. With all the faults in our system the jury clause was the wisest of all the ideas. Only a speedy trial is now 6 months to 2 years wait. Go figure.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, its summertime and the livin is easy. Some of My best freinds are agnosticaters. You will come along after being in the foxhole under heavy enemy shelling, but it doesnt have to come to that. You can come along the easy way, or the hard way,,,,,BOY !!!!!
I hear ye Brother... I hear ye!!
ReplyDeleteI have definitely spent my time on the verge of death a-mumblin and a-prayin to whatever is out there.
And now that I'm old and "safe" (for the time being) in my cushy-butt-on-the-internet chair... there is no way I would EVER deny trying to make some kind of connection to whatever-it-is-that's-out-there. I did it... and I'm glad I did.
It's the Buddhist in me that thinks the "world beyond" is an unimportant question.
We will ALL find out soon enough, won't we?