Patrick Fitzgerald, a paranoid gun for hire?

There was a time I admired Mr. Fitzgerald but with the Gov. Blagojevich case, I instantly became suspicious of his motives in light of how politics is played in America. Due to the fact I have not heard from Mr. Fitzgerald since the initial smear of Blagojevich and the subsequent and relentless media hostilities directed towards Sen. Roland Burris, this post by Peter Lance speaks volumes. Me think there’s a barn fire beneath this cloud of smoke and Mr. Lance has stumbled through the smoke and managed to pull the fire alarm. A curious situation! In relationship to Patrick Fitzgerald, it’s that thing about glitter and gold.
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
Mr. Fitzgerald, In Your Threat to Sue for Libel, Please, Either Put Up or Shut Up
Peter Lance
Excerpt:
Seven weeks ago Patrick Fitzgerald, the most intimidating Federal prosecutor in America, sent my publisher (HarperCollins) and me a letter threatening to sue us for libel if Triple Cross, a book I wrote, critical of his anti-terrorism track record, was published.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-lance/mr-fitz-in-your-threat-to_b_233530.html

Sonia’s coming!! Sonia’s coming….

-Listen up, you guys. You all know Sonia’s coming.
-(All) That bitch! (Groans) Big deal! Mama Lucia! No, Mama Maria! (Laughter) Big Mama! (Laughter) I think she would be good for this court. (Boo!)
-Come’on, guys! Get serious and Clarence you are going to look awfully funny when that bubblegum pops around your lips.
-Sorry, Boss....thank you Suh. Mighty nice of you to think of me.
- We always think of you, Clarance. You know you're our boy.
-Thank you, Suh. God bless you. (Sits down)
-(All) Three cheers for Clarance.
-Ruth, hold your head up! Can you see me with that Star of David hanging ‘round your neck?
-I can see what I want to see, thank you!
-John, I have a question.
-Yes, Sam?
-Will we have to look at more cases now? I mean supposing she and her clerks decide we can look at more cases than we do.
-Yeah, that last case with the fire fighters ran my clerks ragged. They were not happy with the researching they had to do. They’re so lazy! Half of’em wouldn’t recognize the Fourteenth Amendment or Title Seven if they fell on their cone heads!
-Mine too. When I went into the room to find out what they had for me they were always eating lunch at such odd hours of the day or looking at a move or something. I pretty much was on my own in my vote.
-And what if Maria, I mean Sonia, ask of us if there is a president or if Congress has passed a law?
-What do you mean, John!
-I mean supposing she suggest we, or our clerks first find our the intentions of Congress and that particular state’s laws regarding the questions a case presents?
-Yes, Tony?
-We’re fucked! Who’tha hell is gonna to spend that much time in research?
-Come’on, guys! We can do it!
-What do you mean “We!” I am thinking about spending more time with my family. I’m not going to take this shit! Sonia baby, it’s all yours! I’m outta here!
-Yeah, if those guys who voted to put me here think I am going to work myself to death at my age, they’re crazy as hell.
-..and you can kiss my ass if you think I’m going to start being here everyday. I do have a life outside of the Supreme Court, you know!
-David, tell us. Why are you really leaving? I mean, really leaving?
-’cause ya’ll full of shit.
-Amen to that.
-I think she would be good for this court.
-(all) Boo! (All line up leaving room singing, "La Cucaracha")
As always,
BB
P.S. The silliest thing I saw this week were some Isralis with head dress looking like giant hat boxes scuffling with Israeli solders. I couldn’t find out what that was all about. It was on the news so fast. (And they call some Muslins “Rag heads”)

Can the Supreme Court Be Pure Again? (Was It Ever?)
Deepak Chopra
Author, Sirius radio host, founder of the Alliance for a New Humanity
Posted: July 15, 2009 05:22 PM
Excerpt:
Sotomayor can expect to be grilled on her supposed ethnic bias and gender issues, but the real issue has nothing to do with either. It has to do with the taint that has been on the Supreme Court since the shameful ruling over the 2000 Presidential election. The purity of the justices, their supposed detachment from the dirty business of politics, was exposed as a sham. Defying the court's own long precedent, the right wing simply installed George Bush by fiat. They did so willfully, smugly, openly, and without remorse, figuring that it was payback for the activist decisions initiated under the liberal Warren court. Nine years later, the irony is that if Sotomayor were the partisan zealot so ridiculously portrayed by her opponents, she'd fit right in. Her balance and impartiality could actually be hindrances, although we are told she's good at judicial street fighting -- let's hope so.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/can-the-supreme-court-be_b_234193.html

Ms. Sotomayor and Mozart

I don’t know why I fell asleep in my chair just when Sen. Sessions was about to question Supreme Court nominee Ms. Sonia Sotomayor. I went into a cold, dead sleep, sleeping through the entire episode.

I thought it strange myself that just after the opening speech of chairman Patrick Leahy, I missed the entire questioning of Sen. Jeff Sessions who was the next person to question Ms. Sotomayor. This is very disturbing to me as to how and why that happened. However, why I turned off the television when Sen. Jon Kyle was questioning Ms. Sotomayor is clear to me and no mystery; his questioning of Ms. Sotomayor was, in my opinion, pure insanity.

In order to fully understand myself what happened today while watching the confirmations hearings, I have to put it in the perspectives of my world, the world of music and in particular in relationship to a scene in the movie “Amadeus,” the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The scene is in one of the grand ball rooms in the palace in Italy with Mozart‘s father, the King and members of his court in attendance. Salieri, a prominent musician of the time and much older than Mozart played one of his compositions for Mozart and Mozart responded by not only playing his composition back to him but with significant musical organizational insight and improvements. Salieri was pissed due in part to the fact he was the court musician and nothing like that had ever happened to him before; after all, he was the darling of the Italian court!

In my world, Ms. Sotomayor was Mozart and the questioning senators were Antonio Salieri. Some were gracious and in some cases feigned appreciation of Ms. Sotomayor’s brilliant legal mind. The senators played their song for Ms. Sotomayor and she used their melody playing her version dictated by her talents. I marveled! I yelled out into my empty living room “Brilliant!” followed by sustained hand claps of appreciation. I was beside myself with exhilaration and joy and I did not care. It felt good. I had not done that since Pres. Obama was in the primaries. Enter creepy Republican Sen. Jon Kyle.

This monster, this fiend, this horrible man played the single musical note of middle “C” on the harpsichord and asked Mozart, aka Ms. Sotomayor, to create a string quartet. To create a string quartet on the harpsichord and not in the key of “C” mind you but rather using the single musical note “C”. This is how my mind interpreted Sen. Kyl’s harsh insistence Ms. Sotomayor address his concerns about a statement she made regarding the wisdom of a Latina woman Vs. that of a white male. I watched the episode as long as I could but the logic used or not used by Sen. Kyle got the best of me. I simply could no longer process what he was talking about. My nerves had gotten twisted, I was in a panic mode and began to sweat. I had to turn the television off to re-process my sanity. It was a horrifying experience for me. I resumed my watching of the hearings to hear Sen. Schumer from New York save my day.
As always,
BB
P.S. I am hearing murmurs to once again ask the Justices of the Supreme Court to let cameras into their court.

Session’s hate speech
By Tom Gilroy
(Author: This brilliant post is a comfort. Kudos to Tom Gilroy)
So, if you're going to embrace affirmative action, feminism, equal rights, economic fairness, civil rights, -- Jesus, even empathy -- you stand warned you will be attacked. It has nothing to do with defeating Sotomayer and everything to do with discrediting what most Americans believe and intimidating us from expressing it. It's also a signal to their dwindling base -- disenfranchised, uneducated whites -- that the GOP is still the party of the cluelessly and inarticulately disgruntled.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-gilroy/sessionss-hate-speech_b_232246.html

Fears of the brilliant Black mind

In my opinion, Sen. Jeff “*Banjo Boy” Sessions et al., have no fears of soon to be Justice Sotomayor as a person. They fear her mind and rightly so. They envision the other Supreme Court Justices feasting on her every word in her line of questioning on some cases that come before them. They are in panic mode as to the clerks she will hire and their influences on the other court clerks. They fear her logic, her insight and her abilities to reduce complex issues down to their lowest term wherein the right way to vote on an issue would reach out and bite them if it were a snake. In short, they fear the Obama-like mind on the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Sen. Orrin Hatch spilled the beans in his opening statement regarding his obsession with the thinking processes of Pres. Obama. To me, he was very revealing. For Pres. Obama to select Ms. Sotomayor for the Supreme Court was cruelty to dumb animals. Classic Obama having a little intellectual fun!

The Banjo Boys fear the “single old maid who owns a cat” syndrome of getting to work early, staying late, reading everything she can, being highly respected with everyone listening to what she has to say with great attention and affection. They are concerned with her background which includes having more jobs in the legal community than any previous (White) Supreme Court Justice.

They know it to be impossible for Ms. Sotomayor not to be the Darling of the Court for years to come! She will be listened to and heard whether the other justice’s and pundits want to call her Sonia Soto-mae-O-er, Ms. Soto-mah-ER, Ms. Soto-MY-O or just plain Maria! (Smile) “Juviniles!” she mutters.

I pray Ms. Sotomayor does not get Banjo Boy and his cohort too upset tomorrow but hey, she is a smart cookie and knows how to handle herself in difficult situations. Yessirree, tomorrow is going to be a very good pop-corn day for me. I haven’t had one in a long time. Yummm-my!
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
P.S. I heard a commentator on WPFW this morning with some interesting pronunciations of “Sotomayor”.
P.P.S. Michele knew better than to let that girl go out of the house with that shirt with the Peace sign on it.
*Banjo Boy from "Deliverance" (got this from a diarist on Dkos)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyKvD-4IxOY

An even playing field? Racism and the Ballot box

Today I heard George “The man who stole Pres. Carter’s re-election game book” Will today on a TV show making a weird remark regarding people mourning the death of Michael Jackson all the while being mindful of remarks by Sen. Peter King also regarding Michael Jackson and then reading this enclosed “took a lot of work” diary by britobserver.

I often wonder what we Blacks in particular can do when we hear racist remarks and witness racist actions. Unless we can bring economic pressures to bare as does the Jewish communities, in my opinion the only sure-fire instrument we have is the ballot box. What a sad realization! One could wonder if ballot boxes are our only metaphorical lemons.

With absolutely no optimism whatsoever I believe the resolution of the Zionist and Arab conflict in Africa, where Israel is located, would go a long ways world-wide and I, in no ways consider myself naïve! I just wonder why it is all Jews appear to be afraid of the Zionist. How is that possible? Are Dick Cheney, John Bolton, Abraham Foxman and Rupert Murdock Zionist? We have a lot to learn about the cultural practices and education of the Zionist. I am sure since it may be common knowledge and since I am Black it may already be in a book somewhere. (Smile)
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help,
BB
P.S. I have noticed on many occasions it is the background speaker who sets the tone of the “news” segment. They have a lot of power hiding behind the curtain, so to speak.
P.P.S. Since Pres. Netanyahu called Rahm Emanuel and David Axel rod “self hating Jews” I guess they are not Zionist.

The end of racism in America?
by britobserver
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/12/737469/-The-end-of-racism-in-America
Excerpt:
Well we have seen Gun sales on the increase, in no little part fuelled by both Glen Beck and the NRA with false stories on gun rights being removed, a resurgence of right wing militia groups and an uptick of traffic on sites such as Stormfront, an increase in racial attacks as well as an increased level of racial slurs on right wing websites such as Free Republic which was pretty bad after just the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court but has now reached the event horizon with the racist attacks on Malia Obama as Kos diarists The Halfrican and CatM have brilliantly been monitoring.
Unfortunately it's about to get worse. Monday morning see the start of the hearings on Judge

And
Sonia Sotomayor (who Mike Huckabee called "Maria". Seen one, seen 'em all eh, mike?) and with the likes of Pat Buchanan (who never met a privileged old white male's viewpoint he didn't like to keep as the status quo) and Tom Tancredo (a man who is the child of immigrants himself, but is so dense to that fact that he actually deflects light) leading the charge in the media and led in the Senate by the Civil Rights hating reject for the Federal Bench Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and the singular walking brain trust that is Sen. Jim Inhofe (R- Moran) things have the combusible elements included to get ugly. This was before the republicans decided that New Haven firefighter Frank Ricci should come in as their rookie draft pick choice to help sift through the last two decades of Judge Sotomayor's legal decisions and give his considerable legal opinions on them.

And
BREAKING: Valley Swim Club Caves...Invites Kids Back.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/12/752785/-BREAKING:-Valley-Swim-Club-Caves...Invites-Kids-Back.

And
More Racism from Free Republic
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/12/752801/-More-Racism-from-Free-Republic