Comments on: Sotomayor reminds us that affirmative action is terribly unfair

By: Bookworm Room » Tipping point idea: Put a sunset provision on all federal laws

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:56:10 +0000

[...] again to Mike Devx for coming up with this good [...]

By: Michael Adams

Michael Adams — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:47:36 +0000

M. Martel, I realize that the wife is always right, but, she’s not MY wife. So, I can say it, she’s wrong! Sure, you could be Rastus Jackson, and I know you could do some back ground research to build such an identity. However, you have already done the work for Hammer. I know, from little bits that float by us, that the depth of your knowledge about the original is quite impressive. It is not just a random name, as Rastus would be, but a chosen hero from history, whose victory and life are examples quite pertinent to our time. So, don’t argue with her. Smile and tell her how pretty she looks and change the subject. And don’t anybody tell me that’s patronizing. It is diplomatic self defense, in which most men are woefully deficient.

By: Bookworm Room » Conservatives need to create powerful, sticky messages that lead the electorate to a tipping point

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:48:10 +0000

[...] in that vein, here’s an idea from Mike Devx, one that would work marvelously well on Facebook. It would appeal to people on both sides of the [...]

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:03:54 +0000

“I’ve wondered at times why laws aren’t required to have a “sunset provision”, meaning every law would expire at a certain time after passage.”

Bush’s tax cuts were like that. Only people who believe in the US Constitution as it now stands would agree to a sunset provision. And so they did. But those who are working towards a higher agenda, knows the value of eternity.

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:20:22 +0000

Book, you wrote:
I recognize that Sotomayor’s opportunity came about in 1972, when affirmative action was meant to be a quick fix — a head start — to make up for the decades of discrimination that immediately preceded those first few years of affirmative action. What rankles is that, two generations later, we’re still giving a hand up to mediocre people in the name of race.

I’ve wondered at times why laws aren’t required to have a “sunset provision”, meaning every law would expire at a certain time after passage. The law would have to be re-passed by whatever legislature passed it in the first place, else it goes on the dustbin of history. Perhaps the default should be twenty years to the date after passage. But you could specify a non-default expiration that would be allowed to be LESS (not more than the default.)

Same thing perhaps for regulations. It might keep the tsunami of laws and regulations under control. And the bad ones or the controversial ones would be guaranteed to be re-fought. Or the laws whose time may have come and gone – such as affirmative action to redress a wrong – get refought and resisted because we have done enough.

By: Spartacus

Spartacus — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:37:11 +0000

If it comes to that, Martel, I think most of us could adapt to calling you “The Artist Formerly Known As Charles Martel.” But none of that hand-sign business, OK? No clue how to type that. Besides, commenters in bad neighborhoods might inadvertently instigate a drive-by.

By: jj

jj — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:54:45 +0000

Sotomayor, “in town Monday to promote her newly released memoir, said she couldn’t talk about affirmative action because of a pending court case. In the next breath, she talked about what it had meant to her…” Jesus Christ on a bicycle – is this woman really that goddam stupid? In the first place, with her personal history, what the hell’s she doing sitting at all? Why hasn’t she recused as being unable to render a fair judgment? (And how come nobody in the audience asked that question? I mean, even for Planet Wambeeno down there on the bay – come on!)

At this point the whole country’s beginning to rankle.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:44:34 +0000

Martel, I assumed the ango code was the result of time disruption in the machine code data base transfer. Such as the Times New Roman time oscillation.

“She got into Princeton despite the fact that she didn’t qualify. And doesn’t it just suck for the hard-working white or Asian kid who, in that same year, had spectacular test scores (not to mention good grades), but was nevertheless barred from Princeton because Sotomayor took her place? ”

At this time and place, perhaps being barred from the brainwashing institute that is Princeton Ivy League, is not such a bad thing overall.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:41:38 +0000

It was always justice that should have been sought, not fairness. Through justice, the balance of one’s fate and civilization becomes fair and equal. But when you implement fairness first and alone, you do not get justice.

By: Charles Martel

Charles Martel — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:23:48 +0000

The gobbledygook preceding my comment above is my homage to Prince. My bride has been after me for years to come up with a more memorable name than Charles Hammer, and I figured that having an unpronounceable name is just the ticket.