tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post1825117605915050945..comments2024-03-19T15:24:48.864-07:00Comments on Green Eagle: A Monster on the CourtGreen Eaglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-64437884879847675042017-04-04T17:47:12.885-07:002017-04-04T17:47:12.885-07:00And Jacobs, if you see this, usually if I've m...And Jacobs, if you see this, usually if I've made an insignificant mistake I will correct it, but this one is big enough that I will leave it up for people to see.Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-31466118000900621432017-04-04T10:59:48.994-07:002017-04-04T10:59:48.994-07:00Good guess, RussianBlueFan, but even Green Eagle, ...Good guess, RussianBlueFan, but even Green Eagle, who has worked on such celebrated American cultural artifacts as "Biodome" and "Dude, Where's My Car," has some jobs that are beneath him.Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-91423653957617394092017-04-03T23:52:00.352-07:002017-04-03T23:52:00.352-07:00" I've been really busy at work on a (bra..." I've been really busy at work on a (brain-dead) pilot"<br /><br />Is his name George W. Bush, by any chance?RussianBlueFannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-7656826181054898092017-04-03T21:04:33.304-07:002017-04-03T21:04:33.304-07:00Sorry. I've been really busy at work on a (br...Sorry. I've been really busy at work on a (brain-dead) pilot, and I cranked this out in between other things. When I'm wrong, I'm wrong.Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-88498157564126955892017-04-03T20:56:41.868-07:002017-04-03T20:56:41.868-07:00Well, as they apparently believe, the best defense...Well, as they apparently believe, the best defense is a good lie. <br /><br />What really concerns me is, as with Rehnquist, they have no shortage of loathsome subhumans willing to do their bidding. If one doesn't work, there is a whole line of others waiting for their chance. And we all know that Pence or Ryan (or any other Republican leader) might have the instinct for self-preservation not to constantly make asses of themselves, but in the end, what they do is going to be just as piggish as anything Trump could imagine. I see no salvation for the Republican party. <br /><br />I've been reading a book about Eastern Europe after World War I, and am on the part about the civil war between the Bolsheviks and the White Russians. The Bolshevik takeover of Russia was, much like the overthrow of the French monarchy, accomplished with very little bloodshed, by world standards. The war against the White Russians, i.e. the remains of the upper class who refused to give up their status, however, resulted in three million deaths, even though looking back at things, the Whites had nothing to offer the people but jingoism and a return to a life of exploitation, while the Bolsheviks offered a break from hundreds of years of extreme exploitation. Of course, redbaiting historians saw to it that the three million deaths, which were largely a product of upper class intransigence, have come to be blamed on the Bolsheviks. <br /><br />That is really all the Republicans have to offer the American people today: jingoism and suffering, as opposed to a party that is willing to at least make a stab at improving things. Unfortunately, jingoism and hatred are very powerful things.Green Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477132834757467690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-87185140176057117002017-04-03T20:44:02.185-07:002017-04-03T20:44:02.185-07:00"Rehnquist was the third person appointed by ..."Rehnquist was the third person appointed by Richard Nixon to replace the retiring justice John Marshall Harlan. The first two appointees, named Haynesworth and Carswell, were open Southern racists, who the Democrats managed to turn down." - Green Eagle<br /><br />You're confusing two different events.<br /><br />After Abe Fortas resigned from SCOTUS in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Blackmun" rel="nofollow">1969</a>, due to a history of ethics conflicts, Nixon named Haynesworth (1969) and Carswell (1970) to replace the former judge. Nixon's third choice, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon_judicial_appointment_controversies" rel="nofollow">Harry Blackmun</a>, would go on to write the <i>Roe v. Wade</i> decision.<br /><br />John Marshall Harlan II died in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Marshall_Harlan_II" rel="nofollow">1971</a>, and Rehnquist was Nixon's first choice to replace him.<br /><br />Getting the chronology wrong is a problem.<br /><br />绿鹰非常笨 (Don't make silly mistakes.)<br /><br />-Տիգրան Հակոբյան<br />Jacobsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-51876462807145541032017-04-03T17:42:12.946-07:002017-04-03T17:42:12.946-07:00The Republicans always favor justifications for in...The Republicans always favor justifications for increasing the power of the state over the individual, from invasions of privacy to atrocities like torture.<br /><br />Then they have the gall to accuse us liberals of being statists, and claim to be the side advocating "freedom".Infidel753https://www.blogger.com/profile/10965786814334886696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1903235483068862940.post-25973840182116127072017-04-03T17:10:52.658-07:002017-04-03T17:10:52.658-07:00"...his honorable man, of whom the Republican..."...his honorable man, of whom the Republicans are so proud, is in fact a torturer..."<br /><br />Definitely a Trump man!Jerry Critterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870618647449723147noreply@blogger.com