[WASHINGTON.CBSLOCAL] WASHINGTON (CBSDC) -- We now know why it appears that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg appeared to fall asleep during President Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... 's State of the Union address last month ‐ she was drinking beforehand.
In a lighthearted moment before an audience at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., Thursday night, the 81-year-old Ginsburg cracked up telling the story that she "wasn't 100 percent sober" before going to the State of the Union.
"The audience ‐ for the most part ‐ is awake because they're bobbing up and down all the time and we sit there stone-faced, sober judges," Ginsburg said. "At least I wasn't 100 percent sober because before we went to the State of the Union we had dinner."
Ginsburg said that Justice Anthony Kennedy was the culprit, bringing wine to dinner.
"Justice Kennedy brought in ... it was an Opus something or other, very fine Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, wine that Justice Kennedy brought and I vowed this year just sparkling water, stay away from the wine," Ginsburg told the audience. "But in the end, the dinner was so delicious, it needed wine to accompany it."
She continued: "So I got a call when I came home from one of my granddaughters and she said, 'Bubbe, you were sleeping at the State of the Union."
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Justice Anthony Kennedy was the culprit, bringing wine
Justice Kennedy probably brings it prior to all the crucial Supreme Court decisions. It would explain a lot.
[WEEKLYSTANDARD] Speaking today in Iowa, Vice President Joe Biden called out to his "old butt buddy" Neil Smith, wondering whether his friend was in attendance for his speech:
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When the Donkeys in Iowa polls 'em,
They think it's all folksy and wholesome;
Then Biden comes out
And reveals in a shout
That the crazy old shucker cornholes 'em.
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We don't have to telegraph that definition, JohnQC. This is a family site. :<]
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Let us just attribute that statement by the veep to synapses firing to a different drummer.
BTW, that was a very clever and to the point Limerick, Zenobia!
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As I thought AP; I just thought there would be a little more decorum coming from our VP. However, past behavior would indicate there is no connection between his mouth and his brain--no filter--maybe no brain.
[CNSNEWS] During a heated discussion over gay marriage, CNN morning Anchor Chris Cuomo opined that the unalienable rights endowed to all Americans do not come from God.
Cuomo was debating Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage. Near the end of the back-and-forth and after Moore argued that rights cannot be handed down by men, Cuomo blurted out:
“Our rights do not come from God, your honor, and you know that. They come from man... That’s your faith, that’s my faith, but that’s not our country. Our laws come from collective agreement and compromise.”
Maybe Mr. Cuomo flunked elementary civics. The opening sentence of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence clearly affirms:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”
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"Journalists" could try reading something now and again other than that tele-prompter.
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That si one of the great things in America. Your rights (lfe, liberty and the pursuit of happiness) come from God and that means the Stae cannot take them backj. Keep it like that and telle atheists to get ...
Essentially meaning, no further legal opinion is necessary. Clearly accepted by the orthodox, rejected by the endless debating society of liberal reformists. An all too familiar schism.
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The CNN guy doesn't get it. The point is that inalienable rights are endowed by a higher power than us mere mortals. To some it may be God, to some it may be the Great Spirit, etc. but whoever or whatever it is, it is on a higher plane than humans. And more knowing than CNN.
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Even if you are an atheist, you can still see it as a higher duty/honor/collective will of enlightened peoples to agree that in a nation of free men, these rights listed are absolutely imperative for the support and continuation of that freedom and nation. Once they are gone, that nation and its citizens are not free.
Mr. CNN anchor only believes in Government being the higher power, which by definition is tyranny.
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Mr. CNN anchor only believes in Government being the higher power, which by definition is tyranny.
Bingo DV. The leftist statists would love to go with the government determining all rights. However, as I recall one such arrangement where Stalin ended up murdering far more millions of his enemies than even Hitler.
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Our rights do not come from God... Our laws come from collective agreement and compromise.
This is not a simple correlation argument it’s a complete mindset. So if rights equal laws, the next logical step is to broaden the definition of the term ‘law’. As an example, listen closely to President Obama when he promotes amnesty for illegal aliens. Instead of saying ‘obeying the law’ he favors the phrase ‘following the rules’. Rights…laws…rules…whatever. At this point what difference does it make?
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You know, if daddy Mario didn't get hit in the head and became a mediocre backup outfielder for the Pirates, we probably never ever would've heard of these people.
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The U.S. Constitution doesn't say God, it says Creator. The idea is that Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness are rights that cannot be taken away by men because they were not granted by men.
If you happen to be an atheist you don't need to worry. You still enjoy those rights.
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The ignorant atheists can interpret to mean the inalienable rights are inherent in all humanity.
Which is what it means, but the ignorant get skeered by religious language.
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Thank God I'm an atheist!
/sarc
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Rights don't come from god, they come from people prepared for the fight to restrain government from involving itself in their lives.
We have never had so few rights.
[NYTIMES] A federal judge here on Thursday ordered that a county probate judge must comply with her earlier ruling and cannot refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
The federal judge, Callie V. S. Granade of Federal District Court here, wrote that the county judge, Don Davis, of Probate Court in Mobile County, cannot deny a marriage license "on the ground that plaintiffs constitute same-sex couples or because it is prohibited by the sanctity of marriage."
The decision was an effort to clarify that Judge Davis should follow Judge Granade's earlier ruling striking down a state ban on same-sex marriage, rather than a conflicting order from the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Roy S. Moore.
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It seems everyone on the activist left of the Democratic party wants Elizabeth Warren to challenge Hillary Clinton. The New York Working Families Party, born out of the infamous and disbanded ACORN empire, has endorsed her. A new YouGov poll paid for by Warren backers purports to show that once voters are familiar with the stances of both women, Warren will beat Hillary in both Iowa and New Hampshire.
Warren, who was elected to the Senate from Massachusetts only four years ago, has refused entreaties to run, although she always uses the present tense (âI am not running for presidentâ), which gives her some wiggle room. After all, at age 65 she canât wait forever if she wants to reach the White House.
...Warrenâs reluctance probably has more to do with the reach and ruthlessness of Team Hillary. âHer command of the Democratic machinery, from fundraising to grass-roots organizing, is so extensive that almost everyone else is understandably intimidated about even testing their talents against her,â the Washington Post observed of Mrs. Clinton.
...potential rivals are scared of running is that they know Team Hillary pulled its punches against Obama in 2008 â in large part because he was African American.
...Itâs fairly certain that Elizabeth Warren, if she ran, would not receive such a pass from Team Hillary
...A ready-made army of liberal bloggers and surrogates would stand ready to belittle Warrenâs lack of political experience and foreign-policy credentials.
And then there would be the character shots. Anti-big-business liberals would be reminded frequently that for all her populist rhetoric, Warren opposes a bill to audit the Federal Reserve and supports funding for the Export-Import Bank, a favorite of crony capitalists.
Then there is the âFauxcahontasâ scandal. In April 2012, the Boston Globe broke the news that while Warren never claimed American Indian heritage as an undergraduate or law-school student, she began doing so in her 30s as she sought jobs at highly competitive law schools such as Harvard.
The Association of American Law Schools requires law professors to answer ethnicity questions on its questionnaire. Only Warren can release a copy of her original questionnaire, and she has refused to do so. Back-channel Hillary surrogates would make hay out of that.
Then there is the scandal-in-waiting concerning her sleazy scholarship while a law professor.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[WEEKLYSTANDARD] Speaking today in Iowa, Vice President Joe Biden called out to his "old butt buddy" Neil Smith, wondering whether his friend was in attendance for his speech:
[CNSNEWS] During a heated discussion over gay marriage, CNN morning Anchor Chris Cuomo opined that the unalienable rights endowed to all Americans do not come from God.
