She is replacing Souter, so we will hang on to a 5-4 majority. While it would be nice to get a Justice who supported the second amendment, we wont and we know it. Sotomayor will never support our second amendment rights but, she is exactly the type of Justice that the President promised. If you voted for the man and expected different then you obviously had to much of his kool-aid.

Bush and "Darth Cheney" may have been evil incarnate but we would be looking at a 6-3 majority if they were still in charge.

as pointed out in the article, none of us are going to agree with this woman, but is that really a surprise?

Did anyone expect a democratic president to nominate a conservative judge? all of this fake-uproar is laughable.

Plus what does it even matter, Souter voted against the 2nd amendment in the Heller case, meaning he thought the 2nd amendment applied only to militias. You are replacing one anti-gun justice with another anti-gun justice... no net change!

Even if you did defeat her nomination in the Senate (BIG if), do you really think Obama is going to turn around and nominate a conservative judge? please!!?

EVERYONE knew this was coming months ago? Seriously, whats with all the fake outrage?

"Is New York City’s prohibition on nunchucks the dumbest thing you’ve ever heard of?"

No, but it IS pretty dumb. But I also recall those guys in central Africa who got 'blowed up real good' because they were stealing gasoline from an underground tank not ten feet from an active lava flow.

Also, the US spent billions to bail out GM late last year, only to lose the whole thing now that GM is in bankruptcy, and we'll spend another $50Bn to keep the company alive while they outsource production to China. How dumb is that?

That said, banning nunchucks is idiotic. Apart from the clear violation of the 2nd Amendment, you'd think that the *absence* of a huge element of criminal martial arts experts would be considered here. Nunchucks are difficult to use.

"Is Sotomayor’s position in the Maloney case reason to block her nomination?"

Yes. That and more importantly her position in the Ricci case.

"Do you think she’ll be approved?"

Yes, unfortunately.

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Really, what did you expect?
The Temperence Movement shamed the government into banning alcohol beginning Prohibition. That didn't last too long because Prohibition just didn't work. The recent surge in purchasing firearms and ammunition speaks for itself. You don't think all the people who shelled out $900 to $1,100 for an AR rifle are going to turn around and hand it over to the government do you? I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few Democrats in on the buying spree. Just my 2 cents.

Anybody who believes anything said on Faux News probably needs therapy. Those guys are such shills for the Corporatocracy they seem to spill any sort of libelous fearmongering that comes into their heads.
Anybody who assumes Soto-Mayor is racist because she is Puerto-Rican can only be a racist themselves looking in a mirror. Actiually she is from New Jersey and the Bronx. It is likely that she may understand the needs of the native people of... the Bronx.
While I think criminalizing nunchucks is silly, I also have to think of the undoubted hundreds of "accidental suicides" prevented by criminalizing nunchucks. Some fool watches a Bruce Lee movie and the next think you know he's cutting up broomsticks and stealing the clothesline. Then there he lies on the driveway, having laid himself out in 3.5 seconds through his own inexpertise with an agricultural flail. They shouldn't call em nunchucks anyway, we speak English, the key word is "Flail". Now Nunchucks are illeagal in Masterbachusetts, my paternalistic commonwealth, yet I needed a flail to beat the chaff from the grain I was growing. So I made a flail. Am I gonna noodle about with it and bonk meself in the head, Shucks no I have a gram of sense! The same thing goes with anything from Faux News, I have a gram of sense and I have paid some attention to Rupert Murdochs track record over the last few years. He's not even American (he's an Aussie) he owns Faux and uses it to push his own agenda. Still I understand that some people prefer histrionics over rationality. There is medication for such poor sufferers, if only they will seek help.
Think Soto-Mayor is gonna take your guns away? Unlikely, many of the Puerto Ricans I have met like to hunt as much as anyone else. It doesn't follow that upholding a localities ban on stupid martial arts weapons should inevitably lead to disruption of the 2nd amendment. True the 2nd says "the right to keep and bear arms" without qualifying what arms Are. Most folks agree the line has to be drawn somewhere. Does anybody want the lunatic neighbor a block away with his own 120mm Long Tom? How about Uncle Stewie's private stock of homemade phosgene gas? Do you want that cult fanatic over there with his own Fallshirmjaeger? Of course the way the situation stands ridiculous things are randomly prohibited and no rational standard exists. For example, are sword canes really such a hazard to public safety? Does anyone have any problem with the prohibition on bomb manufacture? If our right to keep and bear arms were actually based on the need to have citizens muster ready for war at short notice, then prohibiting the manufacture of explosive devices could leave militiamen handicapped in the face of invaders. Look at Switzerland. Who wants to go out and create a new Militia? Any takers? Remember you have to be ready to obey the lawful commands and orders from the Governors of your respective states now...Company...Fall In!

I'm not sure on her second amendmant views, but am suspect at least. Obama wouldn't appoint a gun rights advocate. I'm not sure on her abortion stance either, or gay marriage, etc. What concerns me is "Is she an Activist Jugde?"...seems likely. Is she racist? That's a harsh term, but biased seems to be understating it. Evidence by her past quotes, speeches, opinions, decisions, and memberships to certain organization. Hope all the conservatives on that court live long/ serve long

Bella,

Isn't "fallschirmjaeger" a paratrooper? Perhaps you meant Fallschirmjaegergewehr 42, which was a paratroop assault rifle....

Re: Fox News....is it really any less fair and balanced than the crapola on MSNBC?

WMH

"She ruled that the 2nd amendment only prevents the federal government from infringing on the right to bear arms, not the states. This is a particularly scary idea, and in my opinion quite flawed legal reasoning." I agree Mr. Mcloud because in my opinion if even only one of our Bill of Rights can be adjudged (ajudicated?)that it doesn't apply to the states, then it would seem to follow that the rest of the Bill of Rights wouldn't either.

We might not be able to stop Sotomayor's nomination.

One thing we all CAN do is support the NRA with memberships and dollars.
As far as Bella's comments go-Where the he!! is Clay Cooper when we need him.

I don't quite understand how an ammendment to the Constitution stating that certain right cannot be infringed means that a state can infringe on that right. I was always under the impression that if the Constitution or an ammendment to the Constitution states something it trumps anything a state wants to come up with. Guaranteed by the Constitution would be meaningless otherwise. I live in SC and Myrtle Beach has created a law that motorcycle helmets must be worn in the city limits. SC law does not require helmets to be worn by riders over the age of 18 or 21, not sure on the age. There are groups trying to state that Myrtle Beach's law is null because of the SC state law. I don't agree with Myrtle Beach's law but I think they have the right to require helmets. SC state law does not guarantee the right not to wear a helmet it just says they aren't required. The 2nd Ammendment states very clearly that we have the right to keep and bear arms and that right cannot be infringed. To me this means that no other governing body can infringe upon that right, unless the US Constitution is ammended again. The US Constitution is the law of the land, period! Am I wrong?

I’ve been holding back on this to watch the “MOONBATS” come out!

A congratulations for Judge Sonia Sotomayor for achieving her educational goals,

However I have a problem with an individual like her for being a Supreme Court Judge!

“It’s called blind justice and equal justice for all!”

What really sets me off are those that refer to themselves as Irish, German/Latino/Italian whatever American or better put a Hyphenated Americans I don’t like. Either your American or you are whatever else!!! Just like the High School White Student was suspended from school for interring an African American contest. It wasn’t because he was born in Africa, it was become he wasn’t black. Give me a break! I’m sick and tired of all these people with identity problems!

As for Judge Sonia Sotomayor, she is not fit to be a Supreme Court Judge period! The majority of her rulings/ cases that went before to the Supreme Court have been overturned. YABUDDY! Some track record!

Let’s present the facts and the truth here shall we
Obama’s plans to over tax and overload the United States with programs that would lead to the fall of our Nation and Institutions then to move in and take over with nominees in place for a collective/communist/Marxist/Leninist/ Socialist State.
For a Judge must have the burning and unwavering true desire, the full understanding of the Laws and bylaws and how history of the United States influenced those laws including the role of 10 Commandments and the role of “true Christianity”, not by race, color or creed but the best UNHyphenated American and to rule by the Constitution, not to legislate to change the Constitution period!

Don’t come to me saying you demand that position being a Hyphenated American and/or being less qualified than those who are! I want the best in that position period! The best Doctor I know just happens to be Black and the Best X-ray Tech I would hire in a heartbeat just happens to be a Lesbian so don’t come after me with your liberal crap!

By the way for some of you

Your Village called

They don’t want their idiot back!

True story by the way!

From Clays archives of bookmarks, places, information and things to read,

“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain -- that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.”
-Lysander Spooner, 1870, in No Treason #6

“Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.”
-Daniel Webster

“If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.”
-President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993

“The presidency - by which I mean the executive state - is the sum total of American tyranny. The other branches of government, including the presidentially appointed Supreme Court, are mere adjuncts. The presidency insists on complete devotion and humble submission to its dictates, even while its steals the products of our labor and drives us into economic ruin. It centralizes all power unto itself, and crowds out all competing centers of power in society, including the church, the family, the business, the charity, and the community.”
-Lew Rockwell, president of the Ludwig Von Mises Institute

go figure

Clay, Well said.

I’m sick and tired of all of this, spent 20 years in the Military for what, just to be a disabled Vet, to allow someone from American Idol to come forth while I worry about a friend’s Son recovering in Germany from Afghanistan IUD last Sunday!

Is this the best America has to offer!

I want someone as pure and above it all as the wind driven snow on high on peak Mount McKinley, pure and above it all!

Bella

You don’t believe in any co-ordinated effort to disarm Americans en mass?

Then explain to me why President Clinton asked a Marine General if he would support him in a door to door search!

Better get your head out of your arm pit before it’s too late!!

The ban of nunchucks is a little ridiculous and I agree with you, I don't think that anybody should be surprised by President Obama's selection. Giving a gun activist the job would totally go against what he stands for and what his party stands for.

Bella, Bella, Bella

The -poster “JJ”, 1999-Feb-11, from the georgiapolitics Message Board said it best

“Bill Clinton is not the problem. The dismally stupid American people are the problem. It's they I fear.

Let us take comfort in the fact that majority opinion in this country has seldom pioneered greatness. It has nearly always been the minority who cherish freedom. What we are witnessing is a predictable cycle--a law of political science as every bit as unalterable as the law of gravity--as so eloquently explained by Prof. Tyler two centuries ago: that democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government, not due to any one corrupt leader, but to the rule of the masses who become dependent on government. Is it any wonder that the Founding Fathers tried to prevent democracy? Yes. We are nose diving into socialism, not because of Bill Clinton, but because of many of the people surrouding you in rush hour traffic.
It's the masses we must march against, and I can think of no better way than to vote Libertarian and abandon the Republicrats. In addition challenge every Clinton defender you know to name the three branches of the federal government and explain the function of each. When they can't (which in my experience is nearly all of them), simply dismiss them as unqualified to form a serious opinion.”

Bottom line
If you have travel like I have putting over a million miles coast to coast thru all 48 States plus Alaska, you will find how ignorant, naïve and outright stupid people are!

Clay I'm right with you as far as being disturbed by the looming threat of American Stupidity! In recent years Americans seem to be demonstrating a growing pride in their Idiocy (just look at Youtube). Stupidity is not only the force that seems to rule the media it is also our greatest export. And unfortunately the good efforts of the diminishing number of intelligent folks are frequently wasted nursemaiding or pandering to the vast numbers of stupid people who will not change despite evidence of peril. Take comfort in the fact that the direst of climate change predictions suggest that dramatic events may drasticly reduce the number of hominids inhabiting the third planet from the Sun. Hopefully intelligence and prudence will prevail, or at least have a survival premium. Meanwhile I hope you dwell on high ground and have a hoe and some seed for next year.

On news agencies Sotomayor said the 2nd Amendment is not a individual right!

“The broad principle that there is an individual right to bear arms is shared by many Americans, including myself. I'm of the view that you can't take a broad approach to other rights, such as First Amendment rights, and then interpret the Second Amendment so narrowly that it could fit in a thimble.”
-Senator Charles Schumer, D-NY, 2002-May-8 (http://www.senate.gov/~schumer/SchumerWebsite/pressroom/press_releases/P...)

“And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the right of resistance? Let them take arms...The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
-Thomas Jefferson

“The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.”
-Col. Jeff Cooper, from The Art of the Rifle

“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.”
-Aristotle, "Politics"
“One man with a gun can control 100 without one. [...] Make mass searches and hold executions for found arms.”
-V.I. Lenin, from Collected Works, Vol. 35, 4th ed., p. 286. Congressional Record, April 28, 1970, p. H3601

“If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.”
-Joseph Stalin, from “Reply to the discussion on the Political Reports of the Central Committee”, Dec. 7, 1927. Stalin, Works, Vol. 10, p. 378

“Our analyses provide no evidence that implementation of the Brady Act was associated with a reduction in homicide rates. In particular, we find no differences in homicide or firearm homicide rates to adult victims in the 32 treatment states directly subject to the Brady Act provisions compared with the remaining control states.”
-Jens Ludwig and Philip J. Cook, in The Journal of the American Medical Association, 2000-Aug-2, Homicide and Suicide Rates Associated With Implementation of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act

Clay, In the early days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, every Sunday was "bring your gun to church day". Of course they were Matchlock Harquebuses so they likely didn't have their slowmatch lit. Almost everybody smoked these little pipes back then (they find these little clay pipes by the hundreds at archeological digs) so a source of ignition was never far away. Unfortunately there was only one church allowed and you could be flogged or exiled (or worse) if a body espoused the wrong religion, which lead to several new colonies! It seems that some things have actually improved for the better, but they wouln't let you smoke in church no more, the christian ones at least.
Now as a good Heathen woman, I would point out advantages to our form of worship...Both of our major traditional rites the Bloat and the Sumble both involve far far more than just a sip of wine, the mead horn holds about a liter, the ale flagon a little less. Wearing weapons is actually encouraged, Viking style preferred ( a little brandishing is perfectly okay during a Bloat)After all the Old Heathen Faith is about Honor, Truth, Courage and the Warrior Virtues. Remember, Vikings weren't pacifists...at all. Hail Odin!
Now Clay, I may just have just attained the status of MoonBat Prime, but I don't care, I love der fledermaus and often greet the moon with delight.