Anthony Kennedy Sides With His Liberal Budies to Uphold University of Texas' Affirmative Action Scheme

It shook out 4-3 to uphold it. Kagan had recused herself for once, having briefed the case for the government earlier. (Note: She similarly worked on Obamacare, but refused to recuse herself there.)

Kennedy sided with the liberals -- let's face it, he is one.

Once again, all liberals vote in lockstep. This has nothing to do with the law; this is just another branch of the Democrat-Socialist Party in action.

he Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the race-conscious admissions program at the University of Texas, saying that the plan taking race into consideration as one factor of admission is constitutional.
The 4-3 ruling greenlights the limited use of affirmative action polices by schools.
"The Court's affirmance of the University's admissions policy today does not necessarily mean the University may rely on that same policy without refinement. It is the University's ongoing obligation to engage in constant deliberation and continued reflection regarding its admissions policies," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion.
"Something strange has happened since our prior decision in this case," Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the dissent. "This is nothing less than the plea for deference that we emphatically rejected in our prior decision. Today, however, the Court inexplicably grants that request."

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1 Whitey is going to pay. And pay. And pay.

Posted by: kathysaysso at June 23, 2016 03:00 PM (43OZ6)

2 Martin Luther King hardest hit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 23, 2016 03:00 PM (8ZskC)

3 "Something strange has happened since our prior decision in this case," Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the dissent. "This is nothing less than the plea for deference that we emphatically rejected in our prior decision. Today, however, the Court inexplicably grants that request."

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It's not strange and it's not inexplicable. Alito is just too tactful to explicitly say it in an official dissent.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 23, 2016 03:00 PM (KUaJL)

4 In other news, the House sit-in finally ended.

John Lewis had completely filled his Depends diaper and no one could stand the stench anymore.

Posted by: qdpsteve at June 23, 2016 03:01 PM (q7T0y)

5 UT just keeps going back to the courts until they get the decision they want.

Posted by: brak at June 23, 2016 03:01 PM (MJuTN)

6 Ain't gonna say what I want to say about this bollocks.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at June 23, 2016 03:01 PM (9krrF)

7 He's wearing a corset and matching panties under that robe.

Posted by: garrett at June 23, 2016 03:02 PM (oeOT+)

8 The Supreme Court if a reflection of its people.

The people already voted for affirmative action in 2008 and 2012.

Posted by: Mr Pink at June 23, 2016 03:03 PM (Ztsq6)

9 Because allowing minority students into programs for which they're not qualified and thus doomed to land in the bottom of the class is somehow a positive thing for society.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 23, 2016 03:03 PM (8ZskC)

10 So, if diversity is a compelling state interest for an enriched educational experience this means that half of the faculty of all lefties must be fired and conservatives hired right?

Posted by: gwelf at June 23, 2016 03:03 PM (TJ8HB)

11 Rush was talking about this, long ago asked a big progressive when will it end? Never reverse discrimination will always continue was the reply.

Posted by: Skip at June 23, 2016 03:03 PM (d9qXV)

12 I for one, welcome our black-robed overlords.

Posted by: Joe Mama at June 23, 2016 03:04 PM (5F1yE)

13 We got Anthony Kennedy because the Democrats refused to "consent" to Reagan's appointment of a Supreme Court justice in a year before an election year.

If Obama were to nominate someone who was a mirror image of Kennedy, he'd probably get his nominee confirmed just like Reagan did.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 23, 2016 03:05 PM (2lndx)

14 Every justice that supported this decision should be compelled to receive medical treatment only from an affirmative action M.D.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 23, 2016 03:05 PM (8ZskC)

15 Asians hardest hit.

Posted by: the new york times at June 23, 2016 03:05 PM (A/+my)

16 So much for merit and a color blind society.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 23, 2016 03:05 PM (oDCMR)

17 A society divided by class rather than race would be preferable. Unfortunately, we have a society increasingly divided by both.

Posted by: kathysaysso at June 23, 2016 03:05 PM (43OZ6)

18 You think a woman who ran as a 'wise latina' is going to go against a racial spoils system?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2016 03:06 PM (3hIZX)

19
In: judging by color of skin.

Out: judging by content of character

Posted by: Joe Mama at June 23, 2016 03:07 PM (5F1yE)

20 If theres something normal
in your neighborhood
Who you ya gonna call?
Liberal Justices!

If theres something pure
And it don't look good
Who ya gonna call?
Liberal Justices!

I aint 'fraid of Scalia's ghost
I aint 'fraid of Scalia's ghost

Posted by: ajmojo at June 23, 2016 03:07 PM (1H9ox)

21 Diversity is essential. Which is why all SCOTUS members come from only 2 colleges.

Posted by: gwelf at June 23, 2016 03:07 PM (TJ8HB)

22 Some school somewhere should also institute "race-conscious" admissions -- giving preference to white students.

Wait for the uproar. Then point out that the policy is now constitutional, according to the "liberal" majority on the Supreme Court.

Oh wait, it's only "constitutional" if you are racial prejudiced against white people? My bad.

Posted by: zombie at June 23, 2016 03:07 PM (jBuUi)

23 So the status quo is upheld, remain in your holding pattern.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Tent Sale at the Outrage Outlet! Sizzling Summer Savings on Slurs, Slams, and Slanders at June 23, 2016 03:07 PM (hLRSq)

24 The only public sphere where practical competence seems to be irrelevant is government.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 23, 2016 03:08 PM (8ZskC)

25 While I find this decision appalling, it doesn't bother me as some others. At least in this case, the Court is not mandating something upon the states. Rather it is allowing a state actor to engage in something that should be impermissible. That can be more easily corrected by the state itself than an imposition on the state.

Posted by: SH at June 23, 2016 03:08 PM (gmeXX)

26 17 A society divided by class rather than race would be preferable. Unfortunately, we have a society increasingly divided by both.
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We have a class system that rewards IQ. No amount of Affirmative Action can that. The biggest bigots are high white IQs towards lower white IQs. It's been that way for sometime.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 23, 2016 03:09 PM (oDCMR)

27 Even though they've been blocked by lower court rulings from using race, everyone knows they've always used race in admissions. There's always a race check box which is "optional."

Now who would leave it blank? The white applicants. Maybe the asians. Everyone else knows it helps them.

So they always know your race.

Posted by: brak at June 23, 2016 03:09 PM (MJuTN)

28 Now who would leave it blank? The white applicants. Maybe the asians. Everyone else knows it helps them.

Maybe we should pass a law that you can put down whatever race you identify as...

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 23, 2016 03:10 PM (2lndx)

29 9 Because allowing minority students into programs for which they're not qualified and thus doomed to land in the bottom of the class is somehow a positive thing for society.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 23, 2016 03:03 PM (8ZskC)

They would argue that it 'gives them the opportunity'. I would argue that it harms them more than anything. Telling people they are great when they suck does not favor to the person. It is not always their fault, they might just not have the intellectual infrastructure and habits to carry out the program.

Either way it means they get punched in the mouth, and since they were told they were great, they start blaming the system (which they should) as racist (which they also should, but not for the reasons they assume.)

Socialism vs. Meritocracy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 23, 2016 03:10 PM (3ZoRf)

30 ... and that it counts towards affirmative action statistics.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 23, 2016 03:11 PM (2lndx)

31 We have a class system that rewards IQ. No amount of Affirmative Action
can that. The biggest bigots are high white IQs towards lower white IQs.
It's been that way for sometime.>>>

The sorting factor is not IQ it is credentials.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 23, 2016 03:11 PM (wrS2o)

32 Even though they've been blocked by lower court rulings from using race, everyone knows they've always used race in admissions. There's always a race check box which is "optional."

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Texas' 10% rule was a perfectly Constitutional method in trying to get more minorities admitted into Texas state schools.

Posted by: SH at June 23, 2016 03:11 PM (gmeXX)

33 The only thing worse than a Free Shit Army is an educated Free Shit Army.

UT doesn't have to smell the glove you know, over and over, but it does have to smell it.

Posted by: General Zod at June 23, 2016 03:11 PM (Bdeb0)

34 Nothing to see here, subjects.

Sleep now, yes?

Posted by: Messrs Book, Hand, and Wall at June 23, 2016 03:11 PM (9dY27)

35 Fucking Bush! Oh wait Reagan appointed Kennedy. Stupid Congress!

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at June 23, 2016 03:11 PM (TAkZ9)

36 OT Tim Kaine will be Hil's VP pick. Bank it.

Feels weird because I know TK personally. Not that I would ever, ever, ever vote for him.

Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at June 23, 2016 03:11 PM (SCcgT)

37 This entire policy is (disingenuously) based on the notion that students "learn more" when surrounded by
"diversity."

Has this ever been proven?

No.

Has it ever even been studied?

No.

It's just some hack-baked completely insincere pseudo-theory meant to act as a cover story for the REAL reason for Affirmative Action, which is to punish people as a race for the sins of other people centuries ago who "resembled" them.

Punitive "reparations," in other words.

Never mind that 70% of "white" people in America are descended from 19th-century immigrants from Europe who arrived here AFTER slavery was already abolished, and/or only ever immigration to states where slavery was illegal anyway -- and thus are not descended from slave-owners.

Posted by: zombie at June 23, 2016 03:12 PM (jBuUi)

38 Scalia's death was one of the worst set backs for Conservative thought and principals in the last 75 years. We will all live to regret it

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 23, 2016 03:12 PM (zp+j1)

39 College is a tax.

Posted by: eman at June 23, 2016 03:12 PM (mR7Es)

40 We have a class system that rewards IQ educational credentials. No amount of Affirmative Action can that. The biggest bigots are high white ~~IQs~~ educational credentials towards lower white ~~IQs~~ educational credentials. It's been that way for sometime.

I believe we've been over this...

Posted by: Brother Cavil at June 23, 2016 03:12 PM (9krrF)

41 hack-baked = half-baked

Posted by: zombie at June 23, 2016 03:12 PM (jBuUi)

42 What happens when "White" becomes the minority? Here in CA. it pretty much is... Do Whites then get extra points for being a minority.... Not a chance...

Posted by: donna at June 23, 2016 03:12 PM (O2RFr)

43 Fucking Bush! Oh wait Reagan appointed Kennedy. Stupid Congress!

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For Kennedy, the 14th A permits racial discrimination and requires a redefinition of marriage.

I'm not sure he has actually read it.

Posted by: SH at June 23, 2016 03:12 PM (gmeXX)

44 This entire policy is (disingenuously) based on the notion that students "learn more" when surrounded by
"diversity."

Has this ever been proven?

No.

How do the Japanese and Chinese do so well?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2016 03:12 PM (3hIZX)

45 In: judging by color of skin.

Out: judging by content of character

Posted by: Joe Mama at June 23, 2016 03:07 PM (5F1yE)
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And little girl chess champions in an appalling neighborhood can't have a teacher who will coach them to succeed.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 23, 2016 03:13 PM (MIKMs)

46 36, Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at June 23, 2016 03:11 PM (SCcgT)

Tim Kaine because she wants the 'white, male' voter?

Posted by: IC at June 23, 2016 03:13 PM (a0IVu)

47 It shook out 4-3 to uphold it. Kagan had recused herself for once, having briefed the case for the government earlier. (Note: She similarly worked on Obamacare, but refused to recuse herself there.)

She is willing to behave ethically when her vote isn't needed.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 23, 2016 03:13 PM (R+30W)

48 It would, in fact, be amusing if colleges had to hire a properly proportionate number of "conservatives" or "Republicans." If faculties had to be 47% right of center but still had to be racially diverse, there would be no room for white lefties!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 23, 2016 03:14 PM (T/5A0)

49 Hilary will 'fix' the Supreme Court situation....her vagina makes her THE one who is best suited to fix things so we can be the people that Chicago Jesus aspires us to be.

Posted by: malignantly aggrieved and economically useless at June 23, 2016 03:14 PM (iHtNO)

50 It would, in fact, be amusing if colleges had to hire a properly proportionate number of "conservatives" or "Republicans." If faculties had to be 47% right of center but still had to be racially diverse, there would be no room for white lefties!

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It would also be Constitutional.

Posted by: SH at June 23, 2016 03:14 PM (gmeXX)

51 How many generations before "affirmative action" becomes null and void?
How come it only takes asians one or less generations to catch up? Does that question make me a bigot?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 23, 2016 03:14 PM (zp+j1)

52 9 Because allowing minority students into programs for which they're not qualified and thus doomed to land in the bottom of the class is somehow a positive thing for society.

Once they document that, they can say the program is racist. Win Win.

Posted by: Jack at June 23, 2016 03:15 PM (YX9fV)

53 As we mourn the death of our Republic, perhaps now is a good time for us to take the edge off with an old classic:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/Hard-Drinkin-Lincoln-Ep-1

Please, let's not refight the Civil War/War of Northern Aggression in this thread.

Posted by: Sharkman at June 23, 2016 03:15 PM (kXdUT)

54 Maybe we should pass a law that you can put down whatever race you identify as...

I do. I self identify as a single black female with 4 chirruns.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 23, 2016 03:15 PM (SCOa6)

55 How many generations before "affirmative action" becomes null and void?
How come it only takes asians one or less generations to catch up? Does that question make me a bigot?

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The only way to fix racial discrimination it so discriminate by race.

Posted by: SH at June 23, 2016 03:15 PM (gmeXX)

56 The Republic died quite a while ago, it just hasn't stopped twitching yet.

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 23, 2016 03:16 PM (W2YA6)

57 There was "affirmative action" when I was in College 40+ years ago and let me tell you, it made me more of a bigot. And I am sure other's here my age know what I am talking about

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 23, 2016 03:16 PM (zp+j1)

58 Is there discrimination in the number of sports scholarships given? I like to see the breakdown ethnic breakdown in that category.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at June 23, 2016 03:16 PM (TAkZ9)

59 I really hate these people.

Posted by: chiefjaybob, who hates everyone at June 23, 2016 03:16 PM (LYHrg)

60 ectly Constitutional method in trying to get more minorities admitted into Texas state schools.
Posted by: SH at June 23, 2016 03:11 PM (gmeXX)

Is that a good thing?

Posted by: eman at June 23, 2016 03:16 PM (1M3jV)

61 Is there discrimination in the number of sports scholarships given? I like to see the breakdown ethnic breakdown in that category.
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at June 23, 2016 03:16 PM (TAkZ9)

Wanna take a wild guess?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 23, 2016 03:17 PM (zp+j1)

62 Just because 4 people on the Court refuse to follow the 14th A doesn't mean the state of Texas has to.

Posted by: SH at June 23, 2016 03:17 PM (gmeXX)

63 The wonderful get out of jail free card to this for whites is to just identify as Hispanic. Viola - special status. Hispanic isn't a race, it is an adjective that anyone can self identify as. Kind of like Native American - see Senator Warren for the details.

Posted by: Puddin Head at June 23, 2016 03:17 PM (oDCMR)

64 What happens when "White" becomes the minority? Here in CA. it pretty much is... Do Whites then get extra points for being a minority

They bail and everyone watches Kali become West Detroit.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 23, 2016 03:17 PM (SCOa6)

65 The wonderful get out of jail free card to this for whites is to just identify as Hispanic. Viola - special status. Hispanic isn't a race, it is an adjective that anyone can self identify as. Kind of like Native American - see Senator Warren for the details.
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 23, 2016 03:17 PM (oDCMR)

Well you'd have to check with moo moo on that one and i am not even mad at him anymore

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 23, 2016 03:18 PM (zp+j1)

66 ectly Constitutional method in trying to get more minorities admitted into Texas state schools.
Posted by: SH at June 23, 2016 03:11 PM (gmeXX)

Is that a good thing?

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No comment on that. But it doesn't run afoul of the Constitution.

Posted by: SH at June 23, 2016 03:18 PM (gmeXX)

67 Maybe we should pass a law that you can put down whatever race you identify as...

I usually put down "other"

Posted by: Bruce at June 23, 2016 03:18 PM (8ikIW)

68 Maybe we should pass a law that you can put down whatever race you identify as...
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair

You already can write down any race you ant in the check box. No need for a "law" to allow that. There's no way to verify what is claimed. What are they gonna do -- give "one drop rule" DNA tests to every student as a criteria for entering college, with "genetic blacks" getting let in, and "genetic whites" being excluded? Even that violates the leftie "truism" that race is a social construct, not something real.

By their own criteria, since race is not genetically determined, anyone can claim to be any race. And, often, they do.

Posted by: zombie at June 23, 2016 03:19 PM (jBuUi)

69 66 ectly Constitutional method in trying to get more minorities admitted into Texas state schools.
Posted by: SH at June 23, 2016 03:11 PM (gmeXX)

Is that a good thing?

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No comment on that. But it doesn't run afoul of the Constitution.
Posted by: SH at June 23, 2016 03:18 PM (gmeXX)

Because they picked the right percentage?

Posted by: eman at June 23, 2016 03:20 PM (1M3jV)

70 "How come it only takes asians one or less generations to catch up? Does that question make me a bigot?"

Do you have an affinity for Chinese food?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 23, 2016 03:20 PM (BZIG1)

71 And hellary will probably appoint to 'her' SC an illegal, a felon, and a mohamadan, one of which or maybe all 3 being of the lbgbfdnsc persuasion. Take it to the ban, sports fans.

Posted by: Eromero at June 23, 2016 03:20 PM (zLDYs)

72 67 Maybe we should pass a law that you can put down whatever race you identify as...

I usually put down "other"
Posted by: Bruce at June 23, 2016 03:18 PM (8ikIW)

Maybe we could do a Hillary! and just write down "Fuck you!"

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 23, 2016 03:20 PM (3ZoRf)

73 36 OT Tim Kaine will be Hil's VP pick. Bank it.

Feels weird because I know TK personally. Not that I would ever, ever, ever vote for him.
Posted by: Bat Chain Puller at June 23, 2016 03:11 PM
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I was thinking, if she didn't go minority, that Warner would have been a smart pick. Do you know why she would pick Kaine over him? (I assume it has something to do with Dem intra-party struggles.)

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 23, 2016 03:20 PM (T/5A0)

74 The European Jewish Congress (EJC) has called on European leaders to condemn Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas speech to the European Parliament, in which he claimed that Israeli rabbis called to poison Palestinian water

It is unconscionable that a foreign leader proudly states a blood libel in the European Parliament and he receives a standing ovation, said Dr. Moshe Kantor, President of the EJC.

Please England get out of the EU while you can
And people wonder why Israel does not trust Europe, as if they needed any other excuse than the Holocaust

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 23, 2016 03:21 PM (zp+j1)

75 The fact that Scalia and Thomas were all that was holding the line for our side pretty much says it all.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men, as they say. But I think we're at that things happen slowly, then all of the sudden point.

Now, where's Monty to cheer me up?

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 23, 2016 03:21 PM (W2YA6)

76 i am really sick of giving a fuck anymore. just tear it down faster you festering boils of humanity. pretty soon you will be out of suckers to pay for the destruction you crave. what happens when the presses run out of ink and paper you fucktards? oh, and fuck paul ryan and his imbecilic congress. we can't vote our way out of idiocy. the die is cast.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at June 23, 2016 03:21 PM (ucDmr)

77 I'm sick and tired of this horseshit. I've been tired of it for yeas.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2016 03:21 PM (0mRoj)

78 So, if diversity is a compelling state interest for an enriched educational experience this means that half of the faculty of all lefties must be fired and conservatives hired right?

Posted by: gwelf at June 23, 2016 03:03 PM (TJ8HB)

There is diversity and there is unacceptable hate-thought-speech-crime.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Tent Sale at the Outrage Outlet! Sizzling Summer Savings on Slurs, Slams, and Slanders at June 23, 2016 03:21 PM (hLRSq)

79 *years

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2016 03:21 PM (0mRoj)

80 Do you have an affinity for Chinese food?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 23, 2016 03:20 PM (BZIG1)

My wife practically lives on it

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 23, 2016 03:21 PM (zp+j1)

81 Law aside, I have always agreed that the worst victim of Affirmative Action is the qualfied minority. If I was a smart, black doctor I'd resent the hell out of everyone giving special preference to some guy who happened to have the same shade of skin.

They would be the ones responsible for patients looking at me twice and asking themselves: "Is he the Affirmative action guy or the guy who made it on his own?"

Posted by: xnycpeasant at June 23, 2016 03:22 PM (k8tEg)

82 City of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County have increased Minimum wage to 10.50 and require all employers regardless of size to increase sick pay to 6 days.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at June 23, 2016 03:22 PM (TAkZ9)

83 74 The European Jewish Congress (EJC) has called on European leaders to condemn Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas speech to the European Parliament, in which he claimed that Israeli rabbis called to poison Palestinian water

It is unconscionable that a foreign leader proudly states a blood libel in the European Parliament and he receives a standing ovation, said Dr. Moshe Kantor, President of the EJC.

Please England get out of the EU while you can
And people wonder why Israel does not trust Europe, as if they needed any other excuse than the Holocaust
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 23, 2016 03:21 PM (zp+j1)

The UN needs to go, all it does is give a platform and legitimacy to these yahoos.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at June 23, 2016 03:23 PM (3ZoRf)

84 78 So, if diversity is a compelling state interest for an enriched educational experience this means that half of the faculty of all lefties must be fired and conservatives hired right?

Posted by: gwelf at June 23, 2016 03:03 PM (TJ8HB)

There is diversity and there is unacceptable hate-thought-speech-crime.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Tent Sale at the Outrage Outlet! Sizzling Summer Savings on Slurs, Slams, and Slanders at June 23, 2016 03:21 PM (hLRSq)

Diversity applies only to skin color, gender and whether or not you putt from the rough, not diversity of thought.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2016 03:23 PM (0mRoj)

85 I'm going to say it: enough with the reparations.

Posted by: Lurkette at June 23, 2016 03:23 PM (PLmfk)

86 So all those all black and all women colleges are in violation of a state's compelling interest right?

Posted by: gwelf at June 23, 2016 03:23 PM (+7Usq)

87 66 ectly Constitutional method in trying to get more minorities admitted into Texas state schools.
Posted by: SH at June 23, 2016 03:11 PM (gmeXX)

Is that a good thing?

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No comment on that. But it doesn't run afoul of the Constitution.
Posted by: SH at June 23, 2016 03:18 PM (gmeXX)

Because they picked the right percentage?

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Maybe. But on its face it is fairly race neutral. And I think you can make an argument that each state school should be able to send the same percentage to a state institution (not arguing that is good).

Posted by: SH at June 23, 2016 03:24 PM (gmeXX)

88 I remember applying to law schools and being tempted to check a box other than white. But I left it blank, which is the same as checking white. The whole thing just pissed me off.

Of course they stress honesty and integrity in the application process. Should've just checked Native American. Apparently it's ok when white people do that.

Posted by: brak at June 23, 2016 03:24 PM (MJuTN)

89 Liberals: stare decisis? What's that?

Posted by: WisRich at June 23, 2016 03:24 PM (hdpay)

90 86 So all those all black and all women colleges are in violation of a state's compelling interest right?
Posted by: gwelf at June 23, 2016 03:23 PM (+7Usq)

White males, especially straight ones, are Unpeople.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2016 03:25 PM (0mRoj)

91 Don't we all have some Mongol blood? Just pick "Asian".

Oh... wait...

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 23, 2016 03:25 PM (W2YA6)

92 Aren't free college and free medical a compelling state interest?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 23, 2016 03:26 PM (IqV8l)

93 Don't we all have some Mongol blood? Just pick "Asian".

Oh... wait...

Supposedly we all came out of Africa.

Posted by: Bruce at June 23, 2016 03:26 PM (8ikIW)

94 This decision means nothing not that we can identify as any race we feel like it on any particular day. It's a nice catch 22. Today I am a Taiwanese female adolescent with a speech impediment. Tomorrow, I'm thinking of being a Mexican transgender, but only if I can find some plastic fruit for my sombrero.

Posted by: Orson at June 23, 2016 03:27 PM (Le+k8)

95 The optimal solution here is for talented kids to identify the shittiest school that they can stand. Transfer, finish in the top 10%, gain automatic admission to UT.

Moar integration, better average performance for the mediocre principals (bonuses!) and graduation rates tick up at UT.

At some point the designers of the system realize they're being gamed, but it will be hard to invent a race-blind rationale for changing it.

Posted by: Spellcheck at June 23, 2016 03:27 PM (HKBpI)

96 Any chance that the surge in hispanic population is actually Whitey, fakin' it?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 23, 2016 03:27 PM (ptqRm)

97 88 I remember applying to law schools and being tempted to check a box other than white. But I left it blank, which is the same as checking white. The whole thing just pissed me off.

Of course they stress honesty and integrity in the application process. Should've just checked Native American. Apparently it's ok when white people do that.
Posted by: brak at June 23, 2016 03:24 PM (MJuTN)

White and asian college applicants should check off as many favored minority boxes as they can get away with, then tell the admission folks they identify as the boxes they checked off. It should be an organized movement.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2016 03:28 PM (0mRoj)

98 There Ain't No Justice

Posted by: Iblis at June 23, 2016 03:28 PM (9221z)

99
Supposedly we all came out of Africa.

Lucy got some splainin' to do.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 23, 2016 03:29 PM (IqV8l)

100 Please, let's not refight the Civil War/War of Northern Aggression in this thread.
Posted by: Sharkman at June 23, 2016 03:15 PM

Think of it more as a scored contest:

North: 1 South: 0. (Halftime)

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 23, 2016 03:30 PM (0NzJ9)

101 91 Don't we all have some Mongol blood? Just pick "Asian".

Oh... wait...
Posted by: Chupacabra at June 23, 2016 03:25 PM (W2YA6)

Heh. Genghis Khan and his Mongol horde did bone half the female population at the time after all.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2016 03:30 PM (0mRoj)

102 Free State of Jokes

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 23, 2016 03:31 PM (IqV8l)

103 I was pleased to see the Court at least require a warrant for blood tests on DUI stops. Thomas would have found it permissible. Just goes to show you, no justice is perfect.

Posted by: SH at June 23, 2016 03:31 PM (gmeXX)

104 damn skippy!

"28 Now who would leave it blank? The white applicants. Maybe the asians. Everyone else knows it helps them.

Maybe we should pass a law that you can put down whatever race you identify as...
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 23, 2016 03:10 PM (2lndx)"

Posted by: Elizabeth Lieawatha Warren at June 23, 2016 03:31 PM (AGJqR)

105 100 Please, let's not refight the Civil War/War of Northern Aggression in this thread.
Posted by: Sharkman at June 23, 2016 03:15 PM

Think of it more as a scored contest:

North: 1 South: 0. (Halftime)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 23, 2016 03:30 PM (0NzJ9)

Statism: 1, Constutional Republic: 0

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2016 03:31 PM (0mRoj)

106 63---- The wonderful get out of jail free card to this for whites is to just identify as Hispanic. Viola - special status. Hispanic isn't a race, it is an adjective that anyone can self identify as.
Posted by: Puddin Head at June 23, 2016 03:17 PM
---------------------
Absolutely.
I would recommend that every white having a kid today give the little baby a Hispanic surname for a middle name. George Sanchez Fitzelpuker. Free ride!!!!

To be sure, he could be George William Fitzelpuker and still CLAIM to be Hispanic. What are they gonna do, a full genealogic examination? No. They'll mark him down to puff the stats.
But to get their enthusiasm up, to get the big scholarship money, the Hispanic name is golden!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 23, 2016 03:31 PM (T/5A0)

107 White and asian college applicants should check off as many favored minority boxes as they can get away with, then tell the admission folks they identify as the boxes they checked off. It should be an organized movement.

And then take a huge, hairy, stinking, steaming, paint peeling dump in the ladies room in the admissions office.

DARE them to say anything.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 23, 2016 03:32 PM (SCOa6)

108 Is it that hard to get into college if you're white? My kids had no trouble, and daughter (pale white blond Skandi) went to Madison, right out of Podunk Pentecostal High Skoolz-R-Us.

Posted by: grammie winger, 2 Chronicles 7:14 at June 23, 2016 03:32 PM (dFi94)

109 Great Scott!

Ace must be in the future cheking on the Brexit results. Hopefully posting this doesn't have some kind of horrific repercussions on the space-time continuum.

Posted by: Doc Brown at June 23, 2016 03:32 PM (H9MG5)

110 Under race I check other and write - 2nd place but it was close.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at June 23, 2016 03:33 PM (TAkZ9)

111 I *always* check Native American, because I was born here in America.

Posted by: VA GOP Sucks at June 23, 2016 03:33 PM (eytER)

112 *stomps wee feets*

I NEVER GET TO PLAY WITH THE TIME MACHINE

*stomps more*

Posted by: alexthechick - I despair I despair at June 23, 2016 03:33 PM (mf5HN)

113 I remember close to fifty years ago the court said affirmative action would last only twenty-five years.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Racist for Dinosaurs at June 23, 2016 03:34 PM (Nwg0u)

114 Can't the Texas Legislature simply pass a law mandating color-blindness in state college admissions? Why rely on the courts here?

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at June 23, 2016 03:34 PM (rwI+c)

115 "I *always* check Native American, because I was born here in America."

How?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 23, 2016 03:34 PM (BZIG1)

116 Ace must be in the future cheking on the Brexit results.

I've been refraining from commenting because it's really not fair to comment on threads that haven't happened yet.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 23, 2016 03:34 PM (1xUj/)

117 Law aside, I have always agreed that the worst victim of Affirmative Action is the qualfied minority.

Years ago I defended an employer against a racial discrimination claim brought by a black female who was represented by a black attorney. The attorney missed no opportunity to remind me that he was a graduate of Harvard Law School.

I don't know whether he was an affirmative action admit or not (I'd say yes), but I always had to resist the urge to respond, "if I was black I would have gone to Harvard too."

If I was a smart black person who had succeeded without the AA rope-lifting, I too would be angry that my accomplishment was cheapened by the assumption of nearly everyone I met that standards were lowered for me because of my skin color.

AA is utterly pernicious. It tells an entire racial or ethnic group that its members are assumed to be too stupid to meet the regular standards, while simultaneously tainting the accomplishments of those who were capable and qualified to succeed without it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 23, 2016 03:35 PM (8ZskC)

118 115 "I *always* check Native American, because I was born here in America."

How?
Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 23, 2016 03:34 PM (BZIG1)

Proved his authenticity with his family's recipe for crab dip.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2016 03:35 PM (0mRoj)

119
She's a brick house
She's mighty mighty, just lettin' it all hang out
She's a brick house
That lady's stacked and that's a fact
Ain't holding nothing back

Youza!

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at June 23, 2016 03:35 PM (iQIUe)

120 "I *always* check Native American, because I was born here in America."

How?

Well, when two people really love one another......

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 23, 2016 03:35 PM (SCOa6)

121 Over 100?
In case you haven't seen this, a scorecard re shooters/bombers:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/jh9qsam

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 23, 2016 03:35 PM (9mTYi)

122 by: grammie winger, 2 Chronicles 7:14 at June 23, 2016 03:32 PM (dFi94)

Very hard to get into Texas A&M so much so they have a secondary college where kids go with the hope of being accepted after a couple of years. I guess it's like the college Rudy went to before getting into Notre Dame. I'm sure someone here knows more about it than I do.

Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at June 23, 2016 03:36 PM (TAkZ9)

123 108 Is it that hard to get into college if you're white? My kids had no trouble, and daughter (pale white blond Skandi) went to Madison, right out of Podunk Pentecostal High Skoolz-R-Us.

Posted by: grammie winger, 2 Chronicles 7:14 at June 23, 2016 03:32 PM (dFi94)

++++

Supply vs demand. If UW Madison has plenty of open spots it will be easy to get in. If there are more applicants than openings, some will have to be denied. Then comes the rules about who gets denied.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 23, 2016 03:36 PM (R+30W)

124 Can't the Texas Legislature simply pass a law mandating color-blindness in state college admissions? Why rely on the courts here?

------------

Yes, they can. Which is why this isn't as damaging as the gay marriage ruling. Texas can correct it - and indeed should. It probably should have done it before the Court ruled lending some legitimacy to this. But the state is free to decide the 14th A on its own.

Posted by: SH at June 23, 2016 03:36 PM (gmeXX)

125 taking it into consideration is constitutional. taking into consideration that it was taken into consideration is not.

Posted by: x at June 23, 2016 03:36 PM (nFwvY)

126 Green-lights or gas-lights?

At this point is there a difference?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 23, 2016 03:37 PM (d1otI)

127 108 Is it that hard to get into college if you're white? My kids had no trouble, and daughter (pale white blond Skandi) went to Madison, right out of Podunk Pentecostal High Skoolz-R-Us.
Posted by: grammie winger, 2 Chronicles 7:14 at June 23, 2016 03:32 PM (dFi94)

It's easier to get in as a favored minority (lower GPA, lower admission test scores, etc.) plus all the sweet sweet scholarship and grant money that gets set aside just for them.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2016 03:37 PM (0mRoj)

128 42
What happens when "White" becomes the minority?

You just wait and see.

Posted by: Zimbabwe at June 23, 2016 03:37 PM (43OZ6)

129 Very hard to get into Texas A&M so much so they have a secondary college where kids go with the hope of being accepted after a couple of years.

UT?

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 23, 2016 03:37 PM (SCOa6)

130 "I *always* check Native American, because I was born here in America."
----
How?
---
Well, when two people really love one another......
Posted by: rickb223
------------

White ~~man~~ person speak with forked tongue.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 23, 2016 03:38 PM (9mTYi)

131 Remember too that coupling AA with 3rd-world immigration gives most new arrivals (including illegals) a place of preference over most natives.

One more yuuuuuge difference between our current mass immigration and that of Ellis Island days.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 23, 2016 03:38 PM (T/5A0)

132 >>>In: judging by color of skin.
Out: judging by content of character
Posted by: Joe Mama at June 23, 2016 03:07 PM (5F1yE)
<<<

Admitting based on race isn't racist. You don't get to pick my terms. Your MLK buzzwords don't apply to me.

Posted by: Justice La Kennedy at June 23, 2016 03:38 PM (H9MG5)

133 Son went to Lutheran college. I guess they had to take him no matter what he looked like because, Lutheran.

Posted by: grammie winger, 2 Chronicles 7:14 at June 23, 2016 03:39 PM (dFi94)

134 131 Remember too that coupling AA with 3rd-world immigration gives most new arrivals (including illegals) a place of preference over most natives.

One more yuuuuuge difference between our current mass immigration and that of Ellis Island days.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 23, 2016 03:38 PM (T/5A0)

And one day the current hysterical college rape statistics will become a reality.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2016 03:39 PM (0mRoj)

135 Admitting based on race isn't racist. You don't get to pick my terms. Your MLK buzzwords don't apply to me.

Always remember:
MLK was a gun owner on a government list.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 23, 2016 03:39 PM (SCOa6)

136 133 Son went to Lutheran college. I guess they had to take him no matter what he looked like because, Lutheran.
Posted by: grammie winger, 2 Chronicles 7:14 at June 23, 2016 03:39 PM (dFi94)

Did he have to make a Jello salad as part of the admission process?

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2016 03:40 PM (0mRoj)

137 120
"I *always* check Native American, because I was born here in America."

How?

Well, when two people really love one another......

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 23, 2016 03:35 PM (SCOa6)
Still wondering? Ask Elizabeth "Fauxcahontas" Warren.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at June 23, 2016 03:41 PM (jxbfJ)

138 133 Son went to Lutheran college. I guess they had to take him no matter what he looked like because, Lutheran.
Posted by: grammie winger, 2 Chronicles 7:14 at June 23, 2016 03:39 PM (dFi94)

Did he have to make a Jello salad as part of the admission process?

---------------

Lutherans - talk about radicals.

Posted by: SH at June 23, 2016 03:41 PM (gmeXX)

139 Did he have to make a Jello salad as part of the admission process?

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2016 03:40 PM (0mRoj)
===========================================

No. But he did have to bring a keg to class once.

Posted by: grammie winger, 2 Chronicles 7:14 at June 23, 2016 03:41 PM (dFi94)

140 MLK was a gun owner on a government list.

I've considered stealing this, but do we know if it's true?

Was MLK a gun owner?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 23, 2016 03:41 PM (1xUj/)

141 Back to writing or will have to borrow the Empress' eye heroin...

Geez bizarre land this is, world turned upside down.

Next Univ. of California will offer admissions to lifelike silicone dolls.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 23, 2016 03:41 PM (d1otI)

142 Blinn U. is the feeder to Texas A&M. Also hosted Cam Newton for a year or two.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at June 23, 2016 03:41 PM (Zrfof)

143 MRDUCKS
MRNOTDUCKS
OSAR
CMWINGS
CMEDBDFEETS
MR2DUCKS

Posted by: ajmojo at June 23, 2016 03:42 PM (1H9ox)

144 139 Did he have to make a Jello salad as part of the admission process?

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2016 03:40 PM (0mRoj)
===========================================

No. But he did have to bring a keg to class once.
Posted by: grammie winger, 2 Chronicles 7:14 at June 23, 2016 03:41 PM (dFi94)

Heh. My kind of place!

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2016 03:42 PM (0mRoj)

145 I've read that many times over the years, Bander, but I don't think I have a good cite for it.

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 23, 2016 03:42 PM (W2YA6)

146 >>>2 Martin Luther King hardest hit.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 23, 2016 03:00 PM (8ZskC)

__________________

Don't kid yourself. I'd be right there with John Lewis had I lived. Everybody else from back then is silly far left.

Nothing personal, its just too much money.

Sorry bruh.

Posted by: Zombie Martin Luther King at June 23, 2016 03:42 PM (10hEu)

147 133
Son went to Lutheran college. I guess they had to take him no matter what he looked like because, Lutheran.

Posted by: grammie winger, 2 Chronicles 7:14 at June 23, 2016 03:39 PM (dFi94)
Same with daughter going to Catholic university (Franciscan Univ.).

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at June 23, 2016 03:42 PM (jxbfJ)

148 129 Very hard to get into Texas A&M so much so they have a secondary college where kids go with the hope of being accepted after a couple of years.

UT?

They have to be able to read to apply to UT.

Posted by: brak at June 23, 2016 03:43 PM (MJuTN)

149 >>>28
Maybe we should pass a law that you can put down whatever race you identify as...
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 23, 2016 03:10 PM (2lndx)

_________________

Faster Please!!!

Posted by: Sean King & Rachel Dolezal at June 23, 2016 03:43 PM (10hEu)

150 And there is BYU for the Mormons...
speaking of...what is Romney up to these days? Is he still plotting a coup with Bill Kristol?

Posted by: IC at June 23, 2016 03:44 PM (a0IVu)

151 "Something strange has happened since our prior decision in this case," Justice Samuel Alito wrote

Something strange, in your neighborhood?
Who you gonna call?

Posted by: wooga at June 23, 2016 03:44 PM (XCOHF)

152
Well, when two people really love one another......

Two little Indians all alone.

https://youtu.be/dHHrI47oE30

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 23, 2016 03:44 PM (IqV8l)

153 *stomps wee feets*

I NEVER GET TO PLAY WITH THE TIME MACHINE

*stomps more*

Posted by: alexthechick - I despair I despair at June 23, 2016 03:33 PM (mf5HN)

The Lord indeed is beneficent and merciful.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Tent Sale at the Outrage Outlet! Sizzling Summer Savings on Slurs, Slams, and Slanders at June 23, 2016 03:44 PM (hLRSq)

154 I usually check other if there is a box and write in 100% fuckin American

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 23, 2016 03:44 PM (zp+j1)

155
Doc gave patient potent sedative before ejaculating on her face: prosecutors

NY Post

I swear it was not me!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 23, 2016 03:45 PM (zp+j1)

156 Do not pay any attention to the Sooners. Big Red gives head.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at June 23, 2016 03:46 PM (Zrfof)

157 Any of the horde so inclined should look up a little thing called 'CAMP,' what we've got here. College Assistance for Migrants Program. Cashola for kiddos what's got parents who are migrant farm workers. They don't check - and don't care about - citizenship.

Used to do financial aid, and those cases were the worst. No federal assistance, so it was all institutional, and they had appalling rates of attrition.

Posted by: Messrs Book, Hand, and Wall at June 23, 2016 03:46 PM (9dY27)

158 155
Doc gave patient potent sedative before ejaculating on her face: prosecutors

NY Post

I swear it was not me!
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 23, 2016 03:45 PM (zp+j1)

That's exactly what a guilty man would say.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2016 03:46 PM (0mRoj)

159 147---Same with daughter going to Catholic university (Franciscan Univ.).
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at June 23, 2016 03:42 PM
-------------------------
Steubenville?
Great choice.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 23, 2016 03:47 PM (T/5A0)

160 i've never understood how they can uphold two opposing views, or ideas for equality.
they impose union member driven schools where teaching isn't the #1 factor in the schools success, They leave children exposed to teachers that won't/can't teach . They allow failure rates exceeding world standards, Yet they still want streamlining into education when many students are not even prepared.. because of those opposing paid by taxpayers ideals.

Posted by: willow at June 23, 2016 03:47 PM (SEFXb)

161 TWO HOURS TIL THE FIRST BREXIT RESULTS!

I really don't know to what extent there is vote fraud in England, and/or how much awareness of and exposure of it there is.

If we got a Ohio-type situation goin' on, there is no hope. Let us pray.

Posted by: zombie at June 23, 2016 03:47 PM (jBuUi)

162 It turns out that Kennedy has moar power to shape society and change the Constitution to his liking than TFG.

Pen and phone, pshaw -- Here, hold my blindfold and watch this!

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 23, 2016 03:47 PM (gyKtp)

163 It's easier to get in as a favored minority (lower GPA, lower admission test scores, etc.)
---------

So, like becoming a female (can I use that term?) Marine combat arms person. Gender trumps qualification.

Come to think of it, why aren't the feminist SJW's all over this, assuming that some (minority) guy was admitted with lesser qualifications.

I mean, they aren't opportunistic hypocrites, are they?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 23, 2016 03:48 PM (9mTYi)

164 >>>155
Doc gave patient potent sedative before ejaculating on her face: prosecutors

NY Post

I swear it was not me!
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 23, 2016 03:45 PM (zp+j1)

_____________________________

Is the Doctor accepting new patients?

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at June 23, 2016 03:48 PM (10hEu)

165 The Court's approach to affirmative action is really a testament to how far the elite will go to assuage their white guilt.

You can't have racial quotas, but you can have "diversity," which the Court has defined as having a "critical mass" of minorities on campus.

This genesis of this case was UT's change in admissions policies, because it's Top 10% plan (top 10% of every HS class in Texas gets automatic admission to UT) wasn't bringing in enough minorities.

So, basically, by making the change, UT was admitting that "critical mass" basically means "unspoken quota." If you're not quantitatively measuring the number of minorities, how can you tell if you don't have enough? And if there is a point of "enough" minorities, isn't that point a quota?

Boggles the mind.

But this is the same court that has said for 40 years that the Civil Rights Act, which expressly prohibits consideration of race in the extension of any benefit by any government actor, allows for this kind of racial classification in the first place by a state school.

Posted by: LawLurker at June 23, 2016 03:48 PM (zKwtX)

166 "UT?

They have to be able to read to apply to UT."

I's gots me into uT systim all by miselves.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 23, 2016 03:48 PM (BZIG1)

167 @Bandersnatch

I found a sourced MLK and guns story on HuffPo of all places, if you need to throw that in someone's face.

http://tinyurl.com/4vzxydt

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 23, 2016 03:48 PM (W2YA6)

168 I imagine a lot of this failure and benefits needed to protect some wouldn't be needed at all IF actual eQuality in education started at kinder.

Posted by: willow at June 23, 2016 03:49 PM (SEFXb)

169 Something strange, in your neighborhood?
Who you gonna call?
Posted by: wooga at June 23, 2016 03:44 PM (XCOHF)

They dropped the new Ghostbusters theme today. Yeah it's awful.

And here it is!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AQ44nPrRTM

*walks out of thread whistling*

Posted by: Serenity Now! at June 23, 2016 03:49 PM (BDZWU)

170 If we got a Ohio-type situation goin' on, there is no hope. Let us pray.
Posted by: zombie at June 23, 2016 03:47 PM (jBuUi)

Even if Cameron and the EU conspire to prevent them from actually leaving, this would be worth it if for no other reason than to see the stupefied look on John Oliver's face.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 23, 2016 03:49 PM (KUaJL)

171 159
147---Same with daughter going to Catholic university (Franciscan Univ.).

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at June 23, 2016 03:42 PM

-------------------------

Steubenville?

Great choice.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at June 23, 2016 03:47 PM (T/5A0)
Yes.
If you want to send your child to a TRUE Catholic school - this is the real deal. Tuition is not unreasonable. Great faculty. Very very happy she is there - and her even more so.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at June 23, 2016 03:49 PM (jxbfJ)

172 >>>161 TWO HOURS TIL THE FIRST BREXIT RESULTS!

I really don't know to what extent there is vote fraud in England, and/or how much awareness of and exposure of it there is.

If we got a Ohio-type situation goin' on, there is no hope. Let us pray.
Posted by: zombie at June 23, 2016 03:47 PM (jBuUi)

_______________________________

The betting sites have been sliding more and more towards a remain victory.

I pray they are wrong...

Posted by: TeamRawDog at June 23, 2016 03:49 PM (10hEu)

173 The Lord indeed is beneficent and merciful.

What could possibly go wrong if alex got to run the time machine?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 23, 2016 03:49 PM (1xUj/)

174 Anyone with blue eyes shares one single common ancestor.

Imagine how much easier the world would be if they had just killed xe.

Posted by: The Black Panther Party at June 23, 2016 03:49 PM (hqZPQ)

175 And here it is!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AQ44nPrRTM

*walks out of thread whistling*
Posted by: Serenity Now! at June 23, 2016 03:49 PM (BDZWU)

Yeah... Not good. And I even like Fall Out Boy.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at June 23, 2016 03:50 PM (KUaJL)

176 Great faculty. Very very happy she is there - and her even more so.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at June 23, 2016 03:49 PM (jxbfJ)
===============================================

That sounds wonderful - all the best !

Posted by: grammie winger, 2 Chronicles 7:14 at June 23, 2016 03:50 PM (dFi94)

177 So long as you leave the ones with the creamy jade eyes!

Posted by: Lo Pan at June 23, 2016 03:50 PM (W2YA6)

178 I've considered stealing this, but do we know if it's true?

Was MLK a gun owner?
Posted by: Bandersnatch

Bing it. Numerous articles say "yes".

Also - Republican.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 23, 2016 03:51 PM (SCOa6)

179 I found a sourced MLK and guns story on HuffPo of all places, if you need to throw that in someone's face.

Oh that makes it doubly good. Thank you.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 23, 2016 03:51 PM (1xUj/)

180 164
>>>155

Doc gave patient potent sedative before ejaculating on her face: prosecutors

NY Post

I swear it was not me!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 23, 2016 03:45 PM (zp+j1)

_____________________________

Is the Doctor accepting new patients?

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at June 23, 2016 03:48 PM (10hEu)

Wonder if the doctor is hiring?

Posted by: Carlos Danger at June 23, 2016 03:51 PM (jxbfJ)

181 #128 is the scariest post on this thread

Posted by: vivi at June 23, 2016 03:51 PM (11H2y)

182 I'm still saying Brexit wins in an upset.

I mean, Leicester City won the Premier League...whoda thunk.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 23, 2016 03:52 PM (hqZPQ)

183 I can buy that race is a social construct far more easily and readily - with scientific basis - than I can gender. Womens and men are different. But how much "black" does someone have to be in order to be black? President Obama is as much white as black, so how is he black? What if he had a kid with a white girl would that child be black? bow do you make that call?

We're told people like Justice Thomas and Thomas Sowell aren't black but that President Clinton is. That seems like its a social construct; not actually genetic or physical at all.

So with that as a basis, how can anyone be given preferential or detrimental treatment based on their "race?"

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 23, 2016 03:52 PM (39g3+)

184 ugh, i thought id remembered from biology ,blue eyes was a mistake in something or other genetic determination.

Posted by: willow at June 23, 2016 03:52 PM (SEFXb)

185 Doc gave patient potent sedative before ejaculating on her face: prosecutors

NY Post

I swear it was not me!
Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 23, 2016 03:45 PM (zp+j1)

Bill Clinton got his M.D.?

Posted by: LawLurker at June 23, 2016 03:52 PM (zKwtX)

186 What could possibly go wrong if alex got to run the time machine?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 23, 2016 03:49 PM (1xUj/)

There are no words in any human tongue sufficient to describe the terrors that would be woken.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Tent Sale at the Outrage Outlet! Sizzling Summer Savings on Slurs, Slams, and Slanders at June 23, 2016 03:52 PM (hLRSq)

187 so it was all institutional, and they had appalling rates of attrition.
Posted by: Messrs Book, Hand, and Wall
-------------

Pell Grant recipients ain't doing so hot either. Only about 40% receive undergraduate degrees. So, 60% of the money is just outright transfer to the individuals and institutions.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 23, 2016 03:52 PM (9mTYi)

188 When Hillary tried to 'reform' healthcare the first time around one of the items that sunk it was affirmative action in medical schools. Thank god my GI surgeon was Lee Sang Won.

Posted by: vivi at June 23, 2016 03:53 PM (11H2y)

189 fine, i'll just sit over here in the corner, and slip on my dunce cap

Posted by: willow at June 23, 2016 03:53 PM (SEFXb)

190 What if he had a kid with a white girl would that child be black? bow do you make that call?

Mulatto
Quadroon
Octaroon
Paper bag

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 23, 2016 03:54 PM (1xUj/)

191 >>>180 164
>>>155

Doc gave patient potent sedative before ejaculating on her face: prosecutors

NY Post

I swear it was not me!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 23, 2016 03:45 PM (zp+j1)

_____________________________

Is the Doctor accepting new patients?

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at June 23, 2016 03:48 PM (10hEu)

Wonder if the doctor is hiring?
Posted by: Carlos Danger at June 23, 2016 03:51 PM (jxbfJ)

______________________________

Quickly! To the perv-mobile!

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at June 23, 2016 03:54 PM (10hEu)

192 Doc gave patient potent sedative before ejaculating on her face: prosecutors

Paging Dr. Huxtable. Dr. Cliff Huxtable.

Posted by: josephistan at June 23, 2016 03:54 PM (7HtZB)

193 Everyone knows what's going on, everyone knows what time it is.

Time is running out to actually do something about it.

War is coming, it has to come.

Posted by: Kreplach at June 23, 2016 03:54 PM (K6oXr)

194 ugh, i thought id remembered from biology ,blue eyes was a mistake in something or other genetic determination.
Posted by: willow
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Balderdash!

Posted by: Chrystal Gayle at June 23, 2016 03:54 PM (9mTYi)

195 >>>The Lord indeed is beneficent and merciful.

What could possibly go wrong if alex got to run the time machine?
Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 23, 2016 03:49 PM (1xUj/)<<<

I've rendered it completely inoperable to her (I took the phone books off the driver's seat, and blocks off the pedals). She'll never manage to get it up to 88 MPH.

Posted by: Doc Brown at June 23, 2016 03:54 PM (H9MG5)

196 189 fine, i'll just sit over here in the corner, and slip on my dunce cap
Posted by: willow at June 23, 2016 03:53 PM (SEFXb)

Class, everyone point and laugh at willow!

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2016 03:54 PM (0mRoj)

197 does anyone really care about time?

Posted by: willow at June 23, 2016 03:55 PM (SEFXb)

198 Every graduating engineer I've interviewed is on the 5-year plan.

And the schools won't tell you the mean GPA, but I can infer it's way inflated.

Of course, engineers are so much more brilliant than the rest of us peons, but I distinctly recall most of the engineering dudes I graduated with back in the early 90s got their work done in 4 years.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 23, 2016 03:55 PM (hqZPQ)

199 The Lord indeed is beneficent and merciful.

But his mercy is not without limits, and He takes a very long term view.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 23, 2016 03:55 PM (39g3+)

200 insomniac, well ok, but can i at least have a sippy cup of something strong?

Posted by: willow at June 23, 2016 03:55 PM (SEFXb)

201 What do we want? A time machine!
When do we want it? That'll be irrelevant!

Posted by: josephistan at June 23, 2016 03:56 PM (7HtZB)

202 TWO HOURS TIL THE FIRST BREXIT RESULTS!

Two much money and graft at stake for Leave to be allowed to win

Posted by: brak at June 23, 2016 03:56 PM (MJuTN)

203 Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 23, 2016 03:52 PM (39g3+)
===============================================

There are so many interracial relationships now, I would be hard pressed to tell you what kid goes with what parent. At church I see so many combinations of skin color and hair type among family members or blended families, that I don't even pretend I care anymore. Human race. That's what we are. Human race.

Posted by: grammie winger, 2 Chronicles 7:14 at June 23, 2016 03:56 PM (dFi94)

204 Chickens & Roost - some assembly required.

The BLM mob has volunteered for the assembly part

Posted by: Rev. Wright at June 23, 2016 03:56 PM (10hEu)

205
When Hillary tried to 'reform' healthcare the first time around one of the items that sunk it was affirmative action in medical schools. Thank god my GI surgeon was Lee Sang Won.

My doctor was a Hong Kee.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 23, 2016 03:56 PM (IqV8l)

206 well who knows what's behind blue eyes anyway.

Posted by: willow at June 23, 2016 03:56 PM (SEFXb)

207 200 insomniac, well ok, but can i at least have a sippy cup of something strong?
Posted by: willow at June 23, 2016 03:55 PM (SEFXb)

You get a juice box.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2016 03:57 PM (0mRoj)

208 Behind Hillary's! blue contacts are reptile pupils.

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 23, 2016 03:57 PM (W2YA6)

209 206 well who knows what's behind blue eyes anyway.
Posted by: willow at June 23, 2016 03:56 PM (SEFXb)

The bad man; the sad man.

Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2016 03:57 PM (0mRoj)

210 Reality check:

The Berkeley Unified School District, where Democratic/leftist candidates and ideas regularly get 80% of the vote, has far far far fewer white students than there are white children in the actual city itself.

38% of the students in the school district are white:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_High_School_(California)#Demographics

But...60% of the children in the general city population are white:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California

So -- what happened to half of the white kids in the city?

Their liberal rich parents send them to all-white private schools.

Meanwhile, to make up for lost enrollment, the school district intentionally encourages registration fraud, and advertises in minority communities in surrounding cities for parents to send their kids to Berkeley public schools

End result is that Berkeley Public Schools are now over 61% minority students, most of whom come from slums in Oakland and Richmond.

So the school rankings continue going lower and lower and the quality of education there decreases. Consequence? More liberal hypocrites send their kids to private white schools.

And the cycle just continues and continues.

Liberal hypocrisy in a microcosm.

Posted by: zombie at June 23, 2016 03:57 PM (jBuUi)

211
You get a juice box.
Posted by: Insomniac at June 23, 2016 03:57 PM (0mRoj)
do i have to like it also?

and yes the bad and sad man!

Posted by: willow at June 23, 2016 03:58 PM (SEFXb)

212 188
When Hillary tried to 'reform' healthcare the first time around one of
the items that sunk it was affirmative action in medical schools. Thank
god my GI surgeon was Lee Sang Won.

Posted by: vivi at June 23, 2016 03:53 PM (11H2y)
Yeah, and we all know what happened when AA took over the airlines (ok, actually the TV station reporting an airline crash)Wi Tu LoSum Ting Wong
Ho Lee FukBang Ding Ow

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at June 23, 2016 03:58 PM (jxbfJ)

213 Human race. That's what we are. Human race.

And that's the basic flaw with "affirmative action" quotas and racist selection. Bias against whites or toward whites presumes different types of humanity. Even by the actions and rhetoric of the very people who are its greatest advocates, its a flawed and foolish system.

We're all just folks. Except Hillary. I'm not sure she's human.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 23, 2016 03:59 PM (39g3+)

214 Ray Parker should sue over this remix...

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 23, 2016 03:59 PM (d1otI)

215 But his mercy is not without limits, and He takes a very long term view.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor
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There seems to be a history of suffering by civilizations which turn from God. Not unusually, the Assyrians play a part in that suffering.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 23, 2016 04:00 PM (9mTYi)

216 @213 -- Actually, my gang identifies with People Nation.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 23, 2016 04:00 PM (hqZPQ)

217 my docs first name is candy, she has a last name along with it to think stripper pole.
she is the most intelligent (she is asian) thoughtful doc i have met in my flurry of medical cht the last several years.
but i'd hate to walk around with her name

Posted by: willow at June 23, 2016 04:00 PM (SEFXb)

218 >>>What do we want? A time machine!

When do we want it? That'll be irrelevant!
Posted by: josephistan at June 23, 2016 03:56 PM (7HtZB)<<<

Well, not if it takes another hundred years, and you're... you know... already dead... although, then it will be very irrelevant... for you.

Posted by: Doc Brown, just rambling at June 23, 2016 04:00 PM (H9MG5)

219 Nood.

Posted by: Chupacabra at June 23, 2016 04:01 PM (W2YA6)

220 on one hand G-d punished whole nations, on the other He states the path to return.
i guess we still must suffer consequenences and those innocent among all of us. to get to the redemption and return.

sad innitit?

Posted by: willow at June 23, 2016 04:02 PM (SEFXb)

221 " my docs first name is candy, she has a last name along with it to think stripper pole. "

Diamond.....?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill.....TEXIT at June 23, 2016 04:03 PM (BZIG1)

222 Nood.
Posted by: Chupacabra

NO

Posted by: willow at June 23, 2016 04:03 PM (SEFXb)

223 Work to restore balance in society, starting with Open Carry in your state.

Posted by: derit at June 23, 2016 04:03 PM (ewfUZ)

224 let me finish!

Posted by: willow at June 23, 2016 04:03 PM (SEFXb)

225 Ricardo, in the same line. but i wouldn't tell because location-location-location!

Posted by: willow at June 23, 2016 04:04 PM (SEFXb)

226 'The Willow Effect' strikes...

It's like some kind of natural law.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 23, 2016 04:04 PM (9mTYi)

227 You know how Fred Thompson did the career shifts between politics and acting.

John Lewis is right there in Hollywood and yet no one has figured out a way for him to get the part of The Thing in the Marvel Fantastic Four franchise. He's the living embodiment of Ben Grimm. I say this as a compliment.

Unfortunate that Marvel gave Ole Clobberin Time that unflattering name. He is a lovable character. Had a blind girlfriend in the 60's but I think today he could pull without having to play the braille card.

Posted by: spoonman at June 23, 2016 04:05 PM (PcHwJ)

228 so really i willowed this thread . you know it kinda hurts my little feelings everyone runs when i appear.

Posted by: willow at June 23, 2016 04:05 PM (SEFXb)

229 >>>>Anyone with blue eyes shares one single common ancestor.

Imagine how much easier the world would be if they had just killed xe.
.
.
.
.Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You
know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes,
like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until
he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah... then
you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and
spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you
to pieces.

Posted by: Quint at June 23, 2016 04:05 PM (iONHu)

230 mike, it's some level of meaniest traveling the univers-al blog commens or something.

Posted by: willow at June 23, 2016 04:06 PM (SEFXb)

231 so really i willowed this thread . you know it kinda hurts my little feelings everyone runs when i appear.

We'll all stay here if you show us your boobs.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 23, 2016 04:06 PM (1xUj/)

232 Bander, they aren't All that!

Posted by: willow at June 23, 2016 04:07 PM (SEFXb)

233 anyway i guess i'll shlepp to the new post , with tears rolling down my face on two counts. because bander had to mention one of em

Posted by: willow at June 23, 2016 04:08 PM (SEFXb)

234 Dude, do you think we're picky?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 23, 2016 04:08 PM (1xUj/)

235 "this is just another branch of the Democrat-Socialist Party in action."

That's pretty much what Rush L. said today. So this cements it; I'm voting for the Republican guy. The SCOTUS is America's last chance.

And I think it's time I get a tin foil hat and ask the universe how and why J. Scalia really died.

Posted by: PJ at June 23, 2016 04:09 PM (cHuNI)

236 You kind and noble people do realize what is the real reason the Washington City government and courts can dictate to the states? It's called Reconstruction! We Southerners have known about it sine 1865.

Posted by: Eromero at June 23, 2016 04:21 PM (zLDYs)

237 North: 1 South: 0. (Halftime)

Posted by: Duncanthrax

Indeed.

Posted by: Sharkman at June 23, 2016 04:27 PM (LKen+)

238 "Something strange has happened since our prior decision in this case," Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the dissent.

Feel the fundamental transformation, Justice Alito. Might be a good idea for you and Justice Thomas to start employing the services of food tasters as well.

Posted by: DocJ at June 23, 2016 04:40 PM (5Nr9V)

239 You would think that the legislature in TX would put an end to any racial discrimination at UT-west if the feds won't do it.

Posted by: Thatch at June 23, 2016 04:44 PM (pBZp4)

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