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otohara's JournalJudge Who Sent Racist E-mail - Will Get New Office - Obama Stimulus
Come this summer, Judge Richard Cebull will be conducting business in a brand new $79 million federal courthouse in Billings, Montana, paid for through President Obama's economic recovery program. That is, if Cebull survives the firestorm engulfing him for forwarding a racist e-mail about the president.
everal advocacy groups and lawmakers have called for Cebull's resignation, but the judge will probably not face any harsh punitive action, said CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.
It's rare and generally very difficult to force federal judges from office. They receive tenure, and the Constitution guarantees they can remain on the bench during good behavior.
The standards for removal are not clear, beyond a violation of civil or criminal law. Congress would have to initiate impeachment proceedings, but the few judges to face that have usually resigned before an outcome.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/02/us/montana-judge-racist-message/index.html
Does Darrell Issa Have Any Children?
I find the wife, but no mention of children - anybody know?
His office keeps transferring me, to comment line - won't let me ask a question
Lloyd Blankfein HRC's New “national corporate spokesman for same-sex marriage.”
Yuck
Double yuck
Last week, the Human Rights Campaign, the organization that advocates for equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, announced that Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein will be its first national corporate spokesman for same-sex marriage. HRCs move was almost universally portrayed in the media as a laudable one for the cause of equality: a supposed Nixon-goes-to-China-esque coup that aligned a politically conservative icon with a liberal cause. As one HRC executive told the New York Times: Lloyd Blankfein is not someone average Americans would think is going to support marriage equality.
In all the ovation and self-congratulation, however, two big problems were left unmentioned.
First and foremost is the simple fact that this is not some brilliant P.R. move in the Nixon-to-China vein. On the contrary, many (though certainly not all) Wall Street financiers have long professed their support for gay rights, culminating in their pivotal role helping legalize gay marriage in New York state. Thats, in part, because its an effective strategy to divert attention from their economic agenda.
Taking a page out of corporate greenwashing strategies, many of the most offensively greedy, right-wing thieves in the business world have long touted their personally progressive position on select social issues like gay rights as a means of publicly presenting themselves as Good and Decent People. Not surprisingly, the particular progressive causes they choose tend to be those that do not impact their businesses or personal economic situations. In some cases, in fact, these thugs seem as if they are leveraging their stands on such progressive issues as a quid pro quo bargaining chip for their personal financial interests. As just one example of where that kind of dynamic may have played out, recall that almost immediately after Wall Streeters underwrote Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomos campaign to legalize gay marriage, Cuomo launched a public (though ultimately unsuccessful) campaign to halt the extension of a so-called millionaires tax on those same Wall Streeters.
This isnt to say that Wall Streeters support for marriage equality isnt a good thing; it most certainly is. (As a strong supporter of marriage equality, for instance, Im glad those Wall Streeters helped New York State legalize gay marriage.) Its only to say that Blankfeins support of gay marriage isnt some hard-to-believe coup; its probably exactly what many average Americans would expect from a Manhattan investment banker.http://www.salon.com/2012/02/14/an_offensive_advocate_for_lgbt_rights/
Self Deportation
I'm waiting for Rachel to get back to the episode of This American Life and self deportation.
This "self deportation" joke is working very well in Alabama.
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