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[thestickywicket]

"This decision to commute the sentence of a man who compromised our national security cements the legacy of an Administration characterized by a politics of cynicism and division, one that has consistently placed itself and its ideology above the law. This is exactly the kind of politics we must change so we can begin restoring the American people’

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[angstville]

Yes, a kitty inhaler, and, no, I will not take pictures. :)<>/i>

Oh, you poor thing! I think Cleo is borderline - she has these wheezing fits and we did a chest xray and the vet said there was a shadow that could develop but so far, we're just in the crossing our fingers stage.

Good luck with the inhaler!

[thestickywicket]

I think Cleo is borderline - she has these wheezing fits and we did a chest xray and the vet said there was a shadow that could develop but so far, we're just in the crossing our fingers stage.

Yes, exactly -- his lungs were cloudy. The vet originally thought it was hairball/fat-related (she said it nicer), but did the x-rays and his poor lungs were shadowy. :(

Wish me luck with the kitty inhaler tonight. :)

[zandras_court]

Only gonna comment on the last SC ruling because it came out of Seattle. I agree with everything else you wrote

[thestickywicket]

So, to my view, this was less about race as it was the ultimate level of 20 years of a district not listening to it's parents, poor management and a parent who finally had had enough and the race gave them a way to make the district pay attention.

Not going to respond at length because I haven't had time to read the decision yet (yay, weekend reading!), but none of this has anything to do with the fact that the Supreme Court just said that race can no longer be a factor in determining which students go to what schools. It sounds like Seattle had an especially stupid program in place, and if these particular parents had merely used the racial angle as a lever to get the district to listen, that would be one thing, but because this (and at least one other/similar case) went all the way to Bush's New Asstastic Supreme Court of Entrenched Conservativism, we now have no judicial tools with which to enforce Brown v. Board of Education. And that is awful.

Grutter and Gratz were problematic in that they accepted nebulous 'meaningful

[zandras_court]

we now have no judicial tools with which to enforce Brown v. Board of Education. I've heard this and I am confused. Because wasn't the issue of B v. BoE that a district couldn't say, we have seperate schools for races, but they are equal, so that's ok. Doesn't this say, "you can't consider race at all"? Meaning that it's still illegal for a school to say "whites go here and the rest go somewhere else?" Instead, the underlying message becomes, whites and non-whites will never live near each other for neighborhoods to be naturally integrated, so we have to make sure we bus kids into different neighborhoods. I don't know if this was how it was done in the other cities, but it was certainly the message given here

[thestickywicket]

Quickly because I'm on my way out -- Brown said you can't segregate schools based on race, so asshat school districts could still draw the lines around schools without explicitly saying they were trying to segregate. Then came various judicial decrees and state law initiatives to desegregate schools, many of which involved bussing kids all the hell over to achieve some sort of desegregation.

The courts look at any use of race by the state with struct scrutiny, which means the state must have a compelling interest (in desegregation) and must have used means narrowly tailored to the end. The court here said Seattle's plan wasn't narrowly tailored because race was a "tiebreaker" instead of (like the Grutter/Gratz school of thought) a nebulous, non-numerical factor

[merems411]

**applauds

[thestickywicket]

The commutation just blew my effin' mind. They aren't even ASHAMED of their disdain for the Constitution, American people's wishes, or you know, generally governing in an ethical manner.

Yes, and my favorite part is that with the commutation, Libby still has possible legal jeopardy during his appeal and "probation" (it's not really probation, but whatever). If Bush had simply pardoned Libby, the issue would be a nullity for Libby, and no further legal harm could come to him... meaning Congress could've called him to testify under oath and he would not have been able to plead the Fifth Amendment. I'm shocked -- shocked! -- that Bush's commutation both keeps Libby out of jail and keeps his Fifth Amendment defense in place at least through the end of Bush's term.

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

Basically from now on, when I accept a new job, I should file a pay discrimination lawsuit within 180 days just in case I'm being discriminated againstLOL! Exactly. And this decision goes against every prior decision in re: each paycheck being an

[chanel19]

I'm sorry about your kitty. And I don't think you should take pictures. Instead you should have someone else take the pictures, because I think your hands are going to be full. *g*