Impeach Earl Warren

[samclem]

Hey. I'm older than dirt. I remember driving through the highways in Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, much of the South and probably many other states in 1959. Huge signs saying "Impeach Earl Warren."

Of course, Warren, appointed to the SCOTUS by the "conservative" Eisenhower, disappointed his right wing supporters by voting for "Roe vs. Wade," ending mandatory school prayer, ending school segregation, and supporting "one man, one vote."

I'll lay odds there will be such billboards erected within the week saying "impeach John Roberts." In those same hotbeds of pointy-headed ignorants.

[friedo]

Impeach samclem.

[Oakminster]

Fucking brilliant way to get in a cheapshot at the South, fucktard. If you weren't a mod, you'd have made my ignore list for this bullshit. Bite me in fee simple absolute.

[samclem]

Originally Posted by Oakminster

Fucking brilliant way to get in a cheapshot at the South, fucktard. If you weren't a mod, you'd have made my ignore list for this bullshit. Bite me in fee simple absolute.

I know you love me.

I'm born in Danville, VA., went to school in Richmond, VA. Lived in Durham, NC for five years. I'm Southern. But I can be an equal opportunity hater when it come to ignorance. I've met more than my share in Ohio the last 40 years.

(of course, they all migrated here from the South.).

[friedo]

Originally Posted by Oakminster

Fucking brilliant way to get in a cheapshot at the South, fucktard. If you weren't a mod, you'd have made my ignore list for this bullshit. Bite me in fee simple absolute.

Well, the south is where most of those signs were put up.

[BrainGlutton]

Impeach Antonin Scalia!

[BrainGlutton]

Originally Posted by samclem

I remember driving through the highways in Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, much of the South and probably many other states . . .

Originally Posted by Oakminster

Fucking brilliant way to get in a cheapshot at the South, fucktard. If you weren't a mod, you'd have made my ignore list for this bullshit. Bite me in fee simple absolute.

You really are a shithead. If you're a southerner, go north immediately and permanently. To Greenland. Court adjourned sine die.

[Oakminster]

Originally Posted by BrainGlutton

You really are a shithead. If you're a southerner, go north immediately and permanently. To Greenland. Court adjourned sine die.

Shouldn't you be starting another 5000 content-free threads fellating a vacuous liberal agenda? Be sure to include links and lengthy quotes instead of anything original.

[BrainGlutton]

Originally Posted by Oakminster

Shouldn't you be starting another 5000 content-free threads fellating a vacuous liberal agenda? Be sure to include links and lengthy quotes instead of anything original.

You're still posting. Get on the northbound road, you worthless animal.

[Oldeb]

At least nobody ever complained about his time as a stripper.

[Oakminster]

Originally Posted by BrainGlutton

You're still posting. Get on the northbound road, you worthless animal.

Make me. Or blow a goat. I'm good, either way.

[samclem]

Now you all understand why I started this in the Pit.

[silenus]

We really should have let the Confederacy go back in 1861.

Then we should have nuked them after 1945.

[The Second Stone]

Earl Warren had nothing to do with Roe v. Wade. Warren Burger was CJ at that time. IIRC.

The reason that Earl Warren was suggested for impeachment was that he was the author of Brown v. Board of Education, a unanimous opinion that held that separate schools segregated by skin color was inherently unequal.

As for the digression about the South, it does have its share of racists and idiots, but so do most places. What the South has special going for it is that many of their dipshits to this day excuse the treason that led to their war for slavery.

[mister nyx]

Originally Posted by Oakminster

Fucking brilliant way to get in a cheapshot at the South, fucktard. If you weren't a mod, you'd have made my ignore list for this bullshit. Bite me in fee simple absolute.

Holy shit, you believe that Indiana, Iowa, and Nebraska are in the south.

Goddamn there is never going to be a day when southerners stop embarrassing themselves like this, is there? Every other group tries to rise above prejudices but Southerners are just obsessed with proving them right.

[Rachellelogram]

Originally Posted by Oakminster

Fucking brilliant way to get in a cheapshot at the South, fucktard. If you weren't a mod, you'd have made my ignore list for this bullshit. Bite me in fee simple absolute.

Everyone makes fun of the south. My sister who lives in the south makes fun of the south. My mom who grew up in the south and loves her southern family makes fun of the south. Seth MacFarlane who was born in Connecticut and is the producer of the hit television series Family Guy makes fun of the south! okay, bad example

[Kolak of Twilo]

I already said as much in another thread:

Originally Posted by Kolak of Twilo

I wonder how soon we should expect calls for the impeachment of Roberts from Tea Party types.

I'm sure there will be plenty of mouth breathers up in arms about this but I doubt it will be limited to the South. The Tea Party loons are everywhere.
Just the suggestion that this would happen was enough to cause our friend Bricker to have a hissy-fit:

Originally Posted by Bricker

I wonder how soon we can expect apologies for calling Roberts a partisan hack who rules based on his corporate masters'' will from the fringe left types?

Of course, I didn't say any such thing about Roberts. Not ever, anywhere.

If you keep reading that thread he continues to try to twist things to make it look like I did call Roberts all sorts of ugly things, until Marley tells everyone to drop it.

Seems to me some folks are a bit sensitive about this topic.

[Slithy Tove]

I was born on June 7. I share this birthdate with Beau Brummell, Dean Martin and Prince. This swells me with pride. It informs my personal sense of self-worth and cultural identity. So, preemptively, fuck you for making any critical remarks about Beau Brummell, Dean Martin or Prince. You never can resist the temptation to make those cheap shots using tired stereotypes. My personal outrage is, of course, entirely justified. Because I was born on June 7. If you were not, then shut the fuck up.

[asterion]

Originally Posted by The Second Stone

Earl Warren had nothing to do with Roe v. Wade. Warren Burger was CJ at that time. IIRC.

Mmm, burger.

Anyway, as amusing as the knee-jerk reaction by Oakminster was, I bet we will see those signs go up all over the place. Anywhere there's enough people (which could be a single person) willing to put up the money for a billboard.

And Republicans, please please impeach a sitting Republican-appointed Chief Justice while there's a Democratic president and Democratic control of the Senate.

[An Arky]

Originally Posted by silenus

We really should have let the Confederacy go back in 1861.

Then we should have nuked them after 1945.

B-b-but what about Elvis? Think of a world with no Elvis!

[Ferret Herder]

Roberts doesn't love "socialized medicine" or anything like that; he's just not fond with the Commerce Clause being used here. Declaring it a "tax" instead is quite clever.

[Jackmannii]

Originally Posted by samclem

But I can be an equal opportunity hater when it come to ignorance. I've met more than my share in Ohio the last 40 years.

Brilliant way to get in a cheap shot at Ohio, mod-tard.

(of course, they all migrated here from the South.).

oh, well alrighty then.

[BobLibDem]

I don't think the OP was picking on the south exclusively. The Impeach Warren stickers were used by hayseeds and rednecks. Look at the electoral map of today- the states that you can automatically color in red before either nominee is named are pretty easy to list by anyone who follows politics- those were the fertile grounds for the anti-Warren movement of old.

That isn't to say that southerners don't deserve our condescending ridicule. Indianans and Kansans may be ignorant hayseeds, but at least they aren't fucking inbred hillbilly redneck traitorous rebels.

[FoieGrasIsEvil]

I'm not mad at Roberts. I don't really care much about the Constitutionality (???) arguments. I just wonder how America is going to pay for this. We cannot afford jack shit. We are deeply in debt as a nation and its only getting worse. Foisting this debt burden upon our children and grandchildren is downright criminal.

There will be no good future for this country if we don't reverse course WRT spending immediately.

And before you get all "mouth breather" on me, its not just UHC...its everything we waste money on...wars, unnecessary regulation/studies/whatever, etc.

[El_Kabong]

Originally Posted by Oakminster

Fucking brilliant way to get in a cheapshot at the South, fucktard. If you weren't a mod, you'd have made my ignore list for this bullshit. Bite me in fee simple absolute.

Do you ever read your own stuff and think, "you know, I seem to be a lot more belligerent than most people"? Just sayin'.

Also, Samclem was talking about 1959, fer fuck's sake. You joining Starving Artist in declaring that period to be our Golden Age, or what?

[John Mace]

Originally Posted by samclem

I'll lay odds there will be such billboards erected within the week saying "impeach John Roberts." In those same hotbeds of pointy-headed ignorants.

I thought that sentiment was already taken by the pointy-heads who didn't like Citizens United.

[Ludovic]

Originally Posted by FoieGrasIsEvil

I just wonder how America is going to pay for this. We cannot afford jack shit.

Fortunately, socialized medicine is cheaper than our current system. Unfortunately, since it's paid for by the ebil goverment, ideologues might refuse to pay for it while simultaneously not being able to repeal it due to its popularity (hearkening back to the spend-and-spend days of the 2000s). That's the real issue, not whether America overall can afford it. In a way, we can't afford not to.

[FoieGrasIsEvil]

Originally Posted by El_Kabong

Do you ever read your own stuff and think, "you know, I seem to be a lot more belligerent than most people"? Just sayin'.

Also, Samclem was talking about 1959, fer fuck's sake. You joining Starving Artist in declaring that period to be our Golden Age, or what?

Well...it kinda was our Golden Age...the big war was over, the economy was stable, Americans were on the move, cars were cool, gas was cheap, and most importantly....people were polite, didn't use drugs or potty language and black people knew their place! Those were halcyon days!

[Vinyl Turnip]

Originally Posted by Oakminster

Fucking brilliant way to get in a cheapshot at the South, fucktard. If you weren't a mod, you'd have made my ignore list for this bullshit. Bite me in fee simple absolute.

Typical Southerner, sees "Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, much of the South and probably many other states" and reads it as "the South."

And then gets all het up and rarin' for a fight over it.

[hajario]

Originally Posted by Vinyl Turnip

Typical Southerner, sees "Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, much of the South and probably many other states" and reads it as "the South."

And then gets all het up and rarin' for a fight over it.

How myopic do you have to be to see the above quoted statement as a slam on the South? Was that sarcasm or Poe's Law?

[Lobohan]

Originally Posted by Oakminster

Fucking brilliant way to get in a cheapshot at the South, fucktard. If you weren't a mod, you'd have made my ignore list for this bullshit. Bite me in fee simple absolute.

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/08/46...cial-marriage/

I'm not saying the south should be paved as an offsite-parking lot for New York, but it might be a better use of the space.

[Kolak of Twilo]

Originally Posted by John Mace

I thought that sentiment was already taken by the pointy-heads who didn't like Citizens United.

It's kinda funny how I haven't heard a single person who is unhappy with the result in Citizens United make that suggestion yet within a few hours of the ACA decision the loons on Free Republic were already calling for Roberts impeachment.

[AK84]

According to Free Republic he is worse than Benedict Arnold.. Thats not true, Arnold was a traitor, but he eventually saw the light.

[Loach]

Originally Posted by samclem

Now you all understand why I started this in the Pit.

Because you are old and remember something that happened 50 years ago?

[JKellyMap]

Originally Posted by BobLibDem

That isn't to say that southerners don't deserve our condescending ridicule. Indianans and Kansans may be ignorant hayseeds, but at least they aren't fucking inbred hillbilly redneck traitorous rebels.

Well, to be fair, we do have a few of those as well. Ol' John Brown only managed to slay a couple of 'em before he ran off to try and empancipate Virginia.

[Mr. Miskatonic]

Originally Posted by Oakminster

Fucking brilliant way to get in a cheapshot at the South, fucktard. If you weren't a mod, you'd have made my ignore list for this bullshit. Bite me in fee simple absolute.

Go back to your ancestor worship you clown.

[Tom Tildrum]

Originally Posted by samclem

I'll lay odds there will be such billboards erected within the week saying "impeach John Roberts." In those same hotbeds of pointy-headed ignorants.

Bear in mind that in the weeks prior to the decision, when there was a lot of speculation that the Act would be struck down, we heard several commentators on the opposite end of the political spectrum predicting that to overturn the Act would wreck the legitimacy of the Court. Functionally the same thing as "impeach so-and-so."

[Buck Godot]

Originally Posted by Lobohan

http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/08/46...cial-marriage/

I'm not saying the south should be paved as an offsite-parking lot for New York, but it might be a better use of the space.

Well to be fair, given the education level of Mississippi, I would bet that at least half of that 46 percent didn't know what interracial meant.

[silenus]

Originally Posted by An Arky

B-b-but what about Elvis? Think of a world with no Elvis!

Elvis was born in 1935. Maybe his folks would have moved him North by then?

Of course, his "Northern" upbringing would have affected his music. So that means there we'd have to forego "Kissing Cousins" and "JailHouse Rock."

[Slithy Tove]

What does "bite me in fee simple absolute" mean?

[woodstockbirdybird]

Originally Posted by Oakminster

Fucking brilliant way to get in a cheapshot at the South, fucktard. If you weren't a mod, you'd have made my ignore list for this bullshit. Bite me in fee simple absolute.

Never go full retard.

[lost4life]

Originally Posted by Oldeb

At least nobody ever complained about his time as a stripper.

I only opened this thread to see how many posts until someone made the Simpsons reference. 10! You guys are slowing down.

[Lemur866]

Originally Posted by FoieGrasIsEvil

I'm not mad at Roberts. I don't really care much about the Constitutionality (???) arguments. I just wonder how America is going to pay for this. We cannot afford jack shit. We are deeply in debt as a nation and its only getting worse. Foisting this debt burden upon our children and grandchildren is downright criminal.

There will be no good future for this country if we don't reverse course WRT spending immediately.

And before you get all "mouth breather" on me, its not just UHC...its everything we waste money on...wars, unnecessary regulation/studies/whatever, etc.

You do know that we ALREADY pay for medical care for the uninsured, right? If you go to the hospital with an injury, and don't have insurance and can't pay out of pocket, they don't dump your poor-ass dying carcass in the street, they treat you.

So how is this bill going to raise health care costs?

[Simplicio]

Originally Posted by FoieGrasIsEvil

I'm not mad at Roberts. I don't really care much about the Constitutionality (???) arguments. I just wonder how America is going to pay for this. We cannot afford jack shit. We are deeply in debt as a nation and its only getting worse. Foisting this debt burden upon our children and grandchildren is downright criminal.

There will be no good future for this country if we don't reverse course WRT spending immediately.

And before you get all "mouth breather" on me, its not just UHC...its everything we waste money on...wars, unnecessary regulation/studies/whatever, etc.

So your opposed to a bill that's projected to lower the deficit because your worried about the deficit?

[Inner Stickler]

Originally Posted by Slithy Tove

What does "bite me in fee simple absolute" mean?

I believe it is intended to mean unreservedly although I am unsure. Fee simple absolute seems to refer to the highest level of land ownership that exists in common law, that is ownership with the greatest degree of control. I'm no lawyer though and it probably shows.

[El_Kabong]

As silly as this thread and some of its responses has been, it's caused me to learn something, and that's never bad.

It turns out that only one Supreme Court justice, Samuel Chase, has ever been impeached, it was early in the history of the country, and it apparently went nowhere as he was acquitted by a hefty margin. Interestingly, his impeachment was on the grounds of "...allegedly letting his partisan leanings affect his court decisions".

So, it seems, aside from the, er, rather spotty precedent for such an action, it sure looks as though Justice Roberts was doing pretty much the opposite of what Chase got in trouble for. Those who might call for his impeachment, therefore, are basically demanding that "...his partisan leanings affect his court decisions". While I might stop short of calling such people a bunch of inbred yokels with their pin heads firmly up their asses, I at least have to question whether they have any real idea what they are talking about.

[Gangster Octopus]

Originally Posted by FoieGrasIsEvil

Well...it kinda was our Golden Age...the big war was over, the economy was stable, Americans were on the move, cars were cool, gas was cheap, and most importantly....people were polite, didn't use drugs or potty language and black people knew their place! Those were halcyon days!

Yeah, but what about all that Jazz and Rock n Roll music!!

[BigAppleBucky]

http://www.salon.com/2012/06/25/anto...nting_old_man/

Scalia, who 25 years ago had a certain gift for pointing out the blindness and hypocrisy of certain versions of limousine liberalism, has in his old age become an increasingly intolerant and intolerable blowhard: a pompous celebrant of his own virtue and rectitude, a purveyor of intemperate jeremiads against the degeneracy of the age, and now an author of hysterical diatribes against foreign invaders, who threaten all that is holy.

**snip**

. . . he sounds increasingly like a right-wing talk radio host rather than a justice of the Supreme Court, and that his dissents are starting to read more like hastily drafted blog posts than sober judicial opinions.

Bolding was mine.

It would seem that along with 95% of Americans disrespecting Congress and 40% hating the president, (and many more not particularily caring for him) that a significant number will now disrespect the Supreme Court as well.

Maybe Americans can get together and cheer for the Olympic team this summer.

[Really Not All That Bright]

Originally Posted by Oakminster

Fucking brilliant way to get in a cheapshot at the South, fucktard. If you weren't a mod, you'd have made my ignore list for this bullshit. Bite me in fee simple absolute.

Is it also a cheap shot if I mention that Selma is in Alabama? Because, you know, that one's also true.

[The Second Stone]

Scalia was always a partisan hack. But 25 years ago he was entertaining as a writer. In short, the judicial version of Christopher Hitchens, may his non-soul rest in fictitious peace. Scalia isn't even an entertaining writer anymore. He's just a partisan hack.