Non-Sequiturs: 11.05.09
* Did I miss the part where beating your wife became a civil right? [Double X]
* The Anonymous Lawyer opines on Biglaw bonuses. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Justice Antonin Scalia will be speaking at Ohio State. Any chance he’s looking for clerks? [Moritz College of Law]
* Stealing court documents in plain sight. [The Victorious Opposition]
* Why does Facebook hate pregnant women? [Gothamist]
* Anyone wondering why Carrie Prejean abruptly settled her suit with the Miss America people? It’s pretty hot, or horrible, I can’t decide. [TMZ]




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Right wing looks ridiculous again. What was that dumb skank thinking when she's portraying herself as a good christian girl while porno sites won't post her sex tape because it's "TOO GRAPHIC?" Seriously:
"But even blogger Nik Richie of the porn-purveying TheDirty.com didn't want anything to do with it.
"It was very graphic," Richie tells E! News, "and our lawyers wouldn't let us put it on the site.""
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b152301_carrie_prejean_sex_tape_yours.html
Nothing makes me happier than a jeezus freak getting called out as a hypocrite. Where's that person who was arguing with me on the last thread about Carrie Prejean? I guess they'll be silent on this thread.
FIRST - HAHA, Suck it!
She was masturbating on the tape. Big difference between that and 2 men having sex, champ.
DAMNIT
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No.. Scalia is at Ohio St law looking for janitors. Someone's got to clean the open people's slobber/drool/feces.
Maryland bar results are out tomorrow!
3- It's not about two men having sex. It's about the religious telling the rest of us how to run our sex lives while they're busy making sex tapes... not to mention the 9 figure settlements for priests mouth pounding 10 year old boys.
And since when is a woman masturbating "too graphic" to put up on a website? "Too graphic" implies it failed the Miller test, which is really hard to do in 2009.
"As you sow-ears sit before me today, wishing to be silk purses.... "
sounds hot.
"Nothing makes me happier than a jeezus freak getting called out as a hypocrite. Where's that person who was arguing with me on the last thread about Carrie Prejean? I guess they'll be silent on this thread."
Sounds like you lead a rich and fulfilling life, 1. Perhaps things will pick up for you after law school.
Scalia continues to reveal himself as a dirtbag hack. TTT schools are apparently good enough when they pay him speaker's fees but not good enough for their kids to become clerks. Somebody impeach this asshole.
TMZ refers to the tape as "Home Alone" and talks about her future "solo career." TheDirty and TMZ aren't hardcore porn sites; they refuse to show tons of stuff that would still pass the Miller test. It's not like SpankWire or xTube rejected the tape for being too graphic.
elie: when did you stop beating your wife
Why can't we all just agree to loathe the gay and the religious in equal measure?
That deputy stealing papers video is pretty incredible.
And the defense attorney is pretty fast on her feet at making a spectacle of it to her advantage.
Read to the absurdity at the bottom of the column... in a follow up hearing, the judge couldn't rule on whether or not the deputy violated privilege unless the client waived privilege so a determination could be made. WTF? Ever heard of in camera?
Wife-beating became a civil right when it transformed into the Richard Nixon Corollary:
"I'm saying that if the black man does it, then it isn't illegal."
Uhh, that ain't exactly just a photo of a pregnant chick.
Que la chupen, y que la sigan mamando.
Spankwire? Thanks, 12! PornHub has been getting stale.
11 - please explain the inconsistency.
10- I'm out of law school, thanks.
14- Again, it's not about gay. It's about evangelicals like Mark Sanford talking about the sanctity of marriage while hiking the Appalachian trail. It's about Carrie Prejean talking about the importance of "opposite marriage" while having extramarital sex. It's about David Vitter running on family values while hiring prostitutes. Larry Craig trying to get his dick sucked by a guy in a toilet. 10, don't remind me of Eliot Spitzer, he was never a moral values guy.
And speaking of Scalia, he proved he's a religious hack during the arguments for the Cross Monument case this past month. Didn't he say in the past that there is no such thing as the separation of church and state? There are 6 devout catholics on the Supreme Court now. I'm going to laugh through my asshole when the wise Latina becomes the 6th vote to overturn Roe/ Casey. Just stop calling them the supreme court and call them what they are: The Supreme Guardian Council of Vice and Virtue... the catholic version of the one in Iran.
Religion is cancer.
Kash does porn!!!!
http://www.filestube.com/k/kashmir+porn
21-
What's cancerous is your hate.
21 - if you don't think of yourself as a piece of shit, you need to start.
- Atheist liberal
Did I miss the part where the rights of men should be totally disregarded?
That's weird, I thought 21 was awesome.
Atheist liberal
/not 21
/whatever other stupid disclaimers you require
I suppose that I should know the answer to this question, but is Moritz College of Law accredited by the American Bar Association? Does anyone know whether the school is a member of the Association of American Law Schools?
23,
yeah, it's *my* hate that killed that abortionist in Kansas. It's *my* hate that caused the Danish cartoonist to have to live in fear for his life. It's *my* hate parents of fallen soldiers have to deal with while the westboro baptist church protests. My hate is orders of magnitude smaller than any believer's hatred.
24, if you're not outraged, you're asleep.
Remember- when fascism comes to America, it will come draped in an American flag, carrying a cross. If someone suffers from a low enough intellect to believe a virgin gave birth to a wizard who was beaten to death for loving too much then rose from the dead, they can be led to believe anything. I find that more frightening than anything else imaginable.
I'm not all that religious of a person, but I find it troubling how hostile to religion the radical left has become. You can't expect a person to respect your beliefs if you cannot respect theirs. Even MORE troubling is that the same people who claim to despise religion have made GOVERNMENT their religion, taxes their tithe, and the president their god.
Such an idea is hostile to everything this country stands for. It will surely destroy us.
Funny, 28, fascism is currently coming from the political left, which is hostile to both the flag and the cross.
Hitler was a BIG lefty, let's not forget. So was Stalin. So was Lenin.
The conservative movement in the U.S. is found almost nowhere on the planet; it is a minority movement. The idea that people can live FREE from government intervention is from the political right, and the far right.
If you don't understand this, the left's programming of your mind has completed it's course.
28-
We get it dude, you don't like religion. I'll be honest with you, I don't like it either. That's not the point. The point is that nobody gives a shit about your agenda and nobody wants to read your angry posts, whether we agree in substance with you or not. Go read yourself some Hitchens and STFU.
"Religious Belief" is popularly understood as belief in the influence of some force whose existence cannot be proven empirically. (I realize this is one of 1000 possible definitions, but bear with me.)
When, e.g., a Christian, talks about his religious beliefs or convictions, he necessarily signals and frequently understands that he is talking about matters of pure faith, incapable of proof.
It is much more scary when someone is feeling precisely the same things as a devout Christian talking about God, but without realizing the lack of empirical basis. This sense of objectivity, this unawareness, is what creates the will to impose subjective beliefs on society.
32 - post-modern relativist nonsense. Truth is not subjective - it is absolute. As with every other religious belief system (including humanism), Christian values are true or they aren't, simple as that. Debate them on their merits, and inspect their foundational axioms, but don't pretend like we all get to make our own rules about life.
32 - Fair as far as it goes, but plenty of people with explicit religiously-grounded faith also try to impose subjective beliefs on society. This is as true in America as it is anywhere else around the world.
So, 32, I'm guessing you DO NOT believe in the Virgin Mary?
33 - reread what I wrote. Nowhere did I say that truth is subjective (which it is not). What is subjective, however, is perception of truth. We agree - you just happened to respond to something I did not write.
34 - very true, but the distinction I mean to make is between those, on one hand, who let us know their impositions are religious (allowing us to guard against them), and, on the other hand, those who act as though their religious propositions are empirically provable. Folks in the latter group, e.g., communists, fascists, PETA people, hardcore environmentalists, don't concede their beliefs to be just as essentially religious, which makes their positions more difficult to dispatch (at least in a country like ours where we draw important lines between religious and nonreligious belief).
35 - Sir, the private believes any answer he gives will be wrong.
MysTTTal
It's Miss USA NOT Miss America, the Miss America organization does NOT pay for women's boob jobs.
22,
If this is true, then why have I not heard of her?
Ram Peters
-Pornstar
We need to bomb porn stars back to the stoneage!
-DOJ Secure
Elie,
It's a civil right not to be arbitrarily deprived of your liberty and/or property through a false accusation of domestic violence. Look up the meta-analysis of self-reported relationship violence and find out that women aggress as often as men. See that reported in feminist literature on the issue? Nope. Government resources apportioned accordingly? Not around here.
http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm
30 = political spectrum fail
Just to clarify, Carrie Prejean competed in the Miss USA system, not the Miss America system. They are completely separate entities and Miss USA is the only one of the two owned by Trump.
43, come on. everyone knows that the far right is, for example, pro-choice, anti-censorship, and favors same sex marriage. after all, we shouldn't have the government interfering with our lives.
G-d damned right 45. At least the REAL right thinks that way (though I know you were being sarcastic).
And everyone knows the far left is, for example, against a centrally planned economy where the government absorbs and reallocates all production, against treatment based on race, and for private property ownership! Of course you are.
11--
Love the sentiment, but you too have apparently bought the FTT lie, hook, line, and sinker. Ohio State is no more a TTT than Notre Dame, Minnesota, Wisconsin, or Boston College. Check the US News rankings if you don't believe me (all are comparable).
You are correct, though, that Scalia himself is a hypocrite. As he himself admitted, one of his best clerks of all time was...drum roll...an OSU grad. And as for his ridiculous comment that "you can't make a sow's ear out a silk purse," in response I refer him to this blog's comment list, which is always polluted with asinine FTT hubrissive tripe that could only be the product of a delusional, stymied brain development thanks to never having to actually work. Especially NYU.