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The lawyer may have been too

rmrd0000 — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 23:47:04 +0000

In reply to More ammo that U of Texas had

The lawyer may have been too slow for the law school he attended.

Edit to add the graduation rate for blacks at UT-Austin is 70%. The UT average is 79%. Blacks at UT-Austin have a better graduation rate at selective UT-Austin than black students at less selective schools. The students at UT are high performers forged by being upper-tier high school students with good study habits.

http://collegemeasures.org/4-year_colleges/state/tx/compare-colleges/gra...

Scalia's racist statement was based on flawed understanding of the issue.

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/12/10/9885594/scalia-affirma...

Maybe he can argue before a

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 23:43:35 +0000

In reply to The lawyer may have been too

Maybe he can argue before a slower Supreme Court, though I thought this one awfully slow.

More ammo that U of Texas had

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 23:04:53 +0000

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More ammo that U of Texas had really crappy lawyering at the Supreme Court, as I noted in the Missed Opportunities piece. How have they let Fisher rule the public relations and apparently even the terms of the bench discussion? Where's their succinct outline of pertinent, compelling facts?

Reverend Sharpton is calling

rmrd0000 — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 21:41:30 +0000

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Reverend Sharpton is calling for Scalia to recuse himself from the case given Scalia's racist comments.

http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2015/12/sharpton_to_call_on_scalia_...

The fact is that Fisher was a mediocre student. Ninety-two percent of the students accepted I into UT were selected based on being in the upper 10% of their high school class. The remainder were selected on a point system that included essays, community activity, socioeconomic status and race. 47 students with worse grades than Fisher got into UT. Forty-two of those students were white, only 5 were black. One hundred and sixty- eight black and Latino students with better grades than Fisher were not admitted to UT.

Fisher is a mediocre student whining because her white privilege did not kick in.

http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/it-seems-mediocre-grades-not-ethnicit...

The media will question Obama

rmrd0000 — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:57:40 +0000

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The media will question Obama about Reverend Wright and Hillary about Benghazi, but they will not address Republican racism and bigotry. MSNBC will televise large chunks of Donald Trump speeches, but just snippets from Hillary or Bernie. The GOP gets rewarded for their behavior.

The irony is rather striking,

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 05:59:42 +0000

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The irony is rather striking, isn't it? Think Alanis has a 3Rd verse to work on.

Yup. You got that right. The

trkingmomoe — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 03:09:38 +0000

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Yup. You got that right. The public is finding out that it is uglier then they thought the GOP was.

So, Trump's racist xenophobia

Harry R. Sohl — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 09:36:51 +0000

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So, Trump's racist xenophobia puts him ahead for 3 months, and that
paper-thin veneer just slides off the rest of the neocons like Scalia to
expose their slimy, ugly core.

Well yeah Larry, but if

Richard Day — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 03:15:12 +0000

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Well yeah Larry, but if minorites had not been around, I could have been a Supreme Court Justice....I could have gone to Harvard and joined the repubs......

Now I am just a contendrist?

GOOD TO SEE YOU LARRY!