Sunday, October 2, 2016

Courts Update

There have been some interesting court losses on the left of late.

(1) The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down an EEOC decision which tried to call it racial discrimination for employers to ban employees from wearing dreadlocks. Naturally, the delicates on social media are horrified at this. The ruling makes total sense of course. Employers have long been allowed to dictate grooming requirements and dress codes. Letting people force employers to accept whatever hairstyle they choose would undermine that completely. Even the attempt to call this racism fell flat, as the court noted that this is a hairstyle and therefore a choice, it is not "an immutable aspect of race." That this is true is proven by the fact that few black people have dreadlocks. But of course, the delicates want everyone to have everything they want... until they don't.

(2) The GAO issued a ruling on Obama's attempt to use a DOJ slushfund to pay insurers to participate in Obamacare. It said this was illegal. Interestingly, the ruling said that the law, as written, essentially required the government to collect money from the insurers who made too much (liberal speak for "were profitable") and use that to support the ones who lost money. Very socialist. The problem is that nobody made money under Obamacare, so there's nothing to pay the subsidy with. Obama is trying to use a DOJ slushfund which pays the government's legitimate legal debts to make around $15 billion in payments for the subsidy (the most this fund ever paid out for HHS debts before was around $20 million). The GAO struck this down, saying that only money collected in the program could be used. No doubt this will be appealed, but it is likely to kill Obama's attempt to save Obamacare. What's more, it will result in the government demanding about $2.7 billion back from these insurers. That will be a nice kick in the teeth. Oh well, lie die with thieves...

(3) In August, the Seventh Circuit upheld Wisconsin's right to require voters to show ID. Leftists cried. And in Illinois, a judge blocked an attempt by Democrats to allow same day voter registration.

(4) This past week, California passed a law imposing a minimum sentence for rapists whose victims are unconscious. This was done in response to the Stanford swimmer who got a six month sentence for raping an unconscious woman behind a dumpster. Liberal California giveth and liberal California taketh away. Anyways, the irony here is that liberals whine like babies whenever conservatives impose mandatory minimum sentence to keep liberal judges from excusing criminals. Now they have found a cause where they want mandatory minimums. Once again, this is proof that liberals have no principles. They have hyperbole positions of convenience to suit their emotional needs.

Thoughts?

21 comments:

BevfromNYC said...

This just in - A case was filed in Southern District of New York (SDNY) on Friday and I am kind of surprised it hasn't hit the media at full blast - Jane Doe v. Donald Trump, Jeffrey E. Epstein as described by Courthouse News - "Defamation and assault. The anonymous plaintiff was sexually assaulted and physically abused by defendants Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein during sex parties thrown by Epstein at a Manhattan mansion during the summer of 1994. Defendants threatened physical violence against the then 13-year-old minor plaintiff and her family if she ever revealed any details of the attacks. In 2016, attorneys for defendant Trump released statements to the media calling plaintiff's allegations "false" and "disgusting."

It's interesting that I have been led to believe that this case had already been filed by many, many liberal Twitterers. Welcome to "October Surprise" #1. I wonder who is paying for the attorneys? DNC? Clinton Global Initiative?

Koshcat said...

Bev-

If there was anything of interest in the case, they wouldn't have filed it on a Friday. There is no SOL for rape in New York but 22 years is a long time. And besides, according to liberals state it isn't rape unless it is rape-rape and then only if it is by someone they don't like.

AndrewPrice said...

Bev, It's super smear time. Every attention seeking woman who has ever run into Trump is now claiming victim status to try to bring him down. I dismiss it all as lies because that's how leftists and attention whore operate.

AndrewPrice said...

Koshcat, That is true. Liberals judge people by their imagined intents, not their actions and we know that liberals can do no wrong. It's the Unicorn Fart World of Logic.

BevfromNYC said...

Koshcat & Andrew - I pretty much figure that if it hasn't hit HuffPo yet, it's a non-story.

But then the FBI make a side-deal to destroy laptops of those same people the DOJ gave "immunity" to to obtain them, is trending nicely on Twitter...

BevfromNYC said...

As to #3 - Photo ID for voting: I had a brief discussion at a family breakfast. All intelligent, edumacated people of different political persuasion and none of us could come up with a reason why one should not have to show a photo ID to vote.

AndrewPrice said...

Bev, There is no legitimate reason against it. It's all just whining "racism" as a guise to let illegals vote.

AndrewPrice said...

BTW, Kim Kardashian was supposedly held up at gun point in France. This cannot be true, however, as only Americans have guns. Whether it did or didn't happen, I frankly don't care.

I don't care either that some fake "I don't care what anybody thinks" chick named Amber Rose (who looks more like a Mocha Porkbelly) is shattered that she got body shamed while on a reality dance show. Tough it up, porky. Not to mention, she's apparently lying too to make herself a victim -- the comment she complains about was taken out of context and at a different time, but apparently she lives her life by the final cut rather than reality.

SNL is under attack for attacking Trump because apparently leftist think that might be helping Trump. Of course, we knew that, but then they knew we knew that, but we did know that they knew that we knew and they knew that we knew that, but we knew that too. Hate crime! Hate crime!! //snickers

Thank God, I'm not an idiot. Life is easier when you aren't desperate to be a victim.

Koshcat said...

There were reports that the SNL skit on the debate was "hilarious". An example of this report was from apple news my wife was reading. I also saw it on Puffington post. I followed the link and frankly it was lame, lame, lame. This was false reporting which is typical of the media today.

Look, I think Trump is an asshole but what leftists are doing is fascist behavior. They have made it so that you are ridiculed for even considering voting for Trump. When asked, and I live in Liberal Hell, I always state that I haven't decided who I am going to for FOR but I know who I am not voting for and that is Clinton. When they ask why, I tell them flat out that she is an incompetent liar who tends to have people around her die at convenient times.

tryanmax said...

Regarding the legal cases, it's always fun to see liberal overreach get slapped back. "Whaddya mean dreadlocks are a choice? Muh kultsher!"

Something I failed to consider sooner: what happens when the Democrats try to over-surprise this October?

BevfromNYC said...

Tryanmax - The Dems have been "over-surprising" for months now. and when their "surprises" backfire, they try again with the same results. Hence, Hillary is not "50 points" ahead or 10 or 5...

AndrewPrice said...

Koshcat, I honestly haven't laughed at anything SNL has done in years. They just aren't clever, witty or funny.

AndrewPrice said...

tryanmax and Bev, I have no idea, but there's so much crap being spewed right now by the left that it feels like too much. It has lost all credibility.

Anthony said...

I am curious about Hillary's recently postponed October surprise from Wikileaks. Trump and Clinton are known buddies of Epstein so nothing would surprise me but I doubt anything on that front will hurt them. You can't smear slime.

Critch said...

If I have to show an ID to buy a gun then by golly a person ought to have to show an ID to vote...

tryanmax said...

A new round of "bad week" articles talking about Trump has been dropping over the last few hours. Haven't we heard this before? You'd think the writers would learn, the comeback kid doesn't stay down.

AndrewPrice said...

Anthony, I am too. I can't imagine he has anything worse than what they've already releases. So I think it will be a flop.

AndrewPrice said...

Critch, Or get a credit card, or drive, or stay in a hotel. Yet, somehow, voting isn't as important?

AndrewPrice said...

tryanmax, That's the new game: (1) find someone to make an unsupported attack, (2) write about how people seem to be attacking him so it must mean something, (3) accuse him of being guilty because he responded, (4) write about his bad week being brought about by him. Repeat.

Right now, they are push hard to destroy him with women by (1) digging up ever liar they can find who has known him to tell some story, (2) invent mystery sources when you can't find a liar, (3) spin his response into "a tirade" or a first strike, (4) make suggestions of sexism and sexual assault.

Koshcat is right that this is fascist. It's basically what the Nazis did with the Jews prior to the War. Spew lies and hate and threaten anyone who doesn't get in lock step. There's nothing new in liberals doing that. It's just the intensity and the open lying that is a little surprising this time. There isn't even the possibility of truth with most of their attacks.

Critch said...

The strange thing to me about the voter ID resistance from the Dims is that anyone with a brain knows that votes are far more powerful and dangerous than guns. Hitler was elected.....

AndrewPrice said...

Critch, I think what it really comes down to is the Democrats want to feed the paranoia of blacks and Hispanics. They aren't genuinely concerned about the effect either way of requiring voter ID. What they are concerned with is selling the idea to black that "those evil Republicans want to keep you from voting!"

Never mind that it doesn't work that way or that the Democrats are essentially calling blacks stupid for not being able to work their way around a voter ID requirement. All they are after is the ability to scream to paranoid blacks that white Republicans are trying to "suppress" them.

That's how you keep fringe groups on the plantation.

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