Jenny

Today, I say celebrate your achievements, be they big or small ones.  So ladies, here’s to a job well done for all the things that you have achieved - bravo. 

Jenny

On Tuesday, May 26th, President Obama announced that he had nominated Sonia Sotomayor, as a candidate, to fill the Supreme Court seat of retiring Justice David Souter.  What a firestorm this nomination has set off.  The Republicans and conservatives have wasted no time in labeling this nomination as a poor choice.  In addition, the ad wars have begun.  The Judicial Confirmation Network, a conservative advocacy group, has wasted no time to put together an ad critical of comments made by Judge Sotomayor at a 2005 conference.

What do we know about this nominee for the Supreme Court?  Well, let’s begin with the obvious; she is a Hispanic woman, of Puerto Rican descent.  She is a graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School.  After law school, Sotomayor worked as a prosecutor in New York, and then later on went into private practice.  She became a judge in 1992 when her nomination to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York was confirmed.  Later, in 1998, she became the first Latina to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. 

Below is Judge Sotomayor in her own words on her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Justice Sotomayor has authored hundreds of opinions in her long legal career.  She attained fame in 1995 as the Judge who “saved baseball.”  Judge Sotomayor’s ruling against the baseball owners ended the 1994 baseball strike that had lasted for 232 days.  Her most recent and controversial ruling involved the city of New Haven’s decision to toss out tests used to evaluate candidates for promotion in the fire department because there were no minority candidates at the top of the list.  She was part of the panel of judges who rejected the challenge brought by the firefighters against the City.  The U.S. Supreme Court is currently considering this case. 

If appointed, Judge Sotomayor will make history by becoming the first Hispanic to be seated on the Supreme Court.  What are your thoughts about Judge Sotomayor’s nomination?

Donna

A woman was helping her husband set up his computer, and at the appropriate point in the process, she told him that he would now need to enter a password.  Wife explained that the password should be something he could remember easily and will use each time he has to log on. The husband was in a rather amorous mood and figured he would try for the shock effect to bring this to his wife’s attention.

When the computer asked him to enter his password,  he made it plainly obvious to his wife that he was keying in…

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His wife fell off her chair laughing when the computer replied:

PASSWORD REJECTED…..... NOT LONG ENOUGH.

Donna

Ladies, here is your break room conversation starter of the week!

When Susan Boyle first sang for the world, the expectations were low.  Not this time. This time, the world was expecting her performance to be as good as or better than the first one.  And, trust me, there was no disappointment.  The singing sensation’s performance of “Memory” from the Musical “Cats” earned her a standing ovation and secured her a spot in the grand finale.  Britain’s Got Talent audience voted Susan Boyle’s performance best of the night. I have to agree; she was just perfect.  Here is a YouTube video of her performance for your enjoyment.

Will Susan win “Britain’s Got Talent” next week? What do you think?

 

Donna

DayOfDecision.org has announced that California’s Supreme Court will announce its decision on Proposition 8 tomorrow Tuesday, May 26, 2009.  Proposition 8 is a California ballot poroposition that was passed in the November 4, 2008, general election that changed the State of California’s Constitution; to restrict the definition of marriage to opposite-sex couples and eliminated same-sex couple’s right to marry.  The passing of this proposition did not affect the existing domestic partnerships in California.

What is interesting, is the fact that the campaign in favor of proposition 8 raised $39.9 million and the campaign against it raised $43.3 million, becoming the highest-funded campaign on any state ballot that day and surpassing every campaign in the country in spending except the presidential contest. 

Call me liberal or whatever you want to call me, but I strongly feel that our society has so many issues that requires funding that spending 80 million dollars for this is really a waste of money.  As Americans, we like to tell the world that we live in a free country where people are free to live up to their goals and ideals.  Let’s talk less and do more.  Let’s let them get married.