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They will be the death of us.
The "Seattle" set.
Teensy bat wings!!!
The "Seattle" set.
Teensy bat wings!!!
Oct. 7th, 2008
Best Meme EVAR!
Oct. 7th, 2008 09:22 amYeah, we always say that, but this time IT'S SO!
EEEEE, tiki is such a fan girl for The Supremes! *hearts* Our most fave current justice is David Souter! Also, didja know John Paul Stevens is our oldest justice, at eighty-eight!!! Way to go, big guy! And, please try to live at least three more months, OK? Also also, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is our teensiest justice, she's only 27 inches high and weighs just under 10 ounces! (No, actually, that's kind of an exaggeration, mention of Palin just kind of does that for us.)
OK, on to a decision. There's so many, it's hard to decide!!! There's big ones like Dred Scott, but that's soooo depressing and full of stupid. Or Brown v. Board of Education, which totally dumped "separate but equal" edumacation, and also also which features up and coming Supreme, Thurgood Marshall as a crusading atty for the NAACP!! Yay, Thurgood! (He also follows in the grand tradition of judge dudes with awesome names, like Learned Hand.)
But, we wanna go for something a bit lesser known. One of our fave rave decisions has to be Reynolds v. Sims, which you probably haven't heard of by that name. But you've probably all heard, "One man, one vote." You know how the House of Representatives is pretty much apportioned so roughly equal numbers of angry voters are assigned to each congresscritter? Well, t'aint always been so! In fact, up to the 1960s (Reynolds v. Sims is 1964, if you can believe it), they kind of threw darts at a county map to decide which bits of the state would get to be a legislative district. I'm using Wikipedia's examples, which they say came from Mo Udall: "Los Angeles County, California, with 6 million people, had one member in the California State Senate, as did the 14,000 people of one rural county (428 times more)." In other words, you'd get less legislative bang for yer buck if you were unfortunately enough to live in an urban area. We'll quote Wiki again, quoting Earl Warren: "Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests." Don't know what the hell it is that makes rural people sometimes go apeshit and think they freakin' own the USA, but, ya know, they're wrong. And you know what says they're wrong? Reynolds v. Sims!!
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jabberwockypie!!!
As was demonstrated in an interview with Katie Couric, Sarah Palin is unable to name any Supreme Court Case other than Roe v. Wade.
The Rules: Post info about ONE a Supreme Court decision, modern or historic, to your lj. (Any decision, as long as it's not Roe v. Wade.) For those who see this on your f-list, take the meme to your OWN lj to spread the fun.
EEEEE, tiki is such a fan girl for The Supremes! *hearts* Our most fave current justice is David Souter! Also, didja know John Paul Stevens is our oldest justice, at eighty-eight!!! Way to go, big guy! And, please try to live at least three more months, OK? Also also, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is our teensiest justice, she's only 27 inches high and weighs just under 10 ounces! (No, actually, that's kind of an exaggeration, mention of Palin just kind of does that for us.)
OK, on to a decision. There's so many, it's hard to decide!!! There's big ones like Dred Scott, but that's soooo depressing and full of stupid. Or Brown v. Board of Education, which totally dumped "separate but equal" edumacation, and also also which features up and coming Supreme, Thurgood Marshall as a crusading atty for the NAACP!! Yay, Thurgood! (He also follows in the grand tradition of judge dudes with awesome names, like Learned Hand.)
But, we wanna go for something a bit lesser known. One of our fave rave decisions has to be Reynolds v. Sims, which you probably haven't heard of by that name. But you've probably all heard, "One man, one vote." You know how the House of Representatives is pretty much apportioned so roughly equal numbers of angry voters are assigned to each congresscritter? Well, t'aint always been so! In fact, up to the 1960s (Reynolds v. Sims is 1964, if you can believe it), they kind of threw darts at a county map to decide which bits of the state would get to be a legislative district. I'm using Wikipedia's examples, which they say came from Mo Udall: "Los Angeles County, California, with 6 million people, had one member in the California State Senate, as did the 14,000 people of one rural county (428 times more)." In other words, you'd get less legislative bang for yer buck if you were unfortunately enough to live in an urban area. We'll quote Wiki again, quoting Earl Warren: "Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests." Don't know what the hell it is that makes rural people sometimes go apeshit and think they freakin' own the USA, but, ya know, they're wrong. And you know what says they're wrong? Reynolds v. Sims!!
Thanks,
jabberwockypie!!!
Halloween time!
Oct. 7th, 2008 10:58 am
This appears to be some kind of promo item from 7-11 stores in Japan right now. We're thinking it's a Stitchie alarm clock. Time to wake up and pull some Halloween tricks!
tiki's twits
Oct. 7th, 2008 05:32 pmtodays twisted twittering:
- 20:34 If you've heard of Korean "fan death," this strikes as ironic: tinyurl.com/3ktwu7 #
- 15:18 Monkey waiters? We totally need to go: tinyurl.com/4q9w6o #
- 15:37 @wintersweet I blame the Liberal Media Filter! #
- 15:42 Palin bingo cards made my week. Anything equally awesome out there for the upcoming McCain/Obamanator RRrrrrrumble? #