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National News See other National News Articles Title: Call A Deer A Horse—Call Lia Thomas A Woman—Call Ketanji Jackson A Judge. Political Power In Action! The Senate Judiciary Committee, as I’m sure you know, has been holding confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the president’s nominee to replace retiring justice Stephen Breyer in October. I can’t say I’ve followed the hearings closely…or at all, really. My longstanding opinion, which I enlarged on here a few weeks ago, is that Supreme Court justices are not chosen for their wisdom or learning; they are chosen for political acceptability. That favors mediocrities, and mediocrities is mostly what we get. Our political Establishment does not want anyone with an interesting mind on the court. They made that most vividly plain in the case of Robert Bork. So these Judiciary Committee hearings usually consist of mediocrities interrogating a mediocrity, with the result a foregone conclusion anyway—Republican senates voting to confirm Republican nominees, Democrats Democrats. Zzzzzzz. From scattered things I’d read about Judge Jackson I figured her hearing would not be one of the exceptions, so I watched reruns of Two Broke Girls instead. However, browsing my breakfast-time New York Post on Wednesday I did spot the episode where Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee asked Judge Jackson: “Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman’?” [ Judge Jackson declines to define ‘woman,’ says she’s ‘not a biologist’ , by Mark Moore and Samuel Chamberlain, March 23, 2022] After some brief to-ing and fro-ing the judge replied: “Not in this context. I’m not a biologist.” Judge Jackson came in for much mockery over that. My favorite among the mockers—I think everybody’s favorite—was the British lady who fielded the same question by saying: “I’m not a vet, but I know what a dog is.” Tucker Carlson tracked the lady down and gave her a spot on his show Thursday. Her name is Kellie-Jay Keen [Media are afraid to speak against Lia Thomas because of ‘cult-like mentality’: Kellie-Jay Keen, by Hannah Gross, Fox News, March 24, 2022]. In all fairness to Judge Jackson, there’s more to be said than that. She was asked for a definition, and that is indeed a matter of biology. Kellie-Jay Keen knows what a dog is, but can she actually provide a definition for the word “dog”? One of my schoolmasters told us that the great 18th-century lexicographer Samuel Johnson, in his magisterial dictionary of the English language, defined “dog” as “a familiar quadruped.” That is not actually true. The first folio edition of Johnson’s Dictionary is online, and I checked. The first meaning under “dog” is A domestick animal remarkably various in his species; comprising the mastiff, the spaniel, the buldog, the greyhound, the hound, the terrier, the cur, with many others. With all proper respect to the learned Dr Johnson, I don’t think that’s even a definition in the strict sense, only a description. I guess I could pursue the matter by looking up Johnson’s definition of the words “definition” and “description” … but I’ve been down enough rabbit holes in my life and don’t feel like going down another. Digging around idly, taking care to avoid rabbit holes, I see that my schoolmaster had only misplaced his source by a few years. A lexicographer of the generation before Johnson, a chap named Nathaniel Bailey, actually did define the word “dog” as “a quadruped well-known.” [On Dictionaries, by Ernest Weekley, The Atlantic, June 1924] What was Dr Johnson’s definition for the word “woman”? Here it is: The female of the human race. If Dr Johnson had offered that definition to Senator Blackburn I suspect she’d have asked him to define “female.” Knowing the good doctor’s low level of tolerance for imbeciles with important titles, I’m pretty sure he would have stormed out of the hearing at that point, perhaps having first hurled a copy of his dictionary at Senator Blackburn’s head. But what about Judge Jackson? Is she any good, in any respect at all? Considered just as a human being, she seems pretty normal. She’s been married to the same guy for 26 years—a white guy—and they have two kids. In the normality ranking that puts her out ahead of cat ladies Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. And so far as I can gather Judge Jackson’s an ADOS, an American descendant of slaves, not an exotic black like Barack Obama or Kamala Harris. So, points for normality. How about smarts? Well, as mentioned in the previous segment, I don’t expect smart nominees to the Supreme Court, although it occasionally happens by accident. Of the current court, Alito and Thomas strike me as decently smart; they got through the sieve somehow. People tell me that Elena Kagan, cats aside, is pretty intelligent; but never having read any of her opinions, I’ll have to take that on faith. That’s two or three out of nine, which is as good as it gets. I doubt Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation will raise the court’s mean IQ. Any black of course comes under suspicion as an Affirmative-Action hire; and as VDARE.com’s own correspondent Federale wrote in a blistering piece on March 6th, Judge Jackson’s score on the Law School Admissions Test is a closely-guarded state secret. So like Obama, this is a person who has been wafted up into the Ruling Class on warm thermals of race favoritism. And as well as having benefited herself from race favoritism, there are signs she has been practicing it. Republican members of the Judiciary Committee have been making much of the very lenient sentences she’s approved for defendants in child-pornography cases. Our own James Fulford went digging into one of these cases—the most-discussed one, in which Judge Jackson ignored the eight-to-ten-years federal sentencing guidelines and gave the guy three months instead. It turns out the defendant, Wesley Hawkins, was black. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 3.
#1. To: Ada, 4um (#0)
I love looking at the latest comments page on 4um and guessing if it's the Bee or real. I guessed this was the Bee.
Our masters, probably the international bankers that own the federal reserve, the USA, and the media are going to own the politicians and judges. And, there is nothing their slaves, falsely referred to as "We the People" can do about it.
I know. Who would you shoot given your 2nd Amendment rights? (Edit) 3 of my 5 neighbors are illegal aliens now.
#4. To: Esso (#3)
Not the little people such as the president or supreme court. Like all little people, they take their orders from our masters; the bankers.
My sister in Chicago told me Mexicans had bought the neighbor's house, but they don't keep it up. I suppose they are mostly working menial jobs and are covered up paying the usury of the banksters. If they only knew what crooks the banksters really are there would be a revolution by morning. Fractional Reserve Banking is the real culprit. It was Andrew Jackson who said of them, "You are a den of vipers and thieves and by the Almighty I shall route you out." ;)
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