Gazes in delight at Ginger's spicy brain.
Danger's my birthright.
Buffy ,'The Killer In Me'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Scrappy - Aug 05, 2010 8:16:52 am PDT #16457 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
smonster - Aug 05, 2010 8:19:29 am PDT #16458 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Wow. Everything Ginger just said.
Sparky1 - Aug 05, 2010 8:23:18 am PDT #16459 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
That dissent is, at the very least, going to make it difficult for the SCOTUS to turn around and overturn this ruling.
I don't think so. Dissents set no precedent, so Scalia and the rest of 'em are free to ignore it.
Aims - Aug 05, 2010 8:26:11 am PDT #16460 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
The problem with the yahoos who are always nattering on about the founders is that they don't know who the hell the founders were or what the Constitution says.
I have a packet Constitution that my Law and Policy prof (a judge) gave us last semester. My all time favorite thing is to hand it to people when they talk about their Constitutional right to vote for the President. I may be outwardly cranky about that particular item.
Steph L. - Aug 05, 2010 8:27:23 am PDT #16461 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Dissents set no precedent
This question has nothing to do with Prop. 8 -- what's the point of the dissents, then? If they don't mean anything, why bother to commit them to record? Just an ego thing?
tommyrot - Aug 05, 2010 8:31:44 am PDT #16462 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jesse - Aug 05, 2010 8:32:41 am PDT #16463 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
YES, Ginger.
I am REALLY cranky today, but I want to throttle my boss for telling someone to type in "H-T-T-P-colon-Backslash-Backlash"
Ha ha ha! I was cranky like that last week. Things that are objectively eye-rolly were making me apoplectic. (That specific thing still makes me insane, though.)
Sparky1 - Aug 05, 2010 8:37:30 am PDT #16464 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
It's an ego thing, an outrage thing (see Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Lily Ledbetter), a not so subtle hint for attorneys who might want to argue in the future... But they are nothin' but dicta.
Steph L. - Aug 05, 2010 8:42:46 am PDT #16465 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
But they are nothin' but dicta.
Huh. That's interesting.
Sparky1 - Aug 05, 2010 8:48:32 am PDT #16466 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
Heck, huge chunks of opinions are dicta not precedent.
It makes the little law student brains go 'splody sometimes.