Back then I was still eating meat. Sparks’ steaks were really good. And their wine list? 
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IDon’tANAL, but I agree with you.
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Flynn is almost comical in how much he resembles one of those stock characters from a B movie about the military, one of those careerist fuckwads who’s screw anyone over and put his people at risk to get a promotion, who just happens to be good enough at what he does that his superiors, who knows that he’s careerist fuckwad, have no choice but to promote him–unless he finally reaches his level of incompetence. He’s in the MacArthur and LeMay mold, fucking pieces of shit who could have gotten half the planet killed for military glory and some personal revenge. Obama was right to shitcan him. If he ends up being seen as one of the greats (with caveats, which they all have), it’ll be in part because of less sexy decisions like this. That’s why Repubs hate him. He knew them better than they knew themselves, called their bluffs and didn’t flinch (well, usually). He was a smart aleck and better than all of them put together, and they hated him for it. He refused to oblige their sense of entitlement.
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Judge John Gleeson is in all those Mafia Documentaries. He was the leader of the team that convicted John Gotti
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I think I read that the governor’s orders were extended only till May 20 (or some other date in the very near future), in other words that they were due to expire statewide then. So perhaps the conservatives on the court are trying to mitigate the political damage (as if …) by saying that the decision is on hold until then. Except that they are also precluding the ability of the governor to extend the stay-at-home order.
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This. My dad served under “Dugout Dough” throughout the New Guinea campaign and had not one good word to say about the guy who blew the Philippines response to Pearl Harbor (leaving all the U.S. planes sitting on the tarmac wingtip to wingtip so the Japanese could wipe them out is a single set of raids), who then arranged so that only he and his family could escape the collapse in a submarine, and then who slow walked the march up through New Guinea to the Philippines while Mitscher and the Navy swept across the Pacific in their island-hopping campaign, which gave the US the island bases needed to start bombing Japan.
And of course, when they gave MacArthur command in Korea, he wanted to use nukes!! Truman did well to can him, and every time I drove through the "MacArthur tunnel’ in San Francisco on the way to or from the Golden Gate Bridge, I had to suck it up and not start raving to my kids again. DO YOU REALIZE THE LEVEL OF SELF CONTROL THIS REQUIRES! DO YOU!?!?!
puff puff.
Okay, I feel better now… So, has Donnie Dipshit done anything outrageous lately?
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He does remind me of a few visiting villains on MAS*H. I think the money quote was, "He wouldn’t be so tall if he weren’t standing on so many bodies ".
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I have it on good authority it is now named the Konrad Adenaeur tunnel.
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It might be more accurate to suggest that Grump has not done anything honorable at any time?
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Yes. I understand that. I have long understood it.
But your reasoning is also wrong on so many levels. I’m not trying to be nasty either, simply to inform.
I can assure you that very few Irish Catholics (names in Ireland are nearly a sure mark of religion) owned slaves or a plantation in the 1860s. They had arrived destitute and penniless from “coffin ships” following the ethnic cleansing of Catholics in Ireland by England when one crop (potatoes) failed.
Sullivan is an Irish name. I can’t account for how this particular Sullivan got his surname, but I’m quite confident it was not from an Irish slave owner.
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Hopefully we aren’t reaching the point where the Orange Dotard becomes so desperate that the right honorable Judge Sullivan has to worry about walking too close to 4th floor windows . . .
Sounds about right.
Totally agree, get this fuck on his heels and let the public know we’re going to have to punish him at the earliest opportunity.
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come on judge, you got this fish hook line and sinker. land him, gut him, filet him and put him where he belongs. lol
I’m waiting for the stripers to arrive up here. lol
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Of course few slaveholders were Irish, but some definitely were, so it would be unwise to be “quite confident” that the judge’s surname was not attached to the slave holders of his ancestors.
Law of the Hive:
Google first. Make definitive statements second:
I could probably go on, but I’m sure you get the point.
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What the English did to the Irish was unconscionable. The damage has slowed – but it is not undone, and never will be.
Anyway, as you would imagine, much research has gone into determining who owned slaves in the American South and who did not. Many surnames have been listed but, as I have not looked into the matter myself, I can’t say what has been found with regard to the name “Sullivan.”
But @blaneyboy324 did not say there were few Irish slave-holders in the US. He said there were few Irish-Catholic slave-holders in the US.
Relaxing that constraint, or at least ignoring it, yes, you’re obviously right: there were descendants of Irish immigrants who did own slaves. For example: Census records show that, if you climb four generations up the family tree of a certain Mitch McConnell, there are at least two slave-owners there, one of whom was the son of an Irish immigrant, last name McConnell.
As for this:
The judge and his family would likely know, but I don’t.
Plus there’s the matter of his middle name, which is … “Gael”!
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I love it. Trump did the same when he nominated Barr.
Can’t wait to hear the complaint that the Judge chose someone who already telegraphed their thoughts on the major case on front of them.
If Republicans understood irony they would avoid that complaint.
As prerequisite to being a Republican is the inability to perceive irony this should be funny.
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It’s not that they don’t understand irony – or hypocrisy.
It’s more that they don’t care, because their base doesn’t understand or care.
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Orange is the new Republican!
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I am agnostic on the matter. He could be right. But in the south right before the Civil War, sizeable numbers of the population – like 25-50 percent owned slaves. Some, were undoubtedly were of Irish extraction, and some, no doubt, were Catholics to boot. My only argument is: why declare victory on your point when you really don’t know? It’s like arguing in a restaurant about who won the Best Picture Academy Award in 1973 with your phone on the table.
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