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Ed Justice Barrett

It'll be interesting to come back in 2022 and see how many of these predictions come true.


I predict all the confirmation related ones will come true. None of the court decision predictions will come true. I have no idea about the election predictions.
 
Stacyhs said:
Interesting article. Regarding women and having children, my daughter is 27 and is very adamant that she does not want children. She has never liked children and hasn't got a maternal bone in her body. Give her a puppy and she goes all gooey but try and put a baby in her arms and she cringes.
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Barrett would like you to know that your daughter's purpose is to make and raise children.
 
Stacyhs said:
I'd like to see some evidence of that.
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It’s putting it strongly, for sure!

National Catholic Reporter reviews papal visit to the Philippines

NCR said:
Pope Francis issued a firm warning Friday against what he calls an "ideological colonization" of family life, in an apparent reference to efforts to legalize same-sex marriage and to the use of contraception.
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Some groups have noted that he also had the chance to speak out against killings but didn’t:

Outright International’s take
 
If I were a senator, I would hope I wouldn't care what party was involved and vote against any nominee that evasive.
 
BobTheCoward said:
If I were a senator, I would hope I wouldn't care what party was involved and vote against any nominee that evasive.
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OLOL.

The only way to be a Senator is to want to be a Senator, and then make it happen. And the only way to make it happen is to get elected. Which means caring about party and voting for whatever gets you re-elected.
 
theprestige said:
I mean, in terms of evolutionary biology...
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Sure. Girls can start churning them out as early as 9-10 years old in terms of evolutionary biology...
Fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, and sisters and brothers can procreate in terms of evolutionary biology.
 
Originally Posted by Gulliver Foyle View Post
You'd be surprised. The current pope once endorsed the killings of LGBT+ people when visiting the Philippines.
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Stacyhs said:
I'd like to see some evidence of that.
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gypsyjackson said:
It’s putting it strongly, for sure!

National Catholic Reporter reviews papal visit to the Philippines




Some groups have noted that he also had the chance to speak out against killings but didn’t:

Outright International’s take
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IOW, there is no evidence the Pope ever "endorsed the killings of LGBT+ people". I didn't think so.
 
Stacyhs said:
Sure. Girls can start churning them out as early as 9-10 years old in terms of evolutionary biology...
Fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, and sisters and brothers can procreate in terms of evolutionary biology.
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If you can't trust evolutionary biology, what can you trust? Certainly not people who set aside evolutionary biology without having some sort of evolutionary argument for why it's no longer useful.
 
theprestige said:
If you can't trust evolutionary biology, what can you trust? Certainly not people who set aside evolutionary biology without having some sort of evolutionary argument for why it's no longer useful.
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When you have an argument that makes some sort of sense, get back to me.
 
Trebuchet said:
My predictions, in order of time:
1. The committee will send the nomination to the full Senate on a party line vote.
2. The Senate will confirm, by a party line vote.
3. The election will happen. Republicans will file multiple lawsuits to overturn the results.
4. Even before the above is settled, Barrett will join a 5-4 majority to deprive millions of Americans of healthcare.
5. Barrett will join a 6-3 or 5-4 majority to overturn the will of the people and make Donald Trump the winner of the election.
6. Barrett will join a 6-3 or 5-4 majority to overturn Roe and Obergfell, probably before the end of 2021.
7. We are all so screwed.
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I can imagine Barrett and other Trump appointed justices voting against the Donald. It would be a show of independence that could enable decades of conservative court dominance. Now, this only applies if the outcome of Trump's lawsuit is uncertain (maybe it delays the vote counting process, or casts doubt). If the court's ruling ensures Trump gets four more years, then, yeah, I can see them doing that.
 
theprestige said:
If you can't trust evolutionary biology, what can you trust? Certainly not people who set aside evolutionary biology without having some sort of evolutionary argument for why it's no longer useful.
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Just populate away like animals until resources become so scarce we all starve or fight to the death for what little there is. Just like any other unregulated species that has uncontested hegemony over all others, resulting in its own eventual demise as nature eventually imposes her implacable laws.

Or avoid the whole nightmare of the result of hitting the population limit by exercising the controls our intelligence and knowledge permit, enjoying a life without want of the necessities, and even some comfort and happiness.

Just like the religious, anti-science camp to fail.to see the potentialities of self destruction that await the apex species as it pushes out others, consuming all. To fail to perceive that the planet cannot magically make many loaves from one, there being finite resources. To fail to look farther off than today, expecting Sky Daddy to ever provide into perpetuity.
 
Bob001 said:
Sen. Hirona Hirona is challenging Barrett on her use of the term "sexual preference," as if it's casual choice, rather than biological "sexual orientation," and sees it as worrisome for gay marriage and other LGBTQ rights.
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Really? Is that a controversial term?

I think that even if we are talking about something as a preference, then:

a) it would not mean that the preference is not determined (or even strongly influenced) by biological factors

and

b) why should there even be a moral distinction between someone being born with a sexual orientation or a "freely chosen" (to the extent that any concept of "free choice" is even coherent) one?

Oh, I forget.... America and Jesus F Christ!
 
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Unfortunately, based on her work it appears she won't be a vote to overturn brown v board. If a judge is not willing to fix past errors, then they shouldn't be a supreme court justice.
 
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