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[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/05/10/kagan.elena.gi.art.jpg caption="President Obama has selected Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the Supreme Court nominee to replace the retiring John Paul Stevens, a legal source close to the process said Sunday night."]
Kagan to be Supreme Court nominee, source says
(CNN) – President Obama is on Monday expected to name Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his nominee to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, two sources close to the process said.
The announcement at the White House is expected around mid-morning
Kagan, 50, a New York native, was widely reported to be the front-runner for the nomination. She was a finalist for the high court vacancy last year when Justice Sonia Sotomayor was selected to replace the retiring David Souter.
If confirmed, Kagan would be the third woman on the nine-justice bench and the fourth in the history of the court.
Kagan received her law degree from Harvard University, where she later served as dean of the law school. She previously served in the Clinton administration as associate White House counsel. Read more
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When blogging on CNN you have to think of ways to get the point across without being blogged out Tooth pain .
have the guts to see if 'm sterile..
@ Al . Ca I was using the tooth to describe a Muslim .
Melon, you should take your own advice & "learn the truth." Half Mexico's population, about 60 million people, live in poverty. Twenty million of these live in extreme poverty.
The unemployment rate is lower than here for many reasons. One is that many Mexicans aren't in the labor market. The jobs avalable usually don't pay a liveable wage. Many see the drug cartels as their only hope of escaping poverty. Many see the wages in the US, even the ones that pay under what we call a liveable wage, as a way out of poverty.
Many people, myself included, disagree w/ AZ's new law because it infringes on the rights of American citizens. We see a problem w/ giving police the right to stop Americans based on reasonable suspicion. Police officers can't get search warrants based on reasonable suspicion. Probable cause, not reasonable suspicion, is & always should be the standard to interrogate, search and/or detain Americans.
Nazis and facists have random checks of documents at every street corners. Is that what u want ...Facist USA? Security at any cost? The price is too high.
Thats tough because I fathered a daughter for a deadbeat for years. Then when he felt he wanted to get his act together he had the power to and connections to get her back. Those issues are sketchy I see alot lot of head cases with that issue even in my fam.
Holder is an idiot.
The solution to stop any possible "racial profiling" – make it mandatory that the police check the "citizenship status" every person they stop/make contact with for any reason whatsoever.
Hey Melon, "everytime I went to a bank they told me that Icould put all I wanted to in but couldn't take any out!"
Please donate any old glasses and sunshades to the Worlwide Lions Clubs!
5000 barrels a day= over 900,000 liters, over 250,000 gallons per day and how many days thus far and how many before this is resolved? What is the long range cost to the ecosystem and how long before fishermen can go back onto the waters to work their trade?
Will BP pay each fishermen for each years lost wages?
Of the almost 1 Trillion $'s pledged by the Euro Zone countries for the emergency fund, how much has been pledged by countries that are almost insolvent...read...PIIGS.
Doesn't make much sense for a country to pledge funds that they don't have or are incapable of borrowing.
A credit animal with a 998 score could cook your dinner for you .
Who cares what's happening on Wall Street. There is no connection to the real world there. Its all fantasy...smoke and mirrors. Next week...someone will sneeze and the whole thing will start all over again. BAH. Im going to plant my garden and go hunt some supper.
We might not run Obama in 2012! We might instead run Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur of Ohio's 9th Congressional district. I became aware of her only this past Friday while watching "Capitalism: A Love Story" when she went to the front of Congress and told the American people that were being foreclosed on to "stay in their homes".
That statement would bring tears to a hardened criminals eyes and have made Barbara Jordan and LBJ smile a smile as big as Texas.
The US needs to learn .. that they can't make demands on the world that they don't hold to themselves.
Randall..the forming body of Humanity is made up of males and females all part to one operating body....so it does concern me..it should concern us alluntil it is resolvedto the satisfaction of all People. That which we work towards...
Government, Industry, Finance, Academic, Military, Media, Religion(spirituality+ethics0and the People. Its all game Randall and that which I am well versed in....
Regardless of how smart we become in life upon our passing we will still be far more ignorant than knowledgeable such is the vastness of knowledge out there. When we take our ignorance as a truth and not an insult, we, as a developing People, shall take an important step together. Keep your ego in check...I do...
Im surprised they dont have a cell phone blocker right now. It seems alot of IEDs are set off by cell phones. Or one better....something that makes all cell phones ring within 100m of the transmitter. That would set off any cell triggered IEDs before US forces encounter them. Plus they wouldnt have to shoot anyone on a cell phone as their convoys proceed on their patrols. Win Win.
Why can't the military target a couple of torpedos at the opening of the leak and collapse it?? B.P. could then re-drill it. Is this not possible?
That is an issue ...Tough hurdle to get over when your job is to rep those who you might not support personally. Even the bigger issue is that where judges actually have the power to create law. Because we all know that legal opinions usually reference prior decisions. The political arena is even worse ...i.e. zero tolerance.
Whats the running total since the oil spill started for the amount of oil now floating in the Gulf?
GoldMan Sachs was gonads deep in the Greek crisis too. They set up the bad deals that hid all of Greece's debt so that Greece could join the EU. So..Goldman has screwed the US with bad mortgage investments and they screwed the EU by hiding Greece's massive debt. ( GS bought short positions on the deal they set up for Greece so they could profit off the collapse they KNEW was coming as well). Seems to me the Goldman Sachs executives are the terrorists. They have done more damage to the West than the terrorists ever could.
See, Joseph DanielBrian Lawlor. my point exactly. You are a male so it doesn't concern you unless you are ask to weigh in by the woman. Lawlor when they invent a game you can beat me at then I'll call you.
I well know that in reality there is probably no one in favor of stopping a childs life at any stage. And the circumstances hat may create a bad woman are male driven. So in being Pro Life then you enter yourself into the arguement. Try neutral and let the ladies at least suffer the failings of us males and the mess we have afflicted upon them. It is the B.S. of legislating morality.
I know where you are coming from but I'm striving to take the abortion issue off the table before any court.
They need to invent a cell phone blocker .
Think of a terrorist as a virus in your body. Your not going to know its there untill you get sick. Same in your country...how can you find a terrorist before they act? Now...if we wrap our bodies in plastic wrap...dont touch other people, they might be infected....only breath air from a bottle and stay inside away from everything....THEN we might not get the virus. But what kind of life would that be? Keep stripping rights away from your citizens...thats the plastic wrap...Keep going now...dont stop...the virus might show up....where's my air bottle? We must ruin the country in order to save it?
Government,Industrey, Finance, Academic, Military, Media, Religion(spirituality+ETHICS) and the People done wrong by the first seven..tooth ache..Michael....we will take off the heads of the first seven....and they are on the clock here to resolve for the betterment of the People....tic toc tic toc tic toc real time real time...how are you all enjoying this global collapse thus far....
Murphy's Law....anything that can go wrong will go wrong at this time like domino's....
Girls on the Edge.....real time real time here Kiran..the most emotional generation to date and they are all putting their minds on facebook and other technical avenues of electonic travel. And the most dangerous schoolyard to date go after them as well....how many more have to commit suicide before it is taken serious?????
When I get a toothache...I get the tooth fixed. Dont throw out the baby with the bath water.
Kagan will be a great choice for the Supreme Court but leave it to the media's news anchors like Kiran to sow seeds of negativity like for instance"she has no bench experience", does it matter? No it doesn't, but will plenty of people pick up this seed and run with it? Absolutely, that's what the media is paid to do, stir up contoversy, focus on anything negative for sensationalism. I don't know how these people can look in the mirror in the mornings, must be really disgusting to have no other goal in life than to hurt others under the guise of reporting news, how pathethic!
BP doesnt control the price of oil by themselves but if the price does increase over this spill and clean-up then stop driving. Walk more...it will make you healthier and that will save you money on your health care costs. Plus it will put money in your pocket because your not buying gas. Get a little motor scooter. They are cheap to run and get great mileage. There are alternatives to the status quo.
Wanna slow down o maybe even stop the terrorists attacks on the US?
Change the corrupt and failing US foreign policy that practices double standards with the world.
Simple as.
What do you do when you get a tooth ach ? You get rid of the tooth .
"Randall stated="My advice to you is this Joseph DanielBrian Lawlor..if you don't want an abortion then don't you get one. Don't tell your neighbors what they are going to do"=my response=....See the name.,..male..abortion not one of my options is it....and I deal with the development of individual chloce...I am pro life but I will protect the right of the female to abort...her choice under her circumstances.....not the enemy here Randall..
Hey Guys,
You have courtesied "NBC" and not CBS for the Hillary Clinton interview on 60 Minutes.
Best,
Dee
The biggest and longest lasting terrorist organization in the world, bar none, is the US Government.
The Republicans say there is no way to stop attacks on our country but I say there is but if I post the cure CNN will blog it out .
Dana Bash, I loved it when during a recent report that these Senators about to hear the BP matter "that they knew who buttered their bread"!
Oh did I tell you that I saw "Capitalism: A Love Story" last Friday evening? Oh yes brother there is gonna be trouble!
The bad Apple that spoils the rest inthe barrel thing. Guess where the worm is in that Apple? It is Wall Street!
Randall...read...read properly..=
'While the circumstancesof life are bad females will abort"
'..the circumstances are bad...not the females...love my sisters out there...hope this clears your misread to your satisfaction.
Anybody that believes the new law in Arizona concerning the invasion of illegal aliens should do some research into Mexico. Americans think that Mexico is a poor country. That is just not true. Actually Mexico is a rich country – they just choose not to care for their "poor" citizens and dump them off on the US, not to mention that it may be a Mexican Government policy to get the land they once owned back the same way that the US got Texas from Mexico (think about it).
The unemployment rate in Mexico is HALF what it is in the US. Ever wonder why? And is LOWER than 3/4 of the countries in the world.
The percentage of people in Mexico living BELOW the poverty line is LESS than the uk, Spain, France, Germany, Israel, Ireland, Canada – just to mention a few.
Don't believe me?.. Google and research. Learn the truth.
Teenage addictions....goes to a story you told your own children called Goldilocks and the Thrtee Bears. One bowltoo big, one too small and one just right. =learn your freaking measures in life and teach your kids while your at it. There is a booze cabinet they must be taught..there is a drug cabinet they must be taught about...
Or forget about it all and let them off to university or college where they will be taught how to binge on booze and drugs...your choice...taught mine.,..take time to teach yours...freakiing drugs can take your child over for years and you may lose a few along the way...
The child wasn't mine and after the ruling was over by the Supreme Court it cost me years of my life to regain my soul...
Plumbers use balloons to unplug drains and they can also do the opposite you just stick it in the hole and blow it up .
Joseph DanielBrian Lawlor, "bad women"? Please rethink that and let's stay off the abortion because I was probably the largest single male influence in getting the woman's right to choice as any other male on earth!
I parked myself at the Chicago law firm of Arvey, Hodes and Mantynband months before the Roe vs. Wade case was ruled upon. My high school girlfriend sprung her pregnancy on me and I asked her what she wanted to do and she said she wanted an abortion because she thought it might kill her Mother. So I went to guys I knew that were getting abortions in Dallas. I was caddying in the Byron Nelson golf tournament when a friend brought her to Dallas to have the abortion. I slept and held her during that Friday night and she was in a lot of pain. It dawned on e that if I needed to actually get her to nearby Baylor hospital she the peoples in that house might not let her out of that house alive. She went home the next day and I went to work back at the Byron Nelson.
That Saturday I pulled Walter Spradley away from his job as a Marshall. He was a Senior partner in Clint Murchison, Jr's law firm of Jenkens, Spradley and Gilchrist. Clint Murchison., Jr.'s that owned the Cowboy's dad started that firm with Holman Jenkens whan he hit all that oil. I told him we were going to legalize abortion and get it out of the "back alleys". I told him the rich had been having abortions for years with their "miscarriage's and trips to Europe. I told him to start telling the legal community becuse I had alreay told God. I later went to work for Jake Arvey in Chicago to see it through. Jake Arvey was the Russian Orthodox Jew and former Democratic Chairman of Illinois when it was the swing state for Truman to beat Dewey and yes Jake the Snake" fixed the boxes in Chicago and a few rural boxes out South like Carbondale so Truman could return to the White House. He wrote the Chicago Israel Bonds.
My advice to you is this Joseph DanielBrian Lawlor..if you don't want an abortion then don't you get one. Don't tell your neighbors what they are going to do.
As for as bad women? That is between them and God!
Chrisitine...millions lost jobs and your reporting a come back and a climb in the housing market....false creative reporting and seen for what it is girl....careful...we People see better now and see things for what they are and that which they represent.
Lower cotainment dome upside down Reright it at leak site. Oil lighter than water will fill displacing water.
Seeing how BP is part of a much larger group will they try to recover costs by increasing gas prices with the recovery cost their excuse?
What will the cost to the ecosystems of four states mean for BP and their bottom line?
Rubber and golf balls...we really have digbats working our system and a good reason why it contunually becomes worse and not better when using minds lacking in ability to resolve..shameful...reminds me of the Katrina response..shameful...
DArn straight you will pay those fishermen BP...through the freaking teeth by the time this is done....
I always thought blind justice ment something else .
@ john doe Dont you mean you go get grilled .
It's nice the president picked someone for the supreme court but I was more hoping for Carrot Top .
Wow.. I get a response .. BEFORE I ever posted anything ... lol.. Nice going Randall!
I think she is a good choice and our kids get to find out another path to become supreme court judge
Chris..I am pro life as well but I will protect their"individual" right to abort as well. While the circumstancesof life are bad females will abort but once we deliver a good life for all the female brings forth life and do not abort and that is by individual choice all the way up to the entire body of female that makes up Humanity. While we are still in a state of bad getting worst expect abortions to continue.
Government, Industry, Finance, Academic, Military, Media, Religion(spirituality+ethics)and the People done wrong by the first seven one of the causes abortions occur to begin with.
A question...an illegal immigrant gets caught working in Arizona is sent back to Mexico. What does the person employing the illegal immigrant receive?...a new immigrant??? any one of you two faced people in Arizona want to answer that one??
Item #1 A belated thanks to the Viet Nam soldiers for serving on the 35th anniversary of the official Congressional end on Friday 07, 2010!
Item# 2 Ask Fran Townsend to ask Dick Chaney where was the "acoustic regulators" on the BP well that is pouring oil into the water? They are still required on wells the world over. I bet they went the way of de-regulation. Baker and Botts...lol what a joke!
Item #3 MeloN this is for you...American is corrupted and controlled by the masterful CCII; Caliberation of the Corporations, Ivy League and Israel!
Item #4 The miltrary is in two wars an America is at the Mall...
Due to censorship, I've posted on the facebok page, since you would not post this on the actual live blog page.
I say this is a poor choice, I am a Pro-life supporter
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We the poeple of the United States are in trouble, not in this world, but in trouble with our Father God. Placing someone in office, on a bench, elected, appointed or otherwise. These people should have their hearts so focused and given to God, that in order for us to find them, to even consider them, we too should be focused on the Lord ourselves!
i'm sure she good pick!! but i thought u had be judge first lol!!!]
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Great job!!! See, Women can get the job done!!! You go girl!!! USA is the way!!!
Belated Happy Mother's Day, Kiran.
Hope IT was everything you wished for!
Kagan will make a great pick. Great pick.