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Sonia Sotomayor Explains The Many Dangers Of Ninja Nunchucks
I suppose Republicans worry that there's a slippery slope between "they're taking our nunchucks!" and "they're taking our guns!" Or something.
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I believe that these hearings are simply showing us that the Republican members of the judiciary committee lack the judicial temperment to serve on the Supreme Court.
July 14, 2009 1:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bravo.
July 14, 2009 1:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
I would go further, and say they lack the competence to serve in the Senate.
July 14, 2009 1:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Shorter - IDIOTS!
July 14, 2009 3:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
I reckon that most hispanics know what a pinata is, and realize that the Republicans in the Senate are treating Sotomayor like one, and that they will very much remember that when it comes time to vote.
I feel like I'm watching the Last of the Mohicans in the senate.
Most Jews, Blacks, Women, College Educated Whites, Organized Labor, and now Hispanics won't vote for these jokers. They are really painting themselves tightly into a corner that they won't be able to walk out of,... politically speaking.
July 15, 2009 1:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
I have long dreamt that we would someday have a Supreme Court justice who understood the grave danger that ninjas pose to civilized society.
(More seriously: sounds like Judge Sotomayor is doing well at maintaining a calm and patient demeanor--something that many of us would find challenging when faced with the likes of Orrin Hatch.)
July 14, 2009 1:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, I think anyone who can sit through four hours of Senators making annoying/boring/insulting/all-of-the-above opening statements without any chance to respond to them and who doesn't stand up and shriek "You people are so full of it!" probably deserves a shot at the Supreme Court! Talk about self-discipline.
July 14, 2009 1:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Try a room full of governors without ripping you ears off; THAT would be self discipline.
July 14, 2009 2:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's what Lindsey calls a meltdown.
July 14, 2009 2:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Self-discipline or surreptitiously working on Sodukus. Looks the same to the TV cameras.
July 14, 2009 5:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
But what does she think about pirates?
July 14, 2009 1:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
This.
July 14, 2009 1:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Perfect response! Well researched, redmolly!
July 14, 2009 2:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good one.
July 14, 2009 2:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Which provides a very good counter to the concerns that have been raised about her temperament -- claims that she is combative, difficult, nasty -- and demonstrate that she is not the raging monster that some of her critics had pictured her as being. She does not appear to be thin-skinned; she can be patient, calm, good-humored. If she is sometimes feisty in oral arguments and not terribly patient with lawyers who come before her ill-prepared -- well, that's probably as it should be.
July 14, 2009 1:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ninjas protested what they perceive to be unwarranted judicial activism on the part of the SC nominee today by parading through downtown Modesto, CA.
July 14, 2009 3:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's the way to go, talk to Sen. Orrin Hatch like he's a child.
July 14, 2009 1:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's the way she's been speaking to all the Republican Senators.
Somewhere, Anita Hill is laughing.
July 14, 2009 1:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Anita Hill was on Larry King last night, and yes, I think you are probably right about that.
July 14, 2009 1:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
That give Sen. Hatch far too much credit for maturity. He is a narcissistic moron.
July 14, 2009 2:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just looked at the clip. I have to say I find it pretty refreshing that a nominee for the Supreme Court talks about "busting the skull".
July 14, 2009 1:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
I won't be happy until she talks about busting a cap in someone's head.
July 14, 2009 1:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
She also talks about "breaking arms". Uh oh. Sounds like an activist term to me!
"Scalia, before you vote against me, imagine your arm held together by tiny metal pins."
July 14, 2009 1:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's a nice arm you have there, Antonin. Be a shame if something were to happen to it. Did I mention I know nunchucks? (And for whatever reason, whenever I see that word I think of nuns wearing Chuck Taylors....)
July 14, 2009 1:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow. She is unbelievably even-tempered. And patient.
July 14, 2009 1:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Breaking news: Upon further questioning from Hatch about the dangers of nunchucks she took out a pair to show how they are used and accidently busted Hatch's skull.
July 14, 2009 1:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, "accidentally."
July 14, 2009 4:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why yes, I guess that would be breaking news.
July 14, 2009 6:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Orrin Hatch wouldn't know a nunchuk if one end was appropriately lubricated by his companion at a secluded Maryland rest stop and inserted ever so gently into his rectum just so.
July 14, 2009 1:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
His name ain't Hatch for nothin'.
July 14, 2009 2:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
They can pry my nunchucks from my cold dead hands!
July 14, 2009 1:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
If nunchucks are outlawed, only outlaws will have nunchucks.
July 14, 2009 2:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
What you really want to say is:
"If nunchucks are outlawed, only nunchucks will have nunchucks"
Or better: numchucks.
July 14, 2009 6:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Judge Sotomayor was remarkably calm when answering Hatch's question. One, such as myself, less willing to listen openly, less equable, might have been predisposed to leap over the table before me and drag Hatch to the floor and pound the living daylights out of him.
She's not going to get Hatch's vote anyway. Why not lay a hurting on the little bitch, if only to make her feel good about herself?
July 14, 2009 1:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ground and pound works in the Octagon. It is not suitable for a hearing... Unfortunately.
July 14, 2009 2:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
I guess not, but you have to admit, you'd love the look on Hatch's face if Sotomayor walked in for Wednesday's hearings flanked by Fedor Emelianenko and Wanderlei Silva.
July 14, 2009 4:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that's judicial activism I can believe in.
July 14, 2009 2:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Senator, you should know better than to challenge a Wise Latina. When it comes to nunchaku, my new fighting technique is UNSTOPPABLE!"
July 14, 2009 2:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Senator, lemme 'splain. Numchucks can really hurt a person and even kill someone.
Senator's spoken answer : "I know."
Seonator' sunspoken answer: "But I really don't care if anyone is hurt or killed. I have stock in a numchucks distributorship and EVERYONE should have them!"
July 14, 2009 2:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
All that is really left is confirmation and the announcement of who won the "stupidest question" award.
July 14, 2009 2:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
It'll be like grade school sports: EVERYONE'S A WINNER!
July 14, 2009 2:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think it'd have to be divided into two categories, actual stupid questions, and "questions" like Sessions' long oration explaining to the person sitting in front of him "this is what you think."
July 14, 2009 4:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
2 sticks and a rope or chain, Nunchakus were originally used as agricultural tools for flailing rice. They are most dangerous to the user if he doesn't know how to use them.
July 14, 2009 2:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
The danger is in the type of user who has the urge to swing clubs of hardwood around like a badass.
(I actually was endangered by homemade nunchucks and the idiot who was swinging them around in front of me. They flew apart and put a dent in the locker right next to me, at crotch-height.)
July 14, 2009 2:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Does anybody remember Orrin Hatch's questioning of Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas hearings? I still can't hear his voice without feeling revolted at his disgusting pursuit of prurient details. A sicko misogynist.
July 14, 2009 2:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
A well regulated Ninja being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear nunchucks shall not be infringed.
July 14, 2009 2:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Absolutely. As Doug, the nunchuck-wielding redneck in "Ghostworld" sez: "This is America, dude. Learn the rules." Master-level demonstration of nunchuck uses begins at the 1:16 mark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP9dIwJIjKA
July 14, 2009 4:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey Orrin, you won't if I bring my explosives with me to your cool party, will you?
July 14, 2009 2:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hah! I'm going to bring my atomic bomb! The Second Amendment guarantees the government can't stop me!
July 14, 2009 4:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
And all this time I've been thinking that the founding fathers were just trying to protect hunting.
July 14, 2009 4:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Judge Sotomayor clearly explained why the State of New York could ban the possession of nunchucks.
Senator Hatch clearly demonstrated why the Senate should ban the seating of numbnuts.
July 14, 2009 2:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
None of the arguments that these Republican Senators are going to hold water. Here is a great analysis of the New Haven Firefighters case, as Justice Ginsburg saw it in her dissenting opinion.
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=2159
July 14, 2009 2:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nunchucks: not always a bad thing.
July 14, 2009 3:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
If that video ain't for real, I don't care. It should be.
July 14, 2009 4:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Quoting Judge Sotomayor" ... It was a very narrow question"
What she should have said, "... it was a very narrow question, much like the space between your ears, Senator"
July 14, 2009 5:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry for the foolish question since I am not a hunter, but exactly what kind of game is a person likely to be after in the woods when choosing a nunchuck as a weapon? I would think that a deer, for example, would detect the hunter's presence before the hunter got a chance to swing the nunchuck on the deer's head. Sen. Hatch must have been displaying concern for hunters with nunchucks when he posed his question to Judge Sotomayor.
July 14, 2009 6:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
i have been tempted to use them for chipmunk control. it might be more effective than my first attempt which was coffee grounds at which they chuckled.
July 15, 2009 3:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hatch, of course, is always wise and restrained. Boy, I hope he reads from The Exorcist again.
July 14, 2009 7:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
I read with chagrin the posts complimenting Judge Sotomayor for her maturity and restraint in the face of complete idiots babbling away in bumper sticker sound bites. The fact that anyone could just sit there and treat these circular digestive tracts as if they were worth explaining anything is something Job would have envied. I would have made a sarcastic comment during the first 15 minutes and by the end of the session, I would have "suggested" that not only was their grandmother a Yorkshire, but their lineage actually traces to a Viet Namese pot bellied pig, NOT married to their grandmother.
July 15, 2009 1:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
OK, here's an educational video on the dangers of Nun chucks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRyDcB7qQFo
July 15, 2009 7:16 AM | Reply | Permalink