Beer Race

Obama is going to solve race relations over some brewskis.
I like this.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25604.html

Obama will drink Bud Light.

Crowley will sip Blue Moon.

And Gates will have Red Stripe..

August 16th!!!

Why smoke one when you could have 2? http://www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/madmenyourself/

So excited for the next season. I really need rewatch the old ones.

Fashion blog?

If only I was fashionable enough to actually blog about it. I dress like a rollar coaster. There are some very high fashion points & then there are also the low, dowdy secretary points & a lot of thrashing arms in between.

I have to thank Tulle for the awesome dress & my lovely boyfriend for accompanying me to the AVAM.

The AVAM was ok. I had been to the other 2 buildings for free before so I guess I was expecting something crazy good for the main exhibition. I liked the items made from tooth picks & matchbooks.

The art car building was my favorite. I had gotten a chance to go there once before, when Cardin had his acceptance party on election night. It housed some art cars & had toys in glass cases. I was a giddy girl pushing buttons, watching the small parts turn & collide. The screen painting exhibition was also in there & was pretty great.

What's a Leo to do?

I am trying to figure out what to do for my 25th.

http://www.baltimorerestaurantweek.com/ has a great deal at Pazo ... but I went there for my 23rd & i am not sure if all my girls can afford it.

I sort of want to run away for my 25th. I wonder if that means that I want to run away from being an adult?

I did make a reservation at the Louisiana Restaurant early that week that I am excited about. I have manily just wanted to have a reason to go inside the place. It looks like such a relic.

Let's just hope this all works out.

So much stuff to get done before summer ends ... plus I wanted to do a little southern tour travel summary.

Looks like we won't be going to canada .. not sure what to do with our free weekend.

Dreading the start of school. I really hope to grow into my own this semester. I got to pick these classes, & I hope I didn't just pick my own poison ...

I see the end of summer

Ba hum bug

I

know

I

am

turning

25 ...

but

no thank you.

Graham is the bully

SEN. GRAHAM: .... And we got a long way to go in this country. And I can't find the quote, but I'll find it here in a moment, the "wise Latino" (sic/Latina) quote. (Pause.) Do you remember it? (Laughter.)

JUDGE SOTOMAYOR: Yes.

SEN. GRAHAM: Okay. Say it to me. Can you recite it from memory?

JUDGE SOTOMAYOR: I —

SEN. GRAHAM: I got it.

JUDGE SOTOMAYOR: (Laughs.)

SEN. GRAHAM: All right. "I would hope that a wise Latina woman, with the richness of her experience, would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male."

And the only reason I keep talking about this is that I'm in politics, and you got to watch what you say, because, one, you don't want to offend people you're trying to represent — but do you understand, ma'am, that if I had said anything like that, and my reasoning was that I'm trying to inspire somebody, they would have had my head? Do you understand that?

He started his testimony off with:

SEN. GRAHAM: Okay. Now let's talk about you. I like you, by the way, for whatever that matters. (Soft laughter.) Since I may vote for you, that ought to matter to you. (Soft laughter.)

One thing that stood out about your record is that when you look at the Almanac of the Federal Judiciary, lawyers anonymously rate judges in terms of temperament, and here's what they said about you: "She's a terror on the bench." "She's temperamental, excitable." "She seems angry." "She's overly aggressive, not very judicial." "She does not have a very good temperament." "She abuses lawyers." "She really lacks judicial temperament." "She believes in an out-of- control — she behaves in an out-of-control manner." "She makes inappropriate outbursts." "She is nasty to lawyers." "She'll attack lawyers for making an argument she does not like." "She can be a bit of a bully."

When you look at the evaluation of the judges on the 2nd Circuit, you stand out like a sore thumb in terms of your temperament. What is your answer to these criticisms?

& the whole temperamental woman thing erks me bad.

Sotomayor & Sessions

Hey how hilarious have the nomination hearings been?

Oh that silly Sessions (R-Alabama) calling the Latino out for being a racist. Extra funny that his own judicial nomination to a federal court was rejected by judicial committee with a republican majority partly because of his own racist actions.

• Prosecuting some voter rights ppl with the MLK ties for voter fraud. The activists, known as the Marion Three, were acquitted in four hours. Civil rights groups charged that Sessions had been looking for voter fraud in the black community and overlooking the same violations among whites, at least partly to help reelect his friend Senator Denton.
  Sessions had labeled the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) "un-American" and "Communist-inspired."

• Sessions had called a white civil rights lawyer a "disgrace to his race" for litigating voting rights cases.

• Sessions was heard by several colleagues commenting that he "used to think they [the Klan] were OK" until he found out some of them were "pot smokers."