Not even a fair fight. Judge Brown Jackson v Sen. Blackburn

[Botany]

From Wiki:

After high school, Jackson studied government at Harvard University. She performed improv comedy and took classes in drama, and led protests against a student who displayed a Confederate flag from his dorm window. Jackson graduated in 1992 with an A.B. magna cum laude, having written a senior thesis entitled "The Hand of Oppression: Plea Bargaining Processes and the Coercion of Criminal Defendants".

Jackson worked as a staff reporter and researcher for Time magazine from 1992 to 1993, then attended Harvard Law School, where she was a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review. She graduated in 1996 with a Juris Doctor cum laude.

Marsha Wedgeworth Blackburn was born in Laurel, Mississippi, to Mary Jo (Morgan) and Hilman Wedgeworth, who worked in sales and management. She was a beauty pageant winner in high school.

Blackburn attended Mississippi State University on a 4-H scholarship, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in home
economics (fashion) in 1974. She was a member of the Chi Omega sorority.


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But who hasn't been reporter for Time magazine after finishing their degree from Harvard before getting their J.D. from
Harvard and while being at or close to the top of their class? (see supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review)

[madaboutharry]

1. Yesterday, Blackburn spoke to Judge Jackson in a condescending tone.

It was gross. She was disrespectful to Judge Jackson, speaking down to her as if Judge Jackson was her inferior. Blackburn gave herself, and the racism that pulsates through her veins, away.


(One of my favorite classes in high school was Home Ec. I loved my teacher, a little old lady with white curly hair. She gave me the lifelong love of crochet, which has brought me a lot of joy. I still have the beautiful Afghan blanket I crocheted over the course of a semester, now a family heirloom. She gave me an A.)

[Botany]

4. When my mother taught clinical and human nutrition @ a big ten school it was still in what was ...

... the Home Ec. department. Now it is Human Development and Family Science (HDFS) part of
The College of Education and Family Ecology.

Although I made a point of not watching the hearings from the clips I have seen Judge Jackson
showed more class and restraint then I would have.

[TexasTowelie]

8. My sister (the one who appears on DU sporadically) used to crochet and

she was also talented at embroidery and needlepoint, plus she sewed her own prom dress for her senior year. She was the most artistic of anybody within my family, so I certainly respect those who have the talent to make anything of beauty.

What confuses me though is that Blackburn received a Bachelor of Science degree rather than a Bachelor of Arts. To me, a BS degree means that the student has to have a year of biology, a year of chemistry, a year of physics (calculus-based), and two semesters of calculus. A BS degree was only awarded for those four branches and later computer science. Degrees in other "sciences" such as social science, political science, and economic science were either BA or BBA degrees.

Does anybody believe that Marsha passed classes in the science programs to receive her BS degree? I graduated from college over a decade after her, but it sounds like Miss Wedgeworth was on the Masters of Residential Science (Mrs.) degree plan instead.

[haele]

25. Bacelor of Science in Home Economics focuses more on the economic side of Home Economics.

At most, she'd be taking 300 level Statistics and Accounting, maybe a 200 level Chemistry and Physics. Difficult to some degree, but as long as she was good at taking tests, she could always "borrow" notes and get help from classmates to produce.

In a Bachelor of Arts program, she would actually have to produce a tangeble product or show she had some talent in taking care of a home or family.

Haele

[CurtEastPoint]

2. But you left out her former 'career.' She is not qualified to head up a PTA Bake Sale. Ignotwit

[momta]

26. Wow. Is that real?

It so doesn't surprise me

[CurtEastPoint]

27. absolutely 100% real.

https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/image-consultant-heal-thyself/article_e3e83273-8249-581f-9634-324577d4e4dd.html

[evolves]

31. Yup.

She purports to be my “senator.” She is an absolute embarrassment.

[Scottie Mom]

30. I see she has frequent "bad hair" days! EOM

[momta]

39. In all fairness, so do I, but...

I don't plaster them all over the newspaper.

[Scottie Mom]

40. Same here!

Seems to happen often to me...and I do not try to advertise my condition!

[Raven]

3. Brown-Jackson having experience with improv comedy in college was a perfect background

for her yesterday.

[pamdb]

5. Blackburn

It would be nice if once in awhile she combed her hair. She always looks like she just rolled out of bed.

[Botany]

6. If anybody needed some gays in her life it is Marsha.

What might have been "hot" in high school or college or her 20s is just more of a "hot mess" now.

[justhanginon]

9. After that performance she desperately needs an "image consultant".

[niyad]

18. That was my first thought with EarlG's pic of the moment.

[calimary]

37. Maybe that's the point?

[Peacetrain]

7. Marsha Blackburn is a purposeful nutjob. has nothing to do with her education levels or lack of

I have know many people who did not finish highschool who were intelligent, able to make a moral decision and were not colossal nut jobs..

What college a person goes to does not show what kind of human beings they will turn out to be.. some of the biggest nut jobs in the republican party went to Harvard Yale etc etc

Also going to school on a 4-H scholarship..should not be looked down upon.. anymore than anyone should look down on someone who attends a state school.. or has to take loans to pay their way through.. goes to night school for cheaper classes.. none of these means their educational accomplishments is less than

just saying.. call a nut job a nut job..

[Botany]

10. I agree!

Marsha's image does not cover up her own inner core of being racist, superficial,
stunningly uneducated, and an Evangelical nut job.

[Peacetrain]

12. I think that is the one that trips my wires the most Botany..

That whole church based claim by some Evangelicals to promote their racism, sexism, and idiocy!!

[Botany]

13. So many of those Christian Evangelicals are at their core racist and at the same time ....

.... claim to "love Jesus" but if the biblical Jesus was in the south prior to the civil war
they would have tried to make him a slave because if you believe the bible's Jesus
story he would have been black.

[Peacetrain]

15. I am a Christian.. and You are absolutely right!!!

I believe a man named Jesus lived, and he did great works and called for the love of all and that we are responsible for the welfare of others, not for our own benefit only.. I do not believe in magic, but many think the Bible is this book of sorcery instead of the teachings of a philosophy on how we should live.. but they use it to promote their own selfish issues at the expense of others..

[evolves]

32. "Prior to the Civil War??"

Hell, they’d try to do it TODAY if he were to show up!

[Samrob]

16. But she is "not a witch."

Or is she????

[niyad]

20. No, she is not. No practicing witch I know would claim her.

[PatSeg]

23. Oh, Christine O'Donnell!

I'd forgotten about her. Definitely cut from the same cloth!

[thenelm1]

33. Only one way to find out. Let's see if she floats.

Therefore, if the woman weighs the same as a duck, she must be able to float on water, which means she is made of wood, and consequently must be a witch.

(paraphrased from http://lexx.thebruce.net/poem/monty.html)

[PatSeg]

22. Yes, the key word is "purposeful"

She's not stupid. She is a performer putting on a show for her supporters. I seriously doubt a sincere, honest word ever escapes her lips. She is a former high school cheerleader who still loves being the center of attention and will do or say anything to stay there.

[PdamnedQ]

24. She's like a "Little Nell" on a perpetual search for the next train.

[Rebl2]

35. Little Nell?

Not sure who that is.

[Ninga]

11. It's the. Stupid, nasty, uninterested, racists voters that put her in office.

[themaguffin]

14. Blackburn doesn't even know how to use a comb

[calimary]

21. I was going to guess she spends most of her time with her hair brush.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. It's hard, but sometimes we are forced into battles of wits with unarmed opponents. . . . nt

[pazzyanne]

34. + 1

That describes what I watched yesterday during Blackburn's performance to a "T". Marsha didn't really know why she was there.

[TNNurse]

19. As far as I am concerned there are never enough insults to Marsha.

However, idiots gave her the title "Senator" and to some that will always give credence to what she says.

Seems like a judge being considered for an important job should have a "jury of her peers" just like in court. That is certainly not in case. Not one GOP Senator is her peer.

[momta]

28. Agree completely!

Jackson is wiping the floor with all of them, especially Marsha.

[BlueIdaho]

36. The old south lives on

In the mind of Marsha Blackburn.

[NoMoreRepugs]

38. Blackburn win a 4-H beauty contest? Pig,bovine, horse or fowl?

Not assailing her looks - just making fun of a BatShitCrazedLoon.