Justice Thomas and ethics

[proud2BlibKansan]

PIN POINT, Ga. — Clarence Thomas was here promoting his memoir a few years ago when he bumped into Algernon Varn, whose grandfather once ran a seafood cannery that employed Justice Thomas’s mother as a crab picker.

Mr. Varn lived at the old cannery site, a collection of crumbling buildings on a salt marsh just down the road from a sign heralding this remote coastal community outside Savannah as Justice Thomas’s birthplace. The justice asked about plans for the property, and Mr. Varn said he hoped it could be preserved.

“And Clarence said, ‘Well, I’ve got a friend I’m going to put you in touch with,’ ” Mr. Varn recalled, adding that he was later told by others not to identify the friend.

The publicity-shy friend turned out to be Harlan Crow, a Dallas real estate magnate and a major contributor to conservative causes. Mr. Crow stepped in to finance the multimillion-dollar purchase and restoration of the cannery, featuring a museum about the culture and history of Pin Point that has become a pet project of Justice Thomas’s.



Read more: http://midwestdemocracyproject.org/blogs/entries/justice-thomas-and-ethics/#comments#ixzz1Pjb9t64J

[DCKit]

1. Read the subject line and couldn't understand why "ethics" didn't scramble off the page.

That particular sentence should be impossible to write outside of Bizarro world.

[Scuba]

2. +1

[spanone]

3. k&r...

[izquierdista]

4. Oh, that ol' HW

Wasn't he a kidder? Best qualified person for the job? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Talk about a call back laugh line, that one's been going on 20 years now.

[n2doc]

5. But he was right, from the Repubs perspective

Ol' Clarence has been a reliable shill for the right wing corporations. They could not have asked for more. If he was more assertive, he would have pissed off the confederate wing of the GOP.

[Tesha]

6. (It's a wonder your keyboard didn't burst into flames as you typed that oxymoron of a title.)

To see the words "Justice Thomas" and "ethics" in the same
sentence just boggles my mind. We shouldn't be trying to
use the completely-broken political process to remove this
man, we should be using the *CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM*.

I have no idea if he would be removed from the bench if
convicted of a half-dozen or so felonies, but he'd have
a hard time participating from his prison cell and that
would be just as good.

Tesha

[DCKit]

8. OMG, we are so sharing the same head-space!

Read my reply (#1). I didn't expound as you did, but damn, we're in total agreement.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Yes I took a double take on that

Seems quite the oxymoron, eh?

[janet118]

7. Ethics are for other people, people who don't have sugar daddies. n/t