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Originally Posted by TinyRedLeaf
Washington (May 26): United States President Barack Obama has nominated Ms Sonia Sotomayor to serve on the country's Supreme Court.
Ms Sotomayor, 54, who has now to be approved by a Senate vote, would be the first Hispanic to take the position. She would replace Justice David Souter, who announced his retirement from the top US court earlier this month.
Mr Obama said he had chosen Ms Sotomayor after an "exhaustive" process, and paid tribute to her as an "inspiring woman". He said she would bring a "depth of experience and a breadth of perspective" to the role.
If approved by the Senate, Ms Sotomayor would join Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the second woman on the current Supreme Court. Observers say any nomination made by Mr Obama is likely to be approved because the Democrats dominate the Senate.
White House officials told the Associated Press that Ms Sotomayor would bring more judicial experience to the Supreme Court than any other justice confirmed in the past 70 years.
She has been nominated to serve as a judge by both Republican and Democrat presidents. In 1991, president George H. W. Bush named her a district judge and his successor in the White House, president Bill Clinton, nominated her to the circuit court in 1997.
Mr Obama had stressed the need to appoint a justice who had life experience as well as legal capabilities.
Ms Sotomayor was raised on a housing estate in the Bronx, in one of New York City's most deprived areas. She is said to have been inspired by the Perry Mason TV series to become a judge, and was educated at both Princeton and Yale.
The Supreme Court is the highest court in the US, and has the authority to strike down any state or federal law it deems unconstitutional. Each of the nine Supreme Court justices is nominated to the post for life.
Of the incumbents, four are regarded as liberal, four as conservative and one is seen as unaligned. If appointed, Ms Sotomayor is expected to be on the liberal wing leaving the political balance unchanged as Mr Souter is also a liberal.
- BBC NEWS
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Was gonna post the same thing in the US politics thread but you beat me to it. Was curious to see if people are tossing up a fuss for the new candidate being;
1: A woman
2: Not white.
Been reading her
background on wiki, she sounds awesome and seems to have come very very far.
(Simple case of education and hard work taking you far in life)
Don't know if appointing her will effect much in the upper class world over ther or the law system, but yay for diversity. ^^
And yay, great.
Just what we need, more negativity on japanese anime & manga culture, from the youtube stunt.
(Burn 4chan down, seriously, scum of the internet....)
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As the disturbing videos were being uploaded, many viewers added them to their favourites and rated them highly.
One user believed to have uploaded some of the pornographic material videos is Flonty, whose profile states that he is 21 and from Germany.
He told the BBC: "I did it because YouTube keeps deleting music. It was part of a 4Chan raid."
4Chan is a bulletin board focusing on Japanese manga and anime but some of its more extreme sections have been described on online messageboards as "sick" and "horrifying stuff".
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And thingle, it's not a mere case of youtube being prudish.
Google bought it, they own it.
The reason this caused an uproar is cause the porn was edited within kids vids and named under things like Hannah montana.
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True, there's porn on millions of sites which children could easily have access to, but there is a significant difference between that and interest groups purposely tricking and delivering porn to children in a Hannah Montana package on YouTube .
Flonty says "Children will find inappropriate material around the internet anyway." The difference being is that those kids will activly be looking for porn, not having it forced into their faces by this sad little man.
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That's taking their freedom away, thus lies deceit and thus lies the problem.
As amusing as it is that many favoured it and gave it max ratings, it was targeted for kids who wouldn't be searching for it in the first place.
Not all wanna see a dick pound away at a woman at max close up just for the hell of it, you know...