Dear Emeritus: Re the Allstar Game. The pitch bounced. What a fag! When faced with the 22nd Amendment, we did the next best thing. We elected B. Hussein Obama. Proof? The wars not only continue, they are being enhanced. The empire continues to spread, our fascist security state continues to indefinitely imprison terrorists without trial and the lines at our airports are tediously growing longer. Habeas corpus? Well, forget that. He even uses signing statements. But to be fair, Obama is not all Dubya. He turned an economic downturn into an economic disaster, taking over and trashing entire companies, and driving the nation deep into deficit spending, expected to pass 10 trillion dollars. Sarkozy, King Abdullah, Kanzler Merkel, Putin and the others think of him as absurdly lightweight. Obama hijacked Bush's economy and the War on Terror, exploiting them to promote his own agenda. With unemployment booming and the economy diving into the abyss, jobs disappearing fast and spending out of control, there is hope on the horizon! Sarah Palin! Obama is an "egotistical amateur who is in over his head," and his incapacity to be president will drag the country down to the level of Kenya, his birth place. He will be, so to speak, "coming home." The only problem: he will drag us all along.

Dear Emeritus: The URL refers to a letter written by all of Judge Sotomayor's former law clerks in her support and submitted to The White House. Indulge me for a little racist name game! How many of the over 40 or so odd signatures can - arguably - be identified as latina or latino? Can you identify the minority the Lady Judge shows most predilection for? Can we safely assume the Lady knows how to play the game?

/s/ Adam Abensohn Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 1996-97, 1998-99 /s/ Alison Nodvin Barkoff Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2000-01 /s/ Julie H. Becker Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 1999-2000 /s/ Edward J.W. Blatnik Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2000-01 /s/ Hannah Y.S. Chanoine Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2004-05 /s/ Kevin E. Collins Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2002-03 /s/ Melissa Lynn Elstein Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 1998-99 /s/ Tracy M. Flynn Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 1994-95 /s/ Kimberly A. Gahan Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2007-08 /s/ Jessica Hertz Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2007-08 /s/ Robin Kar Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 1998-99 /s/ Curtis A. Kin Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 1999-2000 /s/ Andrew B. Ayers Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2005-06 /s/ David A. Battat Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 1994-95 /s/ Molly Biklen Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2005-06 /s/ Charu A. Chandrasekhar Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2004-05 s/ Matthew Colangelo Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2002-03 /s/ Glenn C. Edwards Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 1997-98, 2001-02 /s/ Joseph Evall Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 1992-93 /s/ Cary Franklin Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2005-06 /s/ Jeff Grossman Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2000-01 /s/ Kathy J. Holub Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 1995-96 /s/ Mike Kavey Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2004-05 /s/ Timothy Lambert Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2000-01 /s/ James R. Levine Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2001-02 /s/ Julia Tarver Mason Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 1996-97 /s/ Sarah S. Normand Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 1998-99 /s/ Xavier Romeu-Matta Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 1992-93 /s/ Melissa Murray Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2003-04 /s/ David S. Rubenstein Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2007-08 /s/ Alan E. Schoenfeld Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2006-07 /s/ Danielle Feldman Tarantolo Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2006-07 /s/ Jeannette Vargas Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2001-02 /s/ Natalie R. Williams Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 1993-94 /s/ Lisa Zornberg Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 1997-98 /s/ Jack A. Levy Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 1999-2000 /s/ Amy Carper Mena Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2003-04 /s/ Jenny Rivera Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 1993-94 /s/ David Moskowitz Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2007-08 /s/ Claude Platton Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2006-07 s/ Rose Saxe Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2002-03 /s/ Robert Spoo Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2003-04 /s/ Travis J. Tu Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2003-04 /s/ Brent Wible Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2005-06 /s/ Kyle C. Wong Clerk for Judge Sotomayor, 2006-07

Dear Emeritus: Please, remind me again, how do you make the case that Obama represents an improvement over the previous administration? "Obama has vastly increased the military budget, increased the number of combat troops, targeted new regions for military intervention and backed military coups in regions traditionally controlled by the US .... Obama's rollback strategy is evident from his very first pronouncements, promising to reassert US dominance ('leadership') in the Middle East, his projection of massive military power in Afghanistan and military expansion in Pakistan and the destabilization of regimes through deep intervention by proxies as in Iran and Honduras."

Dear Emeritus: (Glenn Greenwald is reporting that) " ... The Washington Post and ProPublica report that the White House is "crafting language for an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely." TPM calls this "the latest installment in the Obama administration's tendency to mimic the Bushies on war on terror tactics ... Such an order would embrace claims by former president George W. Bush that certain people can be detained without trial for long periods under the laws of war." Please, tell me, how do you preserve your (intellectual) integrity AND continue to support our President?

Dear Miss X¹: The people of North Carolina have no heart. If the State holds the solutions to all our problems why are they so miserly with their money? If the State is the guarantor and source of all our happiness why not turn over all of our income and increases to the public treasury and receive in return what the State deems to be the proper amount to sustain our livelihood. All people should be guaranteed a minimum wage. However, not the pathetic amount now being paid but why not $25.- to 30.- per hour (depending on the region and size of the family) to ensure a decent living. What the heck! Let's be generous and double the amount. Why should only the rich have a good life? I would also include here mothers and housewives who do not work outside the home. Isn't their work valuable, too? This minimum wage should be paid, of course, without regard to personal effort and risk taking. Thus the weak members of our society would have the same protection as the rest of us. Since our health is a most important good, care should definitely be free and available to all. So should be old age support. And, people always forget to consider this fact, since no one can survive without an adequate supply of food and drink those, too, should be made available at cost, if not free of charge. The same should apply to housing and clothing. No one should be without shelter and adequate protection from the elements. And how would we finance that? I am glad you asked. It's very simple. We dissolve our military and use the Billions thus saved for all those programmes of general welfare. Now, don't you think this is a fair proposal?

¹ I don't mention her name in order to protect her tender bleeding heart.

Dear Emeritus: Just found out that The Washington Post fired Dan Froomkin; its star blogger and must-read. Applying the same consistent intellectual honesty and vigor of criticizing George Bush to Obama turned out to be unbearable to the government's mouthpiece. Watch out Rachel Meadow. The Obamites support stifling free speech when it is critical of their man. When I point out that Obama wants to detain people without habeas corpus, or wants to indefinitely detain them, albeit abroad where our laws don't apply, that he uses them same obnoxious signing statements as Dubya, expanded the war in Afghanistan, bombs Pakistan to rubble, causing a humanitarian crisis of catastrophic proportion, his acolytes get very irritated, nettled and downright insultingly cranky. For them Obama, having broken more promises than our dog has fleas, walks on water, heals the sick, causes the lame to walk and raises the dead. For the undifferentiated consciousness, which makes up the bulk of his cult, any objective argument and truth are not merely useless but quite impossible. We will have to go all the way to "our" l'umiliazione di Canossa. And there will be tears.

Dear Emeritus: As Luther would say, don't forget to orare over doing too much laborare. I found a great way of rejuvenating: a daily work-out in the Fitness Center (a $3 Million taxpayer funded jewel). There is every piece of equipment, a sauna, a masseuse and beautiful women handing out towels - but not, alas, helping to dry off. The State handles its morituri very, very well. You write, "... (Obama) has addressed the huge problems before the country with imagination, courage, and an open mind." Isaiah 14:12a gives the proper response to your judgement: "How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn!" Upon Obama's coronation you must have decided to misplace your Ockham's Razor. Obama has become a spe lapsus. But since you still believe FDR single-handedly cured the Great Depression, even though the sparrows twitter from the roof tops that he actually made it worse, and devoutly believe in Global Warming, even though it has been thoroughly debunked, you most likely will still say years from now that it is way too early to judge the myth which is Obama. However, there is hope for me. There are some Congressional Democrats beginning to stir in righteous anger over his irresponsible handling of the economy but not, of course, over the continued killing of so many brown people. Our legislative body, oh, outrage, which refused to confirm a colossal legal mind like Judge Bork's, accepts the nomination of an affirmative action candidate to sit on the Roberts Court. Why, by the way, is Judge Thomas treated by the liberals like an abomination, yet Sotomayor like a celebrity? Does in the liberal mind being a Latina trump being a descendant of slaves whose father left when he was two?

Re: Governor Sarah Palin (also known as the Left's favorite boogey-woman)

Dear Emeritus: The American Left, which, as you freely admit, includes you, is terribly afraid of Governor Palin. Justifiably so, but I want to assure you there is no need to be paranoid, although for liberals an unavoidable (natural?) state of being. Of course, President Obama will badly lose in 2012 (after seeing his party reduced to minority status in the mid term elections), but not to the Alaskan Governor. 2012 will see our star rise and the end of all this politically immature Donkey™ and Elephant™ nonsense. We, the anarcho libertarians will attack the system, destroy the federal government, replace the Constitution with the Articles of Konföderation, reinstitute the Gold Standard, thereby destroying The Federal Reserve Bank but saving our (reserve) currency, dissolve the Empire, including hundreds of its domestic and overseas military bases, abolish all taxes on income and capital gains, and devolve all powers to the States. And, of course, NO federal health insurance ever! And as final act of our take over, albeit not merely symbolic, we will stuff the last Liberal and exhibit him in the American History Museum on the Mall in Mordor-on-the-Potomac, from that point on known as THE Shining City on the Hill, as everlasting example of the American electorates' folly. And don't worry, you may hide out in my basement.