I guess Rahm Emanuel didn’t get this bulletin from the Department of Justice advertising for some trial attorneys to work in their Civil Rights Division. If he had, he presumably would not have been so quick to refer to certain left-wing activists as “f – - – ing retarded.” (You’ll be happy to know that Emanuel is meeting with “disabled rights activists” today to put in a little groveling.)
Here’s a question: was it the Anglo-Saxon prefix or the substantive “retarded” that gave offense? Maybe it was the combination of the two. In any event, if the Department of Justice guidelines are anything to go by, being retarded is a positive plus when it comes to earning a place on Eric holder’s staff. (“I already knew that,” you say? Well, maybe I did, too.)
Don’t believe me, eh? Here’s the relevant bit from their posting about want “up to 10 experienced attorneys for the position of Trial Attorney in the Voting Section in Washington, D.C.”
The Civil Rights Division encourages qualified applicants with targeted disabilities to apply. Targeted disabilities are deafness, blindness, missing extremities, partial or complete paralysis, convulsive disorder, mental retardation, mental illness, severe distortion of limbs and/or spine.
They don’t actually print the bit about being differently-abled from a cognitive perspective in bold face: that’s just part of my service to readers. I think it explains a lot—for example, the really moronic idea of trying terrorists in a civilian court.
The government, as Glenn Reynolds has been wont to point out, is in the very best of hands. (H/T to Andy McCarthy for sending me this little sign of the way we live now.)
Im surprised Rahm Emanuel isnt going into re-hab — surely his use of f–king retard denotes some sort of addiction.
Isn’t the hiring a mentally retarded person attorney an oxymoron? I am so mean today. Seriously, this is the direct result of the 1971 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Griggs vs. Duke Power. It was inevitable that it would evolve to the point of pure madness. The disparate impact doctrine forced employers to prove that their hiring policies do not unfairly discriminate against minorities of any sort. The burden of proof is totally on their shoulders—and they are always fearful of being forced to spend millions of dollars in legal fee defending their decisions in a court of law. I have repeated pointed out that Griggs vs. Duke Power prevents the hiring of the best and brightest to protect Americans from the terrorists. It is amazing that I am virtually the only one doing so. Where in heck is constitutional law professor Glenn Reynolds? He should know about this than me.
Should I be ROFLMAO, or LOMCCMEO?
The bit that roger should have put in bold is QUALIFIED APPLICANTS. But then that would have revealed that he’d pulled his political correctness gone mad argument from out of….the air.
In this case ‘qualified’ means:
“Applicants must possess a J.D. degree, be an active member of the bar in good standing (any jurisdiction), and have a minimum of three (3) years post-J.D. experience. Applicants must have substantial litigation experience, such as handling discovery, litigation strategy, motions practice, brief writing, interviewing witnesses, taking and defending depositions, trial preparation, trial practice, and negotiations. Applicants must have excellent interpersonal skills, be mature and self sufficient, communicate effectively orally and in writing, and possess excellent professional judgment.”
On a slightly related not;, this seems a really weak posing when, if Roger had spent a few more minutes at http://www.justice.gov/crt/voting/ , he could have written something about DOJ work on the ‘Post 911 backlash’.
I’m sure we all remember the first victim of the backlash: Balbir Singh Sodhi who was shot on 915 because an idiot thought he looked like a muslim. The DOJ Civil Rights Division is fighting hard on the behalf of all of us to make sure that such a thing NEVER happens again.
One way they are doing that is to provide handy recognition posters for Sikhs and Muslims
http://www.justice.gov/crt/legalinfo/sikh_poster.pdf
http://www.justice.gov/crt/legalinfo/muslim_poster.pdf
Ref Dan entry#9
Dan, given the weight of the earths’ atmosphere as 14.7 lbs per inch squared at sea level, and the diameter of the earth of 7,926.41 miles, I compute the weight of atmosphere on the earth as 5.824 times ten to the 15th tons. Given an atomic weight of CO2 as 44.3, and computing that weight on an atmospheric percentage of 0.038% of total atmosphere, 60 additional tons of CO2 into the atmosphere increases the percentage of CO2 by (drum roll please) .000613%. Wow, now 6 millionth of a percent, that’s gonna kill us all, melt the poles, burn the forrests, flood the coast, and give frogs warts. No, wait, frogs already have warts. See, global warming is already killing us all.