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Diane Sawyer: So, have you thought, how many women is enough? How many women [on the Supreme Court] would be enough?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Nine, nine. [Applause.]
Sawyer: Oh! Oh. [Laughs.]
Ginsburg: Well, there’ve been nine men there for a long long time, right? So why not nine women?
(x)RUTH FOR ALL THINGS
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Notre Dame's Reaction To The Te'o Hoax Vs. Its Reaction To Sexual Assault Allegations →
TW: Discussion of Rape
Notre Dame’s response to Seeberg’s accusation:
- Police waited 13 days to interview the accused perp (that’s three days afterSeeberg died), who was eventually found “not responsible” for misbehavior by a disciplinary board.
- The university president refused to meet with her parents, claiming it would undermine his impartiality in the event he had to make a decision related to the case.
- Coach Brian Kellymade light ofthe number ofChicago Tribunereporters asking him about the case.
- A university official and a trusteeallegedlyspread rumors that Seeberg was a liar who was in fact sexually aggressive toward the player she accused on the night in question.
Notre Dame’s response to Te’o’s allegation that he’d been falsely led to believe he had a girlfriend on the Internet:
- The athletic department hired private investigators to look into the matter.
- The school held a press conference the night the news broke at which it denied that its player was complicit in the hoax.
- The school held a press conference at which its athletic director called the situation “a really frightening experience” and “an incredible tragedy.”
- The school held a press conference at which its athletic director called the situation “an incredible tragedy” and began crying.
I just want to say that this is pretty much the epitome of showing how seriously we take rape in this country.
A dude who pretty much made up a girlfriend (there is NO WAY he wasn’t in on this hoax, how are you gonna talk to newspapers about being on the phone with someone for 8 fucking hours who never fucking existed?) is more important and worthy of our sympathy than the rape victims of his teammates.
Love,
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This Isn’t the Petition Response You’re Looking For
The official White House response to a petition to secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016:
By Paul Shawcross
The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn’t on the horizon. Here are a few reasons:
- The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We’re working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.
- The Administration does not support blowing up planets.
- Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?
However, look carefully (here’s how) and you’ll notice something already floating in the sky—that’s no Moon, it’s a Space Station! Yes, we already have a giant, football field-sized International Space Station in orbit around the Earth that’s helping us learn how humans can live and thrive in space for long durations. The Space Station has six astronauts—American, Russian, and Canadian—living in it right now, conducting research, learning how to live and work in space over long periods of time, routinely welcoming visiting spacecraft and repairing onboard garbage mashers, etc. We’ve also got two robot science labs—one wielding a laser—roving around Mars, looking at whether life ever existed on the Red Planet.
Keep in mind, space is no longer just government-only. Private American companies, through NASA’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office (C3PO), are ferrying cargo—and soon, crew—to space for NASA, and are pursuing human missions to the Moon this decade.
Even though the United States doesn’t have anything that can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, we’ve got two spacecraft leaving the Solar System and we’re building a probe that will fly to the exterior layers of the Sun. We are discovering hundreds of new planets in other star systems and building a much more powerful successor to the Hubble Space Telescope that will see back to the early days of the universe.
We don’t have a Death Star, but we do have floating robot assistants on the Space Station, a President who knows his way around a light saber and advanced (marshmallow) cannon, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is supporting research on building Luke’s arm, floating droids, and quadruped walkers.
We are living in the future! Enjoy it. Or better yet, help build it by pursuing a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field. The President has held the first-ever White House science fairs and Astronomy Night on the South Lawn because he knows these domains are critical to our country’s future, and to ensuring the United States continues leading the world in doing big things.
If you do pursue a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field, the Force will be with us! Remember, the Death Star’s power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
Paul Shawcross is Chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget
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