WTF is that supposed to mean? I’ve got their ‘whole earth flag’. It’s sewn in the shape of a straight jacket, complete with concrete cuff links.

Idiots!!!

Women are the only minority that is a majority.

wow.

Now that’s the kind of gravitas I’m looking for in a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

What next? SCOTUS seances?

Sotomayor’s club for women only

The Washington Times
Thursday, June 11, 2009

It was revealed Friday that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor belongs to the Belizean Grove, a highly selective club for women only. Senate Judiciary Chairman Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont announced Tuesday that her confirmation hearings will begin on July 13. If this judge were a man, the nomination would never make it to the Senate for hearings.

The Belizean Grove, founded in 1999, is modeled on the Bohemian Grove, a secretive, elite club for men only. The 125 members of the Belizean Grove include Army generals, Wall Street executives and former ambassadors. Ms. Sotomayor joined after becoming a circuit court judge.

We don’t care if nominees belong to all-male or all-female clubs, but a double standard is in play. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s supposed membership in an all-male eating club while an undergraduate at Princeton became an issue during his 2006 Supreme Court confirmation hearing. When Judge D. Brooks Smith was nominated to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in 2001, his confirmation was held up for almost a year in part because he belonged to an all-male fishing and gun club.

The opposition to all-male clubs isn’t anything new. The American Bar Association’s Canons of Judicial Ethics stipulates that judges “shall not” be members of any organization that unfairly discriminates based on gender.

In June 1990, Arlen Specter, then a Republican from Pennsylvania, and all but one of the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary committee sponsored a resolution warning nominees that having belonged to such clubs could be enough to deny them confirmation. The resolution claimed that membership in such organizations “conflicts with the impartiality, and the appearance of impartiality” expected of judges and that it will be held against the nominee unless they “actively engaged” in efforts to get underrepresented groups into the organizations.

Sens. Leahy, Specter and Herb Kohl, Wisconsin Democrat, supported the resolution and are still on the Judiciary Committee. Joseph Biden, who was the committee chairman at the time, is now vice president. None of them has expressed any concern over news that Ms. Sotomayor belongs to an all-female club. Despite inquiries to all of the above, only Sen. Specter’s office responded, noting that Ms. Sotomayor’s “club memberships and affiliations are appropriate topics for inquiry.”

Privately, Democrats on Capitol Hill tell us that the Belizean Grove is not objectionable like all-male clubs such as Judge Smith’s fishing and hunting club, where “wining and dining was happening” and business networking advantaged men who belonged to the club. But the Belizean Grove is all about networking too. Business Week reported in 2001 that panels at club meetings included topics such as “how to obtain money and power.” The article noted that the expectation was that women in this group would “help one another in any way they can.”

More than a few men would appreciate the help that the high-powered corporate chief executives and other leaders in the Belizean Grove could offer, but they’re not allowed in Ms. Sotomayor’s club. This association compounds concern about her gender bias, which has been exposed in her numerous statements about women’s judgment being superior to men’s, especially that of a “wise Latina woman” over a white man. There’s no guarantee that a judge with these opinions will treat everyone equally from the bench.

We hoped that President Obama’s election would bring an end to identity politics. Picking Judge Sotomayor for the Supreme Court has re-emphasized race and gender as central issues in politics today.

http://tinyurl.com/l3862q

member Lorna-Wendt-Founder Institute for Equity in Marriage closed her site
found this article, by editor of NewsWeek, by Toddi Gunter saying she was only
reporter invited to retreat, but that’s because she forgot to mention she is a member. duh. They need to update her profile, that she also writes for the Wall Street Journal. Lot’s of media in control.
http://www.businessweek.com/20.....720156.htm
partial list of names
http://www.belizeangrove.com/grove_overview.pdf

Then this link
http://belizeangrove.org/

takes you to their last retreat in Peru, photo’s and comments by Judge Sotomayer, and other members discussing 2010 retreats in and a plug for Obama from other member, telling of next year’s at Belize and then the Grove.

“The Grove is an extraordinary grouping of talented, compassionate and passionate women. I am deeply honored to have been included. The joy of participating in your fun in Peru was wonderful.” ~ Sonia Sotomayor

another member~ Theo Schwabacher (Taffy’s) cries: a few thoughts from my opening comments in Peru :
As President Obama has said, “The world has changed and we must change with it”. We are all in this together. The Grove wants to wave the whole earth flag. Americans want a national and international agenda, not a partisan one, as we move forward.
There are now millions of us facing the psychological and social pressures of downward mobility. It won’t only be material deprivations that bite. It will also be the loss of a social identity, the loss of social networks, and the loss of the status symbols. These reversals are bound to produce alienations and a political response around the globe. Wounds that can’t be seen are more painful than those that can be seen and cured by a doctor.
The recession is bad enough, but, a relentless news cycle is making it worse…”
sniff. sniff.
You can understand poor Theo (Taffy’s) crying over the recession, and social status, she was just named Barron’s Top 100 Women in the U.S. Here she is in her life-style of the rich and famous.
http://www.examiner.com/a-4598.....acher.html

…..It will have been 4 years since the Grove returned to our home – a special place with magnificent natural attractions such as the largest Barrier Reef in the Western Hemisphere, Great Blue Hole, ancient Maya civilization,…

Having observed the power of the Bohemian Grove, a 130-year-old, elite old boys’ network of former Presidents, businessmen, military,… and realizing that women didn’t have a similar organization, Susan Stautberg and 26 other founding members created the Belizean Grove, . With this vision in mind, members are invited not only for their professional accomplishments but also for their generosity and compatibility.

The Grove is an international nurturing network that helps women pursue more significant dreams,… The Grovers are leaders from 5 continents,… They are heads of major government agencies, businesswomen, military officers..design gurus..

http://www.belizeangrove.com/

[From the Associated Press:]

Top Republican rips Democrats for Sotomayor ‘rush’

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS June 10, 2009

WASHINGTON – Republicans accused Democrats Wednesday of moving too hastily on Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination, warning that the decision could imperil her confirmation as they pressed the judge for more documents from her past. The top Senate Republican blasted Democrats’ decision to schedule mid-July hearings for Sotomayor’s confirmation, while another senior GOP senator floated the possibility of a filibuster by angry Republicans against President Barack Obama’s first high court nominee….

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200.....jYQ–