Sonia Sotomayor for USSC?

[Faeelin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_N._Cardozo

"Ellen Hart and Michael H. Cardozo, were Sephardi Jews; their families immigrated from England before the American Revolution, and were descended from Jews who left the Iberian Peninsula for Holland during the Inquisition.[1] Cardozo family tradition held that their ancestors were Marranos from Portugal,[1] although Cardozo's ancestry has not been firmly traced to Portugal.[2] "Cardoso", "Seixas" and "Mendes" are common Portuguese surnames."

Because if there's anything that says Hispanic, it's descent from an English family who arrived in America before the Revolution.

[Eddie Teach]

"Ellen Hart and Michael H. Cardozo, were Sephardi Jews; their families immigrated from England before the American Revolution, and were descended from Jews who left the Iberian Peninsula for Holland during the Inquisition.[1] Cardozo family tradition held that their ancestors were Marranos from Portugal,[1] although Cardozo's ancestry has not been firmly traced to Portugal.[2] "Cardoso", "Seixas" and "Mendes" are common Portuguese surnames."

Because if there's anything that says Hispanic, it's descent from an English family who arrived in America before the Revolution.

They're probably not any more English than Spanish though, it's not like there was much intermarriage between Jews and Christians at the time.

[derspiess]

Freaky.  Rush Limbaugh predicted back in 1997 that Sotomayor would make it to the Supreme Court, though apparently he had forgotten about it afterward.

http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/05/26/flashback-limbaugh-foresaw-sotomayor-nomination-in-97/

[Valmy]

Funnily enough, I've wondered for years how something so unfair as athletic "scholarships" were conjured up at all.
It doesn't even pass the sematic coherence test.

It is an ancient western tradition that physical education is just as important as mental education.  The Greeks and Romans were big on that I believe.

Supporters of athletics in academic institutions can point to loads of research showing that athletes perform better academically than those who do not participate to justify the continuation of its existence.

Some people point to the money athletics can generate but really the only thing that money ever does is support athletics, the rest of the school never benefits.  Has anybody ever heard of a new Engineering building being built with Football money before?

[alfred russel]

Freaky.  Rush Limbaugh predicted back in 1997 that Sotomayor would make it to the Supreme Court, though apparently he had forgotten about it afterward.

http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/05/26/flashback-limbaugh-foresaw-sotomayor-nomination-in-97/

However, he failed to predict Donovan McNabb would win the NFC championship.

[Faeelin]

They're probably not any more English than Spanish though, it's not like there was much intermarriage between Jews and Christians at the time.

I dunno. At what point does ethnicity matter compared to culture? Does anybody think Cardozo's grandparents spoke Spanish, for instance?

[alfred russel]

They're probably not any more English than Spanish though, it's not like there was much intermarriage between Jews and Christians at the time.

I dunno. At what point does ethnicity matter compared to culture? Does anybody think Cardozo's grandparents spoke Spanish, for instance?

If his family was from Portugal, not likely unless they learned it in school.

[derspiess]

However, he failed to predict Donovan McNabb would win the NFC championship.

[Faeelin]

They're probably not any more English than Spanish though, it's not like there was much intermarriage between Jews and Christians at the time.

I dunno. At what point does ethnicity matter compared to culture? Does anybody think Cardozo's grandparents spoke Spanish, for instance?

If his family was from Portugal, not likely unless they learned it in school.

[crazy canuck]

Some people point to the money athletics can generate but really the only thing that money ever does is support athletics, the rest of the school never benefits.  Has anybody ever heard of a new Engineering building being built with Football money before?

I doubted your assertion and did some quick searches on google.  I had always thought that sports programs were a revenue generator for universities but it appears that sports programs are actually subsidized by many universities.

[Valmy]

I doubted your assertion and did some quick searches on google.  I had always thought that sports programs were a revenue generator for universities but it appears that sports programs are actually subsidized by many universities.

Rather it is subsidized by almost all Universities (which is sort of odd way of putting it as athletics is supposed to be a department on campus like say Chemistry is).  Only a select few Athletic Departments make enough money to be self funding...and even then they rely on big time contributions from alumni than profits from tickets and gear sales and such.

[Siege]

They're probably not any more English than Spanish though, it's not like there was much intermarriage between Jews and Christians at the time.

I dunno. At what point does ethnicity matter compared to culture? Does anybody think Cardozo's grandparents spoke Spanish, for instance?

So what?
They probably spoke ladino and hebrew.

[Siege]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_N._Cardozo

"Ellen Hart and Michael H. Cardozo, were Sephardi Jews; their families immigrated from England before the American Revolution, and were descended from Jews who left the Iberian Peninsula for Holland during the Inquisition.[1] Cardozo family tradition held that their ancestors were Marranos from Portugal,[1] although Cardozo's ancestry has not been firmly traced to Portugal.[2] "Cardoso", "Seixas" and "Mendes" are common Portuguese surnames."

Because if there's anything that says Hispanic, it's descent from an English family who arrived in America before the Revolution.

Many latino people say that the sefaradim are hispanic.
That's totally retarded.
I mean, we do feel culturally very close to the spaniards and portugueses, but the latinos from Latin-america?
Those people are indians that speak spanish. Nothing else.
Even their culture is very diferent from Iberian cultures.

[Berkut]

I doubted your assertion and did some quick searches on google.  I had always thought that sports programs were a revenue generator for universities but it appears that sports programs are actually subsidized by many universities.

Rather it is subsidized by almost all Universities (which is sort of odd way of putting it as athletics is supposed to be a department on campus like say Chemistry is).  Only a select few Athletic Departments make enough money to be self funding...and even then they rely on big time contributions from alumni than profits from tickets and gear sales and such.

Well, they rely on donations for large projects generally, not for operating funds.

Even the profitable schools (I think there were 19 in the last report) have profitable departments - what that really means is that football and basketball make enough to cover the other sports, which, with a few exceptions on a school by school basis, all lose money.

[derspiess]

Rather it is subsidized by almost all Universities (which is sort of odd way of putting it as athletics is supposed to be a department on campus like say Chemistry is).  Only a select few Athletic Departments make enough money to be self funding...and even then they rely on big time contributions from alumni than profits from tickets and gear sales and such.

Many football & basketball programs are either self-supporting or actually profitable.  Women's sports are to blame for the inflated cost of an athletic program & should be scaled back (Title IX be damned) to only the sports people actually want to participate in or watch.