Rat Fink

Main Entry: miscreant
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: evildoer
Synonyms: bad egg, bastard, black sheep, blackguard, bootlegger, bully, caitiff, convict, criminal, culprit, delinquent, drunkard, evildoer, felon, fink, heel, hoodlum, jailbird, knave, loafer, louse, lowlife, malefactor, outcast, outlaw, pickpocket, racketeer, rapscallion, rascal, rat, rat fink, reprobate, rogue, rowdy, ruffian, scalawag, scamp, scoundrel, sinner, sleazeball, sneak, SOB, stinker, vagabond, villain, wretch, wrongdoer
Source: Roget's New Millennium Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.1.1)Copyright © 2005 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

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A letter to my Senate and Congressional representatives (click link to locate & contact your own representatives)

Please vote "no" on confirming Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. I believe he is telling the Senate confirmation committee what he thinks they want to hear, and is not being forthright. I am afraid if confirmed he will act to curtail civil liberties and rights to privacy, and will allow the current administration to run unchecked in its continued violations of Constitutional law, such as:

• eavesdropping on American citizens without obtaining the proper permits from the FISA court;


• allowing searches and seizures of private property without a warrant;


• holding people in prison indefinitely without charging them with a crime or allowing them a fair trial and legal representation;


• allowing the use of torture on prisoners in direct violation of the Geneva Convention and allowing the admission of information obtained under torture into judiciary proceedings;


• upholding the legitimacy of the invasion of Iraq, an invasion that was based on faulty intelligence and outright lies ("Saddam Hussein had WMDS" and "Saddam Hussein was connected to Al Quaeda and the bombing of the World Trade Center.") While Saddam Hussein was an evil dictator, he was also a more convenient target than Osama bin Laden.

I think Samuel Alito would support such such outrageous, egregious and impeachable violations of law and privacy as outlined above. I think he supports the concept of a "unitary president" rather than the three-tiered, egalitarian model of government so wisely laid out by our founding fathers to assure "checks and balances" (and not excesses) of power among the executive, legislative, and judiciary branches. I also think Samuel Alito would work to overturn Roe v. Wade, as well as permit such travesties as "intelligent design" (creationism in new clothes, much like the Emperor) to be taught in our classrooms rather than science, further undermining our children's capacity to live, understand, and compete in our technologically-complex world as concerned, contributing global citizens.

Please don't allow our society to move back into the "Dark Ages." Please do whatever is necessary--please filibuster as long as needed--to prevent Alito from being appointed to the Supreme Court.

Finally, when Alito's confirmation hearings are over, one way or the other, I urge you to immediately turn your attention to investigating if impeachment proceedings are warranted against the current administration for its continued corruption and felonious actions.

Thank you for standing firm.

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Updated 02/22/206-Harrumph: Well, 25 Senators voted for a filibuster.

The final vote to confirm Alito was 54 to 42. If the 17 additional Senators who voted against Alito had joined the 25 Senators in the filibuster, Alito would not be on the Supreme Court today.