Firefighters to Senatos: ‘We Were Devastated’ (Sotomayor Skates on Racist Decision)

CQPOLITICS ^ | July 16, 2009 – 5:42 p.m. | By Seth Stern, CQ Staff

[DoughtyOne]

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[muawiyah]

Lot of people have "Latin Names" and don't know it. For example "Smit", "Smith", "Smythe" and so forth. They're all derived from "Schmei de" ~ which can be translated directly from the Ladino as "smear on", "make of", "paint on", etc.

Oh, you don't know Ladino? Well, that was the Language of the Jews in Medieval Spain. They were the industrial class who manufactured everything. Arabs, Berbers, Galicians, Cornish, and other Whites were soldiers, gentlemen or worked on farms in "honorable" occupations as such labor was called.

Actually, all those old boys with "Schmid" in their name have exceedingly Jewish/Hispanic names ~ (even if most of them are Catholics or Lutherans living in Germany).

You jus' never know what you can find you turn up enough rocks.

Sotomayor is a good example of what happens when you lard on enough history. It looks fairly "Hispanic", but it comes from a time when the Cornish were busy conquering the North Spanish Coast (7th/8th century) and preparing to drive back the Moslems.

Sure enough the best Cornish/Spanish translator on the net informs us that the root word "Mayor" means "grove" in both Spanish and Cornish, which is so remarkable it stongly suggests it's a Celtic loan word carried into Spanish by conquering nobles back in the formative period. And a "Soto"? Well, the "So" is clearly derivative of "sa" meaning a flag held to assist a line of mounted men prepare for a charge, and with a "T" added it means Saxon knight (or something along that line, and we are talking early Medieval Cornish, not a modern language at all).

Turns out Sotomayor isn't even Spanish ~ rather, it's more like a noble title imported from England before there was an England.

[Churchillspirit]

Good one!

[Churchillspirit]

Sotomayor - from place names in Pontevedra, Galicia and Orense, Spain. Literally means - thicket/grove large.

[FlyVet]

Thanks for the interesting lesson. You must be one of those edumacated guys.

I'd always thought of names like Smith or Smythe as English names. But come think of it there's that actor named Jimmy Smits, who is obviously a Latin type.

Turns out Sotomayor isn't even Spanish ~ rather, it's more like a noble title imported from England before there was an England.

That's doubly interesting. I'd had a hunch that her name sounded more German than Hispanic, or even maybe a Euro/Asian combo of some kind, but now you say English.

I learn something new every day on this site.

[muawiyah]

Actually a Brythonic form ~ the Cornish came from Brittain. The place got renamed "England" after it was taken over by the Anglo-Saxons.

We had a gentleman at work whose brother had gotten into Hispanic genealogy ~ and his last name was a full Gaelic sentence ~ took me a month to figure it out. The brother was very happy to hear the news.

[FlyVet]

Gaelic. My Grandfather, my hero, could speak some Gaelic, although he was the Quiet Man, who wasn't inclined to talk much, but when he did, you listened. I miss him.

When I was in tech school years ago, I had a classmate whose last name was Micolavonfurstenrecht. No kidding. His name tag was simply "Micola", however, because he used to joke that he'd have to run the tag along his sleeve to get it right. He was a doofy, funny guy who came from a long line of royalty.

[muawiyah]

True, but I went back to a time when the term “mayor” was being imported into Iberia. Obviously there were going to be a lot of place names pop up using Mayor if the guys doing the importing won ~ and they did ~ because in the end ElAndaluz was converted from a Moslem kingdom to a Christian kingdom (took a long time though ~ 700 years or thereabouts).

[muawiyah]

Just recently I discovered that the Bourbon “family”(the Kings of France and such) actually used other titles as surnames abroad. Thought that was interesting. You can imagine the enemies the Bourbons made ~

[Boardwalk]

I wonder who else had multiple identities although it would take a racist to state that fact unless a republican were the one with multiple identities if so ok but I do run on. 0bama is
beyond racism. Reverse racism is going to be the norm for this adminstration.

[popdonnelly]

“He has engaged in politically motivated assassination and murders.”

As much as I dislike Leahy, he hasn’t gone that far, has he?

[Terpfen]

A statement like that needs a little proof.

[Terpfen]

Your chart is outdated. The current order is:

Global Warming > Gays > Terrorists > (Illegal) Hispanics > Blacks > Pork > Muslims > Whites > Asians > Christians

[Albion Wilde]

Ricci is an Italian name, pronounced “REE-chee”, meaning “the rich.” No wonder she didn’t like him.

[blam]

The 35+ year war against White males continues.

[tina07]

PERFECT!

[EEDUDE]

“He has engaged in politically motivated assassination and murders.”

Say what??? Please drop me a freepmail and explain this to me! Thanks in advance.

[guitarplayer1953]

I had a buddy who's last name was Kuechenmeister. We use to call him Kuech, but his last name was German and as far as he could learn was it meant master of the kitchen or master of the cookie. Funny thing was he was adopted and he looked just like sitting bull.

[Tzimisce]

Who says crime doesn’t pay?

In 2009, it lands you in high government office. LOL!

[muawiyah]

"Assassination" is the only way one of his actions can be explained. (See: http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/jul/06/jeffry-gardner-no-big-deal/ )

Basically Leahy as Vice Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee "leaked information" that led to the killing of an "asset" in Egypt.

Someone who's a Chairman or Vice Chairman of any committee must be presumed to be fully aware of the consequences of information made available by that committee ~