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Ricci was joined at the Senate Judiciary Committee witness table by Ben Vargas, both whom scored high on a New Haven, Conn., firefighters’ promotion exam that was later rejected out of concern it might prompt lawsuits by lower-scoring minorities.

What the effing Hell is going on here?

Aren't the names Ricci and Vargas Latin names? But they were too "white" for so-called "judge"?

Is there anyone left in the beltway who has any brains, wisdom, or balls, or some combination thereof?

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.