O'Connor details half-baked attempt to kill Supreme Court

CNN.com ^ | POSTED: 2028 GMT (0428 HKT), November 17, 2006 | Kevin Bohn - CNN

[FourPeas]

So with only a simple note stating that the cookies were poisoned the staff decided to have them tested? I'm impressed.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Beware the bites of March!

Ha! You are one sharp cookie!

[Diplomat]

the pre-election environment, if it worked, it means W got to appoint 9 SCOTUS... Not a good thing for the liberals...

Continuing evidence that liberalism is a mental illness. Do they ever think about the consequences of their actions? No need to answer.

[SkyPilot]

Sandra Day's Career can be summed up with thes words:

"When I was a law grad, I considered my first job beneath me - sooooo - so I had it out for all men or whoever it was that pissed me off - and his kind the rest of my life! So there! And if Abortion came up - I voted for it because all things are men's fault! SO THERE!!"

[Sam Hill]

"This story did come out last year. Sandy baby just in whine mode. Compared to the fate that awaits the judges in Iraq in the Saddam Hussein trials I find her whining ludicrous.

She wants everyone to stop criticizing judges because it get's people angry at them."

You are wise. That is exactly what this is about, as she shows with her misrepresentation of the facts;

"Every member of the Supreme Court received a wonderful package of home-baked cookies, and I don't know why, (but) the staff decided to analyze them," the Fort Worth Star-Telegram quoted O'Connor as saying..."

The note saying that the cookie crumbs/candy were poisoned might have been a tip-off.

A better question might be what is wrong with our system of justice that this woman was out on the loose after having tried to kill off her relatives a few years ago by sending them all bottles of poisoned wine.

[ElkGroveDan]

I don't know why, (but) the staff decided to analyze them,"

Celebrities and people in TV and radio have known this for years. Don't eat the "nice things" people drop by for you.

[Sam Hill]

"Well at least we know the court has enough sense to not eat home baked food received in the mail from a stranger."

The letters never got to them.

And from what I've read from the DOJ's press releases there were not cookies so much as cookie crumbs.

I also don't believe there was enough rat poison in these crumbs/candy remnants to do kill a person.

But Sandra seems to prefer drama to facts.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

What a freaking loon! Well, I wonder if Martha Stewart's cell is still available. I think it was equipped with a full kitchen, including mixing bowls and an oven.

[Sam Ketcham]

What's cooking?

[floriduh voter]

she's the worst mistake Reagan ever made. She's half baked.

[floriduh voter]

The attempt to kill Terri Schiavo wasn't half baked. She was actually killed. Thanks, Sandra for the memories.

[Cinnamon]

yah.. 'till after the elections.

[ccmay]

Since there is not a word regarding the suspect's motivation or political affiliation, it is safe to assume she is a left-wing nitwit. We would have long since known if she were a Republican.

-ccm

[ccmay]

I swear to God that if I could go back in time and kick any one person's ass, it would be the editor who first came up with this idea.

I can sympathize, although I'd be after Karl Marx first.

-ccm

[Freedom4US]

She wants everyone to stop criticizing judges because it get's people angry at them.

It's not a joke, there are some real nutcases out there. HOWEVER comma, it does seem to be a common rhetorical device often used - so-and-so received "death threats". Guilt by association from a debate standpoint. They don't have to be real or legitimate even. It goes hand in hand with the trend these days for folks to get exercised and offended over just about golly knows what these days. A sort of "professional" class of offended. Now what's interesting when people start talking about protecting speech that is disagreeable. It's not going to get any better, since students these days are further taught there is no objective reality/truth, so one opinion is as good as another! Not very healthy. Expensive, too.

[Tarpon]

I think when you get old, the conspiracy theories begin to overtake you. It's not as if famous people and high level government people don't regularly get death threats. Only a fool would eat from a box of cookies that just came in over the transom. I guess she thinks we are all fools and believe her.

She should just go away

[FreedomCalls]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1117061supreme1.html

[daybreakcoming]

I'm wondering if that's because somebody had a second thought...

I think it may have been the note with the cookies which said "I am" or "We are" followed by "going to kill you. This is poisoned."

And Justice O'Connor, a judge which hands down the final word on our laws wonders why the staff decided to analyze them. Lordy. Hopefully, she was speaking tongue-in-cheek, eh?

[FreedomCalls]

Barbara Joan March,
AKA Barbara McMahon,
AKA Bonnie McMahon.

[OldFriend]

Kennedy and Sandra.......oy, maybe they can do a beach blanket movie.

But you are not permitted to criticize Reagan.