So the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas gave James O'Keefe an award. I didn't know they gave awards for being a douchebag.

Proud to receive the Impact award from Ginni Thomas on behalf of the @project_veritas team. Congrats to the other attendees and award winners Sean Hannity, Larry Arnn, Dan Bongino, Tom Fitton, Frank Gaffney, Charlie Kirk, Rick Manning, Star Parker, Chris Plante, Leonard Leo. These guys are all fighters.

A post shared by James O'Keefe (@jamesokeefeiii) on Dec 6, 2017 at 12:09pm PST

Courtesy of The Hill: 

James O'Keefe, the conservative activist who attempted to plant a false story in The Washington Post this month about GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, was presented Wednesday with an Impact Award, handed to him by Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. 

O'Keefe accepted the award on behalf of his organization, Project Veritas, at an event hosted by the conservative group United for Purpose at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.. 

"Proud to receive the Impact award from Ginni Thomas on behalf of the @project_veritas team," O'Keefe wrote on Instagram, before praising other 2017 award recipients such as Fox New host Sean Hannity and Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton as "fighters." 

Thomas is a tea party activist and president of Liberty Consulting.

I have no idea what they are rewarding O'Keefe for doing, since most of his childish stings only reveal that he is a rank amateur and embarrassment to the conservative movement.

His last "expose" blew up in his face so spectacularly they he ended up reinforcing the integrate of his target and exposing one of his pathetic little operatives to ridicule.

And by the way how is it okay for the wife of a sitting Supreme Court Justice to participate in this kind of partisan bomb throwing?

Justice Clarence Thomas might be the next Supreme Court vacancy.

Courtesy of Washington Examiner:

Justice Clarence Thomas, a reliable conservative vote on the Supreme Court, is mulling retirement after the presidential election, according to court watchers. 

Thomas, appointed by former President George H.W. Bush and approved by the Senate after a bitter confirmation, has been considering retirement for a while and never planned to stay until he died, they said. He likes to spend summers in his RV with his wife.

Of course the Thomas camp is denying this, which is what they always do.

However if true this would indicate that there are two Supreme Court positions that the new President would need to fill possibly within her first year on the job. 

So for all of you sore losers threatening to sit this one out, or to write in Bernie Sanders name in protest, you just take a minute to imagine a Supreme Court packed with Donald Trump appointees.

Good luck trying to get a good night's sleep in that reality.

The great George Takei calls Justice Clarence Thomas "a clown in blackface." Does not regret it. Update!

So as you can imagine the response to that utterance from the Right was both swift and aggressive.

However instead of walking back his remarks, Takei defended them:  

A few fans have written wondering whether I intended to utter a racist remark by referring to Justice Thomas as a "clown in blackface." 

"Blackface" is a lesser known theatrical term for a white actor who blackens his face to play a black buffoon. In traditional theater lingo, and in my view and intent, that is not racist. It is instead part of a racist history in this country. 

I feel Justice Thomas has abdicated and abandoned his African American heritage by claiming slavery did not strip dignity from human beings. He made a similar remark about the Japanese American internment, of which I am a survivor. A sitting Justice of the Supreme Court ought to know better. 

I have expressed my full thoughts on the matter here.

First I have to say that I fucking LOVE George Takei who has done a great deal to support the LGBT community and equal rights in this country. 

Even if you are not a Star Trek fan it is all but impossible not to admire George Takei.

So I will say that while I personally would not have used the "blackface" comment, as a gay Japanese man who spent time in an internment camp during World War 2, I think that George Takei is one of the few people who can say it without losing a shred of credibility.

And yes Clarence Thomas is a fraud, and a disgrace to African American people in this country.

Update: It looks like Takei did end up bowing to criticism and apologizing. 

Presidential candidates react to Supreme Court decision on Obamacare.

First up we have Hillary, who could not be more thrilled.

A great day! Add your name if you agree: Affordable health care is a basic human right → http://t.co/5xR3n1XDoc pic.twitter.com/kATncnkfGq

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 25, 2015

However her opponents on the other side of the aisle are not quite as jubilant.

(Statements courtesy of HuffPo)

Jeb Bush: 

I am disappointed by today’s Supreme Court ruling in the King v. Burwell case. But this decision is not the end of the fight against Obamacare. 

This fatally-flawed law imposes job-killing mandates, causes spending in Washington to skyrocket by $1.7 trillion, raises taxes by $1 trillion and drives up health care costs. Instead of fixing our health care system, it made the problems worse.

Aww, Jebbie's got the sads.

And he is by no means alone.

Marco Rubio:

I disagree with the Court’s ruling and believe they have once again erred in trying to correct the mistakes made by President Obama and Congress in forcing Obamacare on the American people." 

“Despite the Court’s decision, ObamaCare is still a bad law that is having a negative impact on our country and on millions of Americans. I remain committed to repealing this bad law and replacing it with my consumer-centered plan that puts patients and families back in control of their health care decisions. We need Consumer Care, not ObamaCare. 

Rand Paul: 

This decision turns both the rule of law and common sense on its head. Obamacare raises taxes, harms patients and doctors, and is the wrong fix for America's health care system. 

Rick Perry: 

The Obama Administration has ignored the text of the Affordable Care Act time and again, and today’s ruling allows them to continue to disregard the letter of the law. While I disagree with the ruling, it was never up to the Supreme Court to save us from Obamacare. We need leadership in the White House that recognizes the folly of having to pass a bill to know what’s in it. We need leadership that understands a heavy-handed, one-size-fits-all policy does nothing to help health outcomes for Americans. 

With individual premiums up more than 50 percent and nearly 5 million people losing their health plans, Americans deserve better than what we’re getting with Obamacare. It’s time we repealed Obamacare and replaced it with truly affordable, patient centered-health care reform, and I look forward to laying out my ideas on this issue.

(That's all bullshit by the way.)

There were also tweeted responses from the clown car:

#ObamaCare ruling is judicial tyranny. http://t.co/Di6WjxOc3y

— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) June 25, 2015

Deeply disappointed by #SCOTUS ruling. Fundamental increase of govt control. I'm working to ensure next Pres repeals and replaces #Obamacare

— Dr. Ben Carson (@RealBenCarson) June 25, 2015

Today's Supreme Court ruling is another reminder that if we want to get rid of #Obamacare, we must elect a conservative President #RICK2016

— Rick Santorum (@RickSantorum) June 25, 2015

And what Santorum said should be a lesson to Progressives that they must all turn out to vote in order to ensure that the next Supreme Court Justices selected are not Right Wing lunatics like Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.

Speaking of Scalia here are some not to be missed portions of his dissent on this ruling. (I especially like the "jiggery-pokery" line.)

All in all with this, and Bristol's admission that she is pregnant, it has been a pretty damn good day for your friendly neighborhood blogger.