T/F Harriet Meirs's father was a share cropper in a steel mill

[underpants]

:shrug:

[NVMojo]

1. if true, then maybe this explains Harry Reid's decision to support her

his dad was a gold miner in Nevada who killed himself ...

[sui generis]

7. well if that's Reid's logic then fire his ass

We need far better rationales for endorsing a supreme court nominee than that.

[jody]

2. A logical impossibility. The term "share cropper" means one who

farms a portion of land in exchange for a share of the crop. :hi:

[Dr.Phool]

3. I didn't know they had crops in steel mills

But, what do I know? I only worked in one for 31 years. I shouldn't have spent so much time sleeping on the job.

[ClintonTyree]

26. My thoughts exactly........

:shrug:

I thought maybe I misinterpreted Underpants' wording there?

[underpants]

28. No I don't think you did

I meant this, obviously, as a joke. I just love the wonderful personal story EVERYONE on the right has.

Remember during W's speech on the Roberts nomination how he (Roberts) worked summers in a steel mill? .... we then found out his dad was an exec and young Roberts wasn't exactly doing any heavy lifting.

[notadmblnd]

4. my husbands parents were sharecroppers in La

and it didn't have anything to do with steel. What did her father do, make steel in the owners factroy and at the end of the season he was able to sell his paltry share of the steel harvest?

[underpants]

15. he could only sell so much

you see (see posts below) he was blind and armless and moonlighted in coal mines on weekends.

[sui generis]

5. and he was blind and lived in a cave and

had to walk to work backwards, naked and barefoot over broken glass in the snow uphill both ways three times a day. He taught himself to read braille in his spare time and single handedly saved homeless orphans from man-eating Texas rattlesneetches in the Texas mesquite jungles.

All true, I swear. mmmm hmmmm.

:evilgrin:

[underpants]

10. a remarkable life story

See post below

:rofl:

[rasputin1952]

24. ROFLMAO...beautiful description of the man, at least he had legs so

he could walk, most of these fathers were legless and had to slither to school and work....a tablespoon of lard was spread on a pinecone and wrapped in a cabbage leaf for lunch, and corncobs were used at least 10 times each as toilet paper, dunked in a can of turpentine in the 3 walled outhouse.

:rofl:

[Sandpiper]

6. False, her Father was an armless Coal Miner

Who swung a pick axe with his teeth.

[underpants]

11. and LIKED IT!

:rofl:

[Sandpiper]

14. Self Delete

[gademocrat7]

8. she is not qualified to be a Supreme Court Justice

No matter what her father did. I seriously doubt an SMU undergrad and SMU law school grad's father was a share cropper.

[gmoney]

9. You also forgot her pappy was a poor refugee from a furrin' country...

...don't matter which one... let's say... Austria. He had to flee when that hurricane destroyed Vienna back in 1927.

[underpants]

12. From down under eh?

... let's say... Austria :rofl:

[gmoney]

18. yes, and he had to TUNNEL to America..,

with no arms, had to burrow through the Earth's molten core from Austria (down under) to reach Fort Worth. It's truly an inspirational story. Therefore, she MUST be confirmed.

[underpants]

20. backwards

he tunneled backwards, feet first, had to, he had to hold the gas lantern with his teeth.....the oil lasted much longer than expected too so then there is that too.

[Sandpiper]

22. Being chased by wild Austrian Dingoes the entire way

Who had eaten the rest of his family and acquired a taste for Miers family flesh.

[edbermac]

13. I heard Harriet was born a poor black child...

[underpants]

19. one vote True

so far.

[Anywho6]

21. "The new phonebooks are here! The new phonebooks are here!" n/t

[gmoney]

25. "My name in print!"

"This is the kind of spontaneous publicity that makes people. Things are going to start happening for me now!"

Of course, I think * picked Meirs by just poking his finger into the WH phone book.

"Meirs, Harriet R. ...sounds like your typical random nominee."

[Sandpiper]

16. Young Harriet's family was so poor, they ate Dirt Clods for Dinner

With a slice of cow pie for dessert.

[underpants]

17. and LIKED IT!

again

[Jacobin]

23. She walked 800 miles to school every day in the snow

[mandomom]

27. With a prescient PDB in her pocket

[npincus]

29. irrelevant