It’s 5:26 Eastern Standard Time and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is still dead.
Justice Scalia apparently passed away in his sleep, at the age of 79, while on a “hunting” trip in Texas. As deaths go this is pretty much a conservative Republican’s wet dream. So good for him. Incidentally I put hunting in quotes up there because my understanding was that this was one of those quail hunts, where the quail are all but domestic pets who are suddenly taken out one day, stuffed in thickets and then wait, too terrified to move, until a dog, (or on really tough days a guide), flushes them out of the thicket, whereupon, assuming no attorneys are in the way, a fat-ass elderly Republican like Dick Cheney blasts them out of the sky with a shotgun.
C’est l’vie bird.
Justice Scalia was the first Italian-America appointed to the bench. He was approved unanimously and served for nearly 30 years. Scalia was an “originalist”, (alternatively called the “Old man yells at cloud” theory of Constitutional interpretation) , and on many occasions seems determined to bring the United States back to the peak of his greatness, which he seemed to believe was right around 1826, when Jefferson and Adams died within hours of each other. He could be, and more often than not was, scathing in his dissents, or even when in the majority and addressing the arguments of dissenting Justices.
Scalia’s legacy will be a complicated one. There’s no doubt he was a brilliant jurist and well deserving of his position on the Supreme Court. There’s also no doubt that, if he had his way, gays would remain very much second class citizens, denied not just the right to marry but the right to have sex with another consenting adult should a state decide that was a good idea. Scalia wasn’t much for racial quotas, actually voted to overrule Miranda v. Arizona, (with apparently no consideration given to how that would effect the writers of detective procedurals), and LOVED the death penalty. He was, in my opinion justifiably, criticized for allowing religious views, both his own and what he perceived as the religious beliefs of the majority of Americans, to affect the way he looked at cases, particularly regarding teh gays.
For every criticism us liberal types come up with however there’s a conservative who will praise Scalia for leading the charge to protect American exceptionalism and all the traditional values that made us the greatest country in the world. The traditional values that made us so great, by the way, are having a great Navy and being located between Canada and Mexico and in the middle of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans while Europe and Asia teed off on each other, (with our help), in WWII, leaving us as the only intact industrial nation in a world that needed lots of stuff that only we could make. It’s been downhill since.
But I digress.
The point is Constitutional Law is not black and white. For every position I have there’s an alternate position(s) and for every position Scalia had there’s an alternate one or more. I don’t have a lot of respect for the way he argued those positions, particularly towards the end of his career, but he had the right and the ability to make them, and make them as well as he could. I’m not going to celebrate Antonin Scalia dying, (karma only goes so far and I’m saving that party for Dick Cheney), but I am going to celebrate that there is now an opening on the Supreme Court, caused by an arch-conservative leaving this mortal coil and finding out the answers to many mysteries, such as whether or not the Devil is real, and President Obama gets to at least try to fill it as one of his last acts as President.
That appointment promises to be a clusterfuck of epic proportions. It may even be enough to save Twitter’s stock price!
Now back to dick jokes, football and Sill’s rugby world tour.
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Good boy! GOO BOY!!
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So….cuddly.
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Perfect.
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Kitty!
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Tomorrow I’ll be in Salisbury, CT for the Eastern CT Ski Jump championships. Outside, 2-3 hours. Expected wind chill -24, high temperature of 8. No warming huts for the jumpers, no indoor viewing for the audience. My brother and I can be counted on the increase the bonfires to epic proportions. Lagunitas on tap although I can’t imagine it won’t freeze. To be clear I’m watching and drinking, not jumping.
Anyone want to join me? Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?
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I wish, ski jumping’s the coolest and I’d love to go watch it for myself one of these days. Instead I’ll be watching Deadpool with the sis because I’m actually free tomorrow and she goes back up to school.
One year a couple of Austrians showed up and pretty much out-jumped the hill. Which means they over-jumped the safe landing zone and were coming down where it starts sloping back up. Insane.
And one year Britain’s best ski jumper, Eddie the Eagle, showed up and got beat by pretty much every other jumper. But goddamn, he was the nicest guy and had the most fun out of anyone there.
I like winter and all, and winter sports.
But shit no….that’s insanity.
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C’mon! Freezing your ass off and drinking beer outside in the winter? It’s like high school all over again.
Except with Lagunitas instead of Piel’s Lite.
Home from a great day out. Saw “Hail, Ceaser” fucking loved it and went to the best pizza place in L.A. afterwards.
Many brews and many other things later.
All I can say is…
How the Fuck You Doing Boys!!!?!
Is ‘Hail, Caeser’ worth the theater price or will it play just as well on Netflix in a few months?
Yes. For the production values alone.
It’s beautiful to look at.
Yes.
Lots of fun.
WE are doing FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE!
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Just kidding.
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Who’s a philly expert that should tell me what to check out when we’re not paying our Valentine’s Day dues?
Mac’s Tavern in Old City, 2nd and Market. Get the gravy fries and grilled sausage sandwich.
Excellent selection of beers, both on draft and bottles/cans, the food is outstanding, price isn’t bad, and plenty of Always Sunny references. Sometimes McElhenney and Olson show up, too. Missed them by one night once.
FUCK YOUR WEST PHILLY FUCKTARD
I went to Philly once for a Phillies game back in the early 90’s and Jesus it was a burned out wasteland.
I may not be the best person to ask.
John Kruk hit a triple. That actually happened.
Again with the “quotes!”!
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Watching ‘Freak & Geeks’; just had this song on and damn I love it.
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What I struggle to understand is the “respect for the dead” thing when those responsible killed WAY MORE PEOPLE than respect demands.
HNGH
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Asshole
LMAO
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My daughter has started going to Comic-Cons.
To say I have mixed feelings about that is dramatically understating things.
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I’m sure there is nothing to worr…………………
It only depends on if she’s cosplaying. And then depending on what she’s cosplaying as.
Where and when?
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If you’re a little confused about the death of Antonin Scalia, allow me to illuminate your confusion.
Antonin Scalia was the worst person to be appointed to any higher US office in the last hundred years.
Everything good that has ever happened to the US just went a little bit further forward.
The world rejoices in the death of Antonin Scalia, and I join with the world in rejoicing in his death.
I think you give Alito a little too much credit, Sill. That’s the face of evil on that guy.
True.
This came up on a GIS of “Alito Will Kill Us All.”
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What about ’60s Dixiecrats?
Can’t hang those fuckers…
Well you can, you’ll just have to borrow a good shovel from me or Entropy.
BOOM! CALL BACK! NAILED THAT MOTHERFUCKER!
I disliked his decisions…won’t go so far to say I’m glad he’s dead, but the guy had a name like a Bond villain and an agenda not too far removed from one.
That’s awesome. That should be the NY Times obituary headline tomorrow.
Drew Magary posted something on Twitter that Obama now had two appointments to make because Clarence Thomas would be buried alive with Scalia.
Still my favorite but this one is close.
I laughed a good 20 minutes reading Drew’s tweet, and still am about this one.
His opinions did follow in a puppyesque manner. As if there was free Coke in the break room.
Glad he’s dead.
Couldn’t be any gladder.
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Dickhead all caps extension.
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So BLEERGH has extended its reach into politics huh?
Nope.
Can’t anyone else just be overwhelmed with joy that this fucker is dead?
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Fuck it.
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Is there a porn parody I’m missing?
Taking inspiration from Horatio mentioning Poison Ivy, I just want to post this that I saw the other day.
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For the record I never mentioned Poison Ivy.
Seeing that picture I wish I had.
YES YOU DID! I HEARD IT!
OK, you didn’t type it, but the voice in my head that sounds like Horatio Hornblower said it.
My cat just showed up to play.
I LOVE YOU KATA TJUTA
It’s sad when a cartoon can give you wood.
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Don’t worry; it’s the voice.
Thought that was the unedited clip that showed nipples.
I did not know that existed.
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Also; speaking of rule #34; holy shit.
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I disagree.
And there’s the other reliable animated wood.
Makes me wanna eat glue.
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Yeah, that helps.
Cheryl-Carol-Whatever is a 2-D fuck I’d go for.
Why do you think I learned how to draw in the first damn place?
Sorry, just got here.
1) Are we allowed to feel good about Scalia’s death? Because I do, and I feel bad that I do, but then I don’t feel bad because it’s a good thing for America.
2) When Trump went after Jebra about 9/11 being his bro’s fault, it was weird to feel some kind of agreement with Trump. Mostly, though, Jebra is a gigantic vagina.
1) Yes. Join the festivities. We’re having rye and Indian.
OH I SO DO FUCK YOU YOU OBSTRUCTIONIST CATHOLIC REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT DESTROYER ID DANCE ON YOUR FUCKING GRAVE IF I KNEW WHERE IT WAS
Some here will disagree with me but I think Scalia was a brilliant jurist with whom I violently disagreed on many, many topics. I do think he was a product of an older generation that did not understand things like gay rights but was true to his beliefs and was bright enough to back them up.
it’s kind of hard to explain because I do think he was a homophobic religious zealot but I also know that generation and how they got there. They fade out, new people with more enlightened views take their place. I’m not going to celebrate his death but I am going to celebrate the opening on the Supreme Court that Obama gets to fill.
I disagree with other doctors. I do.
For example, Andrew Wakefield.
The anti-vax guy.
If I could go back in time and kill him as an infant I would not hesitate to do so.
There are more important human principles than Touchy-Feelyism.
Being a homophobic religious zealot doesn’t mean he didn’t know the law and could render coherent, logical decisions that were out of the realm of his obsessions. My point is that to be a brilliant jurist one has to compartmentalize those beliefs and make appropriate ruling as such in ANY case. I believe that is why the statue has a blindfold. The other part that influences me is the cognitive dissonance he possessed to have his views, yet be relatively intelligent in other areas; it is bound to overlap in his rational thought on a majority of cases.
Yup.
That was a perfectly cromulent response. I don’t share your respect for his brilliance, but that’s probably because I’m a petulant child.
No, it’s because you’re not a lawyer.
I love you Horatio, but your profession is as full of fucktarded bullshit than every other human endeavor combined.
Absolutely Sill. And it’s why we get paid the big bucks; 90% of attorneys will make any argument their clients need and put their own beliefs aside to do it. In fact most state ethics rules require an attorney to be a zealous advocate for their client, which means you put your personal beliefs aside and do, literally, whatever the law allows to advance your client’s interests.
It’s not for everybody but it’s what makes our system work, at least to the extent it does.
I do think Moose is right in that Scalia’s later decisions, (and hell I remember at least one from the late 80’s, early 90’s), where his personal beliefs could clearly be seen to be pushing to the fore well ahead of any legal reasoning.
BUT, if you look at judicial rulings long enough, from both sides, you will see both sides doing it, over and over and over again. I don’t mean to back up Scalia’s beliefs at all but he was human and all humans have their beliefs, right or wrong, and will go to great lengths to advance them. In that sense Scalia was no different than me, other than, you know, being on the side of evil while I’m on the side of the angels.
I believe that you represent the sign of angels or something.
Scalia doesn’t and never did.
Trump not-so-conspiracy theory time.
He says he’s self-funded. That’s bullshit. He’s taken in about $5.7 million in donations. Loaned his campaign about $3 million of his own money. He’s spent about half of what he’s taken in, and most of that has been paid to his own people and companies–his people run his campaign (very few outsiders, which is why his Iowa ground game sucked so hard), and his campaign contracts his transport companies to do the logistics of his campaign.
If you do the math, then, about $2.8 million has been paid to his companies by donations. He’s loaned his campaign about the same amount. A loan, of course, that will be paid back (by law) with the other $2.9 million in donations.
End result: Trump is out almost nothing out-of-pocket, and his companies (and personnel) rake in business, funded by donations.
Ergo, I believe he’s not really running for President. He’s the Dark Knight Joker. He wants the nomination for the ultimate in publicity (making money the whole time), and then he walks away, laughing. Some people just want to watch the world burn.
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There are many stories on this subject and I was really surprised no one brought that up when he said he was self-funding his campaign.
No way he is losing any money on this, it is not his way.
Right? Trump always finds a profit; it’s the company that takes a financial hit and often goes bankrupt.
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Us. We’re the company. The United States of America.
EXACTLY; he is a business failure as far as his record with most companies. HE very seldom loses money because he is good at conning others to invest.
I think I put it together from a NYT article and an unrelated WaPo article.
One or more of them might have been Op-Eds. I can’t remember. I’m foggy.
Egan at NYT has been really, really, really good at taking on the Trumpster.
It was within the past week. The Times ran an article about how Trump isn’t spending his own money. Good reporting. Too bad most people can’t be bothered to read more than two paragraphs.
This is even better than Alan Keyes paying himself to run for President.
I wonder who the token black GOP candidate will be in 2020? We’ve had Keyes, then Cain, and now Carson. “Ambassador,” businessman, surgeon. I think we’re due for a rapper–one of those Christian ones.
Kanye, just because he legitimately think he would win.
Ja Rule
Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
Shit, all we got was Stalin.
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I know…you didn’t hang up either.
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John Kasich grew up two boroughs over from where I did. I’m not comfortable with this.
This Indio rye is fucking great. I should drink more if I want to get drunk, but yeah, good stuff.
Also, I am still super giddy that Scalia is dead. I feel like the munchkins in the Wizard of Oz dancing on the wicked witch’s corpse.
Trump and Jeb! just need to bang and get it over with.
Not with a bang, but with a whimper.
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Consider this boner don kilt.
You guys have this promise, if I ever run for President I will swear my motherfucking head off, live and on stage.
Fucking A
I’d go gay for Ron Livingston:
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Band of Brothers is the shit.
Maybe I am drunk if I couldn’t find that.
FUCK YEAH
I would also have punched Trump out by now.
Mine will be violent and tumultuous reign, but there will be puppies for all, and beer.
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I need an unrestricted legal cannabis promise or I’m not on board.
Buddy, you got it!
Hell, I’ll do that if I ever just get on a big enough stage. Or the street corner. or my porch. OR THE MOTHERFUCKING INTERNET.
Cornblower 2024, after Entropy’s two terms.
Shit, I keep forgetting I have to be president next year. I think I’ll go for Outright Madman as my first term’s theme.
Trump is shooting himself in the foot here and I have to believe it’s on purpose so he can get out of the race.
That’s been my contention all along.
Dude doesn’t want to be president!
Dude just wanted to make sure a Dem got elected so they wouldn’t deport his work force.
I think he just wanted to publicize himself and jack up the value of his name, because that’s really all he has.
That said, for whatever reason, he has no intention of finishing this race.
I’ve been leaning this way, myself. I think Sill has a very valid and probably accurate point, but Trump also has that huge megalomania streak, so everything has to be about how he can do everything better. By polling well with the scary, jacked-up GOP element, he can shout out that he could have been president, which gives his idiotic criticisms merit within certain circles. Y’know, the same people who think that a half-term disgraced governor of Alaska is someone you should take political advice from whenever she spews out some word salad.
It’s both.
She made a shitton of money out of pretending to maybe run for president. Seems reasonable to think that’s Trump’s motive too. I bet someone is ghostwriting a book right now that will be released when he drops out of the race.
Are you suggesting that he may let someone else come in and take over?
Perhaps that they may RECEIVE his campaign/endorsement to carry out the purposes in his stead?
Nope.
He’s just going to quit.
Sorry. I was implying he has a lot of experience with receiverships.
It’s both.
I wouldn’t argue with that Sill.
WHAT ABOUT SOVIET SUPREMACY AT KURSK
THE GREATEST TANK BATTLE OF ALL TIME!!!!
When is Godwin’s Law getting invoked?
Gotta be soon.
Genuinely surprised it hasn’t yet.
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Love that one.
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The Three Point Contest is the only thing worth watching on the NBA All Star Weekend Saturday Night Hooops Extravaganze or whatever the fuck they’re calling it now.
I think there needs to be a game of H-O-R-S-E.
One-on-one.
I’d watch the hell out of both of those.
Raphael forgot to mention his dad fled Cuba to Canadia.
Cristiano Ronaldo is the WORST
How is he polling with prospective GOP voters?
POORLY
…and the debate is melting down.
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I’m waiting for someone to hit someone with a chair.
BAH GAWD, KING! AUSTIN’S HERE! HE’S RUNNING ONTO THE STAGE!
Hey! It’s me!
/I look like an older, fatter Stone Cold
//3:16
I literally, in the literal sense of the word, just said that to my kid.
Literally??
Literally
Literally.
Metaphorically
Aux armes, citoyens,
Formez vos bataillons,
Marchons, marchons!
Qu’un sang impur
Abreuve nos sillons!
Hhahahaha!
Those aren’t words!
Feeling an inexplicable urge to surrender.
(I have a very good friend who is French…she would be pissed at me for saying that)
Over the last thousand years Gaul/France have been the preeminent Continental power.
Just because Gamelin couldn’t think past the last war does not change the fact that France has always been the martial equal of Germany.
Contrary to popular belief, the US had very little influence on the outcome of WWI because Pershing wouldn’t allow his troops to be committed to battle under French or British command. The US contribution to WWI was basically to stand there and look tough while the British and French did all the figthing and dying.
There’s an argument to be made that the US entry into the war forced Germany to launch the Ludendorff Offensive either prematurely, or at all, forcing them to expend resources that they couldn’t replace when the US’s entry gave the allies massive resources that would eventually have sunk Germany no matter what.
Or it was just the Jews fault.
Geez dudes…’twas just a joke. Not a referendum on realz geopolitical historicalz.
And like that, WeeBabySeamus surrenders.
I surrender to no man.
Now, my female French friend, on the other hand, may take me prisoner anytime she wishes.
Yup.
We stood there looking tough so the Germans would have to go on the offensive or admit defeat.
Turns out they did both.
Contrary to popular belief, the US had very little influence on the outcome of WWII as well. Once Sechste Armee was lost at Stalingrad it was only a matter of time before the Soviets crushed Nazi Germany. The disaster at Kursk only accelerated the inevitable.
The only reason the US put an army in the field in Europe at all was to stop Stalin from going to Lisbon. Which he absolutely would have done.
The US did indeed save Europe from speaking a single language, it’s just that the language was Russian instead of German.
Same reason they bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
There was never a legitimate plan to invade Japan because the War Department knew that as soon as the Soviets declared war on Japan the war was over.
We had to make sure we got those horrific bombs into non-military targets before the Soviets got involved and started to demand reparations from the 1904-05 Russo–Japanese War
We’re not the good guys.
There are no good guys who kill innocent people.
Which, not at all coincidentally, happened on August 9.
Let’s not forget that we dropped those bombs to save an estimated 1 million American lives that would have been lost invading the Japanese home islands…
And just as, (i.e. MORE), importantly, to show the Soviets that we had them and were willing to use them so just back the fuck up in Europe.
One of these days Sill and I have to get together for dinner and discuss military history. It would be so much fun, and I can probably get him to pick up the check.
Yup.
You live in CT.
I live in NJ.
We can easily meet in NYC if you would like to discuss matters further.
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REFS FUCK WITH THE SCRUM TOO MUCH THESE DAYS
Gods of Egypt is going to suck so much ass. Not even any good spank material.
Worse idea: Gods Of Egypt or Batman Vs. Superman?
Yes.
Patience, Grasshoppah.
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I don’t even care if Suicide Squad sucks.
I just want more Margot Robbie in the Harley Quinn costume:
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Agreed. Even if Suicide Squad sucks balls, they should make a follow-up with Harley Quinn and some redhead playing Poison Ivy. I think the DFO crew would all see it like 10 times in theaters.
Redhead, you say?
I have no idea why you added “in the Harley Quinn costume” to that sentence.
I prefer her Wolf of Wall Street “costume”
Seems extraneous at this point…
Gods of Egypt VS Batman VS Superman sounds pretty awful.
Cool….three way.
Ben Carson’s on brain surgery anesthetics, right?