Same here. My condolences to his family, but my congratulations to my country.
Eh, that makes sense, doesn’t it?
I guess you could say it’s the “warm up”? :dubious:
Just another case of the ends justifying the means I suppose.
The way I’ve heard it said was that he spoke truthiness to power, which makes way more sense than the sweating bullets in the quote. Colbert coined the word ‘truthiness’ on his first Colbert Report, meaning – well, let’s turn to our friends at Wikipedia for that:
The original expression is ‘speaking truth to power.’
What business is it of yours, mine, or ours who he was with? :dubious:
You truly are a drooling moron.
Answer the question, what business of ours is it, or Fuck off already.
I was wondering who he was with as well; was there some sort of meeting or conference going on at this resort? And if he was meeting with, or receiving gifts from, people who’d be directly affected by cases pending before the court then it’s very much our business.
Well, for one thing, the Freepers want to know: “Who was there? Who had ties to the WH?”
The Court is in recess. The Justice can go on vacation wherever he likes, meet with whomever he likes, etc.
My Gosh, where was Justice Breyer last week? Whom did he meet with? Were they lobbyists? Tom Steyer? Investment bankers? OWS and BLM activists? Were they discussing upcoming Court decisions?
If you have any evidence, whatsoever, that Justice Scalia was doing anything unethical, then bring it.
I don’t care that this is the BBQ place. Do you have a CITE?
That’s true.
But while anyone can wonder anything they please, typically you cannot actually demand these kinds of answers from people.
Even if one of them is a federal judge, or the hunting buddy of a federal judge.
The reason is similar to the reasons that the police cannot search you using the rationale that you might have clues to a murder in your pocket. In other words, the process typically involves starting with some indicia of wrongdoing first, and then investigating to confirm or dispel the suspicion.
He was a public figure, a powerful and high-ranking official. It is perhaps nobody’s business if he was there with his mistress, but it is everybody’s business if he was there with lobbyists or movers-and-shakers.
But, almost magically, you are not concerned about what Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan were doing last week, or whom they were with.
As long as we are demanding answers from “public figures, powerful and high-ranking officials”, why aren’t you also asking those Justices?
Is this your personal idea, or is it based on some regulation or law? And does your scrutiny also extend to Justice Sotomayor? To Senator Sanders?
You want a cite for wondering what was going on? You are daft.
Uh oh! They’re playing the “liberal hypocrisy” card, folks! There’s just no countering that! :rolleyes:
Here are a couple of articles on Justice Scalia’s death. After being animated and engaged at dinner, he pled a long day and a long week and said he wanted to go to bed. According to the first article, the owner of the ranch, John Poindexter, had this to say:
The second article shows that due to the ranch’s remote nature his cause of death was confirmed over the phone after law enforcement gave assurances there were no signs of foul play, and after Scalia’s doctor in Washington stated that Scalia had a number of chronic issues.
Let’s assume it could, and if news of where these people were last week is introduced, there can be speculation about it.
Personally, I choose to speculate that Scalia died of a heart attack while cackling maniacally after being told of all the lucrative do-nothing jobs his wife would get as long as he kept being “textualist” in a way that his corporate buddies liked.
Pure speculation, of course. You want to tell me I don’t have a right to it, or that I’m not allowed to unless I similarly speculate about every other public figure? Good luck with that.
Bucko.
Apropos of nothing, I just watched The Daily Show from Thursday, and Trevor Noah had a joke in there (pre Scalia death) that the Supreme Court justices were so old that it was possible that some of them wouldn’t make it to see the premiere of the Game of Thrones season.