USSC Justice Scalia Dead at 79

[FearBoysWithBugs]

PLOT TWIST: Scalia deserved to be murdered.

I'm on to you, Raisin Boy.

[Jackstar]

How did you draw this bullshit detail?

[Value Of Pi]

Bars are, for the most part, self-policing, monopolies are a nice gig if you can get it, and once you approach Justice level they are thought to be so pure that they could decide for themselves if they have any conflicts and recuse themselves or, being deified by society, so pure that they could ignore any personal interest and rule with the wisdom of Solomon. It is really a good gig*. A job in which you and your cronies police yourself, can create or expand your jurisdiction and authority at will, have lifetime (if you want it) at the job no matter your performance (in theory not, but practically, yes,) and can, essentially, determine all laws and regulations for a country- the people, States, or Congress be damned.

* unless one runs afoul of certain leaders and international bodies' demand for warming disruption climate regulation. Then one might be found dead with a pillow on you. 

This is a very reasonable take on what happens when one check or balance in the system is able to outweigh all the others. It used to be that "It's good to be king." Now it's good to be on the SCOTUS. Or in any other high-powered, high-fallutin' judgeship.

Too much concentration of too much power is always, always dangerous. Almost by definition. This would make me a strict Dilutionist, in the constitutional and political sense. Apparently, this is a homeopathic term, which I have chosen to abscond with for my own purposes.

[Jackstar]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hog_calling

[FearBoysWithBugs]

How did you draw this bullshit detail?

I figure that, in real life, you look exactly like my grandfather did after being suddenly woken up from a mid-afternoon nap in his recliner.

[Jackstar]

Too much concentration of too much power is always, always dangerous. Almost by definition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautology_(rhetoric)

[136 or 142]

Bars are, for the most part, self-policing, monopolies are a nice gig if you can get it, and once you approach Justice level they are thought to be so pure that they could decide for themselves if they have any conflicts and recuse themselves or, being deified by society, so pure that they could ignore any personal interest and rule with the wisdom of Solomon. It is really a good gig*. A job in which you and your cronies police yourself, can create or expand your jurisdiction and authority at will, have lifetime (if you want it) at the job no matter your performance (in theory not, but practically, yes,) and can, essentially, determine all laws and regulations for a country- the people, States, or Congress be damned.

That's essentially what Chief Justice Roberts said.

[136 or 142]

I admit since I have asperger's that I'm not the best judge of personalities.  However, FearBoysWithBugs and Jackstar strike me as being

1.much alike

2.both jokers with kind of strange  and similar senses of humor

And they seem to spend so much of their time here insulting each other, I'm beginning to suspect both of their posts are from the same person.


Also, since I brought up the asperger's thing again.  I remembered why I mentioned it in the first place.  I think in that initial post I went away before I completed it and by the time I came back I forgot I had something to add.

With all the discussion of how other people here had suffered in live and that I like quoting song lyrics or movie dialogue and what not, this was how I meant to finish that post:

BTW, I have asperger's. So, "You've got your troubles, I've got mine."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC42ZHJcJWg

[albrecht]

That's essentially what Chief Justice Roberts said.

Although, apparently, he is now out of fashion I'm with Jefferson on the Court issues, and some other things.

[FearBoysWithBugs]

I admit since I have asperger's that I'm not the best judge of personalities.  However, FearBoysWithBugs and Jackstar strike me as being

1.much alike

2.both jokers with kind of strange  and similar senses of humor

And they seem to spend so much of their time here insulting each other, I'm beginning to suspect both of their posts are from the same person.

And yet I'm the only one whom you offered to let fuck you in the ass.  So there must be something special about me, unless you are already two-timing me before I have even closed the deal.

[Value Of Pi]

And yet I'm the only one whom you offered to let fuck you in the ass.  So there must be something special about me, unless you are already two-timing me before I have even closed the deal.

Does anyone think that maybe, possibly the SCOTUS justices have these kinds of conversations behind the scenes when they're just palling around? I keep hearing about how they're really such normal, down-to-earth people.

[albrecht]

Does anyone think that maybe, possibly the SCOTUS justices have these kinds of conversations behind the scenes when they're just palling around? I keep hearing about how they're really such normal, down-to-earth people.

I suspect some of them are like that judge in Okie-land but swing other ways. There is a reason they wear robes.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/sex/penis-pump-judge-trial-nears-climax

[Showroom Dummy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apbSsILLh28

[Jackstar]

Thanks, Showroom. All the hospice workers I've met have been pretty cool, but they all had four limbs.

Tonight, I went out for a meal with a friend of mine. I asked (at an appropriate interval), "Where are you at with Scalia? What if it were murder???"

Her reaction surprised me, in that it was like, "Murder or not, eh, wouldn't be the first time, but with Scalia gone, that's great news for a lot of people!" And I was all, "Uh, who?"

http://time.com/4225942/antonin-scalia-dead-supreme-court-teachers-unions-friedrichs-california-teachers/

None of this had anything to do with the way I ended up leaving the place with a distinct notion of never speaking to this person again, I swear. That was something totally else.

[FearBoysWithBugs]

I ended up leaving the place with a distinct notion of never speaking to this person again, I swear. That was something totally else.

The roofies wore off?

[FightTheFuture]

Thanks, Showroom. All the hospice workers I've met have been pretty cool, but they all had four limbs.

Tonight, I went out for a meal with a friend of mine. I asked (at an appropriate interval), "Where are you at with Scalia? What if it were murder???"

Her reaction surprised me, in that it was like, "Murder or not, eh, wouldn't be the first time, but with Scalia gone, that's great news for a lot of people!" And I was all, "Uh, who?"

http://time.com/4225942/antonin-scalia-dead-supreme-court-teachers-unions-friedrichs-california-teachers/

None of this had anything to do with the way I ended up leaving the place with a distinct notion of never speaking to this person again, I swear. That was something totally else.

So, she wasn`t gonna put out then. Can`t blame ya.

[FightTheFuture]

The roofies wore off?

Is a "roofie" the same as a "Mickey"?

[Jackstar]

So, she wasn`t gonna put out then.

Something totally else. Look, look, read, read: that part isn't relevant to the story.

You guys sure get distracted easy. Here, wear this pillow.

[FearBoysWithBugs]

Something totally else. Look, look, read, read: that part isn't relevant to the story.

You guys sure get distracted easy. Here, wear this pillow.

You nailed it.  Has nothing to do with the fact that you write like a spastic stick insect.  Nope nope nope

[Jackstar]

you write like a spastic stick insect.

Oh, noes, I'm just ultra-chastened. Shivers.

[GravitySucks]

Is a "roofie" the same as a "Mickey"?

Yes. Roofie or Ruffie is a slang term for Rohypnol, commmonly called the date rape drug.

[Jackstar]

It's good to know that y'all don't give a shit about the Friedrichs case either.

[FearBoysWithBugs]

Oh, noes, I'm just ultra-chastened. Shivers.

I know, after awhile it just gets old, like you.

[FearBoysWithBugs]

It's good to know that y'all don't give a shit about the Friedrichs case either.

Yeah, once we stopped giving a shit about you, the rest of it just fell in line.

[Jackstar]

once we stopped giving a shit about you

I certainly don't care that you ever started. Your sense of self-importance explains a lot about why you orbit the Falkie star.

[Showroom Dummy]

When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died at a Texas resort last weekend, he was staying in a 1,100-square-foot, $700-a-night room overlooking a lake.

He wasn’t paying, though. And while Scalia is subject to the same financial disclosure laws that govern scores of federal employees, it is unclear if he would have needed to disclose the trip due to a loophole in what all such employees must report.

This trip was one of hundreds taken by the Supreme Court justices in recent years, but its exclusive and private nature â€" with Scalia and three dozen other unidentified people gathered at a remote resort â€" has drawn new attention to how much is known about the high court and how its members travel.

When justices do venture outside of Washington, the tabs are frequently picked up by outside organizations. A review of annual financial disclosure forms filled out by the justices shows that in recent years, Scalia and the eight current justices took at least 365 trips for which an outside group picked up some or all of the tab.

“We live in a world now where all the Supreme Court justices are rock stars,” said Ronald D. Rotunda, a law professor at Chapman University. “They’re invited all over the place. They publish their books, they go on book tours…. People just like to have them around.”

[albrecht]

One almost forgets Scalia's role in the case with regard to Vince Foster's 'suicide.' Karma? I don't know.

[Jackstar]

Scalia might say, “let’s take a particular item of evidence,” but, in fact, he doesn’t address it at all.  What he does is to employ Nos. 5, 7, and 11 of my “Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression.”

Good times, good times.

[FearBoysWithBugs]

1,100-square-foot, $700-a-night room

Holy fuck.  That's three times as large as Jackstar's crib.

[FearBoysWithBugs]

I certainly don't care that you ever started. Your sense of self-importance explains a lot about why you orbit the Falkie star.

You're like a cliche vending machine.  Drop in a quarter, out comes a post. 

Have you thought about leasing yourself out for medical experiments?  They'll take almost anyone, I hear.