Justice Scalia Talks About His Possible Replacement
Here’s a flashback to July 2012, when Justice Scalia was on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace — who, truth be told, was kind of a jerk to the Justice. But it’s OK. Nino handled himself just fine. If you didn’t watch this the first time I posted it, treat yourself now.
If you go to 18:30, and watch for a minute, you’ll see a fun little discussion of Scalia’s pique at being criticized by Richard Posner in (I think) an unfair manner. It’s worth it, trust me.
But what really hits home is at 22:25, where we see Chris Wallace asking Scalia if he would time his retirement to coincide with a Republican administration. Scalia says he hasn’t decided. Wallace asks him if he wouldn’t prefer to be replaced by a Republican appointee, given what he says earlier in the interview about Republicans generally preferring originalists and textualists, while Democrats prefer Justices who like Roe v. Wade. Scalia then says:
I would not like to be replaced by someone who immediately sets about undoing everything that I’ve tried to do for 25 years, 26 years. Sure. But I shouldn’t have to tell you that, unless you think I’m a fool.
What a great man. The country will never be able to replace Justice Scalia — but we owe it to ourselves, and to him, to come as close as we can.
Ding.
Patterico (d5f843) — 2/14/2016 @ 11:35 pmIf you go to 18:30, and watch for a minute, you’ll see a fun little discussion of Scalia’s pique at being criticized by Richard Posner in (I think) an unfair manner. It’s worth it, trust me.
Epic! And absolutely spot-on.
JVW (9e3c77) — 2/14/2016 @ 11:54 pmChris Wallace being kind of a jerk? That’s so out of character.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/15/2016 @ 12:24 amHe won’t be desiding who his replacement is. Obama will be throwing up mexicans and blacks until they lynch all blue state republicans senators. Obama knows how the game is played. The court of last resorts for blacks is not the supreme court but the street it is the highest court in america.
leland (010a1c) — 2/15/2016 @ 12:27 amChris Wallace proves himself to be an ass. Again
sd Harms (c7dded) — 2/15/2016 @ 3:08 amTo “leland”:
Your opinion, delivered above, minus the 1st sentence I suppose, consists of – applesauce.
another fellow from the Philly area (030d1f) — 2/15/2016 @ 4:00 amTed has a chance to win S.C. With the 2 amend. in balance, this should be the wake up call for all the blind sheep. Everyone knows Ted will appoint the proper judges. Trump and his sister won’t do. Single issue election.
mg (31009b) — 2/15/2016 @ 4:32 am“That’s what happens.” Excellent!
Bob Ellison (fdf01d) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:34 am“You gonna talk about my book?”
JP (bd5dd9) — 2/15/2016 @ 6:04 amI’ve read that there’s hope on the horizon for schizophrenics like Leland/perry. The experts term it a full frontal lobotomy.
Colonel Haiku (2184e5) — 2/15/2016 @ 6:09 amScalia’s death is an opportunity for Dems to energize the Black vote which has shown itself less than enthusiastic so far. South Carolina will be a baseline, the percentage of registered blacks who show up at the polls can later be compared to the percentages after Obama nominates a popular black for SCOTUS. The Dems have now got themselves an issue they can run on, rather than running away from Obamacare, IRS, Benghazi, and emailgate.
ropelight (ed3ef5) — 2/15/2016 @ 6:39 amI want to believe but let’s face it McConnell and his friends will talk tough now and go wobbly just as soon as they have to put their votes where their mouths are. Reid and company will use exert maximum pressure and use every procedural tool to grind the Senate to a halt until McConnell caves. If Obama makes a young not-so-controversial pick that’s tough to fight ideologically they’re gonna cave before this session ends.
Like it or not the Court is lost for now with a 4-3 liberal majority + Kennedy. Holding the Senate majority and electing a president that will respect and guard the Constitution as Scalia did is the real priority.
crazy (cde091) — 2/15/2016 @ 6:58 amThat illustrates why Cruz is the best candidate in this situation. He can gain voters by making the case that flipping the court to a liberal majority would be the end of the 2nd amendment. He could also make the same point about late term abortions. There was a 5-4 majority to allow restrictions on late term abortions. Most Americans are opposed to late term abortions, but many of those don’t oppose earlier term abortions. Even blacks and Hispanics are conservative on those issues I believe.
Therefore this presents an excellent opportunity for a Republican candidate who pledges to appoint a solid conservative like Scalia to preserve those 5-4 majorities. Cruz obviously can very credibly make the case that he’ll do that. I think Rubio is also very credible on that, which is why I have no problem voting for him if he’s nominated. I think even Bush or Kasich would appoint Kennedy/Roberts types, who are not as good as Scalia, but they both are one of the 5 in the 5-4 conservative majorities on those issues.
Thus the Republican who can skillfully and forcefully argue for gun rights and against late term abortions – and then connect that to the Supreme Court makeup – can turn this situation to his advantage. But it has to be someone who has some real convictions on those issues and generally has a conservative view of the Constitution. Both Cruz and Rubio are well situated to do that. Bush and Kasich less so IMO.
The remaining candidate with the least credibility on this is Trump.
Gerald A (7c7ffb) — 2/15/2016 @ 7:27 amSome of you are Constitutional scholars, and could help me understand this, but Congress has the Constitutional authority to determine how many Supreme Court Justices there will be, isn’t that right? There used to be fewer than 9 Supreme Court justices way back in the day. Certainly, with an odd number, that forces a majority opinion one way or the other, but there’s nothing set in stone that says we can’t have 8. The Senate makes its own calendar and they’ll decide if and when to review a nomination. The rules of baseball stipulate that you must have 9 players on the field. But there’s no stipulation that there must be 9 justices seated at the Supreme Court.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/15/2016 @ 7:49 amhttp://www.nationalreview.com/corner/431298/cruz-senates-job-advise-and-consent-were-advising-not-nominate-anyone
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:09 amYeah, it’s ranged from 6 to 10 and hasn’t changed in about 150 years. There’s no inherent constitutional requirement for 9. Good point.
Dustin (2a8be7) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:11 amWhich is more noble: to do what’s right in a noble system, surrounded by do-gooders, or to do what’s right in a corrupt system, surrounded by Justice Souter, Kennedy, and Roberts?
Thomas and Scalia have both earned our respect for letting the law guide their rulings instead of the press, the politicians, what would be ‘progress’ to their friends. They’ve paid for it in the way they are treated. Defending them is really defending this concept of letting the law guide a judge.
Dustin (2a8be7) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:14 amThe Court can operate with only 8 judges.
In 4-4 rulings whatever the lower court decided stands, so leaving it at 8 is not ideal for conservatives.
I saw Axelrod wrote for CNN that Kagan was actually recommended by Scalia, and was a personal acquaintance / friend.
MD not exactly in Philly (deca84) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:16 amI guess he knew Obama would pick a liberal and wanted one he knew he could get along with.
this is not the time to discuss i just wanted to lay my marker down cause i feel very strongly about this Mr. Dustin
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:16 amAnyone think Thomas or Alito will become more vocal in the absence of Scalia?
MD not exactly in Philly (deca84) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:18 amWallace is an embarrassment and like a squirrel to a nut. Nepotism at its worst. His father didn’t leave behind a betterment successor
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:21 amYes, Gerald, all your arguments appeal to the informed voter, but my point was about energizing low information voters by frightening them into an emotional lather and goading them to the polls with threats of dire economic consequences and racial setbacks.
Reason has it’s limits, and no where are the consequences of those limits more in evidence than in political contests, especially those that involve racial issues. As experience has so forcefully demonstrated.
ropelight (ed3ef5) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:23 amWe need the most conservative Judge we can find. Therefore we need Ted Cruz as president. God willing…
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:23 amLooks like these 8 judges with the addition of BO’s left lib hack will rule out any law they choose. The death penalty gone…. marriage is gone…Free choice over ones health gone. And the list goes on. Since when has the USA been a country of a Ruler.
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:28 amHi :), What’s on the menu for today?
from the weird lady
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:36 am🙂 George Washington’s day !
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:39 amtoday all i’m accomplish is brussells sprout salad i tell you how to make is super easy and good for you
i use my rice cooker steamer (24 minutes)
you halve your sprouts toss in a little olive oil and say a half tablespoon of cinnamon you put it in the steamer then on top you put a fistful of dried cranberries (on top so less of them fall through the holes in the steamer
when done toss with a lil more cinnamon and a pinch of salt – do this in a tupperware and shake vigorously so lots of the leafy bits come off and you get a more better salad-like texture to the dish
like i said this is a salad so just throw in fridge then portion out later – it takes a garnish of grated carrots and walnuts really well if you have any handy but not necessary (mostly this just makes it pretty)
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:43 amSay what you want about happyfeet.
nk (dbc370) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:48 amMD not exactly in Philly. Is that Maryland or Medical Doctor ?
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:48 amyou lost me on the cinnamon. Maybe nutmeg, and I know nutmeg goes well with greens as I’m sure cinnamon would. But its snowing where I am , so I’m eating mostly hibernation foods that can fatten one up…. so I must be careful and active.
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:53 amDemocrats always have an issue they can run on because they can always find something to use as an emotional trigger. If they can do it with heroic McCain and bland Romney, they can do it with anyone the GOP nominates.
No one complains louder than Democrats when Republicans use the same tactics. Trump knows this, as is evident from the fact that his entire appeal is based on emotion, and kudos to him for doing it. It’s disappointing from an intellectual standpoint but emotionally satisfying.
DRJ (15874d) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:55 amGood recipe. Have you thought of using pecans instead of walnuts? They have a nuttier flavor and better texture when wet or soggy.
DRJ (15874d) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:59 amthat’s a good idea
i have a thing about pecans – i never buy them cause they seem SO expensive
in texas they were free
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:00 amJustice Ginsburg is like 4’11” and 85 lbs. She’s going to live to be 106. (LOL)
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:02 amWe’re gonna need to put Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito on a vegetarian diet or something. Maybe Heritage Foundation or AEI will act on our collective behalf and deliver a treadmill to each of their homes. We need them around for a long time.
his entire appeal is based on emotion, and kudos to him for doing it. It’s disappointing from an intellectual standpoint but emotionally satisfying
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How can you refer to yourself from and intellectual standpoint?…. and be emotionally satisfied by watching stupid people do stupid things THAT HURT US ALL????? It makes me want to stick a needle in my eye not rejoice for being the smartest person alive…..
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:02 amHere’s a brief overview from Wikipedia on FDR’s attempt to pack the court: (with minor edits and paragraph breaks to improve the flow)
ropelight (ed3ef5) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:03 amWe should admit that Trump has changed the GOP debate. The question now is who is bet-equipped to implement his populist agenda. I don’t think Trump can do it because 1) he’s all talk and 2) he’s not consistent in his views.
DRJ (15874d) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:07 am🙂 I got the best recipe from a poster on politibrew. I have never made wings…. but he turned me on to buying wings… and I get the trimmed ones, sprinkle with favorite season salt and roast turning until done…. they are fabulous, no frying and no sauce needed if seasoned well. who knew one could get a good recipe from a political opinion board. This poster was a single father that homeschooled his son. I’m Italian so we don’t usually think of wings as much of anything to eat as a meal…. but I was glad I tried his recipe…. your eats so far… batting zero…. cucumber with warm grits, which is like polenta or cream of wheat sounded gross.
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:08 amedit 36. an not and
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:09 am38.We should admit that Trump has changed the GOP debate. The question now is who is bet-equipped to implement his populist agenda. I don’t think Trump can do it because 1) he’s all talk and 2) he’s not consistent in his views.
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plus when he gets to DC, he will need to be taught how to navigate through the trickery. Which IMO Trump will end up being the go along to be liked by all type.
Cruz wont need a crash course. He is already hated…. so dispense with the reading of the minutes and LETS GET DOEN TO THE DIRTY BUSINESS OF TAKING APART DC!
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:12 ami disagree DRJ i’m banking on Mr. Trump’s vanity to compel him towards results
these will not be ideological results but they’ll be measurable
more workers less debt more exports less regulation
he will keep us out of the more silly kinds of wars america does so terribly bad at
it’ll be up to congress to steer him to starboard
and there’s nothing wrong with that
it’s a team effort
and he may help to clarify the minds of these sad sad republican congressturds in a way that hillary never could
teamwork
and so far i remain convinced that Mr. Cruz can best serve that team in the senate
he’s not a uniter
he’s a divisive arrogant ideologue, which, his time will come
but it’s not after eight horrifically fascist enfeebling destructive years of food stamp
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:16 ami’m not a cook JRT lady
i am SO not a cook
my recipes are all super-easy hacks, and usually very frooger
i got super-interested in frooger eatings when i realized Chicago was taxing all my groceries
that offends me on a very very deep level
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:19 amI saw Axelrod wrote for CNN that Kagan was actually recommended by Scalia, and was a personal acquaintance / friend.
I guess he knew Obama would pick a liberal and wanted one he knew he could get along with.
Maybe that, and maybe he knew that with a much younger pick, he might have a better opportunity to influence and shape her views of the Constitution.
Dana (86e864) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:19 amwhy are you offended by a stranger that you dont know? Try to stick to the subjects and not get personally offended. Maybe then you would learn to see that Cruz would be best MAN for the job of lowering your TAXES, and Donald is just an emotional blanket for you to hold onto….
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:25 amI thought Chris Wallace embarrassingly rude and condescending. Which is obviously funny, considering…
With that I was reminded of a Ruth Bader Ginsburg interview where she said about retiring: “And who do you think Obama could have nominated and got confirmed that you’d rather see on a court?”
I have a 50′ pecan tree, happyfeet. I’d be happy to share. Voluminous amounts fall on the driveway.
Dana (86e864) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:25 amInteresting, current replacement needs considered:
Dana (86e864) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:32 am#43. do you need a safe place? We are all frugal….NOW that your Chi-town boy that you voted for twice has taken from ALL OF US……MIDDLE CLASSS DEAD….. so PLEASE…. can wait until people like you that can’t look past Ted’s package to see what he is fighting for…. get 8 more years of hell
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:33 ami remember how my fingers would hurt from shelling pecans for mom out back with my little brother
the machines are ridiculously expensive
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:34 amwhaaaa? i never voted for food stamp JRT lady
last time i kinda voted was for mccain but i ended up just casting a provisional cause i wasn’t on the list or something
the polling place was in this secluded little park – the sun had set and the trees loomed darkly above the polling station
i made a half-hearted effort to vote for weirdo mittromney – i sent off for an absentee ballot a week before i left on a trip and it never got there in time
this time around i was gonna for for Mr. Governor Scott Walker but he proved wholly inadequate to the challenges of national politics
so now i just look on in horror and sadness
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:38 amWe are all frugal
oh my goodness you don’t know this crowd very well
the proteins are frooger
these patterico people are mostly very well-heeled and live very comfortable lives – the median income here is very very high compared to other places on the internets for example walmart.com
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:42 am“Horror and sadness”? I don’t think so. I think you just love kvetching.
So you don’t have time to vote, but you do seem to have a LOT of time to create a weird persona and complain. Check.
I hope all Orange Toupee supporters are just like you.
You actually have posted some things of interest and depth recently. But mostly? Whatevs.
More of the former, less of the latter. I understand it takes energy out of your persona creation.
Simon Jester (2708f4) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:43 ami do my best i really do
you know how i feel about this
when i was a little pikachu i was a barback in a lounge in south texas where all the bartenders were beautiful ladies of a certain age really
i would come in at 11 in the morning and the lights would be on and i would get all the ice bins fulled up and prep some musics cause i was the dj too and then noon came round (well more like 11:45 really – and my boss would say ladies – let’s get beautiful! And they’d dim the lights to where the ravages of age retreated to the shadows.
and then the barflies came
we knew all their names and for decades some of them had been coming
they had their preferred stools, and they’d drink and drink until the evening crowd came in then they’d get in their pickups and drive home – the worst of them not very far cause they lived in the neighborhood
i remember one time the boss – she was awesome and beuatiful and she said you have to remember lil pikachu
if they didn’t come here they’d be sitting at home drinking alone
she said it speaks well of their spirits that they seek out people and stubbornly stake a place for themselves in the mix of life
politics is like that too Mr. Jester
apathy is your enemy not me
i have no apathy in me not a shred
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:53 amclose parens somewheres
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:53 amBreitbart.com is slowly descending into a vat of nuttery. The writers have become such sycophants for Trump.
John Podhoretz wrote a column summarizing Saturday night’s debate in which he basically concluded that Trump came across as unhinged.
So how does Breitbart.com respond? By referring to Podhoretz as “Iraq War cheerleader John Podhoretz.”
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:59 amhttp://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/02/15/podhoretz-iraq-war-cheerleader-trump-so-awful/
We are all frugal
oh my goodness you don’t know this crowd very well
the proteins are frooger
these patterico people are mostly very well-heeled and live very comfortable lives – the median income here is very very high compared to other places on the internets for example walmart.com
happyfeet (831175)
no one should envy what anyone else has nor should they assume that because Donald waves his magic golden wand that We will make America great again. $$ is relative but what I will say is that even those that have worded hard to earn what they have earned, are being taxed out of what they have worked to achieve and there is no longer incentive when the left including Trump will need to continue the gravy train to be liked by the little peons. You don’t think Tuff guy Trump will actually CUT entitlement when his yuge ego needs to be fed and loved by all his little people. Cruz is at the side of his people… Trump towers over his people.
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 10:01 amhappyfeet, there’s a new modern invention; it’s called punctuation. In some parts of the country, it’s even acceptable to use CAPITAL letters…but only in some parts. (LOL)
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/15/2016 @ 10:02 amAt least he uses white space, although I think that’s more space for his ego than for readability.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/15/2016 @ 10:04 amChris Wallace is a liberal working at Fox. Gotta tell you something.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/15/2016 @ 10:08 am57.happyfeet, there’s a new modern invention; it’s called punctuation. In some parts of the country, it’s even acceptable to use CAPITAL letters…but only in some parts. (LOL)
Cruz Supporter (102c9a)
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remember when email first hit the public in the 80’s… and we were all told it wasn’t proper to capitalize.
The fact that I am typing on a surface RT screen keyboard makes me a target to the grammar police. PLUS THERE IS NO EDIT … if feet has to take the grief so must I.
What I dont get is how feet can come to an opinion forum where like minds explain to him common sense that any bright sprite can see… the solution to the problem and he still makes the same mistakes…… Always make new mistakes should be everyone motto.
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 10:19 amhe will keep us out of the more silly kinds of wars america does so terribly bad at
As opposed to the serious kinds of wars in which America does so passably well?
Yeah, no thanks. The languid, low-intensity melancholy of Iraq may not seem very decisive, but the alternative is… what, Okinawa? Chosin redux? The Fulda Gap gone hot? Dealing with the spillover from the next Chinese Civil War?
P.S. I realise you are the comic relief here, but turnabout is fair play; humour me.
JP (bd5dd9) — 2/15/2016 @ 10:25 amI took down a low-class, conspiratorial, and otherwise ridiculously trollish comment by happyfeet.
Patterico (d5f843) — 2/15/2016 @ 10:27 amJRT, they teach that punctuation thing in elementary school. And noun-verb agreement, too! (LOL)
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/15/2016 @ 10:29 ami stand by what i wrote
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 10:29 amhappyfeet, you should stand with American Americans, and defeat this billionaire Donald person with a bad-combover who probably wouldn’t even lower himself to eat stir fry with black pepper seasoning and sea salt. Then again, you’re not even planning to vote in the election—and that’s because you don’t think it’s actually important. That’s cool. Okay, what’s for lunch?!
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/15/2016 @ 10:39 am61.I took down a low-class, conspiratorial, and otherwise ridiculously trollish comment by happyfeet.
Must have been a veritable fleur-de-lis of ignorance, even by his standards.
JP (bd5dd9) — 2/15/2016 @ 10:42 amMr. The Donald is an expression of popular sentiment Mr. Supporter
i stand with the people
we’ve tried everything else
it’s time to stand with the people
and I am no fan of Mr. The Donald
but Team R needs to learn the lessons of this moment
i really believe that
and they haven’t even started trying yet
they’re in deep deep denial at the worst possible time
and they have so so so much to learn
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 10:46 amhappyfeet, there’s a limited number of waking hours in order to get things done. Thus, we all give priority to some things over others. You don’t believe voting is important, so that’s why you don’t do it. You basically have TWO years to plan out your first Tuesday in November. But you prefer to talk about dicing onions and frying tortillas.
That’s cool. But your baby-talk soapbox lectures complete with crocodile tears about the fate of whore trash America gets old after awhile.
Eventually, you become the happyfoot who cried, ‘Wolf!’
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/15/2016 @ 11:04 amThe Donald’s pro-choice attitude helps, doesn’t it, happyfeet?
DRJ (15874d) — 2/15/2016 @ 11:16 amwhat i look for DRJ is a very considered sense of what the priorities should be
I thought at first Mr. Governor Walker understood this based on how he had governed
I was wrong
and yes
i think wallowing in petty social issues fiercely demeans the presidency (thanks a lot ronald)
so-cons are blind to this
but the rest of america sees it very very clearly
disdain for the office of the presidency is becoming the default position anymore
and part of this is cause the president needs to rise above the trailer park stuff
the main job is to keep us safe, and that means strong and prosperous
the other stuff should be left to the states
it’s easy peasy
Mr. The Donald definitely has some sense of this – and wholly apart from his adherence to any kind of rigid ideology or newsletter principles
he just gets it
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 11:26 amDonald Trump will appoint HUGE Justices. Really TREMENDOUS Justices. It will be the HUGEST Supreme Court ever. And he will make Mexico pay for it.
nk (dbc370) — 2/15/2016 @ 11:30 amFeets, when someone actually have to govern, our highest priorities often collide. Bush 43 saw this first hand when his desire to protect the country came into conflict with domestic spending. To get a bill that funded his overseas efforts, he had to trade everything else away. Thus, he is condemned for the out of control domestic spending growth of his administration.
Walker’s a much milder example. But this is why governors are the best presidential candidates. We get to see how they handle the real job of juggling the competing pressures of managing a government and working with a legislature. It takes a lot to do it well.
Trump is on the exact opposite end of the experience spectrum, having apparently never heard ‘no’ in his life before, flipping out whenever he’s scrutinized like a presidential candidate should be. From ducking out from debate moderators he doesn’t like to bashing Bush 43 from a position to the left of Michael Moore, Trump just doesn’t handle challenges effectively. His business record confirms this. While Romney was rebuilding some failed, bankrupt company he bought, Trump was the guy failing and bankrupting a company.
Trump telling us what his priorities are today is meaningless if they haven’t been tested. From how often he’s changed them I don’t even think it’s fair to call him weakly following wherever the wind blows. I think he’s simply pretty sure he’s found where the suckers are, exploiting a group that is poorly represented by either party.
Dustin (2a8be7) — 2/15/2016 @ 11:41 ami don’t think his people are suckers Mr. Dustin
the people what keep accepting the ersatz leadership of the same morally bankrupt losers from the same three schools
knowing everything we know about the dismal results the uninterrupted reign of this garbage has achieved
those people are the suckers
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 11:45 amI took down a low-class, conspiratorial, and otherwise ridiculously trollish comment by happyfeet.
Are you sure?
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/15/2016 @ 11:45 amChicago’s grocery food tax is 2.25% and that includes Doritos, Hershey’s Nuggets, and fresh-baked apple pie from the store’s in-house bakery. The restaurant tax is 10.25, and that includes the ready to eat soups, sandwiches, and chicken box lunches your grocery store might sell at the deli counter. Eat more of your own cooking.
nk (dbc370) — 2/15/2016 @ 11:51 amYou have a point. The people who follow the Marco Rubios of the world are suckers. The people who follow the Hillary Clintons are also suckers.
You’re part of a group that is sick of that and hears a guy pound his podium a lot about it. But if you think you know Trump’s political priorities, you are also a sucker. His priority isn’t politics at all. He’s left so many people and causes he has supporters high and dry.
This primary was/is a golden opportunity for the Tea Party of 2010 to bear some fruit. Both parties are actually full of folks who do not accept what’s been going on in DC. They aren’t suckers. They’ve been making the ‘least bad’ choices they can. This round, we can see which of the folks who promised to be be different lived up to the hype. I liked Gov Walker and I am OK with the less experienced Cruz. I reject Rubio, Bush, and the also rans. Trump doesn’t factor in because it’s so clear he’s insincere and he’s never been tested. If he ran for Governor and ran the state according to his promises he would have some credibility, but Trump has no intention of living up to any promise he makes, so this plan makes no sense to him.
Dustin (2a8be7) — 2/15/2016 @ 11:55 amis 10.25%!
and 11.25% downtown so I’m trying really hard to bring foozle or get stuff at jewel
(plus remember you’re also paying a hefty “minimum wage” tax)
and i think diet coke gets taxered at the higher rate (10.25)
i know for sure if you get stuff at the jewel deli it gets the 10.25% tax
you have to be really careful
i did a lot of eating out last year but this year i’m not doing that
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 11:57 amHillary to bill you kiss the gays and blacks and I will kiss the mexicans and jews and we will win the white house as often as we choose! Debbie wasserman schultz will deal with bernie sanders.
leland (339cff) — 2/15/2016 @ 11:57 amMr. Dustin
of everyone running, Mr. Trump is the only one that promises to be a disruptive force
this sad little country needs some disrupting
oh my goodness it needs it something awful
20 trillion dollars
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 11:58 amI’m all about that grocery store pie. My HEB bakery is legitimate. Half peach and half pecan! I don’t even know how they do it. But the taxes in Texas are slightly more progressive. 0% on groceries, other than the latter category, which is 8.25% here. I’ve always liked that policy. Few restaurants can compete with a fresh T-Bone you grilled yourself, and none can compete for even triple the price.
Dustin (2a8be7) — 2/15/2016 @ 11:59 ami miss HEB so much
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 12:00 pmWe’re getting somewhere. I don’t think Trump has any plan to help conservatives, even on immigration, and I think he plans to make ‘great deals’ with Pelosi and Schumer (the way Rubio did). That’s not disruption. That’s greasing the wheels. Trump will be the government, and he will be here to help with more programs.
Trump does promise tax reductions, but even when looking I don’t find how he plans to cut deficit spending. That is truly the real name of the game. If I sincerely thought Trump was going to balance the budget I would be his most loyal supporter.
Meanwhile, you and I both know who has actually gone to DC and disrupted it. You and I both know who would be the most disruptive of business as usual, and who would stick to principles on spending and other kinds of encroaching government. I don’t even have to name him. That’s how easy this is.
But while you forgive Trump for breaking his word and spinning from one position to the other, you condemn an actual disrupter who walked the talk. You do this because of social policies your side already won, which are therefore not all that critical now.
Dustin (2a8be7) — 2/15/2016 @ 12:05 pmHonestly, some governments are just not serious about taxes. I buy groceries twice a week. I haven’t bought a car in ten years, a computer or phone in five, and a TV in two. If a government is really serious about taxes it will tax the things people must have all the time — food, medicine, clothes, housing, electricity and heating fuel. Not the things people can put off buying or do without altogether.
nk (dbc370) — 2/15/2016 @ 12:14 pmlook i’d love more than beans if Mr. Cruz got elected and fulfilled all of your hopes
i don’t see that in him
i think he’s all about positioning and self-marketing and calculation
his moral core is suffused with arrogance and hubris and pooperism
he’s not a good person
it’s truly a warning claxon that so many who know him will attest to this
and beyond that i think he’s very dividey just by his instincts
he’s a lot like barack obama in that way
and i think he has absolutely no sense whatsoever of how badly broken failmerica is
i think he’ll smash what’s left of it to bits
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 12:15 pmDustin, your Marco Rubio Derangement Syndrome requires a consultation with a physician. At least take a multivitamin! (LOL)
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/15/2016 @ 12:19 pmalso his wife is pretty sketch
a goldy sacky first lady gives me the wiggins
it’s just too too macbethian
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 12:19 pmTed Cruz, being a Constitutionalist, would appoint someone who can objectively interpret the existing laws of the US. A Democrat would appoint racist Hispanic women, brown-nosing legal clerks from Chicago and hopped-up hippies who hallucinate that the Constitution allows the government to force you to buy a consumer product, marry sexual deviants and violate the rights of the people to bear arms.
CrustyB (69f730) — 2/15/2016 @ 12:22 pmYes that is why feets supports Trump.
This stuff is disingenuous stuff aimed at many of the low info loony toon Trumpers that have been posting here:
happyfeet is careful to keep it real simple and not talk about, say, the Supreme Court.
Gerald A (7c7ffb) — 2/15/2016 @ 12:26 pmhappyfeet is careful to keep it real simple and not talk about, say, the Supreme Court.
carbuncles and pretty pretty ponies Mr. A
Team R controls the senate
if they take their advising and consenting role seriously it makes no difference who is president now do it
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 12:29 pmMD is medical doctor
MD not exactly in Philly (deca84) — 2/15/2016 @ 12:31 pmNo longer practicing
It looks like I may have missed a few good points amidst a bunch of nonsense.
You know I’m talking about who gets to appoint Scalia’s successor. The Senate can’t do that. I know you realize that but maybe the low info types think that makes sense.
Gerald A (7c7ffb) — 2/15/2016 @ 12:31 pmi think you have to nominate someone you can get confirmed
that is my sense of how this game is played
the only rules is that whoever you nominate has to be a filthy piece of ivy league trash
beyond that you have infinite flexibility
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 12:35 pmStill smiling, he produced his comfit-box, and raised the lid. Between thumb and forefinger he balanced a sugar-crusted comfit of coriander seed steeped in marjoram vinegar, and having put his question he bore the sweet-meat to his mouth. The ladies looked at him, and from him to me.
nk (dbc370) — 2/15/2016 @ 12:35 pmhappyfeet,
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/15/2016 @ 12:41 pmIn your book, anyone who went to college is ‘trash,’ huh?
not so Mr. Supporter
what I think is that if everyone’s legal hero du jour had gone to any school other than a certain three
in spite of his commitments to the scholarships and in spite of his majestic intellect
there’s no way he’d have ever gotten his fancy judge job
no way at all
this should make you sad to think on all the ones who never had a chance
it definitely makes me sad
i look out on the snowy city
and i sigh for what might have been
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 12:54 pmNo, just Ivy leaguers, Cruz Supporter. Somehow one distinguishes himself as trash merely by attending college in Princeton.
Rev. Hoagie™® (f4eb27) — 2/15/2016 @ 12:56 pmPrinceton’s not good enough for our current Supreme Court. Only Harvard or Yale (or Columbia, if you transfer from Harvard).
Leviticus (efada1) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:06 pmThat Antonin Scalia person graduated from Harvard Law.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:10 pmJerk!
i’m resolute in my thinkings on this matter Mr. Supporter
no matter how cruelly you may mock me
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:12 pmI think Alito went to Princeton.
DRJ (15874d) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:16 pmAlito went to Princeton and Yale Law School.
Rev. Hoagie™® (f4eb27) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:23 pmhappyfeet, I’m not mocking you cruelly. I think you’re entertaining. I also think you’re wrong to support Mr Donald over Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:23 pmi wonder
might the Team R senators not calculate that a liberal court would enhance their own position and importance?
they’d become the sole bulwark, at least in their minds
my goodness how the funds would flow into their coffers
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:24 pmSomehow one distinguishes himself as trash merely by attending college in Princeton.
NB Lionel Hutz.
JP (bd5dd9) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:25 pmAntonin Scalia’s passing is heartbreaking. Obviously his death weighs heaviest upon his family and friends, but his country misses him, too. So does truth. This is not good for America.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:26 pmHow many of you are against abortion under any circumstance, for the repeal of Roe, the prosecution of abortionists for murder, illegal in all states and territories?
Just curious.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:27 pm(I’ll show you mine after you show me yours)
i’m not supporting Mr. Trump
I’m appreciating him Mr. Supporter
he’s sui generis that one
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:27 pmIf you don’t want to see mine – that’s the story of my life.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:28 pmsui generis and unmistakably american
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:30 pmSCOTUSBLOG: Loretta Lynch ‘Most Likely Candidate’…
love it
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:31 pmpaptertiger, the world is on fire, the economy is in the latrine, and our best Supreme Court justice just passed away, yet you insist upon litigating a fight over abortion. Oh God, you Trump guys just don’t get “it.”
At least you revealed what animates you.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:32 pmone quesses where this corrupt Hooch got edumacated
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:33 pmI’m not picking a fight, I’m soliciting an opinion.
Hesitation to participate is revealing in a way.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:34 pmHow many of you are against abortion under any circumstance, for the repeal of Roe, the prosecution of abortionists for murder, illegal in all states and territories?
not me i’m not counted among this number Mr. tiger
i stand for freedom
even if i stand alone
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:36 pmAl Gore thinks the world is on fire – could have said that if I were looking for a fight.
But I’m not.
Harriet Miers wasn’t from Harvard or any other highbrow school.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:40 pmDoes this relate to the Supreme Court? SCOTUS relates only to the second of those four items.
Gerald A (7c7ffb) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:41 pmyup and she got coughed up like a toxic bolus
the system wholly and utterly rejected her like a mismatched organ donor
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:41 pmMr. Gerald I’m pointing out that Trump’s position isn’t crazy or extreme, and is actively held by the majority, even of people on this blog.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:46 pmOh, papertiger, you stand there in front of a windmill, sabre drawn, chest protruding, and then whenever someone responds to your holier-than-thou question, you withdraw like into your shell like a turtle.
The world is on fire. The economy is severely underperforming. Our best Supreme Court Justice just died of a heart attack.
Yet your most prurient interest is in discovering where everyone stands on…abortion!
You’re the proverbial Captain of the Titanic who is freaking about the arrangement of the deck chairs as the ship is sinking.
You Trump guys. It’s all about appearance…but substance? Not so much. (LOL)
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:51 pmheart attack my fuzzy yeller butt
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:53 pmHow many of you are against abortion under any circumstance, for the repeal of Roe, the prosecution of abortionists for murder, illegal in all states and territories?
There are, at most, 2 votes on the court for overturning Casey (which replaced Roe 20 years ago). Alito is probably a pure vote here, but I pretty much think it is on Thomas’s list ONLY in that it might further his federalist goals which don’t otherwise require it. It wasn’t really high on Scalia’s list anymore. Stare decisis.
Roe is a bogeyman that Democrat hags use to scare little girls, and GOP rabble-rousers use to get Evangelical votes and money. But nobody really wants to do more than posture and nibble about the edges.
No more than 20% of the population wants to see abortion illegal. Most think the current laws are too liberal, and that would be higher if they were not so completely lied to (e.g. “health of the mother”), but most want some choice early on in a pregnancy. But the screaming classes aren’t interested.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:55 pmfuzzy yeller butt!!!!
It’s just baby talk, all the time.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:56 pmFirst, what’s that got to do with what kind of justice should replace Scalia?
Second, what is his position?
Gerald A (7c7ffb) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:56 pmi myself heart the 20-22 week compromise that Rick Perry embraced
chop chop stop creeping around the furniture and make a decision
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:56 pmThe economy is severely underperforming.
My belief is the economy is underperforming inversely proportional to the amount of money spent on global warming indulgences.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/15/2016 @ 1:59 pmDragnet – The thought police are out to crack down on unauthorized thinkers.
ropelight (ed3ef5) — 2/15/2016 @ 2:00 pmI’m in line with Happy on that 20-22 week compromise. I don’t want my sister brought up on charges because she couldn’t afford a child born when she was 18.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/15/2016 @ 2:02 pmpapertiger–
I would be adamantly against Trump even if I agreed with all of his positions.
1) I don’t trust him to do what he says, he changes positions whenever it’s convenient.
2) I would not want him representing me in any way, let along my country. With a lot of training and manners he might rise to “boor.”
3) He is personally dishonest, intellectually bankrupt, amazingly lazy and woefully ignorant.
What does it matter what his position papers say? It’s not like he wrote them, I’ll bet money he’s not read them, and it’s a dice roll if he’ll follow them.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/15/2016 @ 2:04 pmI want a justice who would vote to overturn Roe not only because I’m pro life, but on constitutional grounds. Roe is IMO a case of courts creating rights out of thin air, like the right to SSM. Or to give another example, SCOTUS granted the executive branch the right to regulate CO2 as a pollutant. Only Congress can do that. Obama has used that decision to start destroying the coal industry. All of those are very bad things and they’re all related, even though the last of those isn’t a social issue.
Gerald A (7c7ffb) — 2/15/2016 @ 2:08 pmCruz Supporter,
You sound familiar, somehow. Have you commented on this blog under a different handle in the past?
Leviticus (efada1) — 2/15/2016 @ 2:09 pmWith a lot of training and manners he might rise to “boor.”
he’s the most quintessentially american candidate that’s run in my whole lifetime
i too harbor doubts about what he can achieve as president
but i like living in an america that produces Donalds
i asked Alexa to play Love & Theft – they have two cds on prime including the new one
here’s their cover of wrong baby wrong
they add value these two
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 2:10 pmI have said many times that there should be a Constitutional amendment on abortion that reads:
But neither side would be interested in this.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 2/15/2016 @ 2:11 pm#124 papertiger wrote,
“My belief is the economy is underperforming inversely proportional to the amount…”
Oh, Christ, there’s your problem, papertiger.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/15/2016 @ 2:11 pmYou use words like “inversely” and “proportional” when discussing the economy.
You’re the big fella in the sports bar who wants to give a history on the history of the nickel defense and pass rushing when really we’re just talking about a bad interception. (LOL)
see, Dan + Shay?
harmony doesn’t have to be repulsive
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 2:12 pmHere in SW Florida we tend to get visitors this time of year, my guest, an old friend of many years, is visiting from Canada, we met when he was a student at CalTech. This evening as we sat watching the news, he turned to me and asked, “If a Canadian can run for US President, shouldn’t I be able to register and vote for him?”
ropelight (ed3ef5) — 2/15/2016 @ 2:20 pmThe start of Scalia’s dissent on SSM ruling:
I join THE CHIEF JUSTICE’s opinion in full. I write separately to call attention to this Court’s threat to American democracy.
The substance of today’s decree is not of immense personal importance to me. The law can recognize as marriage whatever sexual attachments and living arrangements it wishes, and can accord them favorable civil consequences, from tax treatment to rights of inheritance.
Those civil consequences—and the public approval that conferring the name of marriage evidences—can perhaps have adverse social effects, but no more adverse than the effects of many other controversial laws. So it is not of special importance to me what the law says about marriage. It is of overwhelming importance, however, who it is that rules me. Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court. The opinion in these cases is the furthest extension in fact— and the furthest extension one can even imagine—of the Court’s claimed power to create “liberties” that the Constitution and its Amendments neglect to mention. This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves.
Gerald A (7c7ffb) — 2/15/2016 @ 2:24 pmYou’re the big fella in the sports bar who wants to give a history on the history of the nickel defense and pass rushing when really we’re just talking about a bad interception. (LOL)
You’re the kind who wants to yell at the quarterback. But the receiver blew the route by falling down at the cut.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/15/2016 @ 2:24 pm128-Leviticus
mg (02095c) — 2/15/2016 @ 2:25 pmElephant Stone?
Ah, perhaps mg. Good guess. I’m curious as to why people switch handles, is all. “What’s in a name,” and all that…
Leviticus (efada1) — 2/15/2016 @ 2:27 pm#128, Laviticus, although you may not welcome my participation, I share your intuition.
ropelight (ed3ef5) — 2/15/2016 @ 2:31 pmIndeed, Why use a handle at all?
Rev. Hoagie™® (f4eb27) — 2/15/2016 @ 2:47 pmAlmost definitely Elephant Stone.
Leviticus (efada1) — 2/15/2016 @ 2:51 pmIn a remarkable interview with popular Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo, House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan declined multiple times to answer whether he would, as Speaker of the House, allow legislation to proceed curbing the rapid growth of America’s foreign-born population.
he’s such a nasty heavily-bearded slimy pig i just can’t even tell you
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 3:00 pm128-Leviticus
Elephant Stone?
mg (02095c) — 2/15/2016 @ 2:25 pm
I do not sense Elephant Stone in those comments, he rarely employed “LOL.” But it could just be a ploy to throw us off of the scent.
felipe (56556d) — 2/15/2016 @ 3:06 pmMr. Elephant was never this into me
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 3:07 pmThe profanity does fit, I’ll give you that.
felipe (56556d) — 2/15/2016 @ 3:08 pm137 Leviticus
mg (02095c) — 2/15/2016 @ 3:09 pmSome people get kicked off the site then they do anything to get back on
Mr. Elephant got kicked off???
nobody tells me anything
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 3:10 pmhe’s out there in the cold
in the snow
we have to go get him
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 3:15 pmy’all go get him i’ll make cocoa
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 3:16 pmmonetization
Colonel Haiku (bb3c31) — 2/15/2016 @ 3:21 pmyou put pedal to metal
elasticity
127 … Or to give another example, SCOTUS granted the executive branch the right to regulate CO2 as a pollutant. Only Congress can do that. …
What the Supreme Court ruled was that Congress had done that. So not quite out of thin air.
James B. Shearer (0f56fb) — 2/15/2016 @ 3:24 pmheh I said hey you
Colonel Haiku (bb3c31) — 2/15/2016 @ 3:24 pmget off my cloud computing
and don’t hang around…………………………………………… cuz two’s a crowd
104.How many of you are against abortion under any circumstance, for the repeal of Roe, the prosecution of abortionists for murder, illegal in all states and territories?
Not me. Is that the position of some of the Republican candidates? If not, I don’t see the point of the question.
James B. Shearer (0f56fb) — 2/15/2016 @ 3:28 pmthe failmerican scotus moves inexorably in the direction of anti-freedom
that’s just the truth
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 3:29 pmDonald Trump lost the Lindsey Graham endorsement.
Jees he must have done really bad. Something worse than a prank call.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/15/2016 @ 3:37 pm88.MD is medical doctor
No longer practicing
It looks like I may have missed a few good points amidst a bunch of nonsense.
MD not exactly in Philly
………………………………………………………….
I’m in N. DE ….but I say near Philly too , to the rest of the USA.
Live a few miles from Biden and if it weren’t for being able to read some sense in this country, I would be scratching my eyes out dealing with the stupidity we now have in this country.
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 3:52 pmI guess we do have the GOP to blame for the happyfeet of this country. The GOP has had 8 years of appeasing BO, Nancy and Reid. Ted has brought their misconduct and flat out lies along with their caring more about getting along and in bed with the democrats than fighting for our freedoms.
BUT feet, for you to insult Ted who has walked the walk…. in order to prop up your feel good democrat turned republican overnight candidate is just stupid.
If Trump can throw an honorable man like Cruz under the bus, can you imagine what he will do to the people of the USA.
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 4:00 pmouch?
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 4:07 pmthis is a real thing
it’s from candada
not unlike alanis morissette
but way more twirly
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 4:10 pmIt’s been an attack , Mr. S, that Trump doesn’t have the faculties to pick a suitable replacement for Scalia (or Ginsberg. or Breyer. or Kennedy).
The attack being he is against defunding Planned Parenthood, because of their good works on women’s health.
Pretty sure that PP’s good works to the extent they exist are the fig leaf covering up the gruesome.
Will it inform his pick?
It’s a good attack.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/15/2016 @ 4:16 pmthey cure a lot of failmerica’s vd Mr. tiger
they couldn’t help bill clinton with his herpes
but they tried really hard
he just has a really bad case is all
his herpes is pernicious
🙁
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 4:19 pmWere the Bush years peaches and cream?
I remember a disinterested leader who expanded government when ever the wind blew, and left the heavy lifting of defending his invasion of a sovereign country to we poor schmucks.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/15/2016 @ 4:23 pmTed Cruz would be an excellent replacement for Scalia. But since we are not in a position that he could get nominated and he just so happens to be volunteering to run and fix the last 8 years of debacle ….He would be the best suited to nominate the perfect Scalia replacement. The US can’t handle much more upset by BO.
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 4:25 pmHe lied in the debate about Cruz and looked very foolish. He lied to his supporters when running for Senate. He told one story to us in English and another in Spanish.
He is the prettiest and most rehearsed politician, with considerable lying skills.
Thank you for responding to my argument, based on a politician’s record, with insults. Mark my words: if Rubio is the nominee, I won’t vote for him. Romney was the very last one of these guys I’ll ever vote for.
I’m not that far from Happyfeet’s point of view on politics. I just reject Trump basically the same way he rejects Cruz. If you die hard republicans want my support you can’t insult me into it.
Dustin (2a8be7) — 2/15/2016 @ 4:28 pm161.Were the Bush years peaches and cream
2000-2008
Real Estate was booming. I made more money, and saved more money. Had more disposable income. Took more vacations….AND WE WERE AT WAR…….
fast forward 2008-2016….playing catch up from 2008…paying nearly $5.00 gal. gas prices… except for the last three months….
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 4:31 pmTaxes have gone up three times their rates from 08 and yet income has stayed the same.
JRT
I usually sign as “MD in Philly”, as I am a MD and I live in Philly,
If I happen to be away from home then I play with my location
In part because the tag of my location is different and I wanted people to know it was really me, fwiw
I do sometimes post under another name, which is identified as a sock puppet and not a secret to the old timers, he usually visits to make humorous observations, especially about legalspeak and other crimes against sanity from the political class.
MD not exactly in Philly (deca84) — 2/15/2016 @ 4:33 pmexcept pikachu isn’t serious, shirley he isn’t, trump gives me gas, but the overwrought ‘outrage’ about every jot and tiddle, is equally exhausting,
narciso (732bc0) — 2/15/2016 @ 4:36 pmI have a dream:
https://mail.verizon.com/webmail/driver?nimlet=download&fid=INBOX&mid=143979&partIndex=0.1.1&disp=inline
Rev. Hoagie™® (f4eb27) — 2/15/2016 @ 4:37 pm164Real Estate was booming …
Based on giving mortgages to people who couldn’t afford them. It was bound to end badly and it did. As a result enough Democrats were elected to pass Obamacare. That’s GWB’s legacy.
James B. Shearer (0f56fb) — 2/15/2016 @ 4:46 pm“I’m not that far from Happyfeet’s point of view on politics.”
– Dustin
Neither am I. He’s a political nihilist, not a Trump supporter. I’m neither, but I’m certainly closer to the former than the latter.
Leviticus (078cbf) — 2/15/2016 @ 4:51 pmGot it. MD, not from Maryland
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 4:57 pmMD, I always say near Philly, as no one seems to know of DE …especially those that think Ted Cruz’s mother was born and raised in Canada and not DE…… or maybe they think DE is some place in Canada. All is good, I would rather people not know where I am.
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:05 pmoh we know of Macho Grande in these corners, Delaware was a slightly contentious issue, a few years ago,
narciso (732bc0) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:07 pm168.164Real Estate was booming …
Based on giving mortgages to people who couldn’t afford them. It was bound to end badly and it did. As a result enough Democrats were elected to pass Obamacare. That’s GWB’s legacy
Put it this way….. The market allowed for equity to come out of a sale of your home. Now, what people did with that equity or what people assumed would happen if we didn’t elect the most unstable , unqualified , inexperienced socialist that was now going to increase taxes three fold to pay for all of his stimulus bail outs to the banks and manufactures …..throwing good money after bad. BO’s instability is what caused business to lay off because of higher taxes, obamacare, and regulations so that they would force companies to leave the country….. this was all BO. He built that NOT W.
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:11 pmNow that you mention it,
Things like letting the left determine the false narratives about the economic meltdown and the “lack” of WMD’s
Are why we need someone in DC who isn’t interested in getting along but telling the truth and to keep telling it, just as many keep telling lies.
If it is too late for someone like that to get elected, then it is just too late…
MD not exactly in Philly (deca84) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:13 pmImo, life begins at conception and any purposeful attempt to end pregnancy other than in a healthy birth is wrong
But if I was president of the US what difference would it make? I would want to see Roe v Wade, i.e. Casey overturned, which would not outlaw abortion, but would give it back to the citizens of each state to do what they please.
I would build on the public abhorrence of infanticide and late term abortion as possible, which is a politically winning position.
Just as I would build on the public desire to let the LGBTetc folk do what they want in private, even “marriage? if they want, but demand it is an allowance that goes both ways. Straights need to be respected for their views as well,
And K-12 school is not the place where children of one anatomical sex are forced to use the same bathroom and locker room of members of the opposite anatomical sense,
And to think otherwise is just too mistaken to be debated with –
All empathy for a 5-18 who doesn’t know which bathroom to use,
But forcing the rest of the school to go against their common sense is not going to help anyone,
Except lawyers and activists who want to make a name for themselves.
I’ll never get over macho grande.
Leviticus, I really like that term, ‘political nihilist.’ It really captures happyfeet’s theme (no insult intended).
Dustin (2a8be7) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:15 pmyes we were in a bubble, as now, but it seemed more authentic,
narciso (732bc0) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:16 pmYou do this because of social policies your side already won, which are therefore not all that critical now.
please to tell roobs, who i know is not your fave by any means – this is from his closing statement in carolina
someone really needs to upgrade his os before they put him out there again for public consumption
else he’s trapped forever in a sweaty throbbing gloria estefan video from the 80s poor lil guy
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:17 pmsometimes it feels like an Airplane kind of day, other days, Spinal Tap and Princess Bride,
narciso (732bc0) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:17 pmhey don’t knock gloria estefan, pikachu, those are my peeps,
narciso (732bc0) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:19 pmhah c’mon shake ur body baby do that conga
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:19 pmthat was an original notion back with snl, twenty some years ago,
http://freebeacon.com/blog/why-are-liberals-so-racist-when-it-comes-to-clarence-thomas/
narciso (732bc0) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:20 pmI think it’s more like the crimean war template, electric boogaloo,
http://observer.com/2016/02/welcome-to-cold-war-2-0/
narciso (732bc0) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:22 pmI once was a political nihilist,
Then I got fed up realizing how much some politicos were lying to my face,
And started caring and paying attention.
I am now on the precipice of continuing to care and nihilism.
If Cruz wins there will be (from a human perspective) reason to care,
Maybe even if Rubio gets elected, but I am not convinced.
Anyone else, at this point anyway, seems to be prelude to chaos and paying the piper,
MD not exactly in Philly (deca84) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:23 pmAnd hoping and praying it will not be too terrible.
I send my children to Catholics school, but since Obama , and the current socialist Pope, we have liberal Nazi Gestapo even present in Catholic schools with all the bleeding heart liberal Catholics.
Abortion is a contentious issue and I think Cruz should side step it….. take a page from the lib playbook, and then if he sits in the office …Go after the late term killing criminals. A woman that wants to terminate a pregnancy should have to deal with the laws of the medical community, not the feds on the issue.
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:25 pmedit 184. Laws of the medical community and the laws of God ultimately.
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:26 pmJust so you know JRT for CRUZ, Perry/nate/trumpet and others lives in Lewes so he’s your neighbor. Lucky you.
Rev. Hoagie™® (f4eb27) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:27 pmI posted it in a dormant thread,
http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/226781/#respond
narciso (732bc0) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:29 pmMaybe even if Rubio gets elected, but I am not convinced.
Come on, your a doc. the sweating/dry mouth…. he is under the influence of something there? Rubio can talk a good talk, but even Trump would probably make a better liar and Chief than Rubio.
Its Cruz or Bust if TRUTH, principles and morals are what you want.
Have you read or listened to his audio book. Humility is the word that best describes Ted. NO ego there.
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:30 pmBut isn’t Lewes in lower Delaware?
MD not exactly in Philly (deca84) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:31 pmThat’s like the separate state.
They even had an alligator in the wild there (or was it another type of crocodilian?).
Hey, I said I was hoping to be pleasantly surprised if Rubio gets elected.
MD not exactly in Philly (deca84) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:33 pm186.Just so you know JRT for CRUZ, Perry/nate/trumpet and others lives in Lewes so he’s your neighbor. Lucky you.
I also have a house in DEWEY. Lower smarter DE, is what I call it. Judge Bill Lee lives down there. He too is an excellent judge and would have been God sent compared to Markell. And don’t get me started with mini me Coons
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:34 pmI confess that I, too, was once a nihilist. Now I just don’t give two f*cks about a goddam thing.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:43 pmI wonder how many ME refugees Biden let into that part of the state. Lower De which is mainly resort town and dead in the winters has had over 50 terror threats in the last month. The FBI has even been called in?
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:45 pm192.I confess that I, too, was once a nihilist. Now I just don’t give two f*cks about a goddam thing
what do you think will happen to you when you die?
Why not adopt the philosophy, when in doubt do nothing.
fear no man, fear God.
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:48 pmI think there’s a difference between cynicism and nihilism, the latter is the province of anarchists, marxists, far right types, who see the ‘worse the better’
narciso (732bc0) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:49 pmMD, one of my favorite restaurants is The Villa D’ Roma
Its like stepping back in Mafia time there. I live it!
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:50 pmdont live it , love it.
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:51 pmWe’ve had 8-16 years of GOP leaders who have rarely been able to articulate what conservatism means. No wonder Republican voters don’t know it when they see it.
DRJ (15874d) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:53 pmI’m sure he wasn’t referring to profound things, but shallow ones, those with faith, know this kingdom is but a passing thing, a transitional period, to an eternal realm where elections will not determine the outcome,
narciso (732bc0) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:55 pmObama-mania should breed cynicism in anyone not on happy pills
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:55 pmhere’s my favorite song what extols the virtues of socialism and condemns the evils of free enterprise
it’s british, of course
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:56 pm<raises hand>
As far as I’m concerned a baby is a person from the first brain activity, which is at about 6 weeks. At the end of life, if you start cutting someone up for parts before their brain has permanently stopped all activity, we call it murder and you go to prison. Surely the same standard sould apply at the beginning of life.
But I’d settle for legally deeming it “reckless endangerment”. Another quick poll here: How many have read Ronald Reagan’s book on the issue? He argued that even if nobody can prove that an unborn child is a person possessing rights, surely nobody can prove that it isn’t, so the prudent thing would be to treat it as if it were. The law not only forbids knowingly and deliberately killing someone, it also forbids taking an unreasonable risk of killing someone. If you shoot at a dimly seen figure in the dark, without knowing or caring whether it’s a person, you go to prison. Surely that is exactly what committing an abortion is, at the very least.
Killing a baby should be lawful if and only if the killer had a reasonable belief that failure to do so was likely to kill or seriously injure the mother. In other words, the same circumstances that would justify killing an adult.
Milhouse (87c499) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:57 pmheads we win, tails you lose,
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/02/dems_in_senate_passed_a_resolution_in1960_against_election_year_supreme_court_appointments.html
narciso (732bc0) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:57 pmI support post natal abortions for canada turd cruz and of course YOU!
bush v gore (339cff) — 2/15/2016 @ 5:59 pm100% on spelling there Mr. gore
you’re awesome!
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 6:00 pmA life is a life when God breaths breath into it. If a mother chooses to end the life at 6 weeks or 6 years which also happens sadly…. that life goes back to its creator, God. People get too wrapped up in abortion… Yes, its a crime but the woman will pay either now or later.
Parents can have unrealistic expectations that suck the life out of a child. Not just abortion is killing our children. I would rather a life go back to God than stay here and endure abuse.
I tell my children, God is your father. I am your parent to guide you but you were only given to me as a gift from God.
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 6:04 pmthose with faith, know this kingdom is but a passing thing, a transitional period, to an eternal realm where elections will not determine the outcome
very true
fear no man, fear Gods will.
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 6:06 pmthis is the fundamental truth,
http://www.biblestudytools.com/proverbs/22-6-compare.html
by the time that matter had gotten to scalia, it was too late,
narciso (732bc0) — 2/15/2016 @ 6:08 pmThe state cannot farm its responsibilities out to God. Otherwise we should just shut it down entirely, and rely on Him to protect us from all who would harm us. Governments are instituted among men to secure the inalienable rights with which He has endowed us, and that applies to babies in the womb every bit as much as it applies to doddering centenarians, and to each of us. Either the government protects us all, or it has no business existing. Saying that it will not interfere if you kill a baby is the same as saying it will not interfere if you kill an alien, or a member of some other disfavored class.
Milhouse (87c499) — 2/15/2016 @ 6:15 pmwhat was striking about scalia, is for all his wit and wisdom, he didn’t view himself as indespensable, in fact he averred when a decision had to reach him, he did his duty as needs
narciso (732bc0) — 2/15/2016 @ 6:26 pmmust. but he didn’t see himself as some olympian overseer,
I was just kiddin’ about teh nihilism… I care too much, if anything. Watching our world fall apart all around us when it didn’t have to just pisses me off.
Colonel Haiku (bb3c31) — 2/15/2016 @ 6:42 pm203 Killing a baby should be lawful if and only if the killer had a reasonable belief that failure to do so was likely to kill or seriously injure the mother. In other words, the same circumstances that would justify killing an adult.
State laws sometimes allow killing adults when no one is in danger. For example as I understand it in Colorado you can kill someone who has unlawfully entered your house even if you are not in danger.
James B. Shearer (0f56fb) — 2/15/2016 @ 6:47 pmPsalm 37 something
fret not, it tends only to evil
God sits in the Heavens and laughs-
MD in Philly (still not in Philly, etc.) (deca84) — 2/15/2016 @ 6:48 pmof course, not at the sadness and cruelty,
but at the foolishness of those who think they know better then He does
One must care enough to do something about it. We’ve tried to raise our children to be upstanding, productive, God-fearing people. But I know that isn’t enough…
Colonel Haiku (bb3c31) — 2/15/2016 @ 6:52 pmColonel, you’re dealing with adherents of a pernicious philosophy which holds that only when civil society is teetering on the brink of collapse will the people embrace collectivism’s promise of a stable future under a Socialist dictatorship. Consequently, the enemies of America are ever at work undermining our institutions, customs, and economic system to hasten the time of their ascendancy.
ropelight (ed3ef5) — 2/15/2016 @ 6:54 pm209 The state cannot farm its responsibilities out to God. Otherwise we should just shut it down entirely, and rely on Him to protect us from all who would harm us. Governments are instituted among men to secure the inalienable rights with which He has endowed us, and that applies to babies in the womb every bit as much as it applies to doddering centenarians, and to each of us. Either the government protects us all, or it has no business existing. Saying that it will not interfere if you kill a baby is the same as saying it will not interfere if you kill an alien, or a member of some other disfavored class.
Not being religious I see things differently. Laws are rules a group of people adopt to expedite their working together for their mutual benefit. The group is free to adopt whatever set of rules they think will work best for the group.
James B. Shearer (0f56fb) — 2/15/2016 @ 6:58 pmmutual benefit, should the lions decide for the lambs, because we know how that turns out,
narciso (732bc0) — 2/15/2016 @ 7:07 pmcrude is up over 30 again
The world’s top two oil exporters, Saudi Arabia and Russia, will hold talks together with their counterparts from Venezuela and Qatar in Doha on Tuesday, sources told Reuters.
that seems weird who cares about venezuela they’re trash and they have no juice
they can’t even afford to import the light crude they need to process their inferior third whirl ghetto oil
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 7:13 pmvenezuela proves the old russian joke, ‘if egypt went communist, in fifty years they’d run out of sand’ yes they are floating on an ocean of oil, which is heavy crude, yet can’t get to it,
narciso (732bc0) — 2/15/2016 @ 7:20 pmSaudi Arabia has been taking the blame on this site, but it is Russia and Venezuela who cannot afford to cut production. They need every dollar even if it means a dollar a barrel.
nk (dbc370) — 2/15/2016 @ 7:24 pmGasoline is $1.50 this week, down from $1.60 last week. You know what? I’m happy.
nk (dbc370) — 2/15/2016 @ 7:26 pmyes, they can weather the storm to a point, the crude collapse, was one of the factor in the Soviet denounement, and the caracazo, which eventually brought chavez to power,
narciso (732bc0) — 2/15/2016 @ 7:28 pm1. Generally atheists claim that one needn’t be religious to believe in natural rights; it’s rare to find one admitting that without a Creator there are no limits on what laws a group may make for itself, or presumably on what a person may do when not subject to such laws.
2. So you hold that the laws of the Third Reich or the USSR, however distasteful you might personally find them, were just as valid as any other country’s. I don’t think that’s a point of view that a lot of people would admit to.
3. In any case, the United States of America was explicitly founded on the principle I cited, so its laws ought to conform to that principle.
Milhouse (87c499) — 2/15/2016 @ 7:32 pmOnly if you reasonably believe the intruder is committing or intends to commit a crime in your house, and that he might use physical force against an occupant.
Milhouse (87c499) — 2/15/2016 @ 7:44 pmIt shall be an affirmative defense to a charge of murder, voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter or reckless homicide under this Code that the person killed was an elected official, or judge, of this State or of the United States, and the death occurred during the first 20 weeks of the legislature’s then current session, Congress’s then current session, or the court’s current term as the case may be.
nk (dbc370) — 2/15/2016 @ 7:56 pmJust read there wont be an autopsy on Scalia ? …. But there is controversy over him being found alone at the time of death, and a report or a rumor that a pillow was over his head. Even if there was foul play, I take it the autopsy report could be tampered with as well. Or the Pathologist would turn up missing. How convenient the timing of his death for the left. Fear no man, fear God.
JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:25 pmit appears to have been a miscommunication, like with the cheney accidental shooting, that happened a decade ago, if memory serves,
narciso (732bc0) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:28 pmwhy on earth would there be an autopsy
what are autopsies even for
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:30 pmthe truth is out there, pikachu,
there’s a new series based on whitley strieber’s craziness, hunters,
narciso (732bc0) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:32 pmit’s gale anne hurd so it’s hard not to want to watch
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:35 pmput down the pipe feet.
jrt for cruz (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:40 pmThere is a positive correlation between people who push conspiracy theories and Trump supporters.
I’m just sayin’.
Patterico (86c8ed) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:42 pmhttp://news.yahoo.com/scalias-body-being-flown-back-died-natural-causes-095953333–politics.html#
jrt for cruz (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:46 pmbut read the comments on that Yahoo article…
jrt for cruz (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:50 pm228 what are autopsies even for
Primarily to determine the cause of death which is not always obvious. If Scalia was poisoned it would be nice to know. Or if was some easily treatable condition that his doctors could have detected knowing this might help prevent similar deaths in the future.
James B. Shearer (0f56fb) — 2/15/2016 @ 8:52 pm223 3. In any case, the United States of America was explicitly founded on the principle I cited, so its laws ought to conform to that principle.
If that principle didn’t prohibit slavery I don’t see why it would prohibit abortion.
James B. Shearer (0f56fb) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:01 pmTrump supporter.
Patterico (86c8ed) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:06 pmquote from deleted happyfeet comment.
Trump supporter.
Patterico (86c8ed) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:08 pmIts all speculation as much of what gets typed is…. But God sees and knows the truth. And so will we one day.
jrt for cruz (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:13 pmThat’s a vicious rumor and a slander. I’m the only avowed Trumper here, and my council has been consistently toward quashing the murder theories.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:16 pmhappyfeet is a Trumper and he said it.
James B. Shearer is a Trumper and he talked about it.
You believe there is a conspiracy to force Trump to have a DONATE button on his Web page even though he doesn’t want one.
I could go on about the positive correlation, but it’s there.
Patterico (86c8ed) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:19 pmi’m one of the good trumpers not an evil trumper like the others
i walk in the light
happyfeet (831175) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:22 pm238.If Scalia was poisoned it would be nice to know.
Trump supporter.
So you disagree?
I don’t think it is very likely Scalia was poisoned or otherwise the victim of foul play but I don’t think the chance is zero either. It seems to me it might be a sensible precaution to always perform an autopsy when an important government official dies unexpectedly.
James B. Shearer (0f56fb) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:35 pmYou believe there is a conspiracy to force Trump to have a DONATE button on his Web page
That’s not a conspiracy. It’s a convenience, to ease compliance with campaign finance laws.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:43 pmTrump has 7 billion in the bank. Saw it on the celebrity roast. More money then most countries. Don’t send him any. It’s just a nuisance for him at this point.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/15/2016 @ 9:47 pmThere is no campaign finance law that requires a campaign to solicit, or even to accept, donations, let alone to make it easy for people to donate. Nor does the existence of a donate button make it any easier to comply with the laws. On the contrary, the easiest way to comply with the laws would be to refuse all donations, or to redirect them to charity. Actually that would be a cool thing for a campaign that really didn’t want donations to do: have a “donate here” button that opens a menu with a choice of charities to which the user is urged to direct his donation.
Milhouse (87c499) — 2/15/2016 @ 10:13 pmJustice Scalia’s death causes Nightmare scenario for the Greens
Justice is served.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/15/2016 @ 10:20 pmMilhouse did you ever find the address for to send the Trump campaign checks in the mail?
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/15/2016 @ 10:23 pmAny address will do. In fact you don’t even need one. USPS will deliver mail addressed to “Donald Trump’s presidential campaign”, because it knows where that is.
Milhouse (87c499) — 2/15/2016 @ 10:38 pmYes, well…
From radio free Europe Prague Czech Republic SJW physicists vs Scalia: how loud minorities seem more representative than they are
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/15/2016 @ 11:32 pmTypically the decision to do an autopsy is made by the person’s physician, who judges whether known medical conditions are likely to be responsible for the death. Wishes of the family also come into play, as well as any suspicion by law enforcement agencies.
He was not young, and fairly rotund. If he was known to have diabetes and some degree of coronary artery disease it would be easy enough to conclude he died of natural causes.
I’m guessing his doc and family didn’t consider how vile and ruthless some can be, and also figured he was among friends, and didn’t look at the situation other than at a personal point of view and didn’t think of any “public policy” ramifications.
Those are my guesses given how these things usually work, which could be very mistaken in any particular circumstance.
MD not exactly in Philly (deca84) — 2/16/2016 @ 1:26 amWhen dad died there was something very specific about a pacemaker giving out. There’s some sort of twitch muscle in there that sets the pace for your heartbeat. I put my hand on his chest and it felt like his heart was doing a snare drum roll.
papertiger (c2d6da) — 2/16/2016 @ 1:47 amAttitudes to autopsies can be very culture-based. I see some people speak as if it’s an entirely normal thing, and there needs to be a strong reason not to do one, and therefore the omission of one here is suspicious. Coming from where I do this attitude seems strange. Jews regard autopsies with the same revulsion as we do cremation, so it’s normal not to do one, and it takes a very strong reason to justify doing one. I know Catholics don’t have the same attitude to the dead, so I don’t know how they feel about autopsies, but to me at least the lack of one doesn’t seem at all suspicious.
Milhouse (87c499) — 2/16/2016 @ 11:26 amWho let the dogs out? Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoohoo… http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/15/politics/hillary-clinton-barks-like-a-dog-gop/index.html
Colonel Haiku (bb3c31) — 2/16/2016 @ 11:34 amI agree, Milhouse. I think his doctor and his family probably had a good idea of what caused his death. In addition, he died in a remote place in a remote part of the country that is a long way from where he and his family live. Maybe they just want him home as soon as possible. I would feel that way, and events like that are about feeling as much as thinking.
DRJ (15874d) — 2/16/2016 @ 12:46 pmBeing in 70s-80s increases the risk of surgical complications and it used to be a disqualifier for surgery, but I don’t think it is now. If the consensus was that Scalia shouldn’t have/couldn’t survive a shoulder operation, he was probably in bad health.
DRJ (15874d) — 2/16/2016 @ 12:56 pm207. JRT for CRUZ (bc7456) — 2/15/2016 @ 6:04 pm
A life is a life when God breaths breath into it.
Planned Parenthood would be (almost) satisfied with that dogma.
That is consistent with partial birth abortion, which, you know, is done before the baby has taken its first breath – or is supposed to.
Sammy Finkelman (882d94) — 2/16/2016 @ 5:38 pm