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kpete

(72,060 posts)
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 04:41 PM Jun 2015

Scalia's Dissent: ‘Ask the nearest hippie’ if marriage helps intimacy

SCALIA:


http://www.marketwatch.com/story/scalia-ask-the-nearest-hippie-if-marriage-helps-intimacy-2015-06-26






I would like to inform mr. scalia that mr pete & i, having met and loved as flower children/hippies in the Summer of 1970 (on the beach, barefoot, I might add) are happy and thriving free-thinkers 42 years later.











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Scalia's Dissent: ‘Ask the nearest hippie’ if marriage helps intimacy (Original Post) kpete Jun 2015 OP
He sounds really crabby. yardwork Jun 2015 #1
Oy! pinboy3niner Jun 2015 #2
Reminds me of an old movie HassleCat Jun 2015 #3
"Everyone's always in favour of saving Hitler's brain. hifiguy Jun 2015 #11
Scalia is too groovy man. . B Calm Jun 2015 #4
He must have a cranky prostate hifiguy Jun 2015 #5
Where is he? 1969? n/t Yavin4 Jun 2015 #6
Don't diss that year, man! Human101948 Jun 2015 #17
The Rabid Rantings of a Right-Wing Republican Retrograde. nt Xipe Totec Jun 2015 #7
What on EARTH is he talking about? complain jane Jun 2015 #8
Expression, Intimacy, Spirituality is what Scalia lacks. I feel sorrow for his wife. Dont call me Shirley Jun 2015 #9
I doubt it helped with his wife. Now I don't know that for sure, it's just my Autumn Jun 2015 #10
He's just jealous of their hair pinboy3niner Jun 2015 #12
Scalia is a hypocrite. tymorial Jun 2015 #13
What a douche. City Lights Jun 2015 #14
Huffpost did ask the nearest Hippie edhopper Jun 2015 #15
Todd Snider has a song for guys like him. . . DinahMoeHum Jun 2015 #16
Used to listen to that and Steve Earle"s political songs during bush years. Hoyt Jun 2015 #18
They still have hippies? jmowreader Jun 2015 #19
Picture me nude in the Eel River... Or not. hunter Jun 2015 #20
 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
3. Reminds me of an old movie
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 04:44 PM
Jun 2015

There is an old horror movie called "They Saved Hitler's Brain." In fact, they saved the whole head, and we get to see Hitler's head riding around in a glass jar full of some kind of fluid. I'm not certain what happened to the rest of the head, but now we know where the brain is.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
11. "Everyone's always in favour of saving Hitler's brain.
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 04:49 PM
Jun 2015

But when you put it in the body of a great white shark, THEN you're going too far." Professor Hubert Farnsworth

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
5. He must have a cranky prostate
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 04:45 PM
Jun 2015

or some serious constipation.

Or maybe he is just a crooked, fascistic, bitter old man.

Possibly all of the above.

Autumn

(45,120 posts)
10. I doubt it helped with his wife. Now I don't know that for sure, it's just my
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 04:48 PM
Jun 2015
opinion on his marriage.

tymorial

(3,433 posts)
13. Scalia is a hypocrite.
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 04:51 PM
Jun 2015

He states that the constitution must be adhered to word for word with an interpretation which takes into consideration the understanding and culture of the time when the laws were written rather than modern culture and society. Yet judicial review is not spelled out in the constitution. It was inferred.

Concerning DOMA he stated: "we have no power under the Constitution to invalidate this democratically adopted legislation." Yet he saw no issue with nullifying the voting rights act. In that same dissent today he commented that SCOTUS does not represent the religious demographic of this country because there are no evangelical Christians or protestants of "any denomination." For someone who professes strict interpretation, how is it that he questions the religious belief of his fellow justices? The first amendment prevents legislation which promotes any religion. It prevents any legislation which uses religion as justification. Even if we ignore the fact that he is a gigantic hypocrite for even sitting on the bench, the religious belief of a judge could never be a consideration for a decision as it is a blatant violation of the constitution. The man is a lesson in willing and unrepentant cognitive dissonance. I do not understand what Justice Ginsberg sees in him. Her "Nino" is a gigantic ass clown.

edhopper

(33,667 posts)
15. Huffpost did ask the nearest Hippie
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 05:17 PM
Jun 2015
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/26/ask-the-nearest-hippie_n_7673612.html

"I think he's slagging gays and hippies," said Crosby, who had earlier appeared on Huff Post Live. "I don't think he understands either one. I think he's an old reactionary guy and I think he's failing to understand the basic thing: hippies and gay people are people. And we are citizens. And we live here. And we are his neighbors. He may not know that, but we are. And that's how he should see us. As citizens of the United States. Voters. People who should be equal. That was the idea of the country. Not 'maybe.' There's no 'if' about that, no gray area there. The idea was that people would be equal here -- all of us. Hippies and gay people included. Black people, white people, yellow people -- all people. People."

DinahMoeHum

(21,842 posts)
16. Todd Snider has a song for guys like him. . .
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 05:18 PM
Jun 2015
". . .Conservative Christian, right wing Republican, straight, white, American males,
Gay bashin’, black fearin’, poor fightin’, tree killin’, regional leaders of sales
Frat housin’, keg tappin’, shirt tuckin’, back slappin’ haters of hippies like me.
Tree huggin’, peace lovin’, pot smokin’, porn watchin’ lazyass hippies like me. . ."



 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
18. Used to listen to that and Steve Earle"s political songs during bush years.
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 05:38 PM
Jun 2015

Those songs helped.

hunter

(38,354 posts)
20. Picture me nude in the Eel River... Or not.
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 06:15 PM
Jun 2015


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel_River_%28California%29

But I'm nobody.

I suspect it's Jerry Brown and Arnold Schwarzenegger Scalia is having steamy nightmares about.
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