Antonin Scalia dead

[Nearly Sane]

Be interesting who us the next Supreme

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35571868

[Shaker]

Good riddance.

There is no hell for his sweating, bilious, morbidly obese carcass to rot in - alas, the good earth of this planet will be soiled somewhere when his vast bulk is interred. That aside, the planet is a little cleaner this evening.

[Leonard James]

Dig, dong, the bitch is dead!

[Khatru]

Cetainly not sorry to see him go but methinks it's good news for democracy.

Republicans are already freaking out and looking for Scalia's successor to be appointed post election. by, they hope, a republican president.

Obama should act now - screw them.

[Sassy]

Such loving remarks and disrespectful. Wonder how his family would feel reading them...

Is that atheist love at it's best?

[Leonard James]

Such loving remarks and disrespectful. Wonder how his family would feel reading them...

Is that atheist love at it's best?

Only hypocrites respect in death somebody they despised in life.

Were you sad when Hitler died?

There was a great Irving Berlin number that looked forward to his death.

http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/w/whenthatmanisdeadandgone.shtml

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Good riddance.

There is no hell

Fingers crossed?

[Khatru]

Such loving remarks and disrespectful. Wonder how his family would feel reading them...

Is that atheist love at it's best?

Yeah, no doubt you were really upset when Osama bin Laden was killed.

[Leonard James]

Yeah, no doubt you were really upset when Osama bin Laden was killed.

Stand by for a sanctimonious, hypocritical reply. 

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Only hypocrites respect in death somebody they despised in life.

Were you sad when Hitler died?

There was a great Irving Berlin number that looked forward to his death.

http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/w/whenthatmanisdeadandgone.shtml

Godwin's Law!!!!!! 5000 points Len has invoked Hitler.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Yeah, no doubt you were really upset when Osama bin Laden was killed.

Did this man order aircraft into buildings?

Antitheist types have a funny demonology....Take Mary Whitehouse. For expressing a view she is vilified by antitheists.

[Shaker]

Such loving remarks and disrespectful.

Are we supposed to pretend to respect on death somebody who was despised in life so that you can start slinging around accusations of hypocrisy?

Wonder how his family would feel reading them...

Pretty sure it's nothing they won't have heard ten thousand times before.

[floo]

That guy is no loss to the US that is for sure!

[Shaker]

Did this man order aircraft into buildings?

No he didn't. Plenty would say however that rather than killing three thousand people in a matter of a few minutes, he did deep and enduring harm to American society just from sitting on his big fat arse behind a desk.

Antitheist types have a funny demonology....Take Mary Whitehouse. For expressing a view she is vilified by antitheists.

Rightly so - her view, you might remember, was all about trying to force her standards and her beliefs onto everyone else by seeking to dictate what they could (or rather couldn't) watch and read. (I put a quote by A. C. Grayling to this effect on the quotes thread). She appointed herself not as a but the arbiter of taste and decency for the nation. That always merits vilification.

[Hope]

Good riddance.

There is no hell for his sweating, bilious, morbidly obese carcass to rot in - alas, the good earth of this planet will be soiled somewhere when his vast bulk is interred. That aside, the planet is a little cleaner this evening.

Thank God that we have a system in the US that allows for balance on their Supreme Court - something that I appreciate that you clearly don't believe in.

Its interesting that this has happened now, especially with the end of the Obama-era so close.  I wonder whether, despite his statement that he will appoint a replacement, and Obama-nominee will get past Congress and the Senate?

On a slight tangent, was watching an episode of the West Wing the other day (Season 5:17) where Jed Bartlett nominates two Supremes at once.  One extreme Democrat and one extreme Republican.

[Hope]

Obama should act now - screw them.

Thankfully (and please note, I have criticised some of Scalla's decisions over the last 30-odd years), its not up to Obama to decide; its up to him to nominate.

[Shaker]

Thank God that we have a system in the US that allows for balance on their Supreme Court - something that I appreciate that you clearly don't believe in.

Odd thing to say about a man so patently unbalanced.

[Humph Warden Bennett]

Good riddance.

There is no hell for his sweating, bilious, morbidly obese carcass to rot in - alas, the good earth of this planet will be soiled somewhere when his vast bulk is interred. That aside, the planet is a little cleaner this evening.

Few of us are pretty in death. Anyway, being overweight is not yet an offence, although I am sure the next Labour government will sort out the fatties once they have demonised the boozers.

[Hope]

Odd thing to say about a man so patently unbalanced.

Was he any more or less unbalanced than you are?  You will obviously say yes, but your opinion can be deemed to be biased and unbalanced 

[Shaker]

Few of us are pretty in death.

Evelyn McHale springs to mind. But he wasn't pretty in life either, in any sense.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Rightly so - her view, you might remember, was all about trying to force her standards and her beliefs onto everyone else by seeking to dictate what they could (or rather couldn't) watch and read.

And how could she possibly have tried that? Did she have stormtroopers? Was she planning a coup? Hyperbole on your part I'm afraid. History rightly pitches her against Carleton Greene who was like her a single person but unlike her did have the power to dictate what we watched.

I think you guys regular mistake having a POV with trying to ram it down throats....I used to think that way but know better.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Few of us are pretty in death. Anyway, being overweight is not yet an offence, although I am sure the next Labour government will sort out the fatties once they have demonised the boozers.

I don't think this argument carries much weight.

[Shaker]

Was he any more or less unbalanced than you are?  You will obviously say yes, but your opinion can be deemed to be biased and unbalanced 

This was a man who thought there was/is a real, literal Devil who goes around making peope not believe in God. In other words, the Alan Burns Syndrome, and in still other words, utterly unhinged.

[Nearly Sane]

A blocked nomination would leave the court with 8 members for the longest time that I am aware of happening. I think it might well be counterproductive for the Republicans as a party and as candidates for the Presidency to make this all about blocking. It is the sort of tactic that will appeal to their voters but not swing voters. Given current polling, it could ironically be something that would contribute to them losing the chance to nominate the next couple of Supremes.


Just a note to Hope, the system doesn't ensure balance, indeed to avoid deadlock, it ensures there isn't balance. That there is a close split is not built in.

[Shaker]

And how could she possibly have tried that? Did she have stormtroopers? Was she planning a coup? Hyperbole on your part I'm afraid. History rightly pitches her against Carleton Greene who was like her a single person but unlike her did have the power to dictate what we watched.

I think you guys regular mistake having a POV with trying to ram it down throats....I used to think that way but know better.

She formed the National Viewers and Listeners Association, a body explicitly intended to pressurise the government into ensuring that broadcasting was carried out on their own timid five-year-old terms.