SCALIA: CORRUPT BIRD KILLING FREAK

[mburbank]

Another Scalia trip coincided with court cases

By Richard A. Serrano and David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 2/27/2004

WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was the guest of a Kansas law school two years ago and went pheasant hunting on a trip arranged by the school's dean, all within weeks of hearing two cases in which the dean was a lead attorney.


The cases involved issues of public policy important to Kansas officials. Accompanying Scalia on the November 2001 hunting trip were the Kansas governor and recently retired state Senate president, who flew with Scalia to the hunting camp aboard a state plane.

Two weeks before the trip, University of Kansas School of Law Dean Stephen R. McAllister, along with the state's attorney general, had appeared before the Supreme Court to defend a Kansas law to confine sex offenders after they complete their prison terms.

Two weeks after the trip, the dean led the state's defense before the Supreme Court of a Kansas prison program for treating sex offenders.

Scalia was hosted by McAllister, who also served as Kansas state solicitor, when he visited the law school to speak to students. At Scalia's request, McAllister arranged for the justice to go pheasant hunting after the law school event. The dean enlisted then-governor Bill Graves and former state Senate President Dick Bond, both Republicans, to go as well.

During the weekend of hunting in north central Kansas, Graves and Bond said in separate interviews recently, they did not talk about the cases with Scalia, nor did they view the trip as a way to win his favor.

Scalia later sided with the state in both cases. In a statement, Scalia wrote: "I do not think that spending time at a law school in which the counsel in pending cases was the dean could reasonably cause my impartiality to be questioned. Nor could spending time with the governor of a state that had matters before the court."





Okay, aside from the fact that Scalia is a corrupt son of a bitch, what is it with Republican right wing nut jobs and bird killing? It started with Bush Senior and his unintentionally ironic quail hunting trips, now every damn time you want to know what Chenney or Scalia were up to all you have to do is follow the dead bird carcases filled with buckshot.

I'm not anti-hunting, personally, if you eat what you kill, but the shere number of bid deaths these guys must be rsponsible for boggles the mind. There's a point at which sport hunting becomes slaughter, Can't thee guys bowl or ply video games or hike or play golf? What the fuck has to be wrong with you to need to kill living things this often? And why birds? Is it because there's zero possability of a bird getting you first? Is it some deep seated raging jealousy over their ability to fly? Overwhelming hatred of things with beaks? Freudian overcompensation for impotence?

[Buffalo Tom]

Originally Posted by mburbank

Okay, aside from the fact that Scalia is a corrupt son of a bitch, what is it with Republican right wing nut jobs and bird killing?

Until it's legal to hunt the poor, what else do you expect neo-conservatives to shoot???

[mburbank]

I'm looking up republican bird hunting stats for the last year or so.

Vice President Dick Cheney was on a bird-hunting trip in South Texas but did not hear or see the shuttle as it broke apart and thundered across the clear morning sky near Dallas.
Houston Chronicle -2/2/03

PIERRE, S.D. - Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in South Dakota Monday for his annual pheasant hunting trip. Air Force Two landed in Pierre shortly before 11 a.m. Central time.

Last year, Cheney shot pheasants at an upscale private hunting lodge in the Gettysburg area, north of Pierre.

It is Cheney's third hunting trip to the state as vice president. He spends several days hunting the ring-neck pheasant, South Dakota's state bird.
AP wire 11/03/03


Mr. Cheney's bird-hunting trip at the exclusive Rolling Rock Club in the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania last Monday, when he and nine others in his party shot some 400 out of 500 pen-raised pheasants released for the morning hunt. No one might have noticed the episode if The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had not reported it, including the detail that the vice president had shot more than 70 of the ring-necked pheasants himself.
-12/15/03

Scalia and Cheney were duck hunting together "at a private camp in southern Louisiana just three weeks after the court agreed to take up the vice president's appeal in lawsuits over his handling of the administration's energy task force."
LA times 1/7/04

Vice President Dick Cheney, former president George Bush Sr. and U.S. special envoy James A. Baker III have been bird hunting this weekend at a ranch in Kenedy County
Corpus Christi Caller Times 1/18/04




Mr. Cheney's bird-hunting trip at the exclusive Rolling Rock Club in the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania last Monday, when he and nine others in his party shot some 400 out of 500 pen-raised pheasants released for the morning hunt. No one might have noticed the episode if The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had not reported it, including the detail that the vice president had shot more than 70 of the ring-necked pheasants himself.
-12/15/03

Scalia and Cheney were duck hunting together "at a private camp in southern Louisiana just three weeks after the court agreed to take up the vice president's appeal in lawsuits over his handling of the administration's energy task force."
LA times 1/7/04

[ItalianStereotype]

sure, pick on the only sitting wop.

[mburbank]

Okay, enter Supreme Court and Bird hunting into a search engine and see if you come up with any other justices.

[kellychaos]

Personally, I think that they equate their penis size with that of the military forceswhich they control. The force that the president controls is so big that he's practically one big penis.

[Pub Lover]

I agree, Dubya is one big penis.


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