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RussBLib

(9,036 posts)
6. maybe "she" was a "he"
Wed Feb 17, 2016, 12:34 PM
Feb 2016

After all, Scalia raged against homosexuals. That often indicates the complainer is themselves homosexual.

UCmeNdc

(9,601 posts)
3. It seems there was a little you scratch my back and I scratch yours was going on
Wed Feb 17, 2016, 12:30 PM
Feb 2016

No wonder the press drops no names of whom was present or what exactly was going on at the ranch.

Botany

(70,585 posts)
4. Thanx for posting .... from the article
Wed Feb 17, 2016, 12:30 PM
Feb 2016

One of Poindexter’s companies was involved in a case that made it to the high court. Last year, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving an age discrimination lawsuit filed against one of these companies, court records show.

The nature of Poindexter’s relationship with Scalia remained unclear Tuesday, one of several lingering questions about his visit. It was not known whether Scalia had paid for his own ticket to fly to the ranch or if someone else picked up the tab, just as it was not immediately clear if Scalia had visited before.

Arazi

(6,829 posts)
5. Important questions. They touch on our unease that there's a "club" at the top
Wed Feb 17, 2016, 12:32 PM
Feb 2016

and like George Carlin said, we ain't in it

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
16. It's an evil (truly) right-wing conspiracy
Wed Feb 17, 2016, 01:33 PM
Feb 2016

to dismantle our government, and of course we're not in it. We're the people who believe in the Constitution and believe in a prosperous, progressive society. Do you know many of the plutocrats want to do with with compulsory education of our children? All in the name of "personal" freedom, of course. Theirs will be educated, of course. Knowledge is power.

Who remembers that Charles had David run for vice president in 1980? He got 1% of the vote. At the time, William F. Buckley Jr. dismissed their views as "Anarcho-Totalitarianism." After that, they gathered up their friends and took their "revolution" underground.

Powerful as they are, they are no match for an unsympathetic president, even when they control Congress: "Koch himself described Obama's election in almost apocolyptic terms, declaring that america faced "the greatest loss of liberty and prosperity since the 1930s." Yup. Theirs.

" What the Kochs were doing, as Mayer astutely notes, is implementing the strategy originally laid out by Lewis Powell’s now infamous 1971 memo to the director of the US Chamber of Commerce, by which the political culture of the United States would be transformed on behalf of individuals and corporations of great wealth.

The primary obstacle Powell identified was not the remnants of the late-’60s antiwar and civil rights movements, which were both in the process of disintegration. Rather, they sought to undermine the "respectable elements of society" and replace them with people like themselves."


Shortly after that they got Powell placed on the Supreme Court.

http://www.thenation.com/article/money-well-spent/


 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
8. How many professionals were there at the time?
Wed Feb 17, 2016, 12:42 PM
Feb 2016

And who was Fat Tony's guest.

As for don't speak ill of the dead... nuts.

Kingofalldems

(38,485 posts)
15. How am I feeding the freepers?
Wed Feb 17, 2016, 12:59 PM
Feb 2016

This thread is not about his death--but what was he doing there and who was he with.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
17. This is no surprise to anyone that knows about Scalia, they man was a walking-talking 'conflict of
Wed Feb 17, 2016, 01:34 PM
Feb 2016

interest' that told his critics to F-off. He abused his power, probably from day one of sitting on the bench. I just hope this further stains his fucked up record and we can all agree he was one of the worst judges to ever sit on the SCOTUS.

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