Antonin Scalia found dead

[josephpalazzo]

One day I will go relieve myself on his grave.

Make sure you have pix. We want pix....

[AllPurposeAtheist]

I bet Red Reddington from the teevee series Blacklist was involved.. Where's James Spader when you need him?

[trdsf]

The man adjudicated based on his religion, in a country where that is expressly forbidden, to the detriment of many and for the satisfaction of the ignorant.

This.  If you can stomach it, read his dissents in Romer and Windsor and Obegefell.  You can fair feel the enraged spittle flying off the page as he rails against the barest possibility of LGBT Americans having the same rights as straight Americans.  He was a raging homophobe, and was perfectly happy to twist any piece of Constitutional wording or scholarship he pleased in order to get the result he already wanted (as opposed to getting the correct, Constitutional result).

[stromboli]

The sad news was he was not found with a dead prostitute or with his dick hanging out, apparently. Shit never goes the way you want it.

[Munch]

dunno why but this made me think of the recent passing of a "friend" of one my my mums friends, whos been like an aunt to me in how she's always been there for me. this 'friend' of hers was a woman she looked out for, not having many friends herself and no family to speak of my mums friend looked out for this woman, despite her .. problem..
She was addicted to eating laxatives, and she every time she used a toilet, she would end up spraying fecal matter over everything, the toilet, floor, even walls. She did this a couple of times to my mums friends toilet, which lead to her not being invited round her home anymore.

A month ago, the woman was found dead in her home, after the coroner reported she had died from falling down the stairs and hitting her head, she was there for 2 days befoee discovered. It was sad thinking about how this woman died alone like that, and nobody looked in on her so much she was left for several days. But given how it was often an unpleasant experience for anyone to be around her, the only thing people regarded when she had died was 'at least she no longer suffers'.

I dunno, i think its a case where if someone who causes such problems for other peoples lives, such as fucking the system of law, or shitting all over your walls, the fact you feel more relaxed once they have passed on shows what little good that contributed to anyone else. Really it makes me hope that I never end up like that, either being a burden to others, or making someone elses life a misery in some manner.

the best thing we can do in life is leave a mark that people want to remember us fondly, the worst is living a life where nobody wants to remember us.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

dunno why but this made me think of the recent passing of a "friend" of one my my mums friends, whos been like an aunt to me in how she's always been there for me. this 'friend' of hers was a woman she looked out for, not having many friends herself and no family to speak of my mums friend looked out for this woman, despite her .. problem..
She was addicted to eating laxatives, and she every time she used a toilet, she would end up spraying fecal matter over everything, the toilet, floor, even walls. She did this a couple of times to my mums friends toilet, which lead to her not being invited round her home anymore.

A month ago, the woman was found dead in her home, after the coroner reported she had died from falling down the stairs and hitting her head, she was there for 2 days befoee discovered. It was sad thinking about how this woman died alone like that, and nobody looked in on her so much she was left for several days. But given how it was often an unpleasant experience for anyone to be around her, the only thing people regarded when she had died was 'at least she no longer suffers'.

I dunno, i think its a case where if someone who causes such problems for other peoples lives, such as fucking the system of law, or shitting all over your walls, the fact you feel more relaxed once they have passed on shows what little good that contributed to anyone else. Really it makes me hope that I never end up like that, either being a burden to others, or making someone elses life a misery in some manner.

the best thing we can do in life is leave a mark that people want to remember us fondly, the worst is living a life where nobody wants to remember us.

A bit like my dad's wife..NOBODY likes her, even her own kids. She's alienated everyone who meets her and at 85 she has no sense of smell so she shits herself and just sits there stinking so my poor old dad cleans her up even though there is little to no love in the relationship. He feels that since he married her he's responsible for her for life...the whole 'for better or worse ' bullshit.. Dad's had nothing but the worse with her..very little better if any at all..  Sad..really sad..

[Munch]

Sorry APA, hope I didn't bring up some grievance there :(, it's like when I talk about the past with my mum, and if the subject turns to that of her son, David, who died of cancer at age 12, I know it won't be long before the thought of him turns into something mournful, it's why I try not to dwell on it with her.

Man, this thread really cast a grey cloud didn't it :S

[Baruch]

We had a neighbor lady, in the apartment next to us, that we didn't know.  She was an alcoholic, fell, couldn't get up, and died in her own offal.  So the moral is ... moderate the drugs, stay healthy, make friends, have someone check on you every day or so.  Return the favor if you are also a senior.  There was some woman in England, had her own home, was dead for five years.  Neighbors thought she had moved away ;-(  We had a coworker who died last year in bed ... his employer checked on him when he didn't show up for work.  At least he was found quickly, and died in bed, not on the floor, in his own offal.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Sorry APA, hope I didn't bring up some grievance there :(, it's like when I talk about the past with my mum, and if the subject turns to that of her son, David, who died of cancer at age 12, I know it won't be long before the thought of him turns into something mournful, it's why I try not to dwell on it with her.

Man, this thread really cast a grey cloud didn't it :S

Nah.. You're alright.. It's an old story. My dad married her just a few years after my mother died and we all knew what a bitch she was. The mistake was not telling my dad the shit she spewed at all of us before he married her. He should have run like hell from her, but he was lonely. He hated being alone so he married the first chance he had without thinking about it. He still has that old Catholic upbringing that makes him believe that a marriage should last forever despite her being such a cunt..
The really sad part is that his marriage to my mother was wonderful and they were truly in love from day one till the day she died.
Ww keep telling him she needs to be in a nursing home and he knows it, but he fears putting her in some dump despite the fact that she deserves it.

[Baruch]

Nursing home or not, it isn't punitive, it is a public health issue.  Your father needs counseling, or a home himself.  Sorry she was a bitch, and sounds like she didn't improve over time either.  Usually people don't, unfortunately ;-(  A friend of mine, his elderly father was so obese, if the father fell out of bed, they had a hard time getting him back in.  The elderly mother couldn't do it.  Don't grow old, it isn't any fun, I am telling you!

[SGOS]

I woke up thinking about the notion that Obama appointing a Justice during his last year of tenure being unprecedented (which it's actually not, but fuck that detail).  What a thinly veiled obstructionism.  You can't do anything that isn't a precedent?  Is that written down someplace?  How does congress pass a new law?  Every new law is unprecedented.  The comment itself is unprecedented, since no one was ever boneheaded enough to think of it before.

[josephpalazzo]

I'd bet anything that if a Republican would be occupying the Oval office, we would have an appointment to SCOTUS. Obstructionism has become second nature to the GOP.

[Mike Cl]

I'd bet anything that if a Republican would be occupying the Oval office, we would have an appointment to SCOTUS. Obstructionism has become second nature to the GOP.

Joseph, you are wrong.................Obstructionism has become the only nature of the GOP!

If I remember right good old Ronnie, the Rep Saint, appointed Scalia in an election year.  The GOP defines what a hypocrite is.

[josephpalazzo]

Joseph, you are wrong.................Obstructionism has become the only nature of the GOP!

If I remember right good old Ronnie, the Rep Saint, appointed Scalia in an election year.  The GOP defines what a hypocrite is.

I stand corrected... :-)

[trdsf]

Joseph, you are wrong.................Obstructionism has become the only nature of the GOP!

If I remember right good old Ronnie, the Rep Saint, appointed Scalia in an election year.  The GOP defines what a hypocrite is.

No, that was Kennedy in 1988.  Scalia was in an off year, 1986.  Also, Nixon appointed two in 1972, and Ike appointed one  in 1956 -- those last three being while the president was also a candidate.  It has never been the case that a SCOTUS nominee be put on hold pending an election, and you have to go back to FDR for the last time a Democrat had that opportunity.

Not that the GOP gives a shit about the Constitution.  That runs a distant second to throwing a fit every time President Obama breathes.