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Underneath The Chestnut Tree

I saw this horrendous thing in a never ending stream of horrendous things about our Republican government, over at my good friend Cookie's website:

Another pet peeve of the pro-tort reform Republicans is plaintiffs who sue medical professionals in the hope of winning the "litigation lottery." Republican Senator Rick Santorum once noted:

We have a much too costly legal system. It is one that makes us uncompetitive and inefficient, and one that is not fair to society as a whole. While we may have people, individuals, who hit the jackpot and win the lottery in some cases, that is not exactly what our legal system should be designed to do.

How, then, does Santorum explain why his wife sued a chiropractor for half a million dollars alleging back injuries from a badly done spinal manipulation? He says it is a private matter. Of course, Santorum believes that everyone else's cliam for compensation is a public matter. Santorum does not think that "jackpot justice" is so bad when his wife is the winner.

And, of course, the horrendous thing goes on to note that Tom DeLay--who has spent the last two weeks frothing at the mouth about the barbarism of Florida letting a brain dead woman finally, finally die--actually let his own father die in similar circumstances.

Though, only after his family filed a wrongful death law suit.

The kind he's spent the last ten years trying to prevent you and me from being able to file.

I could go off on a rant.  I've been trying to all last week, except for our Republican government is so stupid I find that every time I try I have too many words to actually blog about it.  The hypocracy, the stupidity, the shameless dishonesty...

It's your Republican government values voters!  Proud?

You should be!  Fifty nine million wasted votes.  Suckers.

And while I'm unable to adequately express how I feel about these shamelessly dishonest, hypocritical clowns, I think I've found the words for nearly everyone--everyone who wasn't dumb enough to vote for Bush--when they think about the modern Republican agenda. 

Those words were shreiked by Winston, with his head in a rat cage in 1984:

"Auuuuuugh!!!  Do it to Julia!  Don't do it to me!   Do it to Julia!!!"

Washington Post Details Irony Without Any Sense Of Irony

America, once again, meet your "liberal" media!

For a guy who's so resolute, President Bush is apparently of two minds when it comes to the Terri Schiavo case. First he dramatically rushes back to the White House in an effort to intervene, then he retreats into silence.

I thought I'd reintroduce you because, otherwise, you probably wouldn't recognize it.

That's not just your "mainstream", "liberal" media.  But it's the Washington Post--the paper of record for politics.  And that's a quote not just from some schlub at the Washington Post--it's from Dan Froomkin at his very own "White House Briefing".

Now, I congratulate Dan on making fun of George W. Flipflopper for flipflopping in Bush's regular irresolute fashion.

But what irks me is the "[f]or a guy who's so resolute" horseshit.  Maybe it's tongue in cheek.  Maybe not. I don't think it is because of the paragraphs that follow--the ones that try to understand how such a resolute guy might actually--oh my!--flip flop.

What I'd like to know, from Dan, is what Bush has been so damn resolute about!

Five years in the White House, and Bush has got to be the biggest flip flopping bullshitter of all time.

Yeah, Bush was resolute about tax cuts, which were a fiscal disaster--good for him!  And he was resolute about invading Iraq--disaster number two.  Fantastic.

What else?

How about raising payroll taxes to save Social Security?  Flip flop.

How about the ban on assault weapons?  Flip flop.

How about whether we can win the war on terra?  Flip flop.

How about on being the War President?  Flip flop.

How about those fees for regional Bell companies?  Flip flop.

How about the U.N. role in Iraq?  Flip flop.

How about the creation of the creepy Homeland Security?  Flip flop.  How about testifying before the 9/11 commission?  Flip flop.  How about a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting gay marriage?  Flip flop.  How about pay and benefits for our troops in a combat zone?  Flip flop.  How about Teach America?  Flip flop.  How about Head Start?  Flip flop. 

He's a pot smoker and coke snorter who's tough on drugs.  He's a tail chasing, ne'er do well who runs on "character".  He's a bidnessman who's run afoul of the SEC who's "tough" on corporate malfeasance.  He's the world's worst National Guard screwup who loves to call himself The Commander In Chief".

He's "Mr. Culture Of Life" after signing more death warrants than any other governor in the country!

And there's plenty more.  Hell, I just googled my own web site for a quick sampling of things he's flip flopped over.  It took me ten seconds.  Which, I guess is more time than Washington Post reporters have to dedicate to their columns and articles.

Bush hasn't been any more consistent than any president ever.  And he's been more inconsistent than most.

And that's fine.  Politics is, a lot of the time, having a wet finger in the air and figuring out which way the wind is blowing.  You don't win elections by holding all the unpopular views.

But what's repugnant about Bush is that he keeps insisting he says what he means and means what he says, when he clearly doesn't.  And what's disturbing about Bush is that he seems to actually believe his own horseshit.

What's unbelievable is that Washington reporters, after five years of Bush flip flopping on nearly every issue like a fish out of water, keep repeating the completely unsubstantiated RNC phony baloney talking point that Bush is "resolute".

There is no evidence that Bush is resolute about anything. 

And your "liberal" media, with it's horrendous "liberal" bias, preferences almost every story about Bush's nearly non-stop croaking bass on the muddy banks flip flopping, I need a bigger shovel for all this horse shit mucking, put the monkey on my roof to figure out which way the wind is blowing propaganda by pointing out the irony that such a "straight shooter" is contradicting himself.

Good God.  How often does Bush have to be consistently "ironic" before some dipshit at the Washington Post or the New York Times figures out that Achilles wasn't held by everything except his heel.

That's the irony part, morons.

Ellen Will Be So Jealous!

Just look at what the Easter Bunny brought me!

No Every Flavor Beans, though.  Rotten, lousy Easter Bunny...

Everyday I Read The Book

My good friend Elke tagged me with this.  And these things are like chain letters--every time you don't answer one of them, Congress lets a person die.  And I'd rather not have that on my conscience.  So:

You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?

All The King’s Men.  Had a girlfriend in college who told me I was Jack Burden.

Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?

Lady Brett Ashley, of course. Hermione Granger.  And Catwoman.

The last book you bought is:

The Fourth Crusade And The Sack Of Constantinople.  But I get a lot of books for free.  Family of big readers.

The last book you read:

Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix.  Seriously, I’m not even kidding you.  It was great.

What are you currently reading?

Jesse James : Last Rebel of the Civil War .

Five books you would take to a deserted island:

That’s tough.  Because I like different books at different times.  Not just different times of the year(you should read The Great Gatsby in July, The Sun Also Rises in May, A Farewell To Arms in the fall…)but sometimes I like fiction, sometimes I like non-fiction.  And, like everybody else, I seem to grow in and out of books.

Like, when I was in highschool, I thought Catcher in the Rye was a wonderful book, and I picked it up again a couple of years ago, and I hated Holden Caufield.  I really just wanted to slap him on the side of the head.

I guess if I had to pick, I’d go with The World of Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, All The King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren, The Short Stories by Ernest Hemingway, and—am I alone on the island?  Then probably an anthology of Penthouse Letters. 

Look, I know they’re not true.  Really I do—the same girlfriend who told me I was Jack Burden used to write them for a few extra dollars before becoming an editor at a very large daily in New York city.

But it’s a desert island.  What am I going to do?  Catch a monkey?

If I can’t have the letters, then I’d like an illustrated manual of How To Build A Large Cabin Cruiser From Things Readily Available On A Desert Island.

Who are you going to pass this stick to (3 people) and why?

To Ellen, because she thinks she’s the Quiz Queen and not the Meme Queen, so I’ll keep meming her until she concedes.  Jerry, because he’s a cool cat and who knows what he’s reading.  Cookie because I have a feeling, at her age, Go Dog Go has got to be there.  Or, because I read her blog, she'll have some manual on spanking or making bondage ropes from palm fronds.

Not that I'm into that.  I just like arts and crafts.

Bush Awards Pakistan For Spreading Weapons Of Mass Destruction And Cavorting With Terrorists

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States has agreed to sell sophisticated F-16 fighter planes to both India and its next-door rival Pakistan, administration officials said Friday, and India immediately expressed displeasure to President Bush...

A senior U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, linked the proposed sales of the planes, manufactured by Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin, directly to Musharraf's cooperation after the terror attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. This official maintained the sale would not upset the balance of power in the region.

``Musharraf made the strategic decision on Sept. 14, 2001 to stand with the United States,'' the official said, noting that the report of the independent Sept. 11 Commission recommended the United States make a long-term commitment to Pakistan. A five-year, $3 billion assistance program is under way, the official also noted.

A little amazing, isn't it?  After September 11th, what was the biggest fear Americans had regarding terrorism?

That terrorists and states that sponsored terrorism might get their hands on Weapons Of Mass Destruction!

And why was that the greatest fear of Americans?  Because the Bush administration, from September 12, 2001 until March of 2003, never shut up about it.   For a year and a half, all we heard was WMDs--nuclear weapons, sarin gas, blister agents--in the hands of terrorists!  We were told that just the possibility of a country giving WMDs to terrorists justified pre-emptive war!

Rice acknowledged that "there will always be some uncertainty" in determining how close Iraq may be to obtaining a nuclear weapon but said, "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."

In fact, the ol' Straight Shooter Who Couldn't Shoot Straight told us himself:

Today, the gravest danger in the war on terror, the gravest danger facing America and the world, is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.  These regimes could use such weapons for blackmail, terror, and mass murder.  They could also give or sell those weapons to terrorist allies, who would use them without the least hesitation.

He told us that in his State of the Union in 2003, in his rush to war with Iraq.  He told us that the gravest danger is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear weapons and could give or sell them to terrorist allies.

And then he invaded Iraq, which didn't have any of that stuff or any terrorist allies.

But you know who does have nuclear weapons?

Pakistan.

And do you know who has terrorist allies?

After that war Pakistan's northwest border region remained a stronghold for militant Islamic groups. The Taliban movement sprang largely from the Pashtun, or Pathan, tribal areas on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. When the Taliban regime won control of Afghanistan in 1996, it was officially recognized by Pakistan and had the support of Pakistan's military and intelligence establishment.

For many years Pakistan's security agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), has encouraged militant Islamic groups inside the country, recruiting jihadis for the fight against India over the disputed territory of Kashmir. The ISI even arranged for young jihadis to train in Al Qaeda's Afghan camps. When U.S. cruise missiles struck an Al Qaeda camp in 1998 in a failed attempt to kill Osama bin Laden, they instead killed Pakistani militants -- and ISI officers.

And do you know who's been giving or selling nuclear weapons to their terrorist allies?    

 In an effort to increase pressure on North Korea, the Bush administration told its Asian allies in briefings earlier this year that Pyongyang had exported nuclear material to Libya. That was a significant new charge, the first allegation that North Korea was helping to create a new nuclear weapons state.  

But that is not what U.S. intelligence reported, according to two officials with detailed knowledge of the transaction. North Korea, according to the intelligence, had supplied uranium hexafluoride -- which can be enriched to weapons-grade uranium -- to Pakistan. It was Pakistan, a key U.S. ally with its own nuclear arsenal, that sold the material to Libya. The U.S. government had no evidence, the officials said, that North Korea knew of the second transaction.

And do you know who's the biggest proliferator of nuclear weapons in the history of the world?

Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's best-known nuclear scientist, shocked the nation on Wednesday, when he went on television and confessed to leaking nuclear secrets.

He said he took full responsibility for proliferating nuclear weapons to Iran, Libya and North Korea.

And, of course, after the Bush administration failed to wholeheartedly pursue bin Laden at Tora Bora--because Bush had turned his attention to Iraq--we all know where bin Laden and al Qaeda fled to.  And, of course, we know how cooperative Pakistan has been with hunting down bin Laden and al Qaeda...

Three years after Osama bin Laden fled American bombs in his Tora Bora hideout, the search for the world's most wanted man has all but come to a halt because of Pakistan's refusal to permit cross-border raids from Afghanistan, according to CIA officials...

But according to the New York Times, the seven semi-autonomous tribal regions where bin Laden is believed to be hiding with a group of elite al-Qa'eda associates have become inaccessible to US troops due to the hostility of local people and Pakistan's refusal to allow US forces to operate in its territory.

And let's not forget how the Pakistanis themselves feel about bin Laden and the United States:

Almost two-thirds of the people in Pakistan say they view bin Laden favorably — a significant finding because U.S. troops are trying to find bin Laden in the mountainous region on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

So, let's review, in case all this linking confused anyone.

Iraq had no terrorist ties nor anything to do with al Qaeda and the destruction of the World Trade Towers.  Iraq also had no Weapons of Mass Destruction.  And the Bush administration ordered U.N. weapons inspectors out of Iraq so that we could launch a pre-emptive war, spend over 200 billion dollars, and the lives of 1500 Americans because the very possibility that Saddam might have WMDs and might give them to terrorists was so great we had no alternative.

While Pakistan has weapons of mass destruction.  Pakistan has bought them from and sold them to terrorist states.  Pakistan has close ties with al Qaeda and the Taliban.  Pakistan has given al Qaeda and the Taliban weapons and training, and financial and military support.  Pakistan is most likely  harboring high ranking al Qaeda officials.  And Pakistan is admittedly the greatest nuclear proliferator in the history of the world.

And how does the Bush administration deal with Pakistan?

By giving them a three billion dollar military aid package and selling them F-16s with state of the art technology, which may include the ability to deliver nuclear weapons.

And why?  To continue with this fiction that Bush has been fighting a war on terra.  The Bush administration would rather give three billion dollars to one of the worst terrorist supporting, WMD proliferating states in the world than admit their entire Iraqi misadventure was a grotesque and expensive and counterproductive lie.

Well, what does Bush care?  When some truly awful act of terrorism occurs, Bush will be comfortably safe in his fake ranch in Crawford, Texas.  He won't be anywhere near enough to read the label on whatever WMD blows up in Manhattan that says "With Love, From Pakistan".

Christ, New York never votes Republican, anyway.

Though, I also think it's interesting that Pakistan never could have financed building the nuclear weapons it's been proliferating all over the globe without the help of our other good ally in the war on terra, Saudi Arabia, and close Bush buddies like Prince Bandar "Bush".   And that financing, of course, was done with billions of United States dollar bills. 

From Texas.

These clowns aren't only selling our collective future.  They're selling our lives. 

Bush Still Looking Out For Number One

President Bush, Arriving In Washington, Very Concerned About Future Lunches

TUCSON, March 21 - After a private bill-signing ceremony in the middle of the night, President Bush made a public case for helping Terri Schiavo on Monday, praising Congress for sending him the legislation that allowed federal courts to intervene...

Appearing before hundreds of supporters here, Mr. Bush praised Congress for "voting to give Terri Schiavo's parents another opportunity to save their daughter's life." The declaration was met with roars from the supportive Republican crowd...

"This is a complex case with serious issues, but in extraordinary circumstances like this, it is wisest to always err on the side of life," Mr. Bush said at the beginning of an event on Social Security at the Tucson Convention Center.

And he's right.  It is always wisest to err on the side of life.  Which is why he's such a damn dumbass for signing more death warrants than any other governor in the country.  He's not wise.  He's not smart.  He's hardly ever truthful, and he can't remember stuff he did yesterday.  Stuff like:

The Schiavo case resonated through the president's day as Mr. Bush found himself on the defensive against accusations from Democrats that his signature on the bill was inconsistent with a Texas law he signed as governor in 1999...

The Texas law allows a patient's surrogate, like Ms. Schiavo's husband, the right to make end-of-life decisions. But it ultimately gives hospitals the right to withdraw life support if there is no hope of revival, regardless of family wishes. Under the law, a critically ill 5-month-old was taken off life support and allowed to die last week in Texas, even though his mother objected.

Course, the White House is quick to point out that the bill Bush signed into law in Texas allows a ten day period for the family of the  patient to find  another hospital willing to take the patient.  And anyone who's ever dealt with the medical profession knows that ten whole days is more than enough time to find a hospital to accept a terminally ill patient on life support.  Particularly when you have no money or insurance to pay for the care.

You can probably do it in less time than it takes to get a pizza delivered.

So, anyway, again, Bush isn't wise.  He isn't smart.  He can't remember stuff he did yesterday.  And for a straight shooter, who says what he means and means what he says, he's not exactly consistent.  Either he doesn't know what he's saying or he can't for the life of him figure out what he means.

Not that I'm one to talk.  I can't figure out what the garble mouthed, gibbery nonsense coming out of his smirk hole is supposed to mean, either.

But for those of you who think that the president is engaging in an appalling and grotesque use of human tragedy for cheap political purposes, you're wrong.  That's Congress you're thinking of.

But Bush?  No.  Bush really believes in what he's doing here.  And this may be the finest moment of his presidency--I mean, it's gotta be.  Can you think of any other one?

This is an issue near and dear to the president and his heart, which was changed by Jesus, himself.  This is an issue the president actually has conviction in.  This is an issue that is personal to the president.

Because if some judge can order a hospital to stop feeding some poor woman in Florida just because she hasn't demonstrated any brain activity for fifteen years, just what exactly is to prevent some activist judge from ordering the White House kitchen to stop feeding Bush?

Bush Administration Advocates Repealing 2nd Amendment

When you really don't believe in anything you say, ultimately, everything you say is a hilarious contradiction.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush on Tuesday expressed the hope that Hezbollah -- which the U.S. State Department has long regarded as a terrorist group -- could enter the political mainstream in Lebanon...

"First things first," the senior Bush administration official said. "Syria must get out, and Lebanon must have unfettered elections, then Hezbollah must disarm. ... There is no place for an armed militia in a democratic society."

Not exactly what his administration told the NRA, was it?

Pogue Mahone, Ya Bastards

May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sunshine warm your face, the rain fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hands.

And may you walk upon the Sunny Side Of The Street.

He's Ugly, But He's Good. He's Good And Ugly. Dammit.

America's greatest Congressman continues to kick ass:

Excess billing for postwar fuel imports to Iraq by the Halliburton Company totaled more than $108 million, according to a report by Pentagon auditors that was completed last fall but has never been officially released to the public or to Congress.

In one case, according to the report, the company claimed that it had paid more than $27 million to transport liquefied petroleum gas it had purchased in Kuwait for just $82,000 - a fee the auditors tartly dismissed as "illogical.

The fuels report, by the Defense Contract Audit Agency, was one of nine audits involving a subsidiary of Halliburton, Kellogg, Brown & Root, that were completed in October 2004, in the month before the American presidential elections. But the administration has kept all of them confidential despite repeated requests from both Republican and Democratic members of Congress.

Excerpts were released yesterday by the office of Representative Henry A. Waxman of California, minority leader of the House Committee on Government Reform(and the generally acknowledged Greatest American Congressman) which said it had obtained the audit through "unofficial channels..."

"The facts show that KBR delivered fuel crucial to the Iraqi people when failure was not an option," said Wendy Hall, a spokeswoman for Halliburton, in an e-mail message. "We will continue to work with the Army to prove, once and for all, that KBR delivered these vital services for the Iraqi people at a fair and reasonable cost given the circumstances."

Hmmm.  Certainly, the bidness environment in Iraq is challenging.  Can't deny that.  But it cost an extra twenty six million, nine hundred and and eighteen thousand dollars to drive $86,000 worth of fuel from Kuwait to Iraq???

How did they deliver the fuel?  In individually wrapped, eight ounce, gold plated condoms up Ahmed Chalabi's ass?  Is that the extra expense?  That each eight ounces of gold plated Chalabi ass fuel had to be accompanied by a Mercedes full of House of Saud quality hookers and a pile of blow, while being towed by a team of former Kentucky Derby winning horses? 

Not to mention an escort of a thousand United States soldiers getting paid $14,000 a year.

What the fuck???

Sure, that's fair and reasonable.  It cost 26 million extra dollars to deliver $86,000 worth of fuel into the world's fourth largest oil producing country in the world.

Maybe next Bush and his insane, incompetent clown posse can begin working on importing some highly prized and over priced snow to fucking Greenland.

And, of course, while America's Greatest Congressman is killing himself trying to get the Bush administration to finally release information they've had for months, information about the wholesale screwing of the American taxpayer, what is the rest of our Republican Congress doing?

The Republican Congress that declined to hold hearings on 9/11, on Valery Plame, on election irregularities in 2000 and 2004, on reporters paid by the adminstration, or administration produced fake news reports, on the missing WMDs, Powell lying to the U.N., the administration lying to the American people about the cost of the Iraq War, the administration lying about the cost of its prescription drug benefit, Tom DeLay's horrendous ethical violations, American sponsored torture abroad, on the failure to catch or kill bin Laden...etc., etc....

What is this Congress finally holding hearings on?

Steroids in baseball.

Course, I'm sure they'll stop short at asking any questions about the Texas Rangers. 

Hey, Congress, not that you give a fuck about saving we American taxpayers a dime, but if you're really interested in getting rid of steroids in baseball, and you'd like to do it efficiently, fucking appoint Henry Waxman as Commissioner of Major League Baseball.

He'll sort it out.  That guy takes his job seriously.

Antonin Potter And The Judges Chamber Of Secrets...Which Is Totally Creepy!

Hmmm, notoriously obnoxious, arrogant Supreme Court Justice Scalia is suddenly showing a softer side...

One possibility for Scalia's conversion: a looming vacancy in the office of chief justice. The current officeholder, William H. Rehnquist, is gravely ill, and President Bush is on record praising Scalia as one of his favorite jurists. So it might be shrewd for Scalia to be pursuing a bit of image polishing in advance of a hypothetical confirmation hearing.

Toward that end, Scalia's Wilson talk was part demystification, part stump speech. "I am not a strict constructionist," he began, correcting the introduction by the center's director, Lee H. Hamilton. He also disclosed that the term "judicial activism" -- a favorite epithet of conservatives for liberal judges -- "is overused."

Soft and cuddly, though weirder than ever.  After a lifetime of strict constructionist arguments and decrying "judicial activism", well, anyway, you read what he said.

But here comes the scary part!

"Though I'm a law-and-order type, I cannot do all of the mean, conservative things I'd like to do to the society," he said.

Not unless you're Chief Justice!

Okay, okay, I get it that he's joking.  You know, trying to, anyway.  He's conservative joking.  In that  "Wow, you just made me feel all creepy and terrified of you" conservative funny type of joking that they do about slavery, and nuking France, and internment camps, and killing Bill Clinton.

You know, like Dennis Miller. 

Shit, Dennis Miller probably wrote that joke for him.  Lord knows he could use the work.

Anyway, so that's a soft, fuzzy joke from probably our next Chief Justice--that he'd like to do some very mean things to our society, but...he won't.  (Five minutes of blank tape.)  Because it would be wrong.

Though, I'm sure I read somewhere that in every bit of humor lies a little bit of truth.  Or, maybe not.  Maybe that was a Rob Reiner film. 

At other times, he has accused his fellow justices of ruling on the "flimsiest of grounds." When he disagreed with the majority on executing the mentally retarded, he awarded his peers "the prize for the Court's Most Feeble Effort to fabricate 'national consensus.' "

Yes, he's principled.  He takes delight in consistency and bristles at flimsy justifications of the Court fabricating "national consensus".  Particularly when it comes to killing retarded people.  Though, he signed off in a heartbeat on the flimsy Fourteenth Amendment argument--that he's spent a career telling us he hates--in Bush v. Gore and helped fabricate a "national consensus" even though most of the nation didn't agree with it.

But he get's even more principled and more scary the more you hear from him!

In his talk yesterday, Scalia acknowledged a certain notoriety. He expressed amusement that he is often asked " 'When did you first become an originalist?' like it's a weird affliction that seizes people, like 'When did you start eating human flesh?' "

Jesus, God, who said anything about eating human flesh???  What is it with conservatives and incredibly bizarre associations?  Someone asks Scalia about his legal philosophy, and he says, "Why not ask me about eating humans?"  Someone asks Santorum about consensual, adult sex and he says, "This is like man on dog action!"

Word association is a pretty standard test of personality.  What would Jung make of:

"Originalist?"

"Eating human flesh."

"Homosexuals?"

"Man on dog action."

I don't know.  I slept through Psych 101.  Maybe someone who actually took notes can tell me.  Me, myself, I make of it--you're fucked up, totally creepy dudes with some seriously disturbed thoughts that aren't even subconscious.

Think I'm exaggerating?  Let's talk about BMWs:

Discussing a case about the BMW painting process, he surmised that the vehicles' coating is "baked seven times in ovens deep in the Alps by dwarves."

Wow, what a fucking nut.

But he's crazier and creepier than you or Jung could even guess.  Big finish?  You bet!

But Scalia suggested that he is a last voice of reason and sanity at a time when much of the nation has been tempted into a nihilist theory of the Constitution as a "living document" capable of being stretched to fit whatever a judge wants.

Yeah, that's right.  He said it.  Nihilists.  And he, Scalia, a good Catholic, who's publicly said that the  infallible Pope is wrong about the death penalty, is a last voice of reason against the nihilists who believe the Constitution to be a "living document". 

And who would those nutty, Constitutionally ignorant nihilists be? 

Oh, that's right!  They would be Madison, Hamilton, Jefferson, Jay, John Marshall...you know, the guys who wrote it.

And this is Scalia's soft side.

Wait until this fucker is Chief Justice.  I guess then he'll show us the other side, the side with Lord Voldemort coming out the back of his fucking head.