Posted on 01/09/2006 5:28:14 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
WASHINGTON — He's a Springsteen fan, history buff and marksman. He can whip up a salmon pate, but don't ask him to bake a cake. His marriage proposal began as an offer to take dancing lessons.
These insights into Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito came from his wife, Martha, who confided in an interview that the man who has pondered weighty issues as a federal appeals judge for more than a decade has some interesting quirks.
His music tastes tend toward Beethoven and Bruce Springsteen but "I force him to listen to Scarlatti and Bach," Mrs. Alito said in a Washington Post interview published Monday. He once attended a ska festival -- that's rock music, with a touch of reggae and horns.
Lately, her husband has been reading "Civil War stuff," Mrs. Alito says. Once, he began teaching himself Greek so he could read the philosophers in their original language. He also took up juggling.
"He's a great marksman -- he can do double clays," she says, meaning he can hit two clay pigeon targets thrown simultaneously into the air before either hits the ground.
On their first date, they discussed a movie about an Asian mystic's travels through Afghanistan and his search for the meaning of life. Alito's marriage proposal began with a different sort of proposal -- "Let's go take dancing lessons."
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>>>"He's a great marksman -- he can do double clays," she says, meaning he can hit two clay pigeon targets thrown simultaneously into the air before either hits the ground.<<<
Look out!! Alito is a gun nut!! :)
Alito sounds alot like...me! Except I can't stand Springsteen.
I can forgive him for liking Springsteen.
As long as he doesn't like Linda Ronstadt or Barbra Streisand.
It still makes me shudder to think that if Bush(Laura) had his(her) way, one Miss Harriet Miers would be facing the committee right now.
LOL! I'll have my Lard Ass pie with Whale Blubber sauce, please. Hold the Schumer.
Forget the clays. Can he get the feathers?
Not I!
"Besides helping out his fellow Italians in the Mafia, now we know why "Machine Gun Sammy" wants every kindergarten child in America to have his or her very own Tommy gun!"
</Howard Dean>
"He's a Springsteen fan, history buff and marksman. He can whip up a salmon pate, but don't ask him to bake a cake. His marriage proposal began as an offer to take dancing lessons."
That's all very interesting, but what matters is that he becomes a Supreme Court Justice.
Those blowhard old farts aren't going to get far. Alito looked bored with them. Wait until he answers some questions.
I'd bet he does. but is mum since PETA would consider him a pheasant murderer.
I only liked Cheech Marin's "Born in East L.A.":):) Springsteen never interested me either.
Will his kids dance for the camera?
I ask them what is the differnce between a S/S, O/U, semi shotgun: they are clueless. Lever, pump, bolt action rifle /carbine? they are clueless. Wheel gun verus pistol: they are clue less.
Then I describe the definition of a machine....
So a slingshot is a machine?
"He's a Springsteen fan, history buff and marksman"Oh boy... he's a gun nut!!!
Err, umm....sound familiar?
Springsteen is a has-been. A twisted burned out druggie from the 70's. A guy who took our side only once (when everyone else did) but since has done nothing but try to undermine President Bush and our WOT.
Springsteen sounds like he wants to be a R&R version of Bob Dylan. (heba heba huba bubbba bubba heba bee bee buduba budaba heba huba buba bee bee beduba)
And it's not working. Springsteen sucks. And Alito needs to find some better music. He should listen to his wife more often.
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