No one knows what the rudeboy knows!
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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That's because everything they've learned about guns came from Hollywood and the news media, and if there is anyone else more clueless about firearms I hope to never meet them. Thanks to Hollywood, the average liberal "knows" that when a person gets shot with a 9mm pistol round, his body is flung across the room with such force that he'll blow through any windows behind him, that if someone is firing a "machine gun" at you you'll be okay if you duck behind an empty 55-gallon drum because the bullets will just bounce off it, that anyone can score a 10-ring hit on a target 1000 yards away firing a .38 Special snub nose from the hip, etc.
No one knows what the rudeboy knows!
...but Alito could peg ALL the Democrats with a single blast...
'cause they are so thin and lined up in a single row, so they stay on script!
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