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Scalia: State of the Union "has turned into a childish spectacle"
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Posted on 02/13/2013 7:59:45 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Edited on 02/13/2013 8:05:23 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Scalia: State of the Union "has turned into a childish spectacle"

WASHINGTON While his colleagues got ready to go to the Capitol, Justice Antonin Scalia sat on a stage across town and held forth about why, for the 16th consecutive year, he would not be joining them for the State of the Union.


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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 113th; 2013sotu; bho44; bhosotu; scalia; scotus
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To: Sub-Driver

With Obama’s SOTU yellow brick road speech China reports a record hige sales of popcorn,makes list of how much more money he wants from them.


21 posted on 02/13/2013 9:07:55 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Sub-Driver

This speech was a real ratings pig...DOWN across the boardon all networks; FOX’s ratings nearly cut in half from last year...ROTF! Judge Scalia wasn’t the only one ignoring the SOTU.


22 posted on 02/13/2013 9:12:29 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Sub-Driver

It has been a ‘dog and pony’ show for at least 3 decades.


23 posted on 02/13/2013 9:21:45 AM PST by Parmy
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To: lurk

Bumping a very well-written observation.


24 posted on 02/13/2013 9:41:46 AM PST by spankalib (The downside of liberty is the need to tolerate those who despise it.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I second your “yep.” Didn’t care for Bush’s either.


25 posted on 02/13/2013 9:45:19 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: GQuagmire

Wonder how she was able to shoot a white tail doe when they only had licenses for antelope and mule deer.


26 posted on 02/13/2013 9:53:06 AM PST by gopheraj
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To: lurk

Indeed...

And Rome was overrun by invaders...

As are we.

Their currency was debased as is ours.

Even tho they were Christian in 350, much of their morality was still depraved in a lot of areas...

There is doom in our future...our near future, I fear....


27 posted on 02/13/2013 9:58:39 AM PST by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: Sub-Driver

The closer he approaches dictator status, the longer his public bloviations become.

Before long, he’ll be making five-hour speeches a la Castro.


28 posted on 02/13/2013 10:00:41 AM PST by DPMD
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To: supremedoctrine; GeronL
Thanks for that link,a song sung in English by apparently a Japanese vocalist-—never heard it before and not sure what you intended by posting it in this thread, except for the (to me)obvious one.

I'd bet on Korean, given the letter-shapes in the title. Here's a Japanese-singing-English song: I'm yours.
Bonus 1: Japanese version of a good English song - Wonderwall.
Bonus 2: Japanese American Utada Hikaru singing Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Bonus 3: An excellent rendition of an English-speaker singing in Japanese rendition of Fireflies.

29 posted on 02/13/2013 10:06:39 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Hildy

An intelligent society would have voted his ass out when it had the opportunity to. We are a nation of dolts.

Whereas I agree with your sentiment, we'd still be a nation of dolts had we replaced Obama with a closet liberal like Romney that would have continued growing government under the Republican banner. I actually do *not* think we are a nation of dolts; I think we were denied a viable alternative to an existing catastrophe.


30 posted on 02/13/2013 10:14:01 AM PST by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: Mogger

Why watch SOTU when we have the “Ow, My Balls!” channel?


31 posted on 02/13/2013 10:14:34 AM PST by rlmorel (1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
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To: gopheraj
Instead, "she ended up killing a white-tailed doe, which she could have done in my driveway" in suburban Virginia
32 posted on 02/13/2013 10:23:47 AM PST by Osage Orange (MOLON LAVE)
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To: lurk

“We are Rome, 350 AD.”

We are worse off. One of the Roman Caesars showed his contempt of government by installing a horse in the Senate. Today, half of our Senate is filled with asses.


33 posted on 02/13/2013 10:57:24 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Sub-Driver

IMHO, one of the most childish, dumbest parts of the SOTU, which goes back several presidents, is introducing people from the audience.


34 posted on 02/13/2013 11:58:41 AM PST by wideminded
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To: OneWingedShark; supremedoctrine

Yes Korean and was used as theme music in a Korean TV show


35 posted on 02/13/2013 12:17:30 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Hildy
An intelligent society would have voted his ass out when it had the opportunity to. We are a nation of dolts.

50.4 percent is not exactly the whole nation. It's about 50-50 dolts and non-dolts.

36 posted on 02/13/2013 2:52:07 PM PST by PapaNew
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To: Osage Orange

But the question is did she have a license for a white tail as well as mule deer and antelope. :)


37 posted on 02/14/2013 8:37:59 AM PST by gopheraj
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To: gopheraj
Instead, "she ended up killing a white-tailed doe, which she could have done in my driveway" in suburban Virginia

I believe you aren't reading the sentence correctly.....

I believe she shot the WT doe in Virginia....At least that's how I read it.

But it's poorly written...so who knows?

38 posted on 02/14/2013 9:55:43 AM PST by Osage Orange (MOLON LAVE)
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To: rlmorel
Why watch SOTU when we have the “Ow, My Balls!” channel?

There's a channel that plays only Obama speeches?

39 posted on 02/15/2013 2:10:58 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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