Posted on 07/02/2013 11:41:27 AM PDT by drewh
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan told a crowd at the Aspen Ideas Festival that fellow Justice Antonin Scalia took her "big-game hunting," boasting that she had bagged a deer on the trip. "I shoot birds with him two or three times a year now," Kagan said. "At the end of last year we had been bird shooting 4 or 5 times ... he said to me, 'It's time for big-game hunting.' We actually went out to Wyoming this past fall to shoot deer and antelope, and we did ... I shot myself a deer."
Kagan said she began hunting with Scalia to fulfill a promise she made during her confirmation process, during which she fielded questions about her views on the Second Amendment.
"Quite a lot of [lawmakers], both Republicans and Democrats, ask about your view on the Second Amendment. ... They'll say, 'Have you ever held a gun?' " Kagan said. "I grew up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and this was not something we really did." Kagan said she promised one lawmaker that if she was "lucky enough to be confirmed," she would ask Scalia to take her hunting. "He thought it was hilarious, he thought it was a total crackup," Kagan said of Scalia's response when she attempted to fulfill the promise.
The Supreme Court justice, who just wrapped up one of the more contentious terms, with high-profile cases on the Voting Rights Act and same-sex marriage, admitted that following a grueling session, justices "might need a vacation from one another." But she said her hunting trips with Scalia were indicative of how the justices respected one another despite ideological differences.
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After I got me one of them thar huntin' licenses
What a man!
All the hogs will be running from Kagan ... therefore, only shoot the lead animal ...
“can I get muh self a huntin license here?”- John F’n Kerry
leftards have to pretend they can relate to the unwashed masses .
I’ve taken several lib friends to the range.
A few dozen or hundred rounds down range, combined with calm, rational saftey training (and getting to see and meet the other people there) can do more than all the screaming and NRA stickers in the country.
The only real problem is that our local ranges usually have very lousy restrooms facilities, which my female friends find distasteful.
Having a friend, and her daughter, experience what firing a pistol, shotgun and rifle is really like was quite cool; they are NEVER going to believe the folks who try to tell them how a easily available handgun can shoot 100 people or such BS.
One of them did pop himself in the head with the scope of my 300 win mag “oh. I’ve shot a rifle before...”... but seeing a seriously smokingly hot female co worker working a 6” stainless 357 King Cobra on a target she imagined to be her ex (and I think she sent him the sillhouette hahahah)was something I’ll never forget.
I must've missed that one in the dietary laws.
Then again, Jesus did have something to say about loading people down with rules… as well as traditions
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Maybe Scalia can introduce her to Dick Cheney...
Someone needs to spend some time with Scalia at the range.
She’s Conservative, not Orthodox. And hunting for food is not forbidden.
” I shot myself a deer.””
She grew up in an Orthodox environment but I believe the now calls herself Conservative (ironically). Doesn't she actually attend a Reconstructionist synagogue?
If I had three wishes, none of them would be for world peace but instead,
#1.....a day of fishing with President Bush
#2.....bird hunting with VP Dick Cheney
#3.....dinner with Rush
Liberal elitist Black Robe Champion of Obamacare now enamored with firearms. Not impressed. “Guns for me, but none for thee.” She would rule against and invalidate the 2nd amendment in a heart beat.
...I shot myself a deer.
Any chance she will learn herself some grammar?
Hunting for food is not forbidden, correct. Sport hunting is considered cruel for Jews (not Gentiles).
And birds are less of a problem than mammals.
But mammals that are shot (or whatever) are not ritually slaughterd in a manner to ensure they do not suffer, so eating them (unless one really needs to eat) is difficult, in that the meat is not kosher.
There is a growing school of thought, however, that there IS a proper method for Jews to hunt animals, but this knowledge was lost during the Diaspora where the Jews were considered foreign, could not own land, and thus had no ability to hunt.
Growing up in rural Israel, I fall into this category, in that I believe there is a proper method to make hunted animals kosher, but the knowledge escapes us at this time and shall be re-discoverd.
In your zeal to push your religion, you missed the point -— Kagan is a fraud.
Who knows. I vaguely recall she was going to a shul that was the equivalent of a Joel Osteen Orthodox group.
All flash, no substance.
I give Kagan credit.
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