[AmishDude]

Strike one: You lied about your political and ideological affiliations.

Strike two: You made me look up a nongermane case.

Want to go for strike three?

As to the non-sequitur you mentioned about the hitching post:

1. I am not sure why you mentioned Scalia (unless you wanted to be ad hominem), because Thomas wrote the dissent, Scalia and Rhenquist joined.
2. I scanned the dissent. It's an interesting read and a careful and delicate treating of the facts, but the bottom line is: They sued the wrong guys. God forbid Thomas, Scalia and Rhenquist pay attention to the actual case at hand instead of throwing their judicial weight around.

[Viva Le Dissention]

I mentioned Scalia because he thought it was perfectly acceptable to chain a prisoner to a hitching post. I don't know why you're reading more into it than what it is.

#2, I never lied about my political affiliations. I said I am ultra-conservative. That's totally true. I've voted straight libertarian in every election I've ever voted in, with the exception of a a friend of mine who was running for Governor on the Republican ticket and a friend of mine who is a judge, a Democrat.