Sorry if this is a dup'e, but you need to see this picture of Scalia from yesterday:

[patrice]

It appears that Thomas Moore hat has gone to Scalia's head.

Who is his boss? The Catholic Church? or ALL of the people of the USA?

Why can't someone like this be fired?

[RKP5637]

1. Do they ever get checked for competency and fitness of mind? n/t

[patrice]

2. Rather obvious possibility of inflation of somesort going on here, delusions of grandeur of

the same type that took us into a war against an INNOCENT nation, Iraq.

It's scarey to have that sort of thing going on on the highest court there is.

Perhaps someone should give him his wish; hat and head out the door, without separating anything from his body, of course.

[Cairycat]

3. To put your hand over your heart

requires that you have a heart, yes?

[Ian Iam]

7. Brilliant!

[lastlib]

4. Clarence "Uncle" Thomas looks absolutely P1SSED to have to be there....

must be missing his nap.............

.

[MiniMe]

13. I'll give Clarence credit for 1 thing

He helped Ruth Bader Ginsberg down the stairs. He was actually a gentleman about it.

[patrice]

20. And somehow, despite everything about how he got where he is, I don't think the significance of

yesterday was lost on Clarence Thomas.

[lastlib]

21. maybe that's what he's so p1ssed about.......

...that the first African-American President wasn't as loony-tune right-wing as he is.


patrice!

[patrice]

22. Hi lastlib!!! I was just reading some 2nd Amendment stuff & thinking about you!

lastblib!

[BigDDemMa]

5. The HAT

Seriously...is that not a scarily pretentious hat? Who does he think he is?
If only one of the fatuous five would move on...in anyway necessary....
Vote Democrat: The Party of the People By the People For the People®

[patrice]

10. Looks pretty obvious to me that Tony has some rather inflated ego stuff going on here. nt

[PennsylvaniaMatt]

6. Oh I love it!

Two powerful liberal women standing and displaying their patriotism, while the conservative snarls!

[unblock]

8. when he's not stomping on hearts, he's taking big bites out of them.

so the hand position seems fitting....


note that kagan and sotomayor are looking in the same direction;
thomas and scalia appear to be trying to look elsewhere....

[pipoman]

9. This pic reminds me so much

of another judge...uncanny resemblance IMHO..

[JimDandy]

30. This pic looks weirdly disturbing.

Like an angry female genitalia.

[pipoman]

33. It's Judge Arse

"The evidence before the court is incontrivertible, there's no need for the jury to retire! In all my years of judging, I have never heard before some one more deserving of the full penalty of law! The way you made them suffer, your exquisite wife and mother, fills me with the urge to DEFECATE!"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084503/quotes

[JimDandy]

38. I had the right part of the body

but the wrong side.

Definitely describes Scalia.

[patrice]

11. Expect Plausible Deniability, all, a HIGHLY marketable commodity, especially

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when guns are up for grabs by whoever wants whatever.

[countryjake]

12. The "More Hat"

Sir Thomas More

More's final words on the scaffold were: "The King's good servant, but God's First."

Maybe Scalia intends to try for sainthood?

[patrice]

14. I'm wondering how much of the NRA is Catholic, Eric Prince, his Xe -ness, who has high interest

in the NRA's Bushmaster markets abroad IS Catholic. You may recall that Xe was formerly the big war profiteer in Iraq, known as Blackwater.

There's also some rather aristocratic organizations, such as the Papal Order of the Golden Spur, a supporter of the Shah or Iran before his deposition, and this http://www.tfp.org/ out there.

Just part of what's at stake here in re the 2nd Amendment and, hence, to other issues that will come before this court:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022193033

[rhett o rick]

15. Isnt it appropriate to have his hat off? nm

[Dreamer Tatum]

16. You want him fired over a HAT?

Because you think that indicates who his BOSS is?

Wow. I am simultaneously employed by the Yankees, Astros, Wolverines, and CAT Diesel.

I better get to work!

[patrice]

18. It's interesting that he's not pledging allegiance and ALSO happens to be wearing the hat

given him by a Catholic organization dedicated to Sir Thomas More, hence the Thomas More hat. If you don't know why that is significant, it would probably be more useful to you to remember that google is your friend, so you can decide for yourself.

Those of us who are concerned about separation of church and state wonder why a judge on SCOTUS would appear to be so completely ignorant of what his behavior looks like in this situation, but then I guess you'd have to know why Thomas More is remembered to get that point, but then also I suppose, if it is a signal about Tony's attitude toward separation between church and state, it is not lost on those on the RELIGIOUS side of those who care about that issue.

[patrice]

19. And if that's too much, perhaps we can agree that this at least raises questions about Tony. You'll

hear/see the media do it's usual propaganda in support of corporate personhood and downplay this and I won't deny that there is some possibility that they are right, but it's only a possibility, so that means that there is also a possibility that they are wrong. Right?:Wrong? even at a 50:50 probability, I'd still say that's significant considering what's coming onto the SCOTUS calendar pretty soon.

[NoGOPZone]

27. Wearing a hat during the National Anthem is not protocol. Why does he hate America? nt

[Paladin]

17. Pul-eeeze, Gary Trudeau: Use This Hat In Doonesbury From Now On.

Just the empty hat, representing Scalia---like the empty cowboy hat represented Dubya for all those miserable years. Talk about a deserving target. Maybe attach a loaded AR-15 magazine to the hat, for a meaningful decoration....

[Demo_Chris]

23. Can someone tell me what the significance is of that hat?

[patrice]

24. Is google broken? Read up a little on Sir Thomas More & compare what you find out with

separation of church and state issues today.

You might also review things that were said about separation of church and state during the last campaign year, see Paul Ryan, and birth control legal issues within the context of the Affordable Care Act of 2010, for example, but the issues have been just under the surface ever since Kennedy, so you might review his speech on the matter too.

[ck4829]

26. Secret MUSLIM Traitor!!!1ONE1!!1!!!!

[Beartracks]

28. NObody expects the Spanish Inquisition hat!! n/t

[NoGOPZone]

29. Thomas looks like he's constipated. nt

[no_hypocrisy]

31. Where's the flag pin?

[The Blue Flower]

32. Those are two bitter, bitter men

Sucks to be them.

[Laochtine]

34. Is that a failed

chef hat? Bitter bitter sauce

[patrice]

36. Yeah, Chef Tonyardee, needs to lay off of the ChurchCo personhood tit. nt

[brewens]

35. Fat Toneski! n/t

[tblue37]

37. He always has the nastiest expression on his face.

He is a living example of the meaning of the word "dyspeptic."

Although the literal meaning refers to indigestion, it developed to mean having or habitually displaying bad temper.