Kagan Takes Up Hunting with Fellow Justice Scalia

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http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpps/news/kagan-takes-up-hunting-with-fellow-justice-scalia-dpgonc-20120404-kh_19031801

(NewsCore) - US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan surprised a Wisconsin audience this week with news that she has recently taken to hunting with her ideological opposite, fellow justice Antonin Scalia.

"He's made a huntress out of me," Kagan revealed at a Marquette law school panel in Milwaukee on Tuesday.

The liberal justice revealed she and her ideological foe had shot quail and pheasant together and planned to hunt bigger game in the future.

"He insists I'm going to shoot myself an antelope," the New York City native said, adding that she had come to view hunting as "really good fun."

Ha! That's great, isn't it? Two people from ideologically opposite ends of the spectrum, coming together to unnecessarily kill a third, completely unrelated thing.



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[muntrv]

1. Does Scalia feel safer around Kagan than Cheney?

[badtoworse]

2. Hopefully, she will receive proper training in gun safety

Everyone in a hunting party needs to know the drill.

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5. Apparently not: He went hunting with him at least in 2009, years after...

...Cheney shot Harry Whittington.

Maybe Cheney, Kagan and Scalia can all go hunting together! They can bring along Dubya to retrieve the quail and pheasant. Man that's an image.

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[hughee99]

29. Well, he's not exactly known for his good judgement. n/t

[dhill926]

3. nice to see the privileged class enjoying themselves....

what's next. Fox hunting? Hope they give the dead animals to the peasants.

[badtoworse]

6. Lots of less than privileged people also enjoy hunting, myself included.

What's wrong with that?

[dhill926]

9. I would assume the

less privileged may actually eat the spoils. Hard to imagine the justices doing it for anything other than sport. And I do have a problem with that.

[badtoworse]

10. I would say that is usually true

I would be surprised if they shot some pheasants and no one ate them - they're pretty good eating, but you need to be careful when you chew. Bite down too hard on birdshot and you'll crack a tooth.

I don't kill anything I'm not going to eat when I'm hunting or fishing. No true sportsman would do otherwise.

[Zanzoobar]

11. The guide does it

Or the guide's staff.

They prolly ate the boids that very night in a simply prepared sauce.

[teddy51]

4. I'm hoping that she has a Cheney moment actually! lol Yeah I know this will probably

get alerted on, but it was tongue in cheek.

[meow2u3]

7. DUzy nominee

Tongue in cheek my ass!

[teddy51]

17. Hey, I need to use that line lol.. cause it would have been alerted on for sure. n/t

[appal_jack]

24. Hey! No sex sub-threads!

"Tongue in cheek my ass!" sounds like quite the proposition...



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[enough]

8. "Huntress?" This doesn't sound good.

What's wrong with "hunter?"

[Justice wanted]

12. First comes the hunting THEN comes the appearance at an ALEC's event. GAWD I do home I'm wrong

I just have a bad feeling.

[11 Bravo]

33. I home you're wrong, too. (I guess) In any case, hunting is not intrinsically evil.

[snooper2]

51. Your hidden post is hilarious

I FUCKIN HUMAN


I guess that's a lot better than-

I FUCKING GROUNDHOG - LOL

[RebelOne]

13. "Really good fun" to blast away animals? n/t

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15. If the startled birds fly at you, they're charging and can be shot in...

...self-defense. If the startled birds fly away from you, they're cowards and can be shot on principle.



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[Fumesucker]

22. And if they stand their ground they are well trained guerrill... err.. birds..

[badtoworse]

16. It is fun, but it's more than just blasting away animals

It's being in the woods on a nice day with friends and enjoying the outdoors. I don't measure the fun I've had by the number of animals I kill (but it is nice to go home with something). I really enjoyed an ice fishing trip with my hunting and fishing buddies a couple of months ago even though we caught nothing.

[TwilightGardener]

36. I think they let you in the woods on a nice day with friends without being armed

and intending to kill an animal that's in its own habitat, doing its thing. I've heard it called "hiking".

[badtoworse]

42. I like hiking too, along with a lot of other outdoor activities like backpacking and canoeing.

Once in a while, I'll take a shotgun with me and if I'm lucky, I'll bring home a bird or two for dinner. I do a lot of fishing and release most of what I catch, but sometimes I'll bring a few home for a meal. I see nothing wrong with that and offer no apology for it.

I can understand that hunting isn't for everyone and if it's not your thing, that's fine. What I do is not your concern and the snark is not appreciated.

[TwilightGardener]

46. Just pointing out that the reasons often given for going hunting are pretty silly.

"I like to get out in the woods" is a really lame reason for blowing away an animal. If a hunter ever actually said "I just really enjoy killing defenseless animals", I'd be stunned by the honesty.

[badtoworse]

50. You have a strong opinion about something that you don't understand and know nothing about.

Discussing it further would be a waste of time, but have it your way. I'm very comfortable in my own skin.

[unkachuck]

14. '...she had come to view hunting as "really good fun."'

....what other fat-tony vices has she come to view as "really good fun."

....our wonderful liberal justice is being tainted and corrupted by the fat fascist tony....first it's quail and pheasant, but that's not enough....to become a true right-wing huntress, she'll have to kill Bambi....

....no good can come from breaking bread and rubbing elbows with the right-wing....

[saras]

18. I'd trust Kagan with a gun. I wouldn't trust Scalia to miss like Cheney.

[bullwinkle428]

19. It's all in good fun until Scalia thinks about shooting her in the face.

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20. ahhh...

...elitists enjoying themselves...touching isn't it?

[NCTraveler]

23. It really is that simple. nt

[MannyGoldstein]

21. If Obama loses the election, she

should reconsider her new hobby. Scalia might want to create a new opening on the court.

[Marie Marie]

25. Why do I find this disturbing on so many levels?

[badtoworse]

26. Beats me. Maybe they should have gone bowling.

[smirkymonkey]

37. I know, everything about it just seems so very wrong.

Bizarre, actually. But then again, I would never consider hunting. Nor would I consider it great fun. And least of all would I consider going out in the woods alone with an armed Fat Tony.

[Canuckistanian]

27. Jesus Christ

Not that I care about Kagan hunting. Good on her. I live in the country.

But is this the image of a Supreme Court justice? And I'm not even talking about decorum.

I can't even imagine a sentient being in the USSC or environs who has NEVER heard of Scalia's famous duck hunt with Dick Cheney, and how that event is synonymous with corruption and/or influence peddling.

What is Kagan thinking? Or does a fraud like Scalia not bother her?

[ParkieDem]

32. Apparently not.

Scalia must be some sort of charmer or have some great personality that hides his bizarro intellect.

It's common knowledge that he and Ginsburg are pretty close to best friends -- they and their spouses spend New Year's and holidays together, go to the opera/theater together, and all that.

[321Morrow]

28. Sarah Palin took 5 shots to kill a moose standing still.

At a certain point the animal deserves to go free.

[GeorgeGist]

30. News Core?

That's some Serious Bullshit. Even if it's true.

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31. Deal with it. The story is accurate and true.

At the time I couldn't find sourcing for the same story at CNN or some other mainstream media outlet other than a Fox affiliate.

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[TheKentuckian]

49. True, I reckon but accurate I'm less sure of.

I'm pretty sure Kagan is pretty far off from Scalia's ideological opposite. I'm not sure if any Justice has been as far left is he is out on the Reich.

The framing of Kennedy as a "moderate" has been destructive but this frame is almost as dangerous because once a moderate is painted as far left this end of the spectrum is herded toward the aforementioned fucking Kennedy who really is much more "moderate" than a Rehnquist, he just is a hair less absurd than the four wild extremists that our chumps rolled over and confirmed when absolute obstruction was required to keep the country out of the toilet and as a side benefit, move them to the middle some and give us some latitude on the left.

All the "calculation" predictably turned to crap and not any combination of things accomplished in three decades of allowing a radical run to the right on the courts which is magnified by the volume of appointments stacked over the years was worth allowing these asses to scuttle the country for as long as they draw breath.

Bah!

[joeybee12]

34. Aw, isn't that cute? She likes caged hunts, too...

Twit.

[theaocp]

48. Having grown up hunting both quail and pheasant, my first question

was whether this was a canned hunt or not. If so, it ain't fucking hunting. It's using birds as target practice. Go get some skeet, "hunters."

[TwilightGardener]

35. Yuck.

[Raine]

39. UGH ... Disgusting nt

[cstanleytech]

40. Nothing new really OP, lot of people just call it thanksgiving *shrug*

Just as long as they dont combine it with Dick Cheney and liquor they should be safe enough.

[TheWraith]

41. You know, I'm not actually a hunter but I find some of the responses here disturbing.

And representative of a classic bit of disconnect. You have tens of millions of Americans who hunt, many more than that who approve of and support it, and for a lot of people it's part of their survival. Even never once having hunted anything that was willing to leave me alone, I can appreciate that, and yet there are still a lot of people here who treat hunting as disgusting and evil.

[badtoworse]

43. Thank you. It's nice to see some sanity here when hunting is discussed.

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44. Why are you trying to conflate Scalia and Kagan hunting pheasant with people who hunt to survive?

I'm not sure if you read the article but we're talking about recreation hunting here which includes, as Kagan adds, the ultimate goal of Scalia to get her to bag an antelope.

I'm not even sure that Kagan eats meat.

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[ZombieHorde]

45. Scalia's hunting is not what bothers me about him.

His judging is what bothers me.

[WillyT]

47. Hey Man... That's Bi-Partisanship... Nothing Like Opposing Sides Getting Together To Kill Something

Or, someone...