Can you imagine if a Democrat pulled this! Faux News would lead with it until the War of Terror became the Struggle Against Alarm.

you gotta love that separation of church and state....

cant say i'm suprised to hear this about scalia however

Or maybe he is pumped up from watching the Sopranos and thinks he is a tough guy.

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Scalia's Gesture: Obscene Or Sicilian?

POSTED: 6:43 pm PST March 27, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Was it obscene -- or just Sicilian?

A spokeswoman said Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia used an Italian hand gesture after a reporter asked him a question outside a church service Sunday.

The Boston Herald reported that it was an obscene gesture, which led to some reports that Scalia used his middle finger.

A spokeswoman said Scalia used a "hand off the chin gesture," which Italians commonly use to show displeasure. Scalia used the gesture after being asked if he had to deal with much flak about his conservative Roman Catholic beliefs.

http://www.kirotv.com/news/8302673/detail.html

http://italian.about.com/library/nos...estures026.htm

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/27/scalia.gesture.ap/

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Instead of commenting on the actions of Scalia, you creat a different scenario. Why don't you just start your own thread about an imaginary liberal and how the liberal press would treat him.

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Flatulata is burdened with underactive gray matter. Changing the subject, whether it be through rhetorical fallacy or flat avoidance, is frequently his best effort.
Cliche ("Struggle Against Alarm, that's almost cute. Did you think that one up yourself?) is cleverness for him and should be encouraged.
Your idea that he create an imaginary liberal as a straw man, in the tradition of Rush, may be adopted. We can watch while he pinatas his own imago.

Apparently either 1) you know very very little about Italian culture or 2) you fell hook line and sinker for what the left wing hate sites told you to believe. Or more likely both. That gesture does NOT mean F you, nothing like it. It means displeasure, nothing more. My Sicilian grandfather used it all the time.

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JMS gets another English lesson:

Quote:

there is no "mostly unique;" thats like saying "sometimes always," its an oxymoron - its either one or the other.

The result:

Quote:

By the mid-19th century unique had developed a wider meaning, “not typical, unusual,” and it is in this wider sense that it is compared. The comparison of so-called absolutes in senses that are not absolute is standard in all varieties of speech and writing.

Since we have come to the understanding that Senax is wrong, and the liberal media has nothing to do with this story, perhaps someone could explain to me exactly why the Boston Herald writer wrote a story which clearly implied that Scalia flipped the bird when he did not?

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The larger political issue is Scalia's toss-off statement to the photographer from The Pilot; "Don't Print That."
It will be interesting to see if the Arch-Dioceses of Boston's paper lets the photo in question see the light of day. Remember when one of Scalia's goons confiscated a reporter's tape recorder after Mr. Originalist gave a talk at a school assembly?