The Justices of the US Supreme Court have cancelled their planned hunting trip. It’s not that Scalia doesn’t want to be seen with Cheney in public again. It’s not even that Thomas can’t get a hunting license without a photo i.d. It’s just that they’ve had a better idea.
First some background. Last year, the justices decided there were too many people, especially wrong minded people. People who, say, didn’t believe that money equals speech. People who think Arizona went overboard with its proposition 100 which bars holding people here illegally without bail. And people who are still whining about putting G.W. Bush in office in 2000.
So here’s what they did: they ordered catalogs for themselves and their clerks and other staff members. Eddie Bauer, LL Bean… you know… outdoorsy kinds of things. Some got subscriptions to Guns & Ammo.
Some of justice Thomas’ staff approached him and asked why they were getting this mail. Justice Thomas said nothing. So they did the next best thing, they went to justice Antonin “Tony Ducks” Scalia who informed them they’d be going hunting. Thinning the population. Performing a great service for their country. And they’d be joined by at least four and possibly five or six of the judges.
Justice Sotomayor declined. Because she’s relatively new, she said she didn’t have enough accumulated vacation time. Justice Ginsburg declined and said her arthritis acts up in the cold and damp. And with Tony Ducks on board there were bound to be accidents.
So the hunting trip is off, the subscriptions have been cancelled and the catalogs un-subscribed from.
But overpopulation remains a problem high on the court’s agenda. So they figured out a new plan.
There is a grammatical oversight in the Affordable Care Act that could end some federal subsidies to the holders of health insurance.
“We can use that,” said one justice speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to announce a decision before it’s published, “to get more of those useless poor people dead and in pauper’s graves early. They’ll stop burdening our health care systems. They’ll stop moaning about income inequality. And best of all, they won’t be able to vote.”
He continued: “...those who can’t get that socialist insurance will be forced more deeply into poverty and have to spend so much time working their three part- time minimum wage jobs they won’t have the energy to pester us with their frivolous complaints.”
Another justice was unhappy with the pre-decision and even more unhappy that the Guns & Ammo subscription was cancelled. “My nephews liked to read it when they came over to visit. I try to encourage them to read.”
Shrapnel:
--Got another “free gift” offer. No thanks. Some of us would rather pay for stuff people want to give us.
--As newspapers are cutting back, the Boston Globe announced it would soon start printing a stand alone business section. One more well- edited voice is welcome in an era when most get their financial news from radio flakes and wobbly- thinking websites.
--One radio voice that is not trying to sell you books, advice or get rich schemes is closing down. The Wall Street Journal report, heard on many stations, will be shutting of the mic at the end of the year. You can only think “yeah, right” when the Journal says radio no longer fits its core business.
I’m Wes Richards. My opinions are my own but you’re welcome to them. ®
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