tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post8869983136682832462..comments2024-03-18T08:02:51.154-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Notes on the Kavanaugh Nomination BrawlStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-78938207337093799092018-10-03T06:23:53.963-07:002018-10-03T06:23:53.963-07:00Consider this: We know next to nothing about Chris...Consider this: We know next to nothing about Christine Blasey Ford, other than what she’s volunteered, er, prepared. Nothing. <br /><br />Practically every scintilla about her past has been scrubbed. Who does that? Are we really to believe that a 51-year-old knows how to digitally vanish without a trace... on her own??? <br /><br />Her own family doesn’t want to comment on anything about this. They’ve been conspicuously silent while people are falling over each other in a rush to support “her truth.”<br /><br />Around her, the 11th-hour orchestration and choreography of this circus is too well-planned to be credible. She sent her letter to DiFi in July, and had a couple months to prepare for the inevitable media onslaught, likely with help:<br />https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/10/03/christine-blasey-ford-friend-in-delaware-was-career-fbi-agent-and-likely-together-during-accusation-letter-construct/<br /><br />And since when is credibility separated from evidence? All these people “believe” her. Believe what? Believe WHAT specifically? That she believes what she says? She’s a research psychologist with published work on hypnosis and memories. <br />https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/10/03/christine-blasey-ford-changing-memories-not-credible-kavanaugh-column/1497661002/<br /><br />Her “indelible in the hippocampus is laughter” comment is itself laughable, in light of the details she cannot renember, even with all kinds of time to prepare. Isn’t that kind of stuff supposed to be indelible, too? Where were you when JFK was shot or the Challenger blew up or on 9/11?<br /><br />This is a political hit job by Left-wing activists. Ford’s motives are perfectly aligned with theirs, including that she wants to move halfway around the world if Kavanaugh gets on the Supreme Court. Gee, where did we hear that before? Maybe there should be a GoFundMe to buy her a plane ticket. Oh, that’s right... she already has the GoFundMe thing figured out. That’s all her personal digital presence is today.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-19652096694087287682018-10-03T03:59:46.624-07:002018-10-03T03:59:46.624-07:00Since when are women not responsible for what they...Since when are women not responsible for what they do and say?<br /><br />Who says CBF is credible? Based on what?<br /><br />Ramirez has nothing.<br /><br />Swetnick should be indicted for fraud with her Swiss cheese sworn affidavit.<br /><br />And the media is simply out of control. Soros is out of control. Jeff Flake is a flake.<br /><br />Political theater. Judicial nominations have reached a new low, as have Democrats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-68147032940077616372018-10-02T05:41:09.113-07:002018-10-02T05:41:09.113-07:00Actually, what is going on here is obvious to anyo...Actually, what is going on here is obvious to anyone thinking back beyond yesterday's news cycle. It was Sen Feinstein, was it not, who observed, "“When you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the [Catholic] dogma lives loudly within you. And that’s of concern when you come to big issues that large numbers of people have fought for for years in this country.”, while interrogating another Catholic nominee for the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, Ms Amy Coney Barrett. <br /><br />Our common Safe Space from Tyranny, the Constitution, in Article IV:3, states:<br />"[N]o religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States..."<br /><br />I'm sure CAIR would agree with this Safe Space requirement. And Starhawk {right, Ares?}. And the hosts and guests attending the "spirit dinner" with John Podesta. <br /><br />And the devout, yet humble, Methodist, Hillary Clinton, survivor of Bosnian sniper fire and former next President. <br />:-D<br />https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-private-faith-of-hillary-clinton<br /><br />By all accounts, Brett Kavanaugh is a "practicing" Catholic (the term "practicing" used to distinguish Kavanaugh's Catholicism from that of, say, Ted Kennedy - notorious drunk, womanizer, college cheat, Uber driver for the late Mary Jo Kopechne, and Democratic Lion of the Senate). And let us not forget that Sens Feinstein and Durbin were roundly criticized for their brazenly unconstitutional line of questioning directed at Ms Barrett despite their oath of office.<br /><br />Adopting the "dog whistle" metaphor currently popular among a certain political segment, Feinstein's "big issues that large numbers of people have fought for for years in this country" is a dog whistle for untrammeled abortion. And I'm sure Kermit Gosnell agrees, as do the purveyors of "fetal tissue" and their potential Lamborghini salespersons.<br /><br />The Feinsteinian emanations and penumbras of Christine Blasey Ford's vacuous accusations fall directly on untrammeled abortion "rights", and who better to deliver them in person than a woman whose post-doctoral private sector research program has focused on extending the indications for the "abortion pill" (WaPo, 1/11/2018) RU-486. And Ford will be handsomely compensated following her little GoFundMe ad offered as part of her Senate testimony. Dr. Irredeemable Dregnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-47023539234821158212018-10-02T04:26:59.818-07:002018-10-02T04:26:59.818-07:00Anon 4:45...
Actually, "the kind of fundamen...Anon 4:45...<br /><br />Actually, "the kind of fundamental fairness we would expect for ourselves if we were accused" is enshrined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and before that, British Common Law, and, before that, the Magna Carta. If you so choose, due to cultural differences, national origin, or merely an unfamiliarity with history, you may think of the Constitution and Bill of Rights as a Safe Space protecting free men and women from the whims of tyrants and would-be tyrants, sans Play-Doh and crayons.Dr. Irredeemable Dregnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-82800474185914571252018-10-02T04:14:17.284-07:002018-10-02T04:14:17.284-07:00Walt, thanks for sharing the link. I see (as expec...Walt, thanks for sharing the link. I see (as expected) Mitchell conclusion - Ford's testimony fails legal standards for prosecution, with a lack of collaborating evidence. So if the FBI doesn't come up with evidence to suggest perjury from Kavanaugh, the GOP members can vote YES on confirmation with confidence no one was silenced or ignored. A woman who experience sexual assault who want justice needs to speak up early and often.<br /><br />The conclusion is here:<br />https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/1/17923084/rachel-mitchell-memo-christine-blasey-ford-kavanaugh<br />---<br />A “he said, she said” case is incredibly difficult to prove. But this case is even weaker than that. Dr. Ford identified other witnesses to the event, and those witnesses either refuted her allegations or failed to corroborate them. For the reasons discussed below, I do not think that a reasonable prosecutor would bring this case based on the evidence before the Committee. Nor do I believe that this evidence is sufficient to satisfy the preponderance-of-the-evidence standard. <br />---Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-29038511398379809142018-10-01T16:45:32.498-07:002018-10-01T16:45:32.498-07:00"Fairness" ?
What is this... a Snowflak..."Fairness" ?<br /><br />What is this... a Snowflake contest for Conservatives now?!?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-39158104731635005822018-10-01T14:33:05.584-07:002018-10-01T14:33:05.584-07:00I admit to having found both Ford and Kavanaugh c...I admit to having found both Ford and Kavanaugh credible last Thursday, though I did find him occasionally uncomfortably evasive. But Mitchell's (the AZ prosecutor's ) analysis puts a convincing chink in Ford's story. Keeping in mind that she had access to documents as well as the testimony, read her timeline in which Ford serially placed the "event" in, first, the late 1980s, then the mid-80s, then just sometime in the 80s, but then swearing it happened when she was 15. I realize she's a "psychologist" not a mathemetician, but I believe everyone knows what year they were 15.<br /><br />http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/politics/rachel-mitchells-analysis/3221/Waltnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-57233845533448152202018-10-01T14:04:38.053-07:002018-10-01T14:04:38.053-07:00The always unspoken question still remains: "...The always unspoken question still remains: "Why aren't WE doing the same thing to THEM?"sestamibihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03713681322114049960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-9846900471790149252018-10-01T13:41:24.929-07:002018-10-01T13:41:24.929-07:00Sam, perhaps Kavanaugh should have used that line,...Sam, perhaps Kavanaugh should have used that line, unless self-righteous denial is more convincing?<br /><br />Instead Kavanaugh said "This is a circus. The consequences will extend long past my nomination. The consequences will be with us for decades. This grotesque and coordinated character assassination will dissuade competent and good people of all political persuasions, from serving our country."<br /><br />It is similar to Thomas's 1991 lament "I think that this today is a travesty. I think that it is disgusting. I think that this hearing should never occur in America. This is a circus. It's a national disgrace.<br /><br />And "And from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the U.S. Senate rather than hung from a tree."<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-39651709438640870652018-10-01T12:23:31.187-07:002018-10-01T12:23:31.187-07:00I am old enough to have some memory of the Army-Mc...I am old enough to have some memory of the Army-McCarthy hearings that I saw a little of on TV. I had to look up the name of the man who asked McCarthy, "Have you no sense of decency?"<br /><br />Who among the Republicans will ask that of the Democrats? For they have NO sense of decency.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-79323880237380501332018-10-01T10:32:46.360-07:002018-10-01T10:32:46.360-07:00I guess the only surefire way to know we've no...I guess the only surefire way to know we've now entered the new McCarthy era is for Trump to ask Kavanaugh to withdraw, and pick a new guinea pig and see what happens. <br /><br />For contrast we can consider Neil Gorsuch was confirmed in 2017 after the republicans blocked Obama's candidate from even being recognized, and was confirmed 54-45 with 3 Democrats voting yes. And yes, the Democrats did threaten a filibuster, and the Republicans simply changed the rules, problem solved.<br /><br />Overall my guess is this nominee has emotionally drained everyone and the Dems would not even bother complaining on any replacement, unless the vote is delayed until 2019 and they gain a majority in November. Then who knows what revenge is possible. Maybe they'll even restore the filibuster to show good faith!<br /><br />Overall, it seems the best way for Kavanaugh to clear his name in regard to Ford's accusations is to let the FBI continue gathering all the information they can until some explanation can be found, although I still think the best explanation is the boy scout isn't, and he had plenty of blackouts as a youth that he doesn't want to admit, and that's why he doesn't want an FBI investigation of his past.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.com