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Friday Cake-Eater HS Yearbook Open
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morning y’all
never trust a scientist
The Nastiest Feud in Science
A Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions. But sheâs reopened that debate.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/dinosaur-extinction-debate/565769/
Impactersâ case-closed confidence belies decades of vicious infighting, with the two sides trading accusations of slander, sabotage, threats, discrimination, spurious data, and attempts to torpedo careers.
long but interesting
So the ever-fluid Ford and her lawyers have laid the conditions under which she will testify:
1. Doesn’t want outside counsel to question her (you know, because those 11 white men over 50 said they’d be happy to have a distinguished female attorney question her instead)
2. Doesn’t want Kavanaugh in the room (well, no one ever said he would be).
And here’s the kicker:
3. Wants Kavanaugh to testify FIRST.
And THAT will be how she can avoid a Senate appearance. There is no way that Kavanaugh, as the accused, can testify first. First of all, it goes against every tenet of fairness and jurisprudence (even if this isn’t a trial). Second, there will have been no previous testimony that brings any form of allegation that he can respond to.
Her problem is that (and I really believe this) this letter was all part of a scheme. She was told before the letter was submitted that she would never be called upon to testify. Feinstein would release the letter after hearings. No one expected Grassley to agree to reopen them, since the facts and supporting evidence were nonexistent. Suddenly he says “hey we’ll let her testify” and suddenly they are working overtime for reason upon reason for her never to come before the Committee.
It’s also worth noting that Kavanaugh was willing to appear before the Committee again the minute Grassley asked him. And HE’s the one who has had exactly one week to deal with these allegations; whereas Ford has had three months to get her house in order and still says she doesn’t have enough time.
The Barbarian wrote:
I wondered what that was all about. Too subtle for my bulldozer brain.
A second front has opened up.
Remember that book “Tiger Mom” by Amy Chua? She laid out a system for raising ‘perfect’ kids that either appalled people or had them cheering. What was missed in the bruhaha is that she’s a lawyer at Yale Law. And she is being accused of ‘grooming’ female candidates for Kavanaugh clerks.
This is a two-fer. It gets this bitch, who refuses to infantilize females, out of the way, and it gets Kavanaugh’s transgressions into a more recent timeframe instead of the unknowable terrain of 35 yrs ago.
Yale Law dean: Reports that professor groomed female clerks for Kavanaugh ‘of enormous concern’
According to reports in The Guardian, the Huffington Post and Above the Law, Amy Chua, a professor at the law school, would advise students on their physical appearance if they wanted to seek a clerkship for Kavanaugh. Specifically, Chua would help potential applicants to have a “model-like” appearance.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/yale-law-dean-reports-professor-groomed-female-clerks-kavanaugh-enormous-n911571
Eaglesoars knows what that means
Eaglesoars does indeed. One of the finest moments of my life was getting kicked out of the place for trashing the Vice Principal’s office. I don’t want to mention her name but her initials were Elizabeth McDermott and the bitch pissed me off.
Imagine my satisfaction when I found out the administrators 20 years later knew my name.
Damn straight.
rain of lead wrote:
I confess that I did not read the article. That said, there is an interesting theory that was proposed recently that suggests that both are responsible.
This “New” theory points out the rather interesting fact that the volcanic eruption in question, (a series of “Trap” volcanic eruptions across Asia (Russia and India) just happen to be directly opposite of the chicxulub asteroid impact site. You can literally draw a line straight through the earth between the two sites. Impact crater on one side, volcanic bulge on the other.
Did the Asian traps already exist prior to the chicxulub asteroid impact? Why yes they did. But at a fraction, i.e. 1/10th of the size. The two competing theories don’t actually compete. Scientists, being what they are, are basically arguing over semantics, one says its an apple, the other says its a sphere. Both are right, but neither will concede the others point.
Oh shit…….. High School super slut Christine Blasey-Ford just got Trumped…
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1043126336473055235
Talk about leaving a bruise that your great great grand children still sport.
@ eaglesoars:
That is about setting conditions that Grassley cannot agree to in any way that allows her to state that she therefore won’t testify.
And Trump is right. This didn’t happen in the 60’s or early 70’s, when there was a different culture and girls were afraid. This was 1982. Hell, I had a kid try to feel me up at a party at Amy Bennett’s house when I was in high school in December of 1969 (see I remember the date/year at whose house it was). I didn’t tell my folks or report to cops. I told my brother, who was home from college for the holidays. He was more than happy to go visit the boy’s home and advise him that if he ever laid a hand on his sister again, the next time would involve a baseball bat, a back alley and no witnesses.
This happened in 1982. The whole women’s movement had emerged. If this was more than horseplay, why DIDN’T she go to her parents or the authorities? He didn’t attend high school with her – she wouldn’t have had to see him every day. Nothing of her story makes sense.
Well, looks like Chrissie wasn’t in Peru with the Peace Corps after all
Young Christine Blasey Ford remembered as popular figure in Dewey Beach bar scene in 1980s
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/20/christine-blasey-ford-remembered-dewey-beach-bar-s/
doriangrey wrote:
I don’t think so, I think he played that badly. It would have been better to say that he hoped she was reporting the death threats she says she’s been getting to law enforcement to avoid any confusion her failure to do so in the past has caused.
eaglesoars wrote:
Trump very publicly called her bluff. He pointed directly to the inconsistencies of her allegation and dared her to provide any creditable proof.
@ eaglesoars:
Oh, I agree he probably shouldn’t have tweeted it. The left was going berserk at the sensitive way he’d been handling it. But I think his patience was wearing thin on this.
I do love that they’ve scrubbed EVERYTHING about this woman from the internet that they could – the high school yearbook that basically shows them to be a bunch of drunken sluts (how the HELL does that get in a yearbook anyway) and especially her Facebook page.
The Barbarian wrote:
no kidding!!
I was our yearbook editor and by the time the faculty got done cutting everything I wanted to put in there I was left with nothing but head shots. We used The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test as our lode star, so to speak, but unfortunately the staff was accustomed to dealing with juvenile delinquents and had read the thing.
The Barbarian wrote:
I like the shot he took at ‘her loving parents’. Trump famously put his foot down with his own kids when it came to booze, tobacco and drugs.
@ eaglesoars:
Yes he sure did. And practiced what he preached. Still does.
Okay, I’m off to write my column.
The Barbarian wrote:
Because the staff at Holton-Arm’s were proud of their girls being liberated drunken little sluts.
@ doriangrey:
IMO what happens there is that young people who do get sexually assaulted have a reporting template delivered to them by Trump. Something a father would do. Something all the common sense people are thinking.
Oppsies… Downing Street and Canterbury implicated in attempt to derail Trump 2016 campaign.
https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1043020950311034880
@ darkwords:
Notice if you will that the one classmate who tried to give her story credence and claimed “everyone was talking about it” was herself not supported by another single classmate? So of course now we have her “corroboration” being exposed as a liar as well.
Her only reason for not wanting to give any type of date is that she can’t be sure Kavanaugh doesn’t have an alibi.
“He did it the last week of June 1982! I remember now!”
“I was at Disney World. My family will vouch.”
@ The Barbarian:
Thats what baffles me. A keg party in the 80s were the norm on occassion, but away from parents and no where near authority figurs or school staff. They knew of course, but as long as no property damage or assaults occurred everyone turned a blind eye.
Amy Chua’s husband, Jeb, is also at Yale. They are ‘investigating’ him. They won’t tell him why or for what, just that they are.
This place is one, gargantuan star chamber.
Her husband is reportedly being investigated by Yale University – however the university has neither confirmed or denied the investigation.
‘In June, Yale informed me that it would conduct what it terms an ”informal review” of certain allegations, but that to preserve anonymity, I was not entitled to know any specifics. As a result, I do not know what I am alleged to have said or done. I was further advised that the allegations were not of the kind that would jeopardize my position as a long-tenured member of the faculty.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6191847/Female-Yale-students-interviewing-Brett-Kavanaugh-told-no-accident-clerks-look-like-models.html
Reached out to a “friend” and was ignored.
Granted the “friend” and I am no longer speaking to each other.
I no longer need the “friend” to feed my cats while I am gone to the UK.
Dad is now stable and out of danger.
This time…..
@ The Barbarian:
A lot of this seems to be end of the world Kavnaugh hysteria lead by old white progressive senators. Fluffed up into anyone willing to buy into the need to derail Kavanuagh at any cost. Confirm him. Then see what happens.
@ eaglesoars:
The Dailymail also. Men live longer if they are around attractive smart women.
doriangrey wrote:
No doubt that the Five Eyes Group all knew what was going on especially the UK who’s task it is to spy on the US internal politics and then report back to the whole Five Eyes participants who share the Intel. UK spied on the US; US spied on Canada; Canada spied on NZ; NZ spied on Australia; and Australia spied on the UK. Then everyone swapped and shared the total Intel produced. That was allows each member of Five Eyes to track and spy on their own citizens without breaking the laws on agencies not being allowed to target their own citizens.
When a disruptor like Trump arrives the whole system is placed in peril and the UK who is tasked with watching the US shares all of the Intel amongst the Five Eyes members. When it’s dangerous to get caught using this system there is a Plan B where the gathered intel is transferred ‘unofficially’ and outside the normal channels of transfer.
People like Alexander Downer the former Australian Cabinet Minister/ Australian High Commissioner to the UK / and sometime drinking buddy of shady characters has ‘form as a inside member of the One World Government / Bohemian Grove set. Downer was a scumbag when he was in government and a degenerate. Just ask him about his infamous high heels and net stocking issues he has!
Grassley just called her bluff. The vote is on Monday unless Ford gets them an answer tonight
@ Aussie Infidel:
which is exactly why I suggested Trump just may blow up the whole Five Eyes thing.
Oh dear God – her NEW excuse is that “she’s afraid to fly”.
I guess when she was repressing the memories of that awful day, she also repressed her fear of flying and we’ve miraculously found out about it just now.
Except – didn’t they OFFER to have her testify from California? U.S Attorney’s office in San Francisco has a conference room with a video hookup that can be used, no doubt.
Next up – her deep rooted fear of BART trains, automobiles, public buses, ferry boats and the California Freeway system.
@ The Barbarian:
This is such a transparent attempt to put this past the mid-terms. the Dems think that they will win the Senate and
Trump will not get another SCOTUS appointment.
The Barbarian wrote:
yep. She also had an internship in Hawaii. I guess she surfed over.
RIX wrote:
After the term of the Senate I think. Then the nomination is null and void.
They’re trying to see to it that Trump can’t get ANYBODY onto SCOTUS
But I think this has blown up in their face. They’ve shot their wad, out of ammo. Utter disruption of the gov’t is not what 80% of the people voted for, and will think twice about giving power to people who have blatantly attempted it and will pursue impeachment.
I’m having trouble finding sympathy for Rosenstein. I’ve looked all over….
@ eaglesoars:
Yup, they do not want Trump to get another justice on the court. They want the four to four Court until they ge
a Dem president.
eaglesoars wrote:
The guy that I want to see perp waalked is Brennan. This is not a tin foil hat thing, this is an attempted coup d’ etat
RIX wrote:
I want to see his last walk to the gallows. A needle is too good
Ford’s attorney has asked for an extra day to decide whether to testify.
lobo91 wrote:
It’s gonna be tough to find a black transgender from Chevy Chase in the mid-80s – unless it was a janitor’s kid and then they can do the ‘white class privilege’ thing too
RIX wrote:
That assumes Ginsburg survives the current administration. In pictures, she doesn’t look so good.
@ Possum:
My father died when I was 21. That you still have a dad at your age seems extraordinary to me. I sincerely hope he is doing better now. It must be difficult knowing that each time you speak to him may be close to the last time.
Apple gets nosier about your data for its latest phone.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-20/apples-mysterious-new-trust-score-iphone-users-leaves-many-unanswered-questions
Facebook uses banning stick in more tech tyranny.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-12/facebook-bans-ex-democrat-walkaway-founder-weeks-march-washington
eaglesoars wrote:
It could very well happen which would be a shame as it is one of the strongest links in the Anglo-sphere. One used to be able to trust ‘family’ even if they sometimes acted a little roughly with the other siblings. We seemed to have drifter away from those times as the Anglo-sphere has been watered down with massed migrations.
There is often a Big Brother – Little Brother competition in the Five Eyes. Many of the slights and offences was generated by the US using its power to pull the rest into line. Like the deal to push 40 broken down destroyers onto the Brits in 1940-41. The refusal of the British to release the 5 Australian Divisions sparking outrage from the Australian Prime Minister who suggested where Churchill could deposit his cigar and a unilateral withdrawal of Australian forces from the Middle East in 1942 to stem the Japanese invasion of Australia. The refusal of the US to share atomic secrets with the British who had to re-invent the bomb from first principles as Brit scientists returned from the US post war. To the harsh terms of US WWII loans to Britain that were only fully repatriated after 2000. To threats by the US to destroy the British economy in the 1960s if the British shared their nuclear secrets with Australia and Canada, to the use of US economic power to force Australia into a one side trade agreement where the US got full access to the Australian market in 2007 whereas Australia had to wait for a decade to access the US market in 2017.
I could go on and on but there is plenty of angst between siblings inside the Five Eyes.
eaglesoars wrote:
Clapper should join him over the trap!
Want to back away from big brother google? Here are som specific alternatives.
https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2343048/escape-google-with-these-12-search-engine-alternatives
@ Aussie Infidel:
Your info on Five Eyes is fascinating. Isn’t China reading all of it?
Riiigghht, that’s why Facebook banned the #walkaway movement founder for merely posting the name of infowars. Yeah, that’s credible.
@ AZfederalist:
James Woods banned for two days from Twitter for posting a viral meme about soy boys. Twitter thought he was influencing the fall elections towards the GoP.
All the anti Kavanaugh people are ok with James Gunn.