So much going on! Kavanaugh,, release of Page documents….should be a fun week.
Tuesday Open
by coldwarrior ( 115 Comments › )Filed under Open thread at September 18th, 2018 - 8:28 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
https://www.projectveritas.com/2018/09/18/deep-state-unmasked-state-department-on-hidden-cam-resist-everything-i-have-nothing-to-lose/
Eagles – to answer your question about mental health practitioner’s notes.
Part of her claim is that the incident created mental health issues for her. Once you have made this an element of your claim, you do not get to put the genie back in the bottle. Your therapist’s notes can most certainly be subpoenaed and even the deposition of your treating therapist can be taken. I’ve seen it happen a few times myself. People love to throw “intentional infliction of emotional distress” as a cause of action into a complaint, not realizing this is a “prove up” allegation. Then are surprised when we ask for the name of their treating mental health professional. Nine out of ten times they don’t have one. The tenth one then panics when we subpoena the doctor’s notes.
The fact that the therapist even gave her those notes is a mystery to me. The notes do not name Kavanaugh specifically and they relate a different incident than the one she describes. Then she says “oh the therapist wrote it down wrong.” Oh? Why introduce faulty therapy notes then?
And of course, she now changed the story yet again….now there was a girl present. But still can’t remember when or where. Or, apparently the names of anyone else other than Kavanaugh and Judge. Who both deny ever meeting her.
I think she will NOT show up on Monday and I think DiFi will declare that she advised her that she shouldn’t. Sure I can shout to the rooftops that I want to testify – makes for a good press bite and makes me seem really sincere in my allegations, especially if I’ve been assured that I’ll never have to by Senator Smear Merchant.
Someone at State is going to have a very, VERY bad day today:
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2018/09/18/deep-state-busted-new-james-okeefe-video-catches-state-department-employee-bragging-about-resisting-trump/
James got this guy admitting on camera that the promotoes Democrat Socialism on the taxpayer dime, using taxpayer resources, and works overtime to “f**k *s**t up on Trump during business hours.
He interned with Dick Durbin. That explains so much. if I were him, I’d be packing my desk while waiting for my call from H.R.
The Barbarian wrote:
THAT is what I wanted to know. THANK YOU.
The Ford woman is as dumb as a box of rocks. She works as a biostatistician and has a degree in psych, she knows the ethics of the profession and she totally fucked this up. If I were on the Judiciary committee, I’d have that subpoena out the door yesterday morning. “Pack a bag, Federal Marshals will help you to the airport, thru TSA and onto the plane, to your seat.”
The fact that the therapist even gave her those notes is a mystery to me.
A psychologist/neuro guy called into Chris Plante’s show yesterday morning. He said technically the notes belong to Ford, but any therapist is going to balk at turning them over because of the potential damage to the relationship (when the shrink writes “this guy is a total asshole”, I’m guessing). He was gobsmacked that she had them.
I think she will NOT show up on Monday
DiFi would panic. Hell, SHE’D send marshals to haul her ass in.
@ coldwarrior:
@ The Barbarian:
Breitbart had an entire piece on how swampy State is. Let me see if I can find it.
I wonder if this is related to the piece written by somebody or other who said he was buried in the admin trying to stop Trump
eaglesoars wrote:
TA DA!
The Deep State Exposed: Investigation Uncovers Foggy Bottom Anti-Trump Leak Factory
Most operators in the Deep State — a loosely connected group of holdovers from the Obama administration, Republican appointees who disagree with Trump’s agenda, as well as several of the 2.8 million career government employees working throughout the federal bureaucracy — have operated with near impunity, facing no consequences for their actions.
This appears to be separate from the Project Veritas documentary
https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/17/the-deep-state-exposed-investigation-uncovers-foggy-bottom-anti-trump-leak-factory/
eaglesoars wrote:
As am I. I had to check with a lawyer friend to see if it was even possible. Back in college, one of my dorm-mates told my academic counselor that he believed I was Anorexic, which resulted in my being required to undergo psychiatric counseling for 2 years. I asked on several occasions to see my psychologists notes on me, and was repeatedly denied. Consequently I was under the impression that allowing a patient to see said notes was a HIPAA violation.
@ doriangrey:
so I’m looking thru my cross hairs to see if I see anything interesting – oh look! It’s the therapist!
@ eaglesoars:
If she doesn’t want to travel, then do a hookup in Palo Alto, have a notary administer the oath, and question away.
I believe she was told “tell them you want to TESTIFY! It’ll look good.” Dems never believed Grassley would reopen the hearing based on the flimsy evidence this woman had – that way they could say he was “suppressing her testimony. Except Grassley basically called her bluff. Now the Dems are scrambling and demanding an “investigation.” This is backfiring because DiFi held that letter for six weeks and never asked Kavanaugh about it. And investigate what? There are NO details other than “well, it happened.” And she’s changed her story several times. She can’t remember anything about that day except that it was Kavanaugh and Judge in the room. First there were four. Then two. Then a girl was present – can’t name any of them.
The Barbarian wrote:
No, they’re not scrambling, this is what they wanted. Their goal is to delay until after the midterms, in the expectation that they will gain seats and scuttle any and all SCOTUS nominees Trump sends up
I believe there is a way McConnell can bushwack them going forward. I don’t think he HAS to have hearings, he can send it straight to the floor for an up or down vote.
No evidence is cited for this but I hope it’s true.
Why were McCabe and Strzok allowed to stay at the FBI for so long?
Because Wray/Huber was running a sting op against them and are now working with a grand jury that has moved into the witness phase
Two of the supposed brightest minds who served the FBI — and led the country’s Intel apparatus — each separately set out to allegedly destroy incriminating evidence before their departures from the Bureau. And neither one had any clue they were being watched.
But FBI Director Christopher Wray had suspected as much and — working with personnel from the Inspector General’s office — set up a sting-like operation to prevent against evidence destruction, both documents and electronic, two FBI sources confirm.
Though at differing times, McCabe and Strzok were under 24-hour surveillance both at the office and outside FBI HQ in Washington D.C. And any documents, files, and databases that were deleted or manipulated by McCabe and Strzok were being recorded and documented by federal agents. The original records were restored after the duo vacated the FBI.
“They had no clue they were being watched,” one FBI source said.
https://truepundit.com/mccabe-and-strzok-caught-destroying-evidence-during-final-days-at-fbi-huber-is-running-a-grand-jury/
@ eaglesoars:
Would be nice if it is true. Suspect the article is a hoax, language is a bit off.
What in God’s name does this woman think she’s doing?
Susan Collins:
I’m writing to the Chairman & RM of Judiciary Cmte respectfully recommending that at Monday’s hearing, counsel for Prof. Ford be allocated time to question Judge Kavanaugh & counsel for the Judge be granted equal time to question Prof. Ford, followed by questions from Senators.
https://twitter.com/SenatorCollins/status/1042084224151502848
https://thewildernessofmirrors.wordpress.com/2018/09/18/poisoning-the-well/
eaglesoars wrote:
Sabotaging Kavanaugh’s conformation hearing.
And now Grassley says he’s considering an ‘independent’ questioner for Ford.
What does that even mean?
eaglesoars wrote:
It means Grassely is putting Feinstein’s Queen in Check. Making it impossible for her to do her “Testifying” via a Mainstream Media interview.
@ eaglesoars:
Instead of all the nasty mean, white male senators questioning her, they will appoint committee counsel to do any and all questioning. In many ways that’s the way it used to work. Robert Kennedy did the questioning for the Committee that investigated organized crime – he wasn’t a sitting Senator.
I hope they ask Victoria Toensig to do it.
The Barbarian wrote:
I hope they make it a committee compromised of federal prosecutors and FBI agents. That way oath or no oath, lying to them is a federal crime, not just perjury.
@ The Barbarian:
@ doriangrey:
I feel so much better! thx…………..
And just like that the Christine Blsaey-Ford accusation goes KABOOM…
https://twitter.com/therealcornett/status/1042095258945900545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1042096458219040768%7Ctwgr%5E373939313b73706563696669635f73706f7274735f616374696f6e&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdisqus.com%2Fembed%2Fcomments%2F%3Fbase%3Ddefault%26f%3Drightstrategy%26t_u%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.rightstrategy.org%252F2018%252F09%252Frightstrategy-ot-tuesday_18.html%26t_d%3DRightStrategy.org%253A%2520RightStrategy%2520OT%2520-%2520Tuesday%26t_t%3DRightStrategy.org%253A%2520RightStrategy%2520OT%2520-%2520Tuesday%26s_o%3Ddefault%23version%3De7fe02698bddde52c3bc420198c95fb5
@ doriangrey:
who is Josh Cornett and why would he have ‘sources’?
but big if true
Christ, Rush already has it! He’s not confirming or denying, just reporting, no mention of Cornett by name.
eaglesoars wrote:
a) Not a clue
b) Also not a clue
c) Sure wish I could see Difi’s face when she is shown this.
Well, now she’s back to claiming there were four boys at the party. One was probably Gorsuch; the other was probably William Pryor. Wait! There’s more! Now she’s claiming there was another GIRL at the party as well. Probably Amy Coney Barnett.
All bases covered…..
@ doriangrey:
DiFi is in real trouble. There was probably a good chance that RED California would have voted for her in this upcoming election, simply because they didn’t have an alternative for her (her opponent is also a Democrat) and it’s “the Devil you know.” DeLeon was leading her among Republicans on 9/6, but at that time, half of the Republicans were undecided.
I have a feeling after this, they aren’t undecided anymore.
@ The Barbarian:
I wanna see a sarc tag
The Barbarian wrote:
Ahhh…. But does she also recall Donald Trump being in the closet getting a blow job from Stormy Daniels?
@ doriangrey:
She’ll now remember, no doubt, that Donald Trump brought her to the party in his limousine.
The Barbarian wrote:
After a unsupported report surfaced that Blasey had also sent a nearly identical letter during the Gorsuch hearings, word I am now hearing is that Feinstein is now back-peddling by asserting that she does not know if Blasey’s accusations are truthful or not.
Looks like Feinstein got caught with her knickers down knowingly and willfully with a full forethought of malice engaging in slander/libel and character assignation in an attempt to forestall a Supreme Court Justice’s conformation hearing.
hey y’all
well… the girl can now say she has had her first auto accident…
rain of lead wrote:
Hope she is safe.
Hope it was not her fault.
Blogmocracy should start a Go Fund Me to get her a Dash Cam
@ Possum:
she’s fine
some dumbass was drifting into her lane so she swerved and hit the sidewalk. ripped a hole in the sidewall of the tire big enough to put half your hand in
she was only a half mile from home so she just limped in on the rim
she is demanding to pay for half the cost of a new tire
there was a life lesson on how to work a jack and remove a tire
As to memory…
First auto accident I was involved in was at a pedestrian crossing in the street outside Harrods in London as I was on my way home. At about 12:30am when I got rear ended
By an American woman in a rental car.
Had just been to see Abyss at the premier week at the Leicester Theater
So must have been second week in August 1989 Google is my friend.
Co Pilot that night was Maxine.( AKA Mad Max)
Woman that rear ended us said “Why did you stop!!!!!”
I said “The light was red……”
LOL
rain of lead wrote:
And a lesson in dashcam.
Seriously.
I need a dashcam. I drive 2 and a half miles to work. Takes me less than ten minutes and EVERY morning there is at least one asshole who deserves a post on twitter.
On the way home I am an asshole.
Little car has a 4.6 liter V32 engine.
Cut in front of me and I will let you in. Then change lanes, floor it and enter the interstate 12 cars in front of you!
Shark needs one last journey.
Last one was 950 miles in 17 hours
@ rain of lead:
So glad she’s ok. But Possum is right about the dashcam. I’m getting one and you never know when your insurance rates will be VERY glad you have it.
give her a hug for me
Now Ford says she’ll testify after the FBI finishes its investigation.
uh huh
I hope she dies a horrible death. Soon.
@ eaglesoars:
*give her a hug for me*
done
Flake is caving. This is a Jim Acosta tweet
Flake called me to apologize for missing the interview. He said he would support GOP push to move forward with Kavanaugh nomination if Ford does not appear at hearing. “I think we’ll have to move to the markup,” he said. “I hope she does (appear). I think she needs to be heard.”
This was posted at noon, something may have changed since then, but on top of Feinstein saying she doesn’t know if the lying bitch is telling the truth, it may be people are looking for different foxholes
linky, sorry
https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1042128149105004544
eaglesoars wrote:
According to Maryland state law Rape accusations, whether felony or misdemeanor must be filed in Maryland within 300 days of the incident or they are not investigated or prosecuted. Felony Rape has no statute of limitations while misdemeanor rape has a 1 year statute of limitations.
Christine Blasey-Ford missed the maximum filing date by over 12,421 days. There is nothing Maryland can legally investigate, which is why the FBI refused to investigate it as well. There is literally from a legal standpoint, no “There there”.
@ doriangrey:
someone cited as ‘a U.S. official’ has been quoted on Tucker’s showing as saying “The FBI will investigate only if the WH demands it”
which is bull, the WH has no authority to alter the jurisdiction/scope of an agency but as per design, this is setting up to blame Trump
eaglesoars wrote:
That’s a yes and no. The president does have a certain limited ability to request that the FBI investigate certain things. But overall, yes I would tend to believe that this is outside of his authority to order an investigation of since the crime, if there even was a crime as described by Christine Blasey-Ford is a misdemeanor and well past Marylands maximum 300 day required reporting statute.
@ doriangrey:
and if there was even a crime, it’s not federal
Ed Henry said that the condition of not testifying until after the FBI investigates came from a SECOND Ford lawyer,who he did not name.
doriangrey wrote:
I’m guessing her position is that she’s asking the FBI not to prosecute but to establish that this actually happened, which is rather difficult as she can’t remember the year or the place or who else was there.
It would be fun, however, for the FBI to interview and nail her on a process crime. Those 302s can be a bitch
hello from the road.
work sent me into the middle of nowhere…everything closes at 8pm except this great little mexican dive…and they have don julio tequla and really good food.
thank the matron of guadalupe!
saved by hard working mexicans! because bob fucking evans is not an option.
@ lobo91:
wrong branch of gov’t. they rpt to the Executive
lobo91 wrote:
If I still had my twitter account my reply to Byron would be…
Congratulations Pelosi, you just provided documented evidence of your committing 18 US Code 2384 and 2385. felonies.
Oh, here’s the new reason Ford doesn’t want to testify
Tuesday night, her attorneys sent a letter to Chairman Chuck Grassley explaining their client’s hesitation. They claim that the committee was trying make Ford testify at the same table as Kavanaugh.
“While Dr. Ford’s life was being turned upside down, you and your staff scheduled a public hearing for her to testify at the same table as Judge Kavanaugh in front of two dozen U.S. senators on national television to relive this traumatic and harrowing incident,” the authors allege.
It’s not clear if she meant ‘at the same time’ or if this is a cooties issue
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2018/09/18/blasey-ford-reveals-why-she-has-not-accepted-invitation-to-testify-n2520308
@ coldwarrior:
That happened to me in DuBois, PA once.
You’re not in DuBois, are you?
eaglesoars wrote:
Translation: Forcing our client to testify under oath would place her in jeopardy of perjury, we therefore decline to testily.
Ed Henry is reporting Grassley just released a statement saying Ford can piss up a rope, there will be no FBI investigation
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
close. seneca pa
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
had a nice Avo cigar and an arrogant bastard on the bistro outside area with a bunch of cajun oil/gas guys.
that was an interesting talk.
bed time, nite
arrrgh
it’s drink like a oirate day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f55CqLc6IR0
https://thewildernessofmirrors.wordpress.com/2018/09/19/some-serious-bullshit/
Sometimes, even saying as little as you can is saying too much… ya know what I mean Vern?
@ doriangrey:
Well, I do:
@ doriangrey:
@ eaglesoars:
Funny, when she was screeching through her lawyer that she wanted to “testify” where the hell did she think it was going to happen? The Golden Corral in Lodi?
The Barbarian wrote:
In the words of our dearly departed friend Macker… 1 trillion quatloo’s for the lady…
@ doriangrey:
We crazy conservative Californians (and musicians) need to stick together, baby.
Still looking forward to travelin’ South and showing up on your doorstep one day.
The Barbarian wrote:
help. I’m not following the thinking here. what is the violation?
eaglesoars wrote:
Congress has no authority to “ORDER” any of the intelligence agencies to withhold or refuse to declassify documents that the POTUS orders released or declassified. To issue such an order is to subvert the Constitutional Authority of the POTUS, in effect, it is to solicit 18 US Code 2384 Sedition and 18 US Code 2385 Attempting to overthrow the Government of the United States.
@ doriangrey:
oh. I said that last nite. Those agencies are part of the exec branch, Congress has no authority.
As for the attempt to subvert, I’d have to think about that one.
eaglesoars wrote:
What is there to think about? They issued an unconstitutional ORDER to the various intelligence agencies. It wasn’t a “Request”.
doriangrey wrote:
Think of it like this. If you hand a bank teller a note demanding money claiming that “This is a bank robbery” you will be charged with attempted bank robbery whether the teller hands over any money or not. Its the same thing.
This is hilarious. CBS is going to turn Comey’s book into a mini-series
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/james-comeys-memoir-to-become-cbs-miniseries
doriangrey wrote:
Well, if I encounter a stranger on the street and ‘order’ him up against the wall, am I guilty of impersonating law enforcement?
Hey! You! Up against the wall!
I’m not waving a fake badge or anything, I’m just mouthing off, so I’m not sure if there’s a violation.
Now, if I try to physically FORCE him up against the wall, that’s another story. Until then, I’m just drooling bullshit.
I think. But I have to think about it
The Barbarian wrote:
Even better…what if the FBI actually DID agree to investigate? Does she think she wouldn’t be interviewed? Lying to the FBI is a felony, sweetheart.
And there’s no way she could tell the truth w/o sinking her own barge
I’m still curious to find out if the rumors that she attempted to do the same thing to Neil Gorsuch last year when he was nominated are true.
@ eaglesoars:
My comment yesterday was that if she wants that FBI investigation, we strap her ass to a polygraph at QUANTICO and let the best polygraph examiners in the world administer the test to her. Let’s see if there is “deception” when the test isn’t administered by someone you’ve paid, who knows precisely the outcome you want and is administered in your lawyer’s office
@ The Barbarian:
I don’t know if anyone has an answer to this: Do sociopaths have a better chance of successfully deceiving a lie detector test than ‘normal’ people?
The reason I ask is that sociopaths gravitate to professions that confer authority, e.g., therapists, clergy, law enforcement, etc. She’s got a Ph.D is some psych major and counsels therapists, so she if she is on that spectrum, it might be worth noting. I’d imagine she scores off the charts on the narcissism scale, too.
eaglesoars wrote:
Trained psychologists know how to beat a polygraph because they understand they physiological changes that are being measured. I remember my prof at Cal, “Dr. Greg” telling us that if you want to beat a polygraph, put a tack in your shoe and press on it whenever you’re telling the truth. It will produce the same subtle changes that may occur when you’re lying.
Also, there is no such thing as “passing” a polygraph. All a polygraph can measure is the possibility of deception when giving an answer. This whole business of she “passed” a polygraph is subjective. We don’t know the questions the examiner asked her. He might have asked “were you ever at a party where you were alone with two boys in a room”? Answers “yes” – no deception. Did he ask if it was Brett Kavanaugh? Bet he didn’t.
There are cases where a polygraph is useful. Mark Klass immediately agreed to one when his daughter Polly was kidnapped because law enforcement used it as a tool to subjectively “clear” him and keep them from pursuing him as a suspect and wasting time and resources.
It’s easy to submit to a polygraph when you are in essence in charge of the questioning and are the client. The examiner knows the result you want.
@ The Barbarian:
thank you.
well, well, well…
There’s a GoFundMe raising $100K to keep Christine Blasey Ford safe
It’s already at $68k and expected to exceed the $100k goal.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90239112/christine-blasey-ford-gofundme-raising-100k-after-death-threats
active shooter in madison wi
odds on it being a lefty?
https://madison.com/news/local/crime/article_d3b29b73-e37b-5a06-9350-05ffd5efb8ee.html
@ eaglesoars:
Well well well….payoff money looks like it’s on its way to her. Funny how these people need GoFundMe money, isn’t it?
@ eaglesoars:
New DNC fundraising approach. Push some victim? to the national news pages, set up gofundme account, appeal to the base to contribute money. Use emotionally charged words like the GoP makes me feel unsafe.
She is in a difficult position to have put her name out there. Doxxed herself. There are probably lunatics that will obsess with her.
Or all the new charities are going to be triggered gofundme leftists who feel unsafe.
I am Spartacus I do not need a GoFundme page!!!
@ rain of lead:
100:1
My workplaces at times have been underhanded survival of the fittest places. But my solution was to usually find another job as soon as possible. For awhile I would take any job offered and later I’d look for ones that had decent management. Even with decent management I did run up against the SJW war wagons as they became required components of all HR organizations. That is enough to put someone over the edge.
@ eaglesoars:
I don’t know but I would think so. My limited experience with chronic liars is that some are cooking up brainwaves to convince themselves they are telling the truth afterwards.
The Barbarian wrote:
That would be funny if it came out that way. The progressive left has this mountain of open malicious intent. Its all documented. One would think we need to raise the bar when a progressive testifies to anything.
@ darkwords:
She’s claiming she’s receiving death threats and fears for her safety. Okay, then I’ll assume since you are threatened, you have provided Law Enforcement and/or the FBI with information on these threats.
$10 says they’ll say they were “telephone” threats to Katz’s office (so they won’t have to provide a written backup). You watch.
The Barbarian wrote:
And they won’t file a report with the FBI, since that would mean having their phone records forensically examined.
If anybody was hoping Jeff Sessions was part of some grand plan to upset the deep state, give it up
Jason Chaffatiz just told a story about how he went to Sessions asking for prosecution of Brian Pagliano for lying to Congress. He’s the guy who set up the servers for Hillary and, I believe, destroyed blackberries, etc.
Session said “I’m not going to do that, it’s too close to Hillary”
@ eaglesoars:
Sounds like an admission that “too big to jail” is an official position of the US government
@ lobo91:
Arkancide comes to mind
eaglesoars wrote:
Been tellin ya for quiet some time now Sessions I all Deep Stated up…
What’s up with the claims Kavanaugh lied to Congress on multiple occasions?
right_wing2 wrote:
I have NO idea. I tried to find out and as far as I can tell, it’s an assertion w/o evidence. Unless the left is characterizing an area of disagreement as a ‘lie’, which is not uncommon
Somehow I don’t think the coordination between Ford’s legal team and the Dems – assuming there is any – is going very well. They’re now saying a ‘rushed’ hearing with only 2 witnesses is ‘contrary to discovering the truth’
What other witnesses do they want? Do they expect an FBI investigation to find somebody under a rock?
I’m guessing DiFi is under her desk with a bottle of scotch and her favorite pillow
https://www.weaselzippers.us/397366-new-letter-from-fords-attorney-her-testifying-now-would-be-contrary-to-committee-discovering-the-truth/
Did not see this coming:
right_wing2 wrote:
I’m skeptical of that when the imaginations of the Dems run wild with news from CNN. Everything seems like a lie to them if they don’t agree with it.
lobo91 wrote:
yeah, that’s not a security concern
@ lobo91:
Well, ok then.
So it isn’t aliens…even tho it’s aliens
well, look at this. Some enterprising person got their hands on the yearbooks for Holton Arms, Christine Blasey Ford’s high school for the years she was a student.
It weren’t no convent.
https://cultofthe1st.blogspot.com/2018/09/why-christine-blasey-fords-high-school_19.html
@ eaglesoars:
Heh, 80s yearbook…
We didn’t advertise our parties tho.
@ The Barbarian:
“It’s easy to submit to a polygraph when you are in essence in charge of the questioning and are the client. The examiner knows the result you want.”
True. I would think if you are required to take one due to being a suspect in a criminal investigation, the conditions and questioning would have different outcomes. Although I actually do not put much faith in the results as a means for evidence.
When I was going thru boot camp a few of us got sent on a detail for a day to be subjects for FBI recruits administering polygraph tests. The agent-in-training made me take it 3 times at which point some FBI trainer enterd the room unannounced, looked at the results and asked me, “you don’t take this seriously, do you?” No. I didn’t. I was released back to my unit immmediatly. My father was subjected to polygraphs due to his line of work and his results were deemed inadmissible, so they stopped asking him to take them.
@ coldwarrior:
Work related? I’m travelling about twice a month to a drab village in the former DDR (hour from Erfurt) as we lost some staff at the production site. I need to find a replacement, but my gut is telling me we aren’t going to find anyone qualified anytime soon.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
I called my buddy Nathan, former Public Defender for the County of San Francisco and wanted to chat about polygraphs. He said they are only really useful in elimination of potential suspects. And no, you don’t “pass” a polygraph. You are not declared “truthful.”
I’d be very curious if the FBI came forward and said “well, tell you what. We’ll be happy to administer polygraphs here at Quantico to both Judge Kavanaugh and Professor Ford.” $50 says Kavanaugh says he’d be willing to submit and Ford says “I already took one so I’m not taking another.”
Oh and I do love that money laundering scheme called a GoFundMe page to get payoff money for Ford, citing “security threats” – oh please, it’s a fluff and fold – show us the receipts of the security firm when you pay them. Better yet, please show us the LEO reports of these death threats.
@ The Barbarian:
“He said they are only really useful in elimination of potential suspects.”
That would make sense.
GoFundMe is how she is getting her payoff to avoid uncomfortable questions at tax time.
@ Buckeye Abroad:
I wonder if she understands that a “thorough” investigation by the FBI into her allegations would include a complete background check on HER? And probably a request for a polygraph. Not to see if she’s being truthful, but to see if there is “deception” when she is questioned about the nature of her allegations.
That’ll include your bank records, toots.
@ eaglesoars:
I did not know girls like the Hilton girls when I was in high school, although I did try.
If the allegation agaist Kavanaugh are true then he”Bravely went were many men had gone before.”
I wonder what BS the left would resort to against a conservative female Hispanic nominee.
RIX wrote:
Rix, the PUBLIC high school I went to was like Holton-Arms. Ask coldwarrior. How do you think I learned about the whole ‘mean girl’ thing and not to trust women?
For the dog owners here, the FDA has sent out an alert about flea and tick products (active ingredient isoxazoline), some product names are Bravecto, Nexgard or Simparica
https://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/CVMUpdates/ucm620934.htm?utm_campaign=9-20-2018-fleatick&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elqTrackId=260F27533D217FCDCEEBDC7D51C3D4E3&elq=0fd1139d3ec24132bbdbb99ff7bb47a8&elqaid=5155&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=4126
@ eaglesoars:
We switched Bailey to a Seresto collar last year following reports of seizures with many of the oral flea/tick meds.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
I’ll have to look into that. I forget what the active ingredient is in hartguard/advantage, but both caused problems for Bonnie, who was severely epileptic. Dog neurologists know all about it, as I found out during that journey. There has GOT to be a better way
If somebody has time – I don’t – go back thru the Holton-Arms yearbook for 1984 and find somebody named Susan. If there are more than one, I can probably pick out the one I’m talking about.
She called into the Larry O’Conner show while I was doing dinner prep. Have you ever encountered a woman with a voice that made it hard to decide whether you should shoot her or yourself? It was like listening to electronic guitar feedback. Fingernails on a chalkboard are a lullaby compared to this harridan.
She kept insisting that the FBI investigate, even when told it couldn’t do anything after 35 yrs for something that was never a federal crime. DO IT ANYWAY!! It will delay everything. WHO CARES!!
Then she said there’s more. Other people heard about it. When told the woman who told THAT story had deleted it, she said THERE’S MORE THERE’S MORE!! I’M CLUED INTO THE CIRCLES, LARRY, I KNOW THE CIRCLES.
I’m class of ’84.
good. should be easy to find
My cats, Princess Natasha Katinski and Boris Stroganoff are very smart.
They learned how to avoid getting ticks, fleas and other nasty insecty type bugs on themselves.
They stopped sleeping on my bed.
🙂
Oh, also they refuse to eat anything I cook and try to share with them.
Smart cats!
Someone please put up an open thread, I’m stuck at the hospital
Thx!