Increasingly, I am getting the idea that Trump is going out of his way to pick weird candidates for office. For example, he chose Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court even though McConnell told him Kavanaugh would be the hardest choice to confirm. He chose Matthew Whitaker for Acting Attorney General even though he is wildly unqualified and maybe even a crook.
Then there is Alex Acosta who is Secretary of Labor who seems like a crook when he got off a billionaire who was raping teenage girls. No, he wasn't the defense attorney, he was the Prosecutor! Of course, we shouldn't overlook Ryan Zinke, Secretary of Interior, who seems to think working for the Federal Government is like a child locked in a candy store.
Administrator of EPA Scott Pruitt is so bad he had to resign and so did the Secretary of HHS Tom Price. Did I mention Michael Flynn?
There is more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/15/trump-cabinet-officials-in-ethics-scandals.html
Trump's choices certainly show a contempt for government: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/01/19/donald-trump-has-assembled-the-worst-cabinet-in-american-history/?utm_term=.5ab6e88c80c0
Showing posts with label Brett Kavanaugh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brett Kavanaugh. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Monday, September 24, 2018
SEXUAL ATTACK
(Between the Kavanaugh matter and the NYT publishing a piece about Rod Rosenstein wearing a wire in the office of President Trump, political news is making me depressed so I am stopping to listen to TV news and avoiding political matters in newspapers. Unavoidably, I do see something like Rosenstein is either quitting or being fired. But until further notice, there will not be political articles on my blog after this piece.)
Humanity has never come up with a satisfactory solution to the accusations of sexual attacks. So long as the man is willing to lie, and stick with it, he gets off Scot-free, unless there is some sort of other evidence (semen, etc.).
The problem is that there are false claims of sexual attacks so telling the difference is difficult.
In the latest 36-yr-old case, of Christine Blasey Ford against Brett Kavanaugh, it seems to me that the preponderance of the evidence is on her side. She has requested an FBI investigation. She has identified a third person in the room. Brett Kavanaugh says he never did such a thing and besides he was not at the party although we don't know what party, at whose home, and on what exact date it was held. What is his proof? Was he in the south of France that summer? Also, you would think he would love an FBI investigation if he was certain it was not him. But he definitely does not want the FBI messing in his high school career.
Certainly, Ms. Ford was much affected by the event but handled it in a mature matter by getting a Ph.D. in psychology, I'm sure in part to deal with her problem that she has never completely solved.
Now I'm willing to believe he does not remember the event and that the third person does not remember either. The friend of Kavanaugh says he may have been blacked out (dead drunk), and Christine says they were both fall-down drunk.
Apparently, Kavanaugh has admitted to being in a 100 keg club, i.e. they were to drink 100 kegs of beer during their senior year. In case you don't recall, kegs come in various sizes and contain from 53-55 to 5300 bottles of beer. Let's accept that it was the smaller kegs of interest. So 100 kegs would be 5,300 bottles of beer in a school year. If the target was a school year of 43 wks, then Kavanaugh would have had to drink 123.25 bottles of beer every week or 17.89 bottles of beer every day, nearly 3 six-packs every day. In other words, Kavanaugh was drinking alcoholically every day for a school year. Even if what was meant was a calendar year, he still would have had to drink 14.56 bottle a day, every day of the year which is still very alcoholically.
Let's hope that he failed in his 100 keg target. If not, one wonders how he was able to prepare for college? If he was meeting his goal of 100 kegs, then let's hope he has become a recovering alcoholic. He at least seems to be a functional alcoholic. I'm sure he won't be the first supreme court Justice who is an alcoholic.
I'm sure that the Republican men feel that since there was no penetration, nothing happened so what is the big deal? Besides, they feel it was 36 yrs ago when boys are struggling with runaway hormones. So here we are. I do not want to follow this situation any further.
Humanity has never come up with a satisfactory solution to the accusations of sexual attacks. So long as the man is willing to lie, and stick with it, he gets off Scot-free, unless there is some sort of other evidence (semen, etc.).
The problem is that there are false claims of sexual attacks so telling the difference is difficult.
In the latest 36-yr-old case, of Christine Blasey Ford against Brett Kavanaugh, it seems to me that the preponderance of the evidence is on her side. She has requested an FBI investigation. She has identified a third person in the room. Brett Kavanaugh says he never did such a thing and besides he was not at the party although we don't know what party, at whose home, and on what exact date it was held. What is his proof? Was he in the south of France that summer? Also, you would think he would love an FBI investigation if he was certain it was not him. But he definitely does not want the FBI messing in his high school career.
Certainly, Ms. Ford was much affected by the event but handled it in a mature matter by getting a Ph.D. in psychology, I'm sure in part to deal with her problem that she has never completely solved.
Now I'm willing to believe he does not remember the event and that the third person does not remember either. The friend of Kavanaugh says he may have been blacked out (dead drunk), and Christine says they were both fall-down drunk.
Apparently, Kavanaugh has admitted to being in a 100 keg club, i.e. they were to drink 100 kegs of beer during their senior year. In case you don't recall, kegs come in various sizes and contain from 53-55 to 5300 bottles of beer. Let's accept that it was the smaller kegs of interest. So 100 kegs would be 5,300 bottles of beer in a school year. If the target was a school year of 43 wks, then Kavanaugh would have had to drink 123.25 bottles of beer every week or 17.89 bottles of beer every day, nearly 3 six-packs every day. In other words, Kavanaugh was drinking alcoholically every day for a school year. Even if what was meant was a calendar year, he still would have had to drink 14.56 bottle a day, every day of the year which is still very alcoholically.
Let's hope that he failed in his 100 keg target. If not, one wonders how he was able to prepare for college? If he was meeting his goal of 100 kegs, then let's hope he has become a recovering alcoholic. He at least seems to be a functional alcoholic. I'm sure he won't be the first supreme court Justice who is an alcoholic.
I'm sure that the Republican men feel that since there was no penetration, nothing happened so what is the big deal? Besides, they feel it was 36 yrs ago when boys are struggling with runaway hormones. So here we are. I do not want to follow this situation any further.
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