HIAS (the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Screw your optics, I'm going in.
Robert G. Bowers writing on GAB.com, a social media site preferred by what is known as the alt right wing, shortly before he entered the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh and murdered 11 worshippers.
Saying Robert Gregory Bowers is bat shit crazy is an insult to bat shit crazy people everywhere. After he had been taken into custody by the police he reportedly told one of them, "I just want to kill Jews. All these Jews must die."
He is so far out there when it comes to anti-Semitism he considers Donald John Trump a closet globalist who is controlled by an international Jewish conspiracy. In his online rants he went so far as to condemn The Big Orange Guy for not doing anything to stop the, "infestation," of the United States by Jews.
When he entered the synagogue Brother Bowers was armed with three hand guns and an AR-15 assault style rifle. It has been reported since 1996 he purchased at least six different weapons, all perfectly legal in this country and he has a license to carry each and every one of them. In addition, up until the very moment he opened fire, he had no known criminal record.
That has changed now. In court this morning he was charged with 29 felonies, including 11 counts of murder. Prosecutors are already talking about the death penalty.
It is unknown what drove Robert Bowers over the edge. Although it should be noted HIAS had recently appealed to his arch enemy, Don Trump to treat that caravan of Central Americans winding its way through Mexico not as an invading horde of criminals, but rather as asylum seekers looking for safety and jobs. It is unclear at this time how many of them might be Jews.
Bowers' virulent hatred of Jews has been on display for months on the GAB site along with the insane ravings of other uber right wing conspiracy wankers, including our old pal, Alex Jones. GAB proudly insisted--and still does--it is the last and best free speech outlet online where everyone's views are allowed no matter how vile they might be.
Well, not any more, at least not for a while. After the shooting GAB's domain provider, GoDaddy finally started reading the horrific bullshit posted there and gave them 24 hours to find a new home. The folks at GAB, which was established in August 2016, tweeted a couple of things about corporate censorship and left leaning CEO's then took themselves down. They promise to return somewhere on the web so their 635,000 users can continue to express their versions of truth, justice, and The American Way just like Bobby Bowers did.
Trump is repeating, ad nauseam, the bomb scares of last week and the shooting are the media's fault. Others politically close to him say the mail bomb terror was faked. Earlier today his advisor, Kellyanne Conway claimed, in Bowers' case, the shooting rampage was caused in part because of anti-religious late night TV hosts who continually denigrate people of faith.
Meanwhile the deadly loons at the NRA must be sighing with relief. Why not? After this newest mass shooting and thanks to those pipe bombs last week the media and White House seem more concerned with whose corrosive political language caused Bowers and Cesar Sayoc to turn violent rather than gun legislation.
Indeed, at this point only one reporter I know of has asked Trump about America's lax gun laws since the Saturday morning attack. Predictably he brushed the question aside saying the murder of 11 people wasn't a gun control issue and the synagogue would have been safer if there had been armed people inside it.
That's right, it would seem the NRA got a pass on this one. They won't even have to drag out all their tired old excuses and propaganda in order to enable the ongoing mayhem. One can almost hear Wayne LaPierre thanking God in heaven for the mid term election and the obsessive and divisive screeching swirling around it.
It is time to face the fact the United States, politically and socially, is quickly becoming a third world nation. The blue collar middle class has gone the way of the Dodo. The gap between the poor and the rich is widening daily and the vicious lies pouring out of the head of state and his aides are becoming institutionalized. Any media outlet which criticizes him instantly becomes, "the enemy of the people." The attempted murder of political enemies by a supporter is shrugged off as, "the bomb stuff," or described as a false flag operation perpetrated by a hide in plain sight cabal of usurpers.
And now we've learned even a dictator wannabe is considered too liberal for a select few living on the far edge of the conspiracy universe.
Yes, it looks like in America there are some people you can never out crazy. After the last three years why should any of us be surprised?
10-29-18
Monday, October 29, 2018
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Bombs in the Mail and Accusations of False Flags, as Fingers Start Pointing
Yesterday, documentarian, Ken Burns said America is more divided now than at any time since the Vietnam War. It's hard to argue with that assessment, especially since, at the moment, it is all the rage to mail pipe bombs to people you don't like. And gun down congressmen while they practice softball. Or run them out of restaurants with behavior which, at best, is reminiscent of frat house hazing. Or go before the nation to say there were some "good people on both sides," rioting in Charlottesville even though a large number of them were self proclaimed Nazis.
Of course we haven't approached the point Richard Nixon reached before his downfall. Things got so out of hand when he was in charge he felt the need to station federal troops with live ammunition on the steps of the United States Capitol building. He was the first and, so far, only president to do so since Abraham Lincoln.
At this moment--and the situation is so fluid you have to use that caveat--10 bombs, or as the press likes to say, explosive devices, have been sent through the U.S. Postal Service. The addressees include, George Soros, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, Maxine Waters, John Brennan, Joe Biden, and Robert De Niro.
Because the bomber, or bombers aren't very good at what they do and the Secret Service, among others, are, none of the devices have exploded.
Representative Waters and former Vice President Biden were each sent two of the deadly packages. The one addressed to former CIA head, John Brennan arrived at CNN's New York City offices. Another, sent to former Attorney General Eric Holder, had his mailing location so fouled up it was bounced back to the return address, which was the Florida headquarters of Congresswoman, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. Many of the others also bore her name and office as the return address.
It doesn't take Holmes to see a pattern here. None of the people who were targeted are fans of Donald John Trump and all, are frequent subjects of his ire and bile. They are also at the center of a slew of far right wing conspiracy fantasies.
Indeed, even now certain ultra right radio hosts are postulating the bomb scare is a, "false flag," operation, meant to sway the mid term elections which are less than two weeks away. Strangely, that grotesque hypothesis makes more sense than the other one they're pushing these days.
It maintains the caravan of would be immigrants currently winding its way through Mexico is financed by Soros and, or the democrats. Why the left would be creating a situation which can do nothing, but guarantee a bigger turnout of Trump supporters at the polls is beyond any logical explanation, but as we know, logic has little to do with trailer park phantasms. No, if we are going to go all conspiratorial you have to think those thousands walking toward the border are bankrolled by wealthy Trumpists who are attempting to rally the maniacally xenophobic base.
Conjecture and flights of fancy aside, what we do know is the pipe bombs have been described by experts as crudely designed, but potentially lethal. Despite the Wasserman-Schultz touch, both ironic and clever--who of those intended victims would question a package from the former chair of the DNC--only a complete dolt would think people such as Obama, Clinton, and Biden get unscreened mail.
In fact only four of the devices actually made it past pre delivery screening. The one sent to Soros got to his home mail box and another to De Niro's Tribeca office. The one mailed to Brennan ended up in CNN's NY mailroom although, Brennan doesn't contribute to CNN, but rather NBC and MSNBC. Finally there was the one which found its way to Wasserman-Schultz's south Florida office.
Yes, this latest wave of terror has all the earmarks of some high school drop out with minimal brain activity who simply has access to the internet and a Home Depot.
Fingers are already being pointed. Many on MSNBC and CNN are blaming the hyper-aggressive language used by Mr. Trump and his uber right pals. This morning Trump, tweeted it is all the main stream media's fault because they're the ones stoking America's anger with their continual, "fake news." Last night he sarcastically told a crowd in Wisconsin, "See, I'm being nice. We're all behaving quite well."
Personally, right now, I don't care about root causes. Let's just catch the sons of bitches before they actually harm someone with their two bit handiwork, then we can figure out the rest of it.
sic vita est
10-25-18
Of course we haven't approached the point Richard Nixon reached before his downfall. Things got so out of hand when he was in charge he felt the need to station federal troops with live ammunition on the steps of the United States Capitol building. He was the first and, so far, only president to do so since Abraham Lincoln.
At this moment--and the situation is so fluid you have to use that caveat--10 bombs, or as the press likes to say, explosive devices, have been sent through the U.S. Postal Service. The addressees include, George Soros, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, Maxine Waters, John Brennan, Joe Biden, and Robert De Niro.
Because the bomber, or bombers aren't very good at what they do and the Secret Service, among others, are, none of the devices have exploded.
Representative Waters and former Vice President Biden were each sent two of the deadly packages. The one addressed to former CIA head, John Brennan arrived at CNN's New York City offices. Another, sent to former Attorney General Eric Holder, had his mailing location so fouled up it was bounced back to the return address, which was the Florida headquarters of Congresswoman, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. Many of the others also bore her name and office as the return address.
It doesn't take Holmes to see a pattern here. None of the people who were targeted are fans of Donald John Trump and all, are frequent subjects of his ire and bile. They are also at the center of a slew of far right wing conspiracy fantasies.
Indeed, even now certain ultra right radio hosts are postulating the bomb scare is a, "false flag," operation, meant to sway the mid term elections which are less than two weeks away. Strangely, that grotesque hypothesis makes more sense than the other one they're pushing these days.
It maintains the caravan of would be immigrants currently winding its way through Mexico is financed by Soros and, or the democrats. Why the left would be creating a situation which can do nothing, but guarantee a bigger turnout of Trump supporters at the polls is beyond any logical explanation, but as we know, logic has little to do with trailer park phantasms. No, if we are going to go all conspiratorial you have to think those thousands walking toward the border are bankrolled by wealthy Trumpists who are attempting to rally the maniacally xenophobic base.
Conjecture and flights of fancy aside, what we do know is the pipe bombs have been described by experts as crudely designed, but potentially lethal. Despite the Wasserman-Schultz touch, both ironic and clever--who of those intended victims would question a package from the former chair of the DNC--only a complete dolt would think people such as Obama, Clinton, and Biden get unscreened mail.
In fact only four of the devices actually made it past pre delivery screening. The one sent to Soros got to his home mail box and another to De Niro's Tribeca office. The one mailed to Brennan ended up in CNN's NY mailroom although, Brennan doesn't contribute to CNN, but rather NBC and MSNBC. Finally there was the one which found its way to Wasserman-Schultz's south Florida office.
Yes, this latest wave of terror has all the earmarks of some high school drop out with minimal brain activity who simply has access to the internet and a Home Depot.
Fingers are already being pointed. Many on MSNBC and CNN are blaming the hyper-aggressive language used by Mr. Trump and his uber right pals. This morning Trump, tweeted it is all the main stream media's fault because they're the ones stoking America's anger with their continual, "fake news." Last night he sarcastically told a crowd in Wisconsin, "See, I'm being nice. We're all behaving quite well."
Personally, right now, I don't care about root causes. Let's just catch the sons of bitches before they actually harm someone with their two bit handiwork, then we can figure out the rest of it.
sic vita est
10-25-18
Monday, October 22, 2018
Getting Rid of Loose Ends: The Saudis Prepare to Hit the Hit Men
So let's get this straight, or at least as straight as we can.
On October 2nd, Jamal Khashoggi, a frequent critic of the Saudi royal family took his fiancée, Hatice Cengiz to the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul. He walked inside in order to secure paper work which would allow him, a Saudi expatriate, to legally marry Ms. Cengiz, who is a Turkish national. Either through custom, or sheer luck she waited outside for her soon to be groom while he was taking care of the business at hand.
As we all know she never saw him again.
When it became apparent something was horribly wrong, Hatice Cengiz contacted the Turkish authorities and they began an investigation into the sudden disappearance.
The first Saudi response was something along the lines of, Why ask us? The guy left through the back door. Actually someone did, but it wasn't Jamal Khashoggi.
The Saudi's main problem with their initial tale was their consulate had all the privacy of a men's room at a sold out football stadium during half time. The Turks had the place so covered with cameras and listening devices they could see and hear practically everything going on there.
As the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan began releasing photographs of not just Khashoggi entering the building, but 15, sketchy looking guys coming into the country on Saudi passports, Crown Prince Mohammed bin-Salman repeated the, He left through the back door, story to Bloomberg News. His good pal Donald J. Trump took up for him when he told the American media the Saudis were, "vehemently," denying any involvement. Then he sternly lectured reporters about assuming guilt instead of innocence, citing a questionable example--Brett Kavanaugh.
Trump isn't a complete idiot though. He also floated the possibility of, "rogue," Saudi elements which might have acted without the knowledge of either the King, or Crown Prince. Most experts on Saudi Arabia consider this possibility about as realistic as Trump's assertion thousands of Muslims celebrated the 9-11 attacks in the streets of Jersey City.
In other words no one in their right mind was buying anything either bin-Salman, or Trump said. At the same moment, reports began bubbling up that unnamed Trump supporters in congress and the right wing media, along with the Saudis--that would be people not in their right minds--were beginning to circulate disparaging rumors about Khashoggi. The main ones being he was a confidant of Osama bin-Laden and a friend of Islamic Jihadists everywhere.
Now we have this from Saudi Arabia. The 15 men who flew into Turkey, 12 of whom have direct links to Saudi security forces and one who is a specialist in what the Washington Post describes as, "rapid and mobile autopsies," were there to just talk with Khashoggi. The reason? The journalist wanted to return to Saudi Arabia.
That would have been news to the victim. Earlier this year, when asked if he wanted to go back to his homeland he told a friend, "Are you kidding? I don't trust them one bit."
Contradictions aside, according to the current rendition the meeting didn't go well. There was an argument which turned increasingly ugly. Then Jamal Khashoggi went all Chuck Norris and physically attacked everyone. During the melee somebody put a choke hold on him, presumably to save the other 14 burly dudes from the wrath of this wild man and as a result he died accidently.
The Saudi statement didn't offer any reason for why the body was secretly disposed of, or where it might be.
Today more photos were released by the Turks. They showed two of the Saudi agents leaving the consulate via the back door. One of them was wearing a fake beard and dressed in Khashoggi's clothes. After wandering around Istanbul a bit the body double disappeared into a public restroom and re-emerged dressed in a different set of clothing. Those duds were the same outfit he was filmed wearing when he entered the consulate right before the nightmare began.
No, subtlety doesn't seem to be a strong point when it comes to Saudi Arabia's secret police. Plus it's obvious they were woefully ignorant of the Turk's ability to keep an eye on them. Someone should arrest the sons of bitches and not just for the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Let's face it, anyone as incompetent as they are shouldn't be allowed to walk the streets on general principle alone.
The Saudi government has decided to run with the whole, "rogue," thing. They've arrested, or detained 18 people in connection with the murder. It is unclear at this moment if any of them are the 15 deadly clowns who participated in the act, or some poor yokels they simply grabbed off the streets.
Whatever the case, odds are good we'll soon hear about a rash of suicides and suspects being shot while trying to escape. Yes, in a business like this it's best to get rid of the loose ends before they start to squeal. After all, throughout history hitting the hit men has been the quickest way to close the door on any further inconvenient questions. Hey, many diverse cultures have proud traditions of such things.
And we know that sort of solution will mollify Trump. He probably views the entire affair as nothing more than a poorly timed diversion anyway. Indeed, he has a mid term election to deal with and would rather be spending his energy demonizing democrats and Central Americans rather than defending his blood thirsty business partners/allies.
Besides, given his attitude toward a critical free press, he might even like the idea of journalists disappearing now and then. We know his supporters certainly would.
sic vita est
10-22-18
On October 2nd, Jamal Khashoggi, a frequent critic of the Saudi royal family took his fiancée, Hatice Cengiz to the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul. He walked inside in order to secure paper work which would allow him, a Saudi expatriate, to legally marry Ms. Cengiz, who is a Turkish national. Either through custom, or sheer luck she waited outside for her soon to be groom while he was taking care of the business at hand.
As we all know she never saw him again.
When it became apparent something was horribly wrong, Hatice Cengiz contacted the Turkish authorities and they began an investigation into the sudden disappearance.
The first Saudi response was something along the lines of, Why ask us? The guy left through the back door. Actually someone did, but it wasn't Jamal Khashoggi.
The Saudi's main problem with their initial tale was their consulate had all the privacy of a men's room at a sold out football stadium during half time. The Turks had the place so covered with cameras and listening devices they could see and hear practically everything going on there.
As the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan began releasing photographs of not just Khashoggi entering the building, but 15, sketchy looking guys coming into the country on Saudi passports, Crown Prince Mohammed bin-Salman repeated the, He left through the back door, story to Bloomberg News. His good pal Donald J. Trump took up for him when he told the American media the Saudis were, "vehemently," denying any involvement. Then he sternly lectured reporters about assuming guilt instead of innocence, citing a questionable example--Brett Kavanaugh.
Trump isn't a complete idiot though. He also floated the possibility of, "rogue," Saudi elements which might have acted without the knowledge of either the King, or Crown Prince. Most experts on Saudi Arabia consider this possibility about as realistic as Trump's assertion thousands of Muslims celebrated the 9-11 attacks in the streets of Jersey City.
In other words no one in their right mind was buying anything either bin-Salman, or Trump said. At the same moment, reports began bubbling up that unnamed Trump supporters in congress and the right wing media, along with the Saudis--that would be people not in their right minds--were beginning to circulate disparaging rumors about Khashoggi. The main ones being he was a confidant of Osama bin-Laden and a friend of Islamic Jihadists everywhere.
Now we have this from Saudi Arabia. The 15 men who flew into Turkey, 12 of whom have direct links to Saudi security forces and one who is a specialist in what the Washington Post describes as, "rapid and mobile autopsies," were there to just talk with Khashoggi. The reason? The journalist wanted to return to Saudi Arabia.
That would have been news to the victim. Earlier this year, when asked if he wanted to go back to his homeland he told a friend, "Are you kidding? I don't trust them one bit."
Contradictions aside, according to the current rendition the meeting didn't go well. There was an argument which turned increasingly ugly. Then Jamal Khashoggi went all Chuck Norris and physically attacked everyone. During the melee somebody put a choke hold on him, presumably to save the other 14 burly dudes from the wrath of this wild man and as a result he died accidently.
The Saudi statement didn't offer any reason for why the body was secretly disposed of, or where it might be.
Today more photos were released by the Turks. They showed two of the Saudi agents leaving the consulate via the back door. One of them was wearing a fake beard and dressed in Khashoggi's clothes. After wandering around Istanbul a bit the body double disappeared into a public restroom and re-emerged dressed in a different set of clothing. Those duds were the same outfit he was filmed wearing when he entered the consulate right before the nightmare began.
No, subtlety doesn't seem to be a strong point when it comes to Saudi Arabia's secret police. Plus it's obvious they were woefully ignorant of the Turk's ability to keep an eye on them. Someone should arrest the sons of bitches and not just for the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Let's face it, anyone as incompetent as they are shouldn't be allowed to walk the streets on general principle alone.
The Saudi government has decided to run with the whole, "rogue," thing. They've arrested, or detained 18 people in connection with the murder. It is unclear at this moment if any of them are the 15 deadly clowns who participated in the act, or some poor yokels they simply grabbed off the streets.
Whatever the case, odds are good we'll soon hear about a rash of suicides and suspects being shot while trying to escape. Yes, in a business like this it's best to get rid of the loose ends before they start to squeal. After all, throughout history hitting the hit men has been the quickest way to close the door on any further inconvenient questions. Hey, many diverse cultures have proud traditions of such things.
And we know that sort of solution will mollify Trump. He probably views the entire affair as nothing more than a poorly timed diversion anyway. Indeed, he has a mid term election to deal with and would rather be spending his energy demonizing democrats and Central Americans rather than defending his blood thirsty business partners/allies.
Besides, given his attitude toward a critical free press, he might even like the idea of journalists disappearing now and then. We know his supporters certainly would.
sic vita est
10-22-18
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Defining Donald John Trump: Bad Art and Bad Friends
Here is how we can define Donald J. Trump, President of the United States. He likes a painting which portrays him not just in a flattering way on a personal level, but shows him as historically significant as every other republican president in the history of the nation.
He also likes the Saudis a lot and their money even more. So much so he seems willing to sweep what increasingly appears to be the state sponsored murder of a Saudi journalist under the rug.
The painting in question, titled, "The Republican Club," is by, Andy Thomas. It has all the artistic nuance and talent of that well known portrayal of a bunch of different dogs playing poker. I first saw a print of it decades ago in a Muskogee, OK barbershop. I thought it was kind of cool then, but I was like five years old and my tastes have evolved some since then.
Thomas' painting jumped into the internet limelight when it was caught in the background during Trump's Sunday interview with Lesley Stahl on CBS', 60 Minutes. It puts Trump in a bar scene at a table with Ronald Reagan, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Abraham Lincoln, and George W. Bush. Standing around the table are George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, and Theodore Roosevelt. In the back ground there appears to be Calvin Coolidge, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, and off to the other side, Ulysses S. Grant.
Besides artistic merit, or lack thereof--Thomas is self taught and you can tell it--there are some other questions which immediately spring to mind about the content. First off, why are all these guys laughing with Trump, because there are several there who, in truth, would have probably loathed him. Secondly, some of the presidents included, honestly, screwed the pooch so badly while they were in office no one in their right mind would want to be associated with them.
We all get the laughing Nixon. He has finally been pictured with someone even more corrupt and vile than he was. Let's face it, compared to Don Trump, Dick Nixon was nothing more that a two bit shoplifter. One can easily imagine him thinking something along the lines of, Finally, a man who makes me seem not so bad.
Teddy Roosevelt on the other hand was the father of the National Park System, an institution Trump is intent on carving up into tiny pieces. As for Eisenhower, his last major address before leaving office warned darkly of the power and influence of what he called, the military-industrial complex, something Trump obviously thinks is a great American asset. Lincoln's presence is an outright twisting of his political beliefs. There isn't a sane person around now who doesn't know for sure that if Honest Abe was alive today he'd be a registered democrat.
The rest were a bunch of crack pots, unrepentant hypocrites, and congenital fools. Reagan might have won the cold war, but he tripled the national deficit doing it, while trying to pass off packets of Heinz ketchup as a vegetable in the school lunch program. In addition, his sage advice to laid off workers in the rust belt was to give up their homes and move someplace else. In other words, become latter day Okies.
Harding and Grant let their cabinet members and pals run amok with vast criminal enterprises. Coolidge's policies set up the economy for the Great Depression and Hoover's reaction to the calamity which followed was, Just ignore it, it will go away on its own. Both Bushes also managed to throw the economy into chaos and one of them started a war we're still fighting. And finally, after Ford pardoned Nixon the country was so filled with revulsion he lost to Jimmy Carter.
Of course hanging a God awful painting in the White House is nothing when compared to The Big Orange Guy's love fest with the Saudis.
Well, why shouldn't he adore them? In 1991, when he was desperately short of money, Trump sold his 284 foot yacht to Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal at the incredible, just for you, must move it now, discount price of $20 million. In 1995, the still cash strapped future president unloaded New York City's Plaza Hotel to a group of investors headed up by the same bin-Talal. In 2001 Saudi interests bought the entire 45th floor of Trump World Tower across from the U.N. Lately his Washington hotel has seen a 13% uptick in occupancy thanks to the number of Saudis staying there.
It doesn't take much to see, Donald John Trump the business man owes a lot to the ultra rich rulers of Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately for Don Trump the President, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Kingdom's Istanbul Consulate on October 2nd and hasn't been seen since.
Khashoggi, whose career including being a columnist for the Washington Post, was considered a pain in the ass by Saudi rulers because he publicly criticized them. Obviously he didn't grasp the depths of their hatred, or realize how far they'd go to silence him. He went to the consulate on the 2nd in order to secure paperwork which would allow him to legally marry his Turkish fiancée. There are unconfirmed reports from Turkey saying he came out piece by hacked up piece.
The King of Saudi Arabia denied any involvement in Kashoggi's disappearance. However there is at least one unnamed Saudi source who claims he died during an interrogation, "which went wrong."
Despite the report, Trump is still shaking his head and holding up his hands, telling us the Saudi royals are, "vehement," about not harming the journalist. You know, like Putin, "strongly denied," interfering in the 2016 election. DJT is contending they're just another victim of the main stream media who always rushes to the verdict of guilty without a trial, like in the case of Brett Kavanaugh. Yeah, he actually used that comparison on Twitter.
At the same time he is hedging his bet.by speculating, "rogue," Saudi elements may have been involved in Khashoggi's disappearance. He also said if the allegations are proven, there will be strong sanctions against the Kingdom, although there is no way in hell he will pull the plug on a massive arms deal we just struck with them.
Hey, sometimes you have to ride the picket fence no matter how sharp the points on the slats are. Especially when a hit like this is pulled by people you're indebted to.
Meanwhile Turkish authorities are tearing through the Consulate building and are demanding to search the residence of the Saudi Consulate General, Mohammed Otabi. Otabi won't be home when they arrive. Almost immediately after the shit hit the fan, he took off for the homeland.
You can smell what is coming next. Trump didn't pull that "rogue elements" crap out of the blue. It's almost a sure thing the Saudi Arabian hierarchy will soon discover the Khashoggi murder was plotted and carried out by some prince we've never heard of. They'll feign outrage and disappointment. Then, since they have so many fucking princes running around nobody will miss just one, they'll cut off his head.
As soon as it happens El Don will say something along the lines of, "See there, our good pals don't put up with criminal behavior any more than I do. We're lucky to have them on our side." What he'll mean is, "These are business partners of mine worth hundreds of millions to me and I don't give a shit if they kill one of their own, or not."
Trust me, some definitions of a man are pieces of trivial kitsch and some aren't. In the end though, both tell us the truth about him.
sic vita est
10-16-18
He also likes the Saudis a lot and their money even more. So much so he seems willing to sweep what increasingly appears to be the state sponsored murder of a Saudi journalist under the rug.
The painting in question, titled, "The Republican Club," is by, Andy Thomas. It has all the artistic nuance and talent of that well known portrayal of a bunch of different dogs playing poker. I first saw a print of it decades ago in a Muskogee, OK barbershop. I thought it was kind of cool then, but I was like five years old and my tastes have evolved some since then.
Thomas' painting jumped into the internet limelight when it was caught in the background during Trump's Sunday interview with Lesley Stahl on CBS', 60 Minutes. It puts Trump in a bar scene at a table with Ronald Reagan, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Abraham Lincoln, and George W. Bush. Standing around the table are George H.W. Bush, Gerald Ford, and Theodore Roosevelt. In the back ground there appears to be Calvin Coolidge, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, and off to the other side, Ulysses S. Grant.
Besides artistic merit, or lack thereof--Thomas is self taught and you can tell it--there are some other questions which immediately spring to mind about the content. First off, why are all these guys laughing with Trump, because there are several there who, in truth, would have probably loathed him. Secondly, some of the presidents included, honestly, screwed the pooch so badly while they were in office no one in their right mind would want to be associated with them.
We all get the laughing Nixon. He has finally been pictured with someone even more corrupt and vile than he was. Let's face it, compared to Don Trump, Dick Nixon was nothing more that a two bit shoplifter. One can easily imagine him thinking something along the lines of, Finally, a man who makes me seem not so bad.
Teddy Roosevelt on the other hand was the father of the National Park System, an institution Trump is intent on carving up into tiny pieces. As for Eisenhower, his last major address before leaving office warned darkly of the power and influence of what he called, the military-industrial complex, something Trump obviously thinks is a great American asset. Lincoln's presence is an outright twisting of his political beliefs. There isn't a sane person around now who doesn't know for sure that if Honest Abe was alive today he'd be a registered democrat.
The rest were a bunch of crack pots, unrepentant hypocrites, and congenital fools. Reagan might have won the cold war, but he tripled the national deficit doing it, while trying to pass off packets of Heinz ketchup as a vegetable in the school lunch program. In addition, his sage advice to laid off workers in the rust belt was to give up their homes and move someplace else. In other words, become latter day Okies.
Harding and Grant let their cabinet members and pals run amok with vast criminal enterprises. Coolidge's policies set up the economy for the Great Depression and Hoover's reaction to the calamity which followed was, Just ignore it, it will go away on its own. Both Bushes also managed to throw the economy into chaos and one of them started a war we're still fighting. And finally, after Ford pardoned Nixon the country was so filled with revulsion he lost to Jimmy Carter.
Of course hanging a God awful painting in the White House is nothing when compared to The Big Orange Guy's love fest with the Saudis.
Well, why shouldn't he adore them? In 1991, when he was desperately short of money, Trump sold his 284 foot yacht to Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal at the incredible, just for you, must move it now, discount price of $20 million. In 1995, the still cash strapped future president unloaded New York City's Plaza Hotel to a group of investors headed up by the same bin-Talal. In 2001 Saudi interests bought the entire 45th floor of Trump World Tower across from the U.N. Lately his Washington hotel has seen a 13% uptick in occupancy thanks to the number of Saudis staying there.
It doesn't take much to see, Donald John Trump the business man owes a lot to the ultra rich rulers of Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately for Don Trump the President, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Kingdom's Istanbul Consulate on October 2nd and hasn't been seen since.
Khashoggi, whose career including being a columnist for the Washington Post, was considered a pain in the ass by Saudi rulers because he publicly criticized them. Obviously he didn't grasp the depths of their hatred, or realize how far they'd go to silence him. He went to the consulate on the 2nd in order to secure paperwork which would allow him to legally marry his Turkish fiancée. There are unconfirmed reports from Turkey saying he came out piece by hacked up piece.
The King of Saudi Arabia denied any involvement in Kashoggi's disappearance. However there is at least one unnamed Saudi source who claims he died during an interrogation, "which went wrong."
Despite the report, Trump is still shaking his head and holding up his hands, telling us the Saudi royals are, "vehement," about not harming the journalist. You know, like Putin, "strongly denied," interfering in the 2016 election. DJT is contending they're just another victim of the main stream media who always rushes to the verdict of guilty without a trial, like in the case of Brett Kavanaugh. Yeah, he actually used that comparison on Twitter.
At the same time he is hedging his bet.by speculating, "rogue," Saudi elements may have been involved in Khashoggi's disappearance. He also said if the allegations are proven, there will be strong sanctions against the Kingdom, although there is no way in hell he will pull the plug on a massive arms deal we just struck with them.
Hey, sometimes you have to ride the picket fence no matter how sharp the points on the slats are. Especially when a hit like this is pulled by people you're indebted to.
Meanwhile Turkish authorities are tearing through the Consulate building and are demanding to search the residence of the Saudi Consulate General, Mohammed Otabi. Otabi won't be home when they arrive. Almost immediately after the shit hit the fan, he took off for the homeland.
You can smell what is coming next. Trump didn't pull that "rogue elements" crap out of the blue. It's almost a sure thing the Saudi Arabian hierarchy will soon discover the Khashoggi murder was plotted and carried out by some prince we've never heard of. They'll feign outrage and disappointment. Then, since they have so many fucking princes running around nobody will miss just one, they'll cut off his head.
As soon as it happens El Don will say something along the lines of, "See there, our good pals don't put up with criminal behavior any more than I do. We're lucky to have them on our side." What he'll mean is, "These are business partners of mine worth hundreds of millions to me and I don't give a shit if they kill one of their own, or not."
Trust me, some definitions of a man are pieces of trivial kitsch and some aren't. In the end though, both tell us the truth about him.
sic vita est
10-16-18
Friday, October 12, 2018
Who Needs the Russians When We Have the American Right Wing on the Internet
Now that we're stuck with Brett Kavanaugh for the rest of his sometimes unnatural life we should probably ask the question, why did so many people think Dr. Christine Blasey Ford flat out lie under oath?
Let's face it, one of them did, unless you believe the utterly unbelievable--that Ford mistook Kavanaugh for someone else. Of course there is plenty of that going around lately. Just ask the followers of the mysterious online cult known as Q, or QAnon. If you do the Q junkies will immediately start jabbering about an international ring of pedophiles led by prominent democrats and Hollywood elites including, Tom Hanks.
So, here is a clue when it comes to those who don't believe the woman was sexually assaulted by that entitled and thoroughly besotted preppy son of a bitch.
It seems for many, if something shows up on the internet and it fits their world view then it must be true. And now days it isn't even a cabal of Russians out there spreading what is charitably called, disinformation about Donald Trump's perceived enemies. Not to mention planting lurid rumors about them which instantly go viral among the feeble minded.
The New York Times reported, within hours after Dr. Ford's name became public knowledge, a website called, Right Wing News began publishing a series of lies about her and her legal team. The site, run by a blogger named, John Hawkins, claimed, among other things, her lawyers were being bribed by the democrats. He had no evidence, he just wrote it. The Times notes Hawkins used a network of Facebook and other social media accounts--many of them owned by non-existent people--to spread the, that's right, fake news.
He wasn't the only one.
Another website called, Grabien claimed Blasey Ford had been savaged by her students on a place called, RateMyProfessors.com. According to Grabien, students had called Blasey Ford things like, "unprofessional, and said she had, "a dark personality." The Grabien story was immediately picked up by FOX News host Laura Ingraham and the Drudge Report, who plastered it on their home page. The only problem was those poor reviews were for a Christine A. Ford, who teaches human resources at Cal State-Fullerton. Christine Blasey Ford teaches psychology at Palo Alto University.
A Twitter account attributed to a guy named Jacob Wohl accused Dr. Ford of a revenge motive. Wohl asserted 20 plus years ago her parents lost their home in a bankruptcy proceeding overseen by Brett Kavanaugh's mother, who is also a judge. Kinda, sorta. Her parents did go through a bankruptcy, but settled with the bank out of court. Kavanaugh's mother dismissed the case without the Blaseys ever appearing before her and the ruling actually enabled them to keep their house.
One of those slap happy Q freaks, Josh Cornett tweeted Blasey Ford was, in fact, a serial accuser. In his world Dianne Feinstein held onto her letter accusing Kavanaugh of misdeeds for as long as she could because a year earlier she had received another letter from Ford accusing then nominee, Neil Gorsuch of an almost identical sexual attack. No such letter exists. In a later tweet Cornett admitted he didn't know if the alleged letter was real, or not, but said his, "source," had always been accurate in the past. His original post was retweeted over 7,000 times.
The Liberty Counsel, a pro right legal group, claimed Dr. Ford's brother, Ralph once worked for a law firm who has its fingers in the Russian collusion case against Don Trump. The implication was her family is deeply involved in the plot to bring down El Don and she was just doing her part. Ralph Blasey did work there once, but he quit the firm in 2004 more than ten years before anyone ever dreamed we'd go down the rabbit hole known as the Trump presidency.
A Facebook page titled, "Concerned Citizens of America" went so far as to show a photograph of a woman it claimed was Blasey Ford standing next to that bugaboo of all things right wing, George Soros. It was Soros alright, but the woman was Lyudmyla Kozlovska, a Ukrainian human rights activist who barely resembles the Doctor. It was as if someone thought, Look, the woman is a blonde, she must be Christine Ford. Not surprisingly the page also carried a hashtag which is linked to the QAnon wankers. The Times reports that within hours of its appearance the entry was shared 35,000 times all over Facebook..
Yes, who needs the fucking Russians to screw with the minds of trailer park fascists everywhere? They seem to be doing it quite successfully all on their own. Well, why not? Self medicating is, as we know, all the rage these days.
Ladies and gentlemen, given the circumstances, the bar is most definitely open. I'd order a double if I were you. I know I certainly am.
10-12-18
Let's face it, one of them did, unless you believe the utterly unbelievable--that Ford mistook Kavanaugh for someone else. Of course there is plenty of that going around lately. Just ask the followers of the mysterious online cult known as Q, or QAnon. If you do the Q junkies will immediately start jabbering about an international ring of pedophiles led by prominent democrats and Hollywood elites including, Tom Hanks.
So, here is a clue when it comes to those who don't believe the woman was sexually assaulted by that entitled and thoroughly besotted preppy son of a bitch.
It seems for many, if something shows up on the internet and it fits their world view then it must be true. And now days it isn't even a cabal of Russians out there spreading what is charitably called, disinformation about Donald Trump's perceived enemies. Not to mention planting lurid rumors about them which instantly go viral among the feeble minded.
The New York Times reported, within hours after Dr. Ford's name became public knowledge, a website called, Right Wing News began publishing a series of lies about her and her legal team. The site, run by a blogger named, John Hawkins, claimed, among other things, her lawyers were being bribed by the democrats. He had no evidence, he just wrote it. The Times notes Hawkins used a network of Facebook and other social media accounts--many of them owned by non-existent people--to spread the, that's right, fake news.
He wasn't the only one.
Another website called, Grabien claimed Blasey Ford had been savaged by her students on a place called, RateMyProfessors.com. According to Grabien, students had called Blasey Ford things like, "unprofessional, and said she had, "a dark personality." The Grabien story was immediately picked up by FOX News host Laura Ingraham and the Drudge Report, who plastered it on their home page. The only problem was those poor reviews were for a Christine A. Ford, who teaches human resources at Cal State-Fullerton. Christine Blasey Ford teaches psychology at Palo Alto University.
A Twitter account attributed to a guy named Jacob Wohl accused Dr. Ford of a revenge motive. Wohl asserted 20 plus years ago her parents lost their home in a bankruptcy proceeding overseen by Brett Kavanaugh's mother, who is also a judge. Kinda, sorta. Her parents did go through a bankruptcy, but settled with the bank out of court. Kavanaugh's mother dismissed the case without the Blaseys ever appearing before her and the ruling actually enabled them to keep their house.
One of those slap happy Q freaks, Josh Cornett tweeted Blasey Ford was, in fact, a serial accuser. In his world Dianne Feinstein held onto her letter accusing Kavanaugh of misdeeds for as long as she could because a year earlier she had received another letter from Ford accusing then nominee, Neil Gorsuch of an almost identical sexual attack. No such letter exists. In a later tweet Cornett admitted he didn't know if the alleged letter was real, or not, but said his, "source," had always been accurate in the past. His original post was retweeted over 7,000 times.
The Liberty Counsel, a pro right legal group, claimed Dr. Ford's brother, Ralph once worked for a law firm who has its fingers in the Russian collusion case against Don Trump. The implication was her family is deeply involved in the plot to bring down El Don and she was just doing her part. Ralph Blasey did work there once, but he quit the firm in 2004 more than ten years before anyone ever dreamed we'd go down the rabbit hole known as the Trump presidency.
A Facebook page titled, "Concerned Citizens of America" went so far as to show a photograph of a woman it claimed was Blasey Ford standing next to that bugaboo of all things right wing, George Soros. It was Soros alright, but the woman was Lyudmyla Kozlovska, a Ukrainian human rights activist who barely resembles the Doctor. It was as if someone thought, Look, the woman is a blonde, she must be Christine Ford. Not surprisingly the page also carried a hashtag which is linked to the QAnon wankers. The Times reports that within hours of its appearance the entry was shared 35,000 times all over Facebook..
Yes, who needs the fucking Russians to screw with the minds of trailer park fascists everywhere? They seem to be doing it quite successfully all on their own. Well, why not? Self medicating is, as we know, all the rage these days.
Ladies and gentlemen, given the circumstances, the bar is most definitely open. I'd order a double if I were you. I know I certainly am.
10-12-18
Tuesday, October 9, 2018
The Survey Says the American Republic is Doomed
Sometimes you have to wonder about things. You know, like how did we get ourselves in this incredible situation? After all the nation doesn't normally vote for a guy who has no comprehension of the separation of powers, views one half of congress as treasonous and believes the other should be his personal toadies--all the while constantly portraying any media criticism of his administration as out right lies.
Indeed, the current resident of the White House openly admires autocrats and dictators and seemingly has little use for free elections. So much so, months ago he told a group of mega-donors having a president for life, like they currently do in China is a fine idea and we should, "...try it here someday." According to reports the conservative money bags in the room cheered when he said it. God only knows how raucous the approval would be if he included such a line in a speech delivered in some back woods hall in West Virginia.
So, exactly how did we get here?
Well, let's face it, American democracy is a fragile thing and it becomes even more so when scads of people have little, or no understanding of it, or its history. And, thanks to a recent poll taken by an outfit called Lincoln Park Strategies, we just found out how appallingly wide spread that lack of understanding is.
The first thing they discovered is only 36% of 1,000 red blooded, hamburger eating, born here Americans could pass the same test immigrants are required to take before they can become naturalized citizens. In other words on a multiple choice exam, 64% of those participating didn't know things like how many U.S. Senators there are, how old you have to be in order to vote, or even the names of just two cabinet positions.
The poll also revealed most thought the Constitution was signed, sealed, and delivered in 1776. 87% didn't have a clue it and the Declaration of Independence are distinctly different documents and the Constitution wasn't ratified until 1788.
In addition, while some of us have spent the last few weeks watching the gruesome Brett Kavanaugh affair play out in the news there is ample evidence many others were more interested in stuff like "American Gladiators." Despite the prolonged drama and vitriol of the confirmation process the survey showed 57% of those responding still don't know how many justices sit on the supreme court.
Of course, when the questions turned to U.S. history the depths of ignorance reached new lows. 60% couldn't name the countries the United States fought in WWII. In fact 6% believed Dwight D. Eisenhower commanded American troops in Vietnam while 12% were convinced he was a civil war general.
72% couldn't correctly name the original 13 states. But that's okay, because 76% didn't know why American colonists fought the British in the first place. The same number couldn't identify one thing Ben Franklin is famous for.
For those wondering, Lincoln Park Strategies stated the poll has a margin of error that's plus, or minus 3%. The age demographic showed those 65 and older rang up the most correct answers and people under the age of 45 did the worst.
Given the results, is it any wonder people are cheering that whole president for life thing? It appears the entire American system of government and its past are just too complicated and bothersome for them to deal with. That's right Don, just tell me the nation's real history, then what to do and when to do it. Listen, if you will, I'm your guy, or gal from now on. And while you're at it could you please pull the plug on CNN and MSNBC right after you shut down The New York Times and Washington Post--they all give me a fucking headache.
Yes, it looks like the republic is doomed. If not in the next six years under Donald John Trump, who is a perfect fit for all this willful stupidity, but certainly within another generation when we find someone else just like him.
Tragically, as these numbers tell us, by then not only will no one care, there won't be anyone left who even remembers what it was like before the fall.
sic vita est
10-9-18
Indeed, the current resident of the White House openly admires autocrats and dictators and seemingly has little use for free elections. So much so, months ago he told a group of mega-donors having a president for life, like they currently do in China is a fine idea and we should, "...try it here someday." According to reports the conservative money bags in the room cheered when he said it. God only knows how raucous the approval would be if he included such a line in a speech delivered in some back woods hall in West Virginia.
So, exactly how did we get here?
Well, let's face it, American democracy is a fragile thing and it becomes even more so when scads of people have little, or no understanding of it, or its history. And, thanks to a recent poll taken by an outfit called Lincoln Park Strategies, we just found out how appallingly wide spread that lack of understanding is.
The first thing they discovered is only 36% of 1,000 red blooded, hamburger eating, born here Americans could pass the same test immigrants are required to take before they can become naturalized citizens. In other words on a multiple choice exam, 64% of those participating didn't know things like how many U.S. Senators there are, how old you have to be in order to vote, or even the names of just two cabinet positions.
The poll also revealed most thought the Constitution was signed, sealed, and delivered in 1776. 87% didn't have a clue it and the Declaration of Independence are distinctly different documents and the Constitution wasn't ratified until 1788.
In addition, while some of us have spent the last few weeks watching the gruesome Brett Kavanaugh affair play out in the news there is ample evidence many others were more interested in stuff like "American Gladiators." Despite the prolonged drama and vitriol of the confirmation process the survey showed 57% of those responding still don't know how many justices sit on the supreme court.
Of course, when the questions turned to U.S. history the depths of ignorance reached new lows. 60% couldn't name the countries the United States fought in WWII. In fact 6% believed Dwight D. Eisenhower commanded American troops in Vietnam while 12% were convinced he was a civil war general.
72% couldn't correctly name the original 13 states. But that's okay, because 76% didn't know why American colonists fought the British in the first place. The same number couldn't identify one thing Ben Franklin is famous for.
For those wondering, Lincoln Park Strategies stated the poll has a margin of error that's plus, or minus 3%. The age demographic showed those 65 and older rang up the most correct answers and people under the age of 45 did the worst.
Given the results, is it any wonder people are cheering that whole president for life thing? It appears the entire American system of government and its past are just too complicated and bothersome for them to deal with. That's right Don, just tell me the nation's real history, then what to do and when to do it. Listen, if you will, I'm your guy, or gal from now on. And while you're at it could you please pull the plug on CNN and MSNBC right after you shut down The New York Times and Washington Post--they all give me a fucking headache.
Yes, it looks like the republic is doomed. If not in the next six years under Donald John Trump, who is a perfect fit for all this willful stupidity, but certainly within another generation when we find someone else just like him.
Tragically, as these numbers tell us, by then not only will no one care, there won't be anyone left who even remembers what it was like before the fall.
sic vita est
10-9-18
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh Apparently Lacked a Public Library Card
Warn the neighbors that we're loud, obnoxious drunks with prolific pukers among us. Advise them to go about thirty miles....I think we are unanimous that any girls we can beg to stay there are welcomed with open....Anyway I think we're all set.
Two lines from a letter written by Judge Brett Kavanaugh, under the pseudonym, "FFFFF Bart," to classmates at Georgetown Prep just before they took over a Maryland beach rental property for a week in 1983.
Ah yes, the legal scholar in his formative years is a thing to behold.
In a recent interview classmate and friend, Tom Kane, who was at the gathering in question said the letter contained, "a couple of harmless jokes." He also admits, or perhaps more darkly, denies, he has any memory of what went down during the week long party.
Well, there is a lot of that going around when it comes to Brett Kavanaugh these days. In fact at this point as near as anyone can tell there wasn't a sober student at Georgetown Prep in the early 80's. Although they did manage to put together an underground newspaper called the, "Unknown Hoya." The stapled together publication, among other things, reported, "A public library card is all it takes to have a good time with any H.H."
For those wondering, H.H. stands for Holton Hosebag. It is an overtly crude reference to students attending the nearby all girls, Holton-Arms School. That would be the institution Dr. Christine Blasey Ford attended during the same time frame.
Blasey Ford is the woman who has accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when she was fifteen. She is also the same woman Donald Trump cruelly mocked last night in a Mississippi campaign rally because there are a few incidental gaps in her memory of the horrific night.
Kavanaugh denies her charges. Of course he also testified under oath he only sometimes drank to excess during those blurry years, never blacked out, and was unaware of Deborah Ramirez's story of another aggressive, drunken, sexual attack until her accusation broke in the New Yorker. Seemingly within hours solid evidence came to light he was contacting friends in order to make sure everyone got their stories lined up before the New Yorker article was released. There was other stuff--things about the term, Devil's Triangle, and being a Renate Alumnus. Along with all the rest of it, he told Senators he had no idea who the character of Bart O'Kavanaugh might be in Mark Judge's novel.
Blasey Ford alleges Judge was the third person in the room when Kavanaugh attacked her. According to the Doctor, much like that audience in Southhaven, MS last night, the two pals were laughing uproariously at her as she fought back on the bed. It was, she swore, her most indelible memory of the grotesque incident. Moments before, she had told the Senate Judiciary Committee she was 100% sure it was Kavanaugh who had held her down, groped her, and clamped his hand down on her mouth as she struggled beneath him.
Meanwhile, as the re-opened investigation's arbitrary deadline approaches MSNBC, CNN, and others are reporting as many as 40 potential witnesses who might have pertinent information about Kavanaugh's behavior, including Christine Blasey Ford, haven't even been contacted by the FBI.
On the other hand, the agency has interviewed Mark Judge, who, since there isn't a statute of limitations on sexual assault in Maryland, has a compelling reason to fudge his story a tad. Either that, or he might have simply claimed his out of control alcoholism at the time rendered his brain Swiss Cheese and he doesn't remember anything before, say, the turn of the century.
It will probably be about 48 hours before we know if the FBI's latest look into Brett Kavanaugh's past is a sham. Right now things don't look promising.
What we do know, however, is the Supreme Court nominee has lied about a growing number of little things. And if the bastard lies about the little things, we can be assured he is lying about the big ones, including his apparent lack of a public library card.
sic vita est
10-3-18
Two lines from a letter written by Judge Brett Kavanaugh, under the pseudonym, "FFFFF Bart," to classmates at Georgetown Prep just before they took over a Maryland beach rental property for a week in 1983.
Ah yes, the legal scholar in his formative years is a thing to behold.
In a recent interview classmate and friend, Tom Kane, who was at the gathering in question said the letter contained, "a couple of harmless jokes." He also admits, or perhaps more darkly, denies, he has any memory of what went down during the week long party.
Well, there is a lot of that going around when it comes to Brett Kavanaugh these days. In fact at this point as near as anyone can tell there wasn't a sober student at Georgetown Prep in the early 80's. Although they did manage to put together an underground newspaper called the, "Unknown Hoya." The stapled together publication, among other things, reported, "A public library card is all it takes to have a good time with any H.H."
For those wondering, H.H. stands for Holton Hosebag. It is an overtly crude reference to students attending the nearby all girls, Holton-Arms School. That would be the institution Dr. Christine Blasey Ford attended during the same time frame.
Blasey Ford is the woman who has accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when she was fifteen. She is also the same woman Donald Trump cruelly mocked last night in a Mississippi campaign rally because there are a few incidental gaps in her memory of the horrific night.
Kavanaugh denies her charges. Of course he also testified under oath he only sometimes drank to excess during those blurry years, never blacked out, and was unaware of Deborah Ramirez's story of another aggressive, drunken, sexual attack until her accusation broke in the New Yorker. Seemingly within hours solid evidence came to light he was contacting friends in order to make sure everyone got their stories lined up before the New Yorker article was released. There was other stuff--things about the term, Devil's Triangle, and being a Renate Alumnus. Along with all the rest of it, he told Senators he had no idea who the character of Bart O'Kavanaugh might be in Mark Judge's novel.
Blasey Ford alleges Judge was the third person in the room when Kavanaugh attacked her. According to the Doctor, much like that audience in Southhaven, MS last night, the two pals were laughing uproariously at her as she fought back on the bed. It was, she swore, her most indelible memory of the grotesque incident. Moments before, she had told the Senate Judiciary Committee she was 100% sure it was Kavanaugh who had held her down, groped her, and clamped his hand down on her mouth as she struggled beneath him.
Meanwhile, as the re-opened investigation's arbitrary deadline approaches MSNBC, CNN, and others are reporting as many as 40 potential witnesses who might have pertinent information about Kavanaugh's behavior, including Christine Blasey Ford, haven't even been contacted by the FBI.
On the other hand, the agency has interviewed Mark Judge, who, since there isn't a statute of limitations on sexual assault in Maryland, has a compelling reason to fudge his story a tad. Either that, or he might have simply claimed his out of control alcoholism at the time rendered his brain Swiss Cheese and he doesn't remember anything before, say, the turn of the century.
It will probably be about 48 hours before we know if the FBI's latest look into Brett Kavanaugh's past is a sham. Right now things don't look promising.
What we do know, however, is the Supreme Court nominee has lied about a growing number of little things. And if the bastard lies about the little things, we can be assured he is lying about the big ones, including his apparent lack of a public library card.
sic vita est
10-3-18
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