Yesterday Portland broke another all time record for most 90°+ days in one summer. We have a chance to do it again today. It’s a high holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, The Night of the Blessed Return. It’s the Bird-shit Bonanza game as the Falcons and Eagles fly for holy light. May the Ellipsoid Orb bless your team.
Jog Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:26 (average 5:41). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From NY Times: A Democratic senator called into question on Wednesday Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh’s testimony a dozen years ago that he knew nothing about two disputed episodes from the George W. Bush era: Republicans’ infiltration of computer files belonging to Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats and a warrantless surveillance program created after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
The senator, Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, cited emails that have not been made public in raising the issue during Judge Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination hearing. Mr. Leahy was referring to Judge Kavanaugh’s testimony about the Bush-era disputes as an appeals court nominee during hearings in 2004 and in 2006.
At the time, Judge Kavanaugh told the Senate he knew nothing about either episode until they became public knowledge. But Mr. Leahy said that Bush White House emails provided to the Judiciary Committee for Judge Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination — most of which were deemed “committee confidential,” meaning he cannot make them public — raise “serious questions” about the “truthfulness” of Judge Kavanaugh’s statements to the Senate back then.
Judge Kavanaugh, in turn, said his prior testimony had been “100 percent accurate.”
The conflict was difficult to parse because most of the documents cited by Mr. Leahy remained hidden from public view.
If you watched the hearing like I did, it was cleat that Kava Nazi was caught red handed. That is an impeachable offense! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From TPM: Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh once questioned whether Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion rights ruling, was “settled law of the land” during his time in the George W. Bush administration, The New York Times reported Thursday.
According to a trove of documents, deemed “committee confidential” and not released to the public, which were shared with the Times on Wednesday evening, Kavanaugh made the comment in a March 2003 email when he was working as a White House lawyer. The email was part of grouping of records given to the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this week ahead of Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing.
Kavanaugh was editing a document that was written by supporters of a conservative judge nominee, and these supporters hoped that anti-abortion women would sign off on the opinion piece, per the New York Times. The document suggested that “legal scholars across the board” accept that “Roe v. Wade and its progeny are the settled law of the land.”
Perjury! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From The New Yorker: Donald J. Trump obtained an advance copy of Bob Woodward’s new book Monday evening and was “furious” to discover that Woodward had written it at a seventh-grade reading level, a White House aide has confirmed.
The aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that Trump was convinced that Woodward wrote the book for seventh-grade readers to make its assertions impossible for Trump to refute.
“Trump was turning page after page, becoming increasingly angry at its gratuitous use of a seventh-grade vocabulary,” the aide said. “It was like it was written entirely in a secret code.”
At one point, Trump became so frustrated trying to decipher the word “imbecilic” that he hurled the book across the room.
Dang Andy. He’ll need a 7th Grader to read it to him. In the interest of morality, you better make it a male. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
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7:22 I realize that mice and squirrels are both rodents, but that’s no excuse for my mouse to act as squirrely as it is today.
NYT – No question in my mind who is believable and who isn’t!
TPM – The Supreme Court is the body which MAKES the settled law of the land. What it makes, it can unmake. Kavanope knows that very well as is working very hard to avoid saying it.
TNY – LOL! No comment. it’s so delicious as it is that over-analysis would spoil it.
Cartoon – Oh, I did, but had to put it down again to type.
Keep signing those petitions against Kavanaughzi, keep contacting your Senators – regardless of party or stance – and telling them to vote against the S.O.B. Resist, persist, insist, repeat! And above all, VOTE!
NYT: The Dems are fighting, and I hope that he’s NOT nominated!! Nope, nope, N.O.P.E. !!!
TPM: KavaNope a liar? You bet!!
NYer: omg,….this is hilarious! I can understand dt’s frustration at the rarely used word “imbecilic”, as it’s a big boy word and it’s probably too hard for him to understand. lol
Cartoon: Oh, absolutely!!! Adorable kittycat!
We don’t play till the 9th vs. NE. Got the motor in this morning. Hallelujah! Hope that you have a good restful evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
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It seems that a big(ly) bunch of people, all over the place, can bring into question a lot of this clown’s positions.
New Yorker: You know, if Andy had been in ant danger of running out of material, before Dumpy won* election, he’s got an open road ahead of him now!
NYT: No doubt it is an impeachable offence, but it isn’t going to stop Kavanaugh from being voted into SCOTUS by Republicans, is it. Republicans couldn’t care less about his untruthfulness then; the only care about the harm he can do the constitution and its laws before an impeachment procedure has ran its course, if one ever will.
TPM: So Kavanaugh lies. That didn’t bother anyone before when he was made a judge, so why would it bother anyone, i.e. Republicans, when he’s made a justice.
TNY: I don’t think so, Andy. Drumpf will have the anonymous op-ed author read Woodward’s book to him and he’ll make sure that words like imbecilic will be censored or “translated” for Drumpf. They need to make sure Drumpf won’t go ballistic any time soon.
Cartoon: Oh, what a QT.
Of course you are correct. But I have to admire the way Democratic Senators are thinking ahead by getting testimony into the record, looking forward to a day in which Republicans are not in charge. I hope that day will come, and come soon, but, even if it never does, I don’t know what else they can do. Sen Cory Booker (D-NJ, and congratulations, Mitch) went so far as to release some pages of the evidence they are calling “Committee Confidential”, mostly regarding a wrongly (IMO) decided case in Colorado which I remember well.
Close the popup (more than once if necessary) and it should be able to be read in full.
Thanks all. Big Hurry!
Puzzle — 5:33 I was slower, but then there are no fur babies to protect!
NY Times — Kavanaugh has a similar problem to Diaper Don — he lies, which is never an admiral trait but even less so for a judge. Snake in the Grassley contemptible for not acknowledging concerns of Democrats. That hearing, in military terms, is the big SNAFU!!!
TPM — Liar, liar pants on fire!!! For the US, I wish you had a SCOTUS that was more like the Canadian Supreme Court. It is not perfect but 1) they are not political; and 2) Justices must retire at age 75 years.
The New Yorker — Andy is doing straight reporting again! I know 5th graders that have more going on than Diaper Don.
Cartoon — Alas, I would but then you’d have to visit me in prison!
Geeze, you’re in early! I thought I was doing well with my timing, but nope . . . you beat me! I am sitting here with my Annie snuggled up beside me. We have had the heat again too — up to 27C (81F) and this morning, it is warm with 72% humidity. Have to go as I have errands and chores to do.