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		By: Abe		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abe]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2018 17:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/kavanaugh-confirmation/#comment-26054&quot;&gt;Heather Hastie&lt;/a&gt;.

Yep, a Putin Puppet Puppy.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.heatherhastie.com/kavanaugh-confirmation/#comment-26054">Heather Hastie</a>.</p>
<p>Yep, a Putin Puppet Puppy.</p>
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		By: Heather Hastie		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2018 23:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/kavanaugh-confirmation/#comment-26052&quot;&gt;Curtis&lt;/a&gt;.

And I&#039;m disgusted with Susan Collins. Any fu€ki₦g excuse. If it wasn&#039;t Swetnick, it would have been something else.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.heatherhastie.com/kavanaugh-confirmation/#comment-26052">Curtis</a>.</p>
<p>And I&#8217;m disgusted with Susan Collins. Any fu€ki₦g excuse. If it wasn&#8217;t Swetnick, it would have been something else.</p>
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		By: Heather Hastie		</title>
		<link>https://www.heatherhastie.com/kavanaugh-confirmation/#comment-26053</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Hastie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2018 23:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/kavanaugh-confirmation/#comment-26052&quot;&gt;Curtis&lt;/a&gt;.

The thing is, and I was going to write a post about this but events keep overtaking me, none of us can ever know the truth about the sexual assault allegations. No matter how many people come forward on either side, we&#039;re absent proof. However, I don&#039;t think that&#039;s why he shouldn&#039;t be on the Supreme Court.

There are two major problems I have with him. (Three if you count his sense of entitlement that the seat &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;should&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; be his.)
1. He has lied under oath more than once.
2. His rant about the attack from the Dems being &quot;revenge for the Clintons&quot; and for their unhappiness that Trump beat them in 2016. 

I can&#039;t remember the way he put it, but in his Op-Ed he also said that his judicial record has been made out to make people worry when they have no need to. However if I was a USian, the thing I would worry about the most is that a woman&#039;s right to choose might be lost, at least in red states. I don&#039;t think that is an unjustified worry. He is there to stop abortions.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.heatherhastie.com/kavanaugh-confirmation/#comment-26052">Curtis</a>.</p>
<p>The thing is, and I was going to write a post about this but events keep overtaking me, none of us can ever know the truth about the sexual assault allegations. No matter how many people come forward on either side, we&#8217;re absent proof. However, I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s why he shouldn&#8217;t be on the Supreme Court.</p>
<p>There are two major problems I have with him. (Three if you count his sense of entitlement that the seat <i><b>should</b></i> be his.)<br />
1. He has lied under oath more than once.<br />
2. His rant about the attack from the Dems being &#8220;revenge for the Clintons&#8221; and for their unhappiness that Trump beat them in 2016. </p>
<p>I can&#8217;t remember the way he put it, but in his Op-Ed he also said that his judicial record has been made out to make people worry when they have no need to. However if I was a USian, the thing I would worry about the most is that a woman&#8217;s right to choose might be lost, at least in red states. I don&#8217;t think that is an unjustified worry. He is there to stop abortions.</p>
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		By: Curtis		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2018 21:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For what it is worth, Susan Collins agreed with me that Swetnick&#039;s accusation was absurd and used it as a reason to vote for Kavanaugh.  While her logic may not be the best, the left&#039;s desire to believe the unbelievable may have caused their own defeat.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/susan-collins-blames-michael-avenatti-in-speech-defending-kavanaugh

Susan Collins Blames Michael Avenatti in Speech Defending Kavanaugh

While she said she found the testimony from Christine Blasey Ford “sincere, painful, and compelling,” it was another allegation against Kavanaugh that seems to have convinced her that he could not possibly be the sexual predator his critics were making him out to me. 

“Some of the allegations levied against Judge Kavanaugh 
illustrate why the presumption of innocence is so important,” Collins said. “I am thinking in particular not of the allegations raised by Professor Ford, but of the allegation that when he was a teenager, Judge Kavanaugh drugged multiple girls and used their weakened state to facilitate gang rape.”
...
“This outlandish allegation was put forth without any credible supporting evidence and simply parroted public statements of others,” Collins added. “That such an allegation can find its way into the Supreme Court confirmation process is a stark reminder about why the presumption of innocence is so ingrained in our American consciousness.”]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For what it is worth, Susan Collins agreed with me that Swetnick&#8217;s accusation was absurd and used it as a reason to vote for Kavanaugh.  While her logic may not be the best, the left&#8217;s desire to believe the unbelievable may have caused their own defeat.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/susan-collins-blames-michael-avenatti-in-speech-defending-kavanaugh" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.thedailybeast.com/susan-collins-blames-michael-avenatti-in-speech-defending-kavanaugh</a></p>
<p>Susan Collins Blames Michael Avenatti in Speech Defending Kavanaugh</p>
<p>While she said she found the testimony from Christine Blasey Ford “sincere, painful, and compelling,” it was another allegation against Kavanaugh that seems to have convinced her that he could not possibly be the sexual predator his critics were making him out to me. </p>
<p>“Some of the allegations levied against Judge Kavanaugh<br />
illustrate why the presumption of innocence is so important,” Collins said. “I am thinking in particular not of the allegations raised by Professor Ford, but of the allegation that when he was a teenager, Judge Kavanaugh drugged multiple girls and used their weakened state to facilitate gang rape.”<br />
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“This outlandish allegation was put forth without any credible supporting evidence and simply parroted public statements of others,” Collins added. “That such an allegation can find its way into the Supreme Court confirmation process is a stark reminder about why the presumption of innocence is so ingrained in our American consciousness.”</p>
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		By: Heather Hastie		</title>
		<link>https://www.heatherhastie.com/kavanaugh-confirmation/#comment-25969</link>

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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2018 01:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/kavanaugh-confirmation/#comment-25955&quot;&gt;Jenny Haniver&lt;/a&gt;.

Absolutely shocking, but unfortunately not surprising.

I was already getting the impression that Mark Judge was pretty badly damaged by something that happened when he was a teenager. I thought it was guilt over his activities with Kavanaugh, but maybe it was a lot more than that. It seems he took refuge in alcohol and became addicted. It may be that he&#039;s pretty fragile and couldn&#039;t stand up to lying for Kavanaugh and that&#039;s why he&#039;s been hidden away.]]></description>
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<p>Absolutely shocking, but unfortunately not surprising.</p>
<p>I was already getting the impression that Mark Judge was pretty badly damaged by something that happened when he was a teenager. I thought it was guilt over his activities with Kavanaugh, but maybe it was a lot more than that. It seems he took refuge in alcohol and became addicted. It may be that he&#8217;s pretty fragile and couldn&#8217;t stand up to lying for Kavanaugh and that&#8217;s why he&#8217;s been hidden away.</p>
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		By: Heather Hastie		</title>
		<link>https://www.heatherhastie.com/kavanaugh-confirmation/#comment-25966</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heather Hastie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Sep 2018 01:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/kavanaugh-confirmation/#comment-25953&quot;&gt;Jenny Haniver&lt;/a&gt;.

As I&#039;m going to say in the next post I write about this, if it gets finished (my back&#039;s pretty sore today), is that whether or not the allegations against him are true, his demeanor was not that of a SCOTUS justice. Further, if he were a woman, that is the first thing that would be said about his testimony.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.heatherhastie.com/kavanaugh-confirmation/#comment-25953">Jenny Haniver</a>.</p>
<p>As I&#8217;m going to say in the next post I write about this, if it gets finished (my back&#8217;s pretty sore today), is that whether or not the allegations against him are true, his demeanor was not that of a SCOTUS justice. Further, if he were a woman, that is the first thing that would be said about his testimony.</p>
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		By: Jenny Haniver		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2018 17:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/kavanaugh-confirmation/#comment-25864&quot;&gt;nicky&lt;/a&gt;.

Speaking of following the example of his priests, There&#039;s a weird and disgusting &quot;priestly&quot; connection to the SF Bay Area.  Several days ago, one Bernie Ward, an ex-priest, was quoted in a piece in the WaPo recounting what life was like at Georgetown Prep when he was the sex-ed teacher there 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/100-kegs-or-bust-kavanaugh-friend-has-spent-years-writing-about-high-school-debauchery/2018/09/21/a8e0fe22-bb55-11e8-a8aa-860695e7f3fc_story.html?utm_term=.517dd4b21dfe
 -- however, he&#039;d left or been driven out of the priesthood (perhaps for sexual indiscretion) by this time.  Some time later, Ward moved back to the Bay Area, had a talk show on KGO, a local AM radio station here, and became a fixture on AM radio, until he was arrested convicted and imprisoned for distributing child pornography.   

Some years before his arrest, I heard him declare on air that he taught his children how to masturbate???!!!  HOLY COW!  I got the distinct impression that this wasn&#039;t just a lecture class, but a practicum.  For years, I thought that my ears must have deceived me, until the revolting facts came out after Ward&#039;s arrest.  It should be noted that Mark Judge writes about attending a &quot;masturbation class&quot; at Georgetown Prep.  Ward was the sex-ed teacher at that time, so the inference is clear about who led the class (I doubt this was an adjunct of a physics class).  After Ward was arrested, audios of conversations he had with a dominatrix (who turned him in) were released by the cops, wherein he graphically describes his nauseating sexual activities with his teenaged children and their friends (both sexes).  Now, all the pieces of that jigsaw puzzle fall into place.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.heatherhastie.com/kavanaugh-confirmation/#comment-25864">nicky</a>.</p>
<p>Speaking of following the example of his priests, There&#8217;s a weird and disgusting &#8220;priestly&#8221; connection to the SF Bay Area.  Several days ago, one Bernie Ward, an ex-priest, was quoted in a piece in the WaPo recounting what life was like at Georgetown Prep when he was the sex-ed teacher there<br />
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/100-kegs-or-bust-kavanaugh-friend-has-spent-years-writing-about-high-school-debauchery/2018/09/21/a8e0fe22-bb55-11e8-a8aa-860695e7f3fc_story.html?utm_term=.517dd4b21dfe" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/100-kegs-or-bust-kavanaugh-friend-has-spent-years-writing-about-high-school-debauchery/2018/09/21/a8e0fe22-bb55-11e8-a8aa-860695e7f3fc_story.html?utm_term=.517dd4b21dfe</a><br />
 &#8212; however, he&#8217;d left or been driven out of the priesthood (perhaps for sexual indiscretion) by this time.  Some time later, Ward moved back to the Bay Area, had a talk show on KGO, a local AM radio station here, and became a fixture on AM radio, until he was arrested convicted and imprisoned for distributing child pornography.   </p>
<p>Some years before his arrest, I heard him declare on air that he taught his children how to masturbate???!!!  HOLY COW!  I got the distinct impression that this wasn&#8217;t just a lecture class, but a practicum.  For years, I thought that my ears must have deceived me, until the revolting facts came out after Ward&#8217;s arrest.  It should be noted that Mark Judge writes about attending a &#8220;masturbation class&#8221; at Georgetown Prep.  Ward was the sex-ed teacher at that time, so the inference is clear about who led the class (I doubt this was an adjunct of a physics class).  After Ward was arrested, audios of conversations he had with a dominatrix (who turned him in) were released by the cops, wherein he graphically describes his nauseating sexual activities with his teenaged children and their friends (both sexes).  Now, all the pieces of that jigsaw puzzle fall into place.</p>
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		By: Jenny Haniver		</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2018 16:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By the time I saw your previous post on the subject, the other women were already coming out of the woodwork, along with reports of Kavanaugh&#039;s other peccadilloes, and that he was mean and belligerent when drunk.  Now, every time I start to comment on your follow-up post, the news changes dramatically, and I can&#039;t keep up with it.  I woke up this morning (Friday in the US), only to hear that the Dems had just walked out of the morning&#039;s proceedings.  

The one thing that remains a constant is that the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee are shameless in their crass manipulation of the process, and will do anything to ram Kavanaugh through, due process be damned.  And Kavanaugh has shown his true colors.  As someone on the radio opined, &quot;He&#039;s belligerent when drunk and he&#039;s belligerent sober.&quot;  The soi-disant virgin altar boy, is, as the bible says, a &quot;whitened sepulchre,&quot;  a corrupt, narcissistic sonofabitch, demonstrably Trump&#039;s bitch; and the fact that he has no compunction about lying like a rug when it redounds to his favor is as alarming as his sexual aggression -- that corrupts justice at its core, and he&#039;ll be called a &quot;Justice.&quot;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By the time I saw your previous post on the subject, the other women were already coming out of the woodwork, along with reports of Kavanaugh&#8217;s other peccadilloes, and that he was mean and belligerent when drunk.  Now, every time I start to comment on your follow-up post, the news changes dramatically, and I can&#8217;t keep up with it.  I woke up this morning (Friday in the US), only to hear that the Dems had just walked out of the morning&#8217;s proceedings.  </p>
<p>The one thing that remains a constant is that the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee are shameless in their crass manipulation of the process, and will do anything to ram Kavanaugh through, due process be damned.  And Kavanaugh has shown his true colors.  As someone on the radio opined, &#8220;He&#8217;s belligerent when drunk and he&#8217;s belligerent sober.&#8221;  The soi-disant virgin altar boy, is, as the bible says, a &#8220;whitened sepulchre,&#8221;  a corrupt, narcissistic sonofabitch, demonstrably Trump&#8217;s bitch; and the fact that he has no compunction about lying like a rug when it redounds to his favor is as alarming as his sexual aggression &#8212; that corrupts justice at its core, and he&#8217;ll be called a &#8220;Justice.&#8221;</p>
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		By: Diane G.		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2018 07:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/kavanaugh-confirmation/#comment-25889&quot;&gt;nicky&lt;/a&gt;.

I concur on all counts!

Did it never even occur to the judge to wonder how &lt;i&gt;he&#039;d&lt;/i&gt; feel if he&#039;d been attacked and choked to unconsciousness?]]></description>
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<p>I concur on all counts!</p>
<p>Did it never even occur to the judge to wonder how <i>he&#8217;d</i> feel if he&#8217;d been attacked and choked to unconsciousness?</p>
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		By: nicky		</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2018 02:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.heatherhastie.com/kavanaugh-confirmation/#comment-25867&quot;&gt;Diane G.&lt;/a&gt;.

Choking one to unconsciousness should be considered attempted murder or at least aggravated assault.
The fact he needed her to think she was going to die to get sexual gratification shows we have a &lt;i&gt;very&lt;/i&gt; sick puppy here. I cannot understand why he was not treated as a potential serial killer.
Well, in fact I can: he&#039;s a middle class white male, while is a homeless native woman. It appears that in Alaska the SC is not even needed to deprive women of their rights and have some kind of Jim Crow.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://www.heatherhastie.com/kavanaugh-confirmation/#comment-25867">Diane G.</a>.</p>
<p>Choking one to unconsciousness should be considered attempted murder or at least aggravated assault.<br />
The fact he needed her to think she was going to die to get sexual gratification shows we have a <i>very</i> sick puppy here. I cannot understand why he was not treated as a potential serial killer.<br />
Well, in fact I can: he&#8217;s a middle class white male, while is a homeless native woman. It appears that in Alaska the SC is not even needed to deprive women of their rights and have some kind of Jim Crow.</p>
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