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Posting this in anticipation of a trending hashtag. See also: #KavanaughHearings.

https://twitter.com/mihow/status/1045325066857263104

A Second Front Door.

Consider this for a second.

A SECOND FRONT DOOR.

This is what sexual assault does to a person. This is heartbreaking. Deeply heartbreaking.

Get Mark Judge into one of these hearings.

Ooh, Dr. Ford used the encrypted Washington Post tip line (generates a "utm_term" in the URL, which doesn't sound so secure...). Good advertisement for the existence of that service, I think. The ratings for this event are probably high.

Ford mentions the death threats. We don't care!

That coffee break moment.

Dianne Feinstein enters into record 140 letters from friends and neighbors, and "1,000" from female physicians. Also she is actually asking the witness questions, whereas Grassley has deferred to his female proxy.

Turns out she has that #SecondFrontDoor. And her home is a place to host Google interns...?

She brings up epinephrine and norepinephrine to explain how her basic memory functions work and that she knew it was Brett Kavanaugh who assaulted her.

She brings up her hippocampus again in a response to Senator Leahy.

Party or gathering?

Uncomfortable encounter at the Potomac Village Safeway! She said "Hi" to Mark Judge, who was arranging shopping carts.

Did she say something about reporters trying to talk to her dog?

Answer about other PTSD risk factors sounds about as evasive as it does scientific.

Mitchell is attacking Ford's fear of flying!

Ford got her polygraph within 24 hours or so of her grandma's funeral.

Booker: "speaking YOUR truth".

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Kavanaugh (BK) is pissed off.

He won't be intimidated into withdrawing from the process. "I have never sexually assaulted anyone... ever."

BK has a friend who was sexually abused! BK's voice wavered as he was talking about his mother. And a lot more as he talks about his 10-year-old daughter praying for Dr. Ford.

Choked up as he talks about his father keeping detailed calendar-diaries, a practice he adopted. BK is listing actual dates he was in D.C. on weekends. June 4, August 7, August 20-22.

"I liked beer. I still like beer."

Lol: https://twitter.com/jameshohmann/status/1045396951846539265

Brett Kavanaugh notes that the summer that the sexual assault allegedly took place, when Christine Ford says he pinned her down on a bed, he had spent a lot of time lifting weights and doing strength training.

^ Tweeter is a WaPost reporter.

Good thing there is a recess, because while BK was emphatic and pretty clear in his opening statement, he seemed a bit flustered during questioning.

Chris Garrett is "Squee"!

Durbin tries to get BK to turn his head to Don McGahn. Doesn't work. But he is getting BK flustered on the subject of an FBI investigation.

Senator Lindsey Graham mounts the defense.

BK defends his use of "Ralph Club" in his yearbook. Because he has a weak stomach. And "Renate Alumnius" has nothing to do with sex.

Dem overplaying his hand: "Do you believe Anita Hill?"

Folks -- we have United States. Which, when Obama got done with them, not so united. Very DIVIDED. I'm uniting them again. Making America Great Again.

And we have United Nations. They call it united, it's never been united. Except that time when Russia walked out. Our world is very divided, it's a tremendous thing. Fabulous competition. But, we need to get together. We're all up against a big problem. Called Iran. And I've been very successful, I've gotten so many Countries to get together. To stand together against Iran. Lots of countries -- not enough. So I'm talking to United Nations this morning. In my home town, beautiful New York City. Manhattan, the best part of NYC. Right? So tune in, it's going to be tremendous. It's the next step to getting Iran out of our way. And getting the Globalists out of our way. We're gonna see all the Countries get together and say "no" to Globalism. Because of me -- the only guy that can make that happen. And the only guy that can solve the Iran problem.

And by the way, tune in to my Youtube channel. Not the Fake News Media. Don’t believe what you see from these people in the Fake News. I'll tell you, it’s amazing. They say, "oh, President Trump supports terrorism." Total crap, 100% WRONG. I never have. They are doing a number, an absolute number. Just remember, what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what’s happening. Just stick with us!!!! youtu.be/m-n0abQByEw

"Dark matter cannot be used to fudge them because in order for dark matter to predict galaxy rotation it must stay spread out and therefore it cannot be squeezed into little wide binary systems."

https://physicsfromtheedge.blogspot.com/2018/

His blog is an interesting read.
Dark matter is dying. RIP.

Why you don’t really have a ‘type’

“Beauty still is in the eye of the beholder, but our on-going work suggests that the beholder may be changing constantly,” says Haiyang Yang, assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School and author of a study that found that our sense of beauty can change based on other people’s opinions. “It can be argued that the advent of the internet age may be causing people to change their beauty standards faster than ever before in human history.”

Sexy 'Handmaid's Tale' Halloween costume pulled after sparking online outrage

I Don't Know How to Feel About This Sexy Handmaiden Costume

Now you'll have to go as a Roblox instead.

I don't need to tell you folks, we live in the Age of Computer. The Age of Cyber. Of Internet. And we have a lot of things -- many things we never had before, that nobody ever had in the history of the world. Incredible speed. But we don't have the security we need.

Yesterday -- Thursday -- I signed an Executive Order making our CAATSA, our Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, much stronger. Sounds like cats, right? Like a nice pussy, warm & friendly. Nice smooth fur you'd like to stroke. Feels amazing when you stroke that pussy, right? With your hand or your whatever. I'll tell you, it's not nice, it's not friendly. It's very tough. And very strong. Like you wouldn't believe. Believe me. And by the way, that's a Donald J. Trump beauty. That's another one I signed, very beautifully, back in 2017. Great signature. Although frankly, it's not just Donald J. Trump, folks. I talked to some of our Dems in Congress, I said you're being nothing but OBSTRUCTIONISTS, let's try working together. And getting something done for once. We had some great talks, we made a very fair deal. And we got it done, it was very bipartisan. I love bipartisan.

So, Executive Order. We're going to be moving very strongly there. We have all these Countries sending their people, some of their best people, very smart. But not very nice. In fact, not nice at all. And they speak American -- they speak it PERFECTO -- they dress American. They put up the most beautiful Christmas trees you've seen in your entire life, they say "Merry Christmas" like we do. And you think, "wow, we got some real Americans here, 100%." But they're not American. They're Fake American. If you ever saw their Birth Certificate, you can't even read that thing. Very very foreign. And they're here to DIVIDE, they're incredibly divisive. It's called Trolling. Which the Dems love. And for years we had Open Boarders. For anyone to come in and screw with our Elections. Screw with our Cyber. With our Energy Grid -- look what happened in Puerto Rico. Where they had 2 hurricanes. Their Energy Grid went out before those even hit. And you gotta ask, how did that one happen? You have some guy sitting on his bed, he's not in Puerto Rico. He hears the hurricanes are coming, they're not there yet. But he doesn't know that. He pushes a button, a cyber button. Sends his cyber to Puerto Rico. And the whole island goes dark. Trust me, they've done a real number on our Country. NO MORE, folks. We're doing STRATEGY now. Something we haven't had in a long time. In 15 years. I call it my National Cyber Strategy. Because it's not just for one guy. Not for one Party -- or Company. And it's not for everyone. Not for our competitors (Russia), not for our foes (European U). It's for our Country -- America. America is back. And stronger than ever. AMERICA FIRST!!!! whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-authorizing-implementation-certain-sanctions-set-forth-countering-americas-adversaries-sanctions-act whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/text-letter-president-speaker-house-representatives-president-senate-36 whitehouse.gov/articles/president-trump-unveils-americas-first-cybersecurity-strategy-15-years

Brett Kavanaugh, wife and Christine Blasey Ford all receiving death threats: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE

It's 2018. Why is a public figure receiving death threats "news"? There must be individuals out there making death threats to several people every day (hundreds per year), and the chance of them getting caught and brought to trial is minimal.

Pointing out that you receive death threats or mere angry emails does not mean you should get any sympathy. It was news a decade or two ago, but no longer. The Internet is a whirlwind of hate, and as long as (relative) anonymity exists, it will stay that way. And that anonymity is more valuable than the chance to get rid of (a % of) routine death threats.

Folks, we just lost a great, and very brave guy -- one of the greats. Jon Burge of the Chicago Police Dept. Formerly of the Chicago Police. A guy that stopped a shooter by sticking his thumb into her gun. A guy that knew torture works. Had a great relationship with the blacks. And did more than anybody to stop the "carnage" in our great city of Chicago. RIP!!!! Pardon? chicago.suntimes.com/news/jon-burge-chicago-police-department-key-dates

Trump on Sessions: 'I don't have an attorney general'

my name jeff

Potential Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is having his Anita Hill moment. The White House expects that Christine Blasey Ford will testify in some capacity at Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway says "This woman should not be insulted, and she should not be ignored."

Obviously, Kavanaugh could still make it onto the Supreme Court. But perhaps the President will have to look to the bench instead. How about Amy Coney Barrett? She's a woman, and the dogma lives loudly in her.

Remember, for every member of the Administration you defeat, there is an evangelical waiting in the wings. ✞👼

Trump picked the wrong judge (July 9)

The long silences of Christine Blasey Ford and Dianne Feinstein