@21:40, 9/30/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/politics/florida-governor-texts-jewish.html

King must either explain or withdraw.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-fact-check.html

Brett Kavanaugh should not sit on the supreme court.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/politics/trump-emoluments-democrats-lawsuit.html

There is a precedent here.  Sue the bastard.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/us/politics/on-politics-this-weeks-biggest-stories.html

trumped.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/us/politics/court-abortion-immigrants.html

She has the right to an abortion and a hearing.

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/us/politics/kavanaugh--midterms.html

The Republican stratigists are wrong.

7
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/world/americas/trump-china-taiwan-el-salvador.html

El Salvador is a sovereign nation.

8
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-trump-men.html

Cold reason wins.

9
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/us/womens-march-2019.html

Sooner is better.     As soon as you can is best.

10
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/us/politics/kavanaugh-fbi-inquiry.html

Get the report first.

11
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/us/politics/kavanaugh-blasey-metoo-supreme-court.html

A movement does not have supoena power.

12
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-2020.html

I would rather see her in the Senate or on the court.


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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/politics/jeff-flake-protesters-kavanaugh.html

Caught on record.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-senate-judiciary.html

Looking often means finding.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/politics/republicans-kavanaugh-supreme-court.html

Busted flush.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/politics/rod-rosenstein-house-republicans.html

"Dead man walking."

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/politics/christine-blasey-ford-testimony-testifying-while-female.html

She is believed.

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/politics/nafta-deal-text.html

Without Canada it is not NAFTA.
A new Senate vote is required.

7
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/politics/kavanaugh-testimony-supreme-court.html

The Supreme Court died of Originalism.

8
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000006133428/jeff-flake-kavanaugh-delay-fbi-vote.html

The nomination is dead.

9
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/politics/kavanaugh-testimony-supreme-court.html

10
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/reader-center/kavanaugh-blasey-ford-reactions.html

It matters.

11
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/business/facebook-was-hacked-here-are-3-things-you-should-do.html

First: limit FaceBook
 
This is good advice if you need and use the program.

12
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/dr-ford-brett-kavanaugh.html
Life and good name are the same thing for many.

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@9:44

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/us/politics/judge-kavanaugh-american-bar-association-fbi.html

Some progress.

@0:44, 9/28/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/world/asia/mike-pompeo-north-korea.html

"Jaw Jaw is better than war war"

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/climate/epa-science-adviser.html

Ignorance is freedom of a sort.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/us/politics/dr-blasey-ford-testimony-kavanaugh.html

I am willing to be surprised.   
The Republicans missed.  Faux is spinning as hard as it can.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-confirmation-hearings.html

I have been getting splashed with this mess all day.   Kavanaugh is guilty.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/us/politics/kavanaugh-hearings-dr-ford.html

The event is political in conception.

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/us/mark-judge-kavanaugh-hearings.html

He was not interviewed because he claimed ignorance,
He is not ignorant.

7
Explicit consent was not asked or given.
It puzzled me then.  I am learning.

8
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/business/media/kavanaugh-blasey-ford-hearing-tv.html

A suit might be effective.

9
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/reader-center/christine-blasey-ford-reactions.html

#me too  is effective.

10
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/us/politics/nafta-congress.html

Congress will not buy NAFTA without Canada.

11
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/health/dr-ford-sexual-assault.html

Ok


12
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/us/politics/on-politics-kavanaugh-blasey-ford-testimony.html

Several people are convinced.  Perhaps the proper people are convinced.

13
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/us/politics/lindsey-graham-kavanaugh-hearing.html

Linsey Graham is not one of the convinced.
Blind faith does not help.

14
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000006132132/lindsey-graham-rant-kavanaugh.html

Yes.

15
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/climate/offshore-drilling-safety-deepwater-horizon.html

It is enough of a reason to win in 2020.

16
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/arts/television/brett-kavanaugh-hearing-television.html

It is easier to hear the quiet voice.   I listen.

17
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/arts/television/brett-kavanaugh-hearing-television.html
Understand the debate is political.
The debate is the event.    Senator Collins understands.

18
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/us/politics/christine-blasey-ford-testimony.html

Hear it again if you need to.

19
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/us/politics/christine-blasey-ford-testimony.html

The confirmation process is a national disgrace.
Let us not confirm Brett Kavanaugh.

@11:30, 9/27/18

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Getting started.

Trump is sincere and wrong.

1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/us/politics/trump-rosenstein.html

It is in the small hands of trump.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000006126054/mark-judge-brett-kavanaugh.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/kavanaugh-calendar.html

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/us/politics/anita-hill-kavanaugh-hearings.html

Brett Kavanaugh is the wrong man.

4

@22:00, 9/26/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/nyregion/chris-collins-ted-lieu-racism-ad-mcmurray.html

I like the area, far western New York.
Alfred was a disappointment when I visited in August.
Please encourage me further.

Sooner is better.  As soon as you can is best.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/health/opioid-bill-congress.html

"But addiction experts say that while many of the measures will help incrementally, the investment remains meager and scattershot compared with what is needed, and with what the government spent to stem the tide of AIDS-related deaths in the 1990s."

"Some addiction specialists worry that the bill’s expansion of inpatient care will eclipse the importance of longer-term outpatient programs that focus on medication-assisted treatment, which researchers consider the gold standard for treating opioid addiction. Many residential programs for opioid addiction still don’t offer such treatment as part of their protocol, and the bill does nothing to address that."

Turn off the craving, then taper the drug dosage. 

Drugs are not good things of themselves.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/kavanaugh-news.html

There has been nothing else on the radio.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-accusers-women.html

The accusers seem an honorable group.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/blasey-ford-kavanaugh-hearing.html

The conclusion of the Republican majority on the Judiciary committee
has been reached.

A defeat in the full Senate is possible.
Let us have the information.

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/angela-wright-anita-hill.html

Things have changed.
Most of the people are different.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall
The Republican party needed a black face replacement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Thomas

Appointing Thomas was an error and a defeat.

7
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/ellison-abuse-accusation.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/us/keith-elllison-karen-monahan.html

Let us have the facts.

8
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000006129734/trump-kavanaugh-accusations-false.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/trump-press-conference.html
Donald Trump has no moral legitimacy.

9
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/on-politics-trump-kavanaugh-senate.html

The Senate all volunteered.
Even the Republicans volunteered for the Republican party.

The scrum of the press is part of the job. 
Democracy is messy.

10
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/reader-center/kavanaugh-hearing-questions.html

Fair enough.

11
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/trump-rosenstein-justice-department.html

Firing Rod Rosenstein would percipitate the Mueller investigation.
Trump must refrain to maintain the semblance of a Republican majority.

12
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/trump-press-conference.html

I do not believe Trump on politics.

@15:35, 9/26/18

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Kavanaugh_Supreme_Court_nomination


1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/world/asia/trump-china-election.html

Donald Trump kicked off the trade war.
China has taken what actions it can in response.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/julie-swetnick-avenatti-kavenaugh.html

The judiciary committee probably will not call Julie Swetnick.
The Republican majority want Brett Kavanaugh on the court.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/kavanaugh-calendar.html

The women are convincing.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/federal-reserve-raises-interest-rates.html

A paid political announcement.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/reader-center/evangelical-millennials.html

The Times should know.
In ever so many ways I can't tell them.
Age, faith several ways, and acquaintences disqualify me.

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/kavanaugh-blasey-ford-john-kennedy.html

I can't guess the outcome.
Trump is nervous as I listen to the news on NPR.

7
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/kiah-morris-vermont.html

I am not happy with the town of Bennington.

8
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/kavanaugh-drinking-yale-high-school.html

Binge drinking is enough to disqualify a judge if it has continued.
The Senate should want to know.

9
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/yale-asian-americans-discrimination-investigation.html

I can be sure the Trump administration opposes "Diversity".
Such investigations are a weapon against perceived quotas.

10
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/female-candidates-midterms-kavanaugh.html

Women campaigning for misogyny have real problems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaea#Byzantine_period
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea

@11:36, 9/26/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/rachel-mitchell-bio-facts.html

There is no more than this content known.
She is the choice of the Republican party.
The Republican party believes in male superiority.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/federal-reserve-interest-rate-increase.html

Micro economics is the Fed's policy.
Micro economics crashes the economy.
The question is when.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/reader-center/photographs-brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford.html

Look to her employer.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/reader-center/putin-russia-investigation-questions.html

The commenters are mostly thinking of direct action.
Indirect action has been the Russian choice.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/world/middleeast/trump-israel-palestinians.html

We have Trump's word.
A plan is not a peace.
I expect the hostilities to continue.


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@2:24, 9/26/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000006124962/kavanaughs-assertions-about-his-past-face-scrutiny.html

No video at this hour.      Dig deeper.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/on-politics-trump-kavanaugh.html

The democrats are not trying to install a political justice.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/climate/epa-etzel-children-health-program.html

Doing the job is not desired by Trump and the GOP.

4

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/rachel-mitchell-bio-facts.html

The Republicans delegated the questioning to her.
I am suspicious.

Wikipedia does not have her yet.
Try again later, after sleep.

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@22:00, 9/25/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/business/economy/us-government-debt-interest.html

Federal debt is trivial until the Minsky moment..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsky_moment

I worry.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/on-politics-jerry-brown-democrats.html

Jerry Brown is usually correct.

Misogyny is never correct.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/andrew-gillum-donations-steyer.html

Mr. DeSantis suffers from foot in mouth disease.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/justice-department-google-facebook.html

Google tries not to be evil.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/mazie-hirono-kavanaugh-senate.html

I hope she has enough power to get the investigation .

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/nghia-pho-nsa-prison-sentence.html

Security people are not forgiving.
Keep your head down.

7
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/world/fact-check-trump-speech-united-nations.html

Trump's pants are smoking.

8
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/congress-trump-wall.html\

It is a winning bet.
He must pay the troops.

9
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000006127388/mcconnells-fix-for-judiciary-panels-gender-gap-female-assistant.html

I will not listen to Mitch McConnell if I can avoid it.

Trump Unleashes on Kavanaugh Accuser as Key Republican Wavers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell#Personal_life

Closeted Gay?

10
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/ji-chaoqun-china-spy.html

Real spies do not play nice.
I would like to know the details.

11
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/deborah-ramirez-brett-kavanaugh-allegations.html

I have some experience.
Late adolescent games are not good.

"Love aint nothing but sex misspelled" 
https://www.amazon.com/Love-Aint-Nothing-But-Misspelled/dp/0515037982/

I will do another road trip starting Thursday
finishing Monday.  I will take a computer and my cell.


















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@18:15, 9/25/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/alabama-ten-commandments-supreme-court.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Establishment_Clause

I can only conclude that Alabama does not read.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/trade-canada-lighthizer.html

Regime change.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/trump-brett-kavanaugh.html

No.
There is no fraud.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/trump-brett-kavanaugh.html

I doubt they will be heard.

Shunning for apostasy.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/apostasy

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/wage-growth-benefits.html

"Grasping at straws"

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/world/asia/us-china-navy.html

Regime change

7
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/science/yellowstone-grizzly-hunt.html

The bears are plainly threatened as a species.
"Keep and arm bears"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385752/

https://www.amazon.com/His-Dark-Materials-Compass-Spyglass/dp/0307957837/

8
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/health/memory-rape-trauma-survivors.html

The Judiciary Committee has decided.
The question will come before the full Senate.

















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@14:30, 9/25/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/business/media/brett-kavanaugh-fox-news-interview.html

I know the Kavanaugh version.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-talks-trump-rouhani.html

President Hassan Rouhani of Iran is rational.
The GOP is not.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/kavanaugh-rosenstein-general-assembly.html

Been there;  done that.

More rain in the Carolinas.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/upshot/kavanaugh-polling-battleground-districts.html

Nate Cohn has some facts.
They don't mean much.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-resume.html

"Even Judge Kavanaugh’s once prestigious clerkship — the sort of appeals court posting avidly sought by all ambitious Ivy League law school graduates — has become problematic. Before a Supreme Court stint with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Judge Kavanaugh clerked for Alex Kozinski, a veteran federal appeals court judge in California who stepped down after charges of sexual misconduct and maltreatment of employees. Judge Kavanaugh faced questions about his awareness of his mentor’s objectionable behavior. He said he saw no such conduct."

Statements known to be contrary to fact are called lies. 

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/trump-kavanaugh-supreme-court-nomination.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pence

Winning the senate is the only hope.

The court would be eight and hung or seven without Thomas.

I can't even dream of that result.

7
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/world/americas/united-nations-general-assembly-live-updates.html

Donald Trump is crazy.

8
https://www.blogger.com/video/us/politics/100000006125957/watch-live-trump-united-nations.html

No longer available.

9
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000006125961/ted-cruz-restaurant-protests-kavanaugh.html

yes

10
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/ted-cruz-kavanaugh-protesters.html

Martial law?

"The whole world is watching"

11
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/world/americas/un-general-assembly-trump.html

There is a weak world government.

Donald Trump has elected regime change.

12
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/lisa-murkowski-brett-kavanaugh.html

I refuse to try to hold my breath.

13
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/25/us/politics/trump-brett-kavanaugh.html

Regime change!


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@22:00, 9/24/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/us/politics/opioid-bill-drug-companies.html

" Drug companies usually get what they want in public-policy battles on Capitol Hill, but a move by the pharmaceutical industry to grab $4 billion from the federal Treasury in a bill that is supposed to address the nation’s deadly opioid epidemic is meeting fierce resistance."

Regulate the drug makers.
If they did not make profits they would be bankrupt.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/us/politics/kyrsten-sinema-arizona.html

The first thing to do is win.
Political positions can change.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/us/politics/florida-april-freeman-congress.html

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"

"Natural causes" can be a cardiac accident and just bad luck.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/us/politics/rod-rosenstein-justice-department-trump.html

Amazingly Trump kept his foot out of his mouth.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/us/politics/trump-economy-fact-check.html

Trump does not hear.

6
A long and ruinous fight is the best possible result.
Brett Kavanaugh is not the greatest misogynist available.

7
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000006124263/kavanaugh-protests-washington-yale.html
Protesters Rally Against Kavanaugh, and Back His Accusers: ‘The Wave of Women Is Here’
Brett Kavanaugh, Facing New Allegations, Vows He Will Not Withdraw

Brett Kavanaugh probably will not learn.

8
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/us/politics/donald-trump-united-nations.html

    "Peace for our time."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_for_our_time
















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@20:04, 9/24/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-confirmation.html

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/us/politics/on-politics-kavanaugh-senate-reputation.html

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/us/politics/south-korea-trump-trade-deal.html

4
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000006124764/mcconnell-democrats-kavanaugh.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-confirmation.html

A deer in headlights must feel like this.

Brett Kavanaugh is destroyed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218

@18:30, 9/24/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/us/politics/rod-rosenstein-justice-department-trump.html

Rod Rosenstein is in limbo.

Trump will ruin him if he can.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/us/politics/gina-haspel-cia-north-korea.html

The feeling of power is addictive.
Kim Jong-un likes the ability to say no.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-confirmation.html

If Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed . . .
I don't know the details. 
The U.S. and the world will suffer more.

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@9:30, 9/24/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/us/politics/ed-whelan-eppc.html


"Flying Saucers" had nothing to do with Brett Kavanaugh.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/us/politics/trump-kavanaugh.html

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/senate-democrats-investigate-a-new-allegation-of-sexual-misconduct-from-the-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaughs-college-years-deborah-ramirez 

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/us/politics/on-politics-kavanaugh-nomination-in-limbo.html

Jim Henson would have been embarrassed to pitch this mess.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/nyregion/bob-hugin-celgene-robert-menendez-senate.html

Bob Hugin has been concerned with his income.
Sick people are just an excuse to increase his income.
Hugin can twiddle his thumbs in the private sector.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/upshot/one-big-problem-with-medicaid-work-requirement-people-are-unaware-it-exists.html

Medicaid recipients are sick by definition.
Requiring "work" from the sick is arbitrary and destructive.

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/us/politics/trump-brett-kavanaugh-interview.html

The "bully pulpit" is failing Donald Trump.


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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/24/us/politics/rod-rosenstein-justice-department-trump.html

Rod Rosenstein is not fired after meeting with his president.

@23:30, 9/23/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/us/politics/scott-taylor-virginia-house-scandal.html

"Ms. Luria, 43, said she found Mr. Taylor’s explanation wanting. “I think it’s obvious that people call into question his integrity, his ability to lead and to stand up for what’s right,” she said. “When you are in the Navy and in command, you can delegate authority, but you can never delegate responsibility.”"

Brooklyn misses the Navy.
It kept things cheap and interesting near the water.

The little support businesses are gone to high rent.

The support railways are almost gone.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/24/brett-kavanaugh-second-allegation-sexual-misconduct-deborah-ramirez

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-testify.html

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@20:12, 9/23/18

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-testify.html

No change.

1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/us/politics/trump-united-nations-north-korea-iran.html

The U.N. will eat him alive if he does not stick to his script.
Trump will not even notice.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/us/politics/ny-senate-albany-democrats.html

There is much more to New York State than the cities.
It will be a missionary effort.
Albany is Prussian blue or a Dutchman's britches.

T.R. was Republican.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/us/politics/kavanaugh-senate-calendar.html

Kavanaugh would not record his sins.

Check the police blotter.   They would have been aware of kid parties.

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@16:00, 9/23/18

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2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-testify.html

"The woman who has accused Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers has reached a final agreement with the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify on Thursday, although some details — including whether Republicans will use an outside lawyer to question her — remain unresolved, people involved in the talks said Sunday."

Matters are far from settled.

"Lawyers for Dr. Blasey have strongly opposed having an outside questioner, arguing that it could give the hearing a prosecutorial tone. And Senate Democrats have indicated that, no matter whom Republicans choose to question Dr. Blasey, when she is questioned by Democrats, senators will be doing the talking.

“We were told no decision has been made on this important issue, even though various senators have been dismissive of her account and should have to shoulder their responsibility to ask her questions,” Dr. Blasey’s lawyers said in their statement. “Nor were we told when we would have that answer or answers to the other unresolved issues.”"

1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/us/why-i-didnt-report-assault-stories.html


"Over the past decade, Ms. Smith has treated many survivors who did not want to report assaults, such as women without the resources to leave relationships or teenagers who felt guilty because they had been drinking.

"She recalled patients who felt detached during an assault, and others who had fixated on one or two random details while blocking out others. Our brains, she said, can work differently during trauma. Psychologically, when frightened or upset, a lot of my patients go into fight, flight or freeze mode,” she said. “The freeze mode is a dissociative type of situation, because our brain is so protective of us.” (Ms. Selwyn wrote she still remembered her assailant’s socks and the pattern of the bedspread, but not what month it was.)

Dr. West said sexual harassment and abuse are more common than we know because many people never report it at all. “If it is hard for privileged women to come forward, we have to acknowledge how much harder it is for women who are marginalized to be believed,” she said.

Survivors said sharing these experiences, even years or decades later, can be as productive as it is painful.

“Social media movements like this are potentially life-changing because you see hundreds of thousands of other people sharing their stories, and you don’t feel like you’re the only person this has happened to,” Ms. Leong said. “You don’t feel like it’s you in this vacuum where awful things happened.”"

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Sooner is better. 

As soon as you can is best.

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Iran attack report 9/23/18

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https://www.juancole.com/2018/09/khamenei-blames-arabia.html

" An attack on a military parade in the city of Ahvaz in Iranian Khuzestan has left over 2 dozen dead and dozens wounded.
The attackers wore military uniforms. All four were killed at the scene (one of the downsides of assaulting a military parade is that there are lots of sharpshooters on duty).
The aim was clearly to spread terror among the civilian population. The target was not, as some Western outlets are saying, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps. It was much more general than that and a lot of civilians were hurt."

"Although ISIL and another group claimed they carried out the attack, Iran is looking at Arab separatist networks in Khuzestan (though convinced that these have regional Arab backing).
The really dangerous thing is that Iran believes Trump had a hand in this terrorist attack, which shocked the Iranian nation.
That doesn’t bode well for the future, since you have these wild men on the American side like John Bolton and Mike Pompeo making policy."


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/23/iran-says-response-to-terrorist-attack-on-military-parade-will-be-crushing-ahvaz

"“Those who keep repeating their bogus stance on advocating human rights must be held accountable; all those small mercenary countries in the region which the US backs and provokes,” added Rouhani.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Saturday that “this crime is a continuation of the plots of the regional states that are puppets of the United States, and their goal is to create insecurity in our dear country,” according to a statement posted on his official website.
The attack was immediately claimed by an Arab nationalist separatist group called the Patriotic Arab Democratic Movement in Ahvaz. Its spokesperson told the London-based exiled TV network Iran International that the attack was aimed at “the Revolutionary Guards and the armed forces of the Islamic Republic”. Iran’s state news agency said the group was “Saudi-affiliated”. Later on Saturday, Islamic State (Isis), also claimed responsibility."

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/business/time-to-vote-patagonia-walmart-lyft.html

Civil war is bad for business.
Everyone is a retail customer.
Everyone eats.

Populism does not wear a party label.

The U.S. is a representative democracy with rules anchored with law.
The Republican party won the 2016 Presidential election.
The effort started in 1913.
The Republicans believe they can win the midterm elections.

https://lewebpedagogique.com/anglais/wp-content/blogs.dir/16/files/the-unicorn-in-the-garden.pdf

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/us/politics/kavanaugh-senate-republicans-elections.html

I don't want to bet.
I can't calculate the odds with my level of skill and knowledge.
Party discipline held for the health care vote.

Testimony Thursday late.

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/world/middleeast/iran-attack-rouhani.html
There is no report of surviving assassins in this report.
"Initially, the authorities described the assailants as “takfiri gunmen,” a term previously used to describe militants of the Islamic State. Iran has been deeply involved in fighting the group in Iraq, and has supported President Bashar al-Assad of Syria against them and other fighters in his country’s civil war."
Passports often do not connect with the person carrying them  and are not indicative of allegiance.

Other reports


 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/22/us/politics/immigrants-green-card-public-aid.html

I have not understood this new regulation.
It seems to have little effect other than adding to the fears of new immigrants and comforting fearful citizens.

"The 447-page rule, titled “Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds,” will not apply to families making less than 15 percent of the official poverty designation, officials said."
    I doubt that.

"“This is an attack on immigrant families and an attempt to make our immigration system a pay-to-play system where only the wealthy need apply,” said Jackie Vimo, a policy analyst with the National Immigration Law Center, a Washington-based group that defends low-income immigrants. “This is a radical transformation of our immigration, and does a runaround on Congress.”"

The 447 page rule has not been read. 

There is an executive summery.

@18:01, 9/22/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/22/us/politics/adelson-trump-republican-donor.html

I have not been anxious to read about GOP supporting billionaires.
My guess is that Sheldon Adelson is campaigning for the single state of Israel.
His preference seems to be for a Zionist state and a U.S. alliance.
I doubt he cares about the U.S. Constitution.
He is a skilled player.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/22/us/politics/trump-25th-amendment.html

Donald Trump owns his cabinet.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/22/us/politics/kavanaugh-senate-blasey-ford-testify.html

I expect a disaster.
The GOP senators will try hard to destroy her.
She is heroic.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/22/us/politics/paul-gosar-arizona-family-siblings.html

Paul Gosar has a family that believes him.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/22/us/politics/china-sanctions-russia-military.html

China is a sovereign nation.
There is no treaty obligation.

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/22/nyregion/josh-gottheimer-swastika-graffiti.html

I would fix it if I could.

7
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/22/us/politics/kavanaugh-blasey-ford-women-trump.html

Dr. Blasey Ford must convince the senators.

Bartt Kavanaugh should not be on the Supreme Court.

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/22/us/politics/trump-insurance-subsidy-payments-obamacare.html

The attempt to end  Affordable Health Care should crash nongovermental
medical care in the U.S.

How fast it happens becomes the question.

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@10:02, 9/22/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/trump-josh-hawley-missouri-rally.html

My existence continues.

Donald Trump is calling for civil war.

I shall oppose Donald Trump and his supporters.

Methods are not clear to me.

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Sooner is better.    As soon as you can is best.

Love is not rational.

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2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/22/us/politics/on-politics-this-weeks-biggest-stories.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/trump-kavanaugh-blasey-attack.html
Brett Kavanaugh should not be a Supreme Court Justice.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/rod-rosenstein-wear-wire-25th-amendment.html
Donald Trump should be removed from office.
The 25th amendment will not do it.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/19/us/politics/midterm-elections-congressional-districts.html
Casting a vote in November is essential.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/20/us/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-housing.html
The federal Government has failed Puerto Rico again and again.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/us/politics/trump-united-nations-south-korea.html
Donald Trump and his supporters do not understand diplomacy and the United Nations.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/22/us/politics/brock-long-fema-repay-government-vehicles.html

The Trump administration could have "cut him some slack" while the emergency of Huricane Florence continues.



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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/obituaries/marilyn-lloyd-dead.html

People wear out. 
We go as far as we can.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/obituaries/marilyn-lloyd-dead.html

I am not surprised. 
No link would be more unusual.
The NRA, likes chaos.
The GRU encourages chaos outside Russia.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/world/middleeast/us-trump-syria-idlib.html
Victory conditions in Syria have not been defined.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/patti-davis-reagan-sexual-assault-dr-blasey.html

There is no conspiracy against Brett Kavanaugh.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/dowd-trump-defense-fund-manafort-gates.html

"Mr. Dowd has also resurfaced recently as a starring figure in the new book, “Fear,” by the investigative journalist Bob Woodward. The book describes, in extensive detail, conversations that Mr. Dowd had with the president, including about whether Mr. Trump would tell Mr. Mueller’s team the truth. Mr. Dowd concluded the president was a “liar,” according to Mr. Woodward."

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/technology/google-search-political-bias.html

"Google has recently been under scrutiny for whether its search results are biased after Mr. Trump said last month that the internet company was intentionally suppressing conservative news outlets supportive of his administration.  The company did not show up at a congressional hearing this month that was attended by Twitter’s chief executive, Jack Dorsey, and Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, to address lawmakers’ questions about social media manipulation."

Google does not see itself as Social Media.

7
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/trump-josh-hawley-missouri-rally.html

I can hope the midterm election is a referendum on the Trump presidency.

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@20:45, 9/21/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/trump-kavanaugh-blasey-attack.html

She did not go to the police.
Trump is living a fantasy.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/kavanaugh-voters-midterms.html
The voters have no input to decisions before November.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/shelia-stubbs-wisconsin-police.html

Racism is nasty.
The groups are still fighting with words.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/trump-classification-russian-documents.html

Trump does not believe his lawyers.   He is a fool.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/shelia-stubbs-wisconsin-police.html

All monsters need not look like monsters.

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/climate/florences-floodwaters-breach-defenses-at-power-plant-prompting-shutdown.html

Floods are slow. 
People do not deal with slow events well.
Necessary actions get delayed.
The natural world does not care.

7
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/kavanaugh-blasey-ford-anita-hill.html

It is not 1991.
There are differences.
They may be enough.

8
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/edward-whelan-brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford.html

The "theory" does not pass the laugh test.

9
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/ginsburg-lincoln-groping-joke.html

Ralph Norman is as self involved as Donald Trump.

10
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/business/media/michelle-obama-book-tour.html

People can pay attention to a list of things.

11
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/beto-cruz-debate.html

I can and do cheer for Beto O’Rourke.

12
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/business/economy/tariffs-rebuilding-hurricane-florence.html

The Trump tariffs are a bad idea made worse by bad luck.

13
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/rod-rosenstein-wear-wire-25th-amendment.html

The Twenty Fith Amendment will not work.
The Cabinet are coconspirators.

14
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/edward-whelan-brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford.html

The thought does not pass "The Laugh Test".

15
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/fact-check-trump-pre-existing-health-conditions-.html

Donald Trump is a stranger to the facts.

16
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/on-politics-women-in-politics-responses.html

Lisa Lerer Should think more.

@10:00, 9/21/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/us/politics/trump-cyberattacks-orders.html

Fix the vulnerabilities.
Keep the diplomats talking.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/us/politics/anita-hill-testimony-clarence-thomas.html

Remember.  Others will remember.
Do not allow the same behavior.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford.html

Waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Constant tension in cyber space is not a good idea.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/trump-heller-nevada-rally.html

In which nothing is learned.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/dianne-feinstein-brett-kavanaugh-sexual-misconduct.html

Dianne Feinstein has been a good senator.

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/nafta-chrystia-freeland-robert-lighthizer.html

More Trump noise.
Nothing should be done.

7
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/climate/greenland-arctic-ice.html

The globe is warming.
People are watching it warm.

 
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@21:35, 9/20/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/health/biosafety-anthrax-pentagon-defense-army.html

I also cannot evaluate this partial report.

Underpaid and under supervised technicians get sloppy with even the most pathogenic and toxic materials.  They do not respect the vagaries of fashion. Often they know what they are doing.  As often they do not know.
Sometimes they are drunk or stoned.
They are doing as they have done before and trying to self supervise.
Give them a checklist and let them get on with the job.
The scientists are doing science.
The soldiers are soldiering.
Hire and pay process engineers.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/us/politics/on-politics-christine-blasey-ford-katherine-kendall.html

Owning the Supreme Court is vital to the GOP agenda.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/us/politics/michael-cohen-mueller-interviews.html

We don't know yet.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/us/politics/trump-republicans-midterms.html

Trump cannot change.
The Democrats will probably take the house.
The Democrats might get a simple majority in the senate.
I will not hope for a removal of Trump.
There may be a fix to Gerrymandering.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/us/politics/racism-desantis-alembik-gillum.html


I don't like Florida.

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/us/politics/trump-united-nations-south-korea.html

Donald Trump does not understand diplomacy.
Neither do I.

7
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000006117445/kavanaugh-senate-supreme-court-delays.html
I can't easily see vidios.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-religious-voters.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey.html

8
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/us/politics/anita-hill-testimony-clarence-thomas.html

Clarence Thomas should not be on the Supreme Court.

9
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/us/politics/anita-hill-testimony-clarence-thomas.html

Anita Hill is believable in hindsight.

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@19:10, 9/20/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey.html

I expect a decision from the GOP this time tomorrow.
I expect a vote Monday.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/us/politics/gay-candidates-midterms.html

The difference between macro and micro economics is not much taught
in schools without economics departments.

Fiscal conservatism is wrong for nation states with their own currencies.
Micro economics is the difference between life and frustration for individuals who are not Sovereigns of states with their own currencies.

Log Cabin Conservatives puzzle me.
Closeted Churchmen just make me sad.

LBGT does not seem to interfere with the ability to think.

@15:31, 9/20/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-religious-voters.html

Evangelicals do not believe in democracy.
They never have.
They are not alone in that disbelief.
Church and state are separated for good reason.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/us/politics/military-body-count-afghanistan.html

Body counts.
Body counts discontinued.

"Doing so defies lessons from the Vietnam War, where the American military’s fixation on body counts and winning a war by “attrition” was ruled as an ineffective way to measure progress. Since 2001, commanders have debated the value of releasing body counts in Afghanistan and Iraq, where they have drawn inevitable and unfavorable comparisons to the quagmire in Vietnam."

"“The body count figures are troubling because it shows our utter lack of strategy,” said Jason Dempsey, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. “It’s just showing activity for activity’s stake.”"

I opposed the war in Vietnam. 
I did not favor the Vietnamese governments.


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@11:15, 9/20/18

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/sep/20/build-walls-on-seafloor-to-stop-glaciers-melting-scientists-say

A very silly story from what is supposed to be an authoritative
source.
https://www.the-cryosphere.net/12/2955/2018/
The authors:
Michael J. Wolovick¹ and John C. Moore^2,3

• ¹Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences Program, Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, GFDL, 201 Forrestal Road, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
• ²College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
• ³Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland

 They are doing April Fools work.

Presumably fake news.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Paul Krugman‏Verified account @paulkrugman 3h3 hours ago

Once upon a time, catching a Supreme Court nominee in a pretty obvious lie, at the same time he's being credibly accused of other deceptions, would probably have been disqualifying and certainly led to a pause. But this is the modern GOP

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/19/republicans-have-no-good-options-brett-kavanaugh/

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/upshot/women-elections-survey-leadership-discrimination.html


Claire Cain Miller has an honest measurement.
I do not know how to force a change in the U.S. culture.
Editors must hold with their audiences or they will lose them.
Leadership demands hard intellectual work and patience.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/us/politics/on-politics-stalemate-over-kavanaugh-inquiry.html

Three stories hold my attention:

a
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/us/politics/christine-blasey-ford-brett-kavanaugh-allegations.html

I looked at this.  I believe her.  

b
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/world/europe/poland-fort-trump.html 

"Mr. Trump said Warsaw would have to pay billions to use his name."
                                      U.S. Politics capsul

c
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/us/politics/trump-carolina-visit-hurricane.html
                                    Get paid.

Sooner is better.    As soon as you can is best.


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3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/20/upshot/polling-2018-midterms-elections-challenge.html



Fair enough.











https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/elections-polls.html



                                Things may change by 11/5/18




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@20:40, 9/19/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/us/politics/global-terror-threats-annual-report.html

Terrorism seems to be effective at manipulating Republicans.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/us/politics/christine-blasey-ford-kavanaughs-fact-check.html

Dr. Blasey is being rational.
Her report must be examined by neutral investigators.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/us/politics/on-politics-women-in-politics.html
http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/potential-candidate-summary-2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/science/icecore-europe-pollen.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/science/ice-core-lead-roman-empire.html

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/us/Kavanaugh-binge-drinking-Yale-speech-.html
"On Tuesday, lawyers for Dr. Blasey, a research psychologist at Palo Alto University in Northern California, accused some senators of having already “made up their minds” and insisted that the F.B.I. investigate."

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/us/politics/christine-blasey-ford-brett-kavanaugh-allegations.html
I would take Dr. Blasey's word.
She will need the support of an investigation to convince the Senate.

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6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/us/politics/dean-heller-trump.html
The prospect of winning can force a rictus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risus_sardonicus

7
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/us/politics/fed-board-nellie-liang.html

I wonder how this happened.
As a Keynsian she should push for more inflation and aainst higher interest rates.
She probably said the right words: "Less regulation".

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@15:00, 9/19/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/us/politics/jeff-sessions-attorney-general-trump.html

Trump does not know the Attorney General's job description.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/reader-center/kavanaugh-ford-blasey-accusation.html

Only the Senators opinions matter.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/world/europe/poland-fort-trump.html

Poland is worried.  They should be.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/us/politics/senate-democrats-kavanaugh-election.html

Senators will need to think.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/opinion/a-smorgasbord-recession-wonkish.html

Paul Krugman said he needed a break.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/us/politics/kavanaugh-accusations-trump-blasey-ford.html

Fairness has nothing to do with facts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/19/republicans-have-no-good-options-brett-kavanaugh/

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/us/politics/trump-carolina-visit-hurricane.html

It would be news if Trump did not go
or went and threw paper towels to the crowd.

7
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/reader-center/confidential-tip-line.html

Signal is my choice.

Sooner is better.   As soon as you can is best.
 
8
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/us/politics/mia-love-campaign-fund-raising.html

Winning legally is the only thing.


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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/us/politics/supreme-court-dark-money.html

Ok

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/us/politics/us-migrant-children-whereabouts-.html

I am concerned that the authorities are second guessing themselves.

"Caitlin Oakley, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, offered a response to the findings on Tuesday night. “As communicated to members of Congress multiple times,” she said, “these children are not ‘lost.’ Their sponsors — who are usually parents or family members and in all cases have been vetted for criminality and ability to provide for them — simply did not respond or could not be reached when this voluntary call was made.”"

It looks like grandstanding.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/us/politics/on-politics-kavanaughs-accuser-wants-an-investigation.html

I will try to remember for November.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/climate/florence-hog-farms.html

Failure of hog farm lagoons has happened before.
State and federal authorities have allowed the lagoons to continue to exist.
Regulation is necessary.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/us/politics/trump-china-trade-war.html

Donald Trump is acting Foolishly on foreign trade.
He is ignorant and powerful.

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/business/energy-environment/iran-oil-sanctions.html

https://www.nytimes.com/by/clifford-krauss

Clifford Krauss is reporting the response to the announcement of new U.S. sanctions.
Flinching is not a response to an action.

7
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/world/asia/north-south-korea-nuclear-weapons.html

"“No matter how hard I look, I can find no real progress in denuclearization in today’s announcements,” said Cheon Seong-whun, an analyst at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies."

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/world/asia/north-south-korea-nuclear-weapons.html

New Headline:

North Korea’s New Promises on Weapons Stop Short of Denuclearization

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@20:04, 9/18/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/climate/trump-methane-rollback.html

Methane is money as well as a greenhouse gas of fossil carbon.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/nyregion/cuomo-de-blasio-democrats.html

Winning is the only thing in November.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/us/politics/on-politics-kavanaugh-midterm-effect.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/opinion/anita-hill-brett-kavanaugh-clarence-thomas.html

Christmass shopping season begins with Thanksgiving.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000006110794/trump-kavanaugh-accusation.html

Trump's words would have little meaning for me.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/us/politics/christine-blasey-ford-kavanaugh-senate-hearing.html

She should leave a yes to the last moment.
The Republican senate will not change its opinion.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/books/full-disclosure-stormy-daniels-donald-trump.html

My opinion of Trump is not improved.

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-politics.html

I want the nomination to fail.
I am feeling frustrated.

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@17:30, 9/18/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/us/kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford.html

Blaming the victim does not help.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/us/politics/trump-kavanaugh.html

Donald Trump's sympathy will not help Brett Kavanaugh.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/us/politics/christine-blasey-ford-kavanaugh-senate-hearing.html

I expect she will testify.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/us/saltbae-rubio-maduro-venezuela.html

I am left wondering why Marco Rubio cares enough to complain.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/us/politics/migrant-children-detention-trump.html

The Trump administration is not listening.
They will continue to punish the victims.

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/style/caftans.html

My opinions do not intersect with those of the Times style editor.

If you want to do caftans, I can try to help.


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@12:46, 9/18/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/us/politics/mccaskill-missouri-midterms.html

Clair McCaskill seems to be doing well.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/us/politics/trump-legal-team-lawyers.html

Trump appears to be guilty.
Impeachment and removal from office are the only measures that are available.

They will not happen while the Republicans hold the house and senate.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/climate/jerry-brown-climate-change.html

Jerry Brown should not run for president.
He understands the climate problem and the political problem.
He must keep talking as long as he can.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/upshot/independents-economy-midterm-elections-opinions.html

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/upshot/elections-polls.html

It is too early to know in most places.

5
https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2018/09/california-housing-market-falters-for.html

Straws in the wind.

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/18/business/economy/republicans-trump-trade.html

It looks like the "blue wave" is forming.



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@0:39, 9/18/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/technology/disinformation-tipsheet.html

You may find it useful.
I have had to go looking.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/us/politics/ted-cruz-fund-raising-letter.html

It may be legal but it is sleazy. 
I have seen mail from conartists that tried similar tactics.

3
http://www.ianwelsh.net/breaking-your-chains/

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/us/politics/kavanaugh-allegations-ford-palo-alto.html

I am relieved that the Kavanaugh Confirmation has been delayed.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/us/politics/michael-flynn-sentencing-scheduled.html

We don't yet know.

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/us/politics/on-politics-brett-kavanaugh-accusations.html

Brett Kavanaugh is in trouble.

Michael Bloomberg is a smart billionair.

7
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/us/politics/trump-refugees-historic-cuts.html

The GOP has learned nothing.
Donald Trump is a nasty man.

8
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/us/politics/trump-tariffs-american-factories.html

A sign of new jobs will keep Trump's base happy.

9
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/us/politics/massachusetts-voting-lori-trahan.html

It is interesting that the party organization did not narrow the field.
They must feel that a selection of new leadership is appropriate.

10
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/us/politics/trump-russia-investigation-documents-declassified.html

There will be no Surprise Party when Mueller issues a report.

11
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/us/politics/anita-hill-clarence-thomas-brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford.html

I remember.

12
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/us/politics/justice-department-campus-free-speech.html

The boycott must be relearned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott

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@17:28, 9/17/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/arts/harold-holzer-lincoln-auction.html

Lincoln has been a good obsession for him.
Lincoln was a litigator when he was not a politician.

It seems the Civil War was about chattel slavery as an economic base.
The south was not willing to give up the plantation system.
The decision was made before Lincoln was a candidate.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/us/politics/hillary-clinton-trump.html

"“I hoped that my fears for our future were overblown,” she wrote.
“They were not.”"          
                                 Hillary Clinton

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/us/politics/brock-long-investigation-fema.html

"House Republicans will investigate reports that Brock Long, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, repeatedly misused government vehicles to commute from Washington to North Carolina, where his family resides."

It explains much.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/us/sonia-sotomayor-childrens-books.html

It is time to accept that Puerto Ricans are citizens as are the Hispanics of the South West and Spanish is a legal language.   


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@9:20, 9/17/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/us/politics/kavanaugh-mattis-manafort.html

I have nothing to add to any of these reports.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/upshot/democrats-campaign-ads-pre-existing-conditions.html

Life is a preexisting condition.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/us/politics/kavanaugh-abortion-precedent.html

There are no absolute truths in politics.
The Supreme Court is a political body.

I want the better result.

Abortion must remain a right.
Healthcare should provide it.
Healthcare should include all forms of birthcontrol.


4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/world/asia/kim-jong-un-summit-moon-jae-in.html

I can see no resolution acceptable to China and South Korea.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/us/politics/bloomberg-president-2020-democrat.html

I would not vote for him in a primary.
In a presidential election he would give me pause.

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/us/politics/trump-china-tariffs-trade.html

There are no winners in a trade war.

7
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/us/politics/kavanaugh-allegations-ford-palo-alto.html

I will not hope.


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@23:14, 9/16/18

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A
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/16/world/asia/trump-north-korea-nuclear.html

I worry.

Kim Jong-un is betting his life.
He is much less distracted than Donald Trump.

Trump does not do diplomacy.


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@10:07, 9/16/18

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1
Sooner is better.    As soon as you can is best.

2
https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2018/09/oil-rigs-treading-water.html

"The breakeven oil price to add horizontal oil rigs came in at $72 WTI this week. This is a good bit higher than the current WTI price around $69."

I am nervous.  I will continue packing.

3
https://www.nytimes.com/recommendations

"Most popular"is occupying the location.

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1

Business Day

The Next Financial Calamity Is Coming. Here’s What to Watch.

By MATT PHILLIPS and KARL RUSSELL | Sep 12th 2018

Fast-growing pockets of debt could be a source of trouble.

UNITED STATES ECONOMY; BANKING AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS; MORTGAGES

I tend to agree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System#Monetary_policy

2

World

How a Ukrainian Hairdresser Became a Front for Paul Manafort

By ANDREW E. KRAMER | Sep 15th 2018

To evade taxes, many shell companies are headed by “nominee directors” who can be homeless people or even victims of identity theft.

RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE IN 2016 US ELECTIONS AND TIES TO TRUMP ASSOCIATES; CORPORATE TAXES; CORPORATIONS

Manafort may be holding out on the prosecutors.
He will have to prove his newfound honesty

3

U.S.

Mapping Florence’s Impact: Rainfall, Wind, and Power Failures

By SARAH ALMUKHTAR, MATTHEW BLOCH, AUDREY CARLSEN, K.K. REBECCA LAI, JASMINE C. LEE, REBECCA LIEBERMAN, ASH NGU and ADAM PEARCE | Sep 13th 2018

Animated maps and satellite images showing the effects of the storm.

HURRICANE FLORENCE (2018)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/15/us/hurricane-florence-path.html

Just wet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/15/reader-center/how-to-help-typhoon-victims.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/15/world/asia/typhoon-mangkhut-china-philippines-hong-kong.html

4

Opinion

Julia Salazar, the Left’s Post-Truth Politician

By BARI WEISS | Sep 14th 2018

The democratic socialist lied. And lied. And lied. Then she won handily in Brooklyn.

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT

She won her primary.

5

World

Wreaking Havoc, Deadly Storm Cuts Through the Philippines

By THE NEW YORK TIMES | Sep 14th 2018

By Sunday morning, at least 25 deaths from Typhoon Mangkhut had been reported. But Philippine officials were still assessing the damage.

TYPHOONS

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/13/world/asia/typhoon-mangkhut-track.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/16/world/asia/philippines-typhoon.html

6

U.S.

A Dallas Police Officer Shot Her Neighbor, and a City Is Full of Questions

By MANNY FERNANDEZ and MARINA TRAHAN MARTINEZ | Sep 14th 2018

The shooting of an unarmed black man by a police officer who entered his apartment has polarized Dallas and inflamed racial tensions.

POLICE BRUTALITY, MISCONDUCT AND SHOOTINGS; MURDERS, ATTEMPTED MURDERS AND HOMICIDES

I will hear much more.

7

Style

The Abortion I Almost Forgot

By MARISA MELTZER | Sep 13th 2018

When I found out I was pregnant at age 24, there was no decision to make. But even if it felt inconsequential at the time, I don’t take for granted that I had a choice.

PREGNANCY AND CHILDBIRTH; ABORTION

I like her attitude.

8

Opinion

Trump Finally Makes a Friend

By MAUREEN DOWD | Sep 15th 2018

The president may be shunned nearly everywhere but at the bottom of the world he has finally found a loyal mate.

REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS

Maureen Dowd has pleased me again.

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@17:10,    


1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/16/us/politics/michigan-democrats-labor-unions-trump.html

The first thing Democrats must do is win.
Thinking about how to stop the rot can be done in office.
The present situation is the result of a century of effort by the GOP.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/16/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-sexual-assault.html

First, the Democrats must win.

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23:50, 9/15/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/15/nyregion/evelyn-rodriguez-dead-ms-13-long-island.html

Murder is a state crime.
The weapon is unimportant
Death by machete is no more horrible than death by SUV.

MS 13 like the KKK is speech.
Both can become conspiracies when there is a crime.
Conspiracy is hard to prosecute.

I will not deal with when murder begins.
It is not at conception.
It must be before delivery

@18:05, 9/15/18

1
www.nytimes.com/2018/09/15/us/politics/brett-kavanaugh-confirmation.html

The GOP has not lost party discipline.

Paul Krugman‏Verified account @paulkrugman 1h1 hour ago

The scary thing is that even with this paranoid sociopath in the White House -- that's not an insult, it's just a straightforward description -- Rs have a chance of holding on 

2

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/15/climate/california-climate-summit.html

I will not stand in the way of carbon reduction.

3

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/15/us/politics/trump-republicans-midterms.html

Trump has not delivered effectively.

I hardly dare hope for Democratic party majorities.

Legislation will need to overcome vetoes.

The prospects for 2020 are not great.

0 replies 4 retweets 15 likes

 

4

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/15/us/paul-manafort-plea-deal-property.html

I hope the deal is not just about the money.

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@8:30, 9/15/18

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1
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/us/politics/mary-daly-san-francisco-fed.html

The low key is the news.

2
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/us/politics/on-politics-primaries-midterms.html

 "To be continued"

3
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/us/politics/arkansas-medicaid-work-requirements.html

It looks like Sadism to me.

4
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/world/middleeast/john-kerry-iran-mike-pompeo.html

The Trump administration remains ignorant of Iran.

5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/nyregion/alessandra-biaggi-julia-salazar-primary.html

The Democratic party coalition continues in New York.

6
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/business/economy/trade-g20-argentina.html

Donald Trump is not learning.

7
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/us/politics/trump-democrats-medicare-social-security.html

Trump is lying.
"“It will not shock a lot of people to tell you that the president of the United States is lying again, as he does every day,” Mr. Sanders said in an interview. “As everybody who follows Congress understands, it is not the Democrats who want to cut Medicare and Social Security.”" 

8
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/us/politics/manafort-plea-lobbying-disclosures.html

Manafort's minions look guilty to me.

9
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/15/us/politics/jim-mattis-trump-defense-relationship.html

General Mattis appears to be sidelined.

The twenty fifth amendment looks more attractive.
The cabinet would not support such a move.

10
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/15/us/politics/progressive-candidates-victories.html 

Progressive elements in the Democratic party are not a new development.
Primary elections should not be a surprise to The New York Times.
The editors must do a better job.











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