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Don't suppose the accuser is a plant put in place by Kavanaugh himself?

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This is an exceptional read. I deal with data all the time and have always been fascinated with outliers and fringeliers and how they affect data results. Good stuff.

This is why I appreciate our system of government that would allow this woman to have her say, and trust/hope that those hearing her claim will do their best to make a fair assessment. Let due process (including Kavanaugh's right to face his accuser) rule the day. Since this is indeed probably the most powerful position in the country when it comes to precedent and the law of the land, this claim should be treated seriously and put through the machinations of the approval process.

Feinstein should be brought up on ethics charges if she really believed that Kavanaugh presented a danger to women or was unqualified to serve in his present position by holding on to that letter. She can't exactly claim to be an advocated for women's rights if she protected Kavanaugh, whom she claims to be unfit.

I emailed my Senators yesterday and reminded them to put aside their politics and to treat this as fairly as they expected a new Supreme Court Justice to preside.

By the way, we still don't have any details about this woman's claim about Kavanaugh's alleged behavior in the incident, so I am waiting to comment. The spectrum of behavior between males and females is expansive (with its share of outliers and fringliers).

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We STILL have no word on whether Ford will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. She seems to be having a hard time making up her mind. Or, perhaps she just needs more time to get her story straight.

5 times the chairman has extended the dead-line for an answer.

The accuser, Ford, keeps making new demands. Apparently she does not have the courage to look her alleged abuser in the eye when she tells her story, for she has demanded that he not be in the same room with her as she speaks (if she ever decides to speak).

She has also demanded that fewer cameras be in the room. She also claims that she can not get to Washington (in 5 days) by this coming Thursday. The committee has offered to go to her, but that is not good enough for our ever so delicate female. Or perhaps she is afraid to be sworn in and place herself in danger of perjury ?

She wants,or so it seems, to play hardball, but only if she is the one to set the rules. The committee has thus far been treating her with 'kid gloves', while she continues to play hardball.

In the meantime, all of America is waiting for her to make up her mind.

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I just read an article in the Washington Post re: Catherine Blasey Ford.

I was always suspicious of her story from the beginning. I trust activist liberals about as much as I trust a cobra.

Catherine Blasey ford is a psychologist. She therefore has access to dozens, perhaps hundreds of other psychologists from whom she could have sought help dealing with her "trauma".

The Washington Post article/interview with Dr Ford said she moved 3, 000 miles away from Maryland to "get away from the memories of her assault."

As a psychologist, she knows all too well that we can not run away from our personal troubles. They follow us like a nemesis.

In the article it also says that if Trump became president and Judge Kavanaugh was nominated and confirmed and sat on the Supreme Court, she Dr Ford would have moved to another country o get away from the memory of her "trauma".

Baloney ! I don't believe one word of it. All of this over a teenage "sexual assault" that was never even close to a rape ? More baloney !

I, personally, have been though far worse, and I haven't given the assault 2 seconds worth of thought in the last 54 years.

And we are supposed to believe that a professional psychologist is/was that traumatized ? Give me a freakin' break !

It's about the politics and nothing but the politics.

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That's a great line Thanks

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don't you believe in the call of "innocent until proven guilty?" it works both ways ya know BM?

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Indeed! One would assume that there'd still be either physical witnesses of the alleged assault or, at the very least, friends of the claimant who could testify as to how upset she was at the time and to whom she possibly offloaded details of her traumatic experience

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6 days of negotiations and we are not one inch closer to having a date for Ford (the accuser) to testify. The Judiciary Committee has done everything except literally beg her to testify.

If left up to me, I'd set a date, for the testimony and if she showed up, ok. If not, ok. But, by God, the process would continue with, or without her. Enough games !

The date I'd set would be this coming Wednesday, Sept 26th at 10 am. (that date has been "discussed" but her attorneys have vetoed it, saying she could not get from California to Washington D.C. that soon). Duh, it takes 5 hours on a plane, but 96 hours is not enough ?

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Maybe she doesn't like flying, nor travelling by car, nor horse drawn carriage, nor by donkey, nor walking, nor by sea, nor by being carried on a pallet, nor by rickshaw, nor ... etc, etc.

As such, you're being highly insensitive towards her needs, which include an understanding of her agoraphobia, arachnaphobia, panaphobia, and indeed all of the phobias on this list, all of which date back curiously 36 years!!..

Honestly, what sort of man are you?

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sarcasm is a poor second to good wit - Paul Drew