Your Once and Future Supreme C.....
 

[URL="https://www.thenation.com/article/brett-kavanaugh-should-be-impeached/"][U]Brett Kavanaugh Should Be Impeached[/U][/URL] -John Nichols, The Nation

[QUOTE]Lisa Graves, who as the chief counsel for nominations for the ranking Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the period in question wrote some of the research notes and talking points that were stolen from the Senate server by Republican staffer Manuel Miranda, argued last week in [URL="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/09/judge-brett-kavanaugh-should-be-impeached-for-lying-during-his-confirmation-hearings.html"]a [I]Slate[/I] article[/URL] that “Kavanaugh actively hid his own involvement, lying to the Senate Judiciary Committee by stating unequivocally that he not only knew nothing of the episode, but also never even received any stolen material.”
Graves explains:[INDENT]Even if Kavanaugh could claim that he didn’t have any hint at the time he received the emails that these documents were of suspect provenance—which I personally find implausible—there is no reasonable way for him to assert honestly that he had no idea what they were after the revelation of the theft. Any reasonable person would have realized they had been stolen, and certainly someone as smart as Kavanaugh would have too.
But he lied.
Under oath.[/QUOTE]
Here is an egregious Constitutional Crisis. We've already seen that Mitch McConnell doesn't give a rat's patootie about his legal obligations. His only concern is, and has been for years, to stack the Federal Judiciary so as to complete the Republican/Koch/ALEC coup against the Constitution and the People. I can only hope that there are some members of the GOP who have[I] just a few[/I] more scruples.[/INDENT]

[QUOTE=kladner;495900][URL="https://www.thenation.com/article/brett-kavanaugh-should-be-impeached/"][U]Brett Kavanaugh Should Be Impeached[/U][/URL] -John Nichols, The Nation

Here is an egregious Constitutional Crisis. We've already seen that Mitch McConnell doesn't give a rat's patootie about his legal obligations. His only concern is, and has been for years, to stack the Federal Judiciary so as to complete the Republican/Koch/ALEC coup against the Constitution and the People. [b]I can only hope[/b] that there are some members of the GOP who have[I] just a few[/I] more scruples.[/QUOTE]
(added emphasis mine)

Thinking of the Republicans brings to mind the following description of what awaits those who try to remain neutral in a moral crisis. It's not a "special place in hell" as often described. It's more like being stuck in the waiting room for all eternity...
[quote]"Through me the way is to the city dolent;
Through me the way is to eternal dole;
Through me the way among the people lost.
Justice incited my sublime Creator;
Created me divine Omnipotence,
The highest Wisdom and the primal Love.
Before me there were no created things,
Only eterne, and I eternal last.
[b]All hope abandon, ye who enter in![/b]"
These words in sombre colour I beheld
Written upon the summit of a gate;
Whence I: "Their sense is, Master, hard to me!"
And he to me, as one experienced:
"Here all suspicion needs must be abandoned,
All cowardice must needs be here extinct.
We to the place have come, where I have told thee
Thou shalt behold the people dolorous
Who have foregone the good of intellect."
And after he had laid his hand on mine
With joyful mien, whence I was comforted,
He led me in among the secret things.
There sighs, complaints, and ululations loud
Resounded through the air without a star,
Whence I, at the beginning, wept thereat.
Languages diverse, horrible dialects,
Accents of anger, words of agony,
And voices high and hoarse, with sound of hands,
Made up a tumult that goes whirling on
For ever in that air for ever black,
Even as the sand doth, when the whirlwind breathes.
And I, who had my head with horror bound,
Said: "Master, what is this which now I hear?
What folk is this, which seems by pain so vanquished?"
And he to me: "This miserable mode
Maintain the melancholy souls of those
Who lived withouten infamy or praise.
Commingled are they with that caitiff choir
Of Angels, who have not rebellious been,
Nor faithful were to God, but were for self.
The heavens expelled them, not to be less fair;
Nor them the nethermore abyss receives,
For glory none the damned would have from them."
And I: "O Master, what so grievous is
To these, that maketh them lament so sore?"
He answered: "I will tell thee very briefly.
These have no longer any hope of death;
And this blind life of theirs is so debased,
They envious are of every other fate.
No fame of them the world permits to be;
Misericord and Justice both disdain them.
Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass."[/quote]-- Dante Alighieri, [u][b]Inferno[/b][/u], Canto III

Very apt!

[URL]https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/18/1796815/-David-Brock-a-different-but-crucial-perspective-on-Kavanaugh[/URL]
Former hard right operative, David Brock, shares his personal experience with Kavanaugh.[INDENT][QUOTE]I used to know Brett Kavanaugh pretty well. And, when I think of Brett now, in the midst of his hearings for a lifetime appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, all I can think of is the old "Aesop's Fables" adage: "A man is known by the company he keeps."
[B]And that's why I want to tell any senator who cares about our democracy: Vote no.[/B]
[B]Twenty years ago, when I was a conservative movement stalwart, I got to know Brett Kavanaugh both professionally and personally.[/B]
[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]But I don't need to see any documents to tell you who Kavanaugh is — because I've known him for years. And I'll leave it to all the lawyers to parse Kavanaugh's views on everything from privacy rights to gun rights. [B]But I can promise you that any pretense of simply being a fair arbiter of the constitutionality of any policy regardless of politics is simply a pretense. He made up his mind nearly a generation ago — and, if he's confirmed, he'll have nearly two generations to impose it upon the rest of us.[/B][/QUOTE][/INDENT]

One Sexual Predator on the SCOTUS is Enough
 

[URL]https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/17/1796538/--One-Sexual-Predator-on-the-SCOTUS-is-Enough-Sign-on-LA-Freeway[/URL]

I love that the safety features of LA overpasses greatly facilitate the posting of signs.

[QUOTE=kladner;496385]I love that the safety features of LA overpasses greatly facilitate the posting of signs.[/QUOTE]Crazy Angelenos.

They have done some crazy things out there.
[url]https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/guerrilla-public-service/[/url]
[url]https://ankrom.org/freeway_signs.html[/url]

The artistic duplication of a Cal Trans sign, which passed inspection, is amazing.

In [url=https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/498008486551506945]an August 14, 2014 tweet[/url], [i]Il Duce[/i] said,[quote]We need a President who isn't a laughing stock to the entire World. We need a truly great leader, a genius at strategy and winning. Respect![/quote]
Right. Like [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8az6ubM6Us]this[/url].

A great guy. In all the human history there was only one guy that beats him. That guy was called "[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC5UTUAxgpE"]comical ali[/URL]".

[QUOTE=LaurV;496824]A great guy. In all the human history there was only one guy that beats him. That guy was called "[URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC5UTUAxgpE"]comical ali[/URL]".[/QUOTE] The slave Okello, in [i]Aguirre, the Wrath of God[/i] is in the running. At the end of the movie, as the men on a raft drifting down the river are dying of fever and getting picked off by the natives, he, while seeing a hallucinatory ship in the trees, reacts to an arrow hitting him in the leg thusly:[quote]That is no ship. That is no forest.[/quote] [arrow hits him] [quote]That is no arrow. We just imagine the arrows because we fear them.[/quote]

Traitor Jeff Flake
 

Not surprisingly, Senator Flake's contact site is "down for maintenance." How convenient. My attempted contact follows.
Your shameful complicity in the Kavanaugh railroading
[QUOTE]Dear Sir,
Feel free to ignore my opinion as I am not your constituent. However, yours is one of the key votes in the rigged confirmation hearings on Judge Kavanaugh. This affects not just your constituents, but all citizens, who will be subjected to this person's Opinions for decades to come.

Due Process is decidedly not specified in the Advice and Consent process. Your specious appeal to this principle is a cowardly evasion of your responsibility to the nation, and to all women.

You are leaving office. Show a bit of courage. Prove your claims of concern for sexual assault survivors, or prove that you are just as contemptible as this nominee.

Stand up for Real Justice, Sir.[/QUOTE]