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Stonepounder's JournalThree Women Hailed As Heroes For Stopping Alleged Date Rape
Three Women Hailed As Heroes For Stopping Alleged Date RapeFriends Sonia, Marla and Monica were out for a drink at a nice restaurant in Santa Monica, California when they saw something that was “no joking matter”. Monica noticed a man at another table holding a vial and dropping some liquid into his date’s drink when she had gotten up to go to the bathroom.
The women were stunned. “After a few ‘Oh god. What do we do’s’, I got up to find her in the bathroom to tell her,” Sonia explained on Facebook. “Warn her. Tell her to get up and leave this creep. Make him drink it. Something.”
She decided to follow the woman and approach her in the washroom. She told her what her girlfriend had seen and the woman was stunned. When Sonia asked the woman how well she knew the man, she responded, “He’s one of my best friends”.
Sonia rushed back to her two friends and Marla alerted a staff member. Staff security immediately acted and reviewed the security camera footage.
Read more at http://www.reshareworthy.com/three-women-stop-alleged-date-rape/#bZvzHoZhMK0xOViw.99
Cops are beginning to get the idea that someone somewhere will almost always have a cell phone to film what they do. Maybe POS men in general will start getting the hint that women aren't going to take this kind of shit any more either. Kudos to the three women who saw something, said something and kudos to the restaurant staff for taking the women seriously and responding appropriately.
Talk about getting your dream job and being in the right place at the right time.
https://www.honoraryunsubscribe.com/geoff-emerick/?awt_l=6sNVI&awt_m=IhQkakMaMCAPkrFrom "This is True - Honorary Unsubscribe"
Knowing Emerick was fascinated by records (ever since finding his grandmother’s stack of Gramophone disks when he was 6), a schoolteacher told him about a job opening at a nearby recording studio. The boy — he was just 15 — jumped on it, and got the job. On his second day at work, a virtually unknown band that just got a new drummer came in to record their first release, and Emerick got to sit in to learn the job. The year: 1962. The new drummer: Ringo Starr. The band: The Beatles. And the song: “Love Me Do” — which was a smash hit that helped launch the group to stardom. Oh, and the North London studio? EMI, which is now known as the Abbey Road Studios. In spring 1966, Beatles producer George Martin requested Emerick be the band’s lead engineer, starting with the album Revolver.
To get the sound the band wanted, Emerick at times had to break EMI’s “rules” — like daring to close-mic Starr’s drums. When not working with The Beatles, Emerick recorded other artists, including Manfred Mann, Cheap Trick, and Supertramp. In 1969, Paul McCartney hired Emerick away from EMI to be the lead engineer for Apple Corps, and supervise the building of the company’s own Apple Studio. Once The Beatles broke up, Emerick continued as McCartney’s engineer. Emerick received four Grammy Awards: for his engineering work on the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road albums and on McCartney’s Band on the Run, and a Technical Achievement Award given to those who have “dramatically pushed the boundaries” of the field. Emerick “and George Martin could sit and not say anything throughout a whole session and people would think they were very weird,” McCartney once said. “It was just that they read each other. It was the same thing with me and John.” McCartney said Emerick “was smart, fun-loving, and the genius behind many of the great sounds on our records.” He died October 2 at his California home from a heart attack, at 72.
Interesting display at the local grocery/big box.
We stopped by the local grocery today to pick up a few odds and ends. It is pretty much a big box store, but it treats it employees well, is not afraid to hire mentally or emotionally challenged folk, has better prices than Kroger, and isn't Wal-Mart. Oh, and has just about everything.
We were passing the book section and a hardback book caught my eye. I looked at if more closely and its title was 'The Russia Hoax' (subtitle 'The Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump'). Now, there is no way that I would allow that waste of paper on my property, but I was interested to see that it was remaindered at less 1/2 price.
The reason I mention it, was because right next to it was 'Unhinged' by Omarosa, which interestingly enough well still being sold at full retail. And this is in Kentucky, just south of Cincinnati, OH.
Interesting.
I Know Brett Kavanaugh, but I Wouldn't Confirm Him (from The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/why-i-wouldnt-confirm-brett-kavanaugh/571936/?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=the-atlantic-fb-test-433-3-&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=socialI Know Brett Kavanaugh, but I Wouldn’t Confirm Him
This is an article I never imagined myself writing, that I never wanted to write, that I wish I could not write.
Benjamin Wittes
Editor in chief of Lawfare and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution
If I were a senator, I would not vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. These are words I write with no pleasure, but with deep sadness. Unlike many people who will read them with glee—as validating preexisting political, philosophical, or jurisprudential opposition to Kavanaugh’s nomination—I have no hostility to or particular fear of conservative jurisprudence. I have a long relationship with Kavanaugh, and I have always liked him. I have admired his career on the D.C. Circuit. I have spoken warmly of him. I have published him. I have vouched publicly for his character—more than once—and taken a fair bit of heat for doing so. I have also spent a substantial portion of my adult life defending the proposition that judicial nominees are entitled to a measure of decency from the Senate and that there should be norms of civility within a process that showed Kavanaugh none even before the current allegations arose.
This is an article I never imagined myself writing, that I never wanted to write, that I wish I could not write. I am also keenly aware that rejecting Kavanaugh on the record currently before the Senate will set a dangerous precedent. The allegations against him remain unproven. They arose publicly late in the process and, by their nature, are not amenable to decisive factual rebuttal. It is a real possibility that Kavanaugh is telling the truth and that he has had his life turned upside down over a falsehood. Even assuming that Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations are entirely accurate, rejecting him on the current record could incentivize not merely other sexual-assault victims to come forward—which would be a salutary thing—but also other late-stage allegations of a non-falsifiable nature by people who are not acting in good faith. We are on a dangerous road, and the judicial confirmation wars are going to get a lot worse for our traveling down it.
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Kavanaugh, needless to say, did not take my advice. He stayed in, and he delivered on Thursday, by way of defense, a howl of rage. He went on the attack not against Ford—for that we can be grateful—but against Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee and beyond. His opening statement was an unprecedentedly partisan outburst of emotion from a would-be justice. I do not begrudge him the emotion, even the anger. He has been through a kind of hell that would leave any person gasping for air. But I cannot condone the partisanship—which was raw, undisguised, naked, and conspiratorial—from someone who asks for public faith as a dispassionate and impartial judicial actor. His performance was wholly inconsistent with the conduct we should expect from a member of the judiciary.
Consider the judicial function as described by Kavanaugh himself at his first hearing. That Brett Kavanaugh described a “good judge [as] an umpire—a neutral and impartial arbiter who favors no litigant or policy.” That Brett Kavanaugh reminded us that “the Supreme Court must never be viewed as a partisan institution. The justices on the Supreme Court do not sit on opposite sides of an aisle. They do not caucus in separate rooms.”
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A very different Brett Kavanaugh showed up to Thursday’s hearing. This one accused the Democratic members of the committee of a “grotesque and coordinated character assassination,” saying that they had “replaced advice and consent with search and destroy.” After rightly criticizing “the behavior of several of the Democratic members of this committee at [his] hearing a few weeks ago [as] an embarrassment,” this Brett Kavanaugh veered off into full-throated conspiracy in a fashion that made entirely clear that he knew which room he caucused in.
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Much more at link.
When will men finally learn?
Stumbled across this link searching for something else. Fascinating (and entertaining) read.
Full story at link. This story was also recounted in a slightly different form in The Canterbury Tales in The Wife of Bath's Tale for you English Lit geeks out there.
http://www.chivalrynow.net/articles1/gawain.htm
Gawain & Gender Relationships
One of the most fascinating stories to arise from Arthurian literature regarding gender relationships has to be The Marriage of Sir Gawain. Here we find incredible insight that would not fully be appreciated in Western culture for centuries after it was written.
Let me preface this article by acknowledging the important part that women played throughout the Arthurian genre. While the stories primarily concern themselves with battles or other challenges to knightly prowess, women often appear, sometimes nameless, to guide a knight to his next adventure, clue him in on a problem's resolution, or test his virtue. It has been speculated that these convenient damsels evolved from earlier stories, where goddesses provided much the same purpose.
The inference is that men have much to learn from women about life and nature and our own purpose in the scheme of things. When we devalue or reject their intuitive knowledge, or ignore their intellectual capabilities, which are considerable, we do so at our own peril, and at the peril of the world we live in.
On with the story:
King Arthur, while hunting in a forest one day, is accosted by a powerful knight who threatens to kill him. The king dissuades the knight, but only after committing himself to a quest. If, within a year’s time, he finds the answer to a particular question, they both part their ways in peace. If he does not, he must willingly surrender himself to the knight for execution.
The question he had to find the answer to was this: "What do women most desire?"
Here's where Kavanaugh's sworn testimony was misleading or wrong
Long article in WaPo by Philip Bump analyzing the places where Kavanaugh was either deliberately misleading or just plain wrong. The final few paragraphs are included for their example of mind-bogglingly misleading statements by Kavanaugh. If you can get to WaPo the full article is worth a read:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/28/heres-where-kavanaughs-sworn-testimony-was-misleading-or-wrong/?utm_term=.d9a7e46f5e65
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.): "Judge Kavanaugh, have you taken a professionally administered polygraph test, as it relates to this issue?"
Kavanaugh: “Of course, those are not admissible in federal court, but I’ll do whatever the committee wants, they’re not admissible in federal court because they’re not reliable.”
Kavanaugh's presentation of the effectiveness of polygraph tests is accurate. But it's worth noting that this hasn't always been his position.
“As the Government notes,” he wrote in a 2016 decision, “law enforcement agencies use polygraphs to test the credibility of witnesses and criminal defendants. Those agencies also use polygraphs to ‘screen applicants for security clearances so that they may be deemed suitable for work in critical law enforcement, defense, and intelligence collection roles.’”
“The Government has satisfactorily explained how polygraph examinations serve law enforcement purposes,” he summarized.
FOX News Contributor Kevin Jackson Fired for Tweets Calling Kavanaugh Accusers 'Lying Skanks'
Source: Time
FOX News contributor Kevin Jackson was fired Thursday after calling the three women who have publicly accused Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct “lying skanks.”
“Kevin Jackson has been terminated as a contributor,” a FOX spokesperson said in a statement. “His comments on today’s hearings were reprehensible and do not reflect the values of FOX News.”
Jackson was tweeting during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in which Professor Christine Blasey Ford testified that Kavanaugh assaulted her in the 1980s during a high school house party. Ford testified that Kavanaugh held her down and grinded on her as he tried to take off her one piece bathing suit.
“Feminists are their own worst enemies, and the enemy of women,” Jackson tweeted. “Also, they want men to NEVER be believed. I’m not succumbing. To HELL with the notion women must be believed no matter what. Lying skanks is what these three women are, and we ALL know more.”
Read more: http://time.com/5409325/fox-news-kevin-jackson-fired-kavanaugh-lying-skanks/
That didn't take long.
Here's a question for y'all.
Picture a guy in his late teens to early 20's who thinks its a hoot to get a girl drunk (or drugged), put her in a bedroom and line up a bunch of other guys to take turns having sex with her.
Now flash forward about 20 years or so. The may or may not have settled down, but anyway he's married and has a couple of kids. One night his daughter comes home shattered and crying her eyes out. She finally tells him that she went to a party with some friends. She had a couple of drinks but insists that she was nowhere near being drunk, but somebody must have drugged her drink, but her next coherent memory was having guy after guy having sex with her and laughing about 'pulling a great train'.
How do you think the guy as a 'daddy' would respond'?
Michael Avenatti is trying to be a one man wrecking crew to the GOP.
https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/status/1044056219084828672Brett Kavanaugh must also be asked about this entry in his yearbook: "FFFFFFFourth of July." We believe that this stands for: Find them, French them, Feel them, Finger them, F*ck them, Forget them. As well as the term "Devil's Triangle." Perhaps Sen. Grassley can ask him. #Basta
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Michael Avenatti is trying to be a one man wrecking crew to the GOP.
https://twitter.com/MichaelAvenatti/status/1044056219084828672Brett Kavanaugh must also be asked about this entry in his yearbook: "FFFFFFFourth of July." We believe that this stands for: Find them, French them, Feel them, Finger them, F*ck them, Forget them. As well as the term "Devil's Triangle." Perhaps Sen. Grassley can ask him. #Basta
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