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09-21-2018, 12:51 PM
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Not Bob
Advice and Consent is a very good movie based upon a very good (Pulitzer Prize-winning) book. See the movie. Read the book, if you can get a copy - pretty sure it痴 out of print.
Apropos of nothing (hi sock!), I think Drury痴 later books were a little too reactionary for my taste, but YMMV, as the kids say.
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I loved the scene at the original part of National Airport. So beautiful. For a long time i walked through there just to see it even when I was not going to a gate near it.
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I will not suffer a fool- but I do seem to read a lot of their posts
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09-21-2018, 01:05 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
That "it was someone else" defense is lunacy. I'd ignore it.
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Ed Whalen would not be trotting out the "in was someone else" defense if they believed he didn't do it and were comfortable about how this is going to play out. They are panicking.
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的t was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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09-21-2018, 01:06 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
The general public hates Kavanaugh. They think he's smarmy. This matters.
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The general public does not care. Most people can't name him. Partisans care, and Rs more than Ds.
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的t was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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09-21-2018, 01:09 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
If I'm a publisher, I'm locking down Ronan Farrow to do the book on what actually happened.
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The Amy Chua stuff is, uh, what's the opposite of shocking?
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的t was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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09-21-2018, 01:10 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Adder
" [R]ough horseplay" was Carrie Severino, a lawyer for the Judicial Crisis network, a group backing Kavanaugh. |
Incidentally, a former Clarence Thomas clerk.
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的t was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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09-21-2018, 01:10 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
If this is true it's actually the scariest part of this.
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I think many in the GOP think he did it but don't think it's disqualifying, and know they can't say that aloud.
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的t was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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09-21-2018, 01:13 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Not Bob
Advice and Consent is a very good movie based upon a very good (Pulitzer Prize-winning) book. See the movie. Read the book, if you can get a copy - pretty sure it痴 out of print.
Apropos of nothing (hi sock!), I think Drury痴 later books were a little too reactionary for my taste, but YMMV, as the kids say.
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Go with Tom Drury's The End of Vandalism instead.
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的t was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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09-21-2018, 01:14 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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serial posting
One more would make an Octopus. Sorry, everyone.
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的t was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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09-21-2018, 01:16 PM
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Proud Holder-Post 200,000
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I think many in the GOP think he did it but don't think it's disqualifying, and know they can't say that aloud.
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egg-zactly.
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09-21-2018, 01:53 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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的t was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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09-21-2018, 02:30 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Adder
If the GOP majority wanted to look like they weren't just being partisan, they could delegate the questioning at the hearing to staff or independent counsel. But of course they don't want to.
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This is dead on. Not sure I could say it better.
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的t was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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09-21-2018, 02:33 PM
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Random Syndicate (admin)
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Romantically enfranchised
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
If I'm a publisher, I'm locking down Ronan Farrow to do the book on what actually happened. If Kavanaugh gets in, it will be a monster best seller. If not, it'll still be a best seller for many months.
ETA: This could be a 6-8 episode Netflix or HBO documentary. It's got so many salacious angles -- sex, #metoo, privilege, political corruption.
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I have heard that Farrow has two other potential victims.
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09-21-2018, 03:27 PM
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Wearing the cranky pants
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Pulling your finger
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Adder
There's also a real question as to whether Kavanaugh himself was part of coming up with it. Whelan apparently claims to know where the unnamed female friend lived. How?
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Dr. Blasey and her husband bought the house I grew up in from my mother in 2006. I shit you not.
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Boogers!
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09-21-2018, 04:21 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Monty Capuletti's gazebo
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Ed Whalen would not be trotting out the "in was someone else" defense if they believed he didn't do it and were comfortable about how this is going to play out. They are panicking.
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Maybe. Or maybe it's just a throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks/throw out red herrings and make a mess of the media cycle approach.
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09-21-2018, 04:23 PM
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Moderator
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Re: We are all Slave now.
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
I have heard that Farrow has two other potential victims.
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Guys who do what's accused don't do it once. This would not surprise me in the least.
Farrow's got a dilemma, then, however. Hold them and he risks having Kavanaugh approved.
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