Here is hers:

Judge Kavanaugh says that Roe v. Wade is "settled law," a neat evasion of his future action should an opportunity arise to act.

Republicans compelled insurance companies to pay for Viagra when Viagra was widely advertised. Viagra enhanced male machismo; all family planning for women was bitterly opposed under the pretense of anti-abortion.

To truly decrease abortion, women must have access to some protection. Haven't we learned anything from the recent #MeToo?

Here are my contributions, published a a few days apart.

Donald Trump's campaign website, which is still online, has the following statement: "If elected I will appoint a special prosecutor to look into Crooked Hillary's emails and get the answers the American people deserve."

Any day now.

Despite that being in the public record, we now hear Mr. Trump's defenders, as well as a defendant indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller III, claim that the special prosecutor is a violation of the Constitution. If they felt that way in 2016, they didn't have to vote for the man who promised to appoint one.

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Mr. Trump's attorneys do not want him to talk to Robert Mueller because they believe he would be "walking into a perjury trap."

A few years ago Republican members of Congress set a perjury trap for Hillary Clinton, by asking her to testify about the events of Benghazi.  She agreed, but only on the condition that her sworn testimony was carried on live TV.  After eleven hours of testimony, no one could think of another question to ask her.

That is how you deal with a perjury trap.  You don't "walk into it."  You kick the door open on your way in, you make sure the public gets to see it, and you refuse to leave until they run out of questions.

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The decision by news media to editorialize condemning the current administration has drawn considerable criticism from the right.  We are told that 93% negative coverage is "unfair."  After all, Kim Jong Un gets glowing coverage in his media..

Whoever wrote "The Emperor's New Clothes" was a keen student of human nature.

Gillum did fine in the usual Dem leaning counties but not so well in the usual GOP leaning counties (which are numerous). That has been a recipe for failure in recent statewide elections.

Just like 2002 when Florida Dems chose a bumbling Bill McBride over Janet Reno, I think they may have missed the boat again.

Whether you agree with all her stances or not, I believe Gwen Graham was the route to go to put a Dem back in charge in Tallahassee.

Can Andrew Gillum be the headline candidate to get Democrats to flock to the polls in a non-presidential election year?

There should be a Dem on TV every day yelling about Kavanaugh, the lack of transparency, his ridiculous baseball ticket deals.
But no.

Total abdication by Schumer. Screw him.

here's a video

Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed sweeping legislation to eliminate cash bail in California. The change, which will take effect in October 2019, goes further than any other state in the country to remove money from pretrial detention.

"Today, California reforms its bail system so that rich and poor alike are treated fairly," Brown said in a statement.

Under Senate Bill 10, California will replace bail with "risk assessments" of individuals and non-monetary conditions of release. Counties will establish local agencies to evaluate any individual arrested on felony charges for their likelihood of returning for court hearings and their chances of rearrest.

Trump is, consistent with Cohen's plea, a co-conspirator, although, as expected, Trump and his defenders, have taken to discount this serious crime as a "reporting violation" or that Trump paid with his own money so it doesn't count.

The only reason McSally has a chance is because there are 2 bat guano crazy candidates

It doesn't even make sense in through the looking glass Trumpland.

My prediction for MA - every single incumbent gets re-elected.  Granted, our entire congressional delegation is currently Democrats, but our Governor is a Republican and some of those Democrats really really suck (like my congressman - who voted to extend abortion restrictions to the healthcare bill but didn't vote for the healthcare bill itself - Lynch).

Wiki says this

About 3 per 100,000 people develop the disease a year.

I listened to the audiobook version, read by the author.  I was surprised that her voice did not give any hint of her ethnicity.  She explained that she learned to speak like a radio announcer while she was in college.

As of now, I am willing to believe almost everything she says about Trump in the book.  She claims she has about 200 audiotapes to back her up.  That is not to say she comes across as a 100% sympathetic figure.  For example, she took a job as West Coast Editor of the National Enquirer in which she worked for two years.  This was arranged by Trump with David Pecker in exchange for Omarosa dropping a law suit against the tabloid.  They had published an article where they turned a eulogy that she gave at her brother's funeral into an "exclusive interview".

There is plenty of tabloid style gossip in the book which again, I find credible - like Ivanka's potty mouth and Trump describing Kushner while he was dating Ivanka as "sweet" (gay).  However instead of giving more of that I will give two long quotes that describe Trump's deterioration from Apprentice to White House days.

First physical:

He is clearly obese. During the first season of The Apprentice, he was tall and svelte. In the ensuing seasons, Donald expanded slowly but surely. In 2007, he didn't have a belly yet or the jowl. By 2012, he'd probably put on thirty pounds eating a junk-food-only diet. His preference for steak well done with ketchup has offended many chefs all over the world. The world has yet to learn about the extent of Donald Trump's Diet Coke habit. He always had one in his hand, as far back as I've known him. He's up to eight cans a day, at least. Eight cans a day, for the last fifteen years, is 43,800 cans of Diet Coke, poured into his system.
In the White House, he just pushes a button in a wooden box on his desk. He can summon anything with that button. Whenever I went in to brief him, he'd push the button and get us Diet Cokes.
When I started to have grave concerns for his mental health, I connected the dots to his physical health and poor choices, specifically, his soda habit.
I researched it, and found a brand-new study by a team of neurologists from Boston University that linked Diet Coke consumption with dementia and increased risk of stroke.

In our briefings, Trump's attention was scattered. He was distracted, irritable, and short. Normally when DJT got into one of these moods, you knew to give him time and space. But in this case I could not. I was going over his speech, but he couldn't retain any of the bullet points. I went over them again and again, and what he should say to the press after the event. But he couldn't remember the key points and stumbled over large words, which we scratched out and replaced with simpler terms.
The change in him since his prime was dramatic. Back on season one of The Apprentice, there had been a mix-up on one of the episodes where a contestant lost money on a task, and they were discussing figures. Donald Trump repeated a lengthy numbers sequence with no notes in front of him, calculated them in his head in moments, and came to his conclusion that the math-addled contestant should be fired. That was how sharp he used to be. Now? The blade had been dulled.

I am an INTP -A -T.  Logician.

I know, it sounds like astrology but it's fun.  

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Baby Teeth is only slightly higher than Bork.  30something.  Second lowest ever.

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