[Vision2020] And the hits just keep on coming . . .

[Ted Moffett]

Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
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However, if you are a virgin during  high school and years after, this
somehow indicates you were not involved in sexual harassment or assault or
sexually related battery, etc?

Kavanaugh Tells Fox News He Was a Virgin in High School and 'For Many Years
Thereafter'
http://time.com/5405319/brett-kavanaugh-fox-news-virgin-supreme-court/

This public comment by Kavanaugh, more than any other statement I have
understood him to utter, convinced me that he is lacking in an
understanding of or
empathy for important women's issues.

Also, Shakespeare's famous line might be relevant:  "*The lady doth protest
too much, methinks*"
To brag about virginity might be protesting too much!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_lady_doth_protest_too_much,_methinks
As Wikipedia indicates in bold italics below:
*"The phrase is used in everyday speech to indicate doubt in someone's
sincerity."*

And furthermore I add, as anyone with even a cursory study of the
psychology of sexual harassment or assault or rape etc. knows, this violent
or abusive behavior is often not about "having sex" necessarily, but rather
asserting control or power or aggression over another human being.


On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 5:12 AM Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

> Let me see if I have this right . . .
>
> As a nominee for the Supreme Court, you can have a history of sexually
> molesting women . . . as long as you’ve never lit up a joint?
>
> Jeesh!  I’m glad that I’m not a nominee for the Supreme Court.  I’d NEVER
> be confirmed.
>
> Courtesy of the *Washington Post* at:
>
>
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/ginsburg.htm
>
> ———————————————
>
> *Judge Douglas Ginsburg's Marijuana Use – 1987*
>
> In November 1987, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg was
> forced to withdraw as President Ronald Reagan's nominee for a vacant U.S.
> Supreme Court seat that had been earlier denied to Robert Bork. The reason:
> Ginsburg's admission that he had used marijuana in the 1960s and 1970s
> while a college student and Harvard Law School professor.
>
> The disclosures about Ginsburg, first made by National Public Radio's Nina
> Totenberg and The Washington Post's Al Kamen, sparked a series of
> confessions to the press by other politicians about youthful drug
> experimentation, from U.S. Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.) on the left to U.S.
> Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on the right. Included among the penitents were
> two Democratic presidential candidates at the time, U.S. Sen. Albert Gore
> of Tennessee and former Arizona governor Bruce Babbitt. Neither contender
> appeared at all damaged by their admissions of drug use in their 20s.
>
> ———————————————
>
> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>
> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
> http://www.MoscowCares.com <http://www.moscowcares.com/>
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> Roll, roll, roll your joint twist it at the end,
> Take a puff, that's enough and pass it to a friend.
>
>
> On Sep 23, 2018, at 8:47 PM, Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
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> plus 70 years, Ted Moffett.  Do not copy, forward, excerpt, or reproduce
> outside the Vision2020.Moscow.com <http://vision2020.moscow.com/> forum
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>
> When I first read this Vision2020 post on these newer allegations from
> Deborah Ramirez of "misconduct" by Kavanaugh, reported by the New Yorker,
> I wondered if Ronan Farrow was involved in this New Yorker report, given
> he was involved in the well known sexual misconduct reports surrounding
> Harvey Weinstein.
>
> Indeed, it is so, as can be read below.
>
> Still, I doubt these allegations of sexual misconduct will block the
> ascension of Kavanaugh to the SCOTUS.  There are more democrats in the
> US Senate who may vote for Kavanaugh, fewer republicans who may vote
> against!
> *Whip list: Where senators stand on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh*
>
> https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/10/politics/brett-kavanaugh-senators-whip-list-vote-supreme-court/index.html
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
> https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/senate-democrats-investigate-a-new-allegation-of-sexual-misconduct-from-the-supreme-court-nominee-brett-kavanaughs-college-years-deborah-ramirez
> Senate Democrats Investigate a New Allegation of Sexual Misconduct, from
> Brett Kavanaugh’s College Years
>
> By Ronan Farrow <https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/ronan-farrow> and Jane
> Mayer <https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/jane-mayer>
>
> 7:49 P.M.
>
> Deborah Ramirez, a Yale classmate of Brett Kavanaugh’s, has described a
> dormitory party gone awry and a drunken incident that she wants the F.B.I.
> to investigate.
>
> ---------------------------------------
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 6:17 PM Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
>
>
> Courtesy of *USA Today* at:
>>
>>
>> https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/23/brett-kavanaugh-second-woman-accuses-him-sexual-assault-deborah-ramirez/1406607002/
>>
>> ———————————————-
>> *Second woman accuses Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault in New Yorker
>> report*
>>
>> A woman who attended Yale University with Brett Kavanaugh has alleged
>> that he sexually assaulted her when they both were freshmen at the Ivy
>> League school, according to a New Yorker article, which says Senate
>> Democrats are investigating the allegations.
>>
>> The woman, identified as Deborah Rameriz, is accusing Kavanaugh of
>> exposing himself at a dormitory party and "thrusting his penis" in her
>> face, according to the story, which also reports that this incident
>> happened during the 1983-84 academic year.
>>
>> Ramirez, 53, is the second woman to accuse the Supreme Court nominee of
>> sexual assault decades ago.
>>
>> In Ramirez' case, she claims she encountered him at a party a year after
>> Christine Blasey Ford has said that he held her down, covered her mouth his
>> hand and tried to remove her clothes after he and a friend locked her in a
>> bedroom at a party in 1982, when they were all in high school in the
>> suburbs of Washington, DC.
>>
>> Kavanaugh has repeatedly denied the allegations by Ford and in a new
>> statement denied this new accusation.
>>
>> “This alleged event from 35 years ago did not happen," Kavanaugh said in
>> a statement released by the White House. "The people who knew me then know
>> that this did not happen, and have said so. This is a smear, plain and
>> simple. I look forward to testifying on Thursday about the truth, and
>> defending my good name -- and the reputation for character and integrity I
>> have spent a lifetime building -- against these last-minute allegations.”
>>
>> Ford has agreed to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee at 10 am
>> on Thursday and the New York is reporting that Ramirez is asking for an FBI
>> investigation into her allegations against Kavanaugh.
>>
>> Rameriez told the New Yorker that the incident took place after she was
>> invited to a party where she and friends played a drinking game. She said
>> she was repeatedly picked to take a drink and quickly became drunk.
>>
>> At some point, Ramirez told the New Yorker that a male student exposed
>> himself to her. She remembers Kavanaugh standing nearby and pulling his
>> pants up while he laughed.
>>
>> "I can still see his face, and his hips coming forward, like when you
>> pull up your pants," she told the New Yorker.
>>
>> Ramirez said she does have gaps in her memories of the evening and knows
>> she will be questioned about why she took so long to come forward with the
>> allegations.
>>
>> ———————————————-
>>
>> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>>
>> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
>> http://www.MoscowCares.com <http://www.moscowcares.com/>
>>
>> Tom Hansen
>> Moscow, Idaho
>>
>>
>
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