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Re: Act III
« Reply #40 on: September 25, 2018, 09:50:09 am »
Will Trump win a second term?   That may depend on who the Democrats nominate.   Putin would support a Democrat if he (or she) was a better puppet than Trump,  and that means the Democrat would win.    ;D

Actually, every hired person is somehow a puppet.
Aren't all politicians in the world, including Trump and Putin, people hired for a certain political job and for a certain period of time.

What is rather difficult, if not impossible to billions of people, is knowing those who have the means to hire them (via big/national ceremonies if necessary), also to fire them (in the name of law or alike).

By the way, as in all other countries, the members of the high class, Democrat and Republican for a few, sit on the same table as good fellows do when they are not doing politics. As in the movie "The good, the bad and the ugly", the three principal actors are friends behind the scenes ;)

I don't believe there are real divisions among the top decision makers in USA; otherwise, and they know it, their empire will soon see its end.
   
"Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

So Let us enjoy the daily episodes of the great series called Politics :D

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« Reply #41 on: September 28, 2018, 07:22:51 pm »
Judge Brett Kavanaugh told a whopper at the Senate hearing.   He said it was legal for him to be drinking beer in Maryland since the legal age was 18 then.   Now then, he was born on February 12, 1965, so he turned 18 in 1983.    What was the legal age to drink beer then?

According to Wikipedia, before 1974 it had been 21.   It got lowered to 18 in 1974.  Then it got raised to 21 again in 1982. 

https://thehill.com/blogs/briefing-room/408897-kavanaugh-incorrectly-claims-he-could-legally-drink-as-a-high-school-senior

In an interview on Fox News on Monday he said, "Yes, there were parties. And the drinking age was 18. And yes, the seniors were legal.”

During Thursday's testimony, he made the same argument.

“Yes, we drank beer, my friends and I, boys and girls. Yes, we drank beer. I liked beer. I still like beer,” he said.

“The drinking age, as I noted, was 18, so the seniors were legal. Senior year in high school, people were legal to drink.”

However, the legal drinking age in Maryland was raised from 18 to 21 on July 1, 1982, and Kavanaugh did not turn 18 until Feb. 12, 1983.

It is worth noting that Kavanaugh could legally drink in Washington, D.C., for his final five months of high school, where the age was not raised until 1986.


Why lie?  Why didn't he admit it?  I think we've all done things we regret.   Most teens do, and some adults do too. I wouldn't hold it against him if he had said his drinking was against the law.

It also undermines his credibility when he denied sexually assaulting women. 

It also makes me wonder how devout a Catholic he is.  He doesn't understand that confession of  sins is important?  He must not.  He was under oath at that hearing, so it looks as he preferred  perjuring himself in the here and now over confessing  errors from the past.    Here he is, taking the oath which clearly means nothing to him.  He may call himself a Catholic; but I think he's an atheist. 


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« Reply #42 on: September 29, 2018, 02:35:00 am »
Why lie?  Why didn't he admit it?  I think we've all done things we regret.   Most teens do, and some adults do too. I wouldn't hold it against him if he had said his drinking was against the law.

It also undermines his credibility when he denied sexually assaulting women. 

It also makes me wonder how devout a Catholic he is.  He doesn't understand that confession of  sins is important?  He must not.  He was under oath at that hearing, so it looks as he preferred  perjuring himself in the here and now over confessing  errors from the past.    Here he is, taking the oath which clearly means nothing to him.  He may call himself a Catholic; but I think he's an atheist. 


Maybe he went to confession to a priest. Isn't that what Catholics do? So maybe now he thinks he's forgiven.

He sounds more like a typical lying politician with things in common with men like Trump and Clinton and some others. He'll fit right in with the Trump administration. His arrogance and thinking he's above the law speaks volumes.

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« Reply #43 on: September 29, 2018, 04:25:28 am »
Sorry friends; when I said earlier "So Let us enjoy the daily episodes of the great series called Politics" I had no idea that its entertaining episodes in America could also include "beer" and the man-made rules about those who have the right to drink it or not in a certain period of time. So thank you for sharing this.

For instance, although I have no idea who Brett Kavanaugh is and I have no reason to defend him, the world would be wonderful if all lies are about "beer" and alike :D

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« Reply #44 on: September 29, 2018, 08:09:11 am »
Maybe he went to confession to a priest. Isn't that what Catholics do? So maybe now he thinks he's forgiven.
If he did confess it to a priest and was truly  sorry for it,   I'd say he would be forgiven.  The priest is there to help people sort things out so they don't fool themselves into thinking they can be forgiven without regretting  sins.  If he was forgiven, he'd have no reason to deny it.   

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He sounds more like a typical lying politician with things in common with men like Trump and Clinton and some others. He'll fit right in with the Trump administration. His arrogance and thinking he's above the law speaks volumes.
I did not care that much about Bill Clinton's sex life.  What he did in the privacy of whatever rooms he had sex in didn't interest me that much.   I did care however when he attacked women, called one a liar.   I think he sued her; and then when he got to court he lied under oath.   He was convicted of perjury.  Such a man obviously thinks he's "above the law."   The Democrats wanted to defend him, and they were willing to ignore this undermining of the justice system.   What he did in private is mostly his business; but when he undermined the justice system, he was attacking every American who should be able to rely on it for fair verdicts.  Such a man should not be President.    His contempt for women and his willingness to abuse the legal system showed us what kind of character he had. 

I heard quite a bit of the hearing.  The woman who testified was low-key without a lot of unnecessary drama, keeping to her story -- her version of the "facts."   She struck me as honest. 

When Kavanaugh got up there, he got all dramatic.  He launched into a wild conspiracy theory.  I was struck by how lacking he was in the "judicial temperament" which judges ought to have where they can consider the facts of a case calmly and without prejudice.    The woman acted more qualified to be a judge than he did as did many of the Senators.   Someone given to throwing tantrums the way he did should not be a judge. 

I was also struck by how he interrupted several of the women asking questions.   They were doing their jobs as Senators on the committee.  They were supposed to ask questions and he was supposed to answer them.   He'd interrupt them, he'd ask them irrelevant questions,  and sometimes he gave irrelevant answers.   Again this showed me how unqualified he was to be a judge.   Judges should show respect for due process and procedures.  He did not.  He seemed to be different interacting with the women than the men, and I had to think he hated being "grilled" by women.     They were doing their jobs!   Who cares if they were men or women?   He seemed to. 

He tried to paint himself as a victim and he talked about how his family had been made victims; but he had his wife sitting behind him.  He had her on Fox News with him too.  She looked very depressed.  I had to ask why he dragged her along with him if he was so concerned about her being victimized. 

He came across to me as a rich white kid brought up in a privileged household; and he was not used to be challenged  on anything.   For him,  having women say things about him was the "end of the world."    Maybe he should be glad he wasn't born in some poor country, or born as a member of a minority that truly had to struggle to get by.  People are starving, dying for lack of proper medical care, being killed in wars, and suffering a lot more than he ever did -- but all he could see was his own problems which he exaggerated as if they were the worst thing that ever happened to anyone.   

Oh, by the way, the prep school he went to was a Jesuit school; and the magazine of the Jesuit order, which had backed him, has now backtracked.   I'd say they were correct to do so since Kavanaugh is not a good example of a good Catholic.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kavanaugh-confirmation-america-magazine-jesuit-urges-nomination-withdrawal-2018-09-28/

ROME — The magazine of the Jesuit religious order in the United States has publicly withdrawn its endorsement of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as Supreme Court justice following testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee by the Jesuit-educated Kavanaugh and the woman accusing him of sexually assaulting her decades ago.

In an editorial posted late Thursday, America magazine said it had no special insight into whether Kavanaugh or Christine Blasey Ford is telling the truth. But it said that the nomination was no longer in the interests of the country and "should be withdrawn."

"If Senate Republicans proceed with his nomination, they will be prioritizing policy aims over a woman's report of an assault," the editors wrote. "Were he to be confirmed without this allegation being firmly disproved, it would hang over his future decisions on the Supreme Court for decades and further divide the country."

The reversal is significant given Kavanaugh has repeatedly cited his Catholic faith and Jesuit education in defending himself against Ford's accusations. In his opening statement Thursday, Kavanaugh twice referenced his years as a student at the Jesuit-run Georgetown Prep school in Maryland. Ford has accused a drunken Kavanaugh of assaulting her at a house party in the summer of 1982, when he was a student at the school. Kavanaugh has vigorously denied her claims.


I know he lied about the legal age for drinking; and that speaks volumes since people who will lie about one thing will usually lie about other things.  If he can't admit drinking illegally as a minor (which seems rather unimportant to me), I would expect him to lie about more serious things.  The man is a nutcase in my opinion, unable to admit to doing anything wrong in the past. 

If you saw any of it, you saw the bizarre facial expressions.   He was obviously feeling very stressed out.  He was screwing his face around and sticking his tongue into his cheek.  He does not operate well under stress.   His talk about wanting to be  "number 1" in his class and "captain" of some sports team also struck me as  weird.  Does he feel inadequate as a male or something that he has to "prove" how great he is?   And what if he was "number 1" and "captain" the way he talked about?   So what?  He could still be a creep.  I think there is something wrong in the way boys are brought up if they think that way.  His priorities were messed up in my opinion.   A good Catholic would not assert that his top priority in life was being number 1.     

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Re: Act III
« Reply #45 on: September 29, 2018, 08:46:16 am »
Sorry friends; when I said earlier "So Let us enjoy the daily episodes of the great series called Politics" I had no idea that its entertaining episodes in America could also include "beer" and the man-made rules about those who have the right to drink it or not in a certain period of time. So thank you for sharing this.

For instance, although I have no idea who Brett Kavanaugh is and I have no reason to defend him, the world would be wonderful if all lies are about "beer" and alike :D
I don't think beer is worth anyone's  perjuring himself over.  He took an oath which included the phrase, "so help me God" when promising to tell the truth and then lied.  I wish I could find it entertaining, but it saddens me.  It would be amusing perhaps if he had merely lied about beer to men and  had he not appealed to God under oath.  His soul is in jeopardy if you ask me, so I can't be amused.   He reminds me of Esau who sold his birthright for a bowl of porridge. No matter what he says, I'm almost certain he is an atheist.  No one who believed in  God  would lie under oath appealing to God over such a trivial thing. 

Such a man also should not be a judge, let alone be promoted to being a Justice of the American Supreme Court. 

Proverbs 6:16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. 


Don't be too surprised if Trump withdraws the nomination.   I can almost guarantee that if Democrats got control in the House of Representatives, they would impeach Kavanaugh for lying under oath.  The Republicans might think they're clever to rush this through before the next election; but Kavanaugh could be under more stress later if he's made a Supreme Court Justice since it won't be the end of the story.   There wouldn't be enough votes in the Senate to convict him, but his life could be made hell. 

Republicans rushed through Clarence Thomas' nomination without investigating what movies he rented -- he wouldn't have been approved if they had.     He too claimed to a victim; and the Senate never did look into everything.   Oh yes, there are some people who think he too should be impeached for lying under oath -- and I'm one of them. 

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/the-case-for-impeaching-clarence-thomas.html

The Thomas hearings were not just a national referendum on workplace behavior, sexual mores, and the interplay between those things; they were a typical example of partisan gamesmanship and flawed compromise. Chairman Biden was outmaneuvered and bluffed by the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee. He had plenty of witnesses who could have testified about Thomas’s inappropriate sexualized office behavior and easily proven interest in the kind of **** Hill referenced in her testimony, but had made a bargain with his Republican colleagues that sealed Hill’s fate: He agreed only to call witnesses who had information about Thomas’s workplace behavior. Thomas’s “private life,” especially his taste for **** — then considered more outré than it might be now — would be out of bounds, despite the fact that information confirming his habit of talking about it would have cast extreme doubt on Thomas’s denials.

This gentleman’s agreement was typical of the then-all-male Judiciary Committee. Other high-profile Democrats like Ted Kennedy, who was in no position to poke into sexual misconduct, remained silent. Republicans looked for dirt on Hill wherever they could find it — painting her as a “little bit nutty and a little bit slutty,” as Brock later said, with help from Thomas himself, who huddled with GOP congressmen to brainstorm what damaging information he could unearth on his former employee, some of which he seems to have leaked to the press — and ladled it into the Hill-Thomas testimony. Meanwhile, Biden played by Marquis of Queensberry rules.


The Senate then  was not interested in what kind of movies Thomas liked to watch, something that could have been easily proved by records from movie rental stores.  We know now he lied.  Now again, I wouldn't care that much about what kind of movies he watched -- that by itself is none of my business.  But when he acted all pure and innocent and said Anita Hill was a liar and lies under oath,  then it becomes my business and the business of every American.   I'm tired of the men who abuse women and then vilify them later if they dare to speak up -- they show their contempt for the human race, and then when they lie under oath they show their lack of fear of God. 

Leviticus 19:12 And ye shall not swear by my name falsely, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.

If you are going to lie under oath, why not do it over something big, not something as trivial as beer?   If you must go to hell, why not lie over something more a little more important?   

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« Reply #46 on: September 29, 2018, 12:14:50 pm »
There is nothing wrong in all what you said in the previous message.

Our main difference, in such a subject, is that while you don't mind trusting some of the privileged persons (serving the high class; religious or political), I don't trust any of them (locally or abroad) :D

I know in advance that a person cannot be accepted to be a member of the high class, in any region in the world, or even be just one of its privileged servants if he insists to act as a free independent honest person.
Also, when the big bosses decide that it is time to replace one of their servants (or one of their old partners) they decide with him on the way by which he can leave the game rather peacefully (by using man-made rules); like telling a lie under oath. Otherwise, the unwanted servant (if not his family and friends too) would have to face real hard days if not early death (making him a hero scapegoat).

I noticed that, in America, personal sexual stories could be used with a great success when the big bosses like to get rid of someone while, at the same time, having the support of their American multitudes. On the other hand, an American politician (mainly the President) has the right to play the ignorant, the idiot or even the insane person after fooling his audience (civilians and troops) by various fake news (which affect badly the life of millions, if not billions). But, truth be said, if most Americans were not made to trust blindly their Free Democratic system, they couldn't deserve the good food and the beautiful shelters (besides other bonuses) which the pre-emptive wars, launched by their system, provide continuously.

Please don't hear from what I said that I wish be an American ;) For all treasures of the world, I can't sell my will and time to anyone. Many Christian Syrian friends moved, since many decades ago, to USA to study, live and work. In their short visits in Syria, I heard them talk always about the great importance of money... money... and money, and how they were great of making big money. Naturally, each of them was pity on me for not taking advantage of my scientific skills to become rich and famous in a great country, as America. I mean, humans are not created of the same nature. And while it is common to classify humans as good and evil, each human is actually brought into this universe for certain roles, no matter if we like them or not; one of these roles is serving a ruling system (for instance, the today's ruling systems form a pyramid though each of them has to play the independence before its people).

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« Reply #47 on: September 30, 2018, 02:32:13 pm »
If he did confess it to a priest and was truly  sorry for it,   I'd say he would be forgiven.  The priest is there to help people sort things out so they don't fool themselves into thinking they can be forgiven without regretting  sins.  If he was forgiven, he'd have no reason to deny it.
I heard what he said and saw his facial expressions. He showed no regret only arrogance and denial and an attitude that he is untouchable and above the law.   
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I did not care that much about Bill Clinton's sex life.  What he did in the privacy of whatever rooms he had sex in didn't interest me that much.   I did care however when he attacked women, called one a liar.   I think he sued her; and then when he got to court he lied under oath.   He was convicted of perjury.  Such a man obviously thinks he's "above the law."   The Democrats wanted to defend him, and they were willing to ignore this undermining of the justice system.   What he did in private is mostly his business; but when he undermined the justice system, he was attacking every American who should be able to rely on it for fair verdicts.  Such a man should not be President.    His contempt for women and his willingness to abuse the legal system showed us what kind of character he had.
Clinton's legacy began when he was governor of Arkansas. Aside from his womanizing, he was involved in drug smuggling, money laundering, gun running, also evidence of threatening witnesses, hiring men beat up witnesses, and also was implicated in the murder of witnesses, getting young girls on **** and then prostituting them out, also the Rose Law Firm was deeply connected in all this. 
Then after all this, he became President.

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I heard quite a bit of the hearing.  The woman who testified was low-key without a lot of unnecessary drama, keeping to her story -- her version of the "facts."   She struck me as honest. 

When Kavanaugh got up there, he got all dramatic.  He launched into a wild conspiracy theory.  I was struck by how lacking he was in the "judicial temperament" which judges ought to have where they can consider the facts of a case calmly and without prejudice.    The woman acted more qualified to be a judge than he did as did many of the Senators.   Someone given to throwing tantrums the way he did should not be a judge. 

I was also struck by how he interrupted several of the women asking questions.   They were doing their jobs as Senators on the committee.  They were supposed to ask questions and he was supposed to answer them.   He'd interrupt them, he'd ask them irrelevant questions,  and sometimes he gave irrelevant answers.   Again this showed me how unqualified he was to be a judge.   Judges should show respect for due process and procedures.  He did not.  He seemed to be different interacting with the women than the men, and I had to think he hated being "grilled" by women.     They were doing their jobs!   Who cares if they were men or women?   He seemed to. 

He tried to paint himself as a victim and he talked about how his family had been made victims; but he had his wife sitting behind him.  He had her on Fox News with him too.  She looked very depressed.  I had to ask why he dragged her along with him if he was so concerned about her being victimized. 

He came across to me as a rich white kid brought up in a privileged household; and he was not used to be challenged  on anything.   For him,  having women say things about him was the "end of the world."    Maybe he should be glad he wasn't born in some poor country, or born as a member of a minority that truly had to struggle to get by.  People are starving, dying for lack of proper medical care, being killed in wars, and suffering a lot more than he ever did -- but all he could see was his own problems which he exaggerated as if they were the worst thing that ever happened to anyone.
Another one of the "good ole boys" I guess. He must have some high connections to have gotten even this far. 

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Oh, by the way, the prep school he went to was a Jesuit school; and the magazine of the Jesuit order, which had backed him, has now backtracked.   I'd say they were correct to do so since Kavanaugh is not a good example of a good Catholic.
Jesuits....that's interesting. They have a lot of power.

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If you saw any of it, you saw the bizarre facial expressions.   He was obviously feeling very stressed out.  He was screwing his face around and sticking his tongue into his cheek.  He does not operate well under stress.   His talk about wanting to be  "number 1" in his class and "captain" of some sports team also struck me as  weird.  Does he feel inadequate as a male or something that he has to "prove" how great he is?   And what if he was "number 1" and "captain" the way he talked about?   So what?  He could still be a creep.  I think there is something wrong in the way boys are brought up if they think that way.  His priorities were messed up in my opinion.   A good Catholic would not assert that his top priority in life was being number 1.     
I think Trump and this guy are like two peas in a pod with the "number1" mentality and in other ways, such as their view about women.

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« Reply #48 on: September 30, 2018, 09:08:36 pm »
The universal trick that likely works to fool almost all people around the world is playing before them the naďve ignorant or confused kid.

Knowing this truth, no one can convince me that a person who knew how to join, in away or another, the high class could be less intelligent than I am.

Many people used to think that great actors exist in movies and series only. Do these actors play their various talents for free?
Such a great movie actor is ready to work hard, for a relatively small amount of money (a few millions for example), to play certain roles while he has to convince his large audience, as much as possible, that his acts are real and not artificial.
So one can imagine what a person is ready to do when the amount of money involved (controlled by the big bosses of his system) is about billions, if not trillions of dollars.

In brief, I am sure, for example, that Brett Kavanaugh knew very well already the consequences (including your reactions here ;) ) of what he did and may do later. But the real reason/goal for which he was instructed to play arrogance and the liar, for a few, will be known from observing the future changes and decisions, claimed necessary to close his case.

Of course, I also understand that almost every human (I, not included) doesn't mind believing that he is one of the few smartest ones on the globe.
But when I observe what others say and do, mainly in public, I suppose always they are not less intelligent than I (no matter what they do). So, I wait to see the fruits of their doings and discover, for my own knowledge only, the hidden parts of their stories.
 

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« Reply #49 on: October 12, 2018, 08:45:49 pm »
Quick, somebody tell the President his strategy to reduce the trade deficit with China isn't working.  Try something else!

https://www.vox.com/2018/10/12/17967422/china-trade-war-us-trump-deficit


One major goal of President Donald Trump’s trade war with China is to send more US-made products there than Chinese companies export here.

But so far it looks like that plan isn’t working — and it could become politically costly for Trump.

America’s trade deficit with China reached a new high — $34.1 billion — in September. That’s a 13 percent increase compared to last year and is the second-straight record month after a deficit of $31 billion in August.

That takes America’s trade deficit with China for the year to $225.8 billion — about $30 billion more than at the same point in 2017.

This could prove to be a problem for Trump. Over the past year, America has placed about $200 billion worth of tariffs on Chinese goods, in part to make Chinese products more expensive so Americans don’t buy them.

But Beijing has responded to the tariffs in kind, making it much harder for US companies to sell in the Chinese market. China has purposefully increased its exports to the US while, at the same time, it has stopped buying as much from US manufacturers.

While it’s possible that the deficit could shrink in the coming months, right now it doesn’t look good for the president.

“President Trump is on track this year to preside over the new record for the largest trade deficit in the history of US-China relations, beating the record that was set under his watch last year,” Ryan Hass, a China expert at the Brookings Institution, told me.