The poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling is thoroughly apropos of this moment, Kavanaugh's performance, & @LindseyGrahamSC
IF
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you..,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, (ahem, Democrats)
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
1. "Blacks are...more likely to be wrongfully convicted than whites...for sexual assault"
Dems now want to lower the standard of proof for sexual assault claims vs men which will disproportionately hurt Black Men usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
2. "At any given time, it's estimated that more than 20,000 people in prison are there over false accusations, faulty evidence or something else that went wrong, but could prove their innocence."
3. "Prosecutors call cases like this “misapplied justice” — a more palatable term for arresting, prosecuting and destroying an innocent man's life. And the rate of "misapplied justice" for blacks is exponentially higher than it is for whites."
1. Think back to your final days in High School. It was finally OVER! I mean it was fun and all, but coordinating house parties around parent vacations, finding booze & SAT's got old. You were finally moving on to the promise land: COLLEGE!
2. No more High School sophomores and juniors tagging along. Your own dorm room with no parents around. And of course, the fabled Epic College Parties.
And aside from growing out of the lame High School Social Scene, you'd be so much more mature, knowledgeable & refined...
3. Now you've been in college a year or two. You definitely partied, but grinding through studies took some work too so it wasn't an endless scene from Animal House. But the combination of living independently, meeting new people & learning new things definitely matured you.
1. I was talking politics with my wife tonight and she made a great point. It's obviously horrifying thinking about your son growing up in a world where he can be a studious scholar athlete who...
2. ...graduates from Yale College & Yale Law School, remains a virgin until well after college, raises a wonderful family, rises to become an Appeals Court Judge while promoting & helping men & women of all races along the way, and after all that...
3. ...your son's life can still be left in ruin from a single uncorroborated allegation that flies in the face of his sterling reputation built over 30+ years. All because Democrats decided to throw out due process & reverse 1,000 years of civilized progress...
1. Following on the thread below (did AG Lynch approve emergency FISA warrant in June 2016 based on Crowdstrike story?), if you really want to go down the rabbit hole - look at how hard Obama's DOJ fought to keep bulk collection going in 2015, the timing & players
2. On May 7, 2015 a federal Appeals Court ruled that NSA "bulk collection" of data was illegal. And on June 1, 2015 the relevant statute (Sec 215 of Patriot Act) was set to expire. So the Obama DOJ had a decision to make... pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/NSA_ca2_20…
3. Would Obama's DOJ agree with the Appeals Court decision and stop bulk collection, or fight it to keep bulk collection going? You know the answer - they fought it, & argued FISC isn't bound by Appeals Court precedent (somehow this was an open question) fisc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/…
1. After @JudicialWatch revealed FISC didn't hold a hearing on the Carter Page FISA application, the issue became "does FISC typically hold hearings?" That misses the point.
The question is, "Should FISC have held a hearing in THIS case?"
2. There's no question - Rule 17 of the FISA Rules of Procedure anticipate that there may be hearings.
"The judge to whom a matter is presented or assigned must determine whether a hearing is necessary and, if so, set the time and place of the hearing"
3. So the FISC rules of procedure say there can be hearings. But that's not even the critical issue. The issue is - did Congress intend for there to be hearings in cases like *this* that are so unique and consequential?
So we have to look at the relevant statute, 50 USC Sec 1803