I missed this article from about two weeks ago, but Slacktivist included it in his most recent post.
ā¦on Monday mornings during senior year, the boys would tell their Marriage and Sex teacher, Bernie Ward, about their excesses.
āThe drinking was unbelievable,ā said Ward, who later spent two decades as a radio talk-show host in San Francisco and served six years in federal prison for distributing child pornography. āIt was part of the culture. A parent even bought the keg and threw one of the parties for the kids.ā
Ward, who taught Judge, Kavanaugh and future Supreme Court justice Neil M. Gorsuch in his religion and sexuality courses
Thatās right: Kavanaugh and Gorsuchās TEACHER of religion and sexuality was later imprisoned for child pornography. Itās rotten all the way down, and itās rotten all the way up.
Best use of a uke.
Noted this before, but even the Fbi admits the white house ordered a limited investigation:
I want to believe Rush on this one.
First, he brought the newspaper to court. The women who spoke to the newspaper didnāt. They also donāt seem to have reported outside of the newspaper anywhere ā this hasnāt shown up in any other listings of molesters at all that Iāve seen.
Second, unlike nearly every other case like this, the list of women (have to say supposedly) reporting inappropriate behaviour is very short for someone with a career as long as Rushās. Yes Al Franken, but thatās all I can think of.
Thirdā¦ Iāve been in amateur drama productions, and know people who have worked in them professionally. Most of whatās reported in the article just sounds like actors horsing around to me. If the production was a mentally healthy place to work, the women would have been in on it ā and the whole ādadā thing makes it sound like they were.
I guess this just smells more like a newspaper digging for dirt than an actual #MeToo to me. Could be completely wrong of course.
One horrible thing is that if Rush is right and if he wins the case, itās fuel for backlash against legitimate complaints, and cover for actual perps.
It also seems plausible that he did all those things and did not see anything wrong in them.
Even if he did do all of those things, I think there are much worst accusations out there against men. A pervy old guy flirty with a young, pretty actress - like to see that go away and think itās all part and parcel - but, in the scheme of things, Iād like to see Trump called to account, or Kavanaugh, for their actual rapes.
Apparently Grassley wants a Fbi investigation of Swetnick.
Saw that too:
And people* wonder why women donāt come forward?
*the asshole kind
Am I missing something? The Senate did not allow her as a witness, and the White House forbade the FBI from talking to her. So who are they alleged to be conspiring against, and how did they obstruct the investigation? Were either of them under oath at any time? Iām not sure how āpotentialā conspiracy would be prosecuted, if it is even a crime.
But I would find it rather amusing if the investigation finds credible evidence that he did what she said he did. Well, the investigation wouldnāt be amusing, but watching them jump around finding a reason not to impeach Kavanaugh would be, when they find out heās guilty and the previous investigation was a whitewash.
It does boggle the mind. Maybe they thought that going after Dr. Ford might not be palatable to most of the public, so Avenatti and Swetnick are theyāre second choice.
Whatās right or reasonable never enters their calculations. Itās all about screwing the opposition and getting more power.
And this is the right move. DJ Older rocks.
Okay wait. This guy is president of one con, but heās behaved in public badly enough heās been banned from other events? And thatās not a red flag to his own con? WTAF???
A lot of rapists identify as feminist allies. I think it has to do with their āIām a good personā schtick. Where it breaks down is basically illustrated in the account of the rape: yeah they support women, but on the level of āI love animalsā or āI like kidsā. They still think theyāre smarter, superior, know better.
I once worked for a guy (who fortunately wasnāt a sexual predator, at least) who had a strong feminist wife ā who owned her own company, kept her maiden name, etc. ā and appeared in the job interviews to be an ally.
Once in the job, it became more and more apparent to me that he was using his knowledge of feminism to hire strong capable women to do interesting work but still get paid like they were at the bottom of the employment pyramid. He got all the smarts, but didnāt have to pay for it. We felt lucky to be recognized for being smart and capableā¦well, for a while at least.
Somehow, after all the work was done, the men were the only ones in the final meetings.
Oh, and his wife divorced him. Still has her company, which is doing well.
That is so hard to read. I did read it, though, all the way through.
For those who donāt or canāt because itāll make their blood boil, The tl;dr is Nassar was protected by a network of predators and enablers. MSU womenās athletics is rotten to the core.