Rep. Palmer posted the below on Facebook on Friday. The comments on Rep. Palmer's post can be viewed by clicking on the comment icon.
I think more is needed to be heard from Rep. Palmer in order to assess whether he will be making a contribution to getting the country past the collective stupidity of the 35 days of government shutdown.
Sunday, January 27, 2019
Friday, October 26, 2018
Can AL experts help AL voters
Issues like health care and tax cuts are hard for voters to understand adequately. It would be good to draw into the public political discourse in Alabama participation by Alabama academics and others with expertise concerning these issues.
In connection with the Senate special election in 2017, I tried to solicit the holding of a health care symposium as described at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2017/06/health-care-symposium.html. I was not able to get a response.
Recently I contacted three Alabama academics along the lines of the below inquiry. What kind of response I will get remains to be seen.
"6 questions with the professor who says Alabama can still reap billions by expanding Medicaid" is an interview with David J. Becker, professor in UAB’s School of Public Health, who is identified as being at the forefront in studying the economics of a Medicaid expansion. In the interview, Professor Becker says:
In connection with the Senate special election in 2017, I tried to solicit the holding of a health care symposium as described at https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2017/06/health-care-symposium.html. I was not able to get a response.
Recently I contacted three Alabama academics along the lines of the below inquiry. What kind of response I will get remains to be seen.
From: Rob ShattuckUpdate 2/13/19
To:
Cc:
Sent: Sun, Oct 14, 2018 9:33 am
Subject: Inquiry
Dear _____ ,
This is probably part of fruitless efforts on my part to try to draw into the public political discourse in Alabama, participation by academics and others with expertise on issues I wish to get discussed in the discourse.
My experience tells me that those whom I solicit consider participation to be unworthy, growing out of their having dim views of the capacity and willingness of Alabama politicians and voters to gain reasonable understanding of, and to give reasonable consideration to, the political issues in question, and also their feeling constrained by their academic and professional reputations and positions.
To give you an idea of what I would like to obtain, _____ (a fellow Alabamian with whom I have corresponded per below) has academic credentials in the field of U.S. foreign relations and policy. He and I have had conversation about how Trump has been able to achieve with North Korea that Trump says no prior President has been able to achieve.
In conversation, ____ and I have discussed that China and Russia have their own interests regarding North Korea,which are different from U.S. interests, and China and Russia have been enablers of NK nuclear and missile programs. With their own interests re NK, C&R resists U.S. pressures to do what U..S. wants re NK and not what C&R want. If NK is years away from being able to hit U.S. with nukes, U.S.is limited in its ability to pressure China & Russia to do what U.S, wants about NK, such as by imposing sanctions or by U.S. threatening military attack on NK, without severe risk of C&R pushing back and threatening to attack U.S. if U.S. attacks NK.
The foregoing becomes much different when NK is months away from being able to nuke U.S. China & Russia can understand that national security threat to U.S. & U.S.. imperative to protect itself, including imposing severe economic sanctions or attacking NK. To avoid that, China & Russia can decide to help US with NK.
If Obama was President in 2017 when Americans were freaking out with NK bomb and missile tests, and intell assessment was moving from years to months before NK could nuke US, I believe Obama would have done intense pressuring of China (and Russia) as Trump has been doing.
Notwithstanding the foregoing geopolitical realities,Trump is able to get away with saying he has been able to do what no prior President has been able to do about North Korea and attribute it to his personal abilities as President, and without indicating the geopolitical realities that changed, and that such change more explains what Trump has been able to do, and not his personal abilities.
The public political discourse in Alabama is pathetic, and it is virtually impossible to inject into the discourse something like geopolitical realities for understanding and consideration by the voters in evaluating Trump.
I have been ridiculous enough to try via the #alpolitics hashtag on Twitter. If you have a Twitter account, you can read an example of my effort in a thread of mine at https://twitter.com/RobShattuckAL06/status/990635027628163073.
Two other subjects as to which I have endeavored to upgrade the public political discourse in Alabama are the tax cuts and healthcare. I don't have credentials in either of those areas, but I do what I can.
As to the tax cuts, see http://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2017/12/al-experts-re-tax-cuts.html, and as to health care, see https://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2017/06/health-care-symposium.html.
While I know how little effect what I do has, it is nonetheless intellectually challenging and rewarding, and so I do it and continue to do it.
I further observe that election times provide the best opportunity for getting anyone's attention, and the next three weeks are prime for that.
So, let me put this inquiry (solicitation) to you this way:
If any of your Alabama academic colleagues or contacts have, or wish to compose, any writing directed towards any relevant political issue in this election, I would like to tweet links to the writing during the next three weeks and to play up the Alabama connection of the author and the author's credentials.
I know this is an unlikely inquiry (solicitation), but so be it, and I thank you very much for whatever attention you give to it.
Sincerely,
"6 questions with the professor who says Alabama can still reap billions by expanding Medicaid" is an interview with David J. Becker, professor in UAB’s School of Public Health, who is identified as being at the forefront in studying the economics of a Medicaid expansion. In the interview, Professor Becker says:
As a health policy researcher, I recognize that there are partisan issues all around me. Health care reform is difficult not because of disagreements about facts, but because of the fundamental differences in our core values. I’m not uncomfortable doing work on a topic that is partisan, because I accept that my role is to provide facts to an audience comprised of people who don’t all see the world the same way. Our elected officials have been tasked with the responsibility of making important decisions on our behalf. My role is to ensure that those decisions are well-informed.
Saturday, October 6, 2018
Law profs and undoing Supreme Court damage
As discussed at Living with Supreme Court damage, more than 1,000 law school professors signed a letter saying Judge Kavanaugh should not be confirmed because he "displayed a lack of judicial temperament that would be disqualifying for any court, and certainly for elevation to the highest court of this land" and "he did not display the impartiality and judicial temperament requisite to sit on the highest court of our land."
America has had a media onslaught that Judge Kavenaugh lacks the judicial temperament to be on the Supreme Court.
In the Senate debate yesterday and today, the Democrat Senators pounded that Judge Kavanaugh lacks the judicial temperament to serve on the Supreme Court and that confirming him is an egregious mistake. The Republican Senators adamantly contended to the contrary.
It remains to be seen what Americans will carry away from the confirmation of Judge Kavanagh.
The combination of the media onslaught and the pounding of the Democrat Senators against Judge Kavanaugh, supported by the letter of the law professors, may greatly undermine the confidence of Americans in the United States Supreme Court and its Justices, and in Americans having confidence in the United States Senate to perform its advise and consent role to assure that persons who become Justices on the Supreme Court are qualified.
At a minimum, if the extreme contentiousness continues, it will feed the country's polarization, with the two sides' anger augmented by cross accusations by Democrats that the Republicans rammed through a candidate who has no business being on the Supreme Court and the Republicans angrily firing back about the despicable efforts of the Democrats to destroy a good and decent man for partisan power seeking purposes.
Much anger and contentiousness are likely to continue regarding Justice Kavenaugh. The law professors will have a responsibility in the situation that their letter will be available for use by those who don't let go of the attack on Justice Kavanaugh.
Maybe the law professors are fine with their letter being used as ammunition in continuing political warfare between the two political sides and don't mind if they are contributing the country's mounting polarization.
Maybe the law professors don't wish that and would like to contribute to reducing polarization.
Reconsideration of their letter
The law professors need to be presumed to have given careful consideration to what their letter said and they were prepared to stand by their letter at the time of signing it and in the future (subject to the possibility of the law professors changing their view after they observe for a time how Judge Kavanaugh performs as Associate Justice Kavanaugh).
Reconsideration of their letter would be a very hard thing for the law professors to do.
Nonetheless, it is urged that the law professors reconsider their letter.
One thing for law professors to do (which they may have done before signing the letter) is introspection and doing a personal inventory of instances in which they had angry, antagonistic outbursts, and the circumstances and provocation for same, and have those in mind as they judge Judge Kavanaugh's anger and aggression that were exhibited in the hearing and taking into account the provocation of same.
Remonstration of the Senators
There is much to criticize about how the Senators carried out their confirmation hearings and misunderstandings and distortions that Americans got about the role of the Supreme Court and about Judge Kavanaugh's judicial opinions. These misunderstandings and distortions feed into the country's polarization problem.
The law professors could prepare and publish a writing that corrects the misunderstandings and distortions that get conveyed to lay viewers of the hearings.
America has had a media onslaught that Judge Kavenaugh lacks the judicial temperament to be on the Supreme Court.
In the Senate debate yesterday and today, the Democrat Senators pounded that Judge Kavanaugh lacks the judicial temperament to serve on the Supreme Court and that confirming him is an egregious mistake. The Republican Senators adamantly contended to the contrary.
It remains to be seen what Americans will carry away from the confirmation of Judge Kavanagh.
The combination of the media onslaught and the pounding of the Democrat Senators against Judge Kavanaugh, supported by the letter of the law professors, may greatly undermine the confidence of Americans in the United States Supreme Court and its Justices, and in Americans having confidence in the United States Senate to perform its advise and consent role to assure that persons who become Justices on the Supreme Court are qualified.
At a minimum, if the extreme contentiousness continues, it will feed the country's polarization, with the two sides' anger augmented by cross accusations by Democrats that the Republicans rammed through a candidate who has no business being on the Supreme Court and the Republicans angrily firing back about the despicable efforts of the Democrats to destroy a good and decent man for partisan power seeking purposes.
Much anger and contentiousness are likely to continue regarding Justice Kavenaugh. The law professors will have a responsibility in the situation that their letter will be available for use by those who don't let go of the attack on Justice Kavanaugh.
Maybe the law professors are fine with their letter being used as ammunition in continuing political warfare between the two political sides and don't mind if they are contributing the country's mounting polarization.
Maybe the law professors don't wish that and would like to contribute to reducing polarization.
Reconsideration of their letter
The law professors need to be presumed to have given careful consideration to what their letter said and they were prepared to stand by their letter at the time of signing it and in the future (subject to the possibility of the law professors changing their view after they observe for a time how Judge Kavanaugh performs as Associate Justice Kavanaugh).
Reconsideration of their letter would be a very hard thing for the law professors to do.
Nonetheless, it is urged that the law professors reconsider their letter.
One thing for law professors to do (which they may have done before signing the letter) is introspection and doing a personal inventory of instances in which they had angry, antagonistic outbursts, and the circumstances and provocation for same, and have those in mind as they judge Judge Kavanaugh's anger and aggression that were exhibited in the hearing and taking into account the provocation of same.
Remonstration of the Senators
There is much to criticize about how the Senators carried out their confirmation hearings and misunderstandings and distortions that Americans got about the role of the Supreme Court and about Judge Kavanaugh's judicial opinions. These misunderstandings and distortions feed into the country's polarization problem.
The law professors could prepare and publish a writing that corrects the misunderstandings and distortions that get conveyed to lay viewers of the hearings.
Living with Supreme Court damage
On the assumption that Judge Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed today by the United States Senate to be an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court, the country is now confronted with the damage that the confirmation process has done to the Supreme Court.
Among other things, there is on the record that more than 1,000 law school professors signed a letter calling for the United States Senate not to confirm Judge Kavanaugh. See Newsweek article
MORE THAN 1,000 LAW PROFESSORS SIGN LETTER CALLING ON SENATE NOT TO CONFIRM KAVANAUGH
The full text of the letter can be found here. Two particular statements from the letter are:
This creates a significant problem for the country in how the United States Supreme Court is undermined in the eyes of the people.
This damage to the Supreme Court could last for years, and it is unclear what, if anything, the country can do to mitigate the damage.
I will offer exploring possible ways for mitigating the damage.
First, Law profs and undoing Supreme Court damage.
[N.B. I am currently shadow banned by Twitter (see Shadow banned by Twitter) and will be using Facebook messaging and email to communicate on this subject.]
Among other things, there is on the record that more than 1,000 law school professors signed a letter calling for the United States Senate not to confirm Judge Kavanaugh. See Newsweek article
MORE THAN 1,000 LAW PROFESSORS SIGN LETTER CALLING ON SENATE NOT TO CONFIRM KAVANAUGH
The full text of the letter can be found here. Two particular statements from the letter are:
. . .Judge Brett Kavanaugh displayed a lack of judicial temperament that would be disqualifying for any court, and certainly for elevation to the highest court of this land.This law professors' letter sits in the middle of a media barrage of the past week opposing Judge Kavanaugh and slamming him with numerous reasons why he should not sit on the Supreme Court.
. . . . .
But we are united, as professors of law and scholars of judicial institutions, in believing that he did not display the impartiality and judicial temperament requisite to sit on the highest court of our land.
This creates a significant problem for the country in how the United States Supreme Court is undermined in the eyes of the people.
This damage to the Supreme Court could last for years, and it is unclear what, if anything, the country can do to mitigate the damage.
I will offer exploring possible ways for mitigating the damage.
First, Law profs and undoing Supreme Court damage.
[N.B. I am currently shadow banned by Twitter (see Shadow banned by Twitter) and will be using Facebook messaging and email to communicate on this subject.]
Friday, October 5, 2018
Twitter shadow ban follow up
[Update 5/4/19 This week it was reported Facebook banned a number of far-right commentators, including Alex Jones and Milo Yiannopoulos, as well as Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, for violating Facebook's policies on “dangerous individuals and organizations.” Yesterday, Trump tweeted about Conservative thinkers like James Woods being banned from Twitter, Paul Watson being banned from Facebook, and Diamond and Silk being treated horribly by Facebook.
Twitter shadow banned me for about a day earlier this week, and Twitter shadow banned me for about two days a couple of weeks ago.
As with earlier shadow banning I have experienced from Twitter, Twitter did not notify me these two recent times that I had been shadow banned. Also, I have been unable to find out from Twitter exactly what I did wrong in my tweeting that got me shadow banned.]
Twitter shadow banned me last night. For more information, see Shadow banned by Twitter.
This is impairing my efforts to quell the Kavnaugh furies. See Proposed letter for Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh to sign.
I am using Facebook to complain to Alabama media about Twitter's shadow ban of me. In particular I am sending private messages to the media on Facebook, saying as follows:
Update 10/6/18
An immediate public issue is, assuming Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed today by the United States Senate, exactly what the country is going to do about the damage that the confirmation process has done to the United States Supreme Court. See Living with Supreme Court damage.
Because Twitter's current shadow ban impairs by regular way of communicating via Twitter, I will use Facebook messaging and email to communicate and will indicate here the communicating I do.
Twitter shadow banned me last night. For more information, see Shadow banned by Twitter.
This is impairing my efforts to quell the Kavnaugh furies. See Proposed letter for Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh to sign.
I am using Facebook to complain to Alabama media about Twitter's shadow ban of me. In particular I am sending private messages to the media on Facebook, saying as follows:
Twitter has shadow banned me and I wish to complain to the media. http://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2018/08/shadow-banned-by-twitter.htmlAlso I am using Facebook to request the Alabama representatives in Congress to investigate shadow banning by Twitter. I am doing this by posting a public comment on their Facebook pages as follow:
Please investigate shadow banning by Twitter. http://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2018/08/shadow-banned-by-twitter.htmlFurther, I used Facebook to post public comments on the Facebook pages of the #aldems Congressional candidates reading as follows:
If you get into office, please investigate shadow banning by Twitter. http://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2018/08/shadow-banned-by-twitter.htmlAfter I posted the above public comment on the Facebook pages of the #aldems Congressional candidates, it appears that those public comments were removed from the Facebook pages, except the public comment remains on the Facebook page of #al01 candidate Robert Kennedy, Jr. I am following up by sending the below private message on Facebook to those #aldems candidates who have removed my public comment.
It appears that my public comment on your Facebook page about Twitter shadow banning has been removed from your page. I am sending this private message to memorialize the situation. See http://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2018/10/twitter-shadow-ban-follow-up.html. Thank you.I have attempted to send the above private message on Facebook to the #aldems Congressional candidates who removed my public comment on their Facebook pages. I could not send the private message to any of them and got the below error message.
The content you requested cannot be displayed right now. It may be temporarily unavailable, the link you clicked on may have expired, or you may not have permission to view this page.The above message in question that did not go through to #aldems Congressional candidates who had deleted my public comment may have been because the message was too long. I sent a message again consisting of just the link http://al6thcongdist-ihaveuntiljan13.blogspot.com/2018/10/twitter-shadow-ban-follow-up.html, and it went through, except Mallory Hagan had only a "Contact" button and not a "Message" button, so she has not gotten a message on Facebook from me.
Update 10/6/18
An immediate public issue is, assuming Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed today by the United States Senate, exactly what the country is going to do about the damage that the confirmation process has done to the United States Supreme Court. See Living with Supreme Court damage.
Because Twitter's current shadow ban impairs by regular way of communicating via Twitter, I will use Facebook messaging and email to communicate and will indicate here the communicating I do.
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Proposed letter for Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh to sign
[As an American, the author of this blog, who has drafted the below, wishes for the below to be put before Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh for their consideration.]
DRAFT
To the United States Senate:
We the undersigned Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh are writing this letter to you related to the confirmation proceedings in the Senate concerning the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court.
We wish to say to you the following:
Dr. Ford made her allegation to the Senate growing out of her sense of civic duty that she believes that sexual assault is a big societal problem, that, if a person has committed sexual assault, it is something that should be considered in whether the person should serve in a public office, and that public awareness of sexual assault should be raised in order to increase societal efforts to prevent sexual assault.
Judge Kavanaugh believes that Dr. Ford did the right thing in making her allegation to the United States Senate.
Our country, the United States of America, has been suffering under extreme polarization and division that is growing worse.
Dr. Ford's allegation against Judge Kavanaugh has significantly contributed to increasing the polarization and division.
Dr. Ford's allegation has resulted in enormous personal pain and fear for Dr. Ford and her family and for Judge Kavanaugh and his family, which personal pain and fear will last for their lifetimes.
Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh and their families bear no ill will towards one another.
Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh believe in the human capacity for growth, transformation and redemption.
Dr. Ford believes Judge Kavanaugh is a good person, as good a person as Dr. Ford thinks she will ever know. Dr. Ford believes that Judge Kavanaugh, as a judge, has been fair to all women and other persons who have appeared before him, and Dr. Ford has no doubt that Judge Kavanaugh will in the future be fair to all women and other persons who appear before him.
Dr. Ford, as a layperson, does not believe that the allegation she has made against Judge Kavenaugh disqualifies him from serving on the United States Supreme Court.
Dr. Ford believes that the reasons of civic duty that led her to make the allegation to the Senate have been fulfilled at this time.
Dr. Ford believes that withdrawing the allegation at this time will contribute positively to reducing the polarization and division in the United States, and that continuing with the allegation will further increase polarization and division in the United States
Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh believe that the big societal problem of sexual assault needs to be dealt with at many levels and on many fronts in the United States. These include law enforcement and other authorities being receptive to and responsive to charges of sexual assault; continued development of reporting and processing (including standards for due process) of sexual assault charges in schools, corporations and other institutions; educational programs teaching that sexual assault is wrong and how to prevent it; scientific research about how to reduce sexual assault, and increasing public awareness of the societal sexual assault problem by means of advertising programs and by informal means such as conversations within families.
Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh believe that the allegation that was made to the Senate will give more impetus to the foregoing ways that the United States is trying to reduce sexual assault.
While the allegation Dr. Ford made to the United States Senate has significantly increased public awareness of sexual assault and given more impetus to the ways the United States is trying to reduce sexual assault, Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh believe little additional is to be gained by continuing the allegation, and, as stated, continuing the allegation will have the very detrimental effect of increasing polarization and division in the United States.
While the personal pain and fear resulting from the making of the allegation has been enormous for Dr. Ford and her family and for Judge Kavanaugh and his family, for both of them, that personal pain and fear are mitigated by knowledge of the good that the making of the allegation has made for the United States in its addressing of the big societal problem of sexual assault.
For the foregoing reasons, Dr. Ford withdraws the allegation against Judge Kavanaugh that she has made to the United States Senate, and both Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh decline to say anything further to the United States Senate about the allegation.
Sincerely,
_______________________________ _____________________________
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Judge Brett Kavanaugh
Dated: __________________, 2018
DRAFT
To the United States Senate:
We the undersigned Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and Judge Brett Kavanaugh are writing this letter to you related to the confirmation proceedings in the Senate concerning the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court.
We wish to say to you the following:
Dr. Ford made her allegation to the Senate growing out of her sense of civic duty that she believes that sexual assault is a big societal problem, that, if a person has committed sexual assault, it is something that should be considered in whether the person should serve in a public office, and that public awareness of sexual assault should be raised in order to increase societal efforts to prevent sexual assault.
Judge Kavanaugh believes that Dr. Ford did the right thing in making her allegation to the United States Senate.
Our country, the United States of America, has been suffering under extreme polarization and division that is growing worse.
Dr. Ford's allegation against Judge Kavanaugh has significantly contributed to increasing the polarization and division.
Dr. Ford's allegation has resulted in enormous personal pain and fear for Dr. Ford and her family and for Judge Kavanaugh and his family, which personal pain and fear will last for their lifetimes.
Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh and their families bear no ill will towards one another.
Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh believe in the human capacity for growth, transformation and redemption.
Dr. Ford believes Judge Kavanaugh is a good person, as good a person as Dr. Ford thinks she will ever know. Dr. Ford believes that Judge Kavanaugh, as a judge, has been fair to all women and other persons who have appeared before him, and Dr. Ford has no doubt that Judge Kavanaugh will in the future be fair to all women and other persons who appear before him.
Dr. Ford, as a layperson, does not believe that the allegation she has made against Judge Kavenaugh disqualifies him from serving on the United States Supreme Court.
Dr. Ford believes that the reasons of civic duty that led her to make the allegation to the Senate have been fulfilled at this time.
Dr. Ford believes that withdrawing the allegation at this time will contribute positively to reducing the polarization and division in the United States, and that continuing with the allegation will further increase polarization and division in the United States
Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh believe that the big societal problem of sexual assault needs to be dealt with at many levels and on many fronts in the United States. These include law enforcement and other authorities being receptive to and responsive to charges of sexual assault; continued development of reporting and processing (including standards for due process) of sexual assault charges in schools, corporations and other institutions; educational programs teaching that sexual assault is wrong and how to prevent it; scientific research about how to reduce sexual assault, and increasing public awareness of the societal sexual assault problem by means of advertising programs and by informal means such as conversations within families.
Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh believe that the allegation that was made to the Senate will give more impetus to the foregoing ways that the United States is trying to reduce sexual assault.
While the allegation Dr. Ford made to the United States Senate has significantly increased public awareness of sexual assault and given more impetus to the ways the United States is trying to reduce sexual assault, Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh believe little additional is to be gained by continuing the allegation, and, as stated, continuing the allegation will have the very detrimental effect of increasing polarization and division in the United States.
While the personal pain and fear resulting from the making of the allegation has been enormous for Dr. Ford and her family and for Judge Kavanaugh and his family, for both of them, that personal pain and fear are mitigated by knowledge of the good that the making of the allegation has made for the United States in its addressing of the big societal problem of sexual assault.
For the foregoing reasons, Dr. Ford withdraws the allegation against Judge Kavanaugh that she has made to the United States Senate, and both Dr. Ford and Judge Kavanaugh decline to say anything further to the United States Senate about the allegation.
Sincerely,
_______________________________ _____________________________
Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Judge Brett Kavanaugh
Dated: __________________, 2018
5/8/22
This article is worthy of a link on https://t.co/WUQm7aOpKX,
— Rob Shattuck (@RobShattuckAL06) May 8, 2022
and on https://t.co/GLdLfpDyOV,
and I will put links on those two pages.#alpolitics
"At least 9 midterm candidates face misconduct or abuse allegations. Will voters care?" https://t.co/TiWyawM4wj
Sunday, September 16, 2018
How Judge Kavanaugh should have answered question
I respectfully decline to affirm or deny the recent allegation made against me concerning my conduct while I was in high school.
Instead, I say to you the following:
By divine creation, or by evolutionary development, human beings are endowed with a powerful sex drive, which supports the propagation of the human species.
The sex drive yields much that is greatly desired in human life and society.
The sex drive is also a cause of undesirable human behaviors. These include murder, domestic abuse, adultery, preying on children, abuse of power, deceit, financial exploitation, torture, blackmail, vengeful or attention seeking retaliation, infliction of emotional pain, and psychologically violent hatred.
Both the good and the bad of the human sex drive have gone on throughout history.
Society devotes efforts trying to prevent undesirable behaviors that the human sex drive causes.
Currently, we are living through the Me Too movement that is unsettling relations between the sexes in business, government, and other organizations. Me Too is imposing new punishments on behaviors that society is now seeking to prevent.
Me Too is an ongoing phenomenon. It is unknown currently exactly what changes in the relations between the sexes will be brought about, what punishments will be imposed to achieve the changes, and what due process will be provided in imposing punishments.
Me Too is happening in the midst of a revolutionary new world of the Internet, social media, technology, and public attitudes, which are assaulting people's ability to keep anything private in their lives.
There is no downplaying how Me Too is affecting important matters of equality between the sexes, the use and seeking of power by the sexes, how children will be raised, the personal and economic impact of punishments to change sex behaviors, privacy, due process, fairness, and proportionality.
This revolutionary new Internet and technology driven world is exposing to public view not just activity in the sex domain, but also other aspects of people's lives that have been kept private or hidden in the past.
Our society is only beginning to come to grips with the ramifications of this new world's assault on privacy and secrets. All persons are touched by this and may be affected in adverse ways. Many will have views about the way things should be, and will try to influence what shall happen in the privacy destroying aspects of the new revolutionary world of the Internet and social media.
Consider the current controversy about how sexual assault allegations are handled on college campuses. Students against whom sexual assault allegations are at risk of being branded with that for the rest of their lives, such as in seeking employment. Society is confronted with having to decide whether such branding is acceptable, and if that is viewed as unacceptable, society needs to find a way to limit or prevent such branding.
At the moment, the Trump administration, presumably with significant support of some people, is endeavoring to change how sexual assault allegations are handled on campuses to provide more due process for the accused.
The new flyspecking of human conduct that is possible in the revolutionary new world of the Internet, and its associated "see all, hear all, record all" technology, can take "branding" in many directions.
Take acts of dishonesty and fraud. The United States could create a mammoth, publicly accessible data base in which acts of fraud, or allegations of fraud, may be entered on a person's name, which may be accessed, for example, by prospective employers in hiring a person or not.
Other forms of branding may come about. Violent outbursts of people could be reported by observers and entered into a public data base for searching, such as by employers.
Let me return to the human sex drive and Me Too.
The cases of Les Moonves, Jeff Fager and others in business and other organizations during the past year are exhibits of conduct that the sex drive causes and that society currently thinks must be punished and prevented. Besides the personal punishment of the individual involved, businesses and other organization are being deprived of valuable services that the individual provided. In meting out the punishments, society is struggling with defining exactly what behaviors should be changed and what should be proper due process in the imposition of the punishments.
All the types and the quantum of behavior of people that their sex drive causes and that may be caught up by Me Too as being necessary of being punished and prevented will take years to determine.
People are aware of their sex drive, and what it causes or may cause them to do, such as adultery, paying for sex, and taking advantage of situations to obtain sex. People are learning of new costs that may be imposed on them by Me Too regarding conduct that results from their sex drive.
I am a male. I was and am endowed with a male sex drive, which has been with me during my life. I have learned about the male sex drive, and the behavior it causes or may cause, both from my own person and from being an observer of other males.
Females know best about the female sex drive, the behaviors that it causes, and the uses that females make of sex.
The above that I have discussed has far reaching implications for the relations between the sexes and for other realms of people's lives, and these are much more important to the country than the matter of who is going to fill the immediate vacancy on the United States Supreme Court.
Having talked about the human sex drive, I believe it is fair game also to talk about power lust, undesirable behaviors that are caused by power lust, and how to reduce the undesirable behaviors, including by invading areas that have been previously been kept private and hidden from public view. For example, body cameras might be placed on lawmakers and their staffs to record everything that goes on in their carrying out the public's business.
We are all in uncertain territory about what is going to in fact play out and how things will be in future years.
We all may have some say in what plays out.
Lawmakers may pass laws that affect the matter.
There will be much societal discussion and debate, out of which consensus may arise about what behaviors caused by the sex drive must be prevented, including taking into account the deprivation to society of valuable services, and about what is due process in the imposition of punishments.
People will have ways to speak and sometimes ways to act in order that they may try to influence how the new revolutionary world is shaped. Not all will agree with what another person says or does.
I am entitled to speak and have an opportunity here to act as may affect how the new revolutionary world is shaped.
This I choose to do by taking the position that I will not affirm or deny the allegation that has been made against me of conduct while I was in high school, and that instead I say the above to you..
Members of the Senate Judiciary and members of the United States Senate may choose to take into account, or to disregard, this stand of mine, all as they see fit.
I further aver that I think members of the Judiciary Committee and members of the United States Senate should not be adversely affected in their voting decision regarding me by the fact that I decline to affirm or deny the allegation in question and that I instead choose to say what I have said above.
I will accept whatever the outcome that the Judiciary Committee and the United States Senate decide for me.
Thank you.
The sex drive is also a cause of undesirable human behaviors. These include murder, domestic abuse, adultery, preying on children, abuse of power, deceit, financial exploitation, torture, blackmail, vengeful or attention seeking retaliation, infliction of emotional pain, and psychologically violent hatred.
Both the good and the bad of the human sex drive have gone on throughout history.
Society devotes efforts trying to prevent undesirable behaviors that the human sex drive causes.
Currently, we are living through the Me Too movement that is unsettling relations between the sexes in business, government, and other organizations. Me Too is imposing new punishments on behaviors that society is now seeking to prevent.
Me Too is an ongoing phenomenon. It is unknown currently exactly what changes in the relations between the sexes will be brought about, what punishments will be imposed to achieve the changes, and what due process will be provided in imposing punishments.
Me Too is happening in the midst of a revolutionary new world of the Internet, social media, technology, and public attitudes, which are assaulting people's ability to keep anything private in their lives.
There is no downplaying how Me Too is affecting important matters of equality between the sexes, the use and seeking of power by the sexes, how children will be raised, the personal and economic impact of punishments to change sex behaviors, privacy, due process, fairness, and proportionality.
This revolutionary new Internet and technology driven world is exposing to public view not just activity in the sex domain, but also other aspects of people's lives that have been kept private or hidden in the past.
Our society is only beginning to come to grips with the ramifications of this new world's assault on privacy and secrets. All persons are touched by this and may be affected in adverse ways. Many will have views about the way things should be, and will try to influence what shall happen in the privacy destroying aspects of the new revolutionary world of the Internet and social media.
Consider the current controversy about how sexual assault allegations are handled on college campuses. Students against whom sexual assault allegations are at risk of being branded with that for the rest of their lives, such as in seeking employment. Society is confronted with having to decide whether such branding is acceptable, and if that is viewed as unacceptable, society needs to find a way to limit or prevent such branding.
At the moment, the Trump administration, presumably with significant support of some people, is endeavoring to change how sexual assault allegations are handled on campuses to provide more due process for the accused.
The new flyspecking of human conduct that is possible in the revolutionary new world of the Internet, and its associated "see all, hear all, record all" technology, can take "branding" in many directions.
Take acts of dishonesty and fraud. The United States could create a mammoth, publicly accessible data base in which acts of fraud, or allegations of fraud, may be entered on a person's name, which may be accessed, for example, by prospective employers in hiring a person or not.
Other forms of branding may come about. Violent outbursts of people could be reported by observers and entered into a public data base for searching, such as by employers.
Let me return to the human sex drive and Me Too.
The cases of Les Moonves, Jeff Fager and others in business and other organizations during the past year are exhibits of conduct that the sex drive causes and that society currently thinks must be punished and prevented. Besides the personal punishment of the individual involved, businesses and other organization are being deprived of valuable services that the individual provided. In meting out the punishments, society is struggling with defining exactly what behaviors should be changed and what should be proper due process in the imposition of the punishments.
All the types and the quantum of behavior of people that their sex drive causes and that may be caught up by Me Too as being necessary of being punished and prevented will take years to determine.
People are aware of their sex drive, and what it causes or may cause them to do, such as adultery, paying for sex, and taking advantage of situations to obtain sex. People are learning of new costs that may be imposed on them by Me Too regarding conduct that results from their sex drive.
I am a male. I was and am endowed with a male sex drive, which has been with me during my life. I have learned about the male sex drive, and the behavior it causes or may cause, both from my own person and from being an observer of other males.
Females know best about the female sex drive, the behaviors that it causes, and the uses that females make of sex.
The above that I have discussed has far reaching implications for the relations between the sexes and for other realms of people's lives, and these are much more important to the country than the matter of who is going to fill the immediate vacancy on the United States Supreme Court.
Having talked about the human sex drive, I believe it is fair game also to talk about power lust, undesirable behaviors that are caused by power lust, and how to reduce the undesirable behaviors, including by invading areas that have been previously been kept private and hidden from public view. For example, body cameras might be placed on lawmakers and their staffs to record everything that goes on in their carrying out the public's business.
We are all in uncertain territory about what is going to in fact play out and how things will be in future years.
We all may have some say in what plays out.
Lawmakers may pass laws that affect the matter.
There will be much societal discussion and debate, out of which consensus may arise about what behaviors caused by the sex drive must be prevented, including taking into account the deprivation to society of valuable services, and about what is due process in the imposition of punishments.
People will have ways to speak and sometimes ways to act in order that they may try to influence how the new revolutionary world is shaped. Not all will agree with what another person says or does.
I am entitled to speak and have an opportunity here to act as may affect how the new revolutionary world is shaped.
This I choose to do by taking the position that I will not affirm or deny the allegation that has been made against me of conduct while I was in high school, and that instead I say the above to you..
Members of the Senate Judiciary and members of the United States Senate may choose to take into account, or to disregard, this stand of mine, all as they see fit.
I further aver that I think members of the Judiciary Committee and members of the United States Senate should not be adversely affected in their voting decision regarding me by the fact that I decline to affirm or deny the allegation in question and that I instead choose to say what I have said above.
I will accept whatever the outcome that the Judiciary Committee and the United States Senate decide for me.
Thank you.
5/8/22
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and on https://t.co/GLdLfpDyOV,
and I will put links on those two pages.#alpolitics
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