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Monday, Sept 24, 2018
Kavanaugh Bears the Burden of Proof
by Benjamin Wittes
The Burden of Proof for Kavanaugh
by Ross Douthat
Do we really 'believe women'? How the Kavanaugh accusation will put a slogan to the test.
by Monica Hesse
The Presumption of Guilt
by Editorial Board
This I Believe About Blasey v. Kavanaugh
by Brett Stephens
Senate Democrats Investigate a New Allegation of Sexual Misconduct, from Brett Kavanaugh's College Years
by Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer
Tags: #MeToo, Audio, Brett Kavanaugh
It's Monday, September 24, 2018. I'm Albert Mohler and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news of events from a Christian worldview.
How can a morally serious person weigh the claims being made against Brett Kavanaugh in his Supreme Court confirmation process?
How would a morally serious person, more pointedly, how would an intelligent, thoughtful Christian try even now to unpack all of the issues that seem to be tumbling out one after another in the confirmation process for Judge Brett Kavanaugh to be the next justice of the United States Supreme Court? How do we weigh relative claims? How do we understand what two different people are claiming about a singular event, or what's claimed to have been an event, now over three decades ago? How do we understand how to judge the political context? How do we understand what is produced this entire conversation which came at what was believed to have been the end, or very close to the end, of the confirmation process for Judge Kavanaugh? How do we understand all of these issues within the cauldron of the partisan poison that now so infects Washington and now seems to infect almost every dimension of America's life, especially in the public square, especially when it comes to the biggest issues in which Americans are divided including so many of the issues that inevitably arrive at the United States Supreme Court?
Now here's what we know or at least here's what we think we know as of yesterday. The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Charles Grassley, announced that an agreement had been made with Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has made the accusation of sexual assault against Judge Kavanaugh, to appear before the committee and to answer questions on Thursday. Now even the background to that announcement is extremely convoluted and in the current context it was excruciating politicized. So much so that the events that have taken place in the last several days now make it even more difficult for a morally serious or thoughtful person to try to understand exactly what moral issues are at stake and how they should be adjudicated.
You also have the realization that on Thursday Judge Kavanaugh, we are told, is going to have the same opportunity to answer the questions and to make his case, a case of absolute denial of sexual assault, before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
We also know that as of last night, another accuser, we are told, had come forward. But before we turn to that development we need to understand one of the most significant moral turns in this tale that took place just over the last few days. And one part of that was a column by Ross Douthat in Sunday's edition of the New York Times. But Douthat was answering another article that had appeared just shortly before at the Atlantic. That article was by Benjamin Wittes, who is editor in chief of Lawfare, he is also a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. The headline of his article is not just a headline, it's an argument. It's an argument that demands our very close attention. The headline is this, "Kavanaugh Bears the Burden of Proof." The sub-head in the article, "The question isn't whether he can win confirmation, it's whether he can defend himself against the charge he faces in a manner that is both persuasive and honorable."
Now that's a very interesting assertion made in the title. It's also a very interesting sub-head that followed where we are told that the great challenge, according to Benjamin Wittes, that Brett Kavanaugh now faces is to defend himself in a manner that is, hear those words again, "Both persuasive and honorable."
What exactly would be persuasive? And how exactly should such an argument be made in a way that Wittes would recognize as honorable? And then consider the giant claim made in the headline itself that Brett Kavanaugh is the one who bears the burden of proof. Within the article Witte writes, "I have known Brett Kavanaugh for a long time in many different contexts. I am fond of him personally, I think the world of him intellectually. I don't believe he lied in his Senate testimony. I don't believe he's itching to get on the Supreme Court to protect Donald Trump from Robert Mueller. I am much less afraid of conservative judges," he wrote, "than are many of my liberal friends. As recently as a few days ago I was cheerfully vouching for Kavanaugh's character." Notice the next words, however, you can tell from the paragraph just written that a shoe was about to fall. Well, here if falls, "That said, the allegation against him is at the least, so far as one can tell from the press reports, credible and it deserves to be taken seriously."
Well, that's a sentence that deserves to be taken seriously and of course, when we're talking about sexual assault we're talking about one of the most serious allegations we could imagine. But what exactly does this sentence mean? Once again, "That said," he wrote, "the allegation against him is at least as, so far as one can tell from the press reports, credible."
Now you'll notice there was a clause there, "so far as one can tell from the press reports." And then there was a word, the word is "credible." He went on to say, "and it," meaning the accusation, "deserves to be taken seriously."
Well, when you look at the situation right now, it's clear that the word credible is being thrown around in a lot of ways that are not actually credible. What does the word "credible" mean? Here's something we really do need to focus on. In much of our cultural conversation, and even in dictionary definitions of the word credible, there isn't an affirmation of any absolute sense that a credible assertion or a credible claim is true. Rather, as the Cambridge dictionary indicates, credible means that it is able to be considered true. That is to say in the direct words of Cambridge dictionary, "It is able to be believed and/or trusted."
Well now we come to understand how the word credible perhaps means more, or maybe in some cases less, than many people intend or may hear in this controversy. For example, to say that a statement is credible means it is not incredible, that's the opposite of credible. It's not so far out of bounds that the circumstances are not imaginable, that it's not believable, if indeed other factors buttress that belief, that credibility. What would those other factors be? Well, the character of the one making the claim. The experience or authority of the one making the claim.
Credible simply means not incredible. Credible, of course, also means it's worthy of being taken seriously or in intellectual responsibility, we should state it stronger than that. It actually should be taken seriously. It deserves and demands to be taken seriously. This is where a morally serious Christian would have to understand that a charge of this importance, we're talking about the charge that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted this woman when she was a girl of 15 and he was a boy, or young man, of 17. An allegation of this seriousness, an allegation that is considered to be credible, as this one is, it's credible not incredible, it demands that kind of serious attention.
But how in the world would Brett Kavanaugh make the argument that Mr. Wittes is calling upon him to make? How would he make it honorably as Wittes defines honorably. Wittes goes on to acknowledge the challenge, he says, "If Kavanaugh were to ask my advice today and to be clear, he hasn't done so, I would tell him he almost certainly should have his nomination withdrawn. The circumstances in which he should fight this out are, in my view, extremely limited."
Now Wittes goes on to suggest that if indeed Brett Kavanaugh were to survive the hearings and is to be confirmed at the Supreme Court, his tenure on the Court would be tainted. Tainted by what? Tainted by the allegation. But here's where Christians have to understand that the question that so many people now say we simply can't address is the one question that Christians know is inevitable, it's unavoidable. The question is this, did the allegation happen? Did the events happen? Is it as Christine Blasey Ford has claimed? Or is it as Judge Kavanaugh has claimed? These are irreconcilable claims as we think of the objectivity of truth and the actuality of events.
But of course as Christians we also understand in a fallen world just how fragile memory is, especially over time and especially when it comes to so many issues of such moral consequence. And at that point we come to understand that it is possible, according to the Christian worldview that both of these individuals are telling the truth, that is as in not lying, but are actually not telling the truth, one or both of them, as their memory may be susceptible to misunderstanding or confusion or reconstruction.
Wittes has effectively, in this article, put Brett Kavanaugh in an absolutely impossible position. Consider these words, "Though Kavanaugh has been careful not slime Ford, his denial of incident impugns her anyway, which is legitimate if his denial is accurate. It will not do, however, to impeach her credibility wrongly and then ask for confirmation to the highest court in the land because the false denial was not intentionally false. If the allegations are true," says Wittes, "Kavanaugh cannot be confirmed."
Well, that's an absolute swamp of argumentation. There is no way that any individual can meet the standards that this lawyer is demanding of Brett Kavanaugh. It's impossible and in effect it escapes the question, or tries to avoid it, as to whether or not the event took place.
When it comes to the burden of proof that Wittes says is upon Kavanaugh, he says that it's not the reasonable doubt standard that we have in the United States criminal law, it's not the preponderance of evidence that the United States has in civil courts. He says, when it comes to this claim, "There is no known standard of evidence applicable here." Well, that's a stunning admission. In other words, Wittes himself has no idea how to carry forward this process in a morally serious way.
In another section of his article, he says, "Putting it all together, Kavanaugh's task strikes me as an unenviable one," that's an understatement of course. Wittes continues, "He needs to prove a negative about events long ago with sufficient persuasiveness that a reasonable person will regard his service as untainted by the allegations against him and he needs to do so using only arguments that don't themselves taint him."
Notice that the claim by Kavanaugh, "I didn't do it," and "It didn't happen," has already been ruled out of bounds. Later in the article Wittes writes, "But if Kavanaugh cannot present such a defense, even if he truly believes himself innocent, even if he is innocent, (is in italics) the better part of valor is to get out now."
Well, at this point we have simply reached the end of any morally serious argument. This concession in the article in the Atlantic, which has had wide traction in American political circles over the last few days, comes down to the fact that even if Brett Kavanaugh is innocent, according to this argument, he cannot even make us believe that he is innocent without using tainted arguments that are not honorable, Wittes argues, and thus he is really not innocent of the arguments even if he is innocent of the originally alleged crime.
In yesterday's edition of the New York Times columnist Ross Douthat responded to Wittes, but Douthat basically also responded to his own earlier column just a few days before in which he came very close to calling upon Brett Kavanaugh to withdraw his own nomination.
In one of the early paragraphs in Douthat's article, he writes, "Even if Kavanaugh is innocent of the charge of a teenage sexual assault, I argued, to give such prominence and power to a man credibly accused would both leave an unnecessary taint on his future rulings and also," he said, "alienate social conservatives from the persuadable Americans, women especially, who support any pro-life program ultimately requires."
But here's the problem with that argument, if indeed Brett Kavanaugh is now tainted by an allegation and even if it's conceded the allegation might not be true, but because he is tainted he should not serve on the Court, we just need to note that anyone nominated to the Court or anyone, for that matter, who is promoted or set forth as a candidate for any kind of public office or public influence, can simply be immediately destroyed by a similar kind of allegation.
Once we, as a society, begin to accept that it really doesn't matter and it's beyond our consideration if an allegation is truthful, then we are just going to destroy one another with claim and counterclaim in which the only issue is the effect of the claim, not the truth of the claim.
Later in his article, Douthat writes, "But if Kavanaugh is actually innocent, there are really only two alternatives. Either Ford," that means Christine Blasey Ford, "is a brazen liar or some scenario of clouded or mistaken memory must be true. So," said Douthat, "to treat any version of the latter defense as simple confirmation of the nominee's villainy is to close even the narrow door that Wittes," Douthat says, "and I would leave open for Kavanaugh's potential exculpation."
Notice very carefully what Douthat is correcting here in Wittes' argument. He is saying that if the door is closed on Kavanaugh to concede that Christine Blasey Ford is not lying, but to argue that she none-the-less is not telling the truth, that is to say he's not accusing her of malice and simply inventing the charge, but he is saying that her memory is wrong, perhaps simply clouded by the years or for that matter, wrong in any respect. Well, Douthat makes the point that if Kavanaugh can't make that argument, he has no argument to make.
Putting all this into context, as of say mid-day on Sunday, it becomes very clear that morally serious Christians have to understand the sheer difficulty of trying to reconstruct the past. That's true if it's a matter of weeks or for that matter, months. It's another thing all together when you're talking about the passage of time of over 30 years. Going back to when adults in the prime of their professional lives were teenagers in high school.
There's enough in this picture that's disturbing and this is where Christians just have to be honest. The picture of this kind of testosterone addled high school, prep school, a very elite school for boys, and the kind of parties in which there was so much alcohol, there seems to be a general concession on the part of many of those who were teenagers then that the alcohol was flowing radically and freely and with very, very dangerous effect.
Christians looking at this entire picture must understand that we are looking at allegations, which if true would be devastating for anyone in public life or for that matter, for anyone at all. But especially for someone in public life because if indeed this kind of sexual assault took place, then Brett Kavanaugh was a sexual assaulter. He was an assailant and we're looking at something that reveals character, not just misjudgment and can't be excused by any kind of expose facto explanation. Other than it didn't happen.
At this point we need to recognize the tragedy of this circumstance far beyond the immediate question of the nomination or confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh. Over the past several decades, perhaps you could generalize throughout most of human history, it is almost undoubtedly true that society did not take with adequate moral seriousness the allegations of sexual misconduct that so many women made against so many men. That pattern was clearly wrong, it was directly in violation of our understanding of the biblical mandate of love of neighbor and also just basic respect for one another.
You don't have to know a great deal about human history to know that evil men have prayed upon women over and over again. And you know that it happens now. The MeToo movement is at least a reminder of the fact that there has been far too little attention paid, far too little heed paid to women when they cried out about this kind of misconduct.
What does it mean to 'believe women' in the MeToo era?
But now we're looking at what in effect is a complete inversion of this picture. That was made very clear by Monica Hesse, a columnist for the Washington Post, when she wrote a column for that newspaper demanding that all right-minded people now will simply believe the woman, believe the women. She says that that is the only standard that makes any sense now. Every woman who makes such an allegation is to be believed. She goes so far as, well it's just straightforward to argue that all women who make these charges are to be believed and if we do not believe any part of the claim or if we do not believe any particular woman's claim then we are simply not believing the women.
Hesse seems to understand exactly what she's arguing here when she writes, "It's a test of whether in the past year we've learned anything at all. It's easier," she says, "to say you believe women when there are 60 of them and they're telling the same story about being drugged by Bill Cosby or assaulted by Harvey Weinstein. Can you say you believe women when there are only ten accusers? Only five? Can you say you believe women when there is one accuser and her account is 35 years old and she says she doesn't remember certain details like the address of the party?"
Even framing the issue that way, Hesse basically says the only moral, the only right thing to do is to believe her. Now she acknowledged the fact that there are some gaps in her story, indeed there are. The question as to whether there were four boys in the room or two boys in the room? There have been varying accounts ever since she first recovered this memory, we are told, in about 2012 or 2013. Exactly when did it happen? Well, that also appears to be very much a matter of her confusion and gap in the story.
But now we are being told, at least by some, that if there are gaps in the story it's simply because she hasn't remembered enough of what surely happened or she never would have made this claim. Now, of course a case can be made that this claim has been very costly to her. That's absolutely true, but it's also true that the involvement of attorneys and members of the opposing party who had already indicated they were going to vote against Brett Kavanaugh, well that has to be taken into consideration. And of course many of the arguments being made in the media are being made in combination with analysis in the very same paragraph saying, "Remember what's at stake in this nomination that Brett Kavanaugh would be the crucial fifth conservative Justice." You'll notice how quickly the issue shifts from the accusations made by Christine Blasey Ford to, "We've got to stop this nomination no matter what."
The editors of the Wall Street Journal, based upon where this situation stood at the end of the week, put out an editorial in the weekend edition entitled, "The Presumption of Guilt," which they described as "the new liberal standard which turns American due process upside down." The editor started out, and remember this was in a paper that was published on Saturday morning, they started out by saying that the only silver lining they see in this controversy is that the entire episode, they said, "is providing an education for Americans on the new liberal standard of legal and political due process."
Frankly, one of the most morally unserious persons in this story is Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii. In a statement about this situation, she said, "Not only do women like Dr. Ford, who bravely come forward, need to be heard, but they need to be believed. I believe her."
Holman Jenkins Jr. of the Wall Street Journal responded, "This is not the attitude of a responsible adult, let alone one whose job is making the factual determinations on which national policy is based. Your wishes," he chided the Senator, "don't make facts. A claim is not true because it comes from the mouth of a woman or false because it comes from the mouth of a man or vice versa."
New allegations against Kavanaugh raise serious questions of credibility, motivation, and the knowability of truth
Intelligent and thoughtful Christians thinking with moral seriousness should also pay a very close attention to an argument made again in the New York Times, this one by columnist Bret Stephens, about how to understand when claims are made by people who are clearly outsiders, they weren't there back 35 years ago when the party took place, we are told. Bret Stephens warns that when either party says, "We believe x or y, we actually should be saying something else." In his words, "I believe that the statements on the controversy that began, I believe Blasey or I believe Kavanaugh because they jive with the personal experience or align with a partisan motive are empirically worthless and intellectually dishonest." Bret Stephens goes on to say, this is the important point, "I believe the defect could be corrected by saying I want to believe Blasey or I want to believe Kavanaugh."
This is where Christians, honest about the human intellect in a fallen world, have to affirm and never to deny that we understand that there is a want to in our believing. There is a want to, sometimes, in our disbelieving. Especially in this kind of partisan context in which the stakes are so high, we simply have to understand that those who want to see Judge Kavanaugh on the Court want to believe him. And those who do not want to see him on the Court want to believe his accuser.
Bret Stephens is exactly right. We must be very honest about what we know within ourselves, we want to believe. But wanting to believe doesn't make either of these claims true.
Stephens is also absolutely right when he tells us, "I believe human memory is imperfect. I believe it deteriorates over time. I believe most of us have had the experience of thinking we remember something clearly only to discover we got important details wrong." Bret Stephens then goes on, very importantly to concede that we now understand we are told by so many that when women remember this kind of traumatic event, the very trauma means that they are more likely to remember it rightly and more clearly. That's the claim that's being made by many who are now authorities in the MeToo movement and beyond.
But here is where Bret Stephens says there is a very crucial test to be watching for. The test is this, whether or not Christine Blasey Ford in the hearings on Thursday, if indeed she does appear as promised, can vividly recall what Bret Stephens identifies as the "unverifiable parts of her story, but not the ones that can be verified."
But then, as if this picture could not become more difficult and complicated, last night the New Yorker with a team of reporters Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer released a story claiming that there is yet another woman. In this case, a woman who claims that Kavanaugh was engaged in sexual misbehavior when both were students, not in high school but at Yale.
The issues here are pretty graphic, but they have to do with exhibitionism and very crude sex play. The woman is Deborah Ramirez, who attended Yale with Kavanaugh. We are told, "Later she spent years working for an organization that supports victims of domestic violence."
But then listen to these words in the allegations, the new allegations made last night. "In her initial conversation with the New Yorker, she," meaning Deborah Ramirez, "was reluctant to characterize Kavanaugh's role in the alleged incident with certainty. After six days of carefully assessing her memories and consulting with her attorney, Ramirez said that she felt confident enough of her recollections to say that she remembers Kavanaugh had exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party." And the details then continued.
Ramirez is now calling for the FBI to investigate Kavanaugh's role in the incident. She said, "I would think an FBI investigation would be warranted." But notice what's conceded here. It's conceded that the New Yorker was unable at first even to get her to positively be able to say that it was Brett Kavanaugh who was the individual in this alleged event. It took six days of her thinking about this before, after consulting with her attorney, also a rather complicated issue here, she decided, we are told, to go forward with her story at just the moment, we should note, that the democrats opposing Judge Kavanaugh were looking for the ability to claim a pattern. So that it wasn't just one woman making an accusation against Judge Kavanaugh from over three decades ago. This is a very convenient charge, coming so late. A late hit, we simply have to acknowledge it, that it has to be put in an explicitly political context.
It might be more than that, to be sure, but it certainly is not less than that. And in this article we see claims made that are simply not sourced like anything that would be parallel in the major journalistic endeavors and exposés of the MeToo movement.
The political and ideological context is acknowledged by the authors of the New Yorker report when they tell us, "Ramirez is a registered democrat, but said that her decision to speak out was not politically motivated." And regarding her views that she "works toward human rights, social justice, and social change."
Well, there can be no doubt that that's language about the fact that she opposed Judge Kavanaugh's appointment to the Court and she is now being cited by those who are trying to prevent the Judge from being confirmed to the Supreme Court as the next Justice.
You'll also note that she says that even as she is a democrat, her decision to speak out was not politically motivated. Here we simply have to say that doesn't exactly fit the context, but let's assume she's telling the truth. She may, on her own part, actually believe that. It might even be true of her own heart. It isn't true of the context in the media where the accusations have surfaced.
The article in the Atlantic indicates a similar kind of party atmosphere at Yale that we have now come to understand was taking place at Georgetown Prep, but it also includes statements by others in the same Yale generation who said things such as "I believe it could have happened."
In what morally serious universe could it be taken seriously this long thereafter, given the stakes we know we now face, that someone would simply say, "I believe it could have happened." Any number of things, of course, could have happened that didn't or did.
Christians do understand that everything does hinge on whether or not something did happen or didn't and whether we can know it or we can't. After that, the situation simply comes down to which individual we believe to be more credible. Maybe even Bret Stephens is right when he says, "Which one we want to be more credible."
Both sides do understand what is at stake, but this is where Christians have to understand that right now the very reality and knowability of truth is at stake. A society that gives up on the objectivity and the knowability of truth and the mandate of truth is a society bent on moral and intellectual suicide.
I could wish that on today's edition of The Briefing we had had time to turn to other issues, but honestly these issues now loom with such importance we dare not neglect them. This is one of those rare moments in human history when issues are being crystallized right before our eyes and right within the hearing of our ears.
Let's try to see, let's try to listen carefully as Christians.
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Politics, Religion, And The Rest
Epstein case: how wealthy and powerful men can get away with sexual abuse
Thread starter annabenedetti
ffreeloader
Here's some more on how Epstein has avoided prosecution and who his is linked to politically.
According to OpenSecrets.org, Epstein made donations between 1990 and 2018 to both Democrats and Republicans, which totaled an estimated $184, 276. Of the $184,276 made in donations, $147,426 went to Democrats or left-leaning organizations, while $18,250 was received by Republicans or righ-leaning organizations.
Epstein has been a Democrat donor for years. He's donated to both parties, but mainly to Democrats at more than a 7 to 1 ratio.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...itical-donations-around-washington-for-years/
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annabenedetti said:
You forgot the current president isn't a Democrat.
You forgot that Trump banned Epstein from his club back in 2011. That's eight years ago. Just how long ago did the Democrat politicians cut ties with Epstein? A few days ago? Yeah, when he was arrested in NYC. They certainly didn't cut ties with him after his previous arrests.... They kept on associating with him and taking his money. Ol BillyBob Clinton took 26 rides on the Lolita Express. Where's your outrage there? And why aren't you condemning all the Democrats who have taken his money over the years? You want to make it look like this is a Trump scandal, and a Trump scandal alone when he's the only one of the bunch that cut ties to Epstein a long time ago.
The Barbarian
ffreeloader said:
You forgot that Trump banned Epstein from his club back in 2011. That's eight years ago.
It's what Trump says.
"I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."
https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff...er-side-2019-7
"I knew him like everybody in Palm Beach knew him," the president said. "I mean people in Palm Beach knew him. He was a fixture in Palm Beach. I had a falling out with him a long time ago. I don't think I've spoken to him for 15 years. I wasn't a fan … I was not a fan of his. That I can tell you. I was not a fan of his."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...icking-charges
He figures people are stupid enough to believe him. The question is, is he right about you?
Ol BillyBob Clinton took 26 rides on the Lolita Express. Where's your outrage there?
Bill, so far, hasn't been sued by one of Epstien's victims for raping her when she was 13. Trump has. So there is that. As I said, if Bill Clinton or Trump took part in that, they should spend the rest of their lives in prison, too. But Bill hasn't yet been credibly accused, and Trump hasn't yet be convicted, so we can't assume they are guilty of anything more than being pals of a pedophile.
And of course rewarding the prosecutor who gave him a slap on the wrist, a cabinet position. (Trump, that is)
And why aren't you condemning all the Democrats who have taken his money over the years? You want to make it look like this is a Trump scandal
The Acosta thing, you know. Why did Trump reward this guy? And why did he make sure that there was a clause in the plea deal excusing any other participants in these abuses?
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The Barbarian said:
And why do you only care about smearing a politician you hate?
I have to ask.... All this row about Trump and his supposed close connection to Epstein
Donald Trump, regarding his relationship to Jeffrey Epstein:
They have the same tastes in females, it seems...
calls to mind a very powerful Democrat operative who is sick beyond belief.
Sick as Trump, Epstein, and Acosta? No, I don't think so.
How about it, Anna, are you going to defend Tony Podesta or hold him accountable?
This thread is about pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and his pals, Trump and Acosta.
Acosta just resigned. Read a statement that sounds awfully much like a Trump tweet.
Trump denies everything, of course.
One of the big worries is the Acosta deal shielded any other perps from prosecution. A judge just tossed that out. So if Bill Clinton or Donald Trump were involved, it's time to start worrying.
Barbarian and his fascination with accusing people of child abuse.
The attorney for Epstein's victims has stated in legal documents that Donald Trump banned Epstein from at least one of his clubs for his sexual assault on a 16 year old girl.
When Trump became president, Acosta, the prosecutor who got Epstein a sweetheart deal for his crimes, was appointed Sec. of Labor. Apparently Trump forgot that. Or didn't forget it.
Yes, Trump sings a different song about those "younger" girls today. For reasons that are obvious.
I'm still wondering how Hillary Clinton's, campaign manager's, brother's, artist means we should give Trump and Acosta a pass on their praise for Trump's pedophile pal.
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Barbarian still fascinated by child abuse.
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annabenedetti
like marbles on glass
Stripe said:
Stripe and his fascination with Barbarian...
Acosta just resigned.
Shhhh... if there's no payoff, he'll eventually go on to other things.
ok doser
lifeguard at the cement pond
Anna and her fascination with Stripe
Ok, your turn :wave2:
Trump once hosted an exclusive party with Jeffrey Epstein at his Mar-a-Lago estate, a new report says. It was just the 2 of them and '28 girls.'
President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, the 66-year-old hedge fund manager charged this week with sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking, were once the only other attendees at a party with roughly two dozen women at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, a former Trump associate told The New York Times.
In 1992, the women were flown in for a "calendar girl" competition that Trump had requested, the former Trump associate, George Houraney, told The Times.
"At the very first party, I said, 'Who's coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming,'" Houraney said. "It was him and Epstein."
He added: "I said: 'Donald, this is supposed to be a party with VIPs. You're telling me it's you and Epstein?'"
Houraney also apparently once warned Trump about Epstein.
"Look, Donald, I know Jeff really well, I can't have him going after younger girls," Houraney recalled telling Trump. "He said: 'Look I'm putting my name on this. I wouldn't put my name on it and have a scandal.'"
Houraney had a falling out with Trump after his girlfriend accused Trump of making unwanted sexual advances in the early 1990s.
A quote Trump gave about a decade after that reported 1992 party in which Trump spoke highly of Epstein has been circulating widely amid the new charges.
"He's a lot of fun to be with," Trump told New York magazine in 2002. "It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life."
Trump has since distanced himself from Epstein, who faces sex-trafficking charges from the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, where he faces a maximum sentence of 45 years in prison. The charging document alleges Epstein "sexually exploited and abused dozens of minor girls at his homes in Manhattan, New York, and Palm Beach, Florida, among other locations."
https://www.businessinsider.com/tru...87.1291754834.1562963427-956863244.1562963427
Apparently, Bill Clinton and Hilary Clinton's, campaign manager's, brother's, artist weren't invited, either.
100 years from now and they're still going to be saying But Clinton! But Obama!
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And you're still gonna be pretending you want to impeach trump :chuckle:
Barbarian's fascination with child abuse continues.
In 2002, seventeen years ago, Trump said he thought Epstein was a good guy. Then in 2011 that obviously came to an end for Trump banned Epstein from his night club. He cut his ties to Epstein at that time. Just when did the Democrats cut ties to Epstein? A few days ago. They are the ones who kept up a relationship with Epstein. Trump did not. He cut his ties to Epstein 8 years ago. All the top Democrats maintained contact with Epstein for those 8 years after Trump cut his ties to the Democrat's buddy.
Here's what Nancy Pelosi's daughter, Christine Pelosi, had to say:
"This Epstein case is horrific and the young women deserve justice. It is quite likely that some of our faves are implicated but we must follow the facts and let the chips fall where they may — whether on Republicans or Democrats,"
As a Democrat she is not referring to conservatives or Republicans when she says "our faves". She is talking about Democrats.
Apparently not. Epstein and Trump seem to have had each other's phone numbers at hand, and no one seems to have mentioned that falling out, until Epstein was caught.
And there's that little matter of Acosta being rewarded by Trump with a nice cabinet position, after seeing that Trump's pedophile friend got a sweetheart deal (which a judge has now ruled to have been illegal).
She is, after all, a democrat. I agree with her. Bill Clinton was a friend of Epstein, too. As I wrote here, if either Clinton or Trump turns out to have been involved in Epstein's degenerate behavior, they deserve to be jailed for the rest of their lives.
Do you agree? I'd like to know if you think so, too.
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That's horribilis. How can such a man with so much money and wealth do something like this?
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The discovery last Friday of avian bird flu in a small backyard flock of birds in North Yorkshire means poultry are being kept locked in until at least February 28.
Following a peregrine falcon being found dead – and later testing positive for H5N8 avian influenza – in Dumfries and Galloway last month, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) had asked anyone who has hens, whether it be for business or as pets, to keep them indoors, so they have no contact with wild birds, between December 6 and January 6.
However, subsequent discoveries across the country, including the flock in Yorkshire, has extended the period of restrictions.
All keepers of birds are advised to be vigilant over the health of their livestock, and to check with the DEFRA website or their local veterinary practice for advice on appropriate measures.
Poultry shows and gatherings have also been cancelled during the outbreak.
Bird owners worried about their charges being kept inside have been advised to keep them stimulated by giving them children's toys, or hanging up food in bales.
Any birds found with the disease will lead to the culling of the entire flock.
DEFRA has issued advice on what to do if you find a dead wild swan, or a group of dead birds in a small area.
Contact it by calling 0845 9335577 and do not handle the carcasses unless it is essential.


8 Ways to Fast-Track Your Job Search - Whitman Associates, Inc.
If you feel like your job search has been dragging, we've provided eight easy ways to speed things up and improve your chances of landing that ever-elusive job offer!
Rather than blindly sending your resume to every job posting you see, focus on applying to specific opportunities and/or companies.
Don't waste time applying to jobs you don't really want or aren't fully qualified for. That is time you could spend perfecting your applications for more suitable opportunities.
Before going to an interview, make sure to thoroughly research the company's history, mission statement, culture, and more to ensure you are fully informed.
This includes sending out a well-proofed resume, dressing professionally for job interviews, and maintaining a professional reputation online.
Building a strong professional network takes a lot of time and effort, but networking is a great resource for job seekers who are having trouble finding work on their own.
You should demonstrate your interest in a potential position in every interaction you have with the hiring manager or recruiter.
Always follow up after a job interview or after sending a job application for a position you're passionate about. This is another great way of showing your interest in the opportunity.
Keeping a positive attitude is critically important for a successful job search. Don't lose hope of finding your dream job, no matter how bleak things may seem.


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import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v4.app.Fragment;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener;
import android.widget.ListView;

import com.nouribygi.sokhan.BooksActivity;
import com.nouribygi.sokhan.R;
import com.nouribygi.sokhan.SokhanApplication;
import com.nouribygi.sokhan.database.DatabaseAdapter;
import com.nouribygi.sokhan.model.Section;
import com.nouribygi.sokhan.ui.helper.SectionListAdapter;
import com.nouribygi.sokhan.util.SokhanSettings;

import java.util.List;

public class SectionListFragment extends Fragment {

    public static final String EXTRA_BOOK_ID = "bookId";

    private ListView mListView;
    private SectionListAdapter mAdapter;

    private int bookId;

    public SectionListFragment() {
    }

    public static SectionListFragment newInstance(int bookId) {
        final SectionListFragment f = new SectionListFragment();
        final Bundle args = new Bundle();
        args.putInt(EXTRA_BOOK_ID, bookId);
        f.setArguments(args);
        return f;
    }

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater,
                             ViewGroup container, Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        bookId = getArguments() != null ?
                getArguments().getInt(EXTRA_BOOK_ID) : 1;
        View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.book_list, container, false);
        mListView = (ListView) view.findViewById(R.id.list);
        mAdapter = new SectionListAdapter(getActivity(),
                R.layout.section_list_row, getSectionList());
        mListView.setAdapter(mAdapter);

        mListView.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener() {
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View v,
                                    int position, long id) {
                Section elem = (Section) mAdapter.getItem((int) id);
                ((BooksActivity) getActivity()).jumpTo(elem.getId());
            }
        });
        SokhanSettings.setSelectedBook(getActivity(), bookId);

        return view;
    }

    @Override
    public void onDetach() {
        super.onDetach();
        int bookCode = 0;
        if (bookId > 10) {
            bookCode = 10;
        }
        SokhanSettings.setSelectedBook(getActivity(), bookCode);
    }

    private List<Section> getSectionList() {
        DatabaseAdapter db = ((SokhanApplication) getActivity().getApplication()).getDatabaseAdapter();
//        DatabaseHelper databaseHelper = new DatabaseHelper(getActivity());
        return db.getSections(bookId);
    }
}

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Milwaukee Concours d'Elegance Aug. 3- 4, 2019 > Activity Schedule
Milwaukee Concours d'Elegance
Saturday, Aug. 3
Motor Tour featuring vehicles that will be in the Sunday Milwaukee Concours d'Elegance and the Show & Glow Paddock. 9:30 a.m. depart Veterans Park and travel to a private car collection in West Bend, WI. Great photo op for spectators along Lagoon Drive as these cars assemble and depart. Open to Concours and Show & Glow exhibitors only.
Ride & Drive from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. get behind the wheel of a fun car at our Milwaukee Concours Hagerty Ride & Drive event. With a range of classic and iconic cars to choose from and options of a manual or automatic transmission, there's something for everyone to enjoy on a sunny daytime cruise. Open to exhibitors only. See Sunday when the public is invited to take a drive.
Seminar: A panel of collectors will address: Why I Collect What I Collect, at 3 p.m. in VIP Tent on the grounds at Veteran's Park. Public invited, but space is limited.To sign up, send an email to Gary Messing, gary911@aol.com and provide your name and names of attendees.
Style & Speed Social, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Milwaukee Club. A casual evening of camaraderie featuring a silent auction, food and beverages. Public invited. Limited space, tickets available at Milwaukeeconcours.com.
Sunday, Aug. 4
The Milwaukee Concours d'Elegance in Veterans Park, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Public invited.
Dennis Gage, host of My Classic Car with Dennis Gage will be on hand recording the event which will air on his program on the cable Motor Trend channel.
Show & Glow Paddock in Veterans Park, a casual car show for members of car clubs and individuals to display their vehicles, whether classic or newer.
Food and beverages available on the grounds of Veterans Park.
The Concours Village provides the opportunity to see merchandise available for purchase or just enjoy some good old hospitality. Open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Ride & Drive from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Get behind the wheel of a fun car at our Milwaukee Concours Hagerty Ride and Drive event. With a range of classic and iconic cars to choose from and options of a manual or automatic transmission, there's something for everyone to enjoy a sunny daytime cruise. Sounds fun, doesn't it? Sign-up on site for the opportunity to take a lovely drive during an exciting weekend! Sponsored by Hagerty.
Schedule for Sunday, Aug. 4
7 a.m. Placement of vehicles on the show field begins. Concours cars will be placed per the schedule that will be communicated to vehicle owners by the concours chair.
Show & Glow Paddock vehicles should arrive as early as 7 a.m. and no later than 9 a.m.
10 a.m. Gates open to the public. Tickets available at the gate. Food and beverage available for purchase.
2:30 p.m. Concours class and Premier awards presented including Best of Show.
4 p.m. Event concludes.


Make the world a better place, punch your excuses in the face!
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Consider that you are whole, perfect, and complete you just are surrounded by excuses or "muck" as I call it. You don't need to be fixed, you just need to be taught how to start punching.
When you invest in a program, many people believe that all you have to do is follow what the system says and you will get the results you want.
That is sort of like hiring someone to take a test for you at school. It might help you pass the class, but some point you either know the information or you don't. Systems like Beachbody On Demand, Crossfit, or going to the gym are fine, but true transformation doesn't happen until you confront the things holding you back. What happens when you take the system away? If you tried something in the past and failed, what is going to be different this time? Are you punching your excuses in the face or just covering up the root cause of the problem?
I don't just tell you how to punch your excuses in the face.
I break it down EXACTLY how to do it in a way that is relatable and makes sense. That is the coaching and service you can only get from me. Stay tuned for a 5 part series on my five best excuses to punch in the face. When your punches start to land, all that is left is the version of you who is free to be exactly how you want.
When you are ready to do the work, are coachable, and want to commit to a healthier lifestyle I hope you contact me to help you deal with the muck.
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When McDonald's first came to India, it spent three years of research on tweaking its original menu and coming up with something that people could relate to. As a result, they introduced certain menu items that were not available anywhere else but India. These items –and there were many of them, temporary as well as permanent – were carefully adapted to cater to Indian taste buds.
Here are a few menu items that were created exclusively for India.
This was the first menu item at McDonald's India that almost everyone instantly connected with. The oh so loved Aloo Tikki, found a perfect match in a McDonald's bun in the year 2004. Served with tomato, mayo and fresh onions on a regular bun, McAlooTiki continues to be a hit among Indian customers even now.
This wrap combines two of the most popular things in India: Paneer and spice. Paneer is something that both vegetarians and non-vegetarians love, and spicy and Indian food are always mentioned in the same breath. The fried, spicy paneer patty with cooling mayonnaise and lettuce makes for a perfect filling snack on the go.
This is India's version of the Big Mac. A hit even amongst foreigners, Chicken Maharaja Mac is a double bun burger with two flame-grilled chicken patties. And yes, last year, McDonald's also introduced a vegetarian Maharaja Mac with two corn and cheese patties for those who like their burgers big and vegetarian.
Introduced last year in Hyderabad, the Chicken Kebab burger has been now launched in entire West & South India region. The burger has a square-shaped patty, made of minced chicken and seasoned with Indian spices. The product is being offered for a limited time only, so in case you want to try this, waste no time in placing your next order.


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truth, one of the largest and most successful national youth tobacco-prevention campaigns, has been working since 2000 to educate youth by giving teens facts to make their own informed choices about tobacco use and inspire them to use their social influence and creativity in the fight against tobacco. With Beaconfire RED's help in direct marketing and web technology strategy and execution since 2014, truth has helped bring down teen cigarette use from 23 percent in 2000 to 6 percent in 2016.
Walgreens is one of the major U.S. drugstore chains that still sells cigarettes and one of the largest pharmacy chains in the U.S. truth collaborated with Beaconfire RED on a multi-step program to bring attention to the issue of tobacco sales in Walgreens pharmacies and to foster action to petition for the banning of tobacco sales through a campaign named "Not Happy or Healthy." The program included the following activities: First, truth informed their engaged teen activists about the issue of cigarette sales in Walgreens' pharmacy chains. Second, truth provided a way for their young activists to do something about it featuring the #NOTHAPPYORHEALTHY hashtag. A petition on thetruth.com called for Walgreens to end the sale of tobacco products in all their stores. Third, to spread the word about the petition, Beaconfire RED executed strategies across the truth digital channels including: SMS, email, and thetruth.com.
truth set a goal for the petition to get 1,000 signatures. The petition surpassed that goal within the first hour of going live. SMS drove 55 percent of participation—more than email marketing and social media combined—with a targeting strategy based on a teen's engagement with the petition.
Lastly, truth empowered young activists to speak directly to Walgreens. truth provided an online toolkit for activists to make their voices heard during a Walgreens shareholder meeting. Beaconfire RED used SMS and email to promote the digital toolkit, which included social media messages, graphics, and a phone script for those who called into the meeting. Dozens of truth activists showed up to protest the Walgreens shareholder meeting in person in New York City.
In the end, the petition collected over 5,300 youth names and engaged more than 67,000 young activists in the "Not Happy or Healthy" campaign. Through efforts like this, Beaconfire RED has influenced the U.S. teen smoking rate, driving it to a record-low 6 percent in 2016. With truth, Beaconfire RED is saving lives by preventing youth smoking.


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UK defence threatened by cheap Russian and Chinese missiles
The two countries are able to put Western ships, large military aircraft and even any land system at serious risk, a report says.
Tuesday 11 July 2017 08:08, UK
Image: HMS Queen Elizabeth is one of two new aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy
Cheap missiles from Russia and China are a major threat to expensive assets such as Britain's new aircraft carriers, a think tank has warned.
Russia and China have gained the surveillance and precision strike capabilities to put Western ships, large military aircraft and even any land system at "serious risk" - even the most heavily armoured.
The warning comes in a report by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), which calls for the Ministry of Defence to place a higher priority on protecting the country against these threats.
The report said: "The UK's potential adversaries have also focused on developing relatively inexpensive weapons that can disable or destroy expensive assets.
"Missiles costing (much) less than half a million pounds a unit could at least disable a British aircraft carrier that costs more than £3bn.
"Indeed, a salvo of 10 such missiles would cost less than $5m.
"China and Russia appear to have focused many (but not all) their efforts on being able to put at risk the key Western assets that are large, few in number and expensive."
More on China
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HMS Queen Elizabeth
Image: The HMS Queen Elizabeth before its maiden voyage last month
HMS Queen Elizabeth set off on its maiden voyage late last month but the aircraft carrier, which cost £3bn to build, was mocked by Russia.
Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon had described Moscow's only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, as "old and dilapidated", adding that Russia would be looking at Britain's new vessel with a "little bit of envy".
But Russian spokesman Igor Konashenkov had dismissed the British aircraft carrier as "just a convenient oversized target at sea", saying: "It is in the interests of the British Royal Navy not to show off the 'beauty' of its aircraft carrier on the high seas any closer than a few hundred miles to its Russian 'distant relative'."
How to get a big ship out to sea
The report also warned that Britain's adversaries were trying to use cyber and anti-satellite tools to disrupt the West.
China destroyed a satellite as a test 10 years ago and, since then, there have been reports that Russia is trying to develop the same capability, including an airborne laser system.
"Space assets are vulnerable to electromagnetic and physical attack that could - for example - destroy or degrade navigation and communication systems," the report said.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said: "We keep all threats under constant review and we are confident our new aircraft carrier, and other state-of-the-art equipment, is well protected thanks to defensive systems we have invested in as part of our £178bn equipment plan."


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Label: BGO - BEAT GOES ON
A's & B's (Uk)
Artist: Harry Nilsson
1. Without Her
2. Freckles
3. You Can't Do That
4. Ten Little Indians
5. River Deep, Mountain High
6. She Sang Hymns Out of Tune
7. One
8. Sister Marie
9. Everybody's Talkin'
10. Don't Leave Me
11. Rainmaker
12. I Will Take You There
13. Mournin' Glory Story
14. Maybe
15. Marchin' Down Broadway
16. I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City
17. The Puppy Song
18. I'll Be Home
19. Waiting
20. Caroline
21. Yellow Man
22. Down to the Valley
23. Buy My Album
24. Me and My Arrow
25. Are You Sleeping?
26. Good Old Desk
27. Without You
28. Gotta Get Up
29. Jump Into the Fire
30. The Moonbeam Song
31. Coconut
32. Down
34. Spaceman
35. Turn on Your Radio
36. You're Breakin' My Heart
37. Remember (Christmas)
38. The Lottery Song
39. As Time Goes By
40. Lullaby in Ragtime
41. Makin' Whoopee!
42. Daybreak
43. Down (Demo)
44. Many Rivers to Cross
45. Don't Forget Me
46. Subterranean Homesick Blues
47. Mucho Mungo / MT. Elga
48. Loop de Loop
49. Save the Last Dance for Me
50. All My Life
51. Kojak Columbo
52. Turn Out the Light
53. Something True
54. Pretty Soon There'll Be Nothing Left for Everybody
55. Sail Away
56. Moonshine Bandit
57. Just One Look / Baby I'm Yours
58. That Is All
59. Who Done It?
60. Perfect Day
61. All I Think About Is You
62. I Never Thought I'd Get This Lonely
63. Ain't It Kinda Wonderful
Over 60 tracks, originally issued by RCA Records as A and B sides, from the brilliant, different and talented Harry Nilsson. Obviously included are his big chart hits 'Without You', 'Everybody's Talkin' and 'Coconut', Nilsson sadly died prematurely at the age of 52 in 1994, but he leaves behind a great musical legacy that hopefully his many fans and admirers will enjoy on this three CD set. Extensive new notes by Charles Waring. Digitally remastered three CD discs set.


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Have you seen job listings that ask you to process payments or handle funds transfers for an employer? It sounds like an easy job, but it probably isn't even a job at all.
This types of job postings are usually scams, so think twice before you apply. Legitimate companies handle payments, credit cards and money transfer transactions directly online. There is no need for a third party to be involved, and you should never use your own bank account to conduct financial business for an employer.
How do these scams work? Money laundering scams are some of the most common online job scams. Money launderers post jobs online or simply send out emails saying they are hiring employees to help process payments or transfer funds.
Very often, the fake "employer" says he is from a foreign country and thus cannot transfer funds himself (and also cannot meet you in person). He or she will ask you to use your personal bank account to move what are actually stolen or bad checks, and have you keep a small percentage of the money for yourself.
When you deposit a bad or stolen check, you are liable to the bank. Not only will you have to pay the bank, but, because the money being transferred is typically stolen, you could be arrested for committing theft.
Other money laundering scams occur when an "employer" hires you for a fake job, but says he can only pay you via direct deposit. He will then ask for your account information and personal information. Rather than paying you, he will use this information to access your account.
To avoid becoming a victim of money scams, thoroughly research companies before applying. Be aware that no legitimate company will ask you to transfer funds before meeting you in person and conducting a thorough interview and background check. Even then, it would be very unusual for third party financial transactions using your bank account to be part of a job description.
While companies may offer to pay you via direct deposit, no company will ever require you to use direct deposit. Therefore, make sure you are confident of a company's legitimacy before providing them with personal information or handling money for the company.
How to tell if a job is a scam, typical employment scams, work at home scams, and how to avoid scams.
Have you been scammed or almost scammed? Here's information on how to report a scam, including where and how to report an employment scam.
What's a scam and what's not? It can be really difficult to tell the difference between scams and legitimate job openings, especially when it comes to work at home jobs. Here are scam warning signs to watch for and how to spot a scam.


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When the close button doesn't close
The spread of a pop-up ad nightmare proves that in the digital domain, nothing is sacred
Andrew Leonard
October 7, 2013 7:41PM (UTC)
I wanted to read about Elena Kagan on Slate, but I was interrupted by a pop-up ad. "We are launching a store," declared the ad, an in-house promotion of Slate's new emporium for "Slate-themed products." This is something about which I care not one whit, so I clicked the close button. But instead of closing the pop-up and returning me to the Kagan story, Slate whisked me away to a page devoted to promoting the store: "We're launching a store and you could win an iPad ..."
Argh. I repeated this experience on two different computers, so it was no accident. And that's bad. Really bad. Undermining the foundation of civilization bad.
The Web is full of all kinds of annoying and distracting advertising tricks, but the experience of having the close button fail to close something delivers a unique brand of torture. Since at least the debut of Windows 95, when Microsoft introduced that little x in the upper-right-hand corner, millions of people have been trained to believe that a click in that spot will promptly shut down the window (or Web page) in which it resides. It's part of the indigenous culture of computing. X marks the spot for closure.
Of course, the promise of blessed cessation has always been a kind of fiction. We don't know for sure what happens when we click the x. There is no law. Programmers can decide to have whatever action their wily hearts desire ensue. For years, security experts have warned that clicking the x on some pop-up ads will actually prompt those ads to start downloading a payload of malware. Back in the early wild west days of online pornography, rogue operators would try to generate traffic by programming their sites to respond to any attempt to close a window with cascades of new windows, launching a hall of mirrors from which there was no escape! Bill Gates may have trained us, like Pavlov's dog, to expect a shut window after the x click, but there are no guarantees in the digital domain.
Which is, I guess, a good life lesson. Maybe Slate has done us a favor. When a legitimate online news site so blatantly perverts the sanctity of the close button we are reminded that, on the Web, all is confusion and uncertainty. We start to understand, at the gut level, that the digital world is smoke and mirrors. We take on faith that certain things will happen when we go through certain motions, but we have little power to ensure that is so. Clicking close opens new doors. Of course it does. To ever have thought otherwise is the purest vanity.
UPDATE: Slate editor David Plotz reports that the close button behavior I observed was an error, and it was fixed the same day I noticed it.
Andrew Leonard is a staff writer at Salon. On Twitter, @koxinga21.
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In December 1770, Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany. His true birth date is unknown. 1)
Beethoven's father, a failing singer, pressed his own expectations on his son by forcing him to rehearse for hours on end every day. In fact, when he played the erroneous notes, his father would frequently beat him. 2)
Beethoven had to drop out of school at the age of 11 to help support his family. As a result, he never learned to multiply or divide. 3)
Beethoven learned to play the violin as a child and preferred musical improvisation over playing from a score. "I can't tolerate it - scratch by note, else your scratching won't amount to anything!" his father once stated. 4)
Beethoven had six siblings, four of whom died before he was born. 5)
Beethoven's father was an alcoholic, a condition Beethoven subsequently inherited. 6)
Beethoven's first piece was published when he was 12 years old, which is impressive. 7)
Following Mozart's death in 1791, the Viennese Count Waldstein promised the young Beethoven that if he studied hard enough, he would get "Mozart's soul Through Haydn's hands". 8)
Beethoven kept a diary of his everyday activities in Vienna beginning in 1792, providing us with insights into his daily life, from choosing a new wig-maker to locating a location to buy a piano. 9)
Beethoven, unfortunately, was prone to illness and spent the majority of his life afflicted with colitis, rheumatism, rheumatic fever, typhus, skin disorders, abscesses, a series of infections, ophthalmia, inflammatory degeneration of the arteries, jaundice, chronic hepatitis, and cirrhosis of the liver. 10)
When Beethoven arrived to Vienna in his early twenties, he studied with Joseph Haydn, another important and influential composer. 11)
Beethoven despised providing piano lessons unless his students were attractive women or exceptionally gifted. 12)
By 1793, at the age of 22, Beethoven was frequently playing the piano in the salons of the Viennese nobility, swiftly establishing himself as a piano virtuoso, performing preludes and fugues from Bach's Well Tempered Clavier. 13)
During a retreat to Heiligenstadt outside of Vienna in 1802 during a period of sorrow, Beethoven wrote, "I would have terminated my life - it was only my work that kept me back." Oh, it seemed impossible for me to leave the world until I had brought forth everything that I felt was inside me." The Heiligenstadt Testament, as it is currently called, was published in 1828. 14)
Beethoven's early phase is thought to have concluded in 1802, following the Heiligenstadt Testament, and includes his first and second symphonies, a series of six string quartets, piano concertos no. 1 and 2, and perhaps a dozen piano sonatas, including the 'Pathétique' sonata. 15)
Like anything else in the musician-life, composer's there are several hypotheses as to why he went deaf. The widely accepted explanation is that he became deaf as a result of experiencing smallpox and typhus sickness as a child. Beethoven, on the other hand, stated in a letter that falling over as a toddler caused delayed, irreversible impairment to his hearing. 16)
For the film Saturday Night Fever, Walter Murphy created a disco version of the tune titled "A Fifth of Beethoven." In the film, the 'fifth' in the title referred to a whiskey bottle sold with a fifth gallon. 17)
Despite his distrust of authority, Beethoven admired Napoleon Bonaparte. During the French Revolution, he looked up to him as someone who embodied the ideas of an anti-monarchical and democratic government. Beethoven admired Bonaparte so much that he wrote the Eroica, or Third Symphony, for him in the beginning.18)
When Beethoven knew he would never be able to hear again, he penned the Heiligenstadt Testament. The series of letters, written in 1802, was sent to Beethoven's younger brothers, and discussed the musician's acceptance of his affliction as well as his ambition to overcome it. Unfortunately, he never got the chance to mail it to his brothers, and the letter was discovered in his study after he died. 19)
He continued to make music, with his pals frequently dropping over to express their support. Until his death in 1827, they connected via writing in conversation books. 20)
Beethoven never married during his career because he frequently fell for ladies who could never be his. For one thing, he had Josephine Brunswick as a pupil in 1799. Beethoven's letter, 'Immortal Beloved,' was allegedly intended to his loving student. 21)
If you happened to walk into his room at the time, you'd discover leftover food and other rubbish strewn about among his documents. There would also be an unemptied porta-potty under his piano. On top of that, he had a pockmarked and stubby face. 22)
He noted in his letter in the "Heiligenstadt Testament" that as the day progressed, he became increasingly angry and short-tempered. The formerly joyful composer has become a grumpy guy. He said it was because his hearing was deteriorating day by day. When his brother died, he was appointed as his nephew's legal guardian. Because of Beethoven's extreme strictness most of the time, his nephew committed suicide in order to escape Beethoven's clutches. 23)
Beethoven had such a profound effect on the music scene of his day that the Viennese Classicism Era ended with him. Beethoven, who pioneered the Romanticism Era in music, achieved several firsts, such as composing a choir accompaniment for his Symphony No. 9. 24)
His renowned Fifth Symphony demonstrated his mastery of dramatic compositions, employing short themes that were simpler to recognize rather than extended ones. 25)
Beethoven, as a composer and musician, could not tolerate works that were less than faultless. After completing a sheet of musical score or composition, he would modify and rework it several times until it met his standards. 26)
Fidelio was written as a commission for Peter Freiherr von Braun by Beethoven. Despite receiving a lot of attention at a stage performance in 1805, Beethoven's composition received a lot of criticism. As a result, he altered the score until he had a fourth version. The opera, which was most likely one of his life's work, took ten years to complete.27)
Beethoven's ability to write while being entirely deaf is one of the most remarkable Beethoven facts. He could picture harmony and music in his thoughts without even hearing the instrument because of his absolute pitch. One of the more unusual ways he used was to put a wooden spoon between his teeth while playing so he could feel the vibrations of the piano.28)
Ernesto Cortázar II, a Mexican arranger, composer, and pianist, wrote Beethoven's Silence in 1999. The composition was intended to depict the composer's life when deafness took over his profession. Unfortunately, the work has not been included in any of Beethoven's autobiographies. 29)
Beethoven had a number of contentious love affairs despite the fact that he never married. Beethoven reportedly wrote the Moonlight Sonata for his student Julie Guicciardi.30)
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Monahan's son, Austin, on Saturday first accused Ellison of beating his mother in a viral Facebook post. Austin claimed to have uncovered a video on his mom's laptop that showed Ellison dragging her off a bed and screaming expletives at her.
Foreground photo by Lorie Shaull.
Keith Ellison, as a believer in Islam, would not hold women in high esteem. Women are perceived as lesser beings than men under sharia law and inferior in intelligence. They must submit to the males in their family and, as wives, can be beaten by their husbands for disobeying.
This is the creed that Keith Ellison follows.


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Harry Styles Teams With HeadCount To Encourage Voter Registration
Harry Styles is teaming up with HeadCount, a non-profit voter registration organization, to encourage fans to vote in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections in November. The campaign is part of HeadCount's "Good to Vote" initiative.
The singer is offering a free trip to his legendary "Harryween" Halloween show at The Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, to be held on October 31.
Fans who check their voter registration status at HeadCount.org/HARRYSTYLES or by texting "HARRY" to 57568 will get a chance to win a VIP trip along with a friend to see Styles perform in Los Angeles on Halloween.
The winner's package will include airfare, hotel room, two concert tickets, and a merch pack signed by the singer.
"In 2020, 78% of the people that HeadCount registered turned out to vote, so we know these artist partnerships are effective. Having the support of individuals like Harry Styles has a tremendous impact," Andy Bernstein, HeadCount's co-founder and executive director, told Billboard.
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