COALITION OF THE STUPID

The only time in my life that I ever got SERIOUSLY drunk happened years and years and years ago. I had just finished a church softball game and, as usually happens during or after Episcopalians do pretty much anything social, my team hit the beer hard after the game.

At least I did, anyway.  Our team's coach, a really good guy, kept handing them to me and I kept drinking them.  I drove myself home, which was a sin by itself, and why I didn't get pulled over and slapped with a DUI, God only knows.

My mom knew I was plastered. 

And that would have been that except for the fact that the next day, I was scheduled to take a civil service exam to get a job with the Postal Service.

And I was SERIOUSLY hung over.

I think that was the only time in my life that I actually kind of impressed my dad.  He suggested a few things to deal with it.  Long story short, I took the test and, of course, didn't get the job.

Which still irritates me.

Gavin Clarkson, a recent candidate for New Mexico secretary of state, experienced a one-of-our-50-states-is-missing moment earlier this month when applying for a marriage license in the nation's capital.

Clarkson, who lives in Las Cruces, and his then-fiancée visited the District of Columbia Courts Marriage Bureau on Nov. 20 to apply for a marriage license.

But, once there, the couple encountered a small problem, Clarkson said. The clerk wouldn't accept Clarkson's driver's license – from New Mexico – as proof of his identity. Rather, the clerk, who mistakenly believed Clarkson was a foreign citizen, said he would have to provide an international passport to get the marriage license.

After Clarkson objected, the clerk went to check with a supervisor, who confirmed Clarkson would need a passport.

"You know you are from flyover country when you are applying for a marriage license, give them your New Mexico driver's license, and they come back and say: 'My supervisor says we cannot accept international driver's licenses. Do you have a New Mexico passport?'" Clarkson posted on Facebook recently.

GAME CHANGER

It astonishes me just how much of a professional sports revolution has occurred in my home town in the last several years.  Although this is just a preliminary step, the following is, from all indications, going to happen.  The ownership group is solid, political support in the City of St. Louis seems to be strong, the media here have run story after story about the MLS and quite a few regular people in this area, including me, are genuinely excited about the prospect.

The St. Louis Housing, Urban Development and Zoning committee unanimously passed a resolution in support of an MLS stadium plan in the city on Wednesday.

The vote, which came after a hearing, means the plan will next go before the St. Louis Board of Aldermen, the legislative body for the city. That vote could come as soon as Friday, but a report from local outlet KMOX indicates it could be delayed to raise more support among the aldermen.

The plan is for a privately funded $250 million stadium of approximately 20,000 capacity in St. Louis, to be located west of Union Station in the city.

Contrast that with what would happen if the NFL's Los Angeles Chargers decided that they didn't want to be Stan Kroenke's bitches and started nosing around here wondering what St. Louis would be willing to do for them.

Well, we'd tell them, we still have the dome which isn't that old.  We'll get it ready for you, make what improvements we can in it and you can play there for at least the next fifty years.  If you don't like that, all we can suggest is to return to San Diego and beg their forgiveness.

The NFL killed this market.

UPDATE: It's pretty close to a done deal.

DOUCHEBEARD GIVES UP

I appreciate this kind of honesty.  I know this is what they think but to have one come out and admit it is actually refreshing.

MILLENIALS ARE STUPID

or, The Case For Raising The Voting Age To 40.

Younger Americans are turning on the country and forgetting its ideals, with nearly half believing that it isn’t “great,” and many eyeing the U.S. flag as “a sign of intolerance and hatred,” according to a new and disturbing survey.

Those who came of age under former President Obama also have a larger than life view of the 44th president and feel that he had a “bigger impact” on the United States than the father of the country and leader of the Revolutionary War, former President George Washington.

GOOD LORD, MOVIES

If you don't want me to show up, just tell me.

ROBIN HOOD: Within its first five minutes, nefariously-coated Ben Mendelsohn draws up a series of fancy calligraphed scrolls, stamps them, sends them off. Robin gets one, unfurls it, at the top it says “DRAFT NOTICE.” He gets a DRAFT NOTICE FOR THE CRUSADES.

Pitch: how the Transformers won the Battle of Gettysburg.

BADGE OF HONOR

I'm starting to think that getting run from Twitter was the single greatest compliment I've ever received.  Because Glenn Reynolds has officially had it.

People seem to want more, and although there’s nothing duller than posting a screed on why you’re quitting a platform, here’s the gist: I’ve never liked Twitter even though I’ve used it. I was a late adopter, and with good reason. It’s the crystal meth of social media — addictive and destructive, yet simultaneously unsatisfying. When I’m off it I’m happier than when I’m on it. That it’s also being run by crappy SJW types who break their promises, to users, shareholders, and the government, of free speech is just the final reason. Why should I provide free content to people I don’t like, who hate me? I’m currently working on a book on social media, and I keep coming back to the point that Twitter is far and away the most socially destructive of the various platforms. So I decided to suspend them, as they are suspending others. At least I’m giving my reasons, which is more than they’ve done usually.

UPDATE: Yup.  I've got less and less use for the damned thing.

WHO SHOT MR. BURNS?

Humor is dead in America.

Scientists are proposing an ingenious but as-yet-unproven way to tackle climate change: spraying sun-dimming chemicals into the Earth's atmosphere.

 

The research by scientists at Harvard and Yale universities, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, proposes using a technique known as stratospheric aerosol injection, which they say could cut the rate of global warming in half.

 

The technique would involve spraying large amounts of sulfate particles into the Earth's lower stratosphere at altitudes as high as 12 miles. The scientists propose delivering the sulfates with specially designed high-altitude aircraft, balloons or large naval-style guns.

 

What could go wrong?  Damned if we know.

 

Despite the technology being undeveloped and with no existing aircraft suitable for adaptation, the researchers say that "developing a new, purpose-built tanker with substantial payload capabilities would neither be technologically difficult nor prohibitively expensive."

 

"We make no judgment about the desirability of SAI," the report states. "We simply show that a hypothetical deployment program commencing 15 years hence, while both highly uncertain and ambitious, would indeed be technically possible from an engineering perspective. It would also be remarkably inexpensive."

 

The researchers also acknowledge potential risks: coordination between multiple countries in both hemispheres would be required, and stratospheric aerosol injection techniques could jeopardize crop yields, lead to droughts or cause extreme weather.

 

The proposals also don't address the issue of rising greenhouse gas emissions, which are a leading cause of global warming.

 

But Science^TM and crap.

ON THE OTHER HAND...

People in this country don't give a diarhetical crap whether or not people in other countries consider American presidents to be "legitimate."

Howard Dean, a former Vermont governor and 2004 Democratic presidential candidate, said Thursday that America's perception in the world isn't suffering too badly under President Trump because many don't see him as the nation's legitimate leader.
 
"I think people don’t actually really consider Trump a legitimate president," Dean said on MSNBC. "He was obviously elected and all this business, but he does not represent American values. George W. Bush did represent American values and our numbers went down as a result."

"I think people are beginning to understand that Trump does not represent American values," he continued. "He doesn’t even really represent the values of most people who voted for him."

Yeah, just keep telling yourself that, HoDo.

HITTING FOR THE CYCLE

Chuckie's really good at Twitter, you have to give him that.  Two mutually-exclusive opinions in 280 characters would be tough for anyone to pull off.

WHY YOU GOT TRUMP

Long story short, it's as simple as it can possibly be.  The American people prefer their presidents to actually like the country they wish to lead.

Former President Barack Obama said "racism" and "mommy issues," among other contributors, were limiting the country's ability to make progress on everything from education to climate change.

Obama, speaking at the Obama Foundation Summit on Monday night, said the answers already exist to solve many of the problems facing both the U.S. and the world, but that the nation was not making progress "because we are still confused, blind, shrouded with hate, anger, racism, mommy issues."

The former president said people "literally can remake the world right now," which "badly needs remaking."

And let's be honest.  The GOP's institutional "conservatives," in the party and out of it, knew who Obama was back in 2008.  So who did they run against him?  John McCain, the most institutional candidate possible.

Who, as we all know, lost.  So who did big-league Republicanism put forward against Obama four years later?  Mitt Romney, a liberal Republican that the party unsuccessfully attempted to pass off as a jen-yoo-wine conservative.

Who also lost, which gained Obama four more years to lead a country that he and his party basically detest. 

Isn't that a bit strong, Chris?

Not at all.  If you live in Missouri, you just got done seeing it if you saw any of Claire McCaskill's campaign ads.  Claire talking to Missouri farmers.  Claire and Missouri's veterans.  Claire running for the tall grass rather than associating with the national Democratic Party.

If she'd gone back to the Senate, Claire would have immediately resumed her position as one of Chuck Schumer's wind-up toys and would have immediately forgotten that a place called Missouri actually exists and that Missourians live there.

Lather, rinse, repeat.  In American politics, six years is forever. 

Bottom line?  I'm not going to vote for anybody who's implicitly or explicitly embarrassed or humiliated to share a nationality with me. 

Which is why you got Trump.

YOUR JIM ACOSTA JOKE OF THE DAY

Analysis: A turkey has spent more time on-camera in the briefing room this month than the press secretary.

JOHNSON LIFE ADVICE

I have one request for any of you who, from time to time, find yourselves tempted to regard humanity with cynicism, contempt, despair or all three.

Stop doing that.

FAKE NEWS

Curling and drinking are closely linked?  Yeah, right. Next thing you'll try to tell me is that Episcopal church softball players REALLY enjoy their liquor.

SUN RISES IN EAST

Democrats overreach.

Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday threw her weight behind a new national campaign to mount primaries against incumbent Democrats deemed to be ideologically and demographically out of step with their districts.

The incoming star congresswoman from New York again put the Democratic establishment on notice that she and activist groups on the left aren’t content with a Democratic-controlled House: They are determined to move the party to the left.

"Long story short, I need you to run for office," Ocasio-Cortez said Saturday on a video conference call hosted by Justice Democrats, as the group launched a campaign dubbed “#OurTime.” Justice Democrats supported Ocasio-Cortez's primary campaign against powerful Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.).

"All Americans know money in politics is a huge problem, but unfortunately the way that we fix it is by demanding that our incumbents give it up or by running fierce campaigns ourselves," Ocasio-Cortez added. "That's really what we need to do to save this country. That's just what it is."

FOOD WITH A CAUSE

Lots of people on Twitter jumped all over this.  But TBH, it's why I wouldn't eat Ben & Jerry's if they were giving it away so sauce for the goose and all that.

House Dems serving thanksgiving-type meal for their first caucus meeting in HC-5, where the majority typically meets. No chick-fil-a/ideological food.

AND BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE

Seems that noted women's champion Mikey Nats has been a bad boy.

Michael Avenatti, who became famous for representing Stormy Daniels in her battle with President Trump, has been arrested for felony domestic violence ... law enforcement sources tell TMZ.

Our law enforcement sources say Avenatti was arrested Wednesday after a woman filed a felony DV report. We're told her face was "swollen and bruised" with "red marks" on both cheeks.

Our sources say the alleged incident occurred Tuesday night, but there was another confrontation Wednesday between the two at an exclusive apartment building in the Century City area of L.A. 

We're told Wednesday afternoon the woman was on the sidewalk on her cellphone with sunglasses covering her eyes, sobbing and screaming on the phone, "I can't believe you did this to me.  I'm going to get a restraining order against you."

We're told security brought her inside the building, took her upstairs and Michael showed up 5 minutes later and ran into the building. He screamed repeatedly, "She hit me first." We're told he angrily added, "This is bulls***, this is f***ing bulls***."  We're told he tried getting into the elevator but security denied him access.

A FEW NAMES EVEN IN SARDIS

As I said before, every so often Twitter doesn't suck.

PERENNIALS

The New York Times recycles an evergreen concept.  It's ALWAYS the fault of the Jews.

On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured Israelis weary of conflict with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip that he was “doing everything I can in order to avoid an unnecessary war.”

A day and a half later, Israel appeared to be on the brink of just that.

 

After a botched intelligence mission by undercover commandos left seven Palestinian fighters dead, the militant group Hamas and other armed factions mounted an intense and escalating rocket and mortar barrage across much of southern Israel that continued into Tuesday morning.

 

With air-raid sirens wailing from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea, and after a Palestinian anti-tank missile blew up an Israeli bus, seriously wounding a 19-year-old soldier, Israel retaliated with airstrikes and tank fire that grew steadily more destructive.

 

There could be Middle East peace yesterday if those stupid Jews would just quit trying to prevent the murder of themselves and their loved ones.

AMAZING SIGHTING

An Episcopal bishop with an actual spine.

An Episcopal bishop in upstate New York says the church has been "hijacked by the 'Gay Rights Agenda'" in a directive barring same-sex marriages in his diocese, the AP reports. The pastoral directive from The Rev. William Love, who is based in Albany, New York, highlights lingering opposition three weeks before a resolution goes into effect setting rules for same-sex marriages in Episcopal churches nationwide. Love's letter sent Saturday said the policy going into effect Dec. 2 "turns upside down over 2000 years of Church teaching" about marriage. "The Episcopal Church and Western Society have been hijacked by the 'Gay Rights Agenda,' which is very well organized, very strategic, very well financed, and very powerful," Love wrote in the eight-page letter. He added: "Satan is having a heyday bringing division into the Church over these issues."

Church leaders in July overwhelmingly passed the same-sex marriage resolution, which gives bishops with theological objections to same-sex marriages the option to have other clergy perform services.

A few things have got to be said here.  Lots of us, Bishop, were saying this exact thing ten years ago and really could have used the pointy-hat support.  I mean, something far stronger than your countless open letters or your tepid enthusiasm for GAFCON and/or ACNA.

For that matter, you could have taken the occasion of the 2008 Lambeth Conference and told my gracious lord of Canterbury that yes you all were all going to discuss The Issue and that if he shot you another Real African Word^TM, you were going to immediately head home.

And immediately get in close touch with GAFCON and/or ACNA.

But none of you said anything like that back when it might have made a difference and now it no longer makes a difference at all. 

Because most of us are done with you.

Bishop?  The Episcopal Organization may take action against you personally but I seriously doubt that it will go to the trouble since all it has to do is wait you out.  When you retire, the EO will make sure that Albany's next bishop will have correct opinions. 

"Better late than never" is often the worst expression in the world, Bishop.

CESSPOOL

If you spend any time there, you'll soon realize that the largest collection of blinkered, philistine, pig-ignorant stupidity on face of the Earth is Twitter.  Mitigated, somewhat, by the conservatives @jack allows to remain on his little platform.  One of those currently isn't me, @TheRealCSJ, and I still don't know why I and my 300-some-odd followers got shown the door.

But every now and then, you'll run across something there that you can only describe as a bottom-of-the-ninth, walk-off grand slam home run. 

For example.

Forget Year Zero. It's Day Zero when it comes to Trump. Everything he says and does has never, ever been said or done before. I'm astounded that presumably intelligent adults are saying this with a straight face.

Ballgame.  Thanks for playing. 

I'm not astounded by any of this.  If your profession spent eight years ignoring or justifying EVERY SINGLE THING OBAMA DID WHILE IN OFFICE, you've got no right to complain when Obama's successor does the same thing to you.

Might want to sit this one out, Chuck Todd.

NEVER THOUGHT I'D EVER SAY THIS BUT...

Pray for Malibu.  Hard.

SEE THIS ONE COMING?

That makes a couple hundred million of us.

YEAH, WHATEVER WATCH

Yeah, whatever.

In the quixotic battle against old age, some people use skin care and spin class.

 

That’s not enough for Emile Ratelband, a 69-year-old who feels like he’s in his 40s. The Dutch pensioner is asking a court in his hometown of Arnhem, southeast of Amsterdam, to change his birth certificate so that it says he took his first breath on March 11, 1969, rather than on March 11, 1949. The judges heard his case Monday and promised they would render a verdict in the next several weeks.

 

Ratelband sees his request as no different from a petition to change his name or the gender he was assigned at birth — and isn’t bothered that this comparison might offend transgender people, whose medical needs have been recognized by the American Medical Association. It comes down to free will, he maintains.

 

“Because nowadays, in Europe and in the United States, we are free people,” he said in an interview with The Washington Post. “We can make our own decisions if we want to change our name, or if we want to change our gender. So I want to change my age. My feeling about my body and about my mind is that I’m about 40 or 45.”

 

It's the Netherlands so I'm guessing his request will be granted. Then the idea will cross the Atlantic and the next thing you know, Bette Midler will be some high school kid's prom date.

 

Not really sure where that came from.

 

But why the forties?  Why not 35 or 23 or even less?  Think of the chicks you could do. 

FIRING ON SUMTER

The next American Civil War is coming.  The only question left is when.

BROKEN CLOCKS

Actress Alyssa Milano gets called out a lot here and other places for being a typical Hollywood lefty.  But even Hollywood lefties are right once in a while and Milano is absolutely right here.

Alyssa Milano says she will not speak at the next Women's March as long as Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory remain a part of the leadership and refuse to condemn Louis Farrakhan's anti-Semitism.

Which prompted this shot from Gleen Grennwald

White actress announces boycott of Women's March unless its gets rid of the Palestinian-American woman and African-American woman who founded it, or until they recite from the script she demands.

And this one.

Equating my defense of Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory with a defense of Louis Farrakhan is quite racist and Islamophobic. I'm sure you have reasons you tell yourself why your politics means that you can't possibly be guilty of such things, but you are nonetheless are.

This one too, while we're at it.

You really don't understand even a small amount of the meaning of this discussion, but I love that I made a Trump-supporting MAGA cheerleader defend Alyssa Milano.

Gleen pushes all-in.

I'm accurately describing what took place. If you believe there are any parts of my tweet that are factually inaccurate, you should point them out. "Mis-framing" just means: "he's pointing out facts I wish remained invisible because they undermine my political agenda."

Whatever you say, Gleen.  You defended three non-white anti-Semites.  We get it.

THE WAY BACK

Josh Hawley seems to have destroyed Claire McCaskill and will be Missouri's next United States senator, completing the total GOP takeover of Missouri.  The Democrats have a congressional seat in St. Louis and one in Kansas City and that's all they've got left here.

I'm not quite sure what to say about that except, maybe, this.  I'm old enough to remember when the Democrats owned this state.  There might have been congressional Missouri Republicans here and there but the Donks ruled Show-Me-Land.

Harry Truman and all that.

Then there was one Missouri statewide GOP win.  And another.  And another.  Then there started to be GOP pickups all over the place.  Then Pukes stopped caring about the Civil War and about how their fathers and grandfathers voted back in the day.

Then the floodgates opened.

What, if anything, can the Democrats do about it?  Check back.

END OF THE DAY

Of all of the reasons to oppose Donald Trump, David French articulates the worst.

Beautifully said, by @bariweiss. In that vein, the Southern Baptist convention is right: “Tolerance of serious wrong by leaders sears the conscience of the culture, spawns unrestrained immorality and lawlessness in the society, and surely results in God’s judgment.”

Let me try an analogy.  You have a plumbing problem at your domicile that you don't know how to fix (which, in my case, would be every single conceivable plumbing problem).

So you're going to have to hire a plumber.  Do you  (A) talk to every single local plumber you can in order to determine whether the personal religion or morality of that plumber agrees with your own?  Or (B) do you hire the best, highest-rated plumber that you possibly can regardless of whether they're Jewish, Muslim, Zoroastrian or Taoist?

Thought so.

The president of the United States is a great many things but when you get right down to it, the president of the United States is one thing and only one.  He's not a prophet or a priest. He's not another Moses, called by God to lead this country into some kind of golden era.

He's the First Federal Employee.  Full stop.

If he does an acceptable job, he'll get another four years.  If he doesn't, he won't.  Think of a US president as anything more than that and you risk developing a serious drinking problem when your preferred candidate loses to a reality TV show star because she never visited Wisconsin.

Besides, how seriously are conservatives supposed to take calls for the advancement of conservative values coming from institutional conservative politicians or writers who don't seem to take those values all that seriously themselves? 

Exhibit A?  Mitt Romney.

Mitt's probably a good guy.  Way more devoted to his marriage vows than Donald Trump ever was, that's for sure.  And not long before he ran for president, about as liberal as Donald Trump supposedly was, if not more so.  Called himself pro-choice, participated in gay pride parades, etc.

Hey, if you want to be governor of Massachusetts, you have to do stuff like that.  Maybe.  But here's a thought.  Kick around the idea of maybe not letting the institutional GOP repackage you as a "conservative" and run you for president. 

That is, if you want anyone to take you seriously.

And whatever you do, don't seriously respond to your various attacks or call out the media on its obvious bias.  Because that would be unseemly or something.  Just sit back, accept your inevitable defeat and await your Strange New Respect^TM down the road.

The institutional GOP would have had its "okay, we tried it your way, now shut up and leave the serious stuff to serious people" moment and Jeb Bush would have been obliterated by Hillary last time out.  But Donald J. Trump is the president of the United States.

I don't think I can explain why any better than that. 

APOTHEOSIS

Introducing the greatest conceivable snack food.  Chicharron de queso. 

In a bag.

FIRE IN THE HOLE

Ezra Klein readies the next leftist line of attack.

I don't think people are ready for the crisis that will follow if Democrats win the House popular vote but not the majority. After Kavanaugh, Trump, Garland, Citizens United, Bush v. Gore, etc, the party is on the edge of losing faith in the system (and reasonably so).

Seriously, kid?  If a Republican wins, say, District 3 here in Missouri but the nationwide House popular vote favors the Democrats, the Missouri District 3 Republican congressman is illegitimate?  Seems that that would make every single winning Democrat congressman in this country as illegitimate as that Missouri District 3 Republican congressman.

After all, it's the same election.  Why would one election be illegitimate but not another?  Unless, of course, you think that only Democratic Party wins are political legitimate in which case...

Okay, now I'm getting it.

UPDATE: Right on schedule.

UPDATE: Once again.

THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES

Let's put it this way.  SCTV was ALWAYS a better show than SNL, one of the two most overrated American "comedy" shows (the other one's Seinfeld).  Great comedy is always built on an underlying intelligence, something SNL rarely had and certainly doesn't have now.  In fact, the only time SNL was ever genuinely funny or interesting was when Eddie Murphy was there.

YOONEES

Major League Baseball has just been handed a wonderful new marketing idea because some of these are really cool.  If these things existed right now they'd be flying out of the stores as I type this.  I'd buy one.  Maybe two or three different ones.

Except for one thing.

There's a but?

There's always a but. The St. Louis Cardinals version is just...wrong.

The Rangers ought to adopt the Yankees version right now. And if Kansas City ever gets an NHL team, and they should, they should be called the Royals (or the Monarchs; KC history and all that) and they should wear this exact thing.

PLATFORM

Be my guest, dumbass.  Run on this.

That’s why we need to ban civilian firearms and make illegal possession a capital crime. Publicly execute a few hundred thousand illegal gun owners and the rest will get the message

TORPEDO AMIDSHIPS

Roman Catholicism takes another body blow.  Guess who calls herself a papist.

SMUG SEZ

Climate change is a myth. The weather doesn't change because of cars. The weather changes because there aren't enough birds in the area. If birds leave an area it gets cold and might start snowing. If birds arrive in an area it gets warm and could start spring or summer.

Can't argue with the science.

KANSAS-NEBRASKA II

In a perfect world, this Senate Judiciary Committee letter would accomplish two things. It would reelect Donald Trump in 2020.  And any presidential aspirations Kamala Harris might entertain would be deader than whatever's left of William Henry Harrison.  Selections follow.

I am once again writing regarding fabricated allegations the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary recently received. As you know, the Senate Judiciary Committee processed the nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to serve as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States, leading to his eventual confirmation on October 6, 2018. As part of that process, the Committee has investigated various allegations made against Judge Kavanaugh. The Committee’s investigation has involved communicating with numerous individuals claiming to have relevant information. While many of those individuals have provided the Committee information in good faith, it unfortunately appears some have not. As explained below, I am writing to refer Ms. Judy Munro-Leighton for investigation of potential violations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1001 (materially false statements) and 1505 (obstruction), for materially false statements she made to the Committee during the course of the Committee’s investigation.

On September 25, 2018, staffers for Senator Harris, a Committee member, referred an undated handwritten letter to Committee investigators that her California office had received signed under the alias “Jane Doe” from Oceanside, California. The letter contained highly graphic sexual-assault accusations against Judge Kavanaugh. The anonymous accuser alleged that Justice Kavanaugh and a friend had raped her “several times each” in the backseat of a car. In addition to being from an anonymous accuser, the letter listed no return address, failed to provide any timeframe, and failed to provide any location -- beyond an automobile -- in which these alleged incidents took place.

Then, on October 3, 2018, Committee staff received an email from a Ms. Judy Munro-Leighton with a subject line claiming: “I am Jane Doe from Oceanside CA -- Kavanaugh raped me.”  Ms. Munro-Leighton wrote that she was “sharing with you the story of the night that Brett Kavanaugh and his friend sexually assaulted and raped me in his car” and referred to “the letterthat I sent to Sen. Kamala Harris on Sept. 19 with details of this vicious assault.” She continued: “I know that [‘]Jane Doe[’] will get no media attention, but I am deathly afraid of revealing any information about myself or my family.” She then included a typed version of the Jane Doe letter. 

Eventually, on November 1, 2018, Committee investigators connected with Ms. Munro-Leighton by phone and spoke with her about the sexual-assault allegations against Judge Kavanaugh she had made to the Committee. Under questioning by Committee investigators, Ms. Munro-Leighton admitted, contrary to her prior claims, that she had not been sexually assaulted by Judge Kavanaugh and was not the author of the original “Jane Doe” letter. When directly asked by Committee investigators if she was, as she had claimed, the “Jane Doe” from Oceanside, California who had sent the letter to Senator Harris, she admitted: “No, no, no. I did that as a way to grab attention. I am not Jane Doe . . . but I did read Jane Doe’s letter. I read the transcript of the call to your Committee. . . . I saw it online. It was news.”

She further confessed to Committee investigators that (1) she “just wanted to get attention”; (2) “it was a tactic”; and (3) “that was just a ploy.” She told Committee investigators that she had called Congress multiple times during the Kavanaugh hearing process – including prior to the time Dr. Ford’s allegations surfaced – to oppose his nomination. Regarding the false sexual-assault allegation she made via her email to the Committee, she said: “I was angry, and I sent it out.”

 

And now for the punch line.

 

When asked by Committee investigators whether she had ever met Judge Kavanaugh, she said: “Oh Lord, no.”

 

Read the whole thing.

 

In a perfect world, other things should also happen.  This woman and ANYONE else directly or indirectly involved in this hit job, for that's all it ever was, should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.  I'm not interested in jail time for any of them.  Having to explain a felony conviction to a future prospective employer or voter is more than enough punishment.

 

In a perfect world, most Starbucks baristas or McDonald's drive-through window people would be unemployable poli-sci majors.

 

In a perfect world, American "journalists" would take a long, hard look at themselves and their alleged "profession."  And that class of "conservative" writers and politicians who would rather gouge out their own eyes and eardrums rather than say anything nice about Donald Trump would realize just how much the American left hates them and always will.

 

But we won't live in a perfect world until Jesus returns.