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The liberal Dems on our town council have replaced this with Indigenous Peoples' Day. Get away with many such nonsenses, in spite of a voting block, mostly elderly and business owners ( Job creators), predominantly republican. Issue is voter turnout, and getting the RIGHT folks to run, for an admirable, but thankless job/title. But the base here is fired up, thanks to the indiscretions of the Dems, and their near violent, abusive, harassing rent-a-protesters over Associate SC Justice Doctor Kavenaugh. They actually tried to make this little idyllic Oceanside hamlet a "sanctuary city", but were beaten back by Trump and Co's policies of cutting government funding for such. I'm actually not against keeping the original, which is validly steeped in tradition, and having another created for our precious and way mistreated First People's. See if folks on the other side have commensurate sentimentalities. Don't hold your breath. After all, Cristobal C. Was a (Jewish) straight white male---the scourge of modern life for some, No? The right thing to do here would be easier if he were a homosexual, otherwise LBGT, lefty female of color, No?

It was a real circus created by the LEFT…the mob tried every dirty trick in the book, the man was out of control, the slander by mainstream media was unstoppable, but in the end I think sanity won the day
Reality, free thinking, rationally acting people voted the right way and the paid for protesters will not take away men’s human rights…I would say to always look outside mainstream media, cause 90% of it is fake news and run by the LEFT…

You can find plenty of truth tellers online and facts can still win the day…my advice is don’t let the mobs shout you into submission, don’t fall for the attempted guilt shaming, don’t fall for the lies, don’t give into the LEFT mob, don’t let them take away our free speech, be strong, stand up for yourselves, stand by what you say, be proud and good

I thinkthe LEFT have shown their mentality, the left have show how aggressive and out of control their emotional state is, the Left have show they don’t practice what they preach, the LEFT have show how immoral, how self centred, how power hungry and how evil they are, so the evidence is all to see and sane people will clearly see it.

What is your view on this nomination and what do you think of the way the LEFT have acted?

It's quite clear, that the GOP agenda is much more important to Republicans than what the majority of people want.
It didn't start with the election of the most unqualified US president in history.
It started with the Tea Party within the Republican party,
a band of obstructionists, who would do anything to halt progress.
Indeed, they pledged to do just that.

But, with the help of Putin, Trump was elected and Republicanswe re so happy that a person
representing the Republican party, got in power, that they turned a blind eye to things they would have
passionately objected to only 2 years earlier.

We are now at a point, that the Republican 'representatives' no longer care about what is the right thing
to do. Instead, most have replaced integrity with what can we get away with, and the public has
been outraged at many things that have taken place in the past 2 years.
These include tax cuts for the rich, jailing young children of refugees away from their parents,
obnoxious Tweets, alienating allies, coddling dictators, allowing more pollution, allowing mining & drilling in National Parks, destruction of net neutrality, attempts to take away health benefits, and other things deleterious to a large part of the population.

The result is that this country is more divided than it has been in decades.
The Kavanaugh confirmation may be the tipping point.
Will the confirmation of an accused s*xual predator to the Supreme Court be the tipping point
to finally motivate voters to select better representation ?

The majority of people in the USA are female. However, Trump lost the popular vote in 2016
and still got elected due to an antiquated electoral college.
Yet, Congressmen don't get an electoral college to vote as they please.
They are elected by the popular vote.
So, will the public make their voices heard, when & where it will do the most good ?
Will this be the end of the Republican majority in Congress ?

I guess we will find out in early November.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) released a statement Saturday after the Senate confirmed Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, saying the Democrats' "crazed, hysterical" attempt at mob rule failed.

"Judge Kavanaugh was a distinguished jurist who respects our Constitution and the judiciary’s vital but limited role in our system of government. I expect Justice Kavanaugh will continue to interpret the Constitution and the laws as written, rather than asserting his own preferences as law," Cotton said in his statement. "Sadly, because Democrats have long depended on activist judges to impose their unpopular ideas on an unwilling people, the Democrats waged a scorched-earth campaign of character assassination against him. But the Democrats’ crazed, hysterical attempt at left-wing mob rule has failed, and rightfully so. Today is a victory not only for Justice Kavanaugh and his family, but also for the rule of law, due process, fair play, and basic decency."

Senate Democrats attempted to block Kavanaugh's confirmation by using allegations of s*xual misconduct lodged against him in recent weeks. The allegations went back to when he was in high school and college. Democrats focused their efforts on the allegations in an attempt to galvanize opposition and put pressure on Republican senators such as Susan Collins (Maine) and Jeff Flake (Ariz.). Both ended up voting for Kavanaugh.

Kavanaugh's first accuser Christine Blasey Ford told the Washington Post that Kavanaugh, then a junior in high school, attacked her when they were at a party in Maryland in the early 1980s. A second allegation came from a woman named Deborah Ramirez who accused Kavanaugh of exposing himself at a dorm party during his freshman year at Yale. Another allegation was brought forth from a woman named Julie Swetnick, who is represented by anti-Trump lawyer Michael Avenatti. Swetnick claimed Kavanaugh was involved in a series of "gang rapes" when he was in high school, but she offered no additional evidence or witnesses to support her allegations.

Kavanaugh has vehemently denied all accusations and there have been no corroborating witnesses to the alleged assaults.

Senate Democrats have called the allegations credible with several stating that Kavanaugh doesn't get the presumption of innocence.

In a close vote, the Senate confirmed Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court 50-48. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R., Alaska) voted "present" to offset her no vote with the absence of her colleague Sen. Steve Daines (R., Mont.). Daines was at his daughter's wedding but was willing to come back to D.C. if his vote was needed. The vote was largely on party lines with Murkowski being the only Republican who didn't vote for Kavanaugh's confirmation, while Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) was the lone Democrat voting in favor.

50-48

Now Justice Kavanaugh.

More to come.

Riots will ensue.

Tammy Bruce: Susan Collins' speech tells us a lot about the GOP and America

In the midst of the debacle over the Senate confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, delivered a speech on the Senate floor Friday that reminded us of the potential of political discourse there.

As a supporter of President Trump and critic of the establishment swamp, I can say these last few weeks of the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing have delivered more than one surprise for all of us.

Watching the Republican Party come together – and seeing senators who have personified the weakness of the GOP stand up for what’s right – has been a revelation.

If you had told me last month I would be praising Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Collins, I would have thought you were crazy. Yet here we are and all three have been beacons during this fight, and delivered when under extraordinary pressure.

Watching Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., sulk into an elevator, refusing to stand up to partisan hecklers, was dispiriting.

But Collins’ speech Friday was an inspiring reminder of what the Senate is supposed to embody – a place where lawmakers give a thoughtful and reasoned presentation of the facts before us – in this case regarding Judge Kavanaugh.

Collins spoke of Kavanaugh’s judicial record – not his high school yearbook. She discussed her extended personal conversations with him.

And Collins addressed Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted Ford when the two were high schools students some 36 years ago.

While Collins said she believes Ford was assaulted by someone and respected her testimony, the senator detailed how the resulting investigations caused her to conclude that the allegations against Kavanaugh failed to meet the “more likely than not” minimum standard to keep him off the Supreme Court.

Collins also called the separate accusation by another woman that Kavanaugh had been present at a party where girls had allegedly been gang-raped “outlandish.”

All of the specious arguments made by Democrats and their various allied “resistance” groups were dismantled by the Maine senator, leaving the hysterical claims that Kavanaugh would be an ideological nuclear bomb on the court tattered on the floor like a piece of toilet paper dragged on someone’s heel.

And Collins spoke with a tone conveying a confident and heartfelt sincerity worthy of the moment.

In other words, the Democrats who had hoped that harassment and intimidation would frighten Senate Republicans into abandoning all sense of fairness had a very, very bad day. They will have an even worse weekend, since Kavanaugh now has enough support to make his Senate confirmation for a seat on the Supreme Court a virtual certainty.

Addressing the absurd gang-rape allegation, Collins said: “That such an allegation can find its way into the SCOTUS confirmation process is a stark reminder of why the presumption of innocence is so ingrained in our consciousness.”

It is likely unbelievable to Collins why some find the presumption of innocence and due process of law so pesky, because these vital standards make malevolent political attempts to destroy people much more difficult. When dealing in false allegations, due process is your enemy.

At one point, Collins said that “we have forgotten the common values that bind us together.” On that, she can speak only of Washington and the legacy media, as the American people have not forgotten a thing.

Donald Trump is president because we noticed what was happening in Washington and we did not like what we saw.

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With each passing day and with each bit of information that seeps out about Christine Blasey Ford, it is clearer and clearer that what the Democrats have done to Judge Brett Kavanaugh has been a setup from the outset.

Most of us are relatively naïve, ready to believe what our news outlets put forth. We have open minds and were ready and willing to listen to Ford's testimony and consider for ourselves if it was believable. It was not. Her testimony was obviously scripted, practiced, massaged, and fabricated out of whole cloth.

Ford may have seemed like a victim, not of Kavanaugh, but perhaps of her Democrat operatives. Over the past days, however, what is nearer to the truth is that she was and is part of a faction of anti-Trump activists bent upon destroying Kavanaugh in order to deny Trump another nominee to the Supreme Court.

They have badly misjudged the wisdom and sentiment of the American people. These Democrats on the Judiciary Committee are so deluded by their belief in their own intellectual superiority that they felt comfortable publicly, derisively attacking a man with a reputation finer than any of those who sat in judgment. This was like Salieri sitting in judgment over the music of Mozart – preposterous.

At first, those of us paying attention were anxious to hear Ford's story. The bits of news that preceded her appearance before the Judiciary Committee were titillating. Was it possible that this man, Brett Kavanaugh, with a thirty-years-plus record of impeccable judicial service to his country, had a dark side? Then we heard Blasey Ford "testify." How anyone who listened to her practiced, phony childish act could believe that this was not calculated is a mystery. She was obviously scripted, coached, and performing.

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Anticipating good news soon for the brilliant and honest (and sober) Judge K. Next, after Ginsburg fails to wake up from one of her regular sleep spells on the job, the politically neutral Judge Amy Coney Barrett is on deck. Wonder what sort of shameless stunts the Dems will try to hit her with? Generations of a more balanced court.

Is it true that I knew before almost everyone else how she would vote? Does she smoke cigars with me and a few friends Friday's at 2 PM? Most of us prefer Churchills---does she like the larger ring size Presidentes? Is her choice of smoke prophetic? Maybe not. But her speech certainly will make a number of Dems felony nervous, starting with that wacko Ford female, her ex FBI best pal, and several other co conspirators. Then we'll see the real investigations begin. So happy, it's now beyond the leg tingles. Welcome Justice Kavanaugh.

Trump has a long list of accomplishments. You can Google them.

What I'm wondering is, what are the Democrats running on? Can any of you libs tell me?