Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello

A very calm, measured response from the PR Governor. It's a pity be misused the word "underscore", though—it's pretty much the exact opposite of what he meant to say. "Understate" or even "dismiss" would have been appropriate.

Indeed a good response.

Possibly English is not his first language?

Perhaps he meant underscore in the sense of exacerbate or add to, i.e. by questioning the figures.

Crazy town

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Weird business!

Maybe they had a marijuana plantation?

And from George Conway, husband of Kellyanne Conway who is currently serving as Counselor to the President in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.

George Conways was the subject of an interview in The Washington Post last month.

"If there’s an issue, it’s because she’s in that job, for that man," George Conway told The Post in the article. "If my wife were the counselor to the CEO of Pepsi and I had a problem with her boss, I would simply drink my Coke and keep my mouth shut. If the president were simply mediocre or even bad, I’d have nothing to say. This is much different.”

Perhaps if Trump could start with learning how to colour in the US flag... Also, he may want to take a little time to examine his lapel pin a bit more closely before he criticises other (smarter) people.

Dumbest headline ever!

"Lisa Page bombshell: FBI couldn’t prove Trump-Russia collusion before Mueller appointment"

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Of course if the FBI could prove Trump-Russia collusion then there was no reason to appoint Mueller?

The 95% confidence interval for the number of excess deaths ranges from 793 to 8498. That's more than a full order of magnitude between the extremes!

And keep in mind, this is with 95% confidence. That is, statistically speaking, in 1 of 20 cases the excess death toll probably lies outside of that confidence interval.

That's not a result you can put a number on you're fairly safe to be reasonably accurate. In my book the study essentially says "There quite probably were some unnecessary deaths but we can't really assign a meaningful number with confidence."

Wonder if he knows about Manafort since he is not mentioned

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MANDATORY

Good to know he spends Sunday relaxing before the TV

"massive governmental corruption" Is this a confession?

The woman accusing supreme court nominee Kavanaugh of sexual assault in their teenage years has come forward, Christine Ford. Now a Professor at Palo Alto University in Clinical Psychology. Read her story.

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Some important details:
-"Ford took a polygraph test administered by a former FBI agent in early August. The results, which Katz provided to The Post, concluded that Ford was being truthful when she said a statement summarizing her allegations was accurate."

-Christine was 15 at the time Kavanaugh and his accomplice were 17-year-old high-school athletes. Christine thought they "might inadvertently kill her" during the assault because they were so forceful. Kavanaugh put his hand over her mouth the muffle her calls for help.

-Christine first revealed she had been a victim of physical abuse in 2002, when she married her husband. She did not go into details then.

-Christine described the event in detail in 2012, when prompted in therapy with her husband. The therapist has provided notes on this account. Those notes described the incident but did not include Kavanaugh's name, rather "students from an elitist boys’ school". Outside of therapy in 2012, she did tell her husband Kavanaugh was her assailant and that he may one day end up on the supreme court.

Horny18 year old tries, badly, to get lucky. Fails

Of course very traumatic to the victim, but does this affect his suitability for the job?

There are lots of other reasons for the senate to look beyond politics on this one, but failed sexual predation by someone not yet old enough to drink?

Yes it matters. This isn't a confirmation hearing to manage a McDonalds, it's to sit on the supreme court. Kavanaugh will have a role in determining how sexual assault is treated under the law.

Kavanaugh is accused of forcibly grabbing Christine, trapping her on a bed under his weight, molesting her, covering her mouth when she yelled for help, and may have raped her if she wasn't able to escape and lock herself in a bathroom. This wasn't a come-on, it was a violent sexual assault. If this is true, he has no place on the supreme court regardless if he did this as a minor.

She took and passed a polygraph test. Will he? Otherwise, this is disqualifying.

While it should be, it won’t. This is the US after all. And Trump is, by his own admission, is much more of a sexual predator.

Maybe, we'll see. The key difference is this: in 2016 the choice was between Trump and Clinton, who they'd convinced themselves was the devil incarnate. Here, it's between Kavanaugh and another super conservative justice that they could nominate and confirm while they still hold the majority in the Senate.

By doing pulling his nomination, the only thing they lose is some pride and a handful of legislation days. IMO that's a fair trade to keep the known sexual predators on the Supreme Court at one - Clarence Thomas.

Also, there's ~ a 70% chance they'll hold the Senate majority after the midterms as well - in the odd chance their backup nomination also runs into trouble.

That was my reaction when I first heard of this, assuming it was childish fumblings with no real understanding of the situation but no, as soon as I read he was 17 that defence goes out the window. He knew what was happening and it speaks to the essential character of the man. Had that character significantly changed in the intervening years then I'd expect him to have sought out his victim and appologised.


I was concerned about Kavanaugh before, now I'm scared. Massive kudos to the accuser, this must be a horrible thing for her.

Lol. Were you also concerned when Bill said he'd smoked marijuana but didn't inhale?

I think most of us are more worried about a rapist making laws about rape, than a president who had a toke once.

30 plus year old allegation. Good luck proving that.

Yeah, because smoking a joint is exactly as bad as trying to force a woman to have sex against her will, right?

I believe the church is busily fighting a losing battle with their own decades-old allegations of a similar nature, so I wouldn't think old Kavanagh is sleeping TOO easily at night.