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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Apogee - There was a more substantial investigation that concluded last week.
Investigators spoke to 45 different people and took 25 statements about allegations made by two of Kavanaugh’s accusers, Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez.
The Committee tweeted Saturday no evidence was found to “substantiate or corroborate” either of their claims.
No one backed Ford's story.
It wasn't really given much coverage in the MSM. What a surprise.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Discussing Politics on this form where most of us are friends and longtime chatters is totally legit. Its a community.
I truely care about what the people here thing on many topics and I listen to both sides.
Also, this forum is a legitimate mind within itself. It has such authority that it is occasionally sited by major media outlets.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Have we been saved? At least when the Titanic went down it was calm.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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Ed T may be dense, but probably not *that* dense.
"not sure why crux folks voting on confirmation to the high court may be target audience of investigation into nominee's alleged pattern of sexual abuse".
cool.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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oh yeah, hooray! the millionaire won CO Gov seat. Which millionaire?
does it matter, in the grand scheme of .....?
nope. no matters at all, sorta like that stupid azz setback measure.
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
Nov 7, 2018 - 10:50am PT
Ed T may be dense, but probably not *that* dense.
"not sure why crux folks voting on confirmation to the high court may be target audience of investigation into nominee's alleged pattern of sexual abuse".
cool.
How random
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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No wonder these threads get locked. SIMMER DOWN.
I guess it was just a smurfy wave, and the market is up!
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 7, 2018 - 11:13am PT
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I'm glad to see Tester held his Montana Senate seat. I thought he had a good chance & I actually donated to his campaign, which is the only one I donated to.
Trump really hates Tester, so Tester being in the Senate again should piss Trump off. Good!
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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If the market ever goes down and stays down we are all cooked, except for the few living in small cohesive groups growing and/or hunting their own food with no assistance from petroleum or metallurgy.
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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I try not to get too sucked into what's happening, despite it's significance. Just kind of stressful given the potential direction the country could head.
Looking at some of the very close races or those that are yet undecided, I've noticed at least a couple where an independent picked up enough of margin to have put the challenging democrat over the top (e.g., Arizona and Maine). After the debacle of Ralph Nader and the razor thin margins in many hot districts, how can people actually believe that a vote for an independent is anything but a vote for the republican candidate? I don't get it.
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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No, I didn’t notice that in either of the sources I frequent these days...Politico and National Review (MSM? Hmmm....)
Mind sharing a link to that source, Edward?
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Democracy is about balance of power and I for one am happy that may have been achieved.
Peace
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Happy Cowboy
Social climber
Boz MT
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Trump personally pinned the target on Jon Tester’s back after fighting his VA pick Ronny Jackson ( whose investigation goes on):
4 visits by Trump
Double that by Don jr.
3 visits by Pence, and more.
Tester finished by say “I learned long ago that Montana does not vote party, they vote people”
So glad it worked for him.
I’ve voted in SW Montana for 20 some elections, this was close.
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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I was glad to see Walker lost in WI, which is my home state.
Heard the other day that his big FoxConn project, where he gave $$$$$ incentives, and which was sold as bringing thousands of good jobs to local Wisconsin people seems to have changed horses midstream. Instead of manufacturing, now the focus will be engineering, and since Racine is not a place that has a populous engineer base, and is not going to have engineers lining up to relocate to, they will be bringing in Chinese (men) to fill the jobs. I sincerely DOUBT the Foxconn folks didn't know damned well what the strategy was the whole time. So, stupid Walker gave away the money to bring in a corporation that will ultimately provide only a smattering of low-wage jobs for the support of those engineers(cleaning and such).
Here in upstate NY, we have elected Delgado to Congress, and plenty of other Democrats for NY, which makes me happy, obviously.
I am thinking that it is GOOD that neoterh GOP nor Dem have gotten an a$$-whipping. The last thing we need is gloating and anger. Maybe now we regular people can start to heal from the Trump Malaise that has been sickening our country for the last two years, and again see each other as friends, neighbors and actual people instead of "them."
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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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I hear ya Happy Cowpoke!
I heard the 'bad' news about our potential senate choice on the news at home. Rode to work and promptly got on a 3.5 hour conf call. On my way to the fridge I ran into a co-worker that was all giddy and she whispered "Tester" in my ear in the hallway.
We still have our violent east coast rep and ya know, he is just some folks' kinda guy.
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Climberdude
Trad climber
Clovis, CA
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Looks like a climber will be going to the House. Katie Hill is expected to win the California 25th District. Go Katie and I hope to come visit you next year to talk about California and nationwide climber issues! Unfortunately, in my district I have to endure two more years of the chief Trump brownnoser Nunes. Janz and his campaign put up a great campaign to counter him, but it was not enough.
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