Kavanaugh must have had a fake ID

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Tuesday October 02, 2018 · 5:05 PM PDT

2018/10/02 · 17:05

It’s been established that Kavanaugh was not drinking legally in high school or those early years of college. In the summer of 1982 when Maryland changed the drinking age to 21, he was still only 17. During the September 1985 college bar brawl he was 20, still legally underage.

But if he was routinely getting kegs and going to bars in those years, wouldn’t he have needed a fake ID?

His possessing a fake ID compounds the drinking issues and demonstrates his intention to break the law. If he is questioned under oath again, someone should ask him whether he had a fake ID.

Attire-based Women's Protest at the Speech Last Night

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Wednesday March 01, 2017 · 11:46 AM PST

2017/03/01 · 11:46

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 28: Maureen Scalia (top c), the widow of late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and guest Denisha Merriweather (bottom c) attend a joint session of the U.S. Congress with U.S. President Donald Trump on February 28, 2017 in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. Trump's first address to Congress focused on national security, tax and regulatory reform, the economy, and healthcare. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) — Message received!

I drew the short straw in my little political group and had to be the designated watcher of the speech to Congress last night. This sad task was made a bit easier to bear by a couple of interesting clothing choices among the attendees. Maybe it’s the lingering effect of the recent Oscars, but I was noticing women’s clothing more than I ever have for a Congressional speech. No, it’s not about fashion; it’s about #resist.

It was pretty obvious that several Democratic women planned ahead to dress in suffragette white and sit together for the speech. I noticed that women on the other side of the aisle tended not to sit in groups, which made the group of women in white that much more noticeable.

Elizabeth Warren wore purple, another one of the colors historically associated with suffragette solidarity. I did also notice she sat with another woman.

Denisha Merriweather, the young black woman introduced in connection with the tuition credits bullet point, was also wearing suffragette white. I welcomed her subversion.

Melania wore a very expensive black outfit with beading. I thought it was an odd choice, more suited to a party than a speech. She also seemed ill at ease except when she was being applauded, when she softened up some. I wanted to interpret her choice of color as a mood indicator, but that’s just me.

Barbara Lee wore a large black rosette on her suffragette white outfit; I also interpreted that as commentary.

And Ivanka Trump wore hot pussyhat pink. I just don’t know what to make of that at all!

Ferguson elected abusive policewoman to city council

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Saturday August 16, 2014 · 10:07 AM PDT

2014/08/16 · 10:07

I haven't seen anybody mention this yet.

One of the six current members of the Ferguson, MO, city council (and its only woman) is Kim Tihen.

That's the same Kim Tihen implicated in the story from four years ago about four police officers beating up and jailing the wrong Henry Davis, then charging him with property damage for bleeding on their uniforms. See the text of his appeal here, which includes naming Tihen as the female officer who cuffed him in the cell right before he was kicked in the head.

He lost the appeal, but it looks like Ms. Tihen got out of police work. She probably doesn't get as much of other people's blood on her clothing as a City Councilwoman.

Next month I will have been reading DKos for ten years, and this is my first-ever diary.

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