kavanaugh

from the Halifax Chronicle Herald

Brett Kavanaugh put his hand over a Bible to stop it from screaming, and became a member of the Supreme Court. He got to this point by being a Republican apparatchik, who was involved in political treachery. In his latest Senate job hearings, he perjured [lied] himself repeatedly, even to minor points that could be easily shown. His last hearing, he began by shouting, and voicing paranoid political fantasies [“orchestrated political hit, fueled with apparent pent-up anger about President Trump and the 2016 election, fear that has been unfairly stoked about my judicial record, revenge on behalf of the Clintons, and millions of dollars in money from outside left-wing opposition groups”], and threatened the Democratic Party. In questioning, he was evasive, combative, and did his utmost to eat the clock. His behaviour, if done in court before a judge, would certainly be cited for contempt. As a Republican Partei loyalist, it is de jure to be contemptuous of democracy and justice.

Senator Dick Durbin called Kavanaugh the “Forrest Gump of Republican politics”, when gwbjr nominated him for judge in 2003. Kavanaugh had worked for Ken Starr, he spent time and money with conspiracy theories that insist Foster did not commit suicide. As shrapnel, Foster's family suffered, Kavanaugh did not care. Also with Starr he investigated the Clintons, including being a chief writer for the Starr Report. In 2000, Kavanaugh helped steal the Florida election for gwbjr. He then was involved inside the White House, and the paperwork has not been released.

The questioning was interested in the initial hearings. Several of the Democratic senators tried to show us what Kavanaugh is, and not what he claims to be. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse asked Kavanaugh the meaning of the legal maxim, “Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus”. Kavanaugh did not answer, he deferred to Whitehouse. The translation is, “false in one thing, false in all things”. This explains Whitehouse questioning Kavanaugh about the yearbook, in which Kavanaugh repeatedly lied about the slang used.

Then there was a round of questions on Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's accusations of an attempt of rape on her, by Kavanaugh. Kavanuagh was deceptive and lied throughout, about nearly everything but his great fondness for beer. He brought in his calendar of the summer of 1982, and restricted it only to the weekends. When asked about the day of occurrence, he denied and lied. He and his friends did drink on the weekdays, and Christine Blasey was in their common circle of acquaintances. Her father, and his father belonged to the same country club; these people mingled. He was tricky in misdirecting people by lies that went unchallenged. He did not do this to Dr. Ford. He is right in that deception, she was not Dr. Ford THEN, she was Christine Blasey. He said legal drinking age was 18, so what? He was 17, and she was 15. He made statements like Ms. Keyser (friend of Christine Blasey) never saw me at a party with Christine. NO, she said she does not remember seeing the two at a party together. There were several of these tricks and lies.

When asked about something on the calendar, he answered he was busy being an athlete and scholar. He busted his butt to get to Yale, where he had no connections. His grandfather went to Yale. Kavanaugh was a legacy. Later he was asked whether he saw Dr. Ford's testimony. He said, “No”. People were in the room with him while it was broadcast on television.

Christine Blasey Ford testified in a girl's voice. She answered every question, and was being very helpful to the questioners. Kavanaugh did not want to answer any pertinent questions, but rather spin a narrative of his own creation.

Saturday Night Live opened their season with Matt Damon playing Kavanaugh. Damon was more likable and collected than the person he portrayed. ... Now, i am usually an optimist. I'm a keg is half full kind of guy. ...I am not backing down you sons-of-bitches. [sniff, a lot of sniffs] I don't know the meaning of the word "stop". [sniff]...I was the proudest, drunkest virgin you've ever seen...You don't have to compare me to Bill Cosby...but if you think i am angry now, you just wait until i get on that Supreme Court, 'cause then you're all gonna pay...Sir did you ever drink in excess?, if you're asking me if I was cool in high school then the answer is YES!

Then there was a mini FBI investigation, in which, only a few of many witnesses that were available to relate Kavanaugh's boorish, drunken, and criminal behaviour were interviewed. Not one Republican senator voted against his confirmation, and Trump is continuing to act like a grand ass. Trump always supports rich white men accused of sexual assault, after all, he is guilty of the same.

Tuesday, Cleveland west by the shore

 Tim Rhoden and Pirate on Edgewater Beach. The Canadian frontier beyond.

 more paint on the Garrett Morgan surge tower in Ohio City

 
 

friday afternoon

 

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A man's home is his castle, but sometimes the castle is under attack.

Some time ago, i photographed a 'Moses Cleaveland' oak in Lakewood. Here is some of it.

The rare spotted greyhound [joking, it is a Dalmatian].

The curtain is back. It may be getting another coat of paint.

ring them bells

Forty-seven Dutch bells, 15,000 pounds of bronze, are in the carillon tower of the Church of the Covenant (Presbyterian). The resident carillonneur is George Leggiero, to-day's noon concert the guest carillonneur was Patrick Macoska. As the music played the campus of Case Western continued on.

 Good sign, unfortunately such a sign is rare

Mr. Leggiero at the console, fists commonly strike the levers which pull metal rods that pull the clappers that strike the bells.

inside the tower

These rubber bracelets are souvenirs of the 50th anniversary of the carillon.

2018 Miscellany #10

The Cleveland Zoo had a very successful Chinese Lantern installation. It has been almost been completely taken down. Most of it is corralled off in an area that had been a parking lot. Most of the lanterns have a cloth skin. This one had rows of little bottles with colored water, which looking at in a particular way is similar to an ear of ripe Indian corn.

 

This is a portion of the side of a giraffe. The giraffes were let out of their barn, and one came to the feeding platform waiting to be fed. In mediæval China, it is said, that the most interesting animal from Africa was the giraffe, or the camel leopard as it was called in Europe. A few months ago, a foto was released of an American woman (Tess Thompson Talley*) overjoyed in posing with the giraffe she killed. The numbers of these, and many animals are in serious decline. Will the last one of a species be killed by some trophy hunter? What kind of hero would that person think he is to kill the last one of a species? Really, that bitch gave an American Evangelical gesture in one of her fotos with the dead giraffe.

Red tailed hawk, resting on a statue of St. Joseph in Cleveland Calvary Cemetery. This is the best of eighteen shots i snapped; for a warbler, i would be lucky to get one.

In early September five days of heat, were ended with one blast of wind in a heavy rain. The next day repairs were still being made.

A bough from a tree hit this windshield. For those who complain about safety regulations in manufacturing: that window is crumpled and cracked, and still in one piece, note the rear view mirror.

 Pigeons on on top of St. Colman Cleveland

 Elephant statue outside the Jain Temple in Richfield Township

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*"Prayers for my once in a lifetime dream hunt came true today!"

water tower to get painted

12 September. The project begins. Along Detroit Avenue, this Ohio City water tower was scheduled to be a canvass for an international painter. First, one would think the scum would be removed in a thorough cleaning. The water department calls this a surge tank for the pumping station, if a severe drop of water pressure occurs, the water in this will drop, so that the pipes would not collapse.

12 September. Later in the day, and from a different angle, some of the rods are up. Ever see a very high shutter speed photo of a drop of water making a concussion? This almost looks like the corona crater beneath the rebounded drop. This tower has looked dirty for some time.

14 September. Notice the parasol, and all the guide ropes.

15 September. The tower shrouded in a curtain. Under cover, there will be a cleaning, perhaps sand blasting. I read that a blue coat of paint will be applied. [foto by John Z]

A hatch, high on the tower.

One World Day 2018

Bhutanese 

This festival is usually the last Sunday in April; but, i think, the construction of a new bridge over Doan Brook may have delayed the date. Three weeks later in summer, and it was still 86°F. The parade of gardens starts at noon. Some nationalities marched who do not have a garden, or one pending: Catalan, Bhutanese, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Uzbek, and Indonesian.

  Mexico [no word of whether Trump has an opinion]

It has been 100 years since World War I ended, and some nations became states again. The Latvian group, and the Lithuanians made it a point to have that written on their banners. The Lithuanians had the largest contingent in this parade.

The marching in these parades is often start and stop walking. Precision is not a concern, but the Chinese carried a dragon, and that  is worth seeing.

Aleksandr Sergejevich Pushkin, Natalia Nikolajevna Pushkina with Cassius

In the Shakespeare Garden, actors from Rubber City Theatre performed scenes and speeches from (at least) Taming of the Shrew, and Hamlet.

Cassius is driving a Karachi bus.

Saturday mid-September

 Detroit and Lake Avenues, Cleveland O. home to a new sculpture.

Some events are one time deal-i-os, they wanted 500 paddle ballers to get a Guinness [no beer, record--and they didn't]. Their count was 392.

Tin Tin in the land of chalk

Some events are annual, and worth returning to again. This weekend the Art Museum had their annual chalk festival. I have had posted on previous chalk fests.

from Degas and Fantasia

A lot of the chalkings were from cartoons. The shades of chalk are similar in color tone to many cartoons. I saw at least three different pineapple drawings, supra was the best. I wonder whether something is current, that i am unaware of. There were also three or four Frida Kahlos, one had a necklace of briars and Trump's head as a necklace. There were only a couple of other drawings suggesting a political message, considering the circus of Caligula that is ripe for comment.

And after the day's scheduled chalking, there was a wedding on the marble plaza of the museum.

Saturday at Edgewater

Did not see the sailboats until i turned the corner to get to the parking closest to the lake, and i parked on the end, so as to be able to photograph. I was a little late, what ever the event was fourteen boats were out nearly in a straight line, and they were breaking formation. So, my first shot was the best.

In front of the line of boulders between a strip of grass and the lake, there was this stone. On the right is the Terminal Tower, and on the left there is some edifice named Barton. This rock was propped up, and the rock in the lower right looked like a grave marker. I posted this on cool photo ops on facebook* to see if someone had information.

To-night there was to be a night bike ride. There were vendor tents set up for sundry businesses. Just yesterday, Sherwin Williams which has its headquarters downtown, and has had huge (really huge) banners of Lebron James, may put up a new banner with one of these "Guardians". The Lorain Carnegie Bridge, which spans the river Cuyahoga, has huge sandstone pylons with these figures carved. An alternative newspaper, Cleveland Scene, in the past suggested a new name for the local Major League Baseball franchise. They thought the Cleveland Indians a tad racist. One of several alternatives suggested was the Cleveland Guardians, and a variation of these Assyrian god monoliths would be the logo. Well, yesterday, they were not pleased with the banner design.

 

There were dogs in the park, including this happy hairy dachshund.

 

   Beau was getting impatient about his food order not being promptly ready.

There were dogs who competed in a fetch into water jump. These weimaraners are 14 year old Kansas City Bella, and Sir Winston.

 She is almost blind, but still photogenic.

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*Postscriptum: the stone has been there at least since April