(06-23-2019 10:19 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(06-23-2019 06:56 AM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 06:58 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  I believe(d) kavanaugh for multiple reasons, but the basic one is is I have personal experience with the way recollections can morph into memories of something that never happened.

I saw an old classmate, and our reminiscing wandered into a scrape he and I got into. As he remembers it, it was my idea. I remember it just the opposite.

I once ran into a former girl friend that I had broken up with 10 years earlier. As we talked, it became apparent she remembered the sequence of events that led to our break up way differently than I did. And that was a 10 year lapse, not 30, And Blasey Ford was drinking at the time. I can also attest that sometimes drinking leads to fuzzy memories and mistaken understandings.

No court in the US would convict on that, except the Court of Democratic Politicians acting to preserve a SCOTUS seat. So we get the scene of righteously angry people, feeling justified in doing anything they fell the need to do.

You do know that victims of sexual assault often take years to find the courage to come out with their story, right? These victims often blame themselves initially, fear ramifications from their accusers, etc.?

I get that memories can fade over time. Perhaps something as traumatic as a sexual assault would lead to a more solid memory than a break-up with a girlfriend? Perhaps a victim of a sexual assault would pore over the details of the sexual assault over the years more than you pored over the details of a scrape that you got into with your buddy?

What is your cutoff for victims of sexual assault in terms of timing? Write off their credibility after nine years? Five years? Six months?

I don't doubt her sincerity. I doubt her memory and her mind.

My sister went to the DA and called the cops 100's of times to report that she (and her dog) had been raped by a man who lived in her walls. She decided that this man was a member of the grounds crew at her condos. So she had a real memory of a real man. I was afraid that this man would be arrested on her word, and although it would soon become clear she had mental problems, he might get deported back to Mexico. I did not want that to happen.

She believed it, and Blasey Ford believed it. My sister remembered it, and Blasey Ford remembered it. Both were fuzzy on details. Both worked in mental health,(my sister was a therapist in private practice), a field which seems to attract those with mental problems. I once had a nurse in a private mental hospital tell me the doctors were the craziest ones there. One of my college roomies became a psychiatrist, and the shoe fits.

Since we are giving credit to 30 years for her memory lapse, let's remember it was 30 years for Kavanaugh and his high school buddies also.

Her lack of support from her friends/witnesses and his lack of similar experiences/accusations in the 30 years since were big.

People write **** in yearbooks all the time. One wrote in mine about our "first time in a whorehouse". I wonder how you would interpret that if I was nominated? It was about a car wreck we had in a city 150 miles away after which we spent the night in a disreputable old hotel the other driver owned and offered for free until my parents could get there. But I am sure it would be presented differently if I were a conservative nominee for SCOTUS. I was 17. Luckily, I never had to present my yearbook to get a job.

Yeah... my yearbook entries were stupid as well. It's not the fact that he had ridiculous, embarrassing, teenage stuff in his yearbook. Lots of us do. It's the fact that he blatantly lied about it during his testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Commmittee!