Do you support Mr. Kavanaugh or Dr. Ford?

[spidergoat]

So, you would claim that the supreme court lacks credibility?

How does that strengthen the people's faith in their political system?

Would you destroy your country out of spite?

If it lacks credibility, it just does. The power of the court is that people respect it. How much partisan abuse can an institution stand? I'm just hoping for some checks and balances and long live RBG.

 

[CptBork]

So, you would claim that the supreme court lacks credibility?

How does that strengthen the people's faith in their political system?

Would you destroy your country out of spite?

So now that your boy's in office, suddenly the country you previously accused of being run by a corrupted cabal has instead become a country worth protecting, and whose institutions deserve the peoples' faith and support?

 

[Tiassa]

Would you destroy your country out of spite?

Well, conservatives are giving it their best shot.

 

[Capracus]

Brett Kavanaugh was proven innocent.

God bless the kangaroo court that made this possible.

 

[Xelor]

i would put the odds around 80% chance he is an alcaholic.
he was probably going cold turkey during the senate hearing.

That outburst of his suggests that he may well have been doing that.

 

[Xelor]

Question: I understand that a Supreme Court Justice cannot be removed except by impeachment, but has anyone ever suggested taking away a judge's license to practice law by the American Bar Association?
Nobody gets fired, they just are no longer allowed to practice law altogether....
Does the Bar Association have a rating of "Not qualified" (for conduct unbecoming)?

There is no requirement that a SCOTUS justice be a member of the bar or licensed to practice law. Such a move, though highly symbolic, would have about as much practical value as tits on bulls.

 

[billvon]

Its a part of her brain stem, it may change but it does not do so consciously. Look lets say she went to a gay conversion center afterwards, would it change then?

Maybe, but probably not.

Considering the rate that doesn't work I don't believe so, we have no evidence outside utero development that sexual preferences are altered.

Given that there have been identical twins where one ended up straight and one ended up gay, there's plenty of evidence that preferences depend on something other than genetics.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, look I deal with precision, if you want to live thinking your otherkin, that your business I'm not going to stop you. If you want to live in your own reality that fine by me, but the reality you feel and reality that is quantifiable may be different, if you don't want to know the truth, fine.

Again, I am laughing at the idea of you telling a lesbian woman she is really straight because of your "quantifiable reality." It would be fun to watch.

 

[iceaura]

Ok if you are going to call that "poorly understood correlations, of unknown significance" then we might as well through out all of evolution as well.

? You posted a finding of correlations. They have wide variance and large error bars, but they are still robust and interesting correlations. Obviously if some mechanism lies behind them, that mechanism would be a significant discovery, but so far no such mechanism has been described. We look forward to further research and new discoveries, all motivated and framed by evolutionary theory of course.

One very interesting implication of this research - as the authors note- is that because these specific genes common to voles and people apparently influence mating behavior in voles somehow, they might also influence mating behavior in humans in some unknown way (maybe even the same way, it's possible). We look forward to further research into that interesting possibility as well.

 

[iceaura]

There is no requirement that a SCOTUS justice be a member of the bar or licensed to practice law. Such a move, though highly symbolic, would have about as much practical value as tits on bulls.

To elaborate:
Kavanaugh himself has never represented any client in any court as a lawyer, or any nonpartisan nonpolitical organization as legal counsel. W appointed him to the Federal bench directly from his career of employment as a partisan Republican legal adviser to partisan Republican political operations.
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In general:
That kind of judicial appointment (or election!) is more common in the US than is commonly realized, especially in recent years by Republican electorates and Republican governing authorities: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/when-your-judge-isnt-a-lawyer/515568/

But Montana and seven other states—Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New York, Texas, South Carolina, and Wyoming—allow non-lawyer judges to hand down jail sentences for misdemeanors without the right to a new trial before a lawyer-judge. Some states, like Montana, only allow the practice in rural or sparsely populated counties, while others allow it statewide.

As noted above, people without law degrees have in the past been seated on the Supreme Court.
http://www.answers.com/Q/Which_Supreme_Court_justices_did_not_have_a_law_degree

In total, 38 of 110 Justices were appointed despite having no law degree
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While all the Supreme Court Justices were lawyers, and all were admitted to their state bar, many lacked law school degrees. Prior to the 20th-century, men interested in practicing law either achieved an undergraduate college degree, then read law and apprenticed under practicing lawyers, or bypassed college altogether and went directly into an apprenticeship. Still others attended law school for a time, but did not graduate.

 

[Bells]

Oh so can she decide to be otherkin to? Look it could be quantified if she wanted to know for sure and not live in her delusion: just attach some probes to clitoris and have her watch porn and actually quantify how aroused she gets. This is all low brain stuff outside of conscious control, no matter how much she want to lie to her self that she straight or not.

What the hell is wrong with you, dude?

 

[Tiassa]

What the hell is wrong with you, dude?

His waifu↗ doesn't have a clit.

 

[Beer w/Straw]

His waifu↗ doesn't have a clit.

Gift ideas??

 

[Bells]

His waifu↗ doesn't have a clit.

It shouldn't be funny, but sadly, it is.

I had been trying to figure out who he reminded me of. As in, who else spouts this level of crazy bullshit:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, look I deal with precision, if you want to live thinking your otherkin, that your business I'm not going to stop you. If you want to live in your own reality that fine by me, but the reality you feel and reality that is quantifiable may be different, if you don't want to know the truth, fine, I'm not forcing you, ignorance is bliss, you can believe in free will and consciousness too, that fine, but in reality its well, its like centrifugal force: fictitious.

And then it came to me.

 

[James R]

What on earth is the relevance of the genetics or behavioural underpinnings of sexual orientation to a thread about the Kavanaugh confirmation?

It's like somebody is just fixated on sexual imagery or something. Otherkin? Seriously? WTF?

Please get a grip and keep your sexual obsessions out of threads about senate confirmation hearings.

 

[Xelor]

As noted above, people without law degrees have in the past been seated on the Supreme Court.
http://www.answers.com/Q/Which_Supreme_Court_justices_did_not_have_a_law_degree

No two ways about it...the above is a true statement. That said, it's a difference with little to no distinction, for being a lawyer without having a law degree merely indicates one read for the bar (learned the law via an apprenticeship process) instead of going to law school.