God Bless Linda Greenhouse...

for still trying at least.

What Guantánamo Says About Kavanaugh

As an appeals court judge, he signed on to decisions that deprived detainees of the chance to contest their detentions.

That's a real journalist.
When the rest of the world only wants pretty kitty videos, she is still working a beat.

Guantánamo has always been a mirror that reflects back on ourselves. And the reflection in this instance gives us another hint of what the substitution of Brett Kavanaugh for Anthony Kennedy may mean for the future of the court and the country.

God bless, and good luck.
I know you will have a long and prosperous life.

Wouldn't it be nice -- as a final tribute to John McCain, nevermind these symbolic flying flags...* -- if Congress looked Verrrryy closely at Kavanaugh's writings on national security surveillance AND the U.S. government's participation in torture work, before they decided if he is the best person to put on the Court at this critical time in our nation's history?

Wouldn't it be a nice compromise for President Trump, if -- after Congress gets the requested records and reviews Kavanaugh's files -- the president decides to pull his nomination and put up another more experienced and compassionate judge who understands how these important national issues affect people in the real world?

Dare to dream...


ADDED: There has been much talk of conservative Catholicism in the news of late... Americans seem to reject this turning-the-clock-back in our parishes here. (The most recent "news" report re. 300 abusive priests is dated. You'd never know that most of the criminal allegations there won't be prosecuted because the alleged acts occurred decades ago, and most of the accused are now dead or not working in those parishes today...)

Is another conservative Catholic on our Court -- a young white man, definitely repping the "majority" of the all-male, mostly white club -- really who we think should be sitting in judgement of American society now, and for the coming decades?

Will we learn, and more importantly, take action to affect the issues that really matter? Or will we have nothing left to protest if we stop putting the wrong people in power and start becoming accountable to our own selves? Keep tuning in...

"Yes, there will be an Answer.
Let It Be."
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* I asked the leasing-office rep. yesterday when I was leaving the building: "Is that flag flying half-staff for John McCain?"

"Oh yes!" she bubbled. (Younger woman; don't know if she remembers the Iraq war years, and how we decided to attack the wrong country...)

Me? I'm pretending we as a nation are symbolically honoring Aretha Franklin, also lying in dress, in state. So much easier for me that way. Cindy McCain is no Nancy Reagan, and John McCain's biggest acomplishment, according to the news media too, was his capture and national service in Hanoi.

Not one legislative accomplishment they can point to, in all John's years in a Do-Nothing Congress. This man represented that -- is it really such a great sin to be glad to see him go?