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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBrett Kavanaugh's 1982 calender from USA Today
This was a related story linked by USA Today embedded in the one about Dr Ford's witness affidavits.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/25/brett-kavanaugh-1982-calendar-evidence-against-assault-claims/1429142002/
He listed his chores, including mowing the lawn, and a father-son dinner. He listed sleepovers at his friend's homes, including that of Mark Judge, Kavanaugh's friend and classmate at Georgetown Preparatory School. Ford alleges he witnessed the alleged assault.
But most importantly, Kavanaugh listed a wide array of parties he attended that summer. He detailed the dates and places of at least five parties over that summer and also noted a number of beach trips with friends and other hangouts.
What stood out to me in the images was the childish handwriting. It looks written by a 10 yr old, not a 17 yr old senior at an "elite prep school".
dhol82
(9,351 posts)If he was that meticulous in recording his life then there must be multiple diaries.
No?
DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)The calendar is just a work-a-day wall calendar, not a small daily planner book that a guy might keep in the inside pocket of a jacket or in a shirt pocket.
The funny thing is, the calendar basically contradicts everything Kavanaugh claims he didn't do, including sleepovers at Mark Judge's house!
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)And who would retain that document even assuming that it was kept?
DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)I can see writing activities down on a wall calendar, but not keeping it for 35 years which, btw means keeping it through moves in and out of dorms, apartments and homes. After a few moves a normal person tosses that stuff.
dreamland
(964 posts)...virginity. I've no doubt that it's his way to track his number of conquests. It's written in but coded a 'sleepover' can represent 'sleeping with'. Women had diaries, men have calendars.
Freethinker65
(9,934 posts)Having just cleared out my old family home I was surprised what stuff of MINE that my Mom kept in memory type boxes high in the closet. She had several large boxes for each of us kids. I looked through mine and did not remember over 75% of it. I tossed much of it, but it was interesting to look through one last time.
Still, a calendar like that would most likely NOT record all spontaneous events. I believe this pool party was a party of opportunity, someone had access to a free house and pool and alcohol for s few hours and invited whoever was available to show up...it was not a calendar planned event. The calendar itself was probably something his Mom advised him to do. I know I tried for years to have my son use a calendar/planner so he could learn how to manage his time and be more productive.
Rorey
(8,445 posts)Yeah, a party like that wasn't planned ahead. You laid out a very plausible scenario.
I'm wondering, have logic and common sense gone completely by the wayside for a segment of our country these days? People who believe the far-fetched stories we're hearing from the likes of trump and Kavanaugh seem to have lost their ability to detect BS.
7962
(11,841 posts)But I still cant master the doctor or lawyer signature
Rorey
(8,445 posts)We type.
7962
(11,841 posts)I'm happy for you that you have a 91 year old mom to call you out on such things. I miss the oldsters in my life.
7962
(11,841 posts)She can certainly be aggravating but I know I'll miss it all when she's gone
Vinca
(50,170 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Went somewhere with is the oddest thing. Like "beach party" then added later with whom. More than a calendar...more like a diary or record.
7962
(11,841 posts)Thats the new normal today. Look how quick ads are picked apart for something as simple as using a stock photo!
Roadside Attraction
(238 posts). . . not to USA Today
JHB
(37,132 posts)JHB
(37,132 posts)calimary
(80,699 posts)if these offenses were at school. How bout the calendar pages during the academic year?
Rorey
(8,445 posts)Who would take the time to obliterate like that, unless you wanted to hide what's underneath?
pangaia
(24,324 posts)klook
(12,134 posts)calimary
(80,699 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,210 posts)Rorey
(8,445 posts)If someone is such a hoarder that they would keep a calendar from 36 years prior, they really should produce the entire trove.
watoos
(7,142 posts)IOKIYAR - that quote says it all. Kavanaugh's pal could confirm, under oath, that Kavanaugh was at that party, so Republicans simply refuse to call him as a witness, instead they send him off to Delaware to hide until Kavanaugh is appointed.
IOKIYAR - is true, happens, because the M$M is complicit with Republicans. If it weren't for a reich wing media this phrase couldn't happen. I get sick when I turn on cable news, yes msnbc too, and listen to news anchors spewing out the Republican narrative.
The narrative should be, "should the Maryland police investigate Kavanaugh because Republicans and the White House refuse to allow the FBI to investigate. Should Congress look into impeaching Kavanaugh if it is proven that he did the sexual assaults, that he committed perjury, that he was involved in the theft of documents. The narrative should be that Republicans are hiding evidence that would disqualify Kavanaugh. The narrative should be that when Democrats take back Congress that they "promise" they will investigate the Republican judiciary committee for wrongdoing in the Kavanaugh hearings.
It's OK if you are a Republican. Vote Vote Vote so that Democrats can make that phrase obsolete.
Jesus to Betsy people, Republicans are only allowing 5 minutes per person to question Kavanaugh for a freaking lifetime appointment to the SC. I expect this from Grassley, but c'mon Jeff Flake do something before you retire for the country.
Sancho
(9,065 posts)1.) Who would keep calendars for 30+ years?
2.) Did his parents ask him to keep a calendar? Why?
3.) Would you write, "time to get girls drunk" on your calendar, even if you planned to do it?
4.) Why did Kavirginaugh release SOME of the pages and not all? Are there calendars from 1981, 83, etc?
5.) Why was he grounded? Drinking? Did his parents get a call from other parents? A girl's parents?
6.) NBA games, movies, parties, beach trips! Wow! Not exactly choir rehearsal and working at the mall for the summer.
7.) Why couldn't he drive (he was 17)? Was he restricted? Parents took the keys?
8.) There doctor visits and prescription refills listed? What for? What kind of doctor?
9.) Several girls names (Nikki, Suzanne, Anne, Becky, etc.)...there have to be witnesses to his behavior?
I don't see how this calendar is anything except a treasure box for the FBI (or reporters) if they really want to investigate.
Maybe he has stupid lawyers!?
Freethinker65
(9,934 posts)Not every spontaneous event makes it to such a planning calendar, especially one where you got invited that day a few hours before it occurred and got completely shit faced.
You do make some really excellent points about what did make it on his calendar.
Sancho
(9,065 posts)Strawberry and Deltorre(?; I can't make it out).
Therapist?
A 17 year old might have a need for a doctor, but multiple visits and prescriptions also could be interesting if someone tracked down who those doctors were and their specialties.
DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)and I'll bet reporters are on it finding the doctors and the girls mentioned.
DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)it answers, imho.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)You can partially see them on a couple of the pics.
logosoco
(3,208 posts)and maybe my ways of raising my kids were different than some...but getting grounded at age 17? Does someone who is still getting grounded around the same time they are applying for college really have the wisdom and maturity to be a SC judge ?
This aside from the fact that he does not really seem to understand that women are people, too!
ProfessorPlum
(11,252 posts)is K. still sure he was a virgin?
lunasun
(21,646 posts)hexola
(4,835 posts)"It was saturday night...I guess that makes it allright..."
1999 came out in 1982