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If you’re over 18 you have the obligation of voting.  No, the duty!  It’s not about convenience.  It’s not about the best of all possible worlds.  It’s not a beauty contest.  It’s not supposed to be sexy or American Idolish!  It’s a necessary harsh reality when you are living in a democracy.

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If you don’t vote, then you don’t have any right to bitch or complain!  You have divorced yourself from any such privileges.  You are literally “out-in-the-cold”.  So, keep it to yourself, if you don’t pony up and vote!

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So, what you got’s to do – is look in the mirror and say – do I want to be a schlub, a dweeb, a schmuck, a putz?  And then the mirror answers back — if you want to be an A-hole, do it on your own time – but don’t go showing your ugly puss to us – it just hurts too much.

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Vote, dammit, vote!  Just get your arses to the polls.  Hell, Uber & Lyft are giving free rides to the polls!  Shit-a-brick, y’all — ain’t no reason in the world to NOT vote!

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You only have two things to do as a U.S. citizen.  Vote every 4 years for President/Vice President and every 2 years for your Congress-person. Hell, you could skip everything else – (propositions, statewide offices, etc.) – but for Christ’s sake — @ least vote for president, vice-president and your members of Congress!

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So get with it – or forget it!  Losers always quit!  Yeah, guess that makes you all – (those that won’t or don’t vote) – losers!

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So, put up – or shut up!  Neeener-Neeeener!!!

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Before we begin — the Democratic party symbol is the “donkey” – or – mule.

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This podcast is set to the tune of “The 12-Days Of Christmas”.

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[Verse 1]
On the first day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
An unmarked mail-in ballot

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[Verse 2]
On the second day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
Two ballpoint pens
& an unmarked mail-in ballot

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[Verse 3]
On the third day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
Three sheets of candidates
Two ballpoint pens
& an unmarked mail-in ballot

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[Verse 4]
On the fourth day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
Four ballot measures
Three sheets of candidates
Two ballpoint pens
& an unmarked mail-in ballot

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[Verse 5]
On the fifth day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
Five golden mules
Four ballot measures
Three sheets of candidates
Two ballpoint pens
& an unmarked mail-in ballot

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[Verse 6]
On the sixth day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
Six reasons for voting
Five golden mules
Four ballot measures
Three sheets of candidates
Two ballpoint pens
& an unmarked mail-in ballot

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[Verse 7]
On the seventh day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
Seven houses to canvass
Six reasons for voting
Five golden mules
Four ballot measures
Three sheets of candidates
Two ballpoint pens
& an unmarked mail-in ballot

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[Verse 8]
On the eighth day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
Eight types voter suppression
Seven houses to canvass
Six reasons for voting
Five golden mules
Four ballot measures
Three sheets of candidates
Two ballpoint pens
& an unmarked mail-in ballot

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[Verse 9]
On the ninth day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
Nine ways to vote
Eight types voter suppression
Seven houses to canvass
Six reasons for voting
Five golden mules
Four ballot measures
Three sheets of candidates
Two ballpoint pens
& an unmarked mail-in ballot

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[Verse 10]
On the tenth day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
Ten dollars for bus fare
Nine ways to vote
Eight types voter suppression
Seven houses to canvass
Six reasons for voting
Five golden mules
Four ballot measures
Three sheets of candidates
Two ballpoint pens
& an unmarked mail-in ballot

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[Verse 11]
On the eleventh day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
‘leven polling precincts
Ten dollars for bus fare
Nine Ways To Vote
Eight types voter suppression
Seven houses to canvass
Six reasons for voting
Five golden mules
Four ballot measures
Three sheets of candidates
Two ballpoint pens
& an unmarked mail-in ballot

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[Verse 12]
On the twelfth day of mid-terms
My true love gave to me:
Twelve political pollsters
‘leven polling precincts
Ten dollars for bus fare
Nine Ways To Vote
Eight types voter suppression
Seven houses to canvass
Six reasons for voting
Five golden mules
Four ballot measures
Three sheets of candidates
Two ballpoint pens
& an unmarked mail-in ballot

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The profound significance of Jamal Khashoggi’s brutal murder as directed by the Crown Prince of Saudia Arabia, Mohammed bin Salam can only be brought into clear view by understanding the underpinnings and/or beginnings of the modern state of Saudia Arabia.  We digress a bit to go back in history and give a brief historical background sketch of events that led up to the creation and the “environment” of  current-day Saudia Arabia. 

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This story goes all the way back to 1744, when the ambitious but unremarkable clan of al-Saud – (the current ruling family of Saudia Arabia), one of many clans that divided up the vast Arabian desert, allied with a puritanical fundamentalist named Muhammed ibn al-Wahhab.

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The al-Saud clan allied with Wahhab and his followers, known as Wahhabis, who in their fervor could fight as well as preach.  The deal was simple: the Wahhabis would help the al-Sauds expand through conquest from a tiny sliver in the Arabian peninsula’s central desert to a vast empire, and in return the al-Sauds would adopt Wahhabism as official policy. It worked.

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The Saudi empire collapsed in 1818, defeated by the much stronger Ottoman Empire, which seized much of the Arabian peninsula for itself.  But Wahhabist Islam had taken root, and the Wahhabis and the al-Sauds maintained their strategic alliance from 1744 through today.

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Because Saudi rulers need the Wahhabis’ support to stay in power.  They need their loyalty, they need the civil society that the Wahhabi clerical establishment creates, and they also need the ideological justification for the vast, young, and in many ways artificial Saudi empire.

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When Abdulaziz al-Saud – (the founder of SAUDIA ARABIA) – was born, in 1876, the area we today know as Saudi Arabia was a patchwork of tribal leaders, many of them loyal to the Ottoman Empire or, later, the British Empire.  Abdulaziz wanted to restore his family’s former empire.  He knew that, like his forefathers, he would need the help of the Wahhabis and the zeal they brought to the battlefield.  So he formed a band of quasi-renegade fundamentalist militias known as the Ikhwan, or brothers.  As before, the deal was simple: the Ikhwan would fight on behalf of al-Saud, and in exchange could impose their ultra-conservative Islam on whomever they conquered.

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By the late 1920s, al-Saud and the Ikhwan had conquered most of today’s Saudi Arabia.  Al-Saud, a pious Muslim but also a forward-thinking pragmatist, began to modernize his new empire. This infuriated the Ikhwan, who saw it as a betrayal.  Then the Ikhwan began to attack neighboring British-held territory, which they hoped to “liberate.”  Al-Saud had forbidden this, wishing to remain friendly with the powerful British Empire.  The al-Saud clan and Ikhwan fell into open warfare, which ended when al-Saud used modern machine guns to defeat the camel-riding Ikhwan at the 1929 Battle of Sabilla.

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After the 1929 battle, al-Saud tried to head off future uprisings, but retain the loyalty of the Wahhabis whose support he needed in order to ideologically justify his new nation, by cynically co-opting their religious fundamentalism as his own.  He created the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, better known as the religious police, a fanatical and semi-autonomous band of ideological enforcers who are still an official body of the Saudi state today.

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FAST FORWARD

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In 1948, a pot of gold was discovered.  Aramco discovered the Ghawar oil field, the mother lode of the world’s fields.  Ghawar, which went onstream in 1951, is 170 miles long and 20 miles wide.  At one point it held 170 billion barrels of proven reserves of oil.  They’ve been pumping from that field half or more of their production for fifty years.  Most of Saudi exports come from this field—about 5 million barrels a day.  Ghawar today still has 70 bb compared to the total current U.S. proven reserves of 20 bb.  That means it still holds more than three times as much as all the oil reserves in the U.S.

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In 1950, to try and solve the problem of how to get the Saudi oil to American and Western markets, the U.S. company Bechtel, based in California, built a 1,000-mile pipeline directly from the Saudi oil fields across Jordan and the Golan Heights to Sidon in Lebanon in order to take the oil directly to the Mediterranean by pipeline.  That went onstream the following year and continued to function up until the early 1970s.  The last year of U.S. self-sufficiency in oil production was 1970—Saudi oil didn’t become important to the U.S. until the 1980s.

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In 1973, Saudi government led the Arab boycott of oil supplies to the U.S. (Netherlands was also singled out).  This led to a quadrupling of the oil price, from about $3 to $12 per barrel. Saudi Arabia was suddenly very much on Washington’s radar screen, and very rich.  Saudi oil earnings went from $8.5 billion in 1973 to $35 billion in 1974.  With that money, they began building and buying from the U.S. tanks, airplanes, and infrastructure.  The U.S.-Saudi military relationship took off. American companies basically built the whole military infrastructure of Saudi Arabia as it is today.  Over the next twenty years, the Saudis spent some $85-86 billion on American arms.  When you buy an airplane, you have to have a structure to maintain them and to train people.  It’s a huge undertaking. We were their key ally.

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In 1973, however, because of the war between Israel and the Arab states, the Saudis began to take over Aramco.  They insisted on taking a 25 percent interest in it, paid for in oil—they didn’t try to nationalize without compensation.  By 1980 they owned 100 percent of Aramco.

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So what you have with Saudia Arabia – as it is constituted today – is 2 spiders locked inside of a closed jar! – the ruling al Saud Family that is aligned with or allied to the religious fundamentalists – the Wahhabis.  It is all or nothing – both parties must exist alongside one another or Saudia Arabia – as we know it – ceases to exist.

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Jamal Kashoggi was an INFIDEL – to the Royal Crown Prince MBS – Mohammed bin Salman.  Kashoggi wanted a free press, free assembly and openess and transparency.  He wanted freedom of thought and discussion!  Not the sort of thing that would maintain the Saudia Arabia – built on the partnership of the Saudi royal family & wahhabism – that we see today.  This town ain’t big enough for the both of us – it’s either US or YOU, KHASHOGGI, and guess what, it ain’t YOU!

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Republicans are bracing for a total shellacking on Nov. 6, 2018.  Polls show that they are truly the minority party, especially among women.

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The democrats are buoyed by the fact that there are 209 congressional districts that are leaning or heavily democratic.  It only takes 218 congressional seats to have a majority. They need only 9 more seats to lean or go democratic to take such control.

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63% of women identify as democrats.  Only 33% identify as republicans.

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50% of men identify as republicans while 45% identify as democrats.

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So, overall, the number of voters who identify as democrats is vastly larger than that of republicans.

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The Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court Senate hearings – overall – are a boon to the democrats.  If nothing else, there will be an absolute deluge of women voters turning out to vote.  Any perceptible bump the GOP hopes to reap as a result of their win in getting Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court will be more than dwarfed by what happens as a result of the huge turn out by Democratic women on election day – Nov. 6th.

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In Texas, the 2nd largest state behind California – Beto O’Rourke is battling head-to-head & even with GOP incumbent Ted Cruz to be the next U.S. senator from Texas.  Cruz is on the ropes and O’Rourke is actually poised to pull off one of the biggest upssets in U.S. political history.  O’Rourke raised a record $38.1 million in political donations in the last 3-months alone — a U.S. record for a senate race!

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Andrew Gillum, the African-American Democratic mayor of Tallahassee, Florida is leading Republican Congressman Ron DeSantis in the gubernatorial race in Florida!  African-American Democrat Stacey Abrams is battling the Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp in Georgia for the governorship.  Along with an O’Rourke victory in Texas, these developments alone could completely tilt the 2020 presidential race as they are major southern states with large African-American & non-white voter populations.

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So, what are the Republicans left with? — let’s try begging for ever-more money from their mega-donors like Las Vegas casino owner Sheldon Adelson.  They’re now forced to fleece these large GOP donors for tens-of-millions of dollars in additional campaign contributions between now and Nov. 6th – to stem what appears to be a virtual Democratic avalanche heading in the GOP’s direction.

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The odds favor the Democrats all across the country – whether it’d be congressional races or gubernatorial or mayoral faces.  The GOP is literally on the run.

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The real importance for Democrats in all of this, aside from an enormously stronger position to wage a presidential campaign in 2020 is that regaining control of the U.S. House of Representatives will thwart Trump in his bid to fire (1) Jeff Sessions – (2) Rod Rosenstein & (3) Robert Mueller – and effectively shut down the Russian investigation.

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So, get out and vote on Nov. 6, 2018 – and vote like your life depended on it because it does.  If the GOP manages to maintain control of BOTH houses of Congress they will continue to dismantle health care, grant further tax relief and breaks to the super-wealthy & jam ever more right-winger judges on to our courts!  And if they manage to water-down Democratic gains in state races, gerrymandering heavily tilted in favor of Republicans will go on unabated and voter suppression efforts aimed at non-white voters will continue, both of which will greatly increase the odds of Donald Trump – should he somehow sidestep impeachment – being re-elected in 2020.

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Brett Kavanaugh is a loose cannon.

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He certainly can’t hold his liquor.

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He certainly can’t admit to blacking out.

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He certainly can’t admit to assaulting women & helping others do the same.

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He certainly can’t admit that he has a belligerent, bellicose & angry demeanor when “baby” Brett doesn’t get his way or doesn’t have his point of view dominate!

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He certainly can’t admit that he will DEFINITELY do away with Roe v. Wade – even though no more than 10-years ago he openly questioned whether Roe v. Wade was correctly decided?

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He certainly can’t admit that he was coached to be more like Trump — bombast, bellicosity, overly-aggressive & abusive — (that last trait demonstrated by his disgraceful counterattacks on Judiciary Committee member, Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota — herself a former prosecutor!.

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He certainly can’t admit that his absolutely god-awful reference to the Clinton’s in his opening statement bespeaks volumes about his conspiracy-laden approach to life and/or politics!

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He certainly can’t admit that were he to take a polygraph test it would surely indicate – clearly – that Brett Kavanaugh has a tenuous relationship with the truth – @ best!

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He certainly can’t admit that the FBI ALWAYS conducts a background investigation which precedes ANY supreme court nominee confirmation hearing!.

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Brett Kavanaugh can’t admit that he’s skirted the ethics and norms of civilized society because he was brought up in & coddled and excruciatingly insular and privileged background!

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Well, Brett, look into the mirror and just admit to yourself – in private – that you are a lying sack-of-shit that — & most likely — just torpedoed your chances of ever ascending to the Supreme Court!

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Have another drink, Brett, you’re going to need an awful lot of them in the future!!!

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Kavanaugh will be the latest word in the English lexicon to be a noun that denotes a “verb” – as in – don’t “fuck” this up!

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As in — don’t “Kavanaugh” this up!

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Talk about a total, fucking debacle!

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This is worse than the “flame-out” of the 1959 Ford Edsel – (named after Ford’s son, Edsel)!

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Georgetown Prep – Brett Kavanaugh’s secondary school – was the usual “insular” upper-crusty college-prep-for-“perps” high school!  The drinking was “legendary” – as was most likely the “doinking”!

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So, now we’re staring at a total, slow-motion cluster-fuck of a supreme court nomination process now taking place in the U.S. Senate!  This is something right out of a hollywood screenplay — perhaps David Mamet!

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Whether Christine Blasey Ford testifies on Wednesday, Thursday or Christmas Day — one thing is for certain — the Republican Party & by extension, Donald J. “Drumpf” — is pretty much toasted for good!  Those who identify as Republican will slowly, but surely, “drift” off the GOP rolls and end up somewhere between the Democrats & Independents!

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Obamacare survived this evil, malevolent GOP drive to bury it!  So too, will Christine Blasey Ford triumph – one way or another – in the face of this horrific Republican onslaught of pure, unadulterated + unmitigated terrorism upon our democratic principles + ideals!

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Brett Kavanaugh will be the sacrificial lamb in this political passion play – but to be brutally honest – he ain’t no “lamb”!

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The Following Is From The Huffington Post — (9/11/18)

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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) wants to know if Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, has a gambling problem.

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“Have you ever sought treatment for a gambling addiction?” Whitehouse asks pointedly as part of a series of questions submitted this week about Kavanaugh’s unexplained personal debts.

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In 2016, Kavanaugh reported credit card and personal loan debts of between $60,000 and $200,000. The Trump White House said these debts were the result of Kavanaugh buying baseball tickets for friends who later paid him back, as well as some spending on home improvements. The 2016 debts did not appear on Kavanaugh’s 2017 disclosure form because they were either entirely paid off or fell below the reporting threshold. Kavanaugh also reported between $60,000 and $200,000 in debt in 2006.

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The fact that Kavanaugh accrued such high debts through baseball tickets attracted notice, but surprisingly, not a single senator asked him about the issue during his televised judiciary committee hearings last week.

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“Senators have limited time for questioning,” Rich Davidson, Whitehouse’s spokesman, said in an email. “Senator Whitehouse would have touched on many of these issues if he had additional time.”

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Whitehouse is now asking about them in writing, and Kavanaugh will have to answer ― although not on camera. In addition to the baseball tickets, Whitehouse is asking Kavanaugh about his membership at an expensive country club, whether he regularly plays poker and how he paid for his house.

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Whitehouse’s gambling questions stem, in part, from a publicly disclosed email from 2001 where Kavanaugh apologizes to his friends for “growing aggressive after blowing still another game of dice” on a weekend vacation in the Chesapeake Bay.

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