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From: Karen deslierres <karendes@PROTECTED>

Subject: A Gentle Reminder

Date: September 30, 2018 at 3:33:57 PM EDT

To: karen deslierres <karendes@PROTECTED>

A Gentle Reminder….

Don’t rely only on the FBI.  

Please contact the following senators:  Collins (202-224-2523), Corker (202-224-3344), Flake (202-224-4521), Heitcamp (202-224-2043), Heller (202-224-6244), Manchin (202-224-3954), Murkowski (202-224-6665).  And in honor of my Chicago birthplace, “Vote Call Early and Often.”

Warm regards,

Bill

P.S.  Feel free to forward this message.

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Written 9/27/2018

Dear Senator Flake (with copies to Sens. Collins, Corker, Heitcamp, Heller, Manchin & Murkowski),

Today I witnessed every minute of the Judiciary Committee hearings, and I would like to contribute my professional opinion as to what occurred.  I am a Licensed Psychologist (PhD-Stanford, post graduate study in clinical psychology at University of Michigan), with a particular interest and expertise in the treatment of psychological trauma and the prevention of PTSD.  I am currently retired from a 37-year university faculty position, and I have been in private clinical practice continuously since 1973.  

My observations are as follows:

1)  I found Dr. Ford to be extremely credible.  She showed the usual vivid memories and memory lapses that are typical of trauma victims.  After studying her statements of this morning, I have no doubt that she was indeed attacked by Judge Kavanaugh as she described.

2)  I found Judge Kavanaugh to be hostile and evasive, precisely the characteristics that are typical of perpetrators of violence.  I did not find his statements of innocence to be credible, and I found his unwillingness to support an FBI investigation into the situation to be particularly problematic.  It is marginally possible that his attack occurred under the influence of extreme intoxication, and that he therefore failed to remember it.

3)  I believe that the extreme mood shifts exhibited by Judge Kavanaugh during his interview were striking, and in conflict with what I have come to expect in the demeanor of members of the judiciary at any level.

I urge you to vote against the elevation of Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

Sincerely yours,

William J Thomson, PhD

Tempe, AZ

Emeritus Faculty - University of Michigan/Dearborn
Licensed Psychologist
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Written 9/28/2018

In Judge Kavanaugh’s opening statement on Thursday, I was struck and puzzled by Judge Kavanaugh’s habit of moving his tongue around in his mouth as he gave his statement.  It was a very unusual and persistent “tick”, and it raised my psychological antennae.  

I am not an expert in the analysis of body language, but my psychologist’s “Third Eye” was put into overtime as I went to bed Thursday night.  Upon awakening, I was hit with a simple answer, namely “tongue in cheek”.  Please check the definition below, and then re-evaluate Judge Kavanaugh’s opening statement in light of this definition.

William J Thomson, PhD

Licensed Psychologist

Tempe, AZ

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue-in-cheek

Tongue-in-cheek

The idiom tongue-in-cheek refers to a humorous or sarcastic statement expressed in a mock serious manner.

History

The phrase originally expressed contempt, but by 1842 had acquired its modern meaning.^[1][2][3] Early users of the phrase include Sir Walter Scott in his 1828 The Fair Maid of Perth.

The physical act of putting one's tongue into one's cheek once signified contempt.^[4]For example, in Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Roderick Random, which was published in 1748, the eponymous hero takes a coach to Bath, and on the way, apprehends a highwayman. This provokes an altercation with a less brave passenger:

He looked back and pronounced with a faltering voice, 'O! 'tis very well—damn my blood! I shall find a time.' I signified my contempt of him by thrusting my tongue in my cheek, which humbled him so much, that he scarce swore another oath aloud during the whole journey.^[5]

The phrase appears in 1828 in The Fair Maid of Perth by Sir Walter Scott: 

The fellow who gave this all-hail thrust his tongue in his cheek to some scapegraces like himself.

It's not clear how Scott intended readers to understand the phrase.^[1] The more modern ironic sense appears in the 1842 poem "The Ingoldsby Legends" by the English clergyman Richard Barham, in which a Frenchman inspects a watch and cries:

'Superbe! Magnifique!' / (with his tongue in his cheek)^[1]

The ironic usage originates with the idea of suppressed mirth—biting one's tongue to prevent an outburst of laughter.^[6]

See also

• Slang dictionary

References

1. ^ ^a b c Owens, Gene (4 December 2007). "'Tongue in cheek' is cut-and-dried phrase". The Oklahoman. Phrases.org. ... Novelist Sir Walter Scott used 'tongue in cheek' as early as 1828 in 'The Fair Maid of Perth,' but it isn't clear what he meant.
2.  Chay, H., Contrastive metaphor of Korean and English revealed in 'mouth' and 'tongue' expressions
3.  Zoltan, I. G. (2006). "Use Your Body". Philologia.
4.  Ayto, John (2009), From the Horse's Mouth, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-954379-3
5.  Smollett, Tobias George (1780), The adventures of Roderick Random
6.  Marshallsay, Nick (2005), The body language phrasebook, Collins & Brown, ISBN 978-1-84340-304-3

External links

•  The dictionary definition of tongue-in-cheek at Wiktionary