Posted on 09/29/2018 3:32:05 PM PDT by StAnDeliver
Brit Hume said on Friday that he knew both Kavanaugh's father and Blasey-Ford's father. Easy to understand how Hume would have known Kavanaugh's father (attorney and trade executive Everett Edward Kavanaugh, Jr.) and mother (Judge Martha Kavanaugh).
But Blasey-Ford's father? Ralph Blasey? At first one would think, well maybe through academia, or maybe another mid- to high-level functionary in the federal government.
Nope.
Ralph Blasey is a Republican's Republican. A GOP old boy described by the Washington Post as an éminence grise at Burning Tree Country Club, where Blasey was elevated over decades from legacy member to finally President of the all-male Burning Tree from 2004 to 2006.
Men-only Burning Tree Country Club has been a bastion of reclusiveness as one of the most-favored DC golf retreats for Presidents up until Ford.
Burning Tree has been in the news time to time for the Club's discriminatory practices against women.
Just earlier this year, Vox sub-sub-site The Ringer managed to work in Burning Tree in a remembrance of Augusta's Hootie Johnson squaring off against Martha Burk:
"In the case of a purely private institution, there was nothing to be done. If an all-male club like Burning Tree, near Washington, D.C., wanted to discriminate, and it stayed private year-round, it could do whatever it wanted with constitutional protection..."
But there was a far more revealing expose about Burning Tree in '03, just one year before Blasey-Ford's father Ralph was President of Burning Tree Country Club (excerpts by fair use):
"The Club opened in 1923 after, the story goes, a male foursome from the Chevy Chase Country Club was stuck behind a slow-playing group of female golfers.During its salad days in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, Burning Tree reeked of political power. Presidents were extended honorary membership: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, later Nixon, Ford and George Herbert Walker Bush (along with his impressive 11-handicap).
Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger played at Burning Tree, as did House Speaker Tip O'Neill.
Today ('03), easing into its 81st season, Burning Tree Club is a timeless place. That is to say, the past is omnipresent. There is a faded, sepia-tinged tone to the grounds; the antique clubs of famous men are displayed on the walls. The attitudes and prevailing world view are of a different time as well.
Burning Tree, you see, is an all-male organism, the classic old-boy, blue-blood men's club. The initiation fee is $75,000 and membership -- capped around 600, including honorariums and golfers past their playing days -- is by invitation only. The membership list never has been made public. But if you are a woman with the financial goods and the game, forget about it.
When Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman ever appointed to the Supreme Court in 1981, she ended a streak at Burning Tree; previously, Supreme Court justices had always been extended honorary memberships to the club. Despite her polished 12-handicap, cultivated on the challenging layouts in Scottsdale, Ariz., O'Connor never crossed the threshold.
Among those that pass for the club's high-profile members...CBS newsman Robert Schieffer...and [the late] Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Most of the members are more anonymous lawyers, lobbyists and businessmen. The club, not surprisingly, tends to attract more Republicans than Democrats.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) was still amped. Winding into her seventh (or eighth) paragraph about the insidious nature of all-men's clubs, a reporter tried to wedge in a word edgewise.
"I haven't finished my thought," Maloney continued last week from her Washington office. "I think it is wrong. Some of our colleagues are members of these clubs and they should be pushing to change their policies. If the major national leaders of this country don't understand that belonging to these clubs is wrong … it sends the wrong message about values of discrimination and fairness."
While the press conference, attended by the now notorious Martha Burk of the National Council of Women's Organizations, was aimed at Augusta National and this week's Masters golf tournament, the House resolution introduced by Maloney and 14 co-sponsors also applies closer to home: Burning Tree Club in Bethesda, Md.
The non-binding resolution calls on top federal employees -- those in Congress as well as the executive and judicial branches -- not to join private clubs that discriminate on the basis of race or gender. Neither Augusta National nor Burning Tree were named in the wording of the resolution but it is well known that Amo Houghton (R-N.Y.) [was] a member at Augusta National and Senators John Warner (R-Va.) and Don Nickles (R-Oklahoma) [were] members at Burning Tree.
There are no women's facilities at the club. Female taxi drivers are not allowed inside the gate. When a woman flying a small plane crashed near the 18th hole in the 1950s, Burning Tree employees quickly secured an area around the pilot and wreckage until the police arrived, when she was removed from the barbwire-protected grounds. When a female Secret Service agent announced herself at the gate in the mid-1980s -- she was working a security detail for the visiting Australian prime minister -- she, too, was turned away.
Each December, however, wives of members are permitted to visit the pro shop -- so that they might select gifts for their husbands. The hours are 9 to 11 a.m. on weekdays, by appointment only. There are cashmere sweaters, with the imperial Burning Tree crest, golf equipment and Christmas figurines.
Jane Vieth, wife of member G. Duane Vieth, a Washington lawyer, told the newspaper's Style section, "I don't know what wives would do without it. It's such a great day-care center. It's simply wonderful for them to have a place to go, even if they can't play golf any more. There are a lot of them who've gotten sort of decrepit. They go to have lunch, visit with their friends and play gin rummy."
It is said the action at the cribbage table is sometimes more lively than on the course itself, which is neither long nor a particularly challenging par-71. The active local golfers, according to reports, constitute about half of the total members. There is no employee charged with making tee times; even on a Saturday morning in the spring, there are no lines. Members simply warm up and walk to the first tee.
The estrogen-free atmosphere comes at a dear price -- something approaching $1 million a year.
Back in 1983, Maryland's Attorney General, Stephen H. Sachs, filed a lawsuit against Burning Tree Club, claiming that its policy of excluding women was "arbitrary, invidious and irrational." The suit called for the Montgomery Country Circuit Court to revoke the real estate tax abatement granted in exchange for preserving open space. The state's complaint essentially argued that the tax break made the government a partner in sex discrimination, a violation of Maryland's constitution.
Before a woman judge ruled six years later against the club, Burning Tree paid only $13,000 of $186,000. After the judgment, members -- who declined to change the membership policy -- picked up the considerable tab which has reportedly risen to nearly $1 million per year for the property that is assessed in excess of $20 million."
Now in the present. There have been unsourced reports that Blasey is concerned that he would lose his Board position with another country club -- Columbia Country Club in Maryland.
In a statement to the Washington Post, Blasey-Ford's mother-in-law said she had "no idea" why the Blaseys have not shown public support for Christine.
But her blockhead husband couldn't keep his mouth shut:
"She didn’t always get along with her parents because of differing political views," Russell Ford said. "It was a very male-dominated environment. Everyone was interested in what’s going on with the men, and the women are sidelined, and she didn’t get the attention or respect she felt she deserved."
Wow.
I still think IF an incident occurred it was at her house when her parents were gone. Brett Kavanaugh was no where near her until last week. She is after revenge for something.
Her social media was scrubbed.
Her allegation, behavior and performance trouble me, but “Elephant in the room?”
I’ve seen too many reverse diagnoses use “she must have been abused.” That lies at the heart of the recovered memories fiasco. Unfortunately beyond “all have sinned” our knowledge is fairly skewed. We only know about those who manifest pathology, the population of girls identified by their maladjustment.
We have little or no knowledge of those who make successful adjustments or how they do so. I have few books on normal healthy people in my clinical library.
You have a vid link to that?
No I’m sorry I don’t. I’ll look on you tube & see if I can find it.
Wondering if the FBI has interviewed her parents.
Never happened, already debunked and quite the opposite...........
Here, at about the 2:30 mark....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ7ovA37u-0&frags=pl%2Cwn
Guy looks a little like Ed Rollins, who’s always on Dobb’s show.
She didn’t seem to welcome the peck on the cheek, from whoever it is.
Maybe her hubby?
Kavanaugh hearing: Transcript
By Transcript courtesy of Bloomberg Government
September 27, 2018
EXCERPT
MITCHELL: OK. Between the letter date, July 30th and August the 7th, did you speak with any other person about your allegations?
FORD: Could you say the dates again?
MITCHELL: Between the letter date of July 30 and August 7 — so, while you were still in Delaware — did you speak with any other person about your allegations?
FORD: I’m just trying to remember what dates that.
GRASSLEY: Stop the…
(UNKNOWN): You’re asking her…
GRASSLEY: … Yes, stop the — stop the clock.
(UNKNOWN): … with the exclusion of any lawyers that she may have spoken with, correct?
MITCHELL: Correct.
FORD: Correct — I think correct, then. I was interviewing lawyers…
GRASSLEY: Stop the clock.
FORD: … but I was not…
MITCHELL: OK.
FORD: … speaking personally about it.
MITCHELL: Aside from Lawyers that you were seeking to possibly hire to represent you, did you speak to anybody else about it during that period of time?
FORD: No.
MITCHELL: OK.
FORD: I was staying with my parents at the time.
MITCHELL: Did you talk to them about it?
FORD: Definitely not.
I still believe her story is fabricated, probably based on some porn story she read.
"Never happened, already debunked and quite the opposite."
The opposite of what? Did you even read what I wrote? Can I make it any simpler for you? Draw you a diagram? Did you read the Washington Post article??:
"Besides Burning Tree, the Blaseys have crossed paths with the Kavanaughs in court, although briefly. Court records show a foreclosure case involving the Blasey home that was presided over by at least two Montgomery County judges, one of whom was Brett Kavanaugh’s mother. Judge Martha Kavanaugh ruled in the Blaseys’ favor, dismissing a foreclosure action on their house. She was also one of several judges who presided over a 1998 case handled by Ralph Blasey III. She ruled in his client’s favor."
Again, Judge Martha Kavanaugh, saved Mr. Blasey and his family from the humiliation of foreclosure. Period. Paragraph.
TY!
Her brothers were Tom and Ralph, both older than she (she is is 51 or 52; born 1966). I think I read the boys went to Landon School, Bethesda, MD.
I don’t think that Burning Tree Country Club has a pool. I looked it up on Bing maps and do not see one.
Some of us bitd sent a letter to Penthouse they jazzed up
even more
“...quivered like an oyster with palsy”
I coulda been a fake dossier author too
PS That cross eyed loon should be in leg irons for
lying
Oversized fake glasses worn to make her
look smarter than she is
Poor little rich girl who scammed (D)generates on gofundme
If you are a wife with a rich husband I can’t think of a place you would rather send your rich husband than a Male only country club.
Keeps husband busy with something that ensures he will not be meeting eager younger women, keeps him around rich and connected men who will help him keep the income coming in.
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