well no wonder Amy Chua defended Brett Kavanugh so emphatically

[Anonymous]

And, FWIW, ROTC does not pay for everything in college. Tuition and books. Maybe, a stipend, as well. Meanwhile, they must attend ROTC classes and do a certain amount of training on weekends and summers.

Of course, at Ivy League schools, tuition is quite a savings. Doubtful that ROTC paid full price, though.

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Anonymous wrote:IMO her getting out of Her ROTC obligation is the big scandal. The tax payers spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on her Ivy League education. And now she gets to???? Take not one but two deferrals?? Bone spur her way out of her obligation? Have Kav or her mommy get her out?

An obligation to the army isn’t supposed to be optional. Unless you are the swamp, I guess.

I'm sure she will fulfill her obligations at some point, but if the PP who says that her DH had to turn down a clerkship due to ROTC obligations is correct, then it's not fair that she's getting special privileges.

I'm not.

So you’re okay with millions of illegals sneaking into the country and stealing goods and services from us citizens but tiger moms kid gettin out of an rotc commitment rankles?
Got it.

Yep. It does. That kid should be guarding the border against illegals. Right?

No silly, that’s why you have a border patrol.

Then why is Trump posting increasingly large numbers of service men and women to the border? And extending the tours of duty for those already there?

Grift.

Possibly. But also the CBP can't hire enough people to fill those positions.
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/11/675923576/customs-border-and-protection-paid-a-firm-13-6-million-to-hire-recruits-it-hired

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And, FWIW, ROTC does not pay for everything in college. Tuition and books. Maybe, a stipend, as well. Meanwhile, they must attend ROTC classes and do a certain amount of training on weekends and summers.

Of course, at Ivy League schools, tuition is quite a savings. Doubtful that ROTC paid full price, though.

Tuition, books and a stipend is everything. What else is there?

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Anonymous wrote:And, FWIW, ROTC does not pay for everything in college. Tuition and books. Maybe, a stipend, as well. Meanwhile, they must attend ROTC classes and do a certain amount of training on weekends and summers.

Of course, at Ivy League schools, tuition is quite a savings. Doubtful that ROTC paid full price, though.

Tuition, books and a stipend is everything. What else is there?

Dresses and feminine clothes to impress Kavanaugh. That probably wasn't covered.

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Anonymous wrote:And, FWIW, ROTC does not pay for everything in college. Tuition and books. Maybe, a stipend, as well. Meanwhile, they must attend ROTC classes and do a certain amount of training on weekends and summers.

Of course, at Ivy League schools, tuition is quite a savings. Doubtful that ROTC paid full price, though.

Tuition, books and a stipend is everything. What else is there?

Dresses and feminine clothes to impress Kavanaugh. That probably wasn't covered.

You are a misogynist and disgusting person.

Please do try to keep up.

Rubenfeld took care to warn her about two judges in particular: First, Alex Kozinski, then a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, was known to sexually harass his clerks, he told her. (Kozinski retired in December amid accusations of harassment.)

The other was Kavanaugh. Though the judge was known to hire female clerks who had a “certain look,” Rubenfeld told her, he emphasized that he had heard nothing else untoward.

“He did not say what the ‘certain look’ was. I did not ask,” the woman said. “It was very clear to me that he was talking about physical appearance, because it was phrased as a warning ? and because it came after the warning about Judge Kozinski.”

On a separate occasion last year, Chua offered more detail, telling a group of students that it’s “not an accident” that Kavanaugh’s law clerks “look like models,” Chua said, according to an account published in The Guardian on Thursday. The comments echoed those told to a group of Yale students over drinks with Chua last year, three of whom spoke with HuffPost.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/yale-student-brett-kavanaugh-clerkship-look_n_5ba2f051e4b0181540d9e2bb

I guess it's OK if it's your own parents who are pimping you out?

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Anonymous wrote:And, FWIW, ROTC does not pay for everything in college. Tuition and books. Maybe, a stipend, as well. Meanwhile, they must attend ROTC classes and do a certain amount of training on weekends and summers.

Of course, at Ivy League schools, tuition is quite a savings. Doubtful that ROTC paid full price, though.

Tuition, books and a stipend is everything. What else is there?

Dresses and feminine clothes to impress Kavanaugh. That probably wasn't covered.

You are a misogynist and disgusting person.

Sorry, just the messenger buddy

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/20/brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-yale-amy-chua

'No accident' Brett Kavanaugh's female law clerks 'looked like models', Yale professor told students

A top professor at Yale Law School who strongly endorsed supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh as a “mentor to women” privately told a group of law students last year that it was “not an accident” that Kavanaugh’s female law clerks all “looked like models” and would provide advice to students about their physical appearance if they wanted to work for him, the Guardian has learned.

Amy Chua, a Yale professor who wrote a bestselling book on parenting called Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, was known for instructing female law students who were preparing for interviews with Kavanaugh on ways they could dress to exude a “model-like” femininity to help them win a post in Kavanaugh’s chambers, according to sources.

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Anonymous wrote:IMO her getting out of Her ROTC obligation is the big scandal. The tax payers spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on her Ivy League education. And now she gets to???? Take not one but two deferrals?? Bone spur her way out of her obligation? Have Kav or her mommy get her out?

An obligation to the army isn’t supposed to be optional. Unless you are the swamp, I guess.

Where did you get that she is getting out of her ROTC obligation? Unless you have real evidence, again you are spreading rumors.

She can fulfill her obligation part time or full time after she is done with this 1 year clerkship. She doesn't have to join the military immediately upon graduation.

But it isn’t this one year clerkship. She deferred for law school. Then deferred for her first clerkship. This is her third deferral. Starting to look like it will never happen.

Maybe, she did it this last year. If going in the Reserves, it means she has to do @ 5-6 months active duty training and then one weekend a month. She will have to accumulate a certain number of "points" per year. "Citizen soldiers."

She clerked this last year.

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Anonymous wrote:And, FWIW, ROTC does not pay for everything in college. Tuition and books. Maybe, a stipend, as well. Meanwhile, they must attend ROTC classes and do a certain amount of training on weekends and summers.

Of course, at Ivy League schools, tuition is quite a savings. Doubtful that ROTC paid full price, though.

Tuition, books and a stipend is everything. What else is there?

Paying for abortions and nose jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:And, FWIW, ROTC does not pay for everything in college. Tuition and books. Maybe, a stipend, as well. Meanwhile, they must attend ROTC classes and do a certain amount of training on weekends and summers.

Of course, at Ivy League schools, tuition is quite a savings. Doubtful that ROTC paid full price, though.

Tuition, books and a stipend is everything. What else is there?

Room and board. Transportation. School supplies, computers, etc. Other school fees.
At some schools, this is more than tuition.

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Anonymous wrote:I think there is some sour grapes evident in this thread.

I agree.

I distrust this particular Justice, I don't approve of Tiger Mother's use of influence, but the level of anti-Brett, anti-Amy hysterics on this thread is not justified.

Move on.

That's your opinion, and an inaccurate one at that. Few people are dying to work for Kavanaugh, I for one, would worry about having my young daughter work for him. If the tiger girl got her position through her mother's defense of Kavanaugh against rape charges, that's a relevant story, and particularly if she received special permission not to do her ROTC obligation right away.

You would “worry about your young daughter working for” a man who has been celebrated and lauded by hundreds of women (and men) as a teacher, mentor, boss, and friend? A man who has an immaculate record of service and not one complaint against him - except for a vague and questionable decades old allegation from when he was in high school?? Wow. How do you let your daughter out of your sight on a day to day basis when the world is full of people who, you know, *actually have done horrible things*?

Unbelievable, yet so typical.

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Anonymous wrote:And, FWIW, ROTC does not pay for everything in college. Tuition and books. Maybe, a stipend, as well. Meanwhile, they must attend ROTC classes and do a certain amount of training on weekends and summers.

Of course, at Ivy League schools, tuition is quite a savings. Doubtful that ROTC paid full price, though.

Tuition, books and a stipend is everything. What else is there?

Room and board. Transportation. School supplies, computers, etc. Other school fees.
At some schools, this is more than tuition.

Not at any Ivy btaayers shelled out at least $250,000.

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Anonymous wrote:She's obviously qualified.

BTW - did you hear that RBG praised Kavanaugh for hiring so many female clerks (ALL women) that this is the first time there are more women than men SCOTUS clerks?

There were lots of available women whose moms didn't help whitewash his nomination

It's a real bad look

You mean, stand up for innocent until proven guilty? Last I checked, defending the constitution is NOT whitewashing anything. Face it - that was a 30+ yr. old allegation with zero evidence to go on. Of course he should have been confirmed. You just didn't *want* a conservative on the court, so you and other Democrats decided to attempt a witch hunt. Sorry it failed.

Oh no. It wasn't his behavior 30 years ago that was important but his behavior during the hearing. He knew he was in the wrong, he wrote that apology-not-an-apology immediately afterwards.

And you bought it. I guess.

That moment with Amy bugged me, because I felt she caved in a bit (as I would have, because I chicken out in confrontations)--when he turned her question back on her she answered it ("I don't have a drinking problem") rather than turn into kryptonite, stare at him, and say "Answer the question." Not that it didn't make him look bad,m but she had an opportunity to wither him completely.

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So did she do ROTC and JAG just as a hook to get into an elite law school and clerkship — with zero intention of following through on military service?

I thought JAG paid for your law school and you commit to serving years after? How did she get out of that?

It always seemed obvious the entire family are shameless opportunists who will lie and cheat to get ahead.

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The tell that the ROTC / JAG thing was bullshit from the get-go is the Tiger Mom feigning she had no idea her daughter joined until after the fact. It was a hook for law school and elite clerkship, clearly. And likely political or diplomatic aspirations.

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Anonymous wrote:So did she do ROTC and JAG just as a hook to get into an elite law school and clerkship — with zero intention of following through on military service?

I thought JAG paid for your law school and you commit to serving years after? How did she get out of that?

It always seemed obvious the entire family are shameless opportunists who will lie and cheat to get ahead.

The last sentence answers your questions.

And Republicans don’t expect that their own will follow through with military commitments. That’s for the little people. Important people are... too important.