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turbinetree's JournalTo the enablers of the republican fascist party
did you watch your traitor on fox news this morning, did you Rep's Nunes, Gordon, Gaetz, Ryan, McCarthy, Goodlatte, and your entire party did you watch how a psychopathic liar ranted and was a "motormouth" became unhinged.
Did you watch on how your party leader, admitted that he wanted to take out the DOJ and the FBI.
Did you watch and hear that he admitted the Michael Cohen was his lawyer, the same attorney, that is in deep shit........................to paying out to hush a woman and belittle her and she had none of it..
And what was truly classic was to watch the attorney for Ms. Clifford, on MSNBC while the ranting idiot of your party, basically admit that he will have to go before him and give a deposition under oath......................and commit perjury or admit that he is a criminal in money laundering and bank fraud, and possibly treason................
So all of the enablers that have been besmirching the rule of law...............what say you, you have a unhinged malignant narcissistic "dangerous individual", that "Bandy Lee and her professional doctors nailed what your leader is a very dangerous man by the name of Donald Trump and the individuals on fix noise and friends............should now be truly worried..........
The Hidden Hand of a Casino Company in Trumps Contact with Vietnam Trump, Inc. Podcast
Trump’s first call with the Vietnamese prime minister was arranged by Marc Kasowitz, a Trump personal lawyer who has another client with business interests in Vietnam.
by Justin Elliott April 25, 4 a.m. EDT
On Dec. 14, 2016, one month after his election, President-elect Donald Trump had a call with the prime minister of Vietnam. At a time when foreign governments were scrambling to contact Trump, the conversation was a victory for the Vietnamese. State television broadcast footage of the call, with the prime minister surrounded by other smiling officials.
But inside the State Department, officials were puzzled and concerned. Historically, post-election calls to heads of state are choreographed affairs. Careful deliberation goes into who the president-elect speaks to first and career diplomats deliver background briefings on issues to be raised and avoided.
The Trump transition operation ignored those conventions. The contact with Vietnam was not set up by the State Department. Instead, Trump’s personal lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, helped arrange the call.
Kasowitz had another client with a keen interest in Vietnam: Philip Falcone, an American investor with a major casino outside Ho Chi Minh City. After the Trump call, Kasowitz traveled to Vietnam with Falcone. They met with government officials as part of an effort to persuade Vietnam to lift a ban on gambling for its citizens. Such a shift would deliver vastly more gamblers to Falcone’s casino.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-vietnam-casino
The first thing that came into my mind when I read this ..............about how this draft dodger and The Going to Die Rag By Country Joe McDonald and how 56000 + and families ................
Oregon Board Explains Why It Repeatedly Released Killer From Psychiatric Hospital
In response to our questions, the Psychiatric Security Review Board explains why danger alone is not enough to keep violent people with mental illness under state jurisdiction.
by Jayme Fraser, the Malheur Enterprise April 25, 5:29 a.m. EDT
This article was produced in partnership with the Malheur Enterprise, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network.
The five members of the Oregon Psychiatric Security Review Board declined interview requests from the Malheur Enterprise and ProPublica. The members instead responded as a board to written questions about their practices and the case of Charles Longjaw. The board manages the custody and care of people such as Longjaw, who have been found guilty except for insanity in felony criminal cases.
How was the PSRB [Psychiatric Security Review Board], OSH [Oregon State Hospital] and state law different from today when Longjaw was found GEI [guilty except for insanity] in 1986?
There are a few differences in the law between 1986 and today. First, in 1986, there was no requirement that an evaluation be performed by a certified forensic evaluator in order to successfully plead GEI. Also, 1986 predates statutory and case law expressly removing personality disorders, sexual conduct disorders and voluntary substance-related intoxication from the definition of mental illnesses that would qualify for the purposes of a GEI plea.
After reviewing your documents about Longjaw’s conditional releases, do you agree with those prior decisions? In hindsight, are there red flags that today’s board might have weighed differently?
The Board grants conditional releases to patients properly under its jurisdiction whom the evidence shows can be adequately controlled within the community. The Board applies this standard on a case-by-case basis based on the facts as they were at the time of the hearing. Knowledge of subsequent facts cannot change the facts as they were at the time of the decision.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-psychiatric-security-review-board-explains-killer-released-psychiatric-hospital
Oregon Doctors Warned That a Killer and Rapist Would Likely Attack Again. Then the State Released Hi
Charles Longjaw was being held at the Oregon State Hospital after being found insane. Oregon changed its interpretation of the law and he was released, raising questions about how states manage violent offenders with mental illness.
by Jayme Fraser, the Malheur Enterprise April 25, 5:30 a.m. EDT
This article was produced in partnership with the Malheur Enterprise, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network.
In September 2015, Oregon’s Psychiatric Security Review Board faced a decision with potentially momentous consequences for public safety. Sitting before them in a small hearing room at the state hospital was Charles Longjaw, a 50-year-old killer and rapist judged to be guilty except for insanity.
A state psychologist warned that Longjaw was likely to resume his abuse of alcohol and drugs if the board released him from strict supervision. Once drunk or high, he would be unable to restrain impulses that had previously led to a brutal murder, an attempted murder and a vicious rape. He would attack again if “he feels disrespected or threatened in some fashion,” she wrote. “The victim could be a stranger or a friend.”
For reasons that have much to do with the limits of Oregon law, the three board members present that day decided to release Longjaw, regardless of the danger. Under the relevant state statute, the board concluded, he could no longer be classified as criminally insane.
“You are discharged,” the chairwoman said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-doctors-warned-that-a-killer-and-rapist-would-likely-attack-again-then-the-state-released-him
A Killing at Donkey Creek
Jimmy Smith-Kramer, a basketball legend on the Quinault Nation reservation, was 20 when he was mowed down by a white man in a pickup truck. The decision not to charge a hate crime, and recent talk of a plea deal, has re-opened ancient wounds.
by Rahima Nasa April 26, 5 a.m. EDT
The submissions from Native Americans have come into ProPublica’s Documenting Hate database with regularity: In Reno, Nevada, a truck was driven into a group of Native people protesting Columbus Day, injuring one; a Navajo woman in Flagstaff, Arizona, reported being told, “Go back to where you came from” by a driver who pulled up to her at a bus stop. A Sioux woman in Winterset, Iowa, reported that she was called a “prairie nigger” on Facebook.
An entry from late last May, though, was of another order: a news account of a killing in Grays Harbor County in Washington.
Jimmy Smith-Kramer, 20, and a member of the Quinault Indian Nation, had been crushed under the wheels of a pickup truck at a local campground. Another member of the tribe had been gravely injured as well. And a white man, James Walker, had been arrested and charged with having intentionally run over the two men after Walker admitted to flooring his gas pedal. The authorities claimed Walker backed over the men, then drove forward, grinding them into the ground a second time.
The leaders of the Quinault Nation had quickly issued a statement alleging that Walker and or others in his truck had used anti-Native slurs during the fatal incident. A handful of local news organizations published early accounts reflecting the concern that the killing amounted to a hate crime.
But in the year since then, the case has faded from public view, locally and nationally. It caused barely a ripple when prosecutors chose not to charge Walker with a hate crime, saying there were conflicting accounts of his possible motivations, and about who had said what, if anything, during the incident. Walker, who pleaded innocent at his May 2017 arraignment, has maintained he could not have committed a hate crime against Natives because he is part Cherokee himself.
https://www.propublica.org/article/a-killing-at-donkey-creek
As a person of Cherokee ancestry, I am not a "river n*****".......................
This thing needs to conclude: Jeff Sessions says Mueller probe is distracting Trump from France a
and North Korea’
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he shared President Donald Trump’s “frustrations” with the special counsel probe and called for it to wrap up.
The attorney general testified Thursday before the House Appropriations Committee, saying the investigation overseen by special counsel Robert Mueller was distracting the president from national security matters.
“Look, I think the American people are concerned, and the president is concerned,” Sessions said. “He’s dealing with France and North Korea and Syria and taxes and regulations and border and crime, every day, and I wish — this thing needs to conclude,” Session said. “So I understand his frustrations, and I understand the American people’s frustrations.”
Rep. Evan Jenkins (R-WV) prompted the response by complaining that Hillary Clinton and other political enemies of the president had escaped special counsel scrutiny, which he said angered his constituents.
“At the very root of this, I think my constituents are frustrated, are angry, they see a double standard historically,” Jenkins said. “They want justice.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/thing-needs-conclude-jeff-sessions-says-mueller-probe-distracting-trump-france-north-korea/
So what are you saying there lying Sessions................your sexual predator boss can't multi-task, but he know's how to scam, defraud and bilk the taxpayers and to top it all off, he know's how to commit treason, right along with his children...................
Rep. Joe Barton calls Scott Pruitt the victim and thanks him for stopping Obamas radical clean a
Texas Republican Rep. Joe Barton on Thursday insisted that EPA Director Scott Pruitt had been a “victim” of Democrats because of news reports which accuse Pruitt of corruption.
At a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Thursday, Democrats repeatedly suggested that Pruitt should resign over the reports, but many of the Republicans praised the EPA director.
“You’re not the first person to be the victim of — for lack of a better term — Washington politics,” Barton told Pruitt. “You got picked to be the EPA administrator because of the service you provided for the great state of Oklahoma in fighting some of the Obama administration radical clean air policies.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/rep-joe-barton-calls-scott-pruitt-victim-thanks-stopping-obamas-radical-clean-air-agenda/
So Burton how long have you been in Washington.................................since fucking 1985...................and guess what you did.......................with your ethics and principles .............scum bag
https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/30/politics/joe-barton-re-election/index.html
At least five hurt as Wisconsin refinery blast: officials
Source: Raw Story
An explosion at Husky Energy’s refinery in Superior, Wisconsin, injured at least five people while sending smoke billowing into the sky and shaking a building a mile away, officials at the local fire department and a hospital said on Thursday.
Four people were being treated at nearby Essentia Health-St. Mary’s Medical Center and a fifth was on the way, said a hospital spokeswoman. She described their injuries as varied, but said she could not offer further details.
There were no immediate reports of fatalities.
“The whole building shook. The lights flickered three times and the whole building shook,” Jim Ronning, owner of Hudy’s Tavern in Superior, located about a mile (1.6 km) from the facility.
Local media had earlier reported 20 people injured.
The company was responding to an incident at the refinery and emergency crews were on site, Husky spokesman Mel Duvall said, adding, “We are aware an individual has been transported to the hospital.”
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/least-five-hurt-wisconsin-refinery-blast-officials/
Cornyn: Surprised At How Emboldened Tester Was In VA Nominee Investigation
By Kate Riga | April 26, 2018 12:42 pm
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) was reportedly taken aback that Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) so aggressively pursued allegations against President Donald Trump’s veterans affairs secretary nominee Ronny Jackson, given that Tester faces reelection this year in a state that the President won by over 20 points in 2016.
“I’m frankly a little surprised at how emboldened he has felt,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) told the Washington Post. “He apparently isn’t too worried about the election.”
Trump attacked Tester Thursday morning for his role in the investigation, predicting a personal cost down the line. “For Jon Tester to start bringing up stuff like ‘candy man’ and the kind of things he was saying, well you know, that are statements that are made up,” Trump said on Fox and Friends. “I think Jon Tester has a big price to pay in Montana. I don’t think people in Montana — the admiral is the kind of person that they respect and admire. And they don’t like seeing what’s happened to him.”
Jackson withdrew his nomination Thursday morning after Tester’s office published a summary of the mounting allegations against him.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/tester-surprises-colleagues-by-feeling-emboldened-in-jackson-investigation
“I’m frankly a little surprised at how emboldened he has felt,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) told the Washington Post. “He apparently isn’t too worried about the election.”
Hey dickhead Cornyn, that question of being surprised shows just how much you lack of integrity and principles when you are suppose to do a job to provide oversight in protecting the taxpayers from people that are unqualified to hold a position.............and should be fired, just like you
Maybe you should bring up your draft, here I will...................
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-lyon/draftdodger-john-cornyn-i_b_89073.html
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
Seriously, What Is A Biometric Lock: How Pruitt Dealt With Tough Questions
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Matt Shuham | April 26, 2018 2:22 pm
Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) had a simple question toward the end of a congressional hearing with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt on Thursday: Why did he need two biometric locks, which together cost nearly $6,000, for his office?
Pruitt’s response was illustrative of the strategy he used for most of the hearing when pressed on things like the $43,000 soundproof booth in his office, five-figure raises awarded to several of his senior aides at the EPA and a slew of other wasteful spending scandals: Shift blame and run out the clock.
“Let me ask you this,” Welch began. “Did you have installed, or were there installed, biometric locks on your office?”
“There were problems with locks on two of the three doors, and changes were made to those locks,” Pruitt responded. “No instruction was given for biometric locks, but that was a decision made by those individuals.”
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/seriously-what-is-a-biometric-lock-how-pruitt-dealt-with-tough-questions
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