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turbinetree's Journal2006 Brett Kavanugh / Bybee Memo / Grassley does not want the National Archives to release
https://www.c-span.org/video/?192420-1/brett-kavanaugh-testifies-dc-circuit-confirmation-hearing-2006Bybee memo
https://supreme.findlaw.com/legal-commentary/the-torture-memo-by-judge-jay-s-bybee-that-haunted-alberto-gonzaless-confirmation-hearings.html
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a22551530/brett-kavanaugh-torture-george-w-bush-administration/
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough....................vote
Please call the senators on the Judaical Committee and demand that this be part of the record and the confirmation process of this Federalist Society (judge) that Grassley and the turtle are trying to suppress, what did Kavanugh say and do while in the Bush white house........the public has a RIGHT to KNOW...................
Did this nominee LIE to Durbin and Leahy...................they have been awaiting over ten years for a response, they sent a letter to this Federalist Society "guy" and still no response..................what the hell gives..................
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Actual farmer sues Devin Nunes for claiming to be a farmer on ballot
By Caroline Orr - August 10, 2018
Devin Nunes' constituents say he's forgotten about the farmers in his district and has no business calling himself one of them.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) is not a farmer, but he likes to call himself one. Now, an actual farmer — who also happens to be one of Nunes’ constituents — is taking court action to stop Nunes from claiming to be something he’s not.
Paul Buxman, a California stone fruit farmer from the town of Dinuba, filed a petition with the Sacramento Superior Court asking the courts to remove the occupation “farmer” from Nunes’ description on the state’s ballots before this year’s midterm elections.
In California, candidates have the option of listing an occupation next to their name on the ballot. Nunes apparently decided that owning stake in a few wineries across the state qualifies him to be called a farmer, but Buxman isn’t having it.
“I don’t believe [he] has had any income from farming for at least 10 years,” Buxman told The Fresno Bee. “He has some interest in a few wineries, but he’s distanced himself from those and says he has no involvement in their day-to-day management.”
https://shareblue.com/devin-nunes-sued-farmer-ballot/
He should correctly put beside his name Traitor
A little-noticed Trump rule would give $2.5 billion tax cut to big bank fat cats
COMMON DREAMS - COMMENTARY
10 AUG 2018 AT 13:36 ET
As Wall Street banks continue to enjoy record profits thanks to President Donald Trump’s $1.5 trillion tax scam, Trump’s Treasury Department—headed by former Goldman Sachs executive Steve Mnuchin—quietly moved to hand big banks yet another major gift on Wednesday by hiding a $2.5 billion tax cut in the fine print of an “esoteric” new rule proposal (pdf).
At first glance, the Trump administration’s rule appeared to be little more than a mundane set of regulations aimed at providing owners of so-called pass-through businesses everything they “need to comply with the Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” as Reuters put it.
But Capital & Main journalist David Sirota decided to take the radical step of actually reading the proposal in its entirety, and he found that the White House’s rule also seeks to exclude banking from the “financial services” category—a move that would allow thousands of large banks to take advantage of the controversial tax cut for pass-through income included in Trump’s tax bill.
As they were hashing out the details of their tax bill behind closed doors, Sirota notes, Republican lawmakers included a provision that prohibited businesses in the “financial services” sector from qualifying for the tax cut in an effort to counter “assertions that the bill could enrich big banks.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/little-noticed-trump-rule-give-2-5-billion-tax-cut-big-bank-fat-cats/
We have to keep her grave hidden': Slain activist Heather Heyer's mom fears neo-Nazis will destroy d
Joni Ernst Plays "Cute" with Her NRA Backing
At a recent townhall, when asked if her weak bill about school safety (one that completely omits guns) had anything to do with her $3 million in support from the NRA, she gave one of those flippant replies that politicians often give when they have contempt for voters. She said, “We don’t receive dollars from the NRA. That would be illegal, and I’d be driving a nicer car.”
Isn't she just adorable?
And that, ladies and gentleman, is yet another example of why so many Americans hate politicians.
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/08/joni-ernst-claims-plays-cute-her-nra
She would be driving a nicer car....................she owns a fucking pig farm that makes millions, and she has the audacity to basically flip off the young man that had something to say about the murders in schools, because after all one day he /or she will be parent and there future kids will have to live in fear if they go to school because Joni Ernst wished that she had a fucking nicer car...................
FUCK YOU Joni Ernst.................and the National Russian Association( NRA) terrorist organization that funds you from the Russian oligarchs money they get to give to you, because after all they don't give a shit if people in this country kill people, just so longs as it is here, that is worried about having a nicer car .............
Dereliction Of Political Duty In A Tweet
August 10, 2018 2:53 am / 0 Comments / Climate Change, Disasters, Featured Post, Politics, White House
Reprinted with permission from Creators.
It’s been policy hereabout to ignore presidential tweets of no national consequence. Whether Donald Trump likes Roseanne or dislikes Rosie matters not. But Trump’s tweets about the catastrophic California fires do. They demonstrated remarkable ignorance and cowardice. And in the words that weren’t there, they showed a collapse of the leadership needed to defend this country from the onrushing disaster of climate change.
“Bad environmental laws,” he tweeted, have diverted needed water “into the Pacific Ocean,” making the wildfires “so much worse.” That’s the ignorance part.
The claim that firefighters don’t have enough water is not true, and to a moronic degree. “We’re having no problems as far as
access to water supply,” said Scott McClean, deputy chief of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Rob Stutzman, a prominent Republican strategist in California, called that tweet “nuts,” as well as “frightening” in its dumbness. Water plays a surprisingly small part in fighting wildfires. The main weapons are flame-retarding chemicals dropped from planes and creating physical fire breaks.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/dereliction-of-political-duty-in-a-tweet/
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“It’s a sad state of affairs when journalism is reduced to chasing the uninformed, unsupervised tweets of the president,” Brown’s spokesman told Politico.
He’s not wrong about that, generally. But unsupervised and dangerously ignorant tweets from someone who still is president do require attention. A dereliction of national duty cannot be brushed off.
Why Betsy DeVos Shuns The American Flag On Her $40M Yacht
August 10, 2018 2:53 am / 0 Comments / Far Right, Inequality, Taxes, Top News, White House
Reprinted with permission from Shareblue.
Trump often roars about the need to respect the flag in his racist rants against NFL players who kneel during the national anthem. Yet as it turns out, embattled Education Secretary Betsy DeVos refuses to fly the American flag on at least one of her family’s ten yachts.
Devos’ 164-foot yacht — the one that was recently untied and set adrift — flies the flag of the Cayman Islands, not the stars and stripes.
And this foreign flag isn’t just an unpatriotic decorating choice. It’s also a scheme that helps DeVos “avoid taxes, regulations, transparency requirements and domestic employment laws,” Newsweek reports.
Newsweek estimates that the DeVos empire would owe the state of Michigan roughly $2.4 million if it registered the $40 million yacht there, rather than in the Cayman Islands.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/why-betsy-devos-shuns-the-american-flag-on-her-40m-yacht/
Suspect behind massive California wildfire was steeped in conspiracies
From 9/11 to QAnon, there appears no conspiracy theory too strange for Forrest Clark.
CASEY MICHEL AUG 10, 2018, 12:42 PM
Southern California’s Holy Fire, sparked on Monday, has already scorched more than 18,000 acres as of Friday morning and forced over 20,000 residents to flee.
Now, authorities have identified the man suspected of igniting the massive blaze.
On Wednesday, local officials arrested 51-year-old Forrest Gordon Clark, charging him with two counts of felony arson, as well as another felony charge of threatening to terrorize.
After the charges were announced, the Washington Post reported that Clark had texted a local firefighter before the fire that the area was “going to burn just like we planned.” (It was unclear who else Clark may have been referring to). Clark is currently being held on $1 million bond.
https://thinkprogress.org/suspect-behind-massive-california-wildfire-was-steeped-in-conspiracies-ad251ea66ac4/
No insanity defense.................
The dark conspiracy theory that helped create QAnon
Satanism, child abductions, and shadowy "Deep State" actors have been a part of American folklore for centuries.
LUKE BARNES AUG 10, 2018, 8:00 AM
A shadowy group of powerful figures are secretly in control of the United States. They’re abducting children and subjecting them to lurid, Satanic abuse. Our only hope lies with a single brave source, one with first-hand experience of the horrifying conspiracy, to expose the plot.
This may sound like a brief description of the QAnon conspiracy theory, which, after spending a year bubbling at the fringes of the internet, suddenly burst into the mainstream last week at a Trump rally in Tampa, Florida. But it’s actually a description of another conspiracy theory that gripped America in the early 1980s, one that led to the most expensive trial in California’s history and was eventually proven to be utterly false.
In 1980, Canadian psychiatric patient Michelle Smith co-wrote a book with her psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder — whom she later married — titled Michelle Remembers. In the book, Michelle claimed to “remember,” via hypnosis, that her mother was actually a member of a Satanic cult and had forced her to endure horrific abuse. Michelle claimed that she was caged, was forced to watch the cult slaughter kittens, and endured 81 straight days of abuse in an effort to summon Satan himself.
Michelle Remembers created a full-blown moral panic in America about Satanic Abuse. The book earned hundreds of thousands of dollars, spawned copycats, and helped usher in a series of unfounded claims.
https://thinkprogress.org/qanon-america-conspiracy-theories-satanism-63e20eadc0dd/
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In Rev. Antony’s opinion, QAnon’s only agenda appears to be leaving “breadcrumbs” online and watching others get led on wild goose chases. He’s also noted that while some baby boomers readily buy into QAnon’s tales of child trafficking, they ignore abuses made by Christian institutions or politicians who share their political leanings.
“People are malleable, biased, manipulative and manipulated. Satanists acknowledge that there’s an invisible war out there, and armed with skepticism and pragmatism are able to navigate and exploit it when necessary,” he claimed. “There certainly is a Satanic Elite in the world, but conspiracies like QAnon are barking up the wrong pyramid.”
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