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Misty » 20 Jul 2017 7:26 pm » wrote:What an improvement.

Trump Administration Pushes To Eliminate More Than 800 Industry Stifling Obama-Era Regulations
Lucian Wintrich

This Thursday, the Trump Administration continues to make good on it’s promise of eliminating industry stifling and ineffective regulations put in place by the Obama Administration. Under the new administration’s push for deregulation, over 800 Obama era regulations that were set to take effect, are now to be eliminated. This is part of the Trump Administrations larger effort at shrinking the Federal Government’s control on industry, business, and American innovation.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/07 ... gulations/

Sgt Bilko » 21 Jul 2017 6:39 am » wrote:How about this Misty???

Hillary Clinton, while serving as Obama’s secretary of state, was also initially opposed to the economic sanctions. And it so happens that she came around to that position in conjunction with a $500,000 speech her husband gave in Moscow that year. Was this a coincidence, or did Russian interests buy Hillary Clinton’s views on the sanctions with a whopping half-million dollar check to the former president?

Alabama Conservatives Bully 12-Year-Old Rape Victim to Not Have Abortion

Last week, after initially being denied the right to have an abortion by a local district attorney, a pregnant, 12-year-old rape victim was granted judicial bypass by the Alabama Civil Court of Appeals.

The unnamed adolescent girl is not in contact with her father and has an abusive mother who reacted violently to her daughter’s pregnancy.

Now, Win Johnson, the conservative legal director for the Administrative Office of Courts under former Chief Justice Roy Moore, is speaking out to attack the Alabama Civil Court of Appeals and even the 12 year old.

One thing anti-abortion activists can certainly boast about is the indiscriminate nature of their advocacy — whether the individual seeking an abortion is a promiscuous adult or an adolescent rape victim, they’ll be just as cruel.

“[The ruling said the victim] was mature enough — and I’m going to put this in its starkest terms — to decide to murder her own child in her womb,” Johnson said at a Wednesday news conference.

As if the child hasn’t been through enough, now she has to be defamed and accused of murder.

“She probably has trouble deciding what shirt to wear to school,” Lorie Mullins, executive director of COPE Pregnancy Center in Montgomery, added.

“The courts, the law has decided that she’s not old enough, wise enough and mature enough to make her own decision about whether or not she wants to drink, to buy a pack of cigarettes to drive a car.”

It’s puzzling that Mullins and Johnson seem to think the same 12-year-old not mature enough to make a choice about her body would be mature enough to experience nine months of pregnancy and give birth.

In either case, there’s an eerie connection between the girl being stripped of her bodily agency by her rapist, and now having to watch her bodily agency once again be attacked by conservative leaders.

“I don’t know what the perfect answer is, but I know this is not it,” Mullins concluded.

“If I could actually speak to this child, the only thing I could say to her is you’ve been robbed of your childhood. Don’t rob yourself of your future.”

It should go without saying that telling a likely traumatized, 12-year-old victim of rape that opting to not become a mother while still, herself, a child would be to “rob [herself] of [her] future” is a disturbing opinion to have, let alone to express.

It’s frankly horrifying that Johnson and Mullins were given a platform, at all, to spew their manipulative, harmful rhetoric.

Here’s to hoping the poor 12 year old never has to be exposed to this awful, emotionally abusive tirade.

Misty » 21 Jul 2017 1:08 pm » wrote: These lawyers need to stop bullying this child.

So she's not mature enough to make this decision, but she's mature enough to raise the child of her rapist?

That is much more likely to have a negative affect on her future than terminating the pregnancy would.

GOP Senate intel chair: ‘The unmasking thing was all created by Devin Nunes’

Senate intelligence committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) on Friday told CNN claims that Barack Obama’s national security adviser, Susan Rice, improperly unmasked individuals within Donald Trump’s campaign were “created by Devin Nunes,” the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

“The unmasking thing was all created by Devin Nunes, and I’ll wait to go through our full evaluation to see if there was anything improper that happened,” Burr said.

”But clearly there were individuals unmasked.

Some of that became public which it’s not supposed to, and our business is to understand that, and explain it.”

Burr’s comments come as Rice met privately with the committee on Friday in their investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Rice was roped into the probe after Nunes held a hastily-organized press conference in March alleging the names of Trump officials were illegally unmasked by Obama’s national security adviser.

Nunes’ press conference seemed to give credence to Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that Obama “wiretapped” Trump Tower during the campaign.

The News Yorker’s Ryan Lizza reports the White House put out an “all-points bulletin” to “find something” that would substantiate the president’s charge.

Rice has maintained she did not do anything improper involving “unmasking” Trump officials.

“Ambassador Rice met voluntarily with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today as part of the committee’s bipartisan investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 US presidential election,” Erin Pelton, a spokesperson for Rice, said.

“Ambassador Rice appreciates the Committee’s efforts to examine Russia’s efforts to interfere, which violated one of the core foundations of American democracy.”

Burr told CNN the committee intends to interview officials in both the Trump and Obama administrations.

“I think we’re interested in any folks that were in the last administration that had some hand in what we did or did not do in response to Russian meddling in our elections,” Burr said.

“I won’t get into when they’re coming or what the extent of the list is, but I think it’s safe to say that we’ve had everybody that was involved in decision-making at the last administration on our list, and they’re periodically coming.

Some have been in. Some still have yet to come in.”

Misty » 21 Jul 2017 3:37 pm » wrote:Whoops!

I’ll wait to go through our full evaluation to see if there was anything improper that happened,” Burr said.
”But clearly there were individuals unmasked.
Some of that became public which it’s not supposed to, and our business is to understand that, and explain it.”

Misty » 21 Jul 2017 4:09 pm » wrote:The lying will not be smoother and more telegenic

Termin8tor » 21 Jul 2017 4:13 pm » wrote: Who cares that that leftist wackjob thinks?

Your side lost. You can't debate Trump on the issues and on policy, so you lie and smear.

Misty » 21 Jul 2017 12:42 pm » wrote:HUH?

DEMOCRATS REFUSE TO COOPERATE IN VOTER FRAUD INVESTIGATION
To its credit, the Trump administration is trying to get to the bottom of the voter fraud issue. President Trump has established an Election Integrity Commission headed by Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach. The commission has requested publicly available data on voter registrations from the states, and, despite the seemingly innocuous nature of the request, a number of states have refused to cooperate.

One of them is Minnesota. The Star Tribune reports:
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon said Friday that he won’t fulfill a request from a presidential panel to ship voter registration information for some 4 million Minnesota voters to Washington.

Simon questioned both whether Minnesota law would allow him to provide the information to President Trump’s Election Integrity Commission and to what end it would be used.

Why would Minnesota law preclude responding to the federal commission’s request? If you keep reading, you find that it wouldn’t:

Minnesota law limits the purposes for which voter data can be purchased and used. The law specifically allows data to be provided for political purposes and law enforcement. If it were the Department of Justice requesting the information, Simon said, “we might be having a different discussion.”

So a political party can buy the Minnesota data, but Secretary of State Simon won’t give it to a federal commission. Simon admits that his objection isn’t really legal:

Simon doesn’t dispute the public nature of some of the data — just the purpose and the motives of the commission. “It sure doesn’t look to me like an objective investigation based on who’s running it and what they’ve already said,” Simon said.

Simon noted that Pence and Kobach have publicly supported Trump’s claims that millions of votes were illegally cast in the recent presidential election. The claims of massive voter fraud usually raise the specter of voting by dead people, felons and immigrants.

Not immigrants, but non-citizens. Simon’s final argument is even sillier:

Simon also said the commission is ignoring the real challenge to election integrity: the threat of cyberattacks by outside forces.

Democrats purport to be horrified by Russian “meddling” in our election that didn’t change a single vote, but they have no qualms about meddling by illegal voters, presumably because they think it helps them.

The Election Integrity Commission is trying to find out how much illegal voting goes on. The Democrats constantly tell us there is no, or virtually no, voter fraud. If that were the case, one would think that they would want to cooperate with the commission to prove their point. The fact that they don’t want the commission to be able to find out, for example, how many people are registered voters in multiple states, suggests that what they really want is for voter fraud to continue, because they know they benefit from it.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2 ... gation.php

GailyBee » 21 Jul 2017 4:17 pm » wrote:Which issue? Which policy? He is only consistent in his inconsistency. He is jello--impossible to nail that **** to anything.
As for losing: we all lost this time around.
Sad, that.

GailyBee » 21 Jul 2017 4:17 pm » wrote: Which issue? Which policy? He is only consistent in his inconsistency. He is jello--impossible to nail that **** to anything.

As for losing: we all lost this time around.

Sad, that.

Misty » 20 Jul 2017 7:26 pm » wrote:What an improvement.

Sally Yates: Fail (on ethics)

The ethical pileup was foreshadowed within days of the Trump inauguration by the actions of former acting attorney general Sally Yates, who ordered the entire Justice Department not to assist Trump in his immigration executive order restricting travelers from seven Muslim majority countries. As evidenced by conflicting opinions in the courts (and the most recent Supreme Court decision allowing the implementation of the immigration ban), there were good faith legal arguments supporting the order.


Yet Yates dismissed the review of the Office of Legal Counsel without actually saying that the order was unconstitutional. Even Trump critics and former high-ranking Justice Department officials questioned Yates’ actions as unprecedented and unfounded.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/ ... z.bex5gpQw

Termin8tor » 21 Jul 2017 4:31 pm » wrote: All that shows is that as usual, you're ignorant and stupid.

Trump has almost across the board limited or rolled back government and expanded freedom. Given the condition the country is in, a lot more work remains to be done; literally decades of it.

Which is why even many former Never-Trumpers have praised him.

Misty » 21 Jul 2017 4:25 pm » wrote: Hello girl.
How the hell are you?

GailyBee » 21 Jul 2017 7:57 pm » wrote:Hello, my sweet!
I am good. Really. I live in a great place, have family and friends close by, love the school district for which I work...got a new little rescue dog a couple weeks ago--he's a hoot.
Not sure how much I'll be on here, but wanted to check in--not much has changed...

Two MSNBC guests – of different political parties – found bipartisan agreement on the likely source of the documents leaked to The Washington Post on the meetings between Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

“I think they are pushing [Sessions] to get out,” Republican strategist Rick Wilson told host Joy Reid.

“I think this leak came from the White House, I think they absolutely trying to knock Jeff Sessions out of the box, so they can try to get rid of Bob Mueller.”

“They are lawless,” Rick Wilson added.

Democratic strategist Tara Dowdell suspects the same source of the leaks.

“I agree, I think this is a leak from the White House,” Democratic strategist Tara Dowdell, agreed. “I think that they’re trying to push him out, but I think he’s holding on by his claws.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/they-ar ... sions/amp/

Mueller Expands Probe to Trump Business Transactions

The U.S. special counsel investigating possible ties between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia in last year’s election is examining a broad range of transactions involving Trump’s businesses as well as those of his associates, according to a person familiar with the probe.

FBI investigators and others are looking at Russian purchases of apartments in Trump buildings, Trump’s involvement in a controversial SoHo development in New York with Russian associates, the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow and Trump’s sale of a Florida mansion to a Russian oligarch in 2008, the person said.

The investigation also has absorbed a money-laundering probe begun by federal prosecutors in New York into Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

John Dowd, one of Trump’s lawyers, said on Thursday that he was unaware of the inquiry into Trump’s businesses by the two-months-old investigation and considered it beyond the scope of what Special Counsel Robert Mueller should be examining.

“Those transactions are in my view well beyond the mandate of the Special counsel; are unrelated to the election of 2016 or any alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia and most importantly, are well beyond any Statute of Limitation imposed by the United States Code,” he wrote in an email.

Kushner adds $10M he 'inadvertently omitted' in disclosure.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner “inadvertently omitted” more than 70 assets worth at least $10.6 million from his personal financial disclosure reports, according to revised paperwork released Friday.

The previously unreported assets were included in updated financial disclosure reports certified by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics on Thursday as part of the “ordinary review process,” according to Kushner’s filing.

Among the new disclosures, Kushner reported owning artwork worth between $5 million and $25 million.

The new forms also reflect that Kushner sold his interest in an aging shopping mall in Eatontown, New Jersey, and no longer has a stake in a company that had held an interest in property in Toledo, Ohio.

Kushner also clarified his $5 million to $25 million stake in a holding company that owns Cadre, an online real estate investment platform investors valued at $800 million that he co-founded with his brother, Joshua.

Kushner’s wife and the president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, also filed new federal disclosures.

She reported assets of at least $66 million and earned at least $13.5 million in income last year from her various business ventures, including more than $2.4 million from the new Trump hotel near the White House.

The filings reflect the extraordinary wealth of Trump and her husband, who stepped down from running their companies and left their Manhattan apartment to move their young family to Washington earlier this year.

A lawyer advising Kushner said that federal officials are allowed to amend their initial financial disclosures before they are certified, and stressed that Kushner had complex finances.

“Jared and Ivanka have followed each of the required steps in their transition from private citizens to federal officials.

The Office of Government Ethics has certified Jared’s financial disclosure, reflecting its determination that his approach complies with federal ethics laws,” said Kushner attorney Jamie Gorelick.

“Ivanka’s financial disclosure form is still in the pre-certification stage, as she began the process later.”

Clay Johnson, who served as President George W. Bush’s director of presidential personnel, said he was surprised by the sheer number of updates six months in.

“The way we ran it ... is that the general direction to all nominees is tell us what we ask for now.

We will then stand behind you whatever may come in.

But there are to be no surprises,” said Johnson, who also served as Bush’s deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget.