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turbinetree's JournalTrumps pick for DHS chief was at center of Katrina disaster
By Nick Miroff October 14
On Aug 27, 2005, two days before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, officials at the American Red Cross wrote to a top homeland security adviser at the White House, warning that the storm was likely to slam New Orleans as a major hurricane.
The message was sent to Kirstjen Nielsen, whose title was special assistant to the president for prevention, preparedness and response. She was 33 years old.
It was the first of many alarming emails Nielsen would receive over the following days as water poured into New Orleans and the city was deluged. And in the storm of blame that followed the costliest natural disaster in American history, Nielsen’s team was widely criticized for its passive and clumsy response.
Twelve years later, President Trump has nominated Nielsen to the top job at the Department of Homeland Security. As DHS secretary, she would be in charge of a 240,000-employee agency with a $40 billion budget whose many responsibilities include managing disasters such as Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trumps-pick-for-dhs-chief-was-at-center-of-katrina-disaster/2017/10/14/1a8f12a2-b067-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html?utm_term=.7e8c5eaeda78
While on her watch, over 1800 human beings died........................and in my opinion she should not be in charge of anything
Regulator points the finger directly at Trump after approving massive health care rate increase
Source: Think Progress
For years, Republicans have criticized Obamacare for making health care too expensive, misleadingly claiming that the law has led to skyrocketing costs. But now, the insurance industry and state regulators are complaining that it’s actually President Trump’s actions that are directly responsible for raising premiums.
Days after President Trump signed an executive order to allow people to buy skimpier, cheaper health care plans and confirmed the federal government will stop making critical subsidy payments to insurers, the Pennsylvania Department of Insurance announced it has approved a drastic rate increase for plans sold next year both on and off the the state’s Affordable Care Act exchange.
In comments made to the Philadelphia Inquirer, acting Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Jessica Altman traced the unexpected rate 30.6 percent increase directly back to President Trump’s decision to cut off the cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments insurers use to subsidize coverage for low-income people.
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/insurers-blame-trump-massive-rate-increases-7b509c0687d0/
Hey sexual predator that handed the pen to the asshole from Kentucky Rand Paul, and all of those clapping assholes in the white house when you signed the death(s) certificate, now called the executive order of millions--------------------FUCK YOU................you and your right wing AYN RAND party own this Trumpcare, and it lays like a piece of shit in "all" of your laps
And come 2018 your going to be IMPEACHED and all of your lackeys standing in that room and off in the back ground in there offices are going to be thrown out of office---------------we are coming
He believes that he called everybody that lost a family member, either you did asshole or you didn't
FUCK YOU..................you have been playing golf, with your side kick Graham asshole, you have had twelve days to say something and when you get caught in a lie, you back track, so again FUCK YOU.
Obama did not wait twelve days asshole
Steve Scalise says mass shootings are the cost of the Second Amendment
Source: Think Progress
Just weeks after his return to Congress following life-threatening injuries sustained from a shooting at a congressional baseball practice over the summer, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) appeared on Fox News Tuesday morning to defend the Second Amendment, claiming that deadly shootings were the price of freedom.
During a Fox & Friends interview, Scalise was specifically asked how he felt about gun control given that he himself had been shot and given the recent shooting in Las Vegas that left 58 people dead and scores more injured.
“It’s what our Founding Fathers envisioned. If you go and look at the writings of our Founding Fathers, they believe strongly in the rights of people to arm themselves for self-defense,” said Scalise. “And that’s something that’s still strong today, and you see threats against it.”
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/steve-scalise-says-mass-shootings-are-the-cost-of-the-second-amendment-3a114eeb1c33/
Hey Scalise, your an asshole, just maybe asshole, you should go back and read the "notes" from the various conventions the founding individuals had and what there intentions meant when it came to the second amendment, they did not asshole and I repeat Asshole with a capital A, envision that mass murder would be a fucking norm, they envisioned asshole that the militia would be well regulated with guns from invasion and to help with the slavery issue, because asshole there was a African-American uprising
You are basically saying that the population must live in a state of fear, hate and has for comments on Jefferson and Adams------------------your full of right wing shit, your ilk always use Jefferson and now Adams, to back your claim
This asshole had twelve days to say something about these four men, and he said nothing
until today, and he LIED, this is disgusting
I cannot imagine this narcissistic asshole going to the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-obama-soldiers-families-d685525afbf2/
You were playing golf, with another asshole, asshole
Religious Right Using Hurricane Tragedies To Grab Public Funds For Churches
In between Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, Trump took the time to plant a tweet bomb under the First Amendment. “Churches in Texas should be entitled to reimbursement from FEMA Relief Funds for helping victims of Hurricane Harvey (just like others),” he twittered.
If it seems a little hasty to start arguing about money before the streets are dry, that’s because, well, we’re talking big money here, and not just disaster money. The thing about today’s religious right is it is really focused on the bottom line—and the First Amendment is starting to look like roadkill on the path to the ultimate payday.
The demand for FEMA relief for houses of worship sounded innocuous at first. In view of the devastating news from Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Mississippi, and the ongoing recovery process in Texas and Florida, who could object to helping out churches, especially those that offered aid to hurricane and flood refugees, in their own hour of need? The funny thing is that it seemed some churches couldn’t wait to be denied federal money. Even as the floodwaters from Harvey flowed through the streets, three Texas churches filed a federal lawsuit on September 4, alleging that FEMA’s policy of excluding houses of worship from disaster-relief grants is unfair and unconstitutional.
One plaintiff, Assembly of God Church, in Rockport, Texas, is the beneficiary of a fundraising campaign on GoFundMe. “What’s more heartbreaking is to have wind storm insurance, it would costs [sic] the church over $15,000 a year,” explains AshLee Frazier, the daughter of the church’s pastor, Bruce Frazier, on the church’s GoFundMe page. “In a small community like Rockport that’s simple [sic] not affordable.”
http://www.nationalmemo.com/religious-right-using-hurricane-tragedies-leverage-public-funds-churches/
I say Bullshit, I don't support the Assembly of God or the Hi-Way Tabernacle and there anti-human being attacks
Trump appointees approve two major pipelines to transport fracked gas
Source: Think Progress
Federal regulators approved two major natural gas pipelines that would transport fracked gas through Virginia, although one of the agency’s commissioners issued a surprise vote against construction of both pipelines.
President Donald Trump’s two appointees to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) voted late Friday to approve both the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The lone Democrat on the commission, Cheryl LaFleur, issued a written dissent, saying she could not support the projects “given the environmental impacts and possible superior alternatives.”
The federal agency’s approval of the pipeline projects was expected all along the review process. FERC has rejected only a tiny number of natural gas infrastructure applications over the past few decades.
Earlier this year, FERC issued favorable environmental reviews for both pipelines. Commission Chairman Neil Chatterjee and Commissioner Robert Powelson — Republican nominees confirmed to FERC this past summer — agreed with those reviews in voting to approve the two pipeline projects.
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/ferc-commissioner-dissents-33ed185fed9d/
I just wonder what Mitch and his fascists "boys" would do if someone decided to put a pipe in there yard, that could kill them
Trumps Commerce Secretary Left More Than $2 Billion Off Of His Financial Disclosure Report
Source: uproxx
Before Wilbur Ross was confirmed by the U.S. Senate with a vote of 72 to 27, the newly appointed commerce secretary told his committee inquirers, “I intend to be quite scrupulous about recusal and any topic where there is the slightest scintilla of doubt.” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) briefly protested the confirmation, telling his colleagues White House’s refusal to release some of Ross’ written answers to the Senate’s questionnaire was troubling. Even so, the matter was altogether forgotten in the ensuing rush of administrative scandals… until Forbes dug a little deeper into the secretary’s hidden finances.
As it turns out, Ross “[left] more than $2 billion off of his financial disclosure report — and therefore out of the public eye” when he answered the Senate’s questionnaire and filed his paperwork in early 2017. And to make matters worse, the commerce secretary only revealed the existence of the missing assets to Forbes when the magazine asked him why the previously reported numbers didn’t match up with what “he had previously told the magazine he owned”:
Read more: http://uproxx.com/news/wilbur-ross-left-2-billion-off-financial-disclosure-report/
And to what Forbes reported on this issue:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/10/16/the-mystery-of-wilbur-ross-missing-billions/#2d1e82bd1c90
This should mean that this individual should be brought back before the committee and explain himself, in my opinion all of his money goes back through the Bank of Cyprus....................
After Trump threatens the press, senator asks FCC to affirm free speech
Raising an alarm over Donald Trump’s repeated attacks last week on free speech protections, a Democratic senator is demanding that board members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) individually affirm their commitment to first amendment rights.
Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut planned to release a letter on Monday in which he calls on the five-member FCC board of commissioners to declare their personal support for free speech, the Associated Press reported.
Echoing Blumenthal’s concerns, one member of the commission obliquely criticized FCC chairman Ajit Pai’s failure to speak out against Trump’s attacks.
“I can’t really speak to what he is thinking,” Jessica Rosenworcel told CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday. “But I do think that history won’t be kind to silence.”
Following what he perceived as tendentious news coverage last week on NBC News, Trump suggested to reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday that free speech protections should come under review.
“It is frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write and people should look into it,” Trump said.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/oct/15/after-trump-threatens-the-press-senator-asks-fcc-to-affirm-free-speech
Hey trump, your an illegitimate president and "You are not my president"
Your a loser.......................bigly
FCC Commissioner Slams Trumps Tweet Threatening NBC: We Have to Honor the First Amendment
Below is the full report
The sexual predator is an asshole and he really really is dangerous
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