January 11, 2018


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“THIS IS A DEVELOPING STORY. PLEASE CHECK BACK SOON.” HERE WE ARE AGAIN WITH ONE OF THOSE UNFORTUNATE CHOICES OF WORDS – “SHITHOLE COUNTRIES.” MAYBE IT’S JUST BECAUSE THE WEATHER IS GRAY AND I HEAR THUNDER, BUT THAT MAKES ME FEEL A LITTLE LIKE CRYING. WHEN WILL THIS STOP?

I THINK I MAY HAVE ACTUALLY FOUND THE ORIGIN OF HIS VERY COLORFUL LANGUAGE. HE’S FOLLOWING SUIT AND NOT THE LEAD ABUSER THIS TIME. (IT’S STILL NOT RECOMMENDED DIPLOMATIC SPEECH, HOWEVER.) GO TO THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SEE WHAT I MEAN – FASCINATING AS THIS IS, THE DISGUSTING SITE WHICH I HAD JUST FOUND AND MENTIONED HERE IS ALREADY GONE. DID GOOGLE REMOVE IT, PERHAPS? GOOGLING SHITHOLE INDEX PRODUCED ANOTHER VERSION, HOWEVER, WHICH IS STILL UP. THE BASIC EREPUBLIK.COM PAGE IS STILL THERE,ALSO. IT’S A BUNCH OF HOOEY, LIKE MOST OF THOSE INTERNET GAME, SPOOF AND HOAX SITES, IN CASE YOU WANT TO LOOK AT IT. IT IS SOMEWHAT HUMOROUS. THE WRITER, “APRONCHEF,” STATES THAT THE WEBSITE ORIGINATES IN THE UK, THOUGH THERE ARE AT LEAST FIVE PAGES UNDER DIFFERENT LANGUAGES, INCLUDING RUSSIAN AND SPANISH.
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-shithole-index-the-shithole-index-of-euk-cp-candidates-march-2013--2221903/1/20

IT IS MOCK LIST OF STATISTICS SHOWING WHICH NATIONS ARE THE WORST IN THE EYES OF THOSE TROLLISH PEOPLE WHO ARE APPARENTLY BEHIND THIS PAGE. IT’S A GAME OF “STRATEGY,” IT SAYS. LOOKS MORE LIKE A TIME WASTER TO ME. THIS IS CLEARLY THE ONLY THING THEY HAVE TO KEEP THEIR MIND ACTIVE. THEY SHOULD TRY READING A GOOD BOOK.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-slams-protections-immigrants-apos-220242865.html
Trump Slams Protections For Immigrants From 'Shithole' Countries: Reports
HuffPost Jesselyn Cook,HuffPost 2 hours 24 minutes ago
January 11, 2018

Photograph -- In a meeting with lawmakers on Thursday, President Donald Trump slammed the idea of restoring protections for immigrants from “shithole” countries, sources told The Washington Post and NBC News

In an Oval Office meeting with lawmakers on Thursday, President Donald Trump slammed the idea of restoring protections for immigrants from “shithole” countries, sources told The Washington Post and NBC News.

“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” the president reportedly asked, by which he was referring to African nations and Haiti, the Post’s sources said.


White House principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah responded in a statement to CBS News on Thursday afternoon, saying, “Certain Washington politicians choose to fight for foreign countries, but President Trump will always fight for the American people.”

The president “will always reject temporary, weak and dangerous stopgap measures that threaten the lives of hardworking Americans, and undercut immigrants who seek a better life in the United States through a legal pathway,” Raj added.

The statement did not directly address the reported “shithole” remark.

This is a developing story. Please check back soon.

This article originally appeared on HuffPost.


GO, DIANNE!! TAKE CARE, THOUGH. TRUMP WANTS HIS PEOPLE TO “TAKE CONTROL.” EARLIER IN THE YEAR I WOULD WORRY ABOUT SUCH STATEMENTS, BUT THAT’S JUST CLASSIC “TRUMPSPEAK.” “MY NUCLEAR BUTTON IS BIGGER THAN YOURS.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-slams-sneaky-dianne-feinstein-releasing-testimony-russian-dossier-probe-173501773.html
Trump slams 'Sneaky' Dianne Feinstein for releasing testimony in Russian dossier probe
Dylan Stableford, Yahoo News • January 10, 2018

President Trump on Wednesday denounced Sen. Dianne Feinstein for releasing the transcript of an interview of a key witness in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign — and in the process coined a new nickname for the California Democrat, the committee’s ranking minority member.

“The fact that Sneaky Dianne Feinstein, who has on numerous occasions stated that collusion between Trump/Russia has not been found, would release testimony in such an underhanded and possibly illegal way, totally without authorization, is a disgrace,” Trump tweeted on Wednesday morning, adding that he would like to see her face a primary challenge in 2018. “Must have tough Primary!”


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The fact that Sneaky Dianne Feinstein, who has on numerous occasions stated that collusion between Trump/Russia has not been found, would release testimony in such an underhanded and possibly illegal way, totally without authorization, is a disgrace. Must have tough Primary!

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On Tuesday, Feinstein’s office released the unclassified, 312-page transcript of the interview last August by Judiciary Committee staffers with Glenn Simpson, a founder of the research firm Fusion GPS, which was retained by the Clinton campaign to do opposition research on Trump.

Fusion hired Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer, who in turn produced the controversial dossier containing allegations of collusion with the Russian government, along with unsubstantiated claims about the Kremlin’s efforts to collect compromising information about Trump personally.

Congressional Republicans and the Trump campaign have tried to discredit the dossier as a partisan effort cooked up by the Clinton campaign. Although it contained no bombshells, Simpson’s testimony indicates that Steele was so troubled by what he found that he contacted the FBI to alert it to what he considered a possible crime.

The Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Sen. Charles Grassley, has resisted calls to release the transcript, so Feinstein did it on her own.

Grassley called the release “disappointing” and his office put out a statement saying it “undermines the integrity of the committee’s oversight work and jeopardizes its ability to secure candid voluntary testimony.”

It is unclear what laws Feinstein might have broken or what Trump meant by calling the release “possibly illegal.” At around the same time as the documents went out to the public, Feinstein was one of a bipartisan group of legislators taking part in a cordial meeting with Trump to discuss immigration policy.

Photograph -- President Trump holds a bipartisan meeting with legislators on immigration reform at the White House on Tuesday. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

In the interview, Simpson was asked if he had taken steps “assess the credibility” of the sources for Steele’s dossier, but he declined to discuss “sourcing information.” When pressed by the committee, Simpson’s lawyer Joshua Levy suggested it would be dangerous to do so.

“Somebody’s already been killed as a result of the publication of this dossier,” Levy said. “And no harm should come to anybody related to this honest work.”

Trump has repeatedly called the investigations into his campaign’s possible collusion with Russia a “witch hunt” orchestrated by Democrats looking to undermine his presidency. He did so again in a tweet Wednesday while appearing to suggest the GOP ought to help him move past the probes.

“The single greatest Witch Hunt in American history continues,” the president tweeted. “There was no collusion, everybody including the Dems knows there was no collusion, & yet on and on it goes. Russia & the world is laughing at the stupidity they are witnessing. Republicans should finally take control!”


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The single greatest Witch Hunt in American history continues. There was no collusion, everybody including the Dems knows there was no collusion, & yet on and on it goes. Russia & the world is laughing at the stupidity they are witnessing. Republicans should finally take control!

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Feinstein has never ruled out the possibility of finding collusion between the campaign and Russians, although she said last month that Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is overseeing a separate federal probe, seems to be focusing on building “a case of obstruction of justice” against Trump for his firing of FBI Director James Comey.

“It is my belief that that is directly because he did not agree to lift the cloud of the Russia investigation,” Feinstein said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Dec. 3. “That’s obstruction of justice.”

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THE GIST OF THIS ARTICLE SEEMS TO BE THAT THE 25TH AMENDMENT HAS NEVER BEEN USED AT LEAST SUCCESSFULLY, AND HAS TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES. NONETHELESS, WE NEED SOMETHING FOR A SITUATION LIKE THIS ONE. PERSONALLY, I’M FOR THE BRITISH WAY OF HOLDING “A VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE.” THAT COULD TRIGGER A NEW ELECTION, RATHER THAN ROLLING THE POSITION OVER TO THE VICE PRESIDENT PENCE. I DON’T LIKE HIM, EITHER. IN THE MONTHS BEFORE TRUMP PICKED HIM AS RUNNING MATE, THERE WERE SOME NEWS ARTICLES ABOUT PENCE MAKING ANTI-FEMINIST MOVES.

IN ONE, HE TRIED AND MAYBE SUCCEEDED IN SETTING UP A LAW WHICH WOULD MAKE CERTAIN ABORTIONS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE BY CHANGING THE TIMING OF THE EVENT TO AN EARLIER DATE. THE RESULT WAS STRANGE AND TERRIBLE. WOMEN COULD BE TRIED FOR HAVING A NATURAL MISCARRIAGE AND HAVE TO PROVE THAT THEY DIDN’T CAUSE IT PURPOSELY. WHY ARE SOME MEN SO INTERESTED IN ALL THAT, ANYWAY? A WOMAN SHOULDN’T BE PROSECUTED FOR A “CRIME” WHOSE VERY EXISTENCE IS UNPROVEN AND UNPROVABLE. IS THAT “HABEAS CORPUS? IN MY DAY, PEOPLE WOULD WITH SINCERE SYMPATHY SIMPLY SAY, THAT THE WOMAN “LOST HER BABY.”

SPONTANEOUS ABORTIONS ARE NOT UNCOMMON AT ALL. THERE WAS A TEENAGED GIRL IN ONE OF THOSE ARTICLES WHO WAS HARASSED HORRIBLY OVER A SPONTANEOUS ABORTION THAT HAPPENED IN THE GIRLS’ BATHROOM. SHE WAS NO OLDER THAN 15 OR SO. THEY MADE A PUBLIC ORDEAL OVER IT. STATES HAVE BEEN MAKING MORE AND MORE RIGID ABORTION LAWS, THOUGH IT ISN’T A FEDERAL CRIMINAL OFFENSE, SO WHY SHOULD THE STATES BE ALLOWED TO DO THAT?

https://www.google.com/search?q=habeas+corpus+meaning&oq=HABEAS+CORPUS+&aqs=chrome.4.69i57j0l5.8761j1j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 -- A WRIT REQUIRING A PERSON UNDER ARREST TO BE BROUGHT BEFORE A JUDGE OR INTO COURT, ESPECIALLY TO SECURE THE PERSON'S RELEASE UNLESS LAWFUL GROUNDS ARE SHOWN FOR THEIR DETENTION. THE LEGAL RIGHT TO APPLY FOR A HABEAS CORPUS.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-the-25th-amendment-wont-be-used-to-remove-trump/
CBS NEWS January 11, 2018, 5:59 AM
Why the 25th Amendment won't be used to remove Trump

Why are we talking about the 25th Amendment?

Well, if we're being specific, what we're talking about is Article 4 of the 25th Amendment. The Article, which has never been used, spells out how a president can be removed from office if he is "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office."

Aside from being used at a plot point on the Fox show "24" in the mid-aughts, Article 4 was an obscure section of an obscure amendment before President Trump was elected. Since then, a number of pundits – perhaps most notably Ross Douthat at The New York Times – have suggested that it be used to remove Mr. Trump from office.

Now, thanks to author Michael Wolff, whose recently published "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" has rocketed to the top of bestseller lists, we're talking about Article 4 once again. Wolff said on NBC's "Meet the Press" over the weekend that talk of using the amendment to remove Mr. Trump is a concept that is "alive every day in the White House," with administration staffers talking regularly about its implementation behind closed doors.

Mr. Trump, for one, has dismissed "Fire and Fury" as a "Fake Book, written by a totally discredited author," while the White House has called it "fiction." Outside the administration, a number of reviewers have taken issue with the book's apparent sloppiness with the facts. But here we are, talking about the 25th Amendment anyway.

I’ve had to put up with the Fake News from the first day I announced that I would be running for President. Now I have to put up with a Fake Book, written by a totally discredited author. Ronald Reagan had the same problem and handled it well. So will I!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 7, 2018
So how does this "removing the president from office" thing work?

Article II, Section I, Clause 6 of the Constitution mentions the vice president taking charge in the case of presidential "disability." However, the Constitution didn't get into what that disability might look like and how the president would be replaced, or rather it didn't until 1967, when the 25th Amendment was passed.

According to Article 4 of the amendment, the vice president can get together with a majority of the Cabinet to inform Congress that the president is incapacitated. Should that happen, the vice president would become "acting president" – so long as the president doesn't object.

If the president thinks that he's able to discharge the duties of the office, then the vice president and the cabinet have four days to tell Congress that he's wrong. Then Congress has 21 days to decide whether the president can do the job. If they decide he cannot, then two-thirds of both chambers have to vote to make the vice president the acting president.

That sounds like a hard thing to do?

Yes, and it's hard by design. The drafters of the 25th Amendment didn't want it as an excuse for the cabinet to starting ordering coups, after all, so it's an enormously difficult process, particularly when issues like mental health are involved.

Mr. Trump's detractors frequently call him "crazy" or "senile." But it's one thing to say that, and quite another to try and prove it before Congress. Yes, Mr. Trump is colorful, and his Twitter feed is at times shocking, but you're going to need a lot more than that to prove he's mentally unfit for the presidency.

"How do you demonstrate someone is psychologically unsound?" Robert Gilbert, a professor at Northeastern University and an authority on the 25th Amendment, told CBS News last year. This is still an open question, and unless Mr. Trump submits to a thorough examination by a team of unbiased mental health professionals, it's not one with an easy answer.

Wouldn't impeachment be easier, anyway?

Well, if you have two-thirds of both chambers voting that Mr. Trump is mentally unwell, you'd think you could muster the votes for impeachment. Also, an impeachment doesn't require a two-thirds majority in the House (although it does in the Senate), or for the cabinet and the vice president to sign off on it. There are fewer hurdles in that regard.

However, given that impeachment proceedings can easily drag on for years, while Article 4 spells out a narrow timeframe for action, one could argue that the 25th Amendment approach is almost certain to be quicker.

Which is more likely to remove Mr. Trump from office – the 25th Amendment or impeachment?

The cute answer here is "neither," as both are unlikely. But it's hard to state just how improbable it is that Mr. Trump would ever be removed via the 25th Amendment. For one thing, as mentioned earlier, it's never been done before. For another, since there's no easy and definitive way to "prove" that a president is too mentally unsound for the job, using the amendment will almost certainly look like a coup attempt to Mr. Trump's supporters.

If that doesn't seem like a big deal to you – who cares what they think? you might be muttering to yourself – think of what precedent that would set, and what damage it could do to the country. Americans' faith in the electoral system is flimsy enough already, and nobody should want to leave a third of the country convinced that their man was forced from office by what amounted to a kangaroo court.

What if I really don't like Mr. Trump because I think he's crazy and dangerous?

Well, then you have two real options once you've abandoned the 25th Amendment fantasy. The first is impeachment, which will suddenly look a lot more plausible if there are extraordinary Democratic gains in 2018.

The second, and better option is voting him out in 2020.



I DO HAVE LOTS OF SYMPATHY WITH THE DACA YOUNG PEOPLE. THEY HAD NO CONTROL OVER WHETHER OR NOT TO COME HUNDREDS OF MILES OVERLAND TO A FOREIGN COUNTRY, AND THEY WEREN’T LAWYERS. NOW, TO BE RIPPED OUT FROM THEIR UPBRINGING IN THE US AND PUSHED OUT LIKE THIS IS DESPICABLE TO ME. TO GIVE HIM CREDIT, HE IS AT LEAST TALKING ABOUT REWRITING IT AS A LAW. I HOPE THAT DOES HAPPEN. LOOK AT THIS INTERVIEW ABOUT THEIR FEELINGS AND FEARS.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/daca-dreamers-medical-students-uncertain-future-loyola-university/
CBS NEWS January 11, 2018, 8:09 AM
For Loyola University's DACA medical students, a future in limbo


Loyola University's medical school, located in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, was the first to officially accept undocumented students back in 2014. There are now 32 DACA-status students being trained there. A group of the school's future doctors spoke to CBS News' Adriana Diaz about what it's like to be a the top of their academic game, with no clear future in sight.

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After almost 20 years living in the United States, Cesar Montelongo still worries immigration agents could detain him at any moment.

"Every time I hear footsteps outside my door, like there's a part of me that for a second that thinks, you know, should I open the door?" Montelongo said.

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Three of Loyola University's DACA-status medical students. CBS NEWS
Born in Mexico, but raised in New Mexico, the 28-year-old is the first undocumented immigrant to pursue his M.D. and Ph.D at Loyola University's medical school. But he may never be able to practice legally.

"My biggest fear is that maybe DACA will remain but there will be no way to go beyond DACA, like there will be no pathway to citizenship," Montelongo said.

Twenty-seven-year-old Alejandra Duran Arreola studied chemistry in college in Savannah before becoming one of the Dreamers enrolled there.

"The news reminds you, Twitter reminds you, that at some level you are not welcome here," Arreola said.

"I see the U.S. as my home, my community, my people, my peers," said Belsy Garcia Manrique.

Her mother brought her into the U.S. illegally from Guatemala when she was seven, traveling for two weeks by foot and car.

"I feel like I haven't done anything wrong. I've gone to school, I've gotten good grades, I did community service, and yet that gives me no right in a sense," Manrique said.


President Obama enacted DACA as an executive order in 2012 to protect undocumented immigrants who came here as children. Critics call it an unlawful program that promotes illegal immigration, lacked congressional approval and takes jobs from U.S. citizens.

"If you had someone that yes, they entered the country illegally but it was 20 or 30 years ago and they're a productive member of their community, they're paying taxes….What is the logic behind deporting them outside of just following an arbitrary rule," Montelongo said.

"There's been a lot of back and forth. This is going to happen, then it doesn't happen, then something else happens," Manrique said of whether she believes the president is committed to finding a solution for DACA.

Trump says DACA legislation should be a "bill of love" at W.H. meeting
Although the prospect of deportation is real, Arreola says she's not going back to Mexico.

"If I had to go, I wouldn't go to Mexico. I would go to Europe or to Canada or any other country that wants doctors. It's actually funny how we want to stay here, it's because our families are here, our communities are here. But at the end of the day we're American-trained almost physicians. Any other country would jump up to take any of us," she said.

Without DACA, there is no clear path for these students to complete their training, repay their loans, or practice medicine.

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THERE WAS A VERY INTERESTING PSYCHIATRIC CENTER PROGRAM SHOWN IN A DISCOVERY CHANNEL OR PBS SHOW OF SEXUAL PREDATORS TALKING IN GROUP THERAPY, WHERE SUCH MEN WERE SHOWN LEARNING TO EXAMINE THEIR IMPULSES, THEIR GUILT OR THEIR DEPERSONALIZATION OF THEIR USUALLY FEMALE "PREY." I DO BELIEVE IN TALK THERAPY, ESPECIALLY FOR DEEPLY ROOTED ILLNESS, AS I THINK ALL OF THOSE SEXUAL “DISORDERS” ARE. THEY START IN CHILDHOOD, AND GROW IN DARKNESS. I HAVE DONE A LITTLE GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL TALK THERAPY, AND IT REALLY IS A VERY FREEING THING. PEOPLE WHO HAVE SEVERE DEPRESSIONS OR OTHER DEBILITATING PROBLEMS OF THAT SORT NEED, AT LEAST FOR A PERIOD OF TIME, MORE THAN MERE MEDICAL TREATMENTS.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mens-role-in-sexual-harassment-conversation-bystander-training-jackson-katz/
CBS NEWS January 11, 2018, 3:05 PM
Why men need to talk about sexual harassment: "They're actually men's issues"

The topic of sexual harassment dominated Sunday's Golden Globe Awards as women wore black dresses in solidarity with victims, donned "Time's Up" pins and addressed the issue in acceptance speeches. What was noticeably missing from the event were the voices of men.

The #MeToo movement has shed light on the pervasiveness of harassment, but also highlighted the role that men need to play in the conversation.

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For decades, author and educator Jackson Katz has called on men to do just that. Katz, the founder and president of MVP Strategies, provides sexual harassment and violence training for several sports teams and the military. He also gave a TED Talk titled "Violence against women – it's a men's issue."

Katz joined "CBS This Morning" to discuss what men can do to change the social norms and why it's so crucial for men to speak out on the topic.

"It was an incredible historical and cultural moment…. Yet all the men who came up to get awards and present didn't say anything," Katz said of the Golden Globes. "I think a lot of men don't know what to say. I think a lot of men haven't ever heard other men say this, so they haven't seen it modeled. I think a lot of men are afraid of stepping in it."


Historically, people perceive sexual harassment and domestic violence as women's issues. Katz contends that you have to begin with that perception to effect real change.

"Until men stand with women as their partners and allies in this work, we're only going to be cleaning up after the fact," he said. "If we can change the social norms in male culture that allow this behavior to go on, you're going to see a significant diminution. 'Cause it's not about individual sick men who are doing this. A lot of the men who are committing these acts of abuse or harassment are otherwise normal men."

Which begs the question: what do we consider "normal" expectations for men in our society?

"It's not just crazy individuals but actually much broader than that. Then it implicates the various institutions of the society that shape what we expect from men and boys," Katz said.

Part of Katz's prescription is something he calls bystander training. It aims to move beyond just the categories of perpetrators and victims.

"Instead of focusing on men as perps and women as victims – or women as perpetrators and men as victims, or any combination – it focuses on everybody in a given peer culture as what we call a bystander, which is a friend, a teammate, a classmate, a colleague, a co-worker," he explained.

The training focuses on strategies to stop the behavior in its tracks.

"It's giving people tools to challenge and interrupt abusive behavior when they see it. And not just at the point of attack," he said. "You're a guy and you're hanging out with a group of guys and there are no women in the room and one or two of the guys start making sexist and degrading comments about girls or women. Instead of laughing along or being silent in the face of that, it's interrupting that by saying, 'Hey, that's not funny, man.'"

Katz says likens it to a group of white people where one or two make racist comments but nobody speaks up.

"If you don't challenge them on that, in a sense your silence is a form of consent and complicity."

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THE FOLLOWING SEVERAL ARTICLES ARE TODAY’S FOLLOWUP ON THE FRANKLY SHOCKING EPISODE LAST WEEK OF A SCHOOLTEACHER IN A SCHOOL BOARD MEETING QUESTIONING ALOUD WHY THE SUPERINTENDENT VOTED HIMSELF A $38,000 A YEAR RAISE AFTER DENYING ANY RAISES AT ALL FOR TEACHERS AND OTHER STAFF – WHEN THEY HAVE HAD NONE OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS. ANYBODY WILL ADMIT THAT IT’S A LONG DRY STRETCH WITHOUT SUFFICIENT MONEY. THE AVERAGE TEACHER IN THAT SCHOOL DISTRICT MAKES ONLY $49,000. WATCH THE VIDEO TO SEE THE SUPERINTENDENT CRY AS HE APOLOGIZES. I THINK IT’S GENUINE REPENTANCE, THOUGH, RATHER THAN MERELY FEAR OF RETRIBUTION OR LOSING HIS JOB. THE ARTICLE SAYS THAT SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS HAVE HAD A NUMBER OF THREATS. THE SCHOOLS ARE MUCH TOO IMPORTANT FOR THIS KIND OF THING.

THE TEACHER WAS REMOVED FROM THE ASSEMBLY AND FORCIBLY ARRESTED. SHE WAS APPARENTLY A LITTLE LOUD AND HEATED, OR AT LEAST TOO DIRECT – NO BEGGING FROM HER. THE PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HER WAS APPARENTLY OVERWHELMING. THERE ARE SEVERAL PROBLEMS –THE ARREST WAS A TRUE “TAKEDOWN”; LEBEOUF STATED THAT NO MAN HAS EVER BEEN REMOVED FROM THE BOARDROOM DURING HER TENURE ON THE BOARD FOR SPEAKING HIS OPINIONS; AND THERE ARE TOO MANY ORDINARY CITIZENS AROUND THIS COUNTRY WHO HAVE TROUBLE PAYING THEIR OWN BILLS. RAISES ARE NECESSARY. EXPENSES DO GO UP WHETHER PAY DOES OR NOT. THE PEOPLE HAD A NATURAL SYMPATHY FOR HER INSTEAD OF FOR THE OVERCONFIDENT SUPERINTENDENT AND BOARD PRESIDENT. HE SAYS NOW THAT A NEW BUDGET WILL BE PRESENTED IN A FEW MONTHS WITH RAISES – HOPEFULLY ALL AROUND.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vermilion-louisiana-superintendent-jerome-puyau-speaks-out-after-arrest-of-teacher/
CBS NEWS January 11, 2018, 8:00 AM
Superintendent challenged over pay raise says he "should have stood up" for teacher

SEE VIDEO -- THE CBS NEWS INTERVIEW WITH SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER LAURA LEBEOUF, WHO PUTS IT DOWN TO DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN.

A Louisiana school superintendent is speaking out about the controversial arrest of one of his teachers. Deyshia Hargrave was taken into custody Monday after questioning the superintendent's pay raise at a board meeting. The former teacher of the year was arrested, but will not be prosecuted.

Vermilion Parish Superintendent Jerome Puyau told CBS News' David Begnaud there are things he wishes he did differently at Monday night's board meeting. He vows the district will learn from this incident, but says the backlash has taken a toll on him and his family.

"I hated what happened," Puyau said.

The superintendent said he and his staff have been receiving threats ever since Hargrave's arrest.

"Twenty-eight years of my life is dedicated to the students of this community it's so hard to see this negative. It's tough," he said.

The turmoil began at a school board meeting Monday night, when Hargrave questioned why the superintendent was slated to get a roughly $30,000 raise.

"At the top – that's not where kids learn. It's in the classrooms," Hargrave said during the meeting.

The board president ruled Hargrave out of order after she tried to speak for a second time. A deputy city marshal told her to leave and she complied. Then she was forcibly arrested outside in the hall.

Hargrave released a video Wednesday saying she hopes people aren't afraid to speak out after seeing what happened to her.

Puyau's new contract bumps his yearly salary from $110,000 to roughly $140,000 – still less than average for superintendents in Louisiana. Teachers in the district also make less than the state average, and they haven't had a raise in a decade.

"Within the next few months we're going to be bringing to the board a plan where we can bring a raise," Puyau said.

While emotional over the backlash, Puyau says he doesn't blame the deputy marshal who arrested Hargrave.

"I'm the superintendent, I'm to blame," he said. "I should have stood up, okay? That's what you want to hear and it's the truth, I should have stood up….Let her speak."

Puyau said no one on the board directed the city marshal to escort Hargrave out. The marshal was contracted to work security at the meeting, but Puyau said they don't plan on having him again. He also noted the deputy is a well-liked school resource officer at one of the district middle schools, and does not plan on firing him. CBS News has reached out to the marshal but has not heard back.

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THERE ARE A NUMBER OF SERIOUS PROBLEMS HERE – THE TESTING IS LESS THAN ACCURATE, BUT WHAT WORRIES ME MOST IS THAT THE CAUSE OF SUCH A HIGH PERCENTAGE OF LEAD CASES FOR ONE CITY MIGHT BE SOME COMMUNITY SOURCE AS IN FLINT MICHIGAN, RATHER THAN SIMPLY OLD HOUSES OR TOYS. ONE OF THE KIDS HAD A DANGEROUSLY HIGH BLOOD READING, THE ARTICLE STATES, AND OVER A PERIOD OF TIME WHEN HE WAS MONITORED REGULARLY THE READING KEPT RISING. THOSE NORTHERN CITIES SEEM TO BE HEAVILY INDUSTRIALIZED, AND THAT OFTEN MEANS THAT FACTORIES ARE DUMPING BAD STUFF INTO LOCAL WATER SOURCES, EVEN THOUGH IT’S USUALLY ILLEGAL. I WONDER IF THEY ARE LOOKING INTO THAT.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/01/11/recall-faulty-lead-poisoning-test-means-kids-need-retested/1023681001/?csp=chromepush
Recall of faulty lead poisoning test means kids need to be retested
USA TODAY NETWORK Carrie Blackmore Smith and Hannah Sparling, The Cincinnati Enquirer
Published 9:48 a.m. ET Jan. 11, 2018

Photograph -- Hudson, 17 months, plays with his toys while his mother, Mariah Roseberry, answers questions about lead poisoning risk factors in her home in the Price Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018. Hudson tested at a blood lead level of 5.4. No level of lead is safe, but medical professionals consider anything higher than 5 to be lead poisoning.
(Photo: Sam Greene/The Enquirer) (Photo: Sam Greene/The Enquirer)

There's a chance that tests given to millions of kids since 2014 to detect lead poisoning didn't work properly, delivering falsely low results to an unknown number of American families.

As many as 7 million tests performed on children over the course of the three years could have been wrong, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The manufacturer of the tests in question, however, is confident the number is millions lower.

Parents may not realize that routine visits to the pediatrician should include a blood test to screen their child for lead. Among the barrage of questions about a baby's development, physical exams, updates on shots and other tests, it can get glossed over – particularly if the test comes back negative.

Although lead has been banned from products such as gasoline and paint for decades, it's possible for any child to become lead poisoned so the CDC recommends testing early in life.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recalled the faulty tests in May, and eight months later, it's still uncertain what went wrong. Health professionals and families are still dealing with the fallout, which some worry hurt trust in the screenings and could result in fewer parents testing their children.

Read more: What is lead, and why is it bad?

The CDC advised that some children thought to be healthy should be rescreened for lead.

But Dr. Nicholas Newman, head of the Environmental Health and Lead Clinic at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, goes even further.

Doctors have expressed their confusion over whether a patient is affected by the recall, Newman said, so he is urging anyone under the age of 6 be rescreened. Parents can get them done at pediatricians' offices and community health clinics.

"Any kid coming in for anything – a snotty nose – we retest them," said Newman, whose clinic is one of 11 units in a national network of clinics specializing in environmental health.

"We thought we were identifying kids," he said. "It looks like maybe we weren't."

The testing systems in question are manufactured by Massachusetts-based Magellan Diagnostics, which is owned by suburban Cincinnati-based Meridian Bioscience Inc.

Amy Winslow, Magellan's president and CEO, said the company is working with federal regulators and is committed to fixing the problem.

In an October news release, Donald St. Pierre, an FDA director, said American families depend on these tests and FDA has "serious concerns" about Magellan Diagnostics' actions.

"The evidence uncovered during the inspection (of Magellan's plant) shows that the company put patients at risk after it recognized that its tests could provide inaccurate results and failed to take appropriate steps to report this issue," Pierre said.

Read more: How to protect your child from lead poisoning

Winslow said the recall only applies to a fraction of the tests the company manufactures, and the Magellan systems are still essential to help identify kids and pregnant women who are lead poisoned.

She hopes this situation will increase awareness, leading more parents to test their children for lead.

But Dr. Jennifer Lowry, chair of environmental health for the American Academy of Pediatrics, is afraid the opposite may occur. The number of children being tested for lead nationwide is already dropping, and Lowry fears this recall will exacerbate the problem.

"If the physician's office thinks it is not accurate, then they might not do the screening there," she said. "They might refer the family elsewhere, and many people won't go."

Trust has been lost, Lowry said, because in addition to the tests being faulty, the FDA found that Magellan may have broken federal laws on how to handle and report complaints of inaccurate tests.

"I think that's the bigger problem, the trust issue," Lowry said.

Recall involves three years of lead tests
Wilson Hardy, who will be 2 in February, is photographed

Photograph -- Wilson Hardy, who will be 2 in February, is photographed with his mom, Shar Allen Hardy. Wilson's doctors believe lead poisoning stunted his growth. Ultimately, when they couldn't pinpoint a source of the poison, Wilson's family had to move. Once they did, his condition started improving. (Photo: Liz Dufour/The Enquirer)

From 2014 to the early parts of 2017, this is what happened when parents across America took their children to get lead tests: Often, the first test was a finger stick, known as a capillary test, and parents left with results in hand. If those results were greater than 5 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood, the national standard would be to confirm the first test with a second sample taken from a vein.

It was the confirmation tests, or any venous test, that could have been inaccurate if they were conducted on one of Magellan's LeadCare systems. This prompted the CDC to recommend that children who had had a previous venous test that scored 10 or lower on a LeadCare system be rescreened.

"Across the country, it’s been millions of kids," said Cincinnati Children's Newman.

This matters, because lead can be disastrous for children. A child ingests lead, and it gets into his or her bloodstream. Then, it gets into the brain, and it can cause all sorts of health issues. Stunted growth. Slurred or delayed speech. Violent behavior. And, rarely, in the most serious cases, death.

Wilson Hardy, who will be two in February, is photographed

Photograph -- Wilson Hardy, who will be two in February, is photographed at his grandfather's home in Alexandria, KY where the family is living since their property in South Fairmount was tested for high levels of lead. Before moving away from the area, Wilson tested 19 for lead levels. His mom, Shar, said he's small for his age, but otherwise is on par for his age. (Photo: Liz Dufour/The Enquirer)

For parents, lead poisoning and its unknowns are terrifying, said Cincinnati mom Shar Allen Hardy, whose nearly 2-year-old son, Wilson, is lead poisoned.

Wilson is in the third percentile for height and weight in his age group and just recently began fitting into clothes for children half his age. He started walking late.

Doctors started monitoring Wilson's blood-lead levels. Despite his parents doing everything they could, including moving into an RV outside their home, Wilson's blood-lead levels continued to climb.

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Ultimately, he and his parents had to leave their city home and move to a rural location.

Lead can come from so many places – old paint, plastic toys, blinds, purse handles, jewelry, car keys, tools, dirt – that it can be overwhelming for parents trying to pinpoint a cause.

"You go home and you Google, and you have a heart attack,” Hardy said. “You’re looking around going, ‘This is killing my kid.’"

No cause of failure pinpointed

Photograph --Mother of two, Mariah Roseberry holds her son, Hudson, 17 months, as she answers questions about lead poisoning risk factors in her home in the Price Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018. Hudson tested at a blood lead level of 5.4. Medical professionals consider anything higher than 5.0 to be lead poisoning. (Photo: Sam Greene/The Enquirer)

While Cincinnati has taken to retesting every child under 6, an investigation continues into why the tests failed in the first place.

Magellan believes it may have narrowed the cause to a chemical in some blood sample tubes. Winslow, who has led the company for six years, said they are still exploring all possibilities.

"It's an incredibly complicated system," said Winslow, who believes a root cause will be determined by March.

One major caveat to this recall is the accuracy of finger-stick tests, which according to the company account for 90% of LeadCare's tests, is not in question.

Winslow calculates the potential impact of the recall at a much lower number than the FDA because the federal agency took into account every single lead test Magellan shipped.

Only about 2 million would have been venous tests, Winslow said, and only a fraction of those would have been wrong.

“It’s a law of percentages and numbers,” she said, “and by the time you slice and dice … you get to a really small number really quickly.”

She and other health professionals, including Kim Dietrich, an expert on lead and a professor of environmental health and epidemiology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, stress that it's imperative for lead testing to continue.

In 2006, LeadCare became the first device capable of providing immediate results to families and doctors. Previously, the wait for results took weeks, Dietrich said, putting treatment on hold and making it harder for doctors to keep track of patients and families.

"These Magellan instruments are still very important and very useful," said Dietrich, who also is a member of the CDC's Board of Scientific Counselors.

In places such as Cincinnati, where older buildings pose a greater risk of lead, Dietrich suspects many lead-poisoned kids haven't been identified.

Complaints began years before recall

Magellan first started getting complaints about false test results in 2014. In 2015, the company filed a report with the FDA, acknowledging the issues but saying it had mitigated the problem. The FDA ultimately disagreed and decided the company had underestimated the number of people at risk.

FDA issued the Class 1 recall, the most serious type, in May 2017. And in October, the FDA sent the company a warning letter, chastising it for how it handled the situation.

The FDA warned that if Magellan failed to fix the problems, the federal agency could take additional actions, "such as seizure, injunction and civil money penalties."

Winslow characterized her company's missteps as more of a procedural oversight.

Photograph -- Cincinnati Health Department inspector Marilyn Goldfeder
Cincinnati Health Department inspector Marilyn Goldfeder takes a height measurement of Hudson Roseberry, 17 months, during a screening for lead poisoning at his home in the Price Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018. Roseberry tested at a blood lead level of 5.4, higher than the 5.0 threshold for lead poisoning. (Photo: Sam Greene/The Enquirer)

"We messed up and we did not file the proper paperwork with the FDA," she said.

Lowry, of the pediatrics academy, sees it as more.

"Magellan, as a company, wasn't upfront about what they were doing," Lowry said. "... At this point, we also don't know what we don't know,"

Retest children now, health officials say

Every health professional The Enquirer spoke with for this story said there is no downside to having kids retested.

In 2010, nearly 4.3 million children were tested for lead, or roughly 18% of kids under 6, according to CDC statistics.

In 2015, 2.4 million kids were tested, roughly 10 percent of those younger than 6, according to the most recently available data.

"I think for the most part, we do a really bad job of preventing lead poisoning," Lowry said.

She and others attribute the drop in testing to a cut in federal money for lead prevention from $29 million in 2012 to $2 million in 2013.

Some of that funding has since been restored, but in Kansas, for example, the state's lead prevention program was eliminated. It has never returned, said Lowry who sees patients from Kansas as chief of toxicology at Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City.

Anecdotally, in Cincinnati, local health officials say it seems the region saw an increase in cases of lead poisoning in 2017, though it's impossible to tie that to the recall.

Officials could not immediately provide statistics to prove it. But people such as Marilyn Goldfeder, a nurse for the city health department for nearly 11 years, said she felt the strain.

Photograph -- Cincinnati Health Department inspector Marilyn Goldfeder
Cincinnati Health Department inspector Marilyn Goldfeder asks mother of two, Mariah Roseberry, about lead poisoning risk factors in her home in the Price Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018. Roseberry's 17-month-old son tested at a blood lead level of 5.4, higher than the 5.0 threshold for lead poisoning. (Photo: Sam Greene/The Enquirer)

Goldfeder conducts home visits for children with lead poisoning. She sits down with parents and tries to figure out the cause.

She'll ask: Does he put toys in his mouth? Does he ever play with car keys or tools? Is any paint in the home chipping?

Goldfeder got so many referrals during a stretch last year she had a backlog of families to visit, which is unusual.

More kids getting tested is the best-case scenario in this situation. Magellan's Winslow hears all the time from people who think that lead poisoning is a thing of the past.

"Unfortunately, there are so many ways in which lead can creep into our environment," she said. "It always makes sense to do another test."


WE JUST HAVE TO MANDATE ENOUGH PSYCHIATRIC TESTING, PERSONAL THERAPY, PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAINING, AND LEGAL TRAINING ABOUT THE RIGHTS OF CITIZENS FOR THESE POLICE OFFICERS. SOME, AND PROBABLY MANY, OF THE ROOKIE POLICE OFFICERS ARE “GUNG HO” ABOUT BEING AN AUTHORITY FIGURE. I MET ONE OF THOSE IN A SECURITY FIRM WHERE I WORKED. HE WAS A SICK PUPPY.

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Texas family sues over patient's death after police confrontation in hospital

A Texas family is alleging that a confrontation between police and one of their relatives in a hospital emergency room involved the use of excessive force, CBS affiliate KHOU-TV reports. The 25-year-old man died after the 2016 incident.

The county coroner's office listed the cause of death as "undetermined."

Manuel De La Cruz's family brought him to the Medical Center of Southeast Texas in Port Arthur in August 2016. He had paranoid schizophrenia and was suffering a bad episode.

"My brother Manuel told me, 'Take me home because the police are going to kill me,'" his sister Ruth said at a press conference.

A member of Manuel De La Cruz's family cries during a press conference about a lawsuit stemming from his death. KHOU-TV

Marco De La Cruz Jr. said it took between five to six hours before his brother was admitted.

Manuel De La Cruz wouldn't take off his clothes to put on a hospital gown, and police became involved, KHOU-TV reports.

According to the family's lawsuit, five officers and a hospital security guard piled on top of him, and he was choked and tased. He didn't move after the incident.

"Taking that boy's pants off became worth using the force of the state against him until he was dead," family attorney Joe House said.

His sister Patricia told the station: "They took him to the hospital to get help, not to come out in a coffin."

The lawsuit was filed against the city of Port Arthur, the Port Arthur Police Department and the hospital. They declined to provide comment to KHOU-TV.

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I SAW A NEWS VIDEO OF THE SAME “DUMPING” SITUATION HAPPENING A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO. I DON’T REMEMBER THE PLACE, BUT AS IN THIS CASE, THE WOMAN WAS HOMELESS AND HAD NO INSURANCE. NO MONEY, NO MEDICAL TREATMENT SEEMS TO BE THE RULE OF THUMB. THAT IS SIMPLY HEARTLESS. REMEMBER THE TIN MAN IN THE WIZARD OF OZ? REMEMBER WHEN HE GOT A HEART AND CRIED, THAT HE RUSTED UP A BIT? PROBABLY OVER HALF OF THE POPULATION IN AMERICA CLAIM TO BE A CHRISTIAN AND YET THINGS LIKE THIS HAPPEN.

INSTEAD OF BEING SO FIXATED ON THE THEORETICAL INTRICACIES OF WHAT IT TAKES TO GET INTO HEAVEN ON JUDGMENT DAY, THEY NEED TO DO THE BASIC THINGS LIKE MAINTAINING EMPATHY WITH THE NEEDY AND THE MENTALLY ILL. I CAN’T BELIEVE A GOOD GOD WOULD LET THOSE HOSPITAL SECURITY GUARDS INTO HEAVEN AFTER THIS, AND THAT INCLUDES THE WHOLE HOSPITAL STAFF AND MANAGEMENT AND THEIR PARENT COMPANY, ETC. SUE, SUE SUE!!! THANK GOD, AN INTELLIGENT PERSON WITH A HEART (A MUSLIM) CAME ALONG AND GOT HER INTO A WARM PLACE WHERE SHE COULD GET SOME CARE. IT ISN’T PHILOSOPHY THAT MAKES THE CRUCIAL DIFFERENCE. IT’S EMOTION. YES, I’M ARGUING THE WELL-KNOWN MR. SPOCK AND DR. MCCOY DISCUSSION HERE, BECAUSE I THINK IT’S TRUE.

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Jeff Pegues
January 11, 2018 13 hrs ago

BALTIMORE -- Overnight, Imamu Baraka was walking past a Baltimore hospital when he noticed something he says he'll never forget.

The hospital's security guards had just wheeled a patient to a bus stop, and in the freezing temperatures they left her there. The only thing she had on was a hospital gown.

"It's about 30 degrees out here right now," Baraka says in a recording of the encounter. "Are you OK, ma'am? Do you need me to call the police?" he asks.

It's called "patient dumping" and it doesn't just happen in Baltimore. In 2007, "60 Minutes" investigated the practice of removing homeless patients from Los Angeles hospitals and leaving them downtown.

Often the patients are not insured or have other financial issues, but it's unclear if that was the case in Baltimore.

"Come on and sit down," Baraka repeatedly says to the patient in the recording. "I'm going to call and get you some help."

In a statement, the University of Maryland Medical Center said that they "share the shock and disappointment of many who have viewed the video. In the end we clearly failed to fulfill our mission with this patient."

The man who recorded the video called 911, and says medics ended up taking the patient back to the same hospital. Now a review is underway that could lead to personnel action against the hospital employees involved.


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