Tennessee Republican who pressured mistress to have abortion votes to restrict them for other women
Joan Shipps
15 May 2015 at 11:05 ET
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On Wednesday, 242 members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted to outlaw abortions taking place after 20 weeks gestation. Among them, Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN), who has defended his ex-wife having two abortions, and who pressured one of his mistresses to have an abortion after she told him she was pregnant.
“Congressman DesJarlais was proud to vote in favor” of the 20 week abortion ban in Congress this week, Robert Jameson, a spokesperson for the member of Congress, tells the Chattanooga Times Free Press. DesJarlais, a respected physician from Jasper, “has always advocated for pro-life values,” Jameson adds.
Meanwhile, DesJarlais’s website asserts that, “all life should be cherished and protected. [DesJarlais] has received a 100% score by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the oldest and the largest national pro-life organization in the United States.”
Members of the Tennessee and national press have combed through the 675-page court transcript from DesJarlais’ 2001 divorce, and found that he “had sexual relationships with at least two patients, three coworkers, and a drug representative while he was chief of staff at Grandview Medical Center in Jasper, Tenn. During one affair with a female patient, DesJarlais prescribed her drugs, gave her an $875 watch, and bought her a plane ticket to Las Vegas.” One of DesJarlais’ mistresses admitted to the press that she had smoked pot with him, explaining that, “Scott was just a regular guy.” Politico reports that DesJarlais’ ex-wife accused him of pulling out a gun during an argument.
Moreover, DesJarlais admitted in court to pressuring a woman, with whom he was having an affair, and who was 24 years his junior, to have an abortion as well. In court, however, DesJarlais’ lawyer pressed the woman in question to admit she had never been pregnant in the first place.
Stephen Greer, attorney to DesJarlais, asked the sitting congressman’s former mistress, now on the witness stand in a court of law: “You apparently weren’t pregnant, were you?” he asked.
“Yes,” the woman shot back. “I was.”
Reminiscent of a Horatio Alger novel, DesJarlais’ official biography tells a tale of a boy of little means who worked hard, played by rules, and rose quickly through the ranks, armed with little money but a lot of grit and determination. DesJarlais was “raised in rural America, where people value hard work and honesty,” the bio begins.
“Growing up, Scott’s first job was shining shoes for 25 cents per shine,” the narrative continues. “From shining shoes, Scott graduated to washing cars at a local dealership and was later promoted to the parts department – a job he kept while working his way through college.”
According to the bio, DesJarlais got into politics when he noticed his medical patients were sharing less with him about “sports, hunting, and family,” and were increasingly showing up to his office with concerns about “jobs, government spending, and Obamacare.”
Nice addition Guesser, I agree with this one.
Sally Kohn @sallykohn · May 17 A Muslim only has to attack 1 person to be "terrorist." A black man just has to be killed by cops to be "thug." But 9 dead? Uh, "biker gang"
A Muslim only has to attack 1 person to be "terrorist." A black man just has to be killed by cops to be "thug." But 9 dead? Uh, "biker gang"
This has got to be one of the most ridiculously stupid tweets I've seen. Sadly, not surprised Guesser passes it off as some earth shattering social commentary.
A Muslim only has to attack 1 person to be "terrorist." A black man just has to be killed by cops to be "thug." But 9 dead? Uh, "biker gang"
Read this flaming lesbian liberal's comments on Ferguson:
Sally Cohn- a Washington Post columnist and CNN political commentator, has some words of enlightenment for well-meaning but misguided white folk regarding the Ferguson circus and the black contribution to it. So she wrote an explanation for all white people who “somehow feels hopelessly polarized in a racially polarized debate. It doesn’t have to be that way.”
She has the answers that most whites aren’t smart- or guilty enough- to glean.
Cohn says in the Washington Post-
“When black people are protesting in Ferguson and across America, they’re not protesting against white people. Maybe this seems obvious, but it’s worth stating. In fact, in the case of Ferguson, the protests weren’t (primarily) about one white cop. Black communities are ultimately protesting systems of injustice and inequality that structurally help white people while systematically harming black people. Just because you’re white and therefore generally benefit from those systems doesn’t mean you inherently support those systems — or need to defend them. Benefiting from white privilege is automatic. Defending white privilege is a choice.
ut still, in some part of your brain, if you imagine that wouldn’t happen to you even if you were black, it means you believe something other than race is to blame for all those statistics and studies — which can only boil down to some rationalization of inherent superiority on your part. And then you’ve just shown exactly what privilege is and why black folks feel the need to assert their basic humanity. See how easy it is to reinforce white privilege, even unintentionally?”
Read the rest here.
According to Cohn- whites are inherently racist who must actively fight against their inner natures.
Cohn’s white guilt is embarrassingly out of control. Notice Cohn’s line of emotionalism- it can’t be values, attitudes or behaviors that are responsible for success or failure in America. Success and failure are predicated or determined- in the corrupted mind of the guilty white liberal, on race. Anyone who thinks that embracing the requisite values needed to achieve any socio-economic success while staying on the right side of the law means “you believe something other than race is to blame for all those statistics” which is “some rationalization of inherent superiority on your part.”
For libs, it’s always about race. Not values; race.
Cohn actually argues that if anyone thinks that race can be transcended by values- you know, like Rev. Martin Luther King taught- is guilty of “rationalizing superiority.”
Again… the mind of a guilty white liberal.
You don't have to kill anyone to be labeled as a terrorist. You either are or you aren't. The thugs in Baltimore were those who rioted and destroyed property not the one who was killed (although he had been arrested 20 times). As far as the Biker gangs go, it is old town Chicago on two wheels. Gangs are gangs bikes or not. If they kill each other who gives a damn.
uke1:WHY NOT ONE OF THE ‘BLACK LIVES MATTER’ HYPOCRITES GIVES A DAMN ABOUT THIS MURDERED BLACK MAN
Posted by soopermexican on May 19, 2015 at 12:13 PM in Politics | Leave a Comment
SO many of us are sick and tired of seeing “black lives matter” hypocrites pontificating nobly about how burning down a CVS is a good way to protest, and there’s a good reason for it. When it comes to black men like Xavier Arnold, they don’t give a damn.
Why is that? Because his murderers are black too.
Watch below:
More from WSV-TV:
Prosecutors said Xavier Arnold was shot and killed while walking along a bike trail in Kirkwood in 2013.
Wainwright was 14 and Qutravius Palmer was 20 when they attempted to rob Arnold, his girlfriend, Xenia Aims, and friend Ibrahim Sanusi.
Wainwright and Palmer were sentenced Tuesday morning to three life sentences plus 15 years.
Aims testified in the trial, describing the day Arnold was killed.
Aims said Wainwright shot Arnold in the head and took off, with Palmer right behind him.
Wainright said he was just doing what Palmer told him to do.
Palmer said he had nothing to do with the crime.
Aims said Sanusi told her that Palmer did egg Wainwright that day.
“He said, ‘I remember him yelling, “Shoot him, shoot him,'” Aims said.
“Black Lives Matter” hypocrites defend a thug like Mike Brown, saying they can’t wait for the “blameless victim,” but there aren’t marches or big speeches made for the victims like Xavier Arnold, who are good decent people. It doesn’t help push their racist narrative to admit that on average SIXTEEN blacks are killed by other blacks every day in America. If they admitted that, they’d actually have to admit that a large part of the problem is the propensity to violence in black communities.
May God bless Arnold’s mother who raised such a good son, and now is grieving his loss because two pathetic worthless thugs followed the examples praised in rap and gangsta culture that glorify robbery and murder.
Read more: http://therightscoop.com/why-not-on...-about-this-murdered-black-man/#ixzz3abSWeKdY
Posted by soopermexican on May 19, 2015 at 12:13 PM in Politics | Leave a Comment
SO many of us are sick and tired of seeing “black lives matter” hypocrites pontificating nobly about how burning down a CVS is a good way to protest, and there’s a good reason for it. When it comes to black men like Xavier Arnold, they don’t give a damn.
Why is that? Because his murderers are black too.
Watch below:
More from WSV-TV:
Prosecutors said Xavier Arnold was shot and killed while walking along a bike trail in Kirkwood in 2013.
Wainwright was 14 and Qutravius Palmer was 20 when they attempted to rob Arnold, his girlfriend, Xenia Aims, and friend Ibrahim Sanusi.
Wainwright and Palmer were sentenced Tuesday morning to three life sentences plus 15 years.
Aims testified in the trial, describing the day Arnold was killed.
Aims said Wainwright shot Arnold in the head and took off, with Palmer right behind him.
Wainright said he was just doing what Palmer told him to do.
Palmer said he had nothing to do with the crime.
Aims said Sanusi told her that Palmer did egg Wainwright that day.
“He said, ‘I remember him yelling, “Shoot him, shoot him,'” Aims said.
“Black Lives Matter” hypocrites defend a thug like Mike Brown, saying they can’t wait for the “blameless victim,” but there aren’t marches or big speeches made for the victims like Xavier Arnold, who are good decent people. It doesn’t help push their racist narrative to admit that on average SIXTEEN blacks are killed by other blacks every day in America. If they admitted that, they’d actually have to admit that a large part of the problem is the propensity to violence in black communities.
May God bless Arnold’s mother who raised such a good son, and now is grieving his loss because two pathetic worthless thugs followed the examples praised in rap and gangsta culture that glorify robbery and murder.
Read more: http://therightscoop.com/why-not-on...-about-this-murdered-black-man/#ixzz3abSWeKdY
[h=1]THE ARAB MUSLIM SLAVE TRADE OF AFRICANS, THE UNTOLD STORY[/h]
Muslim Arabs hunted, enslaved, tortured and killed ethnic Africans for a millennium. Middle Eastern Muslim Arabs have a history of over 1400 years of human slavery, which even continues today in the Middle East. Arab Muslims controlled, maintained, initiated slavery of ethnic Africans. Islams Arab prophet Muhammad himself brought, kept and sold African slaves.
Sahih Muslim Book 10 Number 3901
Jabir (Allah be pleased with him) reported: There came a slave and pledg- ed allegiance to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) on migration; he (the Holy Prophet) did not know that he was a slave. Then there came his master and demanded him back, whereupon Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: Sell him to me. And he bought him for two black slaves, and he did not afterwards take allegiance from anyone until he had asked him whether he was a slave (or a free man).
Sahih Muslim Book 10 Number 3901
Jabir (Allah be pleased with him) reported: There came a slave and pledg- ed allegiance to Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) on migration; he (the Holy Prophet) did not know that he was a slave. Then there came his master and demanded him back, whereupon Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: Sell him to me. And he bought him for two black slaves, and he did not afterwards take allegiance from anyone until he had asked him whether he was a slave (or a free man).
[ What a complete fucking douche ]
[h=2]President Obama Warns Military About Grave Threat: Climate Change[/h]
“Climate change, especially rising seas, is a threat to our homeland security — our economy, infrastructure, and the safety and health of the American people,” President Obama plans to say at the Coast Guard Academy.
[h=2]President Obama Warns Military About Grave Threat: Climate Change[/h]
“Climate change, especially rising seas, is a threat to our homeland security — our economy, infrastructure, and the safety and health of the American people,” President Obama plans to say at the Coast Guard Academy.[ Liberal fucking insanity at work ]
[h=1]NJ 5th Grader Suspended for Having Nerf Gun ‘Bullet’ in His Pocket[/h] 3809
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[h=2]On May 8, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 5th grader Aarin Moody reached into his pocket to retrieve a “late note” from his mother and a Nerf gun foam “bullet” fell out. Officials at the Atlantic City School District categorized the toy bullet as a “self-constructed weapon” because “it had a toothpick stuck in it.”[/h] As a result, Moody received “a five-day, in-school suspension and a notation on his permanent record stating that he brought a makeshift weapon to school.”
According to Fox News, the 5th grader put toothpicks in the Nerf bullets “so they would stick to the ground when he fired them from his Nerf gun.” Moody said he did not put the toothpicks in to cause mischief.
The 5th grader said, “They want me to like say that I did it on purpose, [that] I put it in my pocket to hurt someone.”
The school initially told Moody’s mom “her son would be expelled.” The school’s weapons policy bars “Anything readily capable of lethal use or inflicting serious bodily injury.”
Moody’s mom said, “her son suffers from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and has suffered in the past from anger management issues.” But she believes her son’s suspension was the result of “a complaint [she filed] against the board claiming harassment issues from a supervisor during her time as a substitute custodian in the district.”
[h=1]NJ 5th Grader Suspended for Having Nerf Gun ‘Bullet’ in His Pocket[/h] 3809
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[h=2]On May 8, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 5th grader Aarin Moody reached into his pocket to retrieve a “late note” from his mother and a Nerf gun foam “bullet” fell out. Officials at the Atlantic City School District categorized the toy bullet as a “self-constructed weapon” because “it had a toothpick stuck in it.”[/h] As a result, Moody received “a five-day, in-school suspension and a notation on his permanent record stating that he brought a makeshift weapon to school.”
According to Fox News, the 5th grader put toothpicks in the Nerf bullets “so they would stick to the ground when he fired them from his Nerf gun.” Moody said he did not put the toothpicks in to cause mischief.
The 5th grader said, “They want me to like say that I did it on purpose, [that] I put it in my pocket to hurt someone.”
The school initially told Moody’s mom “her son would be expelled.” The school’s weapons policy bars “Anything readily capable of lethal use or inflicting serious bodily injury.”
Moody’s mom said, “her son suffers from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and has suffered in the past from anger management issues.” But she believes her son’s suspension was the result of “a complaint [she filed] against the board claiming harassment issues from a supervisor during her time as a substitute custodian in the district.”
[h=2]Report: 10 Union Leaders Make Twice as Much as CEOs[/h]Laborers Union Honcho Makes $670,000
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BY: Bill McMorris
May 20, 2015 11:10 am
Big Labor’s battle against the One Percent does not appear to include 10 union officials who are better paid than the average American CEO, according to a new study released Wednesday.
The Center for Union Facts (CUF), a labor watchdog, identified 162 union presidents that receive compensation packages in excess of the $180,700 average take home pay that business chief executives earn. The report also identifies 10 union presidents—none of whom returned request for comment—who earn more than double that figure.
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 464 President John T. Niccollai was the highest paid union official in 2014, according to federal labor filings. He earned about $575,000 for representing 16,000 grocery store workers in New Jersey. Those workers pay the union nearly $500 in annual dues and anywhere from $50 to $150 for initiation fees.
Niccollai made headlines in September when he slammed convicted embezzler John R. Moritz, a former A&P marketing executive.
“When I look at what we could have done with this money in terms of getting some of those [contract concessions] back, I find it appalling,” he told NorthJersey.com after Moritz was sentenced to three years in prison.
Niccollai has lamented “concessions to save A&P/Pathmark and save our union members’ jobs” on the local union’s website. He has also raised dues by about 6 percent since 2013.
More than 7 percent of all dues and fees collected by the union were used to pay Nicollai’s single salary. He and two deputies were paid $1.3 million combined, while the rest of his staff accounted for $2.1 million in pay. His son, John Niccollai III, was the highest paid staffer, garnering a $245,000 salary.
The $3.4 million the union spent on salaries alone is nearly $500,000 more than it spent on representational activities on the year.
Nine other union presidents received pay packages in excess of $370,000. American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten rounded out the top-10 list with a salary of $375,174, according to that union’s most recent report.
Rick Berman, executive director of the Center for Union Facts, said the high salaries demonstrate the hypocrisy of union leaders who make a living condemning business owners.
“If Big Labor is interested in turning a skeptical eye on executive pay, it should start with the one-percenters in its own ranks. Dues payments from middle-class employees are funding six-figure pay packages for hundreds of union presidents,” Berman said.
Salary is not the only factor that goes into the CUF analysis. Weingarten, for example, is the fifth-highest compensated union executive when all benefits and perks are taken into account. Niccollai’s high salary comes with about $6,000 in spending money, a paltry sum compared to the overall highest-paid union official, Laborers International Union of North America President Terrence O’Sullivan. Only $487,000 out of O’Sullivan’s $670,000 compensation package comes from his salary. The rest comes from reimbursed expenses and other perks.
Patrick Semmens, spokesman for the National Right to Work Committee, said there is one key difference between CEOs and union officers. Company officials derive their incomes from business performance, but union organizers receive theirs from the paychecks of workers.
“The real scandal here is that union bosses fund their often lavish salaries with dues and fees taken from workers who would be fired for refusing to pay,” he said.
“Union officials should work for the rank-and-file workers, but with forced union dues employees instead end up working for the benefit of union officials.”
Protestors march in support of raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour / AP
BY: Bill McMorris
May 20, 2015 11:10 am
Big Labor’s battle against the One Percent does not appear to include 10 union officials who are better paid than the average American CEO, according to a new study released Wednesday.
The Center for Union Facts (CUF), a labor watchdog, identified 162 union presidents that receive compensation packages in excess of the $180,700 average take home pay that business chief executives earn. The report also identifies 10 union presidents—none of whom returned request for comment—who earn more than double that figure.
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 464 President John T. Niccollai was the highest paid union official in 2014, according to federal labor filings. He earned about $575,000 for representing 16,000 grocery store workers in New Jersey. Those workers pay the union nearly $500 in annual dues and anywhere from $50 to $150 for initiation fees.
Niccollai made headlines in September when he slammed convicted embezzler John R. Moritz, a former A&P marketing executive.
“When I look at what we could have done with this money in terms of getting some of those [contract concessions] back, I find it appalling,” he told NorthJersey.com after Moritz was sentenced to three years in prison.
Niccollai has lamented “concessions to save A&P/Pathmark and save our union members’ jobs” on the local union’s website. He has also raised dues by about 6 percent since 2013.
More than 7 percent of all dues and fees collected by the union were used to pay Nicollai’s single salary. He and two deputies were paid $1.3 million combined, while the rest of his staff accounted for $2.1 million in pay. His son, John Niccollai III, was the highest paid staffer, garnering a $245,000 salary.
The $3.4 million the union spent on salaries alone is nearly $500,000 more than it spent on representational activities on the year.
Nine other union presidents received pay packages in excess of $370,000. American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten rounded out the top-10 list with a salary of $375,174, according to that union’s most recent report.
Rick Berman, executive director of the Center for Union Facts, said the high salaries demonstrate the hypocrisy of union leaders who make a living condemning business owners.
“If Big Labor is interested in turning a skeptical eye on executive pay, it should start with the one-percenters in its own ranks. Dues payments from middle-class employees are funding six-figure pay packages for hundreds of union presidents,” Berman said.
Salary is not the only factor that goes into the CUF analysis. Weingarten, for example, is the fifth-highest compensated union executive when all benefits and perks are taken into account. Niccollai’s high salary comes with about $6,000 in spending money, a paltry sum compared to the overall highest-paid union official, Laborers International Union of North America President Terrence O’Sullivan. Only $487,000 out of O’Sullivan’s $670,000 compensation package comes from his salary. The rest comes from reimbursed expenses and other perks.
Patrick Semmens, spokesman for the National Right to Work Committee, said there is one key difference between CEOs and union officers. Company officials derive their incomes from business performance, but union organizers receive theirs from the paychecks of workers.
“The real scandal here is that union bosses fund their often lavish salaries with dues and fees taken from workers who would be fired for refusing to pay,” he said.
“Union officials should work for the rank-and-file workers, but with forced union dues employees instead end up working for the benefit of union officials.”
