Ralph Shortey, Oklahoma Lawmaker, Hit With Child Prostitution Charges

by CORKY SIEMASZKO

An Oklahoma lawmaker was hit with a child prostitution charge Thursday after he was caught in a motel room with a teenage boy.

State Sen. Ralph Shortey was charged a day after the Oklahoma Senate — by a vote of 43 to 0 — passed a resolution that suspended nearly all his privileges.

Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution, engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church, and transporting a minor for prostitution/lewdness, according to the Cleveland County District Attorney's office.

A 35-year-old married father of two, Shortey turned himself in later Thursday at the Cleveland County Jail, local NBC affiliate KFOR reported.

It remained to be seen whether Oklahoma would move to impeach Shortey, who represents parts of Oklahoma City, now that he has been formally charged.

They have already stripped him of his capitol office, his parking space and state-owned laptop, scrubbed his name off any legislation he authored or co-authored — as well as his office door.

Lt. Governor Todd Lamb, who like Shortey is a Republican, said "Oklahomans deserve to be represented by those above reproach."

"In light of the charges filed against him, Ralph Shortey should resign from his seat so the good people of southwest Oklahoma City can move forward with electing a new state senator," Lamb said in a statement.

Shortey was busted after police were notified that he had checked into a Super 8 Motel in Moore, Oklahoma — using his own name — around midnight on March 9 and the boy was with him, according to the DA's office.

When police arrived at room 120, they "observed a strong odor of marijuana" and found Shortey inside with the teenager, who is identified in the charging papers as a 17-year-old named "JM."

An Oklahoma lawmaker was hit with a child prostitution charge Thursday after he was caught in a motel room with a teenage boy.

State Sen. Ralph Shortey was charged a day after the Oklahoma Senate — by a vote of 43 to 0 — passed a resolution that suspended nearly all his privileges.

Shortey is charged with engaging in child prostitution, engaging in prostitution within 1,000 feet of a church, and transporting a minor for prostitution/lewdness, according to the Cleveland County District Attorney's office.

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A 35-year-old married father of two, Shortey turned himself in later Thursday at the Cleveland County Jail, local NBC affiliate KFOR reported.

It remained to be seen whether Oklahoma would move to impeach Shortey, who represents parts of Oklahoma City, now that he has been formally charged.

They have already stripped him of his capitol office, his parking space and state-owned laptop, scrubbed his name off any legislation he authored or co-authored — as well as his office door.

Lt. Governor Todd Lamb, who like Shortey is a Republican, said "Oklahomans deserve to be represented by those above reproach."

"In light of the charges filed against him, Ralph Shortey should resign from his seat so the good people of southwest Oklahoma City can move forward with electing a new state senator," Lamb said in a statement.

Shortey was busted after police were notified that he had checked into a Super 8 Motel in Moore, Oklahoma — using his own name — around midnight on March 9 and the boy was with him, according to the DA's office.

When police arrived at room 120, they "observed a strong odor of marijuana" and found Shortey inside with the teenager, who is identified in the charging papers as a 17-year-old named "JM."

Oklahoma state Senator Ralph Shortey, speaks during a Senate committee meeting in Oklahoma City on Feb. 22, 2017. Sue Ogrocki / AP

Later, they discovered an online conversation between Shortey and JM.

"Would you be interested in sexual stuff?" Shortey allegedly wrote.

"Yes," JM allegedly replied.

From there, the conversation — as described in DA's charging papers — veered off from logistics to graphic lewdness and included a "smiley face emoji."

Both Shortey and JM admitted to police that they met a year ago through a Craigslist "personal encounter ad," the papers state. And police also found an "open box of condoms" in a backpack.

When asked what he was doing at the motel with the teen, Shortey said they were "just hanging out." according to a Moore Police report.

This is not the first time Shortey made national news. Back in 2012, he proposed a bill banning human fetuses from being used in food, even though he admitted he did not know of any company in Oklahoma or elsewhere that was doing this.

"There are companies that are using embryonic stem cells to research and basically cause a chemical reaction to determine whether or not something tastes good or not," he told The Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

"As a pro-life advocate, it kind of disturbed me that we would use aborted embryos or aborted human fetuses to extract stem cells and use them for research to basically make things taste better."

The bill, which could have been lifted from the 1973 science fiction movie "Soylent Green," was referred to the Agriculture and Rural Development committee where it died, according to The Daily Oklahoman.

Shortey, who identifies himself as a member of the Rosebud Sioux Indian Tribe on his official biography, was also a staunch supporter of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and part of his leadership team in Oklahoma. 

Trump Breaks His Chains and Runs A muck, Again

WEST SACRAMENTO CA (IFS) -- The Republican Party has lost control of its' attack dog, Trump, as he has broken his chain again, and is running wildly down the street.  The "Twilter" King after running down Snoop Dog as a "has been" artist a couple of days ago, again goes on the hunt to bit into the Ninth Circuit Court Judge for placing a block on his Executive Order again on banning Muslims nations from entering the United States.

President Trump continued to 'scream" that the courts have "over-reached" their authority and he vows again to go all the way to the US Supreme Court with the original Executive Order.

At this point in time, Mr. Trump is spending his political capital within the last days of the First One Hundred Days -- with the Republican Party attempting to clean up Trump's doggy do after he has destroyed any hope to gain support from anyone.

Trump will not apologize to President Obama for falsely accusing him of "wiretapping" his Trump Towers.  All of the Senate Intel Committee has determine that there was no surveillance by the United States Government.  Now with this statement about the United States Government not being involved, possibly raises the question that another government was wiretapping Trump's hotel.

Mr. Trump's habit of "screaming Wolf, Wolf" and there is no wolf to be found in the neighborhood, these remarks are only used to keep the populace in check and scarred as rabbits in a pen with the doors closed. 

Keep the masses in the dark like "mushrooms" and feed them a lot of non-sense and like rats in a maze, keep the people running from corner to corner, then like lemons leading them to the edge of the cliffs. - KHS

Fox News Television under fire from US DOJ

Disinformation, Misinformation and Alternative Facts

WEST SACRAMENTO CA (IFS) -- The need for each and everyone of us to re-examine stories that were released that were not true, and caused great harm. This writer loved the television show "Dragnet" that starred Jack Webb.  His great line in each episode was "Just the facts. . ."  In the old days, this was called "The New Reality".  -KHS

By Shari Weiss

Whoopi Goldberg revealed on Monday’s “The View” that she’s suing over a fake news story she says endangered her and her family. 

During “Hot Topics” on the ABC talk show, Goldberg announced, “Something came out in a fake news website about me. It endangered my family’s life and it endangered my life.” She explained that the untrue story falsely claimed she slammed the Navy Seal widow who was featured in Donald Trump’s speech to Congress. As Gossip Cop reported, “The View” co-hosts did discuss that part of the president’s address, but Goldberg never said a bad word about the woman.

The fake news story, she said, was “created by a guy who just wanted to see how quickly stories he made up would spread.” And spread this did, apparently to the point where people who believed it began threatening Goldberg and her loved ones. She angrily said, “I know you’re in Costa Rica, sir, because you said where you were. If I hadn’t been made aware of this, I could’ve found out about this at the end of a barrel of a gun.”

Goldberg vowed to “get some kind of legislation going” to combat the problem of fake news. “Clearly, you don’t care what could’ve happened to me or to my family,” she said of the unnamed perpetrator, going on to reveal, “Man, I’m telling you, you cost me money because I had to protect my family. Costa Rica isn’t big enough for this lawsuit that’s coming for you.”

The show’s moderator also acknowledged that Trump himself is also a victim of fake news. “Just so we’re clear, just so we’re really clear, I want these protections in place for the current president, for his family,” Goldberg insisted. She went on to say, “Sir, the fact that you don’t give a crap that this endangered me is unconscionable, and I’m going to get my lawyer and I’m coming for you.”

Jim Rutenberg

MEDIATOR NOV. 6, 2016

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The last year has turned the United States into a country of information addicts who compulsively check the television, the smartphone and the good old-fashioned newspaper with a burning question: What fresh twist could our national election drama and its executive producer, Donald J. Trump, possibly have in store for us now?

No doubt about it: Campaign 2016 has been a smash hit.

And to the news media have gone the spoils. With Mr. Trump providing must-see TV theatrics, cable news has drawn record audiences. Newspapers have reached online readership highs that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago.

On Wednesday comes the reckoning.

The election news bubble that’s about to pop has blocked from plain view the expanding financial sinkhole at the center of the paper-and-ink branch of the news industry, which has recently seen a print advertising plunge that was “much more precipitous, to be honest with you, than anybody expected a year or so ago,” as The Wall Street Journal editor in chief Gerard Baker told me on Friday.

Papers including The Journal, The New York Times, The Guardian, the Gannett publications and others have responded with plans to reorganize, shed staff, kill off whole sections, or all of the above.

Rep. Lee: Steve King's statement racist, unbelievable

New Country of South Sudan's Dies a little everyday as Famine Destroys its People

WEST SACRAMENTO CA )IFS) --  This is a man-made disaster from their leaders and the art of war.  When one's own military consumes all of the money and the resources of the country, leaving its people to die like animals in a drought in the desert.

The South Sudan government wants to charge each and every Aid Worker, $10,000 for entering into the country to help their people.  The government complains that there has been no media coverage in the west since 2014, when the biter battles for life and death were simply at hand-to-hand combat.

Aid agencies say they are urgently seeking clarity from the South Sudanese government after it signalled that it would ramp up the cost of work permits for foreign aid workers, days after a famine was declared in the country.

Aid groups said the move by the labour ministry to increase the cost of permits from $100 to up to $10,000 (£8,230) was “terrible timing” in a country where 100,000 people are starving and a further 1 million are on the brink of starvation.

Last week, the president of South Sudan promised “unimpeded access” to all aid organisations after famine was declared in parts of the country.

The fee increase, introduced in a memorandum, applies to all foreign workers in the country and is aimed at increasing government revenue, the minister of information, Michael Makuei, told Associated Press.

The status of the memorandum, dated 2 March, is unclear, as is its reach, but international agencies expressed concern that they are seen as a “soft touch”.

What do you guard over, when all of your people are dead and dying?

Their people is eating wild grasses, if any is left.

Famine has been declared in two counties of South Sudan, according to an announcement by the South Sudan government and three UN agencies, which says the calamity is the result of prolonged civil war and an entrenched economic crisis that has devastated the war-torn East African nation.

The official classification of famine highlights the human suffering caused by South Sudan's three-year civil war and even as it is declared President Salva Kiir's government is blocking food aid to some areas, according to UN officials.

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More than 100,000 people in two counties of Unity state are experiencing famine and there are fears that the famine will spread as an additional one million South Sudanese are on the brink of starvation, said the announcement.

"Our worst fears have been realized," said Serge Tissot, head of the Food and Agriculture Organization in South Sudan. He said the war has disrupted the otherwise fertile country, causing civilians to rely on "whatever plants they can find and fish they can catch."

Roughly 5.5 million people, or about 50 per cent of South Sudan's population, are expected to be severely food insecure and at risk of death in the coming months, said the report. It added that nearly three-quarters of all households in the country suffer from inadequate food.

If food aid does not reach children urgently "many of them will die," said Jeremy Hopkins, head of the UN children's agency in South Sudan. Over 250,000 children are severely malnourished Hopkins said, meaning they are at risk of death.

Joel Charny, the director of the Norway Refugee Council USA, which has an office in Juba, said NGOs were seeking clarity on the status of the measure and to what extent they may be affected.

Charny said: “It is the wrong measure at the wrong time. If it does come into effect, it’s obviously terrible timing, in a country where 100,000 people are starving as we speak and another 1 million considered on the brink of famine.

“The mere fact that they have put this forward is concerning.”

It appears that any and all aid that is sent to the country is confiscated by the military.

This year could be the most deadly from famine in three decades. The lives of more than 20 million people are at risk in four countries. Large areas of South Sudan have already been declared a famine zone. Five years after a famine that claimed a quarter-of-a-million lives, Somalia is back on the brink of catastrophe: 6 million people are in need of assistance. Both north-east Nigeria and Yemen face real and present risks of famine.

An elaborate humanitarian aid system has been created to prevent mass hunger. Yet as an international community we are failing to respond to the deadly threats posed by entirely predictable, and eminently avoidable, famine.

How to donate: South Sudan famine and Somalia, Yemen and Nigeria food crises

“Famine” is a technical state defined by the level of acute malnutrition and food shortage. But people, especially children, are already going hungry, getting sick and dying. The lives of many of these children hang by a nutritional drip. For every life saved, many more don’t make it to a clinic.

We are drifting slowly but with relentless predictability towards the precipice. On a conservative estimate, 1.4 million children are at imminent risk of death across the four affected countries over the next year. That number is rising by the day as hunger interacts with killer diseases such as diarrhoea, pneumonia, cholera and measles. Every week of delayed action will put more lives on the line.

How did we get here? Conflict, drought, poor governance and a shockingly inadequate international response have all played a part.

President Trump Refuses to Call the DOJ or FBI and ask for Records, He's Stalling for what?

Maxine Waters‏Verified account @MaxineWaters 

Trump has been caught in lie after lie. Do not be distracted. Trump's campaign/associates did communicate w/ Russia. What is he hiding?

Department of Justice ignores Congressional Demands for Trump Wiretap Evidence

WEST SACRAMENTO CA (IFS) -- Jeff Sessions and the boys in the Justice Department and the White House, has refused to turn over evidence by the end of the day to Congress.  These blazon "bastards" continues to throw mug in the eyes of the People and defy their will. 

They are above the laws of the land, and the laws of the United States of America apply to everyone else, "except" them -- the chosen ones who continue to defy the law.  

Kellyanne - Love the dress and bobbles was it Ivanka's?

WEST SACRAMENTO CA (IFS) -- After watching Kellyanne Conway on the "Today" Show, (more like the "Yesterday" Show), it would have been better off, if they talked about Kellyanne's dress and girlie things.  There was no message here, just a bobble head talking about nothing and the same old spin that goes nowhere.  I have tried to give the Today Show another chance, but it has convinced this writer, that CBS This Morning is where I'm going to stay. - KHS 

Kellyanne Conway Talks Wiretapping Claims On “Today” Show (VIDEO)

By Holly Nicol | 8:15 am, March 13th, 2017
Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, appeared on Monday’s “Today” show to discuss the controversial wiretapping claims.

Watch the full interview below. As Gossip Cop reported, Trump accused Barack Obama of wiretapping his phone and Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential election.

In a series of tweets, the president wrote, “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” He continued, “Is it legal for a sitting President to be ‘wire tapping’ a race for president prior to an election?

Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!” Following Trump’s bold accusations, which lack in evidence, Conway spoke to Savannah Guthrie and Matt Lauer on the morning show about the supposed claims. “We’re very happy that the House and Senate Intelligence Committee see enough to go ahead and add this to an investigation. We’re glad it’s happening,” Conway said. Guthrie noted, “The media did not bring up this topic. President Trump did.

All the more reason to question why he would bring that up. It isn’t something a blogger wrote, it’s something the President of the United States accused his predecessor of, of tapping his phone.” “It’s under investigation,” Conway said. Watch the full video below.

President Trump Playing a Dangerous Game with Words and Fire

WEST SACRAMENTO CA (IFS) -- President Trump's continued march into the footnotes of history as once the plaque was the biggest story in the world where it killed over 50 million people in the 14th century, or 60 per cent of Europe’s entire population.

What's the point that we write about these events in history?  It's because we always repeat the same things each and every generation.  We find ourselves going down the very same old tracks that leads us to the cliff and some of us to jump off the deep end and into the abyss never to be heard of again.

We tell our children that words do matter and the misuse of words really do hurt.  Yet we have a president that's bound and determine to slam each and everyone of us into the abyss without blinking an eye.  His true believers really pushes him into the direction that he is right and he continues the journey to the cliffs.

We pray that Mr. Trump will have his "Come to Jesus" moment sometime is our lifetime and pray that he never will get re-elected again, ever.  We know that this is what you get, when you do not vote and you rely on the other guy to do your job for you.  Mr. Trump is our reward for being lazy and disconcerting with our future and our children's future.  

As my mother would say, "You get what you pay for."  So if our fellow citizens voted a nut into the office of leadership, then we must endure it's outcome for the next four years.  At least, we are the lucky ones.  Imagine the country's where the president is elected for life.

What will be Trump's downfall?  One of his own "true believers" that is hanging on to his coat tails and eventually pushed to the side of the road, when his dream is crushed and his life is dismantled by the one person that he placed all of his hopes, dreams and prayers into.

Men are fragile and their reach is only as far as their hands can extent in front of them.  Men's shortcomings are predictable and common, and we fall very short of the promises we make to our fellow citizens.

Mr. Trump is a backlash of non-activity and in-fighting among our leaders who have lead us into "gridlock" for over twenty-five years.  Mr. Trump is the ice breaker that has shook up the country and the "standard" of  being normal.  Yet, he too will have his day and like Caesar, Mr. Trump has his Brutus in his midst that will betray and bring him down.  It's all in a matter of time.  It's all part of the "cycle" of living and power.  

In life, it's always the good, the bad and the very ugly that is in each of us that will have it's hand on the wheel and drive one of our follies to cross the line and send us into a head-on with reality.  Oh yes, the Devil reads the Bible and he prays too.  

Mr. Trump is not your friend and he will stab you in the back or in the chest - in a heart beat.  He loves only himself and the rest of us be damned.  He loves war, rumors of wars, chaos and destruction. This is his mandate.  Mr. Trump puts on a great show of during good, yet he degrades our wives, our women, our sisters and our mothers.  Mr. Trump care nothing about their medical cares, their wants, desires  and dreams.

Mr. Trump's deliberate lies about issues that are only-- one match flame away from hurt and destruction.  He says things that are false and he hurts with words that are wanton and can not be proven.  Mr. Trump does not know the words "I'm Sorry".  This is called the "Right Syndrome", where one is always right and one justifies the "rightness" of being right, even though it's out and out lies.   This too my friends shall come too an end in time. - KHS

New TrumpCare Demolishes Medicare

House Republicans release long-awaited plan to replace Obamacare

Here’s what’s in the House Republicans’ plan to revise the ACA

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House Republicans on March 6 released legislation that would substantially alter the Affordable Care Act. Here’s what you need to know about the plan. (Bastien Inzaurralde, Victoria Walker, Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post)

By Amy Goldstein, Mike DeBonis and Kelsey Snell March 6 at 10:03 PM 

House Republicans on Monday released long-anticipated legislation to supplant the Affordable Care Act with a more conservative vision for the nation’s health-care system, replacing federal insurance subsidies with a new form of individual tax credits and grants to help states shape their own policies.

Under two bills drafted by separate House committees, the government would no longer penalize Americans for failing to have health insurance but would try to encourage people to maintain coverage by allowing insurers to impose a surcharge of 30 percent for those who have a gap between health plans.

The legislation would preserve two of the most popular features of the 2010 health-care law, letting young adults stay on their parents’ health plans until age 26 and forbidding insurers to deny coverage or charge more to people with preexisting medical problems. It would also target Planned Parenthood, rendering the women’s health organization ineligible for Medicaid reimbursements or federal family planning grants — a key priority for antiabortion groups.

The debate, starting in House committees this week, is a remarkable moment in government health-care policymaking. The Affordable Care Act, former president Barack Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement passed in 2010 with only Democratic support, ushered in the most significant expansion of insurance coverage since the creation of Medicare and Medicaid as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society programs of the mid-1960s.

There is no precedent for Congress to reverse a major program of social benefits once it has taken effect and reached millions of Americans.

Here’s what Republicans have said will be in the Obamacare replacement

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President Trump, Vice President Pence and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) keep saying a plan to repeal and replace Obamacare will be released soon, but few details have been released so far. Here's what they've said. (Video: Sarah Parnass/Photo: Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)

Taken together, the bills introduced Monday night represent the Republicans’ first attempt — and best shot to date, with an ally in the White House — to translate seven years of talking points about demolishing the ACA into action.

Mark Levin Secretly Feeds "Poison Pill" to Trump in Obama Wiretap Story

WEST SACRAMENTO CA (IFS) -- Randi Rhodes calls President Donald Trump "Twitler", as he has a terrible habit on ranting and raving on his Twitter account when he does not like anything that does not go his way.

But believe it or not, President Trump's past week was coming to a comfortable close for him, even in light of the Jeff Sessions revisit of his answers to Congress.  However, all of this went for nothing, as Mark Levin slipped the President a Poison pill in the Obama apple with the story of the alleged wiretapping story that was not true or not proven, but definitely twitted as the truth by Mr. Trump.

Even if it is true, the President can not issue a wiretap order, and Levin obviously knows this, but tempted Trump anyway.  This writer does not know at this time to thank Levin or just marvel at the way he "baited" Trump into this grand tirade that set the forest on fire again.

By screaming "fire" in a crowded theater, Trump took to the bait like a shark that smell blood in the water.  Heck Rush Limbaugh could only dream of a chance like this with President Obama, when he stated that he wanted Obama to fail, even though with this failing, Limbaugh also sinks with the ship, but he did not care.  Remember, he was going to leave the country if Obama got elected.

So now, Levin has thrown gasoline on the fires, and has Congress in the middle of the act with investigations into everything that Mr. Trump is and has been involved in.  Mr. Levin does not know it, but this is just what the American public wanted so very much.

With the push of his "Talk Radio Button" Levin has given great hope to everyone, to prove that Mr. Trump's bank accounts and other holdings run red with Russian money.  It is working so well, that it has involved Mark Rubio who has nothing to do with this at all, but finds himself in the middle of this down pour.

As this writer stated early, don't know to give Levin a big bear hug, or just get out of the way as the large trees are going to start falling down around Mr. Trump.  Remembering the song call "Fire" by the Ohio Players.   It's just going to rain down alot of embers. - KHS