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As of this afternoon the Portland police were still investigating. With video, there is a good chance the people who assaulted the driver will be identified and charged. I hope so.

There were 911 calls before the beating of a vehicle swerving around and coming very close to hitting protesters on the street. The news reports I read said that the police have not said if this truck was that vehicle or not. It is possible the driver was intoxicated rather than out to do harm.

We will know more in a few days.

There was a follow up video where some bystanders trying to help rolled that guy on his side. There is massive swelling to the back of his head, indicative of coup and contrecoup brain injury. I guarantee you he has a cracked skull, and if he didn't get treatment within an hour of the injury, he most likely died of brain swelling.

I hope the F-er that is in that video kicking him gets life in prison or capital punishment. I'm leaning towards the later because he's not worth the tax dollars that life in prison would cost the taxpayers.

As of this afternoon the driver was listed in serious condition, but alive in the hospital. There is a world class hospital (OHSU) right on the edge of downtown. (On the same street as the Portland Tesla Service Center.) I'm not sure he was taken to OHSU, but there are several very good hospitals in or near downtown.

As for what the assaulter is likely to face. Probably 1st degree assault. Possibly attempted 2nd degree murder.
 
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At least the AP is not letting Michelle Obama get by with her "kids in cages" comments last night:
AP FACT CHECK: Michelle Obama and the kids in 'cages'

Convenient she blames the current administration for cages that her husband authorized, constructed, and also used.

There's a distinction with a difference:

The Obama administration separated migrant children from families under certain limited circumstances, like when the child’s safety appeared at risk or when the parent had a serious criminal history.

But family separations as a matter of routine came about because of Trump’s “zero tolerance” enforcement policy, which he eventually suspended because of the uproar. Obama had no such policy.
 
However there is in fact a huge difference between separating children for their safety and doing it across the board as policy. You willingly ignore an important part of the article you linked because it doesn't fit your narrative of "libs are just as bad, (but really worse)".

Poppycock. Most of the children, according to US stats, are now unaccompanied minors or in the care of a non-relative. How do you determine their safety in that situation? If they are being smuggled in, they have likely been told "keep your mouth shut or we will kill you or your family" or "don't trust anything the US agents say, don't say a word to them".

It's DETAILS like this which democrats want to gloss over. And the devil REALLY is in the details.

If it were up to me, they should be universally turned away at the border, unless they go to an official port of entry, period. None of this sneaking across in the middle of the night and then when they are caught going "oh, I meant to claim asylum".

People looking to get into the country illegally KNOW the loopholes (literally they are taught the loopholes by smugglers). Close the loopholes, abate a lot of the problem. It may tug on the heartstrings, but what has happened is not unexpected when you actually start enforcing the law.

Don't like the law? Change it. Congress needs a 2/3 majority to override a veto if they don't like something.
 
Poppycock. Most of the children, according to US stats, are now unaccompanied minors or in the care of a non-relative. How do you determine their safety in that situation? If they are being smuggled in, they have likely been told "keep your mouth shut or we will kill you or your family" or "don't trust anything the US agents say, don't say a word to them".

It's DETAILS like this which democrats want to gloss over. And the devil REALLY is in the details.

If it were up to me, they should be universally turned away at the border, unless they go to an official port of entry, period. None of this sneaking across in the middle of the night and then when they are caught going "oh, I meant to claim asylum".

People looking to get into the country illegally KNOW the loopholes (literally they are taught the loopholes by smugglers). Close the loopholes, abate a lot of the problem. It may tug on the heartstrings, but what has happened is not unexpected when you actually start enforcing the law.

Don't like the law? Change it. Congress needs a 2/3 majority to override a veto if they don't like something.

With McConnell in office, that's literally impossible. All legal means of using rule of law had been closed down 3 years ago. We will get only one chance to fix this this year. One chance.
 
With McConnell in office, that's literally impossible. All legal means of using rule of law had been closed down 3 years ago. We will get only one chance to fix this this year. One chance.

It's not as partisan as you make it out to be. IF, and REALLY IF, it were that big of an issue the Senate would take a stand against Trump. It's not like Senate Republicans are that enamored with Trump.
 
HA HA HA HA HA! Cite one instance where the Senate had enough votes to overturn Trump?

Cite one instance where the House sent them something so un-partisan that they didn't reject it outright.

THAT is the problem, if you want to get into the nitty gritty. The two houses are so divergent from the middle that what one sends the other will automatically be rejected. Trump hasn't had to threaten a veto on jack squat because instead of trying to work together, the two houses insist on sending each other things they KNOW the other will reject.

Keep in mind that as low as the approval rating for Trump is, the approval ratings for the houses are even LOWER.
 
Mary Trump is trying to sell a book, and isn't a medical professional qualified to make a GAF assessment. Both of those statements are facts.
The first part of your statement is true. The second part is not. Mary trump is a PhD psychologist;
"Trump worked for one year at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center while working on her PhD research.[8] Trump is a contributor to the book Diagnosis: Schizophrenia, published by Columbia University Press in 2002.[11] She has taught graduate courses in developmental psychology, trauma, and psychopathology"
So, not an MD but quite qualified to describe GAF. Obviously it is imprudent to categorize results of a test that has not been administered. A different issue, is it not?
Notwithstanding your opinion, one does need to be careful not to describe as facts things which are distinctly not in evidence.
 
The first part of your statement is true. The second part is not. Mary trump is a PhD psychologist;
"Trump worked for one year at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center while working on her PhD research.[8] Trump is a contributor to the book Diagnosis: Schizophrenia, published by Columbia University Press in 2002.[11] She has taught graduate courses in developmental psychology, trauma, and psychopathology"
So, not an MD but quite qualified to describe GAF. Obviously it is imprudent to categorize results of a test that has not been administered. A different issue, is it not?
Notwithstanding your opinion, one does need to be careful not to describe as facts things which are distinctly not in evidence.

Since you are not a Dr, I'll forgive your mis-understanding.

The claims made about Trump are BIOLOGICAL based, for the most part. By both training and law, Psych PhDs are not allowed to make biological diagnoses. They can make PERSONALITY diagnoses, but if there is ANY concern for a biological problem, by law in all 50 states they are required to refer the patient to an M.D. with a degree in Psych and/or a neurologist.

Sorry, that's simply how things work. She goes WAY outside of her sandbox when she asserts diagnoses that by law she's not allowed to make on patients. This is the underlying reason that Psych PhDs are only allowed to prescribe a VERY few medications, and only under EXTREMELY limited conditions. Their primary method of treatment is psychotherapy, behavioral group therapy, etc.

Every Psych M.D. I have known didn't have much good to say about Psych Ph.Ds. They basically considered them glorified master's degrees because they didn't have to know the bulk of neurobiology required by the M.Ds.


I absolutely agree that Trump has Narcissistic Personality Disorder, but that's a far cry from the claims of a neurological brain disease, which she claims. THAT requires biological testing, which she is not qualified to even determine what tests might be appropriate.
 
Since you are not a Dr, I'll forgive your mis-understanding...

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You, sir, have no basis whatsoever to state my qualifications or lack thereof. You might note, if you want to be correct, that Dr. is ascribable correctly to anyone who has earned a doctoral degree, including even MD's.
You, if you want to know more, might check the current practices that have supplanted the GAF among current qualified practitioners.
It would also probably be beneficial form you to learn more about the roel of neurological testing and psychological testing. Present practice never uses such imprecise and subjective testing as the GAF independently, Neuorological functions are now often diagnoses by means of one of the several available modern scanning techniques. When GAF was popular MRI, for instance, did not exist.

Since you are apparently not familiar with neurological advances nor current psychological practices you might benefit from a bit of study.
Specifically the advent of MRI understanding of neurology has advanced immeasurably. one current focus has been with degenerative disease such as Alzheimers. Mayo Clinic publishes some useful references :
Alzheimer's Disease Evaluation [A Test in Focus] - Insights

Finally, Narcissitic Personality Disorder is recognized by social interactions and socially defined cues. Generally that is applied in a psychological context without reference to neurological factors. Mayo Clinic again describes that:
Narcissistic personality disorder - Symptoms and causes

Finally, you assume without any basis what another person may possess in qualifications. That, sir, is a practice both arrogant and ignorant.
Prudent and wise people tend to discover the qualifications of people they choose to disdain prior to choosing that practice, rather than after.

It is quite common for people who possess some paper qualification or other to condescend to others they suspect might not have their 'superior' education, which they tend often to perceive as intellectual deficiency. That is quite understandable for people who are not secure in their own competence.

Odd, is it not, that those characteristics are commonly associated with Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
 
You, sir, have no basis whatsoever to state my qualifications or lack thereof. You might note, if you want to be correct, that Dr. is ascribable correctly to anyone who has earned a doctoral degree, including even MD's.
You, if you want to know more, might check the current practices that have supplanted the GAF among current qualified practitioners.
It would also probably be beneficial form you to learn more about the roel of neurological testing and psychological testing. Present practice never uses such imprecise and subjective testing as the GAF independently, Neuorological functions are now often diagnoses by means of one of the several available modern scanning techniques. When GAF was popular MRI, for instance, did not exist.

Since you are apparently not familiar with neurological advances nor current psychological practices you might benefit from a bit of study.
Specifically the advent of MRI understanding of neurology has advanced immeasurably. one current focus has been with degenerative disease such as Alzheimers. Mayo Clinic publishes some useful references :
Alzheimer's Disease Evaluation [A Test in Focus] - Insights

Finally, Narcissitic Personality Disorder is recognized by social interactions and socially defined cues. Generally that is applied in a psychological context without reference to neurological factors. Mayo Clinic again describes that:
Narcissistic personality disorder - Symptoms and causes

Finally, you assume without any basis what another person may possess in qualifications. That, sir, is a practice both arrogant and ignorant.
Prudent and wise people tend to discover the qualifications of people they choose to disdain prior to choosing that practice, rather than after.

It is quite common for people who possess some paper qualification or other to condescend to others they suspect might not have their 'superior' education, which they tend often to perceive as intellectual deficiency. That is quite understandable for people who are not secure in their own competence.

Odd, is it not, that those characteristics are commonly associated with Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

I can't see who you're writing to, but I agree nevertheless.
 
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Poppycock. Most of the children, according to US stats, are now unaccompanied minors or in the care of a non-relative. How do you determine their safety in that situation? If they are being smuggled in, they have likely been told "keep your mouth shut or we will kill you or your family" or "don't trust anything the US agents say, don't say a word to them".
That is not true, and the court case in the San Diego federal court revealed it. What the current administration did was to first pass a rule that entering the country without coming through a port of entry was a crime, so now anyone entering that way is a criminal and it justified separating them from their children, a priori. Virtually all families were torn apart. And the Federal judge ordered the families re-united. And stopped the practice. And discovered that the CBP had lied to the court about the number of families affected. They are now unaccompanied minors because their parents were deported with no record of where they were sent to.
 
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