Despite the fact that he wasn’t required to list it on his congressional disclosure forms, local Democrats are continuing to hammer U.S. Rep. Mike Turner for failing to report a five-year business relationship between his wife, Lori Turner, and local builder Tom Peebles.
“He (Turner) says he’s not required to put it in his ethics statements, but (there’s nothing to) prevent him from putting it in his ethics statements,” Montgomery County Democratic Party Chairman Mark Owens said of Peebles Homes of Beavercreek, a limited liability company set up by Lori Turner and Peebles, a Mike Turner campaign contributor. “If there’s nothing to hide, why not disclose it?”
County Republican Party Chairman Gregory Gantt shot back: “Why not disclose what kind of toilet paper he uses? Where do you stop?”
In a statement issued Wednesday, Mike Turner said that all of the information about his wife’s business is public record “and has been fully disclosed.”
Lori Turner accused the Dayton Daily News of misrepresentation. “In the last 14 months the DDN has run 9 articles based on misrepresentation and innuendo attacking my business even though I meet the highest standards for public disclosure and accountability. It’s shameful.”
Lori Turner’s connection to Peebles was first revealed in an article in the September issue of Mother Jones magazine titled “honey, i got the earmark.” The story called into question the Peebles Homes relationship and suggested that Mike Turner has obtained federal earmarks which benefited Peebles. “I hope the local Democrats are doing more research than just reading the pot smokers’ magazine,” Gantt said.
Jane Mitakides, Turner’s Democratic challenger in the November election said the larger issue is whether any of Turner’s contributors are drawing improper benefits from federal earmarks obtained by Turner. She suggested that he should give back the funds generated from these projects.
“These projects have helped create jobs, improve neighborhoods, and build new roads,” Turner said, adding that the earmarks being questioned support the CareSource project and the Austin Road interchange. “Perhaps my opponent should identify the federal dollars she would like to give back.”
Earlier this month, it was announced that there is a new tool that can hack into any GMail account, regardless of how good your password is, as long as the data is unencrypted. That’s Bad.
Google encrypts your login credentials and then leaves the rest of your session un-encrypted. This will leave you vulnerable to this tool when it’s released into the wild at the end of the month. That’s Really Bad.
However, there’s help! GMail is now allowing you to encrypt your mailbox yourself if you wish. That’s Good. Do it now, even if you don’t think your email is all that important. Sure as God made little green apples, if you don’t, someone will hack you and you’ll suddenly remember that OMIGOD I HAD EMAIL WITH MY SIGN IN INFORMATION TO BANK OF AMERICA!!
Here’s how to fix it: log into GMail, and click on the Settings link over in the top right corner. At the bottom of this screen is a section labelled “Browser Connection” which by default is set to “Don’t always use https.” Change this to “Always use https” and then click the “Save changes” button directly below. That “should” keep you safe from Bad People using this entertaining new toy.
#22 if you count only entries tagged under The Liar™
NOTICE: This will mark my last public entry about The Liar™ — hereafter to be also (jointly or singly) known as The Terrorist™ — from this point onwards that category will be visible only to registered and approved users of my blog. I have made this decision not because I have any legal reason to do so, but because this way there is not even a remote snowball’s chance in hell that she can try to claim we’re scaring, stalking, abusing, or otherwise tormenting or traumatizing her. No folding, spindling or mutilating from our side!
Today, she tried to claim that my blog was previously known as the “Tina is a Liar” blog, and I didn’t even *think* about it, I just automatically opened my mouth and said that the title of my blog had not changed, it’s been “The Original Musings” since 2003 when it started. Oops! Shut my mouth real fast!
Ultimately, nothing really mattered. The Liar™ aka The Terrorist™ took the stand and basically made a statement, she called her witness and questioned them, our attorney questioned the witness, The Liar™ aka The Terrorist™ got back on the stand and spoke for maybe five or six additional minutes and then the judge interrupted and that was that.
The Liar™ aka The Terrorist™ lost today.
The entire case was dismissed — neither I nor Knight Owl were even given the chance to take the stand and defend ourselves because it wasn’t necessary. I fully expect the Goldman treatment now — you know, you lose in criminal court, so you bring a civil suit on the same thing and try again. As such, we’re keeping all of the copies we have and preserving everything for that.
I never even got to use my “First Amendment” speech I had all planned out to justify my right to be “mean” to her on my blog. The lawyer never got to slap my blog entries in front of her face and demand that she produce the death threat. She kept insisting that “public information” wasn’t public and that we shouldn’t be allowed to post or discuss it (or apparently even read it) — gosh, sorry, but the courts kind of beat us to it by posting it first!
And she had the gall to sit there and say that our posting “mean” things about her and posting “private (public) information” about her was convincing other people — strangers to her — to form opinions about her that are based on what WE think of her instead of what she wants them to think about her. She apparently feels that she should be allowed to defend herself in the court of public opinion on my blog!!
Oh and she takes exception to my belief that Mom’s death is at least in part attributable to The Liar™ aka The Terrorist™. That’s my belief and I’m sticking with it. Don’t like it? Well, boo hoo. Too bad. She’s allowed to state things that she made up, things that have never happened, and by sheer virtue of repetition they become “fact” — and I’m not entitled to my honest, genuinely held belief? Kiss my entire ass — and it’s a big one, so better buy yourself a tube of chapstick.
Oh, and the biggest revelation of the day was that we’re only doing this stuff because our brother (her ex) has convinced us that HIS version of the story is true, rather than HER version. Really? So you honestly believe that you’ve never done anything to merit my wrath? Please allow me to assure you that you are most definitely mistaken. Guaranteed.
Well, that was one of the big revelations of the day. The other was the fact that the way The Liar™ aka The Terrorist™ found out about the blog entries in the first place was because the impartial Children’s Services worker found them and told her about it. She felt The Liar™ aka The Terrorist™ should know that people were talking about her.
This is the same CS worker who sat there under oath — and with a straight face, no less — admitted that although she knew The Liar™ aka The Terrorist™ to be a drug user with a myriad of “issues” and despite the fact that The Liar™ aka The Terrorist™ has had both of her children removed from her custody, she’s never found any credibility issues with The Liar™ aka The Terrorist™!!
Oh, incidentally, in order to get protection orders against her, we’d need to be able to prove a pattern of harassment and since this is the first time she’s hauled Knight Owl and I into court, this isn’t yet a pattern. Although in HIS case, there may actually BE a pattern, the lawyer is going to look into it.
The entire thing was a farce. I’m just waiting for stage two now. At that point, I’m filing a countersuit against her and because I will then have *two* issues I can claim, I will go fetch my protection order for myself and my family.
Seriously. I wasted my afternoon for this?
So, anyhow. From this point out, if you want to read any future posts I may make relating to The Liar™ aka The Terrorist™ you’ll need to contact me and I’ll add you to the list. If you’re not The Liar™ aka The Terrorist™ or in any way related to or associated with her, that is.
I want to know why she’s allowed to just keep doing this shit and no one ever tells her “stop.” When do WE get some protection from HER stalking and HER bogus charges and HER legal lies? She’s like a freaking oil slick, everything just rolls right off, nothing ever sticks to her.
I don’t understand why she can get away with this. And *we* can’t go around filing poverty affidavits and getting filing fees waived, so we can’t hammer her with the same barrage of bullshit that she keeps flinging at us.
From a legal standpoint, she has perjured herself and nothing is done. She has filed false charges and nothing is done. She has made untrue allegations and then turned around and claimed those allegations as fact, and nothing is done. She drives without a license and nothing is done when they repeatedly nab her for traffic offenses AND for driving without a license.
Speaking only from what I personally know to have happened, she has committed welfare fraud at least twice and nothing seems to have been done. She has committed income tax fraud at least once and nothing happens. She was ordered by the judge to file an amended return. She hasn’t. She was ordered by the judge to pay child support retroactive to February 2006 when Alyssa was removed from her custody. She hasn’t paid a dime of it. She was ordered to return to David the amount of support that was overpaid to her since she lost custody of Alyssa — not a cent. Not even one.
Why is the vexatious litigation suit just sitting there in limbo with NOTHING happening? She’s proving the case against herself for God’s sake! Why do they let her keep piling on more and more of this clearly bogus bullshit and nothing is ever done?
When you’re a child, your parents are supposed to teach you right from wrong. Part of their job is to teach you that you have limits and boundaries. Good behavior is rewarded and bad is punished to reinforce the principles of cause and effect. Consequences, action and reaction. Self control and personal responsibility — hell, the virtue of honesty.
She is totally oblivious to any of this, it’s as if she’s never had the instruction or the foundation to reign her in — and from what I’m seeing, the police, the prosecutor and even the court are contributing by allowing her to just keep on doing it. They’re reinforcing her out of control behavior by doing nothing to curb it. She’s throwing a temper tantrum and no one is even saying “stop it” for God’s sake!
I simply don’t understand it.
Anyhow, here’s the latest:
She filed more papers in Greene County, on the custody case, in which she makes reference to the Montgomery County cases against Knight Owl and I. Those cases have absolutely nothing to do with the custody case (you know, the one she’s already LOST — David has sole custody of Alyssa — the only reason it’s still open is she won’t attend her sentencing hearing to be punished for her various contempt of court charges and stuff). Why is she even allowed to mention them? How do they affect her sentencing?
And she apparently tried to get an ex parté order against David on the 18th — not sure it’s about him specifically, because the document isn’t yet posted, just the header. But it’s on the appeals case against David, so I would assume it’s against him.
Why does she continue to get away with this crap? I hope the court will issue us protection orders tomorrow. Honestly, she’s so unhinged I seriously am concerned one of us is going to walk out the door some day and find her waiting for us with a knife or a gun or something.
I feel like I’ve been knocked down a flight of stairs and walked over with jackboots.
This weekend, I have to take Missy for a private lesson and then a performance Saturday morning and then the Lansing Feis is Sunday, so I really need to get over whatever it is I’ve got.
Somehow, The Liar™ managed to get out of sentencing again
Not sure how, but she did. Found this out while I was “investigating” and “stalking” her.
08/13/2008
NOTICE FILED; COURTS OWN MOTION, THE HEARING SCHEDULED FOR 8-13-2008 WILL NOW BE HEARD ON 10-22-08 AT 11:00 AM BEFORE JUDGE HURLEY. MS HELMS IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND.
I wish they’d called her “Ms. Musgrove” instead of “Ms. Helms.” She forfeited the right to use our last name four years ago. Actually, she should have never had it in the first place, but my brother needed *someone* to serve as an incubator for Alyssa. She was available and nominally human.
Hopefully this time she’ll really show. I bet she claimed that she didn’t get the notice in time and thought that since she’d filed all those appeals and requests for extensions and crap that she didn’t have to go.
Or maybe she claimed that since Oma’s out of town, she doesn’t have a ride. (’Cause she STILL doesn’t have her license back. More public information I “investigated” up about her.) I wonder if Judge Hurley would like to know that lack of license doesn’t stop The Liar™ from driving under normal circumstances. It’s only when she has to go to court or to visitation that she worries about not being caught driving.
Oh well. At least this way she’s got to be there next week to tell the court how we’re “stalking” her and “threatening” her life here on my blog. I knew the power of the (virtual) pen was mighty, but I had no idea it could stalk someone!
So it turns out that my purported “stalking” of The Liar™ is accomplished by writing about her on my blog. Linking to public information sites about her or talking about the information contained therein is “investigating” her and discussing “intimate details” of her private life. And, according to The Liar™, Knight Owl has threatened her life here on my blog and she now fears for her safety. I somehow missed that one. Knight Owl missed it too. But hey, The Liar™ said it happened so that’s that.
As fate would have it, I had made a copy of every entry on my blog that even *mentions* her, including the comments left. The copy was made *before* I found out what the exact ‘charges’ are — and the date stamps on the documents demonstrate as much– so I have proof of what was and wasn’t said about her. I think she’s going to be in for a rude awakening, and I’m going to be only too happy to be the one to give it to her.
Honestly, doesn’t she have anything better to do with her time than make shit up?
1:00 a.m. Update: Well, wait. I know *one* thing she can do with her time — she can show up in Greene County tomorrow because Greene County threw out her entire appeal. All of it. They wrapped it all up, gave it a case number of its very own, and then dismissed the whole damned lot of it. ROFLMAO!
So, tomorrow, she’ll be in court, facing a very pissed off Judge Hurley. Unless she decides to no show on him again. OOoh. Honestly, I don’t know which would be better. It’d be *seriously* funny if she didn’t show up next week because she was in jail. That’d just make my day. Specially since Oma’s in Germany and can’t bail her ass out. Omigod.
But dammit, I want her to be there on the 20th. I want to SEE her lose in Montgomery County. I want to see her head explode! Oh hell. Either way.
I wonder if she’s recognizing the mighty hand of God at work here?
I’ve just posted 18 pictures in the gallery — in a new album called “Funny Pictures.” The content should thus be obvious. Update! Okay, I lied. There’s 19. Hell, by the time you read this, there may be more. There’s AT LEAST 19 though.
August 21, 2008 
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You said it!