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Own Side
Caitlin Rose
Losing My Religion
Applewood Road
Terra Lightfoot
Melissa Ferrick
Why Trump likes Kavanaugh
From the pen of Bill Schorr
A difference in shoe size
From the pen of Kevin Siers
What's a president to do ?
If you are an orange, semi-literate narcissist like Mango Mussolini you proclaim how mean the media is to you and members of your crime family. The you threaten to regulate them so they say things more to your liking, like Putin does in Russia.
The Trump administration is "taking a look" at whether Google and its search engine should be regulated by the government, Larry Kudlow, President Trump's economic adviser, said Tuesday outside the White House.
"We'll let you know," Kudlow said. "We're taking a look at it."
The announcement puts the search giant squarely in the White House's crosshairs amid wider allegations against the tech industry that it systematically discriminates against conservatives on social media and other platforms.
Kudlow's remark to reporters came hours after Trump fired off a series of predawn tweets complaining about Google search results for "Trump News."
In a pair of tweets posted before 6 a.m., the president said the results included only "the viewing/reporting of Fake New Media."
Google, in a statement, said its searches aren't politically biased: "When users type queries into the Google Search bar, our goal is to make sure they receive the most relevant answers in a matter of seconds. Search is not used to set a political agenda and we don't bias our results toward any political ideology.
"Every year, we issue hundreds of improvements to our algorithms to ensure they surface high-quality content in response to users' queries," Google said. "We continually work to improve Google Search and we never rank search results to manipulate political sentiment."
The White House has not responded to requests for further comment.
Trump's tweets came the morning after Fox Business host Lou Dobbs aired an interview Monday night with the pro-Trump commentators Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, popularly known as Diamond and Silk, who have long claimed that their online videos are being suppressed by tech companies.
"I am not for big government, but I really do believe that the government should step in and really check this out," Hardaway told Dobbs in the interview.
Google search results are affected not only by region but also by personal search history. It was unclear whether the president had Googled himself, or whether he was referring to a recent piece in PJ Media, a conservative blog, alleging that 96 percent of Google search results for news about Trump were from "left-leaning news outlets." His accusations appeared to mirror those in the Aug. 25 piece.
So Mango is stimulated to action by the whiny babbling of Zircon and Shit. And to confirm it has any legitimate national policy concern, he has everybody's Uncle Asshole, Larry Kudlow, announce his plans. Hopefully his staff has enough energy left to deflect him to another tatget with a lesser impact.
Ever taken a DNA test ?
As far as the current laws of the land are concerned, all your familiy DNA are belong to the cops, if they ask for it. And there are no guidelines or retraints on what they cna get and how thry can use it.
Familial searches led California authorities to arrest Joseph James DeAngelo in the Golden State Killer probe in April, and investigators have since used it to make breakthroughs in several other unsolved murder cases, including four in Washington state, Pennsylvania, Texas and North Carolina.
But as these searches proliferate, they are raising concerns about police engagement in "DNA dragnets" and "genetic stop and frisk" techniques. And as public DNA databases grow and are accessed by law enforcement, investigators may soon have the ability to track down nearly anyone, even people who never submitted their genetic material for analysis.
"If you are a privacy zealot, this is super alarming. It means you don't have any privacy," said Malia Fullerton, a bioethics specialist and professor at the University of Washington. "On the other hand, if you have no problem with police using your family information to solve these cold cases, you might see this as a good thing."
Part of the concern stems from law enforcement's rapid embrace of familial searches to investigate crimes, aided by open-access DNA databases that did not exist a decade ago.
One of these is Florida-based GEDmatch, founded in 2010. GEDmatch allows genealogy enthusiasts to upload and share their DNA profiles, created from commercial services such as Ancestry and 23andMe. The site offers special tools to help find people find relatives, and since it is free of charge, it has rapidly grown — to more than 920,000 profiles by May.
It's also proven to be a gold mine for law enforcement.
In California's Golden State Killer probe, investigator Paul Holes turned to GEDMatch after trying to find a match for DNA the killer left at a Ventura County crime scene. Holes initially looked through the FBI's DNA database, which includes genetic profiles of people arrested or convicted of crimes, but he came up empty.
To broaden his search, Holes registered with GEDmatch using an alias, uploaded the unknown suspect's DNA profile. Several distant relatives of the suspect came up. Investigators then spent months building family trees and tracking down relatives using basic genealogical reserach, to narrow their list of possible suspects.
Ultimately they arrested DeAngelo, a former police officer living outside of Sacramento.
Investigators were lucky that at least one of DeAngelo's distant relatives had shared their DNA profile on GEDmatch. But the methods police employed in their search are coming under scrutiny.
Before identifying DeAngelo, investigators reportedly assembled and examined 25 different family trees, possibly involving up to 1,000 people. Only one of these family trees ended up containing the alleged serial rapist and murderer. But now investigators had information on all those other people.
Investigators initially zeroed in on two suspects other than DeAngelo, and even went so far as to gain a court warrant to sample DNA from one of them, a 73-year-old man in an Oregon nursing home, by force if necessary. But neither he nor another man had DNA that matched the crime scene sample.
In a recent commentary, Fullerton and collaborator Rori Rohlfs argued that the Golden State Killer probe demonstrated how innocent bystanders can be ensnared through familial searches.
"These details, many of which only came to light after intense press coverage, raise a host of concerns about the methods employed (by police) and the degree to which they exposed otherwise innocent individuals to harms associated with unjustified privacy intrusions," they wrote in Leapsmag, an online magazine focused on the life sciences.
All Ur DNA Я Belong To Us. And remember, to the police there are no innocent people, just ones that haven't been arrested yet.
Small Hand Puke
Don't even send flowers
Not Fair
A familiar plot
Tom Tomorrow looks at the week that was or is it the week that will be? With this bunch of bozos it is getting hard to say if they have done it before or yet.
From the pen of Monte Wolverton
Trump squeezes out his last respects
From the pen of Daryl Cagle
Which way does he go?
The Governor of Arizona Doug Ducey has the responsibility of appointing a replacement for the late Senator John McCain until the 2020 election. And he faces an interesting dilemma. Does he appoint a McCain style conservative Republican or does he go for Trumpian Flaming Asshole? Whoever he chooses will have a distinct advantage in 2020.
Senator John McCain's death this weekend laid bare the long-simmering Republican tensions over who will be appointed to fill his Arizona seat, pitting the pragmatic wing of the party that Mr. McCain represented against the ascendant, hard-line forces loyal to President Trump — and hostile to the late senator.
On Sunday, a day after the senator and former prisoner of war succumbed to brain cancer, Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona issued a statement through an aide indicating he will not appoint a successor to Mr. McCain until after what is expected to be nearly a weeklong series of services in his honor — in Arizona, Washington and Annapolis, Md.
"Out of respect for the life and legacy of Senator John McCain and his family, Governor Ducey will not be making any announcements about an appointment until after the senator is laid to rest," said Daniel Ruiz II, an adviser to Mr. Ducey.
With Republicans clinging to a 50-49 Senate majority, hearings on the Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh looming and Mr. Trump under intensifying legal scrutiny, Gov. Ducey's choice carries enormous implications in Washington.
And it is coming at a moment, in Arizona and beyond, when the Republican Party has rallied to the sort of nationalist and at-times nativist politics that Mr. Trump embodies and Mr. McCain scorned.
The governor's appointee will represent the state through most of 2020, when there will be a special election to fill the rest of Mr. McCain's term, and Republicans close to Mr. Ducey indicated he is likely to pick a replacement who intends to run again rather than a caretaker to temporarily fill the seat. Among the names under consideration, according to Arizona Republicans, are Mr. McCain's widow, Cindy; a former Arizona senator, Jon Kyl; and two former Arizona House members, John Shadegg and Matt Salmon.
Other possibilities include Kirk Adams, Mr. Ducey's top aide and a former state legislator; the state treasurer, Eileen Klein; a member of the state Board of Regents, Karrin Taylor Robson; and Barbara Barrett, a business executive and former United States ambassador to Finland.
A choice that should be easy if Doug Ducey were not running for re-election this year. Whoever he does select will offend one side or the other ot if he is lucky, both.
The Seven Deadly Trumps
1 was born on 3rd base & thinks he scored a touchdown
Tracks Of My Tears
Some of what he is hiding
Someone is happy
From the pen of Sean Delonas
A president at war with the law
Among his many manic attempts to prevent his impending impeachment and conviction on many counts of malfeasance, Mango Mussolini has been attacking the court system and the public perception of its fairness and legitimacy.
It is a once-unimaginable scenario: Sometime soon in an American courtroom, a criminal defense lawyer may argue that the prosecution of an MS-13 gang member is a politically motivated "witch hunt" built around a witness who has "flipped" and taken what the lawyer calls a plea deal of dubious legality.
He will be quoting the president of the United States.
That is potentially the gravest danger of President Trump's sustained verbal assault on the country's justice system, legal experts say. In his attempt at self-defense amid the swirl of legal cases and investigations involving himself, his aides and his associates, Mr. Trump is directly undermining the people and processes that are the foundation of the nation's administration of justice.
The result is a president at war with the law.
"You are dealing with a potentially indelible smearing of our law enforcement institutions," said Neal K. Katyal, who was acting solicitor general under President Barack Obama. "If Trump's views were actually accepted, there would be thousands of criminals who are out on the streets right now."
The president's public judgments about the country's top law enforcement agencies revolve largely around how their actions affect him personally — a vision that would recast the traditionally independent justice system as a guardian of the president and an attack dog against his adversaries. For more than a year, he has criticized the Justice Department, questioned the integrity of the prosecutors leading the Russia investigation, and mercilessly mocked Jeff Sessions, his own attorney general.
Mr. Trump continued that pattern on Twitter on Saturday morning, seizing on disputed reports in the conservative news media that the F.B.I. had ignored "thousands of Crooked Hillary Emails" and vowing to get "to the bottom of all of this corruption."
"At some point I may have to get involved!" he warned.
But this past week's stunning legal developments — a conviction for his former campaign manager, a guilty plea by a longtime lawyer for him who implicated Mr. Trump himself in illegal acts, and immunity agreements for two of his closest business associates — appear to have broadened the president's hostility toward the legal system.
In the wake of those developments, the president assailed federal prosecutors for their attempts to "break" Paul Manafort, the former campaign chief who was convicted on eight felony counts, and the president's lawyers hinted that he might eventually wipe away the case with a pardon. And he lashed out at Mr. Sessions for not taking "control of the Justice Department" and pursuing enemies like Hillary Clinton, prompting a rare rebuke from the attorney general.
The most remarkable moment came when Mr. Trump attacked the very notion that prosecutors should try to "flip" witnesses by reaching plea agreements. In an interview on "Fox & Friends," the president questioned that tool, which has long been considered lawful and essential for prosecutions.
"I have had many friends involved in this stuff," Mr. Trump said. "It's called flipping, and it almost ought to be illegal."
In fact what is illegal are so many of the actions of Mango from his attempts to obstruct justice and subborn perjury to his treasonous actions at the behest of his 'owner' Papa Putin. Many hard working people are involved in the effort to bring him to justice and his tweets and 'speeches' are all aimed at making people think this is wrong. Don't be fooled, a crook is still a crook whether he is wearing a blue suit or an orange jumpsuit.
R.I.P. Marvin Neil Simon
You had your characters kvetch and kvell and the world laughing until it hurt.
R.I.P. John Sidney McCain III
Your fighting days are over.
Former CIA Director John Brennan
He speaks with Bill Maher
Do elves have balls?
Bill Maher monlogue
The Devil has many names
John McCain did not want Trump at his funeral
Dustbowl Revival
In the shadow of his predecessor
From the pen of Milt Priggee
His self-image
From the pen of John Darkow
Judge invalidates an Imperial Decree
The Tangerine Shitgibbon seems to have believed the shit thrown at Obama about his changing the law with Executive Orders. Ever since Shitgibbon was sworn in he has been writing up a shitstorm of Executive Orders, mainly because he knows even a GOP controlled Congress won't do what he wants as fast as he wants it. And now a federal judge has put a crimp in his Imperial EOs.
A federal district judge in Washington struck down most of the key provisions of three executive orders that President Trump signed in late May that would have made it easier to fire federal employees.
The ruling, issued early Saturday, is a blow to Republican efforts to rein in public-sector labor unions, which states like Wisconsin have aggressively curtailed in recent years. In June, the Supreme Court dealt public-sector unions a major blow by ending mandatory union fees for government workers nationwide. (Federal workers were already exempt from paying such fees.)
The ruling is the latest in a series of legal setbacks for the administration, which has suffered losses in court in its efforts to wield executive authority to press its agenda on immigration, voting and the environment.
The executive orders, which also rolled back the power of the unions that represent federal workers, had instructed agencies to seek to reduce the amount of time in which underperforming employees are allowed to demonstrate improvement before facing termination, from a maximum of up to 120 days to a maximum of 30 days, and to seek to limit workers' avenues for appealing performance evaluations. The orders also sought to significantly reduce the amount of so-called official time that federal employees in union positions can spend on union business during work hours.
"We are very pleased that the court agreed that the president far exceeded his authority, and that the apolitical career federal work force shall be protected from these illegal, politically motivated executive orders," Sarah Suszczyk, the co-chair of a coalition of government-workers unions, said in a statement.
In their legal complaint, the unions argued that the executive orders were illegal because federal law requires these rules to be negotiated between government agencies and the unions that represent their workers.
The complaint said that the president lacks the authority to override federal law on these questions, and the judge in the case, Ketanji Brown Jackson, agreed, writing that most of the key provisions of the executive orders "conflict with congressional intent in a manner that cannot be sustained."
The White House had implicitly sought to pre-empt this critique in the text of the executive orders, styling the provisions as mere goals that the federal agencies should try to bring about through bargaining with the unions rather than unilateral mandates.
But Judge Jackson flatly rejected this maneuver, arguing that the law requires agencies to negotiate in "good faith" and that the executive orders "impair the ability of agency officials to keep an open mind, and to participate fully in give-and-take discussions, during collective bargaining negotiations."
Not knowing how a real president is supposed to act, Shitgibbon continues to act the fool and continues to be slapped down for it. Imagine what a disaster this country would be if Shitgibbon had any idea what he was doing ??
They merged with a big oil company
Bill Maher looks at Merger Madness with political parties.
Hope it's not renewed
Wait until he works for prison wages.
When the Moon Fell In Love With the Sun
Dear Lemon Trees
Credit Rudy
Anyone else think its getting warm ??
Talking like a Man of Respect
Now that Cheeto Mussolini finds his nuts in a salad shooter he is more and more using the language of his old New York friends who also found their nuts in a salad shooter when the Law came knocking.
For much of the 1980s and 1990s, "the Dapper Don" and "the Donald" vied for supremacy on the front pages of New York's tabloids. The don, John J. Gotti, died in a federal prison in 2002, while Donald J. Trump went on to be president of the United States.
Now, as Mr. Trump faces his own mushrooming legal troubles, he has taken to using a vocabulary that sounds uncannily like that of Mr. Gotti and his fellow mobsters in the waning days of organized crime, when ambitious prosecutors like Rudolph W. Giuliani tried to turn witnesses against their bosses to win racketeering convictions.
"I know all about flipping," Mr. Trump told Fox News this week. "For 30, 40 years I've been watching flippers. Everything's wonderful and then they get 10 years in jail and they flip on whoever the next highest one is, or as high as you can go."
Mr. Trump was referring to the decision by his former lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, to take a plea deal on fraud charges and admit to prosecutors that he paid off two women to clam up about the sexual affairs that they claimed to have had with Mr. Trump.
But the president was also evoking a bygone world — the outer boroughs of New York City, where he grew up — a place of leafy neighborhoods and working-class families, as well as its share of shady businessmen and mob-linked politicians. From an early age, Mr. Trump encountered these raffish types with their unscrupulous methods, unsavory connections and uncertain loyalties.
Mr. Trump is comfortable with the wiseguys-argot of that time and place, and he defaults to it whether he is describing his faithless lawyer or his fruitless efforts to discourage the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, from investigating one of his senior advisers, Michael T. Flynn, over his connections to Russia.
"When I first heard that Trump said to Comey, 'Let this go,' it just rang such a bell with me," said Nicholas Pileggi, an author who has chronicled the Mafia in books and films like "Goodfellas" and "Casino." "Trump was surrounded by these people. Being raised in that environment, it was normalized to him."
Mr. Pileggi traced the president's language to the Madison Club, a Democratic Party machine in Brooklyn that helped his father, Fred Trump, win his first real estate deals in the 1930s. In those smoke-filled circles, favors were traded like cases of whiskey and loyalty mattered above all.
Mr. Trump honed his vocabulary over decades through his association with the lawyer Roy Cohn, who besides working for Senator Joseph McCarthy also represented Mafia bosses like Mr. Gotti, Tony Salerno and Carmine Galante. He also gravitated to colorful characters like Roger J. Stone Jr., the pinkie-ring-wearing political consultant, and Mr. Stone's onetime partner, Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman who was convicted on Tuesday of eight counts of tax and bank fraud.
"It's the kind of subculture that most people avoid," said Michael D'Antonio, one of Mr. Trump's biographers. "You cross the street to get away from people like that. Donald brings them close. He's most comfortable with them."
He's comfortable with them but he will be one of them even when he goes to prison. He isn't tough enough the be a 'Gaspipe'. He isn't well dressed enough to be a 'Dapper Don'. He might be a 'Fat Tony' being just a front man for the real boss.
What did Trump reveal in Helsinki ?
Until Trump confesses or Putin releases his tapes of the meeting we will never know. What we do know is that important intelligence sources close to Putin and the Kremlin have gone silent.
In 2016, American intelligence agencies delivered urgent and explicit warnings about Russia's intentions to try to tip the American presidential election — and a detailed assessment of the operation afterward — thanks in large part to informants close to President Vladimir V. Putin and in the Kremlin who provided crucial details.
But two years later, the vital Kremlin informants have largely gone silent, leaving the C.I.A. and other spy agencies in the dark about precisely what Mr. Putin's intentions are for November's midterm elections, according to American officials familiar with the intelligence.
The officials do not believe the sources have been compromised or killed. Instead, they have concluded they have gone to ground amid more aggressive counterintelligence by Moscow, including efforts to kill spies, like the poisoning in March in Britain of a former Russian intelligence officer that utilized a rare Russian-made nerve agent.
Current and former officials also said the expulsion of American intelligence officers from Moscow has hurt collection efforts. And officials also raised the possibility that the outing of an F.B.I. informant under scrutiny by the House intelligence committee — an examination encouraged by President Trump — has had a chilling effect on intelligence collection.
Technology companies and political campaigns in recent weeks have detected a plethora of political interference efforts originating overseas, including hacks of Republican think tanks and fake liberal grass-roots organizations created on Facebook. Senior intelligence officials, including Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, have warned that Russians are intent on subverting American democratic institutions.
But American intelligence agencies have not been able to say precisely what are Mr. Putin's intentions: He could be trying to tilt the midterm elections, simply sow chaos or generally undermine trust in the democratic process.
The officials, seeking to protect methods of collection from Russia, would not provide details about lost sources, but acknowledged the degradation in the information collected from Russia. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to reveal classified information. A spokesman for the C.I.A. declined to comment.
To determine what the Russian government is up to, the United States employs multiple forms of intelligence, including intercepted communications and penetrated computer networks.
The United States continues to intercept Russian communication, and the flow of that intelligence remains strong, said current and former officials. And Russian informants could still meet their C.I.A. handlers outside Russia, further from Moscow's counterintelligence apparatus.
Because clandestine meetings can take months to set up and complete, a lengthy lag can pass before the C.I.A. realizes a key source has gone silent, according to former officials. It is rare for the agency to discover immediately that informants have eroded or are running scared. Only after several missed meetings might C.I.A. officers and analysts conclude that a source has decided it is too dangerous to pass information.
Espionage is a long game and if Trump helped Putin cut to the end by giving him a list of sources in the Kremlin, it will still be a long time before that can be confirmed. Until then we can only hope the Intelligence Community never let Trump anywhere near that vital information.
They always have something to hide
Can a dishonest man pick an honest judge ?
Hold Out Your Hand
One more store to visit
He definitely has enough rope
The jury is out.....until payday
And there is no greater proof of the Republican fear than the party leadership encouraging congressional incumbents to dump on Trump if they need a campaign boost.
Senior Republican Party leaders began urging their most imperiled incumbents on Wednesday to speak out about the wrongdoing surrounding President Trump, with Representative Tom Cole, a former House Republican campaign chairman, warning, "Where there's smoke, and there's a lot of smoke, there may well be fire."
Democrats face their own pressure to shed their cautious midterm strategy and hammer the opposition for fostering what Democratic leaders are labeling "a culture of corruption" that starts at Mr. Trump and cascades through two indicted House Republicans to a series of smaller scandals breaking out in the party's backbenches.
One day after Michael D. Cohen, the president's former lawyer, implicated Mr. Trump in payoffs to two women before the 2016 election, and the former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted of eight felonies, Republicans were concerned that the worst may be to come in the House, although the party's senators expressed few worries.
By urging some candidates to speak out or at least stay silent, Republican leaders who gravely fear losing control of the House risked opening the first significant rift between the Trump White House and the Republican-controlled Capitol.
"Anybody who says this is not disturbing is not being honest," said Mr. Cole, an Oklahoman and the former head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, adding, "so my advice to any candidate would be: Keep your powder dry and don't rush to attack or defend anybody because you just don't know enough to have a reaction that you can still defend three months from now."
On cue, Representative Carlos Curbelo, Republican of Florida, called the accumulation of Trump-related scandals a "sad chapter in our country's politics" and said that "no one is above the law." Mr. Curbelo, in a tough re-election fight, also reproached the president for his caustic attacks on the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III.
"He's making a major mistake by attacking the Mueller probe in such a personal way," said Mr. Curbelo, who represents a district that Hillary Clinton won handily in 2016. "The best thing for everyone, especially if the White House is so confident that the president will be absolved in this process, is to let the process continue."
Nearly as alarming to House Republicans were the mushrooming scandals in their own chamber, misdeeds that may dampen turnout among conservative voters.
Only hours after the convictions of Mr. Cohen and Mr. Manafort, Representative Duncan D. Hunter of California was indicted on a charge of using campaign money to fund a lavish lifestyle, including the alleged purchase of golf shorts masked as a charitable veterans contribution.
Those charges came only weeks after Representative Chris Collins of New York was arrested on charges of insider trading, something that has also tarnished a handful of his colleagues, including Representative John Culberson, an endangered Texas Republican. Mr. Collins and Mr. Hunter were Mr. Trump's two earliest congressional supporters.
In Virginia, Representative Scott Taylor is accused of forging signatures to get an independent on the ballot this fall to help save his seat. And in Florida, Representative Vern Buchanan is accused of accepting a seven-figure yacht loan from a bank lobbying for last year's tax cut, then purchasing the 73-foot vessel on the same day he voted for the measure he helped write.
"It has been a really bad August," as Mr. Cole put it.
Mr. Hunter's Democratic opponent, Ammar Campa-Najjar, released a video declaring, "The division, chaos and corruption in Washington has gone too far."
It would appear that the Republicans have their nuts in a salad shooter right now. They are going to need all the gerrymandering, vote suppression, fraud and Russian hacking they can get to keep from being swamped in November.
No need yet
Just because there is a loose cannon in the White House there is no need yet for any legislation protecting the special counsel conducting the investigation into his crimes. At least that is what the Republican Senators who co-sponsored the bill last spring now say.
Republicans who co-authored an effort to bar President Donald Trump from firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller now say they don't see the need right now for their initiative — even after the convictions of Trump's former campaign manager and personal lawyer.
Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said Wednesday that they won't push for passage of their the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act.
"I'll let you know if I feel like I need to" move to have that bill considered, Graham said.
"If I felt it needed to be, I would do it. I am firmly in the camp of, let Mueller do his job," he said.
The bill won approval in the Republican-led judiciary committee in April, but top GOP leaders are not considering bringing the legislation and it does not have the support of 60 senators, a Tillis spokesman said.
Graham and Tillis authored legislation with Democratic Sens. Chris Coons of Delaware and Cory Booker of New Jersey.
After the convictions of Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign manager, and Michael Cohen, the president's personal attorney, in separate cases, Coons called on the Senate to take up the measure which would bar the president from dismissing Mueller without cause.
"It is past time for the full Senate to vote on it," Coons said.
Manafort, who ran Trump's campaign for part of his 2016 presidential run, was convicted of eight felony charges related to tax evasion and bank fraud. Cohen, Trump's longtime personal lawyer, pleaded guilty to eight counts. He implicated Trump as directing payments to two women before the election to keep them from going public with stories about affairs.
"That is a striking level of criminality by individuals close to the President," Coons said in a statement. "Both prosecutions arose from the work of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and President Trump continues to criticize Mueller and his team and to threaten their ongoing investigation."
Under the bill, a fired special counsel could request a judicial review of his firing, and a judicial panel could reinstate the special counsel if his firing was not done for just cause. The bill includes a retroactive clause, which would apply to any special counsel appointed after Jan. 1, 2017 and removed before the bill was enacted.
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., voted for the measure in committee. Despite some constitutional questions about the bill, Flake said he'd like to see if get a vote on the Senate floor. He doesn't expect that to happen.
"Doubt it, but I'd like to see it," Flake said.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has repeatedly said he does not see a need for the bill.
"I don't think he should fire Mueller and I don't think he is going to. This is a piece of legislation that's not necessary in my judgment," McConnell told Fox's Neil Cavuto in April. His staff pointed to the statement when asked Wednesday about McConnell's current thinking on the issue.
Democrats, though, saw a new, pressing need to protect Mueller.
"The Congress of the United States has to protect the special counsel," Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., a Senate Judiciary Committee member, told CNN.
Some say that Putin has managed to turn key Senators like Lindsey Graham to keep his boy Donald in the White House. Certainly they are getting discrete financial assistance from Russia but I believe they are in the thrall of a more intoxicating drug, Power. If the impeach Trump they wil surely lose power and office and likely end up being prosecuted themselves. They stand to lose too much to let go of Dannemora Donny's Big Red Tie.
And their record shows it
He was right one time
Fear Is Like a Forest
Jen Cloher and Band
With a wall around it
Trump is the New Orange
Nice and chewy like the old days
The 2nd Congressman to support Trump
Has now become the second Republican congressman to be indicted for a federal felony. Duncan Hunter Jr has been charged with converting more than $250,000 in campaign funds to pay for personal expenses and filing false campaign finance records with the Federal Election Commission.
Representative Duncan Hunter was indicted by a federal grand jury in San Diego on Tuesday after a monthslong criminal investigation into allegations that he spent tens of thousands of dollars in campaign funds on family trips to Hawaii and Italy, private school tuition for his children and even a $600 airline ticket for a pet rabbit.
In a 48-page indictment released by the Justice Department, Mr. Hunter, Republican of California, and his wife, Margaret, are charged with converting more than $250,000 in campaign funds to pay for personal expenses and filing false campaign finance records with the Federal Election Commission.
Mr. Hunter, 41, becomes the second Republican congressman to be indicted this month. Representative Chris Collins, Republican of New York, was indicted on insider trading charges, and announced days later that he had suspended his re-election campaign. The two were the earliest congressional supporters of the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump.
Mr. Collins, who is accused of passing insider information to his son about a drug company on whose board he served, has said he expects to be "fully vindicated and exonerated."
A spokesman for Mr. Hunter, Michael Harrison, said Tuesday that the congressman "believes this action is purely politically motivated," and referred a reporter to a letter that Mr. Hunter's lawyer, Gregory A. Vega, sent this month to Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general. Mr. Vega, anticipating an indictment, asserted in the letter that two prosecutors involved in the investigation had attended a fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton, and complained that bringing charges so close to the election would effectively deliver a "solidly Republican" House seat into Democratic hands.
The back-to-back indictments are all but certain to give ammunition to Democrats, who have been promising to clean up corruption in Washington if voters give them control of the House.
And for California Republicans, it has immediate implications, expanding from seven to eight the field of Republican-held seats being seriously targeted by Democrats. Mr. Hunter cannot take his name off the ballot, according to a spokesman for the California secretary of state, and California does not allow write-in candidates.
Mr. Hunter easily won California's nonpartisan primary with 48 percent of the vote; the next highest vote-getter, Ammar Campa-Najjar, a Democrat, took only 17 percent. Despite that, Democrats have long thought they could make a play for Mr. Hunter's seat, especially if he were indicted. At the very least, the indictment will require Republicans to spend money to defend the seat.
His daddy Duncan Hunter Sr passed on the traditional family seat in Congress to his son but obviously failed to give him enough brains to stay our=t of jail. And just for shits and giggles, who was the third Republican in Congress to support Donald Trump?
When is a farmer not a farmer?
Maybe when he is merely a landlord renting his land to others who do the actual work? Whatever your position is, the Democrats want the 'farmer' designation removed from the ballot description for Republicans Jeff Denham and Devin Nunes.
Before the state's June primary, more than a half-dozen congressional and statewide candidates were forced to amend their designation after being denied their first choice by California's secretary of state or because of an opponent's court challenge.
Red to Blue, a Democratic program designed to flip Republican House seats, filed a lawsuit against Denham Tuesday, saying he isn't truly a farmer because he leases his 20 acres of almond orchards in Atwater. The income he earns from the land, valued at minimum $500,000, is in rent and not listed as farm income on his 2018 financial disclosure report.
The lawsuit, filed in Sacramento County Superior Court, calls for Democratic California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, who approved the "Businessman/Farmer/Representative" designation in March, to remove the description on the November ballot.
The majority of Denham's overall income, besides his congressional salary, comes from renting a property in Turlock and from his plastics company based in Salinas, California.
Denham said the plastics company also makes farming equipment, adding to the income that comes from his involvement in agriculture.
Calling the lawsuit "ridiculous" and "an attempted distraction to not talk about water issues," he said he grew up farming a wide variety of produce, from corn to watermelon. He also bought the farmland 15 years ago and worked on it personally with his children, he said.
"I bought the land as a sweet potato farm, and my kids helped me pull it out and plant almond trees," Denham told McClatchy. "They grew up on it."
He said he leased it seven years ago when he started coming to Washington.
It's not the first time Denham has been criticized over the issue. A former congressional opponent, Michael Eggman, put "Real Local Farmer" atop many of his campaign signs, to contrast himself with Denham. More recently, at a public appearance last week, some protesters chanted "fake farmer" at Denham.
Nunes is facing a similar challenge, with Democratic Super PAC Fight Back California funding a challenge in court that would force the congressman to remove the farmer designation. While Nunes' most recent financial disclosure reports less than $5,000 in income from Alpha Omega Winery and less than $200 from a Bank of America Savings Account, his family owns a farm in Tulare.
The lawsuit says Nunes has not "earned income from farming or agriculture operations in at least 10 years."
If they want to be accurate Devin Nunes should be listed as 'Russian Asset' but that would take up 2 of his 3 allowed words.
Is that the Mueller Overpass ?
Orange is the new blue suit
Mahbootay
There's the sign post up ahead
In Trumplandia
From the pen of Jack Ohman
Will Wells Fargo ever get it right?
Their first failures involved efforts to enrich the bank at the expense of ordinary people, customers and non-customers alike. Now Wells Fargo just seems to be fucking up for the sake of fucking up.
Nikki Fried, a Democrat running for agriculture commissioner in Florida, has made no secret of her support for medical marijuana.
Further expansion of the state's program is the highest priority on her campaign website. Before entering the race, she ran a lobbying firm, Igniting Florida, and described herself as "one of most visible faces and key activists in Florida's burgeoning medical cannabis industry."
Even so, employees at Wells Fargo, where her campaign held an account, had questions about her platform.
The bank, which says it has a policy against serving marijuana-related businesses, had noticed that Ms. Fried was "advocating for expanded patient access to medical marijuana." It asked the campaign in July whether it would be receiving money from "lobbyists from the medical marijuana industry in any capacity."
The campaign replied that, yes, Ms. Fried would be receiving donations from lobbyists as well as "executives, employees and corporations in the medical marijuana industry."
Last week, the campaign said it had received written notice that Wells Fargo was closing its account.
On Monday, Ms. Fried urged her supporters to consider pulling their money from the bank.
"This is absolutely unprecedented," she said in a telephone interview. "I've been in this campaign since the beginning of June. Everybody in Florida knows that I'm one of the main proponents of the expansion of medical marijuana."
Wells Fargo isn't the first bank to close a customer's account over money that could be related to the sale of marijuana, which is legal in some form in states including Florida but still prohibited by federal law.
That conflict has had banks large and small walking a line for more than a decade, since the first states began changing their cannabis laws. Marijuana growers have struggled to open and maintain bank accounts, and dispensaries have relied on cash to do business instead of credit cards. Businesses like construction companies and electricians that provide services to the growers and distributors have also had problems.
The biggest banks are traditionally the most cautious. But Wells Fargo's scrutiny of Ms. Fried's political beliefs set its decision apart.
"If a bank is going to start drawing a line based on a candidate's particular advocacy, where does a bank draw that line?" asked Christian Bax, who until Aug. 10 was Florida's medical marijuana director. "Is it going to extend to every candidate in Florida who advocates for medical marijuana?"
This would be a good time to use the phrase, "slippery slope" in relation to the banks actions except for one thing. Wells Fargo has been 'riding shotgun down the avalanche' for a long time now.
Tarheels Topple Shitheel Statue
The good students at University of North Carolina showed us that they are in favor of the United States and not in thrall to the state's treasonous bastards.
Protesters toppled the towering Confederate monument at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Monday night, perhaps ending — or perhaps only intensifying — a debate over the propriety of a divisive symbol at a renowned public institution.
The statue, erected in 1913 and known as Silent Sam, fell after nightfall on the campus, brought down by demonstrators who condemned it as an enduring tribute to white supremacy. Although university officials had signaled their misgivings about the statue's continued presence on their campus, they had argued that state law forbade them from moving the monument without a panel's approval. It was not clear on Tuesday what would ultimately become of the damaged statue.
Critics of the monument celebrated its downing on the night before classes began, and some tried to bury the soldier's head in the North Carolina dirt. But officials soon secured and removed the fallen statue from the area where it had stood, and by midday Tuesday, university leaders were criticizing the protesters' actions.
Carol L. Folt, the university chancellor, acknowledged in an open letter on Tuesday that the statue "has been divisive for years, and its presence has been a source of frustration for many people not only on our campus but throughout the community." Still, in a possible signal of repercussions to come, the chancellor said Monday night's events were "unlawful and dangerous."
The times they are a-changin' and it is good to see a positive step towards removal of these monuments to treason and slavery.
Having waited too long, it's now too late
That is the excuse given by Georgia officials as Secretary of State Brian Kemp, in charge of state elections, tries to elect Brian Kemp governor in November.
County election officials across Georgia say it's too late to switch to paper ballots in the upcoming elections, despite warnings that hackers could easily penetrate the state's antiquated electronic voting system and that Russia could unleash a new wave of disruptive cyberattacks.
U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg is expected to rule any day on whether the state must switch to old-fashioned paper ballots. Her ruling would come in response to a year-old lawsuit by citizen activists. They argue that the state's current system of relying on electronic voting machines that lack a paper backup is "hopelessly compromised" and paper ballots are necessary to ensure public confidence in the results.
Georgia is just one of many states dealing with the fallout of the U.S. intelligence agencies' conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 campaign and has compromised — or tried to compromise — state election systems across the country to disrupt the 2018 midterms elections.
But interviews and court statements from Republican and Democratic county officials and from state election officials drew the same response: It's just too late to make the switch.
Lawyers for Secretary of State Brian Kemp say things will get chaotic if Totenberg orders a statewide shift to paper. Kemp is the Republican nominee for governor.
"It's impossible," said Rinda Wilson, the Republican chairman of the Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections. Anyone who says otherwise, she said, "doesn't have the faintest idea how the whole system works. You have deadlines, you have early voting ... It would throw the entire election into chaos."
Such a shift at this stage would cause "significant administrative and financial burden" on Muscogee County, which borders Alabama in central Georgia, said Nancy Boren, its election director.
The county would want more time to train poll workers and educate the public and currently lacks enough scanners to handle all ballots, Boren said.
Last week, Democrats on the elections board in Morgan County, a Republican bastion in central Georgia, sought to capitalize on a vacant seat that briefly gave them the majority. But even as they proposed to dump the electronic voting machines and push the county toward paper ballots that would be read by optical scanners, Republicans filled the vacancy and defeated the motion.
In court statements filed in the suit against Kemp and other state officials, elections directors from several counties said switching to hand-marked paper ballots so late could be prohibitively costly or complex.
Activists' push for paper has been propelled by security concerns stemming both from a breach in Georgia's elections system and worries that Russia' will repeat cyberattacks that interfered with the 2016 elections.
And why shouldn't they have to work overtime to fix the problem since they waited 6this long to fix it? An honest and fair election is worth whatever cost and effort it takes.
Help a senior to understand
Do you get what matters ?
Amy Fradon & Leslie Ritter
Right Wing Morality
It is and has always been a slippery little booger as Tom Tomorrow makes clear this week.
Trump's Great Void
How Dare They !!
They play lawyers on TV
But when it comes to actually representing a client and giving him good legal advice, Donald Trump's lawyers are astoundingly stupid.
President Trump's lawyers do not know just how much the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, told the special counsel's investigators during months of interviews, a lapse that has contributed to a growing recognition that an early strategy of full cooperation with the inquiry was a potentially damaging mistake.
The president's lawyers said on Sunday that they were confident that Mr. McGahn had said nothing injurious to the president during the 30 hours of interviews. But Mr. McGahn's lawyer has offered only a limited accounting of what Mr. McGahn told the investigators, according to two people close to the president.
That has prompted concern among Mr. Trump's advisers that Mr. McGahn's statements could help serve as a key component for a damning report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, which the Justice Department could send to Congress, according to two people familiar with the discussions.
Mr. Trump's lawyers realized on Saturday that they had not been provided a full accounting after The New York Times published an article describing Mr. McGahn's extensive cooperation with Mr. Mueller's office. After Mr. McGahn was initially interviewed by the special counsel's office in November, Mr. Trump's lawyers never asked for a complete description of what Mr. McGahn had said, according to a person close to the president.
Mr. McGahn's lawyer, William A. Burck, gave the president's lawyers a short overview of the interview but few details, and he did not inform them of what Mr. McGahn said in subsequent interactions with the investigators, according to a person close to Mr. Trump. Mr. McGahn and Mr. Burck feared that Mr. Trump was setting up Mr. McGahn to take the blame for any possible wrongdoing, so they embraced the opening to cooperate fully with Mr. Mueller in an effort to demonstrate that Mr. McGahn had done nothing wrong.
On Sunday, Mr. Trump's lead lawyer dealing with the special counsel, Rudolph W. Giuliani, appeared to acknowledge that he had only a partial understanding of what Mr. McGahn had revealed. Mr. Giuliani said his knowledge was secondhand, given to him by a former Trump lawyer, John Dowd, who was one of the primary forces behind the initial strategy of full cooperation.
"I'll use his words rather than mine, that McGahn was a strong witness for the president, so I don't need to know much more about that," Mr. Giuliani said of Mr. Dowd on NBC's "Meet the Press."
But Mr. McGahn, who as White House counsel is not the president's personal lawyer, has repeatedly made clear to the president that his role is as a protector of the presidency, not of Mr. Trump personally.
So in his testimony McGahn may well have torpedoed Trump because it was the best thing to do for the Office of the President. As for Cheeto Mussolini's personal lawyers, they look like they could be outfoxed by "Night Court's" Dan Fielding.
Oliver explains what Trump doesn't know
And this week it is Trade (Long but worth it)
Rudy does it again
John Oliver and the Moment Of "Truth Isn't Truth"
They asked for it, they got it
The Chapin Sisters
Crucifix won't ward this off
From the pen of Adam Zyglis
From the pen of Rob Rogers
Trump administration hates the air we breathe
And as part of their overall campaign to damage the United States beyond repair, the Environmental Protection Agency has been effectively re-missioned as the Environmental Pollution Agency.
As a corporate lawyer, William L. Wehrum worked for the better part of a decade to weaken air pollution rules by fighting the Environmental Protection Agency in court on behalf of chemical manufacturers, refineries, oil drillers and coal-burning power plants.
Now, Mr. Wehrum is about to deliver one of the biggest victories yet for his industry clients — this time from inside the Trump administration as the government's top air pollution official.
On Tuesday, President Trump is expected to propose a vast rollback of regulations on emissions from coal plants, including many owned by members of a coal-burning trade association that had retained Mr. Wehrum and his firm as recently as last year to push for the changes.
The proposal strikes at the heart of climate-change regulations adopted by the Obama administration to force change among polluting industries, and follows the relaxation of separate rules governing when power plants must upgrade air pollution equipment. Mr. Wehrum, who has led the E.P.A.'s clean air office since November, also helped deliver the changes in several of those rules.
The rollbacks are part of the administration's effort to bring regulatory relief to the coal industry, and other major sources of air pollution. But to proponents of a tougher stance on industries that contribute to global warming, Mr. Wehrum is regarded as the single biggest threat inside the E.P.A., with Tuesday's expected announcement to weaken what is known as the Clean Power Plan the most recent evidence of his handiwork.
"They basically found the most aggressive and knowledgeable fox and said, 'Here are the keys to the hen house,'" said Bruce Buckheit, an air pollution expert who worked for the Justice Department's Environmental Enforcement Section and as director of the E.P.A.'s air enforcement office under Democratic and Republican presidents.
Mr. Wehrum has been able to push his deregulatory agenda without running into ethics troubles because of a quirk in federal ethics rules. The rules limit the activities of officials who join the government from industry — but they are less restrictive for lawyers than for officials who had worked as registered lobbyists.
The end result is that the ethics rules generally allow Mr. Wehrum to help oversee the drafting of policies that broadly benefit the industries or clients he represented in recent years.
Trump himself won't live long enough to suffer from the damage he is doing, but the next several generations will. And it will take that long to re-clean the air after the destructors are gone.
The value of torture
In the September 11 trials at Guantanamo the judge has thrown a monkey wrench into prosecution plans by refusing to allow post CIA torture FBI interrogations to be used in court.
The judge in the death-penalty trial of those accused of carrying out the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the U.S. has ruled that prosecutors may not use key FBI interrogations conducted at the Guantánamo detention center soon after years of CIA black site abuse ended.
Under the war court system, confessions must be voluntary. So prosecutors had already pledged not to use what the captives told their CIA interrogators during their years of secret spy agency custody that included torture. Instead, as a substitute, prosecutors had planned to have FBI agents describe what the suspects told them soon after their September 2006 transfers to Guantánamo in supposedly consensual interviews.
But the judge, Army Col. James L. Pohl, excluded the FBI interviews, known as "clean team statements," from trial in a 36-page ruling.
"Protective Order #4 will not allow the defense to develop the particularity and nuance necessary to present a rich and vivid account of the 3-4 year period in CIA custody the defense alleges constituted coercion," Pohl wrote in the ruling issued Friday and obtained by McClatchy.
"In order to provide the defense with substantially the same ability to make a defense as would discovery of or access to the specific classified information, the government will not be permitted introduce any FBI Clean Team Statement from any of the accused for any purpose."
Defense attorneys, who have top-secret security clearances, argued that the prosecutors' cascading restrictions and threats over trying to find and question potential witnesses of their clients' torture, notably CIA agents, deprived the accused 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four alleged accomplices of a fair trial.
Prosecutors countered that restrictions on defense attorneys were a national security necessity — and that the U.S. government had given defense lawyers enough CIA-screened and redacted documents or court-approved substitutions of actual evidence about the black sites, to let them try to get the Guantánamo interrogations excluded.
To defend prohibitions on defense investigations, chief prosecutor Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins told the judge in a Jan. 11 hearing: "The mere seeking of interviews with people — and wandering up and ambushing people at the Piggly Wiggly — is a serious thing."
The accused plotters were brought to Guantánamo after three and four years of secret detention in the CIA's secret overseas prison network. There, to get them to spill al-Qaida secrets, CIA agents subjected them to a program of "learned helplessness." They slammed their captives' heads into walls, strung them up in painful shackled positions, deprived them of sleep, kept them nude or in diapers, subjected them to dietary manipulation and rectal abuse. Mohammed was water boarded 183 times.
FBI agents, taking some directive by the CIA, questioned the five men in their first months at Guantánamo before they were allowed to see lawyers.
Defense lawyers had begun to argue that the alleged 9/11 plotters were so systematically broken, that what they told the FBI agents were programmed responses, lacking free will to say anything else.
But Pohl did not specifically rule on the issue of whether the FBI interviews were contaminated by the CIA abuse.
Instead, he found that the screened evidence Martins and his prosecutors gave defense lawyers did not provide enough details about the CIA period to let the defense effectively argue for suppression of the FBI interviews. So Pohl suppressed them.
In the same ruling, however, Pohl he agreed with prosecutors that the defense attorneys could be deprived of some graphic details of what went on in the black sites. So he found that, if the men are eventually convicted, prosecutors have given the defense attorneys enough information about what the CIA did to the alleged terrorists to argue against the death penalty.
Torture doesn't work, even after you stop doing it. It just taints everything that follows. And it's illegal.
Reading from Trump's Daily Schedule
He has the body of a Greek Diner
Bill Maher monologue
Another Sunday
July Flame
Laura Viers
What a Snowflake!
From the pen of Pat Bagley
Big Pharma fights to keep its gravy train
When the president doesn't give a damn how much your prescription costs despite pretending to do so and Congress is too busy passing laws to help pharma companies and then trading pharma stocks before announcing those laws, some states try to step in with their own laws to help the consumer. And Big Pharma is willing to spend a big chunk of their profits fighting those laws tooth and nail.
States around the country are clamping down on pharmaceutical companies, forcing them to disclose and justify price increases, but the drug manufacturers are fighting back, challenging the state laws as a violation of their constitutional rights.
Even more states are, for the first time, trying to regulate middlemen who play a crucial role by managing drug benefits for employers and insurers, while taking payments from drug companies in return for giving preferential treatment to their drugs.
The bipartisan efforts by states come as President Trump and his administration put pressure on drug companies to freeze prices and reduce out-of-pocket costs for consumers struggling to pay for drugs that often cost thousands of dollars a month.
Twenty-four states have passed 37 bills this year to curb rising prescription drug costs, according to Trish Riley, the executive director of the National Academy for State Health Policy, a nonpartisan forum of policymakers, and several state legislatures are still in session.
The burst of state activity on drug costs recalls the way states acted on their own to pass laws to expand health insurance coverage in the years before Congress passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010.
"In the absence of federal action, states are taking the lead in combating high drug prices," said State Representative Sean Scanlon of Connecticut, a Democrat.
A bill passed unanimously this year by the Connecticut General Assembly illustrates a popular tactic: States are shining a spotlight on drug price increases as a first step toward controlling costs.
Under the Connecticut law, drug companies must justify price increases for certain drugs if the price rises by at least 20 percent in one year or 50 percent over three years. Insurers must identify their 25 highest-cost drugs and the 25 with the greatest cost increases when they file their annual rate requests with the state Insurance Department.
In addition, the middlemen, known as pharmacy benefit managers, must disclose the amount of rebates and other price concessions they receive from drug companies.
California has adopted a law requiring drug companies to provide advance notice of price increases, together with a detailed statement of the reasons for the increases. In addition, insurers must file annual reports showing the percentage of premiums attributable to drug costs.
"Californians have a right to know why their medication costs are out of control, especially when pharmaceutical profits are soaring," Gov. Jerry Brown said.
Drug companies have filed suit to block the California law, which they describe as "unprecedented and unconstitutional."
The law "exports California's policy choices" to the rest of the country and violates the First Amendment by compelling drug manufacturers to explain their price increases, said the lawsuit, filed by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
PhRMA, along with the Biotechnology Innovation Organization, also went to court to challenge a law signed by Gov. Brian Sandoval of Nevada, a Republican.
You make get a break on your prescriptions but at what cost ?? If these laws are allowed to exist, pharmaceutical CEOs will have to subsist on ordinary CEO compensation and only afford yachts under 100 ft. Can you have that on your conscience ?
He speaks what's left of his mind
Bill Maher New Rules
You like to eat
Sam Bee examines where it comes from
Why would Kavanaugh be any better?
Woodsman Beware!
President WATB won't get his parade
At least not this year. The vainglorious highlight of Cheeto Mussolini's maladministration was to be his vanity military parade on Veterans Day. It has now been cancelled because its high cost has been revealed and roundly condemned.
President Trump on Friday canceled plans for a military parade this fall in Washington, blaming local officials for inflating the costs and saying they "know a windfall when they see it."
Washington's mayor, Muriel E. Bowser, pushed back on Twitter, saying that she had "finally got thru" to the president to convey the "realities" of what it costs to stage events like military parades in the city.
Ms. Bowser put the number at $21.6 million, though the city's costs are just a fraction of the total, with federal agencies also kicking in millions of dollars. A day earlier, the Pentagon said Mr. Trump's parade to celebrate the military could be postponed to 2019, as officials acknowledged that the event could cost more than $90 million.
The parade, which was never widely embraced, was initially scheduled for Nov. 10 — Veterans Day weekend — of this year.
While the District of Columbia would incur only about a quarter of the parade's estimated cost, the city, a Democratic bastion where Mr. Trump is nearly universally unpopular, is an easy target for him.
In a pair of tweets, Mr. Trump allowed for the possibility of a parade in 2019. He said that this year he would instead attend another parade planned at Joint Base Andrews and a military parade in Paris.
The president also took a jab at the local government in Washington, saying the city is "poorly" run. Ms. Bowser, a Democrat, hit back, mocking the president by ending her tweet with a parenthetical "sad" — a word Mr. Trump often uses in his own tweets — and calling him "the reality star in the White House."
Whiny Donny Dumbass has to wait until next year for his mighty parade. In the meantime he will go to France to see a real parade to celebrate the end of the War to End All Wars 100 years ago on Nov 11, 1918. I can't wait to hear how he will make that all about himself.
But Lying will get you the Electoral College
A Closer Look at TrumpOmarosa
Trump's Vanity Parade
Maigret Theme
The London Film Orchestra Feat.Olive Simpson


MADISON (WKOW) — Tammy Baldwin has won the race for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin.
The Democrat will keep the seat she's held since 2013, after a decisive victory over challenger State Sen. Leah Vukmir.
Sen. Baldwin spoke to her supporters at Monona Terrace in Madison just about an hour after polls closed, after the race was called quickly.
Baldwin thanked her supporters, and her opponent, for fighting for what they believe in.
Still, Baldwin said the work is not done. She urged everyone to stay engaged and bring both sides of the aisle together.
Sen. Baldwin's speech came as ABC projected Republicans would retain control of the Senate, so she'll be tasked with carrying out that call for unity across the political aisle.
Baldwin, 56, is from Madison.


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Rosie Napravnik speaks of friends not forgotten
By Susan Salk on September 9, 2013
Rosie Napravnik poses with her OTTB Old Ironsides, who she calls Sugar. Photo via Rosie Napravnik Facebook page
Rosie Napravnik never forgot who her friends were.
Especially not those who carried her to victories earned long before she was a household name in racing circles, and before the crew of 60 Minutes trained their spotlight on her, asking how it felt to be among a handful of women ever to race in the Kentucky Derby.
Before her 5th place finish at the Derby this year aboard Mylute, and last year's historic victory at the Kentucky Oaks, as the first female jock to win that race, Napravnik kept an eye out for a dappled gray gelding whose star was fading, even as hers was rising.
She watched as Old Ironsides, a classy gray who powered to two victories with her in his glory days, was swapped around in claiming races. And as he continued to decline, she put the word out that when he needed to retire, she'd be there.
Race name: Old Ironsides
Barn name: Sugar
Sire: Rubiano
Dam: Sister Two
Foal date: March 28, 2001
Earnings: $123, 395Then on Labor Day weekend five years ago, while she was holed up at home recuperating from a broken leg, the pale gentleman arrived at her doorstep "dead lame" but full of promise.
"He was a horse I fell in love with" right away, she says. "First of all, he's gorgeous. When he was a little younger, he was a dappled gray. He's 12 now and he's more of a flea-bitten white, but he's just a gorgeous animal."
Nicknaming him Sugar, Napravnik turned him over to her mother, a Maryland-based show-horse trainer, while she returned to the rigors of horseracing. And when she could, she visited her old friend and galloped cross-country, her mother and sister alongside, joyously "jumping everything we could."
Idyllic fun ran headlong into grim reality however, when, one day while surfing Facebook, Napravnik was confronted with a "horrible video" of horse slaughter.
Unable to shake the graphic images from her mind, she brought the subject up with good friend and Thoroughbred advocate Lorita Lindemann, and the conversation quickly turned to other old friends. Namely, Old Friends Equine.
Rosie and Sugar jump everything they can. Photo by, and courtesy of Lynn Towery Roberts
"We were discussing slaughter and she started to tell me the story about Michael (Blowen) and how he founded Old Friends," Napravnik says. "I was so impressed that a man with no obligations (to horseracing) wanted to help these horses."
She was so impressed with the mission of the world-renowned Kentucky facility, which is a retirement home to legendary equine champions, that last year, she met Blowen and soon offered to join the Old Friends Board.
"It's such a good idea to have all these champions, and it's a great way for the people to give back to these horses, for all the success, the entertainment, and the glory," Napravnik says. "After riding at Saratoga in $90,000 races, I know that many horses will need homes one day. Any one of these champions today needs a place to retire."
Even champion riders themselves, might one day need to come up with a career Plan B, she notes.
"I can relate to the horses because I don't have a second career planned for myself," she says.
But with her friends around her, life is pretty good these days for Rosie Napravnik and her sugar-white Thoroughbred.
In Rosie's off hours, she loves to go riding cross-country with her mother and sister. Photo by and courtesy of Lynn Towery Roberts
She missed her favorite horse too much to leave him behind while she went to work at Belmont Park, so Sugar has been retrained as a track pony.
"About a year-and-a-half ago, we brought him to Belmont and my husband schooled him to be a stable pony under western tack," she says. "We were concerned he would kick, because he used to kick out going into the starting gate. But he has turned into the best stable pony, and my husband (Joe Sharp) uses him."
More and more, Napravnik is buoyed by the growing awareness about ex-racehorses, and the desire people and organizations have to help them. Though her busy schedule limits her off-track time, she proudly affiliates herself with Old Friends, and is heartened by the successes of Thoroughbred programs and charities.
"I feel like whether it's an off-track Thoroughbred program, where a horse is being re-schooled, or if it's a horse too broken down, or infertile (to work), we need to give them a place to retire," she says, noting that it's great to see the rise in awareness, and the growing reach of retirement and rehoming programs, as well as the all-Thoroughbred horse shows. "There are so many horses who need an outlet."
—Author's note: This story was originally published last September, and is up today, Nov. 1, following Napravnik's win in the Breeders' Cup Distaff, and her retirement.
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13 responses to "Rosie Napravnik speaks of friends not forgotten"
Lisa Neely November 1, 2014 at 10:34 am | Permalink | Reply
I've adopted two and love them all there is! They have such heart! Great story of triumph and gratitude.. Love it!
Pegg Thomas March 1, 2014 at 3:39 pm | Permalink | Reply
We have a 24-year old OTTB in our paddock beside the barn. Nobody has ridden him in a few years due to arthritis, but he's still a classy old dude. We don't know his racing name, his tattoo is not legible, but he's always been a winner to us.
Stephanie Wilson March 1, 2014 at 10:20 am | Permalink | Reply
Thank you Rosie,we need more people like you in racing!!
Kristina September 10, 2013 at 12:35 pm | Permalink | Reply
Rosie is such a great role model. What a classy jockey and equestrienne!
Kathryn Baker September 10, 2013 at 6:17 am | Permalink | Reply
Rosie, thank you for being there for the horses after they have left the track. We need more professionals like you.
Ronald Wolniewicz September 10, 2013 at 3:41 am | Permalink | Reply
Thank You for helping an old friend.
Linda Sontchi September 10, 2013 at 3:29 am | Permalink | Reply
thank you for your support of Old Friends…if you ever ride at Oaklawn look me up….such a small breeder/owner
syb miller September 9, 2013 at 6:42 pm | Permalink | Reply
YAY ROSIE!!! OTTBs are the best, and we need voices like yours to help spread the word! i have one OTTB that was retired through a placement program, and care for a second that was literally minutes away from slaughter when he was removed from the pen. they are both the most amazing, awesome, smart, fun, athletic horses! your Sugar is beautiful, so glad you got him!!!
Holly carter the winter farm Aiken sc September 9, 2013 at 1:03 pm | Permalink | Reply
Go Rosie
It's only when the influential peeps come aboard to we see the public awareness grow!!!
susan miller September 9, 2013 at 12:40 pm | Permalink | Reply
I have a couple of OTTBs – Famous Woman, claimed by Mike Gill in California & who was raced until she broke down & on the way to the killers – that was in 2005 – she is pasture sound today and on a farm in Amherst NH – and there is Imperial Dance (sire sold for 8.25 mil) & was found on a sport horse farm in pa & was bred to Alphabet Soup – they are great buddies – Mini did not race but she is a Thoroughbred – 20 years old & is loved by everyone on the farm – she is buddy's with Striker – a half Fresian half quarter horse – OTTBs are super horses – and we love Rosie and rooted for her when she rode in major races.
Lisann September 9, 2013 at 12:27 pm | Permalink | Reply
Rosie is all class!
franboxwood September 9, 2013 at 11:49 am | Permalink | Reply
Rosie and Michael are the REAL deal! We are proud to have them in the OTTB corner! Thank you to them both for all that they are doing for TB's..Thanks for another GREAT OTTB article!!
Lisa M September 9, 2013 at 10:06 am | Permalink | Reply
Well done Rosie! Thank you for giving racing's "old friends" a voice, and for bringing awareness to this outstanding, versatile breed. All the best!

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Full value to the Capitals for a good hardworking win. Dogs had countless chances to tie it late but couldn't get a bounce, too little too late. Not the party everyone hoped for to end 2012. Second place is still quite nice, here's to a bunch of wins in 2013.
Happy New Year - BE SAFE, BE SMART!
Should be a fun one tonight as 2012 comes to an end with the Bulldogs (17-11-1-5, 2nd Island) hosting the Cowichan Valley Capitals (7-19-0-2, 5th Island) at the Dog Pound.
Great game from the Bulldogs Saturday night in Powell River, as it was apparent early in the game that the Dogs were more ready to play than the Kings, leading to a 3-0 Dogs lead.
My hope tonight is that the Dogs are ready to play against the Capitals. It would be easy to take the Capitals lightly - no offense intended to the Caps in saying that, but they are a last placed team. The Dogs hopefully learned their lesson the last two times they played the Capitals. The first meeting was the last time the Capitals won a game, 6-2 over the Dogs in Duncan. A week later at the Dog Pound the Capitals came to play and the Dogs were flat for a large portion of the game. The Caps gave the Dogs everything they could handle, and had a 2-1 lead over two periods that the Dogs erased for a 3-2 win. The Caps have made some roster moves lately so I expect them to be excited to play tonight.
We will bring you all the action tonight on Boston Pizza Bulldogs Hockey on 93.3 The Peak FM with the Pacific Chevrolet pregame show taking to the airwaves at 6:45 with the puck drop at 7:00 with myself and Bruce MacDonald calling the action.
The first 400 fans entering the doors tonight will get a free pair of Thunder Stix so expect some extra noise.
Local businesses have also stepped up with a bunch of prizes, so anyone that enters the building tonight can enter to win FOR FREE!
Be safe, be smart tonight, don't drink and drive! Local police have stated if you are driving tonight, you WILL drive through a checkstop!
Catch all the action on Boston Pizza Bulldogs hockey on 93.3 The Peak FM with the Pacific Chevrolet pregame show kicking off at 7:15 with the puck drop at 7:30 with myself and Bruce MacDonald.
Very nice Christmas present for Bulldogs 20 year old Forward Manny Gialedakis, as the Bulldogs announced today that he has accepted a scholarship to Oswego State to play for the Lakers. Quite the success story, a 20 year old kid coming all the way out to BC to get a scholly. You got it Manny, now keep it going!
Port Alberni, BC - The Alberni Valley Bulldogs are proud to announce that 1992-born forward Manny Gialedakis has committed to the NCAA Division III program at Oswego State University of New York.
Gialedakis was acquired by the Bulldogs in mid-September from the Georgetown Raiders of the Ontario Junior Hockey League for future considerations.
"I feel like its been a long time coming and I cannot be more pleased with where I'll be going," said Gialedakis. "Oswego is a great school with an even better hockey history and to say that I will be apart of their program next year is an honor."
Since joining the Bulldogs, Gialedakis has been very committed to both his on-ice performance and off-ice initiatives. On the ice, Gialedakis has contributed with 11 goals and 15 assists in 30 games, including a hat trick against the Powell River Kings.
Gialedakis has also been very active in the community. Shortly after joining the Bulldogs, he helped out at the SPCA walking dogs in the mornings and spent two days each week in local elementary schools as a member of the "Bulldogs In Schools" program. Gialedakis is now registered for three courses at North Island College in order to maintain his NCAA eligibility for next September. In addition to his studies at NIC, Gialedakis is also involved in the Alberni Clayoquot Regional District's 3 R's recycling program that will have Gialedakis join fellow teammates present the benefits or recycling in local schools.
"The Alberni Valley Bulldogs are extremely happen to have been able to help Manny reach his goal and to play college hockey," said Alberni Valley Bulldogs general manager and head coach Kevin Willison. "Since arriving in Alberni, Manny has worked very hard and has proven that he can play at the next level. Manny's determination and dedication has helped him earn this opportunity for which we congratulate him," concluded Willison.
Oswego State men's ice hockey team sits at the No. 2 spot in the USCHO.com Division III polls. The Oswego State Lakers entered the Christmas break with a record of 9-2-0.
Manny concluded with the following message: "I'd like to thank the coaching staff, Tom McEvay and former GM Spiros Anastis for giving me the all opportunities i needed to succeed. To my mentor and friend Peter Sbaraglia I say thanks for always keeping me focused on the task at hand being there for me. My billets, The Arbanas family, for opening their doors to me and treating me like one of there own. To my parents and sister, Effie, Louie, and Maria thank you for your love and support, but no words can describe how lucky I am to have you guys with me every step of the way. I couldn't be happier with the town of Port Alberni for embracing me and I could not think of a better way to finish my last year of junior hockey than to bring this town a Championship."
A Very Merry Bulldog / BCHL Christmas, last minute shopping!
So what do the players/coaches/broadcasters etc want for Christmas?
Click the below links to find out! It's my present to you!
Click to listen to a "Very Merry Bulldog Christmas"
Click to listen to a "Very Merry BCHL Christmas"
If you are looking for some last minute gifts head out to the Alberni Golf Club...big thanks to Bruce for the awesome gift of personalized Golf Balls for me! They are open until 2pm today!!
Special pricing will expire December 24th, 2012.
Kurt Gosselin, Evan Tironese at The Card Corner today!
Saw this last night on the Bulldogs Facebook and Twitter!! Cool!
Hope everyone is enjoying their break! I've been busy finishing a recent move, getting ready for Christmas, etc! Had a trip to the "Magic Christmas Tree Forest" on Sunday and got the tree up yesterday! It's my little guy's Christmas concert today, big moment for a 2.5 year old, should be a spectacle!
I will post audio from the Bulldogs and BCHL Christmas specials in a couple of days!
Off to a Staff gathering for Christmas, take care, be safe!
It's the final game before the Christmas break for the Bulldogs (16-11-1-4, 2nd Island) as they host the Victoria Grizzlies (20-8-0-2, 1st Island) at the Dog Pound.
Don't forget that youth get into the game for just $5.00 if they wear a hockey sweater and bring a non-perishable food item for the ADSS Leadership Class Food Drive.
The PAJHS will also be honouring their donors prior to the game, and there will be a meet and greet in the Upper Lounge at 6:00pm.
If you can't make it to the rink - certainly understandable with the amount of Christmas parties happening around town right now - get all the action on Boston Pizza Bulldogs Hockey on 93.3 The Peak FM starting with the Pacific Chevrolet pregame show at 6:45 with the puck drop and play-by-play to follow at 7:00 with myself and Bruce MacDonald.
Huge thanks to Will Pulford and the folks at Pacific Chevrolet for getting involved in Bulldogs Hockey on The Peak by sponsoring the pregame show, and for being a friend and supporter of this blog, just like Van Isle Ford.
Will has been a supporter of the blog and the Bulldogs since almost day one. When I met him when he came into the Radio Station to introduce himself and tape some commercials a couple years back I knew we were getting a "beauty". We spent a good half an hour talking about what Port Alberni was all about, with Will asking me about the various teams/events/groups/charities that needed sponsoring, and what people around here cared about.
I knew he was going to make a positive difference around here then and he's still doing it now. From the Radio Station to the Bulldogs to Minor Hockey and other sports, to the Alberni Valley Charity Golf Classic, the Festival of Trees, Kidsport and everything in between THANKS WILL, the city appreciates it, my family appreciates it!
It's now time for my Christmas present to you! People that have been following the team for a while now have no doubt been expecting this for a while. New fans might be a little surprised!
Every year I try to do something around the holidays to give back to the fans a little bit, and to spread good cheer over the holidays. It blows my mind and always has since the day I arrived here so many moons ago that people give ME gifts around this time of year.
Cards, presents, good drink and good food, donations to the blog fund - don't get me wrong, it's all VERY VERY appreciated...it has always in my head just been about me doing my job, not something I should be getting gifts for...when I say this most people just say something along the lines of "well you go above and beyond" or "you really do put everything into it, we appreciate it"
My thanks and my gift to you will air during the broadcast tonight! In the 1st intermission catch "A Very Merry Bulldog Christmas" and in the 2nd intermission catch "A Very Merry BCHL Christmas"
The format is simple - I talked to the Bulldogs Coaches/Staff/Players and the other BCHL clubs Coaches and Broadcasters and I asked them to share with us the items from their Christmas Wish List, and I also gave them the chance to send out their own special Christmas Greeting!
Port Alberni, BC – The Alberni Valley Bulldogs announce today that Eric Walker has been called up by the Portland Winterhawks in the WHL. Walker goes to the 'Hawks on an emergency call-up as they have 3 defensemen invited to Canada's world junior national team selection camp in Calgary, AB.
Walker will be evaluated by Portland's coaching staff and it is yet to be determined if Walker will stick with the WHL club.
"We wish Eric all the best with this opportunity to, again, play in the WHL," said Bulldogs General Manager and Head Coach Kevin Willison. "He is getting a second chance to prove he can play at that level," added Willison.
As this opportunity presents itself to Walker, it leaves the Bulldogs with a hole to fill on the back end.
I am very sad to see Eric go - he bought a lot to the team. He played with HEART, he played with a mean edge, he played very very HARD and brought a physical aspect that was lacking. When he dumped the puck, when he cleared the puck, he did it with purpose.
Plain and simple, he made the Dogs better, and he wore the jersey proudly. Best of luck in Portland "Walks" as you certainly deserve this opportunity with how you played in the Dogs uniform. I selfishly hope you come back, at the same time I wish you success. Great kid, the team will miss him, and here's hoping someone steps up to try and fill the void.
The Bulldogs are holding an "Everyone Welcome" skate tonight at the Multplex in the Winter Wonderland! The skate gets underway at 6:30, rentals are free, everyone is welcome!
It's going to be a busy day for me as I'm moving - I know, great timing right? I'm still hoping to get there tonight with my little guy Griff!
BIG PLANS for the final game before Christmas this Saturday when the Dogs host the Grizzlies...Minor Hockey kids get in for just FIVE BUCKS, yes $5.00 if they bring a non perishable food item and if they wear their team jersey!
It's in conjunction with the efforts of the ADSS Leadership Class to gather as much non-perishables as possible.
The PAJHS is also honoring donors before the game, and hoping to have some words on the mic in the Upper Lounge after 6pm.
Lance Lapointe is also playing live in the Upper Lounge!
You make the call...Goal? No Goal?
My call was obviously GOAL, or SCOOORES, for anyone that listened or watched the game. I believe the camera is on the concourse, about 10 to 15 feet below me up in the booth. I'm also further down to the right towards the Warrior net, so I had the prime view to see it go up, back bar and back out. It is hard to see at the video but on the first look I think I can see the mesh move, and I also think on both looks I can see it hit the white back middle bar on the way down. I might be only seeing that because the Warriors Music Man next to me told me the Warriors PA Announcer had a picture that captured the puck on the middle bar. When he showed me the pic, it's what I saw too.
Almost everyone I have talked to, INCLUDING the other side of the puck agrees it was in. However, everyone has their opinion, in the end the officials have the last call.
Of course it doesn't matter now, I'm tired of controversies period after the end of all three games this weekend. I don't want to be on the officials, these three games show how hard the game is to call, I wouldn't want to be them! I'm only addressing it now because I have lost count at the amount of messages I have received last night and today on the topic!
Great job the Warriors on the video!
"Hansen's rising shot appeared to beat Tyler Briggs high glove side, however, referee Jim Maniago ruled the puck did not cross the goal line.
Replays clearly showed the puck hit the back bar and quickly came out, landing under Brigg's pad.
The call negated the Bulldogs a second point in the standings."
Great minds thinks alike Wayne...or fools seldom differ!
Quite the comeback after an atrocious start, with the Dogs digging out of a 3-0 hole to tie the Warriors at 3-3.
Here's hoping we can make the Ferry home now!
It's the end of the road today for the Bulldogs (16-11-0-4, 2nd Island) as they finish their three game roadie when they visit the Warriors (12-8-1-6, 3rd Interior) at Royal Lepage Place.
Post game run - need to get that lactic acid out! Roadie finishes in West Kelowna tomorrow, a 2:15 pregame show and a 2:30 puck drop.
First time for me getting up to Silver Star, very nice place! Weird to see so much snow!
It's a nice sunny day here in Vernon as the Bulldogs (15-11-0-4, 2nd Island) visit the Vipers (10-12-0-7, 6th Interior) for the second and final time this season on the Vipers Teddy Bear Toss night.
As the team doesn't have any travel today, the Coaching Staff has planned some togetherness and sightseeing. We are currently en route to Silver Star Mountain Resort to see the sights and sounds!
Nice aerial view from the Broadcast Booth here in Vernon!
Catch all the action on 93.3 The Peak FM tonight with the pregame show at 6:45 (here's hoping) with the play-by-play to follow at 7:00.
Tonight's 2nd intermission guest is West Kelowna Warriors play-by-play voice Jon Zacks.
The game is also available to watch on Fast Hockey on pay-per-view. I understand there were problems last night getting the FastHockey feed going out of Salmon Arm - but here's hoping there are no problems in Vernon. Seemed to be a problem with the camera in Salmon Arm, totally out of my control but accept my apologies anyway!
Pictures to come from the Mountain.
Ah, quite the lovely sight here in Vernon - the outdoor rink!
Both teams are coming off of wins entering play tonight - the Bulldogs have won three straight, the Silverbacks topped the defending National Champion Vees 3-2 in double OT on Saturday.
I have always enjoyed going to Salmon Arm - good atmosphere, good fans, and good people up in the Broadcast Booth - even if it's also the music/public address/jumbo tron booth and we are jammed elbow to elbow!
Vernon Viper Play-by-Play Voice Todd Miller is my 2nd intermission guest.


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The Outer Banks of North Carolina is one of the most relaxing and enjoyable vacation spots on the East Coast. One word comes to mind when I think of the Outer Banks, it is breathtaking! And, I am sure when you visit you will agree!
There are many things to do when you visit the natural beauty of the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It is full of history, sightseeing adventures, majestic lighthouses, and even wild ponies! But, if you want to just get away from it all and relax, with uncrowded beaches, then this is definitely one of the best places to do nothing at all. The islands are a great place to take the family or the perfect place for a romantic getaway. The beautiful, white sandy beaches are extremely clean and you will feel like you truly are away from the hustle bustle of the city.
The four main islands that make up the Outer Banks are Hatteras Island, Bodie Island, Ocracoke Island, and Roanoke Island. Ocracoke Island is only accessible via private boat, air, or ferry. Each island displays their famous Southern charm with points of interest and history galore. The beautiful Atlantic Ocean is the main attraction, but you will find wonderful food, great little shops with special souvenirs, and historic tours. You can even go on a dolphin tour!
Do you like historic museums? Then be sure to put Blackbeard's Museum on your list of things to do! And, if you have a fascination with lighthouses, you will find Bodie Island Lighthouse, Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, Ocracoke Lighthouse, and Currituck Lighthouse. Some of the lighthouses allow you to climb to the top for a picturesque view of the islands.
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John Tuomey  (born 1954) is an Irish architect. He is a member of Aosdána, an elite Irish association of artists, and is best known for his work with his wife Sheila O'Donnell in the O'Donnell & Tuomey firm (founded 1988).

Early life
Tuomey was born in Tralee in 1954; he spent most of his childhood in Dundalk.

Career

Tuomey studied architecture at University College Dublin (UCD), graduating in 1976 and then joining Stirling Wilford & Associates. With them he worked on  projects including the Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart. In 1988 he founded In 1991 he was the managing director of Group '91 Architects, who oversaw the transformation of Temple Bar, Dublin.

O'Donnell and Tuomey won the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) gold medal twice. According to Architectural League of New York, they are "noted for their expressive form-making, designing buildings that reveal the integrity of their construction and their relationship to the physical and historical context."

Tuomey received a MArch in 2004 and was elected to Aosdána in 2011. He also taught at UCD from 1980 to 2019, and was inaugural Professor of Architectural Design.

Personal life
Tuomey lives in Rathmines with his wife and professional partner Sheila O'Donnell. He has described the stone architecture of the Aran Islands as among Ireland's architectural wonders, and visits them annually.

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1954 births
Living people
20th-century Irish architects
21st-century Irish architects
Aosdána members
Architects from Dublin (city)
Academics of University College Dublin
Alumni of University College Dublin
Honorary Fellows of the American Institute of Architects
Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects
People from Tralee
People from Dundalk

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