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October 18, 2018

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PM said...: Given the photo displayed, an article from a few days ago:

IDAHO WILDLIFE OFFICIAL, AND EUPHEMISM EXPERT, FIRED

Idaho Gov."Butch" Otter accepted Blake Fischer's resignation after a newspaper published a photo of Fischer smiling with four dead baboons propped in front of him. Fischer didn't apologize for killing the baboons but said in his resignation to Otter that he "recently made some poor judgments that resulted in sharing photos of a hunt in which I did not display an appropriate level of sportsmanship and respect for the animals I harvested." Fischer and his wife also killed a giraffe, a leopard, an impala, a sable antelope, a waterbuck, a kudu, a warthog, a gemsbok (oryx) and an eland.; 10/18/18, 5:55 PM
FullMoon said...: erry James Albury, a former FBI agent in Minnesota, was sentenced to four years in prison with an additional three years of supervised release on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Saint Paul.

Albury admitted that he leaked documents to a reporter from The Intercept, an online news publication.

He worked as an FBI Special Agent at the field office in Minneapolis at the time of the disclosure in 2016-2017. He was also working as a liaison with the Department of Customs and Border Protection at MSP International Airport during that same time period.

"I sincerely wanted to make a difference a difference and never wanted to put anyone in danger," Albury told Judge Wilhelmina Wright before she handed down the sentence.

Because of his work with the FBI, Albury held a Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance that allowed him access to "sensitive and classified FBI and other U.S. government information" according to a 2018 FBI release.

Court documents from Albury's guilty plea say Albury disclosed national defense information to an Intercept reporter. The documents included information that related to how the FBI assesses confidential informants, and a document "relating to threats posed by certain individuals from a particular Middle Eastern country."

"I fully accept responsibility for what I did," he said. "I sincerely apologize to everyone I hurt, especially my family and former colleagues."

Albury pleaded guilty to two violations of the Espionage Act.

After handing down the four-year sentence, Judge Wright told Albury that he "put the United States at risk."

"I'm not blind to the racism in our society... I'm not blind to being a minority," she said. "But that's not an excuse."

"You can do good in this world again, but that's your decision."

Albury was allowed to leave the courthouse at his sentencing. but agreed to surrender at a date that will be determined later - likely in the next 45 to 60 days.

The defense had hoped for probation since Albury has a wife and two young children.

Albury and his attorneys declined to comment after sentencing.

Jill Sanborn, the Special Agent in Charge in the Minneapolis Field Division, released a statement:

"Former Agent Albury's conduct was an act of selfishness in an organization full of selfless people and today's sentence will serve as an appropriate punishment for his criminal conduct," it read. "He betrayed his colleagues and the trust the public puts in the men and women of the FBI to keep them and our communities safe.
Low level but about fucking time
"While it is never easy to investigate your own, I want to thank the professionals, both here in Minneapolis and in Washington, for their work on this case."

RELATED: Federal Prosecutors Charge Man with Leaking Sensitive Information in Role as FBI Agent

RELATED: Attorney: Former FBI Agent Will Enter Guilty Plea to Unauthorized Disclosure of National Defense Information

RELATED: Former Minnesota FBI Agent to Be Sentenced for Media Leak; 10/18/18, 5:59 PM
FullMoon said...: In California, Gov. candidate Gavin Newsome is literally running ads against the evil Trump. Newsome gonna protect us from the Donald.
He does not even mention his opponent; 10/18/18, 6:28 PM
fivewheels said...: So they've stopped having protests about Kavanaugh, huh? That issue is over? A serial gang rapist, one of the most notorious violent criminals ever (if you believe Democrats), is ruling us all on the Supreme Court, and now that's fine because the votes are in? Shouldn't the protests be even stronger now, the outrage even more passionate, now that he has such power?

Unless it was all just a political put-on, and once they lost, the pretext was just thrown away? "Oh well, forget about it"? Gosh, is that what happened? I'm so surprised.; 10/18/18, 6:29 PM
RK said...: "I'm not blind to the racism in our society... I'm not blind to being a minority," she said. "But that's not an excuse."

Guessing the judge said this because she struggled between the fact that an FBI agent broke espionage laws, and her own low expectations of blacks' abilities to follows laws.; 10/18/18, 6:30 PM
Sydney said...: I noticed that the MSM got all upset about Trump calling Stormy Daniels "horseface." Personally, I thought it was a nice touch, and here's why:

Women like Stormy Daniels - that is porn actresses and women who sleep with other women's husbands - like to think that their appeal is in their beauty. It isn't. Their appeal is in their easy virtue. Trump communicated that with one word. Brilliant.; 10/18/18, 6:57 PM
wildswan said...: I have a theory that pollsters are increasingly unable to poll Republicans correctly. They get the Democrats - who they support, how they will turn out - pretty well. This was even true of the 2106 election. Pollsters predicted everything about the Dems almost correctly, that Hillary's ground game would turn out a huge vote, for example. But they did not predict the Trump turnout, at all. And have never been able to explain it. And so can't poll Republicans with any accuracy any more.; 10/18/18, 7:00 PM
stevew said...: I love the weather this time of year. We had the varied gray sky and earth tone leaves - the bright fall colors have been subdued by the lower temps - and today had bright sunshine, slight breeze and typically cool temps. Have I told you lately how much I love this time of year?

-sw; 10/18/18, 7:15 PM
Inga...Allie Oop said...: “Women like Stormy Daniels - that is porn actresses and women who sleep with other women's husbands - like to think that their appeal is in their beauty. It isn't. Their appeal is in their easy virtue. Trump communicated that with one word. Brilliant.”

I couldn’t care less that Trump called her a horseface, that’s pretty accurate actually, but it’s interesting the onus of blame is on the woman slut, what about the male sluts, like Trump?; 10/18/18, 7:21 PM
FullMoon said...: Elizibeth Warren Indian Blood meme; 10/18/18, 7:22 PM
FullMoon said...: Nancy Pelosi shouted out of restruant; 10/18/18, 7:33 PM
wild chicken said...: So Trump just started speaking here in Missoula, and I'm still home all stove up after knee replacement. Who woulda known he'd ever come to this godforsaken liberal hellhole. Guy's got balls.

*sigh*; 10/18/18, 7:38 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Teenager arrested for making threat tied to the 'To Kill a Mockingbird' play at Shorewood High School

From the article:
"Editor's Note: The original version of this story said the teenager arrested was a Shorewood High School student. The boy is from Shorewood, but it is not known where he goes to school. We have updated the story to reflect that.

And:

"Wednesday evening, the leader of the Original Black Panthers of Milwaukee said it didn't matter that the threat came from a 17-year-old, especially in light of mass shootings committed by high school students across the country.

At a news conference outside the school, "King Rick" called for the student to be punished and vowed that his group would protect black children against racists and white supremacists who threaten violence against them.

So is the real story that the play was canceled (bad enough) or that this was incitement to action for Youth Rising Up to get some notoriety?; 10/18/18, 7:38 PM
Sprezzatura said...: After seeing this picture, I think Althouse may want to lower expectations.

Even w/ perfect eyesight, she's still gonna see dreary scenes around her hood.; 10/18/18, 7:41 PM
etbass said...: My theory is that Mueller plans to unfold his case after the mid-terms because the Dems are so sure of winning and Mueller's show will then be fresh and serve as the launchpad for impeachment proceedings. But if the Dems are wrong again, as they were in 2016, then they will have miscalculated big time and Mueller might shelve his shit, hoping he himself can escape investigation, a real investigation.; 10/18/18, 7:45 PM
Birkel said...: I will worry about Trump being a slut when Democrats, en masse, worry about any of the prominent Democrats being sluts.

Call the ball.; 10/18/18, 7:45 PM
n.n said...: Who woulda known he'd ever come to this godforsaken liberal hellhole. Guy's got balls.

Trump was forged in the fires of New York City, and not only survived, but prospered, too. He has the right principles. He proved his mettle. So, people cautiously, optimistically voted and support him.; 10/18/18, 7:46 PM
n.n said...: There is a prelude to emigration reform at Mexico's southern border, which may be the beginning of a good neighbor policy that will mitigate immigration reform.; 10/18/18, 7:48 PM
Breezy said...: Go Sox!; 10/18/18, 7:51 PM
n.n said...: Trump is addressing anti-competitive practices that undermine capitalist price determination and distribution, and have been exploited by the Chinese to cut into Americans' living wages and domestic proponents of medical insurance reform to assure unaffordable health care. Baby steps.; 10/18/18, 7:53 PM
Ken B said...: Inga, I think it’s cute you think people would pay Trump to have sex.; 10/18/18, 8:12 PM
Maillard Reactionary said...: ADSS @ 7:41 PM:

Your reaction to this photograph says more about you than it does about our Hostess or her environment.

It also shows your poor manners and bad taste.

I actually thought it was pretty good, for a digital camera. Certainly well composed.; 10/18/18, 8:16 PM
narciso said...: Context behind this Byzantine exercise:

https://nypost.com/2018/10/18/why-the-saudis-despised-jamal-khashoggi/; 10/18/18, 8:22 PM
narciso said...: This happened across the street from Versailles restaurant, if you wanted to poke the bull, you couldn't do any worse.; 10/18/18, 8:30 PM
Ken B said...: Bill Nelson looks like a vulnerable Democrat in Florida. Anyone got any embarrassing links on him to share? #everylittlebithelps

My word for Sinema's latest vid is slumming. She sounds like she thought running for office in Az was slumming.; 10/18/18, 8:34 PM
narciso said...: You heard about this No?

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2018/10/18/cbs-boosts-liberal-claims-gop-suppressing-minority-voters; 10/18/18, 8:50 PM
etbass said...: "I actually thought it was pretty good, for a digital camera. Certainly well composed."

I too am pretty impressed with the composition. She really does have a talent I wish I had for photography. Don't know how to do it but I recognize when it is good.; 10/18/18, 9:00 PM
Michael K said...: narciso, not only is she accusing her opponent of suppressing voters.

he made a while county disappear.

This is Hank Johnson territory. Next Georgia will capsize.

In a letter describing the process earlier this year, the state Attorney General’s Office said voters are actually removed from the rolls only after they have not had any contact with election officials in Georgia for a minimum of seven years and they have not returned a notice to confirm their residence.

Oh.; 10/18/18, 9:01 PM
Michael K said...: Whole county.; 10/18/18, 9:01 PM
narciso said...: I didn't know the uss Ellsberg was being employed there.; 10/18/18, 9:15 PM
Ray - SoCal said...: Sad what happened to Mark Judge.

Collateral damage.

https://fundingmorality.com/project/view/help-mark-judge.html; 10/18/18, 9:15 PM
Ken B said...: We have had this bogus purging of the voter rolls story in Michigan too. Dishonest reporting.; 10/18/18, 9:16 PM
narciso said...: Eldridge, I guess the max boot was somewhere in the back of my mind, where are the consulates cameras?; 10/18/18, 9:19 PM
gspencer said...: Com'n, Brewers, you've gotta win these next two to meet the Red Sox.; 10/18/18, 9:32 PM
Michael K said...: A solution to sexual assault.

Concealed carry is the next step.; 10/18/18, 9:37 PM
narciso said...: So I realized where they got this story from lethal weapon 2, the South African consulate in Los angeles.; 10/18/18, 9:37 PM
Achilles said...: Birkel said...
I will worry about Trump being a slut when Democrats, en masse, worry about any of the prominent Democrats being sluts.

Call the ball.

Sluts?

They can't even deal with the rapists and wife beaters in their midst.; 10/18/18, 9:56 PM
wildswan said...: purging of the voter rolls story

Even if voters stayed in the same county when they moved or the same city, they still might have moved into a new voting precinct and have to re-register. Areas where people move frequently have voter rolls crammed with people who are registered and voting elsewhere unless the voter rolls are frequently purged. In Milwaukee there are downtown precincts which have not been purged in years. Yet in these precincts it has often happened that 98% of the registered voters voted in Presidential elections. Fifty to sixty percent of those voters have moved over a period of five years according to studies of Milwaukee housing patterns and so when 98% of registered voters vote in such precincts, it is prima facie evidence of voter fraud. When attempts are made to purge these rolls it generates stories of "voter suppression. Zombie voter suppression, perhaps. Overall, purging the voter rolls is a necessity for good government.; 10/18/18, 9:59 PM
Sprezzatura said...: "Your reaction to this photograph says more about you"

My reaction says a lot about what we were seeing today v what Madtown folks were seeing.

Better vision may inspire travel as a result of more accurately assessing that home sorta sux when it's accurately compared to so places that look so much better (of course I'm only thinking of places that aren't too hot and such -- things that Althouse doesn't like).

Anywho, I guess Madtown gets a participation trophy. Cause we wouldn't want to assess reality in the snowflake era.; 10/18/18, 10:09 PM
Lyle Sanford, RMT said...: What a lovely pic - another for the restful series - can't help wondering if/how the coming change in your vision will show up in your pics - and that was a splendid post framing the vision change as an unconscious withdrawal - very thought provoking as a way of wondering about the changes we go through - blogging at its best.; 10/18/18, 10:14 PM
Achilles said...: Democrats plan to use suction cups to stick dildos on windows and want to hang dildos from power lines.

"Unlike rallies by the alt-right, the “Stop Sending Dildos to Portland” march will follow a route that includes a number of brewpubs. To make their point, Connolly says, protesters will scatter dildos throughout Vancouver’s downtown, including “dildos with suction cups” and “dildos on telephone wires.”

“You’d be amazed at how cheap dildos are when you buy them in bulk,” says Connolly."; 10/18/18, 10:27 PM
narciso said...: Isn't that a coals to Newcastle situation, a question of oversupply.; 10/18/18, 10:30 PM
gspencer said...: Red Sox are in !; 10/18/18, 10:45 PM
JohnAnnArbor said...: Achilles, that sounds wasteful and not very environmentally responsible.; 10/18/18, 10:52 PM
jb said...: C'mon Brew Crew!

My Sox and Fenway await!; 10/18/18, 11:39 PM
narciso said...: I think this belongs in the other thread:

https://mobile.twitter.com/jpelzer/status/1053095800941752321; 10/18/18, 11:42 PM
Pianoman said...: If the Dodgers stop trying to hit HRs every at bat, the Brew Crew will be in trouble.

No amount of bush-league pitcher-switching in the 1st inning will change that.; 10/18/18, 11:54 PM
walter said...: JohnAnnArbor said...Achilles, that sounds wasteful and not very environmentally responsible.
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Technically, they are reusable..; 10/19/18, 12:27 AM
Churchy LaFemme: said...: What the heck is going on in the UK?

Seems like May is moving from Brexit Means Brexit to Brexit Means Nothing and nobody can stop her despite her party being against her. Isn't this what No Confidence is for?; 10/19/18, 12:37 AM
narciso said...: Basically, but she was a scorpion to begin with.; 10/19/18, 12:39 AM
walter said...: May May Bee 'BINO..; 10/19/18, 1:28 AM
Ray - SoCal said...: Trump is going to withdraw from the international postage treaty!

Long overdue.

Right now it’s cheaper to ship an item under 4 lbs from China to the us, than to ship within the us.

China sets the shipping rates per treaty.; 10/19/18, 2:14 AM
Ray - SoCal said...: First Man is tanking.

Who would of thought taking a moment of American glory and transforming it into an emotional, angst ridden journey of a man hurt by his daughters death would not connect with an audience.; 10/19/18, 2:24 AM
walter said...: "Right now it’s cheaper to ship an item under 4 lbs from China to the us, than to ship within the us."
I've wondered about this...though the time-frames can be yuuugely variable.; 10/19/18, 2:33 AM
Narayanan said...: Fashion statement would be ...
Dildos wearing PussyHats.; 10/19/18, 5:20 AM
Saint Croix said...: baby-rocking dog; 10/19/18, 6:10 AM