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New York Times: “A body believed to be of the suspect in a Kentucky highway shooting that left five people seriously injured this month was found on Wednesday, the authorities said, ending a manhunt that stretched into a second week and set the local community on edge. The Kentucky State Police commissioner, Phillip Burnett Jr., said in a Wednesday night news conference that at approximately 3:30 p.m., two troopers and two civilians found an unidentified body in the brush behind the highway exit where the shooting occurred.... The police have identified the suspect of the shooting as Joseph A. Couch, 32. They said that on Sept. 7, Mr. Couch perched on a cliff overlooking Interstate 75 about eight miles north of London, Ky., and opened fire. One of the wounded was shot in the face, and another was shot in the chest. A dozen vehicles were riddled with gunfire.”

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New York Times: “Hvaldimir, a beluga whale who had captured the public’s imagination since 2019 after he was spotted wearing a harness seemingly designed for a camera, was found dead on Saturday in Norway, according to a nonprofit that worked to protect the whale.... [Hvaldimir] was wearing a harness that identified it as “equipment” from St. Petersburg. There also appeared to be a camera mount. Some wondered if the whale was on a Russian reconnaissance mission. Russia has never claimed ownership of the whale. If Hvaldimir was a spy, he was an exceptionally friendly one. The whale showed signs of domestication, and was comfortable around people. He remained in busier waters than are typical for belugas....” ~~~

     ~~~ Marie: Oh, Lord, do not let Bobby Kennedy, Jr., near that carcass. ~~~

     ~~~ AP Update: “There’s no evidence that a well-known beluga whale that lived off Norway’s coast and whose harness ignited speculation it was a Russian spy was shot to death last month as claimed by animal rights groups, Norwegian police said Monday.... Police said that the Norwegian Veterinary Institute conducted a preliminary autopsy on the animal, which was become known as 'Hvaldimir,' combining the Norwegian word for whale — hval — and the first name of Russian President Vladimir Putin. 'There are no findings from the autopsy that indicate that Hvaldimir has been shot,' police said in a statement.”

New York Times: Botswana's “President Mokgweetsi Masisi grinned as he lifted the diamond, a 2,492-carat stone that is the biggest diamond unearthed in more than a century and the second-largest ever found, according to the Vancouver-based mining operator Lucara, which owns the mine where it was found. This exceptional discovery could bring back the luster of the natural diamond mining industry, mining companies and experts say. The diamond was discovered in the same relatively small mine in northeastern Botswana that has produced several of the largest such stones in living memory. Such gemstones typically surface as a result of volcanic activity.... The diamond will likely sell in the range of tens of millions of dollars....”

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~~~ Guardian: "On a distant reef 16,000km from Paris, surfer Gabriel Medina has given Olympic viewers one of the most memorable images of the Games yet, with an airborne celebration so well poised it looked too good to be true. The Brazilian took off a thundering wave at Teahupo’o in Tahiti on Monday, emerging from a barrelling section before soaring into the air and appearing to settle on a Pacific cloud, pointing to the sky with biblical serenity, his movements mirrored precisely by his surfboard. The shot was taken by Agence France-Presse photographer Jérôme Brouillet, who said “the conditions were perfect, the waves were taller than we expected”. He took the photo while aboard a boat nearby, capturing the surreal image with such accuracy that at first some suspected Photoshop or AI." 

Washington Post: “'Mary Cassatt at Work' is a large and mostly satisfying exhibition devoted to the career of the great American artist beloved for her sensitive and often sentimental views of family life. The 'at work' in the title of the Philadelphia Museum of Art show references the curators’ interest in Cassatt’s pioneering effort to establish herself as a professional artist within a male-dominated field. Throughout the show, which includes some 130 paintings, pastels, prints and drawings, the wall text and the art on view stresses Cassatt’s fixation on art as a career rather than a pastime.... Mary Cassatt at Work is on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through Sept. 8. philamuseum.org”

New York Times: “Bob Newhart, who died on Thursday at the age of 94, has been such a beloved giant of popular culture for so long that it’s easy to forget how unlikely it was that he became one of the founding fathers of stand-up comedy. Before basically inventing the hit stand-up special, with the 1960 Grammy-winning album 'The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart' — that doesn’t even count his pay-per-view event broadcast on Canadian television that some cite as the first filmed special — he was a soft-spoken accountant who had never done a set in a nightclub. That he made a classic with so little preparation is one of the great miracles in the history of comedy.... Bob Newhart holds up. In fact, it’s hard to think of a stand-up from that era who is a better argument against the commonplace idea that comedy does not age well.”

Washington Post: “An early Titian masterpiece — once looted by Napolean’s troops and a part of royal collections for centuries — caused a stir when it was stolen from the home of a British marquess in 1995. Seven years later, it was found inside an unassuming white and blue plastic bag at a bus stop in southwest London by an art detective, and returned. This week, the oil painting 'The Rest on the Flight into Egypt' sold for more than $22 million at Christie’s. It was a record for the Renaissance artist, whom museums describe as the greatest painter of 16th-century Venice. Ahead of the sale in April, the auction house billed it as 'the most important work by Titian to come to the auction market in more than a generation.'”

Washington Post: The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., which houses the world's largest collection of Shakespeare material, has undergone a major renovation. "The change to the building is pervasive, both subtle and transformational."

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The Commentariat -- August 9, 2016

Presidential Race

Anne Gearan of the Washington Post: "Democrat Hillary Clinton will participate in the three presidential debates as scheduled, her campaign said Monday in response to complaints from Republican Donald Trump that the dates are unsuitable.... The prime-time sessions are set for Sept. 26, Oct. 9 and Oct. 19." -- CW

In Kissimmee, Florida, Hillary Clinton reacted to Donald Trump's economics speech. (more on the speech below):

Adam Pearce of the New York Times: "People who donated to establishment Republican candidates in the primary season are more likely to give money to Hillary Clinton ... than to their own party's candidate, Donald J. Trump.... Of the donors who gave at least $200 to Jeb Bush, Gov. John Kasich, Gov. Chris Christie or Senator Lindsey Graham in the Republican primaries, more have also contributed to Mrs. Clinton than to Mr. Trump, according to Federal Election Commission filings through June.... Donors to Mr. Trump's primary opponents are backing him at a historically low rate.... Mrs. Clinton has received $2.2 million from donors to candidates who dropped out of the Republican presidential primary, about $600,000 more than Mr. Trump has received from such donors, the filings showed." -- CW

Sean Sullivan of the Washington Post: "... Donald Trump used a familiar turn of phrase Monday evening to suggest without evidence a possible link between the execution of an Iranian nuclear scientist and Hillary Clinton's emails, saying that 'many people' were drawing a connection between the two.... By late Monday night, the hashtag #ManyPeopleAreSaying was trending on Twitter nationwide, a sign that the mogul's word choice, which he has used to perpetuate other unsubstantiated claims, had attracted widespread attention." -- CW ...

... Josh Rogin of the Washington Post: "Despite what you might read on Donald Trump’s twitter feed, the Iranian execution of a nuclear scientist who defected to the United States and then changed his mind was not caused by Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. The scientist outed himself; it wasn't Clinton's fault.... There's no reasonable connection between the discussion of Amiri's case on email by Clinton's staff to Amiri's eventual execution.... Add Shahram Amiri to the list of deaths Trump has carelessly speculated that Clinton is responsible for with no real evidence. At least he can't blame her for the Kennedy assassination; he's already got a conspiracy theory for that one." -- CW ...

... Amy Chozick of the New York Times: "The parents of two Americans killed in the 2012 attack on a United States diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, filed a lawsuit on Monday against Hillary Clinton, saying that her '"extreme carelessness" in handling confidential and classified information' while secretary of state contributed to the conditions that led to their sons' deaths. In the wrongful-death lawsuit, Patricia Smith and Charles Woods allege that the attack that killed four Americans, including their sons, Sean Smith and Tyrone Woods, 'was directly and proximately caused, at a minimum' by Mrs. Clinton's use of a private email server while in the State Department." ...

... Josh Gerstein of Politico: "Republicans have opened a new front in the sprawling legal war over the release of State Department emails: a battle to open up thousands of pages of schedules for former President Bill Clinton. But the clock is ticking down on the GOP's hopes to use the trove of details on Clinton's post-presidency against his wife ... before the November election.... State revealed the existence of the large collection of Bill Clinton schedules after the RNC made an unusual legal move last month, asking a federal judge to declare that the former president's schedules should be released in their entirety because the former president worked closely with State officials and his post-presidency office is funded with taxpayer dollars. The GOP also pointed to the ethical controversy over the Clinton Foundation soliciting donations abroad while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state." -- CW

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Sean Sullivan & Jim Tankersley of the Washington Post: "Donald Trump on Monday proposed collapsing the federal income tax rate from seven brackets down to three and called for allowing child-care expenses to be exempt from taxation in a speech allies hope will help the GOP presidential nominee turn the page on a tumultuous period some Republicans fear has severely damaged his campaign. Trump was interrupted every few minutes by protesters for much of his address at the Detroit Economic Club. He took sharp aim at ... Hillary Clinton in the speech, holding up Detroit, which has been devastated by manufacturing job losses, as 'the living, breathing example' of her 'failed economic agenda.'" -- CW (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) ...

... Binyamin Appelbaum of the New York Times fact-checks some of Trump's nonsense. -- CW ...

... Glenn Kessler & Michelle Lee of the Washington Post do the same, providing "a guide to 16 of the more fact-challenged assertions made by the GOP nominee." They pepper their report with language like "ridiculously false," "fairly absurd" & "ridiculous talking point." -- CW

Whoever wrote this, I don't think they know what carried interest is or how it works. -- Ryan Ellis of the Conservative Reform Network ...

... Kelsey Snell of the Washington Post: "Trump promised to reduce taxes for the middle class and reform a system that he said favors the rich.... 'He's actually doing less for the middle class than he originally planned,' said Martin A. Sullivan, the chief economist at Tax Analysts.... Many tax experts said Trump's latest speech reveals an even sketchier picture of his economic vision than previous proposals.... He introduced a proposal for an investment income loophole that could actually benefit hedge fund managers and suggested a tax break for child care that would do little for the lowest income earners." -- CW

... New York Times Editors: "Donald Trump said on Monday that he wanted to usher in 'economic renewal,' but most of his proposals would hurt the economy, rack up huge deficits, accelerate climate change and leave the country isolated from the world. In a speech billed as a blueprint for stimulating growth and creating jobs, Mr. Trump offered a grab bag of ideas that borrow from discredited supply-side economics, the fossil fuel industry's wish list and 'America First' isolationism. He also criticized Hillary Clinton and President Obama for what he called their 'job-killing, tax-raising, poverty-inducing' agenda. It was vintage Trump, full of promises of greatness and victories backed by fantastical proposals." -- CW ...

... Washington Post Editors: "Mr. Trump's economic policy speech to the Detroit Economic Club managed to embrace the worst of traditional Republican doctrine while repudiating the best of it.... There was, in short, little in the way of tangible benefit for the downscale Americans for whom Mr. Trump claims to speak.... Brimming with statistics, larded with footnotes, Monday's speech was meant to instill 'message discipline' in the Trump campaign. But even that message's most carefully scripted version is held together by smoke, mirrors and scapegoating." -- CW

... Pat Garofalo of US News: "... Donald Trump delivered an address before the Detroit Economic Club on Monday that was equal parts conservative pablum, distortion and conspiracy theorizing.... The policy content of the telepromptered speech was warmed-over Republican orthodoxy: tax cuts, deregulation and an insistence that any effort to combat climate change be subverted.... He layered on top of that some of his favorite lies: That ... Hillary Clinton called for raising taxes on the middle class (she didn't); that regulation is costing the economy $2 trillion per year (it's not); and that Obamacare will kill some 2 million jobs if it remains the law of the land (it won't). And then he threw in some conspiracy fearmongering about the official Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs numbers, one of his favorite ridiculous theories." -- CW (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) ...

... John Cassidy of the New Yorker: "... the contradictions attending Trump's economic platform are more glaring than ever. He goes into the last months of the election campaign as a political schizophrenic. On immigration and trade, he is a pitchfork-wielding Pat Buchanan Republican; on taxes and regulation, he is a dark-suited Paul Ryan Republican.... The Detroit Economic Club ... marks the resting place of Donald Trump the economic populist." -- CW ...

... Timothy Lee of Vox: "With few policy ideas of his own, [Trump] has adopted the standard-issue Republican agenda by default.... The two relatively unorthodox ideas in Trump's plan -- rejecting trade deals and providing tax breaks for child care expenses -- put Trump firmly in the traditional of populist conservative thinkers and politicians. Yet in practice, these ideas represent only a small departure from mainstream conservatism." -- CW ...

... Brian Beutler: "Donald Trump is now running Mitt Romney's campaign plus racism. After perhaps the most damaging political week any presidential candidate has ever endured, Trump went to Detroit to deliver a hastily prepared economic speech intended to make peace with the Republican Party leadership. As the terms of his surrender, Trump offered two key concessions: He adopted House Speaker Paul Ryan's tax policy and the GOP's gaffe-centered 2012 campaign strategy of misquoting or misrepresenting the Democratic candidate's words." -- CW

David Fahrenthold of the Washington Post: "Last October, at a rally in Las Vegas, a friend of Donald Trump's introduced [Trump, saying,] 'You won't hear this in the media, but Donald gave $20 million to the St. Jude children's home. Twenty million dollars,' said Phil Ruffin, the owner of the Treasure Island casino, which was the site of the rally. The crowd cheered. Trump mouthed 'Thank you' twice and waved.... Later that day..., Trump retweeted a message from a fan, criticizing the mainstream media for not broadcasting Ruffin's story about the gift. If Ruffin's story were true, then Trump's gift to St. Jude would appear to be, by far, the largest charitable donation of Trump's life. But when The Washington Post looked for evidence to back up Ruffin's story it could find none.... It seems possible that what Ruffin was referring to actually" was a pledge from Eric Trump's foundation, an entity entirely separate from Donald Trump. (Emphasis added.) (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) ...

     ... CW: Maybe you should start getting your friends & associates to introduce you at social & business gatherings by saying, "You won't hear this in the media, but [Your Name Here] gave $20 million [or more, what the hell] to [name of your favorite charity]." Think how much more people would like & admire you if they thought you gave all your worldly goods & then some to a worthy cause.

David Sanger of the New York Times: "Fifty of the nation's most senior Republican national security officials, many of them former top aides or cabinet members for President George W. Bush, have signed a letter declaring that Donald J. Trump 'lacks the character, values and experience' to be president and 'would put at risk our country's national security and well-being.' Mr. Trump, the officials warn, 'would be the most reckless president in American history.'" (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) ...

     ... CW: This is as big a kick at Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, et al., as it is Donald Trump. Trump may be a bloviating buffoon, but Congressional leaders & other big-name enablers are supposed to be smart enough not to put the country at risk. The letter, a copy of which is here, gives less lily-livered Republicans permission to abandon ship. ...

... ** Fred Kaplan of Slate: "... Donald Trump's foreign policy ideas ... qualify as the most dangerous, disruptive, self-destructive ideas that any major party's nominee has peddled in any living American's memory.... Even if he didn't start a [capricious] war, or escalate one with no notion of how to end it, he is likely -- judging from what he says -- to wreck the few remnants of the post -- World War II order that sustain America's influence and its broad network of (mostly) democratic allies.... Putin in particular must be agog at his potential good fortune." Read on, as Kaplan runs through a parade of horribles that would follow Trump's election. -- CW ...

... Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), in a Washington Post op-ed: "I will not be voting for Donald Trump for president.... My conclusion about Mr. Trump's unsuitability for office is based on his disregard for the precept of treating others with respect, an idea that should transcend politics. Instead, he opts to mock the vulnerable and inflame prejudices by attacking ethnic and religious minorities.... I am also deeply concerned that Mr. Trump's lack of self-restraint and his barrage of ill-informed comments would make an already perilous world even more so." -- CW ...

... Paul Waldman: "... even if none of these defections represents an inspiring profile in courage, their political significance is still profound. That's because it's one thing when you have one or two defections, but the more they start to pile up, the more likely further defections become, each one giving momentum to the next." -- CW

Brian Stelter of CNN: "From the looks of Matt Drudge's home page, Hillary Clinton is so sick, she needs help getting up a flight of stairs.... But looks can be deceiving. The Drudge Report, one of the most widely read sites on the web, is misleading visitors by taking a six-month-old photo out of context. Clinton slipped on some stairs while campaigning in South Carolina ahead of the February 27 primary -- that much is true. A couple of men helped her up the stairs. Photos of the awkward entrance were published right afterward by two wire services, Reuters and Getty.... A right-wing blog called The American Mirror picked up on the tweets and published a short story on Sunday. 'SHOCK PHOTO: Multiple staffers help unstable Hillary up stairs,' the headline said.... The blog post was all Drudge needed to splash the photos across the home page of his hugely popular tip sheet." (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) ...

     ... CW: I scanned the American Mirror blogpost; it's worse than Stelter lets on. I'd like to see Drudge keep a schedule like Clinton's, then try to bound up slippery steps in tiny, slick-soled high heels. Women-haters! ...

     ... Oh, look. Here's a pic of President Obama stumbling on stairs at a campaign rally in July 2012. He was indoors! And wearing big ole man-shoes! I guess all the wingers were right: he is totally unfit for the presidency:

Danielle Paquette of the Washington Post: Ivanka Trump, Donald's daughter, "has built her personal brand around this cause, penning a book called 'Women Who Work' and leading the family-friendly policy charge on Donald Trump's presidential campaign. But the company that designs her clothing line, including the $157 sheath she wore during her convention speech, does not offer workers a single day of paid maternity leave.... The company allows just 12 weeks of unpaid leave, the legal minimum for employers with more than 50 workers.... Last month, British newspaper The Independent revealed most of the Ivanka Trump brand's clothing was manufactured in Vietnam and China.... [Ivanka's] message [in 'Women Who Work'] starkly contrasts with past words of her father, who has blamed his wives' careers for troubles in his previous marriages. In 1994, Donald Trump told ABC News, 'I think that putting a wife to work is a very dangerous thing.' There is no reference to a paid family leave policy on his campaign website." -- CW ...

... CW: If you want to read a boatload of malarkey (I didn't bother), Lisa DePaulo of Harper's Bizarre (or Bazaar) interviews Ivanka Trump & probably finds out Donald Trump is a great dad & wonderful human being. Also, sexy photos.

Other News & Views

Annals of "Journalism," Ctd.

"Shelley Ross, once one of the most powerful women in TV news, writes exclusively [in the Daily Beast] on resisting Roger Ailes's invitation to have a 'sexual alliance' with him, the epidemic of sexual harassment in TV news, and how to solve it." -- CW ...

... Gabriel Sherman of New York: "Fox News' senior executives have said they were unaware of sexual-harassment allegations against Roger Ailes before former anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit against him in July. But those claims are now being challenged by Fox host Andrea Tantaros, who says that she complained multiple times to senior Fox executives in 2015 about Ailes's inappropriate sexual behavior toward her. Tantaros says that, after she came forward, she was first demoted and eventually taken off the air in April 2016. Fox continues to pay her." CW Note: Tantaros is a complete ditz, but of course that doesn't mean Ailes has droit du seigneur. ...

... Kyle Blaine of BuzzFeed: Fox "News" sources dispute Tantaros' claims. "During the legal proceedings [over a book Tantaros wrote], according to the sources, Tantaros alleged that she had been mistreated by several Fox News employees, both men and women. Five specific allegations, including 'inappropriate male behavior,' were detailed by Tantaros's legal team in a March 2016 letter made available to BuzzFeed News. Ailes was not among those accused in the letter.... When Tantaros sat down with Fox News' legal and HR team on April 7, she was asked directly if she should could recall any specific statements made to her of a sexual nature. According to the source with direct knowledge, she answered that she could not recall." -- CW ...

... Sarah Ellison has a long piece in Vanity Fair titled "Inside the Fox News Bunker." All the staff are skeert of What Happens Next. CW: I'm sure a lot of Fox employees are nice people who don't deserve to be jerked around by the vicissitudes of Ailes & the Murdock boys. But, for reasons of necessity or opportunism, they did sell their souls to the devil. They should not be surprised that sometimes there is a price to pay.

Beyond the Beltway

Patricia Cohen of the New York Times: "... as more and more states seek ways to help the richest Americans protect their wealth from creditors, divorcing spouses and children, as well as some federal and state tax collectors, critics worry that the effort to attract the lucrative trust business is turning into a competitive game of giveaway.... The clear leaders are Nevada, Delaware, South Dakota and Alaska, but other states have also joined the frenzy. New Hampshire, Wyoming, Tennessee and Ohio all hope to dip a spoon in the trillion-dollar-plus pot of cream that had traditionally been preserved in offshore tax havens like the Cayman Islands." -- CW

Way Beyond

Duet of the Despots. Neil MacFarquhar & Tim Arango of the New York Times: "President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, are expected to reconsider their dispute over Syria when they meet on Tuesday in St. Petersburg, with both leaders interested in a public display of affection to show the West that strained ties have not left them isolated." -- CW

David Sanger & Rick Gladstone of the New York Times: "The most recent satellite photographs [of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea]..., collected and scrutinized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based research organization, show the construction of what appear to be reinforced [Chinese] aircraft hangars at Fiery Cross, Subi and Mischief Reefs, all part of the disputed territories. There were no military aircraft seen at the time the photos were taken. But a summary of the center's analysis suggests that the hangars on all three islets have room for 'any fighter-jet in the People's Liberation Army Air Force.'... While China may assert that the structures are for civilian aircraft or other nonmilitary functions, the center says its satellite photos strongly suggest otherwise." -- CW

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Reader Comments (5)

The word 'news' has a new meaning. Every day Republicans say no to the Republican candidate. A totally unique event. And I am sure it is much more than we see when you consider that the same thing is going on in individual States. Never mind the 'dangerous' President (from the 50 experts). I have no expertise in economics but I can add and subtract. Cut taxes, increase spending, reduce deficit.

August 9, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterMarvin Schwalb

"http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/opinion/what-the-military-owes-rape-survivors-like-my-daughter.html". This is a sad, heart-felt opinion by a father. The idea of using the military against rape, in a way akin to the integration of the armed forces and how integration foretold Brown vs. Board of Education, leading society away from tacit acceptance and diminishment of the crime of rape would be a thorough repudiation of violence of sexual nature in a civil society. Imagine using the military to repudiate violence in general.

August 9, 2016 | Unregistered Commentercitizen625

Third party candidates. A collection of egomaniacs who don't give a damn about America.

August 9, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterMarvin Schwalb

Trump now advocating the cold blooded, planned assassination of his opponent.

Still no retraction of endorsements from the increasingly diminishing moral midgets.

When is enough enough? When some gun knobber actually does shoot Clinton? Oh but then it will be another unfortunate lone wolf actions and their prayers will go out to her family.

Seriously. Assassination. Advocated by the candidate they endorse. And pay no attention to all the flacks trying desperately to walk this back or "explain" it. There is no mistaking the intent.

This asshole has surpassed even his own subterranean low points.

And still no word from the Leaders...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/09/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-second-amendment/

August 9, 2016 | Unregistered CommenterAkhilleus

And from the Guardian on the "second amendment" lunacy:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/09/donald-trump-second-amendment-quote-hillary-clinton

August 9, 2016 | Unregistered Commenterexalto
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