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Here is a list of online reading sites for students.
Now you can practice your reading on the go…..where ever you go!
The Baldwin Online Children's Project: This site has many classic stories and books. Easy to use site and includes Aesop's fables, classics and more. Great for a short read in between waiting for lessons or at the Dr. office.
Project Gutenberg This site has many ebooks that you can download and can use when reading off from an ipad. It is easy to search by Title, Author and Subject!
Here is a list of books I have recently enjoyed and thought I would pass them along to you too.
At Least in the City Someone Would Hear me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life
By: Wade Rouse
This book is about a writer who is used to living in a big city and wants to get back to the simple life of semi-country living. He finds Southwest Michigan as a nice place to re-start his adventure of life. He is all "gung-ho" ready It is a laugh out loud, read pieces of it to your friend/spouse sitting on the couch next to you, big old grin on your face reading. Very short sections withing the chapters so it reads fast. Not for all readers at times as it has some sensitive material. Check it out and decide for yourself on this one.
I'd give it a grade of: A (sensitive material and language)
Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by:by Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson
This book is said to be for anyone raising boys, teaching boys or has a boy in their life. I have three, including my husband. My sister gave me this book (before she had her own boy) and it was an interesting look into the dynamics of being a boy in America. It is a good read, not a light read, but a bit thick in the college textbook style of documented cases of boys and issues of boys.
I'd grade it: B-
The Secret: by Rhonda Byrne
When your mother calls you and says she has stage 4 uterine cancer, and the next week says, there is a great book you need to read. You know what, you order the book and you read it. This is the book. I think anyone could benefit by reading this book. It is made up of short paragraphs of quotes from people who believe in the secret. I would encourage you to skip to the middle half of the book and read the sections on the Secrets as it applies to: money, relationships, life…. Great book for thinking back on and making changes in your life. They make a page a day calendar by this author that my mother is using this year, CANCER FREE!
I'd grade it: A
The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine by: Steven Rinella
If you enjoy the outdoors, and love food this one is for you. It is a pretty hard core food book about eating from the earth, or animals from the earth. I usually do not pick up books and read, read, read, until they are done. I did this one. The author is from Twin Lake, Michigan near where I grew up and I could surely relate to frog hunting, and that his Dad used the "Fry-Daddy" for anything from pike chunks to those little frog legs too. Steven Rinella travels the globe to put together a feast fit for a king over 100 years ago, with original ingredients, gives himself a year to do so and serve it to his friends and his vegetarian girlfriend.
I'd grade it: A
Foods Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your Neighborhood Into a Community by Heather C. Flores
Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden And Your Neighborhood into a Community
This is not quite what I expected out of this book. I was looking for a book that showed me how to turn my yard into a garden. Which is just what the title said, so I thought I was right on. The author does indeed do that but also digs deeper into many other "green subjects". She is pretty driven in her beliefs of green living, and does give many suggestions how to live that way. I would check this out at the library before you buy and then leaf through and look at what interests you and read those sections.
I'd give it: C+
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by: by Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver, and Steven L. Hopp
I am three chapters into this book, and it is another eat from the earth type of book. A family moves from Arizona to the Virginia area to live on and off of the land. (not make a living, just eat) They vow to grow as much of their own food as possible and support local farmers for what they cannot grow or produce, (chicken, beef) themselves. The author does a great job at adding details about the food industry, seed companies and how eating in American has changed over the years. Makes you think about what you eat and where it comes from. A closely related book is the 100 Mile Diet.
I'd give it: A-
15 Minutes Outside: 365 Ways to get out of the house and connect with your kids.
This book is written by Rebecca P. Cohen, a gardener, mother and writer for the Wildlife Federation. She decided to embark on a mission of getting her children out of the house for 15 minutes each day for one year. She chronicles her year by the seasons and gives 365 examples of fun outdoor activities you can do with your own children, or in a daycare or school setting. I am someone who pretty much lives outside except for when I am sleeping, even in the not so fun 3 other seasons in Michigan besides Summer. So, sometimes it takes having some "town kids" out to our property to reset my thinking on life and being outside so much. It is a good book and is laid out nice by the seasons on how to get outdoor living into each day no matter where you live.
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I'd give it: A
American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon, By: Steven Rinella
This book is part storytelling, part American History and part BIG game hunting. Steven tells a great story whether it is sitting on the Beardsley Stage in Muskegon, Michigan showcasing his photos or over the course of a book. My guess is it would be great to listen to his stories over any of his meals he has hunted to eat for dinner. I digress….. Owen and myself met Steven in the Summer of 2011 and it was a memorable, wonderful experience. In this book he wins the "lottery" to hunt buffalo and brings us along with him for the hunt and a treasure trove of information on the American West of long ago to the present day. Super book! I enjoyed the notes along with the photos in the book as it made me feel like I was taking the journey with him. SIDE NOTE: Steven currently has a great show running on The Sportsman Channel on Sunday Nights @ 9:00pm called THE MEAT EATER. It is fabulous.
Grade: A
The Help
By: Kathryn Stockett
Super book, that I could not put down over the middle of the Summer. I had never heard of the book and a very close friend said,"I have a book you would like, it reminds me of you…… Your canning, your lifestyle, your roots." So, since she is a great friend, and I usually do what she says because she has never been wrong yet, I read it. She was right again! I planned to see the movie, and am still waiting to do that. After seeing all the awards that the movie was nominated for, it makes me want to see it more. Summary: A good southern tale of women in the 50-60's of life with "the help". There were times I was right there on the porch or kitchen of these women, with my Grandmother Marion…. who lived the life, without any HELP.
Grade: A
Girl Hunter
By: Georgia Pellegrini
I saw this book at the store and the cover grabbed me and took me to the checkout lane at Barnes and Noble. When I read the back cover and say Steven Rinella and Ree Drummond's quotes, I was hooked before I started reading. I think that is an adequate way to describe the book, as it is a mix of those two people mixed with a little "upper crust" feel. After reading the book I decided that it was time I make a plan to hunt for turkey in the Spring and harvest my first 2 deer this Fall off of our property. (I already have a list of the top 10 reasons I am gonna bag that buck!)
Summary: This book puts you at the campfire with "The Commish" and others on a lakeside cabin showcasing that hunting is not always about the hunt. But about what conversations lead up to the hunt, the harvest and of course the eating events. She describes in detail the people and the hunts and you can feel that she transforms herself from a newbie hunter to a legit shooter. One of my favorite parts are the recipes and the descriptions of each at the end of each chapter. Her descriptive language is not that of Steven Rinella, but she brings a different view to hunting, and hunting as a woman. That I respect.
Grade: A-
The Duck Commander Family By: Willie Robertson
I was given this book by a co-worker to read because she knew a couple things about me. #1: I love watching the TV Show. #2 Part of my family is from Newport AR, near Searcy AR. They were farmers and I swear that my Aunt Bobbie, who was married to my Uncle Willie is another version of Kay. From her cooking to her dark hair, to her accent, to her generation. Great women from a great part of the USA. The book was a quick read and at times felt like I was at a family reunion. I know not everyone could say that, nor do they want to be from a family like that, BUT there are some great common qualities. I read half the book in one night, after teaching school. The other half I finished in another Sunday afternoon. It has recipes and the titles of the chapters all have to do with food. It tells many funny stories, and gives great parenting advice to today's generation. It is a quick read and gives insight into business, family and faith. Good for them!
Grade: A
How Children Succeed by: Paul Tough
Interesting read about how poverty, college education chess and character traits predict how successful children are, or not. It is thick with educational studies, follows schools in New York, and a chess teacher/coach that has tremendous success with her students. It also focuses on a lot of stats that predict if a person will become successful and happy. These made the top of the list: grit, self control, zest, social intelligence, gratitude, optimism, and curiosity. It also states that adults in children's life can make a great difference besides their parents. Yea teachers, coaches, clergy, club leaders and more. Many other books are referenced in this book that I'm sure would be good to read.
Grade: A-


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By Gerry J. GilmoreAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 6, 2006 The end is drawing near for remnant Taliban, al Qaeda and other elements seeking to displace the Afghan government for their own purposes, the American general who oversees U.S. troops in Europe and NATO matters said here yesterday.
"I think this is a turning moment for what's left of the insurgency and also for the criminal element, the narcotics traffickers and all the others, who are working on their own in their own way to destabilize the growth of the (Afghan President Hamid) Karzai government," Marine Gen. James L. Jones told "CNN Late Edition" host Wolf Blitzer.
Jones is supreme allied commander in Europe and commander of U.S. European Command.
American, coalition and Afghan forces defeated the Taliban, which had terrorized the populace and facilitated the operation of al Qaeda training camps in the country. Operation Enduring Freedom was launched Oct. 7, 2001. The U.S. declared in early May 2003 that major combat operations in Afghanistan had ended, but a diminished insurgency has continued since then.
Remaining Taliban and al Qaeda elements in Afghanistan continue to stage hit-and-run operations against Afghan, U.S. and other coalition forces. But, Jones said, these incidents are becoming less significant as government forces grow in size and capability.
Jones predicted an increase in terrorist attacks in Afghanistan this spring, but said the outnumbered and outgunned terrorists are unlikely to make any meaningful gains. "I don't think that means we have a resurgence or an insurgency that's returning" in Afghanistan, the general told Blitzer. Any spike in violence likely would be "disparate" and spread out among the Taliban, al Qaeda and narcotraffickers, Jones said.
Terrorists in Afghanistan also are expected to adopt "copycat" techniques like those used by terrorists in Iraq, such as employing more roadside bombs to attack government, U.S. and other coalition troops, Jones said.
"There clearly are going to be instances of duplication and imitation," Jones said. Terrorists in Afghanistan are "going to try everything that they can, because the tide and the times are moving out," he said.
Jones said Afghanistan's 30,000-member national army is making things hot for the terrorists. "They're a capable army. They're admired by the people," Jones said. "They're out mixing it up and doing things they need to do."
The coalition in Afghanistan plans to inject substantial reinforcements to put more pressure on the insurgency during 2006, Jones said. NATO also is preparing to deploy about 11,000 troops into Afghanistan to assist with security duties, he said. "There are fewer hiding places for those who wish us ill in Afghanistan," Jones said.
Right now, Jones said, he considers Afghanistan's drug traffickers as much as a detriment for the country's well being as the Taliban and al Qaeda terrorists. Many of Afghanistan's poppy plants are harvested and processed by labs into opium, from which heroin is made. "We all have to be very, very cognizant of the fact that this may be the most important problem the Karzai government faces in terms of restoring the economy and moving it in a positive direction," Jones said.
Regarding the whereabouts of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Jones said he believes the terrorist will eventually be dealt with. Bin Laden is suspected of hiding somewhere along the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border region. "If he's still alive there's reason to believe that we'll eventually be successful (in finding him), particularly if we get a good working relationship across both sides of border, which would be, in my view, very important," Jones said.


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i look at it like this, some do it a little some a lot, some only when they are clearly in charge. On and on. In your case its simeple
You are PAYING this trainer to teach you, you seem happy with their level of competance, ok not ok doesnt matter. Neither is abusive or harmful, so follow the methods you are paying to learn. Its that trainers call.
I don't even give my horses feed until they learn respect, far as they know they are getting my left overs, I put feed in the bowl and stand over it with my back to them and will run them off if they get close to me. Then I calmly walk away. That is my method for quickly letting them know I am the boss in this field. Not saying its perfect or the best but it is mine and I like the results I get, think how that would work if soemone was behind me feeding thehorse treets out of hand.
So many people have probelems with horses because they treat them like a dog. A horse is not a dog. Its brain doesnt work like ours or the dogs. A mom and dad dog go kill something, bring it back for the puppies to eat. Give a dog a treat he thinks you are the coolest guy in the world and he'll do anything for you.
Give a horse food, and he thinks you are a punk and he just took your food. Until you have clear boundries not a good thing to hand treat a horse. And most likely your trainer feels the same way, but either way that's the pro you hired , should just go along with them.


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With a new head coach, the Erie BayHawks are 17-9 heading into Friday's game at Maine against the Red Claws (11-16).
Last season, Erie only won 21 games.
This season's record is a bit skewed because the BayHawks are playing in the East Conference, which has only two teams with winning records, but they win at conference leader Iowa (19-7) on Christmas Day, 114-110 after losing to the Energy on a last-second shot on the road.
Jay Larranaga had never been a head coach in the states and his only head coaching experience was with the Irish National Team, but so far, he's shown why Erie hired him to replace John Treloar, who left to become the Director of Player Personnel for the Phoenix Suns.


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The course of studies leading to a major in Spanish requires no fewer than 30 hours beyond the general studies requirement (FLS 201-202). These hours must include:
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Li-Kuo Chang has been the assistant principal viola of the Chicago
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with Pinchas Zukerman performing Bach's Sixth Brandenburg Concerto. He also has been an active chamber music
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des Nibelungen performances in Japan in 2002.
Chang has been active as a teacher for many years. He has been on the faculty
of Northwestern University from 1993 to 2008 and Roosevelt Universities since
1998. Since September, 2011, he joined the faculty of the Peabody Institute as
an artist teacher. He has also been on the faculty of the Affinis Music
Festival in Japan since 1992. Chang has given master classes at the Indiana
University, Northern Illinois University, DePaul University, Hong Kong Academy
of Performing Arts and Shanghai Conservatory. His students have won positions
in major orchestras, such as Chicago, Detroit, Saint Louis, Indianapolis, and
have received competition prizes.
studied violin and piano at the Music High School of the Shanghai Conservatory
in his native city Shanghai, China. He was a first prize winner of the Chinese
Young Artist Competition, held in Shanghai in 1978. In 1979, he came to the
U.S. with a full scholarship at the Eastman School of Music and a young artist
fellow at the Music Academy of the West. He studied viola with Francis Tursi,
Donald McInnes, Milton Thomas, William Magers and Paul Doktor. He has also
played for William Primrose at Primrose's master classes.
Chang lives in Chicago's East Lakeview with his wife Maggie and son Daniel. His
instrument, the famous ex-Henri Vieuxtemps viola, is a rare G. B. Guadagnini
viola made in 1770, Turin.
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Mataram. It may be home to world-renowned vacation destinations like the Gili Islands and a string of surfer hotspots on the island of Sumbawa, but whether or not West Nusa Tenggara will actually have an operating international airport by March next year is anybody's guess.
In the past months, demonstrators from the villages of Pujut, Ketara and Tanak Awu in Central Lombok have protested against unpaid wages, unfair or no compensation for their land as well as unjust hiring practices.
The first stone for the construction of a runway may have been laid in January 2008, but to date it does not seem to be in any condition to operate anytime soon. According to Misbach Mulyadi, a commission chairman at West Nusa Tenggara's Legislative Council, one of the primary obstacles faced today by the state airport management company Angkasa Pura was lack of funding.
"We recently met with the operational director of Angkasa Pura, and going by the audit results by the BPK [Supreme Audit Agency] in regard to the Lombok International Airport project, they are short of something like Rp 116 billion ($12 million). Initially we all were under the impression that they were short of Rp 76 billion. The BPK audit results says otherwise," Misbach said.
"That funding, according to Angkasa Pura, shall only be disbursed via the 2011 state budget in January. And 5 to 6 months after that we can guess that the airport will be functional by mid-2011."
He added, however, that he could not say when the airport will actually be operational.
"There are still lots of test runs to be carried out plus [there is] the administrative bureaucracy of handling certification procedures and the operational permit to function as an international-standards airport." His statement comes two months after the general manager of the Mataram branch of Angkasar Pura said President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono would inaugurate the airport in March 2011.
"The president wants to dedicate the airport in March 2011 when all the aviation facilities have been completed and test runs had also been carried out," Erdi Nuka had initially said.
He had said in October that the construction of the airport was 90 percent complete and would be finished by December, especially since Indonesia has aggressively promoted Lombok and neighboring Sumbawa to compete against Bali as top tourist spots.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has set a target of one million visitors for the two islands by 2012.
Antara had reported that the project had suffered numerous problems, including security issues, theft of construction materials and equipment, land disputes, tensions with villagers and problems with the control tower.
"To my understanding, Angkasa Pura has told us the funds will be disbursed following a RUPS [general shareholders meeting] internally within Angkasa Pura on Friday [today]."
"It is all our [councilors] hope that there will not be a tender process for any further work on the airport once the funds are disbursed, considering the urgent need for an international airport," Misbach said.
He said the airport was initially scheduled to operate by March this year, before the launch was pushed back to Dec. 17, to coincide with the province's anniversary. It was then postponed to March 2011.


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UTAS Home › Faculty of Health › Pharmacy › Pharmacy News › › Celebrating 25 years at the University of Tasmania
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the introduction of the Bachelor of Pharmacy degree at the University of Tasmania.
Responsibility for education and training of pharmacists to meet the health care needs of the Tasmanian community was transferred from the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education to the University in 1978, as a result of the 1976 Karmel Report into higher education in the State. The course was introduced as a three-year full-time degree with an enrolment of 24 students.
It has grown to become a four year full-time program enrolling 36 Australian and 16 international students annually. The School pioneered hospital and community based clinical teaching of pharmacy students in Australia and its graduates are highly regarded throughout the country. Since 1978, more than 500 Australian students have been awarded the degree of Bachelor of Pharmacy by the University.
A large number of international students have also received their degree from the School, including students from Malaysia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada, Brunei, Vanuatu, Thailand, Indonesia, Fiji, Tonga and the Solomon Islands.
The School has also been active in research during this period, with 18 PhD, 9 MPharm and 42 BPharm(Hons) degrees being awarded. Continued strong demand for places in the course and the current and projected shortages of pharmacists throughout Australia, particularly in regional and rural areas, augurs well for the future.
A collection of pharmacy memorabilia has been brought together in a display at the Morris Miller Library, Sandy Bay campus of the University, in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the School of Pharmacy becoming part of the University. This is a significant period in the history of pharmacy education in Tasmania - and indeed in Australia.
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Last weekend saw the return of one of rugby's most controversial characters, as Gavin Henson made his competitive debut for London Welsh in an Aviva Premiership match against Saracens.
It was Henson's first appearance since he had his contract at the Cardiff Blues terminated back in April this year, with promising signs for his future at London Welsh and potential return to the Wales set-up as he finished the game with 14 points.
Since leaving Ospreys in 2010, the utility back has played club rugby for Saracens, Toulon and more recently Cardiff Blues whilst also running out for the Barbarians and representing Wales.
Henson has always been one to stand out in the media, however this season we think that his boot choice may also grab the limelight. In recent seasons he has worn Nike Mercurial Vapor boots although over the summer he made the switch to X Blades. The southern hemisphere brand are well known in Rugby League but are now attracting the attention of players from the opposite code.
He ran out for his debut in a pair of Wild Thing rugby boots, a fitting name for Henson's career to date. The design of the boots may not be aesthetically pleasing to all but the performance and technology involved in the boot itself is to the highest standards.
The boots has a microfibre and TPU reinforced mesh upper which improves the fit, a lightweight, flexible and water resistant inner board, strategically positioned moulded blades across the forefoot and heel, and Speed Ortholite Innersole which absorbs pressure during acceleration
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Lawyer to plead guilty to bribery in Bexar County corruption case
By Guillermo Contreras : March 5, 2014 : Updated: March 6, 2014 3:58am
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Photo By Jerry Lara/San Antonio Express-NewsJudge Angus McGinty , of the 144th State District Court listen to arguments from attorneys during the criminally negligent homicide trial of Gilbert John Sullaway, Jr., Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012.
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SAN ANTONIO — A lawyer at the center of a federal investigation into corruption at the Bexar County Courthouse and beyond has been charged with bribery, and plans to plead guilty to the charge, the San Antonio Express-News has confirmed as part of its own probe into the case.
As the state's attention was on the primaries this week, federal authorities quietly filed documents here charging defense attorney Al Acevedo Jr. with bribing then-144th District Judge Angus McGinty, who resigned Feb. 14 amid allegations that he manipulated cases to benefit clients of Acevedo in exchange for repair work on McGinty's personal vehicles.
Acevedo worked out a pre-indictment plea deal, and is to formalize it at a court hearing later, the Express-News investigation found. The federal judge assigned to Acevedo's case had no comment when contacted by the Express-News.
Acevedo's lawyer, Frank Perez of Dallas, also had no comment.
McGinty has not been charged.
Confronted with the newspaper's findings, McGinty's lawyers Jay Norton and Alan Brown had no comment.
McGinty withdrew from the Republican primary race for the 144th district bench too late for his name to be removed from the ballot. As a result, he got roughly 24 percent of the vote, coming in third, unofficial election results show.
Rumors have swirled at the courthouse about alleged corruption, leading to some false media reports, including about how the investigation began.
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Planned Parenthood is holding its annual lobbying day at the Capitol - despite a vote by the Legislature to bar it from getting state funding and a possible vote to keep it out of Texas sex education classes.
The organization expects hundreds to attend the Thursday rally featuring actress Stephanie March from "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
Its supporters will then fan out to lobby lawmakers.
The Republican-controlled Legislature targeted Planned Parenthood in 2011 when it outlawed state funds for organizations linked to abortion providers. Then, on Tuesday, the Senate Education Committee began mulling a bill barring Planned Parenthood from teaching sex education in public schools.
Planned Parenthood has affiliated health educators who have taught sex education in some school districts statewide, but the practice isn't widespread.
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I'm new here, I've been drumming for about 8 years, I've been drumming since about 4th/5th grade. I am in high school, a junior. I march snare in our line and last year I was put lead snare. I've also marched in Aphex independent percussion and won the state championship. I live in indiana, so I live in the state of marching band fanatics lol I play drum set as well, not just snare haha I've been playing set for just as long, I played it my freshman year in march band when we had a half pit and half line. I've been snooping around forums, mainly snake forums(I'm a huge reptile enthusiast) and I came here, hoping to learn more about drum set mostly. I'm not as good in set as I am on snare. I play and listen to rock and metal. Bands like chelsea grin and such. I have had a double bass pedal for a couple years but never used it and now I'm starting to. I will probably start asking questions about that haha
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So who gets pardoned and commuted by George W. Bush? Well we already know about Scooter, but who else has felt the warm glow of Dubya's compassion? The list includes just a handful of commutations, and 113 pardons to convicts who have already served their sentences. Among the lucky, five bootleggers or moonshiners, several tax cheats, mortgage and other fraudsters and white collar criminals, a couple of high caste-sounding folk convicted of cocaine or marijuana possession (like Harper James Finucan, convicted of weed possession in 1980 and James Edward Reed, convicted of the same thing in 1975) and two men: William Grover Frye and Devin Timothy Kruse, both convicted of going AWOL during the Vietnam War ... now that's one crime Dubya can really relate to.As for commutations, in addition to Scooter, Bush has commuted the following sentences:
Labels: Bush administration, CIA, CIA leak trial, George W. Bush, neocons, Plamegate, Scooter Libby, Valerie Plame
"We fully recognize that the Constitution provides that commutation decisions are a matter of presidential prerogative and we do not comment on the exercise of that prerogative.We comment only on the statement in which the President termed the sentence imposed by the judge as "excessive." The sentence in this case was imposed pursuant to the laws governing sentencings which occur every day throughout this country. In this case, an experienced federal judge considered extensive argument from the parties and then imposed a sentence consistent with the applicable laws. It is fundamental to the rule of law that all citizens stand before the bar of justice as equals. That principle guided the judge during both the trial and the sentencing.Although the President's decision eliminates Mr. Libby's sentence of imprisonment, Mr. Libby remains convicted by a jury of serious felonies, and we will continue to seek to preserve those convictions through the appeals process."
In early August 1999, then Presidential candidate Governor George W. Bush mocked Karla Tucker's plea for clemency during an interview with Talk Magazine. Bush mentioned that he had watched Larry King's interview with Karla Tucker from Texas Death Row."I didn't meet with Larry King either when he came down for it," Bush told the magazine. "I watched his interview with (Tucker), though. He asked her real difficult questions, like, `What would you say to Governor Bush?' "The Talk reporter asked how she answered. " `Please,' Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, `don't kill me,' " according to the magazine.
The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today rejected Lewis Libby's request to remain free on bail while pursuing his appeals for the serious convictions of perjury and obstruction of justice. As a result, Mr. Libby will be required to turn himself over to the Bureau of Prisons to begin serving his prison sentence.I have said throughout this process that it would not be appropriate to comment or intervene in this case until Mr. Libby's appeals have been exhausted. But with the denial of bail being upheld and incarceration imminent, I believe it is now important to react to that decision.From the very beginning of the investigation into the leaking of Valerie Plame's name, I made it clear to the White House staff and anyone serving in my administration that I expected full cooperation with the Justice Department. Dozens of White House staff and administration officials dutifully cooperated.After the investigation was under way, the Justice Department appointed United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Patrick Fitzgerald as a Special Counsel in charge of the case. Mr. Fitzgerald is a highly qualified, professional prosecutor who carried out his responsibilities as charged.This case has generated significant commentary and debate. Critics of the investigation have argued that a special counsel should not have been appointed, nor should the investigation have been pursued after the Justice Department learned who leaked Ms. Plame's name to columnist Robert Novak.Furthermore, the critics point out that neither Mr. Libby nor anyone else has been charged with violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act or the Espionage Act, which were the original subjects of the investigation. Finally, critics say the punishment does not fit the crime:Mr. Libby was a first-time offender with years of exceptional public service and was handed a harsh sentence based in part on allegations never presented to the jury.Others point out that a jury of citizens weighed all the evidence and listened to all the testimony and found Mr. Libby guilty of perjury and obstructing justice. They argue, correctly, that our entire system of justice relies on people telling the truth. And if a person does not tell the truth, particularly if he serves in government and holds the publictrust, he must be held accountable. They say that had Mr. Libby only toldthe truth, he would have never been indicted in the first place.Both critics and defenders of this investigation have made importantpoints. I have made my own evaluation. In preparing for the decision Iam announcing today, I have carefully weighed these arguments and the circumstances surrounding this case.Mr. Libby was sentenced to thirty months of prison, two years of probation, and a $250,000 fine. In making the sentencing decision, the district court rejected the advice of the probation office, which recommended a lesser sentence and the consideration of factors that could have led to a sentence of home confinement or probation.I respect the jury's verdict. But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive. Therefore, I am commuting the portion of Mr. Libby's sentence that required him to spend thirty months in prison.My decision to commute his prison sentence leaves in place a harsh punishment for Mr. Libby. The reputation he gained through his years of public service and professional work in the legal community is forever damaged. His wife and young children have also suffered immensely. He will remain on probation. The significant fines imposed by the judge will remain in effect. The consequences of his felony conviction on his former life as a lawyer, public servant, and private citizen will be long-lasting.The Constitution gives the President the power of clemency to be used when he deems it to be warranted. It is my judgment that a commutation of the prison term in Mr. Libby's case is an appropriate exercise of this power.
Mark Levin, at the start of his show, expressed his regret that the president didn't all-out pardon Libby, but stressed on his listeners that the president will get attacked by the Left for the commutation and he deserves support for doing as much as he did.
Barack Obama's statement:
"This decision to commute the sentence of a man who compromised our national security cements the legacy of an Administration characterized by a politics of cynicism and division, one that has consistently placed itself and its ideology above the law. This is exactly the kind of politics we must change so we can begin restoring the American people's faith in a government that puts the country's progress ahead of the bitter partisanship of recent years."
Update 3: Hillary Clinton's reaction to the Scooter commutation:
"Today's decision is yet another example that this Administration simply considers itself above the law. This case arose from the Administration's politicization of national security intelligence and its efforts to punish those who spoke out against its policies. Four years into the Iraq war, Americans are still living with the consequences of this White House's efforts to quell dissent. This commutation sends the clear signal that in this Administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice."
Rudy Giuliani, former federal prosecutor and apparently, newly minted believer in obstruction fo justice, perjury and lying to the FBI, had this to say:
"After evaluating the facts, the President came to a reasonable decision and Ibelieve the decision was correct."
More reactions to the commutation here. A sample:
"While for a long time I have urged a pardon for Scooter, I respect the president's decision. This will allow a good American, who has done a lot for his country, to resume his life." — Former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn.
Did I mention that Thompson is a contributor to Scooter's defense fund? Means he'll be one of the sops paying Scootie-Scoot's fine.
Meanwhile, the New York Times explains the difference between a commutation and a full pardon here.
"I received a number of angry, harassing mean-spirited phone calls and letters," District Judge Reggie B. Walton said. "Some of those were wishing bad things on me and my family." Walton made the remarks as he opened a hearing into whether to delay Libby's 2 1/2-year sentence.He said he was holding the letters in case something happened but said they would have no effect on his decision.
Judge Reggie B. Walton assumed his position as a United States District Judge for the District of Columbia on October 29, 2001, after being nominated to the position by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the United States Senate. In May 2007, Chief Justice John Roberts appointed Judge Walton to serve as a Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which is a 7-year appointment. Judge Walton was also appointed by President Bush in June of 2004 to serve as the Chairperson of the National Prison Rape Reduction Commission, a two-year commission created by the United States Congress that is tasked with the mission of identifying methods to curb the incidents of prison rape. Former Chief Justice Rehnquist appointed Judge Walton to the federal judiciary's Criminal Law Committee, effective October 1, 2005. Judge Walton previously served as an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia from 1981 to 1989 and 1991 to 2001, having been appointed to that position by Presidents Ronald Reagan in 1981 and George H. W. Bush in 1991. While serving on the Superior Court, Judge Walton was the court's Presiding Judge of the Family Division, Presiding Judge of the Domestic Violence Unit and Deputy Presiding Judge of the Criminal Division. Between 1989 and 1991, Judge Walton served as President George H. W. Bush's Associate Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy in the Executive Office of the President and as President Bush's Senior White House Advisor for Crime.
First: Dick Cheney. The vice president may not be winning as many foreign-policy battles as he used to, but Libby's fate is a highly personal matter for Cheney. He will ask Bush for a pardon, and he is unlikely to back down. If Bush resists, Cheney could argue that his close aide Libby should not go to jail while Karl Rove, another key figure in the scandal, has been protected by Bush and the administration.The second reason Libby will walk is President Bush's dismal approval rating. The number of people who would be angered by a pardon who haven't already abandoned the president could fit in an airport shuttle bus. Given the conservative defections from Bush over his support of immigration reform, a pardon of Libby—which would be popular with conservatives—might actually improve his approval ratings. Libby's conviction is seen as such an outrage among conservatives that one former Bush aide suggested "the consequences of not pardoning, if Scooter is led away in shackles, will be uglier than pardoning."
Labels: CIA leak trial, hypocrisy, Plamegate, Republicans, Scooter Libby, Valerie Plame
Joe diGenova, first up, should Scooter Libby be pardoned by President Bush?DIGENOVA: Absolutely, and the sooner the better.MATTHEWS: Do you believe he will act?DIGENOVA: The president?MATTHEWS: Yes.DIGENOVA: Absolutely.MATTHEWS: Will he do what you want him to do?DIGENOVA: Oh, no, he is going to pardon Scooter Libby. There's no question about it.The equities here, everything point toward it. And, while the president has not been a serial pardoner—he and his father have not issued a lot of pardons during their presidencies—this is a—this is a case that cries out for a pardon. And the justification for it is evident. And I don't think there's any question that the president will do it.The key will be whether or not Judge Walton sends Scooter Libby to prison in 60 days, or 40 days, or whatever it is.MATTHEWS: Right.DIGENOVA: The president will then have to act at the end of those 60 days, because, if Scooter Libby spends one day in prison, the black mark on this president's tenure in office will be indelible.MATTHEWS: And it will be his black mark on Bush, not on Scooter Libby, as you see it?DIGENOVA: No question about that, Chris, no question.But I think the president is going to do it. And I think he understands the reasons for it, all of which are out on the public record.
MATTHEWS: OK, let me ask Richard Ben-Veniste.Should—should Scooter Libby be pardoned by this president in 60 days?BEN-VENISTE: I think that is—that is entirely up to the president.He has the right, in his discretion, to do it.If he stood up and said, look, Scooter Libby, he was doing our bidding, that this whole attack on the Wilsons, outing Valerie Wilson, who was a covert operative of the CIA, a case officer of the CIA, which our government had invested millions of dollars in developing, casually outed by the administration, through Scooter Libby, if the president wants to step up to the plate and say, I'm responsible, and I will be a man, and I will take that responsibility by acknowledging it, and issuing a pardon, then so be it.Let him take the political heat for it and do it. I'm of the view that—frankly, that, unless somebody is a danger to the community, unless a—an appeal is completely frivolous, that bail ought to be granted, pending an appeal, because people should not go to jail until they are adjudged guilty, and that means through appeal.But, with respect to the pardon, that is entirely up to the president.MATTHEWS: Jerry Ford, the former president, the late president now, pardoned Richard Nixon, under the belief that the Burdick decision, which was a precedent, held that a person who accepts a federal pardon from a president is accepting guilt.Do you accept that as a precedent and as a matter of law, Joe diGenova?DIGENOVA: I—I don't—first of all, there is no law on that question.Whatever the president says who issues the pardon can say that. A president can say whatever he or she wants or say nothing when a pardon is issued.Let me just make one point about the under—the alleged underlying crime which was never charged here...MATTHEWS: Right.DIGENOVA: ... and apparently never committed, which was outing an agent, when you know that he or she is an agent.The first person to mention Valerie's name was not Scooter Libby. It was Richard Armitage, the undersecretary of state, in a flippant way, to Bob Woodward and to Robert Novak. Scooter Libby confirmed later in—at least three or four times that he had spoken about Ms. Wilson with reporters...MATTHEWS: Right.DIGENOVA: ... ultimately confirmed that.So, the bottom line here is—and—and, by the way, if the CIA was attempting to take active measures, affirmative measures, to protect the identity of Valerie Plame, let me tell you something, their—their—their tradecraft stinks, because you would not send a covert agent's—which I believe she was not—a covert officer's...MATTHEWS: OK.DIGENOVA: ... husband overseas, and then let him write an op-ed piece about it, and then do a number of other things that clearly were not designed to protect her cover.MATTHEWS: Joe—Joe, did you support—did you support the impeachment of President Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice?DIGENOVA: Absolutely. I did.MATTHEWS: What was the underlying crime then?DIGENOVA: Obstructing a trial—a civil...(CROSSTALK)MATTHEWS: No, what was the underlying—what was the underlying crime?(CROSSTALK)MATTHEWS: You're asking for—you—now, this guy is guilty of perjury and obstruction of justice.But what—you're saying he doesn't have an underlying crime there. But what was the underlying crime with Bill Clinton? Monica Lewinsky, that was the underlying crime?DIGENOVA: No. Actually, it was a civic proceeding...MATTHEWS: Right.DIGENOVA: ... in which there was a case pending in a United States district court.MATTHEWS: Right.DIGENOVA: And the—the—the president, apparently, according to the reason he—he gave up the practice of law for a period of time was because he did not tell the truth during a deposition.MATTHEWS: Well, but neither did—neither did Scooter Libby. So, they are guilty of the same charge.(CROSSTALK)
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In the fall of 2003, as a federal criminal probe was just getting underway to determine who leaked the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame to the media, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the-then chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, sought out Cheney to explain to his boss his side of the story.The explanation that Libby offered Cheney that day was virtually identical to one that Libby later told the FBI and testified to before a federal grand jury: Libby said he had only passed along to reporters unsubstantiated gossip about Plame that he had heard from NBC bureau chief Tim Russert.The grand jury concluded that the account was a cover story to conceal the role of Libby and other White House officials in leaking information about Plame to the press, and indicted him on five felony counts of making false statements, perjury, and obstruction of justice.At the time that Libby offered his explanation to Cheney, the vice president already had reason to know that Libby's account to him was untrue, according to sources familiar with still-secret grand jury testimony and evidence in the CIA leak probe, as well as testimony made public during Libby's trial over the past three weeks in federal court.Yet, according to Libby's own grand jury testimony, which was made public during his trial in federal court, Cheney did nothing to discourage Libby from telling that story to the FBI and the federal grand jury. Moreover, Cheney encouraged then-White House press secretary Scott McClellan to publicly defend Libby, according to other testimony and evidence made public during Libby's trial.If Libby is found guilty, investigators are likely to probe further to determine if Libby devised what they consider a cover story in an effort to shield Cheney. They want to know whether Cheney might have known about the leaks ahead of time or had even encouraged Libby to provide information to reporters about Plame's CIA status, the same sources said.Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and defense attorneys for Libby are expected to begin their closing arguments in the case as early as Tuesday morning. Defense attorneys for Libby had said for months that they were going to call Cheney as a defense witness, but informed Federal District Court Judge Reggie Walton, who has presided over the Libby trial, at the last minute that they were not going to call him after all.Had Cheney testified, he would have been questioned about whether he encouraged, or had knowledge of, the leaking of Plame's CIA status. Sources close to the case say that Cheney would have also been sharply questioned as to why, when presented by Libby with what prosecutors regarded as a cover story to explain away Libby's role in the leak, Cheney did nothing to discourage him. ...
Early on the morning of June 20, 2002, then-Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Bob Graham, D-Fla., received a telephone call at home from a highly agitated Dick Cheney. Graham, who was in the middle of shaving, held a razor in one hand as he took the phone in the other.The vice president got right to the point: A story in his morning newspaper reported that telephone calls intercepted by the National Security Agency on September 10, 2001, apparently warned that Al Qaeda was about to launch a major attack against the United States, possibly the next day. But the intercepts were not translated until September 12, 2001, the story said, the day after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.Because someone had leaked the highly classified information from the NSA intercepts, Cheney warned Graham, the Bush administration was considering ending all cooperation with the joint inquiry by the Senate and House Intelligence committees on the government's failure to predict and prevent the September 11 attacks. Classified records would no longer be turned over to the Hill, the vice president threatened, and administration witnesses would not be available for interviews or testimony.Moreover, Graham recalled in an interview for this story, Cheney warned that unless the leaders of the Intelligence committees took action to discover who leaked the information about the intercepts -- and more importantly, to make sure that such leaks never happened again -- President Bush would directly make the case to the American people that Congress could not be trusted with vital national security secrets."Take control of the situation," Graham recalls Cheney instructing him. ......On that morning in June 2002, Cheney could not have known that his complaints to Graham about the leaking of classified information would help set events in motion that eventually would lead to the prosecution of his own chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, as the result of a separate leak investigation.
Senate Democrats were also pressing for a special prosecutor. Because Cheney had personally pushed for a criminal investigation of senators and their staff over the NSA intercepts, the Democrats insisted that the White House endure similar scrutiny over the leak of Plame's identity, according to several senior congressional staffers involved in the process.With Fitzgerald's appointment as special prosecutor, Eckenrode found a sympathetic ear for his complaint that leak probes often went nowhere because suspects knew that reporters would never be forced to testify. Although the men agreed that reporters should be compelled to testify only as a last resort, Fitzgerald assured Eckenrode that he would demand such testimony if necessary.
The irony that Libby, once the vice president's top aide, was accused of concealing his role in leaking information to the press has not been lost on some. Graham said in an interview: "It's hard to believe that the chief of staff to the vice president was acting as a rogue agent. What we have learned from the trial validates the suspicion that Libby was not just operating as a lone ranger. He was carrying out what the vice president wanted him to do, which was to besmirch Joe Wilson. I think Libby has been a conspirator in one of the most reprehensible and damaging breaches of American security in modern history."
At the time of Cheney's phone call in June 2002, Graham and other lawmakers on the Intelligence committees suspected that the vice president viewed the leaking of the NSA intercepts as an opportunity to try to curtail what he believed were nettlesome congressional inquiries.If that was, indeed, the vice president's main purpose for his angry call to Graham, it was not the first time that Cheney had sought to use a press leak as a pretext for constraining a congressional probe.A recently declassified memo handwritten by Cheney more than 30 years ago when he was an aide to President Ford shows him considering whether to press the Justice Department to pursue criminal charges against The New York Times and reporter Seymour Hersh after the newspaper published an article revealing a highly classified espionage program against the Soviet Union. The memo was uncovered for a soon-to-be-aired documentary by the PBS program Frontline.When the Justice Department balked at prosecuting anyone, Cheney adroitly tried to exploit the news report for other ends. He wrote under the heading "Broader ramifications": "Can we take advantage of it to bolster our position on the Church committee investigation? To point out the need for limits on the scope of the investigation?"At the time, a select committee headed by then-Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, was investigating the CIA -- an unprecedented and historic inquiry that revealed everything from CIA-sponsored coups against foreign governments to attempted assassinations of foreign leaders, to illegal domestic spying.
In the NSA leak probe, the FBI focused primarily on news reports from June 2002 that on the night before September 11, 2001, the National Security Agency had intercepted two Arabic-language messages suggesting that terrorist attacks against the United States were imminent. The messages that were overheard said, "The match is about to begin" and "Tomorrow is zero hour." But they were not translated until September 12.The messages were discussed at length by Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden, who was NSA's director, during a joint closed-door session of the House and Senate Intelligence committees on June 19, 2002. Not long after the hearing concluded, CNN aired a report disclosing the two messages. The next morning, The Washington Post and USA Today published more-detailed reports. It was then that Cheney called Graham, and that Graham then met with Goss, Shelby, and Pelosi.Senior intelligence officials have insisted that even if the messages had been translated immediately, authorities most likely could not have prevented the 9/11 attacks. But they said that the leak revealed possible sources and methods of intelligence-gathering, and therefore was a major security breach.The FBI swarmed over Capitol Hill, interviewing virtually every senator and House member who served on the Intelligence committees, as well as the staffs of both panels. Before long, investigators began to focus on Shelby. And as they did, Shelby, who had initially supported the investigation, took to denouncing it.In August 2002, when the FBI inquired about having members of Congress and their staffs take polygraph examinations, Shelby began to pointedly voice opposition to the investigation, telling the press: "I don't know who among us would take a lie detector test. First of all, they're not even admissible in court, and second of all, the leadership [of both parties] has told us not to do that." More broadly, he complained: "Here we are investigating the FBI for huge failures, and now we're asking them to investigate us."Among those who provided information to the FBI incriminating Shelby was Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron. He told investigators that Shelby shared information about the intercepts shortly after the June 19 hearing, according to sources close to the investigation.Immediately after Shelby spoke with him, Cameron told the FBI, he watched as Shelby walked down a Senate office building hallway and conversed with Dana Bash, then a producer, and now a correspondent, for CNN. Cameron was not privy to the Shelby-Bash conversation, but CNN later ran a story about the intercepts based on information that was almost identical to what Shelby had told Cameron. Cameron, who indicated that he was irked that Shelby shared the information with a competitor, also told investigators that he delayed a broadcast of his story because he wanted to make sure that he was not compromising intelligence sources and methods, according to these sources.A congressional staff member, the sources said, recounted to the FBI that Shelby told the staffer about the NSA intercepts -- that Al Qaeda was about to attack the United States, but that the intercepts were not translated until after September 11. Shelby indicated to the staffer that the issue should be brought to the press's attention, although the staffer said that Shelby did not provide specific details of the information that the senator wanted divulged, the sources said.The investigation stalled when investigators were unable to compel Cameron, Bash, and other reporters to provide evidence or to testify before a federal grand jury on the sources for their stories.
Graham says that even if Shelby had leaked information about the intercepts to the press, Graham believes with some degree of certainty that certain executive branch officials did so as well. Although CNN broke the story, the next-day stories in The Post and USA Today contained details that Hayden had not disclosed to the Intelligence committees, Graham said. "That would lead a reasonable person to infer the administration leaked as well, or what they were doing was trying to set us up... to make this an issue which they could come after us with."
The main justification for invading Iraq had been that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction. But with inspectors unable to find any evidence of an Iraqi WMD program, the White House blamed the CIA for faulty intelligence. Senior CIA officials, in turn, said that the White House had often misrepresented accurate intelligence information.It was during that volatile time, on July 6, 2003, that Wilson wrote his New York Times op-ed alleging that the administration had distorted intelligence information about Iraq's purported attempt to procure uranium. When Cheney and Libby learned that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA, and might even have played a role in selecting him for the Niger mission, they perceived his allegations as one more effort by the CIA to shift blame away from the agency.Four days later, on July 10, 2003, Mary Matalin, a senior aide to Cheney at the time, warned Libby that Wilson was a "snake" and that his "story has legs," Deputy Special Prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg said in court at Libby's trial.Matalin then suggested a course of action, according to Zeidenberg: "We need to address the Wilson motivation. We need to be able to get the cable out. Declassified. The president should wave his wand."Two days later, on July 12, 2003, Cheney and Libby flew together to the Norfolk naval base in Virginia, where they attended ceremonies to christen the USS Ronald Reagan.On the way home on Air Force Two, the two men sat alone in a front compartment as Cheney counseled Libby on what to say to the press. One bit of advice: Provide reporters with details of the CIA debriefing of Wilson's Niger mission.The vice president told Libby that the president had waved his wand.Upon landing at Andrews Air Force Base, Libby and Cathie Martin, a press aide to Cheney, searched for a private room so that Libby could call Time magazine's Matthew Cooper and other reporters. Later from home, he also spoke to Judith Miller.It was toward the end of conversations with both reporters that Libby told them that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA, Miller and Cooper testified.Before the trial, Cheney denied that he ever authorized anyone to provide information about Plame to the media -- or that he even suggested such a thing. But FBI agent Deborah Bond testified that on the return trip from Norfolk, the vice president might indeed have talked with Libby about revealing Plame's CIA connection to the press. "Mr. Libby told us he believed they may have talked about it but he wasn't sure," Bond told the court.
Asked by one of Libby's lawyers if he had talked about Plame with anybody else before outing her in his column, Novak said he'd discussed her with a lobbyist named Richard Hohlt. Who, the lawyer pressed, is Hohlt? "He's a very good source of mine" whom I talk to "every day," Novak replied. Indeed, Hohlt is such a good source that after Novak finished his column naming Plame, he testified, he did something most journalists rarely do: he gave the lobbyist an advance copy of his column. What Novak didn't tell the jury is what the lobbyist then did with it: Hohlt confirmed to NEWSWEEK that he faxed the forthcoming column to their mutual friend Karl Rove (one of Novak's sources for the Plame leak), thereby giving the White House a heads up on the bombshell to come. ...
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LETTER: Proposed fishing law draws mixed response
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Legislation introduced in the N.C. House several weeks ago has saltwater recreational anglers cheering while in-shore commercial fishermen are booing the solons in Raleigh.
This jubilation or anger, depending on which group is talking, was created by HB 983 — which would give game fish status to speckled trout, red drum and estuarine striped bass. This designation would prohibit catching these fish by net and selling them for consumption. The thinking by the Coastal Conservation Association, which is the force behind the legislation, is that the designation will create a significant economic growth component for our state. The game fish designation in no way affects recreational (rod and reel) size and creel limit.
This is more than just a bill for saltwater anglers. It is not an exaggeration to say that hotels, restaurants, boat dealers, tackle stores, convenience stores and many other retail businesses benefit from recreational angling.
These three species are the most prized targets of in-shore anglers from North Carolina down to Florida and over to Texas; fishermen spend billions of dollars annually chasing these fish. Those states have much better stocks of speckled trout and red drum because North Carolina is the only state among them that doesn't protect these species in some way, such as a game fish designation. ...
One interesting fact in this argument between recreational and commercial fishermen is that the fisheries are in decline. Statistics from the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries indicate few commercial fishermen work full time in the industry. ...
There is an emotional side of this argument. Just like most North Carolinians have a positive, although maybe old-fashioned view of farmers, commercial fishermen are seen as rugged individualists battling the sea and encroaching on development to scrape out a meager living.
It is true that without commercial fishermen, we wouldn't enjoy eating wild fish, but this fishery is a tiny exception to that logical argument. Only nine-tenths of one percent of the state's commercial harvest is made up of these three species. ...
The legislation does offer compensation for three years to commercial fishermen who lose income from the game fish designation. The money comes from increased fees that recreational fishermen will pay for saltwater licenses. ...
The bill has been assigned to the House Commerce and Job Development Committee. Go to www.ncleg.net to find members of the committee and let them know your opinion.
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