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A statue is a sculpture representing a person, people, or animals. Some ore so famous that most people have long since stopped noticing them - when did you last look up when walking through Trafalgar Square for example? - others are so big that they dominate their skylines, like Liberty in New York, but just as interesting are smaller quirkier tributes to the famous or infamous.
Seems to me that any statue tells more about those who commissioned it rather than of the life and times it's commemorating. It's remains largely the state or religious institutions that have deep enough pockets with high-minded enough aspirations.
Here's a look at new or noteworthy statues from around the world...
Six of the 10 fibreglass babies nonchalantly crawling up and down the tower. Photo Tower Park Praha
Prague's Žižkov Television Tower was completed in 1992, and since 2000 its distinctive outline was softened by the addition of what look like 10 giant babies crawling up and down the tower. The brief was to help the people of Prague love their tower a little more - and in that the sculptures were only meant to be temporary, and yet they are still there, it seems to have worked.
As a passing tourist, I was drawn to the tower as a diversion from the swathes of gorgeously attractive buildings in the Old Town of Prague. What caught my eye were the babies crawling up the outside of the structure.
Prague's TV tower dominates the skyline. Photo Tower Park Praha
The tower has attracted much criticism over the years, not least because it dominates one of Europe's most beautiful and low rise skylines, but also due to the very nature of its rather brutal design. It's an example of Structural Expressionism (also known as High-Tech Architecture), which evolved in the 1970s in reaction to the thinking that modern architecture of that period had become an endless parade of monotonous structures.
The rather brutal design has been softened by the infant climbers. Photos Tower Park Praha
No self respecting East European capital missed the opportunity under Communism of building a very tall, very modern, and usually very much despised TV tower, and Prague's offering is a three column steel structure that is 216 metres tall, and with an observation deck at 93m.
The 10 baby statues are made from fibreglass by renowned Czech sculptor, David Černý, who has form at creating controversy and making onlookers double take; having in 1991 provocatively painted a Soviet tank bright pink, and courted more controversy by exhibiting a statue of Saddam Hussein in a tank of formaldehyde in 2005.
Close up the babies are cute enough below the neck, but their heads are actually far from pretty, or even human, but have a strange mutant crease where facial features would normally be. Yet Černý's remit was to help transform the way that people feel about the tower, and in that he seems to have successed. It began as a temporary project, but because the sculptures proves so popularly appealing, they are now very much permanent fixtures.
I'm a sucker for getting an aerial view of any city that I am visiting, just for some context and plain old interesting views, but the observation deck and restaurant at the Žižkov Tower are well worth a visit, and for a closer look at Černý's daredevil infants.
Three bronze babies to the same design, also by David Černý, in Kampa Park. Photo Anguskirk/Flickr
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England played Tunisia in the World Cup back in June, in the Russian city of Volgograd - in the shadow of the mother of all motherland statues. It was built to commemorate World War II's Battle of Stalingrad, as Volgograd was then known - is 16 times the height of Michaelangelo's David and weilds a sword as long as Rio's Christ the Reedemer is tall.
Below is a look at the where,when and why of this giant figure, with nine other of the world's other biggest statues.
The Motherland Calls
Vital statistics: this sweeping beauty - Socialist Realism on steriods - is 85m tall and weighs over 8,000 tonnes. Also in the memorial complex is an eternal flame, the Memory Museum, and a cyclorama depicting the battle as it might have been seen from the top of the mound.
Where/when? The statue is on the outskirts of Volgograd, known as Stalingrad between 1925 and 1961, and as Tsaritsyn before that. The huge Mother Russia was unveiled in 1967 and stands on the top of an infamous mound called Hill 102 during the batttle, where fighting raged four months in 1942.
Why oh why? Nobody did war memorials quite like the Soviet Union, which erected hundreds of often massive and musular statues to commemorate the country's victory over Nazi Germany in the Second World War. Unsurprisingly then that the Battle Of Stalingrad, a turning point in the conflict that engulfed the city for six long months and cost the lives of perhaps two million people, would host the pinacle of Soviet statuary.
Criticism & controversy: any dissent about the suitability of the staue would have been swiftly snuffed out back in the Soviet day, but the esteem in which the 11 Hero Cities - of which Volgograd is one - are held in Russia, would have meant that the vast majority of the city's population were behind the statue and memorial complex. The sword did need a bit of a rethink though - as the stainless steel and its titanium cladding proved to be too wobbly in high winds. In 1972 the blade was replaced by something lighter, and with the addition of holes in the sword's upper part to reduce wind resistance.
Visiting: take the tram to Mamaev Kurgan. Volgograd International Airport has flights to Moscow with Aeroflot, Nordwind Airlines, and S7. Other cities served include Rostov-on-Don with Azimuth, Kazan, Krasnodar and Sochi with Utair, and Chelyabinsk with Yamal Airlines.
Related My Bathroom Wall posts include Cycloramas, Moscow's controversial Peter the Great statue, and the Brest Fortress war memorials.
African Renaissance Monument
Vital statistics: undeniably powerful, this oddly Soviet styled ensemble stands 49 metres high. It is Africa's tallest statue and cost £16.6m.
Where/when? The stylised family group faces the Atlantic Ocean on the outskirts of the Senegalese capital Dakar, with the bronze tip of the toddler's left hand the highest point. It was finished in 2010 to mark 50 years of Senegal's independence from France.
Why oh why? Nineteen African heads of state attended the opening ceremony of this powerful work, which depicts an African man, woman and child emerging from a volcano and pointing westwards. The concept is home grown, floated by President Abdoulaye Wade and designed by Senegalese architect Pierre Goudiaby. However, it was built by the Mansudae Overseas Projects company of North Korea, which has handiwork in Namibia, Benin, Botswana and others.
Criticism & controversy: the £16.6m price tag proved so crippling that land was ceded to North Korea to pay for it, and controvery rages on. Is it venerating machismo and sexism as some think? And it's irked many that there is a strange lack of African-ness in the facial features, and (in this predominantly Muslim country) accusations of idolatry and immodesty. And guess what? President Wade claims the intellectual propertty rights and wants 35% of the revenue raised from visitors.
Visiting: there's an observation level inside the big man's head. Alas Senegal doesn't have a significant airline of its own, but there are flights to Dakar from across Africa and Europe, with Brussels Airlines flying to Brussels, Air France to Paris, Ethiopian Airlines to Addis Ababa, Arik Air to Lagos, and Royal Air Maroc to Casablanca.
Guan Yu
Vital statistics: squaring up for righteous combat, this swiry-robed warrior stands 58 metres tall, weighs 1,320 tonnes and is clad with 4,000 glued-on stripos of copper.
Where/when? the statue stands in Jingzhou, on the banks of the Yangtse River in central China's Hubei Province, and was completed in 2016.
Why oh why? the middle reaches of the great Yangtse River have been strategically important for centuries, and the statue commemorates the great Chinese god-general Guan Yu, who was a heroic leader in the Three Kingdoms period. Guan Yu is revered, even worshipped, and is seen as the epitome of loyalty and righteusness. He has statues galore dedicated to him, not least the 61 metre tall statue in his home town of Chang Ping.
This statue sees him standing proud on the would-be prow of a stylised ancient warship - which actually houses a museum. It was designed by Han Meilin - who designed the cutesy Beijing Olympic mascot. The double-ended spear-like weapon is the Green Dragon Crescent Blade and weighs 136 tonnes.
Criticism & controversy: the statue seems to have gone down fairly well with locals and visitors, unlike the 30m Guan Yu statue in East Java, Indonesia, which was re-veiled with a vast white sheet soon after it was unveiled, thanks to a social media storm. In this predominantly Muslim country local authorities were accused of idolatry, and of pandering to China.
Visiting: there are trains to Jingzhou from Wuhan and Shanghai, and from Yichang airport (110 kilometres away), flights across China with China Eastern, Beijing Capital Airlines, Hainan Airlines and others.
Motherland Monument
Vital statistics: this stainless steel statue is 62m tall, weighs 560 tons, sports a held-aloft sword 16 metres long and a hammer and cycle emblem of the Soviet Union on the 13m shield.
Where/when? the statue dominates the skyline of central Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, and was completed in 1981, a decade before the country's independence from the Soviet Union. More livid than Liberty, it glowers in the centre of Kiev and is part of the Great Patriotic War Museum, which includes memorials and tanks.
Why oh why? This monolithic Motherland statue was unveiled by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and commemorates the Soviet victory of Nazi Germany. As a local guidebook has it - 'the huge statue has impudently intruded onto Kiev's historic panorama, but there is nothing to be done now'. Inside the base of the statue is the museum, which is well worth a visit for the astonishing wall of sepia photographs inside one of its many galleries.
Criticism & controversy: it's bad enough that the Soviet union built a gigantic statue to 'the Motherland', but my 1985 Intourist guide referred to the statue as 'Mother Russia', which is contentious. The orthodox church didn't want another point in the city being closer to God than its tallest spire, on the Kiev Pechersk Lavra in the upper part of the city. So to placate the primate the sword's tip was clipped by three metres. Incidentally, a 2015 law passed by the Ukrainian parliament bans Soviet and Communist symbols - and since independence around 5,000 Lenins have been toppled. World War II monuments are excepted though. The most recent cerfuffle flared up when the statue was illumiated in Visa branding for the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest held in Kiev.
Visiting: the museum in the plinth is surprisingly good. Most people are content with seeing the statue from afar, but there are two viewing platforms insude the statue - one at 36.6 meters at the top of the plinth reached by a lift set at a rakish 75 degree angle, and another cage-like area between the left hand and the shield reached by demanding staircases and ladders at the top of the shield - which is closed during cold and rainy weather. See the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War
See Visit Kiev. There are flights to Kiev's Boryspil Airport from across Europe and beyond - airlines include Ukraine International Airlines, Windrose Airlines, British Airways, Turkish Airlines and Qatar Airways.
Spring Temple Buddha
Vital statistics: the world's largest statue is 128 metres tall and weighs over 1,000 tonnes - it's clad with 108kg of gold, 3,300 tonnes copper, 15,000 tonnes steel and cost USD $55 million.
Where/when? the statue is in a remote remote part of China's Henan Province, at the Fondushan Scenic Area, and was built in 2008.
Why oh why? work on the colossus began not long after the Afghan Taliban destroyed the stone-carved Bamiyan Buddhas. This location is auspicious, being by the Tianrui hot spring and the Foquan Temple, with its 116 ton Bell of Good Luck - the heaviest functionaing bell on the planet. The statue is joins a spate of large statues erected across China, largely to boost local tourism, but with more than a nod to China's growing cultural assertiveness and confidence.
Criticism & controversy: to say that the area around the statue is ciommercialised is an understatement, with mountain of tourist tat on offer. A movement by local monks to establish control over the site so as to admist visitors for free has thus far not come to anything.
Visiting: as there is no viewing gallery in the head , you'll have to content youself with 365 stpes and for a selfie with the world's biggest big toe, - as the viewing level is at the top of the pedistal. the Buddha's big toe is the highest viewpoint, which is 365 steps (or a lift) to the top of the 7-story pedestal. Get to Lushan by train, from where it's a two-hour bus ride to the statue.
Christ the Redeemer
Vital statistics: Latin America's most famous statue by far, this 38 metres tall Jesus is the largest Art Deco statue in the world and weighs 635 tons, made from concrete clad in a mosiac of small soapstone triangles.
Where/when? pedistals don't get any more impressive than the 700 metre high Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro, on which the staue is located and can be seen from most places in the city. It was completed 1931.
Why oh why? the open-armed savoir statue was paid for by donations by a catholic community that in the 1920s was fearful of a moral decay, and beat off concepts of Jesus holding a globe or Jesus on the cross.
Photo Santuario Cristo Redentor
Criticism & controversy; not especially controversial, but since 2006 the statue has been consecrated, allowing local catholics to hold baptisms and weddings here. Batterings by strong winds and lightning trikes are common, and several times fingers and parts of the head have been damaged - in 2008 strikes caused damage to the head, eyebrows and fingers.
Visiting: See Christ the Redeemer.
Gengis Khan Equestrian Statue
Vital statistics: sat atop a rather twee pavillion is a giant 40 metre tall, 250 tons stainless steel statue of Gengis Khan on his horse. It costs USD $4.1m, paid for by the Genco Tour Bureau.
Where/when? the statue is located in a remote site on the Mongolian Steppe by the Tuul River is a place called Tsonjin Boldog, 54 kilometres east of the Mongolian capital, Ulaanbaatar. It is here that Gengis Khan was said to have found a goden whip when he was fifteen, which was taken as an omen of coming greatness. It was unveiled in 2008 to mark the 800th anniversary of the Mongolian Empire.
Why oh why? Gengis Khan may be a byword for wanton brutality in much of the world, but not so in his native Mongolia, It is hard to underestimate the local reverence for Khan, who laid the foundations to what was to become the largest contiguous empire in history. Since Mongolian shed Communism in 1989, it has forged a new identity, and many mouments to the founder of the Khan dynasty have been built - this one in 2008. Ghengis Khan is also on bank notes, vodka bottles, cigarrette packets, and the capital city's airport was renamed Chinggis Khaan International Airport. The 36 columns around the base represent the 36 Khans - from Gengis, through Kubla to Ligdan the last Khan.
Criticism & controversy; the Genghis mania in Mongolia these days means that criticism of the statue is hard to find.
Visiting: there's a lift and three flights of steps leading to a viewing gallery on top of the horses head, and inside the base is an archelogical museum, restaurant (horse meat and potatoes predominate), souvenir shop, post office and a yurt camp. The best way to visit the world's largest statue of a man on a horse. The statue is about an hour's drive on a decent paved road from Ulaan Baatar.
Laykyun Setkyar Buddha
Vital statistics: the 116 metre statue took 12 years to build. There is also an 89 metre reclining Buddha in front of it - the world's largest - and a third Buddha lying on his back is in the pipeline. Around the statues are a reputed 9,000 tress and 10,000 Buddha images.
Where/when? the giant statue is at Khatakan Taung, near Monywa, in Myanmar, and was unveiled in 2008.
Photo Patrick M. Loeff/Flickr
Why oh why? This is a place of worship and was built by the local monk, The Most Venerable Mahabodi Tahtaung Sayadaw Bhaddanta Narada. It's painted yellow, which signifies wisdom in Buddhism and was funded from local donations, hence the slow construction.
Visiting: the statue is a three-hour drive from Mandalay and is only for the intrepid, thanks to the remote location and lack of local infrastructure. inside are steps up its 31 floors - referencing the 31 planes of existance in the Theravada? theology - or a lift reaches the 27th floor. Inside are many gruesome art works - morality tales really, depicting impalements, boiling in oil, and being crushed by a giant spiked metal roller.
Statue of Liberty
Vital statistics: the World's largest Neoclassical monument is clad in copper, stands 38 metres tall and weighs 635 tons. The sculpter was Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, and Gustave Eiffel designed the clever 'curtain wall' framework that ensures the skin of the statue isn't load bearing.
Where/when? Liberty stands on Bedloe Island - renamed Liberty Island - in New York Harbor, and was unveiled in 1886. The statue was famously constructed in France, while the Americans were responsible for the pedestal.
Why oh why? First muted in the 1865, what became known as The Statue of Liberty, was the dream of Edouard de Laboulaye, who floated that any momument to US independence should involve France, which was allied with the US during its revolution of 1765.
Criticism & controversy: sculpter Bartholdi pitched his lady with the lamp idea to Egypt as a lighthouse at the entrance of the suez Canal, but when turned down moved on to America. After flirting with Philidelphia and Boston as host cities, Bartholdi plumped for New York. Fundraising for the statue on the American side was slow going and took some 15 years, and the Suffragettes weighed in at the unveiling ceremony by hiring a boat and protesting a statue of a woman called 'liberty' at a time when women couldn't vote. More recently, Trump's
Visiting: You'll neeed an advanced booking to visit the viewing gallery inside the crown, and booking ahead is recommended for the grounds and pedestal too. See Statue of Liberty
Vital statistics: the bald head of an old man who is unknown outside of India is set to crown the tallest statue in the world. This un-muscular, unthreatening and unheroic figure will be 240 metres tall, weigh 1,600 tonnes and cost around £227m.
Where/when? The gigantic figure stands on a remodelled islet three kilometres from the Narmada Dam in the Indian state of Gujarat. Work began in 2013 and it should be unveiled on October 31st - Patel's birth date.
Why oh why? Sardar Patel (31 October 1875 – 15 December 1950) was the first Deputy Prime Minister of India and is venerated for his role in the independence movement. He was born in Gujarat and went on to become a lawyer, activist and leader of the Congress Party. His stamp on India's independance was to organise peasant protests against British rule and to integrate the 500 or so British controlled princely states into a united India.
Photo Turner Construction
Criticism & controversy: several mega statues are sprouting in India, all closely associated with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and in tune with its nationalist tendencies. Local opposition to the gigantic Patel galvanises around the fact that the cost and grandeur is at odds with Patel's personality and that some of the steel and expertise may be coming from - heaven forbod - China. It adds insult to injury after the huge Sardar Sarovar Dam's rocky 60-year journey to realisiation.
The dam was conceived by Patel, signed off by Nehru and opened by Modhi. ALong the way the dam suffered schlerotic deliberations on downstream water sharing, the loss of World Bank funding over concerns for displaced peasants and farmers, and increases in the dam's height from 80 metres to 163 metres.
Visiting: the nearest airport is at Vododara, 97 kilometres away, with flights from Delhi with Air India and with IndiGo to Delhi and Mumbai. Jet Airways is starting services to Begalaru, Indore and Udaipur later this year. Keep up to date on the satue's progress at Statue of Unity
Moscow's controversial Peter the Great Statue is a 98-metre-high structure that looks something from Terry Guilliam's 'Adventures of Baron Munchausen' film. It sits on a promontory at the western confluence of the Moskva River and the Vodootvodny Canal in the centre of the city. Muscovites hate it as much as the real Peter the Great hated their city - so much so that it was the 2m tall Tzar who moved the country's capital to St Petersberg.
It weighs around a thousand tons and was erected in 1997 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Peter the Great's founding of the Russian Navy by the Georgian-Russian artist Zurab Tsereteli (born January 4, 1934).
Peter at the helm of one of the world's worst statues. Photo My Bathroom Wall
It's not just Muscovites who loathe the statue - most tourists are left non-plussed too, and several times it's awfulness has been highlighted in various polls - being voted the tenth ugliest building in the world by Virtual Tourist in 2008, and it was included in a list of the world's ugliest statues by Foreign Policy magazine in 2010.
I know that I don't have to live with it on my horizon, but walking from Red Square, over the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, and coming to the momument unexpectedly, and through the buzzing Park iskusstv Muzeon, I rather liked it. Putting the controversy to one side, in a city as heavy with dourness and brutish symbolism as Moscow, it felt like finding some whimsey, even if it is a gigantic twice-the-height-of-the-Staue-of-Liberty whimsey.
The artist Zurab Tsereteli is a pal of Moscow's former Mayor Yury Luzhkov, and has received several plum commissions under his patronage. But that mayor left office in 2010 and rumour has it that the current authorities lost little time in offering their dog's dinner of a statue to Saint Petersburg and other cities, but the offers were turned down.
The statue is across the water from the excellent Park Iskusstv. Photo My Bathroom Wall
Adding to its unloved status is the fact that many people are convinced that the statue is actually based on a design intended to commemorate Christopher Columbus. It's said that it was designed in 1992 to mark the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' first voyage, but even that powerful peg seems to have left an entire continent unmoved. Once it was clear that an American home couldn't be found for it, it was tweaked by the artist and repurposed as Peter the Great.
Peter the Great, Christopher Columbus, or even Peter the Columbus; you be the judge?
Tsereteli denies the story, but my guide in the city pointed out that the ships piled under Peter are nothing like Russian ships of Peter's period, and instead look like 19th Century Spanish Caravel of the type contemporary with Columbus.
Seventeenth century European naval ships, or 19th century Spanish galleons? Photo My Bathroom Wall
Two more things...
Zurab Tsereteli's Columbus statue in Puerto Rico. This similarly colossal statue is about twice the height of New York's Statue of Liberty or Rio's Christ the Redeemer, and was also designed by Tsereteli, who began the work in 1991. It was gifted to the people of Columbus, Ohio (who awkwardly said no thanks, it's too ugly), Cleveland (likewise), and then it was snubbed by Baltimore, Boston, Ft Lauderdale, Miami, and New York.
Arecibo's Columbus statue was dubbed 'Chris Kong' owing to its perceived ugliness
At least this time the controversy wasn't over the statue's central character, which does appear to be Christopher Columbus - it was completed in 1992 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Columbus' landfall in the new world. But the 60-metre tall creation, known as Birth of the New World, was touted all over the USA until the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico finally gave in and ended the statue's 20 years in the wilderness by agreeing to stump up the $12m needed to build a plinth and assemble its 2,750 pieces of bronze and steel.
Since 14 June 2016 Tsereteli's Columbus has stood by Highway 681 outside the coastal town of Arecibo, 70 kilometres west of San Juan, but only after a petition by the Taino people objecting to anything that commemorates Columbus arrival in the new world - as for Puerto Rico, like elsewhere in the region, it lead directly to a genocide of native peoples.
Observers hate the small head, the over-long arms and the flippant raised-hand greeting most, plus sticklers have noted that the steering wheel being clutched by Columbus wasn't invented until 200 years after Columbus' voyage.
As if more evidence were needed as a litmus test in taste, presidential nominee Donald Trump likes it - "It's got forty million dollars worth of bronze in it..." he told the New Yorker magazine in 1997, adding that "The mayor of Moscow has written a letter to Rudy Giuliani stating that they would like to make a gift of this great work....I am absolutely favorably disposed toward [the statue]".
Peter the Great in Deptford, London. There is a curious statue of Peter the Great in Deptford, London too. It pays tribute to the fact that Peter made a three-month visit the city in 1698, on a reconnaissance trip to help create Russia's navy. Despite being the first Tzar to venture abroad for over a hundred years, mystery surrounds aspects of the visit, but it seems he travelled disguised as one Peter Mikhailov. He met the King and several other movers and shakers, but informally and without the pomp of a state visit, and eventually relocated to Sayes Court in Deptford, so as to be closer to the shipyards.
The house in Deptford - long since demolished - belonged the the English writer and diarist, John Evelyn. Peter seems to have trashed the place, leaving over 50 chair damaged or broken up for firewood, 300 windows broken and 25 paintings damaged. The property eventually became a workhouse, and these days is a development of flats.
The surreal ensemble includes a pin-headed Peter, a dwarf and an empty chair. The dwarf is apparently reference to Peter's fascination with human exotica, as perceived in 17th Century Europe anyway, and this chap was his favourite court dwarf. The chair is his travelling throne.
The curious Peter the Great ensemble in Deptford, London. Photo diamond geezer/Flickr
The statue marks where General Douglas MacArthur returned to liberate the Philippines on 20th October, 1944
General Douglas MacArthur was a man who liked to roll his trousers up and get stuck in, and this unusual statue of him striding ashore is at the MacArthur Landing Memorial National Park between Palo and Tacloban on Leyte Island in the Philippines.
The background to seven soldiers wading up the beach goes back to the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1942. MacArthur fled the country ignominiously for Australia and in the unlikely setting of Terowie train station in South Australia, he made the famous speech that included the line - 'I came through and I shall return'. A self-centred and vain man, when he seniors in Washington asked him to tweak the line to the less egotistical '...we shall return', he rufused.
The famous photo of MacArthur wading up the beach, as snapped by Gaetano Faillace. Photo MacArthur Memorial Museum
His forceful personality became a symbol of resistance against the Japanese, and especially so for the people of the Philippines. Indeed, MacArthur pushed for the country's liberation as a priority - ahead of dislodging the Japanese from Formosa (now Taiwan) for example.
MacArthur won the argument and US troops landed on Leyte on the 20th of October 1944, while he watched on from the USS Nashville. The beachmaster was too busy to send a landing craft to the general, and so MacArthur opted to wade. This resulted in the most famous photo of the campaign. Taken by Gaetano Faillace, MacArthur's personal photographer, it also shows Philippine President Sergio Osmena (to MacArthur's right), Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Carlos P. Romulo (at his rear), and Richard K. Sutherland on his left.
Locals pose amongst the twice life size ensemble of statues
The Japanese counter attacked three days later, and what followed was the largest nval battle of the war - in which a combined Australian and American force thumped the Imperial Japanese Navy so badly that the Japanese navy largely remained in thier home port bases for the rest of the war.
MacAurthur was promoted to the rank of five star general of the US Army in December; one of only four people to achieve the rank in the Second World War. He then lead the invasion of Luzon and the Battle of Manila, and would have been key in the invasion of Japan had not the country capitulated after the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
A spot of maintenance at the Landing Memorial
MacArthur ruled Japan after its surrender through the conduit of Emperor Hirohito from 1945-1948, and saught to protect the emperor from subsequent war crimes prosecution, despite MacArthur enforcing sentences on around 4,000 other Japanese citizens. MacArthur enacted land reform and encouraged trades union membership, in an attempt to strengthen Japan as a bulwark against the spread of Communism.
After the North Korean invasion of the south, MacArthur was appointed Commander-in-Chief of UN forces, and devised the Incheon landings, an amphibious surprise assualt that took place over four days in September 1950. It established UN forces deep into what before it was North Korean territory.
The Japanese didn't see the back of MacAurthur until he left Tokyo on 11th April 1951
Despite flying over the area himself to check that the Chinese Army wasn't building up in the vicinity, in fact they were, and attacked the UN/US forces in November. Within weeks the US?UN forces were pushed out of North Korea, and Soeul fell in January 1951. MacArthur was caught by intercepted communications of wanting to attack Chinese territory as a means of freeing the Korean peninsula, but this was a step too far for President Truman, who relieved MacArthur of his command on the 10th of April 1951.
He flew to Washington D.C. and addressed a joint session of Congress, drawing some 50 standing ovations. He went on a nationwide speaking tour, returned to the Philippines in 1961 to receive its Legion of Honour from its president, and then spent his final years with his wife in a penthouse suite in New York's Waldorf Astoria. He died on the 5th of Paril 1964, and was laid to rest inside the rotunda of the Douglas MacArthur Memorial, the former city hall of Norfolk, Virginia.
One more thing...MacArthur is commemorated in the USA with schools, bridges, barracks, tunnels, and 'Long Island MacArthur Airport' named after him. And MacArthur Park in Los Angleles was renamed in his honour too, and with a statue/memorial to him. There are more conventional statues of him; including outside the MacArthur Memorial museum in Norfolk, Virginia; and at the US Military Academy at West Point. The Philippines even has two settlements named after him, and another statue where the Luzon landings took place. South Korea has a statue at the Jayu Freedom Park in Incheon; Japan has one at the Atsugi Naval Air Station, and Indonesia's Zumzum Island is commonly known as MacArthur Island, owing to the general spending time there in the war.
Not quite a sailor's corn pipe, but an eccentric smoking device nonetheless. Photo MacArthur Memorial museum
The Missouri Meerschaum Company is based in Washington, Missouri - known rather grandiosely as the 'Corn Pipe Capital of the World', and sells a 'MacArthur Classic Corn Cob Pipe' for USD$13.59. The deep bowl and long step gives a 'cool smoking experience' apparently.
One more thing...another example of a partly submerged statue was London's 'RisingTide' by UK-born Jason deCaires Taylor. Famous for statues that are entirely submerged, including the Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park of the coast of Greneda, Taylor unveiled a sculpural ensemble as part of the 2015 Totally Thames Festival. The four horses and 'riders' were only completely visible for a couple of hours each day, at low tide, when in fact it was possible to walk around them on the exposed pebbly river bed.
Jason deCaires Taylor's Rising Tide near to low tide in 2015. Photo Maureen Barlin/Flickr
Hamburg has its 'Mann auf Boje' too, which appears to stand serenly on a buoy in the River Elbe. It was unveiled in 1993 and is a work by German-born Stephan Balkenhol, who often uses wood to carve human figures. The perfect place to see it from is either on a river cruise, or from the splendid Strandperle beach bar/restaurant. Read more on MyBathroomWall.
Balkenhol took part in the 1992 Doubletake programme in collaboration with London's Hayward Gallery, which involved placing his Figure On A Buoy on the River Thames between Hungerford and Waterloo bridges. The figure drew unexpected reaction from onlookers, some of whom contacted the emergency services. This culminated in a bloke leaping off a passing river cruise in order to enact a 'rescue', who perhaps unsurprisingly had then to be himself saved, after which the work was removed ahead of time.
Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Marquis of Willingdon; and Charles, Baron Hardinge of Penshurst. Photos My Bathroom Wall
Scruffy, dusty and deserted, Delhi's Coronation Park is a neglected and forlorn patch of land in the north part of Delhi. Mangy dogs scratching themselves in the heat may be the only company you'll find inside the unloved statue park these days, but sometimes lads play cricket on the adjacent fields. Hard to believe that the Raj era statuary in the park once commanded prime positions on the city's grandest thoroughfares - the largest of King George V for example was once on the city's most impressive street, the Rajpath, and inside the stone gateway that now stands empty.
The King George Memorial on Delhi's Rajpath; with King George (1936-1961), and sans King George today
The British ruled India for the best part of 300 years, and to show Indians, Britons, and the world, how the Imperial British Raj was the natural order for then and all time, King George V travelled to Delhi in 1911 to attend the Delhi Durbar and his coronation as Emperor of India. It also marked the moving of the capital of British India from Calcutta to what was to become New Delhi.
The 1911 Delhi Durbar, which saw the crowning of King George as Emperor of India.
Three giant jamborees took place here - in 1877 to mark the proclamation of Queen Victoria becoming Empress of India, in 1903 to mark the succession of Edward VII and his wife Alexandria as Emperor and Empress of India, and lastly the durbar of 1911 to mark the coronation of George V. The latter saw a tented camp that covered around 10 square miles and accommodate 25,000 people, plus paved roads, water mains, and a train station with 10 platforms.
The obelisk marks the spot where the royals received homage from Maharajas from across India.
The largest statue in the park id of George V by Charles Sergeant Jagger (1885-1914), which stands six metres high atop a 13 metre plinth. It was purported to have been a gift from the Maharaja of Kapurthala, and pedestal was designed by Edward Lutyens no less - the man responsible for the master plan of New Delhi.
Statue of George V - from pride of place inside the India Gate, to scruffy park in north Delhi
It's easy enough to get a taxi driver to take you to Coronation Park, but don't expect niceties in the way of a visitor's centre, a cafe or museum; there is occasionally talk of sprucing the site up with a landscaped park and visitor's centre, but as yet this hasn't come to pass.
Red stone plinths support some of the city's Raj-era statues at Delhi's Coronation Park. Photo Flickr/Hemanshu Kumar
The neglect sort of sums up the rather awkward relationship that modern India has with its British colonial past. So for now and the foreseeable future, the unmarked statues of the British Raj-era great and good stand marooned in a dusty patch of land in a little visited part of the city.
One more thing...This short clip from the 1911 Durbar shows HH The Maharaja of Baroda presenting himself before the King Emperor. The way in which he did it kicked up a storm. For starters, he wasn't wearing his full bejewelled regalia of state, and worse still from the point of view of the British, he makes just one measly bow, instead of the required three (and of the wholehearted variety). Then he walked off with his back to the King, instead of retreating backwards.
His daughter claimed in her autobiography that he had missed rehearsals and so wasn't aware of the protocol, but as the Maharaja's were famous sticklers for ceremony and protocol - and given that he had previously attended the durbars of 1877 and 1903, it seems only reasonable to assume his slight was intentional. So most likely it should stand as an act of anti-British defiance along India's road to independence.
Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport is 15 kilometres southwest of New Delhi and handled almost 58 million passengers in 2016. Air India Air India destinations include Birmingham, Chicago, Dubai, Hong Kong, London Heathrow, Madras, Melbourne, Moscow, New York, Paris, Rome, Singapore and Sydney. And also British Airways and Virgin Atlantic fly to Heathrow, Cathay Pacific to Hong Kong, Emirates to Dubai, Finnair to Helsinki, KLM to Amsterdam, and Qatar Airways to Doha.
Coronation Park is by the Burari Road about 10 kilometres north of Old Delhi. For info on the city see Delhi Tourism, and for India in general there's Incredible India
The bust of Albert Royle Henry is always fondly accessorised. Photo My Bathroom Wall
The person: Albert Royle Henry was the first premier of the Cook Islands, and a much loved local figure. He became leader of the island nation in 1965, aged 58, after living for some years in New Zealand. It's common for the islanders to be drawn to the bright lights of Auckland, and while the population of the Cook's is about 20,000, the number if islanders living in New Zealand is estimated at around 60,000.
The gold painted inscription on his funeral plaque has him as 'Sir Albert Royle Henry', as he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1974 - the Cooks being a member of the Commonwealth.
There was a snag though. The 1978 election was the first in which the Cook Islanders living in New Zealand weren't allowed to vote in the home elections. Things got murky, as his CIP party used money from the sale of postage stamps to charter Air New Zealand aircraft to fly a select few hundred islanders back home to Raratonga for a free holiday.
As it happens, the day of the trip was the day of the election, and the happy holidaymakers went to vote, overwhelmingly for the CIP and Albert Royle Henry.
The coral built Avarua CICC church; the main church in the capital of the Cook Islands.
The fraud was unearthed and the election was eventually handed to the opposition. Later Henry was taken to court and found guilty of electoral fraud, and robbed of his knighthood in 1980.
His health suffered after the scandal and the loss of his title, and he died on the 1st of January 1981, aged 73.
The peaceful and tropical graveyard by the CIC Church in Avarua. Photo My Bathroom Wall
The Statue: the bust of him is in the cemetery beside the Avarua Cook Islands Christian Church (CICC). The CICC's roots go back to the arrival of the London Missionary Society in 1821, and are said to include almost half of the Cook's population.
It's endearing to see the respect in which Henry is held. You'll usually find glasses on his head and shell necklaces over his coat lapels.
If you are on Raratonga, it is well worth stopping by the church on a Sunday morning, when islanders arrive in their Sunday best and sing Pacific Island harmonies like you've never heard before.
Filing out of church in their finest, one Sunday morning in Avarua. Photo My Bathroom Wall
The place: 15 islands cover a land area of just 240 square kilometres in the South Pacific between Tahiti and Tonga. The capital is Avarua, a small seafront cluster of buildings with a population of just 5,000. The main island of Raratonga is where all international flights land, so many people holiday here for a few days before flying to the northern group of islands and the famous Bora Bora like loveliness of Aitutaki.
One more thing: the Cook Islands are a great introduction to the super friendly and laid back Pacific Island lifestyle. Though there's only really one road on Raratonga, which circumnavigates the island in about 30 kilometres of tarmac, if visitors want to hire a moped and aren't licenced to do so in their home countries, they need to get a local licence. I did this, which meant a cursory written test, and then being watched by a smiling police woman as I put-putted from the Police Headquarters about 150 metres to the country's only traffic island and back. I didn't fall off and so I passed.
Go with the island flow and the Cooks are sure to warm your heart. On one occasion I went to a political rally by mistake, which was low key on politics and high octane on alcohol. Another evening a night time knock at the guest house door was a couple of blokes with a pick up who asked if I could help them look for an escaped prisoner. I sat in the back with a torch unsuccessfully scanning the foliage for felons, received ebullient thanks, and went back to bed.
The Banana Court Bar, built in 1905, and still the best place for Pacific nightlife. Photo Tobias Kreuzlinger
And everyone's stay on Raratonga should include a night at one of the South Pacific legendary nightsopts - the wonderful Banana Court Bar. Apparently a spring behind the building was a traditional gathering place for the early inhabitants. The first building on the site was a clinic, which then became the island's first hotel, before its current incarnation as a club. When I was there is was customary for local girls to present blokes that caught their eye with a lei of hibiscus flowers. I'll swerve the obvious puns, but I left extremely drunk and not without several lei's of white and yellow flowers around my neck.
Getting there: Raratonga International Airport has flights Air New Zealand to Auckland, Los Angeles and Sydney, Air Tahiti to Papeete, Jetstar to Auckland, and Virgin Australia to Auckland. Air Raratonga flies domestically to Aitutaki, Aitu, Mangaia, and Mauke.
An Air New Zealand 777 on the tarmac at Raratonga International Airport. Photo Robert Linsdell
Further information: see My Bathroom Wall's guide to the South Pacific, and the Cook Islands Tourism Corporation
The Belarussian border town of Brest is a 'Hero Fortress' - as designated by the Soviet Union for the exceptional fighting spirit shown by its defenders at the outbreak of the German-Soviet war of 1941-1945. There are 12 'Hero Cities', including Murmansk, Smolensk and Stalingrad, but just one fortress has the title.
First impressions of the city would leave anyone feeling pretty flat - just a wide main street with precious few places to eat and drink on it, and housing estates fanning from it on both sides.
But walking through the huge Soviet star of the fortress entrance heralds an exercise in remembrance on an industrial scale. The day I visited it was quiet and cold; an atmosphere only accentuated by the monolithic statuary and pock-marked fortress buildings inside.
I've always found these hyper real and masculine faces and bodies arresting, and the ensemble at Brest is one of the best there is anywhere.
The fortress was built by Russia in the mid 19th Century, and the 1918 treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed here - which ended Russia's participation in the First World War, though on humiliating terms for the country. The German army marched into the town in 1938 in order to hand it back to the Soviets, and then again in 1941 as part of their surprise attack on the Soviet Union.
The exact numbers and dates seem to be controversial, but it is undoubtedly the case that the defenders of the fortress held out for several days against overwhelming odds. The Soviet Union lost approximately 27m dead in the Second World War and it's little wonder that the twelve Hero Cities and one Hero Fortress were heavily used for propaganda purposes during and after the war.
But a visit to the site is a very moving and profound experience, and one heightened by the sculpture park and semi destroyed old buildings.
It was slightly surreal to find a small cafe and bar inside the fortress complex, but I gratefully bustled into its warmth and sat down to eat a bowl of chickpeas and drink a larger. The complex is certainly not the sort of place I'd want to be in the night, and sadly the brutality of the fortress, the cruelty of the occupation, and the killing of the city's Jewish population by the Nazi's, to the casual visitor sort of swathes the city somewhat. At least on a winter's weekend, pavements nearly deserted, hotel dull and overheated, and locals making their way dourly back to their homes, it seems that way to me...
Reasons to be cheerful: Brest
You can't always get what you want:
Fitting Brest into a holiday: Fez
Getting there: the small airport at Brest has seasonal flights to the Russian territory of Kaliningrad, operated by the national carrier, Belavia. Alternatively there are around 20 trains per day to Minsk, from where Belavia operates flights to many European capitals.
When to visit: best is Spring (April and May) and Autumn (September and October), when temperatures are in the mid 20's and the skies are clear. Remember that winter nights can be cold and summer days are regularly over 40 degrees.
More info: UK-based tour operators offering trips to Belarus include Regent Holidays and Undiscovered Destinations. Or there's locally based Paradise Travel. For information on the fortress see Brest Fortress, and for general country information visit the Website of the Republic of Belarus
Visa and safety: Always check your government's travel advice before booking, and check that your travel insurance is valid in this country. See here for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office travel advice.


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Dench: I mooned Harvey Weinstein
Dame Judi Dench has admitted she did once moon Harvey Weinstein in a restaurant.
The 79-year-old Philomena star claims after working with the producer on eight films she owes her big screen career to him. Harvey has previously revealed the British actress once showed him a tattoo of his name on her behind after he refused to believe she had had it tattooed there.
Asked about the incident, Dame Judi told The Hollywood Reporter: "I'm so glad that that's universal news, I'm really glad.
"I once said to him, 'I have your named tattooed on my bum.' He laughed and was well, quite embarrassed, actually. It's quite difficult to embarrass Harvey, but I did! And then, we went out to lunch, to the Four Seasons. Charlie Rose was there and I think my agent was there.
"Beforehand, I got my make-up lady to actually write Harvey's name. Then I brought it up at lunch and said, 'You know, I do have it on my bum' - and then I actually got up and showed him! I've never seen a man more embarrassed and I've never let him forget it."
She added: "Perhaps I should have it done and really shock him!"
Since turning 60, Dame Judi has earned six Oscar nominations and five of them have been for films made by Harvey.
She said: "It's always Harvey, isn't it? You see? I should have a whole book tattooed there!"
The acclaimed film, theatre and television actress added: "I owe a great deal to him. I mean, Mrs Brown was made for television, he saw it and he said, 'No, this is a movie.' And so it was shown and then I went back to America after 38 years of being away - I hadn't been there with the Old Vic. I went back for the first time and now I think it's, oh, seven to eight films I've done with Harvey. It is thanks to him that I've got a film career."

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At the age of 20, Benjamin went to work at his father's lumber factory. Three years later, he received an interest in the business. His three older brothers left New Hampshire years before in the 1860s and set up a similar business in San Francisco. Their company, called C.H. Holt and Co., produced wooden wheels and later metal wheels for streetcars. Benjamin shipped hardwoods from New Hampshire to his brothers, who took the wood to dry in the arid climate in Stockton.
Benjamin Holt died 5 December 1920 and was buried at Stockton Rural Cemetery. In honor of Benjamin, we have a street and a school here in Stockton named after him.


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UnNews:Connecticut governor passes law requiring deer to use crosswalks
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26 April 2009
HARTFORD, Conneticut -- Earlier today Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell passed a bill that will require deer to start using crosswalks. The bill was passed after a deer neglecting to use a crosswalk was hit and killed by a car in nearby Goshen, Connecticut; the driver of that vehicle is currently being charged with vehicular deerslaughter by the state as well as paying the deer's family a settlement of around half of a million dollars. I consulted Litchfield County resident Dr. DuBois, who informed me settlements rely on varying factor's including "deer funeral costs, emotional harm, woodland lawyer fees, as well as a large variety of other factors contributing to the death of the mammal."
Unfortunately, this is just one of many occurrences of deer neglecting to use crosswalks which have all resulted in death, dismemberment, and dented front bumpers. Many propositions went through a parliamentary procedure to determine the best way to stop what has now been dubbed the "woodland critter genocide". Some methods that were reviewed but never put to action include:
- Moving all the Deer into New York
- Killing all the Deer
- Making it mandatory for Deer to have a GPS implant in combination with GPS devices in all cars that would monitor where Deer are in regard to the car
- Gluing reflectors to the Deer
- Providing a mandatory Car Evasion and Safety class for all Deer
After these parliamentary proceedings it was determined that a law to make Deer use crosswalks was the most effective and cost efficient way of lowering death in Deer as a result of Car injury. In cohesion with this bill, any Deer caught jaywalking, assuming they aren't dead, will be fined heavily for not using a state regulated crosswalk.
"Yeah, those damn deer… It's about time we did something about them. I mean, is it too much to ask that they obey the rules of the road like the rest of us? Connecticut is known for extensively testing people before giving them their driver's licenses to make sure they are very familiar with road rules and regulations. Deer can't even read! So we have safe responsible drivers who become victims of an accident because of these deer who probably don't even have jobs! They say that in this economic crisis we are facing that the unemployment rate is rising to close to 10%. Is it a coincidence then that the deer population is also going up? Get a job, loaners! I've had it up to here with these bums!"
- Antonio Occultist "Deer litigation could cost billions $$$". BBC NEWS, April 25, 2009


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New 2020 JEEP Wrangler Unlimited Sport S 4x4 Sport Utility
- Stock: 2243
Key Features
Android Auto
Apple CarPlay
Backup Camera
Keyless Entry
Push Start
Side-Impact Air Bags
Basic Info
Exterior:Sting-Gray Clear-Coat Exterior Paint
Transmission:8-Speed Automatic
Engine:2.0L 4-Cylinder Turbocharged
Fuel Efficiency:21 CITY / 22 HWY
Vehicle Details
- 110 MPH Vehicle Max Speed Calibration
- Full-Size Spare Tire Mounted Outside Rear
- Clearcoat Paint
- Black Side Windows Trim
- Black Door Handles
- Black Fender Flares
- Removable Rear Window
- Variable Intermittent Wipers
- Deep Tint Sunscreen Windows
- Galvanized Steel/Aluminum/Magnesium Panels
- Body-Colored Grille
- Conventional Rear Cargo Access
- Aero-Composite Halogen Headlamps w/Delay-Off
- Non-Lock Fuel Cap w/o Discriminator
- 4-Way Passenger Seat -inc: Manual Recline and Fore/Aft Movement
- 60-40 Folding Split-Bench Front Facing Fold Forward Seatback Cloth Rear Seat
- Manual Tilt/Telescoping Steering Column
- Removable 3rd Row Windows
- Illuminated Front Cupholder
- Illuminated Rear Cupholder
- 2 12V DC Power Outlets
- Compass
- Proximity Key For Push Button Start Only
- Cruise Control w/Steering Wheel Controls
- HVAC -inc: Console Ducts
- Locking Glove Box
- Urethane Gear Shift Knob
- Interior Trim -inc: Metal-Look Instrument Panel Insert and Metal-Look Console Insert
- Day-Night Rearview Mirror
- Vanity w/Driver And Passenger Auxiliary Mirror
- Full Floor Console w/Locking Storage and 2 12V DC Power Outlets
- Front And Rear Map Lights
- Fade-To-Off Interior Lighting
- Carpet Floor Trim, Carpet And Rubber Mat
- Locking Cargo Area Concealed Storage
- Cargo Space Lights
- Instrument Panel Bin, Dashboard Storage, Driver / Passenger And Rear Door Bins
- Delayed Accessory Power
- Systems Monitor
- Redundant Digital Speedometer
- Outside Temp Gauge
- Analog Display
- Manual Adjustable Front Head Restraints and Foldable Rear Head Restraints
- Front Center Armrest w/Storage
- 2 Seatback Storage Pockets
- Sentry Key Engine Immobilizer
- Radio w/Seek-Scan, Clock, Speed Compensated Volume Control, Aux Audio Input Jack, Steering Wheel Controls, Voice Activation, Radio Data System and External Memory Control
- Streaming Audio
- Fixed Antenna
- 8 Speakers
- 1 LCD Monitor In The Front
- 3.45 Rear Axle Ratio
- Normal Duty Suspension
- GVWR: 5,300 lbs
- 50 State Emissions
- Manual Transfer Case
- Part-Time Four-Wheel Drive
- Engine Oil Cooler
- 650CCA Maintenance-Free Battery w/Run Down Protection
- 180 Amp Alternator
- Aux Battery
- Stop-Start Dual Battery System
- Towing Equipment -inc: Trailer Sway Control
- 3 Skid Plates
- 1233# Maximum Payload
- Front And Rear Anti-Roll Bars
- Gas-Pressurized Shock Absorbers
- Electro-Hydraulic Power Assist Steering
- 21.5 Gal. Fuel Tank
- Single Stainless Steel Exhaust
- Auto Locking Hubs
- Leading Link Front Suspension w/Coil Springs
- Trailing Arm Rear Suspension w/Coil Springs
- Brake Actuated Limited Slip Differential
- Trim: Unlimited Sport S
- Drivetrain: 4x4
- Side Impact Beams
- Dual Stage Driver And Passenger Seat-Mounted Side Airbags
- Tire Specific Low Tire Pressure Warning
- Dual Stage Driver And Passenger Front Airbags
- Airbag Occupancy Sensor
- Rear Child Safety Locks
- Outboard Front Lap And Shoulder Safety Belts -inc: Rear Center 3 Point, Height Adjusters and Pretensioners
- ParkView Back-Up Camera
Tech Specs
- Vehicle Name: Jeep Wrangler Unlimited
- Body Style: Sport Utility
- Body Code: S
- Drivetrain: Four Wheel Drive
- Passenger Capacity: 5
- Gross Axle Wt Rating - Front: 2700
- Gross Axle Wt Rating - Rear: 3000
- Curb Weight - Front: 2217
- Curb Weight - Rear: 1950
- Gross Vehicle Weight Rating Cap: 5300
- Fuel Economy Est-Combined: 19
- EPA Fuel Economy Est - City: 17
- EPA Fuel Economy Est - Hwy: 23
- Gross Combined Wt Rating: 8117
- Dead Weight Hitch - Max Trailer Wt.: 3500
- Dead Weight Hitch - Max Tongue Wt.: 350
- Wt Distributing Hitch - Max Trailer Wt.: 3500
- Wt Distributing Hitch - Max Tongue Wt.: 350
- Maximum Trailering Capacity: 3500
- Engine Order Code: EC1
- Engine Type: Intercooled Turbo Premium Unleaded I-4
- Displacement: 2.0 L/122
- Fuel System: Gasoline Direct Injection
- SAE Net Horsepower @ RPM: 270 @ 5250
- SAE Net Torque @ RPM: 295 @ 3000
- Trans Order Code: DEM
- Trans Type: 6
- Trans Description Cont.: Manual w/OD
- Trans Description Cont. Again:
- First Gear Ratio (:1): 5.13
- Second Gear Ratio (:1): 2.63
- Third Gear Ratio (:1): 1.53
- Fourth Gear Ratio (:1): 1.00
- Fifth Gear Ratio (:1): 0.81
- Sixth Gear Ratio (:1): 0.72
- Reverse Ratio (:1): 4.49
- Trans PTO Access: No
- Transfer Case Model: Manual
- Transfer Case Power Take Off: No
- Cold Cranking Amps @ 0° F (Primary): 650
- Cold Cranking Amps @ 0° F (2nd): 650
- Tons/yr of CO2 Emissions @ 15K mi/year: 9.3
- Maximum Alternator Capacity (amps): 180
- Engine Oil Cooler: Regular Duty
- Suspension Type - Front: Leading Link
- Suspension Type - Rear: Trailing Arm
- Axle Type - Front: Non-Independent
- Axle Type - Rear: Rigid Axle
- Axle Ratio (:1) - Front: 3.45
- Axle Ratio (:1) - Rear: 3.45
- Front Tire Order Code: TQJ
- Rear Tire Order Code: TQJ
- Spare Tire Order Code:
- Front Tire Size: P245/75SR17
- Rear Tire Size: P245/75SR17
- Spare Tire Size: Full-Size
- Front Wheel Size: 17 X 7.5
- Rear Wheel Size: 17 X 7.5
- Spare Wheel Size: Full-Size
- Front Wheel Material: Aluminum
- Rear Wheel Material: Aluminum
- Spare Wheel Material: Aluminum
- Steering Type: Re-Circulating Ball
- Turning Diameter - Curb to Curb: 40.8
- Brake Type: 4-Wheel Disc
- Brake ABS System: 4-Wheel
- Brake ABS System (Second Line): 4-Wheel
- Disc - Front (Yes or ): Yes
- Disc - Rear (Yes or ): Yes
- Front Brake Rotor Diam x Thickness: 12.9
- Rear Brake Rotor Diam x Thickness: 12.9
- Drum - Rear (Yes or ):
- Rear Drum Diam x Width:
- Fuel Tank Capacity, Approx: 21.5
- Front Head Room: 42.6
- Front Leg Room: 41.2
- Front Shoulder Room: 55.7
- Front Hip Room: 53.9
- Second Head Room: 41.7
- Second Leg Room: 38.3
- Second Shoulder Room: 55.7
- Second Hip Room: 56.7
- Wheelbase: 118.4
- Length, Overall: 188.4
- Width, Max w/o mirrors: 73.8
- Height, Overall: 73.6
- Track Width, Front: 62.9
- Track Width, Rear: 62.9
- Min Ground Clearance: 9.7
- Cargo Area Width @ Beltline: 47.9
- Cargo Box Width @ Wheelhousings: 41.1
- Cargo Box (Area) Height: 35.7
- Liftover Height: 30
- Cargo Volume to Seat 1: 72.4
- Cargo Volume to Seat 2: 31.7
- Cargo Volume to Seat 3: 31.7
- Seventh Gear Ratio (:1):
- Eighth Gear Ratio (:1):
- Country of Origin: United States Reserved
- Sting-Gray Clear-Coat Exterior Paint
- Black Interior Color
- Technology Group
- Black 3-Piece Hard Top
- 50 State Emissions
- Customer Preferred Package 22S
- 2.0L I4 DOHC DI Turbo Engine w/ ESS
- 8-Speed Automatic 850RE Transmission
- Cloth Low-Back Bucket Seats
- Quick Order Package 22S Sport S
- Aux Battery
- Stop-Start Dual Battery System
- Power Heated Mirrors
- No Soft Top
- Non-Lock Fuel Cap w/o Discriminator
- Deep Tint Sunscreen Windows
- Sun Visors w/Illuminated Vanity Mirrors
- Cluster 7.0" TFT Color Display
- Google Android Auto (DISC)
- USB Host Flip
- 7.0" Touchscreen Display
- Leather Wrapped Steering Wheel
- Manufacturer's Statement of Origin
- Telescoping steering wheel
- Driver vanity mirror
- Front reading lights
- Tilt steering wheel
- Driver door bin
- Tachometer
- Passenger vanity mirror
- Outside temperature display
- Compass
- Trip computer
- Rear reading lights
- Rear Window Defroster
- Air Conditioning w/Auto Temperature Control
- Air Filtering
- Air Conditioning
- Remote Keyless Entry
- Speed Sensitive Power Locks
- Front 1-Touch Down Power Windows
- Security Alarm
- Power steering
- Steering wheel mounted audio controls
- GPS Antenna Input
- Apple CarPlay (DISC)
- SiriusXM Satellite Radio
- Integrated Center Stack Radio
- Radio: Uconnect 3 w/5" Display
- Radio: Uconnect 4 w/7" Display
- 1-Year SiriusXM Radio Service
- Integrated Voice Command w/Bluetooth
- Radio data system
- 8 Speakers
- AM/FM radio
- Low tire pressure warning
- 4-Wheel Disc Brakes
- Occupant sensing airbag
- Integrated roll-over protection
- Front anti-roll bar
- Dual front impact airbags
- Dual front side impact airbags
- ABS brakes
- Rear anti-roll bar
- Normal Duty Suspension
- Traction control
- Freedom Panel Storage Bag
- Passenger door bin
- Front Center Armrest w/Storage
- Split folding rear seat
- Front Bucket Seats
- Wheels: 17" x 7.5" Black Steel Styled
- Wheels: 17" x 7.5" Tech Silver Aluminum
- Speed control
- Rear Window Wiper/Washer
- Variably intermittent wipers
- ParkView Rear Back-Up Camera
- Brake assist
- Electronic Stability Control
- Automatic Headlamps
- Front fog lights
- Delay-off headlights
- 3.45 Rear Axle Ratio
- Driver Air Bag
- Passenger Air Bag
- Front Side Air Bag
- AM/FM Stereo
- Cruise Control
- Child Safety Locks
- Four Wheel Drive
- 4 Cylinder Engine
- Turbocharged
- Floor Mats
- Gasoline Fuel
- Pass-Through Rear Seat
- Bucket Seats
- Power Steering
- Adjustable Steering Wheel
- Conventional Spare Tire
- Traction Control
- Aluminum Wheels
- Intermittent Wipers
- Rollover Protection Bars
- MP3 Player
- Fog Lamps
- Privacy Glass
- Variable Speed Intermittent Wipers
- Steering Wheel Audio Controls
- Engine Immobilizer
- Driver Adjustable Lumbar
- Tow Hooks
- Tire Pressure Monitor
- Trip Computer
- Bluetooth Connection
- Back-Up Camera
- Stability Control
- Brake Assist
- Keyless Start
- Auxiliary Audio Input
- Rear Bench Seat
- Passenger Air Bag Sensor
- Brake Actuated Limited Slip Differential
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Excelente servicio, detallado y personalizado. Gracias Juan Carlos Alvarado por ayudarme en la compra de mi primer auto del año!!! Gracias Aranava Entertainment y Entretenimiento Latino Magazine por tan buena recomendación.
Jan 07, 2020
My overall experience with this process has been that JC...
My overall experience with this process has been that JC and the Marino staff are efficient, thorough, and accommodating. I would recommend the dealership to anyone looking for a good experience.
Jan 05, 2020
Superior Services
After we came in, the atmosphere was very inviting. We were immediately greeted and although, "JC" was with a family whom was purchasing a vehicle too, he still came over to welcome us. He showed us how much my wife & I was valued by taking the time to see what we were interested in and what car payment we are comfortable with paying. That right there was important as we wasn't forced into anything due to our credit rating but what we desired. He was very informative throughout the entire process, and we had plans on coming in for a USED but walked out in a 2020 BRAND NEW. We are forever grateful and will send him endless referrals based on our experience. 5-star Service Guaranteed!!!
Jan 04, 2020
Excellent experience
I was referred to J.C (Juan Carlos) by a friend who knows him. I heard excellent things about him and I specifically wanted a jeep. J.C called me and I went over with him my budget and he worked with me. Coming into the dealership I was greeted by him and he was super friendly throughout the whole process. He didnt push me to buy what I didnt want or try to hassle me for more money. I got the car I wanted thanks to J.C
Jan 03, 2020
This is my 3rd vehicle from marinos i recommend this dealership if you want to get a car . JC IS AWESOME , GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE i come to him everytime .
Jan 03, 2020
My brand new jeep gladiator
Is my second jeep with JC hes a awesome guy , had a great experience made me feel like home... tha k you for all your help
Jan 01, 2020
Always Great.
This is Our 6th Car Purchased here. Juan Carlos is an awesome Salesperson. He has Literally became Family to Me and Family. It's a great relationship, because there's Trust. I Trust when I leave here, I Left with the Best Deal. I worked JC to that!! Lol. 6 Times Now. At the End We all WIN.
Dec 31, 2019
Always great here at Marino
Great service and great people..starting from sophia and Andrea to JC...great job.. Would love to work here PT..👍 Great dealership and people friendly
Dec 30, 2019
Ring in the new decade!
Thanks to JC and the Marino team. Amazing way to ring in the new decade. Bring on 2020 with my new Jeep. JC is great. Respectful in the process and made everything seamless.
Dec 18, 2019
Very amazing
This car lot is amazing , I was referred to someone name kori , & since I've had my vehicle I've referred 3 people and they all have gotten cars as well .
Dec 17, 2019
I work really hard to get where I'm at now I deserve a lot what's coming my way thank you guys so much
Dec 17, 2019
Trade in and purchase of a new Vehicle
JC you went above and beyond making this transaction as easy as possible. I walked in with a 2016 and walked out in a brand new 2019 Jeep Cherokee without writing a check. Thank you 😊
Dec 02, 2019
Great experience
Just bought a Ram1500 from Will and had a great experience. We highly recommend purchasing a vehicle from Merino. The whole experience was surprisingly easy and pleasant. Look for Will and Juan Carlos.
Dec 01, 2019
Staff helped me get a car.
I would definitely bring a friend over to buy a car from this dealership! Staff are amazing and respectful. Definitely coming back soon to trade in one of my vehicles.
Nov 29, 2019
Buena experiencia tuve el día de hoy en marino jeep
Gracias a Juan Carlos Álvarez compramos nuestro primer carro estamos felices nos trataron delo mejor son muy amables sobretodo Juan Carlos si su ayuda no lo uniéramos logrado Gracias
Nov 26, 2019
Very satisfied!!!
I walked in and from the minute I walked in Tony put me at ease with the whole process. He told me that I was in good hands and I was. They didn't force me into anything that I wasn't comfortable with. I would go back and feel comfortable referring others to them. This car dealership really cares about you and your family. You can't say that with many dealers these days. Thank you!!!
Nov 22, 2019
Great experience
Today myself and my wife purchased a brand new 2020 ram 1500 black and black I'm not happy with the experience and all the staff from Marino jc and pete
Nov 19, 2019
Jc was very professional with great service! Will be recommending! So happy for my new Jeep SRT 8 thank you for the easy process and team Marino
Nov 18, 2019
My first New Car
One of my friends referred me to Jc . He is very helpful I would recommend this car lot to any one . I got the perfect car For myself.
Nov 13, 2019
Great place for sales and service. Only comment I have...
Great place for sales and service. Only comment I have felt that the service aspect dropped a bit. Note had issues with getting appointments in a timely fashion and follow through with returning calls for appointments.
Nov 12, 2019
Muy contenta con mi vendedor
El dia de hoy fuimos a marino y nos atendio Juan Carlos y estamos muy contetas con la ayuda y el el service y mi nuevo jeep
Nov 12, 2019
Great experience
We came to trade in our car and they help us get the best deal with our new car. It's our 3rd car here and our first with Juan Carlos and he gave us the best experience ever. Frankly Moreno is always great with us as well. Thank you so much for everything!!!
Nov 10, 2019
Muy Contentos
El día de hoy fui a marino y me atendió nuevamente Juan Carlos su servicio es muy bueno y su atención siempre es muy amable y educada es el mejor vendedor de jeep en marino lo recomendamos muchas gracias a Mike por su atención y todo su equipo
Nov 09, 2019
Our First Brand New Car!
Very nervous as we thought about buying a new car. JC made the process pain free and easy. He worked with us to get us the best deal and saved us THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS more than any other dealer quoted us. HIGHLY RECOMMEND Marino and JC!
Nov 07, 2019
Muy contento
El día de hoy me atendió Juan Carlos con Marino muy contento de haberle conocido me atendió súper chevere persona agradable y sincera gracias Marino por tener personado como el !! Atento y muy agradables
Nov 05, 2019
He worked with me and what I wanted
He made sure I was comfortable, that what I wanted was something I really wanted without meet other demands. 10/10 would buy from him again
Nov 02, 2019
Nuestro primer carro del año
Buena experiencia con los trabajadores muy amables muy contentos por todo el servicio dw juan carlos y frank siempre los vamos a recomendar muchas grqcias por la atencion
Nov 02, 2019
Simplemente es la mejor experiencia en servicio,...
Simplemente es la mejor experiencia en servicio, eficiencia, rapiies, claridad ellos te facilitan mucho en tu busqueda del automovil. En solo dos visitas sali manejando.
Nov 01, 2019
La experiencia de venir a Marino a sido grandiiosa, la forma clara y rapida con la que me han atendido ea exelente. Juan carlos es muy buen vendedor explica todo muy bien y claro.
Oct 30, 2019
Great sales team!
I had a wonderful experience with JC and the sales manager Mike throughout the process. They really working with me to make sure I was 100% happy. I will recommend them to anyone looking for a new vehicle.
Oct 27, 2019
5 star people/place...
Everyone that I interacted with there was very nice... JC made my car buying experience smooth.. Everything he told me he would do he did and everything about this car was what I was told... You can not go wrong buy a car from here!
Oct 26, 2019
Buying a new vehicle
Juan Carlos helped me get the best offer for a brand new vehicle! He explained the process for getting this deal and I would refer him to other people in the future! Awesome salesman!
Oct 26, 2019
J.C helped me get my first brand new car! Such an amazing experience! Thank you! He made the process smooth and easy during our purchase!
Oct 22, 2019
Jeep 2020
Eatoy miu contents con Juan Carlos y el equipoise de Marino por mi primera jeep del año muchas Gracias por tu aten in y seecicio y muchas Gracias por hacerme sentir como familia
Oct 21, 2019
Muy contenta
Muy feliz con toda nuestra experienxia en marino y jc con mike trabajaron muy bien para llevarnos nuestra primera nueva camioneta Jeep Muchas gracias por la atencion
Oct 19, 2019
A really pleasant experience. An execellent salesperson.
My experience was execellent. Good easy going person. A grade A salesman. An overall down to earth person. Way beyond a salesman. Will definitely recommend him.
Oct 17, 2019
From the very start very helpful dealership connecting me with the correct people in correct departments workin all together to make shure i left happy when i purchase my vehicle. Will recommend family and friends! Thank you JC ! Thank you Marino!
Oct 15, 2019
Mi segundo auto con marino
El día de hoy estoy muy agradecido por el servicio que me prestó jc alvarado y Ana Solis muy contento de todo el proceso y la atención más que recomendable
Oct 14, 2019
Today was great experience with jc from Marino I got what I was looking for I will recommend him always to friends and family thank you Marino team
Oct 14, 2019
I was surprised about the promptness and courtesy of the employees they were wonderful my cat was ready and the person who brought my car to me was friendly and courteous thank you
Oct 14, 2019
Awesome dealer!
We've been customers of Marino for the past 10 years and have purchased multiple cars from them. The entire staff is knowledgeable, respectful, and they don't try to push you into something. Always treated like family which is why we keep going back.
Oct 12, 2019
Es mi segundo vehículo que compramos aquí y Juan Carlos es una excelente vendedor. Es amable y paciente y trabaja sobre tus posibilidades gracias :) lo recomiendo


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Players in: Fernando (Porto, £12m), Bacary Sagna (Arsenal, free), Willy Caballero (Malaga, undisclosed), Eliaquim Mangala (Porto, undisclosed), Frank Lampard (New York City, loan), Bruno Zuculini (Racing Club, undisclosed)
Players out: Joleon Lescott (West Brom, free); Costel Pantilimon (Sunderland, free), Gareth Barry (Everton, £1m), Bruno Zuculini (Valencia, loan), Javi Garcia (Zenit St Petersburg, £13m), Marcos Lopes (Lille, loan), Jack Rodwell (Sunderland, undisclosed), Micah Richards (Fiorentina, loan), Emyr Huws (Wigan, undisclosed), Alvaro Negredo (Valencia, loan)
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Summing up the window
It's been a fantastic window. Frankly, I don't think director of football Txiki Begiristain has been given the credit he deserves for the business he's done this summer. Despite the spending restrictions, he identified the targets the club needed and got them in fairly early. There was only the arrival of Mangala that dragged on, but that was down to the issue of third-part ownership.
On top of the arrivals, he's managed to get very respectable fees for Rodwell and Garcia -- AND he's re-signed all of the players vital to last season's Premier League title on long term deals.
The summer probably couldn't have gone much better, to be honest - 10/10.
Best piece of business?
We may only be briefly into the new season, but Fernando is looking like a terrific signing. He's offering defensive cover, but is much more mobile and forward-thinking than the casual observer may see. He's quick and gets back into position quickly, then kicks the team forward when he wins possession back.
Worst piece of business?
I was a fan of Javi Garcia and was pretty sad to see him go. He'd started very badly, but had proved himself to be very valuable toward the end of last season. I suspect the decision to see off the Spanish midfielder was more to do with meeting the required homegrown and foreigner ratio for both the Premier League and the Champions League. He was always guaranteed less playing time, so it's probably the most logical move.
I'm also a little concerned the Blues could be a little light up front with the departure of Alvaro Negredo. The Spaniard wasn't happy in Manchester and it's never good to have an unhappy player on the books, but with the injury-prone nature of Sergio Aguero and Stevan Jovetic, it presents a risk for Manuel Pellegrini to go into this half of the season with three strikers.
What remaining issues are there?
At the moment, Micah Richards is in a big catch-22. He needs game time if he's ever going to recapture his form from 2011-12, but he's so far down the pecking order that he's not going to get it at City. Yet he's a fan favourite and is a character who's been around longer than any other -- so there's no desire to see him leave. His move to Fiorentina should give him the chance to impress, and that could be key as to whether he stays or goes next summer. The loan, however, does look like it could become permanent in the future.
With the window closing and Scott Sinclair remaining on the books and unlikely to feature, he should be one of the main movers come January.
Who can help in January?
Frankly, I think City's team is in the best shape it's been in for generations -- possibly ever (though you'll have to ask someone who saw Colin Bell, Mike Summerbee, Francis Lee, et al to be totally sure). There are few names that are both realistic targets for the Blues and who would add strength to weak areas, largely because there are few weak areas this campaign.
If pushed for a name, however, I would go all out for Ross Barkley -- while he's currently injured, he's clearly a huge talent and he's English, which will make him a very valuable asset should City be able to tempt him away from the Toffees.
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It's contrast that makes art interesting. Chiaroscuro, juxtaposition, or as Charles Atlas might call it, "Dynamic Tension," whether in visual art, writing, or music. I noticed this recently in a superb story in The Atlantic — Earth Station: The Afterlife of Technology at the End of the World, by Alexis Madrigal.
Contrast is the basis of nearly all humor. We love it. Subversion, exaggeration, things that should not be but for some wacky reason are — it all works thanks to contrast. Three Stooges? Ridiculous. Grown, yet idiotic men slapping each other around? Pure genius.
It's this kind of juxtaposition that establishes scale in our minds' eyes, and it's a very efficient way to deliver a punch. Why is it so dramatic when a rock band takes things down for a minute? It makes the heavy parts heavier. Just ask Black Sabbath. They weren't known for being fast, but no one wielded mightier riffs for that time (and not much since). And when they did it slow, it had maximum impact.
Many times, Madrigal works contrast into the text: describing how small he is in the photograph he has his fiancé take of him outside the station ("at its base, I was almost too small to see"); showing some genuinely human yet long forgotten documents emerge from a backpack then go back again, across the creek with a couple of scavengers — or rather, heroes.
The contrasts in this story drive home the underlying theme, as Madrigal himself states:
That story is about how jagged technological advancement is. People received images from the moon feet from a saloon locals rode horses to.
-Alexis Madrigal
From the moon to a saloon. There you go: contrast. (Also my favorite dive bar).
Yet in this contrast Madrigal shows a real connection, bound by geography. I would add to his description above that the story is also about connections: past-present, Chinese-American, lunar-saloonar… and as Madrigal elegantly phrases it, society and technology:
No technology stands outside society, and no society exists without the people who build it.
This point about connections is illustrated with the example of a utopian space colony described alongside the boring tedium required to make it possible:
Again: contrast, making connection happen as we take in the details.
It really hit me when I laid eyes on this photograph:
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My jaw dropped upon scrolling to the image of the Chinese visiting. With the scene painted so vividly by the preceding text, I fully appreciate the enormity of what those files revealed, as I can imagine Mr. Madrigal also did, seeing through his lens what another photographer captured four decades ago. The contrasts between then and now are astounding, as are the connections.
-Wow, did I say that? Huh.
This is a fascinating read and I highly recommend taking a moment to enjoy it, noticing the contrasts and connections as you go. It's great writing and an inspiring story. It certainly got me appreciating how far we've come with technology and how human we will always be.
See also: Slideshow from New York Times. Outstanding photography from Annie Tritt (annietritt.com, @trittscamera)
In closing, just let me say… Ladies and Gentlemen, Black Sabbath:
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Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions is Guy Kawasaki tenth book. In it, he explains how to influence what people will do while maintaining the highest standards of ethics.If you want to change the world — or even part of the world, this book is for you. It explains all the tactics you need to prepare and launch an enchantment campaign; to get the most from both push and pull technologies; and to enchant your customers, your employees, and even your boss. It shows how enchantment can turn difficult decisions your way, at times when intangibles mean more than hard facts. It will help you overcome other people's entrenched habits and defy the not-always-wise "wisdom of the crowd."
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Disney agreed to buy Lucasfilm, which is owned entirely by George Lucas, for $4.05 billion in a stock and cash deal. Lucasfilm includes the Star Wars franchise, and its film production and consumer products, among other assets. Both companies' boards have approved the transaction.
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In that short time, the Manhattan-based daily deal site for design enthusiast has surged to 10 million users.
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Just over two weeks ago, thousands of pro-pot protesters openly smoked marijuana in Denver's Civic Center Park to draw attention to their cause(s).
At nearly the same time, lawmakers in the House were debating new regulations for the state's booming medical marijuana industry.
On Wednesday, the bill moved to the floor of the Senate. In the course of the debate on House Bill 1284, Sen. Scott Renfroe said the April 20 protest was "an embarrasment to the state of Colorado."
Taking it a step further, the Greeley Republican said Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter should have called out the National Guard to "take away everybody out there's medical marijuana card that had a card."
Hear it for yourself courtesy of the folks at Coloradopols :
When I first heard of Renfroe's comments, I couldn't help but remember that he has a reputation for hyperbole, as those who were paying attention to his remarks last year during debate of a same-sex partner benefits bill will recall:
"I'm not saying (homosexuality) is the only sin that is out there. Obviously we have sin — we have murder, we have, we have all sorts of sin, we have adultery, and we don't make laws making those legal, and we would never think to make murder legal."
But then I got to thinking that saying the governor should call out the Guard on people who A) have complied with state law for using medical marijuana and B) are exercising their First Amendment Rights, at a minimum, is worth a larger conversation.
Is Renfroe on the mark here? Is he off base? Am I making too much of an issue of an elected officials impassioned argument? By ignoring his comments do we risk losing our liberties?
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