Turns out you can’t just walk in and expect to be allowed access. H0 H0 H0. You have to be appointed by Congress first. The process, so far as the article says, is that the president appoints someone, and then Congress directs the process on how to move forward. So, yea, you need to be approved first. I didn’t know that. New information is good!
Of course, the people that tRump selected have no idea how things will work there. And at least one of them was a lawyer for Agent Orange (He lost the case). How in the h*ll will he have ANY idea of how things work there? Good grief! Soooo, I did a lookup on some names from the article by CNN, and here we go…actually found an article from CNBC that will make this *much* easier:
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who represented President Donald Trump during his 2024 criminal trial, has been appointed acting librarian of Congress, the Justice Department said Monday. Blanche replaces Carla Hayden, the longtime librarian whom the White House fired last week amid criticism from some conservatives that she was advancing a “woke” agenda.
Brian Nieves, a deputy chief of staff and senior counsel in Blanche’s office, was named acting assistant librarian, according to four people familiar with Blanche’s appointment. Paul Perkins, an associate deputy attorney general and veteran Justice Department attorney, is now the acting register of copyrights and director of the Copyright Office, the four people said. He replaces Shira Perlmutter, whom the Trump administration pushed out last weekend.
Annnnd there we go. Looks like a great *cough*choke* selection for such an important post! Lawyers. Like, they would care about the Library? I don’t *think* so! There is no way they will keep the Library doing what it’s supposed to. Cripes, I hope they don’t start pulling books for being “woke” because then I would be PISSED OFF. You all know how well I do that, right?
But seriously! Why is he appointing lawyers to these positions? Lawyers make me worry. Lawyers making changes worries me. This is an apolitical position, and we have Trumpolini putting in people who definitely owe him for things, so what *are* they going to do? I guess I don’t know enough about how the Library works to make judgments on who gets appointed there, but it just makes me twitch for El Presidente Imbécil to choose the people he did. Of course, firing the person who *was* the librarian pissed me off just to start. “Woke” has become one hell of an insult now. Hey, I have a project for you folks! How do we turn woke around as an insult towards the opposite side, MAGA included? Ok, *ahem*, apologies, okay, back to the point, continuing from AP:
Since returning to office in January, Trump has purged officials he regards as opposed to him and to his agenda. Hayden, nominated by President Barack Obama in 2015 and confirmed on a 74-18 Senate vote the following year, named Perlmutter as head of the Copyright Office in 2020. The Copyright Office is overseen by the Library of Congress, which holds a vast archive of books and historical documents. Perlmutter’s office recently released a report examining whether artificial intelligence companies can use copyrighted materials to “train” their AI systems and then compete in the same market as the human-made works they were trained on.
The AP obtained an internal memo sent by Robert Randolph Newlen, who had been serving as acting librarian, saying that Congress was “engaged” with the White House about Blanche’s appointment and that the Library had not yet “received direction from Congress about how to move forward.”
Hayden’s dismissal was widely condemned by Democrats and by many who worked with Hayden, the first Black person and the first woman to be named Librarian of Congress. Ada Limon, who served three years as U.S. poet laureate after Hayden chose her in 2022, said last week that “Dr. Carla Hayden is the kindest, brightest, most generous Librarian of Congress we could have hoped for as a nation.”
She was a *good person*. Yes, the first Black Woman to serve, but more than that, she was flat-out a good *person*!!! We need more like her. But the Cheeto Prophet wants anything like that to go away. This is just more sycophants taking over. Carla had a year and a half to serve out her term. Instead, she gets the boot out of nowhere. That’s some pretty big bullsh** there. What a loss. What a big d*mn loss. Thanks for sticking with me!
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I have a new book coming out this summer called Mercy More Than Life: The True Story of Ethel “Sally” Blaine Millett, WWII Army Nurse and POW. “Sally” was my aunt and she was one of about 100 American Nurses who were involved in the Bataan Campaign where 5000 soldier-patients were hidden in the jungle in the Philippines, away from all were sent to POW camps. The men were made to march back to Manila, but many faltered and were shot and left for dead (The Bataan Death March). Every one of the nurses survived and returned to the US after the war.
I will be seeking a Library of Congress ISBN number, and storage of a copy of my book for perpetuity. I am hopeful there will be someone at the Library of Congress to process my manuscript when it is finished!!!
I will never forget a man from my church, a smallish and frail guy (I’m taller than average) who always sat along at the back and quickly walked out the door to the parking lot as soon as services ended. Since I so often sang in the choice and we often did an “Amen” from that lobby (where the coffee was already set up) and moved to the small room at the end where that door was. It had the closets where choir robes were hung. As I got into college and found myself doing some WWII history for class my dad, who was reticent to discuss his own experiences directed me to some others in town. It was then I learned Benji had survived the Battan Death March. He came home and had a family but his physical and psychological wounds led to him becoming someone who just lived quietly on his own. I mentioned to dad once in a while when I’d smile at Benji he’d smile back but he never said a word to me or anyone else. Dad was impressed that he even acknowledged me!
I can’t begin to imagine what that ordeal was like. But I can understand why some who made it through alive would spend the rest of their lives trying to get over, if not forget it. When I returned to social services work I saw a picture in my boss’s office of her dad, clearly a Marine of WWII vintage. Being a jarhead I asked if it was her dad and she said yes. Like my father not talking about his experiences her dad didn’t either. He’d passed away relatively young, and what little she knew was that he’d been part of the 1st Marine Division and fought at some place called Guadalcanal. Well, to a jarhead those who fought on the Canal hold hallowed status, along with those from Belleau Wood (WWI) and the Chosin Reservoir in Korea. I spent an hour describing the outlines of that epic struggle. She kept breaking down in tears so I didn’t tell her as much as I could have. But over and over there was a “I wish I’d known” because she never really learned (nor did most Americans our age) about most of the fighting in the Pacific.
I’m glad my dad and I got on good terms in the couple of years before he died. He still didn’t talk much about the war but I know he was at a point where he was ready. But even had he not met that awful gal who’d become his second wife the trip he proposed wouldn’t have happened because he died of lung cancer in 1980 a few weeks before that Scottish Rite tour of “The Rhineland” would take place. He’d proposed it as a college graduation gift to me and I thought it was a great idea. He’d paid my degress fees through Blue Lodge, Scottish Rite and Shrine for my 21st birthday which was a lot given his salary from his state job. But this trip seemed important to him and he was prepared to borrow from his retirement account with the state so the two of us could go.
If you’d be so kind send me a reminder when your book comes out. If I have some extra cash I’ll buy a copy.
Oh, Denis. Ohhhhh. Thank you for sharing this.
I will add your email (which I already have) to my notification list. Thank you for your interest in my book, Denis! You are one of the few people of our generation whom I have encountered who actually KNOWS about the Bataan Campaign and the Death March. Thanks so much!
I would like to know, also. Feel free to email me. My dad was not in the Armed Forces, but my mom’s dad was. I *think* he was in Korea or Vietnam, but I’m not 100% sure, and it’s not an easy question to ask. He was a chaplain. Diabetes got him. After all, he survived there, and in other ways, I barely knew of it. I was far too terrified to ask him about it. My mom’s parents were always very reserved, so….two of my uncles were in the Coast Guard. I remember back when I was 10ish? Anyhow, my Uncle Boyne’s icebreaker was in port in Boston, and he got permission to give us a tour. The thing I remember the best was what seemed like miles of metal walkways to get up into the ship. Wish I remembered other things better. My second uncle hung out of helicopters and took pictures. He said it was a challenge when the bullets were whistling by him from the ground. He went on to become an amazing IndyCar and American LeMans series photographer. All of my bachelor uncles are still alive and kicking.
Susan, I will let ALL of you at Politizoom know when my book comes out! Thank you!