Spreading confusion over the internet since 1994
I debated whether to crop the upper right corner’s burst of sun, but decided to leave it in. Maybe I’ll crop it later…
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I took Fades To A Memory on October 20, 2017 at 04:43AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on October 20, 2017 at 02:43PM
And this photo was taken before Cheeto Hitler took office, before most people had even heard of the word, “Emolument”…
Google it yourself, but here’s a thumbnail version:
What, exactly, is the Emoluments Clause?
It is 49 words in Article I of the Constitution.
“No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
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I took Emolument Man on August 06, 2011 at 02:07PM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on August 17, 2017 at 07:48PM
Division and Damen.
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I took Three Dollars A Verse – Afternoon Stroll on July 30, 2017 at 12:17PM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on August 01, 2017 at 08:18PM
New York prosecutors have demanded records relating to up to $16 million in loans that a bank run by a former campaign adviser for President Donald Trump made to former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The subpoena by the Manhattan district attorney’s office to the Federal Savings Bank, a small Chicago bank run by Steve Calk, sought information on loans the bank issued in November and January to Mr. Manafort and his wife, the person said. The loans were secured by two properties in New York and a condominium in Virginia, real-estate records show.
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I took The Federal Savings Bank on May 18, 2017 at 10:03AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on July 17, 2017 at 10:39PM
Actually, entrance to the building where The Federal Savings Bank is located. A strange kind of bank, only on the third floor, with a building security employee that won’t let you go up unless you are a member of the bank, plus won’t allow photography in the lobby.
The FSB has been in the news lately for its Trump ties, and allegedly Russian money laundering schemes with Paul Manafort.
For instance:
Chicago-based Federal Savings Bank wouldn’t comment Tuesday on a report that New York prosecutors have subpoenaed records related to $16 million in loans the institution made to former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
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chief executive, Steve Calk, was an economic adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign. Manafort is under scrutiny from a special prosecutor and members of Congress for his dealings with Russian interests, part of the wider investigation into ties between Russia and members of Trump’s campaign and administration.
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Federal Savings Bank made about $6.5 million in loans in January to Manafort and his wife for a Brooklyn property, documents show. That came about a month after Federal Savings lent $9.5 million to Summerbreeze, a limited liability company connected to Manafort, according to 377 Union, a website run by two New York lawyers that is named for the address of the Manafort property in Brooklyn.
The combined $16 million in loans to one borrower represents nearly a quarter of the small bank’s loan portfolio and approaches the level at which regulators would start to think about imposing limits on lending to one customer.
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I took Entrance to The Federal Savings Bank on May 18, 2017 at 10:02AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on July 21, 2017 at 10:06AM
Toronto’s City Hall
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I took Iron Cock Head on September 09, 2013 at 06:07AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on March 10, 2017 at 05:28PM
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I took Ready To Flee The Room on September 18, 2012 at 02:17PM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on March 09, 2017 at 10:03AM
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I took Crumbling Institutions on June 25, 2012 at 03:35PM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on March 09, 2017 at 09:40AM
Kinzie St Bridge aka Chicago & Northwestern Railway Bridge
Located just north of the Loop, the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Bridge is an early example of an overhead counterweight bascule bridge based on the patents of Joseph Baermann Strauss. Strauss was a prominent engineer who later achieved fame as the designer of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. The Chicago & Northwestern Railway Bridge was reported to be the world’s longest and heaviest bridge of its type at the time of its completion. The single-leaf bridge is made from heavily-bolted steel girders and plates whose superstructure consists of a fixed tower and an overhead counterweight comprised of concrete, reinforced with a steel skeleton. The leaf’s axis of rotation, the main trunnion, is located about halfway up the tower and power is provided by a pinion which engages a rack on the operating strut to raise and lower the leaf. Today, the bridge is no longer in service, due to the rerouting of passenger traffic and dwindling freight traffic. It is locked in a raised position creating a massive steel silhouette familiar to residents of the Near North side and commuters on Brown Line and Metra trains.
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I took Our Desire To Believe in A Metaphor on April 25, 2014 at 01:22PM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on January 15, 2017 at 12:27PM
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I took Born Already Ruined on September 25, 2016 at 11:34AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on November 23, 2016 at 09:22AM
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I took Spoke Together All In A Rush on March 29, 2013 at 06:12AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on October 06, 2016 at 10:13AM
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I took Moorish Science Temple of America inc on June 16, 2013 at 01:55PM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on August 24, 2016 at 01:42PM
((Sometimes, not all times, but more than half of the time, these automatic IFTTT posts are created twice. Too lazy to troubleshoot, so this is an apology for all the future times it will happen))
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I took Things Go Back and Forth on May 21, 2013 at 11:58AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on August 24, 2016 at 11:38AM
I had one for many years, but it got sat on and squished one drunken night (might even have been me, but probably not). I never got around to replacing it until today.
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I took M. Hohner Special 20 – Key of C on August 19, 2016 at 07:03AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on August 19, 2016 at 01:28PM
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I took Drink Your Sidewalks Like Wine on June 07, 2012 at 04:59PM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on August 19, 2016 at 10:03AM