April 7, 2016 6:00 AM
Morning Reads – Thursday, April 7, 2016
On this date in 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material.
Peaches
- First Georgia City to allow employees to carry at work in official capacity
- Trump supporters “brace for trickery“
- New Republic: White Republicans are derailing an African American Candidate
- Georgia Grown program is a booming success
- AG Sam Olens takes a seat on the sidelines
Jimmy Carter
- John Kerry finally wins something
- Watchdog to review Panama Papers
- 25% of Bernie supporters won’t back Hillary
- Syrian refugees are en route
Sweet Tea
- Atlanta Hawks player suing NYC over arrest
- Samsung: Contact lenses with built in camera
- IU students not sure of the difference in priest and KKK
Liberty Drum
- We’re slaves to our own country
- We spend more on taxes than food, clothing, and housing combined
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“First Georgia City to allow employees to carry at work in official capacity”
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/this-north-georgia-city-is-first-to-allow-all-empl/nqzzj/
I wonder if Mayor Rick Austin is available to run for Prez?
Gerrymandering is a politically acceptable tool in Georgia for both parties.
Voting lines by neighborhoods, major streets, natural divisions, villages, cities, zip codes, counties, trade areas is just too impersonal for politics.
Guns at work: As we let more carry everywhere it is just might be a good idea to enforce laws as they relate to permit revocations.
Gerrymandering continues to be a blot to our system of government and I don’t care if it has always been done and is expected. In the modern age it could easily be eradicated, though just as large states will never give up winner-take-all in the electoral college neither will the party in power give up their “right” to gerrymander. Too many of Kemp’s actions have fallen along racial lines however and the optics are atrocious. Drawing a new line after the guy has qualified? He is a one-man force to keep Georgia under VRA sanctions forever. This leads to even more districts that look like a snake on maps and even more gerrymandering.
Not sure what Thabo expects to gain from that lawsuit (Pero too). Sometimes you should just leave well enough alone. He makes $4M a year. Let it go.
I agree 100%. Same for tennis player James Blake who was recently thrown to the ground in front of a NY hotel in a case of mistaken identity. Hope they both win a ton.
LOL! Great minds! Read my post under yours below!! Too damn funny!
Fair enough, but it was a crime scene, and he admitted to calling one of the cops a midget, and also trying to give a panhandler some money – which is apparently relevant in some way, one can assume that is his excuse for crossing a police line or disobeying an order? He already won his criminal case. If anybody should sue it is the Hawks or their insurance company!
Dignity ? If what you said is true, I agree. The story reads more like he was uncooperative, got in a fracas, has a bad track record and a midget with friends kicked his butt. The only thing we can count on is suspicious reporting so I’d wait for the courts to work it out, and with his bucks, the odds are it’ll probably be ok for him but probably not lucrative.
We’re not “spending more on taxes”. We’re spending more on aircraft carriers and space stations and FBI agents and disease research/mitigation and fighter jets and submarines and crop subsidies, etc.
Biggest partsof the budget is healthcare, but no one is willing to grapple with it. The government can’t even negotiate drug prices.
PayPal a bit hypocritical. Pulls out of NC over bathroom kerfuffle, yet stays in countries that mistreat gays. Who knew?
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/04/06/paypal-to-cancel-expansion-n-c-stays-in-countries-that-execute-gays/
…any more than the Washington Examiner to report correctly on taxes.
Do you make your own? That is an absolute art! I know a guy, who, cough, cough, makes some for “personal consumption.” It is absolutely amazing!
I didn’t realize if was legal to make a limited amount of liquor for personal use. I always thought that applied only to beer and wine. Not so. So, go ahead get that fire stoked and the copper coil and pot working!
I’m gonna be in church for the next for days and by “church” I mean watching The Masters and admiring the cathedral that issss Augusta National. So my fights with Drew, B and Robbie will by surprisingly civil. LOL! Back to the Golf Channel.
I admit I don’t have a deep knowledge of refugee relocation programs, but I have always wondered about the logic of flying Syrians all the way over here. Why not help fund settlements in the region somewhere closer to home for them? And by settlements, I don’t mean tent cities but places where human beings want to live, like adding residential capacity somewhere.
Where close to home? Jordan is overloaded. Turkey is a powder keg. Greece can’t even afford to take care of Greece and they are overloaded. Can’t resettle to the east in Iraq or Iran. The only stable country in the middle east to build settlements is Israeli (let’s see how well that plan would fly). All of African is in unrest. Europe does not have the intelligence or the room. There are an estimated 60 million refugees in the world at the moment from over 20 countries. There are only so many places you can create stable long term housing.
Poor folks . I know there is concern about importing terrorists, but you just hate to see people suffer. I know someone who works over there with Syrian refugees and the stories they hear are just nuts. One family my friend knows over here in the US commented to him that while they live in heaven, hell is just s phone call away. They never know when they will receive news about yet another family member that has died.
Let’s not forget, they are not returning to their own homeland anytime in the near future. The area is in rubble in most cases. To lend perspective, Germany took almost 35 years to rebuild, and a large number of people moved out of the country in the years that followed the end of WWII due to lack of work and limited food – mostly to America, Japan took over 25 years. Both countries had long term US military like plans in place for reconstruction. 20 years later Serbia and Croatia are still restructuring. Jordan has ‘temporary’ refugees that have live there for 50 years.
This isn’t sheltering. This is large scale migration.
Here’s a cool new app called redzone that came out yesterday. It’s only on the apple app store now. Android coming out soon. Just released yesterday. It helps you avoids crime areas by geofencing and shows shootings. It is also crowd sourced. Enjoy. http://www.redzonemap.com/
I live and work in “Redzone”. All I need are ears.