August 9, 2016 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, August 9
Good morning! And thanks to Will for covering last Tuesday’s reads.
- You don’t have as many friends as you think you do – but that’s okay, neither do I!
- GOP Senator Susan Collins of Maine will not endorse Donald Trump.
- Meanwhile, 50 former national security officials – all Republican – signed a letter saying that Trump “would be the most reckless President in American history.“
- Georgia is one of the places in America that has seen the most growth in “advanced industries.“
- If it’s back to school time, it’s time for your annual reminder from J. Tom Morgan that it behooves undergrads to stay out of jail.
- In Fulton County, tax bills are delayed, which means collections are delayed, which means that the county will likely need to borrow money in the interim.
- Georgia’s salt marshes are not as healthy as they were 30 years ago.
- The world’s richest man and the man who is arguably the world’s finest ex-president are combining efforts to keep coal ash out of south Georgia.
- The Economist ponders “the supremacy of [Atlanta-based] King of Pops.”
- Set your DVR because Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg have a new show where they throw a dinner party every week.
- I’d like to think I don’t fall into the Venn diagram overlap of people who know the words to random Disney songs and people who appreciate Lin-Manuel Miranda and The Rock, but the truth is that I totally know the words to every song featured herein.
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Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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Thanks for the King of Pops read. I want to work the phrase “vertically integrated lolly-maker” into conversation soon.
That Venn diagram overlap consists of you and I Teri. And I am damn proud of that fact!
I could be in that Venn. Can we go old school too… Picture Lin doing Mercer’s ‘The Phony King of England’ (I’m a Robin Hood ‘ lover) ‘Once Upon a Dream’, ‘Bippity Boppity Boo’, and if we really want to go deep, “Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet”. I can picture it how… The Rock doing ‘I’m Late”.
One of us! One of us!
I know! a beat box vocal update of Peter and the Wolf.
A ‘slight’ amendment to the Delta rule….
http://savannahnow.com/opinion-mark-streeter/2016-08-08/streeter-cartoon-update
Says the ’50 former national security officials’ who nobody outside of a small circle in DC have ever heard of. Did they gather in Kennebunkport to conjure up this publicity stunt right after drawing straws to see which nobody would step forward to represent the NeverTrumpers? Too bad for short straw drawee Evan McMullin (https://www.evanmcmullin.com/). I guess David French wasn’t obscure enough.
Say you disagree with what they assert but to claim that no one has heard of people like Ridge and Chertoff outside of DC is more than a bit disingenuous. Particularly since the topic at hand was national security. Those are pretty big names in the national security realm.
Chertoff, Ridge, and Negroponte would like a word with you. We’ve definitely heard of them.
Who cares if Joe on the street has heard of these guys. They are experts in their field.
I guess we shouldn’t care what John Gagliardi (489 wins), Eddie Robinson (408 wins), Scobey Warner (336 wins), Ken Sparks (334) or Larry Kehres (332) have to say about coaching football becasue they aren’t household names like Paterno, Bowden and Bryant.
Ok, so y’all picked the 2 or 3 names that are maybe recognizable to a few outside DC. But those are the same ‘experts’ who gave us Iraq, slow Katrina response and the multi-colored terror warning chart. Kind of like Romney offering ‘expert’ advice on how to run a presidential campaign.
15 years of democrat talking points are coming straight our of your mouth right now. That’s what blind loyalty to party gets you.
What I find unsettling is I seem to know as much if not more about basic national security, geo-political history, current headline making events, basic civics, the Constitution, freshman economic theory, funding streams of basic federal budgeting, and the use of soft and hard power (both domestically and international) then Trump appears to have shown us publicly in the last 13 months – and I can assure you, not a single person outside of my mother would ever vote for me to become leader of the largest standing army in the world or have access to state secrets and nuclear missile launch codes. More then half the people on this site can meet the above list of general points of knowledge and we wouldn’t vote for them in as POTUS either. Just saying.
w/r/t slow Katrina response (and I agree; it was unconscionable), I’ve always felt pretty strongly that the blame for that transcends both Michael Brown and Chertoff and goes right up to their boss at the time. As a result of the post-K cluster, I’m no fan of Chertoff – but I fully acknowledge that he knows a hell of a lot more about national security than I do.
I didn’t say that because nobody heard of them it makes them unqualified. What I am saying is because nobody has ever heard of them, most folks won’t care. They need a catchy moniker like the ‘Gang of 50′ or ’50 Wannabes’.
But it would be easy to question their collective wisdom in ignoring all the instances where Trump’s opponent has failed leading to actual consequences. Seems the establishment types are syncing up against the outsider, party affiliation be damned!
“Seems the establishment types are syncing up against the outsider, party affiliation be damned!” No we aren’t. We see him for what he really is. A damn racist, misogynist democrat. The first line of his economic plan released yesterday was “ensuring the wealthy pay their fair share.” Where have we heard that? A Bernie rally?
Come on Bart. Other than “he isn’t Hillary” why should anyone who is a Republican vote for this charlatan. I’ll take my chances and beat Hillary in 2020. I haven’t completely lost my morals and beliefs and that’s why I refuse to vote for the guy.
And he eats fried chicken with a fork and knife. He may not even be human.
I guess we should give him a pass. It’s hard to pick up your fried chicken and pizza when you have such small hands and tiny Vienna sausage fingers.
Yep…the system is rigged.
LOL
the system being “rigged” is another tag line stolen from bernie.
along with having top earners paying their fair share.
sure, drumpf is def lying to so many ppl abt his true colors, but perhaps not abt those policies. or perhaps he is lying abt those, too- lying to everybody, and just stealing bernie’s lines to trick them into voting for him bc they are so “disaffected”
Bart, I think you may want to review “The First Law of Holes.”
With regard to the “mortal” sin of underage drinking, I can’t help but note the irony that one of the most liberal counties in Georgia, (certainly the most liberal white-majority county in the state) has a police force that would make old Atilla blush….add to the irony the push to raise the drinking age from 18 to 21 came under the so-called “states rights” president, Ronald Reagan. You might have called it blackmail, as in “your state doesn’t have to raise the drinking age to 21, but the same time, we Feds don’t have to send you some of your highway money that you sent to us in the first place.”
Just heard on MSNBC that Clinton is expanding staff in Georgia. I guess we might find out what it’s like to be in a swing state!
Yard signs, bumperstickers, and buttons?
Oh my!
They are already here. More like Ads, campaign stops and voter registration drives.
Twelve UGA student/athletes or former student/athletes and one UGA coach on the US Olympic team. Very impressive.
“If she gets to pick her judges,” Trump said, “nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is.”
Did Trump just propose assassination as an option under a Clinton presidency? Or, if not assassination, armed insurrection?
sadly, you know that his supporters will YET AGAIN defend the indefensible.
Rep. Price’s office, staffer “Devin”, said that Price would not stand by Trump’s statements. I told him that Rep. Price needs to disavow Trump today. He’d “pass it along.”
Trump’s “a pathetic coward who can’t handle the fact that he’s losing to a girl.”
That’s just perfect. Nobody sticks in the knife and gives it a good twist better than Warren.
Unbelievable. You people really need to get a grip. He was obviously talking about protests, no different than Hillary and the dems encouraging their leftists groups to agitate and disrupt events every time they come up with some BS mis-interpretation of a Trump statement.
Face …. Palm…..
Your continued defense of his dumb remarks makes me want to cry for you. You should have just kept your mouth shut on this one. There is nothing to defend. He clearly was talking about shooting a sitting president. If you can’t see that then you are completely blinded with partisanship.
You really think Donald Trump was calling for the assassination of his opponent? Face….Palm….I give up.
Just imagine the firestorm if he had the father of a mass murderer sitting behind him yesterday when he made the remark.
I think Trump wasn’t thinking as usual and that is the damn problem. You are right about having a mass murder’s father sitting right behind Hillary, but instead of staying on message and letting the news media go after Hillary he says this.
I’m not the only one who believes he meant to kill a sitting president when he said what he said. You are the one with blinders on and are in the minority on this one. You are like a lost puppy. I’m trying to bring you home before you get run over in the street by Trump. It’s a coming.
Some who follow Trump will believe he’s calling for her death. If you haven’t looked around the internet or Facebook lately, they already have meme with firing squads, “Hillary” gun season and “Her blood in exchange for the 4 hero of she killed herself”. AND that was before yesterday.
If I had said what he said, I would be talking to the secret service right now. But he’s Trump so I guess it makes it alright.
Secret Svc – Is this Ellyn? Yes, OK. Did you mean to imply that 2nd amendment supporters should assassinate Hillary Clinton?
Ellyn – No, of course not, how ridiculous.
Secret Svc – We apologize for having to ask, but MSNBC felt you were calling for the assassination of HRC. Good day to you, we have a few more calls to make.
They don’t call you. And the chats are a lot longer.
Not to mention I read it first on the BBC yesterday. So I guess I should expect a call from MI-6 too.
Ring Ring
Bart: Hello?
CNN: Bart this is CNN, Hillary Clinton has been shot, do you have any comment?
Bart: You’ll probably blame Trump
CNN: The shooter was wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat
Bart: So what, probably a Dem plant
CNN: The shooter left a manifesto on gun rights and his absentee ballot filled out with vote for Trump
Bart: More liberal media lies.
Everybody says something stupid every now and then, but most of us adults have an internal editor that tells us when we have done that and we can quickly correct it. Trump does not seem to have that editor. He doesn’t understand that we speak differently depending on the context. One can tell tasteless jokes sitting around in a bar with a few friends, but not at the City Council meeting. To Trump, Twitter is the only standard for communication. Maybe this has to do with him always being rich and the boss, so he has always been able to say whatever he wants with no repercussions.
And then, when he does get a lot of blowback for something, it seems his ego still won’t let him correct it. He’s not sorry that millions of people have misinterpreted his comment, he blames all those people for misinterpreting his comment.
If he doesn’t even give his own words credibility, it is unlikely other leaders would give them any credibility either.
This is by far the most entertaining campaign in my lifetime. Unfortunately, it’s also the scariest.
“You really think Donald Trump was calling for the assassination of his opponent? ”
What do you think he meant? I mean, if he was talking about protesting wouldn’t he have been addressing the 1st amendment folks and not the 2nd? It’s clear to me that he’s nodding to either assassination of Clinton and/or the hypothetical judge, or he’s winking at the idea of armed insurrection. I don’t see a third interpretation. I’m sure it was all a joke. He’s not very funny.
Henry II spoke similar words, and Thomas Becket was murdered by the king’s followers.
Netanyahu spoke similar words, and Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by the Israeli right.
As former CIA director Hayden said yesterday, as a leader, you’re not just responsible for what you say, but also for what people hear.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/opinion/trumps-ambiguous-wink-wink-to-second-amendment-people.html
So Georgia Tech’s athletic director is gone after just 3 years? Off to greener pastures in Indiana? Wonder what sort of contract he had here….I swear one of the best jobs is to be a coach, get fired and then paid several years not to work (coach)..hard to find that in the real world!