August 24, 2016 6:18 AM
Morning Reads — 8.24.16
The college football season kicks off on Friday…in Australia. Because student athletes should definitely miss two weeks of class for a game that doesn’t advance either schools’ mission in a completely different continent for purely commercial matters while we continue to exploit the kids and forcing them to be amateurs.
- Every month this year has been the hottest in 136 years of record keeping.
- Atlanta predicted to average 39 days above 100F by 2100 if we do nothing. That would be up from an average of 0 (zero).
- Animated gif chart of July’s data.
- But climate change is still a theory/the name was changed so all science is discredited
- Jimmy Carter says Trump, Hillary are both “quite unpopular.”
- How Georgia’s leftists see a Gold Dome takeover.
- Could part of the Connector be turned into a tunnel?
- Emory professor asks: where is the disability pride movement?
- Delta continues plans to pamper biz class flyers. #jealous
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Bad, bad optics!
http://nypost.com/2016/08/23/new-revelations-show-a-nation-for-sale-under-hillary-clinton/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/many-donors-clinton-foundation-met-her-state-183315225–election.htm
Ed, may I consign that preamble?
Yes.
I have one for high school football that involves monuments to pig skin, I mean grandstands, that are used less then 12 times a year (including a track meet and graduation) but cost more then an average 800 child elementary school.
Coach Taylor will teach y’all a thing or two about the role of football in shaping character.
And ESPN contracts
I’m more of a Coach Lombardi girl.
Calling it exploitation is a bit much. Sure, a game in Australia seems hokey to me but I doubt they are taking two weeks off for it. I’m sure there has to be some recovery days built in because that is a long flight, even from HI. I generally fly business so I’m pretty well rested but coach must be awful for 10+ hours. Hopefully, I’ll never know.
Still, I wouldn’t mind being exploited for a trip to Australia. I also wouldn’t mind being exploited by given a full ride to a school I would very likely never, ever qualify for on academic merit.
Cal began practicing on Monday so you have lead-in time from there. At best, they miss the entire second week of school, so 8.3% of the semester (if my math/calendar reading is correct) not including other travel for other games.
This game may not be exploitative but the entire revenue-generating D-1 athletics enterprise is indeed exploitative. Any time someone can make money off your likeness but not share a cent with you is purely exploitative.
I’m shocked, shocked to learn that rich and powerful people have access to top level government officials!
“It’s implausible that a majority of the 154 citizens — people who’d kicked in at least $156 million to her charity — would also happen to catch Clinton’s ear as she toiled away at State. It’s also worth remembering this list doesn’t even include officials from the 16 governments — many of them autocrats — who threw the foundation another $170 million…” Ummm, quote from that same “fringe” NY Post
Like shooting fish in the proverbial barrel. LMAO!
Y’all know that brunette lady that comes on PBS channel 8/30 on occasion to do fundraising? Maybe she could talk with the Hildathief to see how she’s able to be so successful at fundraising!!
Breathe, Andrew! I don’t want you to hyperventilate and pass out. Nice cut and paste with the lib talking points. The only number you really need to concern youself with is 150+ million in payments for access to her. That’s pretty much peddling access to her for cash. That’s a crime for anyone else who does not share her last name. And AP only looked at the first two years!!! No telling how much slushed in the last 24 months!
My favorite was one who was first declined an audience with her excellency (majesty?) until the 50K, maybe 100K donor, I forgot, to the foundation came up with an introduction letter from a foundation workerbee with their description as “a friend of ours”. Cue the Godfather theme…
Carry on behind the usual skirmish lines now.
Drew, you’re embarrassing youself and you know it. Just stop, please. To average voters, stinks. If it appears to walk like a bribe, quacks like a bribe, it’s a bribe! Next you’ll be trotting out that othet laughable legal defense of, “there’s no controlling legal authority…”
Drew, can I start calling you Baghdad Bob? Lol!
I don’t think paying for access is a crime.
Besides, Trump is the last person on earth who should complain about it, he has bragged about paying for access for years.
In my best Goober Pyle accent” In speaking of his donation, “It shorrreeee didn’t hurt!” LOL!
Jimmy Carter was also “quite unpopular” when he was president.
Two thoughts reading the news:
Walker county/Erlanger: In these times of billions of dollars of venture capital money seeking investments, the guarantee of a risky business is best left to pros. In local government the risk just can’t be spread thin enough amongst the population and the decision makers are more like “I want it, we need it, just do it, amateurs”
Government is better served by keeping the broadest base of a free and competitive economy to allow individual/corporate pursuits and use regulation to serve and protect the public.
Newton County/Muslims:
Newton County has a rich and long history of immigrants. Alcovy means territory of mixed people. The Creek Confederation has history here.
https://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/native-american-history-of-newton-county-georgia.htm
The problem becomes the current mess is a cultural shock beyond a gradual inflow and adaption (local vetting). It has been hyper-driven by the current Federal administration. Obama has made it a cause to open our borders to diversity. The more culturally diverse, the greater the admins efforts particularly the Muslim nations in turmoil with people’s that resist assimilation or even typical western dress.
The directive that made my Cape Canaveral friends raise eyebrows was when they got a directive to make NASA a program to reach out to Muslims.
Newton County is going to loose there fight because they are not adhering to our founding documents. But then neither is the Federal government and enabling sponsor support organizations like Catholic charities either in immigration programs.
…….founding documents and subsequent procedures and laws……
If we could just get an intergovenment agreement between GA and TN to take our prisoners to earlanger or memorial life in Dade would be great. Takes to long to carry them over the mountain anyways. Now we must take them to Rome as I understand it.
Another architecture and urban design link… Ed should head over to Kennesaw, GA Tech, or SCAD and sign up for architecture classes.
Charts: Global warming:
I believe it.
l believe human activities have an influence.
I believe the 2 primary factors are population and globalization:
First chart (one link per post)
World population growth
https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth/
Global warming factor – second link/chart
Worldwide economic growth
https://ourworldindata.org/gdp-growth-over-the-last-centuries/
There’s not anyone who says these aren’t intertwined. It’s about mitigating factors that we can control that also exacerbate things.
Of course – however the “we can control” is nonsense lip service by extremists facing the deny, deny deniers, there is no political will to take some acceptable cost/value steps.
Frustrating and we need to see some sensible legislative action this side of mandating super cost efforts before technology has sorted it out……I can take a short walk past a new shopping center and a new mega church with acres of asphalt lots absent any green islands, draining past acres of clear cut red clay for new development (big hardwoods gone but a flimsy ornamental is coming while green space is undevelopable bush land) and it runs into a polluted river than runs through a polluted lake. And how is the conversion of public properties to led lighting going ? Deniers and extremists are not going to fix it.
If you see drainage from one site into a stream or through another site, call the EPA. There are rules on the books for site run off. They carry high fines (tens of thousands of dollars a day type fines) for the owner or the contractor if the site is under construction. It stops the issue and adds to the state coffers. They fight it in court, they still rack up daily fines until its fixed even under pending litigation.
The CPA Industrial Complex..?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-08-22/trudeau-s-cure-for-canada-s-slump-architects-and-accountants