March 16, 2017 6:00 AM
Morning Reads – March 16, 2017
On this date in 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson submitted a $1 billion war on poverty program to Congress.
Peaches
- Governor Deal doesn’t want to be punished
- District 6 is a drill. Repeat: Only a drill.
- The Industry that might as well be the Teacher’s Pet is celebrated
- Anti-terrorism bill targets protesters, some say
- Is our high-tech corridor a myth?
- A real conversation starter at the Capitol
- The opioid epidemic continues to overthrow peace communities
Jimmy Carter
Sweet Tea
- Channeling Robert Lee – Oxford comma changes entire court case
Today in the House.
Today in the Senate: Camden Space Flight Act (HB 1), Livestock auctions (HB 49), Privacy and social services (HB 75), Bank Board of Directors bill (HB 143), Elections (HB 268) and Pharmacy Fairness (HB 276)
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You’re shortchanging HB 268 by simply calling it “elections.”
This is the bill that makes Georgia’s strict-id voter law even stricter, by requiring the Registrar’s office to validate every registration application for correct Georgia ID or SSN, and rejecting those that aren’t exact matches. It also eliminates tribal IDs as valid forms of identification
This may cause Georgia to be in violation of the settlement reached in February with the NAACP regarding exact matches being thrown out:
http://www.projectvote.org/wp-content/uploads/Settlement-Agreement-NAACP-v.-Kemp-2.9.17-1.pdf
The ACLU’s statement on HB 268:
https://www.acluga.org/en/legislation/voting-hb-268
I’m all for having to have a valid ID to vote, but not sure I understand the reasoning behind eliminating the tribal IDs as a valid form of ID. Do you know if they are picture IDs? Any government issue photo ID should be sufficient.
Most GOP leaning states in the last decade passed laws that require only State issued ID that is not through a university system for voter ID. It was a ALEC idea from what I recall reading. Wisconsin in the past has turned away federal issued ID at polls and county clerks offices for provisional ballots during the primary – like passports, and active military ID, which annoyed a lot of military since they might not have a legal residence in a state they are legally still a residences of under federal law. It was one of the many items in the federal voter ID lawsuit the DOJ filed and won last year. I expect many states will pass additional voter ‘protection’ restrictions this year, since the chances of the DOJ challenging them between now and 2020 is slim.
Over the phrase “We are all immigrants”…..the “native” Americans came from what is now Russia….everyone came from migrations out of Africa……
No tribe survives unless a majority contributes or they control the casinos.
I have some serious disagreements with the politics of this, but below is a good essay on Traplanta:
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/03/15/520133445/culture-wars-trap-innovation-atlanta-hip-hop?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170315
Well, that’s where the criminals are…
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2017/03/15/ice-agents-now-going-to-courthouses-to-arrest-undocumented-immigrants/
I wonder what the ctime rate is back in their native country?
If they were home they wouldn’t be getting mugged here. Prob much safer there.
Fixing or enforcing the immigration laws would take away the benefits of exploitation by so many “charitable” folks. The worker needs a visa.
This op-ed from last week’s Washington Post sums up why Trump deserves vigorous opposition: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2017/03/10/how-president-trump-has-already-hurt-american-democracy-in-just-50-days/?utm_term=.0602573dd8b4
“Trump’s presidency has already threatened American democracy in six fundamental ways:
1. Trump has attacked the integrity of voting, the foundation of all democratic systems. Without any evidence, Trump has repeatedly claimed that millions of people voted illegally in 2016.…
2. After attacking the integrity of his own election, Trump has also undermined the credibility of his own office. Democracy will not function if Americans cannot be sure that the president’s claims are at least grounded in evidence-based reality. …
3. Trump’s administration has repeatedly flouted ethics guidelines without consequence. …
4. Trump has attacked the independent judiciary. …
5. Crucially, Trump has accelerated a long-term trend, prodding tens of millions of Americans to further lose faith in basic institutions of American government. Any experts in federal agencies are now the “deep state.” …
6. Finally, Trump has attacked a cornerstone of every democracy: the free press. He has called legitimate media organizations “fake news” no fewer than 22 on Twitter in the first 50 days — and many more times in speeches
…….
The Constitution and checks and balances are not magical guardians. Documents don’t save democracy — people do. American democratic institutions are only as strong as those who fight for them in times of duress. This is one of those times, and this is just the beginning. It will be a long fight. To win it, Democrats and Republicans must set aside policy divides and unite in the defense of democracy.”
The sentiment in that last sentence is nice ‘n’ everything, but there are few signs that Republicans are willing to set aside party to protect anything.
The High Tech Corridor designation is just another sign of government disconnect with reality. Everyone knows the most successful thing that happens along 341 is Peaches to Beaches. Just rename it Georgia’s Roadside Entrepreneur Corridor.
lost our signal so many times we called it the twilight zone.
In the Oxford comma story, I note that the language causing all the ruckus *does* include an Oxford comma (in the form of a semi-colon) later in the text.
Here’s the offending passage. The issue is the missing comma after the word “shipment,” but you’ll notice there IS the Oxford comma/semi-colon after “fish products”:
The canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution of: 1) Agricultural produce; 2) Meat and fish products; and 3) Perishable foods.
I don’t sample the morning reads as much as I’d like to, but did read three of them today, including the Oxford comma read.
Note to morning read preparers—the name used to tout the link is important. The occasional mystery or surprise is good, but there can be too much of a good thing. This remark shouldn’t be taken as applicable to today’s reads more than any other.
I agree 100 percent! Yeah, I love cute headlines and wordplay, but those work better when the body text is right below, not when you have to click a link to see what’s what.
You could split the difference: Have some more info when you hover over the hed with your mouse, but that’s more work.
I agree too. It’s not too bad on a regular computer because the actual story title/url appears in the task bar, but on a mobile device it’s like a wheel of fortune. Especially when the links are to places like the NYT, which only gives you limited looks for free.
Thank you Mr. Prez…
http://www.dailynews.com/social-affairs/20170315/fiance-of-woman-killed-in-crash-with-undocumented-immigrant-says-president-trump-called-him
Do those who use the phrase ‘we’re watching the sausage being made’ with regard to the healthcare situation realize how relatively clean, easy and quick it is to make sausage? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8RLGUiAbfs
Sure, if you are already starting from processed meat!
Legislation starts from birth. Then:
– feed it ’til it’s fat
– fill it with hormones and chemicals
– put it out to pasture
– kill it
– sell the carcass
– wash your hands
– voila
As someone who has actually been making sausage since I was a small child, including cleaning the ‘natural’ casing – it’s not how it’s made that is the issue, it’s mostly what it’s made of that causes the problems and objections. I have my grandmother’s hand written in German recipes and some of the parts of the cows and pigs can no longer even be sold to the general public. Same with Sülze. It’s very easy to make, but if you knew what was in it, most would not eat it.
I guess a better way to have put it would be; Has anybody ever heard a sausage maker use the excuse, ‘it’s like writing and passing legislation’ when discussing their career pursuit.
Wonder how much McDonald’s Snowflakery fit of pique is gonna cost them?!?! Big, Big mistake….Yugggeeeeee!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4320398/McDonald-s-fires-insults-Donald-Trump-Twitter.html
I see your link on twitter comments and raise it by another on being hacked.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/03/16/mcdonalds-twitter-account-blasts-trump.html
Nice graphic and written break down of the Trump budget, including a 40 year funding for historical reference. From the looks of this there is a lot for every one to complain about being cut or increased.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-presidential-budget-2018-proposal/
This needs to happen…
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nimuno-loops-the-toy-block-tape#/
Fire now. For cause. No appeal. Nothing.
http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/16/secret-service-agents-took-selfies-with-donald-tru/
Long, live, the, Oxford, Mother******, Comma!!!
What, Gov. Walker is not happy with the Trump budget? Wisconsin (and other surrounding states with GOP governors) is going to lose a 2009 federally funded program that makes sure the largest source of fresh water in the world is continued to be restored after the 60 years of pre EPA era industrial dumping nearly destroyed them. The near death of Lake Erie is one of the reason WHY the EPA was created in the 1970’s. By destroying the EPA you destroy the governing body that has enforcement over all industrial waste and brown site clean up nation wide. Why are you shocked over this Gov. Walker? You BACKED the man you knew was going to remove regulations. Did you just assume it would be other states and other people’s regulations not those in your back yard or just the ones you didn’t like?
http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/16/walker-opposes-trumps-great-lakes-cuts/99264260/
The city could put one really big statue of Lewis Grizzard up for a fraction of what it cost to ignore his advice on underground Atlanta.