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Morning Reads – Thursday August 31, 2017

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On this date in 1992, former Georgia Congressman Charles Weltner passed away. He was an Atlanta lawyer and a vocal opponent of racial violence following the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling. He was eelcted to serve in Georgia’s 5th congressional district in 1962 and was the first white Southern politican to condemn the 1963 Birmingham church bombings. He also resigned from Congress and distanced himself from the Georgia Democratic Party when it was demanded he support Lester Maddox for Governor. He also spent time on the Georgia Supreme Court and earned a John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award.

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Peaches

Jimmy Carter

Sweet Tea

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  1. Saltycracker

    Confederate debate: There may be some guidance in the National Historic Preservation Act and amendments like the private, non-profit trusts for historic lighthouses.

    This along with appropriate national and state parks and museums can preserve history when places of governance are political (temporary) showcases. The current CSA storm is a diversion from the important matters that impact all our lives and too many legislators find cover in it.

    Get these statues to a safe place.

    • Dave Bearse

      From Bill Torpy’s Sunday column on Confederate monuments of a couple of weeks ago:
      ‘
      “I think of the soldiers and their leaders differently.” – James Parham
      .
      “I call [removing the Stone Mountain carving] an appeasement-oriented effort instead of one achieving justice.” – Terrance Pickney

  2. Saltycracker

    The AJC’s former beloved past editor Joel Chandler Harris served his apprenticeship on a plantation and gave us Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit. Disney gave us Song of the South (disclaimer, I have visited the Uncle Remus Museum and the Harris house and have the movie CD, and sing the songs in the shower).

    These works are now vilified as fake info….sometimes, the AJC deserves it. Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit do not.

    • Dave Bearse

      I’d recommend visiting Harris’ home in the West End, the Wren’s Nest, to anyone that loves history or old homes, and there’s a copy of “The Favorite Uncle Remus” on the coffee table in my living room.

  3. Dave Bearse

    Republicans Will Let America Burn While Holding Out for Tax Cuts
    The core principle of the GOP is to make the rich richer, and that’s more important to its congressional leaders than any U.S. institution
    .
    http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/gop-will-let-america-burn-while-holding-out-for-tax-cuts-w500163
    .
    “Ryan is in a better position as Speaker of the House to do something to rein in Trump than anyone in the country. If it bothers him that the president surrounds himself with white supremacists, attempts to convince key senators to obstruct the Russia investigation to his benefit and pardons a guy with a truly horrific record of using the Fourth Amendment as a door mat, Ryan should recognize that he and his large House majority are the Constitution’s prescribed remedy for an out-of-control president.”

  4. Ellynn

    What happens when you have a city with no zoning restrictions (you can build a school, a 60 floor skyscraper, and a hazardous chemical plant in the same city block), few to no regulations, no major environmental standards, the least restrictive set of building and fire codes in the country, that lives almost completely on cars to get from point A to B, and huge amounts of private capital for lots of cheap to build/ high profit return development to spread out everywhere?

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-31/a-hard-rain-and-a-hard-lesson-for-houston
    .
    The majority of this damage is flood related, which the US government underwrites policy providers to cover. The majority of the homes and small business damaged are not in mandatory coverage zones, and will have major FEMA claims and income tax write offs. No property insurance covers flood damage.

  5. Saltycracker

    Brer Rabbit sez “please don’t throw me in the briar patch”
    Politicians say “elect me and I’ll drain the swamp”
    We did and it turns out the elected love the swamp.
    Pogo was right “we have met the enemy…..”

    Due to the obama-nation the Republic put the GOP in place to fulfill a promise to fix healthcare, tax codes, immigration, international relations/trade, defense, infrastructure, compliancy to our laws, deleverage the national debt and reshape a government for the future.

    The elections drove confidence and capitalists bet heavily on America reflected by a market with the highest future PE ratio in the world. If Congress fails to deliver, the working middle class and poor are in for a bad ride.

  6. chamblee54

    https://chamblee54.wordpress.com/2017/08/31/cake-news/ Did channel two really need to broadcast that video of the Cobb County officer? Is that going to make Georgia a better place to live? Or, maybe it will just give people their dose of outrage for the day, until something else comes along.

    • Noway2016

      Couldn’t agree more. Much like the Race Grievance industry bellowing fake outrage over the Confederate monuments. How has anyone gotten a better life as a redult? Has academic achievement spiked? Have unemployment rates dropped? Nope…

      • Ellynn

        Unemployment is down nation wide by .4 % in the last 6 months. (Pesky things facts.)

        Ihttps://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

        • Dave Bearse

          Yeah, that’s real news, not Obama administration lies.

        • Noway2016

          Is your stat .4 percent of 1 percent or 4.0 percent?

    • Ellynn

      I have an idea, let’s rename the military fort General Benedict Arnold was going to handing over to the British before he was caught, and call it even. Whatcha you think?

  8. Ellynn

    Does the President’s other sheriff know he can’t issue out pardons on local and state charges? Or Civil cases?
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/31/milwaukee-sheriff-david-clarke-resigns.html

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