September 21, 2017 6:00 AM
Morning Reads – Thursday, September 21, 2017
On this date in 1897, the New York Sun ran the “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” editorial. It was in response to a letter from 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon.
Continued prayers for Puerto Rico as they are currently 100% without power.
Peaches
- Justice in coastal Georgia after a decade in prison
- Former Georgia agency director heads to LA for similar job
- Crowdsourcing to make the Amazon HQ2 happen
- Fintech booming despite regulatory obstacles
- Plant Vogtle gets another chopping block date
- GPB: Georgia is global destination for jobs
Jimmy Carter
- Dear elected officials, someone is always recording.
- Tire company looking for new home for factory
- Someone wants Whitewater documents unsealed
- High schoolers are crowding the field in Kansas’ gubernatorial race
- 2 years in prison for Weiner?
Sweet Tea
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Someone was on Morning Joe this morning (not sure who, I was in the car), saying that they didn’t think insurers would stop covering pre-existing conditions. I probably looked a little crazy yelling at the radio “If you don’t think it will happen, and you don’t want it to happen, then put it in the bill!
B, because I am not a techie guy, how were you listening to MSNBC in your car? Through your cable company over your phone?
i’m pretty sure both fox and msnbc have their tv feed simulcast on xm stations
That’s right, it’s Sirius/XM. CNN has a couple of channels too.
https://www.siriusxm.com/channellineup
Fox is 450, Bloomberg is 119, CNN is 116 (I think) MSNBC is 118
If you have Infinity/Comcast you can live stream any of their channels to your smart phone or if you have nice bosses like I do, as an minimized browser so you have just audio feeds to your desktop (using your Infinity login and password). I have Bloomberg or a Cubs or Brewers game on in the background most days.
Roger that. Totally forgot about the Sirius option.
Shalom, Andrew.
Talk show hosts or reality TV stars, take your pick. Says a hell of a lot about the country, doesn’t it?
Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black and some UGA worthies toured NE Georgia farms and plant nurseries earlier this week. Pecans and cotton, both top 10 ag products in the state, suffered especially heavy losses to Irma, per Black.
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-09-19/ag-commissioner-irma-caused-severe-crop-damage-georgia
“If there was an oral exam on the contents of the proposal, graded on a generous curve, only two Republicans could pass it. And one of them isn’t Lindsey Graham. You could do a post office renaming and call it ‘repeal-replace’ and 48 Republican senators would vote for it sight unseen.” — Senior GOP aide.
Did you hear about the Facebook comment “All lives splatter” with a drawing of protesters being run down?
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/20/lynne-disanto-gop-lawmaker-apologizes-all-lives-sp/
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The gal that posted it said she was sorry if anyone thought she was “condoning people being hit by cars. I perceived it differently. I perceived it as encouraging people to stay out of the street.”
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Of course. No other way to take it for Republicans. And she is. She’s the South Dakota House majority whip. Leadership the GOP can be proud of.
And yet, Colbert can give the Nazi salute on air and not one peep from your side of the isle. Double standard on display.
Or you don’t read or listen to enough non-right wing social media and news outlets to hear the peeps.
Educate me, Sis. Link me all of those on your side who called for Colbert’s firing…
First, I don’t have a side as I pointed out many times.
Second, You so tech undereducated you can’t Google a topic in the ‘News’ heading for August 14-21 2017 all by yourself? Tip – Get past the click bait links of RT, Breitbart, Daily Caller and Deadline on ages 1-4 that all the over 60 not techie folks read.
Also…
https://www.amazon.com/Search-Engine-Optimization-All-Dummies-ebook/dp/B00SZ637QA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1506013719&sr=8-2&keywords=SEO+for+dummies
Colbert was only pointing out the fascist tendencies of this administration. What’s wrong with that?
Il Duce Deuce has trouble being critical of Nazi’s without qualifying it.
Not fake news.
The two pieces are not analogous. Here’s a good standard: Political satire shouldn’t encourage or condone murder, or look like it does.
Colbert’s a comedian who was mocking white nationalist Steve Bannon.
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She’s the third ranking elected leader in a state legislative chamber ostensibly mocking Black Lives Matter, that when called on it, explained it was a public safety announcement.
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Totally the same thing.
Right, just like Jeffrey Lord was doin’ a little mocking of his own. Difference is, Lord gets booted from CNN. Love, love, love that Lib tolerance.
The Vogtle dog is suffering. Why wait until February of next year and spend another half-billion when it needs to be put down anyway? Face it, Southern Company and our PSC gambled with our money on 30+ year-old technology and lost. Write it off now and move on.
I can not believe the Trump Administration is not paying more attention to Cargill or the 14 mainly Republican billionaire decedents who own the company. Seriously… Cargill is larger then Koch Industries, controls more freight and transportation business then Wal-Mart, has more interconnections then Buffet’s portfolio and the largest player in Ag exporting of US bulk goods.
https://www.axios.com/cargill-ceo-ripping-up-nafta-would-cost-us-11-billion-2487952678.html
Well this explains a lot…
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/21/trump-agriculture-department-usda-campaign-workers-242951
Sonny is in good company.
If you look at the Politico list of when most of the appointments were made, they were before Sonny was even picked.
Reading the two stories in tandem, you realize the long haul truck driver mentioned in the second link is the person “tasked with developing overseas markets for U.S. agricultural trade goods”, like Cargill’s multi billion dollar export business mentioned in the first link. Let that sink I for a bit… Then realize he is also the guy in charge of promoting all the Georgia grown commodities we export to over seas markets.
Shanah Tovah all.