Monday Morning Reads — Spooky Eve Edition
Happy Monday, everyone! Uber Eats just came to Cumming — life is great.
The News in Numbers
84.2 percent – Halloween is stressful. If you give gross candy, then children will rebel against you. Stressful! Thankfully, people have determined Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups have the best chance of satisfying children. You’re welcome.
74 percent – That’s the percent of Americans who think we’re just as divided as we were during the Vietnam War. Go figure Millennials — who weren’t alive during the Vietnam War I might add — were way off when compared to other age groups.
7 challengers – Congressman Woodall has a gaggle of challengers in 2018. It’s well documented that Democrats, who couldn’t win in the 6th District yet now believe they can win in the more conservative 7th District, are revving up for a fight. Woodall rightfully doesn’t seem worried. He’s aiming for to lead the House Budget Committee.
72 trips – Donald Trump is under fire (again) for playing too much golf. It’s fair, because Republicans attacked Obama for his golf trips. Let’s set the record straight: Trump isn’t playing golf with his childhood friends; he’s golfing with politicians and industry leaders and foreign dignitaries. He’s still working (just like Obama was).
60 countries – Were surveyed and the results are less than surprising: Digitization is one of the biggest drivers of economic development and that carefully planned policy is the only way to grow an economy.
12 weeks – Puerto Rico’s government is cancelling a $300 million contract to resort power to the struggling island. The way the contract was awarded is sketchy at best, yet cancelling the contract will delay work by 12 weeks.
2nd in ranking – UGA is now ranked number 2 in the AP poll. It’s the 24th time two SEC schools occupied the top two spots.
About Author
Will Kremer
Will is an active member of the Georgia Republican grassroots. He previously served as Chairman of the Georgia Association of College Republicans, 2nd Vice Chairman of the 7th District Republican Party, and Treasurer of the Forsyth County Republican Party. Promise Land = Forsyth County.
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I say it here. It comes out here…
http://www.kansascity.com/article181300286.html
Trump REPEATEDLY blasted President Obama for golfing.
Trump is a hypocrite and a liar.
Manafort is a traitor.
Pass the popcorn.
Traitor? Really? For tax evasion?
It’s early. But tax evasion? Yawn…
Lol! Thanks! So, they just arrested Manafort for claiming unreasonable milage deductions on his POV?! LMAO!!!
To quote DeNiro, who played Capone, “You got nuthin, you got Nuthin” on Trump! This is great!!!!
Trump has childhood friends?
More good news for Hannity. $1700 per theatre average. Only Jigsaw and Tyler Perry really competed with that average this weekend. We Deplorables really like them Christian movies. And why shouldn’t we? 70% +!!! Where’s my Chick Filet this morning?! MAGA!!
https://chamblee54.wordpress.com/2017/10/29/killed-by-police-october-29/
Police killed nineteen people in the United States last week.
Thanks for that summary. So, Manafort might ve a crook?!?! BFD!! Nothinggggggggggggggggg on Trump!! Ain’t gonna be neither!!
Replace “Manafort” and “Gates” with “Mook” and “Podesta” and I feel you’d be so blue in the face they’d have to take you down to the juicing room a la Violet in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Your blind loyalty is a thing of beauty.
Funny you mention those names, Jack. The second special prosecutor will be having those names forthwith!!! Lololol!!
And your side’s blind hatred is a thing of beauty…
The Obama playing golf thing – as well as the Obama going on vacations thing and Malia/Sasha going to private school thing and the Michelle Obama having tailored dresses thing and the “Moochelle” thing – was stuff to remind certain populations that the Obamas were better off than they were financially which was supposed to be a shame and an outrage. A huge part of this: demands to see Obama’s high school and college transcripts, allegedly to prove that Obama had terrible grades and SAT scores whose entire advancement was due to affirmative action. (Even though she – unlike her husband – could not pass the bar exam, no similar demands to see Michelle Obama’s academic record because she got into the Ivy League the old-fashioned way … as a legacy just like George W. Bush. Who actually did not even get into law school and had to settle for business school … yet this same crowd was totally uninterested in his grades.) But Reagan, Bush, Bush II and Trump being better off than them was a benefit rather than a source of resentment even though the former got his wealth as an actor and the latter 3 got theirs by inheriting it!
Yeah, it was some ugly stuff. And if you challenge them on it, they will say that the double standard is fine because “Trump is working hard for them and America” and “Obama was lazy and dumb and trying to destroy America.” Oh well …
1. Bush was rejected by the University of Texas law school in 1970. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/choice2000/bush/cron.html
2. Michelle Obama herself states that she got into Princeton thanks to her brother. http://www.newsweek.com/who-michelle-obama-94161
But I stand corrected on the bar exam thing.
“You’re so frequently factually incorrect that I’m really concerned about where you’re getting your information.”
No comment …
Fine. If he’s a crook, I’ll slam the cell door on him! How’s that?! But he’s got nothing to hurt Trump with. And, I hate to say it but….it’s the “P” eord again. Pardon….
And I did not see nowhere in that there inductment the phrase”collusion with Russia..” Lololol!
Nope. He can pardon anyone he wants for federal offenses. Including himself. All day long. The only crisis would be your exploding blood pressure…
The banking and money laundering are in New York City, And any banking in New York City, including foreign banks also falls under the New York state DA. No president can pardon state crimes. Additionally, Manaford is pardoned, he can’t lead the Fifth when questioned about any connection between his Russian deals involving anyone else.
Correction: Media is reporting it wrongly; he was Campaign Chairman, not Manager. Big difference in the two positions. He served as Chairman for only 3 months, and that was for verifying the state delegate counts and the campaign’s convention arrangements prior to the RNC in summer 2016.
The indictment is regarding allegations about Manafort’s personal business dealings that happened in 2006-20014. Long before Trump even announced, much less running. Nowhere does the document mention the Trump campaign. Nada. Zip.
This is just a smoke screen diversion to take the public’s attention off of last week’s public admission by the Clinton Campaign and the Dem National Party that THEY were the people who paid Fusion GPS over $10 mil for Russian information that turned out to be totally false. Plus the public disclosures that Obama and Clinton sold 20% of US uranium (as in nuclear weapons) to Russia during his administration, with the knowledge and approval of then-FBI Director Mueller. And today it came out that Obama funneled $10 mil from his own campaign fund to a law firm that paid it to the Russian “dossier” fabricators.
But, hey, look over here at the shiny bauble!! Accusations by Mueller about things Manafort did or didn’t do a decade ago! And forget about that innocent til proven guilty poppycock.
Lest the indictment garner all of the attention, the accomplishments of the Trump administration last week are not to be forgotten.
Kelly last week achieved a milestone toward becoming a Trump acolyte. It started well when Kelly was stunned that the media focused on the faulty memory that he shared to only to discredit the Congresswoman that exposed Trump as a liar.
He passed the test by not apologizing. When it’s brought to one’s attention that a faulty memory used to defend a gratuitous liar that lied in calling another a liar, and one doesn’t apologize, one has, well, matriculated to being a smearing liar.
I know, I know, pointing it out, as Sarah Huckster Sanders said, is highly inappropriate, but hey, he’s getting what he signed up for.
Looks like the northern suburbs are at it again, claiming that they won’t join MARTA because “it is mismanaged”: http://commuting.blog.ajc.com/2017/10/27/will-gwinnett-county-join-marta-not-likely-officials-say/
Never mind that by joining MARTA they get their own people on the MARTA board and get to help run it. But that is the rub: they want total control and not to share control with the urban Democrats. But they want the state to step in and provide the regular funding for their own bus and proposed BRT systems that MARTA never gets, knowing full well that tax revenue collected in Fulton and DeKalb and redistributed to the state coffers will be part of it. The more things never change the more things stay the same.
What needs to happen: a new bill that would allow the Republican suburbs – Gwinnett, Cobb, Cherokee, Forsyth etc. – to transform GRTA into their MARTA equivalent.
Benefit 1: GRTA would be able to collaborate with MARTA where it makes sense
Benefit 2: GRTA would enable suburb-to-suburb transportation that completely bypasses the urban counties where it makes sense (although the Cobb to Gwinnett thing would be hard because north Fulton is in the way … and no North Fulton will never be turned into Milton County so give that up … so BRT lines through north Fulton that is in MARTA’s legal jurisdiction and right of way … how are you going to work that out)?
Benefit 3: if the state funds GRTA, that would free MARTA to sue the state of Georgia demanding the same level of support. Right now doing that makes no sense as GRTA currently gets a tiny amount of money to help fund express bus services. But if the suburban counties get the BRT-based system that they want and the state commits any significant amount of money to it, MARTA would be able to sue for the same level of support. Whatever % of the total operating costs of GRTA that is being funded by the state – say 15% – MARTA should sue for that same %. And if GRTA lacks a state oversight board, MARTA should demand the end of their oversight too as part of the same lawsuit.
The plea deal.
https://www.justice.gov/file/1007341/download
Could this be the weakest link for future leverage?
https://www.axios.com/rick-gates-manafort-business-partner-2503800829.html
This should be required reading for anyone who thinks they know how Washington works or thinks that they have all of the answers.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/29/john-boehner-trump-house-republican-party-retirement-profile-feature-215741
Here is my favorite quote.
Boehner grins. “Gowdy—that’s my guy, even though he doesn’t know how to dress,” he says. Then Boehner leans back in his chair. “F–k Jordan. F–k Chaffetz. They’re both a–holes.”
My favorite is Ryan texting ‘Tan Man” pics of his old security detail with beards.
Wonder who Podesta is being “leveraged” to get? Lol!
LOL
Papadopolous. You must have missed that story.
We get it Noway, you’re okay with Trump being in bed with the Russians. Clear something up for me though, were the Russian hookers pissing on Trump or was he pissing on them?
You’re a real dillweed if you think the pissing story is true. Salacious, yes. The real collusion was done by the Dems, as is becoming more obvious by the hour… By the way, how did that laptop taste after the election?
Honestly Drew, fo you really think Tttump was with hookers peeing in a bed in Moscow? No teasing, do you truly believe that happened?
The pee was probably just an accident.
Meanwhile back on the hill, Collin sets her terms…
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-30/key-gop-senator-susan-collins-lays-out-her-demands-for-tax-bill
Papadopoulos was an unpaid volunteer, hanger-on who attended ONE meeting of some honorary council. He was a wanna be who told people he had dealings with the Greek government and could be helpful there. Then he decided on his own to try and find “dirt” on Clinton’s dealings with Russia and the sale of US uranium to said country, and anything else he could dig up.
He then compounded his transgression, stupidly lied to the FBI, perhaps trying to salve his self-importance. Whatever the reason, THAT is what got him arrested and led to a plea deal on that. Once again Mueller comes up empty – this dude’s stupidity had absolutely no legal connection to the Trump campaign. Nada. Zip.
Plus the editorial board interview with WaPo in March of 2016… (got Trump on tape on that one)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/03/21/meet-the-men-shaping-donald-trumps-foreign-policy-views/?utm_term=.18470048b65f