November 2, 2017 6:00 AM
Morning Reads – November 2, 2017
On this date in 1897, the man who served as the advisor to six presidents was born in Winder, GA. Richard B. Russell, a UGA grad and former Governor of the Peach State, was first elected to the legislature at age 23. He later became a U.S. Senator and championed the school lunch program. His other accomplishments include adding/maintaining 15 military installations in Georgia and 25 research facilities, including the CDC.
Peaches
- Two UNG cadets named in among Top 5 in the nation
- 3rd and 4th prisoners to kill themselves in GDC facilities in the last 2 weeks
- Fox Theatre facilitating emergency funding for theatres in Georgia
- Congressman Hank Johnson mouthing off again
- The FBI is laying groundwork to ensure truck attacks don’t happen in Georgia
- Woman says Waffle House mixed her drink with bleach
- Report cards on Georgia schools headed down the pipeline
- Our barrier islands have received shorebird designation
- An opinion piece on the Baptist church in GA that opened its doors to same-sex couples
Jimmy Carter
- American populations shifting on religion
- DNC: “White men shouldn’t apply for tech jobs.”
- A million people dropped cable in the last 3 months
- Papa John’s blames NFL for hurting sales
- Hillary Clinton no longer second most powerful woman in the world
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The US population shift on religion link is busted.
The DNC story- Fox “News” again trying to get people outraged over nothing. It’s really a shame. I wish people could just be less gullible.
OK, so it was a stupid statement by the DNC staffer, but you have to get half way into the story to see this: “I personally would prefer that you not forward to cisgender straight white males, as they are already in the majority.”
Fox knows most of their readers only read the headline, so this looks like another story of Political Correctness run amok. But it’s not really. It just has some of the trigger words that Fox readers have been conditioned to respond to.
Ironic that it was a Russian (Pavlov) who developed that training.
So, no worries of the no white folks apply statement?
Did he make the statement? From your reply, I’m not sure you’re saying whether he made it or not.
Answered my own wuestion. Read the email quote. Typical that you’d defend an indefensible statement like that. Rascist statement. If a white guy/gal had said don’t forward black resumes, you’d be calling for their head. Hypocritical… But let your side keep saying crap like that. It will widen the percentage of uour side’s defeat.
Read your defense. LMFAO!! You’ll bust my chops because I didn’t know the proper sex of the radcist?! You just need to be quiet on this particular issue…
Noway, racism is the belief in the supremacy of one race over another. Trying to promote diversity in the workplace is not racism.
As I said earlier, it was a stupid thing to say out loud. The staffer was just being lazy and trying to avoid having to sift through a thousand applications that probably weren’t going to get hired. They were aiming for more diversity- that’s a good thing, right? Here is the full sentence: ““I personally would prefer that you not forward to cisgender straight white males, as they are already in the majority.” “Already in the majority”.
So yeah, no worries. Stupid, lazy, but not a scandal.
LMAO! If you say so! The campaign commercial done been written…
Sure it is. Racial discrimination in the employment process is a crime. Just because they are “in the majority” doesn’t allow discrimination.m based on the color of their skin or their sexual identity!!! This ain’t over, Skippy!! EEOC, can you hear me?!?!
A campaign manager hasn’t been indicted since Mitchell in the seventies, but Fox’s focus the first two days of this week was the Clinton’s pocketing millions for giving the Russians uranium. Fox devoted 20 minutes to emojis on Monday.
Washington Post: “My basic philosophy is, once you have an independent counsel, you ought to give him a chance to follow the facts,” said Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the chairman of the subcommittee that handles the Justice Department’s funding. “If somebody’s doing a job, you don’t want to cut it off.”
Now that’s a real “Profile in Courage”, what with Shelby being 80 years old when he was re-elected in 2016.
I’m am a fan Of Charlie Sykes. Listened to a lot of local programing on WTMJ radio in the last 25 years. Streamed in his show when I could. Don’t always agree with him, but he uses logic and facts. Wife is a good writer. He also has some of the cutest German Sheppard’s on Twitter.
So just how are we supposed to react to this? Are we to discount it because it was reported from a news service not liked by “progressives”? Maybe because it was not immediately disavowed by the DNC it’s not a big enough deal to be dealt with as you would a similar statement made by the “Other” party. Or maybe it is accepted discrimination because the object of the discrimination is perceived to be out of favor. Then there is my favorite which the manager has to maintain a “quota” of 0% heterosexual straight white males, the alternate meaning of “cisgender straight white males”, in order to maintain a diverse work environment. I guess the new meaning of diversity is the absences of “cisgender straight white males”.
I remind you this is not just a DNC staffer, she is a manager with the power to hire and fire. Regardless of who reported it is that statement discriminatory? It most certainly is and should not be tolerated by anyone, Fox or MSNBC readers.
It boils down to a simple yes or no question. Do you agree with that managers statement or not?
” has to maintain a “quota” of 0% heterosexual straight white males”
Was that in the story? I missed it.
“So just how are we supposed to react to this?”
That was a fair question and you did not answer it. Not everyone is going to agree with your politics. And it is not ethical to dictate to those who do not what they should nor shouldn’t be offended by just because it is more convenient to you. I know that this is trite and overdone but I will go ahead: imagine if the shoe was on the other foot and it was the RNC chairman that said something that was even less than a potential violation of the spirit of federal and state civil rights employment statutes. Would you want some right winger talking about how the offended are oversensitive snowflakes? I am going to mention it again: there are lots of reasonable, moral, well educated and informed people out there who do not share your worldview. Some of whom are cisgender straight white males, to speak nothing of the women that are their mothers, daughters, sisters and wives. Nonsense like that just gives those people one less reason to vote for your party and that is why it needs to stop. Your own side is every bit as responsible for Trump getting elected as the GOP is and unless your side wants more Trumps to get elected you had better realize it rather than belittling the other side for not being as enlightened as you are.
I think I made my point earlier- the headline is not an accurate reflection of that actual story. My point was (as if it’s breaking news) that Fox News knows what triggers passionate responses from their audience. But it’s not news. It’s equivalent to pro wrestling. Even Fox however, has enough self-esteem to print the context somewhere down in the story (sometimes). They just know that most won’t get past the headline and the first paragraph so it doesn’t matter. They can keep repeating the same themes in headlines over and over and it acts like hypnotism. The same concept advertisers use- keep repeating something often enough and a lot of people will believe it. In this case- reverse discrimination with a little politcal correctness thrown in too.
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So in this case, the headline makes it easy to assume that white men were being excluded from this job. But the truth is, there are already enough white men in this job. They would like to add some diversity. What’s wrong with that (assuming it’s true)?
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I was not trying to belittle anyone. A previous comment indicated a quote that I didn’t see in the story and I felt was actually contrary to the story, so I asked about it. Maybe there was another story somewhere with more info. If not, then the Fox news strategy worked- they were able to elicit an inaccurate response from someone who saw what they wanted to see- and what Fox wanted them to see.
I can try to be gentler in my responses.
This particular issue isn’t even about politics to me. If people can’t even be honest about what they read, and they end up voting for someone like Trump because they’ve been hypnotized, what am I supposed to do? Honor and respect their delusion? That article did not include that quote and it did not even include the meaning of that quote if you read the actual story. I have to be able to challenge that, right?
With all the flooding Houston experienced a few months ago, congrats to the Astros on winning the World Series…and not taking 5+ hours (like a few nights ago) to win the game! Nice to see a game where the final score was not like a football game!
Texan GOP Rep. Jeb Hensarling isn’t seeking re-election. Another senior congressional Republicans heading to the exit after less than a year in a GOP-controlled D.C. Guess the water level in the swamp is getting too low. Adios.
Not getting too low but too high…will be a lake soon (Climate Change), and many in the GOP cant swim
You overlooked “excellent guy” oil and energy consultants.
If the same ratio of 5,000,000 fraudulent votes that occurred nationwide in 2016 occurred in the 6th, Handel may have lost. No worries though, since Trump’s crack vote commission would have uncovered any rampant fraud as it has with respect to the 2016 election.
Besides, Georgia has the integrity of obsolete voting equipment without any paper record, a hacked KSU organization in charge of records with a wiped clean server, and SoS now candidate for Governor Brian Kemp, who office is no longer being defended by the AG because it’s so good at what it does.
As I was proofing my reply on why Mr. Clovis was not going to even make it to the Senate conformation committee next week (First question, Mr. Clovis do you have or are working on a plead deal with the Mueller investigation?), he withdraws his name….
This read requires popcorn… so plan accordingly.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774
Re: The Donna B. story- I would say that in every election the Party would prefer to have one strong candidate rather than have a primary that burns up a lot of money and creates division. (The divisiveness due to Bernie’s campaign is still being felt.) As she says in the story, if there is an incumbent, they are already in control of the Party anyway. So in this case we have HRC, and Bernie (who I voted for in the primary, btw), who wasn’t even actually a Democrat. So I don’t see a big scandal with HRC’s campaign taking control of the DNC before the nomination. No big deal.
I didn’t say it was a scandal. (why does every thing lately have to be thought of as a scandals and doing illegal stuff) HRC isn’t even the story here in this highlight of Ms. Brazile’s book. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is the going to be the issue to rank and file Democrats, and how badly she lead the party, basically made decisions unilaterally with out board consent or knowledge. She did no to little fund raising. Part of a chairs job is figuring out how to fund the party.
DWS destroyed the DNC. She was about as inept as they come
Those sneaky pharaohs…
https://www.axios.com/hidden-void-found-in-egypts-great-pyramid-2505386034.html
I wonder… if Rep. Buddy Carter loves the Tax Plan as is and wants it to go forward, as is…
https://www.curbed.com/2017/11/2/16599416/tax-reform-historic-tax-credit-historic-preservation.
One of the mayoral candidates (I can’t remember which one) had suggested that APD needs bigger police cars. I thought this was interesting. But other than SUV’s, I think the only bigger cars than what they are using now are Cadillacs and Lincolns. I think the idea of cops driving Cadillacs is excellent. That would change the image of the city. Cadillac wants to have a more performance oriented image anyway, what better way to achieve that?
Cops in Cadillacs. Let’s do it. (Not sarcastic.)