Tuesday Morning Reads – November 21, 2017
So, the regular Tuesday person is out, and I volunteered. I don’t know why, but I did. I hope I don’t screw this up.
Here’s some good music to listen to while you read.
The DOJ is not happy with AT&T decision to buy Time Warner (which owns Turner Broadcast and CNN) – Link
Uber is coming to North Georgia. Finally. – Link
Charlie Manson is dead. Finally. – Link
The Donald is formally calling The Un naughty, and North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism. – Link
The feds have decided that the escaped tiger in suburban Atlanta is worthy of an investigation. – Link
So bad parenting is now a payday? – Link
Note the Cagle campaign… less coffee. Much less coffee.
Another volley in the Net Neutrality tennis match. This time, full repeal. I think we’ve heard something about “repeal” before… – Link
There is now a “Museum of the Bible” in DC funded by the CEO of Hobby Lobby. All exhibits were meticulously crafted by southern grandmothers using clearance items from the local Hobby Lobby stores. – Link
Mary Norwood calls out Keisha Bottoms to disclose “personal tax returns, including all tax and property liens and failure to pay bills, such as water bills. And release your tax returns for the past eight years from your business, Keisha Lance Bottoms and Associates, as well as all sources of household income including that from your husband Derek Bottoms.” – Link
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Laura Ingalls?! The very picture of all that is pure? Seriously? Oliver Stone harassed Melissa Gilbert?? Wish Michael Landon were still around for some ass-kickery!
http://deadline.com/2017/11/melissa-gilbert-oliver-stone-sexually-harassment-the-doors-andy-cohen-1202212904/
And, and, and, and now Johnny Conyers?! Sigh…
It’s not even 8am. Two more Lib creeps ooze to the surface….
I keep asking myself how does Trump think continuing to provoke NK will play out. I don’t think there are too many scenarios; We go to war; the regime collapses; they come to us and apologize and ask for help. That last one isn’t really going to happen, and we don’t want either of the other two. Regime collapse means 20 million people that need some sort of central government and who is that going to be?
I don’t think Trump thinks about things in this way though. If he did he would be approaching this differently. As always, he can’t stand to listen to the Kim bluster and insults, so his reaction is to do what makes himself feel better, and that is the extent of the “analysis”. Whatever happens, happens, and somebody else can clean up the mess.
The story about that soldier trying to escape and getting shot and having horrifying parasites in his body is a glimpse into the type of problems someone would be dealing with if that regime suddenly collapses. And do we want that someone to be China? There is no way China would permit it to be us. Who else would want to step in to that situation?
20 million people. They are too abstract for Trump to include into his “analysis”. If/when Tillerson or McMaster try to explain this to him, what does he say? “We’ll worry about all that later”?
North Korea is a crazy regime but their people are still Koreans. It’d be the South Koreans, no doubt with Chinese help/interference, who would have to put the pieces back together if Humpty Trumpty’s blustering turns bad.
The usual people who get upset about such things are upset about Starbucks’ new ‘totally gay’ holiday cups.
Really? Tear down the statues of our Founding Fathers and erect one of…wait for it…Marion Barry! Take a gander on YouTube on his arrest video in January of 1990. His heartfelt and moving soliloquy of “The ***** set me up…” is one worthy of a Shakespearean thespian.
As much as you’ll “respect” the decision of those in Alabama who’ll vote for Moore…You really should get better arguments. You’re really too easy to defeat. Try coming up with arguments that don’t continuously use the tired old phases like “racist” and “black.” Maybe the “Inconvenient Truths” of Barry’s clownish behavior still sting?
Roy Moore knows a little bit about erecting inappropriate… monuments.
The White House sent me another unsolicited e-mail asking which turkey should be pardoned. The white one, natch, to keep the Prez distracted and happy.
More Dem trouble…
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/20/florida-democratic-party-chair-resigns-allegations-sexual-harassment/
That was from this weekend. Try to keep up. Also check out the party chair who plead guilty to child trafficking in Oklahoma.
As I have stated, this will effect all industries, all parties, and the military. We have not even gotten to the male dominated fields yet. There will be more. It will get worse.
You’ll pardon me if I cannot keep up with the seemingly endless display of Dem debris…
Some of it isn’t Dem debris. Which is my point. And frankly why is it so important to you if it some ones party debris? This is not about keeping scores of which side has the most or worse creeps. I can tell you everyone has enough creeps to go around. For every ‘dem’ you put up I could match it with a “rep”. But it SOLVES nothing until we admit creepy men in positions of power (at all levels) have gotten away with a lot of stuff, while other men and women let them because “that’s just the why it was”. Women didn’t speak up because other people would not believe them, they risked their own careers, or in a few cases threated physically if they did say a thing. People are now deeming them ‘credible”. Plus there is safety in numbers.
Times they are a changing. There will be more. It will get worse.
Here you go… Current stuff. Released this morning. Written by a major intellectual lib elitist too. Shows how Weinstein and others got away with it…
Wonder how many others who signed non-disclosers will step out of the shadows. More importantly, how many men or companies who had their victim’s sign them will be hit with the sunlight and wither like vampires.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/harvey-weinsteins-secret-settlements
I think you’ll see a ton. What, is the predator now gonna sue his victim for breaking that NDA? Doubt it…
I think we could easily end up with some accused suing their accusers. Our normal course is to overreact and then overcorrect and eventually figure out a reasonable path forward.
From article, “Investors in billion-dollar hedge funds might be able to take advantage of a new, lower tax rate touted as a break for small businesses.”
So let me see if I understand this – a one man billion dollar hedge fund manager can use the new small business clause to pay even less taxes, even people who own a LLC that owns LLC that owns LLC that owns other LLC that owns barnding rights to other LLC’s can use the new pass through rules for “small business”. Yett folks the tax code classifies as “professionals” (accountants, architects, engineers, ect…) who are actual small business owners can not use the same new clauses for their own professional firm and in addition will lose most of the tax right off and other professional breaks. How is this MAGA again?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-21/tax-loopholes-for-wall-street-s-wealthiest-loom-in-house-bill
Kasim Reed is doing everything he can to get Mary Norwood elected.
http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/mitchell-endorses-norwood-in-mayors-race-reed-calls-both-losers
Give it a try..:
https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/TV/2017/1121/In-these-dark-times-Hallmark-Channel-s-golden-glow-beckons
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John Conyers is an icon in our country,” says Nancy Pelosi. Yep…Circle them wagons…
We’ll see as to disposition of the accusations. Besides, isn’t he denying it? That’s after all the GOP base’s standard.