December 6, 2017 7:32 AM
Morning Reads for December 6, 2017
I’ve listened to approximately 373 hours of Christmas music thus far….and I’m just getting warmed up (meaning I haven’t even played Mannheim Steamroller yet).
“Last Christmas” by your girl and mine Taylor Swift.
- Georgia State legend (and some say greatest Georgia football player ever) Robert Davis added to Redskins active roster.
- Coke’s $2.6 million grant for GSU.
- Did you know Rosalyn Carter went to a private soundcheck with the Ramones? (That she organized for Amy).
- Johnny Isakson’s Delta protection cut from tax bill.
- Sanford BIshop called on to help defeat alleged pedophile Roy Moore.
- Unrelated but can we make #NoLongerReagansParty a thing?
- Hank Johnson warns of bill creating a modern-day “sharecropping” system.
- Morehouse, NFL to host social justice symposium.
- Spelman and Morehouse confronting, rather unwillingly on the latter’s part, the #MeToo moment.
- Mark your calendars: Jan 1 is the opening of the new Civil Rights Movement Trail.
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Color me shocked!
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/sports/olympics/ioc-russia-winter-olympics.html?referer=http://www.drudgereport.com/
Historical cheats, whether arms agreements to steroids. Pretty much done nothing original or noteworthy since Sputnik. A Third World nation with nukes.
Give me a rusted out Zil as a sleigh and I’d consider it!
I pictured you more as the Biathlon type…
BTW, Where were you last night… It was Krampusnacht, I heard there were sighting in north Georgia…
It’s tough enough facing a barrage of Christmas tunes at my favorite coffee joint, but real pain begins when the baristas start singing along.
A display of the alternate reality of the GOP is that it’s a double standard when Conyers resigns and Franken doesn’t, when the double standard is Pelosi calling for Conyers to resign and Trump endorsing Roy Moore.
Wait a minute. Pelosi’s isn’t a sexual predator while Conyers is guilty of sexual improprieties. Trump is predator and Roy Moore is predator and molester to boot. Not the same. Perfect logical to the RNC. No double standard at all.
Anyone else notice the TV commercials of late promoting tourism in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem? That’s subject to being wasted marketing money if Trump makes a statement today he’s moving the US embassy to Jerusalem.
“America’s consulate in Jerusalem ordered U.S. personnel and their families to avoid visiting Jerusalem’s Old City or the West Bank, and urged American citizens in general to avoid places with increased police or military presence.”
Don Jr testifying today in front of the House Intelligence Committee. (Now there’s an oxymoron for anything headed by the GOP investigating Trump.)
“NBC News reported Tuesday that the lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Trump Jr. asked for evidence of illegal donations to the Clinton Foundation, information she said she did not have. Trump seemed to lose interest in the conversation at that point, she told the panel in a 51-page statement in which she also denied working for the Russian government.”
One explanation is the tit-for-tat fake news world of Trump and the GOP is that something was needed should the extent of the reliance of Trump’s personal fortune on Russian money become exposed. Those pesky tax returns that Trump promised he’d release.
Too bad for the Norwood campaign that’s it’s just being reported that Bottoms had hired additional staff during her tenure as Director of the Rec Authority. Yeah, negotiations with the Hawks were underway, but the additional staff makes it even more difficult to think that she didn’t work full time for the Rec Authority.
Drip, drip, drip…
https://nypost.com/2017/12/05/latest-revelations-make-the-entire-collusion-probe-look-like-a-partisan-hit/amp/
Ummm…see below! Drew, come off of the ledge, DREW!!! Get down, please…Now! You have people who love you!! That’s right..c’mon…There ya, go…
No, really, Al…it’s time to go!
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/06/al-franken-accusation-sexual-harassment-2006-281049
More and more female senators calling for Franken to scoot! Hell, Karma. He stole the seat from Coleman any damn way. Good riddance!
Told you yesterday it was coming.
https://www.axios.com/franken-to-make-announcement-tomorrow-amid-calls-for-his-resignation-2515393411.html
Still waiting on Farenthold.
Promise Keeper 2017…MAGA!
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-expected-declare-jerusalem-capital-israel/story?id=51600561
Did yall hear his speech? What a statesman!! MAGA!
Actually agree. I didn’t see it. I heard it. The very last word spoken was really slurred. Did you see it?! Anyone?? What did his face look like??
He did the whole thing off a teleprompter. The one on his left seemed farther out then the right hand screen which was almost completely in front of him, like he had to swing his head a little more. He was literally talking out of the side of his mouth most of the time. The last few lines was given looking straight forward. He didn’t smile either or relax like most people do then they finish a speech. The lighting was low too. Whenever he switched screens he hesitated and near the end it was like he was starting words with a slur and his hand started to do that chopping action more. As stage setting, it was a bit odd, which is becoming the norm for these things. The walls sconces and the portrait of Washington had better lighting then he did.
ed Atlanta, the irony about your 373 hours of Christmas music is that we are in the season of Advent, but the day after Christmas—the 2nd day of the Christmas season—the Christmas music typically stops. Should we start playing such music in the summer heat of July and August to make it feel cool!
Some of us have advent stations on their music providers. PLUS, St. Nickolas stopped by my desk during the night.
This Georgia Solar Manufacturer wants import tarriffs on solar panels thus posing it against the solar industry who say it would be a job killer. https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060068079
This ain’t a drip – it’s a flood! This “in’cest’igation” is over! For the pathetic Dems, I’m reminded of a very poignant line in The Princess Bride uttered by Count Rugen, “My God, are you still trying to win?” LMAO!!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinions/a-special-counsel-needs-to-investigate-the-fbi-and-justice-department-now/2017/12/04/5ca1234c-d916-11e7-b1a8-62589434a581_story.html
That was an editorial by conservative Hugh Hewitt – of course he wants one… and that was publish Monday night… you need to keep up better.
While at this point it looks like this guy was isolated, there may be more, and it is worthy of an investigation, if the intent or consequence is not to interfere with the other special counsel, or disproportionately discredit the Dept., but build public confidence in the DoJ. I would prefer the DOJ Inspector General look into it, but if there is more public confidence from a special counsel, OK. But, you do know Count Rogan lost, right?
Tick tock…
How long before Mueller and his group of partisan Clouseau’s are defunct?! NY Times, NY Post, House Intel Committee all calling them out…LOLOL!
I do think looking for deep-state partisan bias in the DoJ is a real fishing expedition, but there may be benefits in doing one. Build confidence, discredit distractions and the real fake news…
You didn’t really just say that any inquiry in the Mueller folks would be a “fishing expedition” did you?! Good Lord….His whole operation, the entire thing, is not legitimate in the least.
time will tell- maybe
It took 3 years, 8 investigations and a special congressional sub committee to fish/find a server and missing emails…
Look at how long it took with Bill and all they found was a blow job (most expensive one in history!)
Maybe he could talk Trey Gowdy and Jason Chaffetz into joining. Those guys are known impartial investigators.
See below…
Specking of Trey Gowdy… Did he tye this with a straight face? Oh the irony.
https://twitter.com/TGowdySC/status/938533749192507392
Don’t forget about Devein Nunes.
Meanwhile…
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/us/politics/michael-flynn-russia-sanctions-ripped-up-whistleblower.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
To quote Arte Johnson on Laugh-In, “Very Interestink…”
http://www.anncoulter.com
Unlikely Coulter has said anything remotely interesting.
Well, B, you won’t know unless you actually read it…
Well I am not clicking on that. I think she said she doesn’t believe in evolution. Questionable judgement there. But hey, care to give a synopsis so ewe can comment on it?
Just read it. It tells you all you need to know about this whole Roy Moore issue. Really informative!
I’m gonna regret this…
Lol! Let me know your thoughts!
Your connecting a Nazi commenting to Coulter is interesting.
I hope they got the collection in it’s vaults at the J. Paul. Getty Center… it has it’s own sets of water tanks and reservoirs. Bel Aire and Brentwood aren’t fairing so well…
https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/western-wildfires/southern-california-wildfires-spread-putting-thousands-under-mandatory-evacuation-n826946
Republican truth and facts are determined day be day and issue by issue.