December 12, 2017 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, December 12
Good morning! Happy birthday, Baker County!
- The PSC moved the date of their Plant Vogtle decision from February to next Thursday.
- You can watch the live hearing here.
- Jeff Bezos to the white courtesy phone, please. A Los Angeles-based developer has a massive plan for The Gulch in downtown Atlanta.
- If you’re flying out of Augusta any time soon, you’ll want to arrive even earlier.
- I have listened to like three podcasts that purport to explain Bitcoin, and read at least a dozen articles on the subject, and I am still having a tricky time grasping why people would mortgage their homes to get in on the Bitcoin action.
- Man last walked on the moon 45 years ago. Trump wants to change get in on that moon action.
- Between 2000 and 2015, nearly 1,000 14-year-olds were married to men in the United States.
- In a fascinating piece, the AJC digs deep into the SCAD financials.
- Meanwhile, more and more states are paying for the first two years of community college.
- More news referrals come from Google than Facebook.
- Is it safe to eat snow?
- For your holiday dinner menu, consider lionfish.
- (If you read that and immediately said, “Poison… poison… tasty fish!” we need to be friends.
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Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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Ok. Final prediction: Who wins and by what percentage? I had said Jones by 5 but with Obama making those robocalls, it ticks off the Good ol’ Boys and Jones wins by only 2 in a squeaker.
Roy Moore by 7%. He would have won by 10% but for the accusations. Alabama’s voters love corruption and controversy because they see it as poking the rest of the nation in the eye not as holding the state back from the 21st century.
“With Robert Bentley’s resignation as governor, Alabama’s history of top elected officials who have had their careers end because of scandal continues.
In the past 25 years, three governors have faced criminal charges during or soon after their terms of office, and a speaker of the House was forced out after convictions on a dozen ethics violations. The state’s chief justice was removed from office twice – not on criminal charges, but for willfully disobeying federal judges’ orders.
With four top elected officials now convicted criminals, is Alabama leading the nation in political corruption?”
https://birminghamwatch.org/alabamas-political-corruption-three-governors-and-one-house-speaker-convicted-gives-state-a-reputation/
…but then Steve Bannon went on to say that Joe Scarborough was unintelligent unlike himself who went to Harvard…problem was Joe went to the University of Alabama…roll tide!
So, what’s your prediction?
You are probably right. I hope you are wrong and Jones wins. I am so ashamed and embarrassed to be associated with republicans right now. Because of the water wars and other reasons I have never been a fan of Senator Shelby, but I have a new respect for the guy after he came out against Moore.
My prediction is that Moore wins. There is a small but significant minority of Republicans that are too ashamed to admit even to pollsters that they prefer child molesters to Democrats.
“There’s always room for you on the dark side, Eiger.” Thanks for the offer, but I’ll pass. I’ll take a seat on the sidelines for a little while until I can jump back into then arena. I’m tired of defending others. If I get back in it will be defending my own beliefs.
…and I believe many will vote for write ins. That will be the make or break if republicans write in someone else…like Nick Saban
The Republican President says he’ll speak to promote GOP tax legislation tomorrow. It’s appropriate to review his prior lies to understand the context of tomorrow’s lies:
Trump: “I’m doing the right thing and it’s not good for me, believe me. … We are also repealing the alternative minimum tax, or AMT.”
No AMT would have reduced Trump’s 2005 tax bill from $36.5 million to $5.3 million, based on the leaked return. (Trump indeed has been ’s been way too generous, including taxes paid, for his own good. We’ve got years of tax returns to prove it.)
Trump: “To protect millions of small businesses and the American farmer, we are finally ending the crushing, the horrible, the unfair estate tax, or as it is often referred to, the death tax.”
According Tax Policy Center, only about 5,500 estates of 3,000,000 in 2017 would pay any estate taxes. Half of estates subject to the tax would pay an average tax of about 9 percent. Only 80 taxable estates would be farms and small businesses. (Trump’s inauguration naturally was the largest ever since 80 is “millions”.)
Trump: “Today, our total business tax rate is 60 percent higher than our average foreign competitor in the developed world.”
The effective tax rate after deductions and tax benefits is what matters. The effective rate for the US According to the Congressional Research Service is 27.1%, compared with an effective average of 27.7% for the OECD. (There are differing ways to calculate the effective rate. The CBO said the U.S. effective tax rate was 18.6%, which it said was among the highest of the Group of 20. But hey, the CBO is a deep-state organization to be ignored. Republicans have said so themselves.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/09/28/fact-checking-president-trumps-tax-speech-in-indianapolis/?tid=pm_pop&utm_term=.7d0d2e2e72d8
Lol! Lord, what a diatribe. I did literally laugh out loud at your “barely literate slob” comment! That was actually pretty funny!!
Ok. When will exit polling begin? Morning? Afternoon?
No, and no. He’s the President, leader and chief spokesman of the Republican Party, so sans disputation by out pols and party leaders, these are the Republican facts.
Republican Ross Douthat’s column in the AJC today on the Supreme Court hearing the case about the Colorado baker that refused to bake a wedding cake for a same sex couple concluded” “Please, for the sake of the country, leave the baker alone.”
It was for the sake of the country after reconstruction that the “lost cause” mythology was allowed to take root, statues of Nathan Bedford Forrest were erected in public squares, and the Supreme Court ruled segregation and separate but equal legal in Plessy v Ferguson. How did that work out for tens of millions of Americans for the next 100 years?
I suppose it’s progress only the few percent of the population that are gay would be second class citizens and in a much less limited way, instead of 12% of the population. Like some Republicans are saying of Moore, it was only one girl.
‘Nuther instance of Alabama voters don’t like being told what to do.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/articles.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/in_final-hour_order_court_rule.amp
You talking voter fraud? Cause this is about counting ballots.
over on the coast…
http://savannahnow.com/news/2017-12-11/new-building-plan-panned-savannah-s-derided-federal-bathroom-buildings
Savannah is soooooo much better than it’s leadership! But… then again, we always, always get the leaders we deserve.
Top 10 words of the year looked up on Merriam-Webster, with no 1 being feminism.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/word-of-the-year-2017-feminism/complicit
A week after chopping off the uranium rich parts of a national monument that will most likely be sold for mineral rights to an American based company owned by a Canadian company that sells the majority of the reactor grade fuel in the world, This happens…
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-12/trump-is-said-to-consider-easing-nuclear-rules-for-saudi-project
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” It getting harder to figure out which is which as it applies to some members of the current administration. When folks start leaving the White House at the end of the year, some are going to be shocked at how unemployable they will be.
Genuinely surprized most of you are picking Moore. Not to overuse the word but I will be genuinely surprized if he does win. Anyway, I’ll be glued to results starting at 9.
Unbelievable…
Hollywood is as mentally ill as The Swamp!
http://ew.com/tv/2017/12/12/homeland-season-7-trailer/
Even though Moore leading now, the NYT needle gauge thing is saying Jones is the likely winner.
Washington Post is first to call it – Jones.
I’ve been listening to all 3 cable channels, Steve Kornacki is the best vote counter on TV since the late Tim Russert.