January 12, 2018 7:00 AM
Morning Reads for Friday, January 12, 2018
- Chick-fil-A moving to iconic spot in downtown Athens.
- Flu ticking up in the ATL. Wash those hands!
- Atlanta’s first “Smart Neighborhood.” But does it deliver tacos to your door every evening?
- You can count me out on this one.
- Let’s work on no more power outages, shall we?
- It’s like a rash.
- Stay out of my bathroom, too.
- Higher Ed continues to confound and amaze.
- The Red Sea still makes headlines.
- Nothing new under the sun (ask a millennial what the “Goldwater Rule” is). LOL (of course).
- The Obama Center has landed.
- Or was he just happy to see us?
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As long as The Grill and The Taco Stand are still where they’re ‘sposed to be….
I’m about 3/4 of the way through Dan Brown’s new book Origin. So far it’s really good. It’s No Angles and Demons, but better than most of his most recent stuff. Anyway, I don’t want to give too much away for those of you who may want to read it, but Paul Broun is quoted in the book. I kid you not. “Congressman Paul Broun said that the big bang is a lie from the pits of hell” is in the book. I laughed so hard when I read it. Paul Broun is finally famous.
Read it over the course of just over a day just after Thanksgiving (because that’s how I roll). Agree that it’s not one of his better efforts, but enjoyed it still. I also chuckled at the PB reference.
“Mensah did more on one night to make this world a better place than Donald Trump has done in the entirety of his 71 years on this planet.” This guy is a hero to be sure.
But where was any sense of similar outrage at incendiary language when The Hag called half of her OWN NATION “Deplorables?” Nary a peep…and with most of the ninny Libs hopping right on that there bandwagon. So you “Don Lemons” go ahead and have your little drawin’ spell of faux outrage, snivel into a hankie and hand-ring today. Luvvvvv that hypocrisy!
When Fox and Friends asks for an apology or a clarification… He might of gone a wee bit to far.
He also angered the wrong women…
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/368627-gop-rep-mia-love-calls-on-trump-to-apologize-for-those-he-watonly
Yes, there is a fundamental difference between calling a group of people out based upon their ideologies, and calling out a group- or nation- of people based upon their country of origin. While HRC would have done better to specifically identify the antisemitism, etc. of the Trump fanboys she wanted to call out, the brush used by Trump is based 100% on some sort of ethnic stereotypes. Not one concern for individuals or ideologies. And let’s not forget how Trump has disparaged so many Americans as well. To paraphrase, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, have all just been baskets of deplorables to him. That’s why generalizations do nothing but offend.
Just for my clarification, Andrew, are you saying most of the Trump supporters are those things you listed? (Racists, misogynists, anti-Semites, white nationalists, and bigots…)
Senators proposed immigration legislation that was centrist. Trump’s dimwittedness is rubbing off on the Republican establishment—they’re rolling like that.
Cornym: “How do 6 people bind the other 94 in the Senate. I don’t get that.”
It’s not much different than the Conference Committee required of most legislation. In Cornyn’s defense, I suppose the exclusion of any Dem participation in legislation is more of the “regular order” that McConnell promised when the GOP was in control of the Senate.
I was supportive of what I read of the Senators proposal. I for instance am fine will a billion or two spent on a physical barrier at locations where it would be most cost effective as part of comprehensive reform. There were a couple of other compromise areas in the proposal I could support as part of a package, and maybe one objectionable to me.
Not legalizing Dreamers and providing a path to citizenship isn’t on the table. The GOP acting as if Dreamer amnesty is an enormous concession in the context of negotiating the other stuff is a definite losing proposition with everyone else other than a third of the population that is nearly all GOP base.
A retched hive of scum and villainy….
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/google-hive-of-hateful-progressivism/
their back
https://apnews.com/9a6888c2163f43a7913c808e8cf9bc6e/Cybersecurity-firm:-US-Senate-in-Russian-hackers'-crosshairs
Tim Scott was not in the room. Tim Scott states Graham confirmed them to him. Graham was in the room.
https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/sen-tim-scott-trump-s-shithole-countries-comment-is-accurate/article_e99c2fba-f7a9-11e7-a381-d7950e17b81f.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share
That would be “They’re…” back…
I’m a bad typist and dyslexic.
Perhaps some other aspects of Trump are rubbing off on Perdue like Trump’s dimwittedness rubbing off on Cornyn. Trump and Perdue did get back to work by playing the links together recently.
Or maybe instead of Trump rubbing off on Perdue, Trump rubbed off Perdue’s veneer exposing what’s underneath.
Plausible deniability at its finest….”we do not recall”
So let me be the first to call Perdue And Cotton “damn liars”
Durbin stated the comment was made more than once.
That is not something you do not recall.
If slurring other countries by the POTUS does not register in the mind of a US Senator present in an immigration meeting as something you should recall, neither belong in office
Perdue has zero credibility at this point. I was actually mildly hopeful that he would be a reasonable Senator, and that’s me speaking as a Dem. But he has been disappointing in almost everything he has made the news for.
How far we have fallen in trying to fill Sam Nunn’s shoes. Draft-dodging, Max Cleland -attacking Chambliss, and then this sycophantic empty suit.
It could have been worse though. At least he beat Kingston. I guess we can be thankful for that.
Another one Noway missed.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-lawyer-arranged-130-000-payment-for-adult-film-stars-silence-1515787678
Lemme do my best James Carville:
“Is jus’ about sex! Everbody lies about day sex life. It got nuthin’ to do wit his work!”
It sure is nice living rent-free inside that vacant head of yours! LMAO!
I know this story is breaking but are there credible allegations of rape here or did Trump tell the young woman to “put some ice on that?”
Your defection through using the atrocities done to Juanita Broaddrick doesn’t make the WSJ story any less relevant or Trump any less a cheating jack a$$. The only thing you can count on is that both women will be demonized, both stories will be swept under the carpet for political reasons, the other side will be outraged so long as they don’t get caught in their own scandals, and the wife will defend her spouse. And in the end the chances of anything really changing is null, because the 1/3 of the country who will always love either President Clinton/Trump does did not care what he did/does when his zipper is down and will always think he is a great man.
What has changed is after decades of remaining silent, women are now showing us the extent of how bad they have been treated, and they have had enough. Maybe, just maybe, if the current climate of women coming forward and actually being believed had happened 30 years ago, Ms. Broaddrick would have been believed or felt safe enough to take her story public before the status of limitation ran out.
Again, none of this defecltion absolves other men of their actions.
Deflection… I meant deflection.
You forgot to capitalize here. It’s “The Great Man.” And I was just pointing out that this story is really young. And cheating is wrong, to be sure. But I didn’t know if Trump committed an act of brutal violence against his partner or if, to quote Serpenthead, it was “just sex.” Inquiring minds ‘n all.
You know you want to: Go ahead and put a fascist reference in there somewhere! Make the Liberal Reflexive Response (LRR) complete! You’ll feel better, I swear!
A crushing effective nine sentences on the current state of the establishment GOP, IMHO.
I was at my college roommate’s child’s engagement party tonight at a gun club. Lots of millennials. So I tested out Ginny’s post on the millennial knowing the “Goldwater Rule”. I can report back to us Gen Y, Generation X, and Boomers – not only do they not know what the “Goldwater Rule” is, this group of young conservative didn’t now that ‘gold water’ was an actual person, or why he is relevant to being the conservatives they tell me they are… Sigh. I now feel old.
Don’t feel old, I’m between Gen X and millennials, and I know what the Goldwater Rule is. I feel old because this fall most of the college freshman were born in 2000.
Conservative Member of Parliament on Trump canceling a trip to London to dedicate a new US embassy because of Trump’s fear of fear of ego-damaging mass protests: “While I think it’s a shame, I think—if I’m honest—it more reflects the fact that other people criticise in French, Italian, Korean and other languages and we criticise in English, and it’s much easier for him to read English.” (Naturally Trump’s excuse the nex embassy was an Obama mistake, when the US embassy move was began under George Bush. Hey, Paul Ryan blaming Obama when the GM Janesville Assembly plant in Ryan’s district closed on Bush’s watch worked for Ryan.)
The MP was close, but not quite there. Yeah, Trump’s ego is an unstable fragile thing as evidenced with this statement from Trump’s doosy WSJ interview (comments on part of the interview here: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/president-trump-gave-an-interview-to-the-wall-street-journal-about-his-ideas-for-the-wall.html): “That’s one of the reasons NBC hates me so much. NBC hates me so much they wanted – they were desperate to sign me for – for three more years.”
But the issue isn’t Trump reading English, but that it’s easier for Fox & Friends hosts to read the criticism in English, before spinning it and reading it to Trump.
Trump is so enthralled of Fox & Friends that he tweets support for a Fox & Friends viewpoint within the hour of its broadcast, and of such dimished capacity that he doesn’t realize the criticism conflicts with his very own WH policy,.
From the link below. [Trump] saw the word “controversial” and “FISA” in a “Fox and Friends” chyron and remembered that it was the program used to conduct surveillance of Trump campaign aides Carter Page and Paul Manafort.”
“Less than 11 hours before the tweet, though, the White House reiterated its position in favor of said reauthorization …” because of the foreign surveillance element in the reauthorization.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/11/trump-just-torpedoed-his-own-administrations-position-on-fisa/?utm_term=.d3915e89d211
Trump, after Paul Ryan’s 30 minute explanation to Trump of the difference between foreign and domestic surveillance, was on it like white on rice with the tweet “ With that being said, I have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office and today’s vote is about foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land. We need it! Get smart!
CNN is like a 5 year old who says his first cuss word. Giggling at the “badness” of it all. What’s next? Will Don Lemon squeal and lean over to Wolf and say, “Pull my finger…”?
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/cnn-goes-off-shthole-shtstorm-mentions-shthole-least-36-times-one-night-video/
But of course they are!! Weeniefication complete!
https://nypost.com/2018/01/12/are-skirts-the-next-mens-fashion-trend/
But of course she is….LOL! Surprised she’d challenge a sitting Dem but, hey, I’m sure she’ll get The Hag’s endorsement. Fellow Leakers gotta stick together!
http://news.trust.org/item/20180113195534-6m9gn