January 16, 2018 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, January 16
Good morning! It’s cold.
- In 1946, a teenaged Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote what is thought to be his only letter to the editors of the Atlanta Constitution.
- At yesterday’s MLK Day service, Ebenezer Baptist Church’s Senior Pastor Rev. Raphael Warnock called on the president to “repent” his “volcanic eruption of hate speech spewing out of the mouth.”
- At next month’s Girl Scout Day at the Capitol, more than 300 scouts from across Georgia intend to urge the Legislature to consider renaming the Talmadge Bridge for Juliette Gordon Low.
- Rep. Richard Smith (R-Columbus) sponsored a new bill to address “surprise” medical billing.
- Royal Dutch Shell, which helped make the Middle East an oil behemoth, is gradually pulling out of the region.
- How North Carolina’s gerrymandered Congressional map “muted” the state’s urban areas.
- Carrier employees who are about to be laid off feel “betrayed” by Trump.
- This year’s flu season is bad. Get your shot! And other ways to defend yourself against the potentially deadly virus.
- America was a “fractured” society in 1968. Here’s what push news alerts might have looked like if we’d had smartphones 50 years ago.
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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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Imagine Bo and Luke Duke making a “Coke Run” in the General Lee, trying to avoid Seattle’s “revenuers!” LOL! More Lib crap! Cue up Waylon Jennings… “Just a good ‘ole boy, never meanin’ no harm…”
https://pjmedia.com/trending/soda-tax-sticker-shock-grips-seattle/
The “Low Bridge”? Everybody down?
Low bridge, ’cause we’re comin’ to a town?
Ok, my fellow old-timers who had great music teachers in grade school…there’s your earworm for the day.
In the pass few days; I have heard it called the Gordon Low, and the Cookie Bridge. Most people don’t even use the term bridge, its just called the Talmadge. I can see it being called the JGL or the Tomachichic. Another idea I heard is the Katherine Greene and the Armstong (since the board of regents took his college away from him).
The reason JGL won’t pass is because of social conservatives. Example, had a man in front of me to shake the pastor’s hand this Sunday tell Father that the church needs to protest the name change of Juliette Gordon Low, since the Girl Scouts are linked to Plan Parenthood. Then he swear he would never drove over it again if they named it after JGL, and they should just leave well enough alone. Father agreed that was a troubling issue, but to his credit, Father looked him in the eye saying” Yet you have no issue driving on a bridge named for a member of the Klan, besides being a corrupt racist politician, at the time the Klan hated Catholics. Thank you for clarifying.”
How many things are named for Robert Byrd, another KKK Leader? West Virginia is loaded with them. When will they be ripped up? And George Wallace? Block school house doors much, Governor??? When will anything associated with him begin to be erased?
What’s your point?
They’ll get renamed or replaced whenever the local community decides to. Times change. People change. Local control and all that.
My favorite title of the 4 items in Alabama holding Wallace’s name (not one is a k-12 school) is ‘The George Wallace White Way’. If Alabama wants to remove his name from stuff, go for it.
If the people of West Virginia want to remove Sen. Byrd’s name from something based on the 9 years he was in the Klan, who are we in Georgia to stop them. It should also be noted that starting in 1958 until the day he died, Byrd renounced the Klan. He called joining the greatest mistake he ever made in his life. “I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times … and I don’t mind apologizing over and over again. I can’t erase what happened.”
Putting aside the Klan, the racism, and the fact the original bridge was named after him in a direct responds by the State of Georgia to Brown VS, the BOE, Talmadge was a corrupt politician. To the best of my knowledge nothing else in this state holds his name.
For the most part, as long as it doesn’t end up as some hyphenated , super long name (looking at you ATL) that makes it impossible to care what its called, I’m fine. Savannah residents, even if the name changes this year, are still likely to call it The Talmadge until at least 2143.
AW SNAP. Also I think the Klan still hates Catholics.
The whole “The Girl Scouts support Planned Parenthood” is meme-fueled nonsense:
https://www.snopes.com/do-girl-scout-cookie-proceeds-fund-planned-parenthood/
FWIW, my parish has a robust Scout program. My girls (our troop is through their parochial school) earned their Family of God award in 2nd grade (which was nice since 2nd grade is a sacramental year), and this year they’ll earn I Life My Faith at the parish’s annual Scout Sunday mass.
Springsteen brought that and several other great folk songs back to life on that “We Shall Overcome” album. Good stuff. Especially “John Henry”.
Not too old a timer, but definitely got that tune stuck.
A Medicaid work requirement will be another blow to rural Georgia healthcare. Fewer insured means less preventive and maintenance healthcare, and more uninsured using emergency rooms, further burdening small hospitals. Less insured preventive and maintenance healthcare means fewer health professionals needed outside of hospitals. But hey, those outside of hospitals that remain will receive more per service rendered due to the reduction in substandard Medicaid reimbursements, so the work requirement has that going for it. MAGA.
Yes, trying to help people find a job will be the end of the world as we know it. There will be death panels. Murder in the street. There will be ANARCHY!!!!.
There are going to be death panels, though that’s at least a few decades away. Just like there is going to be amnesty for dreamers, but that won’t be very long.
It’s not the end of the world. The smaller and weaker rural healthcare system will hurt those that do work, but in acknowledgement of the overblown murder remark, is another nail in the rural Georgia coffin.
The NC link is to the AJC column about an MLK letter to the Editor in the first link.
Dick Durbin said Lindsay Graham objected to Trump’s remarks during last Thursday immigration meeting, Graham later saying himself that he did. Graham, defending himself in the face of Senators Perdue and Cotton denying Trump said “s—hole countries” and that that was a “gross mischaracterization” of what Trump had said yesterday said, “My memory hasn’t evolved. I know what was said and I know what I said.”
Trump’s remark’s would never have become public if Durbin hadn’t been there, and two more Trump-supporters exposed as liars if Graham hadn’t been there.
Because who are you gonna believe, Durbin and Graham or Cotton and Perdue?
To Add to the changing focus of Royal Dutch Shell,
https://www.axios.com/shell-buys-into-us-solar-biz-1516046095-b234a3c4-880d-49c5-bf9e-07596d89fd0f.html
Question… Where is Charlie’s Herald column? I don’t see it. He on vacation?
I was going to say that he may be busy down at the Gold Dome, but he doesn’t appear to be a registered lobbyists and I don’t want to get him in trouble. But I guess if he doesn’t buy anybody lunch he’ll be OK.
Walk this way…
https://apnews.com/375f7b42bebd4f95bc09eab64988bb11/Intel-underfoot:-Floor-sensors-rise-as-retail-data-source
Oh look, the tax cut is going to save United Health almost $2 billion dollars next year, added.onto of the over $10 Billion in profit it made in 2017. So with all that cash rolling in they can lower costs of health insurance right? No. They can increase wages. Ah… no. Instead they are going to reinvest into the company. Say it with me… Stock buy back. Dividend pay out, updating equipment, A&M, ect…Not that this is not of value to the economy (two of my 401(k) funds have United Health stock so my retirement fund will be happy).
https://www.axios.com/tax-reform-unitedhealth-group-profit-1516114601-d9f0484b-eecb-4006-882d-a19742f99f1d.html
The A&M part of investing should give a person pause. The thing that most folks overlook is the rust belt didn’t start dying with NAFTA. It started before Reagan was in office, but what did the most damage was the buying out of mid size company’s that held regional market share or valuable patents, then liquidated and dismantled whatever they didn’t need out of the sale that was funded through the Reagan corporate tax cuts leaving them with lots of profit to burn. It killed the family owned and/or regional companies. It started moving the work force out of the closed union run Rust Belt companies into new factories the South, leaving 100 year old empty shrines to the industrial revolution in its wake, killing pensions and leaving families once making over $20 an hour (in the late 1980’s) trying to find a job that made even half of that. Say what you will about unions, but it lead to a steady increase in wages that we have not seen since big business started dismantling organized labor for the great good (for whom and what is still up in the air).
So what will United Health acquire (if that’s art of their investing) and dismantle slowly over 2 to 5 years (to stream line and lower over all costs, of course)? How safe is a company like say AFLAC… What would stopp John Deere from buying AGCO, or Sinclair from acquiring and slowly liquidating Cox? There is not much left to buy and liquidate in the Midwest you know.
Food for thought.
The Great Man is extremely healthy!! Well, Weenies… I guess this is “settled science!” LOL!
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/us/politics/trump-health-exam-doctor-cognitive-test.html?referer=https://www.google.com/
Exactly. So he is fully responsible for everything he says and does.
Works for me.
Keep the nuke button away from him anyway.
(So Trump apparently never interrupted his golf game during the entire Hawaii false alarm? So no one alerted him during that 38 minutes that we might be under attack? Just an oversight?)
Of course. Trump knew some Hawaiian Dem dipsh-t pressed the wrong button. He just rolled his eyes and sunk a thirty footer!
Noway, I’ve come to more or less understand your hyper-partisanship, and get the zealousness of it, but to be so extreme is to deny moderation, which is a certain path to a short shelf life. Surely this makes you yawn, at least externally, but my New Year’s resolution compels me to at least attempt to communicate thusly.
Drew, that’s actually damn funny! Good job! Don’t forget Blimpies, though!
I’m reminded of the North Korean girls who cry in anticipation of seeing their Dear Leader.
But…. he didn’t know anything because nobody told him. He was golfing.
“A false warning of a missile threat in Hawaii sent White House aides scrambling Saturday, frantically phoning agencies to determine a response and triggering worries about their preparedness almost a year into the Trump administration.”
“National security adviser H.R. McMaster later briefed the president on the events, and Trump tasked him with overseeing the administration’s response, the official said.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/13/hawaii-missile-warning-white-house-339520
I know… fake news.
My mom has had the MCA a few time to set a baseline, since Alzheimer’s runs in her family. In order to actually show cognitive loss or mental instability, you have to take the test yearly, and even then it is only a measure of basic cognitive ability. To be truly cleared of any mental issue, such as Alzheimer’s disease or being bipolar, which is more likely to be unstablizing while being cognitive, only a full psychological examination by a psychirist can accomplish that.
I also wonder if he did the old iron trick. (He tested with a high level for a male). That would lower his A1C, and raise a HDL number.
I also wonder what the President requested not be released.
Haters gotta hate. What’s the nature of y’alls next desperate attack?! I think the Lib playbook is getting pretty dog-eared.
Really? I pointed out a few basic facts on a MCA test. I wondered if he went on an iron binge to make his test results look better, a lot of people do so all the time to avoid going on insulent, I wondered what was not released. He legally does not have to tell us anything. I’m sure past presidents have not released the full reports to the general public (Addison’s disease ring a bell). Just because I’m not going, “oh shucks Noway, I guess he’ doesn’t have Alzheimer’s”, doesn’t mean I’m hating, or that I’m an extreme liberal (I’m not, and I have the tests to prove it). I don’t even know what a lib playbook even is…
Just to clarify, Again. Centrist. Say it with me… Ellynn is a C E N T R I S T.
And for the record, having watched my grandmother turn into a shell over a 15 year time period, I would find no glee in any one having Alzheimer’s disease. Can you say the same thing about the Hag.
The “haters” comment was actually for Drew. He sounded kinda riled up!
Big Mac’s have special sauce Drew.
And you attached the hater comment to my post Noway. I can’t read your mind you know..
Hey, B, like this ninny Krying for The Kenyan??
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xwUihtdCiqM