March 7, 2018 8:49 AM
Blustery Morning Reads for March 7
Is getting in a legal fight with an adult film actress a life highlight or lowlight? I’m semi split.
“I Want to be Alone (Dialogue)” by Jackson C. Frank
- I mean, technically there’s 11 Georgia billionaires but alas, I may have said too much.
- The national Democratic primary in Georgia rolls on.
- ATL to ATL in ATL.
- John Lewis is the original “Black Panther”.
- I didn’t know Terrence Moore started doing political columns.
- Max Cleland likes Stacey E.
- Trade group prez extols virtues of Georgia Medicare fixes.
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“A key aide to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has been granted permission to make extra money moonlighting for private clients whose identities are being kept secret.”
“Prior to joining the Trump administration, [the aide] Knokus worked as an executive vice president for Jamestown Associates, a political consulting firm. According to the firm’s website last year, Konkus “worked on the ground tirelessly to help President Trump win Florida.”
Another Trump sycophant exploiting his political connection for a good full time government job with the connections being used for a side gigs to line his pockets. I’d characterize it as the action of a sleazy Trump supporter, but the adjective is redundant.
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/03/06/epa-scott-pruitt-aid-private-clients/
Didn’t Huma have side gigs while working for Hillary?
Yup, Noway is correct……felt weird typing that.
Don’t worry, Jack. Noway’s posts are like a Lay’s potato chip. You can’t love just one!
Potato Chips: Obesity as Noway’s ideology: Obese president.
America’s biggest problems.
Pringles is a better analogy though. They’re all the same, and their contents don’t really match the label.
Pringles are made from a ‘slurry’, and I suspect that fits the analogy too, I’m just not sure how.
Were they secret?
It was in 2012. She had been reclassified as a “special government employee” (SGE), basically part time and being paid just below a salary that would have required her to report who she worked for, which allowed Abedin to bypass conflict-of-interest restrictions for federal employees. She basically met the ‘letter of the law’, but was rake over the coals because her 3 side jobs were for a holding company owned by a Bill crony, the Clinton Foundation, and as a ‘personal assistant’ the last 5 months of 2012 to HRC for her transition out of the State Department. The issue came up in 2013 in one of the first Benghazi investigations.
Is this guy full time or a SGE EPA employee?
Full time. But Huma’s and Knokus circumstances are otherwise totally the same.
Again…Stacey A outside the state. She needs more work IN state
If she can keep raising money like this, then her recent spending strategy makes sense. I assume she’ll find plenty of time to spend in GA.
This article is spot on. As an example, when my mother’s financial advisor retired 3 years ago, their was just 5 left in my hometown. This is not a small city, it’s over 40,000 people. The advisor suggested a firm an hour away in Milwaukee. I ended up finding one 30 miles away in Sheboygan Falls, which is between Kohler (home of Kohler Fixtures)) and Sheboygan. The only thing keeping white collar jobs in my hometown are two company head quarters, a hospital that serves a rural need to the west, and it’s a major instate transportation point. But the number of lawyers, accountants, engineers, and architects is 1/3 of what it was when I lived their. As the article said, My children went off to college and didn’t return. Me included.
https://apnews.com/94129c51a0814f8b9621ecbb3321ba83/For-many-factory-towns,-white-collar-job-loss-hurts-the-most
I have yet to find a job similar to what I do outside of Milwaukee. And Wisconsin has less work for my skill set then Georgia.
My 2nd cousin graduates this spring from Marquette Law. She is the fourth person in that branch of my family to have a college degree (out of about 45 of us) and the second with a graduate degree (I’m the first). She has been emailing me lately about how I decided to work away from the family. (I’m also the only one not living in Wisconsin). She’s really conflicted. Work for the last firm in her hometown, (which is only 2800 people) , stay in Milwaukee, go to Madison, Green Bay. etc. She has offers from some good firms in Milwaukee she did work with this last year. She has even had offers to work for some political folks in Madison, Springfield IL, and DC. She will just have grad school loans to pay, and that is really making this difficult for her.
I can top that. Greg Abbott will be the gop presidential candidate.
Repub turnout highest ever!! A few extra Snowflakes fell, to be sure. Not enough, though. Shades of 2002? Let The Great Man ask his supporters for help and to quote the late, great Terrance Mann, “People will come, Ray, people will most definitely come!”
That would make up for a lot of pain I have suffered this year. Especially if it makes him go away. That is one guy I can’t stand to hear talk. I heard him this morning and he made sure to mention that he was with the survivors of the Texas church shooting the next day. Totally gratuitous and no context. That guy has taken pandering and political posturing to new heights. Or depths, I guess.
Cruz won’t lose.
A quick primer on the trade deficit w/ China.
https://www.axios.com/trump-tweet-china-us-trade-deficit-tariffs-d4827a4c-34b4-4cfe-b94c-5d0d4b5a0d01.html?source=sidebar
One little tidbit the article doesnt mention is that China uses the trade deficit to manipulate their currency (and to a great degree ours). Because China gets paid in dollars for their goods they sell us they have a choice
1. They can convert those dollars to Yuan
2. They can use it to buy US Treasuries (basically parking it)
By buying treasuries, they remove a huge number of dollars from the market which strengthens the Dollar vs Yuan. That make Chinese Exports cheaper (but also makes US exports to China more expensive)
If they converted the dollars to Yuan, this would cause it to rise relative to the US Dollar because there would be a need for more Yuan than exist. They would not be taking US Dollars out of circulation though and the Yuan would rise relative to the dollar. That would be poison to an export based economy like China, and it also shows why all the worry over China owning US debt make no sense. It is way beyond China’s best interests to own US Debt. The people who rail against the Chinese as currency “manipulators” never seem to think the whole thing through and what the effects would be.
I read in the AJC today that there seems to be an internal struggle in Cobb Co over joining the rest of the metro on transit consolidation. They want all these conditions and promises about THEIR tax dollars. Then it struck me…who needs ’em. As I see it, Cobb needs everyone else a whole lot more than the rest of us need them when it comes to transit. Just a couple of Braves games will prove that point. They need to learn that they are no better than the rest of the counties and there are no guarantees other than making sure the people you elect truly represent your best interests. Big businesses locate close to transit. Gwinnett learned that lesson. Guess Cobb is just a little slow
The hilarity is that they think MARTA ponying up as much as they do to connect any rail system they build to MARTA is a given. Fat chance., though the state can always butt in, hence my concerns about the transit governance board. And too bad Cobb is tapped out on major highway project dollars other than the top end Perimeter for a least a decade as I-75 north toll road beneficiaries.
Gen X being short changed. Again.
https://www.axios.com/immigrants-make-millennials-the-largest-most-diverse-generation-1520434580-2ea0b5ec-cdef-4fc3-85e9-24e99888ffb9.html
Much like Soylent Green how our legal system derived that Corporations is people.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/03/corporations-people-adam-winkler/554852/
Good link. It contrasting the development of Corporations as people based on the 14th amendment contemporaneously with Plessy was interesting.
Yeah, what to do when the precedent setting case is a bad one and rests on lies told after the fact by a 14th amendment framer?