March 9, 2018 6:49 AM
Morning Reads for Friday, March 9, 2018
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- A gracious lady.
- Harper Lee letter collection headed to Emory.
- KSU in the news again.
- The Bleat features Jesup, sadly (below the fold).
- Great balls of fire!
- Time to channel your best Admiral Akbar.
- The maths, it is hard.
- Eeeeewwww.
- Oldest message in a bottle was discovered in Australia.
- Turning off the noise.
- Is it dusty in here?
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I’ll just leave this right here.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russian-spy-ship-off-georgia-coast/
Are they claiming to be Norwegian?
I commented Sayonara Amazon soon after the Delta tax break was revoked.
It’s illustrative that Trump’s whimsical instability is permeating and becoming the Republican normal, even for establishment Republicans.
14 months of deliberation preceded the agreement to restore a $40,000,000 a year tax break to the state’s largest private employer of 33,000 Georgians in much better than Georgia average paying jobs. The agreement was scuttled by immediate across the board Republican knee jerk emotional response to air tickets discounts worth perhaps two grand shared by 13 people.
A deliberative 14 months and $40 million mattered less than an abrupt two days and an emotional two grand. Let that sink in.
Well-managed businesses assess risk, in this case unstable emotional reaction despite a plan. Maya Angelou’s words apply:” When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” The price of Georgia landing Amazon increased by 9 figures.
Quite dusty!
Wow!
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/09/nonfarm-payrolls-february.html
That story about Jerry Lee made me a little verklempt. That dog dish I have of his might have been Topaz’s.
:::sniff:::
It’s the week of Jerry Lee at GeorgiaPol.
LOL! Say “Cheeeeezeeee!” Cue Freddy Mercury…”Dum, dum, dum, Another one bites the dust…”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4106236/Armed-robber-killed-camera-tries-hold-gun-store-quick-thinking-owner-64-shot-dead-accomplice-fled.htm
It feels weird to think that there is a slight, very slight, but real, possibility that Trump doesn’t plan to come back from the NK trip.
Where is this coming from? Meaning someone will do him harm and he literally won’t be able to return?
That’s not what I asked. What was B implying?
I was thinking more like Trump would seek political asylum somewhere like.. Russia. He’s got a lot of potential trouble brewing here. If he’s really guilty and he knows it… well let’s just say if he were a regular suspect the cops would not want someone like that leaving the country.
Lol! Deranged..:
It’s Twitter, but we’ll see how it plays out:
1) Cohen formed EC LLC on Oct 17 2016
2) The contract provided for EC LLC to pay Stormy $130K by Oct 27 2016
3) Between Oct 17 & Oct 25, the Trump campaign made payments to Trump Org properties that add up to $129,999.72.
pic.twitter.com/CMAxgl3Vn4
The Great Man shows compassion and did the right thing! Maybe he’ll offer Hillary the same deal one day?!
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-pardons-kristian-saucier-former-sailor-jailed-for-submarine-pictures/article/2651195
One of those Ivory Snow pure Mexicans crossing our borders, I presume??? “They’re not sending us their best…” said Trump, June 2015. Wall! Now!!
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/sd-me-tijuana-judge-20180307-story.html
As a public service, I clicked on that link so the rest of you don’t have to.
The dude was crossing the border in his car.
The system worked exactly the way it was supposed to. He got caught trying to smuggle drugs into the US in his car.
A wall wouldn’t have changed this one bit.
Mexico didn’t “send” him.
Mexican drug cartel trash sent him. Wall. All of it. Now.
Yes! Go NRA! Protect our Civil Right.
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2018/03/09/nra-sues-florida-over-gun-bill-same-day-gov-scott-signed-law/412365002/
Even CNN now recognizes The Great Man…Lol!
http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/08/erin-burnett-trump-great-president/
There was a huge “IF” attached to her comment. Call me skeptical.
Is no one else disturbed by that stink bug link????
It was linked under EEEEWWW
Seems they are better than cockroaches at survival (but they eat almost any plant alive!)
Ok. Trump gave stemwinder asked for his supporters to come out and vote Tuesday. If this gets the Repub across the line he’ll do it for practically every race between now and November.
Why not take the test?
https://nypost.com/2018/03/11/elizabeth-warren-refuses-dna-test-to-prove-native-american-heritage/
Because you don’t play by rules set by the opposition, or rules set by an idiot, or in turn, act like an idiot, or act without dignity.
Try this hypothetical on: You say you’re an intelligent person. But I say you have an IQ which qualifies you as developmentally disabled. I think you should take an IQ test to prove it. Do you take the IQ test?
Point taken. But…..until she does, she’ll be politically unavailable for any office higher than the one she currently holds. She won’t even be able to be Bernie’s running mate. Way too much baggage.
Republicans can pat themselves on the back for circumcising their ability to use any arguments based on supposed ethics or standards regarding “baggage” (i.e. a strong oppositional candidate may need only respond with something like: “I think you should take a lie detector test on whether you sexually assaulted seventeen women….”. Was it seventeen?)
It’s also obvious that Warren is perceived as a real or potential threat, otherwise no attention would be given to her.
Like the ethical use of male pravado “locker room” talk with the ten year old Billy Bush tape? A tape kept dry and pristine for a decade when it could be pulled out and used against another “potential threat.” Quit your holier than thou attitude. One cheek swab and she can tell her opponents to pound sand. If she’s legit, she’d have done it years ago. In fact, she’d have led the charge…
And one hour of depositions could determine whether the Pres. actually committed assault, or violated campaign finance rules, etc. I certainly do not believe that Dems or Repubs can be judged as monolithic groups- but individuals can be judged, and the Pres. has so much “baggage” it is sickening to many. I will reserve comments about the mountain of legal and other problems he will face after his Presidency is over (whenever that may be.) But for the moment, your concern over Warren’s DNA, relative to Trump, reminds me of Matthew 7:3.
My concern? No, I like her right where she is. She’s popular and very formidable. If the doubts were off the table, your side could really embrace her as a social warrior/candidate. No siree, Bob! She’s perfect where she sits.
Again, because your reading comprehension is a little off, I love the fact that she won’t take the test. Helps my side hurts yours. Far be it for me to give you guys political advice, but much like Obama providing his birth certificate put to rest his birth place and took that issue completely off the table, all she’s gotta do is take the Ancestry test. And here is how that plays out in her favor with both results. One, she is Indian and completely shuts up her critics. Two, she’s not and she still gets to stick to the family story of her mom and dad having to run off and get married because of a now mistaken belief that Warren was Indian. The romance of that story is fully in tact and she just explains that her long held belief is now not true. People are extremely forgiving. It sounds like she never used the story for a personal benefit over another person. “A simple mistake…” she says. And it’s over. Seriously. No downside whatsoever to her. She’s suddenly elevated in political viability. Like I said, I love her right where she is. Being stubborn and dogmatic when it’s just plain stupid to continue to do so is just that…stupid.