March 29, 2018 5:26 AM
Morning Reads – Thursday, March 29, 2018
It’s Sine Die! I’m not sure if we should be thankful it’s about over or terrified it’s at the point where it’s “about over.”
Peaches
- The mess that Georgia made out of distracted driving
- Just one more on the late Governor Zell Miller
- Georgian makes way to Trump legal defense team
- PSC Commissioner under fire from Watchdog group for deleting texts
- Is Gwinnett a microcosm of transporation plans to come?
- New immigration plan by Gergia lawmakers is “the worst yet.”
- Local democrat party in Muscogee has much bigger plans
- The state of the Internet sales tax
Jimmy Carter
- Conservative feathers ruffled over all the wrong things
- Trump approval rating hovers at 45%
- Center says 1 in 10 will pay more in taxes next year thanks to tax law
- Why are states so strapped fro cash?
Sweet Tea
- The Roseanne comeback has stunned Hollywood…for political reasons
- The evolution of the karate chopping turtle
- Self-driving car pulled over, ticketed.
- Speaking of AI…using facial recognition to target jaywalkers
- Duck gets prosthetic boots
- #MeToo movement prompts sexual harassment training for students who harass teachers
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It’s Opening Day in America and for the only time this year I’ll cite George Will. Here’s his
annual baseball quiz.
I hadn’t thought of Graffinino in years.
Next time: center mass!
http://www.kptv.com/story/37833461/southern-oregon-homeowner-shoots-burglary-suspect-in-leg
https://chamblee54.wordpress.com/2018/03/29/gerrymandering/
Gerrymandering is like the weather. Many people complain, but few know how it works.
I can’t let words connected to one of my very favorite authors, Mark Twain, go without cheering them:
AUTHOR: Mark Twain (1835–1910)
QUOTATION: Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
ATTRIBUTION: Generally, but perhaps mistakenly, attributed to MARK TWAIN. It has never been verified in his writings.
Many quotation dictionaries credit Charles Dudley Warner, a friend of Twain’s, with this remark. But what Warner actually wrote, in an editorial in the Hartford (Connecticut) Courant, August 27, 1897, p. 8, was: “A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.”
Later, Robert U. Johnson, in his autobiography, Remembered Yesterdays, p. 322 (1923), says, “Nor have I ever seen in print Mark’s saying about the weather, ‘We all grumble about the weather, but—but—but nothing is done about it.’”
The true author remains a debatable subject, and the quotation remains a popular one.
Rasmussen is not a credible pollster Jessica. Quit referencing them without naming them. Its dishonest. The RCP AVERAGE is
41.5% approve
53.0% Disapprove
Then again, you can keep doing it, make conservatives complacent and they wont vote…your choice
Respectfully hoping you’re wrong. I’m curious as to October’s polling numbers. Anything before that will be hot stove league stuff. But that doesn’t mean we won’t enjoy jousting with each other until then.
His approve is moving up in general, but he still has the lowest historically of any president at this point in his term for every pollster and whatever starting point they use.
Republicans in general are going up.
https://www.axios.com/polls-show-democrats-edge-over-gop-slides-ahead-of-midterm-elections-a2f7ab97-8918-4541-ac21-c3eea80da02c.html
President GoodWarTrading has hired a new lawyer and I knew his name was familiar. Turns out he’s got lots of Georgia ties. He also got rich seizing assets until the state put an end to it.
“Just because you’re not a Beltway lawyer doesn’t mean you don’t know what you’re doing”, says Ekonomou. Maybe not but if I was hiring I know what kind I’d want.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/contingency-lawyer-medieval-historian-is-trumps-new-lead-counsel
Interesting stat. Rosanne kicked teetotal butt in ratings. But not even in top 20 or 30 in LA and NY. Flyover country spoke fairly loudly. Will it matter later in the year? I suspect it will. Enough from a flu-ridden Noway on this subject. I’ll leave to my good natured competition on here for their thesis length analysis.
Ohhhhh, I hope yall are watching Billions!! Seriously, Bobby Axelrod is the Risen Jesus!!!
Which streaming do you use? And, say, you wanna watch espn or something, you’re able to stream networks like that, too? Same with Fox or Cnn?
I think the only thing I can’t get is local PBS with my Roku/DirecTV Now. I got an antenna for that but I can’t get it with that either (even with it in the attic). Their antenna is out at Stone Mountain and I am on the opposite side of town. I am hoping PBS here makes a deal soon to be included with DirecTV Now.
But yes, ESPN, CNN… I wouldn’t know about Fox. Ha! Yes, Fox too, but you really shouldn’t watch that. It’s bad for you.
I’m surprised GPB does not have a livestream. I can stream the main PBS feed out of Wisconsin off their web site (The Wisconsin Channel Livestream), I just pull up the page on the Smart TV or my 17 inch HD laptop and feed it into the TV and then do a full pic.
A day late and a yuan short:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/upshot/globalization-pain-and-promise-for-rich-nations.html
Trump hates Amazon, Not Facebook
https://www.axios.com/white-house-amazon-trump-business-c57d94d6-defd-4781-a280-e59827c8ae65.html
After this was published Amazon stock lost $57 Billion yesterday. Is someone in the Trump circle shorting them?
And today from the NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/us/politics/trump-amazon-taxes.html
Where again the WH reiterates his falsehood that Amazon is getting a free ride from the taxpayers with USPS. From the Axios article:
“The whole post office thing, that’s very much a perception he has,” another source said. “It’s been explained to him in multiple meetings that his perception is inaccurate and that the post office actually makes a ton of money from Amazon.”
“Is someone in the Trump circle shorting them?”
Interesting. I’d be interested in a few sentences from one of the site’s legal eagles (looking at you, Mr. Pope) on the legality on doing so for a range of possibilities; such as a staff member overhearing Trump bitching about Amazon to someone else in another room a few times during the week and shorting it Friday morning, as well as friends of friends of the President that directly conversed with Trump about Amazon.
Thanks for the prompt response.
Sounds like it covers information given to friends, though, as was I think demonstrated with Phil Mickelson, proving those friends guilty may be difficult.
Bezos vs. Trump?
Epic!
$120 billion vs. $3 billion!