April 6, 2018 7:00 AM
Morning Reads for Friday, April 6, 2018
- Catching up with Aimee Copeland.
- Still looking for the pot of internet gold.
- Well, it IS Alabama.
- One article in, and now looking for a job.
- Ye Royal Hip Replacement.
- Tempest in a hand-forged teapot.
- Of course, Facebook excludes North American customers. Because they can.
- So make it just go away.
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Redistibutionists please read…then be quiet about the “pay your fair share” crap.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/top-20-of-americans-will-pay-87-of-income-tax-1523007001
Non snark response…”not coming close to paying fair share…” According to who, Drew? Those one percent are more successful in doing whatever it is they do to earn their seemingly, to you, obscene amounts of money. It is theirs, though. Maybe it’s a Gates, a Niclaus, a Federer, a Hanks, even. All people aren’t equally gifted, smart, motivated. Never will be. But yet, there will be legions of others who are damned determined to termite into their wallets. It’s unseemly and obscene.
I wasn’t assuming that. That was your projection, I guess. Anyway, we will never agree on this issue.
That was the defending Master’s champ chunking four in the agua. Very painful. Spieth off in 6 minutes!
A small distinction, but I would characterize it as an imbalance in power (that has been increasing) that enables the powerfully rich to reap nearly all of the gain due to productivity and technology, more than a taking of wealth from others.
It took the Mayor Bottoms administration seven weeks to respond to a 26 Jan Open Records Request to provide former Mayor Reed’s credit card statements. It’s a virtual certainty there’s no valid excuse for the delay. It did coincidentally afford time for Reed to review records himself, and reimburse the city for some of the charges on the credit cards, prior to the credit card statements being released to the AJC.
The GBI is already investigating alleged willful delay and obfuscation of the Reed administration with respect to ORR concerning city water bills of Reed, Reed family members and others in city government. It’s likewise a virtual certainty that the GBI investigation will expand to include the Bottoms administration delay in providing the credit card statements, if there was wrongdoing with respect to the water bills, especially since many of the same Mayoral staff were around for both.
As to Mayor Reed’s credit card spending, which included an average $3,000 a week in travel expenses in 2017 and a few extravagant charges in addition to personal charges that Reed reimbursed the city for, Bottom’s spokesperson, who served as Reed’s spokesperson said, “In every instance, these costs were legitimate city expenses incurred in the course of his role as Mayor of the City of Atlanta.…” (The Mayor’s office not unexpectedly had no comment on the $40,000 that Bottoms as a Councilwoman voted to give to a Reed charity that the charity in turn returned to the city pay for a junket to South Africa that included first class air fare for Bottoms.)
The Mayor Bottoms administration isn’t being smart by becoming involved in ORR matters that can only go south if they go anywhere at all.
GOP prospects for maintaining the current advantage in the House in November are bad, very bad, or very very bad. The Senate is another matter. This column by Charlie Cook notes that toss up races in the Senate overwhelmingly tend to break one way or the other in a given election year. Dating to 1998, 7-10 toss up races per election with 80% going to one party or the other in that cycle. Cook currently has seven in the toss up category: NV, ND, WV, IN and MO currently Dem, and AZ and TN currently GOP; eight making a total of six Dem, if Scott runs in FL.
National Journal: How to Handicap the Race for the Senate https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/666034?unlock=U5E1O9JOWDPF8ND0
Thanks for the correction!
Whenever we camped, the fire was burning from sun up to whenever dad went to bed. water was being boiled for coffee, tea, and washing dishes long before I got out of my sleeping bag. While mom had a little electric fry pan for bacon and pancake production, I was in charge of the 4 sets of pudgy pie makers. I took the maker apart, wiped down the insides with butter, cracked and egg into it, and added salt before I set them in pockets I made in the fire under the grates holding the water kettle. Best wood smoked fired eggs I ever had.
This was long before Alice Waters ever saw a ‘hand forged’ egg spoon.
Republicans rigged our democracy. Here’s how Democrats can fight back — David Faris at The Guardian :https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/31/republicans-rigged-democracy-democrats-fight-back
“Gerrymandering, the Citizens United atrocity that declared money is speech, blocking US supreme court nominations and obstructing legislation are some of the Republican party’s tactics.”
“Beginning with the Gingrich radicals who took over the House in 1994, the modern Republican party has been willing to exploit the constitution’s design flaws and the constitutional order’s reliance on informal understandings between political actors to sabotage the functioning of Congress, destroy the Obama presidency, and seize vastly more power than the American people would otherwise have granted it.”
“When they retake power, Democrats should use those same [Constitutional] flaws to revive not the party, but our democracy.” “Step one in bringing this vision to fruition is to stop bringing pistols to the nuclear war. Democrats must be prepared to mimic their tormentors by intentionally destroying the Trump administration and then unleashing this dizzying array of electoral and institutional reforms when they recapture total power.
Farris points out the unequal weight given to tiny red states by the electoral college system make it more difficult to repair the intentional Republican damage to democracy. The total population of Wyoming doesn’t even crack the top 100 of US counties, but it still gets two Senators and a Representative. If everyone in WY lived in one city it would only be the 32nd largest city in the US, behind Milwaukee. (But hey, the people of Washington DC don’t deserve any Congressional representation.)
Unless corrected, I think our system is ultimately going to fail. The longer it goes on the worse the potential failure is going to be.
The ideas may be dumb, but the simple may not be enough. Some of it is baked into partisan distribution and inherent, and not avoidable.
Good God Almighty! Thissssssssssssssssssssssssssssss guy should be elected Prez!
Drew thought he had a good Middle Finger Moment but Jeez Maneez, this guy get the Middle Finger and a couple of other body parts in there! This is gonna be included in every single Repub ad between now and The End of Time! I can barely even breathe!!! Mark Robinson is God!!
https://www.dailywire.com/news/29119/watch-black-gun-owner-slams-government-trying-take-ryan-saavedra
THAT is your reply to that video? At least acknowledge the guy is spot on. at least to my side, in his 2nd amendment defense.
Wow! Ok. Your devotion to your side is admirable. Not even a tip of the cap to a powerful and passionate Regular Guy! This man is the definition of Common Sense. The best since Joe the Plumber. And as such, look for your side to descend on him like locusts.
Well, the Libs are doing their damnedest to screw Americans out of their 2nd Amendment freedom, now look at their efforts to do the same damn thing to American’s First Amendment liberties, too. Real Americans are watching and taking copious notes. November can’t get here soon enough!
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/facebook-penalizes-pro-trump-diamond-silk-deems-duo-unsafe-to-the-community/
As my ongoing public service here at GaPol, I’ve dialed my Maggot Monday back a day. I present to you…the Sunday Squash. Good Gal with a Gun saves family! Shotgun, no less. Joe Biden says everybody oughtta have one! She obviously listened to our esteemed Vice President! LOL!
http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/37896075/coroner-woman-shoots-kills-intruder-armed-with-shotgun-after-home-invasion