April 17, 2018 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, April 17
It’s tax day! Tax day hasn’t been on April 15 in quite a few years.
- Going to church with President Carter. “Trying to beat a total stranger to Sunday school is not exactly in the spirit of Christian charity, but I wanted a seat in that sanctuary.”
- I was the photo editor for my high school yearbook and reading this article about the kids on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School yearbook staff just about flattened me.
- What’s motivating the changes at the High Museum? A lot of it is light.
- Perdue Farms will make a $42 million investment in Houston County.
- Home sales are down 10% from where they were this time a year ago – in part because inventory is scarce.
- Democratic women candidates from across Georgia discussed their platforms and priorities in Glynn County.
- GenX will be the “backbone” of leadership for the next few decades.
- A look inside public school classrooms across the country.
- This newly-restored film footage of New York City in 1911 is mesmerizing (I preferred it with the volume off).
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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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The demise of Sean Hannity is going to be……
Oh.
So.
Sweet.
And that demise will be because of his association with Cohen? As of right this second (808), where is the scandal?
It’s so crazy though. Why would Cohen call him a client if he wasn’t? Has Cohen ever been paid by any of his (three) clients? Why does he get paid $500,000 a year by the law firm whose space he uses when he has no paying clients?
Is this kind of setup pretty unique, or do the wealthy class do this all the time- have lawyers who are separated from them by a layer or two of, what, deniability?
It’s like a Jerry Springer show 24/7/365. Mix in a little John Gotti for flavor.
And it looks like Hannity stupidly knifed him right back. It should have been easy to say “Yeah, I am his client, and I want all our comms to be protected”. Why would he not do that?
Keep in mind, Cohen only did the dirt work and some over seas work for Trump and Don Jr and Ivanka. The real Trump lawyer is former Trump Org. V.P. and Chief Legal Officer, Jason Greenblatt, who is some type of international negotiations specialist for the president. He is the lawyer Trump took with him to DC, not Cohen, and in theory now has executive privilege status if questioned by congress.
The demise of the Right to Privacy and Right to Counsel is going to lead to us to a place none of us want to go.
The progressive glee at Kimba Wood’s destruction of the Attorney Client privilege in order to overturn the election of Donald Trump is disgusting and dangerous. Seriously. People like me are watching this and how the Democrat-Left-Media Complex and the Deep-State insurrectionists are using violence to silence Conservatives on college campuses, on twitter, baseball fields, etc. are getting angrier and angrier.
It’s a conspiracy!
The whole “Deep-State” thing is a Fox-Right-Media Complex creation. If you’re angry, you should be. You’re being manipulated by it.
Watched the first few minutes of the NYC 1911 video…here’s a challenge:
See how many folks over the age of 10 you can find on the street who aren’t either wearing or carrying some form of headwear.
Well everyone knew that going around hatless was unhealthy. Besides that you could even get a suntan and start looking like a common laborer. Of course this still doesn’t justify the pork pie even at a modern political rally.
I’m eagerly awaiting a full view of recently found footage of a post-quake 1906 San Francisco done by the Miles Brothers. They did a famous film down Market Street only one week before the fire/quake but no one knew about any post quake film by them until just recently.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/14/us/san-francisco-earthquake-film.html
The week is off to a big start when last week’s news hasn’t been digested.
Cohen’s home and offices raided, and Comey’s book out, the bombing of Syria Friday night diluting that news was indeed “Mission Accomplished”. Was that characterization another Trump “a ha”, like the “prime the pump” phrase that Trump coined?
There was also Donald Trump’s new big play to gain negotiating strength against China by announcing that he’ll start negotiating to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the agreement he withdrew from after calling it a “rape of our country.” Hey, it’s Trump’s ego being stoked and the country, not him or his family being raped, so it’s worth it.
For the record I supported TTP, not saying it couldn’t be improved, but we need another reminder that whatever Trump says is sacrosanct, even if it’s the opposite of what he side last week.
Which brings me to Paul Ryan, prototype of today’s establishment Republicans. Compassionate conservative in the Bush years, spoke out against Trump when it was fashionable to do so, then was accommodating to Trump when Trump became President. A real company man. Judge the fiscal conservative by his quitting after delivering signature legislation, a tax cut for the rich that will raise the national debt by $2 trillion. Another Mission Accomplished.
I was dismayed that Comey got personal about Trump’s looks in his book. But hey, unlike many, Comey is playing by the new rules normalized by Establishment Republicans, and punching back.
24 year old in our office was freaking out during lunch over IRS website being down… “but how can I file my taxes if it wont let me add the direct deposit info? They have to give me an extension or a grace period right?”
Thus begins the Gen X’er showing the millennium how to print out his taxes, find the correct IRS office to address a letter, where to find a stamp in this place and the location of the nearest post office to hand deliver it to them before midnight if the site stays down.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-17/irs-filing-system-has-glitch-as-taxpayers-race-to-meet-deadline
Get ready for the Presidential twitter rage on this one…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-strikes-down-part-of-immigration-law/
“The court’s 5-4 decision Monday concerns a provision of immigration law that defines a “crime of violence.” Conviction for a crime of violence subjects an immigrant to deportation and usually speeds up the process. Justice Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s first appointee to the court, joined with the four liberal justices in making the decision.”
That NYT story about public classrooms is really interesting.
Thank you Teri.
Stormy’s alleged threatening man looks a lot like OJ’s Real Killer! Lol!
Good Guy with a Gun….
Get you NRA Lifetime Membership. Today.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-stabs-deputy-douglas-county-georgia-sheriffs-office-shot-dead/