May 8, 2018 9:43 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, May 8
Good morning! If you only click on one of these links, click on this New Yorker piece about Officer Patrick Skinner, a Savannah native who joined the Savannah Police Department following a career with the CIA.
Meanwhile…
- It’s veto day in Georgia!
- When we hear about Apalachicola’s oysters, it’s typically either on menu, of in the context of the GA/AL/FL water wars. Here’s an in-depth overview of the tasty bivalves and those who depend on them for their livelihood.
- Forget the Met Gala. The Beard Awards were last night, and it was an excellent evening for Frank Stitt, as well of two of my New Orleans favorites, Comprere Lapin and Cure.
- Half a century of Tom Mangelsen’s spectacular wildlife photography.
- Another excellent New Yorker piece, this time on vaping and teenagers.
- We all probably spend too much time online. So how to discern between actual content, and actual advertising?
- Hamilton is coming to Atlanta this month. Do not throw away your shot!
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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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Thank you for that New Yorker link Teri. An absolute gem of an article.
I was tempted to quote a couple of the good parts but they’re all good parts.
Right? I was like, “Which quote to pull, which quote to pull?” But there are too many. I would love to see Skinner ascend through the ranks.
Finally a US prez with balls. Every pres since Bush 1 said thry were gonna move our embassy, yet none ever did. Till now! Keeping promises! MAGA!
https://m.jpost.com/Israel-News/In-honor-of-Trump-Jerusalem-square-near-American-embassy-named-for-him-554752#/
Interesting point, at least to me. I’ve done op research on political candidates for years on the private side of my business. Govs, sens, cong, the whole gamut. Myself and the folks I worked eith in gathering info never, ever put anything false in any report. Today, however, any BS rumor makes it to publication. Whether it may be the Rhodes guy in this article or Trump’s pee story, if it ain’t true it’s never provided to the client. Period. And…I should have charged more! 10 mill for Fusion GPS?!? I’m jealous.
Is that supposed to be some example of your ethical virtue? You have to be paid to tell the truth? Because you sure don’t worry about that around here.
I quoted the original New Yorker link on that story yesterday… You are pulling a Noway, falling behind here. 😉
You Weenies all right with “No borders” like Socialist Ellison?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/keith-ellison-sports-i-dont-believe-in-borders-t-shirt
Outside of political implications, borders are worthless. E.g., the weather doesn’t believe in borders. God certainly sees through and past them. Indigenous residents have been shuffled over and across borders based upon random use of force. So, yeah, borders have political/national value, but it’s nice to know he has a vision beyond them. He can believe in Heaven, too, but I won’t hold it against him. As long as he finds the way to balance Heaven and Earth, borders and a world without them.
I know. At first glance it seems kinda crazy, but what would the details be? Could our police cross the border? Would it put a lot of illegality out of business? Would it improve Mexico’s economy, thereby lessening the immigration?
I know there was a time in Europe (maybe still this way) where you could drive from one EU country to another in some places where the border crossing wasn’t even staffed.
The countries of the world are going to gravitate towards economic balance whether we like it or not. Building walls doesn’t really change that.
For Balance – Worthless? So, you’re ok with some other person building their own home in your fromt yard? On your property? That you paid for? Yes?
Snivler, of course it is. It’s his personal border. Perfect analogy. Don’t you get tired of getting schooled every single day? On literally everything you post here? God, you’re a genuine idiot!
Property lines are technically boundaries (or metes maybe?), but sometimes we use border or boundary interchangeably. But I was talking abt national borders. But the same principles apply to any borders- they are things we create so we can administer ownership. But life itself doesn’t care, much like the rain runoff doesn’t care which lawn it flows over. So they are for administration of ownership, but it’s important to recognize that many of the world’s and planetary forces DGAF abt them.
You know what happens if I build on your property from mine? You take me to court, I pay damages.
Know what happen if the US government builds on your property? They claim it’s for national security, take it from you at Market price (after they lowered it value by building on it) and then have a huge MAGA party for protecting you from me, your neighbor. (And I now don’t have to hear libturd screamed at me across my yard.)
Ok. So I’ll call the squatters and have them come over to Balance’s yard and make like an Occupy Wall Street rally and ruin his property, shit inhis yard and generally trash the place he and his family worked so hard to save for. Hecan obediantly dmile while all of this happens. You folks are so in the tank for this socialist agenda that I wouldn’t be totally surprised if y’all actually allowed that to happen! You too, Sniv, invite all the homeless to your spare bedroom. After all, you ain’t using it every day. Thank Jesus himself people with Common Sense finally woke up in 2016 and began slapping down the Socialists like you. And it will br the same in six months, too!
Dude, you either don’t read or don’t comprehend.
Or both.
Same applies for national borders, Bal.
I have mixed feelings about this move. I definitely dislike the unilateral approach, and it may end in WWIII, but if that’s going to happen, it would surely happen at some point or other anyways…
Yeah, all that. The unilateral approach does away with the option for more stable re-negotiations, with more multilateral bargaining power. It’s not the approach most likely to succeed, so I hope the odds are otherwise in our favor.
The EU is already taking action.
https://www.axios.com/european-union-sanctions-united-states-iran-deal-45c8ed72-1365-4a35-89c2-b7fcf1f9ddfa.html?utm_source=sidebar
Right here in Chattanooga.
“An investigation determined Jordan had been threatening another man with a handgun. Another person, identified as a gun carry permit holder, intervened in an effort to protect the man being threatened.”
http://epaper.timesfreepress.com/Olive/ODN/TimesFreePress/PrintArticle.aspx?doc=ChatTFPress%2F2018%2F05%2F08&entity=ar00711&ts=20180508065237&uq=20180422050356&mode=text
Chef, the link is subscription only. Do uou have details?
I can’t read the story but it sounds like a good example of how gun regulation/permits can work.
Or when Tom Berenger’s Good-Guy-With-A-Gun faces down Patrick (son of John) Wayne’s GGWAG in Rustlers’ Rhapsody.
The Tampa article on the Water Wars has the same fallacy of most from Florida by demonizing metro Atlanta and the Army Corps of Engineers focusing on the 5% drainage area of the ACF basin into Lake Lanier.
It’s called negligent parents, Sniv. But let’s seize everybody’s guns to make sure it doesn’t happen again! Let’s also outlaw boiling water, too, which injures more infants each year than does this doofus mistake!
No need to “seize all guns”, moron. But whoever was in charge there should not be able to have a gun again for a long time. (Gun regulation.) And perhaps, if you are going to run a daycare and have a gun on the premises, you should be required to attend a gun safety course. Seems reasonable. Just a little regulation here and there can make a difference.
Whatever y’all do, do not read this.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html
Already read it. Watched the author on Morning Joe this morning discussing it. Transcript below.
https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018/05/08/morning-joe-ny-times-bari-weiss-and-joe-scarborough-tout-far-right-websites-intellectual-salons/220144
That’s just a part of the transcript. Here the whole 16 mins of segment.
http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/the-intellectual-dark-web-and-having-civil-debate-1228134979570
Some American companies have some explaining to do… Is this Pay to Play (how Clintonish), or is it Money Laundering… or some other word? He only had 3 clients…
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/us/politics/michael-cohen-shell-company-payments.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news