February 14, 2019 6:15 AM
Morning Reads – Thursday, February 14, 2019
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Peaches
- Alleged victims say Speaker Ralston repeatedly delays cases
- Fight over Cheez-Its leads to Georgia house arson: report
- Kemp unveils plan seeking health care waivers
- Georgia congressman scolded for Confederate book displayed in office
- Holcomb proposes storing rape kits for at least 50 years
- 7 Georgia hospitals make America Best list
Jimmy Carter
- Cory Booker crosses the line and talks meat
- No federal income taxes for Amazon
- House set to vote on a bill few have actually read
- Dead mayor advances to runoff
- Americans continue to move to low tax states
- Equifax data relating to 143 million people never found
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Howard Schultz is the embodiment of the American Dream. Came from nothing. And made himself into a billionaire. Why the rancor surrounding his potential candidacy? He should be an example to be emulated.
Rancor from whom?
Schultz is, purportedly, a Democrat. Despite this, he’s not running in the Democratic primary. Instead, he’s running around on a book tour and appearing for CNN “town halls” where he criticizes Democrats while offering absolutely no specifics as to what he stands for other than “coming together.”
In essence, Schultz is trying to buy his way into the general election. Entering the Democratic primary would mean having to debate folks like Warren, Booker, and Biden about marginal tax rates, healthcare policy, and a whole host of other issues he doesn’t have actual policy proposals for. Entering the Democratic primary would mean having to compete for the support and votes of Democratic voters. He doesn’t want that. He thinks he deserves to advance to the general election without having to put forward any specifics or defending those specifics.
NASA says goodbye to Mars mission.
Designed to last three months, the six-wheeled rover Opportunity managed to explore for 15 years before shutting down after its solar panels were buried in a sandstorm.
“It is, therefore, that I am standing here with a sense of deep appreciation and gratitude that I declare the Opportunity mission as complete.”
Just a bot but a damn good one.
Listened to a radio piece about this as I was driving in this morning. I got a little choked up when they played the last communication: Billie Holiday’s “I’ll be seeing you”.
Who knew a robot’s story could be so meaningful.
Cow Tinder: Tripe Left
Sweet. Loofah instead of a bell? Gold hooves?
Lady justice wears a blindfold as she balances the scales. Really, she ought to be staring directly at cash money and tipping her scale in the direction of the green stuff.
The Obama era tea party is now a the answer to a trivia question. The 1775 Boston affair is still remembered. https://chamblee54.wordpress.com/2019/02/14/the-boston-tea-party-story-5/
Ralston is a scumbag. He is doing this on purpose. And it is clear that it is a selling point to the people he represents. They know it will buy them time they dont deserve and delay justice. Its gross and should not be tolerated.
Yes he is.
Both men who have served as speaker since the republicans took control of Georgia were cut from the same cloth. Glenn Richardson and David Ralston are both men who abuse power and have no respect for the will of the people they’re elected to govern. Ralston has real live crime victims for whom he has thwarted justice. He’s abused his office to collect money in a corrupt scheme to obstruct justice. He has appointed a known Ku Klux klan sympathizer as a committee chairman. He maybe auditioning for a cabinet appointment in the Trump administration.
He claims he was skeptical of the legislation that allowed Georgia Power to steal billions from the rate payers of Georgia for what is now known as the “Plant Vogtle Socialist-Green New Deal Jobs Program” but he was instrumental is making sure it continued when he could and should have stopped it.
However, because republicans protect their own crooks, nothing will happen to him. I sent Kasim Reed and all the others who are being pursue by the US Attorney a note today advising them to fire their attorneys and hire Ralston. This will end the entire probe into corruption at city hall and the airport.
It seems to be use of office for personal enrichment. Waiting it out is often effective. It’s how Shady Deal rode out ethics complaints. And he was so good at it they’re naming the most expensive government building in the state after him.
So SB 6. Correctional Institutions of the State and Counties; use of unmanned aircraft systems to deliver or attempt to deliver contraband to a place of incarceration; prohibit. Is this an unneeded law? Or is it only a felony if you take a picture from a drone but it is ok from a helicopter or airplane? Is it only a misdemeanor if you sneak in contraband in person or by helicopter but from a drone it is a felony?
Good point.
I can see what they are doing though. It looks like the previous law leaves a gap. They are essentially adding ‘intent’, which was missing in the current code:
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to obtain for, to procure for, or to give to an inmate a gun, pistol, or any other weapon; any intoxicating liquor; amphetamines, biphetamines, or any other hallucinogenic drugs or other drugs, regardless of the amount; any telecommunications device; or any other article or item without the authorization of the warden or superintendent or his or her designee.
TN/GA Boundary. Here comes the latest from Georgia. http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/…/display/20192020/HR/51 I am sure those folks that live in Marion County don’t want to be put in Dade. Higher property taxes, state income taxes. Is this Commission actually going to do something or is this just one of those commissions the legislature makes up so they can pad their wallets by getting 15 days of pay? You get appointed to 5 or six do nothing commissions pretty soon you are making full time pay.
I imagine most here have come across the story of the book that Drew Ferguson read for his favorite book report.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/02/14/confederate-book-was-open-racist-passage-gop-congressmans-office-he-blamed-his-staff/?utm_term=.a8498e0f0f13
What I’m wondering is if there’s anyone here who has visited him in his DC office, and noticed the book, or if anyone has any stories or info that supports or opposes his apparent support for Confederate values.
I can understand why he has the book. I don’t understand why it’s in his Congressional office (last I checked, Lee wasn’t from Ferguson’s district and he kinda waged war against the United States). I really don’t understand why it’s intentionally left open on a page that says:
“The blacks are immeasurably better off here in Africa, morally, socially, and physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing is necessary for their instruction as a race, and, I hope, will prepare and lead them to better things.”
I’ll don’t think I need to remind folks of the horrors of slavery, particularly after the importation of slaves was banned by Congress and slave-owners began separating families. The notion that slaves were “better off” in a land where they could be beaten, raped, and killed at the whim of their owner; had zero real freedoms; and were subject to being ripped away from their families is just monumentally ignorant.
As for “painful discipline,” it should be noted that Lee abandoned the Washington and Custis tradition of respecting slave families and, by 1860, Lee had broken up every family but one on his estate, some these families had been together since the Mount Vernon days. Lee also engaged in legal maneuvering to maintain ownership of inherited slaves and was later forced by a Virginia court to free them. Lee personally beat his slaves and, after he was done “ordered the overseer to thoroughly wash our backs with brine.”
Maybe Drew Ferguson is ignorant of history. After all, the man is a dentist. Maybe he’s blissfully unaware of the horrible physical and psychological trauma Robert E. Lee personally inflicted upon his own slaves and the fact Lee was responsible for hundreds of thousands of American deaths in defense of his authority to own human beings as property because they are black. Maybe he didn’t read the page when he opened it and just thought the picture was cool because Lee had a rockin’ ‘stache. But I find it really hard to believe the book was innocently placed in a glass case and opened to that specific page.
With the respect given Lee after the war despite his personal treatment of slaves, it’s easy to see why lost cause mythology was developed and spread. All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
So the White House has no clue what it’s doing. That’s comforting.
That’s what you get when a stable genius oversees policy big-brains such as Miller and Kushner.
Also, cue the lawyers.