August 21, 2019 7:13 AM
Morning Reads – Wednesday, August 21, 2019
- So, you want a re-evaluation of the new voting system… you get to pay for it too.
- Listen people… articles like this concerning the politics of a chicken sandwich should never have to be written.
- Drive by mention of Georgia in Rollings Stone’s wish list of a Senate flip to Blue.
- Sen. Perdue doesn’t seem to worried about his chances.
- ‘Midget Madness’ comes to Brewhouse in Rome.
- The Grey, in Savannah, has been named one of the World’s Best in Food & Wine and Travel + Leisure’s inaugural findings.
- $5m factory, and 140 jobs, coming to Gwinnett.
- The Pittsburg Journalism Project and the APS cheating scandal.
- Huirui Washington, a student at Columbus State University, won the top award from Morphisec’s Women in Cybersecurity Scholarship.
- You don’t know a clucking thing about chickens, but you can fix that in November at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center when it hosts the Poultry Tech Summit.
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How one U.S. firm tried escaping Trump’s China tariffs. A couple of nice charts too showing trade effects on China and other SE Asian countries. Anyone know what’s up with South Korea?
I’m sharing the GOP’s foreign policy based on its observation, since no one in the GOP seems to be able to articulate it.
Berate and attack allies
Praise authoritarians and authortarian regimes
Reject international agreements and norms
Disdain diplomacy and cooperation
and for everything else…Lie, deny, repeat.
The Moscow Mitch tag is apt in so many ways that it was inevitable it would both stick and get under McConnell’s skin.
Moscow Mitch was key in burying information the Russians were interfering in the 2016 election prior to the election: “How Mitch McConnell Prevented Stronger Action Against Russian Election Meddling” https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/12/mitch-mcconnell-prevented-stronger-action-against-russian-election-meddling.html Of course he did, since Moscow interference never even happened, except insofar as it aided the Clinton campaign.
Moscow Mitch is the one-man roadblock on a raft of legislation intended to better secure US election systems against foreigners ahead of the 2020 elections: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/us/politics/election-security-mitch-mcconnell.html He’s got the right focus. It wasn’t’ Moscow but rather the DPG that hacked Georgia’s voter registration system. And it was American company Goggle that swung 16,000,000 votes from Trump to Hillary: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/factcheck/trump-falsely-claims-google-manipulated-millions-of-2016-votes-fact-check/ar-AAG26gG?li=BBnb7Kz
Moscow Mitch’s staff quit to lobby Congress and the Treasury Department on behalf of Moscow. Mitch himself cleared the way for Rusal investment, in Kentucky natch, with a Senate vote to lift sanctions on the Moscow-headquartered company, only months before announcement of its ownership interest in a massive proposed new aluminum mill: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/31/mcconnell-staffers-lobbied-russian-backed-kentucky-project-1442550
i know it probably makes me a bad savannahian for saying so, but i thought the grey was “meh” there are several spots in town i’d put ahead of it from stalwarts like elizabeth to newer spots like alligator soul…
Love elizabeth, but I am more of a Gerald’s Pig and Shrimp kind of guy. Is that place ever going to re-open?
they are only doing catering right now…but are supposed to reopen the restaurant eventually…and savannah being a small town i have a couple of weird connections to gerald, who is a really great guy
I think some of it has to do with the time of the year you visit, since she uses mainly seasonal veggies. I have only gone to her Sunday supper events (3 courses and a mixed drink with a band playing in the yard for $40). The ox tail soup is thee BEST I have had in the South. The winter dinner had mainly root veggies and braised pork. The one I had in the spring was full of baby greens and Vidalia onions, roasted chicken in lemon and fresh herbs, with local strawberries in the desert. The market that open on Jefferson behind the Telfair is a good sandwich and sweets stop.
also i’m a straight cis white christian male so maybe that’s why i have a hard time getting worked up about such things…but boycotting businesses because you don’t agree with their corporate politics seems like an exhausting proposition… and hard to keep up with and potentially very limiting of your consumer choices…
Ethics hearing today for……Oxendine. (looks at calendar)
I expected to read that his lawyers was David Ralston.
Politics aside, Popeyes can never, ever compete with THE chicken biscuit.
RE: The Right Wing Chicken Sandwich. In a world where everything is seemingly a series of political statements, gone are the days when one can simply have an enjoyable moment. There was no political check-in at Mary Mac’s or Pascal’s back in the day, and there were a lot of people who came there from across the political spectrum that shared a love of a certain kind of cuisine. And shared an appreciation for the possibility of compromise, somewhere, somehow. And it wasn’t just one restaurant in the South which needed lots of places for people to quietly gather. And, maybe, after lunch was done and everybody’s standing out front, some sort of agreement was reached.
But if you’re looking for political statements, I always trust the market to do the right thing. In that light, try getting into any Chick-fil-a without a wait at lunch today. The market is not as politically radical as the elites would like us to believe.
“Elites” would like us to believe that the market is politically radical?
Pffft.
Completely made up premise leading to an (inevitable) imaginary conclusion.
What do any of those terms even mean?
And also, boycotts do work, sometimes. There is a long history of it. Perhaps there isn’t as much perseverance these days, or something, but apparently radio advertisers are feeling some related heat, so something is working.
Mrs. B and I were talking about this the other day. Home Depot is much closer to us than Lowes, so we go to Home Depot. But it’s complicated. Bernie Marcus may be anti-me, but Arthur Blank isn’t. And are either of them anything but shareholders now anyway? And I would sacrifice a little to make a point but to drive half way across town? Maybe too much to ask. I do NOT shop at Hobby Lobby though, but I do eat at Chic Fil A. I wanted to stop using Uline at my business, but couldn’t find a good alternative.
Bottom line- you don’t have to be pure in every respect to make a difference or to make your voice heard. There is no hypocrisy in choosing your battles. It’s a cost/benefit thing.
As a general-Libertarian, I’m not about to tell someone what to do. I figure that they’re smart enough to do what is best for them. To me, all this hyper-alertness about political causes is tiring. All that energy expended as to which drinking straw to use and what restaurant to eat at. And, in the end, my opinions, while sometimes interesting, are just not that important. And I’m left with the nagging suspicion that I’m being manipulated by somebody for their own personal gain without any benefit to me.
And, sometimes, it’s just outrage for outrage’s sake. As was suggested to me, don’t buy any native plants from a seller in a small Georgia town because a member of their city council made a stupid racist remark. Just who gets penalized here, and why?
This simply can’t be real, but it is…
https://apnews.com/2f589698d5424dbda4be8d3acdf7ce6e
No sane president would needlessly insult an ally for “nothing”.
Who had this on their Trump as POTUS Bingo card as happening? It’s much more likely then when mentioned 3 1/2 years ago… just saying.
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/ted-cruz-donald-trump-denmark-218694
Every day that goes by he proves his unfitness for the office, yet with each deranged act his supporters grow more fervent. Now he’s being called the second coming, the chosen one. This is a weird time to be alive
Trump supporting evangelicals are showing what they think of their own religion. And I anticipate Jews don’t much care for Trump talking about a second coming in the same breath he talks about Judaism.
My 1st and ongoing reaction to his disgusting attempt to segregate Jews for the sake of political gain, and simultaneously tell me how I should feel about Judaism and Israel, and simultaneously pretend that he knows anything about either, and simultaneously paint a community of most diverse opinions as some sort of monolith….. has been an immediate and resounding “F* off.”
I know other communities have already been to that place, as he’s tried to both stereotype and segregate before (all in the name of political vanity). Taking the Lord’s name in vain is just a stepping stone, it seems, and I hope the Republican Jewish Coalition has the chutzpah to push resoundingly back against such nonsense. Speaking of which, where are Jared and Ivanka on this? Could Jared in fact be the instigator behind the curtain, the one giving Trump the words and confidence he needs to tout such truly possibly blasphemous nonsense?
“Just a reminder that Pete Buttigieg is an Episcopalian, so his understanding of Christianity isn’t very deep or serious.” Erick Erickson, a Christian that thinks so much of his own religion that he rolled over for chosen one Trump for a buck, in response to homosexual Buttigieg making mention he was a Christian.
This doesn’t look good
https://www.walb.com/2019/08/21/bridge-collapses-near-ga-fla-line/