September 3, 2020 6:20 AM
Morning Reads – Thursday, September 3, 2020
It was on this date in 1976 that the US spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars. The unmanned spacecraft took the first close-up, color photos of the planet’s surface. If 2020 keeps on, it may be time for a few of us to organize a plan to go back.
Peaches
- Augusta monument protest delayed due to cost, threats.
- Georgia runner seen slapping reporter’s bottom on live TV pleads guilty to sexual battery.
- Georgia county at center of Ahmaud Arbery shooting sues state to stop vote on abolishing police department.
- Brookings: Georgia’s latest 1332 proposal continues to violate the ACA.
- Forbes names ‘Best Employer in Georgia’.
- Feds to seek trade investigation following Georgia farmers’ complaints.
- Thousands of Georgia voters report never receiving absentee ballots.
- MCSD plans tiered furloughs.
Jimmy Carter
- Court rules NSA phone snooping illegal — after 7-year delay.
- The New Southern Strategy.
- Moderators announced for presidential debates.
- “Trump will be ‘stacking sandbags’ to stay in White House after defeat.”
- CDC’s Eviction Moratorium Threatens Landlords With $100,000 Fines, a Year in Jail for Noncompliance.
- Survivor And Descendants Of 1921 Tulsa Massacre Seek Reparations In Lawsuit.
- Legal challenges swirl around Kanye West’s attempt to mount an independent presidential bid.
- New Federal Court Rulings Find Geofence Warrants Unconstitutional.
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According to Brookings, Georgia’s efforts to get an ACA waiver are missing the mark so badly that you have to wonder if state officials are even trying.
Like most things Kemp is in charge of, this is typical BS posturing so he can say he tried to do something.
He got his butt handed to him when he tried to mandate there were no mandates about wearing a mask. He backed down pretty quickly on that issue.
“Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’
The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades, multiple sources tell The Atlantic.
When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true.
Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/