March 15, 2016 8:00 AM
Morning Reads for Elimination Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Good morning! It’s dark, my children are a little grumpy, and I need another cup of coffee. This is day two of the bad time change (the good one is in the fall). Let the Marine drummer in this clip drop a beat that will get your morning going. Meanwhile, the great world spins:
- Daylight Saving Time: blame the convenience stores.
- …because it really is ruining our lives.
- “Marco-mentum” peters out. (But he can’t blame DST.)
- Cleveland gears up for the RNC (literally).
- We’ll have campus carry coverage here throughout the rest of the session, I’m sure, but hat tip to Bill Dawers for this insightful article on campus carry in the age of anxiety.
- Georgia likes roundabouts; most of the rest of America, not so much.
- I just call it “Hartsfield.” And it is busy.
- Augusta tackles blighted areas.
- Georgia Tech alum proves that sewing is magic. (Really, it is.)
- Truly, all needlework is a vehicle for catharsis and liberation.
- How to make an amazing steak. Pro tip #1: make sure you have a strong kitchen vent (or easy access to the kill switch on your smoke detector. Pro tip #2: just heat your cast-iron skillet up on the grill and cook it outside; it’s the only civilized way to grill a medium-rare steak with a perfect crust. (Maillard reaction FTW.)
- Big week for Hamilton!
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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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Yesterday, Governor Deal issued veto threat about the campus carry bill because anti-gun provisions were not included in the bill, such as adding campus day centers to the off-limits list and something about dual enrolled students.
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2016/03/14/nathan-deal-suggests-hell-veto-campus-carry-measure-unless-changes-are-made/
Here is a video of Senator Elena Parent (D – Decatur) speaking about the gun bill and includes her demand that day care centers on campuses be added to the off-limits list, a position Gov. Deal indicates he supports https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QDMSwIP1h8
Presently, day care centers are not off-limits to Carry Licensees anywhere in the state so this is adding to gun-control in Georgia. If the Deal/Parent compromise is enacted, murderers will now know where there are undefended and unprotected children to murder.
At one point early last night, the article indicated Gov. Deal demanded that the General Assembly delegate its Constitutional powers to regulate gun carrying to the university presidents and empower the “Kampus Kangaroo Kourts”* to prosecute and expel gun-totting Georgia Weapons Licensees.
I’m not sure what his point is about dual enrolled students. If Gov. Deal is suggesting that Licensees are going to use their guns to rob 12th Graders of their lunch money, then ……. his position is so detached from any reality that I’m worried he may not be mentally competent anymore.
The Governor’s press office should correct their template to read: Governor Deal is a staunch supporter of Second Amendment rights, BUT strongly opposes background checked, licensed, adults carrying guns in public, especially the ones who are irresponsibly enrolled in Georgia’s colleges and technical schools. As a lifetime defender of violent criminals, Gov. Deal will use the power of the government to disarm the law abiding so that no wannabe murderer feels the pain of a bullet in the chest.
* the Regents call these disciplinary hearings
* the Regents call these disciplinary hearings
So… that’s your way of comparing the BOR to the KKK?
No. Humorous mis-spelling based on the K of Kangaroo.
Sen. Unterman seems only “committed” to making sure this bill does not pass. We already know she has conflict of interest with working for Amerigroup, who has a massive contract with our state. I wonder if she has other conflicts of interest and or wants to be the nanny of Georgia, deciding what is the best medicine for all, regardless to any other medical opinion?
………Senate Health and Human Services Chairwoman Renee Unterman, R-Buford, said Monday that she will not schedule a hearing on it before the Legislature ends work March 24………..
…..“I met with some of the families and I’ve committed to continue working on it with them, and that’s what I told them,” Unterman said. When asked if she expected to schedule a hearing, she said: “No, it’s not coming up.”
The bill’s sponsor, state Rep. Allen Peake, R-Macon, expressed disappointment but said he was not giving up. “Hurting Georgia citizens are worth fighting for,” Peake said……..
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/push-to-expand-georgias-medical-marijuana-law-has-/nqkPM/
…… Georgia State Senator Renee Unterman (R – 45th District, Sugar Hill/Buford) is chair of the Senate Health & Human Services Committee. She is also an executive with a health insurer that has a billion dollar a year state Medicaid contract, according to state financial records.
The 11Alive Investigators discovered the senator’s dual role while attempting to examine the state’s most expensive agreements with for-profit companies. The state of Georgia adopted a managed care program for Medicaid in 2005, the same year Sen. Unterman took a job with one of the winning bidders, Amerigroup…….
Here’s the obligatory Ides of March quote in full, because I like the dig at the press and the dismissal of dreamers. Some things don’t change at all.
Soothsayer. Caesar!
Caesar. Ha! who calls?
Casca. Bid every noise be still: peace yet again!
Caesar. Who is it in the press that calls on me?
I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music,
Cry ‘Caesar!’ Speak; Caesar is turn’d to hear.
Soothsayer. Beware the ides of March.
Caesar. What man is that?
Brutus. A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.
Caesar. Set him before me; let me see his face.
Cassius. Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar.
Caesar. What say’st thou to me now? speak once again.
Soothsayer. Beware the ides of March.
Caesar. He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass.
She said she got all kinds of emails opposing it. I wish somebody could call her bluff and do a FOI request on her emails.
ACP – did you watch the clip of the George Washington Book Prize award ceremony? He and Chris Jackson perform”One More Time” and it’s so good! It’s at the 1:05 mark.
Despite Gov. Deal’s many, many critics he is one of the best Executives I can recall. Many of those same critics live here and I think the man is doing a superlative job sticking to his core beliefs, while keeping Georgia competitive and relevant.
The two biggest attention getting Bills from our General Assembly are a sad testimony to pandering.
I want to be pandered, dammit.
To throw back to last week’s Morning Reads, I just pulled out my French-made Le Crueset pot (I’ve been using it 2-3 times a week for the past 14 years) to start making beans for tonight’s black bean soup. I’m using these beans, which means that tonight’s dinner is the world’s most politically-correct black bean soup, amirite, Salty?
I’m baking my Easter Ham in mine. And then I’m making ham stock with the bone and turning it and the leftover ham and bone for black been soup. Mine is creole spiced, but with no tomatoes added.
Ah, our intrepid Legislature! You just can’t make this stuff up: HB 649 – Georgia Lactation Consultant Practice Act; enact http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20152016/159446.pdf
Now we’re going to set up another state licensing board for what I thought already fell under Nursing…
Is it just me or did they forget to define the meaning of Lactation in this bill? The define Lactation Service but never define the word it self.