Morning Reads — Wednesday, March 23
In honor of the bleary, bargaining creatures many of you have become after 39 days of session, here’s the darkest hit song ever created by 19-year-olds
Georgia
– Ignore all the rhetoric, this is what the conclusion of the three year battle over religious liberty will actually change. It’s a sad day when the GOP is fighting against local control
– In improbable news, “growing Gay Belt” is something besides your uncle’s favorite punchline
– Shock poll: the coastal islands are the happiest place in Georgia
– Well not everyone
– I’m sure HOA’s in Cobb County will be completely reasonable dealing with backyard poultry production
There Be Dragons
– On the ground in Brussels, a city divided
– I’ve always argued we should do a better job rationally assessing terror threats and the low likelihood any of us will be killed in an attack. Then I see this and completely lose my mind
– Garland’s the best we’re going to get, writes George Will. Don’t count on *breaks into flop sweat* President Trump
– But the General Assembly’s House Judiciary Committee passed a strongly worded resolution against confirmation. Rest easy, y’all
– How can we maintain anonymity in the age of self-driving cars?
– Congressman David Scott makes a surprising announcement timed with AIPAC’s Policy Conference
– Just, uh, just read this. On federal employees, masters of their domain
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Chet Martin
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Ted Cruz just gave Trump thousands of more votes by posing semi-nekkid photos of Melania!! To paraphrase a line from “The Truth about Cats and Dogs”: “Would you rather be stranded on a desert island with Time’s Woman of the Year or Melania Trump?” I vote Melania! Cruz is an ass…
What Cruz did went way over the line in my opinion. Cruz has demonstrated he will say and, do anything to get the nomination. Cruz, has been caught way to many times having surrogates breaking rules if not laws this election cycle, when caught. Cruz just pretends, he has no idea how it happened. The list goes on and on from lying about Carson dropping out in Iowa, repeated with Rubio, posting ugly false videos as truth, sending out forms that look like voter registration violation forms…..Ted Cruz going after the wife of a candidate like this, demonstrates a lack of integrity!
…The rivalry between Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and challenger Ted Cruz turned personal Tuesday after the real estate mogul lashed out at a hostile ad featuring his wife Melania.
The ad, paid for by the anti-Trump Make America Awesome PAC, shows a nude photo of Trump’s wife from a GQ magazine shoot. Overlying text reads, “Meet Melania Trump, your next first lady. Or you could vote for Ted Cruz on Tuesday.”
Liz Mair, a Republican strategist in charge of the PAC, told Buzzfeed News that the Melania ad was one of three targeting Mormons of voting age ahead of Tuesday’s Utah caucuses……….
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/03/23/trump-lashes-out-over-hostile-ad-featuring-his-wife-vows-to-spill-beans-on-cruz-spouse.html
Liz Mair, lol. Anybody seen this skank on Bill Maher? Yea, she’s a real class act to be judging somebody else. Just another elitist trying to stop the inevitable nomination of Trump. She can only dream about somebody using a pic of her for something other than a Halloween scare tactic.
Liz Mair is running the Make America Awesome PAC, which exists to challenge Trump. She was formerly in the news for being fired by Scott Walker for making a (pretty accurate) criticism of how the Iowa Caucus distorts American politics.
She has no relationship with the Cruz campaign. In fact, I doubt she’s a big Cruz fan, but Trump makes for strange bedfellows
What amazes me is the fact that Trump is on his third wife. Discarded the first two as he became enamored with his mistress more than his marriage. The third one was a high priced model/call girl passed from rich man to rich man in the early 90s.
Truly a disgusting and low rent bunch. Yet the evangelicals and the moralist right wing crazies have nothing to say about all this scandal. Let Mrs. Obama wear shorts and it’s hellfire and damnation…
CC,
……The third one was a high priced model/call girl passed from rich man to rich man in the early 90s……..
That is way out of line!
Better her history now than later.
CC,
YOU SAID:
….No and that is why I laugh when the GOP wonders why they don’t appeal to more women……..
You really are a hypocrite.
What is hypocritical is ignoring the gorilla in the room when it comes to Donald Trump’s personal morals and history. Do you think any of the Middle East will respect him and his family when they visit? The First Lady represents the US worldwide. Her history is known. That’s her behavior, those were her choices to get ahead in the world. Those facts may be inconvenient but there they are.
Compare that to criticizing a woman not because of her actions but because of her face. Not what she did but her appearance.
I think you can see the difference.
CC,
First, you have no facts, just gossip. Second, you do not have the same standard for Hillary Clinton your candidate. I have never seen you say anything about Clinton gang being behind the birther movement. Finally, I never heard you say anything about Hillary slut shamming Monica Lewinsky?
I’m sorry, were we discussing Hillary Clinton? I think not.
CC,
Hillary Clinton called Monica Lewinsky a ‘narcissistic loony toon’? Watch this video and see how many times she slut slams Monica the victim.
We weren’t discussing Hillary Clinton. I don’t care to discuss her. She will be the nominee so what is to discuss?
Stopping a world class disaster such as Donald Trump and his baggage is worth discussion.
So stop dragging up Hillary and stay on topic.
CC,
What is common is you used the same slut shamming baseless, attacks on Mrs. Trump that Hillary used on Monica Lewinsky.
Quite a character assassination there CC. Jealous much?
……She has no relationship with the Cruz campaign…….
Really? How many more low life, scummy acts, does Cruz need to be done for him, before you see a pattern?
Can you say anything of why you don’t like her with out using a reference to looks in a sexist comment?
No and that is why I laugh when the GOP wonders why they don’t appeal to more women.
I blame the media. So far I have yet to see an article exposing her intellect. Pig that I am I have Sinnnned! and could possibly have missed that type of story in my haste to click on her other, um, exposures. I do recall reading an article featuring The Donald in Playboy by Saul Bellow back in the 90’s and it didn’t even have any pictures of Marla Maples, so there’s that.
Not that the “First Lady” has any official government role anyway but she is sure ain’t Pat Nixon. I struggling to see what a state dinner hosted by Bill Clinton is going to consist of. I can just see Queen Elizabeth sitting down for a whole hog barbecue.
So you’re telling me there’s a Donald Trump Playboy profile by… Saul… Bellow?
Nah, here I was trying to prove that I actually read the articles and stuck my foot in my mouth. There was an interview with Bellow in the same issue with yet another Trump makesacomeback profile. The author of the Trump piece was Mark Bowden who recently had a Vanity Fair article explaining how awkward that weekend was and that it was the only time he had ever been offered a bribe for a favorable write-up. Playboy did have some Pulitzer writers moonlight for them through the years though.
I plead guilty as charged here recently to reading the New York Times among other rags like the London Times as well. Unlike him I don’t find everything I need to read is in the Augusta Chronicle. As a lifetime reader I’ve even been known to read the back of shampoo bottles when stranded on porcelain in the absence of other reading materials.
Techies dive into fund-raising with a software package that leverages other peoples social networks. Get those pols off the phones!
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2016-03-23/steve-spinner-s-software-revup-could-transform-fundraising-for-politics-and-beyond
Chet, anti-personnel weapons are a bitch. Claymore mines contain 700 steel ball-bearings that are deformed by the explosion into shrapnel. Lethal within about 50 yards. Costs 100 bucks or so. Similar weapons contain hundreds of yards of segmented wire that break up into individual projectiles. Since terrorists can’t buy those they go to the local hardware and pick up a few pounds of masonry nails.
It seems so horrifically easy. It’s a wonder it doesn’t happen more often.
Cheers for Obama slapping down Cruz. If only someone would do it literally.
“As far as the notion of having surveillance of neighborhoods where Muslims are present, I just left a country that engages in that kind of neighborhood surveillance. Which, by the way, the father of Sen. Cruz escaped for America.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obama-calls-ted-cruz-muslim-surveillance-proposal/story?id=37756098