June 1, 2016 4:46 AM
Morning Reads as Summer Starts
Really this is the most wonderful time of the year.
“The Memory” by Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
- Jimmy Carter stepping away from “front-line role” with human rights NGO The Elders.
- Atlanta’s smartest citizens are in the northern half of our fair city with…gasp… a lot of them OTP!!!
- In light of GADOT threatening to stop the Streetcar, one sustainability watchdog tells the haters to chill.
- Atlanta Regional Commission proposes hundreds of miles of interconnected bike/footpaths to help Atlanta mobility.
- Perimeter area still not seriously considering non-car transportation. Shocking, I know.
- Delta: we can do security better than TSA.
- Nobel economics laureate advocates for basic income grants.
- Where is Atlanta’s best fried chicken? (You won’t believe number 3).
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President Carter had just returned from his Elders trip when I attended his Sunday School class a couple of weeks ago. He talked a bit about the group since it was founded by Nelson Mandela (he is an original member). He’s going to miss it, but will remain as an “Elder Emeritus”.
Unlike Bernie, a great guy that will give you the shirt right off someone else’s back. ?
Clown? Him? The only clowns there were the press who deliberately reported the donation story inaccurately. He called them on it and busted their ass. Perfect response! And he said he’d continue this type of contentious relationship. I wonder how many more “Trump Democrat” voters he earned yesterday?
What was reported inaccurately?
Say what you want. 6 mil versus 5.6 is a freaking rounding error! Keep throwing Trump in that briar patch! Tons of free media calling the media exactly what they are. People hate the media more than politicians! People see it, howl at how Trump is beating their backsides, and more votes are in the column for November.
LOL! 5.6 to vets from Trump’s efforts! 90% of the voters will see that as pretty damn good. Let the pounding of the ‘librul press continue! But you keep flailing, Drew, you keep flailing! LMAO!
Andrew,
In fairness, Trump was slow to pay the VETS, but he has a history of always paying but slow as pointed out, by Mika and Joe on the Morning Joe Show who have personally raised charity money from Trump in the past. Trump is in a middle of a campaign.
Second, any entrepreneur has good deals and bad deals. At the end, it is all about are you ahead, not behind. Obviously Trump has done well in any measure. Under your logic we never should of elected President Lincoln.
http://helpyourcase.com/did-you-know-abraham-lincoln-filed-bankruptcy-more-than-once/
Finally, when you have many investments, it is not like you run the business day to day. You try your best to keep your arms around it, but their is a difference between operating and investing. Advising an investment is not operating the business.
Andrew,
HUH????
Trump reignites ‘Morning Joe’ feud
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/trump-joe-scarborough-fight-222955
Andrew,
I like and respect you, but this time you are going “Tin Foil Hat” on this claim.
Andrew,
It is public knowledge Trump gave money to charities they promote on the air. You get Mika and Joe do not get the money, it goes to charity? This is a smoking gun with no bullets, and the gun does not fire.
Please don’t feed the trolls. It’s a lot like bears getting used to being around people; they defecate where they please, knock over trash, make people nervous, and refuse to leave. Remove your attention from them and after a time they will leave to go back to the dark hole in the ground where they truly belong (AJC comments section).
Dav, are you describing the Occupy Wall Street protesters? Damn, you nailed it! Brilliant, absolutely brilliant comparison!
“Poor should receive basic income grants: economist” Really? Well, as long as it’s a Nobel winner advocating for more free s**t, where’s the harm?
The great outsider that “knows how to get things done” is bending over backwards to sing Trump’s praises.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/06/01/senator-perdue-donald-trump-proves-its-time-for-an-outsider/
Clearly this wouldn’t be playing politics. I mean, he felt this same way back in March right?
Also, when you share the same grandparents and last name as the former two-term Governor, your “outsider” bona fides continue to wear a little thin.
You seem to have this resentment of his “money.” I don’t understand that. At.all. The resentment of the rich in today’s climate is puzzling. Used to be we’d use someone else’s success as a motivator for us to attain the same/similar status. Who wouldn’t want to have the same economic success as Gates, Buffett and yes, Perdue? If I remember correctly, you’re a lawyer, which means you had the smarts to do that. That puts you in a higher class of brains. No reason in heck you can’t be a rich man yourself one day, if you aren’t already. I’m showing my age, I guess. Things have changed for the worse, I’m afraid. To throw out my favorite phrase when posting here: “We’re screwed!”
State Dept deliberately deleting/altering record of interview!? Oops!
We sure can get wrapped up in how much the Don bragged about raising but give a pass to Hillary on a missing $50 million bucks?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2015/09/29/the-mystery-of-hillarys-missing-millions/#78ed25005505