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Morning Reads — June 20th

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Happy Monday, everyone! It’s a beautiful, cool morning. My Jeep’s doors are off to celebrate the relief from Hell’s scorching heat. Hooray!

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Will Kremer

Will is an active member of the Georgia Republican grassroots. He previously served as Chairman of the Georgia Association of College Republicans, 2nd Vice Chairman of the 7th District Republican Party, and Treasurer of the Forsyth County Republican Party. Promise Land = Forsyth County.

19 Comments
  1. John Vestal

    Second time in last three years Miss Georgia is a GT grad!

    (stolen from the interwebs: “Ford Crowned Victorious!” :>)

  2. Saltycracker

    State Troopers: I thought high on the preferred recruit sources were ex-military but there was no mention of those stats or efforts.

    • Will Durant

      There is a dearth of any stats in the article, only implications that physical conditioning is the primary cause for those not qualifying which I seriously doubt. I would guess that MPs probably get better offers from the private sector these days. After having received a couple of fast driving awards in my youth from local yokels I could not believe the professionalism offered by a Georgia State Trooper in giving me one. He made his point without being condescending or disrespectful and his lecture affected my driving habits far beyond the locals’ derision and threats.

    • blakeage80

      What I read sounded like a cultural issue at the training center, starting with assuming everyone is a wimp that needs to be toughened. There are a lot better, more promising ways to earn $35k a year. Losing 50% of a training class is poor. It’s not the military. Why is it an 18-week school? Being well trained is one thing, but I’ll bet if they looked at different approaches they may not have the retention issues during training.

      Finally, just yelling like a drill sergeant only makes people do better right then to get you to shut up. Coaching encourages people to be better over the long haul.

      • gcp

        Trooper school is tough because the mission is difficult. They work alone, backup is often far away and they have frequent citizen interactions. Pursuit driver training allows for few errors and can be more stressful than firearms training.

        You can only coach someone so far. Eventually the individual either meets standards or does not meet standards.

  3. Noway2016

    Congrats to Dustin Johnson, who put past failures and the USGA rules morons behind him to become a major winner. He was just too good for this not to have happened.

  4. augusta52

    Yep, the Tybee “alligator incident” shows you don’t have to go way down to Orlando to find gators….a few years ago, a 14-footer was spotted 200+ river miles inland off of Riverwalk in Augusta (next to the convention center where the State GOP met 2 weeks ago). Between gators and the deadly water moccasin, you see why swimmers are discouraged in the river and the adjoining Augusta Canal…in fact anywhere below the Fall Line, “swimmer beware!”

    • Ellynn

      Savannah has lots of gators. There are the two who live in the moot at Fort Pulaski. There is Chester, the 16 footer, who lives on the SC side of the Hutchinson Island Golf Course. He has been on TV during golf tournaments and last month he was in a viral video as he crossed the gulf cart path by the 1st green. Some hang out and sun on the floating docks at the Yacht club and some hang out at the Thunderbolt yard. This was not the first gator to close down a section of Tybee’s beach. The difference was it went national in the wake of the tragedy at Disney. They close parts of the beach for other reasons too, like bacteria levels, extreme rip tides, sharks, jellyfish schools, etc…

  6. gcp

    Brexit support declining though Thursdays vote will be close. Looks like Brits increasingly want the “stability” provided by staying in EU and abiding by EU rules.

    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/brexit-polls-show-increased-support-for-the-uk-remain-camp-2016-06-20

  7. Noway2016

    Umm, why would AG Lynch censor Mateen’s pro-ISIS comments when releasing the 911 tapes?

    • Noway2016

      Sigh…
      Andrew, no snark. Can you put your lawyer hat on and answer me this, does the county where Orlando is located run the 911 call center and the tape belong to them? Also, murder is a local crime, too. Does the local DA/police/sheriff, when conducting their on investigation into the mess, have the authority to release the 911 transcripts, too? One other thing, an Open Records Act request could get the entire transcript, no?

      • Noway2016

        Thanks. It seems the FBI had a reversal of their earlier order. Right thing to do. Let the public hear the words unfiltered. Saves dozens of folks from filing their Open Records requests.

  8. Will Durant

    Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has fired his embattled campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, Sure wish the former Apprentice “star” would fire himself.

  9. Raleigh

    Looks like the Obama administration got beat again by China. I guess China needs this to calculate how much interest we own them. Over 100 plus pentaflops, wow.

    http://www.computerworld.com/article/3085483/high-performance-computing/china-builds-world-s-fastest-supercomputer-without-u-s-chips.html

    • Benevolus

      If the ‘Obama administration’ had built the winner would you not complain about the government expenditure/executive overreach/stifling capitalism/picking winners and losers?

      Besides, “None of the supercomputers used by intelligence agencies… are represented on this list.” So the ‘Obama administration’ is likely still #1.

      • Raleigh

        The Obama administration did have a hand in helping China build the fastest super computer however I’ll concede your point on our intelligence agencies. I think they are still running the old CP/M OS with dual 8 ” floppy drives….

        • Benevolus

          Not sure I’d call the IRS an ‘intelligence’ agency! 🙂

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