August 16, 2016 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, August 16
Good morning! Maybe finish your breakfast before you click on the first link.
- This week, pretty much every kid in Georgia is back in school. Which means only one thing: Super Lice!
- It’s also time for Friday night lights in Georgia. I admit to being sometimes looking askance how seriously so many people take youth football here in the South, but then I looked at these photos and remembered that there’s a lot of joy (but also head injuries) in the game.
- “Echoes of Jim Crow” in Sparta, Georgia.
- Here’s how Chief Judge Cindy Weaver spent the $50,000 account she controlled for her office’s expenses.
- Catholic voters – especially those who attend church weekly – really don’t like Trump.
- The King children have settled their lawsuit over their father’s travel Bible and Nobel Peace Prize.
- National Geographic has a really neat web interface that lets you download and print USGS topographical maps of anywhere in the United States.
- Fiber generally doesn’t slow things down IYKWIM(AITYD). But(t). Google Fiber is rethinking their approach to how they’re entering several markets throughout the US, including Atlanta.
- Children’s television in Denmark is… different… from what we are accustomed to here in the US.
- If you’re in the metro Atlanta area, you may want to get your tickets now for the well-reviewed run of In The Heights.
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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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Greedy and useless King family members are going to sell MLK’s Bible and Nobel medal. Is there anything left for them to sell? Perhaps an article of clothing or something.
I thought you were going to be voting for greedy and useless?
Hope some museum is high bid to this disgrace
You just know that when conservative pundits start to think about covering their butts that it’s really gonna be bad.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/charlie-sykes-conservative-media-created-trump-monster
Maybe it’s past time to do some ‘extreme vetting’ of your nominee.
Charlie Sykes has been a long standing member of the “I HATE TRUMP” wing of the republican party. I’m a long time listener of his show out of Milwaukee on WTMJ am radio. This is the guy that forced Trump to answer questions live on his show prior to the Wisconsin primary, which got him national attention. Last week he asked Mike Pence “can you or anyone else get Mr. Trump to stop saying crazy and offensive things for the next three months?”. I also follow his website. His market include three of the most establishment conservative republican counties in the country. He has a good feel for what is going on there. WTMJ radio is owned by WTMJ Channel 4 in Milwaukee, which is the a long standing NBC affiliate. He is on MSNBC about every two weeks as a commentator, mainly Meet the Press Daily, Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell. Some days its a toss up who my favorite conservative GOP named Charlie is; Harper or Sykes.
Not much good coming out of Milwaukee these days. Good friend just returned from visiting relatives there, not the place to be.
I always love your upbeat and positive spin on the world Salty. 😉
FYI – That USGS topographical maps site contains old quad maps some of which have not been updated for a very long time. Cross check those maps with Google Earth or other map site for recent changes with regards to buildings and roads. Still it’s a neat site…
You can get the latest ones here
https://store.usgs.gov/b2c_usgs/usgs/maplocator/(xcm=r3standardpitrex_prd&layout=6_1_61_48&uiarea=2&ctype=areaDetails&carea=%24ROOT)/.do
Fiber generally doesn’t slow things down IYKWIM(AITYD). But(t).
This made me laugh. 🙂
Wow. Just….wow.
Congrats to Staplehouse.
The Manafort story is a lot more interesting than HRC’s emails. Dude is on a list of slush fund recipients in Ukraine? Continued to represent the ex-Pres’s support group even after he fled to Russia? Safes full of $100 bills? His client built his own personal zoo? All the elements for a good story/movie. Johnny Depp has an Eastern European look. Jon Voight could be Yanukovych. Karl Urban as a Russian oligarch. I wonder if Paul Sorvino is too old to play Manafort? If you can’t film in Kiev then Prague would do. Not sure where to film the Crimean parts though. Corsica?
The Dean of the political round table has died. John Mclaughlin died this am. He was the absolute best at what he did. I discovered his show in early 1985 when I went to DC. I tried never to miss a show, including last Sunday’s when he was absent for the very first time. I loved the format and the bombast. His Year End Awards were hysterical. Tuxedos and all. He spawned legions of imitators and spin offs. The Capitol Gang, the Beltway Boys, you name them. I loved Jack Germond, Robert Novak and still Pat Buchanan. Even our own Georgia Gang made itself from him. He will never be replaced. This really, truly sucks. To quote Royal Marshall…”Just Damn.”
I haven’t seen his show in years but have fond memories of watching. McLaughlin was loud and outlandish and deliberately provocative and with his guests he put on a hell of a show.
I especially remember Germond, who never took crap from McLaughlin or anyone else, and Freddy “the Beadle” Barnes, the dumbest pundit ever to make it to TV.
I have three shows in my DVR for recording, Fox News Sunday, Saturday’s stock shows on Fox and TMG on Sunday morning on PBS 30. I hope they do a final show with past panelists’ final words.
Just too damn many people I grew up with are dying! They gotta cut that crap out! Andy and Barney are gone, J.R. too. Dusty Rhodes, Spock. Not to be morbid, but Clint and Duvall are mid-80’s. I do not want to read about them any time soon, either.