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Morning Reads for 9/20

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Who picked Mississippi State over UGA with 10 confidence points in the GAPol Pick Em? Oh wait, me. (Go Bulldogs!)

“Red Clay” by Jack Wilkins.

  1. Georgia State basketball’s culture of winning has it poised for another NCAA Tournament run. 
  2. Financial Times: Does anyone else remember when Atlanta-based Equifax’s CEO was named one of Atlanta’s top CEOs? 
  3. On Atlanta’s often-unusable sidewalks. 
  4. Buckhead’s parking mess will hopefully begin to be contained if City Council has it’s way. 
  5. Brookhaven’s stretch of Peachtree Road could be much nicer in the future. 
  6. Falcons are second-best in the NFL. Again. March 28 should be National Falcons Day IMO.
  7. Brunswick, and likely numerous other cities, sewers can’t cope with hurricane barrage. 

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    • The Eiger

      I think it’s important for you to know that Dr. Price was on a tour announcing $144 million dollars worth of grants to community health centers and another $200 million dollars to fight the opioid crisis. You have been going after Noway on another thread about the opioid crisis. Price was highlighting the opioid crisis in three of the hardest hit states while announcing what his department is doing to help. I know that doesn’t matter to you. You only care to make crap up like “Although, given the increased number of people who will be living with untreated communicable diseases as a result of his efforts to take healthcare away from tens of millions of American.”
      ….
      I hope some of your friends that are hooked on opioids are able to take advantage of that $144 million that HHS just gave out to community health centers. Or that $200 million to opioid treatment centers. Why don’t you tell them about that? I know. It’s because it doesn’t fit with your narrative that Tom Price is an evil man.

      • The Eiger

        Things are not always as simple as you would like to make them in your head. On the day that he went to Pennsylvania, not downtown Philly, but over an hour outside of Philly, he was also dealing with the response to two major hurricanes and needed to get back to DC as fast as possible. There was a public heath emergency declared in Texas, US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Florida, and Georgia. You can nit pick all you want, but you are wrong.

      • Ellynn

        Asking out of actual interest, not snark – why not reschedule the Philly, Maine, etc… trips and attend to the emergencies? No one would have faulted him for doing so in the wake of a national emergency. He could of done a live feed to the events, sent in an senior staff member and so forth. Why was it vital to be in New Hampshire, Maine or Philly then back in DC ASAP for declared public health emergencies (regardless of how he traveled)?

      • The Eiger

        Because with the help of an airplane he was able to do all of the above. If the events were scheduled on the West coast I’m sure they would have been canceled.

  2. Ellynn

    Oh look.. a fake news outlet.

    https://www.apnews.com/f97fbf53c0c84468ae046f861ecf3b64

  3. Mr. Bear

    Vincent Castillenti, one of the three arrested at the Georgia Tech riot, is on Linkedin. He’s an “Education Management Professional”. Kind of makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

  4. Noway2016

    On a lighter note, did y’all see the witch Tucker interviewed last night ? Absolutely gorgeous! Hell, she might could convince me to go librul!!

  6. Dave Bearse

    “When you are given immunity, that means that you have probably committed a crime.” —Michael “Lock her up” Flynn on NBC’s “Meet the Press” last year. Guess who’s offer to testify is conditioned on a grant of immunity? Many of the Trump bunch handle things like a first grader’s fart. They think it won’t be traced to them if they first call someone else on

  7. Dave Bearse

    Trump said to the UN Tuesday: “If it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea. Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself, and for his regime.”
    ,
    Sarah Sanders’ tweet when Trump’s remark was treated as the crazy that it was: “Presidents have always been clear to deter threats: “We could, obviously, destroy North Korea with our arsenals.” @BarackObama last year”
    .
    Here’s the Obama quote with the sentences that were on each side of it: “It’s not something that lends itself to an easy solution. We could, obviously, destroy North Korea with our arsenals. But aside from the humanitarian costs of that, they are right next door to our vital ally, Republic of Korea.” – Barack Obama
    .
    Sanders takes a sentence out of context to specifically convey the opposite of what was meant it to convey. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. GOP policy is MAGA!

  8. Will Durant

    Perhaps sometime in the 21st Century sanitary sewers will become closed systems. Even after spending billions under Mayor Franklin to modernize Atlanta’s sewers we still mix storm water with our Shinola.

  9. augusta52

    Dang, Andrew…what is it, about 135 miles from DC to Philly? That is about the distance from downtown Augusta to DeKalb County near 285. I think Amtrak’s Acela would be the more civilized way to go! I did not realize there were so many flights anyway from DC to Philly; seems like there would really have to be a good reason to fly that short distance (unless connecting to another flight—but why would anyone connect to Philly for another flight?) when one considers traffic to airport, security checkpoints and delays on the runway.

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