Monday Morning Reads — December 11
Happy Monday, everybody! Let’s jump into it like it’s a pile of snow.
News by the Numbers
77 percent – of evangelicals believe their religious freedom is becoming more restricted. We are witnessing a change in their tactics. Whereas they once fought against same-sex marriage and its impact on our culture, they are now using courts to protect themselves from the greater culture.
1 day – until voters in Alabama go to the polls in what is possibly the most bizarre race this year. I can’t wait for it to be over.
50 percent – of Georgia’s Republican candidates for governor commented on Moore. Williams and Kemp expressed support while Cagle and Hill refused to comment.
8000 researchers – attended a conference on ethical artificial intelligence. Their mission? Resolve offensive and accidental harms caused by cutting-edge technology. For example, in 2015, Google’s photo facial recognition categorized black faces a guerrillas.
??????? – what is going on with bitcoin. I could write a number but it’d be wrong 20 minutes later.
10 displaced – in today’s edition of “Wow, You’re Stupid!” a woman burned down an apartment building in a (successful?) attempt to kill bed bugs. Seven adults and three teenagers are now without a home.
1000 flights – were cancelled by Delta amid Atlanta’s latest snowy nightmare. The company announced they were back on schedule by Sunday evening.
About Author
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.
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Game attendance continues to fall as the NFL continues its protest against America:
http://www.breitbart.com/sports/2017/12/10/weak-14-nfl-stadiums-continue-ghost-towns-attendance-crisis-cintinues/
So, those thousands of empty seats are of no concern, right?
Only to the season ticket owners who sell them on the secondary market. The price might be lower. Example, Packer tickets have gone down in price since mid-October (that has more to do with Rodgers being out then any protest). Plus if folks give up their Packer season tickets, it just moves me up the waiting list. I got over 19,000 people in front of me for a 4 ticket block.
To quote my esteemed adversary, Drew, “Whatever you need to tell yourself, Ellynn…”
“I swear, Myrtle, you gonna bleeve me or yor lyin’ eyes?!?!!??”
The weather in Alabama tomorrow will favor Roy Moore because it’s supposed to dip into the teens.
Boooooooo!
Tell it to the Alabama gop and the RNC.
You two need to go on the air. I hear Minnesota Public Radio has an opening.
Hopefully he’s never seated and we don’t have to find out.
If he’s elected, he has to legally be seated – unless Mitch has a SCOTUS level trick up his sleeve.. However; he can be voted out.
What happens if he wins and then quits? Does the governor get to appoint a replacement?
Oh yeah, Ellynn.
Well maybe he can be made enough of a pariah that he has no option but to quit or sit in his office alone. It’s a pitiful situation for the GOP, not to mention the girls molested.
After being seated, best cause – he gets an ethic investigation, receives no committee positions, given no basic level assignments that gives him no more then basic senate updates of national issues, and no other senator lets him co-sponsor any piece of senate business, until the senate can vote him out. Chances of that happening when Mitch only has a two vote margin – ZERO.
How does he get voted out?
Article 1 section 5, clause 2 of the US Constitution; “Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behavior, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a member.”
(I learned that in my inferior Yankee public H.S. civics’ class with Mr. Cooper – although I did have to look up the exact wording)
Honestly, guys, I do not think he (Moore) wins tomorrow. I think the folks will vote for Jones by 5.
Proceeds to remove Moore from the Senate could be interesting. Moore’s “misbehavior’ occurred long before the campaign. I doubt a Senate investigation turns up anything everyone, including AL voters, doesn’t already know. In which case removing Moore is depriving AL voters of their choice for representation.
ROFL
xdog, I wonder if the weather forecast for Alabama tomorrow is as reliable as the forecast was for Atlanta this past Friday? I seemed to recall the weather experts telling us accumulation would be focused on higher elevations of north Georgia, in the mountains? Otherwise, I doubt so many people would have gone to work last Friday.
The governing body of Georgia high school athletics cancelled several football championship games scheduled to be played in the Benz because of the threat of ice, snow, high winds, and general blizzard-like conditions. Games have been re-scheduled at high school sites. Lots of fans from Clinch County were halfway to Atlanta when they got the news. Other fans were already seated and waiting for their team’s kickoff. At least one game will be played at a venue not big enough to hold the people who have already bought tickets. No word on refunds either.
That would be GHSA
The Marist/BT game will be fine – that stadium is SUPER nice and massive and they said they can bring in 1,000 additional seats so everyone who purchased a ticket can be seated for the game.
16 people were killed by police in the United States last week. https://chamblee54.wordpress.com/2017/12/10/killed-by-police-december-10/
Let’s simplify the tax code… by screwing over wage earners…? (it’s got charts and graphs too..)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/09/business/economy/tax-plans-may-give-your-co-worker-a-better-deal-than-you.html
I could have written this analysis.
https://www.axios.com/treasury-finally-releases-tax-plan-analysis-but-only-one-page-2516633351.html
To echo one of Ellynn’s last posts a few days ago…”Dum, dum, dum, Another Lib Bites the Dust…dum, dum, dum, Another Lib Bites the Dust…
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-new-yorker-severs-ties-with-star-reporter-ryan-lizza
And Another One Gone…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5156899/Larry-King-groped-claims-Eddie-Fishers-ex-wife.html
And Another One Gone…
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-11/longtime-npr-host-ashbrook-facing-misconduct-allegations
And Anotherrrrr One Bitessssssssssssss the Dust!!
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/celebrity-chef-mario-batali-accused-sexual-harassment-by-multiple-women-1066116
LMAO!!!
You missed another congressman over the weekend. Try to keep up.
This will all be over in 24 hours. But do you really think having Obama doing robocalls in Alabama was wise? Receiving that call un the double wide had to go over well!
He’s calling the democratic voting lists… really, where did you learn basic civics?
You think no Dems live in double wides??
Of course they do – the ones where a call from President Obama will go over extremely well and is a wise move.
Have you listened to either robo call?
I want you to open the link and look at the landscape picture. Pretty. One of the awe inspiring piece of American. John Wayne filmed about 20 miles from here. Pres.Trump pulled that out of Ben Ears National Monument last week. 2-5 years from now, it will most likely will be mined for uranium.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/uranium-firm-urged-trump-officials-to-shrink-bears-ears-national-monument/2017/12/08/2eea39b6-dc31-11e7-b1a8-62589434a581_story.html?utm_term=.cec3696187fe
Hopefully THAT ore won’t be sold to the Russians!
They are the only conventional uranium mining company in the US and they are owned by a Candian company who is “proud to be the worlds suppler of reactor grade” uranium, so…