Monday Morning Reads — March 5, 2018
Happy Monday, everyone! Here’s to less than one month of session remaining!
News by the Numbers
90th Academy Awards – Here are the winners of last night’s Oscars. As always, I feel Timothee Chalamet was robbed because he didn’t win every award.
5 open seats – The Georgia House of Representatives could undergo a radical change this November. Gwinnett County alone has five open seats currently held by Republicans. Cobb County could be a battleground, too.
51,000 patients – Hospitals in Georgia saw more than 51,000 patients with mental illness. That’s fine and dandy until you realize many hospitals don’t have psychiatrists in their ERs. And that problem is even worse in rural Georgia.
1991 haunts us – Hold my hand as we walk into the absurd, yet completely understandable. Legislation to rename the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge that isn’t named the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge didn’t cross over last week because the new name, Juliette Gordon Low Memorial Bridge, may cause issue with big ships coming into the Port of Savannah. But honestly, has anyone checked with Amazon yet?
50,000 jobs – Speaking of Amazon, last week won’t help Atlanta land Amazon. Turns out backtracking on an $50 million agreement for the sake of votes doesn’t build trust. What does collect votes? Sticking to your values, even if they’re really, really, really bad.
1964 – “I know it when I see it” was used by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart to describe his threshold test for obscenity, read: pornography. If we can’t define porn, then how it be good or bad? Porn is not going anywhere and that means we need to define it, evaluate good vs bad, and build a better cultural understanding of sex.
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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.
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Amazon is not coming here, period. We had no chanced before Cagle’s statement and we have no chance now.
30,000 Delta jobs – perhaps more than any other private employer within the state, including thousands of six figure jobs.
$40,000,000 Delta tax break – abandoned because Delta eliminated a $50 airfare discount to a few dozen NRA convention attendees.
Sayonara, Amazon.
This is the kind of thing that happens when government engages in economic development through manipulation of the tax code. There will be the occasion when social issues and economic development interests clash. The last couple of years, economic development was chosen over such issues as religious liberty and expansion of gun rights. This year, guns won, apparently. This system req
uires a give and take. It is also a great indicator of our politicians’ values.
Tax code or whatever, I’m struggling to find any policy where social issues and fiscal issues aren’t somehow both implicated or involved. It’s when a few social issues are elevated for political reasons when the problems seem to occur. As a comparison, Delta’s previous tax breaks got little, and typical, attention and press. Insert social issue and a little political motivation…
Mr. Deal has said he was “committed to finding a pathway forward for the elimination of sales tax on jet fuel, which is nonnegotiable.” (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/business/delta-nra-georgia.html)
“The legislation that we are talking about today, does not fix our compliance issues. We will still be in violation of federal statue. Therefore, I am committed to finding a pathway forward for the elimination of sales tax on jet fuel which is going to be non-negotiable. Finding a solution to that problem will require further discussion, so I am continuing open dialogue with all stakeholders. Including Georgia’s largest employer, Delta Airlines,” said Gov. Deal.
Delta and others would get the break via tax elimination, and GA would be in compliance because No tax = Nothing to comply. Winning!
Trickle down comedy from the Clown in Chief is real, is even if trickle down economics is fiction. The morning laugh was a column in the AJC noting Cobb County politicians are concerned about Cobb County being taken advantage of with respect to a transit sales tax. Hilarious after many of the same pols welcomed the Braves, and by extension giving property tax money to Braves owner Liberty Media, whose CEO is the largest landowner in the US.
Speaking of the Clown in Chief, is John Kelly going to step up and take away tariff matches? Nothing like playing with fire with your allies to divert attention from a lack of response to an enemy meddling in our elections.
Dade County makes the news.
Georgia lawmakers set sights on rural broadband
I have only 3 options. Way overpriced dsl that has crappy service. It may every once in a while get 5 mbs or Sat. or a verizon hotspot which I have. I have been telling the commisioners for years that when franchice agreements come up they should require the cable companies to expand a certain percentage a year until the county is built out. I guess it falls on deaf ears.
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2018/mar/04/georgilawmakers-set-sights-rural-broadband-ph/465112/
Look at all the savings healthcare companies are getting from tax reform!!! Which is going to stock buy backs, Executive and board raises, shareholder dividends, paying off debt and M&A. Little is going to employees, none is going to reduce the cost of healthcare.
My 401(k) might get a small boast, but I rather my healthcare insurance cost less.
When you say healthcare companies what do you mean? Insurance companies, Pharma, hospitals? Don’t worry. They are all going to be pissed off towards the end of this month and will no longer be happy. Which is fine by me.
I swear the link was there when I saved…. No drug manufacturers in the list.
https://www.axios.com/health-care-industry-tax-savings-1519943623-3eb9c0dd-a89b-496b-a6e4-96977ad6d969.html
17 people were killed by police in the United States last week. https://chamblee54.wordpress.com/2018/03/04/killed-by-police-march-4/
Than you, Snowlakes! Lol!
https://www.google.com/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5461765/amp/NRA-sees-huge-surge-membership-Parkland.html
Oh, Ol’ Noway closed the BOA account last week. The clerk apologized in a whispered voice and said many others were doing the same!
Noway, if you moved your account to a local credit union, I would be doubly happy for ya.
I also expect that if there are any drops in membership from the NRA, that they will happen over time, for non-renewal. You might as well at least get the newsletters you already paid for.
No, I moved ut to a local bank. And— I told them why I left BOA!! They, too, had gotten calls about their stance on the 2nd Amendment!! They assured Noway they were ardent, ardent I tell you, supporters of the Right to Bear Arms! So, I’m happy, local bank is happy. BOA? Not so nuch!
M(the NRA)GA!!
I just wonder how much of the bank’s assurances are just opportunism, designed to capture available business. Bc I doubt they have any official stance on the NRA or 2nd Amendment, and unless they offer a 10% discount at the local gun shop for every new bank account you open, you may never truly know.
Balance, I’m misunderstanding your post. NRA membership, right now, is exploding! Snowflaking former sponsors?? Patronage of their products? Dropping like whale poop on the ocean floor!
Just that membership bumps are instantaneous, while membership losses are slow drop-offs. So, I guess much depends on how the debate plays out.
Did her seeing eye dog like you too Mr. Pope?… Sorry couldn’t resist…
Drew, please stand on a doubled up beach towel! You’re melting on Mrs. Drew’s hardwood floors!
I think it’s time to start ignoring him. He adds absolutely nothing useful to this site.
Actually went to one of your links this morning and it proves yet again that you don’t even pay attention to your own tripe. Did you actually go beyond the Breitbart referenced headline on the British tabloid site? They are claiming that after the latest controversy that interest in NRA memberships has increased because of google searches which would even include a couple of my own using those two search terms in curiosity of who and what makes up their membership. So to simplify this one:
“Google searches for ‘NRA membership’ are up” ≠ “Huge NRA surge in membership”
Pay attention. The Daily Mail loves to get clicks and they are not above using sensational headlines like “Boffins discover a Gay Gene” or something similar to get them.
You two should get a room! Lol!
Lmao! I DID note that!! Hope yall had fun!
Lmao! I thought you aaid, “we”!!! That’s even funnier!
Not possessing the intellectual fortitude to want to read, to push past headlines, to focus beyond a short attention span– these are emblematic and serious problems throughout much of America, and why we’re actually vulnerable to foreign and domestic manipulation.