March 27, 2018 9:22 AM
Morning Reads for LD 39 (Tuesday, March 27)
Good morning! Governor Zell Miller returns to the Capitol today to lie in repose.
- We need Carrie Mathison.
- Meanwhile, the WiFi at ATL is still down. Because that is such awesome, fast, reliable WiFi, it is surely missed by all who travel through the airport.
- Linda Brown – her father was the Brown in Brown v Board of Education – died yesterday.
- If you would like to revisit that aspect of the Civil Rights movement, I highly recommend Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast.
- A compelling case for why conservatives should take Millennials seriously.
- Demographically and politically, conservatives are in a battle for the hearts and minds of these kids—and so far, conservatives are losing. You don’t have to agree with the marchers’ admittedly uninformed stance on guns or their naive embrace of their own celebrity status to acknowledge their accomplishment. Their willingness to drop everything and organize this march and advocate for greater youth participation in politics might or might not lead to action at the polls come November. But ignoring their rallying cry for civic engagement—or worse, condemning it—risks encouraging the kind of cynicism and apathy that conservatives have long argued is one of the greatest threats to democracy.
- Somebody’s gotta say it: if you shared or liked that doctored photo of Emma Gonzalez, you are a dummy, and I bet your Facebook password is something like “password.”
- Cobb County schools are planning for a drop in enrollment.
- A few items of interest: yes, Smyrna and Mableton continue to outpace the rest of the county with growth. And yes, maybe there should be a discussion about eventually sunsetting the senior school tax exemption so other parts of the county don’t turn into Del Boca Vista.
- If you’re bacteria, drugs are bad, mmmmkay?
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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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Sure 2020 is a few years off…but you can never begin speculating too early. I’ve heard thru the grapevine that Kelly Loeffler might step down from her day-to-day role at ICE, and I’d be pretty darn sure she’ll primary challenge the Canadian Tuxedo-wearing current US Senator from Georgia.
Kelly and Jeff Sprecher (her husband) have more than enough to self-finance but they’d also be able to out-raise pretty much anybody with their community and business ties.
Maybe this’ll be a shot across the bow at David Perdue to rethink re-election, but he’s incredibly beatable and Kelly Loeffler or Theresa Tomlinson (assumed Democrat running in the race) are formidable candidates.
This is a silly premise on the DOJ’s part. Plus it will not help Georgia in the long run.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/26/597192714/2020-census-will-ask-who-is-a-citizen
Meanwhile on the coast…
http://www.savannahnow.com/business/20180326/study-one-in-11-georgia-jobs-related-to-savannah-brunswick-ports
“You don’t have to agree with the marchers’ admittedly uninformed stance on guns or their naive embrace of their own celebrity status to acknowledge their accomplishment. ”
That line right there is why Conservatives have LOST (not losing) a whole generation. Their opinion is more informed than most people. They have lived it. The only uninformed opinions are the ones conservatives have on guns…and they like it that way. Thats why for years they have blocked public health research on guns. So the crocodile tears from conservatives mean nothing
FYI – The budget signed on Friday allows for the CDC and some departments with in the NIH to do some limited types of gun related research.
Interesting…
https://www.axios.com/redirecting-extremists-away-from-radical-content-352b74e7-a3e0-4e21-9253-40a95089aa9c.html
In a follow up to last weeks ‘good guy kills maggot’ – ‘libs are going to freak’ – victory dance ramblings by our beloved local curmudgeon; maggot shot himself, good guy’s bullet bounce off kid’s gun.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/26/us/maryland-school-shooting.html?module=WatchingPortal®ion=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=3&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F03%2F26%2Fus%2Fmaryland-school-shooting.html&eventName=Watching-article-click
Rent free, People. Rent free…
I have a passive form of ADHD, so it’s more like a free metro pass through a multi-lane toll both.
The prattlings of a dementia-afflicted fool. Tell you what, better idea category: why don’t y’all give up the murdering of babies, a mythical and non-existant right created out of whole cloth by Liberal butchers, who are directly responsible for more murders than Hitler, Mao and Stalin combined?
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/27/politics/john-paul-stevens-second-amendment/index.html
Second Amendment was alwaysssssssssss about personal protection. Ain’t never gonna change that.
I’m SHOCKED it took you until 3:30 to post anything on it.
Here is the whole Op-Ed if anyone wants to read it…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/john-paul-stevens-repeal-the-second-amendment/ar-BBKKZP0
The 2nd Amendment was first and foremost about protecting the country- which relied upon individuals joining militias. I’ve always thought that the 2nd Amendment’s competing clauses can be reconciled by upholding the personal right to bear arms for self-defense and hunting, but regulating militia-style weaponry. That’s really not so different than what exists, although more formal and developed regulatory structures don’t exist. But if AR-15s are then classified as militia-grade, they could be regulated in any way, from being banned to allowed only with extensive training and registration requirements. Instead of being paranoid that a gov agency would risk lives to seize lawfully-possessed weapons, folks who own the militia-grade weapons would instead be able to fulfill the purpose of a militia, and be there to support the country in the event that the armed services need some assistance.
It’s called Original Intent, Seabiscuit. The Framers always wanted the citizens to be able to protect themselves and their families from a tyrannical government. Always. End of discussion. Next subject. Like why do you defend the ability and right of women to kill their children? And this should really bother uou but it won’t. You’re a Lib. But while you’re advocating the protection of minorities from Scary Statues, the majority of those babies murdered and snuffed out are from those same minorities. How do you square THAT? You won’t. You can’t. Gotta have that convienent birth control method, eh?
Lol! Don’t matter, really Your Lib Justice was, you guessed it, on the LOSING side of that decision. So, gun ownership eill always be an individual right !! Lmao! How much heartburn does being a permanent loser on that issue cause you? You got spare rolls of Tums on the bedside table, right? Still waiting on how you personally support the murder of children. If I could get you an internship at the partial birth abortion clinis, should I hook you up!? Maybe you could give the doc the scissors?
No relevance whatsoever. Who cares how he got on the court. He was, nonetheless, in the minority opinion of the Heller decision. Gun ownership will always apply to individuals. Period. Unlike abortion, which will eventually be overturned. So, you wanna scrub up and assist?
“It’s like talking to a child.”
Kinda ghoulish there, Bud, seeing as how so many of the children in your and the Lib World never even get the chance. Ouch…
Why will Roe be overturned? Seriously? Because it’s premeditated murder.
But taking a page from those uber creative Democrat Protesting Poets, who’s slogans are truly on par with the elegant efforts of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, how ’bout something like “Hey, Hey, Ho Ho, Roe Roe, has got to go…” Got a certain ring to it, no?
So if your building a hyperloop under parts of LA, and have all this extra dirk and rock… what do you do with it all? Make life-size Lego bricks that meet the CA construction code… This is why Elon Musk is cooler then all of us…
https://archinect.com/news/article/150056660/boring-company-to-start-selling-lego-like-interlocking-bricks-made-from-tunneling-rock
Like most everything Lib. Revolting.
https://www.google.com/amp/sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/03/14/rocklin-teacher-questions-walkout/amp/
Sorry about being later to the party sometimes my employer wants me to earn my keep.
“Conservatives have LOST (not losing) a whole generation. Their opinion is more informed than most people. They have lived it.”
Lived what? These “leaders” are not even 18. They have no experience at all. I remember when my son got his first real paycheck asking “Who is FICA and why do they want my money”. Needless to say now he has a family and has to worry about keeping a roof over their heads. His attitude has changed quite a bit since his uninformed days and I have become a lot smarter. It’s like that “free” college education proposed by Sanders the younger generation thought was so cool. If that is ever accomplished one day in the future the bill will come due and likely must be paid by the generation that will receive the “Free Education”. It will be paid at a high interest rate that will make loan sharking look cheap. That is when they will realize nothing in the world is free and their political journey will change due to their new found informed experiences. Have “conservatives” lost a whole generation? No not at all we are just waiting for their education to be complete.
First Mr. Pope
You will fix nothing. you will continue to attempt to put off paying the fiddler until he quits playing and exits the stage. That is the same as every administration since we started having budgets and purchased the Louisiana territory.
You can continue to blame you parents (Baby boomers) for all the ills in the world all you want however we have pored more into the system at this point that you and likely more than you ever will.
Next Grow Up. After reading your incredibly lengthily, boring and meaningless diatribes if any one person on this board needs to grow up it’s you. Now go back to your sand box and be carful not to get too much of you neighbor’s cat poo on you.
They might fix something.
I smell a huge tax on ammunition coming. You can have all the weapons you want. The Constitution doesn’t say anything about ammo.
Pay down the debt, reduce gun violence, and hopefully not get into any more expensive wars for a while. Let’s do this!
Fortunately I have hand loaded for 40 years. All I would ever buy would be 22 rimfire.
At the very least, Raleigh, one has to maintain a sense of possibility that things could get done better. I often struggle with maintaining hope and optimism, but I find it encouraging that these youth are at least engaging. They will now have more time and opportunities to develop and refine their skills as well. All it really takes, as alluded elsewhere, is the awareness and political will to take longer-term, holistic views on policy and budget matters, and perhaps make some short-term sacrifices.
Not long enough Mr. Pope at least it is still boring enough. By the way we are still paying taxes on the Spanish American War. Talk about your “unfunded mandates”. That sounds very much like LBJ’s war on poverty which he lost.
I’m actually kinda impressed with Drew today, Raleigh. With all of his customary vapid drivel…so far…he hasn’t called you a “racist.” That’s his usual One Note, reflexive spew. By the way, would love to see more of your posts. Common sense, to the point. We need more of it.
Hand loading all your ammo doesn’t leave much time for engaging with challenges to your worldview.
You did not just say that…Good Lord!!! Kumbaya, my Lord….
Is it just me, or does this not sound like Noway? Not enough insults, correct spelling and punctuation, not enough lols.
Something’s wrong.
Hey, you try hitting that tiny keyboard with your thumb! Spelling mistakes bound to happen. As far as everything else, Raleigh helped today!!! Gave me much needed relief!