Monday Morning Reads – April 2
Happy Monday, everyone! I hope your post-session weekend was relaxing!
News by the Numbers
7 Republican candidates – The Republican candidates for governor met in Flowery Branch to explain why they’re amazing and why their opposition sucks.
9 bills – Governor Deal vetoed only nine bills last session, and he vetoed two important bills in 2016. He has decisions to make in his last year in office.
2673 cyber attacks – Atlanta isn’t alone in its cyber attack. Thousands reported attacks, with educational institutions the most likely to be hit. The question remains: Did Atlanta pay the $51,000 ransom?
$91 million per month – Plant Vogtle continues construction at a cost of $91 million per month with the majority of that cost falling on ratepayers. Appeals continue with every hit of the hammer.
95-year-old company – That’s right; Peeps is ruining your retirement. Happy flippin’ Easter.
2020 census – By asking about citizenship, people are worried that power may slightly shift in favor of Republicans. That’s because congressional seats are allocated based upon population INCLUDING those who aren’t citizens. We’ll find out if this is meaningful in 2020, I suppose.
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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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Using 2015 figures, Georgia’s exports to China totaled $2.6 billion, led by civilian aircraft and parts, chemical woodpulp, kraft paper (the stuff grocery bags are made of) and poultry. Georgia led the nation in those categories.
Georgia’s imports from China totaled $19.7 billion including primarily automatic data processing machinery, television receivers, furniture products, toys, plastics and articles of iron or steel.
http://www.georgia.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Georgia-China-Connection-2016.pdf
Interesting story on Just Born Quality confections but this corporate trend on bailing out of defined benefit retirement programs as been going on since ERISA was passed in 1974. Corporate bankruptcy is the preferred method for dumping those plans on the Federal Government.
Companies really do not want to pay any benefits to workers. No retirement, healthcare/insurance, vacation, holidays but they still want to keep all the tax breaks. Gone is the time you go to work for a company and stay 40 years until retirement and the company rewards loyalty. The only loyalty is now to the stockholders and workers are looked at as just a business expense. What should happen is all workers are treated as contractors. That way they could deduct their auto, business clothing, and any other business expense from their profit.
It is an interesting dilemma government created.
“Union workers were skeptical. Candy Industry magazine had projected Just Born’s net sales climbing to $231 million in 2016, up from $222 million in 2014. ”
But no mention by the workers of any possible increase in the costs of production, which would make the company less profitable. Nor any talk about projected increases in cost coming down the road.
Can we get a little of Steve King’s Hispanic child immigrants that can’t speak Spanish are losers, and Trump’s “big” heart” but too but DACA people, you lose, with the GOP’s English only plank to highlight the racist base the GOP must satisfy to govern?
Numbers:
There are now 54 FBI agents dedicated, full-time, to the vital task of providing House Republicans with information on investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails. Contrast that with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team of approximately forty people, including 17 attorneys and twenty-some investigators.
The GOP indeed knows how to hone in on the most important things facing the nation….
More numbers:
“Wyoming coal companies only added five full-time jobs between the bottom of the bust in 2016 and last year, according the Wyoming State Mine Inspector’s annual report on the industry.”
“The job count reflects full-time jobs, employed directly by coal firms. The number of contract miners called in for reclamation jobs or blasting work did increase last year by 133. Contract workers make up a significant portion of the coal industry in Wyoming.”
http://trib.com/business/energy/wyoming-coal-companies-only-add-five-full-time-jobs-in/article_1c249c73-df5b-5bc3-a0d7-c446ba67a509.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-1
Is it fake news, or are those impressive numbers? No fair waiting to respond until after Trump makes the call!
(Fits in good with a link Ellyn cited last week— A contract Wyoming coal mine gigs all are head and shoulders better than jobs working to develop AI.)
Numbers again:
64% of assailants in mass attacks suffered from symptoms of mental illness, Secret Service report finds: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/64percent-of-assailants-in-mass-attacks-suffered-from-symptoms-of-mental-illness-secret-service-report-finds/ar-AAvfl6J?ocid=spartandhp
I figure 90%+ of them used guns. So should we expect Republicans to deliver increased mental health-care spending a to spectrum of youth through middle age that are largely middle class addressing a spectrum of maladies, or better regulate the one thing that is linked to nearly every mass attack, guns and ammo?
Trump disdains the Washington Post that is owned by Amazon’s Bezos. Trump’s Amazon tweet promptly devalued the company by many tens if not $100+ billion. The Amazon folks recently visiting Georgia no doubt will take note that Georgia is Trump country, what with GOP candidates trying to outdo each other on that count, to add to the fact the state blocked a $40 million a year tax break to the state’s largest and arguably best private employer over air fare discounts for a dozen NRA members collectively worth a few thousand dollars, in choosing finalists.
25 people were killed by police in the United States last week. https://chamblee54.wordpress.com/2018/04/01/killed-by-police-april-1/
Meanwhile on the coast, your federal tax dollars at work…
http://www.savannahnow.com/news/20180401/savannah-reservoir-needed-for-harbor-deepening-nears-completion
Welcome to Noway’s Maggot Monday! Y’all think the Bangles might want to do a song about it?!
http://katv.com/news/local/arkansas-homeowner-fatally-shoots-suspected-intruder
You really are a sick piece of shit.
I totally support someone defending their home and anybody who breaks and enters an occupied residence is taking their lives into their hands.
Despite all that, I truly believe the world will be much better off once you pass away. And I hope it’s sooner than later. You do realize you are celebrating people getting shot and killed, right?
What’s your position on killing unborn children, doctor?
You know, Doc, each generation has had its defining questions. Coke or Pepsi? McDonalds or Burger King? Even Ginger or Mary Ann? But the burning question for a man in your profession, Doc, is it Astro Glide or KY?
Seems like Matt MD sure is hating on Noway. Seems like Noway is crudely pointing out the need for the 2nd Amendment while a bunch of clueless juvenile punks get non-stop news coverage as they try to tell grown ups all about the 2nd amendment. What clueless arrogance. Heck the same self absorbed snowflakes were eating Tide Pods last week. The gun grabbing efforts are tiresome and nonstop. I wonder how the Jews in Germany liked gun confiscation? How about the slaves in the US? How about the American Indians? How do those bows and arrows stack up to repeating rifles? I guess those rocks in the classrooms will keep everyone safe! Good grief. How do all of the citizen of almost every dictatorship on earth feel about gun confiscation? That is what the liberals would do if given the chance. And somehow the NRA is the bad guy. What ever happened to an honest press? This idiocy is stunning, scary and even embarrassing. I guess they will tear down all of the monuments too so they can live in their idiocy cocoon. It is scary that one party could easily elect a radical socialist and be proud of it. What the hell happened to the democrats, the media and much of this country over the last 10-20 years?
Another diarhetic purge of irrelevance. You should really wear a Depends taped over your mouth! LM*AO!! Where/when did the guy even mention an AR-15? Forget Tide Pods, SnowBiscuit, now its Condom Snorting! I’m sure you’re the one who actually started it!!
You mean you haven’t been? You better step it up. The irony here is thicker than Oprah’s backside. You bust me for posting stories of a homeowner protecting his family and yet, you openly and proudly advocate for the killing of babies! Wow!
Well, you do what you think is best, Drew. What baby body parts are on the auction block today? You use of the word “cut” is disappointingly appropriate.
$10!!?? Cheap and stupid, taboot!!!Lol! Never heard of $10 to facilitate a killing! C’mon, Warbucks! Ante up!
For a couple of days I thought the “Noway” personality had been escalated to a Level 2 Internet Troll, but apparently that was either a temporary substitution or I was mistaken.
At least he’s trying, folks…
PP since Roe: 8 mil
PP this year: 9ok
Fine, fine organization, Drew, just fine…
Dare to Dream! A philanthropist to be emulated…
And yet, Snivler, it’s your money that’s being spent! What a putz! You gonna hold your breath until uou turn blue, too?! It’s like I’m your boss!!
“while a bunch of clueless juvenile punks get non-stop news coverage as they try to tell grown ups all about the 2nd amendment. ”
Clueless ? ….. how many times have you had to play dead while your friends were bleeding out all around you ?
Juvenile ?….. I have heard enough of them speak publicly to form the opinion that their maturity level far exceeds yours.
Punks ?…. Let’s reserve that slur for describing the Laura Ingrahams and downthemiddles of the world
Instead of punks, I should have said woefully uninformed is a better way to put it. The only one I was referring too was the “Camera” Hogg kid who is doing nothing but creating nothing but in your face controversy. It is tiresome every time some one is shot, somehow it is the NRA’s fault or law abiding gun owners. If you don’t agree with the liberal stance on gun control you want kids to die. It is a lie and infuriating. It is the same thing every election too. If you are not a socialist and think that agenda is hideous, you are a racist, hate women, gays, black folks, want to starve granny and kill the mother earth. What a massive load of manure yet that is the message from the left and their media accomplices. If you want to see why the country is splintered I think it is mostly from the hate on the left.
Yes, the political right is the real victim, as unfairly threatened as American Christians. They’re also completely blameless for the ills of the world. Plus the left is mean. As a recent example, how is it fair for a popular Florida high school student to exploit his power over a Fox person? It’s enough to make Bill O’Reilly cry.
It would be just as easy to say that every attempt to pursue some- any- solution to gun violence is met with rabid insults and threats of ‘molon labe’.
So here’s the thing: Gun violence is a problem. We can agree on that, right? We don’t even have to agree that it’s the worst problem facing the country, just agree that it is a problem. Right? So far so good?
So then we just have to find some common ground on what to do about it. One side offers a whole range of possible avenues to pursue, involving background checks, certain equipment restrictions, more studies, and other possible ideas too. The other side offers rejection, no compromises, and unrealistic ‘solutions’ that no one is going to do, like hardening elementary schools against invasion. The NRA was able to get legislation passed effectively barring the government from studying gun violence. Studying it!
So where is the middle ground? You have to give up something. Because if you don’t you cede the field and something will get done without you.
Hardening schools does nothing about the other 99.9% of gun violence.
“If you want to see why the country is splintered I think it is mostly from the hate on the left.”
Yea, it’s all the hate on the left isn’t it ?
When you describe a group of high schoolers who have recently experienced something that no child anywhere in a civilized nation should ever have to experience as ” clueless, juvenile punks” we should stand down or else you may interpret our words as hate ? JFC, the reasoning is unbelievable.
And, that “Camera” Hogg kid ? Can’t help yourself can you ?
That young man may consider you to tend to his lawn care needs in 10-12 years.
Or maybe he’s none of that. But what is certain is that that is what Republicans require to get and stay in office.
So gun grabbing is the solution? Just be honest. Lets take away guns from law abiding citizens. Just admit it has nothing to do with AR 15s. The FEMALE YouTube shooter used a handgun. Democrats and socialists and their latest pawn, David Hogg will be going after handguns again; just like all dictatorships around the globe. The problem is not the gun. It’s the shooter. Maybe they can get a primary schooler this time to read a note that says guns are bad and why can’t we all get along? CNN will breathlessly follow along with Chuck Schumer.
Morning, Sniv!! How many minority babies have you contributed to killing since your giving splurge began?