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Monday Morning Reads – April 30

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Happy Monday, everyone!

News By The Numbers

3 Presidents – …and one toilet for your career. Ronnie Jackson is resigning after a tough couple of weeks.

$14 million – Opposition to the city of Eagles Landing is gaining strength as Governor Deal decides whether to signing it or veto it. Capital One Public Funding has thoughts.

5 years – Hawks coach Mike Hudenbolzer left the team as everyone endures a ~rebuilding~ period. He wasn’t a bad coach at all and I wish him the best.

2 year plan – North Korea agreed to give up its nuclear weapons if the US agrees not to invade. It makes me wonder what Trump told the little rocket man.

1000 cuts – Mick Mulvaney isn’t destroying the CFPB like he promised, but he’s cutting it little by little.

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.

21 Comments
  1. xdog

    Early voting for the May 22 primary elections begins today.

    I appreciate the convenience the early voting period offers those who are travelling and those who have trouble travelling, but it seems more and more people are voting early just for the hell of it. I read somewhere that almost two-thirds of the recent Arizona vote was cast early.

    Me, I’m an election day voter. That’s the day I get to stand up and decide. I think early voting diminishes the importance of elections in peoples’ minds. I don’t open presents Christmas Eve, I don’t set off fireworks July the Third, and I don’t miss out on one of the rituals of being a citizen by voting early.

  2. Indypendant

    Hudenbolzer?

    I think you’re confusing the Hawk’s coach with Trumps nominee for Secretary of the Alterior(sic).

  3. Noway2016

    Gotta love The New Yorker…An article on Chick Filet and Christian bashing.
    One entry…”And yet the brand’s arrival here feels like an infiltration, in no small part because of its pervasive Christian traditionalism. Its headquarters, in Atlanta, are adorned with Bible verses and a statue of Jesus washing a disciple’s feet. Its stores close on Sundays.”
    The entire article…
    https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/chick-fil-as-creepy-infiltration-of-new-york-city
    Keep on Sniveling!!! Hey, maybe the Cry Closet is empty right about now!

    • Noway2016

      To take artistic license with the great Terrance Mann, “Real American are watching, Ray, Real Americans are most definitely watching…”
      The only diaper to be soiled will be yours and those of The Ninnies on November 7th. MAGA!! Lol!

    • bethebalance

      Def a North-South element in there. Plus a foodie v. corporate food thing. The North, I think, remains suspicious that the South still wants to rise again.

    • Ellynn

      It’s more that the city that ‘never sleeps’ can’t have what it wants on a Sunday. I would also like to point out pizza chains are not as prevalent in NYC – which prides it’s self on it’s local pizza joints – then other large cities.

  4. chamblee54

    16 people were killed by police in the United States last week. Of those 16, 12 displayed a weapon, and 2 fired at the police. https://chamblee54.wordpress.com/2018/04/29/killed-by-police-april-29/

  5. John Vestal

    Atlanta native and Spelman alum Ashley Derby opens first CFA in Downtown LA (she has another location on the campus at SoCal).

  7. Ellynn

    If you were born before 1965, the millennials think it’s your fault (and it has graphs).

    https://www.axios.com/51-of-millennials-blame-boomers-1524592674-0d20667a-c9e5-4e30-a430-3957e325a0d0.html

  8. Will Durant

    Michael Hayden: The End of Intelligence
    It was no accident that the Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year in 2016 was “post-truth,” a condition where facts are less influential in shaping opinion than emotion and personal belief. To adopt post-truth thinking is to depart from Enlightenment ideas, dominant in the West since the 17th century, that value experience and expertise, the centrality of fact, humility in the face of complexity, the need for study and a respect for ideas.

    President Trump both reflects and exploits this kind of thinking. It is fair to say that the Trump campaign normalized lying to an unprecedented degree. There was the candidate’s claim that legions of Arabs celebrated wildly in New Jersey as the World Trade Center collapsed. He defended his calls for the intentional killing of the Sept. 11 terrorists’ families because “they knew what was happening” and had “watched their husband on television flying into the World Trade Center,” something for which there is zero evidence. He insinuated that Senator Ted Cruz’s father had a hand in John F. Kennedy’s assassination and that the Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia had been murdered.

    When pressed on specifics, the president has routinely denigrated those who questioned him, whether the “fake” media, “so called” judges, Washington insiders or the “deep state.” He has also condemned Obama-era intelligence officials as “political hacks…”

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/28/opinion/sunday/the-end-of-intelligence.html

    This is an opinion piece from a guy who I have heavily criticized for crushing the 4th amendment under CheneyBush II in those heady days after 9/11 while he was head of the NSA. He was smart enough however to never go forward breaking the law without a signed get-out-of-jail-free card from the President. Thus proving he was smarter than both of those Presidents (both actual and virtual). Therefore his criticism of both the lack of intelligence and the use of Intelligence by the current administration is certainly valid.

  9. ScottNAtlanta

    Lots of Stacey stuff in print this week first The Intercept that quotes LaDawn Jones’s thoughts on the subject
    https://theintercept.com/2018/04/27/stacey-abrams-georgia-republican-voting-rights-gerrymandering/
    Also a rather disappointing article at 538 by Perry Bacon Jr. who thinks the DNC should more strongly back Abrams because if she loses…you know, black people will be pissed (missing completely that Evans’s voting record is much better on issues that affect communities of color)
    https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-georgia-primary-offers-a-preview-of-democrats-2020-fault-lines/

    • Benevolus

      Mick Mulvaney, looking out for consumers! A millionaire charging his supporters for the interest on his personal loans.
      Nice work if you can get it!

  12. Noway2016

    James Clapper will soon be indicted for lying! Lmao! Prisoner 1?

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