November 27, 2018 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, November 27
Good morning! The holidays are here – and so is early voting.
- 2,200 troops with the Georgia National Guard are heading to Afghanistan.
- While many people prefer fake trees (and also daily vacuuming, apparently) I am an unrepentant fake tree person. Whether fake or real trees are better for the environment, however, is up for debate.
- I own two glorious, fake, pre-lit trees, and one of them is dedicated to my collection of ornaments from the White House Historical Association (along with several presidential library ornaments, including a fantastic one of Nancy Reagan sitting on Santa’s lap, from the Reagan Presidential Library). I know a thing or two about White House holiday decorating, is what I am saying, so I can only imagine how the WHHA ladies must have cringed when they saw those awful Be Best ornaments.
- This headline about the spit groin on Sea Island is not click bait.
- “Unexpected item in the bagging area.” Chilling words to anyone who has ever used the self-checkout aisle.
- I am ashamed to have missed Big Boi’s Tiny Desk Concert back in October. Do not repeat my mistake.
About Author
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.
45 Comments
Add a Comment
You must be logged in to post a comment.
My nearest Kroger now has “Scan n’ Go” where you scan the items directly into special bags as you shop. I’ve been using it for a couple of months with only a couple of hiccups. The convenience of validating prices as you shop overrides the inconvenience of playing checkout clerk, but you also never ever hear “Place your item in the bagging area.”
Ice age? Wait, wha…?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6430691/Ocean-circulation-North-Atlantic-weakest-1-500-years-trigger-Ice-Age.html
The study shows the levels are at their lowest of for 1,500 years – and climate change is to blame.
So, you are on board the climate change train now? Glad you finally have caught up and admitted science.
And all it took was for the article to appear in a journal that Noway frequents, The Daily Mail. Next I will be awaiting the peer reviews in The Star and National Enquirer.
Makes sense since Noway thinks the letters in Penthouse Forum are from real people.
Bully the First Lady over Christmas decorations? Really?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/2120935002
The red trees don’t bother me; they’re probably just in response to the flack people gave last year over the plain white trees. I think the real issue is that the decorations with the Be Best theme underscore the fact that there is really no substance whatsoever to the Be Best movement. God bless the WHHA folks for doing their best with what they had on hand, which was apparently a few thousand pencils and a last-minute customized ornament order from Zazzle.
The red trees look vaguely Russian to me.
🙂
Just following the Obama policy. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/nov/26/obama-administration-used-tear-gas-border-once-mon/. I bet if they put some M-60’s down that would stop this real quick. Why don’t they go to Cuba? The could get a job and free healthcare there.
Unfortunately, one of my takeaways from Obama’s border enforcement and deportation policies was that in politics, it may not matter what you do. What may matter more is how many people can be convinced to believe whatever you want them to, regardless of what was done.
I also at one point thought that Obama’s policies were done to assuage concerns of Repubs, but I think Obama knew the above difference between actions and perception, which means he probably did it because that’s what he thought was right. And no one disagreed with a priority of deporting the worst criminal aliens first. But in hindsight, he may have also lost the opportunity to control the terms of the debate, which may have happened if he gave more public attention to those tough deportation policies..
Looks like my lunch choice has been made for today!! Throw Chick Filet in that briar patch! Lol!
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/school-blocks-chick-fil-dining-option-cites-values-59439397
Have a double order of fries on me.
And you have a bottle of Texas Pete’s Hot Sauce…for that 2016 Loser’s Laptop…on me! LMAO!
I’ve always said that the best way to fix a spit groin is 3.2-tons of armor stone, rip-rap, and exposed Campbell blocks.
TWSS.
I have just learned more about coastal engineering than I ever wanted to.
Technically it’s marine engineering. They spec basically the same thing on Lake Michigan shoreline. The armor stones are normally a local type of rock.
This is really pretty interesting. Lots of speculation out there.
Mueller clearly knew Manafort was lying. Why would Manafort lie?
He’s expecting a pardon. But a lot of his crimes are state crimes, so not pardonable (at least by the Prez.)
He’s afraid of Putin. If he’s got bad info on Putin, staying in prison might look like the best option. But Mueller apparently has the info already anyway, but from where/who?
He is colluding with Trump? Mueller seems to have waited until after Trump turned in his homework assignment to file this report. OK, remember a couple of weeks ago when Trump seemed to indicate that he had knowledge of the inside workings of the Mueller investigation? Most people seemed to think that either he was lying or that Whitaker was feeding him info. But what if it was Manafort feeding him info? If Manafort was telling Trump what he lied about, then Trump tries to back that up by lying on his submitted answers, Mueller might have maneuvered them into a very precarious position.
Also, Mueller says they will provide “…a detailed sentencing submission to the Probation Department and the Court in advance of sentencing that sets forth the nature of the defendant’s crimes and lies”. So that should be interesting. It would apparently lie outside the bounds of the AG or the Justice Dept to suppress, like they might with Mueller’s eventual final report.
A couple of articles from The Atlantic; one I could’ve anticipated, the second one not so much:
America’s Epidemic of Empty Churches
Religious communities often face a choice: Sell off the buildings they can no longer afford, or find a way to fill them with new uses.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/what-should-america-do-its-empty-church-buildings/576592/
Madison would have appreciated this development.
Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?
Despite the easing of taboos and the rise of hookup apps, Americans are in the midst of a sex recession.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-sex-recession/573949/
Since I grew up on the cusp of the so called sexual revolution this one has this old fart baffled.
Poor kids are too scared to whistle at a girl or tell her she has a nice fartbox. I blame this on the me too movement. Population will decline. So are carbon footprint in the US will go down and we will all be saved from global warming.
I think it very reasonable to neither whistle nor ever use that word as an alleged compliment.
As for the larger story, just look at it as a trade-off between quantity and quality.
It goes back way before the metoo movement. I ‘came of age’ in the 70’s (a long time ago) and we never knew if it was OK to open a door for a girl (woman) or pull out a chair for her. In the end you learn to treat people as individuals and not as a generic member of some group. I think they’ll figure it out.
I know change is hard.
“It goes back way before the metoo movement. I ‘came of age’ in the 70’s (a long time ago) and we never knew if it was OK to open a door for a girl (woman) or pull out a chair for her.”
And you never heard it was good manners to help an old lady across the street?
Surely you’re attempting to be sarcastic…
You may have missed it, Noway, but for a time here or there it was unclear when traditional gestures such as these would be perceived as paternalistic (i.e. a snub to a woman’s power to do things for herself). I think those occasional reactions to tradition passed quickly for most.
It’s not about power, it’s about common sense. If it’s raining out, I am not going to politely wait for some one to open a door I can open myself 10 seconds before they do. Do you know what 10 seconds in a down pour can do to a pair of kid leather shoes? To my hair or my Coach tote bag?
If you want to be nice and start my car to heat up the transmission when it’s -15 out, I’m not going to stop you. Want to be polite and help me down an ice covered set of steps while I’m in 4 inch heels going to a party, I’ll gladly take your arm. Offer to drive MY car when I am perfectly and legally able to do so ; no way am I letting anyone move all the mirror and seat setting – they take days to fix.
Actually, it’s OK to help an old man across the street too.
What you meant to say is… “poor guys can’t learn the skills to known when to be respectful to a women they see walking down the street or sitting at a bar and when a the guy should know a girl is interested in them”.
You need to join the 21st century. We are almost a 1/5th of the way through the damn thing. If a girl likes you she will let you know (and you will know). Say hi, introduce yourself. Women like to know who they are talking to, and what the voice sounds like. (They also want to have someone hear you say it so they know who to start to search for if they find your body in a lake the next day.)Only then can you tell her how much you like her ass. If she does not glare back at you, you have a chance. I personally think you should skip the whole “nice body part” talk. Looking like you are interest is better then saying it. Whistling at a women is not allowed.
I have a suggestion if you are inclined to use ‘fartbox’ (SHM), Say she is a calliygian beauty.
Since your on Christmas Decorating. We have a Dade County Boy going to help decorate the White House. Of course like most youngsters he has relocated to Chattanooga. Probably because of the State income tax. https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/life/entertainment/story/2017/dec/24/designs-washington-local-designer-brandcarrut/459851/
Unlikely, seeing as how the sales tax rate is 9.25% there.
It could be the transportation, fast internet, nightlife, jobs, and the nightlife. Oh, and the nightlife. And let’s not forget jobs.
We all shop, work, and play there anyways now. Their gas prices are cheaper. A lot from Dade buy gas at the Walmart just over the border. It tends to be .50 a gallon cheaper. I don’t pay that much attention to it because I drive a LEAF but I did see that this weekend.
Unbelievable that he would suggest supporting fascist, murdering, disappear-the-opposition dictators like Pinochet.
Folks aren’t gonna like it, but from WWII through Pinochet, Chilean rulers imported Nazi tactics to suppress political dissidents.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pinochet-regime-tied-ex-nazi-medics-enclave-leaks-213222820.html
Also:
https://books.google.com/books/about/Chile_and_the_Nazis.html?id=agOdHJcM19sC
“Based on documentary evidence from the archives of the Chilean Foreign Office, and from U.S., British, German, and, intercepted, Japanese documents [the author provides] evidence of the events and circumstances surrounding Chile’s refusal to comply with the will of the White House and the State Department, in 1942, that they sever diplomatic relations with Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan….
[Chile allowed Nazis] to use their embassies as centres of espionage that radiated as far north as Canada and threatened Allied shipping. . . sympathy for the Nazis and their values did not disappear but continued to have an impact upon Chile into the era of Augusto Pinochet…”
So…Erick should not be on any foreign policy team ever. Or maybe any policy team.
Sorry- no one who sympathizes with Nazi tactics should be allowed.
I saw something remarkable a minute ago. This article about our election:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/11/georgia-governor-kemp-abrams/575095/ has a correction. “This article originally stated that Georgia shut down more than 200 polling places in recent years. In fact, county election officials are charged with that responsibility. We regret the error.”
The SoS has provided guidance to the counties regarding how to go about closing polling locations or re-drawing precincts.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xFw-DbVRcdFustzb_SJHziFrONtkpXL3/view
Any changes must be submitted to the SoS for approval.
And the problem is, Republicans have been diligently trying to restrict voter access for many years. When the photo ID requirement was first presented here in GA, they wanted it to cost money. To vote! So now anything that even smells like vote restrictions is going to get scrutiny. The GOP has no good will built up to work with.
Gaspppppppppppppppppppp!!!!
“they wanted it to cost money…”
To quote Joseph Conrad, “The horror, the horror!”
B, do forms of ID cost money? A driver’s license? A passport?
I thought so….Next!!
Driving is a privilege.
Voting is a right.
Next.
Noway thinks a poll tax is something we apply to immigrants from Poland.
Actually my county will issue an id to residents for free. This was inacted when the id became a requirement to vote.
They have to. I believe that was the result of a lawsuit.
How convenient of them.
GM is discontinuing models, closing plants, and cutting workforce because:
A) People don’t buy sedans so people making them and plants where they’re made are no longer needed.
B) GM is betting heavily on electric and self-driving technology but the resultant revenue streams aren’t there yet so it’s past time to slim the company.
C) GM is preparing for an incoming economic downturn, leaving itself with plenty of financial wiggle room.
D) GM upper management are closet dems, probably voted for Mueller, definitely anti-Trump. Anti-America too.
E) They’re a corporation. Don’t ask.
Lol! Damn embarrassing…
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/ticket-sales-for-clinton-tour-struggling-as-questions-swirl-around-future/
Don’t feel bad for missing the tiny desk Teri, I follow Big Boi on social media and never saw it either. Sleepy Brown’s still got those high notes, dude’s awesome.
Voted today around 4:30, no one ahead of me, solid Republican district. I also received a glossy 8.5 x 14″ mailer from the Georgia Republican Party that says “Don’t Let Liberal Democrats STEAL Georgia’s Elections” with pictures of Nancy Pelosi, John Barrow and Stacey Abrams in a sinister grey-scale. I’ll bet there’s a consultancy with in-house design that is very grateful for this holiday windfall. That’s a very expensive product for not much effort.
Just an observation on early voting when I went this evening. I actually had to wait. I wasn’t expecting to wait. Granted only 20 minutes and still caught my bus. No one was talking about Kavanaugh, it was tired people going home The only conversation I heard was whether the Piccadilly was still serving coffee. Or if Aunties Ann’s pretzels were still warm
Glad to see that somebody other than Ol’ Noway had to wait in line to vote!