January 8, 2019 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, January 8
- Smithsonian has an excellent review of the Cyclorama, which is not the largest painting in the world. It is, however, “the largest palimpsest of Civil War memory to be found anywhere on planet Earth,” and it reopens next month at the Atlanta History Center.
- Related: Georgia newspapers from the Civil War through the early twentieth century are now online.
- There are 14 boxes of unclaimed cremains sitting on a shelf in Bulloch County, and no one is quite sure what to do with them.
- The City of Savannah would like to sell a building they own, but are stymied by… their own zoning code.
- Every day is a struggle with limited resources and options for parents of mentally ill children in Georgia.
- A train in Georgia derailed, spilling toxic cargo.
- Georgia’s gas prices are as low as they’ve been in three years.
- Democrats are to blame for shenanigans in the Jones/Moore Senate race last year.
- Shenanigans were also the result when a high school basketball coach who happens to be the father of triplets played them interchangeably at a recent game.
- Animal rights advocates miss the point of how wool works, and don’t seem to understand that if you want to be cruel to a sheep, don’t shear it.
- So you think you’re about to get fired.
- Morgus the Magnificent has been with us for 60 years. If you don’t know who that is, A) you’re not from New Orleans, and for that, I am sorry; and B) this Galactic song is a great introduction to the greatest creature feature mad scientist of all time.
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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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Just got the Jiffy Pop on the stove for tonight’s speech by The Great Man!! The issues? Drugs, Murders, Human Trafficking. He has no greater duty and responsibility than to protect His Fellow Americans…
No doubt a vainglorious, clownish leader in need of feeding his outsized and easily-bruised ego will own the libs..
He’ll do his best to protect The American People, David. Even Libs!
You’ve got that backwards. The American people need protection from Trump.
We should all be wary of any declaration of emergency for a non-emergency. Use of emergency powers are ripe areas for abuse, and have been used to justify things like martial law, restrictions on free movement of citizens, etc.
It was Palpatine’s stepping stone from Senator to Emperor.
So, may we not stray from the rule of law.
But there is comfort if it goes to the Courts to sort out.
It may also present a face-saving way to end the shutdown impasse— take the Wall out of the equation– maybe essentially by kicking it to the Courts– and you may get a straight-up procedure on the rest.
Not the most comfortable path of governance, but we’ll see.
Noway, are you going to watch the riveting reply from Pelosi and Schumer? Maybe the liberals can ban this from TV! You know the networks probably wont show Trump!!
I hope they show the videos of these lying clowns saying the EXACT thing Trump is saying today about immigration just a short time ago. Trump is the first president in 35 years with the stones to do something about it.
Like confronting China and getting tax reform done too. Just cleaning up messes he inherited. Instead of some BS reply, just play continuous loops with Schumer, Pelosi Obama and both Clintons talking tougher about immigration than Trump.
Then have a panel asking the entire country if the democrats are lying now or then? Now wouldn’t that would be the first honest reporting on this issue in years??!!
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/01/08/trump-to-take-over-airwaves-and-democrats-demand-equal-time/23637130/
Count me among those supporting investigation into elements of the Jones/Moore election campaign.
Either likely lots of executive time this morning and afternoon, or two haridos in one day.
Wow, you guys really should take this act on the road. Maybe you could open for that surgery without anesthesia act because your attempts at humor on this site are only slightly less painful.
Nothing on this gem from the Georgia Ethics Commission?
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/2-investigates/sources-state-ethics-director-caught-with-porn-on-work-computer/900640250
Thanks for that tidbit. The AJC mentioned computer issues, but provided no details.
Will Trump tonight repeat the lie that some of the Presidents that preceded him told him they should have built a wall? Won’t matter, it’s already on video.
Clintons and Obama Pelosi and Schumer have all said the same damn thing Dave…What is your point?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bKTv57OEJE
Many of us have been saying there is lots of bipartisan agreement on border security, so it’s good to see that’s finally sinking in, and getting a little air time. Hopefully, this will stop the ridiculous position that Dems want open borders. But my guess is that it’s the false “open borders” position that continues to get demonized on the air.
But there is also still plenty of differences as well, notably on the policy surrounding any physical barriers, and certainly on the issue of whether or not a lack of barrier rises to a national “emergency” under the law. But there is agreement on a significant chunk, so the truly good shouldn’t be made the enemy of the political.
No comment on whether Fox is manipulating the stories they air in order to achieve their political ends.
If you are watching Pelosi and Schumer after the President’s speech, do any of you trust those two to guard anything much less the security of our country?
Trumps lists the hundreds of thousands of crimes, human trafficking, murders, 90% of our heroin epidemic comes from Mexico and more will die over the next year than did in the Vietnam War.
Those 2 argue that there is no problem at all. Trump is making this all up. Who do you believe? 35 years of kicking the can down the road. Those 2 have been there for ages…doing nothing. They cause this stinking problem Trump is trying to do something about. We now have someone that will now fight to get something done. Just play the tapes of those 2 saying the same thing Trump is saying…Why the flip flop?
Keep the damn government closed. These folks will never do a thing unless forced to. Who benefits from doing nothing? They want the votes and power over the safety of Americans. Good luck with that. Those same people have supported the exact same position as Trump. What changed?
Shrivler, are you losing your mind? …WTF does what you posted have to with anything much less the price of onions in Denmark? Maybe you had an extra snort or snivel.
DTM, when I read your posts, I feel like that I’m watching senility set in before my eyes.
Maybe re-read your own post in order to understand the reply.
Dating gone wrong…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/08/she-bragged-man-dating-app-about-poaching-deer-he-was-game-warden/?utm_term=.5152a823fc37
Manafort passed polling data to a Russian? WTF?
I think there’s a word for that…. col- something?
Let’s just recap for today:
– Manafort colludes with Russia by giving them polling data.
– SC compels that mystery foreign company to abide by Mueller’s subpoena.
– Trump Tower meeting Russian accused of money laundering.
Collusion Benev? Did you remember that Hillary, the DNC, FBI, and intelligence agencies all colluded together to destroy Trump? We know this happened. The Clinton Campaign and the DNC paid Russian spies (denied it for a year by the way) for the fake unverified Dossier used by the FBI to lie to a FISA Court which then allowed the FBI to entrap low level Trump supporters and use that as an excuse to spy on the opposition party in an attempt to destroy the republican nominee and determine outcome of a US presidential election.
All the while exonerating the democratic candidate of obvious crimes she committed. Does anyone disagree with this? How? Are you concerned about that at all?
Everyone involved knew these were lies and could care less. That includes all members of Congress, the FBI and the press. The FBI Chief illegally leaks info to a buddy that somehow triggers a Special Council (when no crime was committed) that is headed by one of his closest associates. That associate tries to frame Trump for obstruction for firing the crooked FBI chief yet the person leading the investigation agreed that the FBI chief deserved to be fired, said so and wrote memos about it. WTF?
We now have 2 years of investigations attempting to destroy the presidency, we have no collusion but we have some crooked lawyers that cheated on their taxes….
Does anyone smell a rat? Collusion huh….
Oh, but you don’t disagree with anything in that summary I see!
Why don’t you unlighted us about FISA little buddy!?
Are you saying you can just lie to any of those judges and get the okay 98% of the time anyway so its just a sham? Is that right?
Better yet, are you saying those lying FBI agents, some 25 which have been fired by the way, DIDNT LIE TO THE FISA COURT?! That might news for all of us.
Hmmmmm….let us know your geniusness!
Bottom line, Sniv: Do you think the
FISA court judges were lied to or misled in any way whatsoever?
“Only”…. of course it was not the only evidence….Good try!!
But they lied to the courts about that damn fake-ass BS didn’t they?! And it was a “significant” part of the evidence…. Certainly you don’t deny that do you?
Do you deny who paid for it? Do you deny who paid for it denied it for a year? Why?
Do you deny the FBI hated Trump and did everything they could to get rid of him?
Do you deny they had an “insurance policy” to keep him from being elected?
Do you deny Rosenstein and many others agreed Comey should be fired? And the SOBs are now trying to impeach him for firing Comey on some BS obstruction charge!? Would you like me to send you quotes from the democratic leadership saying the same damn thing?
Those trusting FBI agents…why have 25 been fired or reassigned?
Sniv you are defending the indefensible. Do you see why this whole thing is a biased joke? Good try though!
You whiffed again!
Tariffs and worker shortages strike again…
https://journaltimes.com/news/local/it-s-too-expensive-to-develop-say-developers-facing-tariffs/article_e4fb086e-50d1-5734-9221-4f508447984b.html
Just did a little math and this is how the current state of our national politics adds up. We have shut a portion of our government down to this point costing the government itself about half of what Trump wants for his fence (and yes, at this point it is a glorified fence). Our overall economy is suffering even more, to the tune of $6.5 billion per week. Derived in late 2017 Standard & Poor’s came up with the estimate in a report titled, “With a U.S. Government Shutdown, There Will Be Blood.”
https://www.spglobal.com/en/research-insights/articles/With-A-US-Government-Shutdown-There-Will-Be-Blood
All for the sake of politics, not border security. Maintaining that adding additional fencing to less than 3% of our nation’s land borders will secure them is as stupid as one particular Trump supporter in this comment section.
More math….illegal immigration costs between $100 and 200 billion depending who you ask. One party is trying to improve the situation to a tune of $5 billion. Seems like a homerun return on investment in money and lives saved. How many lives will continue to be ruined by DOING NOTHING FOR GOD”S SAKE?
Guess what group of goobers cant do math and want nothing done? Isnt that about right Will?
Who is on the side of trying to fix the damn thing for the first time in 35 years. The first president brave enough to take it on and not kick it down the road…Again…What group of clowns have been there about 35 years and telling us there is no problem at all! And just want us to kick it down the road…again.
Who is lying? Ding ding ding.
Since our resident pigeon has already crapped the board, I’m going to play, though I’m fully aware there is no “winning” an argument with you. This is for the benefit of those who have the ability to think on their own.
Please provide the proof that spending $5.7 billion just fencing 215 more miles of Mexican border will save us that $100-200 that our Minister of Propaganda Hannity is pulling out his ass. I think the budget agreed to before Limbaugh and Coulter told Trump he was copping out on was $1.7 billion for actual usable border security, not a useless, easily circumvented fence. A 215 mile segment of which as proposed will cost as much as six Hoover Dams in 2019 dollars, but unlike the dam there is little to no ROI whatsoever. Fiscal conservatism turned upside down for the sake of a stupid political gesture that is only a shadow of the original campaign promise anyway. It is pretty obvious which “goobers cant do math”.
We should get Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to advocate for The Wall and Trumpistas would drop it like a tiki-torch gone wild.
WWWWWWiiiillllbbbbuuur….check your sources on illegal immigration costs. Not Hannity okay? Now what you are arguing for is setting on your ass doing nothing! Just like the liberals AND conservatives have done for 35 years.
Now why is YOUR doing nothing the logical solution?!
It aint! Or tell me why not doing jack sh-t is a good thing!!
Pls post your source(s).
$1.7 billion is hardly doing nothing. Quit building strawmen. Where did I state that I want to set on my ass doing nothing? I just don’t want to pay for a stupid symbolic gesture. No one is proposing that nothing be done. This is not the first president to do something about the border in 35 years. Quit being ridiculous if you don’t want to be taken as such. Building a portion of a physical barrier just because a loose cannon got off script during his campaign with a ludicrous promise that we should build a wall across the Mexican border that they would pay for is beyond the pale. Sensible solutions like more humans, sensors, drones, and other 21st century methods are in order. Not fencing less than 3% of our land borders at a ridiculous cost. Especially when the justifications presented are exaggerations and lies.
I totally support the liberals and their demand to protect our borders. I support giving them everything they asked for. What reasonable politicians they are. I appreciate their hard work. How about you all?
Obama, Hillary and Schumer describing the horror story at the border and BEGGING for more funding….Please listen to them.
https://www.facebook.com/SameVidOfLibs/videos/1195820727243510/_
Are they lying then or now? What changed? Did the republicans work with the liberals here? Of course.
Well at least you agree there is a problem unlike your liberal buddies.
10% late fee on $16.5 million… and a $100 reconnection fee for each meter…
https://dcist.com/story/19/01/08/can-d-c-shut-off-the-white-houses-water-for-unpaid-bills/
Just saw a great twitter thread about why the Russian interference might have been so effective:
– They had hacked into the DNC database, and they had Manafort giving the internal GOP polling data. So they had both sides of the targeting battle. They would have known exactly what to say and where to say it, and who to say it to.
What campaign consultant wouldn’t want it’s opponent’s marketing plans? And a massive network of professional (paid by others) worker-bees to leverage that information?
Benev…. votes. Did the Russians convince anyone that Hillary was a crook, unlikeable, ran a lousy campaign, was lazy, didn’t go to state she thought she had in the bag and on and on ? We all knew that. Even the democrats. Did the Russians place one vote? Oops…
Do you think a dishonest,lying press doing all they could to ruin Trump and a dishonest FBI and Washington swamp might have had a bigger impact than a few Russian Facebook ads? Aren’t the same guys still doing the same thing today?
Did you see Pelosi and Schumer looking like 2 deer in headlights last night saying there is no problem? Did you see them telling us how horrible illegal immigration was on prior occasions sounding tougher than Trump!!?? That is pretty comical isn’t it?
Does anyone claim that is not true?
This is too easy!
I guess you’re among those that are uninterested in an investigation of the Jones/Moore election campaign.
Avoiding sanctions the old school way.
https://www.ozy.com/politics-and-power/to-avoid-trumps-sanctions-countries-turn-to-stone-age-bartering/91467
From the old school conservative set…
https://thebulwark.com/there-is-a-crisis-at-the-border-trump-created-it/
In Iowa primary election news… some one gets a primary challenger!
http://kiwaradio.com/local-news/hull-state-senator-to-run-against-congressman-king-in-2020/
Question for the BABB Boys: Why do our overseas embassies have fences/walls? Why does the Vatican? Why does every US military base? Why does the White House? Why does the Naval Observatory and US Capitol?
Noway, don’t ask a question they don’t want the answer to. Your question must be racist or hateful.
Ft Steward does not have a full fence around it. Some areas are fully fenced (not walled) off but you can get to a lot of places with out crossing a fence line. It has areas that are completely fenced, but not the whole property. As long as HWY 119 is not closed off for maneuvers, tank crossing or shelling you can drive right through the base. It’s damn hard to get into the restricted areas if they don’t want you there. Almost every road has plate readers. and rumor is the whole area is covered by thermal imaging devices.
They even have online check in/out for the hunting/fishing areas.
https://ftstewart.isportsman.net/default.aspx
Even if we agree that a wall in some sense might be necessary, is there a plan for it? Where would it go? Why there? Do we own the property? Did an agency request this? Environmental analysis? Has a budget been done? A request for a proposal? Cost analysis? Or is this a “just throw some money at it” gig?
Normally, if an agency needs something, they do a proposal and ask for the money. Then we can actually debate the merits of the proposal and requested funding. But it seems in this case, it’s just the words “The Wall”, take it or leave it. That’s no way to build something, and you are unlikely to get any funding that way.
Any RFP to a contractor or designer needs to have a written scope through whatever funding stream has congressional oversight. It needs to have Corp of Engineer or GSA approved surveys, estimates and public notification to adjacent land owners. No such animals exist on boarder wall construction. NONE. Not even ‘study’ contracts for environmental and soil tests. Sure a contactor prototypes exists (sort of a RFQ), but where are the itemed detailed lists of where, when, and the legal hows? Example; it took almost 10 years of planning, surveying and land evaluation of the area for the Savannah Harbor Expansion to get a congressional funding line item for the project to start.
And the preliminary ratings say…
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/424560-pelosi-schumer-response-tops-trump-speech-in-preliminary-ratings