January 21, 2019 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Monday, January 21, 2019
“Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
An appropriate quote on MLK day as we head into another week of the legislature.
- Atlanta is preparing for the Super Bowl. Hard to prepare for a Government Shutdown in the middle of preparing for the Super Bowl.
- Also, if you are going to the Super Bowl and haven’t really planned lodging, then you might be out of luck. And by might be, I mean, you are actually out of luck.
- Stuck on a plane for any amount of time is awful. THIS sounds like the 7th level of hell.
- Columbus man convicted of 1976 rape and murder is granted a new trial after lack of DNA evidence.
- More Shutdown news.
- Stacey Abrams is weighing her options for her next steps.
- A fuel pipeline in Mexico has killed over 80 people.
- The President is meeting with Kim Jong Un again.
- The worlds oldest man died at 113 in Japan.
- Prince Philip had a wreck with a woman in a KIA. Everyone’s ok. Did you know the Queen learned to drive in 1945 and does not need a license because she immune from civil and criminal proceedings?
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Wow what a news weekend.
We don’t need no stinking Volunteers.
https://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/local/2019/01/14/libertarians-told-stop-cleaning-shiloh-national-military-park/2570145002/
And now you know the rest of the story.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/21/native-american-mocked-by-students-i-saw-my-country-being-torn-apart
Wait Chris Matthews said WHAT?
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/chris-matthews-says-trump-made-democrats-look-like-fools-for-canceling-pelosis-trip-abroad
And a little closer to home.
https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/georgia-gop-senator-run-for-6th-district-seat/FaiX7DlrJS5K1erjktic9M/
Great posts Raleigh. The dishonesty of the press is staggering.
Just pick on the white kid with the Trump hat. He has to be the problem right? BS!
The black race baiting haters start hurling insults first. Then Sitting Bull (Perfect name fort this jack ass) beating his little tom tom comes in for more hate. Why? For wearing a GD red hat. Tell me that is not out of this world hatred and profiling of half of the country by a group of off the chain haters!
And the press without any honestly laps it up to destroy the little Catholic white school kiddies in Washington for an anti -abortion rally. I forgot. What is the leading cause of death in America today? Yep. Abortion.
This is just a perfect example of what our press has turned into. What many in a particularly hate hurling party have turned into.
These clowns in the press should be fired. But they will probably get a promotion for what they tried to pull off and will be running CNN and the NY Times before long.
Wasn’t this the same day they ran all day with the FAKE COHEN “bombshell”!? Was there any honest even reported that day? How will we know?
Why does anyone trust the liberal press with daily fake news as galling as this?
Nominations for the 39th annual Razzie Awards have been announced. The Razzies honor the worst films of 2018.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/razzie-awards-2019-nominations-complete-list-nominees-1172272/item/worst-picture-1172535
I’ll be curious to see how people’s income taxes work out this year.
My wife and I each saw about $30/wk extra in our paychecks last year once the “tax reform” kicked in, so we set that additional amount aside in case. Turns out we may owe even more than that. We are both claiming married with 0 deductions and we are still not having enough withheld.
Are a lot of people going to be surprised? Did a lot of people spend their windfall? Will they now wish they didn’t?
Benvev, you just proved the libs were lying AGAIN about Trump’s tax cut! This is hilarious. It was mainly a corporate tax cut bringing back millions of jobs here and trillions in money overseas…and it did that. It made America competitive again after years and years of socialist anti competitive tax rates making the US uncompetitive. These same tax cuts and improvements and not one liberal “chud” voted for that. Remember that folks at the polls.
What do you guys give us? More Bernie, Cortez, hate and Marxism…what a winner.
The libs of course lied about the tax cut and said it was a sop for the rich. Most rich folks did NOT get a tax cut like you guys still babble about. The tax cut was for lower income levels. Helping the little people with lower rates and more jobs. Something liberalism does just the opposite. . CONGRATS FOR BEING RICH MY MAN!
Sometimes this is too easy…
Benev, you are almost ready to become a conservative. What took you so long?
I don’t mind anyone bitching about taxes. Let me get this straight…you are BITCHING ABOUT HAVING $30 MORE IN YOUR PAYCHECK NOT LESS!!
What about the rest of us “chuds” that had to endure 242 tax passed by Obama and the democrats!? That number was fact checks by the AJC a while back… that is where I got my number.
THE GUY YOU AND SO MANY CHUDS VOTED FOR DID WHAT? Taxed everything you can think of and then some. Lets see there were increases in income taxes, cap gains, dividends taxes on healthcare plans, tobacco, medical withholding, energy, employer mandates, the individual mandate tax, reduction of itemized deductions, medical devices, blue cross blue shield tax increase, taxes on innovative drug companies, tax on charitable hospitals, taxes on health care executives making more than $500,000,
https://www.atr.org/full-list-ACA-tax-hikes-a6996
that is just the one from the ACA my God and all of the other taxes are countless…
Don’t forget the one that really gets to Trump, some jack ass dreamed up a tax increase on tanning beds!!!!!!!!!!!
So who is killing America with taxes and regulations?
Take home income e plummeted during the Obama years because the “chud” raised the hell out of taxes on everyone. Payroll taxes skyrocketed…take a look
Obama raised middle class taxes…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/11/11/president-obama-raised-middle-class-taxes-and-lost-an-election/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.660c926e47b4
Benev here is bitching about have $30 MORE IN HIS FREAKING POCKET INSTEAD OF BEING ROBBED AT GUNPOINT!!! How does the liberal mind work?
WHAT THE HELL ARE THE LIBERALS RUNNING ON TODAY? LITERALLY TELLING YOU THEY WANT TO STEAL MORE OF YOUR MONEY. And we “CHUDS” are supposed to roll over and say THANK YOU COMRAD!?!?!?
Maybe Andrew can help me here….
Why do I waste my time arguing with folks that thinks this way? How in the hell will our kids pay these idiots? The young voters must be brainwashed….I guess banning free speech on college campuses and turning public schools into liberal indoctrination centers is working.
I’m wondering about this too. I haven’t filed yet but I’m concerned the changes in deductions are going to get me. And I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one.
Duck, you are not on welfare. You aint getting much of if any tax cut. Guess who keeps telling you the rich got the tax cuts? The lying liberal chuds.
Corporations did because we had an idiotic tax code making America uncompetitive. Thank you Donald Trump. For decades to come. Not one democratic vote. Idiots.
When it’s a disposable nobody like Steve King, the GOP is on it like white on rice After Tim Scott leads the way. When it’s the occupant of the WH on birtherism, “it’s not my job to tell the American people what to think. Our job in Washington is to listen to the American people … Listen, the American people have the right to think what they want to think. I can’t — it’s not my job to tell them.”
“One of the things I always think about is, whenever I do what it is that I do, that the next time something occurs, I’m going to be in the same position … And I don’t want to consistently be the guy who has to point out all the challenges or inadequacies or things that are just inconsistent with reality, from my perspective, for the party or for the country,” Senator Tim Scott on calling out Congressman Steve King as a racist.
Scott is the only African American Republican in the Senate, so who else is going to lead the way? Mitch McConnell?
And since Mia Love showed Trump no love, Texas Republican Will Hurd is the only African American Republican in the House. So who else is going to call Trump’s border crisis is a “myth,” and his wall is the “most expensive and least effective way to do border security.” Kevin McCathy?
Reminds me of a good (if slightly pretentious-sounding in this era of Twitterspeak) column by George Will this weekend.
“His protectionism — government telling Americans what they can consume, in what quantities and at what prices — completes his extinguishing of the limited-government pretenses of the GOP…
https://helenair.com/opinion/columnists/trump-is-an-almost-inexpressibly-sad-specimen/article_6ba431a4-611b-5a87-879c-53e09065d294.html
I wouldn’t say they were on it. Steve King has been showing his white supremacy drawers out the back of his pants for years now. He won re-election with everyone knowing exactly what he was. He finally dropped his pants in public and they had to do something.
At some point Tim Scott is going to start wondering why he has to be the first guy to say something in these situations.
They were on it after Tim Scott led the way.
The gop dumped on King because they noticed the drubbing the party got in Nov and finally realized that down the road they might well need votes from the cohorts King habitually unloads on. King has made offensive and abusive comments for years without the gop giving a good damn because he says what a lot of them think, only out loud and with a screw loose. The fact that King had to scrap for re-election against an unknown and underfunded dem–he won by 10K in a district with 70K registration advantage–made it easier to respond, since it’s the weak who get attacked.
Brothers and Sisters in the congregation, can I get an “AWWWWW NAWWWW”?
https://godfatherpolitics.com/fisa-warrant-bombshell-bruce-ohr-warned-doj-and-fbi-that-steele-dossier-was-unverified-and-paid-for-by-clinton/
The derangement syndrome. Pink hats and all. Put up or shut up.
https://nypost.com/2019/01/19/the-medias-gotcha-hysteria-is-shameful/
LMAO! Can I get anuther “AWWWWW NAWWWWW!!”
In June of 2008, Good Morning America predicted the following things due to Global Warming by 2015:
1. NYC under water
2. A gallon of milk will cost $12.99
3. A gallon of gas will cost $9.00
“Global Warming is a hoax. It is bad science. It is hijacking public policy. It is the biggest scam in human history.” John Coleman, Founder of The Weather Channel
Noway, how many people have died from global warming in the history of the planet? Zero.
How many live on the planet today precisely due to climate change? 7.5 billion. Thank you climate change!!!
Why do libs want to spend not billions but Trillions of dollars on climate change?! Could it be to rob you blind and gaining the power to control your life? Have you seen politicians make it rain or turn a cold day like today into one I can play golf comfortably? Could it be a Marxist plot against capitalism. Are we getting closer to a little warming there?!
How much will the same idiots spend on the wall and security for Americans? Well according to Pelosi its a dollar!
Hell, her bottle of sunscreen to lube up Schumer at the beach would have cost 10x what she is willing to spend on the wall! Is my math okay here?
For the peanut gallery to argue over… (you know who you are).
I can easily answer this! Do you see what happens to conservative politicians anywhere in the country? Depending on the venue and the % of snowflakes in the area, the libs are going to be encouraged to “get in their face” throw bricks threw their windows, threaten them at restaurants, the FBI will J Edgar you, the press destroy you or maybe you will be shot on a softball field. This is from the supposed tolerant left…They will be protested, shouted down and even prevented from speaking on college campuses and their statues overturned by fruit loops if they are not nailed down.
What do you think these pink hat, intolerant hate- filled imbeciles will do to their own if they give Trump anything??!! Have you seen what liberals do to folks that are no longer useful to them? They throw them away like used batteries. Thank God I don’t have an ex wife but I figure it is something like that.
You know the answer!! Trump will declare some type of emergency and make us safer and try to address the immigration disaster on his own like he did tax reform, energy policy, China, Nato dead beats and others…while getting no help from the DO NOTHING DEMOCRATS. The Marxist mob will continue to do nothing but scream hatred of Trump, racist and Nazi at anyone they disagree with. Just like they do today.
Does anything think the democrats will do a damn thing here? I don’t. They can’t can they? Their hatred doesn’t allow them to govern or even act civilly does it?
I don’t know if I’m impressed or dismayed at the latently blind transference of your unrealistic display of loathing for anything unjustifiably ruled (by you) as snowflakary and a fear of lib world domination – resulting in a complete run-on mix drink of bath tub gin and badly pickled pearl onion wordsmithing – derived from a pointed article on the Pence and Kushner ‘compromise’ that they knew would not work but hoped would defect the blame away from Trump to stop the slow erosion of his polling numbers and only resulted in a dash of Coulter bitterness.
The president reneges on deals made with his own party. I don’t know why we are all pretending that negotiation is the way out of this impasse. The way out is to override a veto.
This is what it looks like to me: In exchange for $5B, I’ll temporarily give you something that you already have.
What a deal!
As has been said. It’s mighty white of ’em.
Nice write up on Nathan Glazer. I remember having to do a short class presentation on the Neo-Conservative movement in my high school political science class in 1986 in which he was a key member. At the time I was more interested in his commentary of Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial. (Team Maya!). I was hay to see in the link from the story to the 2016 National affairs article a paragraph on his thoughts on the memorial and Maya Lin in general. I recommend reading all the links too. Time consuming but worth the effort.
https://thebulwark.com/remembering-nathan-glazer/
In this episode of Infrastructure Week;
https://www.dezeen.com/2019/01/18/chicago-ohare-airport-terminal-shortlist/
The trump shutdown tantrum is bad news for government workers, contractors and for the country at large. Its another gift to Putin. But if you’re a silver lining type person it has produced one bit of great news.
https://www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/national/national-politics/trump-unifying-democrats-instead-consolidating-his-base
The shutdown is a gift to Putin….huh? Lord help us. Meanwhile the Marxists keep hurling hate….and that is no problem….Again, lord help us.
“And join the legion of the insane”
Is it possible for three “Awwww Nawwws” in a 12 hour period? Chew in this, Haters!
This is a Christian Nation! Always will be!
https://christianlifedaily.com/clemson-coach-overcomes-atheist-attacks-leads-team-to-championship-victory/