February 18, 2019 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Monday, February 18, 2019
Helllooo, Monday.
- Patrick Caddell, the political pollster who helped send an obscure peanut farmer named Jimmy Carter to the White House, later became disillusioned with fellow Democrats and finally veered right to advise supporters of Donald J. Trump, died on Saturday in Charleston, S.C. He was 68.
- I’m just going to leave this here and y’all vote in the comments and let Fayette County know what you think. Left or right?
- Gerald “Jerry” Blum (and inspiration for Art Carlson on WKRP in Cincinnati), former president and general manager of former top 40 powerhouse 790/WQXI-AM and what was then known as 94Q, passed away Saturday. He was 86. And because I love y’all…here is the link to the theme song.
- There has been a lot of drama over the Miss Georgia competition. But Columbus has secured the 75th Annual event once again.
- Happy Belated 100th Birthday to World War 2 veteran, Edward Murphy in Lawrenceville!
- Only one restaurant in Georgia received the AAA stamp of approval this year.
- Elizabeth Warren was in Atlanta on Saturday. And apparently, she was heckled a little.
- The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund is cutting its payouts in half for some and by as much as 70 percent for others, as the fund faces a surge in claims ahead of its expiration date in December 2020.
- Renewable Energy for the win! A hundred miles southeast of Atlanta, some 2,000 acres of sawed-over timberland is about to be planted with what may be Georgia’s hottest crop: row upon row of solar energy panels.
- The Healthcare debate is ramping up in Georgia and Governor Kemp wants to tell you what he thinks moving forward.
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Here is the chamblee54 weekly reader for last week. https://chamblee54.wordpress.com/2019/02/18/the-worst-thing-ive-ever-read/
“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”
“As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
RIP “Big Guy” Jerry Blum.
Both the logos already look dated.
Why we are all doomed…
https://www.axios.com/happy-presidents-day-history-is-hard-8dbed5a2-07f6-43f4-bfab-0836597bfba8.html
I wonder how much Mr. Wood will get for the Lincoln Memorial kid? Anybody, yes anybody who negatively Tweeted him is puckering. Best be issuing those apologies quick-like!
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/17/nick-sandmanns-lawyer-file-defamation-suits-week/
Frankly my dear…
Well, you might not give a damn but the first shoe just dropped. I’m thinking the new name should be The Sandmann Post. And that’s just the first one. Be thinking of a new name for CNN, The New York Times and many others.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-covington-suit/teen-in-lincoln-memorial-protest-sues-washington-post-for-250-million-idUSKCN1Q82SW
While I recognize that your social media circles and the Russians who help fire them up may be using this as a diversion from $8 billion fake emergencies, making war with Iran, giving the Saudis and therefore the most radical sect of Islam nukes instead, tariffs… There is noway I’m going down the rabbit hole of the amount of money a jackleg lawyer using a smarmy teenager are demanding from a guy who can treat even their asking price as a fly speck on the windshield. To transpose Jefferson’s quote on other people’s religion to my feelings on other people’s money (or choice of heroes), “It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
Here’s the lawsuit, typos and all:
http://www.hemmerlaw.com/blog/for-truth-for-justice-for-nicholas/
It starts out:
“The Post is a major American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. which is credited with inventing the term “McCarthyism” in an editorial cartoon published in 1950. Depicting buckets of tar, the cartoon made fun of then United States Senator Joseph McCarthy’s “tarring” tactics of engaging in smear campaigns and character assassination against citizens whose political views made them targets of his accusations.”
This was mentioned last week but sometimes my posts hang up so that I’m forced to exit. They’ve been displayed when I returned, at least so far.