February 22, 2019 6:50 AM
Morning Reads for Friday, February 22, 2019
- Popcorn, please.
- Ahhh, you can smell the transparency…
- Not The Onion.
- What would Madame Defarge say?
- Relax The microphone isn’t there to spy, Big Brother said.
- The old ways are the best ways.
- Not The Onion.
- $4,367.70 to print a brief. South Georgia is so proud.
- Record-breaking zoom-zoom.
- Not The Onion.
- You, too, can name a moon circling Jupiter.
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What’s the point in linking to that whackadoo NASA piece that called a Reuters news story ‘treasonous’ because it mentioned internal questions a NASA safety panel has raised? Oh, right, we can’t risk losing the tourist business to the Russians because of un-American NASA employees.
The real story is NASA yesterday launched a Falcon rocket with three payloads: an Indian telecom satellite, an experimental spacecraft for the US military, and the first commercial mission to attempt a landing on the Moon.
The moon mission is an Israeli effort, is backed totally by private contributions, and is named Beresheet, or ‘in the beginning’, which I think is very cool and is definitely not for the tinfoil crowd.
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2019/02/spacex-indonesian-launch-israeli-moon-mission/
Re: Spaceport: It seems likely that a spaceport is less risky to nearby citizens than whatever Union Carbide was doing there.
Turns out they used to test rocket motors there! And before that they made weapons. And there was a tragedy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiokol-Woodbine_explosion
Anyway, I would think the risk to citizens 10 miles away (presumably a rocket exploding in mid-flight) would only be for a few seconds for each flight. My dad lives near enough to a nuke plant that they hand out free potassium iodide pills every year. That is a constant threat!
It should be noted that the a dozen or so portable nuclear reactors reside less then 10 miles away from Spaceport
Roger Stone told the judge in his case about lying about contacts with Russians that he thought the crosshairs in the photo of the judge that he posted to social media was a Celtic cross.
Brett Kavanaugh testified under oath in his hearing about sexual assault that the Devil’s Triangle was like the Quarter Bounce drinking game when he knew it meant two man and a woman engaging in sex.
Both are liars. Perfectly acceptable to the GOP in an advisor to Trump or a Supreme Court Judge. Then again, maybe Kavanaugh really is so stupid he really thinks the Devil’s Triangle is a drinking game, since stupidity isn’t disqualifying in the determination of facts for the GOP.
So you are saying they are like Hillary and Smollett?
Smollett is not even in the same league or category as Kav or Hillary or Stone.
I had a thought that Smollett’s thing was that he was trying to do a Sacha Baron Cohen-like experiment where he could ensnare ugly truths through a staged event. If it was staged, though, it’s still a crime, and goes beyond theatre or Cohen’s typical risks. And of course, Smollett wasn’t incognito, and his VIP status probly meant more police resources dedicated to investigation, which would be counter to such action.
Ah, whataboutsim…..
Fair and balanced except that Hillary’s statements weren’t under oath or otherwise prosecutable.
Smollett is being prosecuted. Jail time is in order if he did what I think he did and what has been reported.
Dems and liberals much, much more than conservatives and Republicans will hold their own accountable or support that occurring.
So do you like Republicans or not? We can never tell from your posts. You forgot to include 80,000 in the first post.
Ralston helped write the law…. Hold the wheel what??? Should be interesting to see who backs Clark’s resolution calling for his ouster.
It’s a fringe matter pushing the boundaries of law and I disapprove. Thus far public evidence t doesn’t rise to the level of ouster, and I doubt there will be little more made public. You do know we’re talking about a Republican state government that has been totally unconcerned about an 80,000 undercount in the Lt Gov election?.
Thanks the fake news AJC for bringing it to your attention.
I am loving HB 302. Big government shouldn’t be able to tell me what color my house can be.
This is why I could never be a legislator.
That bill goes through a whole list of things the state is telling local governments they cannot do, then finishes up with
“(c) The provisions of subsection (b) of this Code section shall not be construed to:
(1) Prohibit or impair the power of a county or municipal corporation to adopt or enforce any zoning ordinance or make any zoning decision;
I don’t get it.
Neither do the folks who wrote it.
Def confusing.
Part of this may be that zoning authority is squarely part of the power of local govs. So, the local govs can pass whatever law they want, but the state law may give an alternative cause of action for those aggrieved by local zoning law. I’m going to call it “paradoxical preemption”.
Read Section 3
So Madison, GA, which is not big government, loses the right to regulate its historic district?
http://www.madisonga.com/454/Madison-Historic-District
I think Historic Districts would be exempted:
(b) No county or municipal corporation shall adopt or enforce any ordinance or regulation
39 relating to or regulating building design elements as applied to one or two-family dwellings
40 except under one or more of the following circumstances:
41 (1) The structure is located in an area designated as a historic district pursuant to
42 Article 2 of Chapter 10 of Title 44, the ‘Georgia Historic Preservation Act’;
43 (2) The structure is located in an area designated as a historic district on the National
44 Register of Historic Places;
45 (3) The structure is individually designated as a local, state, or national historic
46 landmark
But then to me it looks like everything is exempted anyway. :-/
Read Section 3
As written yes. And in the cases of larger districts like Savannah, anyone with a federal Historic Preservation Tax Credit and any Gerogia ones piggy backing on to it, could loose the federal and state tax credit, Like the River Plant renovation for Kessler on River street.
If you don’t want to deal with regulations from historic districts… don’t move into a historic district. Same rationale applies to folks who don’t want to deal with HOA nonsense.
You have a choice in where you live.
This is one of the reasons I moved to the great State of Dade, no zoning. I spent to many years arguing zoning in Florida for subdivisions. Today I do funner stuff like plotting GDOT monuments that were set in 1941 at the accepted state line
Hmm. Accepted by whom? 🙂
I am guessing the line of taxation.
If you read the bill and know anything about design and construction, you would also see the ‘design elements’ have a lot more to do with paint color. Window lay out for example. The residential building code has requirement for windows if houses are to close together to stop the spread of fire or to use rated glass. Same with wall cladding.. Structure elements can be related to hurricane zone requirements. But as ‘design elements’, we can pitch them out the window.
Same with zoning in section 2 to stop house from being built next to industrial sites or to stop industrial site from being built next to house.
But the real kicker is Section 3, It’s just one line, “All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed” This would include any and all zoning, building codes, fire codes, hurricane and seismic zoning, flood zones, legal setbacks on your property, right of ways, National Historic trusts districts, parking standards, ect… FOR THE WHOLE STATE.
Unintentional consequence resulting of said law if past, almost everyone’s insurance premium for home and/or flood will go through the roof, as will the coast for fire protection.
How so you might ask… Insurance coverage is based on dozens of factors. Example, how well the county and city enforces flood zone requirements affects the cost of flood insurance in that zone. Right now a land owner of a marsh lot in Chatham Co is suing the county because the flood zone enforcement for finished floor is 2 feet higher then the current floor plan to meet flood standards for having insurance. This places the lot 21 inches lower then the finish floor and lowered the value of lot by 30% of it value since you can’t build slab on grade. The county by raising the plain up by two feet gets a higher flood insurance rating for all land owners in the county, which means my rates goes down, and as does every one else’s, including the flood insurance on county owned buildings, saving county tax payers money.
Want another one? the ISO (Insurance Services Office) rating of where your house is located will change. This rating basically grades the fire suppression capabilities of a district using items like no. of certified fire fighters, the fire trucks, width of roads, EMR right of ways, water pressure and building code effectiveness. Under HB 302, ALL design elements in conflict with building and fire codes are to be repealed. So you end up with weak build codes allowing windows laced 2 feet from another house – because the law will now allow a home owner to pick “location or architectural styling of windows” without any fire rating finishes since “type or style of exterior cladding material” are design elements under the bill, – in the middle of large city blocks, letting fires jump from house to house. The ISO rating will get worse. All insurance premiums in the area will go up, including commercial buildings, Even BOE, city and county owned insurance rates will go up, and the cost to fight fires goes up (all of which will cause taxes to go up.
This is an extremely badly crafted bill.
I’ll agree with you on the craftsmanship, but I don’t think it will do all this. Design and safety are two different things, and section (b) only prohibits regulation of design, and (c) just tries to curb zoning to exclude design. All those bases for zoning regulation in (c) can be used to regulate for safety purposes.
Or so it seems.
I gave extreme (and possible) examples. With some fixes, it has potential. The main rules surrounding residential design elements is not fully addressed, since most of these rules are issued by home owner associations and written into the clauses attached to the property when originally built by the developers. What this addresses is government rules only on single or duplex housing. Can some one give me an example of a place outside the list in section 2 exceptions that forces design element in a single stand alone residence?
When it messes with my coffee, it not a hoax…
https://www.axios.com/scientists-saving-coffee-from-climate-change-7072c6d6-8381-493d-bcab-8d3905e6d810.html
She assaults a guy and she’s the victim?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/22/rosiane-santos-mass-woman-assault-man-maga-hat/
The word “victim” doesn’t appear in the linked to story. There’s nothing in the story to suggest she is or was a victim or claimed to be a victim. It’ll be worse for victim if he’s further put out in her prosecution.
“German scientists say stop sending signals into space in case humans make contact with ‘capitalist aliens’ who’ll come and destroy Earth”
“The loons, Norman, listen to the loons…”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6729663/German-scientists-say-stop-sending-signals-space-case-capitalist-aliens-destroy-earth.htm
Of course there is an element of pessimism. They’re German.
What happened with the Americas is relevant, without even considering the biomedical aspects.
Being an optimist at heart, I speculated here not long that a reason other conscious intelligence in the universe may not have made contact with humans are that beings that would destroy their own nest are a hazard to others.