Lunchtime Reads For Friday 10 May
Filling in for Ginny today who has earned a day off. A few items for your reading pleasure:
Savannah plans to borrow $45 Million to complete financing of new civic center.
Gold Star family won’t have to borrow as they receive a new home, debt free.
Tourism is a $600 Million industry for Middle Georgia.
Bruce Willis is not boycotting, “The Long Night” filming to begin soon in Columbus.
Congressman Doug Collins introduces bill to extend care for Veterans’ newborns.
Starbucks is expanding in Augusta.h
And your featured restaurant of the day is Pier 213 Seafood. Located just off the square in Marietta, the locally owned restaurant features excellent food and friendly service. Start with the daily specials before cracking the menu. Seared scallops with spicy cabbage and spinach, pictured.
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The new abortion law has a provision that would punish a woman for going to another state to get an abortion. What is the legal justification for this? How would it be enforced? IANAL
What is the legal justification for this?
You’ve been around enough to know that what’s legal is whatever the legislature says is legal unless and until the courts get involved, in which case their decision stands as long as it’s in accord with the views of the majority of right-thinking Georgians.
How would it be enforced?
Unclear. My guess is the state will use RFID chips to track potential abortion-seekers, then set up readers at exit points from the state, highways and airports and the like. The technology is available today.
The implant procedure itself is simple and easy, just a brief blast of compressed air to seat the chip in the nape area. Very little pain and almost no blood. In fact, it would make sense to tag newly-born female citizens within moments of birth since appropriate state personnel would already be present.
Unfortunately, this leaves the current population of women and girls in an untagged, untraceable state. I think initially we can expect a state-backed effort to encourage voluntary tagging, leaving a relatively few holdouts who can be dealt with later. I believe female Georgians are wise enough to joyfully embrace the tagging procedure once they understand that both conceiving a child and producing a new citizen are acts of love.
Wouldn’t Governor Kemp’s daughters be ideal as the public face of the tagging initiative? I bet they would be honored to participate and proud to wear tags GOV-1 and GOV-1A.
It’s my understanding that a proposed amendment to establish a DNA database from new-born boy babies to facilitate any future paternity claims failed in committee, the thinking being such an effort would constitute a reckless and unwarranted effort to restrict personal liberty and whose only supporters would turn out to be socialists and people from somewhere else.
With that precedent under the belt, the General Assembly can enact legislation to punish those that gamble in casinos.
Or any person or company that uses their right to free speech to utter any opposition to the NRA, DJT, Putin, Kim Jong Trump etc
I don’t see that language in there. Unless there is some reciprocity agreement with other states on this, but it seems unlikely. I mean, even if you go to another state an commit murder, you are charged in that other state, not here.
It’s still a horrible law.
So it takes effect Jan. 1 , 2020. Is there going to be a spike in abortions before then? Will abortion clinics pop up at the border, like fireworks stores and casinos?
A former intelligence officer talks about spying on the Trump campaign.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/05/10/former_intel_officer_tony_shaffer_on_spying_on_trump_campaign_no_way_obama_was_not_told.html
It didn’t only three sentences for me to stop reading—the 2nd and 3rd sentences:
TONY SHAFFER: What I’d like to believe Mr. Barr is going to be doing is focusing on three primary areas. First, the basic authorities. The basic issue which I’ve heard spun over the last five days is this was all “legitimate collection.” Now that’s the key to the
whole thing because the people are on other networks spinning this denied they were spying to begin with, but now that we know they were spying, it was all done “by the book.”
GOP allegations equaling fact and hypocrisy are old news, so no one is surprised it took only a few weeks and no government investigation to go from Barr saying he objected to the idea of spying, like collusion not a legal term, to become GOP fact. People wonder how the GOP can lower the bar, and the GOP doesn’t disappoint..
It’s legal and by GOP standards ethical for a campaign to invite, welcome and communicate with, share information with, and benefit from interference in US elections by foreign adversaries. The GOP is now normalizing that lying and obstructing investigation are legal, so long as there’s no underlying charge.
So which is it: Obama knew about Russian interference and didn’t do anything about it, or he DID do something about it but he shouldn’t have?