August 1, 2019 6:30 AM
Morning Reads – Thursday, August 1, 2019
Good morning & happy Thursday!
Did you know…that today is the 229th anniversary of the completion of the first US Census, which included 17 states and counted just over 3.9 million people. It’s also the 126th anniversary of the patent for shredded wheat.
Peaches
- Georgia gets bad news on Medicaid waiver funding.
- Abortion rate in Georgia has declined sharply in recent years.
- Meanwhile, the quest to lure some of our film industry carries on.
- Trade war takes toll on Georgia farmers despite millions in federal aid.
- Georgia’s Most Visited Tourist Attraction Is Also Its Most Controversial.
- Expanded benefits for Ga House employees.
- This…has no political affiliation.
- Don’t believe the myth of cutting taxes but keeping services.
Jimmy Carter
- Prison time coming for those who throw water at police?
- “Buttigieg plan would transform criminal justice system.”
- Massive Amounts of Executive Power Is Just Fine So Long as Trump Isn’t President
- Why don’t Democrats blame hospitals?
- Should (Can) Fake News Be Regulated?
- ONE MILLION!!!! pages of evidence for trial.
- POLL: Less than half of students say US is most powerful country.
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Puale Deen is still alive (it’s pretty long, I admit I haven’t finished reading it, but it seems funny):
https://medium.com/matter/strike-paula-deen-down-and-she-shall-become-more-powerful-than-you-can-possibly-imagine-6c6fbda4bde4
Kemp as a Trumper thought Georgia would receive a waiver to cherry-pick Obamacare, but destroying it and its protections is more important to the GOP.
“A lawsuit winding through the courts could overturn Obamacare and cause millions of people to lose their health insurance, but Senate Republicans say there is nothing to worry about because Congress will come to the rescue.” BuzzFeed interviewed “over a dozen Republican senators,” and most of them said they think the GOP will pass a healthcare bill in an election year if the federal courts strike Obamacare. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmcleod/obamacare-lawsuit-2020-election
The GOP after all passed a trillion dollar tax cut mainly for the rich in a non-election year, then hiked spending and is on track to do so again this year, this time sans the sequester. It doesn’t get any harder than that.
John Cornyn, highlighting the GOP’s alternative reality, tweeted “Again and again, Democrats have refused to join Republicans in guaranteeing coverage for pre-existing conditions.”
The GOP has a secret plan, but it’s on a need to know basis. Moscow Mitch McConnell will reveal it and bring it to the floor when we need to know, just like he’ll allow to the floor legislation to tighten election security after it’s proven that the fake news that the Russians interfered in 2016 is itself fake..
I predict the secret plan will allow people to go out of state to buy the same inadequate and over-priced policies they can buy instate.
That’s what’s to be expected from the GOP—Health insurance at the lowest standard allowed by any one state.
The link for the “most visited tourist attraction” sends you to a bloomberg article about abortion and the movie industry.
Interesting discussion yesterday on Fox Business Network.
“China sees Trump as a weak president: Michael Pillsbury”
Is “weak” one of those translation things, i.e. the lack of an English word combining narcissist and dotard.