September 11, 2019 8:00 AM
Morning Reads for Wednesday, September 11
Good morning! The state of Tennessee has two Power Five schools, both of which are among the five Power Five schools in America that are 0-2. Until the Tennessee legislature makes control of the Chattahoochee dependent on the Georgia – Tennessee game, they’re cowards.
Georgia
- Between 2015 and 2018, Georgia poverty rates fell 2.8%. National average was 1.1%. Fifth best rate in America.
- Cox Automative investing $350M in an electric truck company
- Death and politics in Chatham County Detention Center
- Also problems at Augusta State Medical Prison – “insects, mold, and grime”
- Visit JonOssoff.com!
- Mayor of Tucker appointed to GA Regional Transportation Board
- Johnny’s got something in the works
- Today you learned that Atlanta scooter collection is handled by the “Solid Waste Education Enforcement Team” (S.W.E.E.T)
There Be Dragons
- Ari Fleischer’s annual tick tock of the anniversary
- The Real Heroes Are Dead
- The only Braves loss I’ll accept
- Republicans won both NC special elections tonight
- Interesting result – Republican Dan Bishop won the precincts of the Lumbee Tribe
- The DeStachetration of Prague
- Bad news: you have free will
- Brexit is about direct democracy vs. representative democracy
- And conservatives are on the other side of Edmund Burke
- The greatest flea flicker ever
- The Last of the New Orleans Fencing Masters
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Dana Milbank on Trump’s Camp David meeting with the Taliban:
“Trump seems to enjoy the theatrics of canceling things he had (supposedly) planned to do. He canceled a retaliatory attack on Iran after ordering one up. He canceled, then reinstated, a meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. He stormed into a meeting with Democrats for the sole purpose of canceling it. He canceled his Denmark trip after the prime minister panned his Greenland scheme. He said he canceled the Air Force One contract with Boeing because of high costs (then wound up paying even more). He cancels meetings with reporters as punishment. He’s constantly scheduling and canceling his talks with China. He has canceled dozens of proposed nominations. “
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-taliban-plans-leave-us-wondering-what-else-is-unbeknownst-to-us/2019/09/09/1930eb88-d338-11e9-9610-fb56c5522e1c_story.htm
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VP Pence visited Poland to stand in for Trump, who decided to stay behind in the US for a weekend of monitoring Hurricane Dorian from his golf cart. Pence then went to Ireland for official business in Dublin on the east coast, but decided to stay 181 miles away at a Trump property on Ireland’s west coast. The limo bill was $600,000.
https://www.citizensforethics.org/mike-pence-doonbeg-cost-nearly-600k/
The travel time and expense were worth it though, since it reduced the vacancy rate at Trump International Golf Links & Hotel in Doonbeg where Pence stayed. Besides, Pence got us a deal on the limo, since the limo bill from the same company was nearly a cool million when Trump visited the property for two days in June.
Incidentally, the limo bill for an Obama Presidential visit to Ireland was $114,000.
I enjoyed the Moon River song.
A good blog from AJC- “Donald Trump and agriculture’s approaching winter of discontent”
https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/donald-trump-and-agriculture-approaching-winter-discontent/m9GfvYeVZMZey1UOJsQgvJ/