October 2, 2019 8:00 AM
Morning Reads for Wednesday, October 2nd
Georgia
- A federal judge has blocked implementation of Georgia’s Heartbeat Law (Obama appointee, for what it’s worth)
- From the ruling: ” HB 481 changes the definition of a natural person in Georgia…” Ay, there’s the rub.
- Anti-Ralston Republican wins Newnan special election
- The vape game is getting tougher
- University System will cover gender reassignment after settlement
- Georgia State PhD student documents The Great Awokening
- Savannah Harbor deepening finally begins
There Be Dragons
- Hong Kong police shoot a protester on the PRC’s 70th birthday
- Trump and the RNC raised so much money. Like, Texas football money.
- The best column I read this week. It’s wrong about plenty, but wrong in interesting ways
- R. Kelly assails bourgeois norms
- Was the call with the Ukrainian President wrong in the first place?
- Are the kids altright?
- “Why do you want to arrest him? Just because he has a warrant?” – Jeremy Pruitt
- A partial list of cities better than Washington, DC
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Can we get a ruling from the judges please? Is commenting about non Georgia ‘Morning Reads’ allowed or do we need to stick to just the Georgia based reads? I’m not trying to be snarky just wanting to make sure I play nice with my replies… I mean I can go on and on (and on and on) with the topic of cities better the DC… I’m feeling a bit down over my True Blue Brew Crew this morning… Just saying.
I’m not a judge. I think Charlie did a good job articulating guidelines Monday. He mentioned an 80-20 rule, at least four-fifths of Morning Reads comments should have a distinct Georgia state or local connection. I would think that applies to some extent to replies to comments, i.e. a non-state or local comment not being the entry for an extended discussion devoid of a state or local connection.
well if you need a georgia tie in, most braves fans dislike the nats very much and were opening rooting for them to lose…but your team didn’t cooperate…
Long time Milwaukee fans tend to ignore whatever the ‘sneak off and leave in the middle of the night’ Braves tell them, even if it’s for their own good. My aunt is still bitter and she was 5 when it happened.
“It is increasingly apparent that Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff created a partisan whistleblower to piece together an impeachment argument. Even then, they had to heavily edit the transcript of the President’s phone call to make it look untoward.” Georgia Republican Congressman Drew Ferguson yesterday, many days after the WH had released it as a summary.
Ferguson, when questioned by the AJC about his statement “mentioned a Breitbart.com article circulating around right-wing media outlets about a Schiff staffer visiting Ukraine after the whistleblower complaint was filed, and comments Pelosi made on “60 Minutes’” referencing the transcript of Trump’s call with his Ukrainian counterpart before it was made public. “There are just a lot of pieces coming together that it just seems a little bit more than a coincidence,” Ferguson said.”
There was a time when the ignorance of stating a WH released summary was a Pelosi and Schiff edited transcript, and whatabout and deflection when called out on it, were confined to John Bircher meetings in home basements. The GOP has elevated such to the Capitol.
There’s a forum today billed as a discussion of the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office’s participation in the 287(g) program that allows deputies to check the immigration status of detainees and hold them for ICE. I anticipate it will be attended by many opposed to the 287(G) program.
Take note of statements of United Tea Party of Georgia leader David Hancock’s e-mail requesting members attend:
“NOTE: You can carry a weapon (open or concealed) in the library as long as you have a valid permit.” “I will certainly be armed….”
Intimidation is something to be expected when civil war is being threatened.
Sigh. One of the reasons I’ve resisted posting extensive public rules for contributors or commenters is that then everything has to be litigated and everyone wants to play referee.
To clarify my comments from yesterday:
The 80-20 rule is a suggestion/guide for contributors on the topics they post as individual posts. It has nothing to do with morning reads material. It’s why you’ll occasionally see posts from Nathan about ham radio or I’ll post about favorite restaurants. It allows contributors to post on things that interest them beyond politics.
I’ve given very little guidance to those that post Morning Reads, and each contributor posts what they think is relevant that day. When I do them, I generally have a Georgia section, a national section, and a business/economy section, and at least one off the wall entry. I leave it to those willing to do this once a week, on a regular schedule, for free, to decide what they want to share.
The point of yesterdays admonishment is that too many of you comment almost exclusively on Morning Reads, and take advantage of its “open thread” option to literally gripe about DC – all day, every day. You’re not participating in what we do, you’re not even acknowledging the work done by the contributor of the Morning Reads. You give the appearance that you’re holding the ax you want to grind until MR’s appear, and then you drop your daily gift and move on.
Thus, my reason for adding the contributor guideline is to suggest you adopt it. You want to gripe about Trump or Pelosi once in a while, fine. But if you see every political event/action/story through those lenses, then GeorgiaPol.com isn’t for you, and I’m not going to subject our readers to your thoughts.
The people that make decisions at the capitol have to look beyond partisanship and on tough issues usually have to work across party lines. If all you see is party and you think all politics starts and ends in Washington, then there is nothing for you here that we need your input on.
“Thank you for coming to my TED talk.”
Thank you Charlie.
You’re welcome. You’re also very much not who these rants are intended for.
I figured. I do go a Wisconsin binder on occasion. 😉
I’m guessing you mean a “Wisconsin Bender”, consisting of bratwurst from Bay View, Borek from Three Brothers, cheese curds from wherever, cold Leinenkugel’s, and cream puffs from the state fair.
I assume I am free to re-use the phrase ” drop your daily gift”.
Damn autocorrect…
Sorry Charlie, but many of the contributions here are straight up partisan quotes by our elected officials, political candidates and their respective parties. Many are bad quotes and show the worst of our political system. The lies, hypocrisy, and total disregard for citizens. We are never going to see that wonderful work across party lines as long as blogs and the news/opinion media simply report everything neatly under Label A vs. Label B and which label is winning over something that is not really news, and if it is, we aren’t given any relevant details about the event or the subject. Just the manufactured drama.
Good luck purging the posts here. I welcome it, I’d much rather go back to the days when I could actually ask questions here and get some learned response.
Guilty of generally over-commenting on the morning reads, but in defense I do comment with regularity on other posts.
I’m conservative in the old sense of following rules and deferring to authority., so I’ll adjust and strive to better follow guidelines.
What’s happening is not normal, and it’s difficult to go on as if it is.