Good morning. Raise your mouse if your Facebook and Twitter feeds are completely obnoxious with political posts at this point. Oh, what’s that? It’s gonna get worse? And the brilliant one-liner commentary of “dummycrats” and “Bainman and Ryan” is going to be peppered with and somehow tied to all things football? Awesome – I can’t wait.
Georgia
- Opponents of Charter Amendments Accuse Supporters of Bullying. Anyone else ever write alternate titles in their head? “Life Lesson on School Bullying: Suck it up, emo kids, because it never really goes away.”
- He said, She Said. Fact checkers correct claims made at DNC.
- In Macon, if your house sits empty without utilities for more than 60 days, you have to register it.
- In Savannah, City Council violates public meeting law. (IMO, this one gets filed under “Teacher, you forgot to take up homework.” Who complains about something like this? The Council needed to quickly come together and assess a situation.)
- In Augusta, SOS results certified Tuesday put the Anderson 159 votes ahead of Rick Allen. Allen wants a recount.
- What? There’s a musicians’ union? The ASO and its 93 musicians haggle over a collective bargaining agreement. Fun fact from article: The average compensation of the musicians is $131,000, including free health and dental coverage, free instrument insurance, pension benefits and eight weeks of paid vacation.
National
- Jerusalem And God Vote Gets Booed At Dem Convention. CSPAN Video. This topic isn’t over I’m sure…
- “Clinton totally kills it”.
- Emanuel Takes On New Role as a ‘Super PAC’ Wrangler
- Kim Kardashian on her way to Charlotte.
- U.S. sets new record — for national debt.
- Sigh – who really wears this button? It matches nicely with the “Sluts Vote” button.
- BREAKING: War might be making young bodies old.
- Admit it – at some point you’ve wanted to take a stab at someone for messing with your food. Killed Over Cheetos.
- Four Marines accused of beating a gay man. Ok – it’s not funny, but… 1. I question that a bartender fought off four Marines until the police arrived. and 2. The onlookers might’ve had conflicting feelings about what they were seeing. “You just saw fists, and muscles, and tattoos, and all those guys were on top of him,” David, the victim’s boyfriend, said.
Whatevs
- Famous Celebrity Republicans. p.s. IMO Drew Carey was more attractive chubby.
- Politics on Social Networking Sites
- Americans want Wifi on flights, but they don’t want to pay for it. (Truth – I do expect wi-fi to “just be there” as a fairly standard service. It’s just a cost of doing business these days.)
- Faced with a Five-Page Limit, Lawyer Files Cartoon Amicus Brief with Proper Font Size
- iPhone 5 Rumors
- Depressed woman ‘fed herself to crocodiles’ at popular Thai tourist attraction.
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George Will said he didn’t know how Obama was going to top Bill Clinton’s speech last night. Interesting thought anyway.
As you know I am not a Bill Clinton fan. And last night I was channel flipping between the football game and the convention via commercials. I caught the Clinton speech and it was an amazing speech. I could debate points he brought up, but with that said, he is the best I have ever seen at this………..He hit it out of the park.
I read the speech…his statements were misleading or spun. They don’t refer to him as Slick Willie for nothing. I will do further analysis and provide documentation when time is available. For one thing, Clinton never ran a surplus when one takes into account the raid on the social security trust fund. The national debt increased every year under Clinton.
Harry,
I am not debating the substance, I am just saying it was a great performance. As you know I have been very critical about some of his economic policies………But with that said, it was a great speech performance. You have to see it to get my point.
Oh yes, I have great respect for his abilities. After all, the guy made $20 million in one year from speeches.
Here…already done for you…
http://factcheck.org/2012/09/our-clinton-nightmare/
(just to prieview…other than 1 disagreement…most of it was rated true)
The Annenberg Center is holding themselves out as a “fact checker”? Ha, give me a break.
On the overall philosophical drive of the speech, it’s clear that Clinton and Obama have a basic worldview that is a different world from the conservatives/libertarians. Clinton/Obama believe in the goodness and workability of centralized, top-down solutions to everything. Conservatives believe in bottom-up, decentralized systems.
$447 billion for one million jobs is $447 thousand per job. 40% of that , $178,800 would be borrowed money. I think I’m glad it was blocked.
Now if he’d just OK’d the Keystone XL it would have produced around 50,000 jobs and cost the government nothing.
Well he is the most popular politician alive today. His skill is distilling issues into easily digestible information. for voters. Not too many politicians have that skill.
@caroline and John, right on! The Big Dog was truly on his game last night and made every true Southern Democrat proud. Bill Clinton was the greatest President of my adult life, those 8 years the best for our country in every way (in spite of Republicans besmirching him with an unhealthy interest in his sex life). It’s too bad we cannot re-elect him at this time when taming our national debt is so crucial!
You like to be lied to?
Sometimes I pay extra for it.
“A woman who was suffering from depression is believed to have fed herself to the crocodiles at a popular tourist attraction in Thailand.”
Now that’s depressed.
Best Morning News lineup in a long time. Substance and lots of laughs. Good start to the day!
I rather enjoyed the amicus curiae brief… thanks for posting!
Question: Is the ASO publicly or privately funded?
That’s a pretty solid collection of bitter and angry Morning Reads…something you saw last night must have got you all worked up.
Hi. I’m Bridget.
Hi, I’m Bob.
I would hazard a guess that her comments were meant more as Snark than Anger?
But then again, this is coming from a frequent purveyor of snark. My view may therefore be biased.
No discussion of the widening development scandal in Gwinnett and the sentencing of Shirley Lassiter?
Is it that difficult to go back 5 posts?
http://www.peachpundit.com/2012/09/05/the-continuing-story-of-a-quack-whos-gone-to-the-dogs/
I was referring more to the lawyer’s quote that no honest developer can make a living in Gwinnett. So more to come perhaps?
While agreeing with the idea of charter schools and the poor direction of public schools I suspect when the supporters win for education the funding pendelum will be swung too far from equilibrium. The probable result will be the public school children will suffer as administrators will resist change to their bureaucracy.
We going to need some rational lawmakers on the playground that can build a good fulcrum to balance. In these times of loading sides on the seesaw, it might be impossible.
Why is your post so full of simple machines?
Moderation and balance – were you the kid that said he’d play mice and then jumped off the seesaw ?
i -spellcheck – nice
I would put mice on one end of the seesaw and then jump on the other, launching them over the swing-sets and into the jungle gym.*
*j/k No animals were harmed in the production of this post.
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