E L James I get, but how (I say HOW??) is Honey Boo Boo one of Barbara Walters’ 2012 Most Fascinating People??
Georgia
- Governor Nathan Deal warns Georgia legislators there will be no money for new initiatives
- Fulton-Atlanta watchdog group might shut down
- Senator Josh McKoon calls for ethics commission funding
- State turns attention to juvenile justice reforms
- Atlanta 911 operators protest council raise. The workers want Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed to veto the measure. “It’s been 10-plus years since we’ve had our increment raise from the city of Atlanta. We’ve always been told there no money for us in the general fund,” Benjamin said. Wonder how Benjamin feels about there apparently being enough money for a new stadium…
- Fulton County DA seeks indictment against former teacher accused of abusing students. The case was first handled as a human resource matter and centered on the abuse of a single child. Then a $10.5M civil suit led to the discovery of four other victims. The judge ruled that the initial student is entitled to a private education for the next five years that will be paid for by Fulton County schools.
- Two of DeKalb’s top prosecutors leaving for Cobb
- Manpower: 8% of Atlanta employers look to hire in Q1
- SACS has given Georgia Perimeter College a 12 month warning to fix problems or lose its accreditation
- Oh? Community redevelopment at Southern Poly?? I’m listening. Video from 11Alive of Marietta exploring a “campus town atmosphere”.
- When they say “What happens in Athens stays in Athens” – they mean it. A guy hacked personnel records of current and past employees of UGA; he is now dead.
- FBI seeing spike in metro Atlanta bank holdups. People still physically go into banks?
- Buh. I feel like a broken record, but - Plant Vogtle delayed at least 1 year likely causing hundreds of millions of dollars in extra costs. For funsies, go towards the bottom of my post from June and try to click on the link I labeled “Westinghouse has lost their mind.” The article is now password protected and unavailable.
- Windowpane falls off 24th Floor of BB&T building
- F-22 Finale — Transfers mark demise of fighter program at Lockheed. 500 high-skill, high-paying jobs leaving Cobb.
Inter/national
- 160 CEOs To Congress: Fiscal Cliff Deal Must Include Tax Increases
- Hillary Clinton’s congressional testimony on the Benghazi attacks has been set for Dec. 20
- Cory Booker: Everyone’s middle name can be ‘entrepreneur’. The 43-year-old Democrat suggested people needed to take a broader view of entrepreneurship. For example, someone with 100 Facebook friends or 10 people following them on #waywire are media creators. They’re entrepreneurs. Entrepreneur: You’re doing it wrong, Mr. Booker.
- Google’s tax avoidance is called ‘capitalism‘, says chairman Eric Schmidt
- Oregon Mall Shooter Jacob Roberts Quit His Job, Seemed ‘Numb’ Before Attack
- Gross. Spain arrests woman with cocaine breast implants. What kind of trouble does a woman have to get herself into to think surgically inserting coke jellies is her life’s best available option?
- Florida nears 1 million permits for concealed weapons
Whatevs
- TED Talks: 11 great 15min videos worth watching on how to work smarter. PP Community: if you have an “in” to get me a ticket to the next TED event in Atlanta, I would REALLY appreciate it.
- Religion aside – if you want great 15min podcasts, check out Andy Stanley’s monthly podcasts on Leadership.
- Marissa Mayer’s Flickr revamp takes on Instagram. Bridg Fact: I have a business crush on Marissa Mayer of Google fame.
- Delta expects $1.6 billion annual profit. This is one day after Delta reported its plans to spend $360 million to gain a 49 percent stake in Virgin Atlantic. While we’re on Delta, they will also launch direct Atlanta service to Love Field. Hopefully the fare will be competitive with Southwest and I can go back to getting Skymiles when flying to Dallas.
- I loves me some Oprah. Bridg Fact: I did not watch even one of her daytime shows. I have to say though – her Life Classes and “Next” shows have simply been fantastic, and I DVR them all. What I Know for Sure About a Difficult Climb
- Travel + Leisure includes an Atlanta restaurant in its list of Best Sushi Restaurants in the US
- Video: CeeLo Green – Mary Did You Know. Disclaimer: it’s graphic in parts, but beautiful. The video features scenes from the upcoming March 2013 miniseries The Bible. It will be produced by Roma Downey (Touched By An Angel) and Mark Burnett (The Voice, Survivor, Shark Tank, Celebrity Apprentice). Should be pretty good.
- Video: Lea Michele from Glee – O Holy Night. Teen show or not – this girl is talented.
- 10 Best Commercials Of 2012
- Kanye West Wears Leather Skirt For Madison Square Garden Concert
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A) Yet you still hate on my H-BB.
ii) “Windowpane falls off 24th Floor of BB&T building” Gives new meaning to the lyric–”I make it rain on ya, like a windowpane.”
3) Maybe flying Delta internationally will be a little less annoying now.
It pains me that you won’t debate me on anything other than Honey Boo Boo or the Archdiocese stance on immigration reforms. I judge you.
How about… is Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr. the greatest American or greatest human of all time?
Here is a Christmas Story.
http://chamblee54.wordpress.com/2012/12/13/she-is-nursing-the-baby-jesus-2/
That was a very cold story, 54. They’ll come get you for posting stuff like that.
As always, you’ve selected some first-rate photos. I like the one of the barber shop.
Florida may have raw numbers but we got a higher percent of our population with licenses. So there!
According the US Government Accounting Office, Georgia has 600K Weapons Licensees representing 11.5% of Georgians over 20 years old. Florida is only at 6.2% of their 20+ yo population.
Gun toters are a big constituency here in Georgia. Hopefully, they remember that Casey Cagle opposed allowing them to carry in more places and schools. He was quoted as saying “Let me be very, very clear. I have no appetite for that” http://onlineathens.com/stories/010609/new_374268576.shtml
Pollster Whit Ayres says gopers have ‘run out of’ white voters and they either have to start engaging Latin voters or risk becoming a ‘regional party’. Start with immigration reform, he says, and don’t forget those Latino candidates either.
http://hispanicleadershipnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/RRHLNDec12HispanicMemo.pdf
The Republicans would be stupid to push amnesty (cue John McAmnesty).
First, doing so would ensure a tidal wave of new Hispanic voters who vote Democrat. Reagan did amnesty for 3M. Did that help the Republicans? Did it ever? Nope.
Second, the great Mexican Immigration Wave may be over and their/my demographic may have peaked. Michael Barone wrote in http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/335181/end-wave-michael-barone#
“Life in Mexico is not a nightmare for many these days. Beneath the headlines about killings in the drug wars, Mexico has become a predominantly middle-class country, as Jorge Castañeda notes in his recent book, Mañana Forever? Its economy is growing faster than ours.”
After 4 more years of pathetic Republicans and the Marxist, we all may grateful our border with Mexico is porous. It makes getting into Mexico and a job easier.
If they risk being a regional party only they’d be the party of the regions with the fastest population growth.
Just, fwiw.
Whit’s a bright guy. Folks ought to pay attention.
Brig – I used google’s “way back machine” feature (i.e. cached pages) to find the “Westinghouse has lost its mind” article.
I’ve shortened it, but it’s here: http://goo.gl/v4IJH
In addition to getting Rick-roll’d, you’ve taught me something new today, Jackster. Congratulations, you’re my new internet crush.
I put the the web address in the Google search box, then clicked on the double chevron on the right , then clicked on cached. Et voila! Brilliant.
I’m always trying to hone my e-stalking skills, so feel free to always share goodies like this.
Glad i could bring some enjoyment to your day today. Don’t lie – it’s a good song.
While I don’t really enjoy being taxed, I don’t enjoy having my state and communities in which I live take steps backwards, either.
So here’s my conundrum: Do our legislators and governor have the wherewithal to raise taxes in order to pay for services and regular programs? I mean we’ve cut most everything else, but I really honestly feel like an increase in revenue would not go where it would be most needed. It would probably go to some ridiculous program that would by political capital.
But alas, “fees” and “bed taxes” and other things will be more appealing because you’re not actually raising a tax to provide a service. However, that to me is what the government is in business for.
I only say this because I would rather have a higher tax rate than be $20 and $200′d (not nickle and dimed) whenever I need the state to do something so that I may comply with its laws.
A bigger problem – and the TSPLOST and stadium issues make this crystal clear – who defines “most needed”? It means different things to different people.
Yep. We’re about to pay a $50 permit fee for doing some electrical work at the farm. Gotta love asking for the government’s permission, and then having to get their approval once we’ve done the work. :-/
(Granted this is at the county level, not state…)
“F-22 Finale — Transfers mark demise of fighter program at Lockheed. 500 high-skill, high-paying jobs leaving Cobb.”
Any ideas how to replace them and get still more? Any leaders to put those ideas into place?
Incidentally, it is curious why Cory Booker, the mayor of a small, poverty-ridden, largely insignificant city, gets so much publicity, especially in these parts.
The Oprah Effect. I had no idea who he was until his “Next Chapter” episode.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNQMxAMCvlY
AA: Hon, you can be ANYone you want to be online – especially under your anonymous profile. Why do you choose to be mean little man? :/ Breathe, dude. It’s gonna be alright.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I226Sfgs0s
I didn’t realize that I was being mean. I apologize. But there have been several mentions of Booker on PP recently, including one just yesterday.
If you liked Lea Michele in O Holy Night you have to hear her sing Auld Lang Syne. Best version I have ever heard. Do yourself a favor and go to You Tube now.
I don’t call patronizing anyone from the cast of “Glee” doing myself a favor. (And yes, I feel the same way about watching a guy accused of drugging and raping a woman sing “Mary Did You Know.” I am not a soldier in the culture war, but still. Come on people.)
LOL! Have some coffee, AA. You sound grumpy this morning. I’ve never seen Glee and became aware of Michele only after seeing the movie, New Years Eve. It is a really good version of the song.
Deal: No money for initiatives ? That’s how he got rid of Rogers – promising to fund his GPB initiative and probably not rolling some other card. Is that still good ? Did he doublecross him ?
Whoever comes up with the story behind the exodus will be the blogger of the year !
I think Galloway covered it fairly well in his last column before he began his vacation. I’m not sure there’s any reason to try and make this harder or more complicated than it is.
If you are talking about this one:
http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2012/12/04/chip-rogers-exits-to-georgia-public-broadcastiing.
Then we had other news reporting that Deal agreed to fund the initiative that creates Rogers’ job and now the morning read that Deal might not fund initiatives.
Guess the dots just don’t connect in the flowing stories. And no, I don’t believe a better opportunity just came along with a public job for a newly re-elected uber-conservative Senator to resign (with a $250k war chest) & Deal to schedule a special election just in time.
Galloway on Chip: http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2012/12/08/a-christmas-miracle-marks-the-end-of-a-tumultuous-era/
Thanks – so it was a miracle…..So was the transition from, shouldna loaned us the money we couldn’t repay to don’t need money.
Nothing to see, movin’ on.
Not a Deal fan, but I don’t have a problem with Deal’s pronouncement. The public has stated that they do not want new taxes (via the T-SPLOST) to create the revenue for new programs, so that means no new programs. Or “initiatives.” Sometimes, certain GOPers have this thing where they allow people to believe that they can still have the programs – or initiatives – that they want without having to bother with raising the revenue needed to pay for it. If Deal is letting his cohorts under the gold dome know that he isn’t putting up with that sort of false advertising, good for him.
Meanwhile, local areas that are not opposed to raising the revenue that is needed for new initiatives via taxes (i.e. the ones where T-SPLOST actually passed) should not be held back from doing so by those that are not.
Here’s the video econ lesson for today about taxes and deficits…
http://youtu.be/ABEM2r2QR_0
Is that the same guy that said there is no national debt because our nation can print the money ?
CD12 fight took nearly $10 million, with a majority of the money from independent expenditures
Just saw that there was a reporter who asked Chris Christie if he was ‘too fat’ to be prez. He says ‘no.’ What say you?
His BMI is probably lower than Taft’s, and there is no constitutional limit on weight. I suppose you mean, do I think he weighs too much to be elected President? No, but it certainly does not help.
Hmmm. Wonder why no one ever asked Obama if he was too liberal or too inexperienced to be president? The media “vets” one party and cheerleads for another. It so unfair …
Thanks for the news!
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