Georgia

What is going on? Is Dr. Michael Carpenter a mini-John Bolton in the making?
The timing of the recent protests was to be expected. They sound as if Joe Biden is about ready to use Georgia for his “doomed” presidential campaign in much in the same vein as John McCain attempted to do back in August 2008. The explanation of what happened during the protests depends on who you are listening to, and how you well you are able to separate fact from the carefully-crafted rhetoric.

Tomlinson (left) and Amico (right)Georgia still has a PVI that shows it being a red state-- R+5-- but it has been behaving more and more like a swing state lately. I've spoken with operatives working for Bernie, Biden, Kamala and Warren who feel like Georgia is in play for their campaigns.

....weave an intricate tapestry.  Mike Pompeo Goes to Saudi Arabia and UAE to talk Iran and undoubtedly Turkeyabove is the original image included in the Guardian article this morningDon't forget the targeting of Turkey in all this.

Upwards of 10,000 protesters attempted to storm Georgia’s parliament building on June 20. The crowd swarmed the building during what at first glance appeared to an anti-government rally. They demanded the resignations of top officials, allegedly in response to a speech made by a member of the Russian Duma. It now continues on a daily basis, however, with less violence.

 "The heat is on" is not a reference to temperature or the cult of global warming.Slang:  a time of great activity and/or pressure has begun Stormy. Acrimonious. And surely there were outside hands setting this fire alight. There are some points of interest in the articles below.

Who said religion and politics don’t mix? Religion is one of the failsafe of any politician – lie and cheat and abuse people, and if you say that your actions are motivated by religion, everything will be forgiven. Trump was even sent to us to save Israel!

Renee Unterman and Marqus Cole (GA-07)The congressional race in GA-07-- the suburbs northwest of Atlanta-- was very tight in 2018. Stacey Abrams carried the district in her gubernatorial race but Carolyn Bourdeaux had a breathtakingly close defeat at the hands of Republican incumbent Rob Woodall-- 140,430 (50.1%) to 140,011 (49.9%).

Submitted by George Callaghan…
Not many people have heard of South Ossetia. This is an autonomous state that nestle in the Caucasus Mountains. The Ossetian people – whether from the north or the south – are one and the same. They speak the Ossetian language. It is an Iranian language. Its closest relative is Pashto which one hears in Afghanistan and the Khyber-Pukhtunwala of Pakistan. Unless you are an ethnographer this might seem like double Dutch.

Yesterday, OklahomaWatch reported that 5 former legislators just joined the ranks of the army of state lobbyists working their former colleagues. The new malefactors are:

by NoahTonight's meme is offered in the context of what the misogynistic, scared little mentally defective repug molemen (and a few female accomplices) of Republican legislatures in now third world shithole states like Georgia, Alabama, and Ohio have been doing in recent weeks to brutally suppress women and crush their right to reproductive health care and the freedom of choice.