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Those Decatur Nazis

I’m not talking about the anti-smoking Nazis or the tax increase Nazis, either. From the AP:

DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — From the ground, the Wesley Acres Methodist retirement home looks like any other building. But fly over in an airplane, and the outline is unmistakable: It’s one big swastika.
Prompted by complaints from a Jewish […]

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Birmingham News Notes that Joe Namath is about to Graduate from U of A

Nope, it’s not some sort of glitch.  The legendary quarterback has been taking distant learning courses and is about to complete his degree.  Hopefully others will follow his lead.
Olin said Namath will help draw attention to the university’s external degree program, which is for people age 26 and older who want to graduate from […]

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You’ve Got to Fight For Your Right (to Vibrate)!

The Alabama sex toy saga continues. The Mobile Press-Register is reporting that Representative John Rogers will be introducing a bill to repeal Alabama’s prohibition on the sales of vibrators and dildos.
A Birmingham legislator has filed a bill that would revoke the state’s 10-year ban on the sale of sex toys, a prohibition that has […]

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Alabama Ticketgate Scandal Should Be Investigated

Dan doesn’t think Alabama’s latest political scandal is such a big deal, but Brian does. The issue to which I refer is the recent allegation that the Alabama and Auburn football programs have been providing a large amount of football tickets to state legislators and government officials.
While these”gifts” have been declared legal IAW state ethics […]

Posted in Fiscal Responsibility, Election Reform, Wasteful Spending, It's a Southern Thang, Alabama Politics | 4 Comments »

Magic City Math

I was talking with former Birmingham City Councilor Jimmy Blake the other day.
“Yo, Jimmy,” I casually asked. “Whassup with your new mayor and his tax increase proposals?”
Blake looked at me and slowly shrugged his shoulders, but had no immediate response. This is the first time I can recall Blake at a loss for […]

Posted in Fiscal Responsibility, Economic Policy, Wasteful Spending, Taxes, It's a Southern Thang, Alabama Politics | 2 Comments »

Baptists to Prohibit Blogging?

Alcohol prohibitions from Baptist conventions aren’t all that newsworthy, but this certainly caught my eye:
Georgia Baptists approved a controversial resolution against blogging during their annual meeting Nov. 12-13.
The resolution said blogs are used by “certain people … for divisive and destructive rhetoric at the expense of peace among the brethren.”
A group of younger blogger-pastors have […]

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Huckabee’s Base Identified

Some of the language is NSFW.

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On the Cover of the Rolling Stone

Love her or hate her, Loretta Nall clearly provides more color to the Alabama political scene than all of our state politicians (John Rogers notwithstanding, maybe…) combined. I’ve certainly had a lot of fun tag-teaming with her on media campaigns — the most notable one being when we developed her FlashForCash campaign, and then […]

Posted in Tech, Bad Republicans, Supreme Court, Just for Fun, Sex and Politics, It's a Southern Thang, Ron Paul, Libertarian Movement | 9 Comments »

More Alabama Tax Increase Proposals

Because the case against Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford was dropped, Dan says he’s moving to Huntsville, presumably so he won’t have to pay more in taxes for a domed stadium that the voters kill time and time again and even self-identified progressives don’t want.
Dan has made a wise decision in selecting Huntsville, as other locations […]

Posted in Wasteful Spending, Taxes, It's a Southern Thang, Alabama Politics | 4 Comments »

Alabama Spreading STDs to Mississippi and Tennessee

Like some nasty venereal disease, Alabama’s Take Back Our Highways campaign continues to erupt anew, leaving pustules of tickets along the public roads in our state. For those not from Alabama, this is a zero-tolerance campaign where cops are pulling people over for every imaginable and imaginary infraction possible. During the last eruption […]

Posted in Bad Media, Zero Tolerance, Civil Liberties, Bad Republicans, It's a Southern Thang, Travel, Alabama Politics | 3 Comments »

Free the Jack

This is really hitting close to home.  Because of my affinity for bourbons and related American whiskeys, and because the Jack Daniels distillery is just a few miles north of me, I’m more upset about this particular government seizure than other noteworthy ones over the last few days.   General background:
Here’s a sobering thought: Hundreds of […]

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SexToyTroy, Piggies and Political Cartoons

Three days ago, when I reported that Alabama Attorney General Troy King plans to ask the state legislature to toughen sex toy laws in the state, I never imagined how comical the issue might eventually become. My friend Loretta suggested that people should mail the AG some sex toys, but ultimately decided to mail […]

Posted in Culture, Bad Republicans, Civil Liberties, Just for Fun, Sex and Politics, Alabama Politics, It's a Southern Thang, Graphics, Libertarian Movement | 4 Comments »

Attorney General King Tries to Stick It to Sex Toy Distributors

When the Supreme Court refused to hear the Alabama sex toy case, the powers-to-be decided that the way to law was written in Alabama made it too difficult to prosecute business owners on intent-to-distribute charges.
The state law is “too vague to pass constitutional muster,” Vance ruled. He questioned the law’s definition of “substantial” in […]

Posted in Health Care, Civil Liberties, Bad Republicans, Culture, It's a Southern Thang, Sex and Politics, Alabama Politics | 2 Comments »

Another Alabama Straw Poll Victory YouTube

Here’s Matt Chancey and John Killian addressing Ron Paul supporters at a picnic/rally following the straw poll victory. Once again, Killian was a very interesting speaker.

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Ron Paul Wins a Georgia Straw Poll

I’ll simply cut-and-paste from the e-mail I just received:
I’m a fan of your blog and former Huntsville-Mobile Alabamian. I thought you might want to see the results of the straw poll the Macon MeetUp group held at the Georgia National Fair this past week.
Ron Paul - 84 votes - 55%
Fred Thompson - […]

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