Wednesday's Blogs from the Bog!
Wednesday's Blogs from the Bog!
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Elbert out to protect boxing chickens
APR 2 See, here's the thing about reading the newspapers in Louisiana on the first day of April. You're never sure if you're being punked or not. This post in the Picayune tells of a law aimed at strengthening our ban on cock fighting. State Sen. Elbert Guillory says he's worried it will have a negative impact on the (completely different) less violent "sport" of "chicken boxing." Say what?
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APR 2 Here's a post on The Foundry featuring an interview with Bobby Jindal, in which he explains why he "spoke out" to support Phil Robertson back during that publicity stun--- um, incident earlier this year. It contains this statement: "Jindal found himself thrust into the spotlight." Right. Because when there's a national spotlight hanging around, Bobby's running like a raccoon with a Robertson on his tail.
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Forget global warming, this is a real crisis!
APR 2 NOLA Defender gives us the grim details: there's a lime shortage. Apparently, a combination of "weather and warfare" has brought about a shortage of the lovely citrus that plays such a major role in the Margarita. What will we do without our Margaritas? Summer is coming! We could get scurvy!
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APR 2 Sorry, but this is no April Fool's Joke: LaPolitics reports here that the Jindal administration has found (or maybe somebody found it for them) a $49 million mistake in the funding calculations in this year's budget. So here's the question: which is scarier? That they say they've easily plugged it? Or that they made a $49 million arithmetic mistake? Maybe they should take that Common Core math class!
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HuffPo: New Iberia example of WWWA
APR 2 Dylan Ratigan writes about New Iberia in this Huffington Post story, and holds it up as an example of the World Wide Wave of Action. What's that? Good question. There's an explanation, of sorts, and of course there's the presumptuous proclamation that New Iberia is poor, segregated and country.
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So they get the 'satanic' starbucks story??
APR 2 The Daily Advertiser sure isn't known for getting the story (or getting it right) but man, they are right on top of this one. Here's a story about a lady who bought a coffee at Starbucks in the Baton Rouge mall and was "appalled" to see her caramel spelled out 666. As usual, an important question is left unanswered (and unasked): If satan isn't in Starbucks, or in a mall, or in Baton Rouge, where else would he be?
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CB: next we'll be looking to the tooth fairy
APR 2 That CB, he just can't let it go. Every time you turn around, blogger CB Forgotston is getting all medieval on the state budget, insisting that things be paid for with actual money. In this post, he's whining about that big gap in the budget, and how the administration seems to be planning to dig up Aunt Fanny's coffee can in the back yard to plug it.
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Crews continue to shoot excellent footage
APR 2 Here's a story from WAFB about the latest video of the Bayou Corne sinkhole sucking down trees and land. Parish emergency crews keep getting great videos, and Texas Brine has moved their contractors into the houses that residents aren't allowed to live in -- and those seem to be the only developments.