Tuesday's Blogs from the Bog!
Tuesday's Blogs from the Bog!
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Playing shell games with the IRS
MAY 13 Legislators and Jindal administration officials are "quietly" moving money around because they're worried the IRS will enforce rules regarding the spending of it, The Lens reports in this post. At stake is $70 million in bond proceeds, earmarked for state projects. They're shuffling it around, hoping the IRS won't notice, Tyler Bridges writes. Hey -- that sounds like a GREAT idea. The IRS will never notice!
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Lamar on "state-sanctioned bigotry"
MAY 13 Blogger Lamar White Jr. has a little bit to say here to all those who believe their personal religious position regarding something should determine how everyone else in this country lives. Spoiler alert: he's not a fan.
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Good thing it wasn't a death sentence
MAY 13 A man who spent 34 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit has been released, WVUE reports in this post. The current District Attorney found misconduct on the part of prosecutors and police in the man's conviction, the story tells us, dismissed the charges and won't be refiling.
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MSNBC: Jindal "preoccupied with reality TV"
MAY 13 MSNBC thinks our governor is obsessed with reality TV. Whether it is (alleged) religious attacks on the bearded gentleman of Duck Dynasty or a home improvement network's decision to can the flipping show of a pair of brothers who have protested the existence of gay people, Bobby Jindal can't seem to keep quiet about it, Steve Benen writes. Oh -- and Jindal "doesn't seem to understand what the First Amendment means," he writes.
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Here's a question that has come up
MAY 13 A guest blogger on Louisiana Voice is asking a question a lot of us have asked lately - who the heck is that Quin Hillyer guy, and why do we care what he thinks? Hillyer, who recently popped up as a columnist for the Advocate, is downright offensive in his partisanship, writes Stephen Winham, and recently ran for a congressional seat in Alabama, where he lives.
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CB shares his letter to the leges
MAY 13 Since it doesn't seem that they've heard about it, blogger CB Forgotston has taken it upon himself to inform our legislators of a few problems that might warrant their attention. Here he's posted a letter he sent to them, advising them of another "loan" that the Jindal administration is seeking to keep a state entity's lights on.
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MAY 13 NOLA's zoning board will have to wait to eradicate the scourge of T-shirt shops from the French Quarter for at least another month, NOLA Defender reports in this post. A judge halted a vote on closing the shops after an attorney for 10 of them filed a motion. The city says the judge issued the order because the city won't comply with a public records request, which the city says is "irrelevant to the issue at hand." Say what?
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MAY 13 Apparently, blogger Bob Mann has had just about enough of Bobby Jindal's posing as a religious defender. If you want to see what real defense of religious liberty looks like, read Ted Kennedy's 1983 speech at Liberty University, Mann writes, instead of that "fraud" of a speech that Jindal delivered.