Thursday's Blogs from the Bog!
Thursday's Blogs from the Bog!
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A LITTLE SOMETHING WE CALL THE FACEBOOK
JUL 31 Blogger Rod Dreher is offering excerpts, as he often does, from a blog he's found interesting. This time, the subject of his interest is the ubiquitous Facebook, but it's a creepy view of the social media format, and how predators can use it.
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LOUISIANA STEREOTYPES REVISITED
JUL 31 Here's a fun post on the Movoto blog about Louisiana stereotypes. These 10 are accurate, the blog posits, and it's really not wrong. Most of them are pretty positive - as opposed to other stereotypes about us, which also aren't all wrong.
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JUL 31 Columnist Jim Beam is writing about our veterans, who may be wondering if someone has forgotten about them. It's time to quit the political yammering and fix the VA, Beam says. Veterans didn't wait to volunteer, and they shouldn't have to wait for decent care, he says.
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LAMAR BREAKS DOWN ABORTION RULING
JUL 31 A federal appeals court struck down a Mississippi law that mirrors the law Louisiana (and Texas before it) passed, attempting to outlaw abortions by requiring physicians to have hospital privileges. It's complicated, and our mainstream media have not been doing a good job of reporting on it, so here's blogger Lamar White Jr.'s analysis to give you some better information.
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ANOTHER DUBIOUS HONOR FOR LOUISIANA
JUL 31 Well, here's one more story about us that nobody's going to be hanging on their refrigerator. David Wasserman of the Cook Political Report posts this commentary on the Washington Post about Lenar Whitney, a candidate in the 6th District Congressional race. He calls her "the most frightening candidate I've met in seven years interviewing congressional hopefuls."
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KENNEDY CONTINUES TO PUSH FOR INVESTIGATION
JUL 31 State Treasurer John Kennedy, who also sits on the board that oversees State Police retirement, continues his push to have the so-called Edmonson amendment investigated, blogger Tom Aswell reports here. The director of that retirement system says an investigation is coming, but he's waiting on lawyers to tell him what to do.
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CB: REPEAL WON'T FIX THE PROBLEM
JUL 31 Given the controversy, and the fact that the guy in question has vowed not to take the money, some people are talking about repealing the so-called "Edmonson amendment," blogger CB Forgotston says. But that's not a good idea, he says, whether you're trying to sweep something under the rug or just honestly think it's the right thing to do.
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IS BATON ROUGE READY FOR PROGRESS?
JUL 31 Here's a post on DIG Baton Rouge about the so-called fairness ordinance up for consideration before the city's Metro Council. Last week the council deferred action, but that's not the news, writes Nick BeJeaux: It's the people who support the law aimed at protecting gay folk from discrimination, he says. One of them is a reverend who was ashamed of how he sounded on tapes of a radio show. He said some are trying to discriminate using "a cloak of Christianity" and he doesn't want to participate in that.
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BUZZ ON RISER, EDMONSON, JINDAL
JUL 31 Here's the transcript of the weekly Bayou Buzz radio show. This week, bloggers Stephen Sabludowsky and Jeff Crouere are discussing Neil Riser and the Edmonson amendment, Bobby Jindal's "over reach" on Common Core, and Vance McAllister.