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Wednesday's Blogs from the Bog!

Wednesday's Blogs from the Bog!

• ASWELL: DHH REPORT IS A BUNCH OF BALONEY

  AUG 6 Conservative bloggers and Jindal apologists may have swallowed them, but blogger Tom Aswell isn't buying the rainbows that the state Department of Health and Hospitals is selling. The DHH issued a report recently about Jindal's privatization scheme, which still has not been approved by federal Medicare and Medicaid officials.

• DREHER: BISHOP SAYS "TRUST US"

  AUG 6 Blogger Rod Dreher writes about the current upheaval in the Lafayette Diocese in this post. The Bishop's statement to the people? Trust us. The problem with that is, history has given Lafayette Catholics good reason not to trust the Diocese when it comes to pedophiles, Dreher writes.

• PR: JINDAL "A FORMER HINDU FROM INDIA"

  AUG 6 Here's a post on Salon (really, it's not the Onion) about good ole Pat Robertson talking about our own Bobby Jindal. Apparently, Pat is a big fan, and was recently caught on the 700 Club musing, "Wouldn't it be great if we had a president who was a former Hindu from India?" Listen up, Pat: Bobby may have been a Hindu, but he was born down the street in Baton Rouge - because he was an anchor baby. So there.

• CB: WE'RE GETTING THE SHORT END OF THE STICK

  AUG 6 Blogger CB Forgotston says the board overseeing state police retirement is engaging in foot-dragging. The board claims to be investigating the so-called Edmonson Amendment, but they're not really, he says, because they're waiting until (get this) the executive director retires. Wow.

• MORE NATIONAL COVERAGE OF DUTEL

  AUG 6 Here's a post on the Raw Story blog about a local priest whose name was raised in a recent investigative PIECE about child sexual abuse allegations and convictions by Minnesota Public Radio. Mostly it focuses on the standing ovation the priest received in his church when he appeared at Sunday services.

• OLLIE TYLER'S RECORD QUESTIONED

  AUG 6 Ollie Tyler, a top state education official who served as superintendent while Bobby Jindal was suing people to get John White the job, is running for mayor in Shreveport. This post on the Forward Now blog questions her qualifications to run that fair (?) city.

• NODEF'S LOVE LETTER TO A BIVALVE

  AUG 6 Did you know there's a National Oyster Day? Well, there is, and this is the NOLA Defender blog's celebration of the delicacy, including a recipe from Emeril to try.

• DESHOTELS: TENURE NEEDED NOW MORE THAN EVER

  AUG 6 If there is any time that teachers needed tenure, it is now, writes blogger Mike Deshotels in this post. He's covering a lot of ground here, including local and national threats to teacher ethics and integrity, Campbell Brown and the necessity of teacher unions. Although he's always been affiliated with one of them, Deshotels is urging teachers to join either union to protect themselves.