Friday's Blogs from the Bog!
Friday's Blogs from the Bog!
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ARE THERE SOME GRAMMATICAL ERRORS UP WITH WHICH YOU WILL NOT PUT?
NOV 14 Here's an amusing post from columnist Jarvis DeBerry. In it, he's telling us about the grammatically rigid response to a (possibly poorly-written) tweet following an accident. The comments on DeBerry's post are as entertaining as the post itself.
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NOV 14 This opinion piece in LSU's Reveille is harsh, proclaiming that Bobby Jindal's presidential hopes are "based on delusion." Hey - we're not saying he's wrong. But, dang.
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NOV 14 The Public Affairs Research Council called for better oversight of the state employees' health insurance plan, blogger CB Forgotston tells us in this post. The Jindal administration says there's plenty already. If that's so, who missed all these recent screw-ups? CB wants to know.
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OH, BOY! WHERE DO WE GET OUR TICKETS?
NOV 14 Sarah Palin and the duck people will be campaigning for Bill Cassidy, CNN reports here. They'll be headlining a "unity rally" up in Monroe. This begs the question: Unity of what? Or whom?
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BOBBY'S GOING TO MEET THE PRESS
NOV 14 Bobby Jindal will appear on this Sunday's Meet the Press program, this post on NBC reports. The governor will speak about lots of stuff, like how bad the health care law is, how bad Obama is, how he's prayin' real hard about 2016 -- but looks like not much about Louisiana.
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WELL, WE KNOW ONE OF THEM'S A LIAR!
NOV 14 Given the disparity between their views on the budget (More than $100 million in the bank vs. more than $100 million in the hole) it's clear that either Treasurer John Kennedy or Commissioner of Administration Kristy Nichols is wrong, columnist James Gills writes in this post. Given the accusations firing back and forth, it's equally clear that one of them is not telling the truth, he adds.
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HOW ACT 1 SCREWED UP A SALARY PLAN
NOV 14 Blogger Mike Deshotels writes here about how Act 1 has impacted the salary plan in Evangeline Parish. Act 1 used money as a carrot to get people to give up seniority and tenure, he says - which is exactly what its creators had in mind.
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HARVARD STUDENTS FLUNK LOUISIANA VOTER TEST
NOV 14 Recently a group of Harvard students sat down to take the 1964 test that our state used to require people (well, let's be clear: black people) to take in order to be "allowed" to exercise their right to vote, the Daily Mail reports here. They all failed it.