Tag: Alabama
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It came from Alabama
TALLADEGA — Alabama Rep. Steve Hurst wants you to know he is for gun rights. The District 35 Republican from Talladega gets his message across at parades in a very unmistakable way: He uses a giant revolver as a parade float. (And a barbecue. The gun is actually not a balloon but a large barbecue […]
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‘Bama greeks still unsure about desegregation
This might as well have been written in 1964. Welcome to Tuscaloosa, 2014: A modest proposal encouraging Bama’s fraternities and sororities not to discriminate or segregate on the basis of race died in the student Senate last week—after it was sunk by senators with Greek sympathies, according to several of the bill’s sponsors. … The proposed […]
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Tea party facts are whatever they want them to be
Sometimes you can spot a prick just by looking at him, and, like Ted Cruz, Alabama congressional candidate Dean Young looks like a prick. This Q & A with The Guardian confirms it. Apart from the United States, which other country do you admire? Young: I’m not a big world traveller, so I don’t know. Who […]
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The story of a charmless man
Nick Saban is a lovely guy. Just before he reaches his Mercedes, Saban is approached by an Alabama fan who wants to thank the coach for signing a football for his son. It meant so much to the boy, the man says. Saban gives the man a confused look, as if not comprehending how this […]
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The base
Alabama teabagger: “What I need from you is to know what you can do, you and your fellow non-communist colleagues in the lower House, what you can do to stop these communist tyrannical executive orders laid down by this foreign-born, America-hating communist despot?” GOP congresswoman: “Thank you for your question.”
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