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  • More Tea Party “/facepalm”

    Jon Stewart caught something I completely missed. [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 3:18pm EST
    by ALmod

  • Teabaggers v. Holocaust Survivors

    Number of comments: 7
    How is it exactly that something like this somehow flew under the MSM radar? I suppose that using the Holocaust is convenient when you’re opposing health care reform– until the survivors start calling you out on it. Then, all you have to do is just sit back and read the comments to [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 8:01pm EST
    by ALmod

  • A “Woman’s Problem”

    Number of comments: 1
    It struck me today in this whole abortion debate over the House bill that there still exists a certain mentality. Before I go further, let me address my own views.  I’m personally pro-life, but I also know (as a woman who has experienced pregnancy and childbirth) that the issue of women [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 11:10pm EST
    by ALmod

  • You stay classy, Paepcke!

    Number of comments: 4
    Anyone who reads my blog knows I’m not a Langford fan.  And I think the guilty verdict was deserved.  Heck, Langford’s own defense pretty much consisted of “Langford did it, but…”  There are no buts.  Langford did it and admitted it.  It’s nice that you think he’s a swell guy [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 2:40pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • Answering Questions: A Response to BrokeSnake

    Number of comments: 2
    In response to Five questions that linger for me about Health Care reform: My apologies to BrokeSnake for not simply leaving a comment, but there is a character limit, and so I’m taking this opportunity to answer him on my own blog. 1.  Do people want good, low price health care or [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 2:07pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • The Stantis Cartoon You Didn’t Get to See

    Thank you to Matt Murphy for posting it, and of course to Scott Stantis for drawing it. [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 12:25pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • I’m not sure if this is good news or bad news for Troy King…

    Both Alabama senators are throwing their backing behind someone else. Now, considering how popular Shelby and Sessions are among local Republicans, that can’t be good news for King.  However, being backed by Shelby and Sessions isn’t the sort of thing that bolsters my support of any candidate, so I have to [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 10:59am EDT
    by ALmod

  • Larry Langford Isn’t the “Big Fish” for the Feds

    Many people have asked…  If this isn’t a case of political persecution, then why hasn’t Bettye Fine Collins been indicted yet?  That’s a good question. Well, let’s set aside the whole fact that the FBI has been for some time up to their eyeballs in public corruption cases.  Typically, it’s in [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 10:56am EDT
    by ALmod

  • More Epic Fail: Denying Infants Health Insurance

    He’s four months old. It’s not like there’s anything he could have done to cause himself to be particularly chubby.  His mother isn’t overweight.  As Jon Stewert put it (paraphrased by me), it’s not like his mother’s breasts are named Ben and Jerry. [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 1:30pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • Epic Fail: Could someone please teach the private insurers how to lie properly?

    Number of comments: 1
    Again with releasing extremely misleading reports that fact check themselves? The newer study was conducted for the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association by the consulting firm Oliver Wyman, which also says its findings on premiums would be different if it factored in other aspects of the bill… [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 3:36pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • I guess they weren’t that lucky, after all…

    So yesterday I talked about how AHIP was about to get a lot uglier and how their attempts of late seem to be really backfiring on them.  Somewhere between revoking the health insurance of a congresswoman’s child for a torn eardrum and releasing a report that fact checked itself and [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 2:26am EDT
    by ALmod

  • Ugly? You haven’t SEEN ugly.

    Number of comments: 1
    Robert Stein has a great writeup on how we ain’t seen nothing yet as far as health insurance interests rallying opposition to reform.  Now that Congress will be working on a final bill for the full vote of both houses with all sorts of ways for it to be hacked [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 4:09pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • The Heart of the Problem: Part II

    Over the weekend, I asked around online to see whether or not people were familiar with basic facts about the U.S. Constitution.  While it wasn’t exactly a scientific poll in that I didn’t go out of my way to take an accurate sampling of the population, the numbers were still [...]
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    Posted: October 12, 2009, 10:50am EDT
    by ALmod

  • Limbaugh Humor

    As much as I really don’t like Rush Limbaugh, and despite the fact that I almost never agree with him, I actually found his crack about Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize to be snicker-inducing: “Can you imagine, folks, how big Obama’s head is today?” Rush Limbaugh, the conservative talk-show host, told his [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2009, 7:52pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • I’m rooting for… Tom Delay?

    Apparently I have an underdog complex of some sort.  I have to root for them (and Mark Dacascos). Of course Delay isn’t as good as the other competitors on Dancing With the Stars.  Every single one of them is either a performer or a professional athelete.  Tom Delay is a 62-year-old [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 11:29pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • Be careful what you wish for. (You just might get it.)

    Not too long ago, the right wing argument against health care reform went something like this: We don’t want single payer.  Canada and the UK are scary.  We want private insurance. We don’t want a public option.  We want the private insurers to be able to profit, and we don’t think private [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 4:07pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • The Heart of the Problem

    So here I was just reading the letters sent to The Birmingham News, and this one letter in particular stood out to me.  Here’s the letter, and I’ll see if you can pick out what it was: Health care: Country headed for fall In last week’s Viewpoints section, a Baptist preacher proclaimed [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2009, 6:29pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • On the misuse of “centrist” and “bipartisan”

    Take a walk on over to The Moderate Voice for an excellent piece on this.  I really don’t think there’s anything I can add to it. [...]
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    Posted: September 21, 2009, 11:15am EDT
    by ALmod

  • Ahoy, Landlubber!!

    Yaaarrr!  Today be International Talk Like a Pirate Day! [...]
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    Posted: September 19, 2009, 1:11pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • Rick Sanchez to Fox News: “Your pants are on fire.”

    Number of comments: 1
    I have to admit I was rather baffled to hear a few people comment on the 9/12 rally by saying that the “other news networks” weren’t there.  I suppose this would explain it. [...]
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    Posted: September 19, 2009, 12:15am EDT
    by ALmod

  • Is This What Americans Want? Really?

    It was the acceptance speech hijack heard around the world– or at least the part of the world that watches the VMAs.  Taylor Swift won an award and started thanking everyone when Kanye West snatched her mic away and declared that Beyonce Knowles should have won.  (I might add that [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 12:08pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • You really can’t make this stuff up…

    Number of comments: 2
    For those using the “no federal dollars for illegal aliens” rallying cry against health care and are holding up Joe Wilson as your newfound hero, there’s something you should know. However, in 2003, Wilson voted to provide federal funds for illegal immigrants’ healthcare. The vote came on the Medicare Prescription Drug, [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 3:29pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • Time to Sell Out?

    Number of comments: 2
    Dan’s move got me to thinking about it. With a busy family and all these days, I just don’t have the time to cover every little thing in politics that I’d like and still have a life.  This has taken me to where I will save up some stuff and then [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2009, 4:00pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • How to Address an Issue Without Addressing the Issue

    If anything, I wonder if Democrats shouldn’t be thanking Joe Wilson right about now. His outburst has created a discussion on the true status of illegal immigrants in regard to H.R. 3200.  And what appears to be getting through is the truth, for once.  I wonder if that discussion would have [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2009, 9:07pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • Obama’s Further Attempts to Indoctrinate Children

    Yesterday, I addressed the problems with Obama’s school speech and his plans to use the very holiday of Christmas to spread his evil lies.  Today, I will reveal his more sinister plans. As we all know, the Kenyan government has plotted his election since the 1960s.  Barack Hussein Obama was not [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2009, 12:59pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • Obama Set to Use Christmas for Propaganda

    Number of comments: 5
    As you may have heard, U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama plans to deliver a speech to school children on Tuesday.  This shameful attempt to indoctrinate our children is without excuse for certain; however, it would be my great pleasure if I could only tell you that it ends there. As you [...]
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    Posted: September 06, 2009, 4:02pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • This can’t be right…

    Number of comments: 1
    So I’ve recently come to the conclusion that polls are b.s.  Some of that has to do with the fact that I took a look at wording and how questions are asked.  (Wording is very important, as I often remind my husband when he gets my drive-thru orders wrong.)  Take [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2009, 2:04pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • Prickly City vs. Birthers

    I absolutely love Scott Stantis’s Prickly City.  I read it every day.  This week, he’s been touching on the birther nonsense, and today made me laugh out loud. [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 1:13pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • “The dog doesn’t speak French, sweetie.”

    Number of comments: 1
    Above is a self quote I never imagined I’d hear– until about 5 minutes ago. Isabella has recently discovered the fine art of getting the dog to do tricks for her if she gives the dog a treat.  I gave Isabella a couple of dog treats, and I went about unloading [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 5:41pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • Chuck Norris Endorses Roy Moore

    Looks like Barrens chat today will be a little more interesting.  I just hope we don’t see another commercial like this with Roy Moore in it. [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 1:30pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • FactCheck.org and Jon Stewart vs. Betsy McCaughey

    A lot of other folks have already posted on this, but I was waiting on the response from FactCheck.org before I covered it as well.  I did leave a rather lengthy comment over at Left in Alabama, though.  For those who haven’t seen the interview, you can find it in [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 1:17pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • Sen. Ted Kennedy Dead at Age 77

    Not much I can add to the news.  The reactions I’ve read have ranged anywhere from outright rejoicing and gloating (from the far right) to all but declaring him a saint (from the far left).  I guess no matter which way you spin it, the name “Kennedy”  stirs strong emotions [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 12:29pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • Worst Headline of the Day

    Children under age of 12 being banned from Dothan hospital as swine flu precaution The article specifies that they are not allowing children under 12 as visitors– not banning children as patients. Children under age of 12 being banned from Dothan hospital as swine flu precautionChildren under age of 12 being banned [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2009, 12:14pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • Quote of the Day

    Jon Stewart (to Fox News) – “Welcome to liberalism, f**kos!  See you guys at Sean Penn’s barbecue this weekend.  We’re haveing tofu bourguignon– it’s French AND vegan!” The Daily Show last night was absolutely hillarious!  The quote from above was from the end of a segment (which you can watch if [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2009, 12:08pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • Poll: 48% of Alabama residents don’t know what “conservative” means.

    Okay, well not quite, but I had to take a little dig.  Ron Paul is a conservative, and 48% of the state didn’t support Ron Paul.  In fact, they canned him for being against the Iraq War.  I did get a small kick from this quote: “There’s no doubt the Republican [...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2009, 10:22am EDT
    by ALmod

  • First Blackledge. Now Stantis.

    Just as one of our best reporters for The Birmingham News has gone to the greener pastures of the Associated Press, we are now losing a very talented cartoonist to Chicago Tribune.  Just can’t keep ‘em in Bama, but I can’t blame them.  Both Blackledge and Stantis were always the [...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2009, 10:01am EDT
    by ALmod

  • An Idea for Those Who Favor Reform

    Number of comments: 7
    On the heels of my last, rather heated post, I have a rather interesting idea to “rally the troops” so to speak for the proponents of health care reform. How about an organized effort to demand that opposing senators and congressmen opt-out of their own government health care plans?  Make ‘em [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2009, 1:27am EDT
    by ALmod

  • Health Reform Opponents Adhere to Wizard’s Rules

    Number of comments: 5
    Brace yourselves for a long ride. Wizard’s First Rule: “People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2009, 2:21pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • BFC doesn’t like the new JeffCo tax bill.

    Color me shocked. It’s not exactly the way she wants it to be– shoved down everyone’s throat and/or at the same rate.  So of course she’s stamping her feet. Whine & Gripe #1 – It’s not fast enough, and it doesn’t collect enough. “The bill reduces the amount we collect,” she said. “It’s [...]
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    Posted: August 13, 2009, 6:32pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • On Privacy

    I have to give a tip of the hat to Joe Windish over at The Moderate Voice for finding this.  I needed a good laugh. As he points out, you should go back and watch the news ticker at the bottom.  There is an absolutely side-splitting headline. Those darn EULAs. [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2009, 8:50pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • Utter FAIL in the Attempt to Argue Against Government Health Care

    This made me giggle more than just a little bit. In a nutshell…  A conservative editorial decided to criticize the British health care system in an attempt to argue how us having such a system would be oh-so-horrible and of course went straight to the rationed health care and euthanasia scare [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 8:54pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • Sen. Sessions to Host Town Hall on Health Care

    Because the best person to inform the public on a bill is someone who’s vehemently opposed to it and tends to encourage misinformation?  And of course, the glass-eyed masses in this state will eat it up like ice cream.  Not that they’re interested in any serious discussion on the issue, [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 11:29am EDT
    by ALmod

  • Glenn Beck has never heard of cookies or EULA statemets?

    Number of comments: 4
    Here’s a clip I found amusing: The line Beck is so worked up about is basically an agreement for the owner of the program/site (in this case, that would be the U.S. government) to monitor you while you use it.  There are a number of reasons for this and a number [...]
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    Posted: August 08, 2009, 1:41am EDT
    by ALmod

  • Origins of the Kenyan Birth Certificate Revealed

    They got Punk’d. More info here. And here. Of course, most people could tell the obvious forgery within a few minutes from various things (like the fact that E. F. Lavendar is a soap).  Still, it was only a matter of time before someone punk’d the birthers if only to show that they’d [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2009, 7:47pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • Alabama AG Troy King, Defender of Justice

    He needs a cape and some tights.  Lorretta Nall has noted that the AG is “tweeting”.  I’ll be adding the feed to my blog.  The comment she featured had me in stitches, as it made me think of a politician/comic book superhero combo. Where on earth is J. D. Crowe and [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 10:11am EDT
    by ALmod

  • I’ll let you insert the watch pun here.

    I came up with roughly 30 in the last five minutes (including the one I used last time) or so and I couldn’t decide on one, so you’re welcome to take your pick for the title of this entry. I didn’t exactly have enough time to dedicate to a full entry [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 9:21am EDT
    by ALmod

  • Birmingham Blush

    Larry Langford has come up with an idea to turn Birmingham pink for October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  He’s spending $5000 on pink lightbulb covers and other changes that will give Birmingham a blush.  While I’m sure it’s the thought that counts, that money would be better spent [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 9:12am EDT
    by ALmod

  • You can almost feel the trial drawing near…

    Number of comments: 1
    If the propaganda littering Birmingham City Hall is any indication, Larry Langford REALLY needs you to like him right now.  Yes, YOU could be a juror. EDIT: Now with pictures! [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2009, 6:51pm EDT
    by ALmod

  • Today in DUH: Obama Edition

    First, let me start out by saying that I’m sorry it’s been so long since my last posting.  I was going to blog on the whole JeffCo thing, but chances are you’ve heard from other sources by now, and quite frankly, I was WAY too mad to write anything sensible.  [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2009, 10:55am EDT
    by ALmod

  • A Question for LaLa

    How do you have a groundbreaking for construction of a domed stadium when no plan or design has been approved? [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2009, 2:08pm EDT
    by ALmod
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