Birmingham Blues

So our esteemed Speaker of the House wants to change the name of the “Capitol Holiday Tree” to “Capitol Christmas Tree”? Doesn’t he have anything better to do with his time? Dude, the country is mired in a war, and your party is falling apart. Pandering to the uneducated may help in [...]

My father got the results of his brain scan and PET scan yesterday. The cancer has not spread anywhere outside the lung. This is very encouraging news — and better than he expected. I was worried as well; my limited research indicated that most lung cancers aren’t detected early enough for effective [...]

State Rep. Steve Hurst (D-Pandering) has prefiled a bill to require the words “God Bless America” on Alabama license plates. He wants everyone to know that Alabama is part of the Bible belt. Really? Gee, otherwise no one would ever have a clue.
Hurst said he got the idea when the saw [...]

I can’t begin to enumerate the blessings in my life, but I count among them my blogosphere friends. May you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day and holiday weekend with friends and family, food, good conversation, and lots of love. Songbird at Set Free has shared her husband’s words for the day, and [...]

My father has lung cancer. I’m still trying to get my mind around those words. I came home on Saturday from a quick trip to Montgomery to the news that he had a mass in his lung. Both doctors who had reviewed the CT scan were convinced it was a tumor. [...]

Steve M. at No More Mr. Nice Blog has a good piece on the “swift-boating” of John Murtha. It seems Murtha called for a pullout of troops from Somalia in 1993, which, according to Newsday, led directly to 9/11. The Newsday writers conveniently forgot to mention all the other good Republicans who were [...]

Michael Scanlon, a former aide to Tom DeLay, pled guilty to charges of conspiring to bribe public officials and has been singing like a canary since July. I sure hope the Feds have him in a secure location. He’s also Jack Abramoff’s former business partner, and Jack has some pretty unsavory friends.
Funny — [...]

…how ’bout them Dores? It is a big ol’ honkin’ deal for Vandy to beat Tennessee at all, much less in Knoxville. I have told people for years that I attended two universities without football teams, one being Vanderbilt. No more! Way to go, guys — you make us proud.
FYI, the [...]

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Of course, Wal-Mart had no idea that its subcontractors were hiring undocumented workers. Yeah, I believe that….