Captain Plaid, an especially surly and snarky Scot from the East Alabama Highlands, takes on the Big Mules of the Yellowhammer State. Ventures beyond the borderlands, across the river to the East most frequently, will also be necessary. From Goat Hill to The ATL to The Smokies to the Gulf Coast, it's Peace ... or War!
Rob Richie and Ryan O'Donnell via Tom Paine gives us a nice angle on individual states electing to award electoral college votes to the national popular vote winner. States Rights indeed! Peace ... or War!
My DD gives us some basics for grassroots efforts as to avoiding Bad Meeting Syndrome. We've all sinned yet surely we can do better. Peace ... or War!
The Anniston Star alerted us via this editorial to a possible attempt to do an end run around solid historians and other reasonably professional and presumably sane people controlling the Alabama Historical Commission. Shame on Representative Randy Wood! Peac ... or War!
Kudos to Senator Ted Little of Auburn in getting a unanimous decision out of his Ethics and Constitution Committee that might actually lead to the ballot this fall having a vote on the issue of holding a Constitutional Convention. Getting the mere option of letting the voters decide to hold a convention out of the House might be harder. Especially with godly men like John Giles of the Alabama Christian Coalition springing to action to rally his troops. Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform and other groups need our help in pushing back against the Big Mules! Until this document is trashed this state will always struggle in shedding control special interests have via Goat Hill. Peace ... or War!
First of all, regrets, if any are appropriate, to Alabama's own Jimmy Buffett, as he mentions a Frank Bama/Captain Bama is his Where's Joe Merchant. You can buy the book at Amazon, Powells, Barnes and Noble, and ... Plus Jimmy's got Margaritaville if you have a serious dose of Parrothead. Mr. Buffett I've bought your books and albums and ... please forgive me if I've sinned. Plus you've got more money than God!
Educated at tolerable public schools and the finest non-ABA accredited yet Church of Christ affiliated part-time/night law school in the entire state of Alabama, I've managed to play lawyer, teacher, student, farm hand, activist/organizer, infantry soldier ... A recovering Southern Baptist, I'm almost a Buddhist Cowboy these days although a variant of Vonnegut's Bokononism might work. My dog tags read Unitarian Universalist. I suppose secular humanist might work as well as anything. Running from the law for nine plus years, I first did GTA work at Auburn and then spent the next five years with hormonal teenagers. Supressing my Scots enough to not strangle any kids, and indeed I learned much about patience and kindness, I taught various Social Studies preps in west Georgia public schools. Frustrated with bumbling bureaucrats and pushover parents and ..., plus knowing the 2006 elections were critical, I set aside the chalk to work a Congressional campaign. Enlisting at the seasoned age of 41 in the summer of 2007, I'm now ...
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