The World Around You

Very ironic that this story appeared on thesmokinggun.com just three weeks ago. Check out the actual coverage of Thurmond’s death on the same website: J. Strom Thurmond Dies.

Be prepared, that’s what I always say.

Just as I’m about to go to bed, this comes across the wire, Ex-S.C. Sen. Strom Thurmond dies at 100

Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a one-time Democratic segregationist who helped fuel the rise of the modern conservative Republican Party in the South, died Thursday. He was 100 and the longest-serving senator in history.

Thurmond died at 9:45 p.m., his son Strom Thurmond Jr. said. He had been living in a newly renovated wing of a hospital in his hometown of Edgefield since he returned to the state from Washington earlier this year.

I would never put down any man who can live to be a hundred, I hope I’m lucky enough. However, he is a man I cannot honor even in death. I appreciate his public service; feel for his family and friends, but I am not sad that he is gone.

As I suspected, my post has been removed, and I think my IP has been blocked by the SAFRR website. Typical!

Just in case SAFRR choose to remove my post here it is: WHEREAS most Alabamians are not going to pay more in taxes under the Governor’s plan. WHEREAS the information you link to from Governing.com indicates that the amount of Revenue Alabama brings in is woefully inadequate and the tax system is extremely unfair. WHEREAS the Governor’s plan eliminates the income tax on those least able to pay it. WHEREAS the federal government continues to put new mandates on the states with no money to fund them, especially in education, and the states are forced to generate the funds themselves. WHEREAS there is no other plan that will balance the budget based on current revenues without dramatically harming the citizens of Alabama. I do hereby support the plan passed by the Alabama Legislature and urge all Alabama citizens to do the same.

Please post to the Guestbook of the South Alabamians for Real Reform. They are one of the leading opposition groups in the state and were written up in today’s Mobile Register.

Once again, if you are in support of the Governor’s plan it might be a good idea to show up at one of these meetings to make your opinion known: CSE to Hold Organizational Meetings.

The Birmingham News is starting to connect the dots in the case against former Governor Siegelman: Siegelman got a trailer same day Young bought one.