I am thankful for Alabama

Jekyll's Guest said:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100601/pl_ynews/ynews_pl2329

It has managed to make me grateful that I live in Texas, no small feat :D

My giant novelty cowboy hat is off to you.

Oh South Park, truly you are the font of all knowledge!

EDIT: Gah, this should probably be in US Politics. Feel free to move it.
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My brain hurts:
Last month, a shadowy GOP group attacked Republican gubernatorial hopeful Bradley Byrne as believing the Bible "is only partially true" and suggested he believed more in evolution than in creationism. Byrne slammed the ad as "utter lies."
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In the wake of Arizona's controversial immigration law, James, a Republican gubernatorial hopeful, made waves with an ad saying it was not in the public's interest for Alabama to license drivers who can't speak English. "This is Alabama," he said. "We speak English."
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Well... in the sense that a person who grew up speaking English would have a better chance of understanding someone from Alabama than someone who grew up speaking another language... yeah.

I have to say, to a degree, I can relate. I would like it if there was a standard language in the U.S.A., or at least a standard for how well you're able to speak it. (Though that would affect some native speakers as well.)
On the same token, I really wished our edumacation system would make it more important to have students learn a secondary language, beyond just English.
As a little kid, I thoroughly enjoyed our Latino teacher teaching us words and phrases in Spanish, found it a lot easier to pick up then than I do now.
Edit: Did find it sorta funny that the over all stance of my school was that we learn, and would only need to learn, English, when we were also taught various prayers and songs in Spanish.
 
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If you're running for governor and can't find an issue more important than languages available for drivers license tests, you probably are competent enough to handle something as complex as a state budget.
 
Oh, it has been fun down here.

The reason for the big brawls is that the current Governor, Bob (don't dare call him Robert, not here in Alabama) Reilly, is leaving due to term limits, so the race is wide open. Reilly is quite conservative, but at least has shown a reasonable amount of intelligence and wit and hasn't been overly hung up on the social agenda (except for Gambling--he's strongly against that), so he's 'tolerable'.

The seven Republicans are all trying to get to the right of the current Governor, who is already well to the right, to "appeal to the base'. Primary voting in Alabama is restricted, you have to declare at the voting site if you want a Republican or Democratic ballot, so they are trying to appeal to the tea-party types who will be motivated to come out to vote in June. Hence the ads.

The Democrats are just a loopy, there are two candidates, one black and one white. But the black candidate is not part of the "network" of black politicians and activists, so they are supporting the white candidate, while a lot of whites are supporting the black guy.....

I'm sorta rooting for Judge Roy "10 Commandments in the Courthouse" Moore to win, because (1) It would probably let the Democratic candidate win and (2) If Moore wins, it will keep the rest of the country entertained for 4 years....

Voting was today. We shall see.
 
Wow... just, wow. Hat's off to you, Hutch, for putting up with all that crazy :)
 
Well, the party hack won the Democratic nod (the white guy). Republican race hasn't been called from what I can see.
 
Jekyll's Guest said:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100601/pl_ynews/ynews_pl2329

It has managed to make me grateful that I live in Texas, no small feat :D

My giant novelty cowboy hat is off to you.

Oh South Park, truly you are the font of all knowledge!

EDIT: Gah, this should probably be in US Politics. Feel free to move it.
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My mother was from Alabama, and I've visited the state several times. Based on that experience, I am quite comfortable asserting that probably every stereotype anyone has ever heard about Alabama is demonstrably true. It's known as "Alabamastan" for a reason. Actually, several reasons.

Sorry if you live in Alabamastan and find this hurtful. I've lived in Texas my whole life, and therefore have little sympathy. You can take your lumps like everyone else. ;)
 
negativ said:
I've lived in Texas my whole life, and therefore have little sympathy. ;)
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I'm sure you don't.
Rose Bowl Alabama 37 Texas 21 :D

I lived in Alabama for several years as well, "The Buckle of the Bible Belt." None of those ads really surprise me. Shortly after I first moved there a hurricane in the gulf was projected to possibly make landfall near the Alabam coast. The governor at the time went on TV and asked everyone to pray and ask god to divert the hurricane away from AL. I realized that I wasn't in Kansas anymore.
 
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FenerFan said:
I'm sure you don't.
Rose Bowl Alabama 37 Texas 21 :D
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Run for it, FenerFan! You might make it out before the sports pedants get here.

Oh, .... too late!


It was in the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, but it was the BCS championship game. The Rose Bowl, itself, is January 1st and is always Big 10 versus Pac 10 conference winners.
 
Foolmewunz said:
Run for it, FenerFan! You might make it out before the sports pedants get here.

Oh, .... too late!


It was in the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, but it was the BCS championship game. The Rose Bowl, itself, is January 1st and is always Big 10 versus Pac 10 conference winners.
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:o

I guess I have lived here too long. I now consider football to be a sport that is played mostly with the feet. :)

Regardless of my mistake, I still think that Bear Bryant did a great job with the Tide. My hat's off to him.
 
FenerFan said:
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I guess I have lived here too long. I now consider football to be a sport that is played mostly with the feet. :)

Regardless of my mistake, I still think that Bear Bryant did a great job with the Tide. My hat's off to him.
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:D Yeah, I've always loved the Crimson Tigers, myself.
 
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Hutch said:
Oh, it has been fun down here.

The reason for the big brawls is that the current Governor, Bob (don't dare call him Robert, not here in Alabama) Reilly, is leaving due to term limits, so the race is wide open. Reilly is quite conservative, but at least has shown a reasonable amount of intelligence and wit and hasn't been overly hung up on the social agenda (except for Gambling--he's strongly against that), so he's 'tolerable'.

Voting was today. We shall see.
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An example of how big an issue gambling is here:
http://blog.al.com/live/2009/12/gov_bob_riley_wont_collect_on.html
 
It was near civil war in my house this January as I am a Bama grad ('77) and Ms. Tricky is a Longhorn grad. (I don't say UT, because everyone knows that it Tennessee.)

Back to the election, the results were not shocking, but I'd say that no Democrat has much of a hope in Alabama of being governor, at least since Moore didn't make the run-off. So I guess I'll have to cheer for whichever one is least creationist, which in Alabama means, "The bible is literally true, but they may have gotten some of the punctuation wrong."
 
Alabama has a highway named after the guy who played Goober on The Andy Griffith Show. I saw it when I drove through there some 15 years ago and never got over how hilarious that is. Seriously though, when I passed through, I found Alabama to be a lovely place, and I experienced very little hillbilly rape.
 
johnny karate said:
Alabama has a highway named after the guy who played Goober on The Andy Griffith Show. I saw it when I drove through there some 15 years ago and never got over how hilarious that is. Seriously though, when I passed through, I found Alabama to be a lovely place, and I experienced very little hillbilly rape.
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Yes, George Lindsey is from Alabama. There is also The George Lindsey/UNA Film Festival at The University of North Alabama (in Florence, AL) every year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lindsey
Maybe later I'll relate my story of going to his house in Nashville to shoot an interview with him several years ago. It was interesting. ;)
Hillbilly rape is pretty rare these days (and Deliverance was set in Georgia). ;)
 
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