Category Archives: alabama

Crazy In Alabama

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Crazy In Alabama”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail You know how the NRA always says that new gun laws won’t stop the latest tragedy from happening again? That is at least as true about SB15. Now sailing through the state house, this bill … Continue reading →

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Alabama Man Kills Bus Driver, Holds Child Hostage In His Backyard Bunker

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Alabama Man Kills Bus Driver, Holds Child Hostage In His Backyard Bunker”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail FINAL UPDATE: The FBI has released pictures of Dykes’s property. Here is the speaking tube at his front gate: UPDATE 18: The FBI Special Agent … Continue reading →

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Alabama Goes Full Retard, Elects “Twinkle”

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Alabama Goes Full Retard, Elects “Twinkle””FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Roy Moore is once again Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, replacing the last Democrat on the state’s highest bench. He says he won’t try bringing graven images into state … Continue reading →

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Alabama State House Rally for Women’s Rights

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Matt Osborne

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Alabama Will See Things We’ve Never Seen Before

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Alabama Will See Things We’ve Never Seen Before”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailAlabama won’t be getting a new dime of new revenue. Governor Robert Bentley has taken the no-new-taxes pledge, so instead lawmakers will fill the hole with cuts to Medicaid and … Continue reading →

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The SB12 Transvaginal Ultrasound Blues

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “The SB12 Transvaginal Ultrasound Blues”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailPosey Peep Show is a Vegas burlesque act. They’ve come up with an amusing little ditty about Alabama’s SB12, which would require rape-by-the-state for any woman seeking an abortion before 10 weeks gestation.

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Morning Awful: Justice Delayed is Justice Denied

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Justice Delayed is Justice Denied”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailA Colbert County grand jury added Ashley Greenhill to its indictments in the strangling, mutilation, and desecration of Amanda Leeth Taylor. No one who knew Ashley was at all surprised by … Continue reading →

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Santorum, Gingrich Appeal to Authoritarians in Alabama

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Santorum, Gingrich Appeal to Authoritarians in Alabama”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail The Laurens County, South Carolina Republican Party has high standards for its candidates. They have to pledge their opposition to abortion under any circumstances, their support of unlimited gun ownership, … Continue reading →

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The Road From Selma

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “The Road From Selma”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThis is as much of the event as I could capture. After reenacting the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march, a crowd of at least two thousand people gathered before the historic Alabama state house … Continue reading →

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Alabama Women Fight Back Against SB12

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Alabama Women Fight Back Against SB12″FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailHopefully there will be lots more of this.

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God Strikes Limestone Correctional Facility

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “God Strikes Limestone Correctional Facility”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail So I am in Montgomery, escaping the softball-sized hail raining on my hometown, and reading about the storm damage to Limestone Correctional Facility, when I find out about this. It’s from a … Continue reading →

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