A passenger boards in Philly for Frisco. He goes nutty, and the plane has to divert to Pittsburgh:
Why? The guy’s making a total ass of himself. Time for Rule 5 at 5,000 feet. The guy ends up being humiliated by a stewardess.
Now, if it’s legal, fine. If the dope is prescription, fine. A note from your doctor, however, is not an excuse for crappy behavior. If taking the medication precludes air travel, so be it. You can’t always get what you want, and the need to have a safe, low-stress flight trumps any dude’s need to be baked at altitude.
This is not the deed for which one wants one’s 15 minutes of fame.
MONTGOMERY, Ala.
Pubs and alehouses like Tondee’s Tavern served as meeting places where colonists planned the American Revolution, and that tradition is being carried on by Tea Party activists in Alabama. Every Tuesday is “Patriot Night” at Montgomery’s Deja Vu Billiards, owned by Republican congressional candidate Rick Barber:
By the way, describing Barber as a “pool-hall owner” may be somewhat misleading about his business background. After his service as a sergeant in the Marine Corps, Barber launched a computer technology firm that grew to $1 million in annual revenue before he sold it in 2005.
So as a lifelong Massachusetts Republican I appreciate the irony in these pictures. We sent Scott Brown to DC on Thursday and by the weekend hell really had frozen over.
Just for reference here, when Tom Tancredo talks about literacy tests, that’s what they used in the south to keep black people from voting before civil rights legislation and court rulings put a stop to that.
So the convention opened with a clarion call to bring back the literacy tests for voting. And as you could hear, the tea party convention crowd erupted in cheers at the suggestion, although, to be fair, it was sort of hard to tell exactly what the sounds coming from the crowd meant. They were sort of a little bit muffled by, you know,the white hoods.
Paige says Colorado Springs attracts new residents and economic growth “by actually putting America’s limited government ideals into practice.” In this, he asks us to forget that one of the city’s biggest employers is the defense industry – that is, an industry that has absolutely nothing to do with “limited government” and everything to do with the hugest of Huge Government. Continue reading The Constitutional Delusions of Sirota’s Mind →
That was before the Super Bowl, where the Saints made a fool of me. During the first quarter of the game, we made a pizza run to Jim’s Bait Shop — the nearest convenience store, which in addition to serving Hunt Brothers Pizza also sells guns and fireworks. I ate four slices of pizza and fell fast asleep on the sofa before halftime, not awakening until midnight when I got a call from Wlady Pleszczynski of the American Spectator, inquiring about an overdue article.
It’s not just the article that’s overdue. My return to Maryland has also been unexpectedly delayed. I’d planned to be back home in time for the Super Bowl — this is the first time in 22 years I’ve missed our family’s annual Super Sunday party, as my wife reminded me — but the record blizzard changed that plan. And now there’s this news of a gubernatorial debate Monday:
The Christian Coalition of Alabama will host its second gubernatorial forum at 7:00 PM, February 8th, 2010 at Taylor Road Baptist Church located at 1685 Taylor Rd. in Montgomery, AL. Candidates for the Democratic nomination Congressman Artur Davis and Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks will be in attendance, as will candidates for the Republican nomination Robert Bentley, Bradley Byrne, State Treasurer Kay Ivey, Tim James, Bill Johnson, and Judge Roy Moore. The forum is expected to last approximately 90 minutes, and candidates will answer questions posed to them by a panel.
So if I stay here until tonight, I’ll have another big story. And the state Christian Coalition has made news recently, too:
Out-of-state observers might find it curious that the chairman of one of Alabama’s leading faith-based groups, Randy Brinson of the Christian Coalition, held a news conference last week to criticize efforts by Gov. Bob Riley to shut down casinos in Alabama.
The Christian Coalition’s support of gambling establishments would seem counterintuitive to the casual observer. But this is Alabama, where political donations that buy influence flow from one political action committee to another faster than you can say “bingo.”
An Associated Press analysis of campaign finance reports shows the Christian Coalition of Alabama received more than $12,000 from in-state gambling interests last year. Race PAC gave $8,000 to the Christian Coalition after receiving donations directly from gambling interests and from other PACs funded mostly by gambling interests. A sister group, Watch PAC, reported $4,500 in contributions to the Christian Coalition last year after receiving contributions from gambling interests.
Meanwhile, it appears that the big snowstorm up north has done something the a majority of Alabamians would certainly endorse: Shut down the federal government. So, no news from D.C. until Tuesday and therefore I might as well stay in Alabama another day, right?
Hit the tip jar, folks. Mrs. Other McCain might not kill me when I get home, but I don’t need to go home empty-handed. And did I mention that Jim’s Bait Shop sells fireworks?
Jimmie mentions the Troy King story and it so happens that, during Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcaat, Alabama CBS affiliates aired an ad from King’s GOP primary opponent Luther Strange”s “campaign to restore honesty, integrity & trust to the office of Alabama Attorney General.”
