After your conviction, you should probably shut up. Judges can add on to your sentence if you show a lack of remorse. Larry said that he was treated worse than Jeffrey Dahmer, while his wife said he was treated worse than Hitler. (Hitler, of course, suicided before he could be put on trial.) Larry also claimed that the witnesses against him never said that they gave him any “gifts” even though they testified that they did.
Make that 850 years
November 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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Good one, Larry
November 3, 2009 · 1 Comment
Said attorney thinks that FBMLL would have received less than five years under the plea. He’s facing over 800. But Larry swears he’s not guilty.
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Introducing BMCS
October 28, 2009 · 1 Comment
She’s just interim mayor. Eventually there will be a special election to fill out Langford’s term. Those are always fun.
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That’s former Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford now
October 28, 2009 · 1 Comment
At least now we’ll know where to find him. FBMLL faces 803 years in prison, though I’m sure he can get a couple of centuries knocked off for good behavior. He also has to forfeit the strangely exact sum of $241,843, which he doesn’t have. Apparently, most of this was bribes paid in clothes.
In a related note, nobody knows how old he is.
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I love these guys
October 28, 2009 · 1 Comment
There’s one of these “King James Believing” Baptist churches near my house. Apparently, the idea is that the KJV — translated, mind you, fifteen centuries or so after the New Testament under the authority of a semi-Catholic monarch — is the unerring Word of God. I don’t think most of the others go to the extremes of saying that the other Bibles should be burned, but given their premises, it’s not too surprising. The ultimate expression of a certain strain of Baptism is one guy holding a flamethrower shaped like a Bible.
Contemporary Christian music really is a tool of the Devil, though.
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He’s just that lucky!
October 13, 2009 · 2 Comments
This story’s delightful — I was incommunicado when it broke or I would have posted on it before. Apparently, BMLL went to Greenetrack and Victoryland to play electronic bingo, and won. Like, a lot. Apparently, employees would take Crazy Larry around and point out the machines he should use, and he’d put his money in and out came his winnings. It’s almost like the games were rigged or something. Anyway, Milton McGregor — that guy again — is getting sued over this.
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At about 9:15…
October 10, 2009 · 1 Comment
There is a line of dialogue so spectacular that they should get an award for it. I’m thinking the first ever Nobel for insanely wonderful dialogue. It’s really something special.
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French people are stupid
October 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment
I Guess They Don’t Do Oppo Research In France – Swampland – TIME.com
I mean, this sort of thing… American political operatives would have been all over this. Any American political operatives at any time. You think that the Federalists didn’t go over Jefferson’s writings with a fine-toothed comb?
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Sigh.
September 30, 2009 · 4 Comments
47% of households owe no tax – and their ranks are growing – Sep. 30, 2009
Yes, this is true — no income tax. That doesn’t take into account withholding taxes for Social Security and Medicare, which are regressive and take a huge cut from most people’s paychecks. Focusing on the income tax is a common right-wing trope that seemingly is trotted out to make you feel sorry for rich people.
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