Thomason Tracts

Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions opposes expansion of global AIDS program- al.com

He says because of the $10 billion a year (for five years) price tag, which is absurd on the face of it. What’s $10 billion to the federal government? The real reason is that he hates gays. (Ironically, Troy King is a protege.) He objects to the lifting of the ban on HIV-positive people immigrating to the US. Who else has rules like this? Just thirteen countries, including fine global citizens like Iraq, Libya, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Sudan. Our peers!

Vandals make racist attack | TuscaloosaNews.com | The Tuscaloosa News | Tuscaloosa, AL

Multiple attacks, really — swastikas, KKK graffiti, the N-word, vandalism, bullets fired into the back of an unoccupied car. Six African-American and two Guatemalan families were targeted. These creeps have been working since at least 2006, but of course the Northport police can’t catch them.

Stonewall Jackson loans raise a fuss- al.com

Okay… Apparently, the state of Alabama has a fund which pays “loans” (which are never paid back) to students who write essays that “memorialize that great American and Confederate general, `Stonewall’ Jackson”. It was, of course, launched in the fifties in an attempt to prop up Jim Crow.

Langford proposes seizing vehicles of drivers found to have unregistered guns - Breaking News from The Birmingham News - al.com

Hopefully not literally. I don’t know that you can do this, Larry.

Birmingham council cuts discretionary fund, laptops, other items from draft budget - al.com

But gosh, sometimes the Republicans have a point. Not nearly as much as they think they do, and not within a million miles of what they say they do… But a point. And that point is, higher taxes encourage people to spend less money, or (if possible) to spend it somewhere else. Therefore, a one percent sales tax hike (which is applied to just about everything in Birmingham) has, together with the Bush Recession, caused people to spend their money differently, which leads to:

Smitherman said that the problem is that a new sales tax and increased business license fees havent brought in as much as projected, and those funds were earmarked for the mayors projects.

Oops! Anyway, less money for laptops, less money for scholarships, more tears cried into Larry Langford’s pillow at night.

So apparently he plans to stick it out. Which he can, I guess, since the media have been in the tank for him for four years now. I have no problem with Troy being gay, it’s the hypocrisy that’s the problem. Well, that and him being a bloodthirsty lunatic who is manifestly unqualified for his position.

I remain stunned that so many people apparently didn’t know that he was gay. I thought it was obvious! Not only that, an open secret, one I thought everyone knew. I’ve been referring to his homosexuality for years. When I call him “Troy King”, quotes included, it’s an in-joke, referring to when I said that “Troy King” was really Roy Moore in disguise. The real “Troy King”, who wrote columns in the Crimson White when he was a law student and I was an undergrad was one of the most obvious closet cases I have ever come across. The joke was that he had long since run off to San Francisco, where he was living with a nice chiropractor named Duane, and Roy had stolen his identity.

Man who drowned in East Lake Park was ex-Navy Seal - Breaking News from The Birmingham News - al.com

Navy Seals do lots of things, of course, but I’m pretty sure all of them are good at the swimming.

The Corner on National Review Online

Kathryn Jean Lopez seems slightly offended that she can’t take the train to Alabama, at least not easily. Well… I guess it would be nice if we had transit options other than planes and Greyhound, but life is tough all over and most of the country isn’t in easy reach of passenger rail. Nothing special about Alabama — the same would be true of the vast majority of the country outside the northeast. Real America, conservatives!

And, yes, a lot of Alabamians like it that Yankees might have trouble getting here. You guys are nothing but trouble, really.

(H/T: Meryl.)

Hey, kids! Which Alabama Attorney General, who in between bouts of screaming for the blood of criminals attacks gays as immoral monsters who corrupt our children and deserve to die of AIDS, is rumored to have been caught by his wife sleeping with a male aide and is also rumored to be about to resign?

Daily Kos: State of the Nation
The Locust Fork Journal » Blog Archive » Alabama Attorney General Troy King Prepares to Resign?

(H/T a nameless attorney in Bessemer.)

Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford proposes stiff fines, jail time in enforcing city curfew- al.com

Throwing their parents in jail, apparently. Seems counterintuitive to me.