Now I’m Not Saying That The Two Have Anything To Do With Each Other, But … Oh Hell, Yes, That’s Exactly What I’m Saying
If there’s anywhere on earth, outside of Texas, that needs some help in the thinking department, it’s Aladamnbama.
Talisha McCann, a 42 year old resident of Alabama, was caught trying to break into the Franklin County Jail. Yeah, into.
She was using bolt cutters to make a hole in the damn fence.
“She had two gallon-sized bags of tobacco, a small amount of suboxone strips, and a cell phone that she was trying to get inside,” said Oliver.
McCann faces a list of charges including criminal trespassing, possession of burglar tools and promoting prison contraband.
Oliver said he’s never seen anyone try to break in to a jail before, but says his jailers constantly fight contraband issues.
I guess she never considered that she could throw it over the fence.
Which brings us to Alabama State Representative Ed Henry, a loud Republican.
I would love to disband the Department of Education,” said Henry, who is on the House education budget committee. “That would save the state $1 billion and they don’t do anything, as far as I can tell that they don’t duplicate at the local level.”
I dunno, maybe the local districts aren’t doing such a bang-up job on teaching people the whole go-to-jail, get-out-of-jail concept.
Once he got to pondering on it, Henry admits that most of that money is federal.
But that ain’t all …
Doing away with the education department isn’t the only recent idea of Henry’s to shake up education funding. Last month, he said that if any cuts were going to be made to the state education budget in order to help the General Fund budget, those cuts should come from four-year institutions.
“I believe higher education needs to take the hit,” Henry said. “They have more than they need and when you start measuring return on investment, the four-year institutions, when compared to K-12 and community colleges, are far less of a return on our tax-dollar investment.”
Yeah, damn college educated fancy pants. Ed Henry didn’t go to no damn college so you don’t need that crap either.
You just gotta love Alabama.
Thanks to Rufus Firefly for the heads up.
Just more reasons to help me understand why my daughter wants to get her family out of there like yesterday!
1Ed Henry, probable next governor of Alabama.
Based, of course, on the Wisconsin/Walker model.
2Just thinking about that dreadful hole brings up images of being stuck in quicksand. I posted elsewhere yesterday that if Republicans get the presidency I will consider going someplace better, like, maybe Guatemala.
3Sadly I have to live in Alabama until my house sells. This fool’s attitude and thinking are not uncommon. I would bet my last dollar that he would make sure that the college cuts don’t effect the Alabama and Auburn football programs.
4I followed the link to Ed Henry’s website, and it’s pathetic. Punctuation and capitalization are purely whimsical, and it includes head-scratchers like “Ed also received the Air Force Commendation Medal and the Air Force Achievement Medal along with other accommodations.” Once again, ignorance as a point of pride.
5Sounds as though he just wants to disband education. Period.
I mean, heck, he done never needed any and look how great he turned out.
6Between Texas, Aladamnbama, Oklahoma (with the governor’s daughter living in a ‘double-wide’ on the statehouse grounds — not to mention Sally Kern, Inhofe, and Lankford), Louisiana, and maybe Mississippi, I think I want a recount for the Civil War. If we give the sane residents six months to move — and maybe even moving assistance — and then ‘let the erring brethren go in peace’ we’d do more than just increase the average sanity. They get so much more from the Federal Government than they contribute that the budget would be balanced within a couple of years.
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Of course, we might have to build a fence to keep aliens that undesirable out of the country — and given some of their beliefs in faith healing and quackery and anti-vaxxing, it might be a public health measure as well. And we’d probably have to consider a total embargo on weapons sales — let them make their own guns to shoot each other with. (And once we legalize marijuana, let’s treat them the way we decide to treat Mexico, probably embargoing imports from them but selling to them — by now we produce better pot than they do.)
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I will admit we have to have special yearly ‘days of repentance,’ where those who realize their mistake are given a chance to return to the USA with a minimum of paperwork — other times they need to go through all the hoops. But it won’t be a problem long, since between their hatred of safety regulations and their love of guns, the population should shrink fast enough. (Not sure what to do with Florida though, unless we split it in half.)
Seems as if Ed resents people who have a college education,
8and feels obligated to see that there are fewer of them.
No surprise that the party of ignorance and hate is targeting education at all levels and greedy teachers who meet in the lounge, discussing who knows what for a half an hour as they eat their lunches. What an abomination!
Wonder if he will change his tune regading funding 4 year institutions once his kids get to be seniors in high school.
9College educated people might actually think! Oh the damage they might cause the delusional myth mainstream propaganda…er, I mean “media” (Yeah, that’s the ticket!) promotes.
10Has everyone seen the brilliant sci-fi film District 9? As awful as the film’s District 9 was (based on the actual District 6 in Johannesburg, South Africa), I’d rather live there than in Ed’s district in AL.
Re Ms. McCann, the story did make me look up suboxone, which until today I’d never encountered in print or in person.
11Prup, sounds good to me.
Jindal said “We have to stop being the stupid party,” but he can’t even take his own advice, let alone the other morons. I wish we could cut them loose.
12hollybee, I’ve lived in a university town most of my life and taught at a major one for more than 20 years. From what I can tell, we could close both University of Alabama and Auburn altogether and still have football; it’s a completely separate financial stream. Think in terms of pro football, where the home city gives up millions/billions in tax dollars to be home to the team but gets zip in return. (John Oliver can explain; check him on YouTube.) College programs work about the same way.
13Old Ed was part of the “Stealing the Statehouse” crowd that took over the Alabama Legislature in 2010. Five years later the leader of these band of thieves, crooks, liars; Mike Hubbard is under 23 felony counts of public corruption. I encourage anyone outside the state to read the court fillings with emails. FYI, Ed Henry voted to reelect Hubbard as speaker of the Alabama House after the indictments were handed down. He also has supported bills to benefit his job
14What djw said. Have lived in college towns for nearly 40 years. Football would survive longer than any academic enterprise, I guarandamntee it. Just another sad fact about the state of higher Ed in the U S of A.
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