RedEye around Alabama the Stoopid

So, the same people who cost Alabama billions with their immigration crackdown are some of  the same people who want to keep public teachers from getting a raise and  reform education,  code for a racist dog whistle. H/Tarchangelsk

  
Take the following:
Charter schools are necessary in areas of chronically failing schools and under served children, [House Speaker Mike] Hubbard said.

Translation:
"White folks are getting tired of paying taxes for public education, and being forced to send their children to private school because they don't want their children fraternizing with brown kids"

White Alabama GOP leader issues white paper on President Obama's birth certificate on the white steps of the cradle of the Confederacy, as two Tea Party candidates  in the reddest of the red states, run on the platform of impeaching President Obama.  Can you say stuck on stoopid?

The reddest electorate in red-state Alabama arguably resides in Baldwin County, home to some of the state’s most conservative voters.
How red? Start with the fact that not a single Democrat qualified to run for any elected office in Baldwin County this year. If that doesn’t speak volumes, consider a recent exchange from a candidate forum in Fairhope.
The tone of the Tea Party gathering, sponsored by the Common Sense Campaign, was set by its opening speaker.
Roy Moore, running to reclaim his position as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, seized the microphone and delivered a fiery defense of individual liberty and states’ rights. 

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That was no gaffe.  That was a brand- new talking point.

What a difference a Judge, A State, A Country and a Protest makes

While Baldwin County Alabama Judges send nonviolent first-time offenders to church, St. Louis Juvenile Court Judge Jimmie Edwards, sentences juvenile offenders to school. Now that's what I call a real Operation Restore our Community (ROC) program.

Judge Jimmie Edwards had a brainstorm.
The chief juvenile court judge for the St. Louis City Circuit Court thought: Why not place all the students who have been kicked out of St. Louis public schools under one roof and educate them?
Within a few hours, St. Louis Public Schools agreed to give him a building. Within a few months, he had marshaled enough volunteers to open Innovative Concept Academy.
That was in April 2009. The school’s roster expanded to include those suspended from city schools and dropouts, working to get their GEDs. Innovative now has 350 students, most of them in school uniforms, all of whom play chess daily. And attendance, at 94 percent, is one of the highest in the city. That’s at least partially driven by the fact Edwards, 55, operates the juvenile court’s truancy program out of the school.

It's too bad Troy Davis didn't have the same Judges Amanda Knox had. Maybe he would be in joyful arms of his family too, instead of his grave.

Ms. Knox left Italy on Tuesday morning on a British Airways flight for London, the Ansa news agency reported.

Throughout the original trial and the appeal, prosecutors tried to paint Ms. Knox as a calculating femme fatale, a “she-devil” capable of murderous acts despite her sweet courtroom appearance and demeanor.

But their case was based mostly on circumstantial evidence. The validity of the main forensic evidence, microscopic amounts of DNA on the murder weapon and on a bra clasp, was thrown into doubt this summer by a report from independent experts that was highly critical of the police’s handling and analysis of the materials.

Speaking of differences, what a difference a grassroots protest makes.

Ever hear of a police officer treating a teabagger disrespectfully at one of their hateful rallies? Even when they showed up at them with guns? Any teabaggers ever get pepper-sprayed in the face?

No. No. And NO.