Designing artist t-shirts is good, mkay

Ok, so it appears it’s a bad idea to fly transcontinental in the wheel well of a jumbojet.

But that’s national news.

Here, things continue to grind slowly towards armageddon in a sort of painful, unending way. Local slob on trial for child pornography, some made with his son, some with his son’s friends. Now, we all know prosecutors put on an impartial face with dealing with human fungus like this. However, like the rest of us humans who came complete with forebrains, they think there is a special place in hell for these people. Take, for instance this quote from a local assistant DA on prosecuting this guy: “He’s a sick, twisted sack of shit, but that’s all off the record.”  At least it was an easy conviction, after all, the police had plenty of video tape evidence to work with.

Then there are our politicians, many of whome are not much brighter than our criminals … of course, some of these guys are criminals themselves, so, go figure.

This one is from a county commissioner: “There are ways to raise taxes without putting the burden on taxpayers.”

Then there is these two:

“You can have some of mine.”
–White councilman to a black councilman who was bitching about the minority population of ward two being down to 75 percent after redistricting.

So goes the rest of the state, especially where this is necessary:

“The term ‘bona fide coin-operated amusement machine’ does not include the following:

a. Coin-operated washing machines or dryers.

b. Vending machines which for payment of money dispense products or services.

c. Gas and electric meters.

d. Pay telephones.

e. Cigarette vending machines.

f. Coin-operated scales.

g. Coin-operated gumball machines.

h. Coin-operated parking meters.

i. Coin-operated television sets which provide cable or network programming.

j. Machines which are not legally permitted to be operated in Alabama.

         –Attorney General’s opinion dealing with video gambling machines. If someone there thinks the public needs help understanding that the above items are not primarily for amusement, I would imagine they need to get out a little more.

That is in response to court rulings that just about anything you put coins into that money might come out of is a gambling machine and illegal in Alabama. The only gambling allowed here is bingo, usually sponsored by a church, which are staunchly against gambling. Especially evident by the Christian Coalition taking money from out-of-state gambling interests to lobby against gambling here.

Well folks, that’s all the fun for today.