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This is SO right

For the "anonymous" homophobe that commented on my last post.

Racist Rednecks

This is Bob Grisham, who is a football coach and - get this - psychology teacher at Rogersville Alabama .

We have recently seen the mentality of some football teams across the nation . I can't imagine my child having to listen to the horrific racist and homophobic comments spewing from this douchebag's mouth. Here is an excerpt of what went down and here a link to the whole story with audio of the comments below:

an anonymous source provided a tape of him allegedly using the slurs.

The audio clip begins with Grisham asking several young men if they knew who was behind the “600-calorie lunches” provided by public schools.

“Fat butt Michelle Obama,” Grisham says. “Look at her. She looks like she weighs 185 or 190. She’s overweight.”

“Big fat gorilla,” a male voice agrees.

“I’m serious,” Grisham continues. “Y’all, our country is, is, is going in the wrong direction.”

“It’s going straight to hell,” another person on the tape adds.

“Things won’t get better until there’s a change in some areas and stuff. And you know what [President Barack Obama's] platform was? Change,” the high school coach points out. “Y’all can get pissed off at me or not. You can go tell the principal, you can call the superintendent and tell her.”

“I don’t believe in queers, I don’t like queers,” he continues. “I don’t hate them as a person but what they do is wrong, it’s an abomination against God. I don’t like being around queers.”

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 Miami-Dade Metrorail security guards beat and arrested photographers for taking pictures of a historical public building.

We enjoy photographing architecture wherever we go.  Since when did it become against the law?  What's going on here?

According to the story in the above link:
Photographer Carols Miller and his friend were passing time while waiting for a Metrorail by taking photos of the Dade County Courthouse, which was built during the Roaring 20s and is considered to be a stunning piece of architecture.

"Then considered one of the more monumental structures in Florida, Dade County's 27-story Neoclassical-style courthouse was begun in 1925," says this historical account of the structure.

Suddenly, a voice blared over a loudspeaker ordering them to cease and desist with the photographs. The pair ignored the order, but shortly thereafter a 50 State security guard came onto the platform and confronted them.

Miller sensed that his civil rights were about to be violated once more, he asked his companion to begin videotaping the exchange.  Here's the video

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/038842_photographers_police_attacked.html#ixzz2JDpiz0zC

Sunrise

Winter in Southeast Louisiana provides a gentler alternative to the Northern states. Where they have snow, we have fog. This was taken January 26th.

Belated Windows Wednesday

It's been a heck of a two weeks for me. I have been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation and have had a lot of episodes in the last two weeks, thus the reason for no Windows Wednesday. I purchased the book Beat Your A-Fib and will learn how to keep things in control. This is NOT fun stuff.

But I digress.

Here is a shot of the stained glass window at Slidell's Old Towne Soda Shop, which recently reopened after being flooded by Katrina

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