Blue Collar Muse

Some good stuff on the table for today.

The final numbers are in for the reapportioning of seats in the US House of Representatives. In some nice good news for us, the states gaining seats tend to be Red States and the losers tend to be Blue States. It sort of follows, I guess if you tax your population to death, people are going to use their feet to make their vote known on state policies. Ed Sistrunk at Grassroots Conservative Majority has the figures from Three Wise Men via the AP.

Right in line with Al Gore’s Law of Global Warming and the wonderful warm winter weather we’re enjoying here in Tennessee comes another sunny story. This one is about Sunshine Laws in Oklahoma making the state budgets the most transparent in the country. Oklahoma voters can, with a click of a mouse, get all the information about their state’s expenditures. Pretty much down to paper clips … Sounds like a great plan to put in place here in Tennessee. Chuck Muth at Muth’s Truths has the story.

Religion is in the air in this year’s Presidential race. Mitt’s a Mormon, Huck may be a huckster regarding his degree but he’s a pretty good preacher by all accounts and B. Hussein shares the religion of Saddam Hussein. It’s this last religious note tht is the topic of this segment. Frank Salvato at the New Media Journal posts a thought provoking article that notes that to the radical Muslim, “Once a Muslim, always a Muslim”. The only way out is death. If one denies or leaves the Muslim faith, he is an apostate and is marked for death. Since B. Hussein was a practicing Muslim in his youth, he falls into the category of apostate Muslim for the Islamists. Frank has some thoughts on what that means in the event B. Hussein is elected President.

Despite his words, there are no small number of charges swirling around Mike Huckabee and his less than Conservative behavior. Chief among them, or very nearly so, is Huck’s own personal Willie Horton incident. I’ve not heard the Governor discuss this issue personally but am aware his position is that he was merely following routine procedures for the office he held and that no special considerations were given to Wayne Dumond, the parolee in question.

An Arkansas Times writer, Murray Waas, begs to differ. In a prize winning Times article from 2002, Waas states

… the Times’ new reporting shows the extent to which Huckabee and a key aide were involved in the process to win Dumond’s release. It was a process marked by deviation from accepted parole practice and direct personal lobbying by the governor, in an apparently illegal and unrecorded closed-door meeting with the parole board (the informal name by which the Post Prison Transfer Board is known).

Finally, for those of you that are already tired of the election season, debates and primaries, may I recommend Nancy Salvato’s post ‘Prime Time Primaries’ to you. She puts a nice spin on the purpose and place of Primaries on our political landscape and tosses in baseball to boot! What could be more American than that?

Blessings,

Blue

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