Calling All Social Justice Gardeners

The East Florence round-about has been highly touted as either a Savior or a Satan. Will it have a fountain? No. Will it be simply asphalt? No.

What it will have is a sodded area in the center. You know, the kind local garden clubs claim as their own because the city is too cheap/busy to take care of the area properly. Here's a nice round-about that we may aspire to:

So is everyone aspiring? We need a statue to really bring off this look. Perhaps the city can acquire one that's being removed from Memphis or a similar area?

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Sh*t Show vs. Sh*thole…Tomatoes vs. Tomatos

Who said “Sh*t Show?  That would be President Barack Hussein Obama.  

“So we actually executed this plan as well as I could have expected: We got a UN mandate, we built a coalition, it cost us $1 billion—which, when it comes to military operations, is very cheap. We averted large-scale civilian casualties, we prevented what almost surely would have been a prolonged and bloody civil conflict. And despite all that, Libya is a mess.”  President Barack Hussein Obama.

Mess is the president’s diplomatic term; privately, he calls Libya a “sh*t show,” in part because it’s subsequently become an ISIS haven—one that he has already targeted with air strikes. It became a sh*t show, Obama believes, for reasons that had less to do with American incompetence than with the passivity of America’s allies and with the obdurate power of tribalism.

Source:  April 2016 Issue of The Atlantic written by Jeffrey Goldberg.  

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-

doctrine/471525/

Southern Son

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Tommy Hanes strikes again: A bill was introduced in both Houses that would reestablish the Deferred Retirement Option Plan (DROP) [HB1 by Representative Tommy Hanes and SB2 by Senator Shay Shelnutt].

We thought a previous incarnation of the legislature did away with DROP because it was costing the state tons of money. So is there a rationale for this, or does Hanes have relatives who are in need of more funds? This, by the way, is why the policy of term limits is a bad idea!