Luther Strange: Mr. Corruption Himself?

Randy Binson, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, has dubbed his opponent "Mr. Corruption." Others simply see Luther Strange as tainted by accepting former Governor Bentley's appointment to replace Jeff Sessions.

Strange has never been the most popular of candidates. When he ran for the office of lieutenant governor in 2006, one opponent asked first for the public's vote and second, barring that, that they vote for anyone but Big Luther.

State Auditor Jim Zeigler has often lambasted Strange. Carl Rove has often praised him. 

We're asking voters to do their own research. As for us? We find him preferable to Roy Moore, but just barely. He may have been called the "Big Bunny" in college, but we find him to be the big enigma.

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What would we have done if offered the office of senator by Gov. Bentley? It would certainly have been a great temptation to have accepted, but we would hope that we would have declined under the circumstances.

What would you have done?

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A reader has sent us some pithy comments on Roy Moore:

There is one thing that Roy Moore has done. By continually ineptly pushing his losing battles into the federal courts he has established a lot of legal precedents that makes it much easier for someone who is against religion in general and Christianity in particular in public life to win their battles in court. Before Roy Moore started seeking the spotlight anyone anywhere could probably display the ten commandments, for example, and not hear a peep from the courts. 

There's an old joke about how the bootleggers were the biggest supporters of prohibition candidates. Maybe atheists who want all religion removed from public life should support Roy Moore because he's done more to ultimately remove religion from public life than anyone I can name in recent memory.

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That basically leaves Mo. To be continued... 

Luther Strange/Magic Dust/Girls with Knives

Will any of you be voting for Luther Strange for the U.S. Senate? If you plan to, please write us and tell us why. There is no perfect candidate out there; sometimes there is no good candidate at all. There is always the lesser of evils. We don't feel Luther Strange is either of the above. More to come.

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From a reader:

You probably own magic dust. So many folks do. Everyone needs protection.

Everyone has a brand of dust they prefer and their own model of squeeze bottle. It's a major business here in our country. My wife carries that glittery stuff that just turns an attacker into a frog. I prefer the kind that maims or kills, but that's just me.

I hear people wanting to take our magic dust away from us. Some say the government already has storage facilities to hold all our dust. What happens then? You think the criminals will turn in their magic dust? It's made to last hundred of years, so how long will it take to confiscate it from the bad guys and neutralize it while we sit at home afraid to go out at night without being turned into a pink dragon and robbed?

No, there are no answers to that question, so let's all keep our magic dust. Better the bad guys are turned into flying monkeys than me.

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Our reader has given us all something to ponder...or not. We will say this: Now we have teenage girls carrying knives to meet their enemies on street corners. Do their parents care? The answer is one word spelled with two letters.

Magic Memories? Where's TK?

It was hard to miss the account of the arrest of sex shop owner William Posey Wilson, 72, of Leighton. Wilson was arrested for failure to register as a sex offender and being a convicted felon with unrestored rights in possession of several firearms. He was not arrested for selling sex toys at his shop Magic Memories .

Has Luther Strange quietly instructed his minions not to prosecute those who own such shops, technically illegal in Alabama? The fact that former attorney general Troy King enforced the sex shop law, a law that was accidentally passed, did nothing to ensure his legacy. Now, if Big Luther will remove the laundry list of crimes of moral turpitude that TK added while in office, perhaps the current attorney general will indeed leave a worthwhile legacy.

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Our quote of the week concerning UNA's move to Division I: After all, UNA's football team was beaten last year by Arkansas Christian College with three student preachers in the backfield. - Bobby Boone.

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In honor of the Helen Keller Festival, here's a link to a great article on Teressa Conley Booth, the first actress to portray Keller at Ivy Green:

Teressa Conley Booth

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