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Re: “Burge's Turkeys and Hams”
Smoked meat is the draw here, but they also make great fried catfish and fried fruit pies. The menu is huge. But this is the single best thing in the place: Containers of smoked turkey salad. You can pretend there's only a touch of mayo along with the ground up turkey and seasoning. It's healthy, see?
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Re: “Shoffner's late arriving legal help”
Max will never say he was wrong on the context of that report. The FBI was already at work. If we have a country where the FBI will investigate someone because partisan legislators say they should, absent any evidence, we live in a dangerous world indeed. The Republicans used the Audit Committee then and in later contexts as a political tool. He didn't read the part of my reporting about the grotesquely misleading media presentation in which Audit compared short-term liquid bond investments by treasury with long-term investments by retirement systems that can make riskier investments. It was a show trial. And pointless in the events that developed. The prosecution didn't develop from complaints about the trades. The prosecution developed about a tip that a single broker was being favored and improper consideration was suspected. That happened months before Audit met.
Re: “The death and taxes open line”
Santhony,
Right you are. The spousal exemption is unlimited. My mistake. They can combine their $5.25 million exemptions to achieve the benefit of more than $10 million in exemptions by structuring it properly.
Re: “Guns and fetuses: A legislative review”
I'll absolutely stipulate that I believed Republican defeat of Obamacare would have been bad for them politically because it's so overwhelmingly positive for the state as a whole. I think the realization of that was a major contributing factor in the ultimate vote by a majority of Republican legislators to implement Obamacare. It was, in other words, a win-win for Democrats. They were for the expansion. But they knew they couldn't be blamed if it failed. Recognition of facts does NOT constitute sabotage. Burris has further tweeted this morning that some Dems made mocking tweets of him during the process and this wasn't helpful. Poor baby. Can't stand the heat, go back to Harrison.
Re: “Judge refuses to dismiss suit challenging new 12-week abortion limit”
Maybe Jason Rapert can cook up a 501c4 with anonymous donors to foot the bill.
Re: “Morning report: Leaks, guns and welfare kings”
"First ever convicted of taking another's life" I'm not sure how you can say that definitively, because neither cops nor media make much of an effort to point out when permit holders commit crimes. But permittee Randeep Mann sure enough TRIED to take a life. Same thing for that courthouse shooter in Van Buren. Among others, most likely.
Re: “Monday night's Pomp and Circumstance open line”
NVR,
Thanks for the typo catch. Every state counts. 12 have now approved marriage equality.
For another poster,
Check out Imboden Live. Many photos include pix of families in the bleachers on either side of the basketball court for graduation.
Re: “Debra Hobbs to enter Republican race for governor”
I have said repeatedly that Davy Carter is no moderate. He's a full-blooded, comfort-the-rich, pro-gun, anti-abortion, anti-gay extremist Republican. But a pleasant and likable version of that ilk. I merely like the growing pains of a robust party. More fun to cover. Who said a single candidate should be declared the correct choice, just like one of the ironclad, no-deviation Republican Party campaign planks?
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