Rejoice, rejoice in the good news, and then get back to work. This may be a wonderful step in the right direction, but there's a good bit going on that we aren't aware of, trust me.

I've had lots of emails and conversations today and I've decided that this is a time to step up efforts, not back off or back down. In order to do that we need to be singing off the same song sheet and keeping each other well informed. I've added some links in the right hand column to a few blog sites I've been recommending, and on those sites are many other links. Also, if you have google alerts go right now and put in a link to Don Siegelman (I know I keep spelling his name wrong) and you'll get as much as I get - the more converstations we have with others about this the better.

I've been thinking all afternoon about a conversation I witnessed back in 1997 or so when I first returned to Alabama. I was having lunch at a wonderful little corner store in Magnolia Springs with an old family friend and another old family friend that is also my Godmother. These two women were friends of my mother and would have been born about 1928ish. The conversation turned to politics and I heard one of them say to the other, What do you think about the governor's race? Or something like that. I don't really remember the conversation exactly until the moment when one of them looked at the other in utter horror at the idea that someone she liked would actually think of voting for a Democrat! It was an introduction to Alabama politics that I'd never forget. Since then I've learned that in some areas of Alabama who you support politically has more to do with how many forks you put to the left of your diinner plate than with what your political principals are. In fact, this conversation had nothing to do with policy, experience or anything else except the class consciousness of an old guard family versus a more progressive family of the same generation and class consciousness but who had lived in the nortern part of the state instead of in the more politically dead southern part. I've seen it over and over again in Mobile and Baldwin County since I've been here.

I went to a family funeral about ten years later and there was one liberal there (a cousin actually) and she whispered to me that the whole group were Bush supporters (this was during the 2004 election I guess) and I was told it'd not be good for me to talk about my own political leanings. I didn't. I didn't want to be responsible for a whole lot more funerals when the old women fainted from shock! If there's been anything good that could come out of the Bush years it has to be that the everyday Republican wakes up to the fact that their party has been stolen by crooks and liars.

 

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I am all about Don Siegleman getting out of prison, and I  know he is going to issue a statement later tonight, but in the meantime, I have a link to the most recent article in the New York Times, I've been to LeftInAlabama and other sites that I've told you about below, and at one of those sites I found a link to an Alabama writer who has a blog site called Write Chic Press, and here's what I found there:

 

 

 

It's relevant, believe me. The whole nightmare has been orchestrated by the same group of somnambulent puppets that are doing the bidding of some puppeteers behind the scenes - we suspect we know who those are - and there's no end to the nightmares that are going to accompany the great unraveling. But thank God for the internet and web 2.0 - YouTube in particular.

Gotta love it, even though it's a nightmare coming true.

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