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Yes, this is really Mississippi’s flag, and yes, it consists of a Confederate battle flag disguised as something completely different by a couple colorful stripes.<\/p>\n
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We had a little voting shindig down hyar in Mississippi yesterday.\u00a0 I don’t know if you big city folks had one, but we sure did.<\/font><\/p>\n Actually I know you did, I just wanted to establish a bit of atmosphere coming into the blog.<\/font><\/p>\n We elected our lieutenant governor to the position of governor.\u00a0 A Republican of course.\u00a0 I’m just hoping he doesn’t turn all Tea Party on us and start killing off Medicaid recipients. Initiative 26, the anti-abortion, “anti-a bunch of other hidden things” ballot measure did not pass.\u00a0 56% voted against it.\u00a0 It looks like we get to enjoy birth control and in vitro fertilization for a bit longer.\u00a0 I was utterly astonished by this sudden display of common sense.<\/font><\/p>\n We also passed an initiative requiring a government issued photo ID in order to vote.\u00a0 The big push behind this one was some half-baked talking point saying it would save the state money.\u00a0 They didn’t spend much time on voter fraud.\u00a0 They just presented it as an economic issue.<\/font><\/p>\n Then, we passed an initiative that forbids the government from using eminent domain to seize private property and turn it over to private entities for development.\u00a0 On one hand, this is great news for poor folks that live in the path of proposed highways, pipelines, and fracking sites.\u00a0 On the other hand, it could be a preemptive way of chasing any hopes of a high-speed rail system out of the state.\u00a0 I can see big oil paying Grandma twice as much to refuse to sell her acreage in the neighboring county for development.<\/font><\/p>\n It was interesting to see the number of Democrats that got voted in this year at the local level.\u00a0 But then, folks are known to run as Democrats just to be able to run against the Republican incumbent.\u00a0 For the most part, there is no discernible difference between D’s and R’s down here.<\/font><\/p>\n Well, that’s the scoop on our elections.\u00a0 How did yours go? Hoo-doggie! Pass the grits, Maw! We gonna have a hoe-down!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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