Euthanize me now!

Kay Ivey campaigns at gun show

My readers know I don't like Kay Ivey because of an incident that happened a few years ago involving my son and her insistence on cramming GAWD down his throat. And, there is virtually NO CHANCE Ivey will win the Republican nomination for Governor of Alabama and go on to win the race. PACT took care of that.

However, since she has put herself out there we might as well take shots at her while we can. I don't disagree with Ivey on the Second Amendment....but her folksy gibberish makes me want to vomit.

From the article...

“I do carry a gun, and I dang sure know how to use it.”

Asked about her official position on gun control, Ivey said there should be no doubts about where she stands on that matter.

“Oh honey, we’ve got to protect the rights of our folks to hold and bear arms and be responsible in doing it,” said Ivey, who showed up in a leather jacket with a colorful National Rifle Association patch on it. “We’ve got to protect ourselves."

Just euthanize me now...I can't take much more of the bullshit known as politics in Alabama.

Loretta, You Leave Kay Ivey Alone You Mean Old Atheist !

Back a couple of years ago State Treasurer Kay Ivey and I had a small skirmish about the Separation of Church and State. My son was attending an event with other high school kids from across the state and Mrs. Ivey was one of the speakers. She touted her faith as important to her and gave it credit in her success in life.

I had no problem with that. Everyone in this country is free to express their religion. Unfortunately, Mrs. Ivey decided to go further than simple expression of her faith and ridicule non-believers referring to them as 'ooze that needed to crawl back under the rock it came from'.

And as you can probably guess that really pissed me off.

I wrote her office and demanded an apology. And I got a half-assed non-apology apology from Mrs. Ivey.

Now, every so often someone will post a comment on the original post and say things like the following...

Stop making such a big deal and being a baby. Those are here beliefs and she was just stating them. She doesn't owe your son anything. If you don't like her don't vote for her next election.. but stop bitching it's not a big deal.

And those comments leave me wondering what planet the person posting it might hail from. It's like they can't understand the difference between someone expressing their beliefs and someone attacking others for their beliefs or lack there of. There is a big difference. As I stated in the opening of this post, if Kay Ivey had stopped at expressing her faith that would have been fine. But when she ridiculed every kid in the audience who didn't share her faith, going so far as to call them 'ooze' she crossed a very serious line. And she admitted guilt because she "apologized".

These same people who post comments like that would go absolutely ape shit if an Atheist in a position of power and presiding over a captive audience of public school students had dared even express their lack of faith much less ridicule others for having a faith. Can you imagine the uproar? Alabamians would have the poor Atheist stoned to death in the public square.

Yet, they will defend with their last breath their right to ridicule others for not sharing their faith. They think they can run over everyone else because there are more of them. I'd like to remind them that might does not equal right and that my freedom to not believe in their imaginary sky wizard is the same freedom they exercise to believe in the sky wizard. Tinkering with or encouraging suppression of my freedom is doing the same thing to their own freedom.

What about that concept do these kinds of "Christians" not get? I mean it's a simple concept right? It's not rocket science.

No Kay Ivey

A couple days ago I got an email from an anonymous group who purchased www.kayivey2010.com. They wondered aloud why the Ivey campaign folks hadn't already bought up that particular piece of internet real estate. That's a good question. And one that will probably bite Kay in the behind before it's all said and done.

I'm posting this here because I have my own beef with Kay Ivey. She and I had a run-in over religion a little while back. Ivey "apologized" if you can call it that. Anyone who is that intolerant of people with different belief systems, or no belief system at all, does not need to be in a position of power.

I think it is highly unlikely that Kay Ivey will get the Republican nomination for Governor, what with the collapse of PACT and her at the head of it. Voters who invested in that program are really upset and will work very hard to make sure she doesn't get the nomination.

And, since I asked Artur Davis about legalizing marijuana it is only fair that I bring it up to Kay.

Mrs. Ivey, if you could raise enough money by legalizing marijuana, for adult use, to restore the PACT program investors money, would you do it?

We know Kay won't answer that question here, just like Artur Davis wouldn't answer that question until the media forced him to. Even if she did, her likely answer would be NO. In light of that we will attempt to have someone from our group present at a Kay Ivey campaign event sometime in the near future to try and get that question in.