tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53350133326537846952025-10-18T02:03:08.185-05:00I Bleed Crimson RedNews and commentary about football, politics and life on the Alabama Gulf Coast (with occasional snark, fark and satire)David L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.comBlogger3018125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-81797646918930749082022-07-15T17:08:00.000-05:002022-07-15T17:08:18.035-05:00The Mobile River Bridge is still not a good investment for the Mobile-Baldwin CommunityThree years later, the MRB&B project is still a bad investment. The South Alabama Regional Planning Commission and members of both the Mobile and Eastern Shore Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO's) have done a lot of work planning and cooperating with ALDOT to come up with a plan calling for somewhat reduced tolls for a $2.7 billion project. They believe the project can be David L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-51290159720422801732020-11-02T21:19:00.001-06:002022-08-08T16:55:54.114-05:00Southern Cornbread in a 9" Cast Iron SkilletSOUTHERN
CORNBREAD
Ingredients
6
tablespoons unsalted butter melted,
1
cup yellow cornmeal
1
cup all-purpose flour
1
tablespoon sugar (optional, improves crust browning)
1 tablespoon
baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2
large eggs
1
1/2 cups whole milk or buttermilk
Directions
Preheat the oven to 425º F.
Beat the eggs and milk together. Mix David L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-24121221943893589272020-06-18T10:35:00.002-05:002020-06-18T12:03:47.680-05:00SCOTUS ruling on Dreamers policy is bureautocracy at its worstThe United States of America was never a Democracy and it's clear now that we're on the verge of no longer being a Republic. In a 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled not that Congress alone has the power to make immigration policy. It ruled not on the constitutionality of Barack Obama's usurpation of that enumerated Congressional power by creating the Deferred Action on David L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-35117751431570397672020-06-07T15:03:00.000-05:002020-06-07T15:03:06.055-05:00The model predicting 'massive' increase in COVID-19 cases in Mobile badly missed the mark
A model that used social mobility data from May to predict a huge upswing of June COVID-19 cases in Mobile County didn't even come close.
Fox10tv.com posted this news item from respected investigative reporter Brendan Kirby on May 22, 2020.
Even as Alabama moves to lift more restrictions imposed to fight the novel coronavirus, a new model suggests the state’s hardest-hit county is poised forDavid L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-69874044579837644132020-06-04T12:05:00.001-05:002020-06-04T12:05:04.777-05:00Dear Drew Brees: It's ok to be both
There is nothing wrong with respecting the American flag. It's ok to honor the men and women who have served under it to protect what liberty we have left. It's ok to stand when our national anthem is played and the flag is presented. The feelings of gratitude and pride that wells up in you upon hearing "oh say can you see" is normal, as is the frog in your throat and the mist in your eyes. David L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-30547865555423266332020-06-01T19:41:00.001-05:002020-06-01T19:41:48.080-05:00Racial justice rioters are lashing out at a system they created
Since the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, large cities across the U.S. have been rocked with protests degenerating into riots. Mobs of angry people are looting businesses, burning buildings, destroying cars and killing people.
Public demonstrations and the occasional destruction of property have been a part of the American experience since the Boston Tea Party. The right to David L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-61605372710017242112020-05-15T15:02:00.001-05:002020-05-15T15:02:51.766-05:00Grim state and local media coverage don't tell the whole Alabama COVID-19 story
As you read this, remember that the job of today's mass media is to sell cars, drugs, legal services and laundry detergent. In order to do this job, they have to report on the state of current affairs, and they've found that fear, uncertainty and doubt sells more stuff than sunshine and optimism.
Nothing epitomizes the media mindset on the Coronavirus pandemic better than this op-ed David L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-42343727265672546182020-04-03T12:11:00.001-05:002020-04-03T12:11:26.790-05:00The IHME model showing mass COVID-19 deaths in Alabama is highly suspect
A model currently being used to make projections about the numbers of cases and fatalities due to the COVID-19 has serious flaws and its results should be viewed with great skepticism.
Risk management and numerical modeling is a major part of what I do in my day job. So I'm not parroting what I've heard from people who just don't like grisly numbers.
The basic problem with the model producedDavid L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-53340127581106550122020-03-13T13:28:00.000-05:002020-03-13T13:28:20.181-05:00Beat Coronavirus -- Go Spend Money
The latest strain of a common cold virus has world leaders in abject panic. Part of the reason why they're freaking right the hell out is that this strain's higher-than-usual lethality rate threatens to swamp their government-run, inherently inefficient public healthcare systems. It is a fact--people are going to die because free healthcare is worth every cent you pay for it. We don't (yet) David L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-414848975393828252020-03-12T12:31:00.000-05:002020-03-12T12:31:00.335-05:00Coronavirus in Italy is a snapshot of America if Democrats win in November
Newsweek has published what is purported to be an op-ed from an "anonymous doctor" who lives and works in Italy. The op-ed is long on finger-shaking at western laissez faire culture and short on science and medicine, so let that guide you in deciding whether you're reading the opinion of an MD or that of an ethics-challenged journo with an axe to grind.
It does give us some insight on how a David L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-13661095411958491902020-01-29T12:09:00.001-06:002020-01-29T12:09:47.425-06:00Amtrak decision is still costly, still risky and still appealing
The Mobile City Council postponed (again) the decision on whether to roll the dice on restoring Amtrak service to Mobile. Who can blame them? It's a big decision with big risk, as we saw in this post from December 2019, reposted here just ICYMI.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2019
Amtrak's return to Mobile will be expensive and risky
If left alone to sink or swim on its own financial viability, David L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-67200511816126011242020-01-18T11:08:00.000-06:002020-01-18T11:08:26.271-06:00ALDOT and bridge proponents are still NOT LISTENING
The problem with the Mobile River Bridge & Bayway Project is NOT the toll. The problem is much deeper and more complex than that. At any toll rate, even zero, the MRB&B Project represents a bad investment for Mobile & Baldwin Counties, the State of Alabama, the region and the Nation.
In August 2019, the Eastern Shore Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) voted to remove the David L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-7295889136090185622020-01-04T13:16:00.000-06:002020-01-05T11:02:57.042-06:00Colin Cowherd sets out to prove that even broken clocks are right sooner or later
The sun will rise tomorrow. February is coming soon. After winter's chill is over, spring will thaw and summer will warm again. Nick Saban's time will come to an end, some other program will enjoy a fleeting period of success and Colin Cowherd thinks that time is now.
Cowherd, Paul Finebaum and Jim Rome are sports media personalities that don't get ratings and don't make money unless they sayDavid L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-31700640385776571282019-12-31T11:20:00.000-06:002019-12-31T11:20:28.336-06:00Dylan Moses to return to Alabama
He's coming back, y'all.
Dylan Moses was the missing part in a good-but-not-great 2019 Alabama defense. After the devastating knee injury suffered in August, the team lacked a squad leader. Fans watching Alabama football this season could sense that something was missing:
Moses brings a steadying presence to the quarterback spot of a complex Alabama defense. He was the veteran voice David L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-70926815413060630562019-12-31T10:54:00.000-06:002019-12-31T10:54:39.760-06:00In WaPo Op-Ed, Doug Jones parrots Chuck Schumer
Providing proof beyond reasonable doubt that Doug Jones is a Chuck Schumer puppet, the doomed Democrat junior Senator from Alabama pleads with his colleagues in the upper chamber to "pursue the truth over all else."
This is insulting.
If there were any honest truth-seekers left in the Democrat Party, this impeachment circus would have folded its tents and left town before Halloween. Honest David L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-80939857612443972352019-12-30T15:38:00.000-06:002019-12-30T15:38:50.735-06:00Illinois tax increase will benefit FIVE states that voted for Donald Trump
Liberals are bad at math everywhere, but starting January 1, 2020 the liberals running the state of Illinois will begin learning math the hard way. As an added irony, all five of the states that will benefit most from Pritz's folly are states that voted for President Donald Trump.
The New Year marks the effective date for a slew of new tax increases, passed by the Democrat-controlled David L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-67945832640043436852019-12-29T16:57:00.000-06:002019-12-29T17:04:40.336-06:00Tua Tagovailoa Teases a Return
Will he return for a senior season, or jump to the NFL? The possibility of Bama's most prolific quarterback's return was a topic of some discussion earlier this month.
From his interview with TideSports.com's Cecil Hurt:
“Whatever God puts in my heart and my parents’ hearts, that will be the right thing.”
Tagovailoa, who suffered a hip dislocation in Alabama’s Nov. 16 game at Mississippi David L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-44939646839915933622019-12-26T21:16:00.001-06:002019-12-26T21:55:44.122-06:00Homelessness ticks up in the U.S., despite unprecedented prosperity
You would think that with record low unemployment, record numbers of people in the workforce, record employment totals and income growth among the lowest income earners that we'd see a corresponding decline in the numbers of homeless Americans.
And you'd be right if it weren't for a certain part of our country that's quite literally playing with fire. History's convincing lesson is that David L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-79989810237472485712019-12-23T13:08:00.000-06:002019-12-23T13:08:38.441-06:00Scarborough: Obama's FBI had spies inside the Trump campaign
This is not a "debunked conspiracy theory." It is not "Russian misinformation." It is not a bunch of lies propagated by the White House to save Donald Trump from impeachment. It is not the manufactured Fake News based on information obtained by a "source close to the matter."(*)
No, this is the conclusion reached by Inspector General Michael Horowitz and it is reported by Rowan Scarborough, David L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-81849215335099874052019-12-22T12:47:00.000-06:002019-12-22T12:58:35.078-06:00Doug Jones refuses to commit to acquit; trails most GOP opponents
No Alabama voter in their right mind thinks that a vote to acquit President Trump will let Doug Jones sneak in and be reelected as the junior U.S. Senator from Alabama. No... his vote against Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 has almost certainly sealed that fate. But here he is trying to play the uncommitted juror in an appearance on ABC News this morning. Axios won't let David L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-29644348463322887782019-12-22T10:34:00.001-06:002019-12-22T10:34:22.212-06:002019's Year of Media Fail
I used to do this every year for sports media and while there were plenty of those over the last 12 months, politics gave us a much richer set of targets.
Here's an early entry from Fox News:
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com
Over the next week or so, I'm going to keep an eye out for other pieces and segments like this, and post them in this space.
These sanctimoniousDavid L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-54435911375119021552019-12-19T10:38:00.000-06:002019-12-19T15:42:53.918-06:00President Trump can force the House to submit the passed Articles of Impeachment
Last night, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach the President of the United States. The House passed two Articles of Impeachment and the vote was purely partisan. All but three Democrats voted for impeachment. Every Republican voted against it.
The U.S. Senate has the power to convict the President and Remove him from office, or acquit him and leave him. Two-thirds of the David L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-6552365341700210642019-12-18T14:50:00.000-06:002019-12-18T15:15:28.362-06:00Amtrak's return to Mobile will be expensive and risky
If left alone to sink or swim on its own financial viability, Amtrak would have gone under long ago and we would never be having a discussion over whether the City of Mobile should commit scarce resources to an Amtrak station here.
Amtrak is not a profitable enterprise. It never really has been, either. At the end of Fiscal Year 2019, the national passenger rail service reported its lowest David L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-70088483318926885582019-12-14T16:58:00.001-06:002019-12-14T17:07:09.064-06:00Alabama Policy Institute op-ed on the toll bridge misses the point
Earlier this week, an op-ed from Phil Williams, Director of Policy Strategy at the Alabama Policy Institute appeared in Yellowhammer News. In it, Mr. Williams touted the effectiveness of tolls as a conservative-minded approach to solving transportation infrastructure issues in the state of Alabama. Unfortunately, he misses the point.
First, API is a conservative think tank based in David L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335013332653784695.post-27151314937509144002019-12-14T12:10:00.002-06:002019-12-14T12:11:17.906-06:00Santa Claus is moving to Siberia
Santa Claus lives at the North Pole, and scientists say that the North Pole is moving so... счастливого Рождества!
Magnetic north, the point on the planet’s surface toward which your conventional compass points, is created by the churning of molten metal in Earth’s core, which creates huge electrical currents to produce the magnetic field.
Commenting on the freshly-released magnetic north David L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16101814388952997386noreply@blogger.com0