Alabama legislature: BOYCOTT ARUBA!

[Bluebear]

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama House passed a resolution Friday asking Alabama residents to boycott travel to Aruba, where a teenager has been missing for more than seven weeks.

The resolution expresses concern that no one has been charged in the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway of Mountain Brook, Alabama....

"This is a way to say to the authorities down there that you have to get serious about this," Vance said....

The resolution is not a law. Vance said it is just a recommendation asking Alabama tourists to avoid Aruba until the Holloway case is resolved.

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2005-07-22-alabama-aruba_x.htm

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(P.S.....are there any unsolved murders in Alabama? Should a tourist boycott be called for in our state legislatures because we are 'concerned' that no one has been charged in those crimes?)

[autorank]

1. Well, dumb and dumber. How about solving the civil rights cases....

:shrug:

[Bluebear]

32. night shift kick

[rzemanfl]

2. Boycott Alabama. n/t

[Fenris]

3. Yeah. It's a tiny Dutch-controlled Carribean island's fault.

:eyes:

[DanCa]

4. Great now I cant get the Beach Boys song Kokomo out of my head (nt)

[Bluebear]

8. Thanks for passing along that earworm there.

Grrrr.

[Cocoa]

5. too bad there's nothing they can rename "freedom"

or is there?

[Iris]

6. And Americans wonder why the rest of the world hates us?

Jeez. I guess they just want the authorities to pick out some poor bloke and punish him for the crime just to make the citizens of Alabama feel better.

[BlueManDude]

7. wasn't scott peterson charged like months after the crime?

i didn't follow that case but wasn't there a long time between the crime and an arrest?

[RPM]

9. Blue State Legislatures: BOYCOTT ALABAMA

:eyes:

[MelissaB]

10. Please don't leave me behind.

:hi:

[Bluebear]

11. You we're planning to rescue

:toast:

[MelissaB]

17. Thank goodness!

:rofl: We are trying to get to a blue state.

[autorank]

26. Wouldn't think of it...we're all moving there.

Create a new DUtopia of liberal minded Democrats. We'll be called neo-Southerners and we'll all cheer for The Tide (who else plays there?).

[SalmonChantedEvening]

12. Well at least we know what story #1 will be on Hamnity and Clams

Monday night.

And tuesday. And wednesday. And thur... ok ok I'll stop.

[Jacobin]

13. Gee, they're gonna lose about 4 redneck tourists

I'm sure the entire island is shivering in its boots.

They'd probably just as soon not have tourists who consider themselves to be the epicenter of the entire universe anyway.

[donco6]

14. Man, someone's watching way too much Faux News.

Aren't they still giving hourly updates?

[Bluebear]

16. Well it's in USA Today actually

:)

I am sure that Faux is deeply entrenched in Aruba coverage, though!

[donco6]

31. I just remembered a bunch of people commenting on

how long Faux dragged it out - to the point of absurdity, really.

[Scurrilous]

22. The Freepers...

...are up to (extended) thread number 8:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1446077/posts


Freepers sure love a diversion.

[Tommymac]

15. Gulp gulp gulp

[MelissaB]

18. He is a cute little thing, isn't he?

[jody]

19. Please you guys, boycott Alabama's Gulf Shores so I can have peace

and quiet.

:hi: Bye and don't come to Alabama

[demobabe]

27. Not to worry

You have this guy protecting you in Gulf Shores:

http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=04/08/19/00451453

:puke:

[TahitiNut]

20. The Constitution prohibits states doing foreign relations (treaties, war)

... and now we know why. They behave like they live under a 12-ton granite slab and crawl out when the sun goes down.

[jilln]

21. Can we suggest Alabama boycott DC and NYC then?

Because no one's yet been convicted of 9-11?

[Bluebear]

24. Well, Jill, that post was a BLUE RIBBON PRIZE.

:toast:

[KingFlorez]

23. Like a bunch of redneck hillbillies can afford Aruba

I'm sure Aruba's economy will collapse over this :sarcasm:

[demobabe]

25. Actually, this isn't surprising.

I think if the Alabama government could pass a law to keep Alabamans from going anywhere and get away with it, they would.

Between the government, courts, and correctional facilities there, the're already doing a pretty good job at it.

What was Jon Stewart joking about the other night - Alabama doesn't get to see the Daily Show - as if it were banned from the state?

[Tommymac]

28. Can they send Jeb Sessions there on a fact finding trip....

maybe he'll get lost too...:evilgrin:

[demobabe]

29. Maybe that teen isn't lost at all

And they're just pissed because someone successfully fled the state!

[Tommymac]

30. Ouch!

:rofl: