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Louisiana family on the lam from monkey inspector
A Louisiana couple fled their home out of fear that their Capuchin moneys would be taken away by state officials, according to the Associated Press. Jim and Donita Clark have been hiding in their motor home for the past four months, leaving their house just before wildlife agents came for…
Louisiana councilman proposes ban on colorful ‘Mardi Gras’ like tombs
A councilman in Louisiana is so upset over colorful tombs in one cemetery that he is proposing a band on them entirely. Alvin Tillman, a council man from the town of Terrebonne, is proposing a law to restrict the color a tomb can be painted, according to the Associated Press.…
Louisiana warns of brain-eating parasite in tap water
Officials in Louisiana warned this week that a brain-eating parasite known as Naegleria fowleri might survive in some of the state’s tap water, cautioning that if residents use the common cold remedy known as a neti pot, they should thoroughly boil their water first. Neti pots work by injecting a…
Bigoted Louisiana Justice of the Peace: ‘I’m not racist, I let blacks use my bathroom’
OMFG. When I read the AP version of the story of the justice of the peace Keith Bardwell in Hammond, Louisiana’s Tangipahoa Parish’s 8th Ward — the man who refused to marry an interracial couple out of “concern for the children,” I thought that was bad enough. But the CNN,…
Louisiana: woman killed at ‘KKK ritual’
If the Republicans don’t clean out the bigots, mouthbreathers, and domestic terrorists in their midst, patriots like this filth in Louisiana will be party leaders before long. An Oklahoma woman invited to a rural Louisiana campsite for a Ku Klux Klan initiation ritual was shot and killed after she asked…
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