{"id":186197,"date":"2014-04-07T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/04\/07\/bobby-jindal-is-the-lamest-man-in-louisiana\/"},"modified":"2014-04-07T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T00:25:00","slug":"bobby-jindal-is-the-lamest-man-in-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/04\/07\/bobby-jindal-is-the-lamest-man-in-louisiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Jindal is the Lamest Man in Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A court just <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/louisiana-moveon-jindal-medicaid-expansion-ruling\">threw out his attempt to take down a MoveOn.org billboard using bogus trademark claims<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A U.S. district judge rejected Monday the Louisiana state government&#8217;s request that MoveOn.org&#8217;s billboard criticizing Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) for not expanding Medicaid under Obamacare be taken down. The billboard includes a parody of the state&#8217;s tourism slogan, which was the basis for the state&#8217;s legal action.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick issued the order. Lawyers for Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne (R), who filed the suit, had &#8220;not demonstrated a substantial likelihood of prevailing on its burden of proving confusion by viewers of the billboard,&#8221; Dick wrote. She rejected the state&#8217;s request for a preliminary injunction, which asked that the billboard be taken down as the court case continues.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;The State has failed to demonstrate a compelling reason to curtail MoveOn.org.\u2019s political speech in favor of protecting of the State\u2019s service mark,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;There has been no showing of irreparable injury to the State.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And Jindal wants to be President.<\/p>\n<p>I would think that he is too lame to be the Republican nominee, but considering the past 2 &#8216;Phant presidents, Bush and Bush, I am not sure if there is enough lame in the universe to rule out anyone as a Republican nominee.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I do think that a significant portion of the Republican electorate, particularly in the south, might be uncomfortable voting for a non-white candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court just threw out his attempt to take down a MoveOn.org billboard using bogus trademark claims: A U.S. district judge rejected Monday the Louisiana state government&#8217;s request that MoveOn.org&#8217;s billboard criticizing Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) for not expanding Medicaid under Obamacare be taken down. The billboard includes a parody of the state&#8217;s tourism slogan, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1109,978,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","category-politics","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}