University of Alabama rejects $26M gift after abortion flap

Associated Press ^ | June 7, 2019 | Blake Paterson

[Fiji Hill]

Finally!!!!!!!!!!
An institution with GUTS to do the right thing!!!!!!!!!
KUDOooooooooooooooo’s!!!!!

Roll, Alabama, Roll!

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

ROLL TIDE

[Fiji Hill]

Alabama Stomp

[notdownwidems]

My new home/state certainly has balls.

I agree! Very proud of Governor Ivey. Moved here from Denver in 2012, currently living in Daphne, Baldwin County. Are you anywhere close?

[mewzilla]

Just don’t be surprised if the uni later does a 180, or caves to something else.

Why I put my faith in principles, rarely people.

[mcmuffin]

You have mail!!

[Mr. Lucky]

I once asked a fellow rural Hoosier why none of the natives used turn signals. He responded to the effect: if You're from around here, you already know where I'm turnin'; if you ain't from around here, I don't want you to know.

[cotton]

The question seems to be : “would you eat your own baby for 26 million dollars”, the answer was not no but, “hell no!”

[MrEdd]

Well, the existing university system is (as a whole) as obsolete as the newspaper business is. Of course they will take desperate measures and make unseemly compromises to try to stay afloat.

[HotHunt]

Check this out.

Leningrad Cowboys and Sweet Home Alabama

[Abathar]

We think alike. :)

[chesley]

Well ROLL TIDE. As a 3 time graduate, I’m proud of them

[Tallguy]

Stuff’s getting serious when universities begin rejecting multi-million dollar donations because of the political viewpoint of the donor. I happen to agree with this one. Culverhouse sounds like a horses-@ss. Especially that crack about the good people of Alabama.

[chesley]

welcome to God’s country. :). Still a lot of liberals at the University, though

[Abathar]

"I once asked a fellow rural Hoosier why none of the natives used turn signals. He responded to the effect: if You're from around here, you already know where I'm turnin'; if you ain't from around here, I don't want you to know."

LOL! So d*mn true around here in Martinsville, once you're out of town a couple of miles people just stare as you drive by, you can see in their eyes they're thinking "What are they doing going out this way?"

[Tallguy]

This country was built by hicks and deplorable who worked with their hands and many gave their lives for others. How can you honestly make millions of dollars on real estate?

... and built institutions like state universities through hard work and taxes. Culverhouse thinks he can throw a few million excess dollars on the table periodically and claim credit for everything that University has done for the last 125 or so years. (Sorry people, this Pennsylvanian doesn't know exactly how long the University of Alabama has been in existance)

[chesley]

Great town, Daphne. My son lives there, so I visit often

[FlingWingFlyer]

Preventing the killing of American babies is something “backward hicks” do but using taxpayer money to pay government employees to change the diapers of the babies of illegal alien invaders at the border is “humanitarian”? That’s kind of weird.

[animal172]

Now that was just a little strange.

[HotHunt]

Strange but fun.

The Leningrad Cowboys is a Finnish rock and roll band famous for its humorous songs and concerts featuring the Soviet Red Army Choir.

The band has eleven Cowboys and two Leningrad Ladies. The songs, all somewhat influenced by polka and progressive rock, and performed in English, have themes such as 'vodka', 'tractors', 'rockets', and 'Genghis Khan', as well as folkloric Russian songs, rock and roll ballads and covers from bands as diverse as The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, all with lots of humor.