Is it just me or do politicians get weird and wild when the weather gets extremely hot? I’m talking about the oil-slicked climate-change-denying governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, and this record-breaking heat wave hitting the Midwest and Northeast. On Monday, Louisian’s well-known Catholic governor signed a law granting him control over the state’s board of ethics just as it was about to punish him for not disclosing a couple of freebie flights to Hawaii provided by one of his biggest oil and gas campaign donors. Gov.
Landry has a long list of alleged and proven unethical behavior going back 15 years. A New Orleans-based criminal watchdog group called his behavior “political quid pro quo.” Then, on Wednesday, while it was 94 degrees in Baton Rouge, he signed a law forcing every state school and college to display a copy of the Ten Commandments in classrooms starting in 2025.
The ACLU has already filed a lawsuit. I’m no religious scholar, but aren’t the commandments a guide to help humans live more ethical, moral and righteous lives? The Mardi Gras Moses, as I shall refer to him from now on, has spent most of his political career defending his oil and gas industry campaign donors , all while Louisiana faces deadly hurricanes and suffers from the worst air and water pollution in the country. I’m curious if his version of the Ten Commandments was brought down the mountain by John Rockefeller.
Right now, the Gulf of Mexico is the hottest it’s ever been , provi.