Friday, July 2, 2010
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Many happy returns to Cary Bradburn (former Gazette, Democrat, and NLR Times reporter, now with the NLR History Commission) and Monty Richard (former ad rep with Spectrum Weekly, long time affordable housing and historic preservation advocate, now with the NLR History Commission), who tied the knot today in a lovely ceremony at the E.O. Manees House in Argenta, surrounded by friends and family. Have a great life together, you kids!
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Happy America's Birthday, citizens. Even with about 50% of the population scoring below 100 on IQ tests and voting Republikkklan, aren't you all still glad we live in the USA instead of government-free Somalia, or anywhere else? I've lived in other countries, and I missed the US every day I was not here. Let's outlive the dinosaurs and make our country even better.
Cheers to Cary and Monte.
Cheers to America and her citizens.
We're exercising our freedom to have grilled salmon, couscous salad, corn on the cob, and beers and other yummy summertime concoctions out on the deck. In Arkansas. In July. On purpose.
God bless America.
This 'non-news' from Gallup will shock, truly shock I say, the trolls of the world:
Tea Party Supporters Overlap Republican Base
Eight out of 10 Tea Party supporters are Republicans
by Frank Newport
PRINCETON, NJ -- There is significant overlap between Americans who identify as supporters of the Tea Party movement and those who identify as conservative Republicans. Their similar ideological makeup and views suggest that the Tea Party movement is more a rebranding of core Republicanism than a new or distinct entity on the American political scene.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/141098/Tea-Part…
Gee, you don't say!
Here's my Independence Day greeting. Do the clicky thing.
http://www.allhatnocattle.net/7-1-10_4th-j…
Interesting that 15% of the Tea Party movement consist of Democrats and only 6% is so-called pure independents. I don't know how much stock to put in this poll because it states that independents make up only 8% of all Americans.
If traffic on U.S. 71 Bidness is any indication of what's coming then I'm home for the holiday. Whew. Had some checks to cash at the bank and the r'neck in the cattle truck behind me kept honkin his big horn like I had something to do with the bank providing only one window teller for Fri afternoon. He was gruff looking, ill kept looking lard-ass.
I missed the GI party over in Fayetteville. By the time I stopped by Wally World to get some DOS XX it was 5:30 and I had a 30 min drive ahead to my fav GI's hacienda outside of Fayetteville. It was a welcome back party for 4 folks just returning from Iraq.Party began at 5:00, I had left at 4. It would have been all lefties at the gathering, including local head of Demos.
We welcome them home. Republics are big on sending them off.
Heard about the Univ of Georgia AD? Got a DUI last night. Driving with a much younger woman not his wife. Had red panties in his lap. Pulled the "Do you know who I am?" act. Cried uncontrollably when handcuffed and put in patrol car. You can't make this stuff up. Oh, and he was starting a new 5 year contract yesterday.
Welcome to Benton County, Big L. It took me 45 minutes to get from Bentonville to Rogers at 3:30 this afternoon.
I think this will be a Johnny Carson 4th for me. Carson used to say his favorite July 4 activity was staying home and listening to traffic reports.
Any of you vegetarians or vegans want to enlighten me on Spirulina?
While at the co-op stocking up on fragrance free dish detergent and getting some
herbs one very, sweet lovely young woman was stocking the stuff in bulk herb containers.
We chatted it up a little while as gazed down at her long, perfectly form legs-she was wearing shorts- and I had to remember I have neckties older than her.
But spirulina is supposed to have more protein than any other plant and yields more protein per weight than any meat. It's a complete protein or a whole food too.
Happy weekend, all! I thank God for this country, and for blessing of having been born here. And just think, we can do better!
Congrats to the happy couple and friends.
Welcome back, SkyPilot; I missed your font in here.
I hope ATP and his group aren't being held by Somali warlords. I may not agree with them, but I hate for the U.S. to have to mount a rescue mission.
Yes, indeed, mag! I'd heard of Bass Reeves for a long time but recently had the occasion to read more thoroughly on the remarkable Deputy U.S. Marshal. So, thanks for recognizing and for the approval.
AliJB: I'll venture an answer out of my ignorance.
I don't think you can post a picture here.
I think you have to post a picture in a location that can be reached with a URL then post the URL as a link.
I'll be happy for anyone with better knowledge than mine to correct me and set the record straight.
Hopefully by next year, assuming fundraising goes as planned, they will be placing a statue of Bass Reeves in downtown Fort Smith, visible as you cross the Garrison Avenue bridge into Fort Smith from Oklahoma. Morgan Freeman has mentioned more than once he would like to play the role of Reeves in a movie about the marshal.
AliJB - speaking of Jazzy, I saw Max in the grocery store last weekend and for some reason this week I have been wondering how Armand is doing. Has anyone spoken to him recently and is his health ok?
AliJB--You could use the Jazzy tree photo as your profile picture and then we could click on it and see a bigger view of it--first in your profile and then if you click it there it gets even larger.
It's ok to be a member of the KKK if you are politician trying to get elected. Thoughts by Bill Clinton about Robert Byrd.
Where does Bill draw the line or is any organization ok as long as you are trying to get elected?
They tell me that, before he wrote "Amazing Grace," John Newton went from slave trader to abolitionist. Redemption is rare, but it happens.
That said, I think it is incumbent on the individual, and those who praise him or her, to completely repudiate the evil of the past, not excuse it.
KRIS ALLEN
FAYETTEVILLE — Kris Allen wanted to play at George’s Majestic Lounge before. That was several years ago, when he was just a guy with an acoustic guitar. George’s turned him down, Allen says by phone from California before a gig there.
Although George’s owner Brian Crowne doesn’t remember that specifically, he doesn’t doubt that Allen did indeed get lost in the shuffle of hundreds of performers who ask to play at the club each month.
It was a lot tougher for Allen then. He was working and trying to grind out a career as a musician at the same time.
“There aren’t a lot of places to play in Arkansas,” says the Conway native.
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WHEN - 8 p.m. Monday
WHERE - George’s Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville
COST - $25, available at www.fi rstacttickets.com
INFO - www.georgesmajesticlounge.com
http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2010/jul/02/…
Kris Allen = Meh. And I say that as a Jacksonville native/Conway transplant.
By the way, elwood.. spirulina is fish food. I guess it's full of vitamins and nutrients or whatever, but I'd rather eat something tasty, like vegetables and meat.
So basically Chrys, you know nothing about it.
Try this-
Arthrospira [spirulina] is cultivated around the world, and is used as a human dietary supplement, as well as a whole food, and is available in tablet, flake, and powder form. It is also used as a feed supplement in the aquaculture, aquarium, and poultry industries....
Spirulina is believed to have been a food source for the Aztecs and other Mesoamericans until the 16th century; its harvesting from Lake Texcoco and subsequent sale as cakes is described by one of Cortés' soldiers.
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Spirulina may have an even longer history in Chad, as far back as the 9th century Kanem Empire. It is still in daily use today, dried into cakes called dihé, which are used to make broths for meals, and also sold in markets.
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Spirulina contains an unusually high amount of protein, between 55% and 77% by dry weight, depending upon the source. It is a complete protein,[4] containing all essential amino acids, though with reduced amounts of methionine, cysteine, and lysine when compared to the proteins of meat, eggs, and milk. It is, however, superior to typical plant protein, such as that from legumes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirulina_%28…
Look into a Southern science classroom where evolution is supposedly taught.
"I mean how can a white person evolve from a black person?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L640vc_XBjk…
Well, TAP, you probably have this bookmarked already. In case not, here it is and you're welcome. As, of course, are ALL my Razorbabies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMF_24cQqT0
El: it is El, isn't it? Sorry, just channeling Johnny Depp in Once Upon A Time In Mexico. Spirulina, like every single one of all living things on this Great Green Planet of the Clocks, has 20 amino acids. The same 20 that we all have. So, common origin of life, yes? We two-legs can produce only 12 on board, so we must get the other eight from dietary intake. Consumers eating Producers. Spirulina has all 20 in the perfect ratio, plus the lovely and talented chlorophyll molecule (identical to the heme molecule which carries oxygen around in our blood, except a chlorine is where the iron atom sits. An easy conversion. If you can't hack the taste of spirulina, just eat raw, organic eggs in your smoothies and such. They too have all 20 aa in the perfect ratio.
Maybe I missed something, but I don't remember Bill Clinton's approving. or even excusing, Senator Byrd's involvement with the KKK. It sounded to me as if Bill were admitting that Bryd was not a saint with no faults--like the rest of us--and noting that Byrd himself changed from that early position and tried to make up for it.
This world is full of people who, at some time in their lives, "saw the light" and changed their ways, making all kinds of efforts to make up for the indiscretions of their earlier years.
And I wouldn't be surprised to learn that a few of them visit this blog on occasion!
Clinton himself was guilty of a serious indiscretion--perhaps more than one--but he finally acknowledged it, repented of it, confessed it, and has sought to walk a better path. Is Bill Clinton to be judged solely and forever on the basis of Lewinsky?
I doubt there's a single poster on this blog who would not like to expunge his/her record of at least one less-than-virtuous life event.
But that's just me.
Speaking about Byrd's Klan membership Clinton said: ""I'll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and hollers of West Virginia, he was trying to get elected. And maybe he did something he shouldn't have done,...."
As you can see Clinton didn't even condemn Byrd's membership he just said, " maybe he did something he shouldn't have done..."
Hey Bill maybe Hitler shouldn't have been a Nazi or Charles Manson a murderer but they were and that is part of who they were.
I guess if Hitler or Manson were trying to get elected, by Bill's standards, it would be ok. But Hitler was elected so I guess it is all good according to Bill.
AliJB--I see you used my suggestion and the Jazzy tree bloom is now your avatar! Very nice and a beautiful bloom! What kind of tree is is?
Yeah, what the hell: Remind me not to have you invited to speak at my memorial service.
Do you remember anything about, "If you can't say something good about someone . . . ."?
I doubt if anyone speaking at GWB's memorial service will mention any of the evil things he did during his presidency.
But it appears that some people still have it in for Bill Clinton--even though he's no longer president--as much as they do for Senator Byrd--although he's dead.
Maybe you want to join a church in Wichita so you can demonstrate outside the memorial services for dead soldiers.
Thanks very, very much Norma.
Tell you what -- I don't have to think very hard to come up with things Bill Clinton has said or done that disappoint me. It's much easier to remember ways I've disappointed myself. Overall, I have a favorable impression of both of us.
On this latest flap I try to remember this: he's speaking at the man's dadgum *memorial service* -- not giving an interview for a documentary or talking to a biographer. So at the memorial service Clinton slips in the word "maybe" in front of grieving family and friends.
Shrug.
Well phrased TAP, I on the other hand would say that what-the-hell is pissing in the wind.
AlijB, NVR had a GREAT idea for you to show us your Jazzy tree blossom. Wish I'da thoughta that.
Good thinking NVR. Thanks.
Ali, your Jazzy tree bloomed its first year? it's beautiful! I'd like to know how her "Frenchie" is doing, too.
Whatthehell -- Go eat a spirulina and raw egg sandwich.
it is good to see you, sky pilot.
SkyPilot,
Bill Clinton is the one who brought it up at Byrd's service. Bill is the one making excuses for Byrd. Bill deserves condemnation for they very fact that he allows politicians to participate in actions that most people would find offensive.
Bill used this occasion to say that even he had his faults and like Bryd's they should be forgiven. To me Bill's humpy, humpy with Monica is something between himself and his wife. On the other hand Bryd's membership in the Klan is not easily forgotten or overlooked by the public unless you are a racist. Bill should have kept his mouth shout on this one.
Look into a Southern science classroom where evolution is supposedly taught.
"I mean how can a white person evolve from a black person?"
Geez....downright scary isn't it?
Stay tune for the epic feature of: “Bass Reeves” US Deputy Marshal. In the mean time; Keep telling that history:
Read the novel, Rescue at Pine Ridge, “RaPR”, where Buffalo Bill Cody meets a Buffalo Soldier. A great story of black military history…the first generation of Buffalo Soldiers.
How do you keep a people down? ‘Never’ let them ‘know’ their history.
The 7th Cavalry got their butts in a sling again after the Little Big Horn Massacre, fourteen years later, the day after the Wounded Knee Massacre. If it wasn’t for the 9th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers, there would of been a second massacre of the 7th Cavalry.
Read the novel, “Rescue at Pine Ridge”, 5 stars Amazon, Barnes & Noble and the youtube trailer commercial…and visit the website http://www.rescueatpineridge.com
I hope you’ll enjoy the novel. I wrote it from my mini-series movie of the same title, “RaPR” to keep my story alive. Hollywood has had a lot of strikes and doesn’t like telling our stories…its been “his-story” of history all along…until now. The movie so far has attached, Bill Duke directing, Hill Harper, Glynn Turman and a host of other major actors in which we are in talks with…see imdb.com at; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0925633/
When you get a chance, also please visit our Alpha Wolf Production website at; http://www.alphawolfprods.com and see our other productions, like Stagecoach Mary, the first Black Woman to deliver mail for Wells Fargo in Montana, in the 1890’s, “spread the word”.
Peace.
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