Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Arkansas Sports Alotian Injury
Posted by David Koon on Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 10:47 AM
An unknown individual has apparently been injured at Warren Stephens' ultra-exclusive Alotian golf course in far west Little Rock.
Stephanie Anderson, a dispatch captain with MEMS, said that one of their ambulances was dispatched to the golf course this morning around 9:44 a.m. to pick up a single patron who had been injured in a golf-cart accident. The patient was transported to Baptist Hospital. No other details were available from MEMS, but we're looking into it.
Stephens, the chairman and CEO of Stephens, Inc., opened the $18 million dollar, 300 acre private golf course in 2004.
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Yea, what is the point? Several years ago I worked at the Rebsamen Golf Course and they had people getting injured there. So what?
Things get pretty heated when they play golf cart polo with the heads of peasants.
The "point" was meant to be humorous, but good taste intervened and now there doesn't seem to be much of a point.
("Rich person" has been replaced by "unknown individual" in the first sentence.)
Class warfare, right, roland? Even a golf course is viewed as part of the never ending struggle between the rich and the peasants. I'll have to dust off my karl marx to see how all of this ends at the golf course.
So that's where that box of human heads was heading.
200 thousand dead in Haiti or an injured rich golfer. Who should we pray for boys?
So that's where that box of human heads was heading.
200 thousand dead in Haiti or an injured rich golfer. Who should we pray for boys?
Lucky thing for you Harvey, that you've got no class.
Hey Maximillion--what is the point of your post? Who cares that someone was injured in an accident on a wealthy person's property. Do you report all of the other incidents in which ambulances are called out to properties not owned by wealthy people like Warren Stephens? Are you bringing this up to somehow imply that something criminal has gone on inside this club (which would be newsworthy)? Unless you have such information then who cares and quit sticking your nose where it doesn't belong. You're a sick man if this is what you call news.
If the truth be known, it is unseemly but consistent with your politics of "hate the rich" or "I'm-jealous-of-the-rich". Nothing like uniting Americans and unifying the country with that type of rhetoric.
"Ultra-exclusive"? What damn business is it of yours as to what Warren Stephens does with his money? Here's a news flash: it's not your money so mind your own damn business! And moreover, the $18 million spent to build the club is a heckuva better use than if government had stolen/confiscated that money to waste and redistribute to people who didn't earn it and who have no work ethic, common sense, innovation, ambition, motivation, etc. A lot of jobs were created with the building of this project and jobs have been created in the maintenance and operation of the club. You got a problem with that or is your problem that government didn't get its greedy hands on that money to make government even more wasteful and bloated and bad than it is right now.
Your "hate-the-rich" rhetoric is really worn out and tired and people are quite sick and tired of it except jealous Libs like you or people who don't have any common sense, work ethic or ambition. People are tired of Libs like you attacking those people that are never off limits like the rich, Christians, people with traditional Arkansas values, etc.
Maxy, it's time for you to "chill" and eat another dozen cupcakes!
I am glad I came back here to see how the trolls come out when someone dares make fun of billionaire golfers. It made me laugh.
Warren Stephens is a classic example of how government redistributes wealth from working men and women all over this state into the pockets of the rich. I feel SO sorry for him that people would dare make fun of his golf course.
Well, here's a newsflash: that golf course was built in part with my tax dollars and if I want to make fun of it, that's my right as one of the working peons who makes the whole thing go around.
Max, you peon get down on your knees an beg forgiveness of the local aristocracy.
How dare you say anything even slightly snide about our wealthy overlords?
They are all we should aspire to be! This is their WORLD and we are just afforded the opportunity to orbit in their glory based on how we may serve them while they get on with being Kings of the Universe. Everyone knows they are better then us and only worthy of our praise...never our derision.
Oh and CLASS WARFARE is so 1950's doncha' know.
BTW, I must say I am so glad that the uber wealthy in our country can make sure their lazy ass heirs will never have to worry about anything:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/opinion/…
"An ordinary trust dissipates as money is distributed to the beneficiaries. But a dynasty trust can avoid this by discouraging outright distributions and instead encouraging trustees to buy, for the use of the beneficiaries, things like houses, artwork, airplanes and even businesses. Because the trust retains ownership, the assets can pass tax-free and creditor-proof to the next generation.
Beneficiaries don’t pay taxes on the use of this property. In contrast, a worker whose employer provides housing or other benefits is taxed on those benefits.
But tax breaks are not the only special advantages that dynasty trusts provide. Even more troubling, they commonly include a “spendthrift clause,” which provides that trust assets cannot be reached by a beneficiary’s creditors. If a beneficiary causes a car accident, for example, the victim cannot be compensated with assets from the trust, even if they are the driver’s only resources. So beneficiaries are free to behave as recklessly as they like, knowing that their money is forever protected for themselves and their heirs. "
Alotian golf course will be renamed Blancheotian golf course when Blanche's new estate tax bill passes. I sure hope the injured golfer recovers, but I hope he isn't on Medicare.
I've noticed that Medicare robs old people of their common sense, work ethic or ambition. Like unemployment checks, Medicare just causes old people to decline and decline and suck up more free medical services better reserved for the rich.
Yea, Max, how come you don't come down on those wealthy guys more often? All you have to do is walk down your block, knock on their doors and really chew them out. Of course, you could give them a double whammy by chewing them out at the Country Club. How about it?
Not that Max needs defending(or David), perhaps the lindering funk on this is that a golf course built so close to our water supply, thrust open the door that allowed others to develope even closer to our water supply. While I assume the chemicals, run-off, etcc.. are always stopped at the line before crossing/seeping into ground water and/or our water supply, the eye sore developement much closer to Lake Maumelle, is munch too close to our drinking supply.
Sour grapes, not over wealth - just the percemption by some or many
that wealth potentially creates a ripple effect that potentially harm the rest of us, the vast marjority of us that need a clean water source for generations to come.
All in the name of a nice view of a lake, our lake...
MICKEYMOUSE--why are you so jealous of wealthy people who inherited money or who inherited money and have then used it to earn more money and generate more taxes (that go to your favored Big Government) and actually put people to work with real, meaningful jobs?
Also, trusts still pay taxes, you dope. Moreover, the Alotian still pays property taxes and sales taxes.
Let me tell you something: I would much rather trust Warren Stephen's judgment about what he spends HIS money on and the long-lasting good that it would produce than letting government confiscate and steal it from Warren Stephens only to use HIS money for wasteful, ridiculous and nefarious redistribution schemes to people that never earned it and people that are lazy, have zero ambition, innovation, common sense or work ethic. It's like saying to Felix Jones and Darren McFadden that to be fair and just, we are going to redistribute 10 of the ball carries that they normally get in the course of a football game and give those 10 carries to the 3rd team running backs who are definitely not as good of players as Jones and McFadden. Do you think any coach would do that (maybe a school president would order such a thing because most of them are a bunch of socialists)? How do you think the rest of the team would feel about such a move? That's right, they'd be furious. This football analogy is a great example of the same failed "redistribution of wealth" schemes that Liberals and Democrats have tried for years -- going back 80 years to FDR -- using the organs of Big Government and the courts to accomplish such socialist/marxist schemes. And like in the analogy I gave, where the rest of the team would be furious, that's where a large majority of our country is right now -- furious that we're trying to redistribute the wealth of others -- but first launder it through a government bureaucracy that takes their "cut" -- no matter how large or small that wealth is, that was earned fair and square, and earned through hard work, thrift, ambition, innovation, smarts, achievement, desire, common sense, etc., only to see this hard-earned and smartly-earned wealth stolen and confiscated by government politicians and bureaucrats who have not idea how to create a job, or provide a service or a product at a profit -- and give it through subsidies and welfare (yes, there are some examples, too, of farm welfare and corporate welfare -- they need to get along without my tax dollars) to mostly able-bodied citizens who are too lazy, lack common sense, ambition, desire, thrift, frugality, innovation, etc. to go out and earn their own damn way in life!
But MICKEYMOUSE, what turns me off the most about people like you and comments like yours, is the tone and condescension you have by implying that 100% of anything anyone earns is somehow the property of the government and that only by the government's benevolence does it allow someone to keep/retain a certain percentage of what they earned and that somehow we should be thankful to government just to keep what we get to keep. No sir, you have it completely backwards. We the people, we keep 100% of what we earn and it is we the people, not government, who decide what government should get and it is government that should be damn happy with what they get and government should stop complaining when citizens actually get to keep a nice chunk -- or whatever chunk of money they can. You too are a sick person for your perverted way of thinking on this topic. My money isn't your money or anyone else's money. It's my money and I'll decide how much I want to give and to whom I want to give it. Do you have a problem with that concept of Freedom and Liberty? Government doesn't tell people what they can keep! It's the people that tell government what they can keep and the people right now are in the process of telling the government they've been keeping way too much and they've been spending way to wastefully and that government in general -- as operated by politicians and bureaucrats who are idiots at handling OUR money -- DOES NOT KNOW BETTER THAN ME/US ON HOW TO BEST SPEND OUR HARD-EARNED MONEY AND THEREFORE TO CUT WASTE AND ELIMINATE REDISTRIBUTION SCHEMES, WE ARE GOING TO CUT GOVERNMENT WAY BACK TO BAREBONES, ESSENTIAL SERVICES AND FUNCTIONS!!!
ROLAND--how did this club get built with YOUR tax dollars exactly? Please explain. I always have an open mind.
FBL badly needs a copy editor to cut his wordiness down by 75-80%. Do you get paid by the word, FBL?
A compliment- I do appreciate your humor.
Bond daddies make their money with bonds. Bonds are paid with taxes. I pay taxes.
What is funny is the argument that people who inherit money are better than the rest of us. Why not move someplace where they still have a king, so that you can realize your fantasy of serving people who inherited their wealth and power, rather than earn it.
I would think that a conservative would argue for a meritocracy but I know better.
Where is the Arkansas Tea Party when they are truly needed? Shirley, one of them can come to the defense of our patriot of capitalism and free markets, Warren Stephens.
The ATP is AWOL in Somalia. I hope they are OK.
The last I read, they burned Harvey at the stake but obviously the undead have great powers. The evil is almost Lovecraftian.
>>Do you get paid by the word, FBL?<<
Please don't tell me you actually read her shiz??? It's like flashing lights and sirens screaming and the first sentence informs me to move on.
ROLAND--"bond daddies" provide a service for governmental entities to get facilities needed for particular communities built that might not otherwise get built or have to get built with sales, income or property tax increases. Those "bond daddies" -- getting paid for their services -- then turn around and sell the bonds to -- get this -- wealthy people who risk their wealth that the taxpayers of a particular governmental entity will pay them back with interest? Yes, taxdollars are used to pay those bondholders back their principal and interest but this is very cost effective use -- more so than a tax increase of some type -- of the taxpayer's money. Is that obscene to you, Roland? It's a little bit of a stretch to say that your taxdollars paid for the Alotian Club. That's like you saying you resent Mark Stodola living in the Heights and paying for a home using your tax dollars that pay his salary. If you're that petty and whiney then you have real psychological issues. You need help real bad, man!
The place is so upscale I'm surprised they let a public ambulance on the grounds.
Really? You can issue bonds to be paid for with tax dollars without raising taxes? And when the government borrows money and pays interest it's more cost-effective than living within their means?
Wow, no worries about the federal deficit then. I must have been high when I read that conservatives opposed tax-and-spend-and-borrow.
Do you know why conservatives are only buried 3 feet deep? So they can keep their hands out for more government money.
Just be glad that Harvey, FBL and the other conserva-trolls haven't figured out a way to give the pixels to the Stephens so they can sell them back to us.
I am surprised that they aren't denying that pixels even exist, given that Reagan never mentioned them and they have a scientific-sounding name.
I am waiting for a 10,000 word post on how somebody saw a welfare mother wasting her pixels, or how spending 50% of the global defense budget is necessary to protect our pixels, or how big corporations need tax breaks for using pixels.
Roland,
By your logic, you could say the same about a car purchased by a soldier returning from Iraq.
And I guess a nurse at the VA and a policeman are spending tax money when they buy a house or food for their kids.
An “unknown” person “apparently” gets hurt on a golf course in LR. Lightning strikes a tree in Trumann. A wasp stings a woman in Sheridan. A five-year-old’s ice cream cone melts before she can eat it in Mt. Ida.
BIG W-O-O!
How do AT bloggers benefit by having been made aware of such nonsensical trivia? Must be a mighty slow news day.
Roland has no logic.
Why are none of you who whine about the wealthy ever complaining about the poor education system, which happens to be at the root of the disparity in the ability of people to earn a better living?
How many of you have created jobs for other Arkansans? Has Stephens created jobs for other Arkansans? I rest my case. I don't defend Stephens as being the perfect man but I do know that he has provided employment for Arkansans and other people. Otherwise these are people who might be unemployed now. I am thankful for that.
Why would I complain about the educational system? I can afford to put my child in what I consider to be the best private school in the state.
But then I earned my money rather than inheriting it, so I'm really not a member of the ruling class and you don't have to pay me homage.
I've created jobs. When will you start defending everything I do as righteous and perfect?
Like I said...fall down and worship at the feet of the all powerful overlords.
How DARE we engage in the evil of CLASS WARFARE (so 1950's doncha' know) and disparage those great and honorable men who inherited their wealth and are your BETTERS.
For heaven's sake Lord Stephens may have even created jobs for the underclass...Praise the God who favors the wealthy that the Walton's make sure the unwashed have jobs.
(and yeah i'm glad there are rich dudes who provide jobs, but for heaven's sake it does not make them better then the rest of us or worthy of the unlimited praise of FBL and Harvey)
You didn't ask that question.
First tell me the threshold number of jobs that is required for you to worship me as a God. I understand that Warren will still be your savior but I'm pretty sure I can qualify as some kind of minor deity.
AH! I get it. You're working your way toward defending BP because they create jobs.
An “unknown” person “apparently” gets hurt on a golf course in LR. Lightning strikes a tree in Trumann. A wasp stings a woman in Sheridan. A five-year-old’s ice cream cone melts before she can eat it in Mt. Ida. - Durango
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