Hugh Freeze will one day coach a national championship team. Wait and see. (But I hope it's not Ole Miss.)

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White House Threatens Veto Of Indefinite Detention Bill


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/02/w…

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Asi es la vida......

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Just got back in from Hendrix College's last local presentation of A Festival of Lessons and Carols and as usual, a job very well done by the young people and their director. Checked the rain gauge and we are at 2.5 inches which isn't surprising as I have water flowing over my bridge.

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Cato - Obama makes some good points to justify the threat of a veto, but this legislation wouldn't have occurred in the first place except for the earlier attempts to shutdown Guantanamo and stage a show trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City. The ideal compromise would be for the Congress to pull those provisions, in return for Eric Holder's resignation.

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Doncha just HATE it when justice prevails and you look like corrupt incompetent Bible-thumpin' ignoramus Good Ol' Boys eager to execute the nearest scruffy black-clad teen rebels without a cause and now the WHOLE WORLD knows about it because Peter "OMG It's Lord-of-the-Rings" Jackson's brought the whole pile of steamin' stinkin' outhouse outrage to the screen and makes Arkansas and everybody connected with the WM3 case EXCEPT the accused look like a lynch mob STILL hellbent on insisting they were guilty despite all the contrary evidence and all you outsider elites just forget about it and go away and leave us alone 'cause we know better and the south will rise again or whatever?

GFL.

http://www.deadline.com/2011/12/peter-jack…

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Uh, no. We don't give them a resignation in exchange for pulling those provisions.

Every part of government except for the stupid, ineffective, emasculated body of Norquist bitches that we call Congress is against this legislation. The military, the intelligence agencies, and similar government bodies say no.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/politics/congres…

Go figure.

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I don't know if it's a small, tiny victory but I got a letter from Sen Boozman last Friday.

It wasn't just a typical constituent form letter. No sir, It was hand scribbled by the Senator and signed in ball point.

Seems I wrote him a month or so early explaining how in my first full-time summer job in 1962 I paid a higher tax rate than today's billionaires pay.

I also included in my letter the printed out fed tax rates for 1950, the year Sen Boozman was born. I also included the tax table for 1977, the year Sen Boozman and his late brother went into business, opened their eye clinic in Ft Smith. Tax rates in '77 were at 77% and didn't prevent he and his brother from starting up and prospering. JFK had a the biggest boom generation entering the workplace and marketplace in the mid 1960 plus, they then put SS money into the Federal Budget.
In Reagan's first term, oil prices fell by 50% which was the biggest stimulus.

I told him it's foolish to keep harping on tax cuts because we're not taking in enough revenue with rates lower than they've bee in 75 yrs.

The Senator reminded me that we live in a different world than 1950. He then went on about JKF's tax cuts jump started the economy and Reagan's cuts got us out of a rut.
He also said he's opposed to huge corporations getting off not paying any income tax.

What I plan to tell him is that I didn't spend college years playing and practicing football, mine were spent studying economics and some accounting-finance courses and taking 3 courses in Fed taxation. So Senator when you write that deficits are stretched out long into future unless we cut spending I simply must chuckle and assume you haven't the ability to comprehend what's happened. Or, you're being dishonest.

We're stretched out into deficits well into the future because you've cut our revenues by half. You and your party began Two Wars, enacted TWO very expensive extension of Medicare progams, ALL WHILE CUTTING TAXes. No revenue source for any of your reckless endeavors.

You don't need a major in economics to understand that simple bit of fuzzy math and erroneous thinking.

You may need a little sense to realize that when tax rates/revenues are cut to the bone then deficits are going to increase with a near geometric function as government revenues fall in a downturn.

And P.S. Senator, your vaulted President Ronald Reagan had even higher UNEMPLOYMent RATES than we are now enduring.

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Norma, Larry, trust me or read me.

It is possible to write too many words.

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Takes one to know one.

Tomorrow, Herman will endorse Newt.

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"ONLY THREATENS VETO" . . . unfortunately, I can and will only believe President Obama AFTER he vetoes the Bill (S 1867) National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. His past track record has been abysmal . . . a real extension of the Bush-Cheney unconstitutional criminality.

Hopefully, this time he will find his backbone and uphold his oath ". . . to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." However, I will continue to urge him to veto the bill and still feel uneasy until he takes does veto this viciously massive attack on the U. S. Constitution.

A ,sadly , bipartisan attack by two Senators Levin (D) MI and McCain (R) AZ who have forgotten their own oath to ". . . support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic . . ."

P.S. Had to login again after posting this afternoon. Have to admit the new changes are a pain in the ___ just for the ability to click green thumbs up or red thumbs down and the annoyance having to check and see if the comments are over twenty-five.

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LSU against Alabama? Again? Zzzzzzzzzzzz. When we could have watched LSU vs. Oklahoma State? Does BCS stand for Bull Crap Setup?

Arkansas vs. Kansas State? Will anyone other than Arkansas and K-State fans be watching that one? Yawn.

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wannabee, it's way more than just Norquist bitches with a 93-7 Senate vote.

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Smith's Alternative Arkansas History on this date :

4-Dec 1837 House Speaker John Wilson of Hempstead County was expelled from the legislature after he fatally stabbed Representative Joseph J. Anthony of Randolph County on the House floor during a debate over bounty payments on wolf ears. Wilson was later acquitted of murder in a trial moved to Saline County.

4-Dec 1895 First group of 100 Italian immigrant families arrived to work at Austin Corbin's Sunnyside Plantation in Chicot County. In the next year, 125 of these individuals died, and the group eventually moved to Tontitown in Washington County.

4-Dec 1937 The play "Ninety-Eight Cents" by Lee Hays produced at Commonwealth College, Rocky.

4-Dec 1969 Bill Clinton wrote a letter to Col. Eugene Holmes, director of Army ROTC program at the University of Arkansas, thanking him for saving him from draft and expressing anguish about the Vietnam War.

4-Dec 1986 Reynolds Metals Company fined $127,500 fine for violating the federal Clean Water Act when it illegally discharged sulfates and aluminum from a plant near Bauxite into nearby Hurricane Creek.

4-Dec 1991 Nellie Mitchell of Mountain Home, 94, awarded $650,000 in compensatory damages and $850,000 in punitive damages on defamation claim against the Sun tabloid for its cover story alleging she had to quit her newspaper route because she was pregnant.

4-Dec 1995 Norman Mailer gave a lecture to a packed house at Arkansas Tech University, donating his fee to a memorial scholarship in honor of his late friend, Professor Francis Irby Gwaltney.

4-Dec 1996 Governor Mike Huckabee, speaking to a meeting of Arkansas Farm Bureau, said wacko environmental extremists who see a lobster in restaurant tank "care more for the life of that lobster than for unborn children."

4-Dec 2003 Betty Dickey of Pine Bluff and Little Rock was appointed first woman Chief Justice of Arkansas Supreme Court, for term to begin January 1, 2004.

4-Dec 2005 A Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus) was spotted near Quitman by Tim and Sissy Pike, the first sighted in Arkansas since 1955.

--compiled by Stephen Smith, PhD

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Newt "has decided" that "life" begins at implantation, not conception.

" Otherwise, Gingrich noted, "you're going to open up an extraordinary range of very difficult questions."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/02/n…

I see an extraordinary range of difficult questions with enacting "personhood" laws for implanted zygotes as well.

How do we count them during the census which our constitution mandates? Perhaps we could disinter that old 3/5 rule that we applied to slaves at one time. Of course, this would entail pregnancy tests for every nubile, fecund female and a lot of pre-menopausal and possibly fecund old broads to determine who might actually be 1 and 3/5 persons.

Does a woman carrying an implanted zygote get to use the diamond lane on freeways which are reserved for cars with two or more persons on board? I foresee epic battles in traffic courts over this issue.

The possibilities for lawyers are endless. A veritable silly season would ensue to entertain the proles and keep their minds occupied so they don't realize that the republicans are still hell bent on destroying social security and medicare. One of the Krazy Klowns even suggested privatizing the VA (can't remember which one). And once those implanted zygotes come to term and grow tall enough, we can hand them a mop and bucket and put them to work cleaning up their schools.

Speaking of SS, medicare, and vets, I attended the Ken Aden Town Hall in Eureka Springs yesterday. He's a fighter. He's good on the major issues that matter to most of us here. He's a little rough around the edges when articulating his message, but that can be a net positive---no slick politician here---just someone who sees the world as it is and imagines a better one and is willing to fight for it.

Occupy everything! And don't let the oligarchs occupy your mind!

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policy, I used the term Congress to cover all of them. Some of them belong to someone other than Norquist.

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