The President needs to make a recess appointment and show that the sky will not fall down.

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Nothing like using your 7 year old as a political prop to push an agenda. classy move, mom.

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Christians use their kids every day to advance an agenda. Don't pretend they don't.

On another note, Hillary gave a wonderful speech to the United Nations today:

http://bcove.me/qs3211sh

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Facts are a little more complicated TBD (and don't forget Will Phillips, the precocious gradeschooler who certainly acted on HIS own in West Fork). Person who shot film says young boy wanted to make this statement.

http://www.chicagonow.com/whats-a-boy-to-d…

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And, exactly when was that you think these two parties will agree next? Compromise? Work together? Participate in good governance? You have been paying attention I know.

Yes, they agree on one thing, it's all for the children. It just depends on what the meaning of 'it' is.

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I agree with TBD. Using your child to make a statement is disgusting. Yeh, he wanted to make the statement so bad he could not get the words out and she had to coax him into doing it. Shame Shame Shame, and Shame on you Max for standing up for this. You have stooped to a new low!

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And Orville, you support that Rethuglican garbage in Washington and shame on you. Shame! Shame! Shame! But you have been that low before (again and again).

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A small child's opinion on normative social issues like homosexuality should always be given full weight.

http://urlybits.com/wp-content/uploads/201…

Problem, liberals?

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Indeed, government_cheese; I have never seen a "Right-to-Life" march that wasn't overflowing with children -- some in strollers, some toddlers, some preteens -- wearing or carrying signs supporting their parents' beliefs. I have no problem with this without regard to whether I agree with those who involve their kids.

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Why would anyone expect the Republicans to stop a twenty-year traditional tactic to pack the judiciary with "right-thinkers?"

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Well Orville, if you are so=so offended by Max stooping so low maybe you and Bus Driver could just go away forever and leave us godless liberals to our debauchery in peace and quiet.

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I am shocked, shocked to find I didn't have to logon to post on the ARTimes Blog this afternoon.

Is this just a momentary delusion, or have they actually fixed one problem?

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What you wanna do is make a little bookmark folder on your smartphone where you put salient articles and factual sources you whip out and quote during Christmas festivities when politics and religion inevitably arise despite Aunt Opal's neatly hand-lettered sign taped over the doorbell reading, "Please, No Politics or Religion Today. Thank You," 'cause that's like tossing red meat to pit bulls and this way you can incite not only knee-slapping gastrointestinal and blood-pressure emergencies among deserving know-nothing Bucket Listers but ignite general mayhem 'neath the mistletoe and have way more holiday fun than just locking yourself in the loo and playing Angry Birds on the commode till it's time to go home.

Like this article to get you started, about which Presidents are responsible for killing manufacturing jobs in the past 20 years.

http://www.americablog.com/2011/12/guess-w…

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Or maybe Elijah will grow up to be Iowan Zach Wahls. Whose video has gone viral AGAIN in the face of hateful ignorance like Bachmann's, Santorum's, et al.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSQQK2Vuf9Q

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I positively howl in laughter at the righteous indignation displayed by our resident homophobes that one of their gay-hating, GOP presidential candidates had to hear (gasp!) the sincere feelings of an 8-year-old boy about his mother.

And what a vindictive and biting comment it was..."My mommy is gay and she doesn't need changing.'' Oh, the horrors! How disrespectful! How dare he have an ounce of loyalty toward his own mother!

Michele Bachmann, along with the entire Republican Party, wants Elijah's mom to continue to be a second-class citizen. And by extension, Elijah is a second-class citizen as well.

If Michele Bachmann and the entire GOP has their way, Elijah's mom can continue to be fired from her job simply because she is gay. Elijah's mom can continue to be evicted from housing because she is gay.

And, Elijah will also suffer financially because his mom is barred by the Federal Government to marry and enjoy the more than 1,000 rights given heterosexual, married couples. WBW and I don't have children, but we would've saved thousands and thousands in taxes if we were able to get married when we made our pledge to each other almost seven years ago.

But, that's not important to our resident troll homophobes. Sheesh, either you people are dumber than the box of rocks or the most uncaring humans on the planet. I think it's probably a little bit of both.

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My only concern about Elijah is that some homophobe will stir up the dragons at his local child welfare office and sic them on her for being unfit just because they think the Sky Fairy hates her.

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Well THIS sucks.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/06/c…

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Hey, Sister, what's the deal with this little huzzy, Katie Brown? She's makin' the moves on your baby daddy!

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Oh the day will come when all the damn dinosaurs will be dead and all god's children can live and love as they please with full rights & benefits. Don't know if I'll live to see the day but when my kids take over, it will happen. When I saw this video, like Max, my first thought was of Will Phillips. Next up was the mighty fine son of a lesbian couple who stood up and made as fine a speech as anyone in the history of mankind. And of course Hitler had a male & female set of parents....and look how he turned out.

Now...this Gang of 14...how'd they do? They gave Bush the highest bunch of uncontested appointments in modern history. They have helped the Republicans stonewall most legislation suggested by Obama. They pretend to be bipartisan, but it's really just a cover for leaning way way over to the Republican side. They were Bush enablers, since then they've been Obama blockers. They are terrible people, including our own Mark Pryor who really needs some psychological testing. They will be brushed aside in Occupied America and we'll all be better off.

Boozman needs no testing, we already know he only has cobwebs instead of brains. Cheney is still controlling his voting hand. Occupy will send him back to his cows in the not too distant future.

And yippy! Today our government told the world if you be expecting US handouts, in the future what you get will depend on how you treat gay, lesbian, bi, & transgendered people. Kick those folks around and you might just get a lump of coal under your Christmas tree. And once again...Duh....why didn't I think of that? Good on Hillary Clinton, good on Barack Obama! Bigotry is a sure sign of a low IQ.

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I just hope I live long enough to vote in the next election. Gotta do it for my grandchildren.

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When I picture Cheney I see a sad combination of Dr. Strangelove and Mr. Potter.

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Drew Kilgore, whore, Repub Women told to leave the Mall, losing a half your balls:

Smith's Alternative Arkansas History on this date:

6-Dec 1891 State officials discover that State Treasurer William E. Woodruff's accounts were short by $96,800; later indicted for embezzling state funds.

6-Dec 1909 Arkansas Supreme Court holds that just because “a woman is at the change of life and that she is subject to hysteria and to fits of rage,” that’s not reason enough to find Nancy Williams mentally irresponsible on a slander charge for falsely calling Dora Jackson a whore and accusing her of fornication with Mr. Williams.

6-Dec 1924 Douglas C. Jones born at Winslow. Author of The Court-Martial of George Armstrong Custer and 17 other books.

6-Dec 1958 Ted Lamb, Everett Tucker, Jr., and Russell H. Matson, Jr. elected to Little Rock School Board over Capital Citizens Council candidates Pauline Woodson, Margaret Morrison, and C.C. Railey.

6-Dec 1965 U.S. Supreme Court finds the assignment of Negro students to Lincoln High School unconstitutional, reverses throwback District Judge John Elvis Miller, and orders integration of Fort Smith Public Schools.

6-Dec 1985 Photographer Andrew Kilgore was commissioned to do photographic project called " Arkansas People _ 1986 _ Looking Forward" as part of state's Sesquicentennnial celebration.

6-Dec 1986 Wiley A. Branton, Pine Bluff native and partner in the Washington office of Sidley and Austin, is named 1986 Lawyer of the Year by the Bar Association of the District of Columbia.

6-Dec 1994 Secretary of State Bill McCuen removed Nativity scene from the Capitol, fulfilling promise to Rev. Bryan Fulwider of First United Methodist Church of Little Rock and other clergy to stop the 50-year practice instituted by the inscrutable Crip Hall.

6-Dec 1997 The W. Harold Flowers Law Society holds Silas Hunt Scholarship Banquet honoring Chris Mercer, a Little Rock attorney, at the Liberty Hill Baptist Church.

6-Dec 1998 Mary Anne Franks (photo) of Pine Bluff, graduate of Watson Chapel High School, is selected as a Rhodes Scholar. After earning a D. Phil. at Oxford and a J.D. at Harvard, she is now on the on the faculty of the University of Miami Law School, where her research and teaching interests include cyberlaw, discrimination, free speech, and law and gender.

6-Dec 1999 Chris Pyle of Governor Huckabee's staff and a group of Washington County Republican Women, protesting the cultural calamity wrought by the comely models in Abercrombie & Fitch catalog, told to leave the Northwest Arkansas Mall in Fayetteville.

6-Dec 2001 Central Arkansas Library System's board of trustees voted unanimously to pay all employees at least $8.75 per hour, a living wage, to keep them above the poverty level.

6-Dec 2006 Arkansas Court of Appeals reverses directed verdict for Dr. Ronny Phipps, sued for medical malpractice after misdiagnosis resulted in removal of Nicholas Rone's right testicle.

--by Stephen Smith, PhD

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Kizzy...you better stick around, girl!

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Ever more desperate republicans must be whispering in Huntsman's ear because he is abandoning his role as the sane, reasonable one in the slog to the nomination, aka republican speed dating.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/06/h…

Perry has his knickers in a twist over Secretary Clinton's UN speech and President Obama's announcement connecting foreign aid to civil/human rights for all. In 2011, it is astounding that blatant homophobia is acceptable to the majority of republicans. At some point, they will have to resort to dog whistling and code to signal their contempt for our GLBT brothers and sisters. The dog whistles regarding race are much more subtle today than Reagan's "Cadillac driving welfare queens" and "young bucks buying t-bone steaks with food stamps". Reagan couldn't get away with that today, so I guess that is progress. We will be able to measure progress in the GLBT struggle for equal rights by how republicans talk about it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/06/r…

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Let's see: The members of Westboro Baptist Church never allowed any of their children to picket a funeral carrying signs saying "God Hates Fags," did they?!

Where was your Christian, right-wing moral outrage then?

Just wonderin'.

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The belief that the Dems have a better plan than the Repubs is as ridiculous and delusional as thinking there would be peace if only we got rid of religion. Folks will always find a way to hate, and to gather those who are loyal and willing to follow their hate, whether right wing or left wing. I understand norma and DBI's delusions, but others, I believe, think better than that. Neither side is really good for us in any way shape or form, that is why chaos is best in DC, so neither side takes control. Both, given full weight on their side would sink this country.

Lee, nobody is saying give the kid full weight, but he is, though coaxed, defending mother, which is the right of any kid. Did you not stick up for mom when some kid insulted her in some way? I always stuck up for my mom, and my kids stuck up for their dad. Maybe it wasn't the voice of wisdom, but it was the voice of loyalty, and when a kid has a gay parent, their troubles are increased because of all the knuckle-dragging troglodytes that will tease and torment that child because of how mom or dad is wired. Whether gay, or the child of gay parents, kids have to grow up strong and with a ready, strong voice to stand up for themselves, or for their beloved parents in the face of ignorance and bigotry.

My daughter, out of the blue, came up to me and asked me, "Pop, what would you do if I was a lesbian?" "I'd still you you, sweetie." "You wouldn't be mad any anything?" "No sweetie, your my blessing and I will always, ALWAYS love you, no matter what." She just left it at that. Now, she has children of her own, and she tells them the same thing I told her that night. No matter what, they are loved. I cannot conceive of parents that would disown their kids, like the repugnant scum, Clint McCance, simply because their kid's gay. I always wondered why Christians would call themselves such, and still show such a lack of love and tolerance for the diversity we have been blessed with. I have to battle so many of these folks who say they love, yet that love is so conditional. They fail their God on so many levels.

Interesting article I ran into about bullying. One of the tactics it talked about was a Birt school that simply told its students to 'be less gay'. What doobs. The trend for gay kids, though, and it is a universal trend for all kids, is to resist bullying with words, then, if need be, with fists. http://moms.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011…

I always taught my kids to defend themselves. I did NOT want my daughters being victims simply because some hormonal boy got it in his head he just wouldn't take no that night. My daughters will never be rape victims. Using wit and body to repel bullys are still the best ways to make it through a life that is neither fair nor kind.

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What Sky said.......

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My six year old says you are full of sh*t AND tl;dr, Estrada.

FULL WEIGHT GIVEN; ALL ARGUMENTS REFUTED.

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Dang! I find myself agreeing with Steven -- for the most part.
But your last paragraph? Never is an absolute we can only hope for, although surely preparation will go a long way towards prevention.
By the way, I would much rather meet some of your family rather than that six-year-old in another family. Big difference between disagreement and disagreeable, right?

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Doig, you are absolutely correct. Lee demonstrates the latter in his blather. Kid standing up for mom, in a quiet dignified way, then the low bred kids whose parent are proud to here them curse at others.

Doig, you are always welcome at our table. We may not agree, but the food and talk will be delicious.

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