PEE IN THE CUP, GOVERNOR:

I contend CEOs of any company, corporation, agri-corporation, any one who has their hand in government's pocket should be so tested and not bestow the honor of a select few who have no political power.

report 9 likes, 1 dislike   like  dislike

Currently watching Boss Womack (C-Span) act as Speaker in the House. By my count Womack had to call for "The House will be in order" 11 times in 90 min. Effective leadership?

report 3 likes, 0 dislikes   like  dislike

I'm sure the old General's ego is way too big for him to settle for a US House spot with 434 equals. don't ya think Max?

report 1 like, 6 dislikes   like  dislike

(Yesterday's alternative Ark history was posted late, jst b4 midnite, it was a good ern too.)

Smith's Alternative Arkansas History on this date:

7-Dec 1891 Federal Judge Isaac Parker addressed the Fort Smith Fortnightly Club and encouraged efforts for the public library, saying, "A good book in a library is like a good citizen in the community."

7-Dec 1893 Birthdate of Claude Cooper, Blytheville attorney for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and other marginalized citizens in northeast Arkansas.

7-Dec 1926 Ned Gowers and 23 other union miners in Logan County sued Baker Coal & Mining Company and F. B. Baker and Nellie Baker to recover for wages due but unpaid.

7-Dec 1953 Arkansas Supreme Court overturned an injunction against Teamsters Local 568 peacefully picketing Red Ball Motor Freight in El Dorado.

7-Dec 1984 Willie Morris and Dean Faulkner Wells autographed their books at the Capitol Bookstore and the Paperback Writer in Little Rock. Nevermore.

7-Dec 1994 Bobby Hester of Jonesboro, priggish director of the American Family Association of Arkansas, said he was "displeased with the outcome" in the obscenity trial of Rick's Quick Stop that failed to convict the business for selling magazines.

7-Dec 1994 Booneville Municipal Court Judge Paul X. Williams Jr. ordered the Booneville schools to stop daily Bible readings; High School Principal Ralph Bishop complained about the end of a 30-year tradition in defiance of the Bill of Rights.

7-Dec 1996 Shana Lovell, graduate of Ozark High School and a student at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, was named a Rhodes Scholar to study at the University of Oxford. After earning a Master’s in Public Health at Yale, Lovell served as the Republican Health Policy Director for the U.S. Senate Health, Education, and Pensions Committee. She is currently a Washington lobbyist.

7-Dec 2003 John A. Henderson, graduate of Little Rock Parkview Arts/Science Magnet High School, was named a Rhodes Scholar. He received an M.Phil. in Comparative Politics at Oxford and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in American Politics at the University of California.

7-Dec 2005 James Hoelscher settled lawsuit for $250,000 on his claim that he was fired for reporting that Beaver Water District violated the Clean Water Act and for reporting the violations to state Department of Environmental Quality.

7-Dec 2005 Thomas B. Fordham Institute's comprehensive review of state science standards gave Arkansas' public school science curriculum 45 out of 100 points (0 on Evolution) and assigned a generous grade of D.

7-Dec 2006 Fayetteville Public Library awarded silver certification by U. S. Green Building Council for 34 innovative design strategies, including sustainable site, water efficiency, energy, materials and resources.

--compiled by Stephen Smith, PhD

report 3 likes, 7 dislikes   like  dislike

Perhaps old news to some and certainly no surprise to AT bloggers but,
Queen of Wasilla has been fined:


"Palin Guilty of Major Ethics Act Violation: Must Return $386,000 in Contributions"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dun…

note: Like Gov Scott in Florida who ripped off Medicare for Millions and so many Wall Street bankers who crashed the American economy using fraudulent means,
Sarah will get no charges filed against her.

report 8 likes, 2 dislikes   like  dislike

How about something traditional for Sandusky, like life at hard labor coupled with The Scarlet Letter?
As for General Clark, go for it. As for BusDriver, the General would be far superior--there may be 434 House Members, but that does not make them equal. Indeed some, like our own Griffin--are so unequal to the job that they make those of us who let them happen hang our heads in disgrace.

report 5 likes, 2 dislikes   like  dislike

Well, if Gingrich represents the new "evangelical Christian or family values" then I prefer to be something else. What a sleeze and the "christians" (small "c" intended) in Iowa have found a way to rationalize. If it was a Democratic group, some Rethuglican would be complaining about "situtional ethics" or what I am calling "situational evangelical christianity

report 7 likes, 3 dislikes   like  dislike

Cato, when I ran an operations group at a pharmaceutical company, the VP of research suggested that we test all of the line operators in production for drugs on a rotating basis which I said was fine as long as all of his 600 researchers were also tested routinely with the same penalities. Amazingly, the idea was dropped.

Sure test those making $20,000 at the high end but not test those with salaries in the $60-120,000 level. Which group actually had more money available to buy drugs?

report 7 likes, 2 dislikes   like  dislike

What happened to the Occupy Little Rock general assembly meetings? They're all deleted from the events schedule on their local website now.

report 2 likes, 0 dislikes   like  dislike

Why should the football team at Penn State be penalized because an old man on the coaching staff is a pervert, and an even older man knew it but did nothing? As far as I can tell, the football team knew nothing about the vicious man in their facility or the spineless cowards who protected him to protect their program. The only (invalid) basie for punishing them by taking away their bowl would be guilt by association.

report 8 likes, 3 dislikes   like  dislike

Elwood, it IS old news because it is from June 2010.

report 0 likes, 0 dislikes   like  dislike

It would be a recognition, ttims, that these people had brought shame upon their school, and the school should not engaging in the frivolity of football while these charges were pending. It is amazing that football fans would put bowl games ahead of abuse of children. Shame, shame!

report 6 likes, 8 dislikes   like  dislike

eLwood: A few years ago, when I was a student at Arkansas Northeastern College, I read a great book about the Southern Farmers Tenant Union. Truly amazing how dangerous it was for these tenant farmers to organize and be heard. Equally interesting is how big a part Arkansas played in the founding of the organization. Interesting how times have not changed one bit. Now we have OWS trying to bring light to the abuses financiers and big banks are dishing out to working people.

report 2 likes, 0 dislikes   like  dislike

So, THIS is what has the rightwingers' panties in a wad on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor????

http://gawker.com/5865894/right-wing-honor…

report 2 likes, 2 dislikes   like  dislike

eLwood, Womack just likes to show his authority. He likes to hear the gavel strike. It adds to his power complex.

report 3 likes, 0 dislikes   like  dislike

I take exception to your line of thinking plainjim. You want to put everyone associated with Penn State in the middle and point a finger at them. My Dad recruited aerospace engineers from Penn State for probably 25+ years and you would be amazed at how many of them were football players and off the charts smart. Sanduskys gone, Paterno has been fired and now you want to bash some football player who probably before this year had no knowledge of whats gone on. Guilt by association is a terrible card for you to throw down on the table for any student or athlete that goes to Penn State. Should we cancel the hockey and baseball seasons?

report 7 likes, 2 dislikes   like  dislike

When abuse is allowed to occur, Goof, we are all guilty. It just seems callous to me to be living it up at a football game when children have been treated like they were treated when the school knew about it, and did nothing. Does football exist for the satisfaction of the fans? The fact is that football is a business, and the people operating that business should be punished if they turn their back to such atrocities. You should ask yourself, what is the purpose of a university's existence. It has to be more than football, although too many people do not accept this any more. I don't care about the fans. The school is a the guilty party here, and should be punished.

report 3 likes, 4 dislikes   like  dislike

I'm behind on what's been on the blog lately so I might have missed it if someone posted this previously--2 funny parodies about Newt:

"You're a Mean One Newt Gingrich" and "It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Gingrich"
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/07/paro…

report 1 like, 1 dislike   like  dislike

You are treating this like a divorce plainjim. The divorcing parties are at fault but you are pointing at the kid who is in the middle. That kid in the middle is a victim of the process. The parties who were involved in this will have their lives destroyed. I have no problem with that. But to take a broad brush and paint all over Penn. State is a little too much for me. I don't think it's ever been said that the student athletes at this institution were the problem, it was the faculty. Penalizing students and student athletes is a little too mean spirited for me.

report 4 likes, 1 dislike   like  dislike

Thanks for pointing out Palin article date Cammack. It kept poppin up when ever I visited two websites and two friends had it on FB. I'll be more careful after I quit taking this g'damned Prednizone.

report 1 like, 2 dislikes   like  dislike

.

>>eLwood, Womack just likes to show his authority.

jim, Womack was sure banging the hell out of the gravel. After an hour or so it became funny because the harder and louder he banged it the more often he had to call for order in the House.

The session Womack was presiding over was passage of
"H.R. 10: Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 2011"

a bill to grant Congress the power to review and deny any regulatory rules which cost industry $100 million or more.

Given that Congress cannot function as it is why on Earth would anyone think they should have the authority to control Executive rule-making? But the Republicans, mostly working for large industrial interests, e.g., Koch Industries, wanted that power.
It will be DOA in the Senate but it's passed the House in anticipation of passing the Senate should people want more of those disaster monkeys there in 2012.

Sweetie and I were discussing the bill which, if ever implemented, could have unintended consequences: a future conservative president disfavors regulation while a more liberal Congress sees the need for more regulation thus over ruling POTUS to put even more stringent regulations in place.

A fair SCOTUS would likely strike down the bill as it usurps power intended for the POTUS.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?v…

report 2 likes, 2 dislikes   like  dislike

“7-Dec 1984 Willie Morris and Dean Faulkner Wells autographed their books at the Capitol Bookstore and the Paperback Writer in Little Rock.”

Dean Faulkner Wells was a former Little Rock resident and the last surviving member of Nobel-prize-winning author William Faulkner's immediate family. She died last summer in Oxford, Miss., a few months after publication of her latest book, “Every Day by the Sun.”

The book (written in longhand at her kitchen table over a period of two years) is a "must read" for Faulkner fans, since it reveals much previously unknown information about the notoriously private Faulkner clan. (Are you listenin’, mountaingirl?)

Dean Faulkner Wells lived among us here in LR during the time her step-father, Jimmy Meadows, was an editor at the Arkansas Gazette. She was the daughter of William Faulkner’s youngest brother, Dean Swift Faulkner, who died at age 28 in a 1935 plane crash four months before his only child’s birth.

After his younger brother’s death, William helped raise his niece, paid for her education, gave her away when she was married, and maintained a strong relationship with her until he died in 1962.

http://goo.gl/mYFHo

report 3 likes, 0 dislikes   like  dislike

"We were walking Mary and Joseph down the hall from makeup to wardrobe when all of a sudden there arose such a clatter . . . ."

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/…

report 0 likes, 4 dislikes   like  dislike

Excellent bio Durango! Dean Faulkner Wells also started

the The Faux Faulkner Contest. It's presently on hold while a corporate sponsor
is sought. Since 1989 American Airlines and MSNBC have sponsored it.

http://www.yoknapatawphapress.com/contest.…

report 1 like, 2 dislikes   like  dislike

What the Hell? I just noticed that someone wants me to die before the next election. I love the like or dislike feature on the blog. Is there a way to find out who wants me dead?
So to the hater: Just to piss you off, I am going to be alive and posting on election night. Thanks for giving me yet another reason to fight.

report 7 likes, 5 dislikes   like  dislike

When I see these fraud trials I wonder if these people that get caught knew that this was going to be the outcome. It always seems to happen.

report 0 likes, 0 dislikes   like  dislike

House Ag Committee will attempt to question Jon Corzine on the MF Global collapse today -

http://agriculture.house.gov/hearings/hear…

I hope Corzine can explain about the alleged $50,000 monthly payments being sent to Bill Clinton while MF Global was stealing customer funds to cover his bad bets on Europe.

Was Clinton being paid for advice to go long on Euro debt, or was Corzine sending him the money just because he is a swell guy? Was information from the State Department involved in these bad investment decisions?

Or maybe Corzine will plead the Fifth.

report 0 likes, 1 dislike   like  dislike

Durango……I do have “Every Day by the Sun” in book form. It just didn’t seem fitting to Faulkner to load it onto my Kindle.

I keep putting off reading it, thinking the opportunity will arise to take a weekend trip down to Oxford and pay a visit to Square Books. I have this fantasy of sitting in a creaking old chair on the second floor balcony overlooking the Square or snuggling into one of the tattered old chairs inside and reading about the Faulkner family, while the ghosts surround me.

But if it doesn’t happen soon, I guess I will have to do the next best thing. Take a couple of my dogs, grab a blanket, pick the most comfortable rocker on my own second floor balcony overlooking Mt. Nebo and Mt. Magazine and create my own Faulkneresque environment.

report 1 like, 0 dislikes   like  dislike

Kizzy..............NO ONE here wants you dead. That is just some of those pesky right wingers, going through the comments clicking on the "dislike" button for anyone who has liberal opinions or facts. Their attempt to skew the readers' views is so obvious.

Wonder what they get paid for that????

report 7 likes, 2 dislikes   like  dislike

Go for it, General Clark!!!

report 1 like, 0 dislikes   like  dislike

Thanks, mountaingirl, now it's about half and half. I'm going to fight and live just for spite now!

report 0 likes, 0 dislikes   like  dislike