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NVR, this is for you, and all the women your age. It was stuff we saw regularly growing up in America during the 50s, 60s and 70s. You won't see it anywhere today not because print is gone but because of the content:

http://slightlywarped.com/crapfactory/curi…

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NBC-Marist Poll Dec,
BHO beats Romney and Grinch....in So. Carolina

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections…

second page.

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That's a scary looking fire. Reminds me of seeing a big apartment complex burning down when I was in graduate school. A lot of visual communications majors saw their portfolios go up in smoke. Drafts of my dissertation were always stored in the refrigerator after that.

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There's a big hooha at GOProud over Perry's "Strong Ad" and somebody getting outed and Breitbart is pissed and resigned from the board of GOProud because he's got principles or something and ----it's complicated, so go read John Cole's post.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2011/12/11/lo…

eL, I saw that story. Interesting that the lead in it was Gingrich's surge in the poll and not that Obama would beat him or Romney in both Florida and South Carolina. Do we have a liberal media or what? (Correct answer is "or what").

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Gotta love the parody noticing that Perry's jacket is from Brokeback Mountain.

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eLwood--interesting link. I think some of those ads were even from before my time! I was interested in ads recommending the use of Lysol as a douche. I did a little research and found out that it was recommended as early as the 1920's! If nothing else, these ads certainly show how things have changed (for the better in most cases)!

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KARK said at the end of their newscast that the fire was started by a child playing with matches.

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Is Lindsey starting a trend? Will we need a new law or can we use Godwin's for references to Stalin as well as Hitler? Maybe I should send Sen. Graham my copy of "The Gulag Archipelago" since I doubt if I ever read it again.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/11/l…

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The new avatar is sunrise over L.A. yesterday morning. My son hiked up to an old Nike silo sight in the Santa Monica Mountains where the 405 (San Diego) freeway slices them to view the eclipse. I thought I was downloading one of the lunar eclipse, but the picture of that was not in jpg form. The eclipse and sunrise occurred at the same time.

I never knew they had missiles in Los Angeles. We have always been a paranoid, scared nation, I think.

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Always good to see someone equating the death of a couple million people with forcing a credit card company to be honest about their interest rates.

I guess requiring banks to give you a copy of your refinance fees is as evil as the holocaust.

I suppose preventing a bank from ordering your withdrawals to max their overdraft charges is as evil as slavery.

What Lindsey and the GOP are doing is telling the American people that their desire to curb unethical behavior makes them as evil as Hitler and Stalin.

Because we all know that preventing a mortgage broker from lending double what a home is worth is the same as gassing several million Jewish people.

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In N. Dakota, police call in big backup: Predator drones

http://www.startribune.com/nation/13538388…

Let us know if this surprises you. Is Amerika now a slave state?

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I noticed Perry beating the drums to change the Constitution so children can pray in public schools (he means "forced to pray," of course). Is he that dumb and ignorant of what it's all about or just plain stooopid?

"Nothing in the United States Constitution as interpreted by this Court...prohibits public school students from voluntarily praying at any time before, during, or after the school day."

----Justice Sandra Day O'Conner

Of course, the key word all the Perrys don't like is "voluntary."

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Cato,
Perry is as dead as last years news. Once he opened up about allowing ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS to attend college that fried his ass. He could have gone on all day with
his gaffes, his drunken appearances, etc and his Arkie cousins would have accepted him with open arms as well as his low-information supporters elsewhere. But coddlin ILLEGALS is a theme du jour for today's wingnuts.

Even BHO must thump on immigrants to get some traction. While we think Grinch and Romney are meanies the first Negro in the White House is bragging about deporting more messicuns than W. Bush.

Perry can keep grabbing for evangelical vote as Bill O'Reilly explained on Chris Matthews show last Friday. It's essential to stay in the Iowa primary since evangelicals control R politics there. Iowa, Big Welfare Farmers and Evangelical Republicans. Quite a cocktail.

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HT to Greg Leding for this:

The Poverty Belt. It runs thru the Red 12 Slave states at much higher rates than in regular United States. Arkansas is dead center of the U.S Poverty Belt:

Map of the Day: America's Poverty Belt

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-…

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It appears the circuit clerk In Fort Smith has decided to comply with the circuit judges orders & allow the two women to return to work. It seems kind of a shame because the circuit clerk ( Blevins) would have had some personal improvement & weight loss under the jail diet.

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Despite Perry's big boasts of how much he had done economically for Texas, I notice that it is right there along with Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana in the Poverty Belt, which means that 30 per cent of the population lives in poverty. Perry should be proud of that, shouldn't he? That means he is taking care of his rich buddies.

In Boardwalk Empire, the HBO series set in 1920 Atlantic City, Nucky Thompson, the Boss of Atlantic City discovered Lysol in the bathroom; confronted his Mistress about it, quite angry that she did not want to have his child, even though he sure wasn't planning on marrying her. She got the Lysol after going to a Margaret Sanger clinic. He accused her of a mortal sin. By the way, he had had her husband killed. That was okay.

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Plainjim, another interest we have in common: Boardwalk Empire. I'm sitting here desperately trying to set up HBOGO so I can watch the finale on computer. Our dvr receiver is fried and the replacement machine has not arrived! Ack! No spoilers after it is over in case I don't get to see it tonight!

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For Little Rock and central Arkansas television viewers who might enjoy looking back at “the way we were,” here are some newscast clips dating back to 1974.

The then-much-younger faces include those of B.J. Sams, Steve Barnes, Fred DeBrine, Deborah Mathis, Greg Hurst, Tom Bonner, Roy Mitchell, Carolyn Long, Dave Woodman, Aviva Diamond, Steve Sullivan, Anne Jansen, Joe Quinn, Steve Martone, Margaret Preston, and Doug Krile, but there are others many AT bloggers will recognize.

You’ll also remember some of the stories: For example, Fred DeBrine in 1974 reporting that sportscaster Bud Campbell had died in a car crash, and a stunned Steve Barnes telling of the unexpected death of political pollster and analyst Jim Ranchino who suffered a massive heart attack while walking onto the KATV set 20 minutes before he and Barnes were to cover the 1978 general election returns.

1974

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2pejIzUgqc…

1978

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkWDExZYL8I

1980s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O851EsH5gQ…

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

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In light of the assertion by pseudo-intellectual/historian-for-hire to Freddie Mac, aka Newt Gingrich, that Palestinians are an "invented" people, I took my old KJV Bible down from the shelf to consult its maps. This Bible was given to me by the First Methodist Church of Sabetha, KS in 1952. Among the maps, there is one titled "Modern Palestine" and another titled "Palestine in the Time of Christ".

His mendacity is astounding.

/www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/10/newt-gingrich-palestinians-invented-people_n_1141518.html

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/www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/10/newt-gingrich-palestinians-invented-people_n_1141518.html

The previous links didn't work.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/10/n…

One more try.

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I guess the holidays are in full swing around here. WBW's sister and brother-in-law are due here tomorrow for a two-day visit.

Unlike some of her other family members, I really like them. WBW's sister couldn't be nicer and I'm just crazy about my non-legal, brother-in-law (who married WBW's sister about 10 months ago).

I got to know him really well when their mom died summer before last (we were cooped up together for almost a week). He's a KU fan but I don't hold it against him. He held his own somewhat when we debated college football, so I'm more than happy to welcome him into our home.

But here's the deal...WBW has informed me that I'm to entertain him Tuesday night while she and her sister go shopping. Well, Tuesday night is normally my "L Friend Night' and I'm thinking I'll just tote him along.

Men aren't persona non grata in our group, necessarily, unless they aren't willing to talk about sports and/or sex. It's probably about 70-30 in favor of the sports talk. (We've been known to shoo away many a gay man because they don't like football discussions).

Here's my question to you hetero guys out there...would y'all be comfortable in that setting? It's a very welcoming, eclectic group. It's comprised of about half lipstick-lesbians and half the more butch type.

I'm amenable to suggestions. I could just take non-legal, brother-in-law someplace else. It doesn't matter to me either way.

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I think you need to invite Durango.

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Although I don't often speak for my hubby, I will say that he would be very comfortable going out with a group of ladies.
Since he sometimes logs in here and doesn't bother to say that he isn't Kizzy, he can let you know, but I am sure that he would be up for a good time. We have many gay friends, both men and women. And if you want to talk about sports, he is da man!

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Smith's Alternative Arkansas History on this date:

11-Dec 1907 Senator Jeff Davis, nine days after taking seat in U.S. Senate, gave his famous "Cobwebs Speech" attacking John D. Rockefeller, the trusts, and the GOP friends of the wealthy.

11-Dec 1944 Little Rock City Council voted to bar minors under 18 from playing pinball machines. Alderman Roy Kumpe (photo) casts only dissenting vote.

11-Dec 1967 Black faculty at Allport Carver school threatened to resign if Superintendent Billy Boyle did not provide adequate books and instructional materials for their students. Humnoke School Board responded by terminating the contracts for all teachers at the school.

11-Dec 1970 Federal Judge G. Thomas Eisele enjoined Piggott High School from suspending Stephen Parker or enforcing a rule against "extreme hair styles," which he found to be an aspect of personal liberty protected by 14th Amendment.

11-Dec 1978 Anne Bartley testified before the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means in support of tax incentives for the rehabilitation of historic structures and commercial districts.

11-Dec 1989 State Senator Jay Bradford of Pine Bluff elected Chair of the Arkansas Democratic Party, replacing Skip Rutherford who resigned to focus on duties as President of the Little Rock School Board.

11-Dec 1997 Faced with overwhelming public opposition, U.S. Forest Service scraped its awful plan to let timber companies cut trees from 900 acres near the Ozark Highlands Trail and scenic Arkansas 23 Pig Trail.

--by Stephen Smith, Phd

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Heck, yeah, Goof, I’d go if SissyTJ would have me. And if Mr. Kiz showed up, he and I could tag-team the gals and teach ‘em a thing or two about guzzlin’ cold ones and talkin’ football.

Speakin’ of which, that was a great Cowboys-Giants game tonight and a wild finish. Eli came through again.

Mountaingirl, I neglected to say the other day that if ever I’m in Square Books and see a bright-lookin’ lady sitting in one of those easy chairs reading “Every Day by the Sun” while surrounded by a multitude of Faulkner ghosts, I’ll know it’s you. And it’ll be drinks on me at City Grocery. How ‘bout that?

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Durango, Hubs does not drink, but he used to party with the best and worst.......he can be the DD.
And STJ, have you and WBW set a date for the wedding?

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I have just about HAD it with these LGBT-bashers.

Some of my best friends are -- you know. And if you take a look at history you’ll find they’ve played an enormous – and so on.

Your LGBTs have given the world the Cistine Chapel stuff; the King James Bible (yes he WAS, Virginia); the Mona Whatever; Moby Dick (don’t even START); the Nutcracker Suite (oh, grow up); Keynesian economics; more Caesars than you can shake a – you know; the “let ‘em eat cake” lady; a passel of Popes; Olympic champs; tennis legends; a gaggle of Greek philosophers; that guy who broke the code on the German’s Enigma machine in WWII – plus much, much more, ad infinitum.

And this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osYZPx2A8v4…

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Ditto, Norma. They don't even try to hide their hatred with dog whistles or codes. The fundies are just blatant and in your face with their homophobia. As the authors of "Millennial Momentum" wrote, the younger generation doesn't have the same issues. Sad that we just have to wait for the old LGBT bashers to die. Sadder still that the supposed leaders in the repub party are willing to pander to these people to get elected. It's coming back to bite them sooner than they think.

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