>>* This is interesting, a report on the Republican blockage of judicial appintments, even plain-vanilla, thoroughly qualified sorts<<

As blogger Eureka Springs has pointed out to you over and over the Demos in charge of the Senate set the operating rules when the Senate convened. They could have opted for simple majority rule but did not. They could have threatened the "Nuclear Option" just as the Republicans did numerous times when Rs held a simple majority in the Senate.

Too many Demos are spineless. They're too busy maximizing their net worth, like Republicans, to pay attention to what should truly matter. And if they're being nice hoping to get the same treatment from Repubs...how has that worked out for Dems in the past 18 yrs?

from yesterday's "Smith's Alternative Ark History:

16-Dec 2005 U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln held press conference to announce that she will co-sponsor a Republican-backed bill to gut the Endangered Species Act.

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Simon Hoggart's week: Christopher Hitchens: monster and turnip

✒To come to the point, Christopher Hitchens could be a monster. He left his first wife while she was pregnant. He betrayed his close friend Sidney Blumenthal, who worked for the Clintons, by deposing, to a notary public no less, something that had been said at a private dinner – at the height of the Lewinsky business. One of Sidney's friends, coming to live in London, said: "The main problem with the British press is that Christopher Hitchens is insufficiently loathed."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011…

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Miguel Estrada: Sow what you reap and reap what you sow.

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Yeah, those Occupy LR folks are really shaking it up. What a joke.

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Estrada was a unqualified candidate even for the AG job where he basically started the attack on the Bill of Rights. In his small mind the government could and can do anything it wants without any regard for laws. He created an imperial presidency with his right-wing friends. Another example of George W Bush's gifts that keep on giving.

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Yeah, their guy was bad, but our guy is good!!! Grow up.

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I don't post many videos but this one, posted by my friend Abunique in Fayetteville, was an amazing recovery of a humpback whale. The best video I've watched this year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcXU7G6zhjU…

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Hungry American children.

http://tinyurl.com/7v692px

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If you think a group can control the soul of a nation by taking political power through its lies, corruptness, hypocrisy, greed, and a host of other negative descriptors, then you must be a Republican.

Or a tool.

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Wow! Thank you, Elwood!

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A very good article. Trolls read the writer's qualifications before beginning the usual Rovian drooling.

Iraq . . . The End of America's Great Expectations

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the…

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>Miguel Estrada: Sow what you reap and reap what you sow.
>Charles W. Pickering: Sow what you reap and reap what you sow.
>Carolyn Kuhl: Sow what you reap and reap what you sow.
>Henry Saad: Sow what you reap and reap what you sow.
>William Gerry Myers III: Sow what you reap and reap what you sow.

Fixed it for you, santhony.

Also, cbb: Are you referring to Miguel Estrada or Steven Estrada?

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Unconstitutional labor ordinances, Griffin Smith Jr removes reporter, Huck's ethics deal..

Smith's Alternative Arkansas History on this date:

17-Feb 1899 At the YMCA Debating Society, C.E. Hayes and M.E.Telford, affirmative, prevailed in debate with James Arenson and J.S. McKnight, on “Resolved: State Should Build a Reform School"

17-Feb 1906 Central Coal & Coke avoided jury award of $500 to a coal miner for severe burns and injuries suffered in a mine explosion, blaming the cause on open lamps worn by miners George Peek, Jerry Kincaid, William Fields and Will McMillian.

17-Feb 1910 U. S. Senator Jeff Davis spoke in opposition to an oil pipeline crossing public lands in Arkansas, attacking John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil, but his was the only vote in opposition on final passage.

17-Dec 1940 State planning director L. A. Henry and committee on interstate trade urged enactment of uniform laws on sabotage prevention, control of explosives, model state guard act, and protection of public property.

17-Dec 1945 Strike at the Southern Cotton Mill Company in Little Rock by 112 of 117 workers.

17-Dec 1946 UA Student Senate criticized President Harding’s control of student funds and threatened a general student strike unless they had "real student government" on activities.

17-Dec 1949 Twenty-three editorial employees of the American Newspaper Guild go out on strike against the Arkansas Gazette over failed contract negotiations on dismissal clause, joined by 11 circulation employee members.

17-Dec 1963 Municipal Judge H. L. Methvin declared unconstitutional a Trumann ordinance requiring $1,000 license fee for labor organizers; similar to anti-labor ordinances at Lepanto, Marked Tree, Osceola, Harrisburg, Dewitt, Nashville.

17-Dec 1984 Arkansas Supreme Court reverses conviction and finally holds that if a person in custody indicates that he wants a lawyer, the interrogation must cease and that any subsequent statements are inadmissible.

17-Dec 1994 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette City Editor David Bailey removed Patricia Manson from federal court beat after he and Executive Editor Griffin Smith, Jr. discussed objections to her reporting on Whitewater prosecutions. Manson had filed articles critical of Kenneth Starr and his staff.

17-Dec 1997 Republican Ethics Commissioner Candi Russell voted to dismiss complaint against Governor Mike Huckabee relating to his 1994 campaign finance disclosure report -- one day after he offered her a lucrative state job.
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--by Stephen Smith

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Merry Christmas for Everyone (except the Communist Chinese)

http://www.skepticmoney.com/merry-christma…

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Just popped up on CNN, the last American troops in Iraq just crossed over into Kuwait! One bastard war of George W. Bush is over!

Cost of this war, over 800 billion dollars. Worst cost of this war, 4484 dead US troops for the next million trillion years.

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>>Cost of this war, over 800 billion dollars.<<

I don't know where you're getting your numbers dude, but the actual cost is going to be over $2 Trillion when the all the bills are paid. It could be more depending upon how many years we "occupy" the nation with our 30 military bases and HUGE, walled embassy. It's the largest militarized embassy on the planet. There's thousands of damaged soldiers to care for, several mountains of military surplus to dispose of and military that needs to be rebuilt.

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It's Time to Tax the Church

http://www.alternet.org/belief/153448/how_…

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I'm told by one of the about 50 marchers (gainfully employed, thank you very much). ...the 1 you talked to was employed or the entire group of 50???
Lots of photos taken ??? why do we only see a photo with 4-5 people.....I believe Max is trying to make news....much ado about nothing in LR

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The brief standoff was intense enough to bring LRPD Chief to the scene. Chief Stuart was professional, and gracious to marchers.

Yes Con-Ark, employed. Those of us in my top 20% realize the nation is dancing to the tune of the1%. It is not the 1% themselves that are evil, it is the legislation and regulation that cause increasing increasing inequality that is the evil.

Not to be snarky, but I'll put my higher education and degrees, employment history, etc up against yours any day. We can compare church pledge cards, or perhaps Boy Scout records?

Or my colleague's recent military record in the Mid East?

Or Pastor of a large downtown church?

Special Forces veteran?

Mom's with their kids?

UALR faculty?

The gentleman in the photo are students with debts they fear being able to repay.

The only non event was the no show of press.

The stacked deck of this so called economy does not benefit you, only those whose stereotypes you fantasize as Job Creators.


"One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to the good"

Burke

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I saw some video of yesterday's march and street theater. The only thing missing was Leonard Pinth-Garnell.

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Well the political theater was indeed lame.

On the sidewalk, tho, "United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1875), the Supreme Court held that "the right of the people peaceably to assemble for the purpose of petitioning Congress for a redress of grievances, or for anything else connected with the powers or duties of the National Government, is an attribute of national citizenship, and, as such, under protection of, and guaranteed by, the United States". Even lame petitions.

But not yesterday, not in Little Rock, not in broad daylight, not at the Federal Building

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