"rampant extramarital screwing"? Well, at least you didnt stick polyamory in the same bin as adultery this time. sigh...

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Ft Smith cheerleader shot, bullet lodged in her neck...she previously was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to UA.

A 17-year-old Northside High School cheerleader was accidentally shot early Tuesday morning when a bullet went through her bedroom.

Friends of the girl’s parents say the bullet is lodged in her neck near an artery and she remains hospitalized at Sparks Regional Medical Center.

Suspect sought

http://www.5newsonline.com/news/kfsm-polic…

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Republicans, in general and especially those who constantly use god to further their careers, HATE real Democracy for the 'little' people...as demonstrated by their consistent pissing on FOIA and Sunshine laws. As governor and President, Clinton was a vocal friend of FOIA. On the flip side, his Royal Highness Huck thought being accountable, as FOIA dictates, to the peasants was beneath him. I wish folks fought for FOIA like they do their guns.

Of course Republicans are gonna beat the hell out of issues like sex education, gay marriage, evolution, blah blah...it's an election year, after all; and it's not like they can run on the things they actually believe in or do.

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Right-wingers have to oppose sex education and contraception in order to increase abortion rates so that they can keep the religious right engaged. Also, conservatives welcome high teenage pregnancy rates so that they can blame the economic decline of working Americans on their alleged lack of moral values.
See Murray, Charles (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/0…)

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What da huey? I thought transparency was the name of the game for our tax payer funded tech park? Can we hammer those that assured us that we would know the score prior to slapping together the land of oz? It's happening again, isn't it? We've been hoodwinked...bamboozled...

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From Krugman’s Blaming the Victims of Inequality:
“the sudden fuss about values makes perfect sense from a political point of view, as a distraction from the issue of soaring incomes at the top.”

It would seem the most important value is political expediency.

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Maybe, the only answer to get FOI to work in Little Rock is to go after the way the Board of Directors is structured as it currently isn't "one man-one vote". There is no reason for 3 at-large members of the Board except to keep the "haves" in control. Go for Ward representation only so everyone on the Board is accountable to at least one segment of the populance.

Or push for North Little Rock to annex Little Rock and totally wipe out the Board and a lot of duplicated city positions.

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Thanks eLwood, Signed myself right up!

Are you loving Downton Abbey? I hear there will be a season 3.

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Yes Nanc. I'm checking for a DVD on Season 1. There should be a season 3 of Downton Abbey. Superb show because it's set in a major turning period of England where the vestiges of royalty are giving away to new economic and world realities. Similar to "The French Lieutenant's Woman," only a later period.

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Smith's Alternative Arkansas History on this date :

7-Feb 1820 First elected Territorial General Assembly met at Arkansas Post.

7-Feb 1825 Little Rock passed a city ordinance prohibiting blacks from dancing without written permission. Slaves to be given ten lashes for violating this ordinance; "free" blacks to be fined.

7-Feb 1882 General Winfield Scott Hancock visited the Little Rock Arsenal and was greeted with a 13-gun salute, in which a premature discharge blew off the right arm of a soldier named Metz from the Fourth Artillary.

7-Feb 1917 U.S. Senator William F. Kirby was one of five votes against the Resolution supporting President Wilson's severing diplomatic relations with Germany, which he called a "preliminary declaration of war."

7-Feb 1917 State Representative John A. Riggs of Hot Springs introduced a bill for "An Act to provide that women may vote in all primary elections" to keep a promise to his mother that he would introduce and work for one.

7-Feb 1949 Arkansas Supreme Court reversed an injunction limiting pickets and restricting communication of International Brotherhood of PaperMakers Local 538 at Williams Roofing, Camden.

7-Feb 1956 George Gray, operator of the Cities Service Station at 5325 Asher Avenue in Little Rock, selling gasoline for 16.9 cents a gallon on premium and 14.9 cents per gallon for regular.
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7-Feb 2001 Arkansas House approved (88-5) House Bill 1003 by Representative Russell Bennett that would require all public schools and libraries to install filtering software to keep minors from viewing pornographic Internet sites.

7-Feb 2003 "A Photographer of Note: Arkansas Artist Geleve Grice" exhibit opened at the Old State House, and Grice signed copies of the University of Arkansas Press book of the same title.

7-Feb 2003 Assistant Principal Emanuel McGhee said he intended to suspend Jacksonville student Thomas McLaughlin for talking with classmate about fact he had been suspended and had been made to read Bible.

7-Feb 2006 U.S. 8th Circuit Court ruled that Alltel intentionally discriminated against Desi Ledbetter by paying him less than white managers for 22 months,.

7-Feb 2007 Arkansas House State Agencies Committee rejected ratification of federal Equal Rights Amendment by 10-10 vote. Voting NO were Dan Greenberg, R-Little Rock; Pam Adcock, D- Little Rock; David Evans, D-Searcy; Robert Jeffrey, D-Camden; Horace Hardwick, R-Bentonville; Daryl Pace, R-Siloam Springs; Eric Harris, R-Springdale; Rick Green, R-Van Buren; Lance Reynolds, D-Quitman; and Buddy Lovell, D-Marked Tree.

--by Stephen Smith, PhD

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Be of good cheer my liberal buddies! Rick Man-On-Dog Santorum won all 3 of the silly Republican voter things held today!

This will keep the GOP primary blood bath going thru the summer, but most importantly....I say MOST IMPORTANTLY, it shows that good God fearing Midwesterners WILL NOT VOTE FOR A MORMON.

These idiots didn't vote FOR Santorum because they like his 13th century thinking on sex, they voted AGAINST the Mormon! So please God, Allah, Buddha, Flying Spaghetti Monster....let it be Romney in November!

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Max, There is a difference between Pregnancies and Births. THe article got it correct: we lead in births. You got it wrong, we do not lead in pregnancies (about 10th last I looked). The difference is abortions.

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Crime, school drop-out rate, teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease are reported in higher proportions in states where laws permit school corporal punishment. Along with capital punishment and restricted women's rights, we evince a harshness in social control that does not result in the intended outcomes. Arkansas is one of 19 states that still permit teachers to hit the pupils in their care. Compared to the 31 states that protect their school children from this sort of adult-on-child violence, the statistics on crime, school drop-out rates, teen pregnancy and STDs are not revealing any evidence of corporal punishment's benefit to youth or to society. We could do away with it for free.

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Bubba Lloyd is not a NLR Politico.

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OK, so I'm over a month late in this comment, but I just saw the piece about Arkansas having the highest teen birthrate in the U.S.--and, presumably, in the entire industrialized world. I loved reading the comments previously posted here, as they further enlighten my view. Especially the one that offers an explanation as to why Arkansas ranks "only" 10th in teen pregnancy but #1 in live births. It's because girls in many other states, including presumably in other POOR states like ours, have access to abortion. Since the death of Bill Harrison here in Fayetteville I believe there is only facility in the entire state that offers abortion services. And the recent decision by the medical gas-service company to stop providing the Little Rock clinic with necessary medicinal gas may effect a shutdown of that facility. Clearly the anti-abortion movement is becoming more successful at pushing its members views on the rest of us, not because of the power of their arguments but because of their bullying tactics. All which leads right back to the problem of all these children having children.

But is this just a desired outcome of the anti-abortion movement? There's no doubt that abstinence-only does not reduce sexual activity in children. It's a morals education approach, not a sex education approach. Abstinence-only is just as much a crusade as the anti-abortion movement is, and I mean crusade in the sense of a religious war against perceived infidels. Both of these are elements of the never-ending Culture War.

I wonder if anyone has compiled the data that would indicate what percentage of the children from these teen births are given up for adoption immediately, which are kept in the custody of the mother--which most often means, in the custody of the grandmother, and which end up being wards of the state for some period of time, in custody of foster parents?

That would be very helpful information for those of us who would like to take on the Forces of Darkness in the Arkansas Campaign of the Never-Ending Culture War.

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