"A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country." Texas Guinan

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Title: C M Duks

Name the hunters standing waist deep in this wetland.

Hint: One of them waved an 18" penis bone of a walrus on the House floor in defense of the right to sell sex organs of endangered animals for the purpose of aphrodisiacs in 2006.

http://motherjones.com/files/imagecache/no…


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I suppose we had just as many idiots -- not to say damned fools -- legislating back in my younger days, but I sure can't remember them, let alone name 'em. I guess most of 'em just got so blind, staggering drunk at LR watering holes that they sat quietly through the next day sessions, praying for quiet. Think it would help to start a fund and find a few volunteers to booze these folks up ever' night? Maybe then they wouldn't find so much daytime trouble to stir up.

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History repeats itself. If it's not the church deciding women cannot have birth control, it's the Southern states thinking they are more powerful than the United States.

I would take some foreign laws. Other countries have not sold their government to the highest bidder and do not have the problem with Wall Street criminals and banksters that we do. Most laws in this country are crafted by corporations, voted on by legislators owned by corporations, and result in profit for corporations.

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D-At least being drunk might half-way explain some of the dumb and dumber ideas that perculate through some of the wizard brains in the Arkansas House and Senate.0

I note that a bunch of our far right-wingers (mostly ReTHUGlican but with a few dumb Dixiecrats thrown in) signed off on an "agin" petition for the Affordable Healthcare Bill in the SCOTUS. Well, if having Gilbert Baker lead the charge doesn't convince SCOTUS, then I guess they are past convincing. I guess these "leaders" will all go to church Sunday and congratulate themselves on being so "christian" to want to deny healthcare to 40% of Arkansans. I remember Jeus telling the sick to go fix themselves and quit bothering Him.

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Explain how one would ban foreign laws.

I hear France has a law against murder so we can't outlaw that.

I understand Zambezia outlaws same sex marriage so we can't outlaw that.

Has anyone asked what they mean by no foreign laws? Oh now I understand - no muslim laws. Now that makes sense.

Just like freedom of religion but don't build no mosques within 4,000 miles of Ground Zero. That would be disrespectful.

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Let's see how Mitt handles this high inside fastball. Does he dig in or does he step back out of the box?


http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political…

If, God forbid, I were part of Mitt Romney’s press operation, this headline from HuffPost popping up in my inbox would make me strongly consider calling it a day and reporting myself sick:

Elie Wiesel: Mitt Romney Should Tell Mormon Church To Stop Performing
Posthumous Proxy Baptisms On Jews

Yes, spurring a sudden burst of high-profile attention for a long-simmering controversy, the Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Holocaust survivor has called out America’s most famous Mormon not named Osmond to try to change an exotic (and to outsiders, a tad bizarre) LDS practice that has drifted into the toxic territory of Christian insensitivity to Jews. Here’s the brief summary from Andrea Stone:

The Nobel Peace Prize winner spoke to The Huffington Post Tuesday soon after HuffPost reported that according to a formerly-Mormon researcher, Helen Radkey, some members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had submitted Wiesel’s name to a restricted genealogy website as “ready” for posthumous proxy baptism….

The incident follows years of controversy and efforts by Jewish leaders, including Wiesel, to get the Mormon Church to stop the practice of posthumous proxy baptism that many find objectionable.

“I think it’s scandalous. Not only objectionable, it’s scandalous,” Wiesel said of the baptisms.

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Well, OLR, what do you expect when you have a populace that is weaned on such intellectual TV delights as Gilligan's Island? Now the mobocracy watches, with glazed eyes, the antics of such worthy individuals as Snooki and the Situation.

You may well whine about corporations and this myth of the one percent, but it fails to follow the history that people gravitate towards comfort, and will sell their souls for that easy comfort.

Other countries are political and intellectual wastelands where hope for advancement is gone because there is no business that isn't tied to a too powerful govt and that govt rules with a tender, iron fist.

The greatest problem is folks getting so lazy they keep incumbents employed long after their sell-by date. One darkly funny stat I ran across was how Congress can have a popularity of 18%, yet have a 96% re-election rate.

It isn't so-called corporate overlords, its the ambivilance and contentment of the monkey mass that would rather know about the Housewives of Wherever than know about the congress scum of their district.

The 96% is the problem, not the 1%.

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Arkie

The "controversy" of converting the dead is idiotic. If a Jew believes his faith is the true faith then it would not concern the Jew if some nonJew attempted to convert him against his will in the afterlife.

I am not aware of any issue of idenity theft in the religious realm.

If the Jew believes Mormans had that power or ability, that would indicate the Jew did not believe his own Jewish faith was accurate.

How many gods do Jewish people believe there are? If there is no god but Jehova than there ain't no Magic Drawers wearin' Mormon god to concern themselves with.

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Citizen1, the issue is why is somone in one religion insulting the memory of the members of another religion. I bet if the Episcopalians (I picked my faith) started post-death baptizing of Baptists, there would be fires on every corner. There is no reason why this should occur. It is an insult to those impacted and the ultimate in arrangance of those doing it.

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Citizen1

It's not the religion, its the insult. To posthumously "save" those Jews who were killed only because they were Jews, is, to most Jews, to insult their memory. Not to mention the fact that the LDS leadership promised to stop doing this.

Now we can debate if it is fair for Elie Wiesel to demand that Romney renounce this practice, but he has and the ball (to change sports) is in Romney's court.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/15/…

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/secret-pos…

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couldn't be better

"I bet if the Episcopalians (I picked my faith) started post-death baptizing of Baptists, there would be fires on every corner."

But if we Episcopalians were to do this, we would at least invite the person's descendants over for cocktails before the ceremony.

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Lordy, steven, that's some negative opinion you've got of other countries/our fellow citizens. 1. Not all countries are brain dead because of government control. 2. Though we (the 99 percent) have our faults and deserve much criticism, history demonstrates that it has ALWAYS been a long, hard uphill battle for any citizenry to fight against the powerful few...thus all those sayings about Democracy and vigilance/etc. and thus all those wars/uprisings in which millions die fighting for that freedom thing.

My gosh they (the one percent) own and/our control everything...including our systems of governing. There are many, MANY folks out there fighting against Guantanamo, voter suppression, the wrongfully imprisoned, inequality, poverty, etc. Not everyone is sitting on their couch stuffing their faces with complacency.

Of course incumbents get reelected despite our low opinions of them. It takes MILLIONS to take them on and they spend their entire tenure doing things like redistricting to ensure their reelection. And by the time we get to vote the only 'real' choice is between a Republican-lite Blanche or Rove's butt-boy Tim.

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Burial

http://tinyurl.com/6ujlfkd

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--Gilligan's Island

--Snooki and the Situation.

--Housewives of Wherever

And the "easy comfort" of FOX News whose viewer know less than people who don't watch any news.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/21/f…

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Other countries are wastelands where hope for advancement is gone? Damn those facts and their pesky liberal bias:

http://ftp.iza.org/dp1938.pdf

For those who need pictures:

http://www.verisi.com/resources/prosperity…

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from the 4th District note above:

>>Incumbent Rep. Mike Ross isn't seeking re-election. State Sen. Gene Jeffress of Louann and D.C. Morrison are running as Democrats.<<

Has anyone done any research on that pesky D.C. Morrison? Is he going to become a permanent wind-up doll for Republicans to divert Demos campaign money and shape message?

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Perpetuation of ignorance and prejudice is the mission of Fox News. It has been the mission of Roger Ailes ever since he was a propagandist for Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s. I may be wrong, but I think he learned his craft as a fairly low-level staffer under Richard Nixon. It has worked. When you go into any business in Benton County, I guarantee that two out three television sets will be tuned to Fox News.

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That massive 0.44% budget cutting that the ReTHUGlicans are proposing is to show that they are on the job? Cut out the per diem and milage and maybe someone will thank you but wasting time to get more money is what they are really doing. Just like the regular sessiion when they start to play church for 4 weeks and then rush to try to get through.

This session should be 5 days with no pay after day #5 for any purpose. Get in there, do your job, stop the game-playing, and get out of town. And next time, put their special parking slots down behind the Labor Department so the real bosses, the citizens, can park close to the building.

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In today's thread about Heartland Institute's 'climategate' incident I mentioned "manufactroversy," where, typically, right-wing schemers manufacture controversies in order to stymie solutions.

A recent "Wired" magazine article discussed the related technique of rapid debating where a side threw in as many arguments, usually bogus, as possible in the allotted time. A troll team gets points for each unrefuted statement, no matter how off-the-wall or factually wrong the statement was. The tactic prevents the other side from making a positive case for their position and the unrefuted allegations destroy the responder's credibility.

I'm not advocating responding to trolls, just the opposite. Knowing that they'll use this tactic to divert you from a real discussion will allow you to ignore the trolls. There are people, who are not trolls, with legitimate contrary views who deserve intelligent discussion or what passes as such on blogs.

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Very good point, Yossarian. DNFTT!!

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I refuse to patronize businesses that have their TV tuned to Faux when I walk in. I pretty much hate TVs in public anyway, they're always tuned to crap like Crime and Punishment or Walker, Texas Ranger.

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Show business is my life, as my Razorbabies know. Hollywood is all about Heart.

Though Whitney's tragic death won't financially benefit her family and loved ones (she was broke and owed her record company Big Time), Dolly Parton will always love her.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/13/w…

To paraphrase Celeste Holm (George Burns is often credited with the remark, but it appeared in print, mentioned by Celeste, far earlier):

"Heart. If you can learn to fake that, you'll make it in Hollywood."

On a happier note, Hollywood will be all about Hart come Academy Awards night.

Dolores Hart. Former star (11 pix with Elvis; equally tragic but not Whitney-gifted vocally, yet the far-bigger star). Dolores left show business to become a nun and will walk the red carpet in her habit and no makeup. ("Who are you wearing?")

Mother Dolores is the focus of a nominated HBO documentary.

Leaving Hollywood stardom to spend the rest of my life cloistered with 38 sexually repressed neurotic women in Connecticut wouldn't have been my pick, but that's show business.

Yes, Dolores is a Mother now. Not the pill and contraceptives and family planning baby-making kind: the Benedictine kind.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/15/o…

Mother Dolores is now 73 but Dolly Parton's not getting a nickel from savvy Dolores.

Heart. That's what it's all about.

Show business is my life.

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Smith's Alternative Arkansas History:

15-Feb 1900 Birthdate of Daddy Bruce Randolph at Pastoria in Jefferson County. Famed "barbeque cooker" of Denver, known for hosting free Thanksgiving meals for the "poor and lonely," feeding 50,000 people in 1984.

15-Feb 1902 Arkansas Supreme Court held that Mary Gabsky cannot sue the Kansas & Texas Coal Company under the Miners' Act for the death of her 11-year old child in a mining accident.

15-Feb 1917 Arkansas House of Representatives passed the Riggs Bill, 71-19, providing that women can vote in party primary elections.

15-Feb 1926 Arkansas Supreme Court rejects Central Coal & Coke's effort to avoid payment for death of Roland Porter, employee who died trying to rescue young children trapped in mine shaft at No.6 near Huntington.

15-Feb 1932 Dr. William Zeuch, former president of Commonwealth College, announced for the Socialist nomination for Congress against incumbent Democrat Effiegene Wingo. Said he would not campaign but count on friends to do so. They didn’t.

15-Feb 1935 Approval of Act 33 of 1935 to Bar Un-American Parties from the Election Ballot.

15-Feb 1935 Arkansas House defeated bill by Senator Clyde Ellis, 28-64, that would require sterilization of the insane and habitual criminals.

15-Feb 1935 Horace Bryan convicted of anarchy for leading FERA workers strike in Fort Smith.

15-Feb 1960 Arkansas Supreme Court holds unconstitutional North Little Rock Ordinance 21 of 1904 requiring all City printing bear the union label of the Allied Printing Trades Council.

15-Feb 1990 Benton County jury awarded $24,000 to Pam Baysinger for wrongful discharge, fired by Wal-Mart after she filed a Workers Compensation claim for injuries on the job.

15-Feb 1990 Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission began investigation of nepotism charges against Court of Appeals Judges Jim Cooper and Melvin Mayfield for hiring their wives.

15-Feb 1995 Conway Mayor David Kinley said he ordered police officer Mike Edgmon fired for saying the mayor "sucks," claiming the issue was respect for authority and avoiding chaos in department.

15-Feb 1984 Gloria Cabe, Myra Jones, and Jo Luck Wilson testified before a U.S. Senate Subcommittee to support the Arkansas Wilderness Act of 1983, for 10 new wilderness areas and expand Upper Buffalo Wilderness Area.

15-Feb 2002 Bright Star High School Principal Tommy Green charged with harassment for grabbing an 18-year old female student's buttocks in high school English classroom.

15-Feb 2006 Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern (photo), a native of Jonesboro, opposed legislation to raise the state minimum wage, saying "if you want a better wage, you need a better education."

by Stephen Smith, PhD

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"At the time of her death, Whitney Houston's net worth was valued at around $80 million.

But her value to her family and friends: Priceless. And that doesn't change regardless of how much or how little Sony makes.

R.I.P Whitney Houston. You will be missed."

--WealthDaily, Feb 13, 2012

http://www.wealthdaily.com/articles/whitne…

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Two cases in eLwood's report above involving children killed or injured in mining accidents. One was only 11. Welcome to Grinch-ich's world where we start them young (and of course, don't pay them well either).

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eLwood -

Don't know where WealthDaily came up with that figure, but stay tuned.

Just a week before Houston's death, the National Enquirer's cover story on her tragic decline said the same thing: she's been broke and borrowing for a long time.

Dueling sources? Bad reporting?

Ill stick with the record company insiders quoted in HuffPo and the Enquirer, in this instance.

Shouldn't be long before we know!

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It was such a productive girls' night out. I think we have a money-maker on our hands.

We got to talking about the GOP's assault on birth control. Guess what? Three of the 7 lesbians in attendance are on birth control to either regulate periods or aid in the treatment of endometriosis.

I then got to thinking...why is the egg so sacred to Religionists in their quest to outlaw both abortion and birth control? Why don't we put the same onus on the sperm? After all, those little critters are definitely alive and the best little swimmers on the planet.

I've decided to create the "Save Our Sperm'' organization. You can find it at SOS.lol.edu/durango/is/a/hottie.

Our first order of business is to picket all urologist's offices. They perform vasectomies, which is killing our vital sperm. How is a sperm killer different than an abortion doctor? We also plan to heckle and badger any man who goes into any of these offices.

Onan was killed for wasting his sperm in Gen. 38 and that's what we base our entire organization on. Besides, we can't create more lesbians without sperm, which nobody will dispute.

We came up with some T-shirt ideas. It's a cute little smiling sperm with a top hat and the caption reads, "I literally give life. Don't kill me.''

We lesbians for "Save the Sperm'' want to outlaw all vasectomies and any male contraception. We'll be having a prophylactic-device burning ceremony during our protest. (We plan to keep it small because lots of rubbers burning can produce noxious fumes, which is another reason not to wear them).

We need your help. Sperm killing is at an all-time high and we have to stop these Bible-ignoring, atheist zealots. Future lesbians depend on you.

Cheers,

STJ

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Jim Hightower has it right: November 6, 2012, is Presidential Auction Day. Whoever has the most money wins. Demonocracy triumphs.

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One of the best sis, maybe the best. But, your URL-website address didn't work.
What's up?

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Let's not forget that "we the people" are Ledge Enablers, voting IN annual sessions of these nimrods. That it was in large part due to MANY voters not understanding the language/intent of the ballot measure, speaks volumes re "informed citizenry!" Historic Gaffe.

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I hate to go all Godwin this early in the AM, but it looks like the demagogues have traded their brown shirts for sweater vests. My God! The man is just awful. Santorum has tripled down on the crazy. Pierce highlights parts of his speeches in Tacoma and Boise which are ripe for campaign adds against him. Then he explains why R-money is unable to use them because he has doubled down on the crazy in his pandering to the basest of the base.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/romn…

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Republican heretic, Bruce Bartlett, "who wrote "the bible" for the Reagan Revolution, worked on domestic policy for the Reagan White House, and served as a top treasury official under the first President Bush" explains to Moyers and to you where the right went wrong. All the sane people have left the republican party or have been excommunicated. They deserve what they are getting for pandering to the worst of us, but the rest of us don't.

http://occupyamerica.crooksandliars.com/di…

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Why am I not surprised that this man's daughter is as big a jerk as he is? She has the excuse of being 15 years old with a few years left to mature. He has none. Don't waste time listening to his 8 minute rant/drivel. Someone suggested he could have donated the lap top if his goal was to deprive her of it. Why does a 15 year old have her own lap top in the first place?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/d…

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zelda, my dear deluded sweetie, not negative, just a simple observation after decades of watching and learning of the Stupid. I was about 15 when I read Harlon Ellison's Glass Teat. In my naive youth, I couldn't believe that people, as a while, could be so complacent. As i grew up, though, I learned Harlon was right, and I was naive.

It is hardly negative to point what is, and that humanity can, at the same time, be both noble and base. I respect individuals, but not people. While we have seen people gather to fight for each other, we have also seen the mobs gather to persecute some perceieved minority.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/16/us/maryl…

Here, we see the base. Racial divide, not so much religious, but a racial hatred for gays. Where as almost three quaters of whites were in support of gay marriage, while more than half of blacks were against. If i were still naive, I might be incredualous at why a formerly embattled and lynched minority refuses to stand up in support of another embattled minority. Again, though, in my youth, I was reading two stories that got me to thinking about how one race can ignore their own racism, despite all they have suffered. First was Harlon Ellison's script for the Young Lawyers, The Whimper of Whipped Dogs, and then Art Spiegelman's graphic biography, Maus. In two different works, you had the story of holocaust survivors whose suffering because of racial hatred did not quench their ability to hate others.

Yes, zelda, everyone IS sitting there making themselves numb. These are the kind of folks that buy into slanted news like Fox, or like HuffPost, who can ONLY look for validation of their ideals, rather than just seeing the facts and learning for themselves. If you only read Huff Post and think your getting the straight truth, your just as deluded as those who feed themselves and exclusive diet of Fox.

The problem isn't Fox or HuffPost, it is folks who think they are part of some conspiracy where some nebulous '1%' is in control of all.

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Well, at least Paul Van Dalsem was upfront with his statement during a legislative session many years ago: " Keep em barefoot and pregnant" That was his solution. Seems like many of the republicans have taken up his mantra with a different spin. No matter the verbiage used it still remains that the object is to control women and their choices.

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I was listening to local NPR hourly report yesterday morning. An AR Legislator has a bill that reduces a state legislator's mileage reimbursement to .42 cents a mile down from .52 cents a mile. .42 cents a mile is what all the other state employees get. Seems fair and a way to cut costs. (Not sure of his party affiliation - so we'll provide some kudos to the GOP and say it was republican)

However, I do know the bill was not popular among many of the Republican legislators, one even going so far as to say they would rather focus their time on fiscal issues in the state.

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Kudos - rescinded.

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