Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Tuesday night line
Posted by Max Brantley on Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:39 PM
- TAXPAYERS GIVE GRIFFIN FLUNKING GRADE: Americans for Tax Fairness issued a straight-F report card today to U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin for his voting record — tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations, tax increases for working poor and slashes in programs important to working people. Details here. Oh, and the group gave U.S. Rep. Rick Crawford a bunch of Fs, too.
Over to you. Closing out until something else comes along:
* HACKED OFF: Remember when the Jonesboro Library learned its bank account was drained of $37,000 by a computer hacker? I heard today that a similar hacking plot was under investigation in Central Arkansas, this time perhaps affecting a medical institution. No firm info yet.
* ROLL TIDE: I missed coverage of this previously, from the world of winning football:
An Alabama man pleaded guilty Tuesday to obscenity charges and faces a two-year prison sentence for rubbing his genitals on an unconscious LSU fan in a Bourbon Street restaurant after the BCS national title game in January. Prosecutors reached a plea deal with Brian H. Downing of Smith Station, Ala., on the morning he was scheduled to be tried on charges that included sexual battery, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Prosecutors agreed to drop the battery charge.
* UNITED AGAINST CITIZENS UNITED: By a vote of the Pine Bluff City Council last night, Pine Bluff became the fourth Arkansas city to adopt a resolution calling for overturning of the Citizens United ruling for unlimited corporate political spending, according to activist Robert Nunn. Pine Bluff joined Eureka Springs, Fayetteville and North Little Rock. Little Rock? Director Fortson? Director Adcock? Director Kumpuris? Are you at-largers for the people or for the power structure?
* BRYANT TEACHER CHARGED IN SEX CASE: Fox 16 reports a former Bryant High School English teacher will be charged with having sex with one of her students in the school parking lot and her home.
* NOW IT IS PAUL RYAN ON VIDEO: Huffington Post has dug up video of the Marathon Man decring welfare bums — he puts them at a comparatively modest 30 percent of Americans. What a tool. Social Security paid his way to college though he came from a well-to-do family. He has never had a real job unless you count public office and working on speeches and such for politicos.
Speaking of...
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Regnat Populus
June 13, 2013hat Democracy is rule by the people was once considered self-evident in this country, but that changed with the Supreme Court's disastrous ruling in the Citizens United case. /more/
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The Failed Guilty Plea Edition
May 31, 2013Martha Shoffner's unsuccessful attempt to enter a guilty plea, Congressman Tim Griffin and the Lifeline phone program, Max's annual trip to Arkansas Boys State and questions about a pay raise for Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola — all covered this week. /more/
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Dumas: A new moral philosophy
May 30, 2013The most underplayed news story of the season — maybe since the first newspaper in 59 B.C. — has to be the story from Hawaii the other day that a climate observatory recorded the highest carbon-dioxide levels in the atmosphere in three million years. /more/
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As the world warms: Arkansas leaders want it hotter
May 28, 2013Another good column by Ernie Dumas this week, this based on the lightly reported finding at a weather station in Hawaii of the highest atmospheric readings of carbon dioxide in three million years. /more/
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Riverfest Eve open line: Democrats rip Tim Griffin; Arkansas Tech joins no-gun list
May 23, 2013The line is open. Final words: * TIM 'TAR SANDS PIPELINE' GRIFFIN: It's no surprise that Republican Rep. Tiny Tim Griffin of Alberta, Canada, voted again last night to hurry up the Keystone XL pipeline. /more/
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Morning report: ExxonMobil caught; city directors get big pay raise; the return of Ken Starr
May 22, 2013Interesting post on Daily Kos about documents obtained by Greenpeace through a Freedom of Information Act to the state Department of Environmental Quality. /more/
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Sunday morning: IRS, Kochs and movies
May 19, 2013Not much new to report this morning. If all goes well, I'm going to catch at least three movies today at the Little Rock Film Festival. /more/
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Tuesday topics
May 7, 2013The line is open. Final words: * THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT HAS DESIGNS ON ARKANSAS: Church and State magazine reports on plans by the American Renewal Project, a Religious Right organization, to politically target 12 states including Arkansas in 2014 to "restore America to its Judeo-Christian heritage." /more/
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May more Sundays be the same
April 21, 2013Nice ays wasn't it? Quiet, except for the CYA noise from up in Faulkner County where Rep. Tim "Pipeline" Griffin is busy 'splainin' how that oil-spewing pipeline isn't like the other pipeline he wants to build carrying the same dangerous stuff. /more/
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Griffin touts Exxon to oiled constituency
April 11, 2013Put yourself in the shoes of Rev. Pat Robertson or one of the other clerics who insist that disasters, whether natural or manmade, are God's way of showing His wrath over the stupid things people are doing. /more/
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