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Re: “Duggar backs Santorum in Iowa”
Would you like some Santorum with your Pizza?
Santorum? What's that?
Oh, I'll google it on my smartphone!
Oooh yuck! That makes me want to vomit! Let's get outta this hell hole fast!
Re: “Duggar backs Santorum in Iowa”
If every conservative family (hetero, natch) followed the Duh'ggars' lead, there would be lots of young voters to flood the Iowa caucuses and Win One for the Zipper... er, Nipper? Ripper? Stripper? Slipper? Clipper? Tripper?
Re: “Paragould school puts Nativity Scene back up after protest”
RMcMillon:
you said: "There wasn't a member of another religious group wanting to put up another type board, so far as I know. Would be something for consideration whenever that time comes."
One basic underlying tenet of the First Amendment 'Establishment Clause' and much of the case law that supports the wall of separation doctrine is that a state-sanctioned or state-favored religion discourages adherents of other religious traditions -- on non-religious traditions -- from displaying their different spirituality in the public square lest they be subject to discrimination and prejudice by those who follow the dominant religion.
In such a close-minded town as Paragould, what "All-American Muslim" in his/her right mind would even TRY to post a bulletin board in the school with all of this "War on Christmas" hysteria going around? I'm guessing that Faux News is the most-watched news channel in Para-gruel, if not the most-watched channel, period. Keep this bulletin board incident in the cultural context in which the gawd-fearin fundies are flailin', wailin' and failin' about: this is, to them, a singular example that (illogically, of course) proves the generalization that it's Christians, fundie/evangelical Christians to be more precise, who are being discriminated against by Bill O'Reilly's hated secular humanist-socialist-welfare state-Democrat-Occupier-ACLU lovin'-jackbooted vanguard.
Re: “Blue Dogs to endorse Clark Hall for Congress”
Mike Ross, Mark Pryor, et al., are DINOs (Democrats in name only). Dems are bad enough when it comes to caving -- even the demonized Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are careful not to cross any lines that offend the party's fat-cat funders on Wall Street, Silicon Valley and elsewhere. So if the party leadership won't even hold fast to the 80-year old New Deal, the ship of state that has kept millions from drowning over the decades is already sinking. The Blue Dogs are nothing more than a fifth column who conveniently wear the mantle of FDR -- not to mention Orval, Lester Maddox and George W(the other George W!)...
Re: “Homework for Ark. Bd. of Education and legislators”
I'm guessing that this NY Times series won't get a warm reception in the board room of the Walton Family Foundation. Nor in the offices of the foundation's own (owned?) University of Arkansas "Department of Education Reform."
Re: “Tougher Lake Maumelle land use plan approved in committee”
The Coalition's proposal is too WEAK. We need STRONGER watershed controls than they're proposing. Many states provide for bans on construction, road-building, 4-wheelers and ORVs, etc. in culinary watersheds. Not in Arkansas, where the good old boys and their lobbyists and the billionaires make the rules.
As for Shane's comment that oh, we don't need to worry about Maumelle water quality, 'cause we'll get water from Greers Ferry eventually. By the time you get an expensive pipeline built you can expect to have fracking waste chemicals in THAT water. This is the basic problem: people (like Shane and the other good old boys and their lobbyists and the billionaires) think there's always an alternative out there, that we don't have to protect what we have, we'll just go farther away and mess up some more-pristine area. Well, there's not gonna be any more-pristine areas soon, 'cause the good old boys and lobbyists and billionaires are making sure that EVERYBODY can trash EVERYTHING 'cause they're repealing and preventing common-sense, science-based regulations that are the ONLY way we can protect, and hopefully restore, the land, water and air upon which we all depend for our long-term survival.
But that's probably over the heads of the good old boys, who have been brainwashed by the billionaires and their Brooks Brothers suit-wearing lobbyists.
Re: “Paragould teacher, warned before, reluctantly takes down Nativity Scene UPDATE”
Texas just approved a license plate with three crosses:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/…
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