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Re: “Guns and fetuses: A legislative review”
Thanks for making my day, Norma. Your posts are great!
Re: “Guns and fetuses: A legislative review”
Arkansas is just late to the game. The 2010 Republican sweep of state legislatures was facilitated by lying to a nation worried about fiscal debt. Their stance at the time was that fiscal issues trumped social issues, and that's what they were going to concentrate on if elected. Of course, once in office, it was business as usual: guns, god, gays and abortion. And tax breaks for the wealthy and charter schools. The Waltons and the Kochs got their money's worth.
Time to face facts, folks. Corporate fascism has taken over Tornado Alley and the Bible Belt.
And in that movement I include the Christian Right as a corporate interest, a many-headed hydra of vast wealth and property, selling its snake oil to the masses. Just claim to be a religious organization and you can get away with just about anything-- tax-free. They know they have a good thing going, and they intend to keep it that way.
Arkansas, your Republican legislators have sold you out. They've sold their souls to their corporate masters. They don't represent you. You may wise up by 2014, but you probably won't. All they have to do is flash the name of Jesus and images of the American flag often enough, and they can lead you around by your nose-ring to vote for anything they want.
Re: “Fact: Speaker Davy Carter made it up as he went along”
Representative Collins, the U.S. military is not protecting our freedom and hasn't been for quite some time. It is protecting its own existence and that of its countless private contractors, who rely on a steady stream of tax-payer money to stay in the black. We already have a military that's larger than those of all of the other nations combined. And it costs nearly $700 billion annually to maintain.
Powerful and continuing nationalism, the supremacy of the military, an obsession with national security and the protection of corporate interests: all are defining points of fascism. And thanks to you and your Republican friends in the General Assembly, Arkansas is now marching further than ever down this road.
Re: “16 indicted in cocaine conspiracy”
And on and on it goes. More people busted, more people to take their place. The Mexican mafia has never had it better. Hundreds of kilos of coke being trucked "into" Arkansas-- not through it-- is all the proof that any sane person needs to see to know that this 40-year-long cat-and-mouse game has only made things much, much worse, not better. Meanwhile, all the drug task forces get to puff up with pride, fooling themselves into believing that, somehow, they've made a difference. And the Arkansas legislature does what it's always done, passing ever more restrictive drug laws, in hopes that, somehow, things will change.
This farce has become so institutionalized over the years that people can no longer conceive of there NOT being a drug war. And the longer it continues, the greater drug consumption becomes. What's the old Alcoholics Anonymous motto? Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results?
Get a clue, Arkansas.
Re: “Feel like praying? Send Huck some bucks”
And the Religious Right accuses gay people of proselytizing kids? Sorry, don't mean to intrude on this blog, but I had to say this.
Re: “Must a GOP candidate be from Northwest Arkansas?”
THE Republican candidate may not be from NWAR, but A Republican candidate will ALWAYS represent this part of the state. The religious/corporate overlords rule here with an iron fist. Walter Hussman's Wehco Media owns all the papers. You either have to pay him for the privilege of local information or else watch from the sidelines. Walmart owns most of the money filling the coffers of Benton County and there's a Baptist church every hundred yards here. They've covered all the bases and it won't change in my lifetime.
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Re: “Arkansas church makes national news for opposition to gay Scouts”
I'm no more surprised by this than I am by Westboro Baptist Church's announcement that gay marriage caused the Oklahoma twister or that Cornerstone Baptist Temple in Ohio is giving away tickets for free Chik-Fil-A meals to hetersexual couples celebrating "biblical marriage."
After having caused everything from tooth decay to Hurricane Katrina to global warming, I'm just plum tuckered out.