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Once I was maybe seven or eight and I was at the base during the Open House, like they do up in Jacksonville every two years. I had slipped away from Mom for a bit to pee. The Thunderbirds were there, still flying their F-4 Phantoms, not the wussy trainers they switched to a year or two later. All kinds of cool planes were on display, too. Next to the San-o-cans was a hangar and I wandered in. I saw one of the big green fire engines they use for jet crashes and I manage to climb into the cab. Extremely cool crap was everywhere in there, and my eyes lit upon a big red button marked 'FOAM'. My mind screamed YES! and I mashed that fucker with all my might. Before my wondering eyes I see a mighty river of white burning-jet-fuel-smothering foam cascading forth and I start giggling like the Joker on acid. The next thing I know, an airman pulls me out of the cab and then he climbs in trying to turn it off. I quickly slip away back to where Mom was, but she looks at me and she KNOWS I've been up to mischief, but she doesn't know what kind. She sees all the people running into the hangar where the truck was and figures she'd better get me home. We leave quickly "to avoid the rush" and not a word about it was spoken, not even a "did you see what happened" or '"what were you doing?" I fucking got away with it entirely.

This is the kind of kid my poor schoolteachers had to deal with.

You know those school achievement tests where the whole class marked rows of dots? I remember I took one of those in fourth grade in Alaska, and then in California the next year in Fifth grade. Mom said I measured out at some obscenely high number, I forget now exactly what she told me but it was in the 160s. Rehabilitation Services tested me when I was trying to get help with college in my 20s and I tested a little lower, a result I consider valid, as I've studied psychological testing and research and even the methodology and statistics behind actual IQ tests like the Stanford-Binet and the Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale. No, I'm not going to tell what I scored but it's decent.

Anyway, my teacher announced that they were going to testing today, and I spent the entire day filling in circles with a #2 pencil. My fingers are sore. Holy shit, are they gonna do this to me every year? Fuck this! The second day I took the first test and turned it in record time, went and grabbed a book to read while waiting for the next test period to start, which was really all I wanted to do. Repeat over and over for days two and three. Two days where I could read and be more or less left alone. I was in bliss.

A few days later, maybe a week, my teacher looks at me and says 'I need to speak to you'. He then waves a scored test at me and complains that all I did was make patterns in the rows of dots and zig-zags and words and stuff. I said 'uh-huh'. "I'm gonna call your mother". "Yes, sir" I said and went back to recess. I never heard anymore about it but I'd betcha that Mom told him that he probably triggered my boredom/hyperactivity reflex and that he was lucky that's all I did. I mean, I could have purposely tried to answer every question wrong and go from genius to retarded in one year, but since I knew they wouldn't tell me how low I scored as to not damage my self-esteem, I figured 'what's the point'. It might have all been a bid for attention, who knows. I think I was just bored out of my mind with filling in those damned circles with a #2 pencil again

I think each school was glad to see me go, but I settled down after Dad retired and we moved here when I was 13. I decided that I'd better stop screwing up for the joy of it because I wouldn't be able to move away from the consequences of my actions anymore. Besides I wanted girls to like me and not think I was a freak or fuck-up so I quelled my impulses to be weird.
Posted by MarcKyle64]]> Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:13:47 -0500 Arkansas Times
What do you mean get in trouble? The worst I ever did was get picked up when I was 10 by the Air Police for entering the outer exclusion zone of the nuclear weapons storage area at Ben Guerir Air Base in Morocco.


Posted by Arkie]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:25:57 -0500 Arkansas Times
All of this overwhelming and irrefutable evidence can mean only one thing: Obama is a Sith lord. The Force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded like Rush, Mitt and Rick. This meant that Barack Obama outsmarted Rush! And I mean just completely pwned El Rushbo! AND WITHOUT A TELEPROMPTER?

So which is it? Is Obama totally incompetent or the best Dr. Evil in public service right now? He can't be both, so which is it? You can't have it both ways.
Posted by MarcKyle64]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:03:05 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by MarcKyle64]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:24:30 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by radical centrist]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:31:31 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Sound Policy]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:29:42 -0500 Arkansas Times
There are Canadian conservatives who are just as psycho as our American freepers - the difference is they aren't urged/allowed to carry AK47s to town meetings and church communion Sundays.
Posted by I_AM_THE_NRA]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:21:12 -0500 Arkansas Times http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/a…

You may not read this in US papers as it was announced late Friday in the MOST transparent administration.
Posted by Sunshine]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:53:55 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Arkie]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:22:35 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by MarcKyle1964]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:00:11 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by MarcKyle1964]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:52:39 -0500 Arkansas Times
Because, as you doubtless agree, Santorum's pornstar name is out of the question.

Sissy Cherry.




Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:30:06 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by MarcKyle1964]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:23:46 -0500 Arkansas Times
Pay No Taxes

Pay No Taxes

Pay No Taxes

Have no regulations except on non-Republican businesses & your vagina & bedroom.

Stop educating people so that one day we'll all be thankful to work for $1.95 per hour with no benefits.

Outlaw birth control so the abuse-able work force will be larger & dumber

Sucker the stupid with tons of religious mumbo-jumbo.

Believe the face of baby Jesus is on every half inch long fetus

Feed our children to an endless war machine which is very profitable for the 1%

Return women to the status of cattle, BRACE YOURSELF the only form of foreplay

Clean the voting rolls of everyone not voting the straight Republican ticket

Let the old die because they're no longer useful to corporate profits

Let the sick die because Wal-Mart has enough people to hire among the healthy

Use foreign labor because they'll work for damn near nothing and you can abuse the hell out of them.

Use foreign labor here for the same reasons, but kick them out of town at sunset

Cause the black race to go extinct because they're uppity and don't understand that even after almost 500 years they still don't deserve to call themselves Americans...Back to Africa says Dimmy Altes

Only improve infrastructure in gated communities

Pay No Taxes

Pay No Taxes

For the love of God & his boy, Jesus, PAY NO TAXES
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:11:27 -0500 Arkansas Times
Folks, don't forget that we are not only electing a president, we are also electing whomever they are beholden to in terms of the money and the help they used getting there.
Posted by MarcKyle1964]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:03:56 -0500 Arkansas Times
For the life of me, I cannot figure out why they despise and hate our country, our freedom and our constitution so much as to sell it to the highest bidder/campaign contributor.

Fittingly on a Sunday, it really does illustrate why Jesus literally said it is easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter heaven. How many American citizens has Republican opposition to health care reform already killed?
Posted by I_AM_THE_NRA]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:54:13 -0500 Arkansas Times
Neither can you, I'll bet.

Rick Santorum's demonic obsession of the week is porn. Doesn't like it, doesn't want you to like it, and ESPECIALLY doesn't want all those children looking at it. Uh . . . guess that's reason enough to take over the internet.

Now back to those wars on terror, African genocides, America's broken health-care system and the struggling-to-recover-from-the-last-GOP-administration economy.

But President Seamus Balmoral? In a minute. First . . . .

David Axelrod pretty much deconstructs the myth of Mitt Romney as a jobs-builder.

"I do watch him parading around the state calling himself an economic heavyweight. It's the same pitch that he made in 2002 to the people of Massachusetts and what happened? Massachusetts went from 10th in the nation in job creation to 47th. Their debt went up 16.5 percent; government jobs grew at six times the rate of private sector jobs. If that makes you -- if he thinks he's an economic heavyweight, he must be looking in a fun house mirror."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/18/d…

Now, Razorbabies, the porn connection.

Seamus Balmoral is Mitt Romney's pornstar name. (A beloved pet's name added to your childhood home's street name.)

Of course, Seamus Balmoral's house in Detroit was recently bulldozed.

An unfortunate metaphor, one senses, for another road along Mr. Romney's journey: the political one.

It's now a vacant lot.
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:50:12 -0500 Arkansas Times
Yes, that's been the response in many slave states and other red states. Today's ADG
features an explanation of Beebe's attempt to handle coming Medicaid surges and underfunding:

"episodes of care" worth a read. Note: the governor indicates it may not work but is being viewed as a potential model:

"State soon to execute medical revisions"
Aim is to cut costs, improve efficiency"

http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2012/ma…
Posted by eLwood]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:29:48 -0500 Arkansas Times
The major story of the last year has been how Republican controlled legislatures in other states have made attacks on workers' right, women's health and immigrants their top priorities after having campaigned in 2010 on economic issues.

Why did the reporter ask no questions about those issues?

I'm willing to bet that there will be multiple bills introduced on the first day of the session by the Republicans on those topics. And specifically, there will be a bill that mandates vaginal ultrasounds.
Posted by Arkie]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:23:42 -0500 Arkansas Times