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When the American voter learns how cushy a life Willard and Ann have, only die-hard Rethuglicons will be able to vote for a platinum spoon president come November.

And women will break much like they did for Obama in 2008, probably by an even higher percentage based on the Rethuglicon war on women. Come November 6 you'll see what I mean.
Posted by Sound Policy]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:40:21 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by CatMan Did]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:36:27 -0500 Arkansas Times
However, it shouldn't be a war about women who work in the home and women who work both in and outside the home. It should be making sure that all women get valued for the work they do --paid or unpaid. For more about the War on Moms

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kristin-rowe…

Posted by NeverVoteRepublican]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:40:01 -0500 Arkansas Times Rosen was just stating the facts---admittedly with a poor choice of words. Spare me your faux outrage.
Posted by the outlier]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:25:46 -0500 Arkansas Times Now where are all the apologies from the right wing for all the comments and insults made against Michelle Obama, and even the Obama girls?
::crickets::
Posted by HardHeadedWoman]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:24:16 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Sunshine]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:12:26 -0500 Arkansas Times What's the matter, Ms. Rosen? Don't you like the medicine you're being forced to choke down? You ought to. It's YOUR brand.
If the media EVER started doing their d@#^ jobs and started treating Obama the way they treat Republicans, I guarantee Obama would quit politics, quit the Presidency and run screaming for shelter in the nearest closet he could find.
Remember in the 08 campaign when Huffington took a crack at his ears? Obama confronted her afterwards and commanded her to never make fun of him again. She sheepishly responded, 'We're just trying to toughen you up'. But in the end she put on her carpet covered kneepads and followed Obama's orders like the little media slave she always was.
If a Liberal/Democrat politician/media figure wants to put their arms around you, or pat you on the back, all they're doing is looking for a good place to stick a knife.


Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-hadro/20…
Posted by Sunshine]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:05:17 -0500 Arkansas Times
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12…

And what difference does it make if Rosen is a lesbian? Who cares? She spoke the truth...that Ann Romney never had to hold a job at the same time she was raising children and keeping a home, or rather multiple homes. MS or not, no doubt that's all a whole lot easier to do with $250 million in off-shore accounts and all the household help she could possibly ever need. There's absolutely nothing about Ann Romney that resonates with the 'real moms' of America. Oh, but of course there are those pitiful few who also looked to Sarah Palin as the ideal role model for mothers everywhere. GAG!


Posted by HardHeadedWoman]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:47:58 -0500 Arkansas Times
It is a Republican story and they want to keep it alive since Romney is behind about 17% on the woman vote and all that being nice talk won't overcome all of the Republican vagina searching, birth control tablet preaching, anti-abortion laws, pay disparity, and second class citizenship typical of the Republican Party.
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:09:52 -0500 Arkansas Times https://www.mittromney.com/donate/moms-eco… "Moms drive the economy." Something tells me that's gonna resonate real well with moms, stay-at-home AND otherwise.

While Ann Romney raised her 5 children and fought breast cancer, she is now campaigning with her husband while fighting MS. The liberal, lesbian Ms. Hilary Rosen has truly stepped in it and decided not to make her appearance on Meet the Press tomorrow !
I see Wolf has already thrown her under the bus.
Posted by Sunshine]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:58:48 -0500 Arkansas Times
Sellercreek I sent your Weather Alert service link to a friend whose bidness requires him to travel coast to coast, home is beachfront Los Angeles. He's been a market analyst in radio for many years. He responded with something that should open eyes about how cell phone companies are screwing you regarding emergency service:

"Was interesting that last summer when I was back east just in time for the earthquake and hurricane, we were without electricity for several days. Cell coverage was out. We did have a generator and were able to charge our phones, but nothing to receive.

Headed tomorrow for the Nat'l Assoc of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas this week. One of my clients is spearheading a consortium lobbying to get theme FM/HD chips turned on in phones.

Most don't realize that those chips are already onboard - cell companies and others like Apple just can't make money on the content flowing through them.

But they sure would work if you needed to get info out quickly when the cell and mobile Internet systems weren't functional.

Should be an interesting week of verbal positioning and dueling press releases."
Posted by eLwood]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:08:10 -0500 Arkansas Times
NOLA BBQ Shrimp is just shrimp baked with a sauce of melted butter, lemon slices, garlic, Worcestershire sauce and Tabasco. Instead of baking them, sometimes I just let the swimps marinate briefly in the sauce, then skewer them and grill them over charcoal and pecan wood.
Posted by Whoscrumdown]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:37:57 -0500 Arkansas Times
Current officers -

http://www.ArkansasYRs.com/officers.html

Cached -

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/sear…
Posted by radical centrist]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:58:17 -0500 Arkansas Times
If killing a zygote is murder then it logically follows that wasting sperm is equally a murder. Representative Johnson (D) introduces a bill in Oklahoma Legislature that addresses the male problem of destroying potential life.

You get three sides to this discussion. The woman's side, the the two sides of a man's argument: One, it would be senseless intrusion by government on what a man chooses to do with his body and two, life in a woman's body needs to be protected.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-apri…


Posted by eLwood]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:42:15 -0500 Arkansas Times
http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/12/technology…


Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:38:02 -0500 Arkansas Times
Smith's Alternative Arkansas History on this date:

12-Apr 1911 State Representative G. Abner Hurst of Fayetteville argued against suffrage amendment, saying "women should not be encouraged in this foolishness." His wife later served three terms in the House.

12-Apr 1899 Fort Smith sends 100 businessmen as delegates to meeting of the State Board of Trade in Little Rock, demanding that the recently enacted Rector Anti-Trust law be repealed.

12-Apr 1869 Arkansas statute makes it a crime for unmarried persons to cohabit as husband and wife, aiming to "promote the institution of marriage" and "prohibit the public scandal and disgrace of such immoral connections."

12-Apr 1893 Local Assembly 293, Knights of Labor, in Greenwood deny management rumor that the blacklist has been raised and advise members to stay away from the Greenwood mines.

12-Apr 1901 U.S. Senator James K. Jones said at Fort Smith he hoped the government will soon redeem its pledges to the Cubans and leave them to govern their island domain as it pleases them.

12-Apr 1941 Forrest Good and Mary Fairchild convicted in Marianna Municipal Court for distributing Watchtower magazine without a license from the city.

12-Apr 1920 Arkansas Supreme Court rejected argument of Mama Coal Company that, because his father consented to son working there, it was not responsible for death of Curtis Herron, 17, caught under wheels of coal car.

12-Apr 1935 Norman Thomas, in Little Rock to support Southern Tenant Farmers Union, delivers speech at East Side Junior High auditorium and criticizes Arkansas legislature for proposing sedition bills aimed at Commonwealth College, warning, "Our boasted democracy is a thing of ashes unless we can preserve our civil liberties."

12-Apr 1956 Winthrop Rockefeller, in speech to Greater Little Rock Women's Republican Club, warns that industry seeking to expand would avoid areas with racial strife about school integration.

12-Apr 1972 Federal Judge John Miller rules Construction and General Laborers' Union No. 107 violated no strike clause in contract by refusing to cross picket lines of Communication Workers of America.

12-Apr 1986 Lieutenant Governor Lawrence Douglas Wilder of Virginia delivers keynote speech to the Arkansas Democratic Black Caucus at its annual banquet at the Camelot Hotel. Little Rock.

12-Apr 1991 Eight Bryant Junior High School girls suspended for insubordination and removed from campus by police for protesting the unfair application of school dress codes to working-class students.

12-Apr 1999 Susan McDougal (photo link) thwarted Kenneth Starr once again in the Whitewater probe as a federal jury at Little Rock acquitted her of obstruction of justice.

12-Apr 2005 Arkansas House of Representatives adopts Resolution by Representative Doug Matayo urging Arkansas Congressional Delegation to support Marriage Amendment to U.S. Constitution.

12-Apr 2006 The Springdale Public Library board refused to ban two movies from shelves after Michelle Jordan objected to the movie "Songcatcher," and Robert Bennett asked the board to ban "The Emerald Forest."

12-Apr 2007 Arkansas Travelers baseball team opens season in new 5,288-seat Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock to a sellout crowd of 7,943 but loses 6-5 to Frisco Rough Riders in Texas League play.
--by Stephen Smith, PhD

http://www.johnmonty.com/cotw/smcdoug.jpg

Posted by eLwood]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:00:11 -0500 Arkansas Times >That is what cost him his job. Not adultery. Not lying. Not cheating. He lost his job because he used his influence to hire the young lady.<<

Hatcher,it's fortunate you spend most of your time selling brooms and squeegies
and leave UA administration and reporting on same up to real journalists.

Yes, it was adultery, lying and cheating and improper hires that summed to a total of "character issues" used to fire BP "for cause."

But you do make a good caboose on the morality train.

Posted by eLwood]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:42:34 -0500 Arkansas Times >remember the story about the Austin homeless center and how it had ruined development there for as much as one block of downtown? <<

If memory serves me correctly perhaps it should be pointed out this statement is snark.
Posted by eLwood]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:35:49 -0500 Arkansas Times
I'm sure that hobbyists and electronics fans can think of more stores that are no longer around to feed their habit, like Heathkit (mail-order). I treasure many nerd memories of soldering irons, chemistry kits, and building computers - with less power than pocket calculators - from scratch. Sinclair, anyone?
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:33:39 -0500 Arkansas Times http://thedailyhatch.org/2012/04/14/opinio…

Here is one from Dave Miller who is a Southern Baptist pastor:

During the Clinton scandals of the 1990s, we heard a relentless refrain from the big media outlets – personal behavior and character do not really count in job performance. They beat the drum that Clinton’s all-too-evident personal failings did not affect his ability to do his job well. I call that nonsense...This week, we had another extremely public piece of evidence in this sad debate. Bobby Petrino was forced out as the coach of the Arkansas Razorbacks football program. It had nothing to do with his job performance. That cannot have been any better. He took a struggling program and moved them to the head of the class. Next season was supposed to be their best, with a lot of returning players. Petrino is an excellent football coach.

Then, poof, it all went away. He was in a motorcycle accident. He claimed he was by himself. Not so much. He was with a 25-year-old former volleyball player with whom he had been conducting an affair (Petrino is married with four children) for some time. His girlfriend had recently landed a cherry job within the football program and it was discovered that Petrino had used his influence in that hiring.

That is what cost him his job. Not adultery. Not lying. Not cheating. He lost his job because he used his influence to hire the young lady.

But that is what people need to remember. These things don’t happen in a vacuum. Character drives behavior. Petrino has never been known as a paragon of honesty and virtue.



Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:24:47 -0500 Arkansas Times
http://www.salon.com/2012/04/14/our_apocal…

"Discussing the increase in our numbers seems to be a taboo subject that has met with resistance."

But of course that affects everything from economies to education to jobs and health care.

When done worrying, don't forget to floss.
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:23:20 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by bopbamboom]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:13:36 -0500 Arkansas Times
Here's your concerned, caring anti-gay anti-women anti-everything Mormon POTUS contender.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=playe…


Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 14:09:13 -0500 Arkansas Times
Here, Child Celebrities Opposing Kirk Cameron.

CCOCK.

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/b6ddedd57…
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:55:56 -0500 Arkansas Times
Food for thought, whilst salivating over the Brantleys' mouth-watering Big Easy repasts in anticipation of your bad weather. (Which reminds me: have religionists like Pat Robertson, et al., stopped blaming natural disasters on gays and if so, when?)

http://www.salon.com/2012/04/14/the_new_ga…


Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:43:26 -0500 Arkansas Times