http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/05/31/thursday-night-line Comments On: Thursday night line by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sat, 25 May 2013 12:30:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by mudturtle]]> Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:43:23 -0500 Arkansas Times
Two pups sound like a handful, although I think two dogs are in many ways easier to raise than one. Sorry to hear about Sweetie's losses.
Posted by scrapper72]]> Fri, 01 Jun 2012 04:54:56 -0500 Arkansas Times >el, Grape wines are for the unimaginative and cancervatives (same thing)<<

Huh?

Think I'll look forward to mountaingirlfriend's suggestion about Cynthiana wine
at Chateau Aux Arc.

You can brew some bottles of Better Boys or roma.
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 01 Jun 2012 01:46:14 -0500 Arkansas Times So your vote goes to the less sleazy of the two sleazy candidates? Not to the person who is not sleazy, Jacob Holloway (G). Hardly an endorsement for good government. Do you have ANY scruples?
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:01:47 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by mountaingirl]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 23:28:52 -0500 Arkansas Times Attacking the wife of a fellow Democrat does not set well with me.
Clark Hall cannot win against Crawford, but Scott Ellington can.
Posted by Kizzy]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 23:23:41 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by MysteryShopper]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 23:22:27 -0500 Arkansas Times The Cynthiana grape, which some people call a Norton, is native to Arkansas and is now our state grape, thanks to some fierce lobbying a few years ago by Ms. Audrey House, owner of Chateau Aux Arc in Altus. If you haven’t visited her vineyard and tasting room, I highly recommend it, especially when she has a wine tasting event or brings in a chef to do food and wine pairings. Lovely place. New, compared to Post and Weiderkehrs, but it has a special charm.
We bought our infant Cynthiana vines from her 5 years ago.
Posted by mountaingirl]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 23:06:33 -0500 Arkansas Times
When your neighbors post signs on their doors "Please, no more free tomatoes," look up this tomato wine recipe:
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/reques14.…
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 23:04:18 -0500 Arkansas Times >Cynthiana vines.

Oh my. Why didn't you say so! I think I have a new mountaingirlfriend.
Love that variety.

Does Weidiker (sp) still make a Cynthiana? I used to buy it by the case when I drove thru Altus. Can't find it up here. One fellow outside of Fayetteville used to have Cynthiana vines and we would gather a few bushels and take our best shot making the stuff. Never really good but drinkable.
Posted by eLwood]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 22:36:29 -0500 Arkansas Times
Smith's Alternative Arkansas History on this date:

31-May 1898 Hon. J. D. Shackleford, candidate for State Senate, gives extended toast to "The Lawyer in Politics" during fourth annual A.I.U. Law School alumni banquet at Capital Hotel.

31-May 1905 State Senator Alonzo W. Covington arrested for public servant bribery for selling his vote in the Arkansas Legislature.

31-May 1957 A Face in the Crowd, written by Budd Schulberg and directed by Elia Kazan, had its Arkansas premiere at the Carolyn Theatre in Piggott, where the story was set and largely filmed.

31-May 1924 William Montgomery Brown, former Episcopal Bishop of Arkansas, found guilty of heresy by Court of Trial Bishops.

31-May 1898 Populist Party convention in LR nominated W S Morgan for Governor and adopted a platform calling for direct legislation initiated by the people.

31-May 1936 St Francis County Judge E A Rolfe and Sheriff J M Campbell ask Governor Futrell to send Arkansas National Guard to put down Southern Tenant Farmers Union strikers.

31-May 1960 Local Union No. 131 of the Glass Bottle Blowers Association, AFL-CIO prevails in federal court enforcing arbitration for claim of wrongful discharge of union member by Arkansas Glass Container Corp.

31-May 1988 Arkansas Supreme Court holds testimony of former state legislator about intent in introducing legislation inadmissible for proving legislative intent, motives of individual members disregarded for interpretation.

31-May 1996 Washington County Sheriff's Captain John Riggins relieved of supervisory responsibilities after telling Christy Dawn Jordan, a 22-year-old Waffle House waitress and burglary suspect, that he needed a girlfriend.

31-May 1884 Contract awarded for construction of Washington Elementary School at Fayetteville, one of the first white public schools in Arkansas.

31-May 1987 The Center for the American Woman and Politics reports that women now comprise 15.5% of the country's state legislators, but only 6.6% of the legislators in Arkansas are women.

31-May 1988 Despite the prosecutor's inability to produce the evidence, Joe Louis Cleveland, 25, of Dumas was convicted of selling a third of an ounce of marijuana and sentenced to 10 years in prison and a $25,000 fine.

31-May 1990 Cleburne County Circuit Court obscenity trial of Bob McGough for selling two magazines, High Society and Cheri, at the Moonlight Market in Heber Springs ends in mistrial when jury could not agree.

31-May 1990 Trout Fishing in America, the musical duo of Ezra Idlet and Keith Grimwood, plays at White Water Tavern in Little Rock.

31-May 1965 Arkansas Supreme Court holds that involuntarily unemployed workers of the International Shoe Company entitled to unemployment benefits denied by company after two-week shut-down of two plants in 1963.
--by Stephen Smith, PhD

Posted by eLwood]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 22:24:07 -0500 Arkansas Times
Can't say about Jim House, I knew him casually, every election time he wanted contributions. Think the legislature was sort of a club house to him.

Didn't make the Brummett v Collins debate because sweetie lost a relative last night and lost a close friend with who she had worked for a few years. Her friend just went home and fell over. Brain aneurism. Dead in 12 hrs. So, I stayed up with sweetie til late last night so I didn't rise and shine in time to make Brummett's debate.
Posted by eLwood]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 22:18:45 -0500 Arkansas Times A man and his wife walked into a dentist's office. The man said to the dentist, "Doc, I'm in one heck of a hurry I have two buddies sitting out in my car waiting for us to go play golf, so forget about the anesthetic, I don't have time for the gums to get numb. I just want you to pull the tooth, and be done with it! We have a 10:00 AM tee time at the best golf course in town and it's 9:30 already... I don't have time to wait for the anesthetic to work!'
The dentist thought to himself, "My goodness, this is surely a very brave man asking to have his tooth pulled without using anything to kill the pain." So the dentist asks him, "Which tooth is it, sir?"
The man turned to his wife and said,
"Open your mouth, Honey, and show him........"





Posted by couldn't be better]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 22:05:51 -0500 Arkansas Times
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/fires/ma…

Also, I groaned when on the national news last night, Lester Holt called it the Gee-la National Forest.
Posted by NeverVoteRepublican]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 22:01:01 -0500 Arkansas Times
“These rates shall only be determined using historical data, and these data shall be limited to the time period following the year 1900. Rates of seas-level rise may be extrapolated linearly. …” .

Unfortunately, the increases in sea level have been exponential but the state won't allow the measurements. This is the same as predicting the impact of a hurricane on an area by reviewing the weather in the same area for the PRIOR two weeks. Lots of data and totally useless as information.


http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugge…
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 22:00:41 -0500 Arkansas Times
And the fires in New Mexico are indeed heartbreaking. I feel the same sorrow when they occur each summer in the beautiful mountain areas of California. I have been out there during those fires when ash is so thick in the air you can see it and feel it, miles from the actual fire itself.

Yossarian…..the vineyard is my husband’s baby, but I am the fulltime nanny! It is something he had dreamed of and talked about for years as we would travel the wine country in Italy and France. After we moved back to Arkansas a few years ago, he finally put those thoughts and dreams into action and built his own. Not being too farsighted, I encouraged the venture. It took me less than a year to realize while he is traveling the world with his pro baseball job, I would be the one to nurse the vines through their tender early years. They are established now, but still require a lot of work, especially when we go long periods with no rain or when the heat is beyond the comfort level of their native California. But it is a labor of love……….although a dirty sweaty one!

Posted by mountaingirl]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 21:21:09 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by downtowner]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 21:09:15 -0500 Arkansas Times
http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/103784/ann-m…
Posted by the outlier]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 21:08:03 -0500 Arkansas Times I am about 1000 feet up, surrounded by the Ouachita National Forest. I see a lot of wildlife up here but never have I seen a mountain lion or panther. But there were some pretty credible people on here the other night with stories about their existence, so it has caused me to look into the woods a little more cautiously.
If they are here, it was their home before it was mine, so I will try to respect that.

Posted by mountaingirl]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 20:40:24 -0500 Arkansas Times
MG, My garden is not any near being close to your magnitude - Besides my veggie plot, I've got 6 grape vines, a dozen or so of other berry vines (thank you, UofA Aggies for the thornless blackberry strains), and a handful of fruit trees. Enough for an urban hermit to make a coupla gallons of wine and a summer's supply of fruit popsicles.

The biggest threats I deal with are drive-by fruit thieves who jump out of their cars and strip my fruit trees and drive off, feral city cats the size of dogs, and the code enforcer who doesn't know the difference between lawn weeds and veggie plantings. The only panther I've seen was when I was living in Oakland.
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 20:31:49 -0500 Arkansas Times
I'm not afraid of snakes, although they sometimes startle me. I'm more afraid of chiggers and ticks! I understand there is quite a bit of tick fever going around.

And Jim, I recall reading about a bear in Springdale just a few years back. They pass regularly through Albuquerque yards on their way to the Rio Grande when foraging is poor in the mountains. Friends who live out in the sticks way south of Berryville report mountain lion sightings.

Speaking of Albuquerque, my beloved NM is burning. A fire had reached 170,000 acres in size in the Gila National Forest yesterday. I haven't looked in on it today. That is the largest wild fire on record in NM. I feel for all the critters who are killed or maimed.
Posted by the outlier]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 20:31:45 -0500 Arkansas Times
And, by the way, let me add my appreciation tp the Arkansas Blog. If it weren't for the Blog, I wouldn't be able to talk to anyone but Republicans. (Well, maybe, a half-dozen or so others.)
Posted by plainjim]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 20:14:15 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Snapback]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 19:32:46 -0500 Arkansas Times
We have a vineyard…about an acre which is small by commercial standards, but large by backyard standards. We have Cabernet, Chardonnay and Cynthiana vines. The vines for the state grape came from Altus. The other two varieties came from Napa Valley.

This venture has given me a new appreciation for what farmers do each year, living and dying by the whims of nature. Forces they cannot control, control their destiny.

Last year, the part of our crop that wasn’t killed by consecutive days of torrential downpour was killed later in the summer by consecutive days of 100+ temperatures. It was heartbreaking to cut each dead or dying cluster by hand, mourning a year’s worth of labor and beautiful fruit lost.

From this I learned I do not have the fortitude and conviction it takes to do this sort of thing for a living. My heart is not strong enough. But a newfound respect was formed for those who do.

The young grapes are off to a hardy start this year. I tend them every evening when the sun is beginning to go down and their drinking water doesn’t evaporate so quickly.

However, all of those tales here a few days ago about panthers and mountain lions lurking in the Arkansas woods have me a little spooked. I find myself looking over my shoulder to the surrounding forest a little more frequently , hoping I don’t see something looking back. I have always know the deer and bear are there and we have developed a mutual understanding. But, I haven’t made any deals with cats the size of me and I would prefer not to.

Posted by mountaingirl]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 19:27:44 -0500 Arkansas Times
If you folks (and you know who you are) want maximum participation in your activities, don't assume everybody uses FB or Twaddle.
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Thu, 31 May 2012 19:20:54 -0500 Arkansas Times