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Judge is the author of a book about sex, drugs, rock and roll, and Catholicism in which he posits, according to the books description at Amazon, "Without sensationalism, Judge is candid here about his personal journey from the playgrounds of the sexual revolution to his eventual belief in the need to combine sexuality with love and commitment to another person, not as an end in itself but rather as a particularly direct means of opening oneself up to God’s love. He also sees support for the Christian theology on love in a seemingly unlikely place: rock music."

To which description I can only reply, "Whut?"
Posted by the outlier]]> Mon, 18 Jun 2012 08:28:49 -0500 Arkansas Times
I also don't know if one's social media score is relevant to what Acxiom does, but Jaron Lanier, tech guru and father of virtual reality, boasts that his social media score is zero and he likes it that way and works to maintain it that way. My son sends me excerpts of his book "You Are Not a Gadget" and Lanier is not a fan of social media. He also is critical of how Google and like companies have cornered most of the wealth generated by the internet---that isn't how he and others envisioned it. Lanier jokes that his cat does facebook and it has led to hostile, bad behavior on her part. At least the cat can't post nekkid pictures of herself since she doesn't own a wardrobe to take off.

My son's version of the book is Kindle, so I am going to have to get the dead tree version. I have such a pile of books to be read that I hesitate to add to it fearing it will collapse on me as I sleep and I won't be found for days.

My son also informs me that Spielberg's movie version of Daniel H. Wilson's "Robopocaplypse" has been delayed and won't come out til 2014. It may be too late to save us from the machines with AI that we have created. Spielberg bought the movie rights after reading the first 100 pages before the book was completed. It should be a blockbuster.

All this talk of data mining reminds me of Philip K Dick's "Minority Report". Remember the scene in the movie when Cruise walks through a department store and cameras read his irises and tailor the audio speakers in his area to his likes and dislikes to lure him into buying certain products?

The short story also imagined a Pre-Crime division of the police department which arrested people before crimes had occurred. When I read that I immediately thought KEN STARR! I remember him talking about "inchoate criminality" in his endless investigations. It gives a whole new meaning to lusting in your heart being the same as adultery. I think DBI must be guilty of lots of inchoate adultery---just like the rest of us.
Posted by the outlier]]> Mon, 18 Jun 2012 06:39:01 -0500 Arkansas Times
All this labor trouble in FS in 1934 was too much for our local newspapers who decided not covering it at all was the best way to handle this sticky wicket. It would be interesting if Preacher Williams were to rise up from the grave and try it again....would our 1 newspaper cover it or stick its head in the sand once again?

I'd like to meet people at Acxiom whose been snooping on me, I'll buy the beer. I want to know what kind of an animal they think I am. Since the Internet Tubes were invented I've searched every subject on earth I could think of. I've been overly curious since I slid out and I plan on staying that way to the day I die. I truly believe I've learned about every sexual proclivity known to man...oh, and woman, and those that sorta fit in the middle.

First zip file I ever got, turned out to be kiddy porn. I didn't know what it was until I figured out how to open a zip file after 2 weeks of using Dogpile the search engine to find the software to open zip files. Later on I got a pile of images from Japan of people shitting on each other during sex. I accidentally saw a picture of a female breast nailed to a board. I left my computer off for 2 days after that one. A bunch of people like to suck toes. Who knew? Some people like to sit in a used adult diaper while talking about sex. Apparently one can have sex with every animal on earth and they do.

I've looked at a lot of KKK sites. They fascinate me the way extreme religious sites do. The way those sites about people who love to go out in the yard and eat dirt do. Internet obituaries are interesting. Old pictures and old film clips will keep me up all night. I dig those monk throat singer too. And all this, way before anyone invented YouTube.

I use the Internets to stalk an ex girlfriend who lives in Gentry, but she doesn't know it and she'll never know it cause she gouged out my bone marrow back in 1981, I chased her naked with a double barrel shotgun and it took 6 months of therapy to make the giant white maggots get out of my dreams and allow me to sleep again. I stalk her to make sure I never see her again.

If you got 20 hours I can keep going, but I think I'll go to bed. I'm embarrassingly harmless, but wonder if it looks that way to the people at Acxiom? When does all this unleash the Thought Police?
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Mon, 18 Jun 2012 02:22:25 -0500 Arkansas Times http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acxiom
Posted by CyberBiker]]> Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:23:45 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Mrs. Sistertoldja]]> Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:23:57 -0500 Arkansas Times
It is their aggregating everything about us, our families and networks of friends and professional contacts – our (and our networks') credit rating, bank records, debts, mortgages, assets, bill payment history, credit cards, what we buy with credit cards.

Every site we visit online, every Google query, everything we purchase, every address to which it's shipped.

Our marriage records, birth records, military records, arrest records, voter registration, employers’ records about our job performance, social and professional organizations, past and present addresses and school records, phone numbers, whether or not we attend a church, mosque or synagogue; what non-profits we belong to and support; campaign contributions.

What we drive, where we drive it and when, the motels and hotels, bars and restaurants we patronize.

Our physicians and their specialties, our medical (including psychiatric and fertility) records, pharmaceutical records, our existing health conditions, whether we smoke or drink alcohol, our actuarials / life expectancy.

What we post on Facebook and LinkedIn—including photographs of family, children and friends; whom we “friend” and who “friends” us, our email and Skype communications.

Our lives are a giant holographic webpage (not half as secure as we're reassured) with hundreds and thousands of eternal hyperlinks that will forever tell our story, forever for browsing--by those with the resources to get at it.

How many of those links about us lead to facts or mere posted gossip or, worse, to outright lies, slander and mistaken identity? How much is verified? Corrected? Deleted when false? (How many innocent men has Texas executed, to give you some idea how accurate and airtight all this "information" is?)

All of it (and more) immediately available—for a price—on every man, woman and child (except the already-poor or homeless) to be browsed, sorted, categorized, stored, utilized and exploited by businesses and government agencies however they like, presuming it's legal.

The concern isn’t an inappropriate ad brochure. The concern is that these aggregative entities FIGHT transparency and outside (legal) control to ensure nobody knows how or whom they’re “targeting” to what present or future purpose.

There's nothing "innocent" about Acxiom, Google, et al.

Their continued existence, growth and profits go WAY beyond quaint outmoded notions of "advertising and marketing."

Their governance through legislated and enforced transparency is vital to Democracy.

And these Louboutins are killing me.

Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sun, 17 Jun 2012 22:48:24 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by EY]]> Sun, 17 Jun 2012 20:03:27 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Sound Policy]]> Sun, 17 Jun 2012 19:42:32 -0500 Arkansas Times
17-Jun 1914 Telephone company folds during mass meeting at Nevada County Courthouse, says rates will stay same, ending 17-day boycott by 178 customers.
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17-Jun 1922 Judge E.P. Toney of lake Village in gubernatorial campaign speech at Fayetteville, proposed oil & gas severance tax to fund higher education and promised veto of any bill moving the University to Little Rock.

17-Jun 1985 Arkansas Supreme Court upholds marijuana manufacturing conviction of Keith Harrod, a former member of the state Plant Board.

17-Jun 1926 J. F. Stewart writes from Springdale to Eugene Debs, telling him that after his mother's death there he found her Socialist Party membership card, reminding that she heard Debs speak at Ft. Smith in 1908.

17-Jun 1989 Madeleine Korfmacher and Jean Gordon, president of the board of the Arkansas Peace Center, presented Peacemaker of the Year awards to William Robinson and Jo Stewart.

17-Jun 1996 Former Dardanelle Mayor Paul Seay sentenced to 20 years' probation for embezzling about $100,000 from 50 elderly victims who prepaid him for funeral and burial expenses.

17-Jun 1936 Governor Junius M. Futrell says public protests against beatings of Southern Tenant Farmers Union organizers is "propaganda." Crittenden County Sheriff Howard Curtin says the only problem "is from a bunch of foreign agitators."
(15-Jun 1936 Roy Morelock, Claude Williams, and Willie Sue Blagden (photo) flogged by six men near Earle for supporting the Southern Tenant Farmers Union cotton pickers strike. see photo link below)

17-Jun 1940 Matt Thennes of Pocahontas holds gun on Jehovah's Witnesses Luther Meador and Gebo Bargas, taking their literature and phonograph and threatening to kill them. No charges filed.

17-Jun 1944 University women are concerned about job opportunities for women in the postwar world, said Aurelle Burnside of Fort Smith, of the American Association of University Women.

17-Jun 1949 Judge A. P. Steele enjoins peaceful picketing by Local No. 802 of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders Union against Jefferson Coffee Shop in Texarkana.
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17-Jun 1985 Federal Judge George Howard ruled that former McGehee football coach Sammy Gill violated First Amendment rights of black players Orlando Johnson and Mark Mason, ordered him to pay $1,250 to each.

17-Jun 1988 Elections results at 1988 Arkansas Boys State included Paul Suskie as Governor, Kris Engskov as Secretary of State, and Dennis Byrd as Chief Justice.

17-Jun 1997 Governor Mike Huckabee refuses to disclose donors to Action America, incorporated in Texas in 1994 by Huckabee, that paid him over $50,000 during his first two years in office.

17-Jun 1998 Washington Chancery Judge John Linebarger said construction of Southwestern Bell cellular telecommunications tower would not be a nuisance nor violation of residential covenant against offensive activity.

17-Jun 1999 Papers of U.S. Senator Dale Bumpers--1,573 boxes of letters, legislative files, photographs, videotapes, and sound recordings--donated to special collections division of Mullins Library at University of Arkansas.

17-Jun 2000 Charlotte and Justice Bob Brown hosted a dinner at Johnswood for 80 participants in a Butler Center conference, No Simple Lyric: Remembering the Life of John Gould Fletcher.

17-Jun 2003 Pulaski County Special School District settles lawsuit for $25,000 and agrees not to violate First Amendment rights of gay and lesbian students again in the future.

17-Jun 2005 Debbie Pelley, crank from Jonesboro, says State Senator David Bisbee abandoned the Republicans, walked in lockstep with liberal Democrats, and had low American Family Association voting record.

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Posted by eLwood]]> Sun, 17 Jun 2012 19:13:26 -0500 Arkansas Times
"Only 34% of small businesses want to see the healthcare law overturned, while 50% want it to remain intact with, at most, minor changes. After learning more about its specifics, only 28% want to see it repealed and a 56% majority want it to be kept, as is or with minor changes. A 55% majority say they want it upheld because we need to make sure everyone has health coverage.

http://www.smallbusinessmajority.org/small…

Their "about" page says they are a nonpartisan organization of 6 million small employers with 43 million employees and 22 million self-employed members. I think if you want to check the pulses of the truly small business men/women in the country, this might be a good place to start.
Posted by the outlier]]> Sun, 17 Jun 2012 17:11:11 -0500 Arkansas Times
Meanwhile, somehow reminded of The Natural State's long history of failing to attract much-needed corporations, which muchly need highly educated and trained worker pools to provide desired jobs and grow Arkansas's bottom-rung good-ol'-boy economy, a decade-long burgeoning corporate trend can only instill further apprehension and isolation in a bigoted majority.

So what else is new.

General Mills and many other large companies contend "that [their] public statements on gay rights can actually help them attract top talent and consumer loyalty."

In ever-increasing numbers, they're refusing to remain "neutral" as the hate groups demand; as, finally, they refused to stay "neutral" on racism and integration. Money talks.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/17/s…


Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sun, 17 Jun 2012 16:31:22 -0500 Arkansas Times
While I appreciate the job creation for central Arkansas, I'd rather have any other company that offers a far more repudible product. YUK!
Posted by yapperjohn]]> Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:53:31 -0500 Arkansas Times