http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/07/05/the-thursday-night-line Comments On: The 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) Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sun, 19 May 2013 19:45:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Fri, 06 Jul 2012 04:02:03 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by NB Lives In Pangburn Trailer Home]]> Fri, 06 Jul 2012 01:55:15 -0500 Arkansas Times
I think you, Cammack, and I have good taste in flicks if I do say so myself, lol. Let us know what you think of  "Moonrise" and "Magic" if you see 'em. Read something about "Magic" the other day. Looked interesting. Made a mental note to check it out for more info.

Ole "Poppy D" (moi) is fixin' to sack out. Been on the lake tubing with the little 'uns all day and it's about to catch up with me.
Posted by Durango]]> Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:27:48 -0500 Arkansas Times
http://www.indiewire.com/article/the-littl…

Next movie on my list is "Moonrise Kingdom". I'm still debating about whether or not to see "Magic Mike".
Posted by NeverVoteRepublican]]> Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:03:50 -0500 Arkansas Times
My issue with requiring photo IDs is that they require a fee to obtain. Even free voter IDs surely require showing a birth certificate or other paperwork. And it's not just old folks born in Arizona who may not have them. My husband, after serving in the military, working for the federal government at various times, attaining several advanced degrees, and all the other usual stuff adults do, had to replace his lost birth certificate. From another state. At a cost of $50. Seems akin to a poll tax to me.


Posted by justpeachy]]> Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:03:25 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Durango]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:49:30 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Sound Policy]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:39:42 -0500 Arkansas Times
D 'ya reckon? Did see a couple of late afternoon beach weddings, which as you know are a frequent sight. Hope many happy years are ahead for your niece and her fella.  

Sure know what you mean about those cool sea breezes. Never got over 88 while we were there. By the way, some folks here think there is no heaven.  They're wrong. There is. I know. I've been there. Heaven is sitting under a beach umbrella all day long reading Louis L'Amour and sipping ice-cold vodka tonics. Oh yes it is!

NVR: Think I forgot to tell you.  Saw "Bernie."  Another great NVR movie call!
Posted by Durango]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 23:15:31 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by CyberBiker]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:58:13 -0500 Arkansas Times
...therefore the issue is not that voters have to show a valid ID but that a garbage tactic was used to confuse voters. Again, once implemented those arguments would be moot.

To further that point, if I stand out in front of Clinton airport tomorrow, holding an official looking sign telling airline travelers they don't have to show ID to fly is the problem with the TSA screening process or does the problem lie with the act/crime/lie I've told? Seriously? It's not the TSA, so why discount the TSA process?

How can we expect the electorate to become any more educated about the issues and how those issues affect them if we totally discount their ability to understand right from wrong? You want someone to understand what the healthcare act means to them yet you discount their ability to know what's shit and what's shinola. if someone makes a comment like "i'm against obamacare" you're more than likely to tell them two things: 1)educate yourself and 2)explain to them why it's in their best interest because getting them to understand that IS in their best interest. But when you as a citizen decide you're against something rather than helping someone to understand (as in this case that obtaining an ID is free), you'd rather submarine the process because that's what your party has told you the party line will be.






Posted by tippytom]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:56:12 -0500 Arkansas Times
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/07/05/5…

Posted by NeverVoteRepublican]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:53:30 -0500 Arkansas Times
mountaingirl--interesting but not surprising. Springfield, MO--home of the Pitt family--is one of the GOP strongholds in Missouri.

Speaking of people who have been missing from the blog lately--where is the outlier?

Posted by NeverVoteRepublican]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:50:44 -0500 Arkansas Times
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/05/b…
Posted by mountaingirl]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:33:05 -0500 Arkansas Times
And.....welcome back Durango! We missed you. If you happened to notice a young girl being proposed to on the beach the first weekend you were in the Emerald City, that was my niece!
Posted by mountaingirl]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:20:45 -0500 Arkansas Times
You know, as a military veteran I have zero respect for a party that regularly does everything in its power to keep eligible voters from casting a ballot. Can you say Tim "Vote Cager' Griffin? Rethuglicons seem to think all is fair in war and elections in America. I strongly disagree.
Posted by Sound Policy]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:18:23 -0500 Arkansas Times
Perhaps you've forgotten, plainjim, but I have not: A Gazette story  in which the paper identified a professor arrested for allegedly soliciting sex in a Little Rock men's room. A few days later, the poor guy stuck a gun to the roof of his mouth and blew his brains through the ceiling of his living room.

Posted by Durango]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:11:29 -0500 Arkansas Times
Grapes are dyin daily. Pitiful sight. With a lot of luck we may be able to save some of the Chardonnay, but the Cab and the Cynthannia are pretty much a lost cause.

My pond is about 1/3 its normal size and I am working to keep my catfish, crappie, and perch alive. I ordered a nice fountain pond aerator from Michigan and got it installed last week, hoping it would keep oxygen in the water. But now it is tripping the breaker on the well pumps so I have an electrician coming tomorrow to explore the possibility of running another line and putting in another meter, designated for the pond and cabin. I have a dozer crew coming next week to double the size of the pond and dig out some deep areas so when this hot dry stretch happens again, the fish can seek refuge in cooler deeper water. The 5' of water I have left feels like bath water right now.


Do you have plenty of water for your sheep? So sorry about the fires in your area. That is frightening, especially when we hear about so many being caused yesterday by firecrackers.

Those meals you have been describing are very appetizing. You eat well at the CBB place!

Because we are getting by, I feel fortunate. I know we are better off than a lot of folks around here with chicken houses and cattle. Those are the people with real problems. City water supplies are getting short and folks I talked to today are worried about rationing.

My husband mentioned tongiht that he is missing those nice cool summer evenings we had when we lived on the beach in Florioda. Who ever thought we would be daydreaming of the cooler weather in Florida?

Watching the forecast tonight, there seems to be some hope on the horizon.......I saw cooler temps and some rain coming our way.

And to top it off, my husband's assignment may be in Amsterdam next week. I have an invitationto go but I can't leave this place until we get a serious break in the heat and lack of rain. He always sends great pictures since that is about as close as I can get these days to somewhere interesting outside Yell County!

Think I will change my avatar to a snow scene and entertain thoughts about spending Christmas in New York City again this year. The cold sounds perfect! Should keep me occupied until I have to head back outside and do it all over again in the morning.

Sending wishes for water and cool temps to all of the blog friends!
Posted by mountaingirl]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:04:28 -0500 Arkansas Times
If I own a bank, I'm going to institute policies that protect against embezzlement BEFORE anyone gets my money.

I installed a home security system, even though my house has never been burglarized.
Posted by santhony]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:48:48 -0500 Arkansas Times
NORMAB...quickly with your sharpMind, hot-connections: Who's the woman Romney's considering for his sidekick?
Posted by eLwood]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:46:30 -0500 Arkansas Times
Why are Southern cops always wanting to arrest famous people? Do they think they will get 15 minutes of fame by doing so? Or do they just hate anyone who is not like them? (You don't need to answer that rhetorical question; I think I already know the answer.)
Posted by plainjim]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:36:12 -0500 Arkansas Times

(Crickets)
Posted by wannabee conservative]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:22:38 -0500 Arkansas Times
Show me where there is real VOTER fraud and I might listen. Otherwise, this is just another Republican effort to ensure that they win despite their war on the middle and lower classes.

If you are making less than $300k a year and you vote Republican, then you are voting against your own interests. But then I bet the idea of a socialist, commie, liberal, facist Kenyan as president scares the hell out of you. Whoa, I forgot MOOOOOOSLIM!

But that's how your party plays the game. Make up shit and scare the hell out of the ignorant.
Posted by wannabee conservative]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:09:27 -0500 Arkansas Times
I have to admit-when Republican cheat, they don't waste the time on a single vote. For the last 3 elections, it has been voting machines that don't have written records. I guess it is the Dillinger thing with you Republicans-if you steal, steal big, not just one vote at a time. And with the current group of crooks running, I am surprised that anyone gets more than 10 votes (friends, relatives, and of course, Saline).
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:08:50 -0500 Arkansas Times
Smith's Alternative Arkansas History on this date :

5-Jul 1987 Rev. Roy A. Forrest, head of Jacksonville-Cabot chapter of the National Federation for Decency, admitted sexual indecency for offering oral sex to a local cop.

5-Jul 2002 Arkansas Supreme Court holds sodomy statute unconstitutional violation of equal protection and right to privacy and finds no compelling state interest in enforcement.

5-Jul 1886 Second annual session of the Chautauqua Assembly of Arkansas was held at Siloam Springs, with 2,000 people at opening exercises.

5-Jul 1918 Dr. Will Durant (photo with wife, Ariel) of Columbia University presents lecture in University of Arkansas Chapel on "William James, the great pragmatist and psychologist." Praises Fayetteville as the "Athens of the Ozarks."

5-Jul 1940 Walter Lee Sullivan, who began his business in 1891 selling from a stand near the arsenal in Little Rock City park, died of a heart attack while selling Hot Tamales in North Little Rock.

5-Jul 1944 Governor Homer Adkins informed Joe C. Barrett, chairman of the Democratic State Committee, that the rules should be changed to give judges and clerks authority to challenge Negro voters.

5-Jul 1950 Federal Judge Thomas C. Trimble ordered Democratic Party officials to place name of Rev. J.H. Gatlin, Negro, on the July 25 primary ballot as candidate for Little Rock 2nd Ward alderman.

5-Jul 1975 Keith Richards and Ron Wood arrested at the 4-Dice Drive-In at Fordyce. Charge of possessing a spanish dagger dropped, pleaded guilty to the reckless-driving charge and paid a $162.50 fine.

5-Jul 1990 Ashley County Sheriff James Robinson announces he will resign from office after being convicted of beating a prisoner in his custody.

5-Jul 2000 Washington County Prosecuting Attorney Terry Jones discovered 60 people who voted in the primary of one party, then voted in the runoff of another party in violation of state law.

5-Jul 2001 Governor Mike Huckabee commuted sentence and made sure that Whitewater figure David Hale doesn't have to serve prison time on his state conviction in 1999 for falsifying insurance company documents.

5-Jul 1899 George Bunch and Gus Galloway led union miners at Huntington who avowed intentions of going to "Mine No. 53," and blocking or ejecting imported scabs working during strike against Kansas & Texas Coal.
--by Stephen Smith, PhD
Posted by eLwood]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 21:07:48 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Goof]]> Thu, 05 Jul 2012 20:17:53 -0500 Arkansas Times