http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/09/26/the-line-is-open Comments On: The line is open 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) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:00:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce,
especially for political purposes


Concerning the allegations of terrorism against peaceful protesters
(which this extremist left-wing blog has been up in arms over);
are citizens still supposed to notify the FBI?
Just wondering what the procedure is as we approach
the conservatives’ open call for violence.


“Terrorism is the price of empire.
If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.”
Patrick Joseph Buchanan
Posted by Zatharus]]> Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:50:51 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by radical centrist]]> Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:13:35 -0500 Arkansas Times
"Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States."
Dick Cheney
Posted by Zatharus]]> Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:13:59 -0500 Arkansas Times
"Knowns, Unknowns and Unknowables"
By CHARLES M. BLOW

http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/201…
Posted by eLwood]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:36:36 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Cato]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:36:07 -0500 Arkansas Times
"The first televised debate....."

Showed the power of TV. Three debates. People who listened to the first debate on radio said Nixon won (he was a champion debater in college); those who watched it on TV said Kennedy won. Nixon's make up was bad. By the next debate he drank a lot of malts to fill out his cheeks, make up better covered his heavy beard appearance. He did much better in the next two. JFK charged a "missile gap" (USSR had more missiles than the US) had taken place under Eisenhower/Nixon. When JFK took office he found out that wasn't true.

This was my first vote participation in a presidential election. My senior year at the UofA. JFK's Catholic religion was a big issue, of course. I would come home to my apartment to find flyers, leaflets, pamphlets stuck in the door telling me to not vote for JFK. If he won the Pope would run the country, Protestant marriages would be annulled, etc. I listened to many a sermon urging the congregation to not to vote for Kennedy.

I voted for him simply because I was told so often to not vote for him. Plus, I thought Jackie would make a prettier First Lady than Pat Nixon. Things like that are important to college lads, you know. JFK was elected and the Pope ran the country and Protestant marriages were annulled and....
Posted by Cato]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:28:45 -0500 Arkansas Times
AP Highlight in History:
On Sept. 26, 1960, the first televised debate between presidential candidates took place in Chicago as Republican Richard M. Nixon and Democrat John F. Kennedy squared off."

Thus began mega-buck campaigns..
Posted by eLwood]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 22:08:45 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:43:49 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Cato]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:27:52 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:53:44 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Cato]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:32:17 -0500 Arkansas Times Oct 5 in Springdale:

'It is October 5th at 5:30pm at the Randall Tyson Sports Complex in Springdale. We have reserved the Pavilion that faces 48th st."

County & state level candidates will be present and available.

Will be a meet n' greet, food and drink available, good to bring you checkbook, nothing says love like something with your signature on it.
Posted by eLwood]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:10:25 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 20:04:40 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Cato]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:57:10 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:39:35 -0500 Arkansas Times
http://mi.tt/Uns3Ui

Every page has "IN PROCESS RETURN" stamped across it making it nothing more than a draft with lots of information to be filled in never. Because after the election you can stick it where the sun don't shine if you think the Lord and Lady are giving you any more of their tax info. On November 7 after Willard has taken a pounding at the polls the previous day, he will be in no mood to release his taxes for past years or even final 2011 figures for that matter. Lord Willard and his royal Lady friend will ride off into the distance with their middle fingers raised high at the majority of Americans who told them with their votes: "Hold on, pardner, you ain't about to get the reins of government since you're so intent on destroying it."

Numerous pages include the following notation: "THE TAXPAYERS EXPECT TO HAVE A FORM XXX TAX FILING REQUIREMENT FOR 2011; HOWEVER INFORMATION IS NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE OR ESTIMABLE AT THIS TIME." Note- I'm not pulling a LargeAss here, the above is in all caps in the Lord's tax return.

So Lord Willard is pretending for now he will pay 14% in federal taxes. Even given all this "NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE OR ESTIMABLE AT THIS TIME" information. Not even "ESTIMABLE", yet Lord Willard assures us he will pay 14% in federal taxes. And the $1.75 million in legal deductions Lord Willard declined to take (only before the election, of course) in this fake return artificially drove his tax rate up to that whopping, let's pretend, 14% rate. We feel your pain, Willard.

Lord Willard's campaign had said in his defense: "He has been clear that no American need pay more than he or she owes under the law." Guess the Lord has flippity-floppity-flipped on that as well.

Willard claims $0 in wages, salaries & tips on his 2011 return. Is Willard one of the deadbeats he ridiculed last week?

On page 52 you will find a Bermuda investment dated 1997, looks like one of Willard's overseas corporate formations.
Posted by Sound Policy]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:36:29 -0500 Arkansas Times
There have been many instances of counties reporting more votes than were registered. When the afore-mentioned Faubus was first elected governor in 1954, Madison County (his home, for all you uninitiated) turned out 104 per cent of the people who had bought poll taxes. It was explained that the difference represented "maiden voters," who did not have to have a poll tax for their first election.

Finally, Tim Hutchinson and his contraceptive battle. Tim was such a panderer, much worse than his brother, Asa, who was pretty bad himself (witness the Clinton perjury case,) and this contraception thing was nothing but pandering. He was married to Donna for years, and they only had two children, who were twins. You can't tell me that was nature at work. I once was in the same Kiwanis Club as Tim, and I accused him of pandering to voters at one of our lunch meetings when he sat across the table from me. He just smiled. Needless to say, I was not unhappy about the misfortune that befell Tim later, however, I regretted that people had not discovered who he was many years earlier, and allowed him to represent the State in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate before they got his number.

As to the Benton County fiasco. It can't remember the exact details, but I do remember that they had to have a complete recount. I think that it occurred when Benton County went to touch screen voting, and there was a programming error. However, the mistake was corrected, if I remember correctly, before any results were certified.

Tell Steve Smith, whom I met years ago when I worked at the U of A, that I think he is providing a valuable service.
Posted by plainjim]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:21:47 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Max Brantley]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:16:29 -0500 Arkansas Times
jim, check last night's line for yesterday's Alternative Ark History. It arrived late so posted here late.
Posted by eLwood]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 18:28:08 -0500 Arkansas Times Sort of helps explain how we got to be known as "The Free State of Yell".
Posted by mountaingirl]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:43:22 -0500 Arkansas Times
Smith's Alternative Arkansas History on this date, by Stephen Smith, PhD

26-Sep 1907 Hugh Morphew convicted for slander in Pike County Circuit Court for telling Frank Kennedy that one Anna Morrow had been guilty of fornication with him.

26-Sep 1917 Mob of 150 farmers take four suspected I.W.W. organizers from Stuttgart jail, administer whipping and apply tar and feathers, for encouraging labor strike.

26-Sep 1871 U.S. Senator Powell Clayton defends his record and attacks Klan and Joseph Brooks in speech delivered to Fourth Ward Grant Republican Club in Little Rock.

26-Sep 1899 Judge W.S. McCain addresses the Little Rock YMCA Debating Society; Attorney W.C. Adamson elected President and group changed name to YMCA Literary Society.

26-Sep 1933 Yell County reported 2,454 votes cast in special Democratic Congressional Primary, amazing turnout of 148% for a county with only 1,653 paid poll taxes.

26-Sep 1957 UA Student Senate rescinds contract with Louis Armstrong for campus performance after he called Governor Orval Faubus a "no-good motherfucker" who didn't deserve to hear the notes from his trumpet.

26-Sep 1966 Members of Local No. 4, United Glass and Ceramic Workers cross picket lines of Local No. 7, Window Glass Cutters League of America at Harding Glass Co. plant, Ft. Smith.

26-Sep 1976 Dent Gitchell, Little Rock attorney and head of Arkansas chapter of National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws, announces lobbying campaign to abolish state criminal penalties for possession.

26-Sep 1989 Ed Davidson, manager of Donrey Cablevision in Rogers decides to censor showing of The Last Temptation of Christ when it airs on Cinemax next month.

26-Sep 1991 State Rep. Tim Hutchinson of Bentonville filed suit to stop the state Health Department from distributing contraceptives at school-based clinics. Suit developed by Family Council of Arkansas.

26-Sep 1991 The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Coalition for Peace and Justice co-sponsored a Reading of Banned Books at Wordsworth Books.

26-Sep 1991 Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the first ever female leader in the Islamic world, speaks to the American Studies Institute Distinguished Lecture Series at Harding University at Searcy.

26-Sep 1995 Malco Theaters pulled the film Showgirls from its Jonesboro screens after a campaign by Sandie Henderson, who said she had not seen the movie, resulted in numerous complains.

26-Sep 2004 Central Arkansas Library System dedicates Roosevelt Thompson Branch Library, honoring 1980 Central High School Student Body President who was killed in a car accident in 1984.
Posted by eLwood]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:01:32 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:30:45 -0500 Arkansas Times
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2012…
Posted by radical centrist]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:54:18 -0500 Arkansas Times
Poor Melinda Allen - so you have to deal with overseas military votes and you're hoping that you don't have to count that vote. Shameful.
Posted by Viper]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:19:26 -0500 Arkansas Times
At least we will be on even ground though when next year comes around.

I'm looking forward to it.

Smile y'all!
Posted by Vanessa]]> Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:06:08 -0500 Arkansas Times