http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/10/05/another-week-done Comments On: Another week done 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) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Fri, 24 May 2013 02:15:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by plainjim]]> Sat, 06 Oct 2012 11:02:36 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Sat, 06 Oct 2012 04:36:05 -0500 Arkansas Times http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion…
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Sat, 06 Oct 2012 02:53:49 -0500 Arkansas Times
"Get your ass off my listening device."
Posted by eLwood]]> Sat, 06 Oct 2012 01:10:51 -0500 Arkansas Times
Look forward to hearing your review of PHG. We're hoping to check it out next time we're in town.
Posted by HardHeadedWoman]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2012 23:50:54 -0500 Arkansas Times
We talked about dining at the Packet House this very night, but decided to stay home and finish off the last of DSSW’s todiefer beef stroganoff. Will certainly give you a full review after we go, and that’ll be very soon.

Judging by the parking lot a couple nights this week, I’d say the PH is doing very well. Sure hope it’s a long-term success. As you well know, an ancient mansion overlooking the river is the perfect setting for an upscale restaurant.

Not hearing enough from you of late, HHW. Some of us need at least one “HHW fix” a day!
Posted by Durango]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2012 23:19:27 -0500 Arkansas Times
http://www.myspace.com/video/paul-kersey/p…
Posted by radical centrist]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2012 23:03:39 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Cato]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2012 22:40:41 -0500 Arkansas Times
I think Jimmy Swaggart broke her devout heart. My father went to a different church and was somewhat cynical about religion but joined in for the community service his small church did a few times a year for needy families. Momma simply sent in money to her favorite cons and played music for her local church.

Bakker and Humbard were both products of their times. Humbard had about four money counters working for him. The Bakkers employed about 25. Humbard hit radio just when radios were getting well dispersed around the nation, people had time to listen and trusted a voice of god on the radio.

Bakker hit TV when working class protestants began to accumulate some money ('66). Likely JFK's tax cut produced more prosperity for both Humbard and Bakker than we realize. TV had already spread to a majority of homes but the cash flow improvements were great and afforded all those working class prots to invest in Bakker's land schemes. Plus, Robertson had just begun mining the gold in TV broadcast and cable networks. Baker captured the power of TV persuasion but it was built up by a strong increase of incomes across the breadbasket of America and while conspicuous consumption began to rule the day after Reagan's Morning in America tax cut was done on the national credit card.

After his fall and release Bakker criticized prosperity gospel but not many listened. They're still going strong cause gettin something for little or nothing always finds an audience. Then there's always death-bed christians who seek one more way to redeem. Preachers really like those.

"Oh Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz."
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2012 21:59:02 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by HardHeadedWoman]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2012 21:28:40 -0500 Arkansas Times
Could be, plainjim, that part of the attraction was Humbard’s being a fellow Arkie who was born in Little Rock and was broadcasting on Hot Springs radio when he was 13. By the time he reached his mid-20s he was on national radio and we know the rest.

Owing to problems unique to California, gasoline prices in some areas out there were almost $6 a gallon today. Reckon THAT is what prompted THIS from a “Robme” supporter (love it, Mrs. Sister) earlier today.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A4PP4LOCUAAnTB…

Cloudy, damp, 54 and falling at Casa de Durango tonight. Locked in and enjoying the first fire of the season. Just a small ‘un of oak and hickory sticks, but ‘tis a joy to watch while sipping some red. And waiting for Bill Maher. Who just came on.

Peace to all.
Posted by Durango]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2012 21:00:52 -0500 Arkansas Times http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/05/j…
Posted by Monkeys With Spearguns]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:36:22 -0500 Arkansas Times

What kind of charisma can create this kind of blind loyalty, and adulation? To a lesser degree, wasn't Mike Huckabee a Jim Bakker? Jim Bakker was always asking for money; Mike Huckabee was also, albeit for different purposes--Bakker's for the glorification of the Lord; Mike's for political salvation. Where did the idea that money would buy you redemption come from anyway?

My father was a bigtime sinner most of his life, but in the last years of his time on earth he became a big fan of Rex Humbard (now deceased), a television evangelist. He watched his programs on TV regularly, and he sent Rex money, I guess in the hope that he could buy his way through the pearly gates. I understand how Jim Bakker could make the money that he did. What I can't understand is how someone who starts out with the idea of saving people, which Jim Bakker apparently did, according to accounts I have read of his life, ended up conning them out of their money.
Posted by plainjim]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:26:16 -0500 Arkansas Times
Smith's Alternative Arkansas History on this date, by Stephen Smith, PhD

5-Oct 1869 Tabb Gross publishes Arkansas Freeman, first African-American newspaper in Arkansas.

5-Oct 1907 Federal Judge Jacob Trieber grants a temporary injunction to restrain Arkansas from revoking the Rock Island Railroad charter under the state's Wingo Foreign Corporations Act.

5-Oct 1950 Otto Meyer convicted in Sebastian Circuit Court of manufacturing adulterated food--using horse meat in bologna, wieners, and hamburger--at his Fort Smith Provisions Company.

5-Oct 1986 The American Federation of Teachers rated Congressman John Paul Hammerschmidt lowest of the Arkansas delegation at 20% support; Congressman Bill Alexander was rated highest at 90%.

5-Oct 1987 U.S. Eighth Circuit Court rejects arguments of Dr. Billy Hall of Gravette and his lawyer Jimm Larry Hendren that he was wrongly excluded from participation in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

5-Oct 1994 Workers Compensation Amendment supporters spent $75,668 to support ballot measure. Chamber of Commerce front group spent $1,370,859.62 to defeat the reform, a ratio of 18-to-1.

5-Oct 2005 Bobby Hester of Jonesboro writes in Democrat-Gazette attacking American Library Association and pointing out that some librarians were winners of a 2004 Hugh Hefner First Amendment Award.
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On Oct. 5, 1953, Earl Warren was sworn in as the 14th chief justice of the United States

Oct 5, 1962 The Beatles' first hit, "Love Me Do," was released in the United Kingdom.

Oct 5,1988 Democrat Lloyd Bentsen lambasted Republican Dan Quayle during their vice-presidential debate, telling Quayle, "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy."

Oct 5 1989 A jury in Charlotte, N.C., convicted former PTL evangelist Jim Bakker of using his TV show to defraud followers.
--Dallas Morning News
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:47:57 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Pesky]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:45:40 -0500 Arkansas Times
It's true Ark grows some ignorant Republicans, mean and racist, but we haven't
matched Minn's Bachmann or Missouri's Akin, just yet. I hope it's a while before we match this Repub Congressdude from Georgia who thinks embryology is like evolution, plus big bang theory, ""all lies straight from the pit of hell." He's moved Earth's age up to 9,000 yrs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU4B86AL5Go…
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:36:52 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2012 19:03:58 -0500 Arkansas Times

" the magazine that has gotten some $50,000 annually in university support, as well as $690,000 in loans and office space to locate there."
Posted by Capital Ave]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:36:55 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Goof]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2012 18:16:24 -0500 Arkansas Times
How do you think Obama is doing:
"I think he's got it the next four years wrapped up"

"We're in trouble economically. I don't think you can blame it all on one black man.
We spent 50 years gettin ourselves in trouble and it may take a long time to get
ourselves out of it."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ucbhcxogH…

At 75 he's still singing pretty damn good.
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:03:51 -0500 Arkansas Times
http://tinyurl.com/9rctzbr
Posted by Cato]]> Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:20:17 -0500 Arkansas Times