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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=playe…

Driftglass was in before Pierce with his iteration of the Sunday AM bloviaters and the whole thing is worth a read, especially his take-down of Newton Leroy Gingrich. Why is Newt repeatedly booked on MTP? Why does anyone believe that he has anything to say worth our time? It remains a mystery.

http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2012/12/sun…
Posted by the outlier]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:10:04 -0600 Arkansas Times
"Fox News chief’s failed attempt to enlist Petraeus as presidential candidate"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/st…

Wouldn't that outcome have been a doozy for both them! The chuckles Bill Clinton would have enjoyed.
Posted by eLwood]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:12:53 -0600 Arkansas Times
I would have picked "binders full of women" but the chief didn't:

"Fred Shapiro, associate librarian at Yale Law School, released his seventh annual list of the most notable quotations of the year."

The winner:

"There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what ... who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims. ... These are people who pay no income tax. ... and so my job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives," Romney said."

Was the traditional "October surprise" delivered in September, nice of Mother Jones to let him have that much time to back off or explain it away or go deeper into the muck, take your choice.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/09/m…
Posted by eLwood]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:07:21 -0600 Arkansas Times
Meanwhile, it's nearly 2013 and . . .

"The GOP is stuck as a Southern-based party that can't even hold his native Virginia 'because it's become a modern state. Most Southern Republicans are waiting not to see Lincoln but any Jefferson Davis biopic that opens.'"

"The biggest divide today is not rural-urban or left-right but modern-past. 'Who will vote for them if they're seen to be shilling for stupid people, like those who believe with no evidence that the earth is 6000 years old and cutting taxes on the top 2 percent somehow magically produces more jobs?'"

"Texas is burning up and a Republican Louisiana was crushed by Katrina yet majorities of GOP voters, to quote Sen. Inhofe and Rush Limbaugh, theologically regard global warming as a 'great hoax.'"

And so on.

The South. STILL and ever a bastion of backwardness, religious conformity and hypocrisy, antipathy toward science and progress.

Keep voting anti-women, anti-gay, anti-Constitutional equality, anti-America, pro-religion.

Secede, South.

Build that Tech Park, Rock.

They won't come.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-radio/b…
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:38:55 -0600 Arkansas Times
Arrest warrant out for Mayflower Police Chief

http://thecabin.net/news/local/2012-12-08/…
Posted by eLwood]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:57:25 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by NeverVoteRepublican]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:35:56 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by eLwood]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:31:32 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Archaeopteryx]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:11:01 -0600 Arkansas Times
"The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys."

"Who would ever have thought blacks would get out and support the first black president? Who would ever have thought women would shy away from the party of transvaginal probes? Who would ever have thought gays would work against a party that treated them as immoral and subhuman? Who would have ever thought young people would desert a party that ignored science and hectored on social issues? Who would ever have thought Latinos would scorn a party that expected them to finish up their chores and self-deport?"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/opinion/…

And DeMint has retreated to the jungles of the Heritage Foundation. Like the hold out Japanese soldiers, Hiroo Onada and Tereo Nakamura, he is unaware that the war has ended and his side lost.
Posted by the outlier]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2012 10:11:53 -0600 Arkansas Times
When discussing the experience of the individual soldiers he divided the class and assembled us at opposite ends of the hall (it was a night class, so no other classes were interrupted) and had us "charge" to within musket range marked by red tape on the floor. It gave us a new understanding of how "personal" war was back then.

I'm glad to hear that Dr. Shea is still active.
Posted by 70%er]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2012 09:02:44 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Archaeopteryx]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2012 08:28:19 -0600 Arkansas Times "Those 38 nays? All Republicans who, it seems, cower before the lies of the rabid right.

There's a reason for that. It's the way Repubs campaign. The one who takes a conversation, debate, discussion, etc to the most extreme wins in today's Rwing circuses. I think Boozman would like to have voted for it but sure as he does then next election a wannabe senate candidate will drag it out as a vote for UN power over our lives.
This shit only works on low information voters and the R ranks are full of them.
Posted by eLwood]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2012 01:50:37 -0600 Arkansas Times
Well, the Civil was NOT fought over slavery. It was merely a "states' rights" issue i.e. the right to, uh, own them.
Posted by Olphart]]> Sun, 09 Dec 2012 01:29:46 -0600 Arkansas Times
Here’s another Civil War-related “surprise”: Dan Lybarger’s story in yesterday’s ArkD-G revealed that screenwriter Tony Kushner chose to begin Steven Spielberg’s outstanding new film, “Lincoln,” with a scene from an Arkansas battle.

In that April 29-30, 1864, clash along the Saline River south of Little Rock, Union troops repelled a Confederate attack in which several hundred Union and Confederate soldiers died.

Kushner: “[The film] opens with the scene from Jenkins Ferry, which is an Arkansas Civil War battle. I was looking for a battle around the time — from ’64. And I wanted a battle where African-American Union soldiers and Confederate soldiers came head to head.

“I was going through various books about different Civil War battles, and I was really struck by the fact that it happened in this flooded field. It was a fight with men knee-deep in water. There was something very haunting to me about that.”

NVR, Perplexed, and others here who’ve seen “Lincoln” don’t have to wonder why it has been a success at the box office and that it’s being touted as a potential Academy Award contender. And they aren’t the only ones:

“We went to the White House two weeks ago and showed the movie to the first African-American president, and that was an amazing experience,” Kushner says. “And [Rep.] John Lewis was there in the audience, a veteran of the struggle of African-Americans to achieve civil rights.

"It’s all too often a temptation for people to get lost in despair, which is robbing ourselves of a reason to believe that through democratic means, extraordinary change can happen.”
Posted by Durango]]> Sat, 08 Dec 2012 23:44:45 -0600 Arkansas Times
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http://themoderatevoice.com/169780/dysfunc…
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