http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/12/29/the-evening-line Comments On: The evening 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) Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Wed, 22 May 2013 11:15:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss MoveOn.org. I cannot find a listing for a person of that name (or combination of initials with the last name Evans) in Benton County - nor can I find a listing on the Arkansas United Methodist website for UM pastor of that name in the state. Unless he is from another conference (ie out of state) or has been retired for a VERY long time - I find this a bit - hmmmm - unusual? I've checked with some of my pastor and retired pastor buddies - and nobody else has heard of him either.

I have been known to sign MoveOn.org petitions if I agree with the stand on the issue - but this one just feels a bit off. Can't prove it - just sharing what I have (or haven't) found.
Posted by Sandy Fitch]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 21:01:03 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Yellowdogdaughter]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 17:27:11 -0600 Arkansas Times
Gyl has been one of the most consistently sensible and rational folks on ay of these discussions. Neither I not Gyl have EVER advocated for abortion restrictions. Maybe you are hung up on your own cliff notes version of history, the one where you do NOT listen to what another say, and instead, make idiotic assumptions.

Yell, I conceal so the delicate flowers like some here don't wet their pants when they see an armed person. Also, it gives me the edge if someone decides to try and harm me. Fear? You must be kidding! I have no fear, I am prepared.

As far as the leech comment, I was pretty direct about it, and yet you found a way to twist it. Those teachers were very brave, and they did not, like the craven writer in Outliar's post, CHOOSE to become victims. In point of fact, there are many teachers in many states now taking advantage of the new laws to arm themselves so they have a clear choice of being better defenders of their students. Kudos to them.

As far as your rhetorical question, my experience has shown that most folks, when faced with armed reaction run away. Four times I have had a barrel pointed at someone in defense of myself, and four times the perps fled without me ever having to pull the trigger. I like it like that. The shooter at Clackamas stopped short because he was faced with a man with a carry permit who confronted him. The armed citizen didn't have to shoot, and the perp did everyone a favor by offing himself.

What motivates me? Life and love, and those things make me look at the consequences of doing or not doing the just thing. Gyl made some excellent points on govt oppression. Funny how govt oppression is fixed by govt liberation. Kinda the double edge sword. The entity you trust because it can be so beneficial can also be the one pumping gas into your home before setting fire to it. Govt only made the change in direction when other individual citizens chose to stand up to the abuses. They fought back, they inspired others to fight, resist, make changes.

I have compassion for you, Verla. Your a nice person who is misinformed, stubbornly, in many matters. Not sure what exactly motivates you, but that really isn't important to us, only to you.
Posted by Steven E]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:30:44 -0600 Arkansas Times
What? Don't act surprised. It's part of the American Corporate State that exists. Mussolini and Hitler would love it. The close alliance between government and capitalist corporations. Bailouts are as common as seed ticks in summer time Arkansas.
Posted by Cato]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:12:45 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by the outlier]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 09:48:50 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Yellowdogdaughter]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 09:43:13 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 08:45:26 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by arkdemocrat]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 08:33:35 -0600 Arkansas Times
Your wife did the right thing. Food placed outside in these cold temps will last much longer than inside a refrigerator or freezer that is growing warmer with no power. We have done that several times during winter power loss and it worked perfectly, except for the eggs freezing.

And it is wonderful news that so many of our blog family have their power restored. However, it is equally as sad that many still don't, and you are the ones in my heart as this drags on. It is so easy to feel the frustration in Sweathog 501's comment, I know we would all feel the same (or worse) should it be us in his situation.

We can't lose sight of the fact that the workers are doing the best they can, out there in horrible conditions trying to restore the power. They are not to blame. They are sent where they are told to go and have no control over which areas still remain dark. Those choices are made much higher up by people you don't see out on the streets in the cold.

I thought of the many people without power as I looked at the rows of giant energy trucks (NOT ENTERGY, but from other companies) sitting, unmanned, taking up parking spaces behind the mall yesterday. The mall had plenty of power so they weren't there for that reason. The only logical explanation was that those workers were off duty and the out of town trucks had to park somewhere. But the sight of all of those trucks just sitting probably hit a sour note for people who had cold children and no way to heat their homes.

One lady working in Dillards told me she has spoken with several families who had come to spend the day at the mall just to get warm.

I hope today will be the day to return to normal for everyone!
Posted by mountaingirl]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 07:52:19 -0600 Arkansas Times
"Not saying that deficits aren't a problem. Am saying that Conservatives who have been both deafeningly silent and volubly "OMG! we're dooooomed!" on this issue depending on which Party occupies the White House need to be sealed in an oil drum and stored in a tool shed for the next 20 years."

http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-b…
Posted by the outlier]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 07:44:38 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by joeburris<<

Oh boy, Joe. Those first ten were directed at government. They are restrictions on government. As we saw in "freedom of speech" argument in Citizens United v. Hillary YES, the 1st Amendment is directed toward groups, namely corporations which are groups of "persons."

And your leading gun-nut Justice, Scalia, has freely acknowledged that some restrictions are acceptable and necessary otherwise you would be traipsing to Walmart to get a .50 cal fully automatic weapon. So yes, it is "INFRINGED" and will remain "infringed" in the purest sense of the term.

Here, let a previous Republican Chief Justice explain to you the meaning of "militia:"

http://www.guncite.com/burger.html

"In the 1789 debate in Congress on James Madison's proposed Bill of Rights, Elbridge Gerry argued that a state militia was necessary:

"to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty ... Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia in order to raise an army upon their ruins."

We see that the need for a state militia was the predicate of the "right" guaranteed; in short, it was declared "necessary" in order to have a state military force to protect the security of the state. That Second Amendment clause must be read as though the word "because" was the opening word of the guarantee. Today, of course, the "state militia" serves a very different purpose. A huge national defense establishment has taken over the role of the militia of 200 years ago. .....

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"The Second Amendment "has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud,' on the American public," former chief justice Warren E. Burger said in a 1991 interview on PBS's "MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour." Burger has said often that the "right to bear arms" belongs to the states, and he has attacked the NRA for fostering the opposite view.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/natio…
Posted by eLwood]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:59:08 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Sweathog 501]]> Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:14 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Gylippus]]> Sat, 29 Dec 2012 23:38:38 -0600 Arkansas Times
A Father’s Journey
By FRANK BRUNI

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Posted by Sound Policy]]> Sat, 29 Dec 2012 23:28:44 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Goof]]> Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:58:28 -0600 Arkansas Times You know the only reason we have that law is to receive federal money, is tax payer dollars. Seat belts in cars are just that a belt. A restraint is a 3, 4,5 point harness. But those are to uncomfortable. You don't wear a belt repelling, you wear a safey harness. I chose not to wear my belt, it restricts my movement, and does nothing for safety. I wear a 4 point harness.
Posted by clay pigeon]]> Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:55:37 -0600 Arkansas Times A triple thanks to mountaingirl & hubby: thank you, thank you & thank you!

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart,
it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”
Winnie-the-Pooh
Posted by Zatharus]]> Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:46:33 -0600 Arkansas Times
And mountaingirl, hell hath no fury like a Dillard's shopper scorned. I'm with eLwood. I avoid the mall at all costs.
Posted by Yellowdogdaughter]]> Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:40:17 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by NeverVoteRepublican]]> Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:27:01 -0600 Arkansas Times
Close. Pro choice folks go completely off the deep end at the slightest suggestion of restricting access to anything uterus related because they fear a slippery slope. First women have to explicitly pay for their own pills and then before you can turn around all women are barefoot, pregnant, and chained to the kitchen sink. There's lots of similar stuff when it comes to guns. First large magazines are banned, and before you know it, the BATF is shooting your kids and driving a tank through your house.
Posted by Gylippus]]> Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:24:48 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Paul Covert]]> Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:23:50 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Nanc]]> Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:19:20 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by NeverVoteRepublican]]> Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:09:45 -0600 Arkansas Times
Unless you're trying to argue that pro-choice folks get all nutty and irrational and call names when talk of restricting abortion comes up? I don't run with that crowd so I just can't understand the nation's obsession with my uterus and medical choices.....which as far I can tell have absolutely zero bearing on anyone else's health and safety.

However, should the fruit of my loin need mental health care that I couldn't afford, we'd have a different topic to discuss, most especially if I had a freakish devotion to assault weapons. I sure hope you're always fit enough and aware to keep your lovely gun out of the hands of any otherwise unarmed criminals.
Posted by Yellowdogdaughter]]> Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:06:44 -0600 Arkansas Times 'what do they have in those fukin places that I truly need or can't get elsewhere?'

Well, I must admit only Dillards has the trousers I like so sweetie braves the masses maybe once every two years to help keep me legally covered but I don't go. Sweetie has become a superb online shopper. Shiz arrives weekly. All her uniform stuff, nursing supplies, books, kitchen gadgets, shoes, etc.
Posted by eLwood]]> Sat, 29 Dec 2012 21:53:37 -0600 Arkansas Times