http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/12/31/the-new-years-eve-line Comments On: The New Year's Eve 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) Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sat, 18 May 2013 11:00:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by mrprincipal07]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 14:46:57 -0600 Arkansas Times
Happy, prosperous, and fulfilling New Year to one and all.

And as Tiny Tim--or someone--said, God bless us everyone!
Posted by SkyPilot]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 11:03:59 -0600 Arkansas Times
I think of Baby James often. Going through rough times last fall I digitally adopted Little Baby James, cheered the rare advancements, and with the setbacks pushed on harder.

I hope the little group at the blog has been a diversion, it was for me.

Happy New Year.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 06:33:12 -0600 Arkansas Times
May 2013 be better than 2012. May our local Republicans develop a soul and become the "Christians" they profess to be so loudly from the street corners.

Verla, while i would like to see the Defense budget cut about 50%, the Veterans Affairs budget needs to be brought up to the level to support the destruction wrought on America by Bush's Wars on young people. We will be paying for the wars for at least the next 60 years because of the yound age of so many severely injured.

Will our Iraq/Afganhstan war memorial in Washington be a statue of an oil well derrick?
Posted by couldn't be better]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 06:11:02 -0600 Arkansas Times There was no celebrating, but some rejoicing in seeing a little sense of the Senate.
2012 saw a lot of deaths. The old folks I understand, indeed I'm willing, but I mourn the young...James, who never knew a Thanksgiving or Christmas, and Matthew who grew from an Air Force brat, who loved and protected my grand daughters (also Air Force brats) who joined the service while still in his teens, married at 21, served 3 tours in Iraq...was blown up and received a concussion on his second tour, but went back again...came back with post traumatic stress, took his meds, only to vomit and choke to death, leaving behind a wife and child, and now is awaiting burial because the backup at Arlington. He would have turned 29 this week, but will not be a statistical fatality of the war, rather a casualty. I remember the yellow ribbons--support our troops--what a falacy! Support our Vets! Where is that new shelter? Some say we need religion for morality??? Where is the real morality when we need it?
Thank you bloggers for abiding with me. Welcome Jim Clark to the real world--although to be honest, since a technician lost a laptop from his car with my medical records on it, I'm beginning to wish for a little privacy.
Happy New Year to all. May this be a year of enlightenment.
Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:02:10 -0600 Arkansas Times
"Political commentator Sean Hannity was one of the big losers in the 2012 election
The right-wing Fox News host lost half his audience in the weeks after Obama's win

"In a fitting coda to 2012, we’ve learned that the ratings for rock-ribbed conservative Sean Hannity cratered after Barack Obama won his second term, with viewers tuning out the Fox News Channel talk-show host in droves.

According to Nielsen numbers, Hannity lost around half of his audience in the weeks after the election, while his Fox News colleague Bill O’Reilly — who steadfastly refuses to identify himself politically as a conservative — retained around 70% of his audience.

So what happened to Hannity?

The going wisdom is that viewers who basked in his preelection anti-Obama rhetoric tuned him out when they were stunned to wake up on Nov. 7 and discover that the President had won a second term — a scenario that Hannity had all but promised could never happen.

Before the election, Hannity was riding high in the ratings and topped thought leaders on the right, like Dick Morris, Ann Coulter, Peggy Noonan and talk radio bulldog Mark Levin, who predicted Obama would lose in a landslide.
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http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/t…
Posted by eLwood]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:55:21 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by NeverVoteRepublican]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:51:37 -0600 Arkansas Times
Outta my way!!
Posted by Jake da Snake]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:14:29 -0600 Arkansas Times
We enjoyed some fine curries tonight at Chutny's in Rogers. I had a mango style jello-like dessert, finest dessert I ever tasted. They called it "mango delight" made with mango and yogurt. Just yummy beyond imagination. The dal and korma are still reminding me I ate too much of each in addition to some very spicy fish and hot sambal, a spicy vegetable soup.

Finished up on the Fayetteville Square at First Night. Christmas lights are gorgeous in downtown Fayetteville. We left early.

Ok, it's midnight and youngsters are setting off firecrackers which means I have some nervous dogs to stroke and reassure.
Posted by eLwood]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:04:23 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Hackett]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:38:10 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Goof]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:34:57 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Perplexed]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 22:40:05 -0600 Arkansas Times
Too bad the Democratic Party didn't have a better candidate to run against him this last election. Maybe next time. He is definitely vulnerable. Especially now that Cotton has taken the title of Republican Favorite son in Arkansas. I hear it is driving Griffin nuts that folks like Cotton more than him.

Beating Griffin is a New Year's Resolution I look forward to making happen.
Posted by Poison Apple]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 22:13:19 -0600 Arkansas Times
A name change suggestion:

The twelve months...

Snowy, Flowy, Blowy,
Showery, Flowery, Bowery,
Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy,
Breezy, Sneezy, Freezy.
- George Ellis

And a (very) short poem for the new year!

January is here, with eyes that keenly glow,
A frost-mailed warrior
striding a shadowy steed of snow.
- Edgar Fawcett
Posted by Jake da Snake]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:50:00 -0600 Arkansas Times My wish for you is health and happiness in the new year, kindness and tolerance shown both by and towards you, and an abundance of opportunities to achieve your goals.
I look forward to spending the coming year here with y'all, and once again, a big thanks to Max for providing the forum.
Posted by HardHeadedWoman]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:34:49 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Yellowdogdaughter]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:27:38 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Yellowdogdaughter]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:23:19 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?…
Posted by dottholliday]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:19:53 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by radical centrist]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:08:23 -0600 Arkansas Times dys·to·pi·a [dis-toh-pee-uh]
noun
a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.
Posted by Diogenes]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:23:56 -0600 Arkansas Times
Thanks to all my blog buddies for their wisdom, humor, thoughtfulness [excellent writing skills] and their goodness. This blog is a great place to hang out, wish we had a real bar to float in and out of aka Cheers...where everyone knows your name.

Happy New Year to all!
Posted by Nanc]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:18:35 -0600 Arkansas Times
My New Year wishes also would be that Eureka Springs find a viable alternative to the two parties which are in power so that he could stand for something for a change, rather than having to be against everything. I want all-- eLwood, Durango, Cato, louie, NVR, Couldn'tbebetter, Outlier, Ozrakaroo, hardheadedwoman, silverback 66 (who I discovered I know casually from the practice of law), sound policy, sky pilot, radical centrist, mountaingirl, yellowdogdaughter, DBI, mag (who I discovered was an old buddy from 30 years ago), marckyle, yoassarian, verlasweere, citizen1, nanc, and even salinerepublican--to continue stirring things up on the blog in the new year. Most of all, I want Norma to continue being the erudite, iconoclastic voice of the Arkansas Blog, blasting away in her inimitable fashion at bigotry, hypocrisy, injustice, and anything else that gets in her way. Let us all make a resolution to bring Eureka Springs into the mainstream. Do you all think that is possible?

To anyone I have overlooked above, I apologize, and wish you all the best also, even if we have disagreed. I especially want to thank Max and the Arkansas Times for providing the forum. I have decided to start using my real name on the blog and will change it after this post, so from the guy formerly known as plainjim, Happy New Year to all.

Jim Clark, Rogers, Arkansas
Posted by plainjim]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:57:08 -0600 Arkansas Times " Lectures presented at The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University's international research centre in the comparative study of news media."

Great rainy night, rainy day listening....

http://m.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/politics/reuter…

for low-tech bloggers, just bookmark the page and return to the list of lectures at your leisure.
Posted by eLwood]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:40:05 -0600 Arkansas Times
Happy New Year to all of you! This place keeps me sane, knowing how many people like all of you there are in Arkansas. If you had losses and tragedies in the past year, I hope 2013 treats you better.

Does anyone know of a good home for a little black shaggy dog? He looks like Toto of Oz, only smaller. He is bouncy-bouncy, but not yappy. He did go bonkers yesterday when I used the Kitchenaid Mixer, but settled down once he realized there was no alien invasion. He get's along well with other dogs of every size and wants to get along with the cat. He is a fine little fellow and stout-hearted, had his shots this month, and will be neutered in January. He is housebroken, but is a marker. Hopefully the neutering will cure that, but in the meantime, he wears a belly band with half a Poise pad when in the house. I've named him Chico, but he answers to most anything. He really needs a fenced yard. I can't let him off leash due to the mules and nearby road. I will keep him if another GOOD home isn't found, but I really don't need double vet and kennel bills.
Posted by the outlier]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:28:35 -0600 Arkansas Times
Thank you eLwood, for welcoming me back to fold when I'd been layin' low. I think sometimes that you created a monster when you did that, but then I get more likes than there are people I know in the reading audience, and that, too is an honor.

Here's hoping that 2013 see the continued destruction of the Republican party by the religionists. It pains me that Arkansas seems to be (temporarily anyway) at the heart of the rot, what with the Koch brothers and all. It's those young uns who'll save us though.

Got a funeral to go to on the morrow. Odd, starting the new year off thata way, but won't be going to fewer anytime soon. That's just it though. There really aren't enough angry old white men and their wives to continue the religionist domination of the Republican Party and they'll dang well take it down with them.

Happy new year all. May everyone be blessed in the new year, knowing that if you're not happy with what you already have, what are you gonna do with more of it?
Posted by Vanessa]]> Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:25:01 -0600 Arkansas Times