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"As far as long-term plans, the door is wide open," she said. "I know the country needs more truth-telling in the media, and I'm willing to do that. So, we shall see."

Yes, Michele Bachmann, Christine O'Donnell, Kate Gosselin, we shall.
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 22:02:47 -0600 Arkansas Times
Norma's comments about Huckabee bring to mind the recent news article about one of his money men, a guy named Odum, being charged in federal court for illegal campaign contributions to the Huckabee campaign. The article pointed out that he is the developer of the resort property in Florida where Huckabee built his house. This may explain how Huckabee could afford such a mansion. I hope the Feds will look more into this financial relationship.

Huck still knows how to scam a prospect for all he is worth, doesn't he?
Posted by plainjim]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:38:58 -0600 Arkansas Times
His remaining days there and at Cumulus Media, which operates in mid-size and smaller markets, are solely about the numbers.

Huckabee's demographic still has some appeal, but to even fewer fans and advertisers than Palin's. Namely, the same religious-right Tea Partiers, only older. Much older.

His value as a "political commentator," as with Palin's, is non-existent. Both are more irrelevant with each passing day; considered jokes by all but their diminishing diehards.

Huckabee hit his half-life last year at age 57.

When Huckabee can no longer sell denture cleansers, home-delivered diabetic supplies or Depends (as happened to Palin already), it's over.

He'll be the Burt Reynolds of politics. Another bitter-but-gamely-grinning wanna-B-celebrity who never quite hit the top and retired to Florida.
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 17:31:47 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/r…
Posted by widj]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:21:13 -0600 Arkansas Times
I saw yesterday that Sarah Palin has left Fox News.....can Huckabee be far behind?
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:20:04 -0600 Arkansas Times
Illegitimacy's all they've got left.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013…

Which reminds me: Where Sarah Palin goes can Mookie be far behind?

(My Insider who was privy to the Huckabees' conversations has seemingly disappeared. But I'm working on a replacement.)
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:43:10 -0600 Arkansas Times
Much less blogger trolls.

"Right-wing intellectuals and politicians live in a bubble in which denunciations of those bums on disability and those greedy children getting free health care are greeted with shouts of approval — but now have to deal with a country where the same remarks come across as greedy and heartless (because they are)."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/27/k…
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:33:31 -0600 Arkansas Times >Could LR micro-emulate this as the Tech Park vs. the 'if you build it they will come' model of the 20th century?

The entire state could be a tech development bonanza IF we had a governor who had an inkling of a idea of what's at stake and a smidgen of a concept why high speed broadband is THE future. Instead, he allowed broadband development money to be ciphered into leaky places where crony corps could make the most profit instead of benefiting the entire state, esp poorly served rural areas.

Fortunately Walmart having a strong presence in NWA means high speed fiber was installed 12 and 15 yrs ago. Somehow I've managed to stay close to the fast carrier trunks and have enjoyed well above average consumer connection speeds. UA promoted a super high speed line several years ago for transmitting medical and scientific data in real time. They're connected to mega speeds but access is limited.

Had AT&T not been allowed to steal TEN BILLION in rate-payers fees and convert it to stock dividends the entire southwest would be faster and better connected. Needless to say Republicans + Clinton "fixed" the Telecommunications Act of 1996 so there was nothing individual states could do about it. Then came Bush who refused even to slap their wrists.
Posted by eLwood]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:19:57 -0600 Arkansas Times
A few years ago the NY Times unearthed a rare cache of 1930s Depression pictures which were made by a few Farm Security Administration photographers using experimental color Kodak film and they tell a much different story than their black & white counterparts. In black & white every Okie looks cold, hopeless, hungry and on their last legs....in color they look like my Ma's family poor but happy and hopeful though they didn't have a pot to pee in.

If I found a bottle on a beach and could rub up a genie my first wish would be x-ray vision to use on the ladies, my 2nd wish would be the ability to see black & white photos in color....for the record my 3rd wish would be the ability to make myself invisible and have no need for Viagra, but I guess that's 4 wishes which are totally against the rules.
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:52:24 -0600 Arkansas Times
Even right-wing pollsters cannot hide from the simple fact:

"Forty years after the landmark Roe vs. Wade case legalizing abortion in the United States, fewer voters than ever consider themselves pro-life, while those who say they are pro-choice remains at an all-time high.

36% Say They Are Pro-Life, 54% Pro-Choice

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_con…
Posted by eLwood]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:45:14 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:27:49 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Pygface]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:23:30 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:16:51 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://curiouseggs.com/extremely-rare-colo…

Did you, like me, assume all the world prior to 1930 was shades of grey?
Posted by eLwood]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:48:55 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Doc]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:52:57 -0600 Arkansas Times
Reince Priebus is the name of an elite white male GOP.

Therein lies the problem. (Besides Reince's prissy prickly persona.)

Even the Christian Science Monitor (an oxymoronic moniker if ever there were one), recognizes that, "'One message is loud and clear from the 2012 election,' said Ari Fleischer, President George Bush's former spokesman and a member of an RNC effort to restore the party's competitiveness. 'Many voters found that Republicans were not inclusive.'"

Really?

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/27/can-…
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:52:12 -0600 Arkansas Times
("With our food more and more unhealthy and our lives increasingly sedentary, answers are needed to address a crisis that is driving up diabetes, boosting heart disease and already killing 2.8 million adults per year.

("The world’s increasingly deadly obesity crisis needs to be tackled with the same determination policy-makers once took to fighting smoking.")

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/27/expe…
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:28:07 -0600 Arkansas Times
Why not? It's religion's desperate last gasp everywhere else.
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:23:51 -0600 Arkansas Times
That said, even the NYT admits "Groups like his would have been able to operate freely against Mr. Hagel even before Citizens United." Which is why we the people must insist upon far more than what Repugnant Populous or Move To Amend is working hard to appear like they would accomplish something...and they would... accomplish maintenance of the status corrupt quo. MTA and RP are designed to make people ignore this.

The quiet coup was complete long before Cit U.

Hagel is/was irrelevant since no matter who lands in the SOS position mass murder and wanton international terror for empire will remain the purpose of our State and all its departments.

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But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:09:38 -0600 Arkansas Times