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Posted by Farhanaz merin]]> Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:02:01 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Burt Lancaster]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:48:32 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Mean Gene]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:33:20 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Rick]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:11:10 -0600 Arkansas Times
This is about as reasonable and logical as some posting here. Notice I said nothing about the 2nd amendment.
Posted by mrprincipal07]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 12:00:28 -0600 Arkansas Times Why don't we support birth control if eliminating a abortion is the goal? Why are conservative Christians anti brth control? The Bible advocates abortion in Numbers for babies conceived from suspected adultery...why does the legislature spend so much time providing loopholes for insurance companies to not provide birth control?
Posted by Quid pro quo]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 10:58:40 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 10:12:03 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by the outlier]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 10:03:33 -0600 Arkansas Times
I ain't got time for that...
Posted by Mean Gene]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 09:29:02 -0600 Arkansas Times
But the truth always does come out eventually. John Lyon of Stephens Media did have a balanced article that included an explantion from Jason Rapert and Jason Tolbert also gave both sides.

JasonTolbert on his blog www.tolbertreport.com reported:

The comments receiving focus have to do with a portion of Rapert’s speech where he discussed “minorities.” Here, context is key.

Here is the quote The Nation posted in an edited video (emphasis mine)…

“I hear you loud and clear, Barack Obama. You don’t represent the country that I grew up with. And your values is not going to save us. We’re going to take this country back for the Lord. We’re going to try to take this country back for conservatism. And we’re not going to allow minorities to run roughshod over what you people believe in!”

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Tolbert continues:

So what did he mean by minorities? A separate portion of the video (see below) sheds light on this (again emphasis mine). Before the above remark, Rapert addressed the case in which the Arkansas Supreme Court overturned the ban of gay foster parents saying…

“Here in Arkansas we tried to do something about our values on that. We said ‘You know what. Where we have foster children, we want them to be in a good home with a mommy and a daddy.’ Do ya’ll think that’s alright? Well, right here the other day a bunch of your Supreme Court Justices just struck it down – said your vote don’t count. I am here to tell you that we are a people who is ruled by a majority in this country. And I am tired of minority interests that are running roughshod over you and me.”

http://thedailyhatch.org/2013/02/02/sad-th…
Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 09:20:40 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Neal Clayton]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 09:10:36 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by SalineRepublican]]> Sat, 02 Feb 2013 08:49:08 -0600 Arkansas Times
I don't know whether to congratulate the voters who elected this fool and in doing so showed either their ignorance or the racism or to curse them for pushing him with his extreme views on the whole state of Arkansas.

Go ahead and sell out your state, its people, and its resources to some out-of-state billionaire brothers by electing their bought-and-paid-for toady.

It's going to be a long two years.
Posted by wannabee conservative]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:54:15 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by TX-Travler]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:45:58 -0600 Arkansas Times http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office…
Posted by Ozark Homesteader]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:27:48 -0600 Arkansas Times
(by the way, you will notice that plainjim is back. I got tired after a few days of using my real name to have people come up to me and comment, "So you are the nut who is putting all of that crazy stuff on the Arkansas Blog? And using my real name caused me to exercise some self-censorship that restrained me.)
Posted by plainjim]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:59:51 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by LinCo_Progressive]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:57:24 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by BeachHog]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:56:39 -0600 Arkansas Times
"The finest moments in the film, which premieres Friday in New York City, focus on Koch's rise to power in the late '70s, when the Big Apple was a powder-keg metropolis engulfed in financial disarray and a crime wave. Koch—a closeted homosexual and iconoclastic liberal—is depicted as the consummate political shark, siphoning off key constituencies during a gang-fight-like mayoral election in 1977. "
http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/201…
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:25:42 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by righter]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:33:53 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/01/1…

More Republican embarrassment for the Natural State.
Posted by Rutrow]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:21:55 -0600 Arkansas Times
I rewatched the video and I did not and do not come away with the "minorities" being political.

Of late you have been less "outthere" with your posts but I say your claim this time is weak.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:36:50 -0600 Arkansas Times
There were no payday lenders and fellows like Rapert would hold meetings in tents and move town to town, usu on Fridays or Saturdays just when pay was handed out before the families bought their weekly can of lard, sack of flour, sugar, dried beans and a few pork steaks then filled up the Chevy carryall or truck.
Big bottles of soda were unheard of. Frozen pizzas were not to be seen. Pork n' Beans were the fast food.
Mixed in between taking some money out the little brown pay envelopes to give the revival preacher were healings, laying on of hands and the afflicted would be made to walk, or see or able to raise their arms over their heads as never before. Often the revivlalist would have a big pile of crutches and wheelchairs stacked on the stage.

One crowning moment came when I was about 12 and had been reading newspapers and news magazines at the library. McCarthyism ran strong in Arkansas. It was a slick dressed, black haired, pleading-voiced fellow from Tulsa whose take that week hadn't been so good so he cranked up the ante on his Second altar call, with an electric guitar playing background of a heart-stirring gospel song, he had all heads bowed ranting about how the nation was going to hell and Jesus was the only answer, partly crying, partly pleading he said 'I know there are communists in this crowd who won't give one cent to this revival campaign but I know there's enough god-fearing Christians who will." That did it. The little brown pay envelopes opened up as never before.

My mother dragged me to a few of those when I was a pre teen, hoping to shape me into a nigger-fearing, god-fearing young man before the "world" got hold of me. My dad would laugh about those preachers and make sure mom had little of his honest money before she went to the big tent.
Dad was a good Methodist. Back then his faith was affirmed by how much you did for the community- how many food drives you organized, youth softball teams you supported and if you were available to repair the community church when it was needed-that all added up to being a good Methodist.

Rapert must have been a preacher's toddler back then. He's got it all down pat and it hasn't changed much in 55 years.
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:13:48 -0600 Arkansas Times >Because he isn't a professional politician

That HAS To Be the political Howler of the Day!
Citizen servant he ain't. Payday Lenders friend he is.
Posted by eLwood]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:32:57 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by ozarkrazo]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:04:36 -0600 Arkansas Times