http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/02/09/ghosts-of-george-wallace-contd Comments On: Ghosts of George Wallace, contd 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) Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Thu, 23 May 2013 19:45:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
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Narrator: As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now began to favor different traits. Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and more intelligent. But as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. A dumbing down. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
Posted by wannabee conservative]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 20:13:40 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by bopbamboom]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 17:02:23 -0600 Arkansas Times Since Roger Norman was involved with the audit in question, I'm sure it was conducted according to Biblical standards.
Posted by RYD]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 15:18:21 -0600 Arkansas Times
What's important is to know that Republicans in elected office work only for their rich backers. You'll never catch them proposing or voting for something that's not good for their rich backers. It will never ever ever happen, on the city, county, state or national level.....never! That means what they want to do and do will always hurt us little people because to them.....we don't count.

It's incredible that the Walton family, who became god-like rich off us little people, are incredibly anti-little people. Each, sitting on around 23 billion dollars, waste their time making sure their workers will only have cat food to eat when they're too old to work. And while they work they swell the ranks of those on food stamps...forced to clog our ERs when they're sick and FIRED if they ever breath the word UNION. (Someone quick interview one of their maids)

We fall for all that while flocking to America's version of Foxconn to buy Chinese made garbage that allows us to scrape by on the very little we get paid by our Republican 1%er bosses. We're part of the cheapest circle jerk ever invented by mankind. It will always be this way if we don't come to our senses and refuse to participate. That will require the growing of some balls which is so much harder than just sitting on the sofa watching our incredibly affordable Chinese flat-screen TVs we gobbled up at our local Fox-Conn.

Changing Arkansas and America will require effort...actual moving of the feet and unleashing screams of indignation into the faces of those pushing us down. As we could stop all wars for oil by chaining our kids in the basement out of the reach of our Military-Industrial Complex, we can change Wal-Mart by committing to a 6 month No-Shopping at Wal-Mart policy.

If black people could walk instead of using the buses for a whole year in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955-56, we can stop shopping at Wal-Mart with much much less effort. If we did this we'd be surprised to see people with 23 billion (that would last them 400 years into the future if they never got another dime) fold like a house of cards. But, except for Christopher J. Dorner, the wronged ex-cop currently shooting up California, none of us can bother with a little self inconvenience in order to make a better world for our children.

You can read his surprisingly articulate, well thought out, unedited manifesto here:
http://hiphopandpolitics.wordpress.com/201…
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:33:46 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by bopbamboom]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:19:05 -0600 Arkansas Times
The legislature should make it a crime to perform background checks or to ask for ID from anyone of any age or legal status when purchasing any firearm, other than obvious Muslims or liberals.
Posted by I_AM_THE_NRA]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 12:55:07 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by ozarkrazo]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 12:24:28 -0600 Arkansas Times
Democrats just passed us into Dole Romney Heritage Foundation health system... making to big to do anything but bean count in their monopoly pharma and insurance more powerful than ever. Abusing Medicare by hardening our caste system and turning it further into a way to prop up rich corporations. Instead of establishing health care as a human right under V.A. or medicare system for all... which could have cut all health costs in half ta boot. Thus denying so much of our caste system... and assuring women's rights under a truly universal system.



ANd Democrats, years later are wondering why Republicans are still moving rightward... with no regard for the fact the Dems have moved so far right, so consistently, for decades.... Why shouldn't republicans keep doing exactly that which has worked for them?

Democrats want to nanny state their (2nd amendment) views as much as republicans want to nanny state (women's choice)... When so much of this BS should be not only none of governments business, but for the most part what governments insists nobody (i.e. corporations) regulate.

Machiavelli laughs, while the people bicker over who should fail us more. Thus fail is the only certainty.
Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:44:54 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by ozarkrazo]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:33:31 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 10:22:24 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by the outlier]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 09:25:40 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by radical centrist]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 09:15:26 -0600 Arkansas Times
Sneer. Snicker.

It's gotten so that "honesty" and "Republican" = oxymoron.

Working backward from Mitt Romney's and George Bush's lies ("Mission Accomplished!") to Nixon's cynical, hypocritical, racist--and successful--"Southern Strategy," one has to land on Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" to find an honest Republican.

And he was assassinated for it. (By an ACTOR, I'm ashamed to admit.)

The GOP thinks changing its "messaging" (i.e., lying) will revive the party's relevance and power. But Americans are no longer easily fooled by lipstick on a pig in the age of instant interconnectedness and 24/7 news cycles.

FOX News and Roger Ailes have fallen precipitously in the public's trust. Right-wing media blowhards are losing advertisers, listeners, viewers, ratings and contracts in free fall.

Everybody knows who brought America Social Security, Medicare, on and on: Democrats. And everybody knows who fought and still fights them: Republicans.

Every day it grows more apparent that the GOP offers only lies about virtually everything from the economy and jobs to women's rights and abortion to same-sex equality to unconstitutionally legislating Christian fundamentalism across the board, to gerrymandering, voter suppression and disenfranchisement through "I.D." laws, etc., etc., etc.

'Tis no puzzlement.

As more Americans daily learn the truth about the GOP, the deader and more desperate the zombies become.

One needn't psychoanalyze their motives (racism, misogyny, homophobia, fundamentalist fascism) to objectively observe their actions and the dismal caliber of their politicians.

It matters not if anything is Good for America. If that Good comes from a Democratic administration, the GOP will lie, smear, obstruct and filibuster until it can stack future elections by hook or crook to regain power.

The GOP is about themselves and their white, male, old, dying 1% -- and their younger up-and-coming wannabes. By any rational definition, the GOP is Un-American and unconstitutional.

Everything else they're selling is just lipstick on that porker, to an increasingly informed public who now knows bacon is a non-nutritional health hazard.
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 08:38:17 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Pygface]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 08:29:14 -0600 Arkansas Times
True, Max, very true. Why? Because the charge given them by their constituency is to keep poor people poor by any and all means. I found a one-page article in this week's issue of THE WEEK impressive on the well-known issue of increasing income differential in America -- particularly this parpagraph:

"About half the working poor are white, mostly living in the South or Southwest. But African-Americans and Latinos are vastly overrepresented in their ranks: Over a quarter of blacks and Latinos live in poverty, while only a tenth of whites do. Most commonly they work for major national chains whose business models depend on very low labor costs—Walmart, Pizza Hut, McDonald’s, Target. In these hugely successful companies, most of the profits go to top management and stockholders. The top 50 employers of low-wage workers, a recent study found, paid their top executives an average of $9.4 million a year and have returned $175 billion in dividends to their shareholders since 2006. In contrast, the typical worker eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit, a tax break for low-income workers, has an adjusted gross income of $13,900. Since the Great Recession of 2008, about 60 percent of the jobs created in the U.S. have been low-wage ones. One out of four Americans now earns less than $10 an hour."

http://theweek.com/article/index/239397/wo…

The article also gives Arkansas's Pride horrible mention:

"HOW TAXPAYERS SUBSIDIZE WALMART
Walmart is the largest private employer in the U.S.—and has the most workers on public assistance. In 2007, the company shifted from regular shifts to flexible shifts, a change labor activists said was designed to force full-time workers to downgrade their status to part-time, so they would not qualify for health insurance or other benefits. The result is that hundreds of thousands of Walmart employees rely on state benefits or Medicaid. Most of the company’s warehouses are contracted out to temp agencies, so even if a warehouse loader works full-time in a Walmart warehouse for years, he gets no benefits. Walmart has also spent at least $1 billion since 2005 settling lawsuits over unpaid wages or illegal working conditions. One study estimated that Walmart workers cost taxpayers more than $1 billion every year."
Posted by Snapback]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 07:46:03 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Double J]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 07:20:24 -0600 Arkansas Times