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I'm betting that those compressors will fall under eminent domain as they are part of the pipeline too. Nobody should be forced to live with 2 miles of one of those noxious beasts.
Posted by Ozarktroutbum]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:15:45 -0600 Arkansas Times
As for the future? Hey, at the peak they were running 33 rigs. Now, it's 13 in less than two years. There are only so many wells to drill.

They may have other ideas in mind.
Posted by wannabee conservative]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:25:50 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by GrizLee Blackbear]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:17:56 -0600 Arkansas Times I remember the 50's for a gross income of $2000. a year for our family of 3 in 1951. Retail of course. Maximum of $5000. in 1959, still retail for a family of 7. By the time we fled in 1966, we had lived in 8 states--Wisconsin twice--9 cities--at those rates, and Walmart was just appearing on the scene, leading to the demise of the five and dime. Talk about losers, retail makes them. Fear of change multiplies them. Religion thrives on fear. It's a vicious circle.
Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:07:01 -0600 Arkansas Times
Anybody can list losers in ANY field, smirk, and think they're making a point.

Idiot.

Everybody's a critic. So go ahead.

Ignore the George Clooneys, Meryl Streeps, Daniel Craigs, Tom Hanks', Sally Fields', Daniel Day-Lewis', Steven Spielbergs, Tina Feys, James Camerons, Maggie Smiths, Tony Kushners, Jodie Fosters, Neil Patrick Harris', Me's, et al.

Typical no-talent wannabe reeking-with-envy hick.

If you can't make it there, you can't make it anywhere.
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:45:25 -0600 Arkansas Times

"We have them surrounded in their tanks!"
Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Posted by Zatharus]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:29:26 -0600 Arkansas Times
Don't just think that it only means they come across your pasture and bury a pipe and spread grass seed over it.

In the Ozarks with the Boston Mountains and their rugged terain that can be some massive construction, alter creeks and change the lay of the land.

The route doesn't have to be the one with the least impact to landowners or land, but can be least costly to the pipeline co.

Then they can restrict what drives over it.

It can be quite a "taking", for minimal compensation.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:48:05 -0600 Arkansas Times
While an investment banker back in the 70's we had a rah! rah! sales trainer that said, get you a bunch of money and see if that doesn't help with most of your problems. The problems it doesn't help with either get over or learn to live with.

Norma,

Those that have a "need" to be looked at have a twisted need.

That describes entertainers.

Troubled celebrities are so common it is alarming and beyond cliche. That "need" seems all consuming. I don't have much interest in celebrities beyond their talent and thus don't keep up with many but can rattle off a list of self destructive needy ones.

Charlie Sheen
Britney Spears
Whitney Houston
Lindsey lohan
All the Jersey Shore bunch
Ol Spanky or Barretta or whatever his name is.
Jim Morrisson
All the Housewives of NY, ATL, Vegas, ...
Marylin M.
and her wannabe
Anna Nicole
and on and on and on.

Think of all the celebrities that acheived fame and still felt empty, above, plus add the Scientology bunch. Tom Cruse and Jon Travolta and the like succeeded beyond their wildest expectations and found an emptyness still there so they tromped off into Wackytology looking for some fulfilment.

You tout your fabulousness and we all know that you still believe that you will finally be happy when I finally get "fill in the blank"! Grammy, Oscar, Wedgy, etc...

You see Norma, the reason you still "believe" is that you haven't succeeded and prooved the lie to yourself yet.

Just remember, those who are fabulous don't need to say they are fabulous, it would be obvious.

Those that WISH they were fabulous must tell everone.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:31:41 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:12:44 -0600 Arkansas Times
Get ready for the legitimate rape talk, the takeover of Forest City talk, anti-gay bills, anti-women bills, screw the sick kids-clear out the nursing homes-kill the unions (do we even have any)-no taxes or regulations on our 1%-Obama is an illegitimate president-Mexicans should be shot-Lottery Scholarships must be shrunk to death-Jesus in yer vagina 24-7-ship them back to Africa-Wal-Mart is god-carpet bomb the Delta-blacks are no good-Reagan-Reagan-Reagon died on the cross of Alzheimer's for yer sins....total bullshit yammering as they work hard to take Arkansas back to the 1870s.

Rapert and his ilk are the kind of people who will do anything for money and you can bet they're getting tons of money from outside sources or expect it any day. Psychopaths have no shame or mercy or compassion and coupled with low intelligence they're more dangerous than a pack of rabid dogs.

Electing more Mark Pryors & Blanche Lincolns is no defense against Tea Baggers like Rapert-Griffin-Womack-Crawford....who'd I leave out? BOOZMAN! Keeping quiet around our no-info voting Republican friends spouting Fox News talking points is a super bad idea too.

The decent people of Arkansas are under full attack from the creepy right. This isn't the time for silence or good manners! Good people better be writing their own manifestos and stand up mad as hell when any line is crossed by profit addicted rightwing terrorists. If you aren't mad already seek professional help.
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:08:10 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/201…

If I understand this correctly, one could install solar panels and wind turbines at home, and sell the power back to the grid. And it doesn't seem to require condemning people's private property for the utilities' benefit, as Jason Rapert wants to do.
Posted by radical centrist]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:55:00 -0600 Arkansas Times
The NYT had an interesting weekend story about how the GOP is stuck in the past, and how it's increasingly hurting them in elections. The story is linked-to in the article below, which succinctly summarizes the problem.

"Can the GOP be saved from its obsession with the 1950s?"

It made me think of Arkansas, and the South generally, and your right-wing GOP takeover and where it will inevitably lead.

It made me think of bloggers' comments on other threads: like YET ANOTHER MORBIDLY OBESE legislator, your Rep. Ballinger, and his totally unconscious hick envy of New York and California. (Believe me: nobody in either state ever thinks about, mentions, nor gives a shit about Arkansas.)

It made me think of still more A-T Blog comments, about Mindy McReady's suicide and how "fame and fortune" aren't the answer to happiness. ANOTHER vacuous hick comment, from those neither famous nor fortunate, that belies a certain kind of internalized envy.

Nobody ever said "fame and fortune" DID guarantee happiness. But the commenters felt it necessary to unthinkingly parrot some idiotic point.

People who commit suicide have obvious problems and need help: though, in fact, if people really want to commit suicide, they usually do it. (Another situation where well-meaning people are, again, in fact, often powerless to "help," no matter how much they want to or try.)

The truth is that "fame and fortune" DO in fact make (normal) people who work hard enough to attain them FAR happier, just as getting ANYTHING you want makes you happier. To claim the opposite is another of those false-humble statements so common to unthinking parrots.

What IS true is that neurotics are still neurotics, pessimists are still pessimists, self-destructives are still self-destructives, assholes are still assholes, nice guys are still nice guys, and optimists are still optimists after achieving "fame and fortune," but the fame and fortune don't have a fucking thing to do with it.

Watching the inevitable negative results of your GOP takeover is sad, because I DO have friends there. The negative results for Arkansas's future will be long-lasting.

But frankly, the rest of the country gave up on the South, and Arkansas, long ago because the place belligerently fights change, growth, education, improvement and joining the rest of the country.

So the rest of the country hurtles away from the ugly, hypocritical, racist, misogynist, homophobic 1950s mentality with the hyperspeed of technology and the internet, leaving the dying and already-dead Past (including that Old Time Religion, which underlies and subverts EVERYTHING) behind.

Now that you've got guns everywhere, to go along with your internalized rage and resentment at being left behind (entirely your own fault), the rest of us fully expect you to turn into the Middle East with a Mayberry accent and start suicide-bombing your neighboring equally-backward tribal rivals to death in the name of God.

http://americablog.com/2013/02/can-the-gop…
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:23:54 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by anoncow]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:20:13 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Jake da Snake]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:18:22 -0600 Arkansas Times
Political jujitsu.
Posted by radical centrist]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:09:43 -0600 Arkansas Times