http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2013/02/20/morning-report-a-school-candidates-drama-and-more Comments On: Morning report: A school candidate's drama and more 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, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sat, 25 May 2013 19:00:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by plainjim]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:47:51 -0600 Arkansas Times http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/02/20/br…

Also spelling correction "respectively," not "repectively." Where are those proofreaders when you need them? While newspapers have those obsessive-compulsive usage-and-spelling Puritans, blogs don't. I'm sure Max must miss them.
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:43:36 -0600 Arkansas Times On the other side of that excuse is my husband's theory. He thinks I like the challenge of surviving under challenging circumstances.
The truth probably lies somewhere in between.

Thank you Verla.
Posted by mountaingirl]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:39:45 -0600 Arkansas Times
The article further dissects the difference between the Dems and Repugs on how they connect and, repectively, don't connect with Americans.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/…
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:31:41 -0600 Arkansas Times
I don't know the cause but our generator kicked on for 30 minutes on Monday. Btw, put your bagged refrig food on the roof. All sorts of critters are opportunity feeders.

Local TV reported that big box home supply stores were sold out of generators. Seems the East coast bought up all available supplies. But what you want is not a store item.

http://www.generac.com/Residential/HomeBackupSystems/
Posted by eLwood]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:12:31 -0600 Arkansas Times In this animated satire, a former K.G.B. agent welcomes a future in which Americans live under the watchful eyes of drones.
http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/02/18/op…
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View the other editorial videos on this site: calorie detective, public defenders, gospel of intolerance, electoral dysfunction.
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:10:45 -0600 Arkansas Times
Things are looking so bad for the LRSD that I want to play ostrich.
Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:07:58 -0600 Arkansas Times
A bit of a scare yesterday. The explosion and big fire on the Plaza in Kansas City was a couple of blocks from our condo. All is well with our property, but the video my neighbor was sending from his balcony was frightening.

Huge fat fluffy snowflakes everywhere up here at 1000 feet. I ran errands this morning trying to get a step ahead of this but for some stupid reason, I took the car instead of the 4WD truck. I came out of the grocery store and it was sleeting so hard it felt like needles hitting me in the face. I said my version of what passes for a prayer that the mountain road wouldn't be iced over or closed before I could make my way back to the house.

Just finished taking all of the necessary steps folks in the country do to prepare for a power outage. Fed all dogs a double meal so they can hibernate for awhile, laptops, Iphone, and Kindle are all on chargers, the heat is turned up to get the house warm......now I can sit back and enjoy the beautiful show.

TIP to anyone who might lose power when it is cold: Take your food out of the refrigerator and freezer, put it in trash bags, laundry baskets or whatever containers you have and place it outside. Don't leave it to ruin inside an airtight container that is getting warmer each minute the power is off. A valuable lesson I learned from an older friend the first year I moved back here and lost a large chest freezer and two refrigerators full of food.
Posted by mountaingirl]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:32:35 -0600 Arkansas Times The map:
http://www.avalerehealth.net/news/spotligh…
The article:
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Washington-Wat…
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The department has conditionally approved 17 states and the District of Columbia to run their own exchanges, plus another three to run exchanges in partnership with the federal government - Arkansas is one of those three.
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:21:40 -0600 Arkansas Times
Woke up late to see all the neighborhood roofs white and big flurry of wet snow/ice coming down. Evergreens under the overhang are all topped with snow. Our late Lucky dog has a brother, Chance, who is one year old today. He's a strange mix of who jumped the fence around the momma bitch's yard. Lucky was classic Parsons Russell Terrier (rough coat) but Chance has the playful, aggressive, fast temperament of a PRT but has many of the markings of a Pointer including postures.

I had a funny morning dream. Saline Republican was headed back home from Orlando via Baltimore and a big snow & ice storm had hit Baltimore. He and fellow passengers were stuck and the lovely 30ish black woman he sat next to on the plane knows friends in the area..would he like to join her? He already knew she was from a good Repub family in Orlando, her father owned restaurants, she loved Newt and even smoked a joint with him on the campaign trail in Charleston. So, why not join this new friend Yolanda rather than sit in crowded airport terminal full of smelly, hostile passengers reading a pocket copy of Milton Friedman's greatest hits. There was a Marriot next door and after some hefty servings of house wine Saline and Yolanda awaken each not believing what happened the night before as they escaped the dread of a layover to find warmth and acceptance in each others' arms.

A month later the phone at Saline's broom n' mop shop rings and it's Yolanda, inquiring about him then, "By the way, I'm pregnant, what are we going to do with your baby?"
Posted by eLwood]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:20:42 -0600 Arkansas Times
I hate to hear about Charles Eddie. He impressed mag and I when we met him at the Rumba party on election night 4 years ago. It was a bizarre night of putting faces with names and experiencing our first face to face dose of the late, great jazzy.

Everyone at the party had such high hopes for the future with the criminal party of Bush-Cheney soundly defeated and a smart black guy heading to the Oval Office. What none of us counted on that night was that the defeated party would triple-down on NUTS for the next 4 years and apparently forever. It's too bad jazzy and Charles Eddie won't be around to see the GOP go to the way of the Whigs.

Or, on the other hand I could type, I'm glad jazzy and Charles Eddie won't have to endure the total destruction of the United Corporate States over the next 4 terrible years....since clearly it's not possible to guess which is our fate at this point. Rest in Peace old friends.
Posted by DeathbyInches]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:32:30 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by hugh mann]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:27:46 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by couldn't be better]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:25:52 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by FSMXNA]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:45:36 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by mountaingirl]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:39:11 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by louie]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:31:36 -0600 Arkansas Times http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/charles-e…
Posted by imjustsaying]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:27:37 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Durango]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:00:22 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Jake da Snake]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:30:36 -0600 Arkansas Times
That being said, the LRSD could hire ME for a year. I'm sure I'd futz everything up in the district, because I'd have no idea what I was doing. But, I'd get a year's pay ($200,000.00), and a buy out ($420,000,000.00). Win-win for me!
Posted by spunkrat]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:25:08 -0600 Arkansas Times