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Brantley...Unless you are paying taxes in Missouri, what the Governor there does is none of your @#%&(* business !

This is akin to W getting irked that a reporter would "dis" him by wearing shades ... but I recall the Huckster, not long after taking office, being irked by the Capitol press corps not standing up for him upon his arrival at a press conference. Huckabee later sent bro-in-law lackey Jim Harris to quiz a few select reporters as to why no one stood up for "the governor." The basic answer, We never have. Why start now?

When that tactic appeared doomed, he resorted to calling Temple -- who had been chief of staff to former governor Mel Carnahan (D) -- "physical security threat to the governor."

See? Security. The White House has used it as a catch-all excuse for years. Now the Governors have happened onto it. That's always the reason they can't answer any questions about...anything.

Brantley...Unless you are paying taxes in Missouri, what the Governor there does is none of your @#%&(* business ! Posted by: Anonymous

Amazing how when I see the word "Anonymous" now, my mind reads it "Asinine".

OK ..then..now when I see the name Patrick, Pocahontas my mind reads "Pat The Prick"

Posted by: Anonymous

See what I mean.

Get a job Pat and pay some taxes little feller, and try to help the ones of us who pay all the taxes in this country.....Former trucker who cashed in....

I'm glad we have some conservative, even if it is anonymouds, participation in this blog. They give themselves a worse reputation than liberals ever could.

It's only a minor annoyance to those of us who enjoy the blog, but it lets whe whole blogosphere see the character of our opponents.

My apology if I may have offended the hand full of conservative contributors to this blog who do know how to engage in constructive, polite conversation.

It really gets down to the heart of crazy when the Jackson, the wingnut aide attempted to frame the Democratic blogger as being like McVeigh, a noted rightwing , gun loving, superpatriotic fellow. Somehow when it comes to McVeigh it's ironic that wingnuts forget he was very conservative, devoutly so and a staunch defender of gunowner rights.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah:

Jun 15, 12:56 PM EDT

Huckabee says loan of plane was contribution to his PAC

By ANDREW DEMILLO
Associated Press Writer

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) -- Gov. Mike Huckabee said Thursday a flight he took on a private plane provided by the director of a youth ranch that has an $8.5 million contract with the state is considered an in-kind contribution to his political action committee and doesn't pose a conflict of interest.

The Arkansas Times weekly newspaper reported Wednesday that a private jet Huckabee traveled on that had to make an emergency landing in Chattanooga, Tenn., was owned by Southeastern Asset Management, a New Hampshire corporation managed by Ted Suhl.

Suhl is director of the Lord's Ranch in Warm Springs, a religious-based youth home whose contract with the state is paid through Medicaid. State taxes provide about 25 percent of Medicaid's budget in Arkansas.

Huckabee said he didn't know the value of the flight, but said it was made as a contribution to his Hope For America political action committee, based in Virginia.

"I'm very careful with my own personal things not to mix that," Huckabee said when asked if the contribution posed a conflict of interest.

The governor said he wasn't sure if Suhl had provided aircraft previously for trips Huckabee took but he may have. Huckabee said he does not solicit private individuals or businesses to provide aircraft.

The governor, first lady Janet Huckabee, their daughter Sarah, staff member Chad Rockett, and a state trooper were aboard the plane June 2 when the right engine failed. The pilot made an emergency landing at Chattanooga; the plane was repaired, given a test flight, then they went on their way to North Carolina for a state Republican meeting.

Huckabee was in Hot Springs on Thursday to speak at the Arkansas Municipal League.

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Thinking Dem...How much Fed tax did you pay last year? None right?

I'm a conservative Republican and I have no problem with the blogger being present. Would you be so enraged if it had been a democratic governor and the blogger had been a conservative?

Anon 12:37:

Liberal here. I'm on my way to pay $500 for my quarterly fed tax, plus to catch up on my franchise tax which I couldn't afford to pay May 1 because I was reeling from April 15th tax payments. And that's all on my second job.

Eat me.

"Brantley...Unless you are paying taxes in Missouri, what the Governor there does is none of your @#%&(* business !"

Yea Max that 1st Admendment to the U.S. Constitution don't matter if you don't pay no taxes in Missouri.

And if yewins dont tithe a full 10 % I plan to kick your ass out of my heaven providin God lets you in !
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Brantley...Unless you are paying taxes in Missouri, what the Governor there does is none of your @#%&(* business !

This statement is so stupid it's got to be intentionally so.

I think with a little digging by the media this whole jet airplane thing could be the bread crumbs that lead us to a whole pack of Huckabee sins.

Nothing about this press release makes Huckabee look any better. It was a deal between this rich guy in Arkansas who is incorporated in New Hampshire and Huck's mysterious, secretive PAC? Oh that makes me feel better!

CROOKED comes to mind. Hypocrite comes to mind. Liar comes to mind. What else is there to know about Ted Suhl? Here I've been worried all these years about Huck and Jennings being shacked up and it appears there is a bigger suitor hiding in the wings of a Cessna Citation II. And what exactly got Governor Ryan of Illinois sent to jail? Why is it Governor Bob Taft of Ohio is hot water?

Pandora has given us a little peek into her box.....it's dark and ugly in there. What if, instead of being the 2nd Governor of Arkansas to go to the White House, Huck becomes the first Arkansas Governor to go to prison?

Alice.....the ball's in your court.

Thanks for the unimportant info, Max. Can we expect any dirt on the Missouri Democrats anytime soon, the ex-Carnahan camp? Or are you just "looking for trouble" with any Republican you can find?

(oh, and the gov had every right to, because BLOGGERS AREN'T JOURNALISTS)

ARK. BLOG What an idiot. There is no statute giving special rights to journalists. And shouldn't be. The FOI, for example, provides for all citizens, not just journalists. Same thing in Missouri. The blogger is a citizen. That's enough. The minute the Carnahan peoople arrest somebody for setting foot in a public building, we'll write about it.

AP reports, "Huckabee said he does not solicit private individuals or businesses to provide aircraft."

Then how in the hell did The Lord's Ranch and Ted Suhl know about the gov's list. Is there's a godslist.com, like craigslist.com, where the saved list their needs and wants?

"Thinking Dem...How much Fed tax did you pay last year? None right?

Posted by: Anonymous "

Anonymous sounds very much like the individual who bragged about paying $85,000 in income taxes last year. The implication is that Anonymous and all the income tax paying Repugs are due special treatment and honors for doing what the democrats and every normal citizen do routinely.

TJ...That's chump change..I mean real taxes...but your $500 payment would have been $650 under Clinton...So you being the good demo you are we expect you to send in another $150 before midnight tonight little feller ..We love you..hehe...

Things could really be worse. You could be Screech from saved by the bell and be losing your house. Did you like my segue?

http://www.getdshirts.com/

hilarious.

"What an idiot. There is no statute giving special rights to journalists. "

Hey toolbag, there is: it's called the FIRST AMENDMENT.

You can't just throw a journalist out for no reason, if the thrower outer (the gov) is acting in his official government capacity. The gov as gov can't squelch the press as press. If they are too loud, or noisy, or have no credentials, then sure, but this isn't China, and the above situation would be illegal all things equal.

(and don't whine to me about huck taking you off that list, you're not news, your title is a journal of opinion, right-- entertainment, the likes)

That's why "bloggers aren't journalists" does matter. They AREN'T the press. They are citizens with laptops. A california judge disagrees, but a delaware judge, and various judges the "next level up" agree that bloggers are just people.

Wanna call me an idiot again, and i can link the first amendment???

DBI...Pandora would never let an ugly old guy like you look in anything of hers....Brad

"Get a job Pat and pay some taxes little feller, and try to help the ones of us who pay all the taxes in this country.....Former trucker who cashed in...."Posted by: Anonymous | June 15, 2006 12:11 PM

Get out of the SUN Bubba-Barbie, you're frying that pea brain... oops' too late.

"No taxation without representation" and
"Free Speech " is not the
"Forbidden Truth: US-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy."

The AT likes to use the term 'idiot' when they can't handle the scrutiny. They are so used to their collection of 'think alikes' that they become unnerved when someone questions them.

ARK. BLOG I believe you dodged the answer, bright boy. Or should I say Dr. Strangelove, the LR Businessman, who uses many names to troll many threads to create the appearance of a groundswell where none exists. Come out in the open and sign up for a blog, numnutz.

TJ...That's chump change..I mean real taxes...your $500 payment ...little feller ..We love you..hehe... Posted by: Anonymous | June 15, 2006 01:11 PM

Who's this nut remind me of. Let's see..."only the little people pay taxes"...Leona Helmsley, known as the "Queen of Mean" by her employees, the Manhattan hotelier and real-estate magnate convicted in 1989 of tax evasion and served time at the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn.

I'll take your silence to me as a surrender. The First Amendment's power lives on. (i'm not the user 'ARepublican')

Way to make a mountain out of a molehill, again, looking for anything to scrape on to, even outside our state.

And thanks for the 'idiot' remarks, tool.

Pat the prick...We gonna sic TJ on you boy....He's the rising star on this blog...You dems are slipping...try to give us a little more competition if you can..

I think with a little digging by the media this whole jet airplane thing could be the bread crumbs that lead us to a whole pack of Huckabee sins...

I'd like to think that Huck's presidential hopes would spotlight his wayward ways; but then I remember that Bush's entire Texas driving record conveniently disappeared and look where monkeyboy resides.

Zelda..He resides in the White House and you reside in a back alley of Hillcrest...

correction..we meant JB is the new blogger , not TJ

I hope Max gives a blogger spot to one of the more articulate wingnuts. I like 50/50 deals and not only would it show that the AT is fair, it will also allow the whole state to follow the reasoning, thoughts and desires of those who worship Ann Coulter.

Nothing would do the Democratic Party more good than a big airing of Republican opinions in one handy, easy to link to spot. The closer we get to November, the closer Bush-Cheney comes to a melt-down and the closer Huckabee's 12 year charade comes to being exposed for what it is, the meaner Republican bloggers will get. So be it....in the words of your hero, BRING IT ON!

Nope, DBI.. Dems will lose in November as usual.

Same old "we're too divided and we're AGAINST everything, not FOR anything"

Plus, nobody votes for the whiners

PLUS... Bush & Iraq can only get better

Anon 2:01,
Wow. What a great slogan! Vote Republican: It can't get any worse. That's a brilliant plan you guys had to make everything hit rock bottom so that it can 'only get better.' Brilliant!

Haha, hilarious. I meant that the situation over there couldn't get worse, so the campaign by November will be MUCH MUCH better...

But, i'll excuse you for "making a mountain out of a molehill", since that seems to be the maxwick way of doing things these days
Keep grasping for straws, dems! You'll get something eventually!!

"PLUS... Bush & Iraq can only get better"

You may be right, Anonypuss. After scraping the bottom of the barrell for so long, Bush gets a little bump....from Fox/OP.

By the way, 2500 and counting...although I doubt the commander-in-chief can count that high...c'mon...

I know Roy Temple and he is no Dan Quayle. In fact he is a press genius who is so far under puffed up little governor matt blunt's skin that the repugs are going postal. Check out firedupmissouri.com on the web, this is Roy's brainchild and he drives them nuts seven days a week. We could use something like this in Arkansas. There is an ongoing FBI investigation of the Blulnt Administration in Missouri for giving his crony boys favored deals in return for contributions, so the little wienie blunt boys are pretty nervous these days.

Yes, but who should this sacrifical (Republican) lamb be? I think that Strangelove is on vacation.

hey 2500 dead is nothing compared to the 1.5 million babies each year... oh crap-wait-they don't count

Dems: "Save the life of the condemned rapist!" "Save the life of the volunteer soldiers (that we also secretly hate)!"
GOP: "And babies?"
Dems: "... ... "
GOP: "And..."
Dems: ".......WOMEN HAVE RIGHTS!"
GOP: "And women babies' rights?"
Dems: "... ... ..."
GOP: "well, ok, what about the literal vacuuming-the-brain called partial birth? After 26 weeks? surely the baby is a baby then? Should we save its life too, just like the convicted rapist or the soldiers?"
Dems: ".... WOMEN NEED RIGHTS!!!"
GOP: "Right to vacuum?"
Dems: "... ... ... ... "
Dems: "... ... ... ..."
Dems: "... ... ..."
Dems: "... YOU ALL ARE ALL HOMOPHOBIC!"

StillAnonymous,

I hope you're not a smoker if you keep that many strawmen around you.

There is nothing that the shrub can't make worse.

"Zelda..He resides in the White House and you reside in a back alley of Hillcrest..."

Could it be that Zelda's "Monkeyboy" resides in the White House because he's a rich man's son and has rich and powerful friends who think nothing of -- oh say providing a plane ride or two, with the expectation that they will be amply "repaid" later?
Step carefully, folks, if you're not among the "chosen." No shades, no blogging, no QUESTIONS! The next door broken down (nope, they don't have to knock now according to our conservative majority Supreme Court -- well, actually, they should, so say five supremes, but if they don't, oh well, too bad, so sad) to serve a warrant may be yours. Hope you like Gitmo during hurricane season.
Was that a rabbit hole I fell into?

You'll have to forgive Brad Anonymous. His hemorrhoids have eaten their way up to his brain. He feels very Ramboesque when he fires off those zillions blanks in his stand against godless liberals and demon democrats.
He's a guiltless conservative and rabid republican, the epitome of the true believer.
Doubtless, according to his missives, he's the only one who pays all the taxes to support our government and the rest of us are just Hillcrest Ho's stealing from his stash.
He gets a boner just thinking about the Bush women, especially Babs.
It is so odd that he complains about having to pay all these taxes he purports to enjoy and then ignores the misuse of same funds by our Huckster, etc.
He is like the yappy dog that barks through the night annoying the neighbors. He mostly does it from loneliness rather than to protect anybody.
So, give ol' itty bitty anonymous a break folks. Without his support, the whole world would collapse into the void.
Which, by the way, is located in some quantum corner of his mind.

Colonel Travesty

Repugs are Toads! With apologies to the toads.

Huck went from Phoenix Arizona, all the way to Tacoma, Philadelphia, Atlanta, L.A.

Huck ain't superstitious, but he does get suspicious, because Ted Suhl is a friend of mine.

Oh big ol jet airliner, don't carry me to far away......

Do we have any details about how this blogger was a security threat? Was he carrying a weapon or did he have explosives attached to himself? Did he have a full-moon crazy look in his eyes? Was he hitting the sauce before the press conference and making an ass of himself?

Otherwise, why was he really removed?

The US Constitution and bill of rights was NOT repealed after 9/11.

I believe you dodged the answer, bright boy. Or should I say Dr. Strangelove, the LR Businessman, who uses many names to troll many threads to create the appearance of a groundswell where none exists. Come out in the open and sign up for a blog, numnutz

what is this all about. I thought that this blog was confidential do you guys identify who we are.

Blogito, ergo sum.
Even I must agree with you Anonymous. I would much rather argue with your ethereal persona than have to deal with it in a more personal space.
If you are like me, your thoughts are better expressed in writing than by the spoken word.
I do admire your spirit if not your cause. If the coliseum owners wish to watch the gladiators battle then let them do so from the stands.
Suggestion to you AT: Enter the fray not as ARKBLOG but with your own pseudo-identity and let the Times image remain less sullied.
Please protect our frail disguises while we engage in our furious philosophical and political differences.
I don't mind the blood on the sand but I really don't want to know who it belongs to.

Da Snake

Liberal and Proud, I was told the blogger that was ejected was wearing sunglasses, had a white cane and some dog with him. But I could be wrong.

I have been thinking how it's a good thing for the Democrats to decide the boundaries of their own party and eject anyone who claims to be a Democratic office holder, but votes like a Republican. Why be a Ford dealer if you drive a Chevy.

I think it's just fine for the Democratic Party to say they are the Pro-Choice Party. That way we all have a choice and those that don't want none can have memories of not getting any.

And I think it's a fantastic idea for the Arkansas Times to become the Watch Dog of every elected official in the state of Arkansas. What is more patriotic than ferreting out crooked politicians that are stealing our tax money to give to another crook who pass a portion back to them. Honest politicians will have nothing to fear from the AT.

What higher purpose could a news organization have than making sure everyone in office is as honest as apple pie? If the national media gave a flip we wouldn't have George Bush and stolen elections, a War in Iraq for oil, a Congress on the take, no Gitmo or Haditha.

Call it muck-raking if you will, I'll take anything to get rid of our wildly out of control, dishonest and incompetent system of government we're now all suffering under.

And I fully expect the Arkansas Times to put their microscope on the Democrats when they take power next January. If Beebe has some secret circle jerk deal with Bronco Billy's Totally Non-Religious Ranch for Boys...I want it exposed and the guilty drug off in chains.

Everyone thinks this is a contest between 2 political groups. I see 2 groups too, but I see it as a fight between the citizens of this state and this country against anyone who thinks they can win an election and start robbing, raping and stealing at will, after they get in office.

We're at the end of the line and changes must be made. Out with the crooks of either party!

Well said DBI. It seems a lot of Democrats know what they stand for but the Democratic Party is not coming across as if it has any strong stances to lead the faithful with. I hate to be a bunch of aginners (although there is quite a lot we need to be against).
One of the main faults I see has been the shift in the balance of power from the legislative to the executive, from the many to the one. Also, under Newt, the rules of seniority were tossed out the window and loyalty tests became the norm for getting chairmanships of the committees.
You are right DBI. Many of the current Democrats are wagging their tails in time to the Republican beat simply because it seems to have a patriotic tempo.
So, Arkansas Times shine that searchlight of truth on everyone, whatever they calim, and help us discern the liars and crooks in the process.
Give the Huckster holy hell because he is a hypocrite and deserves some severe smiting and pop a few Dems into that baptism of fire so they too can cleanse their souls of those Republican sins of greed, ambition, and moral superiority.
That ought to keep you busy for another millenium or two.

The Colonel

As always, thanks, DBI. I thought maybe he was a gay, flag-burnin' Hispanic. WHEW!!!

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