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I wager Jetherine(Miss Janet) has accepted all of it under the umbrella of christianity, huh?

I'm sorry for butting in on this thread, but I know how much you guys like shots at Ann Coulter. This is one of the funniest yet.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/posts/2006/07/29/letterman-clinton-responds-to-coulter-parody/

I haven't given to the Red Cross since they took the money given for 9/11 and spent it for other stuff.

I think my contributions can do more good for more people when applied in ways to put the Democrats back into power.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/posts/2006/07/29/letterman-clinton-responds-to-coulter-parody/

Yep, that's a good one. Unfortunately, though, all it did was remind me of DBI's recent fantasy regarding him and the Carroll Mortgage Group folks (one of the sidebar ads here on the blog).

Spirit,

I think you're right - the money is better spent in the long run by helping the Democrats get back into power. And that's only underlined by the organization shamelessly hiring the wives of Republican presidential contenders. Karl Rove is probably in the mix here somewhere.

The story I read said that Mrs. Huckabee applied online after hearing about the job from a friend. It also said, "Huckabee serves on the board of the central Arkansas Chapter of the Red Cross and is a lifetime member of the organization. She said working on the state's response to evacuees from Hurricane Katrina last year started her interest in working more with the group."

Congrats to her and good luck.

Two brilliant moves by Mike.
Janet earns some money and Mike gets to keep her off the campaign trail because she will have to work. Everyone was wondering how Mike was going to handle the Janet Factor. Now we know. The "poor" Red Cross gets her, and her do-gooder position will play well with the national press. Did the Lord's Ranch owner make a big contribution to the Red Cross? Anyone want to take bets on how long it will be before the Red Cross chapter is in chaos?

Call me a whiner if you must, but in the aftermath of the few disasters neighbors and I have experienced, a small tornado and numerous ice storms, we have seen neither hide nor hair of the Red Cross (or FEMA).

A monster of an oak leaning perilously over an elderly neighbor's home after the tornado? The people around here pulled it back upright with logging chains and come-alongs, then cut it.

Trees blocking the road after an ice storm and a pregnant neighbor experiencing labor pains? Seven or eight of us broke out the chain saws, axes and a four-wheel drive. Another elderly neighbor who was dependent on oxygen was taken in by someone who had a generator. Neighbors with no heat bunked with those who had fireplaces or gas heat. Food was shared. Vegetables thawing in one freezer were combined into soup mix in another household and canned. (One of my older neighbors knew her way around canning and had jars and lids left from the previous summer. It saved the food, helped warm the house and was something to do.) I could go on and on.

I think the Red Cross was serving coffee somewhere up town, maybe to electric lineman. But when those lineman finally got to our area, so did we -- as well as soup and chili, some of it cooked outside on gas grills.

I'm inclined to hold that the Red Cross as we know it is largely superfluous, at least to those who are willing to help themselves and their neighbors. But that's the rub, isn't it?

Yes, Janet Huckabee submited her resume into the online Red Cross database, and viola! She gets an interview. How exciting!

The interview goes well, thanks to the new dress Mike bought her. Janet had made sure to bone up on information about the Red Cross from their website.

A few nights later Mike answered the phone, then handed to her. She held her breath - she couldn't wait to hear but she was scared just the same - and then Mr. Wimbly was offering her the job!

It's a rags-to-riches story we can all take as an example.

What's the salary range?

She's in charge of the Division of Triple-Wides and Aluminum Siding.

And don't forget her vast experience in landscape management...

Rosso you Deadbeat Lazy Commie.....Janet is working and paying taxes...Why don't you get a job and actually pay some taxes and help out...

And did we ever get the complete story on how she earned her college degree? Did they give her credit for life experience or something like that?

...uhhh, okay Troll...may I finish my Saturday a.m. coffee first?

touretts syndrome, terrets syndrome, turettes syndrome, terets syndrome, tourette's syndrome, turrets syndrome, ...
you Deadbeat Lazy Commie... is working and paying taxes...Why don't you get a job and actually pay some taxes and help out...you Deadbeat Lazy Commie... is working and paying taxes...Why don't you get a job and actually pay some taxes and help out...you Deadbeat Lazy Commie... is working and paying taxes...Why don't you get a job and actually pay some taxes and help out...

This is getting old...

"...someone is considered to have tourettes syndrome when they suffer from motor or/and vocal tics for at least 12 months. Uncontrollable movements are defined as motor tics and vocal disruptions by vocal tics. These vocal tics can be also followed by swearing or calling names (for example racial). 12 months are taken as a boarder because there are also tics that are called transient, which appear and then after some time disappear."

Rosso...You need more than coffee...wake up and get a job Meathead. If you worked you could move up to a better blog and get out of Hillcrest and move on up to the West Side.

I am ashamed of the way individuals on this blog use such vicious and personal attacks to entertain themselves.

Paula, when you question her degree you aren't just questioning the First Lady, but you are implying that the University committed fraud, and that the other people in her class that did the same courses the First Lady did, did not really earn their degrees. You are a shallow, mean, ignorant person . Don't question our degrees, we earned those.

Crap,
On the contrary, I am not shallow, mean, or ignorant. I posed a question. Many colleges do give credits for life experience.
I earned my degrees, also, by attending class and writing a thesis.

Don't criticize Janet. She will whip you and unlike what happened to Darren McFadden, she will break more than your toe. Jethrine sitting by Jethro makes ole Mike look like her lap dog (no offense to Sonic intended).

crap-
"I am ashamed of the way individuals on this blog use such vicious and personal attacks to entertain themselves."

Actually Crap, it's painful for us to do this but our mission is strictly for your edification. Any entertainment value is strictly coincidental.
Blessings.

The Huckabees need help with their post-governorship light bill.

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Couldn't have stated it better myself. They also need help paying the mortgage payments on a half million dollar house.

Of course they would tap Janet for a job at the Red Cross, the bumbling organization who's Enron style accounting is always in question, and has been since the 1930's. She's perfect for them.

When will enough shenanigans ever be enough?

Beating up on the American Red Cross is kind of a double-edged sword. There are many, many good and dedicated people (paid staff as well as volunteers) who have dedicated their lives or even part of their lives for the common good.

There are problems at the local level (all over the place) but the national organization has furrowed the most brows and gotten the most ink.

I'm not saying there is MISinformation out there, but I will say there is a shortage of information regarding the organization as a whole.

The American Red Cross is not a government agency, but did see its founding as a result of a congressional charter and has a unique working relationship with the Federal government.

Some time after HIV surfaced, the US FDA required the Biomedical Services of the ARC to become a separate entity from the rest of the Red Cross. (It is regarded in much the same way as a pharmaceutical manufacturer.)

So here in Little Rock, the Greater Arkansas Chapter (disaster services, CPR training, CNA training, utility bill assistance, etc.) shares the building next to Ray Winder Field with the Greater Ozarks-Arkansas blood region. I say they share the building--actually blood services rents out space to the chapter side of the house. They do share the well-known logo and any "goodwill" that remains after some bad stuff at the national level. Other than that, they are apples and oranges.

Chapter services makes money through grants and donations for the most part.

Biomedical services (blood and tissue) are big, big money. Raw materials are donated (when we roll up our sleeves) and processed into biomedical products which are very costly to hospitals. Of course, those costs are passed on to patients.

This is not unique to the Red Cross--just about any not-for-profit blood outfit works the same way. The FDA has put some very costly measures in place to ensure a safe blood supply. And that's a good thing. So hate the game, not the playah.

Everyone who is able should donate blood REGULARLY (not just when we go to war or when planes slam into buildings). It's the humanitarian thing to do.

But as I was saying, there are some very good folks working at a Red Cross near you.

As for Janet . . . whatevah. Nothing about those people surprises me anymore.

http://www.redcross.org/faq/0,1096,0_315_,00.html

I am still at a loss when trying to understand the pent up hatred toward the first lady. She has benefited each and every cause she has touched and will no doubt be a tremendous asset to the Red Cross.

Those who make such baseless snide remarks would rather attack her in a personal manner than present constructive argument.

If you pay careful attention, you will note that these folks never can back the allegations they make.

I just hope the Huckabees' return to semi-private life will repair some of the dignity stripped from their family by these unwarranted attacks.

Richard:

Let me be clear that I do not hate Janet Huckabee.

For me, the very idea of the first lady/gentleman of any state throwing her/his hat into the ring for another congressional office while her/his spouse is incumbent Governor is in utter poor form. Perhaps it's legal, but rather than running on qualifications, she ran on her husband's coattails, which, if anything to my eye, was an anti-qualification.

And it's not just Janet that I don't hate. I also don't hate her husband, Mike.

What I don't like about both of them is how they have worn out on their sleeves a badge of "Christianity" for their own personal political and monetary gains. I have much more admiration for people of faith who go about their practices in more humble and Christ-like ways. For that matter, I have more admiration for people who go about their lack of faith in humble ways.

Behind every successful man is his wo-man, so as far as I am concerned, Janet is an accomplice to her husband's fleecing of our state's tax money. He has (they have) taken advantage of the office of governor in ways that are not only egregious, but also possibly illegal.

They have stripped their own dignity. We're just talking about it on here because no one can do anything to stop it.

Hugh,

You say they have done things illegally, if this was true I am sure that there would be something that could be done to stop them. Just like Nick Wilson was stopped. However, there has not been anything except bogus allegations against them. The sad fact is that so many on this blog read some question posed, then take it as fact and run with it. I think it is funny that you have a problem with her running while a family member is in office but you have no prblem when democrats do it, or at least you don't attack them. Nor do you attack them when they hire without the people's approval their relatives to nice jobs and give them all the benefits they can think of for them. You and others continue to claim HUckabee and his family are fleecing the state but you have no real examples of these practices that are illegal fleecings.

James:

I never absolutely said that Huckabee did anything illegal. My intent was to say that the legality of his practices of accepting gifts, using state resources for personal use, etc., was QUESTIONABLE--possibly illegal.

If it was true, something could be done about it to stop it? Huh? Tell me more!

Tell me when the wife of a democratic governor of Arkansas ran for another constitutional office in the state?

If it happened, it was before I was of voting age or I just don't remember it. But if that did happen, and the democratic first lady/candidate had qualifications other than being the wife of a governor, I'd be fine with it. Janet did not. I didn't say it was wrong--I said in my estimation it was in poor form.

On a public forum like this one, I can attack whomever and whatever I want. That is my right, and as far as I am concerned it's my responsibility.

I don't approve of anyone hiring relatives for nice jobs with sweet benefits--democrat or republican. Where do you get that?

Oh, and I loved your last line:
"...you have no real examples of these practices that are illegal fleecings."

So you're okay with fleecings as long as they can't be proven illegal?

My biggest problem with these moochers is that they have gotten where they have gotten by wrapping themselves in a "Christian" banner. I don't approve of anyone making money by exploiting the name of Christ so that they can appeal to the masses. Huckabee hawking his skinny book in a church lobby would get him run out of there if it had happened back in the day.

Get your shit straight, buddy.

I flush my SH*T, I don't type it out on blogs, but thanks all the same.

I know this thread is a couple of days old, and nobody cares anymore, LOL, but I did some research, and it appears that the degree Ms. Janet got can indeed be awarded after a year and a half. Other conditions apply, such as adding previous college hours and life experience (they call it something else, but same thing), clepping-out of some courses, etc. etc.
Richard, you are an insider with the Huckabees, so can you provide us with a copy of Ms. Janet's transcript?

Nice comeback, James.

Hugh Mann,
James is a Huck supporter for Prez, with his own blog.
What can we expect from this hack?

He should probably keep his day job.

Paula,
I did start a blog, but if you have looked at it in the last six months you are looking at it more often than I am.
Thought I would be able to keep up with it but I can't, I am a blogging failure.

Why are you so interested in Janet's transcript?