Arkansas Blog

As I've gotten older, I've grown out of my need to kill things to feed my ego and my manliness.

You can buy good meat, you can visit with your friends anytime, and you can bond with your children (and should be) every day.

It's the thrill of the blood and the kill that drives people to hunt, and that's a little sad. We should be able to entertain ourselves without making something else suffer.

Not that I have anything against killing for food, but 99% of deer hunters aren't killing for food to live, they're killing for recreation.

Killing for recreation.

Regardless of the merits of hunting/killing deer, jury duty pulls people away from work for little compensation. Few people relish serving on a jury. It is, however, an important civic responsibility that must be taken seriously. Importance of this duty is lessened if hunting season is shown to be more important.

Some people need to grow up.

Slick move...this will be a juicy trial...

"You never want to hold jurors against their will," defense lawyer John Wesley Hall said. "They might hold it against everybody."

YEA, just whose side is justice on here!
I dread to think schools actually holding classes during this sacred event.

I hate to complain, but that's a really ugly deer replica. Couldn't you use the Hartford Insurance deer? Now, that's a buck!
http://tinyurl.com/hqv3q

"If you put it against registered voters, there's no telling what the percentage would be," he said. [deer hunters v. voters]

Hmm. Polling places in the woods? Is that the solution? Ah! At the deer check-in stations!

Mr. Hall probably has it backwards. A sizable portion of those bambi-baggers would probably be pretty interested in serving on a jury for a juicy sex trial - if they get picked, they can resume the hunt later during or after the season ends . . .

I tried to get out of jury duty about eight years ago because at that time I was a single mother wtih no child support and two kids, self-employed - no work, no pay. I still have the no work, no pay policy but the kids are grown.

It didnt work for me. Why didn't I think to simply beg that it was deer season??

it was a civil case against Allstate; the man who got to leave the courthouse ten minutes before he was scheduled to defend his master's thesis 35 miles away and I both voted for the death penalty but it wouldnt fly. I assure you that could have reformed the insurance industry significantly.

next time I will know better. It's deer season, rabbit, muskrat, mink.... Its not that I minded having to serve, but it cost me money and I coulndt afford that, so I minded that.

I remember when we moved to AR years ago how elated my daughter was when she came flying in the house to announce that school would be out on Monday because of "dear day."
When I explained to her what "deer day" was really about, she cried.

OH< CRAP!
Ann Richards died!

Sorry, The Ann Richards news just completely startled me.
I loved that lady.
Had nothing to do with deer hunting, of course.

Sorry, The Ann Richards news just completely startled me.
Posted by: BlueRidge

I just checked the blog rule book and it says if I can complain about the deer graphic you can certainly mourn Ann Richards without apology.

And lay off George Bush. He can't help it if he was born with a silver foot in his mouth (I was an Ann Richards fan too).

I schedule my vacation around deer season every year as do other people I know. How would you like to be called off your hard earned vacation for jury duty? By the way Roland I feed my family with what I kill. It's low fat, organic and tastes incredible.

I lived in Texas when Ann was Gov. Worked and voted for her. Great Lady! Damn!

You want to hear something scary ...

Bush supposedly brought choice "journalists" such as David Brooks into his lair on Wednesday to thump his chest about how he's sticking to his guns. To quote Brooks quoting Bush:

" 'I got into politics initially because I wanted to help change a culture,' Bush says, referring to his campaign against the instant gratifications of the 1960s counterculture. And he sees his efforts today as a series of long, gradual cultural transformations. Like many executives, he believes that the higher you go, the further into the future you should see, and so his conversation is filled with speculations about the long-term effects of deep social trends - the current religious awakening or the politics of volunteer armies.
"All of which prepares him to think about the war on terror as a generations-long struggle. He asked us to think about what the world could look like 50 years from now, with Islamic radicals either controlling the world's oil supply or not. 'I firmly believe that some day American presidents will be looking back at this period in time, saying, Thank goodness they saw the vision,' he said."

Column goes on to note the "sad truth" that Bush's followers have often failed to live up to his vision, but it's not his fault. All would be bliss were they not lesser men than he.

Yes, one dayall our children will thank W. for his vision. Or will they deride him as a deluded despot?

A hearty "here here!" to Governor Richards...

"Poor George, he can't help it...He was born with a silver foot in his mouth." ...

I remember where I was when she said that about H.W....she won my heart that day...

Go in peace, Governor...

Can't sleep.

Haven't hunted in a few years and I miss it. The ritual, the outdoors and the sacrifice are all a very special experience to those who embrace the hunt. As a former resident of the delta I get it but would rather hunt (with a bow now that I am older) almost any other time than the first few days of the season. Way to many guns in the woods at one time and it's usually not cold enough.

Ann RIP I miss you already.

I can not believe the audacity of these people!! Asking to delay a trial because of deer season...????
AMAZING.

Only in the South would a trial be put off for deer season, this is the perfect type of story for Jon Stewart.

"How would you like to be called off your hard earned vacation for jury duty?"

The same as anyone who has to put their life on hold for jury duty. Why should deer hunters get a pass when it is so hard for anyone else?

I am so sad to hear about Ann Richards.

"All of which prepares him to think about the war on terror as a generations-long struggle.
Posted by: 24fps

I see it, perhaps naively, as a struggle that ends the day we quit needing petroleum. Once that day arrives, we can let the European Union worry about keeping the Moslems out of southern Spain and we can let Israel handle living alone in that crazy part of the world if they want to.

Why are we spending a trillion dollars making MORE enemies in Iraq when the same money, invested in America, in research, could end our oil dependence forever?
http://tinyurl.com/lfc6h

I don't know anyone who wasn't GREATLY inconvenienced by their jury duty (I'm sure there are a few whose time/resources are less restrictive...I just don't know em). Especially poor single parents who don't eat if they're not on the job. So whining dear hunters aren't getting any sympathy from me. Buck up and do your civic duty like the rest of us.