Arkansas Blog

I guess cars with political bumper stickers don't count?
How about bumper stickers taped inside the back glass?
What if it's a larger than average sticker taped there?
Where do they draw the line?

What line? They generally make you cover your sticker or shirt before you enter the polls if they have a political message.

"They generally make you
cover your sticker...before you enter the polls...
Posted by: Tax Payer"

I see. Is that common? I never heard of anybody with a car bumper sticker having to cover it to go vote. Maybe the letter of the law requires it, but I never heard of it being enforced on folks with bumper stickers around here.

Bush Lies

In a recent thread, Citizen Journal broke down a little and said that George W. Bush had been misled by intelligence factions. However, it was wrong to say that Bush lied.

Now, fellow Dems and Libs, it is time for a little lesson in debate tactics. In a paraphrasing of the oft used words of a local scribe, it will be a holy pleasure.

Tactic #1: As Jack Webb used to say, "Just the facts." You go to your favorite search engine and enter "bush + lies." By damn! What a long list!! Articles, lists, charts, links...it is a veritable cornucopia of lies, misstatements, and contradictions that have flowed from our leader's mouth like a flood swollen river breaking down the levees in New Orleans.
After looking for about an hour or so, you begin to wonder if there isn't anything he hasn't lied about!!
Warning: since there are so many to choose from, try not to make a list that is so long that it deserves its own blog site. You hear me RLR!?

Tactic #2: You don't necessarily win debates with facts. You can re-state the argument or present a cogent counterpoint to the argument given. CJ excuses Bush's misstatements about the war and blames faulty intelligence. In a philosophical vein, you counter: Am I lying if I repeat someone else's lies? Show some levity and ask CJ if such excuses ever flew with his parents when he tried similar methods in his younger days.

Tactic #3: It never hurts to let ol' George W. serve your cause himself. The man has been known to step on his tongue with alarming frequency.
"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." --George W. Bush, interview with CBS News' Katie Couric, Sept. 6, 2006

Sometimes a little absurd theater plays well. So, in closing, let me leave you these gems:

"It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way."-Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005

"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."-Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005

Laura Bush bought George a parrot for Halloween. She told Dick Cheney,
"The bird is so smart! George has already taught him to mispronounce
over 200 words!"

"Wow, that's pretty impressive," Cheney said.

"But you realize that he just mimics the words he hears. He doesn't understand what they mean."

"That's okay," Laura replied. "Neither does
the parrot."

That's funny, LWood.

A man walked into a cowboy bar and ordered a beer just as President Bush appeared on the television. After a few sips, he looked up at the television and mumbled, "Now, there's the biggest horse's ass I've ever seen." A customer at the end of the bar quickly stood up, walked over to him, and decked him.

A few minutes later, as the man was finishing his beer, Mrs. Bush appeared on the television. "She's a horse's ass too," the man. This time, a customer at the other end of the bar quickly stood up, walked over to him, and knocked him off his stool.

"Damn it!" the man said, climbing back up to the bar. "This must be Bush country!" "Nope," the bartender replied. "Horse country!"

Four Religous Maxims:

1. Muslims do not recognize Jews as God's chosen people

2. Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.

3. Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian World.

4. Baptists do not recognize each other at Hooters.
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Re # 4, LWood, or at the liquor store. LOL.

DBI, you haven't posted on your own blog in a couple of weeks. What's up?

I'm sorry but I can't find humor in the fact that our President is an
unqualified moron. He is the posterchild for the "who you know"
culture in this country. Bush never should have won the
Republican primary in 2000. I hope people learn from this.
Vote based on name and money instead of qualifications and
ability and you take your chances.

I'm sorry but I can't find humor in the
fact that our President is an unqualified
moron. He is the posterchild for the
"who you know" culture in this country.
Bush never should have won the
Republican primary in 2000. I hope
people learn from this. Vote based on
name and money instead of qualifications
and ability and you take your chances.

Did you mean to put ArkanASS R.F.D. on the liink? Typos can be so funny.
One of my loftiest accomplishments in 15-plus years at our state's once-great metropolitan newspapers is keeping "Arkanass" off the Arkansas page tags. Happens more than you might think.
This state has enough problems with its national image. Hope the mainstream media doesn't catch on to this, especially if Huck really does hit the campaign trail.