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"Stanley will immediately
begin construction of..."

Begin construction? I don't think they would have any trouble finding any number of abandoned factory buildings and empty old Wal*Mart buildings in Arkansas. No need to construct anything new.

This is certainly not a situation that needs to look nice for walk-in customers. What ever happened to old Don Keyhotay? He should certainly agree the government spends to much on new buildings/palaces.

America needs a few real fiscal conservatives to keep the government honest and sensible. Instead, look what we've got.

In the good old days we would have had a different attitude than "Spirit". Back when Roosevelt Democrats still existed in Arkansas we wouldn't want to funnel the very governmental process of producing government documents to a non-governmental third party AND we wouldn't want our rich Uncle Sam to take over a Wal-Mart. Instead we would want him to take over and clean up some impossible asbestos-laden building in the downtown area to make things a little brighter for the community. That is what the Harris, McClellan, Mills crowd knew how to do, but I can assure you that people like them could never get the Democratic nomination for anything these days.

This post makes me wonder simply, "What happened to my wing of the Democratic Party?" They weren't too interested in gay marriage rights in smallish New England states, but they at least won on occasion and did a good job of helping out the working people of America.

Principe,
Welcome to neo-con America. Nothing makes much sense, not their gluttony, not their incompetence, not their bribes,
none of their no-bid deals on just about everything. Total gluttony.
What makes no sense are the barrage of delusional preachers haranging the masses on TV to get out and vote against abortion these last few days.

An older friend of my dad, too old for military service, answered the request of Sec of Defense in 1943 and donated his .45 caliber pistol to the U.S. Army.
In 1949 he recieved a wooden box from the U.S.Army containing natural wood selzer surrounding his .45 pistol which had been cleaned and coated with heavy grease.
_

"They weren't too interested
in gay marriage rights in
smallish New England states,
but they at least won on
occasion and did a good job
of helping out the working
people of America.
Posted by: Principe"

I can't figure out this person. First they don't want to use an empty former Wal*Mart or factory building, instead preferring to spend a fortune cleaning up an "impossible asbestos-laden building...to make things a little brighter in the community" (I'd call that a liberal view) then they aren't too interested in gay marriage rights in New England (I'd call that a conservative view).

Indeed, from a branch of the Democratic party. I just can't figure out which one. The two views stated seem almost contradictory. Sounds very pro-environment, pro-working people, but gay dis-interested. Aren't gays citizens too? Don't they have the same rights as you and me? If adult men and women are equal, why can some marry who they wish, and others not? That's not fair.

Yes gays are people too - now can we be done with that "issue." The point I have tried to make is that the core Jeffersonian principals of the Democratic Party have been pushed to the sidelines by fringe "rights fights" that are better left to Constitutional scholars and and people like Max Brantley who have nothing better to do. Frankly, these issues don't have much political appeal and they are damaging our ability to accomlish the core goals of the Democratic Party. We can't protect jobs and wages because we only give nominations to people who alienate 40% of independent voters and a hushed 20% of Democratic voters (including the strongest base -African Americans).

I can't decide who needs to get over the whole "gay people are people too" thing more quickly - the gay-obsessed Republicans or the loss-obsessed Democrats.

"...the Democratic Party have
been pushed to the sidelines
by fringe "rights fights"...
I can't decide who needs to
get over the whole "gay
people are people too" thing
more quickly - the gay-
obsessed Republicans or the
loss-obsessed Democrats.
Posted by: Principe"

I disagree that Democrats are actively pursuing gay rights at the expense of Rooseveltian good works. The Democrats rarely even bring the gay subject up. Like you, most Democrats probably wish the subject would just go away.

It's the gay-obsessed Republicans who keep the issue on the front burner, and they'll continue to do it as long as it wins them more votes than it loses them. In other words, we'll quit hearing about gay marriage when Hell freezes over or the USA renames itself Canada, which ever comes first.

You people are weird. How did a good news story about a new industry moving into Hot Springs and bringing 150 jobs, turn into a forum about government waste and gay rights. The building this new industry will occupy was built by the PRIVATE Garland County Economic Development Corporation. If you'll read the news release carefully, I think you'll have a hard time finding any government fingerprints other than the state Department of Economic Development turning over a lead to the Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce. Business leaders in Garland County are saying big hurrahs to see this "spec" building occupied. Kudos to the new GCEDC/HS Chamber President Dave Byerly for unloading Jay Chesshir's white elephant (boy are we glad to have kicked that guy upstairs to LR!)

"You people are weird. How
did a good news story about
a new industry moving into
Hot Springs and bringing 150
jobs, turn into a forum about
government waste and gay
rights.
Posted by: Kaiser Sosay"

That's how public forums work. Sorry you find it weird. It's just called freedom of speech, and the blog is better because of it.