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Will somebody tell Max what a Golden Shower is?

A blog correspondent, who does not wish to be identified, offers this comment on Huckabee's claim that he doesn't know who set up the registry, etc. (If so, I ask, how does he know true friends set it up.) Anyway, the comment:

There's a problem with the claim that someone else set up this registry for them. Having recently registered for baby items at Target, I recall
having to show ID. This keeps someone else from going in and setting up a fake, joke registry in your name. I had to enter passwords and various other "safety" features to ensure that gifts purchased for me were sent to me and that I was who I said I was.

I seriously doubt that the wedding registry process is any different. It would be awfully difficult for someone to register for that juicer
in your name if you didn't participate. The Huckabees are not passive in this spectacle.

i bet he knows as it makes the tagline more entertaining

for those of you who don't know --- a golden shower is sort of like what a golden retriever does to water your lawn.........

Not only will the Hucksters be homeless come January, I'm assuming they will have to turn in their twin state-owned SUVs. Is anyone passing the plate to buy them civilian vehicles. I recall an unpublished report shortly after they bought the lake house that she was shaking down sports store operators for a couple of jet skis. It's not beyond them.

Can you fine folk imagine the bruhaha if the Huckster Clan had also registered at Cupid's? Kinda make ya sick to your stomach, doesn't it?

ARGGH!...OdaMae...I just got back from a Mexican lunch!
I just 'urped in my mouth a little...all this talk of "golden shower" and such...

Interesting that in the AP report Huckabuck throws the weight of the event on "my wife," never once owning up to any part in this lovely, thoughtful gesture by "her" friends.

And still not turning anything down, either.

Tackier and tackier ...

The Huckabees could always decline these allegedly un-registered-for gifts.

What a joy to search for "SNOOKY" again!

Max, it's called an obsession and maybe you can get treatment for it. He grew up as a minister and that's what they expect. He's also term-limited and is leaving office. Let it go...

ARK. BLOG: Here's a deal. Get me an ironclad commitment that Huckabee will not seek another public office and I will let it go. Meawhile, he's still governor, cashing in on his service, and preparing to run for president or U.S. Senate. The record is important. Don't hold your breath for me to let go.

So I guess the Huckster won't be using the juicer... since the registry is for Janet.

Looks like His Royal RevBroGuv has finally put an "inside"-r on your blog, Max...is that you, Alice?

And why does the RivBroGuv play in a band but won't dance?!

"Max, it's called an obsession and maybe you can get treatment for it. He grew up as a minister and that's what they expect. He's also term-limited and is leaving office. Let it go..."

Max ain't the only one appalled at our governor's greedy, classless ways...unless he singlehandedly forced other media to cover the story, authored all the Times' blog commentary and hacked the KTHV poll.

He's good, but...not that good.

And, because Huck is use to living off others doesn't make it right or acceptable.

Cartoon? try this one..click on Cato.

An invitation:

As a friend of Janet and Mike Huckabee and out of appreciation for their years of sacrifice to the State of Arkansas during Mike's 10 years as governor, I would like to invite all Arkansans to join me in a Food-and-Furniture Drive at 2 p.m. November 25 to benefit the Huckabees as they venture back into private life.

At that time, to the front gate of the Governor's Mansion please bring canned goods, Velveeta (preferably in 3-pound loafs), lightly used furniture (including Naughahyde recliners and bean bag chairs), used BBQ grills, radial tires with at least 1/16" thread remaining, canoe paddles, cufflinks, slim(mer) men's suits, wall-to-wall shag carpeting, Osborne feast leftovers, Briggs & Stratton push mowers in need of slight repairs and unused gubernatorial office escape hatches.

I am a friend of the Huckabees, and this invitation is independent of any advice and consultation from them. I swear they had nothing to do with this.

Also, to our friends who have pickup trucks, remember that the Huckabees will need help moving to North Little Rock!!!

"ARK. BLOG: Here's a deal.
Get me an ironclad
commitment that Huckabee
will not seek another public
office and I will let it go.
Meawhile, he's still governor,
cashing in on his service, and
preparing to run for president
or U.S. Senate. The record is
important. Don't hold your
breath for me to let go."

I wish I could think of something I could do to pay for a larger fraction of the joy Arkansas Times regularly gives me. My meager subscription hardly seems like fair compensation.

And thanks so much for the Fisher reprints. I love the cartoons in the Times now, but Fisher's a really hard act to follow.

Max, will you do a post reminding everyone that angry republicans aren't allowed to tonight's Blue Ball? I'd hate to see a Donkey Punch go down...

*1/16" tread, not thread.>>
I guess I was thinking of Jennings Osborne suits at the time

So, max, you let it go when it's the Clinton's accepting gifts on their way out of the White House, and while Hillary was running for US Senate, but you can't let the Hucks go. Just looking for balance here in this "ligit" news source...

"Will somebody tell Max what
a Golden Shower is?
Posted by: Sam Faubus"

As long as we're looking at political cartoons and defining golden showers, can somebody explain what that line means in last week's Orval? "...I'll blow anybody that can make us swing!"

"...you let it go when it's the
Clinton's accepting gifts on
their way out of the White
House, and while Hillary was
running for US Senate"

Bill Clinton is an Arkansas native, and Hillary lived here a while, but it seems like Arkansas Times' beat has much more to do with the governor of Arkansas than a senator from New York or Washington D.C. politics.

I feel pretty confident that if Hillary Clinton were a senator from Arkansas, the Times would be more interested in what she's up to.

And, of course, who ever said being a legitimate publication requires 100% neutral, balanced reporting? Most publications lean one way or the other.

ARK. BLOG: Also, our very first report on this included the Clinton episode -- which led to a year-long Republican investigation -- and we think it was cheesy, too.

Hey Max, I don't understand the Hucks moving to NLR. Wasn't he promised a job at his alma mater OBU? I wonder what happened to that job.

Gurdon,
Mrs Huck arranged to get a lucrative job with Am Red Cross, the org that failed to distribute monies for 9/11 victims-should fit their personna's better than anything else available.

After the OBU announcement Huck got Potamac fever.

I think Inside has the right idea. We need to balance this story about the Huckabees as beggars and thin-skinned serveants trying to run off with the mansion goodies.....

Let's not only compare them to Clintons but also to Delay, Abramoff, and any other crooked politician who wants to grease their palms and pad their accounts in a less than admirable manner.

The informal poll said it best: the action was tacky, no class, and showed poor judgement. His whining and petulance only underline these observations.

What a dope!!!

"Cartoon? try this one..click
on Cato.
Posted by: Cato"

Cato,
Though we generally check out your cartoons without comment, let me say that, as far as I'm concerned, they are much enjoyed and appreciated. Keep 'em comin'!

I'm thinking Huck will keep the job with OBU but will have a heliport at the new house and take the Lord's Ranch helicopter to work a couple of times a week.

Janet, with wistful thoughts of her days with the Hanke Brothers, will work for the Red Cross. You know the people who wouldn't except 1 million dollars from the Dixie Chicks for their Katrina fund. I have never listened to the Dixie Chicks...but I heard their 1 million dollars talking and the Red Cross will not get a dime from me, Janet or no Janet.

Our whole country needs shock treatments! Bush I is taking over the White House, our absentee Governor has a gift registry, a PAC, and $3650 cowboy boots, the White House can't see black folks drowning and the Red Cross would rather play politics than accept 1 million dollars in the worst crisis of our lifetime. Wake me up....I'm having a nightmare!

"Wake me up....I'm having a nightmare!"

This bad dream has been ongoing since Cowboy Ronnie's days, just without all the religio-gay hysteria.
It was Ronnie's bunch who introduced NAFTA which puts everybody on the No.American Continent subservient to corporatacracy. If politicos serve corporatacracy they're in, if not they're out. Dixie Chicks just messed with corporatacracy's pimps that's all. Katrina work began moving along once corp's figured out what needed to be done, like eliminating minimum wages for the project.
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Frank White once proclaimed that Arkansas is made up of Catholics, Christians, and Jews.

Preacher Huckabee has added detail to that observation by providing deistinction among Baptists, Catholics, Christians, and Jews. At least Baptists as represented by their clergy.

The key distinction may be found in Vance Randolph, who reported an Ozark Folk Tale that defined a preacher's motivations which included among the more mentionable, a powerful hankerin' for fried chicken.

Oh Bless Huckabee, he is so what he is.

What's the big deal? It should be obvious they are just trying to correct the fact they forgot to register when they entered into the covenant marriage a few years back. They are entitled-they are republicans. Who are we to even question them?

Thanks, Spirit. I was about of the opinion I was the only one who enjoys the cartoons.......

And Polecat, I always enjoyed Vance Randoph.