Arkansas Blog

"Arkansas is within striking distance of moving ahead of quickie-divorce-land Nevada to be the most divorce-prone state in the country."

But -- but -- we gay-proofed our marriages with convenant ceremonies and we passed a state constitutional amendment that won't let them perverts get married to each other!

You mean to tell me straight people have a responsibility for making their own marriages work? Oh, the horror!

Take heart, JG. The gays were threatening marriage in Arkansas a lot longer than the glorious prohibition on their nefarious nuptials has been in place. Give it time. Eventually, the double-barreled marriage protector of no gay marriage and covenant marriage will send that divorce rate spiraling like Huckabee's weight.

A worthy article to read -- thanks for the link.

Huh oh. You mean our own Southern Baptist Preacher Governor has not been able to stem the tide after 10 years?

I lost my brother and my dad over 20 years ago, 24 to be exact and when I'm not thinking about sex or the Huckabees or all the dead kids being shipped back from Iraq in alarming numbers, I think about what my brother and dad would think if they suddenly came back to life.

They of course never saw a personal computer or a cell phone or a Hummer. They don't know about Newt's revolution, or OJ or President Clinton, or Survivor, or Desperate Housewives.

They died in a world where you could smoke about anywhere, a CD was a Certificate of Deposit, where AIDS was a diet pill, not a deadly disease. Paris Hilton was a year old, so was Britney Spears, George W. Bush was drunk and snorting coke and Mark Foley was just another gay guy in a bathhouse.

I could go on forever ya know, but of all things that I think would surprise my dead relatives.....drum roll..........Bottled Water! I can hear them both laughing now....people are paying a couple of bucks for a bottle of water???? It would slay them if they weren't already dead. No wonder the world is crazy!

"Local angle: Arkansas is within striking distance of moving ahead of quickie-divorce-land Nevada to be the most divorce-prone state in the country."

Amazing...Covenant Marriage...the INTERNATIONAL Headquarters for FamilyLife...a group that Huckabee held the Mass Marriage Event with...located right here in Little Rock...a group that claims to be the largest marriage saving group in the nation...and we're topping the list of divorces? Huckabee raised money (and also used state funds) for his Conference on the Family as well as the Marriage Event. Refund OVERdue?

"I can hear them both laughing
now....people are paying a
couple of bucks for a bottle of
water???? It would slay them
if they weren't already dead.
No wonder the world is crazy!
Posted by: Deathbyinches"

They might also ask why you have a Christmas tree up in July, but then, I guess they'd know you pretty well so it wouldn't seem particularly unusual to them!

My own dad's been gone 17 years now, and I often think of having him back, to show him around the yard, to see how the trees have grown, and to talk about all that's happened in the last 17 years. Sometimes I think our best days are behind us.

My dad died 49 years ago. I was a boy.
Bottled water was sold in my hometown, H.S. so nothing new there,because H.S. water was "healthy." Almost all water was healthy in 1958 before feed lots; no one imaginged getting 50,000 chickens into one chicken house. R. Carson's "Silent Spring" had not been published but poisoning was well underway while Mamie Eisenhower was busy painting everything pink. City buses took you all over town for 10 cents, and my granny's neighbor was a driver who owned an nice home and put two kids through college. Plastic sweaters, McDonalds and our first shopping center was a few years away in the meantime people would
"walk a mile for a Camel." Our school held two bomb-raid drills a year.
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My father has been gone for 32 years. What would surprise him, not to say appall him?
Bumper to bumper traffic on what was once a quiet country road and people thrilled to move out of town onto a half-acre of land.
He'd sit back, smoke his pipe and wonder if he should explain the septic tank system facts of life to prospective new neighbors. And he'd wish he'd bought that property back there way back when it was overpriced at $50 an acre.