Arkansas Blog

Just heard these riddles from our Fayetteville friend:

1. Which former presidents are NOT buried in the United States?

2. During a century when Johnson was president of this country, there was a man who was born in one state and died in another. Yet, he was born and died in the same house on the same piece of land. How could this be??

Finally, why is it that people in this state freak out over a little bit of snow, sleet and ice? (Wife says it's because everyone down here drives like an idiot.....)

Don Kehotay, if you're out there, then these are your kind of puzzles.

re: rumor on other post-perhaps he started it himself

1). Any former president who is not yet deceased, or any deceased president interned above ground, or John Tyler who when he died the place where he was buried was part of the CSA.

2)US westard expansion saw the size of some states decrease to become other states. Or the man could of been born in Va before the civil war and then died in West VA after it succeed from VA.

1. Without googling, any president whose remains were cremated might not have been buried.

2. Andrew or Lyndon? There might have been some state lines redrawn around Andrew Johnson's presidency.

A good number of drivers who have 4WD vehicles think they can drive on ice. Some of them can't very well.

I think Don has finally seen the errors of his ways and now posts liberally under another name.

Everytime a ice storm hit UofA at Fayetteville, a number of 4x4s usally driven by girls would end up sliding down the big hill on maple and crash. They were always puzzled, b/c they swore the SUV was in 4-wheel drive.

Wasn't there an AT thread today about the NYTimes article giving King George power over all branches of gubmint? (Click for story, I hope)

I'll take a stab, Jake...unGoogled as hugh is...

1. Woodrow Wilson (unless you consider how you might describe The Decider's poll numbers).

2. -fill in later-

Finally. Because it is something that is a treat for me.

In return. What is the diameter of a golf cup?

On a light note, hilarious video from the Robert Randolph show at Harding the other night. The link is on the localistmagazine blog.
Link:
http://localistonline.blogspot.com/

I can see the Searcy/Harding elders fuming right about now.

Jake, Wilson is buried in D.C., which is technically not a state. Also a few are entombed above ground - I have not looked it up to see how many.
Fun question.

When I was young(er) no weather condition stopped me from driving. Now, however, it does make me nervous because of all the other idiots on the road. Half drive either too slow or barrel around like the road is dry. And riding with hubby is not an option. He's in the latter category.

More violence in Midtown - a police officer has been stabbed in Crestwood Manor according to KATV. No details.

calmwriter I hope you were there to see Robert Randolph...a gifted man...

More trivia: How did the "slide" come to be (guitar)...

thanks for the robert randolph. i changed the music on my ipod i was listening to to a blues group. i now listen to an ipod while i play on the computer. randolph's the march is one of the best songs i have heard in a long time. he is a very young and energetic blues player who i saw opening for clapton a couple of years ago and have followed since. the music site nugs.net has a couple of his shows available for free download. the north mississippi all stars are another young blues group who have earned their way and are very good. they have played around here some and need to be seen if you have a chance. if you can support live music. i know it sounds corny but my son plays in kansas city and they need to make some money to keep playing.

also kathy webb my representative has her first bill going before the senate. it is the lottery bill and the profits are for education. way to go kathy, we are proud of you.

The pundits are using the phrase constitutional crisis more and more lately. Best I can figure out they're talking about this little fight Bush and Congress are having over whose the FK'ing boss of the world.

While we've been celebrating the Democratic victories of last November, Bushyboy has been going right ahead with his unitary executive idea of 1 boss over all...meaning HIM. It's a sure sign of insanity....and remember, you heard it here first folks.....I said as the rope tightened around the necks of Bush & Cheney they would not develop fear like normal people...they are developing ways around it all...ways to win at all costs...a way to win even if it kills the old America we're so fond of.

Like Mike Huckabee, Bush & Cheney can never be wrong. Huck actually learned it from them, not the other way around. The rats in the White House today will destroy our country rather than admit defeat. We are living in troubled times, but not so much because of towelheads in the Middle East...but because of 2 old oil men in DC. If there was a God, Bush would have choked on that pretzel that beat him up and Cheney would have shot himself in the face.

If I wasn't doing so much worrying about all this...I'd be worrying about what will happen to the Arkansas Democrat Gazette now that Huckabee has shown the world that they have no ethics, have no desire to protect their reporters and evidently from their silence admit that Huck is right and they're just good for lining bird cages.

All this from the oldest newspaper west of Jonesboro and east of Fort Stephens? I'm thinking the lack of a better place to run to is all that's preventing a staff revolt...a mass resignation. Poor reporters have no high ground to run to.... the AT is staffed up to their eyeballs.

Not that I want to see it, but there is some kind of twisted justice in Bush playing God and destroying the United States at the same time that Huck is crushing hard drives and the paper of record in Arkansas.

The Arkansas Democrat Gazette shows their undying support for Bush and Huck all these years and it got them zilch..zip...nada in the end. Too bad Shakespeare isn't alive today....he just loved to write all those plays where everyone is dead by the end. Looks like that's where we heading late in the 3rd act.

Kilroy got the riddles, although several of the answers were interesting (I liked the one about being interred above ground - sounds like a Nawlins thing like in Easy Rider). Virginia was split into two states, VA & WV. Which reminds me: there is one state which still has the right to split into 4 states if it wants to.

As for the snow and sleet stuff, you better wtach out for them idjit galoots that day!!

"Like Mike Huckabee, Bush & Cheney can never be wrong. Huck actually learned it from them, not the other way around."

Actually, I blame fundamentalist Christianity for their approach for never being wrong.

DC is in the United States so bad answer. It is any living former president, right now the correct answer is Carter, Clinton, Bush.

During the century that Andrew Johnson was president Virginia was split into Virginia and West Virginia (Supreme Court really had to stretch to approve that one) but in that same century Massachusetts was split making Maine a state after being part of Massachusetts and was admitted with Missouri as part of the Missouri Compromise.

While there is an express agreement regarding Texas being split into other states, the Texas Republic claimed land that is now part of Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, and Wyoming but had no effective control of that land and in fact could barely control anything in the western half of the current border.

Watch out for them Texans they will claim to be the only state that once was a country. Hawaii though was an independent nation prior to annexation and arguably the same case can be made for each of the 13 former colonies that were part of the Articles of Confederation

This Maria Haley that Beebe is appointing to head Economic Development....wasn't her husband the same Haley accused in 1995 of setting up a sham bankruptcy to hide profits from a business deal? Haley pleaded guilty and was fined and ordered to pay restitution. I think he was killed in a plane crash, was he not?

Too, I understand she never finished her college degree?????

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>Actually, I blame fundamentalist Christianity for their approach for never being wrong.<

Have you ever gotten into a row with a Muslim, or a Jehovah's Witness?
All religious wacknuts remain just that wacknuts no matter which savior, geru, messiah, or whatever fantasy they have concocted to follow.

Nero would light his garden banquets in a unique way. He dipped Christains in pitch and bound them up set afire as torches surrounding the banquet area. That was the last time a religious people gave off any Light.

Just came back to my office after a stint in the jon, and outside the window everything is white in Chickendale.

Just in time for the winter storm and Super Bowl Sunday, a BEER PRICE WAR in North Little Rock. The Phillips 66 station on the NE corner of Camp Robinson Rd & 47th St in Levy is selling 30 packs of LITE, Budweiser & Bud Light for $14.97. Gentlemen start your engines!

ARK. BLOG: And get me some chips while you're there. They say it's snowing in NW Ark.

Im one of the idiots you need to watch out for in the snow and ice, so I never drive anywhere then. Working at home helps.

the grocery store where I live delivers, anyway, but my dog and I are just fine as far as I know. also it is not snowing here, despite urgnet Emails from channel 5 about snow and school closings and whatnot. thats a good idea if you have kids in school but it seems to me that channel 5 lives just to panic no matter what the issue.

everybody be careful. I cant get to the phillips 66 so could one of you nice fellers pick me up two 30-packs and take them on over to the Huckster and Jethrine? Thats my contribution to the Thank God and Greyhound He's Gone fund. I didnt like her china pattern so I passed on that one.
;)

I could use a carton of smokes. Camel Lights.