Arkansas Blog

You don't think Wayne Dumond, the guy on the parole board, the furniture and (now) the hard drives will get Huck all the "free media" he can stand??

The only, the ONLY reason Huck is running is that it pays him to do so...drawing down on the PAC, and peddling his books to unsuspecting folk. As many have posted, we all await the day this little gravy train peters out and he has to discover how to make an honest, or as close as he can come to honest, living.

He'll probably just use his "cloak of christianity" to get a cush job at a megachurch, a la Armani Ronnie.

>He'll probably just use his "cloak of christianity" to get a cush job at a megachurch, a la Armani Ronnie.<

Not quite, at least not at Armani's NWA operation. There is only one Armani position, even tho he's doing two churches each sunday to make ends meet and to keep his two expensive homes furnished and equipped, pay his personal bodyguards, his bullet proof SUV. His pastorlings live modestly.
They're sorta like assistant coaches without the press.

Talk about cloaking something. How about how y'all are cloaking a push for gay marriage with the ERA??? Every one of you who can read knows that this is the case. Identical state constitutional amendments in Hawaii and Maryland have already been used as the impetus for pushing that agenda.

If gay marriage is so important, why don't y'all propose an open gay marriage constitutional amendment??? You won't because, as is the case with most lib agendas, you know that the American people don't support it.

"Talk about cloaking something. How about how y'all are cloaking a push for gay marriage with the ERA??? Every one of you who can read knows that this is the case..."

Damn, a twofer...equality all around I say.

I can read; but I wasn't aware of this dastardly strategy. I do remember, however, that women's inclusion in the 60s Civil Rights legislation was (at first) an attempt to stop the legislation. Sharing the world equally sure is hard on some folks.

"I can read; but I wasn't aware of this dastardly strategy. I do remember, however, that women's inclusion in the 60s Civil Rights legislation was (at first) an attempt to stop the legislation. Sharing the world equally sure is hard on some folks."

We already share the world with gay people, but that doesn't mean that we should change the definition of marriage.

Also, there's a good reason why Max and the leaders of the ERA push won't admit that it will be used to push gay marriage on the country. They know that if the people of Arkansas know this it won't have a chance of being ratified.

why don't we just say people are people period. there are no categories. if you pass the test to be a human person and are a citizen of the us of a then you are one of our people. obviously the test is not hard because of the current leadership therefore lets just say people is people period.

I'd be fine with that, except libs keep trying to put people into different categories and give people special rights.

Marriage is not just a combination of any two people. It's a union between one man and one woman. ERA will create the impetus for to force gay marriage on America.

The only one confusing categories is you, Anonymous. You're putting BS in the facts category. Citizens Journal tried the same gambit and here is what Verite Smith wrote to them:
You couldn't be more wrong about the ERA. Every higher court case in the last 30 years has rejected the arguments that the ERA supports same sex marriage. If you can read, why don't you read the most recent case from Washington state (Andersen v King County) decided in 2006.

Even the Family Research Council (defender of Faith, Family and Freedom) no longer agrees with this bit of propaganda. Read the brief they recently filed in Maryland. Just download this: http://downloads.frc.org/24-JAN- ...014AC14F856.pdf Then go to page 1, read the first paragraph and the footnote. There you will read that the FRC (Schlafly's great ally) says that the ERA DOES NOT support same sex marriage.

It's hard to beleive that anyone who can maintain a blog like this will fall for this propaganda without ever checking the facts.
Verite Smith

So, Nonny, when was the last time you thought about the last line to the national anthem/ Remember the words, "land of the free and home of the brave?" They sure sound hypocritical coming from a person peraching about limiting other people's freedoms and using fear mongering.
Ain't the kind of things I associate with a freedom-loving American and a brave American.

Huckabee
Huckabee
He's my man.
If he can't do it,
Nobody can.
Yea.....nobody.

It's time the Huckster gets a public smiting that will send his chastised ass deep into the Arkansas backwoods ne'er to be heard from again. He's already shown a yellow streak about facing the press and the public will definitely get a Roman spectacle when he goes into the arena against the galdiators of the real press.
There'll be no need to give a thumbs down when the slaughter is over. Politically, he'll be long dead and gone before then.

who gives a damn who marries who. as long as they don't drag you into their bedroom does it matter. have recruiters been on your street lately looking for kids for the gay baptist episcopalian church? really tell me 1 specific thing that gay people marrying will matter to you.

Careful, Jake. Nonny can't put even a single thought together, and you want him/her to put *all those* thoughts together? He/She will implode.

"special rights":

I want to be in Bush's "special rights"
group and have half my income taxes elimnated, most of my liabilities wiped out regardless of the damages inflicted, and have no responsibility for any bankruptcy I bring to my corporate office. Additionally I want my taxes balanced by taking away other people's futures. I want special rights so that my fav corp's get no-bid contracts without oversight.
And most of all I want anyone who disagrees with me to know how unpatriotic you are, and that your being against my "special rights" means the terrorists will win.

Lwood, is that true about Armani Ronnie Floyd's bodyguards and bulletproof SUV?

what, he thinks he's gonna make a bunch of little old Baptist ladies mad enough to shoot his sorry ass???

well..........now that I think about that........anyway is that true?

I agree with the poster above, marry whomever you like but just dont go all Rosie O-Donnell on us and tell US about it. I dont care what you do and I expect the same from you.

Im too shaky to type. my little dog was attacked by a big black Lab today on our street. i was shocked, we have visited before. she was playing ball off hre chain, i dont have a problem wtih that; she came over to sniff my dog and before I could hand her a treat she had him pinned upside down. thank God i got him some wiggle room. he unfortunately wiggled out of his collar before i coudl pick him up and ran home. thank God again that we werent on a road wtih traffic.

Last sprign we got attacked by a pit bull. We moved. I wasnt expecting this and the college boys who own the Lab sure weren't. we were all surprised. they were super nice, they always are, but that dont make it right. I live in what I consider a nice part of a small college town and I should be able to walk my dog without fear but I can't.

and I care a whole hell of a lot more about that than i could ever care about armani ronnie.

my dog is small, very sweet and well behaved, I got him from the shelter after some bastard who will burn in hell threw him and his two brothers otu of a car window so as to avoid that pesky shelter dropoff fee. Armani Ronnie would prolly say he needed to hop into that fire truck thing and get baptized.

"Talk about cloaking something. How about how y'all are cloaking a push for gay marriage with the ERA???"

I'll give that troll a 6/10 for the number of responses it generated, but it lost points for being so unoriginal and predictably Coulter-ish.

Also, bashing gay people is so passe - you should have worked illegal aliens into it to produce a better effect.

Tina, get you a can of pepper spray. It's very effective for big dogs who are in violation of leash laws.
If you have connections to a policeman ask for a can of police-issue pepper spray. It's very potent and effective. Will burn a dog but no lasting injuries. They will flee.

Yes, is true, according to local columnists, about Armani. The more power complexes a person entertains the more they imagine "things" can happen to them. It find it all sort of silly, but I'm sure they don't.

Special Rights of Bush's Budget:

_"Receipts (millions of $)_
2005 . . . . . 2,153,859
2004 . . . . . 1,880,279
2003 . . . . . 1,782,532
2002 . . . . . 1,853,395
2001 . . . . . 1,991,426
2000 . . . . . 2,025,457
1999 . . . . . 1,827,645

Social Insurance taxes as a percentage of overall receipts:
2000 - 32.23%
2005 - 36.87%
That would be an increase of 14.4%.

Individual income taxes as a percentage of overall receipts:
2000 - 49.59%
2005 - 43.05%
That would be a decrease of 13.19%.

The point from above being that the Social Security Trust fund has been 'raided' to the tune of $2 trillion dollars and that the Bush New Way Forward to Oblivion would suck another TRILLION DOLLARS out of the trust fund over the next four years to 'balance the budget' - leaving a $3 trillion (and UP!) debt to be paid off by future taxpayers.

The Federal Debt_1-25-07
$8.680 trillion

The Federal Debt_BD (before Dubya)
$5.674 trillion"

Source: White House Office of the Budget

Tina, so sorry. How's your dog?

Tina I bet the dog that attacked your dog was a specially trained Republican attack dog. I've heard they're taking dogs from the pound, starving them, smacking them around all the while showing em pictures of Liberals.

It's the latest Karl Rove dirty trick to save George Haditha Bush. Oh they're awful dogs, trained by awful people. They'll go for ERA supporting women in the blink of an eye. They can also spot Liberals who don't give a damn who marries who. You're little dog probably saved your life!

Of course these new Republican attack dogs wouldn't be a secret if Huckablackberry hadn't crushed the hard drives. The dog training instructions were sent from Rove's office to the computers in the Capitol building. Secret exercises were being held...in secret even.

If one of those CSI types tested the fabric on the chairs on the Lord's Ranch jet......dog hairs....they'd find a heap 'o dog hairs because that's what that damn jet is really used for. Bringing thousands of dogs from pounds in Iowa to be trained in the basement of our Capitol building late at night.

Damn Republican dogs like the one that got your baby today. Nony's trying to get us off subject with his pro woman = gay marriage talk. It's just a smokescreen to take our minds off crushed hard drives and the real 4 legged reason behind all that expensive crushing.

Hide your dogs, hide your women...all Liberals take a stick with you when you walk. K-9 WWI has started and no one with any decency in em is safe!

i have been waiting for several hours and i want that person to tell me 1 specific thing that 2 gays marrying will do to harm him. it cannot be imaginary. it must be real. i am waiting. also cnn mentioned something armani ronnie must have forgotten about, there is a verse in luke, that says that if you follow Jesus you must give up all your earthly possessions.

Tina, I hope your dog is OK. You or someone needs to explain to "super nice" college boys that their dog needs to be trained. Most dogs can be trained quickly and by amatuers to immediately heed spoken commands. "Stop!" should have a dog put on the brakes so fast his rear end overruns his front legs.
Of course that takes care of only one dog in the neighborhood. A walking stick might come in useful but it's a bother to carry around. Pepper spray will work, but you will have to be super careful in the future around any dog you spray.
They do seem to hold grudges. Many years ago I had a beautiful and gentle German Shepherd who escorted every meter reader to the meter and back to the gate, asking only for a scratch behind the ears. But one young man was afraid of dogs and sprayed her. He couldn't come into the yard after that unless I was holding her. Although I could control her easily, her continuous growls led me to decide it was safest to read my own meter.
But when another meter reader took over, he bounced into the yard before I could get outside. I raced out the door expecting a disaster. He was petting Meise and she was about to knock him down leaning against him, with her tail wagging.
Go figure.

Have y'all seen this? CBS's chief correspondent in Iraq, Lara Logan, has actually circulated an e-mail entitled "Help" asking progressives to circulate this link. It's a segment the CBS would NOT air on the evening news although it does appear on their website. It concerns the ongoing battle on Haifa street, where no one seems to be able to take control of fighting that is a stone's throw from the Green Zone.

First go here: http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/01/24/helping-lara-logan/ to read her e-mail and set up the clip. The link TO the CBS clip is on this page. The reason given by CBS is that it is a bit too graphic. It shows dead bodies (none too grotesque). There's simply no reason for CBS to be allowed to soft-pedal news reports of the increasingly high level of violence OUR SOLDIERS are caught in.

zonker,
you won't get an answer, because there is no answer to your question.

Hubby and I have a Superbowl party in the works, and we expect two gay couples will attend. We also expect several other couples, married and unmarried.

I'll admit that it took a while after we got married for Hubby to accept my gay friends as HIS friends.
But, after 20 years now, we really don't even think about it when they are our guests - they are just OUR friends.

And I really wish people would stop hating my friends.

thanks blue ridge. tina i am very sorry about your dog. we have one that if she got hurt all 3 of us would be devistated so i know just how you feel. and thanks for the humor dbi, i needed it, i just got very mad on the subject as i had a brother in law die of aids 15 or so years ago early on in the spread of the horrible disease. they barely knew what it was then. the subject of gay mariage sets me off these days and if one of the days someone will tell me a reason i might actually listen to them but i never have heard 1 reason because there isn't any. this argument of who has rights and who doesn't is so damn stupid it drives me nuts. we should just say we are all people and are equal. except for me and you should pay me a fee each month because i could use the money.

Huckabee is speaking at a thing this weekend in Washington. The National Review is hosting it.

https://store.nationalreview.com/nrisummit/agenda.html

If he's doing a major TV appearance he's going to be in an odd race around town, unless that TV studio is next door to that conference or something.

If we as a country are going to maintain even a small illusion of separation of church and state then we must allow, even encourage, legal civil equvilancy of marriage between anyone who desires that path. Whatever a church thinks should be outside that box.
Any move against we the people should be considered exactly that, a move against we the people.

Is it too late to say Evangelical pedophile?

" ... then we must allow, even encourage, legal civil equvilancy of marriage between anyone who desires that path."

Agreed, E.S. As I've said before, EVERYONE seeking the civil benefits currently afforded married couples should have to file at the county courthouse. Then if they want to have a religious ceremony, let 'er rip.

Want the definition of marriage to remain "between one man and one woman"? Fine and dandy. Call it what you want, but all Americans should have equal civil rights.

Appointment called unconstitutional
A lawyer alleges recent U.S. attorney selection violates appointments clause.
By Henry Weinstein, Times Staff Writer
January 25, 2007

A veteran Little Rock, Ark., attorney has lodged the first constitutional challenge to the Bush administration's attempt to appoint a U.S. attorney without seeking Senate approval.

John Wesley Hall alleged in a brief filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Little Rock that Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales' Dec. 20 appointment of Tim Griffin as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas violated the presidential appointments clause of the Constitution.\

Clik Lwood for LA Times Story

Oops. Now clik Lwood to get to LA times article.

So basically anon is a lying troll who's out to derail the ERA with Republican misinformation. What a surprise, and what an accurate reflection of Republican so-called values. But I like it when the sheets slide away and their true sexist, homophobic nature is revealed.

I hope that someday both women and gays manage to overcome these Neanderthals by achieving long over-due legal equality.

Along these lines...Jon Stewart did a fantastic job last night pointing out Cheney's blatant hypocrisy regarding 'his' daughter's gayness and his party's deplorable treatment of the gay community (the Blitzer interview). As Stewart pointed out...every gay is someone's child and deserving of better treatment than the homophobic crap peddled by his party.