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I have a friend who teaches a confirmation class that includes hispanic kids. She sometimes gives these kids a ride home after class. If one of those kids is here illegally, will that be against the law?

i see my freshman kathy webb is again on the enlightened list. way to go kathy.

Wow...nothing but class there, Gaskill...

I've known Will Bond for years and the people in his district, as well as the people of Arkansas in general, have been well served by him...

And his political career is just starting...so it would be wise to take his ideas seriously...

And The Haters just keep on hatin'...what a shame...

There's not any difference between 2007 and 1957. Both eras filled with haters beating up on the same people they love to pay peanuts to do the dirty work. If the Hispanics in NWA stayed home this next week, you'd hear screaming and moaning like you've never heard.

No yard work done, no sheet rock hung, no chicken for our tables, no nannies, no biz in the Mexican food section of Harp's. The people Rep. Jon Woods is trying to please would have a cow if the Mexicans stopped working and shopping for a week.

If they all went home tomorrow, America would grind to a stop. So politicians have to walk a fine line between bashing Mexicans to get votes from rich white Republicans and going too far and running them off. Imagine a line of white folks gutting chickens.....that ship sailed when the Vietnamese came over.

When anyone named Womack isn't bashing Mexicans, they're bashing gays. Dig a little and you'll find haters are unable to hate only one group......anti-Mexican turns to anti-gay, to anti-black, on down to anti-Catholic, anti-Chevrolet.....it never ends.

If only all the people who are targeted by the Anti's would go on strike for a week....whoo boy, without gays how would the Ladies of Pinnacle get their hair done? Who'd make their drapes? Who'd make their flower arrangements? Without Mexicans (scroll up), just think if all those hated by the haters stayed home for a week......our lives would be disrupted, the economy would hit the skids.......and the Womack twins would be in deep doo doo.

If you have'ta hate someone, hate the haters. Hate criminals, drug pushers, child molesters, killers, but don't hate people trying to earn a living in order to feed their family.

There is nothing Christian about that. Maybe it's time to tear down the statue of Liberty and remove the words "land of the free and the home of the brave", it's false advertising.

MAX,
You have posted the wrong bill number. I posted against Woods bill a few days ago, but not at my reg computer.

HB 2778 is an agri bill

Woods' bill, if memory serves me right is 2781.

Woods and Harris are sure sorry reps for Springdale, not much better than Holt.
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Billy Gaskill.....brought to you by Arkansas's term limits law. Why do folks elect mean spirited, narrow minded folks like ol' Billy? Some one should tell Billy that tearing folks doesn't get you too far in life. His attack on Will Bond, by invoking Rita Sklar's name, was childish. BTW, Rita is a pretty awesome gal. Don't agree with her on all issues, but she fights for what her organization believes in. And she does it with class and dignity. Gaskill and Rep. Jim Medley could learn a few things from Will Bond and Rita Sklar.

>Give Gaskill a brain and heart and he'd be a reasonable facsimile of a human being<

Has anyone looked at Gaskill's website? If I was as ugly as that man, and I know he inherited part of it, I don't think my pic would be on it, or maybe get some proff help with photo touchup. Bro Dave Gardner would have had some words of wisdom on Gaskill.

i do imagine that ya'll are right term limits can give us some of these hate filled red necks. they get their big churches and others to help get out the vote and bingo you have a legislator. the problem is you have a red neck who knows how to hate all kinds of people and gets some buddies who also got elected the same way to follow along. at least the old way we got to know the ole boys and they didn't spew the venom for other people we see these days. they were old fashioned politicans who thought they were the bosses of everything but they would never pass hate legislation for fear of losing votes. now these clowns try to pass it to get votes. that says a lot for their constituents. too bad we can't pass laws that people who vote for these idiots are immediately ejected to mississippi or alabama.

That decrepit old fool Gaskill is a real piece of work, during this entire session he has sponsored exactly 1 ONE bill, to give state troopers a college tuition break. That's a real effective legislator you've got there Paragould & District 78.

Billy Gaskill may not like transness, but he sure likes the closet. He makes DINO Of The Week.....

Bill Gaskill ran away from a dirt poor existence when he was 16 to fight the Japanese. He hit beaches all through the pacific and was severly wounded. He volunteered for the Air Force in Korea and the Army in Viet Nam, retiring as a Lt Col in the Army Reserves. In the mean time, he put himself through undergrad and dental school. As a practicing dentistin Earle, he gave away many, many hours of dental services to poor kids. He was an accomplished pilot, often flying critically ill children of the delta, and their parents, to hospitals in Memphis, Little Rock, St Louis and other cities...all at his expense....You sanctimounious bastards lighten up. You have no idea.

publius, thanks for pointing out some of Gaskill's finer attributes. It sounds like he has accomplished some good things in his lifetime, especially early on.

But those good things don't make up for his being an a-hole in this regard.

Folks, I hate to break it to you, again, but this bill isn't about "hating" people.

It doesn't appear that any of you have read it, which wouldn't be hard since it's pretty short.

I'll try to keep this short, since Max kicked this whole show off by suggesting that this is about disliking Mexicans and that no one will be going after Irish people. If you can demonstrate that there are 15-20 million Irish people here illegally, then that might make sense. Since that's obviously not that case, feel free to stop making such stupid assertions.

For the rest of you, this bill wouldn't require people to card every hispanic person they meet. It's for people who know that someone is here illegally and are aiding and abetting them, KNOWINGLY. And for the comment about someone transporting hispanic children, federal law defines someone as illegal only if they are 18 or older.

Many of the rest of these comments are, ironically, quite hateful and uneducated. Why are great American heroes like Dr. Gaskill elected, because he is a pretty fair representation of the beliefs of a majority of Arkansans.

This is such typical demagoguery on y'all's part. I guess I'm racist because I want other crimes prosecuted, too, given that there is a large percentage that are committed by black men, too.

"This is such typical demagoguery on y'all's part. I guess I'm racist because I want other crimes prosecuted, too, given that there is a large percentage that are committed by black men, too."

You were coming off like a sane person with a differing opinion until you just had to include the last paragraph which exposes you for what you really are.....just another racist. Please evolve.

Thanks for making my point.

Feel free to evolve yourself, perhaps just to the point of recognizing a rhetorical question in the form of a statement.

For someone who puts on such dazzling spectacles of literary dynamism, you sure didn't try very hard to understand such a simple concept.

You want me to be a racist. It fits your worldview. I'm not sure why I try with you. You'll probably say that I'm bigoted against people who don't understand rhetorical questions, now. Good grief.