Arkansas Blog

For all those who still say "Well, Clinton did it."

Here is a little perspective:

As for getting rid of prosecutors the president himself had appointed, that happens less often, but it happens.

Clinton, for example, sacked a U.S. attorney who had grabbed a television reporter by the neck. In a separate incident two years later, he fired another who was said to have bitten a topless dancer on her arm, having retreated to a strip joint after losing a big case, according to the Congressional Research Service.

[link at my name]

And ... all of Clinton's replacements were confirmed by a majority Republican congress. They usually leave out that tidbit.

(The link is to a photo of Gitmo Gonzo and dubya, before he was told that the moustache HAS to go.)

Mark, you incompetent boob.

Senator Pryor (DINO, AR) is becoming as useless as toilet paper in the shower.

First he falls for the Lies about WMD, wherein over 200,000 people have been killed, he was lied to tooth and nail about that one. What does he do?
He signs up for more. Supports their torture plans, supports unconstitutional acts, even admits the acts are unconstitution.

Yet here is a case involving the appointment of a federal attorney and the same people lie to him. Now he's jumping up and down, going on tv across the entire Universe pointing out accusations..Why all this? The self-preservation of election year.
What a cowardly cheap loser.
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"The self-preservation of
election year.
Posted by: Lwood"

With 2/3 of the population wanting us out of Iraq ASAP, Pryor's latest Republican vote doesn't exactly win him re-election points.

The vote was 50-48. If he had broken ranks with his Republican brothers and voted with the Democrats, the vote would have been 49-49. He just couldn't let the Democrats get those anti-war points.

I say Senator Pryor needs to put on his uniform and go join the troops he is keeping on the streets of Baghdad.

I guess Girl Arkansas went over the line in criticizing an AT columnist. Don't bite the hand, apparently.

"When the richest nation in
the world has to borrow
hundreds of billions of dollars
to pay its bills, when its
middle-class citizens sit on a
mountain of debt to maintain
their living standards, when
the nation's economy has
difficulty producing secure
jobs or enough jobs of any
kind, something is amiss."
--Norton Garfinkle in his new book The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth (with thanks to Bill Moyers for the quote)

This week sure showed anyone who had the time and access to this blog, exactly what the twenty-first century confederacy looks like. A bunch of elected idiots voting against their constituency, against the constitutions (AR and US), as well as continued hatred towards families, minorities, children, homosexuals, as well as the poor and foreigners (Iraqis). All the more tragic due to its predictability and repetition.

But we had a bit of sunlight since the lie was both obvious and handy for Pryor, he stood up for a few fleeting moments. I guess an 800k fundraiser last week was good for twenty minutes of something, anything.

The USAttys mess haunts bushco and I will bet like watergate it will be the coverup that brings more folks down not the streaming hubris. Valerie had her long overdue day in front of smart democrats who actually get it! It being the constitution the gross violations of national security by the neocons who have stopped at nothing to start a war for oil and keep our blood and treasure tied up there long after their robber baron plan has any chance of actually paying off. Victoria roundedup the hearings, Toensing was a Bush Cheney transition team special advisor, theoretically having a management like capacity in preparing strategy for the Bush Cheney administration. Victoria Toensing showed exactly how mean and unwilling this bunch is to face the truth no matter what and she lied before the committee today.... May she be held accountable for the contemptible Cheney minion that she is and may she be the first in a long, long, line of her ilk who are held up for this country to examine.
It is truly a cast of thousands of worker bees who need to be shaken from their spellbound hex with authoritarian power.

Oh and Senator Kerry did a bit of something interesting...

Kerry Sponsors Senate bill giving bloggers FOIA powers
http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/3/16/191313/255

For an excellent bit of hope for possible illegal angles on Bush re the USA's scandal, click on my name to get the plain spoken legal details from a favorite brain of mine who put up a post at kos.

Off topic, but assuming this is an open line, I heard a rumor today that a certain university football coach has been caught by the board of trustees in an affair--e-mails, text-messages and all.

That's all I'm saying. It might come out, and it might not. Maybe it's nothing (rumors, you know). Wait and see.

ARK. BLOG: Can telephone numbers prove an affair? Even if there are dozens, hundreds, to a pretty woman? And substantially fewer to people closer to home? Would someone be so dumb as to make such calls on a state-paid telephone whose records were subject to the FOI?

"I guess Girl Arkansas went over the line in criticizing an AT columnist. Don't bite the hand, apparently."

Considering that the criticism was entirely justified and on-target, removing the blog seems a bit harsh. Whitworth is a really awful columnist. The classified ads have better prose style.

ARK. BLOG: ARMedia has not been taken off. I noticed when I first checked that it didn't come up, but it's working now. Must have been some Moveable Type glitch. As best I can tell. I think the record is pretty clear that criticism of us is tolerated.

I hope it's not true--and find it hard to believe--but I did hear it from a source I trust. With connections. I'll provide them when I can, if necessary. I still say to wait.

This particular rumor has been circulating for a couple of weeks. It is undoubtedly true, because I heard it from my next door neighbor whose mother's sister's husband's barber's niece's boyfriend's cousin is the female involved, and can prove the guy banging her is, indeed, this certain coach, since she can identify a distinguishing physical characteristic of his penis heretofore known only to the coach, his wife, his mother, Wally Hall, and the mama that runs the www.realhognews blog. Expect the soon-to-retire white haired devil on the hill to hold a press conference before Monday to deny all.

Looking at my stupid fingers trying to articulate my disappointment in the loss to USC tonight, man...

I'm gettin' emails from clown friends all over the country about how we didn't deserve to make the Dance and stuff...

Grrr...GRRR...

Wow, now that's about as juicy as a rumor can get. I hope it's not true, too.

My usual AT news rack was empty when I went to fetch it this week, so I just now got my hands on the print edition tonight.

Our friends over at the Citizens Journal should be proud they made some ink in the Smart talk section, item #1, except that it couldn't have been very flattering.

Nice pwnage, Max.

(Link is to the March 1 blog thread, "Go Green" -- the one where we "learned" that recycling is actually bad for the environment.)

"I think the record is pretty clear that criticism of us is tolerated."
Max

More than tolerant at times. Just as long as annoymouse does get to tell
its lies about you.
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MISS Blanche and the problem with too much sh*t:

Bill Seeks To Clarify Manure Isn't Hazardous Waste

Sens. Pete Domenici (R-NM) and Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), and Reps. Ralph Hall (R-TX) and Collin Peterson (D-MN), introduced the "Agricultural Protection and Prosperity Act of 2007," which is intended to clarify that livestock manure is not classified as a hazardous waste under Superfund laws.

Lincoln said, "Farmers and ranchers have always been responsible stewards of the land and make great strides to preserve a healthy environment for food production as well as for their families and communities. There's a growing understanding in this country, however, that without the clarification provided by our legislation, requirements and liability under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act could be unfairly applied to America's farmers and ranchers both large and small."

Stacey Katseanes, National Cattlemen's Beef Association director of legislative affairs, says manure management on U.S. farms and ranches is already heavily regulated under the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act and countless state laws.
Beef/Cow-Calf Weekly

Having spent more than a few hours sitting in European airports last week, I was amazed at how many of the people traveling with me back to the USA were private contractors headed for visits home from Iraq and other middle eastern locations.

I heard one guy traveling from Dubai ask a guy traveling from Iraq, "When do you think they'll go into Iran?"

"Next spring," the other said, "but that's just a guess."

It sent a shiver down my spine. There was no doubt about the "going in" part, just the "when" was in question.

Two things Nutt and Heath have in common:

USC Trojans

Florida Gators

The Pryor/Hardball video is at Youtube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KAjMbwSCM2A

Spirit comes close to saying something that needs to be repeated. The votes needed to pass the Democratic proposal was 60. A 51-49 vote wouldn't have passed the proposal. That makes it even worse that Pryor voted WITH the Republicans and against his own party.

What to make of it? Does Mark Pryor hate Democrats and love war? Perhaps he was confused on what he was voting against? Does he suffer from low blood sugar or is he on the White House payroll or is Karl Rove blackmailing him?

One thing for sure, needlessly voting WITH the Republicans is a sign of something wrong in his office. He says on Hardball that when he voted for Gonzales other Democrats warned Gonzo was too close to Bush and everything he'd ever do would be a direct order from the White House. Now Pryor says those people were right and that's exactly how it's happened.

I think the consequences of his vote for confirmation of Gonzales have been so disastrous Pryor shouldn't be allowed to get away with just admitting he was wrong. Aw shucks them Republicans ain't playing fair.....that doesn't get it Senator!

The MSM is awash in criticism of Cheney for being wrong all the time. We should heap some of that on Pryor. How many times has he been right since elected? If your mechanic is wrong more often than right you spend a lot of time walking.

No one would put up with that. So why must we put up with a Senator whose good at hindsight but has no vision of what's coming at him? The mildly retarded can do that.

In good times Arkansas can coast with Senators like Pryor, Mark or David. We can make do with a Blanche Lincoln. But we currently live in a dangerous time with enemies without and within and we're cutting our own throats by keeping 2 Senators who can't find their way out of a paper sack.

At best our 2 Senators are great at Follower-ship. What we need is Leadership and sadly we're getting none of that for our money. Do better! Be smarter! Or get the hell out of the Senate!

Black Friday for me I had to deal with health insurance 'red tape' and my tax consultant, why do I feel like Screwed Without a Kiss!

tax consultant...

Insurance Companies...

America, the land of the free...

...the Iraq war is now costing taxpayers almost $2 billion a week.

Screwed Without a Kiss!

Help me Jesus!!!