Arkansas Blog

Are the batteries in the flashlight any good?

ARK. BLOG: Guaranteed

The big question, Max, what's the gas mileage?

ARK. BLOG: About 25 on the highway.

I feel like I should make some sort of a humorous comment, but there's no topping that picture.

Great cars! I drove one for 300k and sold it several years ago. I still see it on the road from time to time. AC's are pricey..and when they go out on ya in 100 degrees while driving through death valley, they are worth every dime.

We wouldn't be mixing up lost discuss with lost hub caps, would we? *s*

How many of those miles were teenaged driven?

Make that 110 degrees!

Some advice for your new car: Meguiar's wax. Once a year. Yes, it's tedious work. And yes, Meguiar's is made by some religious group or family or something, which may account for its efectos del milagro. And no, I don't know how to pronounce Meguiar's.

Hang onto that Volvo, young feller. Ain't nothin' so fine as a paid-fer car. And ya say the tars is like new?

Max, I need to trade cars with you for a couple of days. There's this guy that parks his new, shiny Statusmobile diagonally across a couple of spaces in the parking lot - and I'd like to park your Red Pearl Wagon parallel to it with about six inches of room to spare. I'll return it freshly washed, not that anyone would notice. . .

Why, just a little missionary work and she'll be good as new. It's the right color for me, but do I see a pink hood? And the hub caps are in the back right? I figure as many times as the radio's been stolen, the dash hole is probably wallered out enough to put in a flat screen TV.

It would sure grace my yard just as the International Yard Nazi Laws of Fort Nazi, Arkansas goes into effect the first of July. But I'm betting Mrs. DBI would make my bottom as red as the car if I even asked.

And...boy....me going up from a 1976 Ford to a 1992 Volvo-Smalvo......might be too much of a culture shock. You aren't selling a used VCR are ya?

ARK. BLOG: Free Betamax comes with it.

That machine is a thing of beauty, and at only 108k, she's just barely broke in* -- she's just a kid.

* I mean "broke in" not in the vandalism sense, obviously. She seems pretty well covered in that regard.

Y'know...this reminds me of when my dad sold his 1972 Datsun 510 wagon for $200...

He had more radios and golf clubs and cassette tapes stolen out of it than you could count...

It was a really cool car, man...but it took me awhile to realize it...

In fact, on cold days I would bum a ride to PHJH with my bike in the back (Huffy Pro Certified) but I would make Dad drop me off a block away...

For which I will always, in my adult life, be ashamed...

And it was red, Max. I agree with Durango...keep 'er...

Well, if she's really for sale, Max, I'd gladly give her a home. She might even be worth renewing my long-expired driver's license for. I'm offering asking price and gentle, mostly neighborhood use and care. I'm too old and dignified to drive a motor scooter, and I'd feel too silly getting round on a Segway. She'd look and feel just right in front of my place on Beechwood, whether I drove her much or not.

Say yea, and I'll call you. If you get a better offer, I'll understand.

ARK. BLOG: It's really for sale.

Brantley...call your old friend Zelda. She would look period perfect driving around Conway in this foreign made socialist party staff car. She and the liberals here at UCA could carpool in it. I know you would be happy to "tote the note" on a sale to her.

Does it still have the Gore, Kerry & Snyder bumper stickers on it?

BJ, your colors are showing, but they lack enough breeze to merit more than a dismissive glance. At most, they show that you have an unhealthy, if not sinful, interest in our zelda. Hands off.

Max,
I'll trade you two $500 cats for it. You'll make 5 bucks.

DBI... I'm warning you.

I can tell that Barrett nony Jackson lives in a scary, ugly little world. He wants us to live in it with him. In fact, the last 6 years has been about bringing us all into the scary, ugly Bush World of pure hatred for others and pure profit for the top 1%.

Suspect all things, fear all things, instill fear in others, feel superior to others, bully out of fear and loathing, slant everything in your favor, take advantage of the less fortunate or bright, separate, segregate, and kill what you can't steal or don't like.

I won't play. I'm too old to go backwards. I've got almost everything I want or need. My ego is big enough, I don't care if you can run faster or jump higher.

And I'm grumpy, easier to piss off and less likely to suffer fools. For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? I'd add..his honor, his soul, the simple enjoyment of living?

America hasn't been living the last 6 years, we've been fighting, torturing and killing. The Christians have never screamed louder and yet the hate level has hardly been higher. Our government is filled with crooks and kooks. Television has never been worse. Its never costs so much to just get by.

Millionaires impress no one any more. Suffering is accepted and expected....no skin off anyone's nose. Obviously there has never been a better time to tune in, turn off, drop out. We're the new USSR....we suck every bit as bad as they did.

I wish everyone drove a beater Volvo. I wish we could go back to being ourselves. This is no way to live.

http://rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/clinton_holds_single_digit_leads_over_huckabee_brownback

This would make an interesting lead for the morning blog. :-)

Let me guess --- the owner is one of those meth-skinny guys with two teeth. He's illiterate, and my image is of him in overalls standing at the door of his trailer. He has a GED from an alternative school in the Delta. Discharged under less-than-honorable conditions from the Army.
He'll never make it in Arkansas 'cause there's no Hog stickers on the windows or bumpers of his ride. By the way, that car could be converted to haul billets, you know.
Am I getting close, Max?

ARK. BLOG: Perfect. It does have two bumper stickers. One is a bulldog. The other a school up east.

Meth-skinny guy with two teeth, illiterate, in overalls standing at the door of his trailer, with a GED from an alternative school in the Delta and discharged under less-than-honorable conditions from the Army?
Driving Max's baby?
Uh uh. I know for a fact -- that guy is driving a brand new Chevy with a camo paint job, courtesy of his dear old Mom who sold her house so she could continue to support him in the style to which he is accustomed. Guy lives next door, is 45 years old, lasts about three months on a job, regularly beats his girlfriend (who always takes him back) and, in addition to the good stuff, always has a thirty pack of something or other in an ice chest in the bed of that spiffy truck.
He's not interested in Max's baby.

ARK. BLOG: I think Louie was talking about the CURRENT owner.

Max--take the charitable gift donation and give it to Tim the departing US Attorney. It is guaranteed to reach the state line without breaking down, right?

Max--take the charitable gift donation and give it to Tim the departing US Attorney. It is guaranteed to reach the state line without breaking down, right?

Sorry, Max and Louie. Guess I need to learn to read. And the hauling billets part -- I had to look up billet -- I thought it had already been CONVERTED to a billet.
By the way, at 108,000 miles (not really 308,000, like mine, I hope?), that lil buggy probably still has another lifetime or two in it.
But dang, if the AC is more expensive to fix than the one in my Ford, I guess I'll pass. Exxon/Mobil will continue to be one of my best friends.

Has this car ever been waxed? If so, when was the last time?

ARK. BLOG: At the factory, I guess.

DBI...Don't like the USA? Move to Cuba. Oh..and take your boring, overlong and totally unread posts with you. Your fellow lib bloggers are laughing at you behind your back. Oh..and thanks for supporting cars made in the US. What a guy!

Sorry for the confusion about billets. I figgered you guys were sophisticated enough to realize by its useage that I meant the wood chunks.
I'll try to write more S-I-M-P-L-Y when communicating with Pulaskis in the future.

One thing is clear the Kool-Aid is much stronger these days than ever before. Barretts disdain for "liberals" is so high he can't even sit around and joke about a beat up car without going round the bend. Barrett thread hops and in less than 24 hours of calling people double personalities and later addresses or describes each of the accused as separate individuals. Now, who has a possible personality disorder?

You uber free marketers cant drop your bigoted slams of superior foreign made autos long enough to admit after 30 years of the obvious that for the most part US made autos are simply a bad buy dollar for dollar. Lots of reasons for that but may I suggest you see a little documentary called, Who Killed The Electric Car? It may be available online for free so turn off your porn and watch it...none of your conservative friends will have to know, at least until it sinks in.

With out regulation of Corporations and open source information as to what fascist moves many corps are making behind the scenes... your conflicted faith based support has allowed them to use you and your anger effectively to drag our country way down. I hope you enjoyed the ride Barrett because that and a Huckabee favored flat tax are about all you have to show for it.

I am going to make a generalized observation about the anti liberals here. I don't think I have once noticed any concern by the conservatives for liberty or a care in the world for their fellow man/woman, much less accountability of their authoritarian leaders or the rule of law, American or international. All of this is particularly ironic considering just how little conversation here tends to be liberal. Progressive perhaps and leans liberal on occasion, but rarely liberal. For most angry conservatives Liberal is just the latest N word.

So keep shooting down even the middle folks, Barrett, Its the best hope a liberal like me has for the opportunity to bring true liberal ideas back into the arena. But first we (all americans) need the true conservatives to wake up, kick out the fascists, and demand the better side of their republican party back.

Oh and DBI - Always have loved your writing.. keep the faith, brother.

Whoever buys the Mad Max rig needs to put a big ol' Razorback pig on it or a likeness of Houston Dale Nutt. But, then again, that'd just get you sued and John White could bemoan your negativity.

I have a hell-raising brother who once painted the American eagle symbol across the hood of a guy's 1970 Ford Fairlane. The Fairlane actually belonged to the guy's parents, but who's counting when you have such a beautiful arts project to work on.

Now, these folks' last name was Tate.

So big brother paints his version of our nation's official seal with the giant eagle clutching a scroll, which read:

"United Tates of America."

The Tate elders were not amused.

Mr. Jackson, you might be interested to know that Volvo cars are actually made by Ford. The Socialists sold that business off awhile ago.

http://www.ford.com/en/company/about/brands/volvo.htm