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I like oaklawn and could care less what the Fake Arkansas Family Council has to say about it see sniffing strangers crotches again, why don't these people mind their own bee waz and leave other people alone jerry cox and that whole crew over there are a fraud and they make money off these emails and letter they send out don't support them maybe they will go broke and shut up .

"illegal casinos"

I think the good Rev Thomas failed to note the "games of skill" law that Rev Huckabee allowed to become law. Everything else is just a little gravy. Bet they are watered down drinks.
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Not sure why they are trying to stop it. It seems inevitable it will eventually be legal. I mean it keeps inching that way. Every year that goes by those that oppose it will get thinner as the new generation will accept it. It's like the internet or cell phones or anything else people use to not have but now do. I can't be the only one who sees this pattern. It's almost mathematical.

i am in favor of pretty well most sin. you are right, casino drinks are watered down cheap whisky. it's free. i would imagine the first prayer for you from the family council is free but they will sure start asking for contributions quickly. i love watching the fundies sinning and later crying to the lord for forgiveness. it's like there is a special lord for them. these guys need to learn how to behave or they need to learn that there are things people do that are fun and can do without crying and screaming on tv. the diffrence is you don't preach against it on tv. hypocracy can be a bitch.

Been in Hot Springs 20 years...never been inside Oaklawn but took my Grandson on the
back street to see THE HORSEYS RUN when he was little. Every year we said we were going,...
never did...I wanted to try the famous CORNED BEEF SANDWICH....would not even know how
to place a bet. My husband & now 18 year old Grandson finally went to races this past
season, as guest's of a horse owner, had fun, won nothing, brought me a corned beef
sandwich.......didn't like it.
Moral of story....just because temptation is on your doorstep you have a choice, yes or no.
I live my life as I damn well please and extend the same privaledge to every other human
born of woman.........Amen

VIVA OAKLAWN!
VIVA SOUTHLAND!

" But Arkansas voters have vehemently opposed casinos....."

Yeah, and voters with their eternal wisdom approved apartheid, segregated schools, white only lunch counters, restrooms, drinking fountains, theater entrances and seats, white primaries, random selection of a minority to string up just on "general principles," no industrial unionism, miscegnation laws, unspeakable sweat shops, and religious opening exercises in the public schools. The track record isn't too good and I don't know that I would crow about anything the electorate has bestowed upon the rest of us.

Name your top 10 Hall of Fame professional political right-wing or fundamentalist gasbags.

You can have two lists of ten -- the religious ones and the political ones (Coulter, O'Reilly, etc.).

I'll just toss out a few fundies for starters: Daddy Dobson, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, Lou Sheldon and Andrea Lafferty (Lou's daughter and partner in crime at the Traditional Values Coalition), American Family Association heads, Don and Tim Wildmon, "Bishop" Harry Jackson, Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality's Peter LaBarbera, the professional ex-gays at Exodus, Ken Hutcherson, Bob Knight, Gary Bauer, all the "concerned men" at Concerned Women for America, Ohio Talibangelist Rod Parsley of the Patriot Pastor movement, the Catholic League's Bill Donohue disgraced former Alabama chief justice Roy "Ten Commandments" Moore, Alan Keyes (who kicked his lesbian daughter out of the family home)...oh, I could go on all night.

Fred Phelps is disqualified because we need a baseline sanity level.

The saving grace is that these pious folks and tools of the GOP have had to try and explain an epic amount of "problems" in their world -- Ted Haggard, Mary Cheney procreating, any number of social conservative pols caught with their pants down - plus a Republican 2008 field full of adulterers and wrecked marriages. Too delicious.

And I cannot forget one of my favorites, the incredible embarrassment to the ex-gay movement, "therapist" Richard Cohen:

Watery drinks? Not really, they WANT you to get hammered and gamble big time.

So..thumbing through my Bible, past the dozens of verses that condone slavery, the verses about killing adulterers, homos, disobedient children and people that work on Sunday, I can't find doodley-squat about gambling.

Chapter and verse please??

My favorite fundy gasbag?? This dude has his own private 6000 ft concrete airport in Ft. Worth.

KENNY COPELAND - UNDISPUTED KING OF THE FLYING COWBOYS
· His Cessna Citation 550 Bravo (valued at $3.4 million), PLUS his Grumman Gulfstream II (worth $4.5 million) AND his Cessna Golden Eagle AND his Beech E-55 AND his assorted lesser aircraft AND his own airport all add up to untold millions of poor folks' dollars. But Kenny's masterstroke is the fact that he's now telling the faithful that God wants him and wife Gloria to EACH have their own Cessna Citation Ten super-jets. Flying just below the speed of sound, these state-of-the-art flying palaces carry a base sticker price of $20 million! That means when "God" has his way, the widows and orphans will have "invested" just about $50-60 million in Kenny's Heavenly Air Force.

Come on down to Howard County and see the nice landing strip which is on the family land of Gloria Neece Cowling. Can't waste five hours on the freeways from Ft. Worth to Center Point when the urge strikes you.

If you get the chance, be sure to accept an invation from the Cowlings to hunt their private perserve in west Texas - best hunting in the southwest.

People are going to gamble. But if the Cella family wanted to sacrifice virgins in the outfield on Derby Day and give free vodka shots to toddlers, the state would rubber stamp it. They've got a full-fledged casino running at Oaklawn now, whether they call it one or not. So why aren't other people allowed to open casinos? Or run lotteries?

Waterman, educate me on who the Cowlings are. Louie Graves probably knows but I don't. Thank you in advance.

This might be a first for me, but I am with the Family Council on this one. Oaklawn and Southland DO get whatever they want from the legislature and DO seem to be able to operate above the law. If I wanted to open a competing track and casino and track in Hot Springs or West Memphis, it could never happen. This is not free enterprise. This is a legislatively granted monopoly to private individuals. If competing operations were allowed, I would be ok with it. But no competition means it is fundamentally unfair.

Just a thought, but as I understand it Arkansas has the highest sales tax on mixed drinks in the nation, around 33% of the selling price when you add up the state, county and local taxes. It is at least double what the tab is in the second-highest state. I would imagine that Oaklawn's mixed drink sales tax revenue has been pretty hefty in the past. Just how much is the mixed-drink tax on a "free" drink ?

mike and janet huckabee, dobson, jimmy swaggert, family research council, bill donahue, keep this short. any person who tries to stop gays from marrying.

shawn womack, bush, rove, cheney, ted stevens, tom delay, rudy guilani, i hate to waste list numbers on them but coulter and o'reiley need a special place in the hell of lists. there should be a special list for enabelers like them, brit hume, murdock, ect. cris wallace, and a few others should be of that list too.

Cato, Google Ken or Kenneth Copeland - you'll get 1,910,000 hits.

He's not the one connected to Howard County - she is. Don't think she is a native; don't remember her from school. Just inherited family land which she used for the runway.

A church on every corner hasn't ruined Fort Baptist, so bring on the casinos I say! It will make no difference. Those who gamble will, those who don't won't even know they're here. Fort Baptist, Hot Springs nor West Memphis aren't fixing to be the next Las Vegas. We wish! But it's not going to happen. I am sick of only the Cella's getting the pie. Slice that sucker 75 ways and let the poker chips fall where they may.

If it's OK to gamble in Hot Springs, it's OK to gamble in Cabot or Ashdown or Newport. Ain't nothing in the Bible that says Crawford County can't have a horse track. Let them try....if it doesn't work, it's their tough luck. Making all this good stuff restricted only makes billionaires out of millionaires. The same thing is going on with the distribution of liquor out of LR. Let the rain fall on everyone. A few will drown, a few will float and a few will water ski in a giant pyramid like Florida in the 60s. While Bush is crucifying the Constitution at least let us cast lots for each other's clothing while we await the end.

"..I am with the Family Council on this one. Oaklawn and Southland DO get whatever they want from the legislature and DO seem to be able to operate above the law. ...
This is not free enterprise. This is a legislatively granted monopoly to private individuals. If competing operations were allowed, I would be ok with it. But no competition means it is fundamentally unfair." by OPRAH

What the two tracks are doing is perfectly legal as it was authorized by the lege. The Guv just didn't exercise his veto power over it when it came time to do so.

It wasn't too hard for the lege to see the light on this one. Other tracks around the nation are allowing electronic gaming and more. Race tracks have seen declining attendance/participation for 20 years. That's why there is no rush to open more of them. One opened 10 or so yrs ago on the Okla side of Ft Smith but was DOA.
Maintaining grounds and buildings, paying property taxes and insurance premiums goes on year around while race track revenues come in for about 2 1/2 months of the year. Few other businesses can do that with shrinking attendance/participation. The businesses that manage to get by with short season revenues are professional sports and they usually operate in municipally owned facilities which do not pay property taxes and get subsidized insurance rates. and subsidized user fees. Oaklawn and Southland must pay their own way. The state gives them a small break on sales taxes. The heyday of race tracks is over. What the lege gave them by authorizing "games of skill" was a few more years of survival.

jazzy, its been quite a few years since the famous ruben disappeared from Oaklawn.. What they have now is an expensive small imitation.. I worked in of all places the Arlington one race season many years ago.. The old timers would get tips and on occasion give us one.. So we went once or twice a week, sometimes following a tip sometimes not.. I guess it worked out because I never spent to much money nor do I remember winning very much either.. But the original ruben.. I wish I had one right now. I liked the races when people kind of dressed for the occasion and made a day of it.. Now everything seems disposable and very low quality, nothing special about it after one day every few years.. It really is time for full fledged gambling in Arkansas, especially in Hot Springs.

One doesn't see it very often outside of Nevada but smaller family owned casinos are much more enjoyable than the big setups, even when one doesn't gamble.. and if AR placed a limit on size and a limit on multiple ownership... we could have a select few around the state without tryiing to look like Robbstown. Since i have always loved card games I enjoy a few hours at a table from time to time but I never play where a table is set up for shuffling the cards under the table out of sight.. I figure if someoine wants to cheat they need to let me watch the fancy fingerwork.

As for the family fist council.. I think we need to chop up a county or two and tell all these my way or the highway talibangelicals to keep it inside the new fundie fence... kind of like Utah.. and if they dont shut up we ought to surround the perimeter with nonstop gay central american porno drive in theatres , nudist camps, casinos, and a few new immigration mexican welcome camps... maybe get the government to start an experimental marijuana farm on the border and burn the extry when the wind is just right.. Maybe we ought to make them make good beer like the trappist monks so they will mellow out and actually produce something worthwhile. Something has got to give with these people who can't run there own lives so they try to scare the dickens out everyone else.. I really don't want to change much about them I just want them to learn how to leave other folks alone, preferably without hating and fearing everybody so darn much.

And I don't care who you are..if you can afford a second personal plane, you need to pay 500 percent sales tax 2,000 percent on the third and so on..even if its purchased outside the US or purchased by a church... we will talk about lowering that tax when the government has no debt, no soldier or vet is left behind and every single person in the US has top quality food, education and health care.

you have to go to the http://www.politicalcompass.org/ web site and take the test. it gives you a result on a xy coordinate where your liberal conservative stands are. you can be compared to hitler, ghandi or others. i am so proud that i am almost exactly in the same coordinate as ghandi. i feel i earned my liberal credentials tonight. answer the questions honestly and some of the questions are tricky. report back your results. you have to think.

zonker, There are a few of those tests floating around the net. I usually end up standing on Ghandis head.. sometimes smack dab in between Ghandi and the Dalai Lama..

The American Taliban here is my list of politicos and elected officals with some backgrown on each .
George Bush

The President's theocratic tendencies go back to his days as Governor of Texas. There he proclaimed the celebration of "Jesus Day", in recognition of He who "changed my heart." As President, his "Faith-Based Initiative" seeks to put $8 billion of taxpayer money in the hands of religious organizations to deliver social services without regard to potential discriminatory practices. The President, who apparently has his own "prayer team", consistently uses religious language and imagery in his speeches. Regarding his foreign policy, Bush emphasizes that the Declaration of Independence and Constitution not withstanding, "freedom is a gift from the Almighty." (They were called the Founding Fathers, and not the Founding Deities, for a reason.)

Antonin Scalia

Supreme Court Justice Scalia has provided much of the intellectual heft and rhetorical rage in the legal assault on the separation of church and state. Scalia, a virulent opponent of gay and reproductive rights, has dissented from virtually every ruling expanding the right to privacy, including the Texas sodomy case (Lawrence v. Texas) and Colorado constitutional referendum on gay rights (Romer v. Evans). The outspoken Scalia had to recuse himself from the Newdow Pledge case after his public criticism of the Ninth Circuit Court in comments at a "Religious Freedom Day" celebration. As for the separation of church and state, Scalia recently asked a Jewish audience, "did it turn out that, by reason of the separation of church and state, the Jews were safer in Europe than they were in the United States of America? I don't think so." He added, "I am an originalist, I am a textualist, but I am not a nut." History, Mr. Justice, will be the judge of that.

Roy Moore

The former Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court insisted on displaying a massive granite monument bearing the Ten Commandments at his courthouse and refused to obey a Federal judge's ruling ordering its removal. In defiance, he claimed that announcing it depicts the "moral foundations of law" and reflects the "sovereignty of God over the affairs of men." For his actions, he is now rightly the former Chief Justice. Now, he seeks passage of the Alabama Senator Richard Shelby's "Constitution Restoration Act" and its House companion, the "Ten Commandments Defense Act" offered by Alabama Rep. Robert Aderholt. Among other threats to the separation of church and state, these bills would ban Federal courts from curbing state court rulings allowing an "acknowledgment of God".

Sam Brownback

The Kansas Senator and 2008 GOP presidential hopeful aims to bring his retrograde worldview to the White House. A one-time evangelical turned born-again Catholic, the former Gingrich firebrand wants to bring his personal jihad against abortion, stem cell research and gay-marriage to the entire United States. A warrior for the supposed "culture of life," in 2006 Brownback displayed a child's drawing of embryos on the Senate floor during the stem cell debate, relating the 7-year old girl's plea, "are you going to kill me?" Announcing his candidacy, Brownback declared that "every human life is a beautiful, sacred, unique child of a loving God" and that "the family and the culture are under withering attack." It's no wonder his American Taliban fellow traveler Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said of the Kansan, "Senator Brownback is unrivaled as an advocate for the family and for life in Washington."

John Ashcroft

The Attorney General may be on his way out, but his longing for a return to the Middle Ages is undiminished. The son of a Pentecostal minister, the man who lost his Missouri Senate reelection to a dead man brought his own version of sharia to the Justice Department, holding regular prayer meetings, covering up bare-breasted statues, and barring meetings of gay employees. Apparently, only Ashcroft's deep devotion to God exceeds his anti-abortion ferocity and fidelity to neo-Confederate causes such as blocking desegregation and African-American judges. Ashcroft neatly summarized his own view of American government, "Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus."

Tom Delay

The one-time exterminator and ethically challenged House Majority Leader is also one of Washington's foremost Crusaders. The man who once compared the EPA to the Gestapo (for banning his beloved DDT) sees his mission as bringing "a Biblical worldview to government." Among other things, that worldview includes Delay's conclusion that "I don't believe there is a separation of church and state. I think the Constitution is very clear. The only separation is that there will not be a government church." Delay also pronounced that "our entire system is built on the Judeo-Christian ethic, but it fell apart when we started denying God. If you stand up today and acknowledge God, they will try to destroy you... My mission is to bring us back to the Constitution and to Absolute Truth that has been manipulated and destroyed by a liberal worldview."

Henry Hyde

Author of the Hyde Amendment limiting the use of Federal funds for abortions, Hyde is one of the fiercest voices of morality in the House. This, despite the fact that the Illinois representative and Clinton impeachment hound had an adulterous affair he deemed a "youthful indiscretion." Hyde had experience in handling these matters publicly, speaking out in defense of his similarly disgraced colleague Dan Crane in 1982, "he is embarrassed, he is humiliated, he is disgraced...The Judeo-Christian tradition says hate the sin and love the sinner...I think it is time to love the sinner." For Hyde, the Judeo-Christian tradition apparently did not apply to Bill Clinton.

Rick Santorum

The staunchly Catholic Senator from Pennsylvania has been ardent foe of abortion and reproductive rights since joining the Senate. A leading voice in support of the Federal Marriage Amendment banning same-sex marriage, Santorum has been outspoken about the perils to American society of "man on dog" relationships. The junior Senator from Pennsylvania, who has also stated that there is no constitutional right to privacy, sees gay marriage, and not Al Qaeda, as the greatest threat facing the United States. ""I would argue that the future of our country hangs in the balance because the future of marriage hangs in the balance. Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?"

Tom Coburn

Joining Bill Frist among the ranks of the physician Senators, the Oklahoman alerted his fellow Sooners to the threat of lesbians run amok in the their high schools. "Lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they'll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it. Think about that issue. How is it that that's happened to us?" Coburn, an obstetrician, has said he favors the death penalty for abortion providers and called state legislators "a bunch of crapheads." The good doctor, who called his race against Brad Carson a choice between "good and evil", also has been accused of Medicare fraud and sterilizing a woman without her permission.

Jim DeMint

The new Senator from South Carolina has already distinguished himself on both social and tax policy. During a campaign debate, DeMint stated that "if a person is a practicing homosexual, they should not be teaching in our schools." DeMint also has it ass-backwards (pun intended) on tax reform, proposing the abolition of the income tax and its replacement with a wildly regressive 23% consumption tax.

James Dobson

The head of Focus on the Family, Dobson has created a global empire in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Heading a group whose radio programs reach 7 million Americans each week and are broadcast in 115 nations, Dobson may now be the leading crossover politico-religious figure in the country. In the immediate aftermath of Bush's reelection and the GOP tidal wave in Congress, Dobson threw his weight around, calling for Arlen Specter's head and labeling Vermont Senator Pat Leahy a "God's people hater." (Dobson might want to consult with Vice President Cheney on getting their message - and language - straight visa vis Leahy.)

Jerry Falwell

The creator of the Moral Majority, Falwell continues to play a major jihadist role in mobilizing the Christian Right. Still smarting from his courtroom defeat at the hands of Larry Flynt, Falwell attributed 9/11 to divine punishment of America, stating "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'" More recently, he called the NOW the "National Organization of Witches" and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State "anti-Christ".

Pat Robertson

The one-time presidential candidate and broadcasting giant with Ralph Reed made the Christian Coalition into the power it is today. Robertson agreed with Falwell's assessment that the United States, home of feminists, homosexuals and abortionists, got its just desserts from the Lord on 9/11, Robertson also turned election prognosticator in October, "I really believe I'm hearing from the Lord it's going to be like a blowout election in 2004...It doesn't make any difference what he [Bush] does, good or bad, God picks him up because he's a man of prayer and God's blessing him."

Ralph Reed

The head of the Georgia GOP and Bush's coordinator for the southeast U.S., Reed is the archetypal Crusader. The man who helped make the Christian Coalition such a dominant force summarized his un-Christian tactics, "I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. You don't know until election night." Blessed are the meek indeed.

Tony Perkins

Perkins has led the Family Research Council since 2003, after previously founding the Louisiana Family Forum to fight the "increasing influence of the homosexual community on public policy issues" and authoring that state's covenant marriage legislation. Perkins likes to refer to the "homosexual death-style" and labels civil unions "a serious threat to the health of our culture." With Bill Frist, Perkins is at the center of the judicial filibuster fight, proclaiming after the death of Terri Schiavo that the courts "are suffering from a persistent state of arrogance" and "no longer respect human life." Along with Dobson and other junior members of the American Taliban, Perkins is hosting the April 24th "Justice Sunday" event to protest the judicial filibuster as an attack "against people of faith."

Gary Bauer

Bauer, president of American Values and former head of the Family Research Council, shows that bearing a striking resemblance to Star Wars' Yoda is no barrier to influence in American culture. The one-time presidential candidate continues to play a major role in driving the supposed Christian agenda. Telling his faithful that "our nation stands at the brink of a cultural crisis", Bauer adds that "and so long as God gives me breath I will do everything possible to defend faith, family and freedom. Once again, I must ask for your prayers and your financial support."

Richard Land

Land, the head of the Southern Baptist Convention's "Ethics and Religious Liberty" Commission, has been a steadfast and vocal supporter of President Bush. He noted that "Republicans abort at lower rates than Democrats. I read an estimate that by the 2000 election, five million potential Gore voters had been lost to abortion." He also pointed out that "I don't think there's any question that this president's heartbeat is close to the heartbeat of Southern Baptists when it comes to very serious and important public policy issues to Southern Baptists." Recently, Land's commission has been debating a proposal encouraging Southern Baptists to home-school their children, removing them from the "godless public schools."

Holy L. Ron!

I stumbled upon some of the bullshit Nation of Islam believes. AMAZING!! I had no idea.

(from Wiki) Check it out:

The Mother Plane

Elijah Muhammad taught his followers about a Mother Plane or Wheel, a UFO that was seen and described in the visions of the prophet Ezekiel in the Book of Ezekiel, in the Hebrew Bible.

Now as I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, one for each of the four of them. As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of beryl. And the four had the same likeness, their appearance and construction being as it were a wheel within a wheel. When they went, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went. And their rims were tall and awesome, and the rims of all four were full of eyes all around.
-Book of Ezekiel Chapter 1:15-18, Bible, English Standard Version

Louis Farrakhan, commenting on his teacher's description said the following:

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad told us of a giant Mother Plane that is made like the universe, spheres within spheres. White people call them unidentified flying objects (UFOs). Ezekiel, in the Old Testament, saw a wheel that looked like a cloud by day but a pillar of fire by night. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that that wheel was built on the island of Nippon, which is now called Japan, by some of the Original scientists. It took $15 billion in gold at that time to build it. It is made of the toughest steel. America does not yet know the composition of the steel used to make an instrument like it. It is a circular plane, and the Bible says that it never makes turns. Because of its circular nature it can stop and travel in all directions at speeds of thousands of miles per hour. He said there are 1,500 small wheels in this Mother Wheel, which is a half mile by a half mile (800 m by 800 m). This Mother Wheel is like a small human-built planet. Each one of these small planes carry three bombs.

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said these planes were used to set up mountains on the earth. The Qur'an says it like this: We have raised mountains on the earth lest it convulse with you. How do you raise a mountain, and what is the purpose of a mountain? Have you ever tried to balance a tire? You use weights to keep the tire balanced. That's how the earth is balanced, with mountain ranges. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that we have a type of bomb that, when it strikes the earth a drill on it is timed to go into the earth and explode at the height that you wish the mountain to be. If you wish to take the mountain up a mile (1.6 km), you time the drill to go a mile (1.6 km) in and then explode. The bombs these planes have are timed to go one mile (1.6 km) down and bring up a mountain one mile (1.6 km) high, but it will destroy everything within a 50-square-mile (130 km²) radius. The white man writes in his above top secret memos of the UFOs. He sees them around his military installations like they are spying.

That Mother Wheel is a dreadful-looking thing. White folks are making movies now to make these planes look like fiction, but it is based on something real. The Honorable Elijah Muhammad said that Mother Plane is so powerful that with sound reverberating in the atmosphere, just with a sound, she can crumble buildings.
-Minister Louis Farrakhan, The Divine Destruction of America: Can She Avert It?[8]

WTF is wrong with people??

I did not know that free drinks were available at the tracks. A sincere, "Thank You", to the Family Council for advertising this!

While you guys have done a great job creating lists of Fundies, you forgot the Parent's Television Council. They are the group that tell us what TV is good for you. The annual list of family programming is hilarious.

In about 50 years, gambling will be legal in Arkansas. Jonesboro is on its way to finally repealing the dry county stuff with several restaurants that serve now. If you outlive the opposition, then you win by default.

Hey Oaklawn, when will you start giving us in the boxes free drinks?

Speaking of Wikipedia, click on my name and read about the organized groups of rightwingers who apparently sit all day editing out the facts and inserting their own religion and rightwing crap. The GOP's ability to launch organized efforts would make Hitler envious. Cheney-Rove have done more than politicize our government. They've politicized our facts and our truths. I see caveman days ahead of us.

ARK. BLOG: Has Huck been cleaning up his entry? Other Arkies? I was going to check, but haven't had the time.

Interesting article and link within (a scanner to search for wikid edits yourself). From the article:

"Wal-Mart has a series of relatively small changes in 2005 that that burnish the company's image on its own entry while often leaving criticism in, changing a line that its wages are less than other retail stores to a note that it pays nearly double the minimum wage, for example. Another leaves activist criticism on community impact intact, while citing a "definitive" study showing Wal-Mart raised the total number of jobs in a community."

But Wal-Mart's meddling is benign compared to others cited in "Wired's list of salacious edits", linked on the scanner page.

You know, I consider myself a reasonably literate and well-read person. But I don't believe I have ever come across the word "swivet" before reading this blog where it has been used on more than one occasion. You can learn something new everyday.

..and I had no idea how often I AM swivetty!! ;>)

Zonker: I so proud; if you flip the chart over, I align EXACTLY with George the Lesser - is that too cool, or what?!!!

Well, one of you asked what verse and chapter but I think he should read and find it for himself..
Can a leopard change his spots? Can you add one cubic to your stature?
Gambling is a disease that will tear your world apart and maybe take your life.

Man O Man I haven't had this much fun EVER!

This issue involves drinkin' and gamblin' so the churchies are all in a wad. About the only way to get it any better would be to work in some sex angle. How about if they gave the sex away with the drinks!

I grew up in Little Rock with no stores open on Sunday because Blue Laws. Blacks in the back of the bus. Dry counties all over the place.

It took way to long to let African Americans ride anywhere on the bus. It is great to see Arkansas finally letting grown ups decide on what they wish to do with their bodies and money. Gamble if you like (as long as it is a skill game wink, wink.) Have a drink if you like even if you don't have to pay for it.

If you think gambling is a waste of money, don't gamble. I think Hummers and Mercedes are a waste so I haven't bought either but I don't preach to my neighbors that have.

Smoke if you want but keep the stink away from me. Drink if you want but don't spill it or barf it on me. Don't drive if you have been drinking.

Eat at KFC but don't get mad if I go elsewhere.

My neighbor was the head of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and he doesn't know it but he was celebrated in our office by Conway residents because of letting restaurants serve alcohol.

In closing, liberalizing on drinkin' AND gamblin' at the same time is sure fun to watch.

Hey chasv. Welcome back ! I was afraid the heat had done dun you in. It's good to have your absolute truths in these days of devilish squirmings for correct postures as we drift further from The Truth.
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Hey Chasv,

Read for yourself, it's cubit. Any good Bible thumper should have known that.

Or is there even more versions of the Bible where one increases ones cubic instead of cubit.

Don't feel bad, there are so many contradictary translations that this could happen to anyone. This is one good thing about all them Bible editions, you can make it say anything you want it to.

Casting lots is used in Leviticus to choose between the sacrificial goat and the scapegoat. Joshua cast lots to determine the allotment of land to the various tribes. Nehemiah cast lots to determine who would live inside the walls of Jerusalem and who wouldn't. The apostles cast lots to determine the replacement for Judas.

So I ask the wife to make us some coffee.

"The Bible says man should make coffee and tea". She replied.

"Where?" I asked.

She replied,

"Haven't you ever heard of Hebrews???"

Eureka, I'm old enough to have learned that if it ain't a Ruben in Manhatten, a Philly Cheese
Steak in Philadelphia, Deep dish Pizza in Chicago, PoBoy or Mufalatta in New Orleans, it
jes ain't the same, 'cept maybe in my kitchen....I can put together a pretty good runner-up....
But hope springs eternal & I've heard for years about the Rubens at the racetrack....
Guess I waited too many years.

Great one Mojo !

I bet that wife gives out dead batteries free of charge.

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Zonker and Eureka, I fall about where y'all do in the Political compass. Feel like I'm in very good company!