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So glad your wife is a level-headed legal type who is immune from innuendo.

Is this an open line?

Is this an open line?

Let's pretend it is, eLwood.

And Max, although it is clear she realizes how lucky you are to have her, just to be safe maybe you should ask her to renew your vows in one of those Moonie-covenant things DBI mentioned on another thread.

For my best of Halloween wishes to all on this board please click on Cato.

In case you missed it Huckabee got his ass handed to him by WND today, over the Mexican Consulate in Little Rock.

Check it out at the link.

ARK. BLOG: Another one of those things that I think the governor did well on.

Geesh CJ. Using a Scaife website to broadcast anything is like feeding the best ckicken breasts to pigs.
Next you will doing the Moonie Times?

"ARK. BLOG: Another one of those things that I think the governor did well on."

Yeah well, leasing state office areas to the government of a foriegn country for one dollar while he refused to pass a grocery tax cut will not play well with conservatives. especially since that government is mexico. In case you missed last nights debate, illegal immigration is very important to americans.

ARK. BLOG: Arkansas Poll suggest some are just a lot louder than others.

Uh, thanks, Cato. At least now I'll be able to recognize you when you come to the door trick or treating.

"If you use your imagination, you can make a costume very inexpensively. Like this year, I'm just going to drop my pants and go as Idaho Senator Larry Craig." --Jay Leno

I heard the Max hooks up with new girlfriend rumor as well. Only by the time it got to me it was much more interesting and at the end his wife took him back but only on a probationary period. Way I heard it, seems Max had been "mentoring" a girl from Clebrune County, barely out of college,friend of the publishers daughter that had interned this summer at ARKTIMES. Seems that when the burglar broke in there they wwere, the two fo them, tequila bottles in hand and both clad in ill fitting Halloween type costumes though Halloween was still weeks away.

In the account I heard a a few nights ago the robber was almost beaten to death by the one in the wonder-women type costume though I never did hear if that was Max or the "intern". I prefer to believe it was the young intern.

I didn't pay it much never mind though as there was nothing in the Dem-Gazette about and my guess is they would've ben glad to cover that story below the fold page 1 as it had to do with crime and all

Still, where there's smoke there's sometimes fire they say. And I'll bet they have some fine young ladies come through there for summer internships where they can learn the ways of newspaperin from the Masters. And then, really, that is an awful lot of detail, the ways I heard it, for a rumor. Most aren't quite so fleshed out as that. And who would make up the wonder-woman costume.

ARK. BLOG: I knew I was asking for it.

"ARK. BLOG: Arkansas Poll suggest some are just a lot louder than others."

I don't think so, a more accurate national poll suggests something quite different. It suggests that democrats and republicans alike share values on immigration. You can couple that with the fact that even the democrats in congress could'nt pass immigration reform .

Not that I didnt hear your boss playing the race card on the radio today though.

Once again CJ steps to the plate, it's a hard,fast ball to the right, he swings and misses.

"Poll results show that America is of one mind when it comes to criminal aliens: If you break the law in your native country or in the U.S. you should not be a U.S. citizen, and those criminal aliens who commit a felony should be locked up here in the U.S."

And that is what he is hanging his bipartisan hat upon.

Max, is the funeral you'll be attending in Helena your own and you just don't know it yet? Translation: Never mess with (or fool around on) a lady judge, dude. Great cartoon, Cato; and V4H, you are something else with the comebacks!

ARK. BLOG: My dear Cousin Kat, my dad's first cousin, a long-time teacher in Helena died this week at 87. One of the sweetest people ever. I'm too tired to mess around even if I were inclined.

"It suggests that democrats and republicans alike share values on immigration."

I call bullshit. Xenophobia and demagoguery for political gain are not "values." Having a knee-jerk reaction without thinking through a situation is not a "value." What those people have are "opinions." Thoughtless, ignorant, wrong-headed opinions.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/10/31/funeral.protests.ap/index.html

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. (Yeah, I know. First Amendment and all that. But this'll give the Reverend Phelps a chance to put his money where his mouth is.)

So far I've had 3 Hillary masks show up. They get the cheap hard candy.

Open line?

Washoe, the African-born (1965) chimp who learned to use (or didn't, depending on whom you read), over 200 American Sign Language words, has died of flu.

Our sympathy on the loss of Cousin Kat, Max. We'll be thinking of you and the family as you say goodbye to her tomorrow.

Another Republiqueer Sex Scandal

A state lawmaker from southwest Washington in Spokane for a legislative retreat last week may have done some socializing here that now has the attention of local detectives.

State Representative Richard Curtis (R-La Center) was in Spokane last week and reportedly had consensual sex with another man at a downtown hotel that later led to blackmail. However Curtis says there was no sex and he isn't gay. Now Spokane police are trying to determine if Rep. Curtis did in fact have a sexual encounter here that made him a target for extortion.

The police report contains an account of how Curtis allegedly donned women's clothing, red stockings and a black sequined lingerie top before engaging in a sex act at the store. He continued to wear them throughout the night under his clothing.

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During a brief phone interview with Columbian Editor Lou Brancaccio Monday afternoon, Curtis said he did not have sex with the man and is not gay.

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He initially told police that he did not have sex with the man but later recanted, according to the police report.

widj, how sad. I saw a documentary a while back about the shameful way some of the chimpanzees have been exploited and used in experiments; thankfully she was cared for by an organization that is trying to end such abuse. We humans really have a lot to answer for.

Finally, someone who who actually paid attention to the oath he took. Click on the handle to go to the original

One Fewer Good Man by Devilstower
Wed Oct 31, 2007 at 05:06:56 PM PDT

Lt. Col. Colby Vokey has served in the Marine Corp for the last twenty years, and spent the last four as chief of the Corps' defense lawyers for the western United States. Everyone who knows Vokey has described him as the straightest of straight arrows.

"Colby Vokey?" muses retired Col. Jane Siegel "Integrity almost seems like a word too small to describe him."

Says Lt. Col. Matthew Cord, "He's just one of the best."

Vokey is also a self-described conservative who voted for Bush. He's the lead defense attorney in the trial of eight Marines involved in the massacre at Haditha, and became a hero to Marines for his vigorous defense of those involved. After a lengthy argument, Vokey convinced the courts martial to drop most of the original charges against the Marines. You might think that Vokey would be the favored Marine of the political right.

Instead, when Daniel Zwerdling of NPR interviewed Vokey, the Lt. Col. had recently been fired from his position as chief of defense counsels, had announced he's leaving the Corps, and that he is "angry" and "bitter." Why? Because Volkey placed the rule of law above the rule of politics.

The U.S. has imprisoned hundreds of "enemy combatants" at Guantanamo Bay in a military legal system that Vokey denounces as "horrific." Vokey saw the system first-hand when he agreed two years ago to defend a teenager there who had been charged with murdering a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan. Vokey said he knew the case would be difficult, but he discovered that the legal system at Guantanamo is a "sham."

Vokey's 15 year-old Canadian client had been tortured into signing a confession, including being used a "human mop" to wipe his own urine off the floor after being left chained in painful positions for many hours at a time. Vokey was kept from meeting with his client, or from seeing the evidence against him.

"Anytime you want to subvert the rule of law to the power of a government, you've got a very bad thing brewing," Vokey told NPR. "As an officer in the Marine Corps I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. And now we are perpetrating something that if any other country in the world was doing, we would likely step in and stop it."

Asked who was to blame for this subversion of justice, Vokey made a careful response.

Vokey went to his bookshelf, pulled out the Manual for Courts-Martial, and read from Article 88: "'Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the president, vice president, Congress'" and a list of other officials, he said, "'shall be punished as a court martial may direct.'"

I heard the interview withe Vokey two or three times yesterday, doc. He has actually been given his job back, but he is definitely disillusioned and getting out of the Corps next year. I just wonder if he's still a Republican after all this.

"Supporting our troops" means NOT placing them in untenable positions such as the ones encountered by the honorable Lt. Col. Vokey. There are 11 Democrats and 10 Repubs on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Write to them, call them, demand that they stop Mukasey's bid for Attorney General at committee level. They can if they vote on straight party lines. It's time for we, the People to defend our own Constitution and these senators are our representatives. After that it's just pitchforks and torches, folks.

What's become of the investigation-prosecution of Ron Fields in Ft. Smith?

"Tuesday, September 18, 2007 10:07 AM CDT

State Taps Investigator For Fields

By Wanda Freeman

TIMES RECORD . WFREEMAN@SWTIMES.COM

The Pulaski County prosecuting attorney or his designee was appointed Monday to represent the state in the investigation of Fort Smith attorney and former Sebastian County prosecutor Ron Fields.

According to an order on file with the circuit clerk, 12th Judicial District Circuit Judge Mark Hewett accepted the recommendation of the Prosecutor Coordinator's Office in Little Rock and decreed that 6th District Prosecuting Attorney Larry Jegley and/or his designee will take up the case.

The 58-year-old Fields, listed as Ronald Eugene Fields on the court order, was accused in June of having sexually abused a female of undisclosed age while her mother was at work.

Fields, who served as the 12th Judicial District prosecuting attorney from 1979-96, is a partner in the law firm Chronister, Fields and Flake."

The real Rudi? Click on Cato

Helluva Rudy there Cato. I've watched ruthless Rudy attack Hillary twice in FOX fashion and so far only
Senator Biden is the only Demo hitting Rudy.

My 14-year-old trick or treated last night (along with a ton of other 9th graders). He wore a Bush mask along with devil horns, tail, and pitchfork. He said he got lots of reactions - laughs from probably-Democrats and "hmmmm"s from probably-Repubicans. He enjoyed it, though!