Arkansas Blog

Seems as tho the Embassy folk in the Bagdad Green Zone have been told to "take cover". Does that mean the surge is working or is it just a surge in mortar fire? Hey all you scum dog repugs up in NE Arkansas...aw shoot its like kicking a dawg, so I'll just let it go...

Things are just SWELL in Iraq.........
So peachy think I'll plan to vacation there this summer.....

Maybe Max can lead a 'cruise' - like Dave Woodman...but let's wait until Fall when it's cooler and McBush's Surge has totally worked...
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Jazzy let's plan a vacation for Dickie, he'll have every opportunity to shoot, well, whomever he chooses. Of course, the head cheese will not be able to travel, too much bidness, gotta go taka d**p, speak to the troops, its romantic ya know, BB season opens soon, the first ball, practice bike riding a little, refres the ole coffers and gawd jes you don noe, the bresh is getting hi down on the ranchero, uh huh, I be busy. I'll send McCain & Joe they stand in good. Who's on second, No who's on third, well you get the pitcher.

I posted this song/youtube late late last night @ fdl..

John Prine : Some Humans Ain't Human (link to the wal-mart theme song at my name)

Does that mean the surge is working or is it just a surge in mortar fire? << Ark Traveler

Great one and by golly you nailed it!

Anyone believing anything coming from this administration, ANYTHING, is in dire need of
professional help.

"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction," Dick Cheney Jan 2003-
"Perhaps 6 days, 6 weeks, or 6 months at the most." Donald Rumsfield, April 2003.-

I think he described them quite well: 666.

There's 933 other lies I won't bother to list.
see blue name

Seems like Iraq has gone further into the depths of hell since Senator McCain went on his sightseeing tour a week or so ago. Coincidence?

How come Senator McCain didn't go buy some fruit and vegetables in the market? Oh yeah...too dangerous.

Arky

Thanx, Eureka, I know very little about country songs/singers but, this was good.
Ark Trav....fat chance Dickie gonna put his fat, royal ass in danger.....he can't even hunt
like a real man.........oh, hell,,,,,I forget,,,,repugs are not real men,,,,heck, Laura had to
use a turkey baster to get preggy with the twins.
I miss real ole fashion sex in my White House, wondering every day who was blowing Bill
instead of what country idiot was blowing up today.

History should repeat itself. Oliver Cromwell to the Long Parliament and Leo Amery to Neville Chamberlain. The Democratic Party should say to Hillary Clinton

"You have sat here too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go."

Have a look-see at this video introduction to the Internets, circa 1995.

Interesting article by Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist titled, "Tax my rich white torturer
Schools? Health care? As if. Your taxes pay for brutality and Wall St. bailouts. Feel better?"

(excerpt)

Just so we have this straight: You are not paying taxes merely to fund torture and bomb-dropping and the killing of countless innocents in Iraq in a futile and lost war that's not really a war and is far more of a massive fiscal, tactical and moral failure which will end up costing the nation an estimated $3 trillion, burn through any remaining sense of national dignity and leave repercussions that will last for generations.

Ha. You should be so lucky. Because your tax money is right now also funding the Fed's unprecedented and rather shocking multibillion-dollar bailout of rich bankers and fund managers who have, through their greed and excess and with the implied blessing of former Chairman Alan Greenspan (whom many consider the architect of the collapse in the first place), helped bring about what is shaping up to be the worst fiscal crisis since World War II.

click bluename for the article

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION AWARDED A $300 MILLION WEAPONS CONTRACT TO A 22 YEAR OLD WHO KNEW ALMOST ZILCH ABOUT WEAPONS PROCUREMENT.

I had that capitalize that. The 22 year old engaged in shady weapons dealing with former Soviet bloc countries, purchasing bullets that are 4 decades old and considered faulty. His contract was suspended after NYT investigated.

Link in name.

If any asshole is seriously willing to vote for McCain, after 8 years of this worthless piece of shit president...........

Well, I got out today and took a drive around and south of the Rock. Saw some places I had never seen before. The smell of fresh pine was in the air down around Sheriden and Malvern way. Kinda reminded me of my Delta roots some because all we see from April-till-October is cotton. You guys probably get as tired of those pine trees as we do of all that cotton.

In my younger years I used to poke quite a bit of fun at Arkansas. I grew up in Southeast Missouri. I have lived in Arkansas since 1990. Even though I still have not developed a rabid love of all things Razorback, and probably nevery will, I must admit I am very proud to be a resident of this state. Today was a fine day. Just wish Mother Nature would leave my favorite fishing spot on the Spring River alone long enough for me to hook a few good Rainbows this Spring before the aluminum hatch starts.

And what a year it has been so far for our lovely state. Tornadoes, floods, Mike Huckabee...those are some serious natural disasters right there. And it is only March!

Must end this article with praise for Southern women, many of whom were out today in the warm weather looking quiet lovely. You truly are special.

Hugh that was a rich post about the early days of popular web browsing. It mentioned 8 meg RAM.

In 96 had a machine with 32 ram and 500 meg of hard drive and when E.Fayetteville was able to hook up at 28k it was paradise. It was like being king tut for a year or so.
Now my memory sticks have 4 times the capacity of that hard drive.

My ex bought my first computer in 1979. No internal memory, we had to learn to program it using stuff like "Basic," and all I remember doing with this $3,000 investment is playing games -very simple ones. Ah, the bad old days.

In Sadr City Iraq today, a nine year old boy, an orphan who was still recovering from being bombed by us just one year ago was bombed again today, by us.. His friend gathered the boy in his arms.. the boy screaming in burning agony was carried towards the checkpoint (we walled in the people of Sadr City months ago) manned by American soldiers in effort to try and get to a hospital by his friend.. our soldiers then began to shoot at the boys. Nine year old Ali died.. after two bombings and a shooting by us. ...he had lived long enough to see both his parents and who knows how many others be killed by us.

There is no winning in Iraq.

There is no nobility in our mission and there never was.

Just because we are being lied to.. is no excuse for the horrendous amount if innocent dead people on all our hands.

The same people who are lying to us about what we do are actually ordering our soldiers to shoot and bomb children repeatedly for years. How dare us fail to stand up for our troops, much less innocent children.

Will we ever wake up and say enough? it's time to prosecute our own war criminals.. for our own sake and all the world to see.

i am so ashamed of my country.

The next time that someone erroneously claims that the surge in Iraq is working, rather than trying to convince them otherwise, ask them "at what cost?" The Afghanistan situation is paying for the imagined gains in Iraq. Bush's apologists ignore the increased violence in Afghanistan, increased drug trade/opium production, corruption in the Afghan government, and resurgence (talk about surge) of the Taliban in Afghanistan. It won't be long before a surge of unfortunate American men and women is going to be needed in Afghanistan, drawn from Iraq.

When that happens, the precarious house of cards we have built in Iraq will crash down. We have bribed factions and war-lords not to shoot at us ... today. We have allowed and encouraged an oppressive system of religious and ethnic apartheid within the country. Basic necessities and services are missing in most of the country. People have no employment. It is a system waiting to boil over. It does not matter if we leave Iraq today or ten years from now, the country will experience murderous turmoil. As occupiers, prolonging our stay will only intensify the animosity toward us and delay the emergence of anything but a puppet government.

Morally, there is the idea that we broke it, therefore we have the responsibility to pay for it or fix it. But no amount of money or deaths of our sons and daughters is going to fix this. We have to accept the guilt that we allowed a spoiled, petulant child named George commit irreparable harm upon Iraq and America.

Support our troops, bring them home now.

"...If any asshole is seriously willing to vote for McCain, after 8 years of this worthless piece of shit president..........."--JD

Yeah...what JD said!

I thought I would pop my last cork yesterday when the MSM told me that one in six Hillary/Obama supporters said they'd vote for McCain if their gal/guy didn't get the nomination. God almighty...have you people forgot the last seven years...already??? My neighbor's teen son would get my vote before Eternal War McCain (that's right James). And I'd have an easy job defending 'that' vote. Sure, it'd be a gamble, but with McCain there is NO gamble; we know exactly what we'd get and it'd be ugly: War in Iran/Iraq--forever...a permanent (might as well be) Scalia Supreme Court...a continuation of all the economic crap that put our economy in the crapper...more tax cuts for those who need them the least. At one time, I'd thought that McCain, at least, wouldn't continue Dubya's un-American, immoral torture spree...but evidently he's so desperate to get the office Dubya stole from him in 2000 that he'll say/do ANYTHING to win Republican's hearts (or should I say win Republican's black holes).

My right-wing, Republican and prejudice (against illegals) neighbor (not the one with the teenager) told me yesterday that she doesn't know what she'll do in November 'cause McCain scares her...knowing her as I do...damn.

Come on Dems...NO VOTING for the other guy/gal. Stay home if you MUST, but don't give our country to the greedy, warmongering, hate-spreading Republicans 'cause you're pissed with either Obama or Hillary. None of us in the so-called Democratic base (women, minorities, gays, illegals, enlightened men, etc) will do well in the Party of rich white country club men.

I really shouldn't have turned the news on yesterday.

Oh yeah...

F*** the surge and F*** those who have their faces so far up Monkeyboy's ass that they can't see what a disastrous mess Iraq has become. Not one thing the White House has said/predicted about Iraq has turned out to be true; so unless you're insane you shouldn't believe one word they're saying today. We don't have the treasure nor the military numbers to perpetuate the neocons' failed vision of a U.S. Democracy taking hold in the Middle East.

Parents, children, religion, death. Click on Cato

In 1978, I bought a Radio Shack TRS-80 (still have it somewhere) with 4k of memory, which is about one type written page of text, and cassette storage. I wore it out spending hours upon hours writing games and just dorking around. It was simple enough that I knew the function of every memory address in the machine. The manual was the first and only truly user friendly computer book.

I thought everyone would love the "Big Brother" story going on in the Argenta District of NLR. http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0308/507120.html

Lord, I had no idea computers went back to the 70's!!!!!!!!!!!
Guess my mind was elsewhere, like finding good sex, and I did and married him in '79.
Wonder what the next 30 years will bring, after my ashes are blowing in the wind?
Oh, hell, idiot is on the tube yuking it up, having a big ole time...........PUKE

Hey jazzy...what's cooking this weekend? My beloved niece is spending the weekend with me...which means I give hubby a break and take niece out to eat. She loves it, can't afford it much; he hates it and happily pays. Then we'll play games...and talk about all our 'crazy' relatives ha!

I don't remember the first computers per se; but I do remember the first so-called tv video game. It consisted of two players slowly hitting one ball back/forth on the tv screen (sorta like slow motion tennis). We thought it was real high tech...ha. Wish I'd kept ours.

Are you going to the races, cato? I'm determined to make it before the live season ends and I'm betting on your jockeys if given a chance.

Zonker...are you out there?

Thanks for asking, zelda. I went Wed. and Thursday (my spouse is on spring break in Florida, visiting a sister and the beach). I hit several races, nothing big and left at 10 pm last night (simulcasting). Will be unable to go back until a week from today. Shino has a few longshot mounts but failed to being any to the wire as winners. Live season is winding down but I prefer the simulcasting season anyway.

And why do I have to sign in just about everytime I visit this site?

Click on Cato for cartoon of the day

Hey Miz Z, my parents divorced when I was four, but, my g'ma and all aunts were mothers
to me. They are all gone now, one lived to 99, but, lord I miss them and have such lovely
memories. I'm happy I was able to tell all of them, after I was grown up, how very much I
loved them and all they did to make my childhood happy in spite of a broken home.
I'm sure your niece feels the same about you.
No plans for cooking.....getting g'son moved out of here into his own little pad,,,,a stone
throw from us so we can still look out for him. Lordy, what a mess in that bedroom!!!!!!!!!!!
He had a little yapping dog, fish and cage full of damn mice, I didn't even know about.
RATS under my roof!!!!!!!!!!! Guess that is part of being 18.
Think I'll send Armand for a big sack of boiled mudbugs.

How 'bout some Boogie Woogie for the weekend?????
click click

Zelda,

The Elephant Echo Chamber did not die because it became evident to the most casual and biased observers that the Liar-in-Chief, Cheney and their alcolytes are the most incompetent executives and the most bold-faced liars in U. S History.

The EEC is still there and has continued to raise it's lying, disinformation and media manipulation to hither unknown height.

How many of those poled are new minted Limbaugh-crats? Not even the CCRRR's are sure.

If you've noticed the even the kool-ade satiated CCRRR's have long since given up on defending the Liar-in-Chief's policy of lying whenever the opportunity presents itself. The idea that there is even a smidgen of truth anywhere in his public pronouncements died a long time ago. So all that's left is to hold on to the delusion that the public has not noticed the disasters and can be manipulated again.

I think they are wrong, but unlike them I believe in our country, our constitution and our democracy.