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"Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds."
~ Albert Einstein

Ok, I've just run across this great site - Encyclopedia Dramatica. It's kind of like Wikipedia but
much much more funny. They have a great biography of the Arkansas Blog's favorite poster, Drew Pritt, which must be popular because it's also his #1 google search hit. I can only aspire to be this famous one day.

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Drew_Pritt

Max: focus the light of day on Lu Hardin's ethics filing and its lack of complete disclosure. Lu has always tried to hide his hunger for money . He was even willing to turn republican and be a Huskster lap dog to get he grab finished from the state retirement system. Hell, he gets more money in a retirement check from the state than 95% or more of state employees make in current salary due to his 2 for 1 credit as a senator and his big final salary as Higher Ed director. He would have probably performed any act Hustster wanted to suck down what is now projected to be well over $100,000 a year form APERS, IN ADDITION to his UCA salary and associated grabs. Lu as the old song goes, NOBODY DOES IT BETTER than you, Max: ask him if and how much he gets in an APERS retirement right now!. Why is he so needy of money? See if he dodges or runs or hides on the state retirement issue. SHAME on Lu Hardin!

Gosh damn, Bush looks terrible! Looks like he's aged 10 years in the past 10 days. Anybody else notice it? There he was on the news tonight looking worn and deathly ill as he "demanded" that Russia "honor" the truce agreement with Georgia. Don't you know Putin is getting a huge laugh out of that? To put it crudely, Putin has Bush and the rest of us by the ears, yanking us into his crotch and forcing us to fellate him. How humiliating for "the only superpower in the world" to have fallen so embarrassingly far.

We're not alone, either: Putin has the entire West by the balls --- the UK, Germany, France, you name it. Why? Because of lousy energy policy and mindless usage. Europe is shaking in its boots; isn't about to raise a hand to The Bear when it depends on The Bear for 50% of its natural gas and 30% of its crude. And we can't lift a finger to help Georgia (or any other country needing help) because we're consumed with and have been eaten alive by Iraq and Afghanistan.

Given all this, what's Russia's next move? Missiles in Venezuela? Cuba? Key West? We're about to place ours in Poland and the Czech Republic, right? We're in a heap of a mess, folks. Poor Obama. Poor McCain. Poor anybody who'll have to pick up the broken dishes Bush is about to leave behind.

Today is V J Day, August 14, 1945. The USA was the most powerful country in the world, 53 years later where are we?
Click on blue name for old radio broadcasts.

Subtraction was never my strong suit, V J Day was 63 years ago

Well, the Ruskies have really accomplished something. Their 100,000+ army has defeated an army of 17,000. The Ruskie airforce has defeated a grand total of 17 combat aircraft in the Georgian airforce. Tough guys those Ruskies. I just hope they never have to go up against some of our American feminists. They would have a run for their money. Imagine that brigade of broads attacking with raised handbags. The carnage would be one to behold. Oh well, we can dream.

The most vivid picture in my mind of the past few days concerning Russia and Georgia is the idiotic Condi Rice saying "this isn't 1968" - as though the whole world knows we can't do a damn thing about whatever happens. Of all the failures of the Bush Adm I think she is the greatest failure of all. She is the epitome of incompetence parading as an expert. No wonder Bush has been so addled on foreign policy - look at his teacher. I read a piece by Chris Kelly saying that Condi Rice can't do anything - probably can't even play the piano. Too funny.

Also, the laughable picture of John McCain mispronouncing Saakashvili, not just once but THREE times in succession and then saying he's been friends with Saakashvili for 20 yrs. He's either really lost it or someone is feeding him the worst scripts.

"theotherwhitemeat" you bear similar attitudes to this Johnson guy from yesterday. Do yourself, your family, and all of us a favor and seek professional help. They have medications for people like you who stalk others and attack them without provocation.

I can agree with you on condi rice. She is nothing short of incompetent. She was the architect of the Gaza withdrawal. She was warned what would happend but she went ahead with this debacle. Her expertise in the soviet union didn't extend to the middle east.

Condi's old employer Chevron would argue against her incompetence.

They should name another tanker after her.

I vividly remember the invasion of Hungary by the russians in 1956. The hungarians put up a valiant fight. They had no army---only civilians. Untrained civilians used molatav coctails against large russian tanks. They stood their ground, died and begged for the US to come to their aid. We didn't. I'll never forget that as long as I live. I was so ashamed.

DurangoK,

That's easy! With our military forces overstretched and committed to two conflicts and oil still over $115 a barrel, all Putin has to do is place a squeeze on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline or an occasional near miss airstrike to continue the Bush generated plight of the U.S. teetering on the precipice of rampant recession and stagflation or an all-out depression.

The strategic thinking of Bush/Cheney/Rove/PNAC/Wolfowitz/Perle/Feith and Cheerleaders Kristol and Bolton has resulted in a marvelous opportunity for Bush to look "green around the gills" from the actions of the man he looked in the eye and "I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. . . I was able to get a sense of his soul."

Plus, continuation of deploying the "missile shield" to Poland guarantees it.

The unilateral withdrawal in Gaza speaks for itself and she was the power behind that move. She put a gun to Israel's head and they listened to her. If that isn't proof of incompetence I don't know what is.

Ya got it, docholliday. Sad but true.

Well, when the boys in the desert start lobbing missles into Europe I would guess that SDI will no longer look foolish but rather the ones who opposed it. Our enemies are developing IRBMs and ICBMs. I don't think that they are doing that to shoot down birds.

The best way to help Georgia is to admit them to NATO. Same for Kosovo. Encourage Ukraine to join too.

Both Georgia and Ukraine havw applied for NATO membership. That is what the russians are afraid of. They also want to control the oil pipeline that runs through Georgia. It is the only one in Europe that does not come from Russia.

A blogger....you do realize that if they were in NATO, we would be at war with Russia right now, right? Considering we don't have enough soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, exactly how would we wage war or even threaten Russia?

eark - I think it's more likely that Russia would not have invaded Georgia in the first place if they'd been admitted to NATO already.

I agree but that would have only helped before this latest conflict. We can't do it right now because we don't have the resources to go to war with Russia.

I wish I could say that the threat of a military response from NATO would have kept the Russians from invading but, unfortunately, NATO is a paper tiger. We can't get them to assume a combat role in Afghanistan. The Russians know this. Frankly, if the Russians really believed that they would face a determined US military I think they would back down. The russian army is largely conscripts. They are hardly of a caliber equal to our forces. However, we stripped our military at the end of the cold war so it is greatly reduced in size. Hence, we are hard pressed to protect our world wide interests.

I think it's much more likely Russia wouldn't have attacked Georgia if Georgia hadn't attacked Russia first. And I think if Georgia is going to act like that, then NATO best keep Georgia out of the group. ANd if Georgia trusted us, meaning Bushco or McCain and his campaign members who are lobbyists for Georgia... then they were the fools for listening to our neocons.

I think MCain has spent an awful lot of time on the phone with the leader of Georgia (reports of daily phone conversations) to easily dismiss the fact McCain can't even pronounce or remember his name. I think McCain lobbyists in his campaign have ulterior motives (and fat bank accounts to prove it) which put all of McCains integrity or claims of honor in serious question once again.

And it's another serious time for Americans to ask ourselves if all these wars for oil (now directly in the Caspian Sea region) are worth it... much less are they possibly winnable, even with a draft..or anything less than use of nukes..which means nobody wins.

Eureka said: "I think it's much more likely Russia wouldn't have attacked Georgia if Georgia hadn't attacked Russia first."

Where did you get that---in your dreams? Russian attacked Georgia. Georgia's tanks are not on Russian soil and never have been. Russian tanks are on Georgian soil. Do they have any news sources in Eureka?

Well, eureka, soon we may find out if we are willing to fight for oil. Your side may win out. However, if you are right then we had better get used to using candles and walking a lot.

RIGHT ES!! THE problem is that the Georgian President, apparently with "good counsel" from Condi & the Neocons (can only WISH that was a band!) thought no one was looking and Putin was at the Olympics, so hey, we'll go in the cave and kick the bear in the balls. Bizarre, and maybe it's not really Iran where Bush is going to finally take us down...
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Georgia did not attack Russia. Georgia attempted to take back control of South Ossetia which is a part of Georgia, but occupied by Russian troops (Russia calls them peacekeepers).

Some of you need to do less blogging and more reading.

Larry, crack a book and read a little before you open your trap. South Ossetia is a part of the sovereign state of Georgia. It is NOT part of Russia. Georgia can take whatever action it sees fit to bring order back to that province. The Russians have NO say in that action.

Hey, Larry boy, got a question for you on geopolitics. If Mexico invades New Mexico would it be ok? I mean, it is called 'New Mexico'. Would that make it kosher? What do you say, Larry boy?

ES that's like saying the US "invaded" England when it tried to take back the south (Confederate States of America).

Tragically, turns out the Georgia situation is a Dick Cheney plot to stop Obama from being elected and the Russians know it. Clicky bluename.

Oh, yeah. And Ellen DeGeneres and Portia DeRossi are getting married in California this weekend. Just a small wedding with only family and a few friends, or so said their sweet card to me. So I'm definitely returning the Michael Kors number I brought home on approval from B. Barnett especially for the occasion I'm no longer attending, and shopping for an appropriate wedding gift from Tuesday Morning, just like Lauren Bacall, for the happy twosome -- known to intimates as "Elle-Port" (rhymes with heliport).

But it's all things Cheney. More happy news? I'm hearing from pals that Mary Cheney and Heather Poe are debating whether to marry in Massachusetts or California to, you know, make their sweet little bastard son, Samuel David, legitimate, once the Republicans steal the next election.

I'm feeling the joy. I know you are too.

Re the DemGaz's retrenching: Hussman has an obsession with charging for content, however little it may be.

Notice the frequent links here to the Baxter County newspaper. They seem to have a feeling that selling advertising is potentially a greater (and sufficient source of income). Never been to Roscoe's but thanks to Baxter County I might eat there someday.

Yea, I heard a rumor that Bush was in the lead Russian tank. Chaney was the driver. They figured that if they kick started the invasion of Georgia it would sink obama yo mama's campaign. It would be viewed that the invasion would favor hillary since once hillary took a tour through the state of georgia in the US. This would remind people of hillary and fond memories and they would associate the tour of the state of georgia with the invasion of georgia. Then they would vote for hillary. Did you get all that? Sure it was an inside job. Bush and Chaney want hillary to get the nomination so she would win and keep McCain from winning because once McCain and Chaney got into a fight and McCain bested Chaney. He wanted to get revenge so he and Bush hatched this invasion of Georgia. Are you getting this? Yea, that's how all of this invasion stuff got started. I'm glad I made it through this.

strange- you sure are throwing around the word 'boy' a lot. That your new word for the day?

StrangeMORON stikes again - there is nothing that beats an obnoxious, trolling asshole who has the additional advantage of being WRONG. Ossetia (and the other "Z" one) BROKE AWAY from Georgia and both have been "loyal to Russia" for quite some time. WAKE UP!!! You are 'technically' correct, but "situationally" full of shit, as usual...

"Georgia can take any action it sees fit..." YUP, and the mosquito can attack the sledgehammer and suffer the consequences - HOw's that working out for them??!!!! "They shoulda stood in bed" and probably WOULD have if they weren't deluded by Darth Cheney, et al into thinking we've "got their back." That's working out pretty swell - we've sent Condi to "rescue" them. Heckuva job, Georgie!
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Georgia did not attack Russia. Georgia attempted to take back control of South Ossetia which is a part of Georgia, but occupied by Russian troops (Russia calls them peacekeepers).

Posted by: eark

And when is attacking Russian soldiers not an attack on Russia? Follow what Russia tried to do via the UN etc.. they played smart, and left plenty of room for this not to happen.. Our belligerent crew in charge forked up royally again.. all we are left with are questions of whether it is complete idiocy or intentional?

Why were we and Israel training Georgian troops? and why did we train them so poorly that ten thousand Russians troops were able to make 30 k troops flea their own city? Because we are incompetent at best... and we are spoiled rotten belligerent bullies, truth be told.

Nope, I said it earlier today.. we are all far more like the mad man with the gun than we are the victim. It's time we try to stop our own madness...we can't and shouldn't trust our GOP (nor half the neo Dems) leaders at all. In a reasonably sane world under rule of law... McCain and his crew, from lobbyists to Lieberman and Graham should be in serious trouble for playing beyond their elected roles right now. What is this supposed to be the pre pre ejaculatory October testosterone surprise? And of course Bush and Cheney should have been on trial as war criminals a long time ago.. but we are supposed to trust them about anything?!! Don't think so.

Hey, eureka, pal, have you heard the real truth about pearl harbour. It seems that the Japs didn't attack us but we really orchestrated it to look like they attacked us. You see, the truth is that we set charges on all of the ships there and we actually blew up our own ships. Yea, that mean old US of A. It seems that Roosevelt wanted to go to war against the japs and the public didn't want to so he had to orchestrate it. Roosevelt sent a message to Tojo that he wanted to meet him at Pearl on that Sunday morning. Roosevelt suggested that for a person of his standing that the japs should have some sort of special ceremony to commemorate the occasion so he suggested that they bring a bunch of planes. The rest is history.

Read it and weep, StrangeButtwipe!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Ossetia
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Russia's proxies in South Ossetia were the provocateurs in this battle, but Georgia made a strategic blunder in their military response. They failed to seal the Roki Tunnel before the Russian tanks rolled in.

"The independence has not been diplomatically recognized by any member of the United Nations - which continues to regard South Ossetia as part of Georgia" Wikepdia

Hey, Larry, DA, read it and weep. Boy are you stupid. South Ossetia is regarded as part of Georgia by the UN. Are you just naturally dumb or do you work at it?

Arkansas blogger----you are right on the money. If they had blown it the Russians would have been stymied.

NOW you have something favorable to say about the UN?!! Amazing, must be a first - aren't you one of the "one world" black helicopter crowd?

NICE job - since we're selectively quoting (rather than UNDERSTANDING):

"It came as no surprise when South Ossetians voted overwhelmingly [99% supporting, 95% voter turnout] in favour of restating their demand for independence from Tbilisi [Georgia] in an unrecognized [by the UN, et al]referendum in November 2006. A simultaneous referendum among the region's ethnic Georgians [SMALL minority] voted just as emphatically to stay with Tbilisi. Compromise seems a long way off.

Tensions are never far from the surface and violence flares sporadically. Russia maintains close contacts with the leadership in Tskhinvali where separatists welcome Moscow's supportive stance. To Georgia's deep annoyance, most South Ossetians have Russian passports and the Russian ruble is commonly used in trade."

---BBC

I've read this blog enough to know that you can't argue with Eureka. Eureka believes whatever Eureka wants to believe.

The friend of your enemy is not always your enemy.

Russia is in South Ossetia illegally. Russia is and has been occupying a democratically elected country.

So Larry are you saying the South should have been allowed to succeed from the United States?

Are you saying that any part of any country should be able to hold a "vote" and declare their independence, and to hell with the minority?

As a liberal, I have a problem with that.

Via the WAPO (link at my name)

SNIP

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says he talks to McCain, a personal friend, several times a day. McCain's top foreign policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, was until recently a paid lobbyist for Georgia's government. McCain also announced this week that two of his closest allies, Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), would travel to Georgia's capital of Tbilisi on his behalf, after a similar journey by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

The extent of McCain's involvement in the military conflict in Georgia appears remarkable among presidential candidates, who traditionally have kept some distance from unfolding crises out of deference to whoever is occupying the White House. The episode also follows months of sustained GOP criticism of Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, who was accused of acting too presidential for, among other things, briefly adopting a campaign seal and taking a trip abroad that included a huge rally in Berlin.
"We talk about how there's only one president at a time, so the idea that you would send your own emissaries and really interfere with the process is remarkable," said Lawrence Korb, a Reagan Defense Department official who now acts as an informal adviser to the Obama campaign. "It's very risky and can send mixed messages to foreign governments. . . . They accused Obama of being presumptuous, but he didn't do anything close to this."

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I'd say the REAL blunder was thinking that "retrieving" Ossetia by force against the Bear was a good strategy. Maybe StrangeGENERAL was working with McSame's Georgia lobbyist...or having too much Tsing Tao with PMbSfBBL?!!
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If the tanks had been blocked at the tunnel, Russia could still attack with aircraft, but with less effect.

Some background on how the low-intensity conflict escalated into a full-blown war is available here -

http://www.jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2373294

Oh I see...this is all the doings of John McCain...

Good night you very imaginative bloggers

No eark, I'm not saying that - POOR analogy. These conflicts date back (like the Middle East) for centuries, and all of this stuff is continuing "shake out" of the demise of the USSR, the IMMEDIATE scrambling that took place, the consequences of all of that, and the ethnic and tribal loyalties/histories that accompany it.

Can't be handled in blogbites, which is where StrangeMORON strays off the path every time he gets in a bit too deep - like REPEATEDLY asserting that CAREER DOJ employees serve "at the pleasure..." WRONG again, Strange!

gotta get some sleep sometime - that would be NOW - g'night y'all.
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Russia is in South Ossetia illegally. Russia is and has been occupying a democratically elected country.

Posted by: eark

Well change the subject to try and make yourself right, why don't you. I don't disagree with your new self argument.

Seems to me like we both agreed, just in different wording, that the russians were attacked/provoked first.

I just think we should not be involved nor can we be trusted. And NATO definitely should not take on Georgia or the Ukraine, imo. Our motives have been oil, since Bush Sr. told Saddam to Invade Kuwait .. control of the Caspian Sea resources (and pipeline routes out of there) are the robber barons goals. Not worth it at all, even if it could be pulled off.

Hey y'all.. if we can cut and paste from wiki.. we might qualify as a Mccain speechwriter.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/11/did-mccain-campaign-lift-georgia-speech-from-wikipedia/

Did McCain campaign lift Georgia speech from Wikipedia?»
Earlier today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) delivered a speech on the war in Georgia. A Wikipedia editor notes that the speech is strikingly similar to the Wikipedia entry on the country Georgia. "[M]ost people would consider parts of McCain's speech to be derived directly from Wikipedia," Taegan Goddard writes:

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Eureka Springs - You are the last guy who ought to be complaining about "change the subject". On Wednesday's thread where we were discussing the assassination of Bill Gwatney, you tried to hijack the thread with one of your insane hate-filled diatribes against Mark Pryor, which was totally irrelevant to the topic.

You are so fixated on your obsession with Senator Pryor, it makes me concerned for his safety.

Georgia did not invade Russia.
Georgia did not attack Russia.
Everyone, including you, knows I didn't change the argument.
I was right ES and you were wrong.
It happens....

I hate to agree with Arkansas Blogger, but if anything ever happened to Mark Pryor, Eureka would certainly be the first to come to my mind.

With all sincerity, Eureka I wish you'd see someone to check if you have OCD or something similar. OCD just like high blood pressure can be treated.

AR B, Mark Pryor's words were in the post.. the irony of a genocidal pro torturing maniac like Mark pretending to give a damn about another mans suffering should never pass without such an ironic interjection... and it's laughable that a peaceful though vehement protester such as myself should be accused of being a danger just because I refuse to pretend he is not crazy. Quite an amazing twist you put on things.. Do you do yoga while eating pretzels too?

Tough honest direct talk is what I have.. why don't you have half the problem with hypocritical torturing genocidal killers like Mark with half the disdain you show for a peace lover who fights back with expressed words of dismay at what Mark has done to our State, country, constitution and countless innocent human lives?

You want to attack free brutally honest speech while defending madmen.. that's your right, but you ought to admit that's what you are doing.

Eureka, Mark Pryor is deeply anguished about this senseless tragedy. Here are a couple of recent quotes by both gentlemen:

"We are fortunate to have such a dedicated public servant who works every day for our best interests in Washington. He continues to put Arkansas first, and I am pleased to have such a capable and thoughtful senator representing my state." - Bill Gwatney, July 30, 2008

"Bill was my friend and I will miss him." - Sen. Mark Pryor, August 13, 2008

You are in no position to judge their friendship, or to denegrate Senator Pryor's expression of sympathy for the loss of a friend.

˙pǝpǝǝɔɔns ǝʌɐɥ noʎ 'ɯnɹoɟ sıɥʇ uo uosɹǝd pǝƃuɐɹǝp ʇsoɯ ǝɥʇ ǝɹɐ noʎ ʇɐɥʇ ǝʌoɹd oʇ ƃuıʎɹʇ ǝɹɐ noʎ ɟı

It's come down to everyone is so busy shitting each other ya can't make any sense of it. Find the good guy in the Georgia-Russia situation. Ain't Georgia, ain't Russia, ain't the United States of America-AT&T. It reminds me a lot of what happened in Hungary in 1956. Our Freedom loving Republican President Eisenhower give Hungary a nod and a wink implying we had their backs. They jumped off the cliff and found out they were whistling Dixie all alone.

The neo-cons did the same thing with Georgia.....Go on President Shnilillliii.....we got yer back. So when he attacked the Russian loving part of his country, Russia came visiting with some shock and awe of their own. While Bush enjoyed getting drunk at the Olympics and said it was a dirty rotten sin for one country to invade another, death won the gold in Georgia. All the big dogs in Russia and Georgia are alive and well, it was just the little people who got blown to bits and lost their houses and their jobs. Ain't no thing!

Bush will have him another nice vacation this week at Crawford and do a little sword rattling if he can stay sober enough to Meat the Press. But mostly he'll work on the half part of his 2 and 1/2 years of vacation time since he took office. Little shrunken Micky Rooney McCain will read shit off the teleprompter and goof up anything that's off script. The world powers will continue to play chicken with the lives of the little people and nothing much will come out of it. Just lots and lots of dick measuring.

Those guys celebrating the end of the war in Europe 63 years ago, didn't do all that fighting and dying to hand us this partial birth abortion of a world we have today. Most of those still alive know not only are the current occupants of the Oval Office chicken-hawk draft dodgers, but they're worse sin is incompetence. 4141 US troops killed in Iraq for not a goddamned thing.

I don't know how it's all going to end, but remember it's not the crack heads, gays or Mexicans whose ruining the world...it's guys like John McCain with his 100 million, 10 houses, and private jet that's doing it. So be nice to a nobody today and piss on the rich when you see em coming your way. When McCain said "We're all Georgians today", I don't think he meant it in a nice way. Secure your bunker now and avoid the rush.

Democratic Senator Mark Pryor? Are you kidding?

This supposedly respectable jerk (I'm a Democrat) thinks the earth is 5,000 years old because the Bible tells him so?

Guess he goes along with all those OTHER biblical injunctions about stoning disobedient children to death, killing gay men (but not lesbians), etc.

Pryor is either stupid and completely uninformed about scientific facts (he isn't), or he's a pandering politician who'll say anything to the bigoted religious right in this state to get re-elected (he is).

He makes a complete ass of himself on film in his "interview" with Bill Maher for Maher's upcoming release, "Religulous" (rhymes with "ridiculous").

Here's a NYT article today, discussing people moving into the then-green-and-fertile Sahara 50,000 years ago, at clicky bluename.

It's time, and past time, for intelligent informed Arkansans to speak up and speak out against this religious idiocy attempting to turn our state and nation into a medieval theocracy.

Mark Pryor's not stupid. He's not a bigot. He's just willing to play one on TV to stay in office and reap the perks of political power.

He cheapens politics, cheapens education, cheapens Arkansas and Arkansans and even cheapens the "religion" he pretends to espouse.

If his "religion" can't admit the scientific antiquity of the earth and human beings, it's as comical and worthless as Scientology.

Unfortunately, Mark said it on film. He's stuck with it.

Forever and ever.

Amen.

(Uh, oh. Amen's a word direct from 6,000 year old Egyptian sun-worship and Amen-Ra, but what does Mark care. Or know. He's too busy portraying a stupid but "god fearing" good-ol'-boy hick in a state where he knows it plays well.)

Outside of Arkansas, outside the South, Mary Pryor is viewed as the same rube laughingstock as Mike Huckabee.

Party affiliation in the Bible Belt (Republican or Democratic) seems not to matter except in isolated cases like, say, Vic Snyder. Hard to compete with a former marine who's also a physician and lawyer and U.S Congressman with a unique and remarkable history of volunteerism around the world.

Snyder represents education, ethics and commitment, doncha know.

Pryor and Huckabee represent religious backwardness, pandering to idiocy and opportunism.

So, who represents the majority of Arkansans?

You guessed it.

DBI has nailed the Russia/Georgia conundrum (along with entertaining "short subjects") while Norma has it just right regarding Mark "the Snake" Pryor and the religionists. Meanwhile StrangeMORON and his ilk remain the sad and scary "mainstream" of American low/no/dis-information, who are clueless as to their cluelessness - and forge ahead undaunted.

WHAT a world-coming-apart we live in, escalated by President Monkeyboy Shit for Brains Bush Lite, while these nitwits fiddle... I'm always forced back to the (maddening) wisdom of:

Abba Eben: People and nations behave wisely - once they have exhausted all other possibilities.

Edwin Friedman: Logic and reason only affect those who are not part of the problem.

So far as I know, neither of them ever met StrangeMORON...
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BREAKING: The Nitwit-in-Chief DEMANDS Russia back off - "...Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st Century. Only Russia can decide whether to put itself back on the path of responsible nations, or continue to pursue a path which can result only in further confrontation and isolation. To begin to repair its place with the US and Europe and other nations of the world, Russia must respect the freedom of its neighbors."

Does this guy understand irony? How about hypocrisy? Or maybe he just has a short/selective memory? Good grief!!! WARBI has never been more evident...
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I guess invading a country is ok if the UN approves.

Seems we have lots of armchair foreign policy experts. I don't guess any of us really know what is going on for sure in the Georgia/Russia conflict, but it is safe to say their probably are no really white hats but lots of grey ones and a few black ones. I understand there was a predisposition on the part of the citizens of South Ossetia were not anti-Russian enough for the rest of Georgia and maybe there was some ethnic cleansing going on which maybe brought about an illegal invasion by Russia which prompted the Bush Adm, knowing that the Georgian regime wasn't all that clean, to instruct them to "do nothing", but with the Olympics in force and the eyes of the world otherwise occupied, the Georgians, feeling their salt, decided to ignore the Bush adm (why not, everyone else does) and kick the bullies in the shins so they could get back to whatever mischief they had been up to in the first place. The Russians, never ones to do anything in a kinder, gentler fashion, probably brutally killed waaay too many people (one would be too many - but we have our own kinder, gentler Bush Adm to worry about, so we can't throw stones).

In short, we have a Bush adm debacle, choreographed by Condi Rice who can't even play the piano. That about sums up what my feeble brain understands about the situation.

it's will never cease to amaze me how many people attack the person who cries loudest for an end to needless killing and torture.

No wonder that liberal guy was nailed to a cross for speaking truth to power.

FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT.. NORMA(L) BATES, LARRY AND EUREKA ARE HOLED UP IN A CAVE IN NW ARK. WAITING FOR THE POWERBALL DRAWIN FROM WED.

ALONG WITH ANY NEWS OF PEARL HARBOR THAT MIGHT BE TRAILIN IN WITH IT, GOOD GRIEF, SINCE WHEN IS THE JOKE WIKIPEDIA A TRUSTED SOURCE FOR ANYTHING, BACK TO YOUR CAVES LIL GUANA BEARZ