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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 - 20:45:35
Enter the Senate
They'll vote Wednesday on a financial bailout package. It will include some business taxbreaks as a sop to some House members.
Take it away
Or better yet, sit outside and have a drink. It's fall at last.
But wait .... hat tip to Ms. Bates for an early link to yet another excerpt from the Couric interviews with Sarah Palin.
Care to discuss any significant Supreme Court decisions in your lifetime, Miz Palin?
Roe v. Wade, naturally, but any others?
Er, nope.
I can think of one. I think the names Gore and Bush figure in it somewhere. She'll be prepped on that school prayer decision by Thursday. Count on it. And the one that said Bill Clinton had to testify in Jones v. Clinton.
ALSO: Couric also asked Palin to name a newspaper she read. Palin either couldn't or wouldn't name one. See below.
Vote 'No' on Act 1
A news conference is set tomorrow to announce a "major development" in the campaign to defeat initiated Act 1, which will put up more barriers to adoption and foster parenting for the abundance of kids in need.
Hey, here's an idea. Gov. Mike Beebe could drop by and add his voice against this mean-spirited legislation. He managed to find time today for rice farmers who need more irrigation water. How about the kids who need homes tomorrow?
Beebe for bonds
Gov. Mike Beebe today reiterated his support for the ballot measure to allow issuance of $300 million in water bonds. Good for economic development, he said, and, he added for fun, that might mean a tax cut someday. Yeah, right.
Anyway, this measure is, first of all, a bailout for farmers who've wantonly plundered Arkansas's water resources. It's brought to you through the good offices of the amusingly named Natural Resources Commission, once even more laughingly known as the Soil and Water Conservation Commission. You can thank them for decades of effective work in draining aquifers and silting bodies of water all over Arkansas. And for their recent defense of those who dump chicken crap on the land to the detriment of water supplies.
PS for some angry commenters -- I love farmers. I love food. But the record is clear that they have not always been good stewards of water and have contributed to the depletion of underground water supplies and pollution of flowing streams. And they are ever ready to seek handouts for irrigation, channelization and other means to increase their profitability with taxpayer subsidies. These bonds obligate general revenues of the state to improve irrigation supplies for rice farmers. We all have a stake in how wisely resources are used.
This is not Tina Fey
And with a one-in-four chance McCain wouldn't last two full terms, best pay her some mind.
The common Bush thread
Gene Robinson of the Washington Post wrote today about yesterday's overlooked story on how White House politics took over U.S. attorney selections, including the sacking of Bud Cummins in Little Rock so Karl Rove could create a job for Tim Griffin.
The people who have been running our government for the past eight years have nothing but contempt for government. They believe only in politics and ideology, in that order. First, win elections by any means necessary. Second, once in a position to act in the public good, govern with the ideological conviction that government is either irrelevant or harmful to the public interest.
You can draw a straight line between firing U.S. attorneys for political reasons and turning a blind eye to the ruinous excesses of Wall Street. What's impartial justice against the possibility of gaining political advantage? Why shackle the hallowed free market with government oversight?
And, if you want to draw the line a little further, who cares if the prospective vice president appears to know nothing about anything?
Follow the bouncing ball
The Dow Jones Industrial Average reclaimed about 62 percent of yesterday's record point drop, but if you think that means our troubles are over, read on. A credit crisis still looms.Now the cleanup
'Gotcha'
Crime rate dropping
Read a banned book
Can you spare a dime?
Worse than Quayle
Remembering Reagan
Budget cutting time
Anything else?
House rejects bailout
Sluggo gets his wheels
Watching the bailout
Alaska cheesecake
US attorneygate
When I'm 111
Church politics
Dumond champion retires
'Brazen cynicism'
BMI: good news and bad news
Anybody home?
UALR crime report
Mark Pryor and creation
Saving Wall Street
Couric and Palin
Gambling blues
Read Frank Rich
Huckabee! UPDATE
Open line
All politics is local
Who won the debate, Part II?
Farewell to one cool hand
Return of trickle-down
Huck in 2012
Everybody reads the Arkansas Blog
Debate verdict? UPDATE
Alaska's Huckster
Mailbag update
Tonight's the night
Get a cell ready
Democratic tide?
Voters salute multi-tasking
The bus has left
Arrest in slaying
How stupid are some Americans?
Pathological Palin
McCain will debate
Andy Pearson, live!
Fayetteville High stays put
Who's greedy
Crapped out
British humor
Go Joe
Always with the Clintons
The Huckabees do NYC -- UPDATE
Fun with numbers -- RV edition
Chicken litter and you
Tony Alamo busted
Open line
Energy news
Serial killer?
The Razorback e-mail case
Palin watching Russia
Blogging the RV rally
Sen. Wilkins responds
What's wrong with this picture?
Saying no to coal
Annals of Maumelle stalking
Bailout in works
Politics in the pulpit
Heeeeere's Huck!
Whose side are they on?
Theater review: Stunning
The local angle
Brummett goes scattershooting
Bingo baloney
Open line
Huckabee: I want money
More on LRSD talks
Islamofascism and the Quorum Court
Cemetery complaints
McCain ploy on economy
Palin lacks experience
Big Dog does the Daily Show
Why John McCain keeps lying
Charity begins at city hall
For the LRSD record
Casinos and the constitution
Sarah wrap
Lying liars and the liars that lie for them
Tuesday talk
Bloodsucker slouches off
The race for Senate in Conway
Flash: Cheney no longer president
Media world news
Newspaper casualty
Another sneaky Bush power-grab
Ka-pow
Clinton for Obama
Education at the Zoo
Beebe feels the heat
That gas boom?
Hello, Vegas
Tony Alamo speaks
Open line
Welcome, Norma Bates
'Professional courtesy'
Wait a minute
No conflict
Palinology
Snake handlers UPDATE
Governor in LR
The Alamo nightmare
Checking the data miners
The lying liars
Bailouts for the rich
First Nixon
Adios 50-state campaign
Reagan had it backwards
Sunday thread
UCA balances the books
Corporate welfare shell game
Alamo children in custody
Vietnam: the forgotten
Who's running Alaska?
The fogey vote
All is not lost after all
If only you had an RV ...
Alamo compound raid UPDATE
Fresh start ...
Mosaic Templars opening
Foo, pig
Chairman Pryor
Hold that text
Newspapers and the Internet
Main Street wisdom
The lying liar
To quote Barney Fife
Vote smart
Opposition to hotel plan
Open line
Sen. Baker's big tent
Lottery lawsuit
Palin pales
County budget work begins
Lawyer convicted
The "free" market at work
The art of the chopper
Death at the Zoo
Spanking: unintended consequences
Health care on the Mississippi
Way to go, matie!
Texting while driving
Counting the days
Open line
UALR: Let's play Power Ball
Do numbers count? UPDATE
Sharing the wealth
Bridge to somewhere
Sales tax holiday for Ark.
Fighting hate
Straight Talk Express
Alas, Mike, we hardly knew ye
Pickens gases up Wal-Mart
Forecast: election day woes
Lottery winners
The lying liars
Open line
Spending the gas gold
Coughlin settlement
How low can it go?
Bond foolishness
Still for animal cruelty, too
Money, that's what they want
Foster care foulups
Arkansas: butt of web interest
Media expert from LR
NLR race dropout
Law and order
The female vote
Toddlin' Tuesday
UCA still booming
McCainiacs redeployed
No lawsuit on adoption ban
Open John McCain's mouth ...
Whistling past the graveyard UPDATE
Ragin' Cajun in town
Price gouging probe
Latest polling trends
Celebrity endorsement
Count the lies
In the 'hood
RV rally stirs NLR
Heifer borrowing
Can we talk issues for a minute?
Billionaire opposes lottery
Open line
Coal patrols
Stephens sees opportunities
Nature on the river
John McCain's Arkie roots
A little blowback
Fort Smith layoffs
Russian expert
After the storm
Four more years of this?
For football fans
We're all New Orleans
Foster care questions
It's the economy, etc.
Back in the pulpit
Blog-inspired
Open line
Read this story
When the lights went out
Powerless
Into the storm
President Palin
Sarcasm strategy
A new line for the evening
Obama on Main
More Palin tall tales
The Beebe mansion
Early, early thread
All is lost
U-Texas, Fayetteville campus
Hurricane Ike
Some explaining to do
WM3 slam of Jonesboro judge
Who's on second?
Early night
Ike hikes
McCain flat lies
Sick
Making animal sausage
God bwess Baba WaWa
Public art, part II
Bush bus
State of emergency
Obama wants you
'Blizzard of lies'
Sen. Lincoln: Get after Palin
LRSD numbers fall
UALR goes for the gold
Palin speaks
Open line time
Let's do lunch THEATER UPDATE
Easy money not so easy
Help from Beebe
Stay away
New COPS
Q but no A
Good night and good luck
Bears in the Ozarks
Neo-Ecclesiastes
Laff riot UPDATE
I hope he's wrong, but ...
No sex, please, you're a teacher
The immigrant question
Open line
WM3 ruling
Drill, baby, drill!
Woooo lipsticked pig, phooey! UPDATE
More trouble for ACORN
Steinem on Palin
Wild times at Interior
These yahooos are gonna shake up Washington?
Blog alert
Gas price puzzle
Palin's connection in Rodney, Ark.
Gay adoption ban struck down
Big gulp
Borrow now, pay later
In his own words
Lipstick on a pig
It's open
A theocrat is a theocrat
Better late than never
Huckabee's standup routine
LR Board to vote on contract
Nathan Gordon dies at 92
A split on hotel plan UPDATE
Seeking park land
In search of a bike owner
Duggar doings
Palin to Arkansas
It shoulda been Huck
Education in LR
You're on
Assailant arrested
Fact-checking the liars
Shale summit
Hotel design UPDATE
Books in stir
The media massage UPDATE
The deadly coverup
Fayetteville's glory holes
Mark your calendar
Peggy Noonan and Sarah Palin
Food for thought
Battle for the Heights
What if ...
Quiet competence
Family values
Counting my blessings
Send in the water boy
Woo pig
Correction
Sex education
One nation, under desks ...
That River Market hotel
The schools' future
A Sarah Palin interview
Open line
UCA's money woes
Knifing in a courthouse
Hot enough for you?
Girl fight
The mayor and the park
New Democratic chair -- UPDATE
Heckuva job, Chertie
Both sides now
River Market hotel
High on McCain-Palin
Give me liberty or give me desk
Saving War Memorial
Open line
I feel his pain
Gilding the "Lily"
Hate that dirty water UPDATE
The Daily Show does it again
Karl Rove sez ....
Why do Repubs hate working people? UPDATE
Motions in Death Row case denied
Who's an elitist?
Political talking points
Sluggo update
What? No Carlo Rossi?
Perspective on Lu Hardin
Huckabee's speech
Open line
Mormon bigotry
Weather watch
Crime watch
Dewey, Sooam and Howe
Tower Building emptied UPDATE
Better than TiVo
Just because Noonan writes it ...
Sen. Baker and UCA
Palin: McCain's weakness
The real issues
The money rolls in
Former state auditor dies
Born to be mild
Fat and fit
The downside of neighborliness
Scholarship spending: too high?
'Hookers and Blow'
In re: Sarah Palin photos
McCord on GOP
Open line
1st Amendment rules in Watson Chapel
Palin's Arkansas roots
Welcome to Ark.
On second thought: Issues, schmissues
The Hurricane
The next v.p.
A blast from the past
Court pick coming UPDATE
Echoes of the Nebo chicken fry
Shaleworld
Will Palin survive?
Telephone TV
Huckabee defends Palin
Voting your self-interest
Marketing Arkansas
A-maze-ing
Every picture tells a story
FEMA and Gustav
Palin speech edited
Huckabee the spoiler
The POW card
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