Arkansas Blog

Hey Mike suggested title for another book tour:

"QUIT DIGGING YOUR GRAVE WITH A WHINE THING"

Maybe his past life as a Jewish mother is emerging.

So defensive Mike. We wonder at the depths of your seething.

Your Saturn in Scorpio working overtime?
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As these and other stories (UCA, etc.) scurry like rats across the transom, it occurs to this relative outsider (now happy Little Rock resident): do ANY local / state political powers-that-be -- from the top down -- have ANY sense? ANY logic? ANY rationality? ANY integrity?

Or was Huckabee in fact RIGHT? Arkansas IS a Banana Republic!

Are Arkansas' voters and taxpayers THAT uninformed? THAT disinterested? THAT willing to be led, sheep-like, by venal Good Ol' Boy tin-horn dictators of BOTH parties whose sole ambition is to line their own pockets at the expense of this state's genuine progress and national standing?

You tell ME, Lu, et al. Screw taxpayers for all you can get, then retire with a FINAL taxpayer-funded Golden Parachute?

Somebody needs to start asking some SERIOUS questions of our "leaders" -- LOUD AND PUBLICLY.

Now that there will be a medical school a mere 40 minutes away from my doorstep, I'm thinking about going back to school and becoming one of them gynocollegeist. I haven't had the pleasure of seeing enough gynos in my personal life, so what better opportunity for me to practice my love on va-jayjays all over the state than by going and getting me a gyno degree? I don't much like kids so I want no part of the OB stuff, let others spank infants for a living, I'll stick to the gynos.

And lets review....U of A in Fayetteville growing like a weed, big fancy Don the Toad stadium, Pinnacle Point where people can shop like I did in the 50s, now a big new medical school. Think maybe LR will be a ghost town in 20 years or less? Gotta have something to worry about when you go to sleep at night, don't ya? And I always like to remember that Huckabee is a walking gyno....know what I mean, Vern?

Come on Louie and say it: How long will it take Central Arkansas to understand there are other sections of this state that government must serve other than Central Arkansas? NW Arkansas is the booming part of the state, a great portion of the total state revenues are generated and stem from NW Arkansas. Political power oozes from NW Arkansas. And it appears there will even be state football championships emerge from NW Arkansas.

Love it or lump it.

Well I have heard the University is offering (successfully) wages for certain skill positions that approach 150% of the going local, regional and national rate. Offering salaries which clearly are not cost effective. Not so tough to do with you are planning to ask the Leg. to hand you 46 million to balance your financial ineptitude.

I have no problem with it Cato.

I would just as soon that NWARK just secede and call themselves 'Bushville.' They could probably get the Library transplanted up there for the UAF campus as well. I don't think Baylor would mind and G.W. would like the mountains and maples in fall.

The remaining Arkansas could charge them enough in road surcharges and tariffs to make up for lost revenue or force them to use Missouri and Oklahoma for their transit road system. They'd have to fight the eternal Oklahoma chicken poop run-off pollution lawsuits on their own. Then they could support UAF, UAF Med School and UAF Law School on their own as well.

Just think, UALR could become the University of Arkansas, field a NCAA Division 1 football team, play an annual UA/ASU footbal game at War Memorial and provide all the majors of UAF in a central metropolitan location closer to the remaining parts of the state. The diehard Razorback fans wouldn't suffer and disruption, they have drive up for 95% of the real games anyway.

Plus think of all us old 'the University' graduates who could really bore our grandkids to death with tales of the old University of Arkansas days with GABALE, George's Majestic on Dickson (the only place west of the tracks that could serve alcohol), George's Top Hat on Dickson (beer served by carhops), Collier's Drug, George's Brown Derby on 71, 71 Drive-in, the Shamrock Club, the Rockaway Club . . . back when it was 'The University' before the bypass and you could drive from Maple Street to Dickson on Campus Drive.

Reckon we can get them to name the new med school after Janet Huckabee?

Doc, you forgot to mention most of NW Arkansas was on the "wrong" side during the Civil War while most of central Arkansas was on the "right" side.....at least until the CSA capitol was moved to Louie's part of the state. Oh, and Fayetteville is a Democratic bastion in NW Arkansas. The last I heard it was still the site of our old dear alma mater. Roger's Pool Hall on Dickson Street was a major gathering place for all us rednecks while George's catered to most anyone who would go in.

Cato,

I don't know when you went, but Roger's Recreation was about as exclusive as the Party Store or a Dickson Street Sidewalk.

And since when is snooker a Redneck game? There were more snooker tables than billiards the night in the late 60's someone stole the battery out of my Chevy parked in the lot (actually the alley to the east).

Well, Doc, my generation of associates in Rogers was Lance Alworth, Darrell and Jarell Williams, Paul Dudley and a few more identified with that Medieval Period we inhabited. Dominoes was/is my forte, although one of the above mentioned still owes be 10 dollars for his lost cause in a snooker game. One if them even made the cover of the Arkansas Baptist paper and you know how redneck that particular gaggle is.