Arkansas Blog

Rec'd this from a bright, gorgeous young woman in South Bend who was once a Republican until
George Walker Bush came along:

Dear Fellow Constituent:

The George W Bush Presidential Library is now in the planning stages and accepting donations. The Library will include:

The Hurricane Katrina Room, which is still under construction.

The Alberto Gonzales Room, where you won't be able to remember anything.

The Texas Air National Guard Room, where you don't even have to show up.

The Walter Reed Hospital Room, where they don't let you in.

The Guantanamo Bay Room, where they don't let you out.

The Weapons of Mass Destruction Room, which no one has been able to find.

The National Debt Room, which is huge and has no ceiling.

The Tax Cut Room, with entry only to the wealthy.

The Economy Room, which is in the toilet.

The Iraq War Room. (After you complete your first visit, they make you to go back for a second, third, fourth, and sometimes fifth visit.)

The Dick Cheney Room, in the famous undisclosed location, complete with shotgun gallery.

The Environmental Conservation Room, still empty.

The Supreme Gift Shop, where you can buy an election.

The Airport Men's Room, where you can meet some of your favorite Republican Senators.

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The Decider Room, complete with dart board, magic 8-ball, Ouija board, dice, coins, and straws.

Give us a review of the movie, Max.

how many rooms are in that mobile home on the river down there? easy, easy with throwing stones........ if you have a glass house in your own back yard.

They don't ever give up. Chicago Tribune Advertisement. Do the clicky

No, they don't give up Cato. Because they are idiots.

He goes from the pan to the fire Cato.

click on eLwood

It seems, eLwood, these folks always have more money than they know how to spend. And I wonder Why we don't read about these events in MSM about the Indian police not firing at the terrorists? Do the clicky to read eyewitness accounts.

Cato,
In the past 35 years I've known two cases who made a bizarre case such as Thomas did above. Anti-this or that. One had a campaign going claiming LBJ was homo and that the
CIA and Federal Reserve System were the same. He dragged up evidence of his own creation to prove it. The other nut was claiming federal courts did not have authority to enforce tax codes.
That got widespread support in the Ozarks and ended with a big shootout in Harrison with Gordon Kohl being turned into a potato chip, and his wife. Both were cause leaders were certifiably nuts.

But what amazed me was how they can attract a following. Seems thousands are ready to heed the call from a nutcase without checking out anything the nutcases assert.

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Cato,
In the past 35 years I've known two cases who made a bizarre case such as Thomas did above. Anti-this or that. One had a campaign going claiming LBJ was homo and that the
CIA and Federal Reserve System were the same. He dragged up evidence of his own creation to prove it. The other nut was claiming federal courts did not have authority to enforce tax codes.
That got widespread support in the Ozarks and ended with a big shootout in Harrison with Gordon Kohl turned into a potato chip, and his wife. Both were cause leaders were certifiably nuts.

But what amazed me was how they can attract a following. Seems thousands are ready to heed the call from a nutcase without checking out anything the nutcases assert.

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What did you think of 'Slumdog'? It's the early pick as the one to beat for Best Picture awards. I know it's set in Mumbai. Does it have any extra resonance in light of the Mumbai terrorist attacks?

ARK. BLOG: No insight on terrorism, but it presents a powerful view of the sprawling, poor city. It's an action flick of a sort. Doesn't strike me as a Best Picture type, but I really liked it.

My first wife and I took in the King Tut exhibit in New Orleans in 1977 or 78 and it's something you remember for the rest of your life. I guess King Tut still looks about the same after 30 years. Wish I could say the same for me and my poor dead first wife.

I managed to stay out of the giant chocolate moose cake my kid made, well sorta. I did a better job of staying away from my brother in law and the bunch watching the OU-OSU football game in the den. Guess 30 years of living in OK has pretty well turned him into an Okey...poor guy. But he was among one of the 12 Obama supporters in Oklahoma, so good on him.

I've had a lovely time, but I'm ready to get back home to the dogs and the mess. I miss my horrible lumpy king-size bed. I miss my smelly dogs. I miss my much faster DSL connection. I miss coffee in my own Hull pottery cup. I miss the sound of constant roofing going on all around me.....will Fort Baptist ever fully recover from that damn hail storm? I miss my old butt pillow when I type. I guess that's all I miss....the rest of it is a big pain in the butt. But be it ever so humble, ya know.

I sure wish Obama National would get here! I'm ready to be done with bad people and I'm ready for all the good things to start happening. Now that they've crushed a Wal-Mart temp worker, I'll quit worrying about this being a bad Christmas. We'll spend ourselves broke as usual and the Military-Industrial Complex will relax. Now that Mrs. Max has dropped some coins at the Big D store their stock will start going back up and if they've stocked the book section with Huckabee's new book, they'll be a lot of profit there.

But remember to get in the storage room and dig out your pitchfork and torch sose you'll be ready when the Bush pardons come down. We're gonna have to break some windows and scream like we're nuts....go all ape shit on them, though I doubt it will do any good. We should at least act like we're dangerous. And we got to start knowing what's going on at all times and quit being surprised after the fact.

You know someone once said, "Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form an opinion of everything and do everything consciously. No, Obama didn't say it, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin said it in 1917. I thought his country sucked, but that's a hell of an idea he spit out there that Stalin didn't follow. Maybe we can follow it by this time next year.

The situation with India and Pakistan is getting dangerous again, and it will be interesting to see what role the Obama administration will play in it.

It will also be interesting to see how much money the Clinton Foundation has received from India and NRIs, and how that will affect Hillary's ability to influence Pakistan.

A Vote For Obama Was a Sin

So says Father Joseph in Modesto, CA, a priest who now claims any parishioner who voted for Obama must now confess. Such a vote was a mortal sin.

I'm not making this up.

Video is on blue name.

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.........Disaster Monkey's Last Minute Rules, and they are disastrous:

-would make it much harder for the government to regulate toxic substances and hazardous chemicals to which workers are exposed on the job.

-One rule would allow coal companies to dump rock and dirt from mountaintop mining operations into nearby streams and valleys.

-Another, issued last week by the Health and Human Services Department, gives states sweeping authority to charge higher co-payments for doctor's visits, hospital care and prescription drugs provided to low-income people under Medicaid.

-One rule would make it easier to build power plants near national parks and wilderness areas.

-Another would reduce the role of federal wildlife scientists in deciding whether dams, highways and other projects pose a threat to endangered species.

Bush does not want Team Obama looking at diacetyl, a chemical that adds the buttery flavor to some types of microwave popcorn. It's likely hazardous to your health.

NYT, today on blue name.
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.......................Diacetyl

Here you are hog fans. If you thought cockroaches in chocolate was bad try some lung disease compliments of that buttery smell-taste in microwave popcorn:

Health Factors

Potential symptoms: Eye, mucous membrane, respiratory system, skin irritation; persistent cough, phlegm production, wheezing, dyspnea (shortness of breath); unusual fatigue; episodes of mild fever or generalized aches; severe skin rashes.

Health Effects: Irritation-Eyes, Nose, Throat, Skin (HE15); Suspected cumulative lung damage---bronchiolitis obliterans (HE10)

(don't tell Rwingnuts. Bush doesn't want them to know about its hazards.

"ConAgra has decided to drop diacetyl, a flavoring it adds to its microwave popcorn, as doctors have indicated there may be a raised risk of developing bronchiolitis obliterans, a type of lung disease. ConAgra is the largest microwave popcorn supplier in the world.

Recently, Dr. Celile Rose, Denver's National Jewish Medical and Research Center, said she suspects she may have a patient who most likely developed bronchiolitis obliterans as a result of inhaling diacetyl when preparing and eating microwaved popcorn."
Medical News Today, Sept 2007

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Most cases of bronchiolitis obliterans caused by diacetyl have been in popcorn manufacturing workers. The man (consumer) with the problem ate large quantities of microwave popcorn every day for ten years. One report says he loved the buttery smell so much, he would open the bag and inhale the fragrance of the "butter". So he is not the typical consumer. There should be a regulation to enforce standards for the workers, but many of the popcorn manufacturers have stopped using it or say they will soon stop.

Personally I have never liked microwave popcorn with the fake butter flavor and only by the "natural" version of microwave popcorn.

As to the possible rule to get more data for the risk assessments before making a rule, I don't see a problem with the idea. Emergency temporary standards can be issued as an interim fix, but before a ruling is made, the information should be obtained and considered in the context of all the data. My problem is with the years and years that it already takes to get a regulation finalized. That is what needs to be fixed.