Arkansas Blog

Well lnp to you too. I was wondering if Max was back in our air space yet or not. Glad you're home...wish I was gone! Start baking your January 20th cookies and blowing up balloons! It's a-comin!

Get well, soon! Thanks for managing the blog.

......................THIRTEEN DAYS UNTIL THE END OF A NIGHTMARE..........

Thanks Mumford, Gerard, Leslie,David for all the extra work you did to keep the tribal fires
a'burning.

Leslie, my old standby recipe for a beginning flu is
One pint of whiskey, maybe 1/2 for your BMI
One qt of apple juice.
Mix then drink within a four hour period
while taking 2000 mg Vit. C

Guaranteed to knock it out.
I got it from a friend who is a doctor,

of English.

Central Arkansas over the air (OTA) TV viewers with digital TVs, converters, and sat tv boxes with OTA tuners got another channel of programming today. The huntin' and fishin' oriented "Untamed Sports TV" debuted on KLRT-DT (displays as subchannel 16-2). This will be of interest to some in rural Arkansas since the programming (the little I've seen) is hunting porn...er shows. Meanwhile, another digital subchannel network Variety Television formerly airing on KASN-DT (38-2) ended yesterday nationwide.

clicky.

Leslie, here's what an MD friend says to do for a cold. Take Mucinex 600 mg extended release tablets (an expectorant) 3 times a day. AND, take Aprodine tablets (a decongestant/antihistamine) two times a day. Both Mucinex and Aprodine are now over-the-counter meds. If you're having a sinus problem that has evolved into an infection, get an RX for a Z-Pac and add it to the above. You will notice a tremendous improvement within 24-36 hours.

Now, if you're actually coming down with the flu rather than the cold you've described, I can attest to the prescription provided by eLwood's doctor of English. In fact, I keep this formula on hand at all times and take a dose or two 365 days a year for, ya know, preventive reasons. I might add that never EVER in all my years, have I had the flu. Can't even remember the last time I had a cold, come to think of it.

You are entirely welcome for this medical advice, hon. I will bill you at your business address.

President elect Barack Hussein Obama' new choice for Office of Legal Counsel, Dawn Johnsen,
had this to say about Yoo's torture memo last April:

"Where is the outrage, the public outcry?! The shockingly flawed content of this memo, the deficient processes that led to its issuance, the horrific acts it encouraged, the fact that it was kept secret for years and that the Bush administration continues to withhold other memos like it--all demand our outrage.

Yes, we've seen much of it before. And yes, we are counting down the remaining months. But we must regain our ability to feel outrage whenever our government acts lawlessly and devises bogus constitutional arguments for outlandishly expansive presidential power. Otherwise, our own deep cynicism, about the possibility for a President and presidential lawyers to respect legal constraints, itself will threaten the rule of law--and not just for the remaining nine months of this administration, but for years and administrations to come."

Slate, April 3 2009

on my blue name

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Aren't you demos ashamed of the refusal to seat the new senator from Illinois? The man was appointed by the Governor in accordance with the Constitution of the state of Illinois. He is qualified for the office. It sure looks suspicious to me. I think that Mr. Reid is motivated by an insidious racial hatred of seating the only black senator in the Senate. It is reported that the only candidates that the demos wanted to be considered were white. I just think that it all stacks up to racism. Where is your appreciation for diversity and multiculturalism?

not gonna do it

not gonna do it

not gonna do it

not gonna do it

I think you are correct strange but it goes much deeper than that. It's an insidious plot by the Democrats to restore the Democratic Party to the Old South since it's obvious the GOP is now the party of old southern white men and that irks the Democrats some because you just can't win national elections with the southern states......er, hang on a minute and let me check the electoral map for 2009. I may be wrong about all of this.

It appears Strangelove is taking its cues from Mr. Stephen Colbert these days, considering he proposed nearly the exact same argument on his fine program last night....

As Mr. Alan Coombs was heard to remark on the very same program, what of the black Republican Senators? Where are they?

Who knows, maybe a minor celebrity is in our presence...

Well I would say in reference to blacks in the Senate, the demos and repubs are even. Except that the repubs aren't trying to deny a legally qualified and appointed black from being seated like the demos.

Well, except that one of the leading candidates for the chairman of the RNC is black.

...........ummmmmmmmm I think OUR prez is black....first ever, no thanks to the repubs.

I thought clinton was the first black president?

Don't you think that Valkyrie is a allegorical tale about how true Americans should have dealt with the criminal Bush-Cheney regime? Or.....

Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh walk into a bar for gay Republicans. Who is the first one to talk about smokin' a stogie? Or....

If a racially profiled race baiter would race a racist race car racer whose heart would be racing faster if it was a Race for the Incurable?

Gee......agitato ergo sum is the ontological reason for a troll's existence. Usually they consider such existential questions like "What the hell?" or "Who can I fuck with today?" or "Why do all the people I know complain about headaches when I'm around?"

Take a tip from those who have gone through food poisoning, it is due to something you shouldn't have tried to digest that was bad for you.

Jake, I assume that means you can't answer my question. I ask to be informed or to point out contradictions. (No agitation required.) I'm just shocked that all of you good little dems tolerate such racism. It looks so......suspicious!

Great Razorback game in progress ESPN2

Suspicious minds must think that way, huh?

Just because you hammer nails into a piece of wood doesn't mean you've built anything. Worse yet, you've appeared to have hit your own finger with the hammer and want us to come running to give you some attention.

I would offer you a lollipop but you'd probably find something racially stereotypical about the gesture so why bother.

Hogs at half time: 27 Longhorns 31.

A game so full of misses it's difficult to fathom. Ark is in foul trouble.

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Frontline on PBS

>>The man was appointed by the Governor in accordance with the Constitution of the state of Illinois.<<

Not exactly. CNN clarified the entire basis of the refusal but like the phony certificate of birth issue that was posted on here a doz times then poof.. disappeared this one will too.

Cato, do you have the Article of U.S. Constitution handy you posted the other night when this faux issue arose.

What fun it is reading a late evening drunk!

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Western women have jobs and careers and a lower birth rate. What fear does that strike into your hearts and minds!!

We're Doomed. Doomed I tell you!
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Belgian food makes me phlegmish.

Neither team is shooting very well tonight. I'd hate to think how far behind we'd be if Texas' best player, Connor Atchle, was able to play tonight!

Yeah, Fortson needs to settle down. Some very poor shots being taken. We're lucky it's only 27-31. Tulsa whipping up on Ball State 31-13 in the rain at Mobile tonight. Second half just underway.

Now what really interested me a couple days ago was Paul Greenberg's perspective on NPR and This I Believe. He seemed to be doing a pale imitation of Philip Martin dissecting belief and disbelief. He did his usual narcissistic adoration of Southern literature (whose main feature is an almost incestuous glorification of the family relations) and strangely picked the torchbearer for his argument none other than Walker Percy, a Southern writer who hates being called a Southern writer.
Greenbeerg disdained beliefs as something false because a character from Percy's National Book Award novel "The Moviegoer", Binx Bolling, feels that all people are just going through their lives committing meaningless acts and empty gestures. The only time he considers them to be engaging in reality is when they exhibit their quirks and idiosyncracies.
Percy writes for those who are lonely and savor their loneliness and distance from the world. It says a lot about Greenberg that he models his arguments and Sunday morning philosophy on such a forlorn character.
"In the epilogue Binx's search has been totally abandoned. He no longer goes to movies. He is living a life of mediocrity and trying to pretend that he is happy. But there is every indication that the despair he felt throughout the novel will someday return, leaving him even more empty than before." - Steven Higgins

A sad tale about a sad man with sad ideas.

3 fouls for Fortson--not good

So does all this mean that 'no black man need apply'?

Jazzy, I have the perfect job for Monkeyboy post 1/20. Go to New Orleans and work on houses and fill out "Road Home" applications til he keels over!!!

Watching Frontline makes me furious all over again!!!!!!!!!

Watch this closely. I agree with you strangelove. Senator Burris should have been seated today....period. He is a Senator as legally as Pryor is a Senator. I don't know what Harry Reid is trying to pull, but I don't like it.

So, Senator Burris wasn't seated? I suppose he wouldn't stand for that...

oh, wait.

DBI and I agree on something!!!!!! Stop the presses, a breakthrough has been made. So when are the democratic faithful going to put some pressure on these senate clowns?

SO now LM glass fiber--the windmill blade plant-is going to lay-off 150 workers...are they going to refund the various financial incentives given them by Beebe to have them come here?

CEO William Clark of CDI Resigns. Story at link

WE WON! WE WON! WE WON!

Un FRIGGIN Believable!

Who was on here last night poo-poohing any possibility of the Hogs winning

67-61, HISTORIC!

Let's go burn a couch on Dickson Street!

Holy Smoke! What an effort, and what a win!
Yippi-Yi-Yo and Go Hogs!

Think we will make it in the Top 25??????

Who put this on the blog:

>>Went over to the north side this afternoon to see Pelphrey's Hogs beat N. Texas. Great crowd (almost 16,000) and atmosphere at Alltel. These kids are really fun to watch, but they won't beat Texas next week playing like they did today.<<
January 3, 2009 07:22 PM

Want your crow served with red table wine or Boone's Farm?

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Those last 22 seconds were a sight to behold eL.

Dream on Nanc....monkeyboy never broke a sweat in his miserable life.

Yes, I'm mad all over again, after watching Frontline. Brings back all the memories of day

after day of human misery on my t.v. screen....my daughters would come in and we would
look in horror and bawl like babies.

If a Katrina had hit, ohhh say THE HAMPTONS, idiot would have had the army, navy, marines
and air force on the ground before the storm passed over.............
but........New Orleans 9th ward is poor black folks,,,,so what the hell?

Does that include the stellar performance of Ray 'choclate city' nagin and ex Gov. Blanco?

Your right Jazzy, Even in his brush hauling days I'm sure he never broke a sweat...he's a "fly over" kinda guy.

It breaks my heart to see our fellow Americans suffer so..........and the Powers that be basically say " F U".

Well, everyone is high on the Hog win.
Just wanted to compare two stories for a moment: Earlier in the day there was a post about the 'Iconoclast' bragging about the depth of athletic expenditures at UA at Fayetteville. Also today there was a news story about how UA at Fayetteville is going to have to raise tuition next fall because of a shrinking budget. Do the click.

Who put this on the blog:
>>Went over to the north side this afternoon to see Pelphrey's Hogs beat N. Texas. Great crowd (almost 16,000) and atmosphere at Alltel. These kids are really fun to watch, but they won't beat Texas next week playing like they did today.

I put that on the blog, eLwood, and it holds true. Had the Hogs played tonight like they did against a much lesser team here Saturday, they would not have beaten No. 7 Texas. The evidence in support of that can be found in the first half score: Texas 31, Arkansas 27. We were lucky to be that close, and probably would not have been had Texas not been playing without an injured key player. Pelphrey obviously got the kids settled down at the half, particularly Fortson, and we see what happened. These young Hogs can go to the moon this year if they settle down, cut the number of fouls, and take better shots. Beating Oklahoma and Texas proves they can do it once they iron out their game wrinkles. Can't wait to get up there to see 'em play Miss. State this weekend!

>>I put that on the blog, eLwood, and it holds true.<<

No it doesn't. Seems the Hogs played better against No.Texas State.

.............No.Tex State Game................Texas Longhorn Game

Hog Stats:
FreeThrow......735.................................667

Field Goals.....509..................................387

3 Pts...........357 (5/14)...........................278 (5/18)

Rebounds......32...................................32

Blocks...........4.....................................4

source on eLwood

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Oops. Game stats on blue name.

Franken does Jagger.............at my blue name.

Very good!

Joke of the Day...basketball

There were 3 basketball players, one each from IU, Notre Dame, and Purdue, standing on a burning roof in Indianapolis. The fire department came with a blanket and yelled to the Notre Dame player to jump. He jumped and they moved it to the right. He hit the sidewalk with a splat.
They then called to the IU player to jump. He said that he wouldn't jump. They said they liked IU better than Norte Dame. So he jumped and the fire department moved the blanket to the left. The IU player hit with a splat on the sidewalk.

Then they called to the Purdue player to jump. He said that he wouldn't jump. The fire department said they hated IU and Notre Dame. He yelled back, "Lay the blanket down on the sidewalk, and then I'll jump!"

bj, actually that was an Aggie not a Perdue guy. "His" brother drowned while riding in the back of a pick-up truck that went off the road into a bayou, uh Meto I think, anyway he drowned cause he couldn't get the tail gate open.

Jake- no, it's Richard Ford ( *arky connection*; plus Eudora Welty's next door neighbor and curator of her museum/estate over in Jackson, MS) who says there's no such thing as a Southern Writer. Walker Percy is dead and doesn't mind what you call him. He was also a damned fine writer- The Moviegoer is in countless college lit reading lists- and if you haven't noticed, sadness is part of the human condition. That being said: whoa! a pale imitation of Philip Martin's writing must be pale indeed.

"No it doesn't. Stats indicate the Hogs played better against No.Texas State." - eLwood

Believe me, I'm not trying to take anything away from my favorite team, the Hogs. The win over Texas was outstanding and portends a great season. But also believe me when I say they would not have beaten the Horns last night had they played the same kind of game they played against N. Texas. Nor would they have beaten Oklahoma with no more intensity than they played N. Texas. Statistics don't tell everything, including the fact that one would expect the Hogs' statistics against a team like N. Texas to be better than against a much, much tougher team like Texas, the No. 7 team in the country. I'm betting Pelphrey and Rob Evans would agree with me.

"I DON'T LIKE TO BE DESCRIBED as a Southern writer," declared Walker Percy in a 1989 interview.

Neither Percy nor I said there was no such thing as a Southern writer. Please read more carefully next time.

Percy is a fine writer and a National Book Award for "The Moviegoer" shows his talent has been duly recognized. That Greenberg wants us to choose between the pap of platitudes or existential emptiness is just another case of false choices that so pervades editorial opinions.

Sadly, Greenberg's feeble attack on This I Believe is that it sometimes offers the mundane as well as the insightful looks into what determines our character. Again, such is part of the human condition, which both Binx and Greenberg observe more as bystanders than as participants. Percy reminds his readers in the end of the loneliness and emptiness such a life has.

It is Greenberg's major weakness (and likewise a major flaw of the human condition) that he relies too often on bringing beliefs down in order to bring his own beliefs or disbeliefs up.

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