Arkansas Blog

Max - I was surprised not to see any mention on your blog about the 1 yr anniversery of the disappearance of John Glasgow. It was quite the post generator on your blog this time last year. I specifically remember Norma Bates' bold predictions that there would be a major break in the case by some certain date, which came to pass uneventfully, and without any explanation, despite his/her insinuations that they had major insider info on the case.

I noticed both Arkansas Business and KATV ran a piece on this recently. The circumstances are just so intriguing, especially given all of the recent developments with Dillards and CDI.

Mother who made news this week by birthing 8 tiny babies already has 6......

no father in picture,,,living with parents..

Lord help all those children.

Lots of twins in my family, and a big Ugh, but good news later on as they entertain
each other.

Arkansas was just mentioned on The Rachel Madow Show for the Arkansas Legislature's refusal to issue the congratulations to President Obama. *sigh*

"I recall attending the UA when they absolutely would not cancel classes. Proffs had to walk to school, some for miles."

Me too, elwood. They just don't make 'em anymore as tough as we were back then, do they.

Oops. Mr. President, you may have stepped in it. Amazed that your girls are home from school because of the ice storm in Washington? Washington needs a little Chicago toughness? Now I voted for you and lord knows I want you to succeed.
But Sir, SIR, when Chicagoans venture out in ice storms, they are just as dumb as we southerners are when we venture out in them. Yeah, I know Chicagoans do that, having a few relatives up that way. And even they figure it's dumb and dangerous, especially when the snow plows aren't equipped to deal with sheets of ice. Sure those folks know how to drive on snow, but honey, don't NOBODY really know how to drive on ice, unless they have a sleigh hitched to reindeer.
Sir, I'd suggest you button your lip.

Yeah, Cato....in the olden days it must've been an M.C. Escher world where it was uphill coming from and going to school.

Oh, we have settled down from the food fight and I think we are just mopping up now.

I don't see that Max posted this on the blog today:

Obama Signs Equal-Pay Legislation

Link at blue name.

Now eL and Cato - I was there during the old days and I do remember in my Junior year that we had a day with about 2 feet of snow. I think classes were called off. City was shut down.

I had moved off campus to an apartment with three of my fraternity brothers off of Arkansas Avenue. Leverett Street I believe. We bought two St. Bernard puppies that fall and by the time the snow fell, they were big enough to take out for a good romp. We started up Maple Street with both dogs and stopped at each Sorority House to let everyone play with the dogs. Picked up a lot of good phone numbers that day.

Goof, I lived on Leverett St. at one time and I don't ever recall missing classes or seeing any big dogs pulling anyone around by the leash. I remember getting a huge snow storm one April that caught us all by surprise but by golly we made it to the BA building to listen to Hudson and Reeser lecture to us on the perils of something or another.

Okaaay, Goof. Four guys on the make, two puppies that morphed into big dogs posthaste and two more years of school . . . How'd y'all do gradewise and who got custody when you graduated?

Maybe I missed it....but I think the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act's passage today really deserved a mention on the blog!!! Far more than say, Rush Limbaugh.

Maybe I missed it....but I think the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act's passage today really deserved a mention on the blog!!! Far more than say, Rush Limbaugh.

From the Dept. of Irony...

I spotted a van pulling into the UALR campus this morning with 1 each yellow and red-white-blue "Support Our Troops" magnetic "ribbons" and this bumper sticker:

"To hell with our enemies. God Bless America"

OK D.

Senior year we split up. The banker and the pharmacist took the male and moved to the house across from Razorback Stadium. It was party central and Alex became a keg dog. Pretty much enjoyed hanging around the keg and drinking out of the pan below the keg. I have no idea how things turned out.

The cpa and stockbroker moved downstairs in the apartment building and Buffy split time between there and west Fayetteville where my roomate was from. She had the best of both worlds in that she loved to walk the campus everyday but enjoyed being with my roomates parents. Lived to the age of 10 which is pretty good for a working dog. We decided that she would stay with my roomates parents because she was always scared of storms and lightning.

Actually, Redneck --

Norma's original post on Feb 14 stated the case would be "solved" in a month or less.

Then, with further developments from sources, Norma's next post on Feb 29 said, in full:

"On or around March 6th, newshounds. "Anonymous" letter or phone call, instantly spun six ways from Sunday by the powers that be, that breaks the Glasgow case wide open and unravels the whole deal. According to sources.

Or my name isn't Jessica Fletcher."

That indeed was the date, "newshounds," the case broke wide open nationally and began to be seriously covered by national news media, when even the D-G had barely covered it at that point.

Norma's next post, on March 6th, is at clicky and, as you can see, WAS an "explanation" that amended the original prediction of a quick "solution" from sources to make NO timed estimate of a solution. An expected event on March 14, as mentioned in that post, apparently did not happen (in fact Bates "hoped" to be wrong about that information, and apparently was).

It's a year later and Glasgow's disappearance is still a "mystery" but still, according to those same sources, very much under investigation, and still tragic.

It may become another Jon-Benet Ramsey investigative case that drags on frustratingly for years, though in light of recent gleanings that may also be unlikely. The next time-frame one hears is this Spring, around April -- or around tax-time, 2009.

Time will tell.

But I can tell you this: Norma Bates is no Jessica Fletcher. Which is why she doesn't have her own TV series and must, instead, live her dramas from Chenal . . . where she is never without her Red Dot upon her person.

I didn't see it either Sarah, that's why I posted a link to the story at 9:16 on this open thread.

I saw the link about equal pay, stole it, sent it to all hussies who are friends and to some who will get very upset. Gotta stir the pot, you know.

Thanks, Nevervote...my scanning eye missed your post!

Doigotta,

Obama's right. I was stationed in North Chicago and Idaho in the Navy. It took one heck of a storm to close them down and the closings lasted only long enough for the snow plows to get around.

You drove on ice and packed snow all winter, but they allowed studded snowtires and chains that would rip up the asphalt topcoat better that the highway repaving machines we have in Arkansas now.

The one thing that would stop you in Idaho was failure to plug in your crankcase heater overnight. After a night of the normal temperatures, 10w30 was like heavy fudge.