Arkansas Blog

Rec'd this from my friend Art Hobson:

Hi friends,

I just signed MoveOn.org Political Action's petition stating :

"Congress should quickly pass Obama's plan to invest in clean energy, green jobs, health care, and relief for struggling states. No more tax cuts for the rich."

My wife, Marie Riley, is organizing a small group that will go to Rep. Boozeman's office soon to deliver these petitions. MoveOn will collect all the Northwest Arkansas signatures by this coming Tuesday night and send the names to Marie on Wednesday, so please sign up right away and forward this to your friends. I think that more than one person from a single address can sign, so try to get as many signatures as possible. Marie hopes to have hundreds of names to present. MoveOn wants to keep the pro-Obama momentum going. I'm hoping there will be more such MoveOn petition drives, on global warming and other issues."

sign the petition on my blue name. You need not be from NWA.
Beacoup thanks

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For tonight's game we're having Heineken Green label,
Hebrew National Franks-97% fat-free Kosher beef,
on Ezekial bread, topped with venison chili and piles
of yellow onions.

We save the potato chips for camping. Nothing starts a
campfire better than a big handful of potato chips. Even better than
kerosene plus, no obnoxious fumes, and they have so much
fat they burn in the strongest of breezes.

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"These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
Deuteronomy 14:5

pygarg=screwhorn antelope
chamois=mountain goat.

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M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

Another one gone. Do the clicky for a photo and then cut and past the URL below this line for the obit.

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=28117

Italy did for retirement financing what President George W. Bush couldn't do in the U.S.: It privatized part of its social security system. The timing couldn't have been worse.

"The global market meltdown has created losses for those who agreed to shift their contributions from a government severance payment plan to private funds meant to yield higher returns. Anger is rising both at the state, which promoted the change, and money managers such as UniCredit SpA and Arca Previdenza, which stood to profit.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's administration is now considering ways to compensate as many as 1.2 million people who made the switch, giving up a fixed return for private plans linked to financial markets. It's also letting people delay redemptions on retirement funds to avoid losses after Italy's benchmark stock index fell 50 percent in 2008, destroying 300 billion euros ($423 billion) in wealth...

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"Because the - all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculate, for example, is on the table; whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases.

There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those - changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be - or closer delivered to what has been promised. Does that make any sense to you? It's kind of muddled.

Look, there's a series of things that cause the - like, for example, benefits are calculated based upon the increase of wages, as opposed to the increase of prices. Some have suggested that we calculate - the benefits will rise based upon inflation, as opposed to wage increases. There is a reform that would help solve the red if that were put into effect. In other words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the promised benefits grow, if those - if that growth is affected, it will help on the red."
-George W. Bush, explaining his plan to save Social Security, Tampa, Fla., Feb. 4, 2005

snort on George.

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How about a little history and a question: A great love story or a great fool?
Do the clicky

I do miss Ben's Chili Bowl.

What? No jalopenas? Bunch of sissies.

Interesting story on the NLRdailynews.com blog about an alcohol sales to minors sting run by the cops over there just before New Years Eve. If teens want to buy some brewskis, the North Side of the river seems to be the place to go.

Am in agreement with you again PV!! Gimme a handful of them spicy little mouthburners and see the flames light up in my eyes.

Doigotta, woman after my own heart..........

P.D. James, Ruth Rendell, Anne Perry

those english folk do have a way with words.

The new Fayetteville Gusano's for us tonite, courtesy of my l'il brudder, Dr. Beeper. Take out. The place was packed.
Cold as shit out.

"History will vindicate my husband."
Laura Bush 2008

"History will vindicate my husband."
Eva Braun 1945

I see Cato is reduced to making up quotes.

Will the GOP remain a Party of White Southern males?

By ADAM NAGOURNEY
Published: January 10, 2009

WASHINGTON - As the nation is on the verge of inaugurating its first black president, the Republican Party is facing a telling choice: whether to elect its first black chairman.

NYT
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I own up to it prouster *grin*

Just trying to stir up the brain dead natives......no luck, I see.

Oh, those and more, Jazzy. I raid the library shelves on a regular basis. And gripe that my favorites can't write faster. Or that they have the temerity to get old and die. Why, the very idea!

Two more faves; Minette Walters, Thomas H. Cook......good, good, good.

Our library has what is called *The Book Room,* books for sale, none over $2.00
I'll go with a big book bag and fill up....several readers in family so buy for them too.
I go to nursing home and read to anyone who wants to listen, I'm reading David Pryor's
new bio now and they are loving it as I interject lots of memories and personal stuff from
growing up in Camden with David and all his band of bandits, ha
My pride and joy....his signed copy to me thanks to Goof's lovely wife.

Happy reading

The other view (photo). Do the clicky

What happened to Matilda & Ednas blog????? Matilda's Advice & Rants? its gone and I will miss them too now! i hope they are ok.