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Solar Power Struggle

Prof. Richard Hutchinson, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, will speak on "The Struggle for the Solar Future" on Saturday, May 2, at Nightbird Books, Dickson Street, Fayetteville, 2 p.m.

An inquiry into environmental change and the obstacles and opportunities in the path of the renewable energy transition.

Sponsored by OMNI Center for Peace, Justice, and Ecology.
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(Don't forget Fayetteville's OUTSTANDING Farmers Market will open till noon, just a few blocks from Nightbird Books).

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Swine flu on Hogland Campus...from front page of Steve Harrelson's blog.

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eLwood, dammit, my son goes to school there!

The jerk who caused all the ruckus in/around Hot Springs yesterday is in Hot Spring Co.

being evaluated...................SAY WHAT?????

What is in Hot Spring Co. other than Malvern???????????

His wife had begged for help for months and only got a blind eye,,,,something must be done

to stop these 3 inch wife beaters.

Damn ElWood,,,,don't want to hear that,,,,I have young grands and 4 month great I'm
about to panic over.

Jazzy,
last time I lived in H.S. there was a Hot Springs County hospital. Is that what they meant?

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Oh tina .....do the clicky.........we got snookered by eLwood.

Well y'all click on the link-pic. It's a joke of course.

I live with a 'sainted one' who spends 12-15 hours per shift at a local regional hospital, so
I have the right to joke a little. Plus I live about 10 miles from UA campus, and we're surrounded
by folks who travel back and forth to Mexico a few times per week and shop in the same stores,
eat in the same restaurants, etc.

Plus I have a very compromised respiratory/immune system. If it hits me I will go down like the Titanic. Two days would be a long time for me to last. I already have a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) statement signed.

Just use reasonable precautions and mucho extra cleanliness. As many have mentioned keep your hands away from your face and wash often. We keep antiseptic gel in both vehicles and in the bathroom. We use hospital grade disinfectant/cleaner in the kitchen area. Remember much of your green produce and some fruit comes from Mexico. Wash it well.

For me it's no more public places and when I must shop it's late
at night when only the occasional merchandise stocker is seen.

Cheers and cool down. We can beat this thing.

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No eL.........he is in Hot Spring County, not Garland,,,,,,,,,,can't think of anything over
there except Malvern, mostly rural. I thot he would be sent to state hosp in Benton............
tis a mystery.

His wife is a student at the college here, trying to better herself to take care of her kids..........
makes my blood boil,,,,she couldn't even get a lawyer,,,,*no case* they told her, bet if she
had a pot of $$$$$$$$$$$$ they would find a case real fast.

eLwood....no county hosp here now...................only ones that make the big profits.

Just when we thought we might have heard the last from Octo-Mom.

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It may have been a joke with Elwood linked to it, but Steve updated the blog and added a link about 12 probably cases in Bentonville.

It may have been a joke with Elwood linked to it, but Steve updated the blog and added a link about 12 probable cases in Bentonville.

Here's the photo of the Air Force 1 NYC fly over they didn't want you to see. (clicky)

We will never hear end of octomom,,,,police called today,,,one of the older kids went to
school with bruises and bite marks, black eye..........

Lord help those little ones for their crazy mama won't.

>>It may have been a joke with Elwood linked to it, but Steve updated the blog and added a link about 12 probable cases in Bentonville.<<

That was earlier today, "oh, come on." It's all been recanted now. No swine flu in Benton County. Let's try to keep up.

The 1:00 pm notification is up and AT blog linked to it hours ago.

it's on my blue name clicky

"Mormon leader of NOM appears to advocate overthrow of US government 'by whatever means necessary,' and criminalization of homosexuality."

Hug a Mormon today, Razorbabies. There's no "appears" about it: that's EXACTLY what they want, as anybody can read at clicky.

NOM, of course, is the National Organization for Marriage which created the laughable anti-gay scare-fest "Gathering Storm" ad.

Its latest ad features the religious right's new Jugs for Jesus, Cash 'n' Carrie Prejean, Miss California, whiny loser of the monumentally prestigious Miss USA Pageant and serial liar.

I adore Cash (though she's not as pretty as former Arkansas beauty queen of 40 years ago Norma Christie, published in the D-G a few weeks ago) but every time she clatters across a stage in those heels I hear the tick-tock of her rapidly diminishing 15 minutes of fame and mainly worry, does she have to declare those tits on her 1040 because you KNOW they'll show up on Miss California Pageant's itemized deductions?

I don't know any Mormons either. But if I did, I'd be hugging them about now. First, South Park exposes their phony religion's origins in the infamous "Dumb-De-Dumb-Dumb" episode and now Silicone Sally's shilling for shekels in their new Ministry of Propaganda hatefomercial.

My prayer for Cash? She meets a nice young Mormon man returning from his mission, stops hanging out with Amanda Lepore, gets married, ditches the diaphragm, starts birthing litters to replace all those Mormons who've caught on and moved on, and lives happily ever after.

Really.

Damn Cammack, I cannot imagine why they need two pigs in that household.

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Damn, Elwood. You made me spit out my cabernet on that one.

Boy, that's the truth!

The following Democrats voted against Sen. Durbin's cramdown amendment today:

Baucus, Bennet, Byrd, Carper, Dorgan, Johnson, Landrieu,
Lincoln, Nelson (NE), Pryor, Specter, Tester

Trillions for the banks... indentured servitude or tent cities for the working stiffs.

Miz Blanche is an embarrassment to the working folks of this state. Like Durbin said she and the other Dems who voted against the bill are owned by the banks.

Sorry about that, Elwood. Been working all day and checked Harrelson's blog before this one.

Jazzy, There is a psyc unit at the hospital in Malvern, I guess that is where he is......

BTW, in the morning you can always call Blanche and give her a piece of your mind.
Lincoln (D-AR) -- (202) 224-4843

I dunno any*mouse. I've written and called them both several times. Of course my envelopes
never contain the max campaign contributions, in fact they contain no contributions, so I
suppose a form letter which says absolutely nothing is the best Marky and Blanche can do
for me.

There is a Wash. County official I know who has ongoing dialogues with Sen Lincoln and
they seem to communicate well. She defends Sen Lincoln when an erroneous or touchy
subject comes up locally.

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Cartoon. Do the clicky

Global swine flu tracking map

click on eLwood

I've been reading that NYTimes again, the things those vermits can write about and leave out so much. This one that sat me off is Auto Workers: rescue or not? Course mostly about Retirees and health care. But they felld to mention just what VEBA is, thats what the bondholders want to get ahold of so bad. But what they fell to mention that VEBA is an employee and retiree contributed fund as well as what the auto companies agreed to put up. Since 2005 the retirees have been taking out $23.00 a month, and the active workers are at $71.00 a wk. You say thats all, but for GM multiply that by 488,000 retirees and then 169,000 active workers, at the end of the year thats a prettygood chunk of untaxed change, you see it comes from the workers and retirees net pay. So the company don't even carry it on thier books. It goes into a fund account. I don't know why the union don't let the public in on this, just let them writers sat up and take popshots, and the public think the poor ole bondholders are getting stuck. Well I look at investment like gambleing you are when you invest anyway you slice it. But maybe Obama has told them to let him drop the boomshell on them about this I don't know.

Our Senators help out the average American some more! I suggest we start using their Arkansas property to start Lincolnvilles & Pryorvilles for the newly homeless! Can't Pryor work some magic with all those empty FEMA trailers?

By Associated Press

5:51 PM CDT, April 30, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) - Arkansas' two U.S. senators were on the prevailing side Thursday when the Senate voted 45-51 to defeat a measure that would have given bankruptcy judges authority to reduce the costs and terms of mortgages for homeowners threatened with foreclosure.

The measure needed 60 votes to be added as an amendment to a broader mortgage bill, but received only 45.

Voting for the proposal were 43 Democrats and two independents.

Voting against it were 12 Democrats - including Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor of Arkansas - and 39 Republicans.

Condelessa Rice entraps her self on Torture. John Dean comments on video and points out her
glaring mistake or incriminating statements. "She put her self right in the middle of conspiracy or a crime."

Rice declares a Nixonian defense..'if the president authorized it then it's legal.'

Catch it on Countdown segment on blue eLwood.

Who prefers torture? Clik the blue name.

"hallelujah!" ArkansawTravler...I think?

[Churchgoers more likely to back torture, survey finds]

WASHINGTON (CNN) - The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new analysis.

More than half of people who attend services at least once a week - 54 percent - said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is "often" or "sometimes" justified. Only 42 percent of people who "seldom or never" go to services agreed, according the analysis released Wednesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

White evangelical Protestants were the religious group most likely to say torture is often or sometimes justified - more than 6 in 10 supported it. People unaffiliated with any religious organization were least likely to back it. Only 4 in 10 of them did.

The analysis is based on a Pew Research Center survey of 742 American adults conducted April 14-21. It did not include analysis of groups other than white evangelicals, white non-Hispanic Catholics, white mainline Protestants, and the religiously unaffiliated, because the sample size was too small. [CLICKY]