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Catfish Eater- sorry to hear your job may disappear in 3 months. Tough time to be looking, but better to have some time to do so than no time like so many others. If you have marketable skills, you'll do better than others.

But, that said, and your silly pronouncements that you have converted, I don't believe you. So I'm reposting what I originally posted on Tuesday's open line:

"Remember how many times and over how many years Republicans told us that we needed to run government like a business, meaning business could do everything government could do but at a lower cost? When did that line morph into the current one, a 180-degree U-turn, that it is unfair to allow government to do something like provide health care because business can't do it as cheaply as government?

Any of you Republican posters want to explain how both of the above can be true? Senator Al Franken got it right- you guys are such lying liars."

Please respond unless you are afraid to.

Nuns have purses? Carry cash?

Live in same-sex Hillcrest? The tony Heights?

Monseigneur Hebert? I know you're retired in Hot Springs and cooking gourmet and everything but could you shed some light?

Am I wrong? There's a vow of poverty and stuff?

What idiot would rob a NUN at Kroger's for Christ's sake?

No, really.

"Stick 'em up, Sister?"

What'd they -- cop the makings of a CYO potluck dinner?

Street-cred-wise, this will haunt these guys the rest of their lives.

Whowwww,,,,should have put this below....not thinking, not much left to think with.

clicky

.........PENITENTS COMPETE......

Turkish TV gameshow looks to convert atheists

Reuters Fri Jul 3, 2009 8:21am EDT

(not making this up. Cultural differences become obvious)

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - What happens when you put a Muslim imam, a Christian priest, a rabbi and a Buddhist monk in a room with 10 atheists?

Turkish television station Kanal T hopes the answer is a ratings success as it prepares to launch a gameshow where spiritual guides from the four faiths will seek to convert a group of non-believers.

The prize for converts will be a pilgrimage to a holy site of their chosen religion -- Mecca for Muslims, the Vatican for Christians, Jerusalem for Jews and Tibet for Buddhists. ....

The makers of "Penitents Compete" are unrepentant and reject claims that the show, scheduled to begin broadcasting in September, will cheapen religion.

"We are giving the biggest prize in the world, the gift of belief in God," Kanal T chief executive Seyhan Soylu told Reuters.

"We don't approve of anyone being an atheist. God is great and it doesn't matter which religion you believe in. The important thing is to believe," Soylu said.

The project focuses attention on the issue of religious identity in European Union-candidate Turkey, where rights groups have raised concerns over freedom of religion for non-Muslim minorities.

entire folly is on click it.

HAPPY 4th

clicky

Isn't this Huck's FOX NEWS schtick?

Minus suicide-bombers?

God's great and stuff.

>>Isn't this Huck's FOX NEWS schtick?<<

Perhaps. I just found the howler in that they think in the span of game-show time non-believers will
convert to believing in SOMETHING. At best it will be canned outcomes or folks who like to travel playing the situation for a free trip.

It's pretty easy to see the Turks are threatened or even frightened by those who are different, just as here and 90% of the places around the world. History tells us it's the believers who are dangerous and very destructive.

Didn't see this noted anywhere ... Arkansas's own "celebrity gardener" p allen smith escaped serious injury in the Hamptons and made p6 gossip column in the ny post after his wreck in the hamptons this week. He seemed to realize just how fortunate he --- and others on the road --- were ... "Thank God..."

www.nypost.com/seven/07012009/gossip/pagesix/narrow_escape_176910.htm

Be careful out there this weekend!

Dear Arkansas Times Bloggers,
As Promised

dottoreholliday (dottholliday) has sent you a Jacquie Lawson electronic greeting card.
Please CLIK see your card.

Alternatively, please visit http://www.jacquielawson.com and select the Pick Up Card option in the menu. Then enter your card code, which is: 1887174935794

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As promised.

Cato, be careful. You may hurt yourself as you fotfl.

Severus, you, Liebertus, LargeA** and HD may research and post as many blogs as you want, but you'll fail to find the Washington quote or the amplified flagpole story. But go ahead, I'll give your posts to Snopes, it will save them so time on research.

My Cousin sent me an audio file TheStarSpangledBanner__asyou_veneverheardit.wmv
I listened to it and my jaw dropped. Some poor benighted soul, who is so intellectually bereft that they adamantly must have "graven images" to believe in rather than concepts of freedom, facts and truth has rewritten history to "assist" you in your grasp of patriotism and its indivisibility from christianity on this 4th of July weekend. There are glaring idiotic errors in the script the actor is reading.

In researching the claims, I found other written postings of the same "amplified" truth at:
http://webit4unow.com/AmericaPart01b.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/940659/posts
Clik to read

One "the colonies" "the American Colonies" Francis Scott Key wrote the poem "The Defense of Fort McHenry" during the War of 1812 (in fact September 13-14, 1814). The Constitution of the United States of America was ratified March 1789, twenty-five years before. After twenty-five years at least the U.S. residents were calling it the United States of American and not the colonies.

Two, search as I might (about an hour and a half) in my print collections and online there is no confirmation that George Washington, known as a Deist, Anglican and Non-communicant Episcopalian ever said "The thing that sets the American Christian apart from all other people in the world is he will die on his feet before he'll live on his knees."

Third, the writer and narrator said, ". . . Francis Scott Key . . . immediately went into Fort Henry to see what had happened. And what he'd found had happened was that that flagpole and that flag had suffered repetitious direct hits...and when it had fallen...that men, fathers...who knew what it meant for that flag to be on the ground...although knowing that all of the British guns were trained on it, walked over and held it up...humanly...until they died. Their bodies were removed and others took their place. Francis Scott Key said what held that flagpole in place at that unusual angle...were patriots' bodies."

Read this more accurate and less propagandized version of the events of September 13-14 , 1814 in Francis Scott Keys life from Hubbell, Jay B. The South in American Literature: 1607-1900. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1954: 301..

". . . The Star-Spangled Banner
During the War of 1812, Key, accompanied by the American Prisoner Exchange Agent Colonel John Stuart Skinner, dined aboard the British ship HMS Tonnant, as the guests of three British officers: Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane, Rear Admiral Sir George Cockburn, and Major General Robert Ross. Skinner and Key were there to negotiate the release of a prisoner, Dr. William Beanes. Beanes was a resident of Upper Marlboro, Maryland and had been captured by the British after he placed rowdy stragglers under citizen's arrest with a group of men. Skinner, Key, and Beanes were allowed to return to their own sloop, but were not allowed to return to Baltimore because they had become familiar with the strength and position of the British units and with the British intent to attack Baltimore. As a result of this, Key was unable to do anything but watch the bombarding of the American forces at Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore on the night of September 13-September 14, 1814.[2]
When the smoke cleared, Key was able to see an American flag still waving. On the way back to Baltimore, he was inspired to write a poem describing his experience, "The Defence of Fort McHenry", which he published in the Patriot on September 20, 1814. He intended to fit the rhythms of composer John Stafford Smith's "To Anacreon in Heaven".[2] It has become better known as "The Star Spangled Banner". Under this name, the song was adopted as the American national anthem, first by an Executive Order from President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 (which had little effect beyond requiring military bands to play it) and then by a Congressional resolution in 1931, signed by President Herbert Hoover. . . ."

I volunteered and served six years in the U.S. Navy, during Vietnam in a War I knew was wrong, but I owed a duty to my country. I do not need nor want my history amplified and/or corrected to be a patriot. My motive for service was duty to my country and the Constitution of the United States. It greatly angers me when some moron decides that their political and religious predilections override facts and truth to advance their own agenda. This perversion of history and the truth is a prime example of that "lying is okay because I know what I believe is right and the ends justify the means!" It is hard to believe that anyone could have greater contempt for two American historical figures and for the readers/listener than this moron did.

Lil' CCRRR's, stick to worshiping the political "graven image"s erected by your guru Karl Rove, who graduated high school, but deigned graduating from any institution of higher learning. Leave the rest to scholars who actually studied and read history.

Norma,

I waver between RSOF and Presbyterian, but even I know that one.

Only certain orders take vows of poverty, silence, etc. It depends upon the order the nun belongs to and whether she is a sister or novice, etc. I sure we have some Catholic friends here who can explain it better than I.

But, if I remember correctly (on the male side), the Jesuits are not under a vow of poverty nor a vow of silence, but the Franciscans do take a vow of poverty.

Correct me and give me a Bronx Cheer, if I mispoke Vulgate readers.

Thanks Jazzy. I love Cagney in this, his favorite movie. He epitomizes the vaudeville hoofer to me, but to see how really good he was, CLIK.

The staircase scene was a total Cagney improvisation and Michael Curtiz, seeing the greatness of a "real hoofer" kept the cameras rolling and printed it.

Thank you dottholiday for the Jacquie card, I always liked them. Have you ever received any of the Christmas cards with Chudley, the black lab?

Fireworks starting over lake..............beautiful in night sky................

shutting down to watch with Frenchie from our sunroom...............

happy 4th, be safe

g'night.............bon nuit

wow yahoo finally changed oh yeah that was myself behind the times Can you believe that prick murdered micheal or is that michael oh and we seen that guy in town that did that to that old guy Sammy kershaw is gonna be at Choctaw for the forth later for now-unless ya perfer goodbye

Max, congratulations on winning 3rd place nationally in alternative news weeklies for your Arkansas Blog. Good show!

Congrats also to Ark. Times writers David Koon, Gerard Mathews and John Williams who also copped a 1st place (Media Reporting/Criticism re Anne Pressly's slaying) and 3rd place (Public Service re drilling for gas in the Fayetteville shale) in other categories for news stories. I just read about your awards in the most recent Ark. Times print edition ("The Insider").

Your understated acknowledgment of the 3 awards made me think about Paul Greenberg whose byline for over 20 years noted he had won a Pulitzer Prize and was the editorial page editor for the Ark. Democrat. Made it falsely appear to readers that he won a Pulitzer while working at the Democrat which was not the case (Pulitzer won in 1969 and didn't go to work for Democrat until 1992, I think). Years ago I queried Greenberg on his byline being misleading to readers since he won a Pulitzer back when he worked for the Pine Bluff Commercial and not while working for the Democrat- isn't the Democrat still Pulitzerless (is that a word)? I thought his byline was dishonest and intentionally so at which he took umbrage- gee. Some months later he dropped that byline wording, but I have no idea if it was due to my comments, comments by others or a guilty conscience.

Congrats again, Max and David and Gerard and John!

Nanc,
The first one I every received was the original of Pear cottage with Chudleigh and the Cats.

doc - the word you are fishing for is called patrimony and Norma you are not even amusing.

Thanks for your Jackie Lawson dotto. I have a lovely Brit friend who always sends a Lawson card on
Thanksgiving, Xmas and 4 July. She selected one different from yours this year featuring Lawson's fav animals, dogs and birds.

clicky

Norma dear, Mount St. Mary's is in Hillcrest. Nuns have to eat too, hence the grocery shopping. I don't think that fishes and loaves bit works in Arkansas, not even for a nun.
I'd guess most carry a purse from time to time. (I have to guess because I don't recognize nuns anymore. Not like I did when I was, say 5 or 6 and I'd see two, always two, in their long black habits, walking toward Main Street.)

when I lived in LR about 25 years ago, one of my friends had an aunt who was a cloistered nun. Her name was Sister John the Baptist. I always liked that.

Anyway, once a month they sent one nun to the grocery store, and my friend was the volunteer who picked her up and took her. that good lady was in her 80s back at that time, I think.

Lord only knows what michael jackson was doing with general anesthetics in his home, but it looks to me like he was pretty much ruined by his stardom and privilege. i dont think my doctor would come rushing over to the house if I called him and told him I had a headache and needed some propofol (the general anes. they found, among I dont know what all else), but then I dont pay him a giant retainer every month either. he's not the first celebrity done in by his own fame and privilege, and he won't be the last. it's sad, but it's also over. enough already. no disrespect meant, but let's move on, please, people.
Jazzy, good to hear from you. hope the CT scan reports or whatever he had this week were good news. Take care. And now Im going back to work.

Destroyed by fame.

Michael Jackson = Elvis, chapter 2