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Meanwhile......BILLIONAIRES FOR WEALTHCARE announce a new member who promotes..

...........BILLIONAIRE POPULISM....it's what keeps Senatorial races fun!

at the link.

Apparently, according to the conclusion of the investigation, the census worker in Kentucky who was found hung committed suicide not done in by right wing crazies as many postulated on this blog. Just wanted to set the record straight.....again! It was an intentional act on his part to look like a lynching. Gee, I wonder who he was trying to incriminate?

One of my favorite weekly internet haunts...Awkward Family Photos. (Don't miss the funny letters sprinkled among the photos.

Huh....all this time I thought Kim Hanke was a C grade actor hired to do TV commercials for vinyl siding and plastic windows. I thought he was like Aunt Jamima or Uncle Ben....only pasty white. A tool of Madison Avenue schooled in over the top sincerity. After all nothing sells crap to old people like over the top sincere.......about siding, windows, and downspouts. Though my house is stucco, I even thought about having Kim Hanke cover it with tan vinyl siding....on bad nights when I felt guilty for outliving all my family.

Kim Hanke with his sincere old daddy and his sincere boys giving their all for home improvement products at a time Americans don't give a damn that we still have black site prisons hidden in Afghanistan. Well, maybe you can't stop our troops from getting slaughtered but by god you can keep leaves out of your gutters and somehow that must be good for America and the world.

What America is lacking is the Hanke sincerity. Beau's fishy example is only one of approximately 35 thousand American suicides each year, this figure not counting our ever increasingly suicidal troops in the Middle East. Suicide rates in the age bracket 45-to-54-year-olds has jumped a whopping 20% in the last decade with middle aged white women making the biggest jump, no pun intended.

If only we could turn some of that old Hanke sincerity on our troubled friends and neighbors suicide rates might start coming back down. Don't get out the gun, get out the cell phone and dial 1-800-264-1010. Some new plastic 'No-Clean" guttering will wash your blues away and besides the insulating qualities will keep the smell of your old dead body away from neighbors for weeks promising a super gory surprise when your cousin Harold finally comes to check on you.

Might be good to have Halter in DC and Hanke in the Lt. Gov. spot. Halter could get us a good Public Option and Kim Hanke could clad the old state capitol in vinyl siding saving us millions in upkeep over the next 10 years. Plus Little Rock could become the most sincere city in America and what Yankee wouldn't want to move towards more sincerity?

Maybe we could get John F. Lawhon to serve as Secretary of State if he's still alive. And isn't it time we have a Walton in public service? Sincerity sells......about time we have us a heaping helping portion of it. I say this sincerely, of course. I'm just sincerely saying...

Was at Lake Sylvia today and just want to say what a hidden jewel this park is in the Arkansas State Park system. I can hardly wait for the renovation to be completed on it. We hiked about the place and around part of the lake. Afterwards, we went on to Heifer International and hiked a bit in the area and looked at a few wild animals. Fabulous gift shop had some great Xmas ornaments and creches made in 3rd world countries.

All in all, it was a wonderful day to be out and about enjoying the great state of Arkansas.

I posted this earlier today at the end of yesterday's open line, so I'm reposting it here because most may not have seen it:

Another list where Little Rock comes out near the top--number 11--of "America's fastest-recovering cities". Not quite as high in the list as in the Business Week "Forty Strongest U.S. Metro Economies" list a few weeks ago, but a lot of the same cities are near the top. Link at my name leads to the list and you can find a link to the main article there.

SInce everywhere you go, the Christmas lights are up and the carols playing, I thought it's not too early to post one of my favorites. Enjoy at the clicky.

Some of us stay up later than Tiger Woods without a scuffle or a wheel in the ditch.

Those of you who don't and get up with the chickens might want to tune into cspan tomorrow morning.

Washington Journal: 8:30am - Max Brantley, Arkansas Times, Editor

I hope there is a youtube for us civilized folk. /s

Woe Pigs pooooie
........but didn't all those CRAWDADS look yummy?????

Have c-span on at 6 every morn......GIVE 'EM HELL MAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Woods would not meet with police today,,,,how does one say *no* to the po-lice???
Oh, I jest...have a zillion $$$$$$$$................RIGHT????

The Cotton Bowl is so 1989.

The accident came two days after the National Enquirer published a story alleging that Woods had been seeing a New York nightclub hostess, and that they recently were together in Melbourne, where Woods competed in the Australian Masters.---copied

Well, congratulations to Little Rock and the rest of us for good economic news! Aside from being great news on its own, it's nice we're not wrestling Mississippi for the bottom two positions of all those 'worst' lists.

But GOOD GOD...I'm having a hard time reconciling a country that elects Obama yet makes Palin/Huckabee best sellers and has a conniption over some golf person wrecking his car.. It's giving me whiplash.

Thanks for the CSpan info, eureka.

Why all my cats loved lettuce, tina...idiots. Hopefully the cold weather will give us a skunk break.

Tejada came through.......again.

Memo to Petrino: Recruit someone who can kick a field goal and/or an extra point.

And while I am thinking about it (I don't know why) whatever happened to Janet Huckabee? Hanke Brothers to Red Cross then what?

WOW....what a game. With a minute to go, I swear I heard the voice of Paul Eels ring out with a hearty "TOUCH DOWN ARKANSAS". Then with 4 seconds to go, I heard the voice of Huey P. Long from warmer surroundings ring out with a "GEAUX TIGERS!"

Oh what a revoltin development....I love south Louisiana but always hated LSU football and
their fans....but, Pigs played a sloppy first half.
Zelda, we want to read about Tiger as we did O.J., Scott Peterson, Madonna, Brad and Angilina,
Michael Jackson...all the *beautiful people* who fall from grace...go figure, perhaps an
escape from our hum drum lives.
Heard a woman asked if she would read Palin's book, she had cluched in her hands, she said,
*No, its just to place on coffee table to impress visitors.*
Guess that will replace the big 20 pound bible ppl used to have on coffee table.
As for Huckabuck...heard enough of his dirt floor, log cabin tall tales.

The Huckster would agree with this "minister." Click on Cato

Leave this to the midnight shift, DBI...................
Had my fill of this day and going to join Frenchie in our nest, will not listen to WWL tonight
and hear them gloat over the win, its enough to listen to wingnuts every night making up
lies about everything a dem tries to get done.
Weekends are the pits for radio, talk about cleaning your colon, miracle vitamins, best places
to fish, ppl who were kidnapped and taken up into alien spaceships, visits from long dead ppl....
I can't handle all the living!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
goodnight...bon nuit

To: ArkTimes Right-wing Trolls

Subject: Senate report- Bin Laden was 'within our grasp'

Note- your 'team' blew it 8 years ago. First, the attack on the Twin Towers when the Bush administration in all their 'know-it-allness' ignored warnings a major attack on U.S. soil was imminent. Then letting Bin Laden get away. And finally the unnecessary invasion of Iraq.

Thanks a whole hell of a lot for making the world a more dangerous place!

Well, the minister got part of it right, Cato. It is immoral to destroy rain forests, replace the atmosphere with C02 from fossil fuels and to overpopulate the planet. Trouble is once a population has discovered the error of their ways it's too late.

Speaking of "ArkTimes Right-wing Trolls"--am I the only one that has noticed that we haven't heard much from Catfish lately? Not that I'm complaining....

For your entertainment--woman finds image of Jesus on bottom of iron. Do the clicky

"Sarah Palin will star as the keynote speaker at next February's First National Tea Party Convention, which will take place in Nashville, TN. Also attending: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN). The right-wing Minnesota congresswoman has previously asserted that Democrats are trying to "sabotage" both her and Palin "to make sure that we don't have a prominent national voice." The Washington Independent reports that tickets to see the Bachmann/Palin show "are available for the bargain price of $549."
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/27/bachmann-palin-tea-party/
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Tag team Teabaggers Special!!!!

$549? Ronco ships to anywhere in the United States and to Canada for an additional ... For only $49.95.

...

"I went to a garden party to reminisce with my old friends
A chance to share old memories and play our songs again
When I got to the garden party, they all knew my name
No one recognized me, I didn't look the same
But it's all right now, I learned my lesson well.
You see, ya can't please everyone, so ya got to please yourself..."
--Ricky Nelson "Garden Party,"

"How is it that after laboring in relative obscurity as a community organizer for almost 40 years, ACORN was so falsely framed in news stories that many Americans believed the absurd and alarming notion that it stole a presidential election?"

"MSM" Joke...'A pimp and a prostitute walk into an office.'

"A pimp and a prostitute walk into an office. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it wasn't for ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

Until recently, ACORN, the largest community organizing group in the country, was well known primarily among liberal activists and the low-income people it has organized since it began in Little Rock in 1970. By mobilizing poor people and their middle class allies, it has won major victories - at the local, state and national levels - to improve the living and working conditions of everyday people."

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/shoptalk_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1004047850
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"...Zelda, we want to read about Tiger as we did O.J., Scott Peterson, Madonna, Brad and Angilina,
Michael Jackson...all the *beautiful people* who fall from grace...go figure, perhaps an
escape from our hum drum lives.

I understand the 'falling from grace' thing, jazzy, and I enjoy the hell out of watching all those right-wing bible thumpers fall from their self-created pedestals. But I do not understand the worshiping of celebrities, like Jackson, as if they were our best friends...as if their demise was akin to us losing our loved ones. They're simply very talented folks who make a LOT of money; they may be nice, they may be the devil incarnate. But they're not our friends/family...and odds are we wouldn't like most of them if we got to know them. I'll never understand why we can't simply enjoy their talents without turning them into perfect beings deserving of our attention 24/7.

Unless Tiger Woods broke some law and got away with it because of his celebrity, I don't care about his fender bender. I don't care about him outside of the fact that he's a fellow human.

Sorry, tina, if my words were sloppy/unclear. Hubby just asked me why I called you an idiot. I, of course, did no such thing. In my writing-challenged mind I was calling those lettuce-tossing neighbors of yours idiots.

Palin and Backmann all in one sitting, bejeeus, would make my head explode...hopefully all over those two right-wing Barbies.

Moonbats-----osama was also within our grasp when he was in Somalia. The government of Somalia tried to give him to bubba. Bubba wasn't interested. If bubba had been interested we would have gotten him long before 9/11 and 2,700 Americans would be alive today.