|  |  |  | | | | | Comments On: Arkansas Blog | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Admittedly I'm not a big sports fan--more focused on academics for academic institutions.
But I've got to admire and compliment the Trojans' success--both masculine and feminine!
YEA, TROJANS!!! Congratulations!
Go sweep the tournaments!!!
Posted by SkyPilot | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | >first priority, to be fair, was not her paycheck. It was to terminate some city employees to make room to hire some of her pals.<<
They operate just like Democrats.
Posted by eLwood | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | @SocialistArkie....yeah, I think there are a lot of families that are scared that they won't have jobs to support their family. True motivation? Sorry if I want families to have good paying jobs. What's your point? Sorry if I want Arkansans to start moving above the poverty line.
Your post was just stupid....go out to your mailbox and see if your entitlement check came in today.
@skypilot....I'm not new to the blog. Second, I guess if we disagree then I must be getting paid. You're an idiot. I will bet that you were one of those Anti-Nat Gas people blaming Injection Wells for the Earthquakes.....That one didn't work out to well for you guys....What's funny is that you people refuse to admit you were wrong.....
No one believes these Anti-Nat Gas people because they lie and they makeup their own beliefs instead of studying the facts.
The truth is with ExxonMobil and BHP moving into the Fayetteville Shale and getting ready to spend Billions to develop it. You haven't seen anything yet. Your small Anti-Gas protests will not do a damn thing to stop it....
Oh, I believe that you Anti-Nat Gas people PAID Josh Fox from Gasland to speak for your cause at Hendrix last week....SO, I WOULD PROBABLY SHUT UP WHEN IT COMES TO WHO'S GETTING PAID TO SPEAK.......
Posted by cf0451 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sky, you hit that nail square on its head!
Posted by Sound Policy | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Welcome peteroo820, cf0451, and JustTheFacts, new posters to the blog--all in defense of the gas drilling companies.
Do y'all get paid by the word, by the post, or by the hour?
And are your posts all written by the same person, or is it a committee project?
Just wonderin'.
Posted by SkyPilot | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Lead with the design for the future, NOW!
Posted by Bill | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "If you don't like rules of the position you are running for, go form a union and stand up for your rights.
Oops! That ain't on the Republican platform!"
Ha ha.
Posted by SocialistArkie | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ahhh...so now the true motivation comes out. "I have family that works for the drilling companies. They work long, hard hours."
I guess you're afraid if these companies are taxed they'll just pack up and leave?
Posted by SocialistArkie | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Citizen1 is an idiot...Sounds like another landowner who's pissed off because they found out they don't own the minerals under their land....If it's not the road, its the Earthquakes....Hmmm...Injection wells shut down and the Earthquakes are still happening....
Won't be long before they blame the Injection wells and Fayetteville Shale drilling for the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan.
Citizen1....you would probably be paying higher taxes if it wasn't for the Gas companies. Take away the current severance tax, permit fees paid, gasoline taxes paid and the State Income Tax coming from all the workers.
One thing I have learned over the past 5 years....A lot of these Nat Gas protest groups are just plain jealous of landowners and mineral rights holders. They're pissed off that they didn't get their cut and now they will bitch about anything to cause problems. I have family that works for the drilling companies. They work long, hard hours. They don't sit at home and wait on their ENTITLEMENT check from the government.
Posted by cf0451 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | JustTheFacts - It sounds like the horizontal drilling business has gotten out of control. My understanding is that some of the mineral rights owners are in a 'forced integration' situation. They did not want to extract the gas right now, but the laws require them to. Of course, even mineral owners who are forced to sell their gas cheap expect to get paid.
Personally, I think we should deplete the foreign gas sources before we tap the gas here. The profits would be much better. So I'm not absolutely opposed to drilling, but I'm in no hurry to do it while the price of gas is so low, and it should be done responsibly.
Posted by radical centrist | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Saline, do you get product placement ad money from the Koch brothers for including your link in your posts? Just wondering.
Or are you just insecure worrying that nobody will visit?
Posted by Sound Policy | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hey D Burn,
How many wifes you got? Do any of them know about the others?
How do you pull that off?
You sound like you should run for office.
Posted by Citizen1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Come on, tell the truth!
It ain't the principle, it is the $68!
If you don't like rules of the position you are running for, go form a union and stand up for your rights.
Oops! That ain't on the Republican platform!
Posted by Citizen1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Radical Centrist said, "it might be better to leave it in the ground until demand increases."
That would be all well and good if you could do that with horizontal wells (the wells used in shale plays). You can't just cork it like a keg and return to retap it when the price of gas goes back up. You can do that with a traditional well, like in the Arkoma Basin around Fort Smith, but you can't do that in the shale play. They don't function like that.
And, the leases that have been paid for are for a contractually specified amount of time and those get lost if the companies don't drill within a set timeframe. Additional complications are that the mineral owners are expecting to get their royalty payments and the companies have a set amount of production equipment to move around in an area.
It would be great if the producers in shale plays could just turn off the tap and come back when the price of gas goes back up, but that's just not the reality of the situation.
Posted by JustTheFacts | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | peter and cfo
Are absolutely unfamiliar with the situation or they are paid hacks.
I have NEVER seen a log truck with 28 tires on its trailer! Add 10 for the tractor and you have 38 wheelers plying the roadways. There is but one reason for 28 tires on a trailer, massive weight.
Log trucks have 18 wheels MAX on the whole damn rig.
I have commuted weekly from LR to Marshall and back for 10 years and I have witnessed first hand with my own eyes the damage inflicted by drilling rigs throughout Faulkner, Cleberne and into Van Buren counties.
Hwy 65 was nearly completely redone by Huckabee and his roads program. Mostly 4 lane or if not at least the extra passing lane on hills. Shortly after the completion, the drilling started.
We just saw the highway department try to restrict weights to what the roads were built top handle in those counties but NO! They were slapped back and now are going to "study it"! WTF? AHTD knows what the road was designed and built to handle, let them set limits based on the design.
Now parts of the new road have already had to be repaired and resurfaced. Coming through Bee Branch the repairs are shredding already. They will soon patch the patches on road less than 5 years since total reworking.
Don't let one group abuse and ruin what the taxpayers have paid (and are still paying for with bond issues) and make the rest of the taxpayers then have to pay again to rebuild it.
At least tax any industry to cover damages inflicted to keep it fair.
The only way to balance gov't budgets is to not let some group run up all kinds of bills and then look to the general fund to pay for it.
In Clinton the Hwy 65 bridge to cross the Little Red River opened just last week. How long before it is warped and sagging like the other new Hwy 65 bridge down by Damascus?
Posted by Citizen1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Asking for a severance tax increase now, only 26 months after the last increase was implemented, simply because Arkansas didn't collect as much money as they were anticipating (because the price of gas was about $8/cf when they raised it, but dropped to below $4/cf and has stayed there since) is exactly like the state of Arkansas telling all Arkansans who were unemployed last year:
"I know you were out of work, and you had to figure out how to live on 60% of your previous income thanks to unemployment insurance, but we need more money because there were too many of you out of work and not paying taxes on your full salary like we expected. So, now we're going to raise your taxes on your unemployment insurance income from 10% to 15% to help cover the shortfall. Thanks."
And saying to the natural gas producers: "Yeah, we know the new revenue from you guys got us through the Great Recession without having to lay-off any state employees or cut services to Arkansans and let us keep balancing our budget without a shortfall (one of less than a handful of states to be able to do so in the last two years), and the amount collected was less due to forces completely beyond your control, but we don't care, because want more!"
If you look back through all the news reports, the "highway dept. estimate on road damage" continually changes. Just sayin. And, the gas production companies repave roads on their own dime all the time (in addition to paying a permit fee per truck load, in addition to the severance tax, to help cover road repairs). Just ask the County Judges.
Posted by JustTheFacts | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cf0451 - Common sense informs us that if the price of gas is too low to cover the production costs, including the road damage, it might be better to leave it in the ground until demand increases. Why should Arkansas taxpayers subsidize gas costs for out-of-state consumers?
Posted by radical centrist | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I agree with peteroo820....Just like we ran FedEx out of Little Rock, now we have people attempting to run these gas companies out of the Fayetteville Shale. If Nat Gas was $7 or $8 a cf, it would be a different story. Nat Gas is currently at $3.80 a cf. It's getting close to the point where it's not profitable for the companies to drill. Taxing the Nat Gas Industry at this time is stupid. They will leave and find other Shale Plays where States are friendly with Industry and Business.
Arkansas has the chance to lead the nation in supplying the fuel of the future, but we choose to make stupid short-term business decisions that will have huge future consequences for our State. Wouldn't be nice to have FedEx headquartered here? I guess that one runway they asked to be built doesn't look so expensive now. Look at all the tax revenue and jobs that went to Memphis and Tenn?
As for Sheffied Nelson, isn't odd that he proposes a tax after he has already made millions off Nat Gas?
Posted by cf0451 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is assumed that Republican Dabbs and Republican Kizer first checked the tax tables to insure their proposed salary hikes would not put them in a higher bracket.
Posted by Jack | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "I sure hope people know that I did not run for City Clerk for the paycheck. LOL! "
....LOL?
Is she 15?
hahahahaha
It's not about the money....riiiiight.
The Republicans in Saline County who were elected this last go round are really turning out to be entertaining.
Hubby said (he works in Bryant) that lots o' folks are really pissed at Dabbs because for the folks she fired.
(I wonder how before Heather and Jill start sayign that the salary requirements are sexists? 3...2...1...)
Posted by any*mouse | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Why is anyone paying any attention to has-beens? Lyndon Larouche, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee.......has-been losers of yesteryear. Let's move on to new & improved losers & gasbags. Tell em, dott
Posted by DeathbyInches | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hey...give these gals a break! Do you know how much a blonde dye job costs these days?
Posted by DeathbyInches | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Yay Trojans! Razorbacks look sooooooooooooo bad right now. LOL
Posted by D burn | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Oh yes lets look at Thomas Paine:
, Paine penned The Age of Reason, Part I.
Paine later explained his reasons for beginning his work in a letter to Samuel Adams:
I have said in the first page of the first part of that work that it had long been my intention to publish my thoughts upon religion, but that I had reserved it to a later time of life. I have now to inform you why I wrote it and published it at the time I did.
In the first place, I saw my life in continual danger. My friends were falling as fast as the guillotine could cut their heads off, and as I every day expected the same fate, I resolved to begin my work. I appeared to myself to be on my death-bed, for death was on every side of me, and I had no time to lose. This accounts for my writing it at the time I did...
In the second place, the people of France were running headlong into atheism, and I had the work translated and published in their own language to stop them in that career, and fix them to the first article (as I have before said) of every man's creed who has any creed at all, I believe in God.(n11)
Authors:
Smith, Jay E.
Source:
Historian; Summer96, Vol. 58 Issue 4, p745, 17p, 4 bw
In this article, Mr. Smith had this to add concering Paine's ability to flip flop:
"Ironically, Paine had used the Scriptures to attack the monarchy twenty years earlier in Common Sense, implying that the Bible was God's authoritative word:
These portions of scripture are direct and positive. They admit of no equivocal construction. That the Almighty hath here entered his protest against monarchical government is true, or the scripture is false.(n20)
The final clause, "or the scripture is false," is particularly revealing, for it suggests that to think the Scriptures could be untrue, contradictory, or irrational, would be absurd."
I have found that Thomas Paine is no different than a hound dog that likes to hunt with the pack. He would have said any thing to fit the moment keeping himself safe.
An example:
"...a brief notation in John Adams' autobiography concerning a meeting with Paine early in 1776 suggests otherwise:
I told him [Paine] further, that his Reasoning from the Old Testament was ridiculous, and I could hardly think him sincere. At this he laughed, and said he had taken his Ideas in that part from Milton: and then expressed a Contempt of the Old Testament and indeed of the Bible at large, which surprized me. He saw that I did not relish this, and soon check'd himself, with these Words "However I have some thoughts of publishing my Thoughts on Religion, but I believe it will be best to postpone it, to the latter part of Life."(n21)"
I guess "people of faith could say basically the same thing:
It literally doesn't matter what one says to "Liberals." No truths, no facts, no contradictions, NOTHING matters because there is literally no discussing it with them.
Posted by Stiffnecked | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Well... I'm awake now. Slightly less traumatized. I was watching the news last night and saw the waves live. It was hard to believe a wave could be that BIG.... I can't imagine how many people got caught in those waves. But you could see the waves washing over busy roads and I dunno how many homes.
Posted by D burn | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Excuse me, but these roads you speak of are PUBLIC roads, used by the public, for transportation purposes, for transporting people, products and goods over and across those roads. These roads are paid for with a mix of government funds, taxes and fees which are regulated and assessed by our governmental agencies appointed to regulate such affairs.
It is not rocket science to throw blame around, but to say that a single industry is solely responsible for abnormal wear and tear (damage) is like blaming the government for your poor paycheck. How about a little cheese with your whine?
Perhaps reforms in regulation and additional fees are necessary, or make all county roads and state highways into "toll roads," with trucks paying substantially higher fees. Bottom line is "accept some of the blame for wear and tear" and your lack of regulatory reform. You vote and you drive on those roads too.
Posted by peteroo820 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Who cares about either?
Huckabeen is and has always been a rapacious individual whose desires and statements illuminate his lack of intellect and abilities. The Rotarian letter adds impact and importance to someone who desperately needs any recognition, positive or negative, from any public or private body. His fifteen minutes expired years ago.
Posted by dottholliday-31%er | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I have it on very good authority (my wifes) that Jill Dabbs is conceited and cares little for anything save her own welfare and close friends. My wife likes or gets along easily with most people. It takes a lot for her to develop a bad opinion of someone. She said from the day she found out about Dabbs' election run that it wasn't going to be good for anyone but Dabbs and that she was glad we lived elsewhere.
Posted by D burn | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Look, Socialist. It's clear you prefer arguing points that I was not making. Nobody said a thing about "just accept murders of the LGBT community," or "giving the murderers a pass."
That's just you.
And nobody, certainly not I, ever said it was "easy for people to just pack up and leave."
It isn't. It's usually one of the hardest things they'll ever do in life.
But people can sit around and make excuses forever -- there are always excuses -- or they can take action, hard though those actions are.
The ones I've known who got out of such environments thrived. The ones who didn't went under and had unhappy, even tragic lives.
To tell people they don't have choices, that they don't make choices every day, is a lie.
Posted by Norma Bates | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Both teams kick ass, especially the women. As my kid says, "Go Trojits!"
Posted by hugh mann | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Big Fun...it could be that Holy Guano is deaf, dumb, & blind but still somehow able to post stupid comments. Go Trojans!
Posted by TrustMeMan | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I predict Dabbs' will either be indicted or will resign to prevent information from leaking. She makes Jim Guy Tucker and Nick Wilson look like Jesus.
Posted by ProCarry | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | So I guess if I wear a short skirt, I'm around males, and I get raped, I was essentially asking for it?
Norma, it isn't always easy for people to just pack up and leave.
Just because we live in the "Bible Belt" doesn't mean we should just accept murders of the LGBT community. That's just giving the murderers a pass.
If I'm ever murdered, it's nice to know people will think it was my fault simply because I ,a black lesbian, didn't decide to move out of the state.
Posted by SocialistArkie | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ethicacy is second only to Cockle Spaniard on my list of favorite malapropisms.
Posted by hugh mann | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We should all know by now that Republicans are selfish human beings.
Posted by SocialistArkie | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a bill I would support if I were a legislator.
I can't believe we actually have legislators with spines sometimes.
I don't see this bill passing though.
Posted by SocialistArkie | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | KMA, Holy Guano. UALR has two basketball teams, both of which are headed to the NCAA tournament. I'll be at the rally!
Posted by Big Fun | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Well, if you don't get to get stoned at the meetings, count me out!
Posted by hugh mann | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It's a facile question, Socialist, as I said above: "Do you blame the victim?"
But it's important, so I'll treat it seriously.
Do you believe things just "happen" to us for no reason, or reasons outside our control? Do you believe the choices we make constantly every day play no part in what happens to us? Do you believe we're not responsible for our choices?
No one "should" be violently raped or assaulted, no matter how provocatively they dress or act, goes the popular idealist wisdom. It's correct, in an ideal world.
In the real world, however, nothing is "ideal" nor so simple.
Rape and murder are crimes of violence – and those who commit them also make choices for which they're responsible. If they're drunk or drugged at the time, they're responsible for those choices too, to place themselves under the influence.
One of the most immediate effects of alcohol and other drugs is to lower inhibitions, self-control, and thus increase risk. The "excitement" and perceived "freedom" of lowered inhibitions, increased risk and even a sense of danger are elements many find attractive about such substances. (Are you listening, Charlie Sheen?) Along with that comes the increasing inability to make rational decisions or exercise mental, emotional and physical control.
To acknowledge that one's own choices affect what "happens" to one is not the same as "blaming" the victim for another's choice to be violent, or saying that the victim "deserves" it, though again those are facile boilerplate phrases by those ignorant of or refusing to own the science, psychology and research behind such phenomena as battered women.
These scenarios are not one-sided. Matthew Shepherds and Marcal Camero Tyes "should" never happen.
One's sexual orientation, according to objective science, is not a choice.
How one acts out one's sexual orientation IS a choice. That too, even without alcohol or other drugs, can induce a sense of excitement and risk.
If I walk into a rowdy bar filled with drunks, wearing a barely-there top, mini-skirt and no panties, that's a choice I'm responsible for. If I get drunk, lose inhibitions and flirt provocatively, those are more choices.
Do my choices "justify" rape? No. Do they invite risk of rape if I leave with someone or a group I've never met? Yes.
I've no idea of the circumstances of Tye's behavior and murder. The police say he was "wearing women's clothes," then identify him to the press as "transgender." If he'd had sexual reassignment surgery, then "he" was "she" and a female. What OTHER clothes would she be wearing, than "women's?" But the report implies something else: that Marcal was male and wearing "women's clothes." Maybe he was pre-op. We don't know.
Maybe he was home alone, wearing "women's clothes" in private when strangers burst in, assaulted and killed him, then dragged his body down the highway. If those are the circumstances, then of course it "just happened" and came "out of nowhere."
For a male to wear "women's clothes," to go in drag, publicly in a small redneck town in the Bible Belt is to knowingly choose to attract attention, snickers, and can certainly risk provoking verbal and physical assault.
That's why I say, "Make the rational choice to MOVE. LEAVE. Go somewhere safer before acting out those choices."
Nothing is to be learned from believing that one may make any choices one likes, anywhere, any time, about how one "presents" oneself without responsibility for the reactions of others, good or bad.
Nor does any of this absolve perpetrators of responsibility for their vicious and violent reactions.
The notion that the "victim" is 100% "innocent" and the "perp" 100% "guilty" in these complex and often dangerous circumstances is easy, because walking down a street or going to a bar isn't a crime and rape and murder are.
It's also facile, because it does nothing to promote awareness and acceptance of responsibility for one's choices, nor help future Matthew Shepherds and Marcal Tyes learn to make rational choices instead of placing themselves in harm's way.
Posted by Norma Bates | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | UALR has a basketball team?
Posted by HolyGuano | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Makes me darned proud to have been a Rotarian. However, I am a woman, and I never got stoned at a meeting, just put in charge of a banquet or two. And since I'm left-handed anyway . . .
Posted by Doggymama | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars
but in ourselves, that we are underlings."
W. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
The economic aristocracy is a tiny minority of the population. They would not be able to install their bought and paid-for legislative marionettes unless a substantial plurality of those who are getting screwed voted in favor of their own screwing, and another substantial plurality sat idly at home when the polls are open.
We get the politicians we deserve.
Posted by Silverback66 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Can't help but think of the two man made tsunamis inflicted on Japan the sixth and ninth of August, 1945.
Posted by Cato | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I know someone who survived the 2004 tsunami in Thailand. He had gone down to the beach and the day looked so nice that decided to rent a boat. Therefore, he went back to his hotel room to get the money and make the phone call. Then he heard a crashing sound and water started to flow through his hotel window, and he was on the 4th floor. Communications were cut off and his factory assumed he had been killed. http://haltingarkansasliberalswithtruth.co…
Posted by SalineRepublican | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To bad I was hoping.
Yet again we learn taxes aren't ever going to be fair. Taxes are paid by the Wal-Mart greeters, floor roamers, st ockers, cashiers, greeters and people like us not people of WalMart/corporate hierarchy's.
Posted by ButWhoCares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Of course you have to be fair when talking about ineptness for Huck-the-Buck doesn't stand alone.
The King terror shenanigans (dubbed hearing) that went on in Washington yesterday proves without a doubt that governments can't negotiate with any religion whether christian muslin Hindu, morman etc., neither have the capacity to think or negotiate out side their brainwashing.
Yesterday gave us a glance at what America would look like if governed like a middle east country.
That's why separation of church and state is so important and why we must defend that policy with ever drop of our blood.
Posted by ButWhoCares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | You got to be multi knowledgeable to be president and that leaves Huck-the-Buck out.
The Rotary Club is a secular organization not a baptist organization so he needs to restrict his rhetoric to things his momma or the baptist hierarchy taught him.
Posted by ButWhoCares | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I have long suspected that Rotary was a front for a secret muslim organization! This is proof they are behind the inevitable adoption of sharia law with it's women stoning, left handed butt wiping and all that stuff.
OMG! They're selling raffle tickets to fund terrorism!!!!
Posted by bugeyedlittlefreak | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Should modleling be a substitute for the actual reality? Can advanced intricate computer analysis ever provide adequate preparation for change? Better design? Longer value for and respect for human lives in all situations?
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