Lt. Gov. Bill Halter Opposes Initiated Act 1

One moment of many at Friday’s Obama Rally struck me to be particularly inspiring. Arkansas Lt. Gov. Bill Halter took a few moments to project an impassioned mainstream appeal against Initiated Act 1.

President Clinton & Arkansas Dems rally 4 Obama

My friend Trey and I went to the River Market in Little Rock Friday afternoon and caught the trolley to the Obama Rally featuring several Arkansas Democrats leading to President Bill Clinton. With 11 days to go until the General Election, it seemed a great time to rally. Here in 6 -10 minute segments, are most of the speakers and what they had to say. Enjoy & VOTE EARLY:

Arkansas Family Council: Strike 2

A new U of A poll shows Arkansans opposing Initiated Act 1 (see previous blog post) by a 55-38 margin. Wow. An almost victory for children! The lottery amendment would be approved by 65% if the election were held today. Wow. An almost victory for gambling interests.



The Arkansas Family Council, which has made a decent living for years skimming money from homophobic church folk and out-of-state gambling operations, is 0 for 2 in this poll.




Vote early :)

FOR Children: NO on Act 1

Because Arkansas kids are worthy of as many pre-screened foster and adoptive parents as possible, here's a short commercial from Arkansas Families First. They encourage us to vote No on Act 1, which would prevent unmarried cohabitating couples from serving as foster or adoptive parents.



I pulled up some testimony from Arkansas' House Judiciary Committee when this policy was pursued, but failed, in our legislature. Beyond Martha Adcock and a data driven pediatrician is the public testimony of a young Arkansas kid with lesbian parents.




Vote Early.

Tonight the cook’s back: Chili.

Burger King Mushroom & Swiss Steakhouse Burger Bulls***

No one expects much from fast food. Michael & I really try to avoid it, but now and then our cook steps out. After spending the afternoon watering the yard and planting pansies today, I decided to give the Burger King Steakhouse Mushroom & Swiss a try.

You’ve seen that horrible new “Simon & Garfunkel”-like ad showing a sandwich with fried onions topping the mushrooms and Swiss cheese (see corporate image below:



With very low expectations, I spent about $14 on two combo meals featuring this sandwich. Here’s what the sandwiches actually looked like once I got home from my neighborhood BK…



There were no fried onions at all, only little onion shreds rubberized by a microwave then totally overwhelmed by a mushroom sauce which strangely tasted nothing like the included mushrooms presumably canned a few decades ago in China.

Hey BK…your Mushroom & Swiss Steakhouse Burger is USDA Black Angus Bullshit, and Gawd as my witness I will never, ever eat your bullshit burgers again.

Early Voting: Duty Done

Early voting was a breeze for Michael & me. Thirty to 45-minute wait tops in the Pulaski County Regional Building in downtown Little Rock around 2pm yesterday.



I was honored to stand behind a guy with well matted shoulder length gray hair. Judging by his stench, he probably had a hundred things he could have been doing, but he prioritized his vote.

Anyway, I strongly encourage early voting in case you croak before Nov. 4th.

General Colin Powell Nails It: Obama!

Obama strolls into a Republican stronghold North Carolina café, and people scream “socialist!” and “terrorist!”

The honorable Senator John McCain is directly responsible for the dismal, desperate campaign he’s been running. I once respected Sen. McCain, but no longer. His very campaign is dishonorable.

I wish I had the rhetorical skills to express my opinion on this Presidential race, but I’ll let the honorable Gen. Colin Powell handle it for me:

Hillary In Little Rock for Obama

We took a few minutes on a beautiful Friday afternoon (10-10-08) in Little Rock, to drop by an Obama Rally at the State Capitol Building. We took the camera, so here it is..edited for time in five 10 minute YouTube clips:

Mom & Pop: Georgia on My Mind

My parents sold their Magnolia, Arkansas, home Saturday, and purchased one in Cartersville, Georgia (an hour or so north of Atlanta). Within weeks, Michael & I will drive them to their new home, which will provide them with a living space more suited to their needs, closer access to quality medical care, along with my sister and a brother, and their families.

My childhood home and the land my father played on when he was a child, was sold to a cousin who also has deep family roots on that rural county road in south Arkansas.

Mom & Pop have only seen their new Georgia home only on a DVD, as my sister did an amazing job of finding just the right home for them.

This move is absolutely right for them, and while this devoted Momma's boy and other Arkansas family members will greatly miss having them so close, we will all take comfort in knowing their remaining years will be less difficult and that they will be well loved and cared for by the Georgia side of the family.

I'm so proud of the faith and courage shown by my parents at their age and with their health issues to seize this opportunity, and for my sister and brother-in-law, Pam & Paul, who worked so hard to make it happen.

McCain Acts Like a Looser

Another guilt by association tactic (like Rev. Wright) first smeared on Obama by Hillary back in April. According to an article in the Chicago Sun Times:

"Bill Ayers, 63, spent 10 years as a fugitive in the 1970s when he was part of the "Weather Underground," an anti-Vietnam War group that protested U.S. policies by bombing the Pentagon, U.S. Capitol and a string of other government buildings."

Ayers lives in Obama’s neighborhood. Their paths crossed at times, but now you’d think Obama was booty-buddies with this man once considered a domestic terrorist. The New York Times ran an article about Ayers today saying nothing that wasn’t learned in April, and suddenly Sarah Palin is sayin’ Barak's pals around with a terrorist.

John McCain is quite desperate to divert public attention from the economy, and such tactics piss me off. Deep breath….let it out. One month to go. One day at a time.

Justice for the Juice

I fell asleep last night waiting on the O J Simpson verdict. Even in the middle of the night, once the jury had reached a verdict, all parties were summoned back to court to hear the verdict. It struck me as strange, but it was Vegas.

Thirteen years to the day after being acquitted of murder charges, OJ was found guilty of enough kidnapping and robbery charges to jail him for the rest of his life.

I didn’t spend nary a second watching the gavel-to-gavel coverage on CNN’s Headline News, as there were at least 700,000,000,000 other more pressing matters. This morning, for one final time, I uttered to myself, “Go OJ…Go."

VP Debate: Biden

Senator Joe Biden won the VP debate impressively. Governor Sarah Palin proved to be a quick study (at memorizing flash cards) and confident, yet still woefully unqualified. I believe the air-headed comments given to Couric in the days leading up to the debate were calculated to drastically lower expectations. CBS News was used yet again. I don't expect Palin will be allowed to give interviews for the rest of the month, but will be at rallies with Senator McCain and strictly on the teleprompter.

If House Republicans once again vote against the bailout bill, McCain's campaign is dead. On life-support now with a month to go, McCain's campaign is about to go negative big time and quickly, as early voting begins shortly.

A medical professional friend of ours told Michael and me yesterday that McCain suffers from war-related Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a condition with no cure. If temperament is to become an issue, as some have suggested, it will probably arise in the next two weeks as the final debates are held and McCain tries to mount a last minute comeback.

History Reveals Itself

HIV went undetected in the human population for about 70 years, according to new research published in the journal Nature. It still is thought to have spread to humans who ate chimpanzees and the AIDS epidemic correlated with the rise of cities and associated prostitution 100 years ago in Africa, principally in the present-day city of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.