Jon Stewart Catches Sean Hannity Falsifying Footage To Make GOP Protest Appear Bigger (VIDEO)

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Now Rep. Senate candiates turn on each other

This came in my email. It is from the Women’s Action Group. I presume that means Debbie Paley. Anyway, feast your eyes on some down-and-dirty Arkansas politics.

All Republican Senators and 41 Representatives Voted More Conservatively Than Did Senator Gilbert Baker, AR Candidate for US Senate
Gilbert Baker received the highest score of all Republican Senators in the Senate by a liberal group, Citizens First Congress.  This liberal group rated all senators and representatives’ votes in 2009.   A high score means the senators voted with the liberals.  For example, Joyce Elliott received the highest rating, 94.4%. Therefore,  Baker voted more liberal than all the other Republicans  in the Senate.

There are just 8 Republican Senators in the Arkansas Senate.  Ten senators received lower scores (voted more conservatively) than did Senator Gilbert Baker. Two of them were Democrats and another Democrat received the same score as Baker.

In the House, 41 of the Representatives received a lower score (voted more conservatively than did Gilbert Baker)  Thirteen Democratic representatives received a lower score by the liberal group (voted more conservatively)  than Senator Gilbert Baker.

Information taken from this link,  page 42 & 43 Citizens First Congress  – a Liberal Group http://citizensfirst.org/resources/2009%20Vote%20Guide.pdf

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Wednesday morning Arkansas heads

Starting tomorrow, retired members of the armed forces who have received medals for their service can have their medals noted on a special Arkansas license plate.

The Department of Health says 18 people have died from complications of swine flu since Aug. 1.

A round of pay cuts is underway at UAMS for 3,300 employees. The cuts will save $3 million dollars and thus save an estimated 50 jobs.

Jonesboro Mayor Harold Perrin says the city is laying off seven employees at the end of the year to cut personnel costs.

More than 40 percent of Arkansas homeowners are eligible for a $6,500 federal tax credit if they sell their home and buy another one by June 30, according to an analysis of census numbers.

The new state lottery is having little effect on wagering at Oaklawn and Southland Park. In Hot Springs, Oaklawn EGS wagers jumped 7% from the previous month and 53% in a year-over-year monthly comparison. In West Memphis, Southland EGS numbers rose 14% in October versus the previous month.  In a year-over-year comparison, October EGS wagers increased 28%.

Gov. Mike Beebe expresses support for the state Board of Education’s decision to delay action on an application for a new charter school in Little Rock because of concerns about the school’s potential impact on desegregation efforts.

Five University of Arkansas basketball players are suspended for violation of team rules. Suspended indefinitely for “unrelated violations” are Stefan Welsh and Courtney Fortson, Glenn Bryant, Marcus Britt, and Nick Mason face shorter terms of suspension.

Hogs quarterback Ryan Mallett has been named Southeastern Conference offensive player of the week.

Pedestrians in Arkansas metropolitan areas need to be extra careful crossing the street, according to a new study that found the state’s cities among the more dangerous places in the nation for pedestrians.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine will attend a fundraiser in Little Rock tomorrow.

The Arkansas Rice Depot is marking the 25th anniversary of its leader, Laura Rhea,. Walmart and the Walmart Foundation made a $100,000 gift to ARD for the Food for Kids program, plus $50,000 to boost a relatively new effort, the Kids Coat Project.

Final arguments will be heard in the murder trial of Curtis Vance who is accused of killing Ann Pressly and the case is expected to go to the jury.

A federal appeals court has refused to dismiss a civil lawsuit against two West Memphis police officerswho were involved in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy.

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Murdoch Agrees With Beck That Obama Is A Racist

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Thank you Reps. Marion Berry and Vic Snyder

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Tuesday Arkansas morning stuff

Governor Mike Beebe says 43 career coaches will be placed in high schools to assist students and thousands of dollars in financial aid will be available under a new workforce education program.

The Arkansas Educational Television Network will get a $749,417 federal grant to improve its signal in northeast Arkansas.

The state Board of Education may seek an attorney general’s opinion on whether approving a new open-enrollment charter school in Little Rock would affect long-running desegregation litigation involving three Pulaski County school districts.

The Parole Board will recommend freedom for a 76-year-old woman serving a life sentence for the 1982 murder of a boyfriend she claimed was abusive. Annie Ross was convicted of first degree murder in 1983 in Ouachita County for killing Sam Scott.

Four new scratch-off tickets will be on sale today but not everybody is excited about it. Three of the four have a holiday theme and are named Holiday Cash, Candy Cane Cash and Stocking Stuffer. Jerry Cox is the executive director of Family Council and believes the holiday theme is offensive.

Auctions last month of over one thousand mobile homes and travel trailers originally purchased for hurricane survivors but now stored in Hope yielded more than $7.2 million, but also have provoked more concern from the manufactured housing industry that the units will create a glut on the market..

A 2.4 magnitude earthquake was felt in north Faulkner County early Monday morning. There have been six tremors reported over the past few weeks.

Novelist Donald Harington, whose works set in fictional Stay More, Ark., probed the thin — or nonexistent — line between the ordinary and the surreal, has died at the age of 73 in Fayetteville after several months of health problems.

Ten miles northeast of Pine Bluff, behind a more-than-170-year old church infested with wasps, sits the grave site of Sr. Agnes Hart, a 19th century Catholic nun, whose supporters say deserves to be listed among the most pious of saints.

Mercy Health System of Northwest Arkansas will no longer provide birth announcements to the public. The Rogers hospital says the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children urges hospitals to reconsider giving out the information about newborn babies and their families.

Windstream Corp.’s third-quarter profits fell by 24 percent from a year ago

Arvest Bank, the $10.7 billion profitable lender owned chiefly by the Walton family of Wal-Mart Stores fortunes, completed its entry into the Kansas City market over the weekend.

Jurors viewed recordings of defendant Curtis Vance confess to killing anchorwoman Ann Pressly. On the tape, Vance is reportedly heard to say, “I’m always on the edge. Always aggressive.”

The Faulkner County Sheriff’s Office and the Lottery Commission are investigating the theft of four books of lottery tickets from a Greenbrier convenience store.

ESPN.com is suggesting former Auburn head coach Tommy Tuberville and current offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn as possible replacements for Memphis head coach Tommy West, who was fired Monday.

Arkansas Times blog notes that Forbes Travel Guide, formerly the Mobil Travel Guide, has given a four-star rating to the Peabody Hotel in Little Rock, the first in Arkansas.

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Arkansas headlines for Monday morning

Arkansas congressmen Berry and Snyder voted “yes” while Ross and Boozman voted “no” as a major health insurance reform bill passed by a 220 to 215 margin.

The number of state employees increased by more than 1,200 last fiscal year, although Gov. Mike Beebe cut the projected general revenue budget by nearly $107 million.

Oklahoma’s leading seller of Powerball lottery tickets said sales are down by more than 50 percent since Arkansas started selling Powerball tickets on Halloween.

A top official at the Pine Bluff Arsenal says it could be about a year before the Army chemical-weapons destruction operation is completed. Officials at the arsenal are working on ways to help workers find new jobs when the operation shuts down.

Wal-Mart plans to open 40 more “cash and carry” outlets in India, in addition to the 15 stores open last May.

Entergy Arkansas Inc. had net income of $52.9 million in the third quarter, that’s up 5%.

Record rainfall from one-after-another storms in September and October has halved the hay crop of some  farmers, according to state forage experts.

State agriculture experts say soggy weather that drenched Arkansas during much of the harvest season will cut farm receipts statewide by nearly $225 million.

Superior Industries, the aluminum wheel manufacturer with major factories in Fayetteville and Rogers, posted a third quarter loss of $12.7 million, bringing its year-to-date net loss to $90.2 million.

The capital murder convictions of Gordan Randall Gwathney, who was found guilty in 2007 of the deaths of three Lee County residents, were affirmed  by the Arkansas Supreme Court.

Testimony resumes today in the capital murder trial of Curtis Vance in the killing of television anchor Ann Pressly.

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Arkansas Friday headlines

During a briefing with journalists, Senator Lincoln stresses the importance of being more efficient with health care spending. She says that we need to make sure insurers cannot withhold insurance because of a pre-existing condition or drop people just because they become ill.

The annual University of Arkansas poll reports that 43 percent of Arkansans approve of the job Lincoln is doing. She enjoyed a 54 percent approval rating last fall.

An Oklahoma environmental group says it has asked the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission to suspend a permit granted more than two years ago for a sewage-treatment plant that would discharge into a tributary of the Illinois River, which flows into northeast Oklahoma.

IC Corp.’s parent company, Navistar, is ceasing bus production operations at its Conway plant. 477 jobs will be lost.

Dillard’s sales for October were off 11 percent compared to a year ago.

Dollar amounts have yet to be placed on crop damages in Lafayette and Miller counties, but estimates by the University of Arkansas Extension Service indicate the losses will be tremendous, especially for soybeans

The state Supreme Court has suspended L.T. Simes, the East Arkansas judge who made money from a law practice on the side, until the end of his term next year. The court said he can run again, rejecting the recommendation of the judicial discipline panel.

Testimony will continue today in the capitol murder trial of Curtis Vance for the killing of Ann Pressly. Testimony reveals that police have no fingerprints from the defendant but there is DNA evidence connecting Vance with the crime scene.

The state Supreme Court has tossed out the conviction of former police chief of Lonoke on corruption charges, saying the admission into evidence of his wife’s sexual activity was improper and testimony backing up the charge was hearsay.

A former employee of a Jacksonville day-care center was arrested on arson and child-endangerment charges in connection with a fire that was set in a classroom while children were napping, according to court documents.

A Pine Bluff man who allegedly threatened a district judge during court will have to post a $50,000 cash-only bond to be released from the county detention center while prosecutors prepare felony charges against him.

Fayetteville police say a man they arrested for reportedly pointing a bow and arrow at his mother later tried to set himself on fire while in a police car.

The first Boomtown Classic, featuring the Southern Arkansas University Muleriders and the University of Arkansas at Monticello Boll Weevils, will be held Saturday at Memorial Stadium in El Dorado. Hogs have a big one against South Carolina.

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Arkansas Thursday morning news notes

According to Roby Brock’s TalkBusiness.net, Governor Beebe’s approval rating has dipped from 77% positive in July to 71% approval in October.

Gov. Mike Beebe still opposes an initiated act voters approved last year banning unmarried couples from adopting or fostering children, and he thinks the law has hindered the state’s ability to recruit qualified adoptive and foster parents.

Members of the state House of Representatives will prohibit fundraising during the Legislature’s fiscal session next year. House members rejected a rule requiring them to find the cheapest route when traveling out of state at taxpayer expense.

The Health Department is cutting money that would have been spent on the trauma system’s emergency services, salary for trauma system staffers, the Arkansas Community Health Centers and charitable clinics.

Arkansas 211, a telephone program that helps connect thousands of callers with social-service programs statewide, will shut down this week because of a lack of funding.

The first deployment of National Guard troops to Afghanistan will begin in less than a week with teary goodbyes beside rumbling buses at the Jonesboro armory.

Farmers in 60 Arkansas counties are eligible to apply for emergency low-interest federal loans under a U.S. Agriculture Department declaration related to October flooding.

Chick-fil-A Bowl representative Jack D’Arcy will visit Fayetteville to scout the South Carolina Arkansas game. The two teams are being scouted as potential representatives in the 2009 Chick-fil-A Bowl on Dec. 31.

Murphy Oil Corp. of El Dorado, citing significantly lower sales prices for oil and natural gas and lower earnings from the refining and marketing operations, reports third-quarter net income fell to $188.9 million, less than a third of the $584.4 million earned in the same quarter last year.

Wal-Mart will eliminate 60 positions from its international division but add 40 new slots elsewhere in the division.

In the first day of testimony in the Ann Pressly murder trial, the victim’s mother described finding Pressly in her blood soaked bed and an emergency room doctor described the condition of her face as unrecognizable There is worse.

Three women whom evangelist Tony Alamo is accused of taking as “wives” at young ages and transporting across state lines have asked to speak at his sentencing hearing next week.

Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery says a woman who fled with her husband to Vermont rather than face sentencing on 20 counts of animal cruelty has finally been sentenced to a year in the county jail and fined a total of $10,000.

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Wednesday Arkansas roundup

U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln says she told President Barack Obama during a Tuesday evening meeting that she’s concerned about the cost of a government-funded health insurance option. Lincoln met with Obama for about 30 minutes at the White House.

So far the state has been awarded over $1.1 billion in Recovery Act stimulus money as of September 30. Of that, over $323 million has been received and $112.5 million has been spent. 2,633 jobs have been created or saved.

The Department of Health is reporting that a total of 172,873 doses were given out at mass flu clinics across the state last week. That included only about 24,000 doses of H1N1 vaccine.

The Cooperative Extension Service says Ashley, Chicot and Desha counties are particularly hard hit by the heavy rains in October. Farmers across the state have suffered from the weather.

State revenues fell $17.8 million short of projections last month, but budget officials are optimistic the economy would begin to improve early next year.

One regular and two alternate jurors remain to be seated in the first degree murder trial of Curtis Vance. Testimony concerning the killing of television anchor Ann Pressly is expected to begin this afternoon.

Washington County will mandate microchips be implanted in dogs picked up in unincorporated area without collars, if a proposal by the county’s Animal Concerns Advisory Board is implemented.

A federal court jury agreed with six black employees of Nucor in Blytheville that they were subjected to racist treatment, and awarded $200,000 to each. According to Arkansas Business, supervisors re-enacted lynchings, broadcast racial slurs over the plant’s radio system and portrayed black employees as monkeys.

The U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a $2.75 million award in compensatory damages for a Little Rock woman who sued drugmakers Wyeth and Upjohn, saying the companies’ hormone therapy drugs caused her breast cancer.

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. will buy Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., making a $34 billion bet on the future of the U.S. economy.

Windstream has an agreement to acquire NuVox, a privately held local exchange carrier based in Greenville, S.C., in a deal valued at about $643 million.

The investigation into injuries suffered last week by a a prisoner in the Lonoke County Detention Facility is now being conducted by the state police as a homicide.

State police say a Blytheville woman is dead after the collision of her vehicle and a state trooper’s patrol car.

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