June 19, 2007 • 11:10 pm 0
My interview from this morning with Stephens Media Group columnist Harry King is now posted. We spoke of many things, including Daren McFadden and the Houston Nutt poll. King believes that Broyles will prevail and appoint Chuck Barrett Voice of the hogs. It’s in the “on demand” audio section of lyncho.com.
Harry’s great columns are archived here.
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• 10:23 pm 0
A weather man from Alabama, claiming to be an ardent Hog fan, has released a survey he commissioned to test Coach Houston Nutt’s public approval rating. It is more scientific than an internet poll or a talk show, but there were problems.
The questions about the methodology, however, all indicate that the results should be skewed against Houston Dale Nutt. In fact, the results were not so bad, despite the opening questions about controversial emails and such. Sixty-three of the responding Razorback fans are approving of the head football coach. If the results are to be believed, that is outstanding.
It must also be noted that the University was dead wrong about only five percent of the people causing all the troubles. Fifteen percent of those participating were very dissatisfied. I thought it would be much higher. This measurement also reportedly shows the strongest backing for the program in Northwest Arkansas. That goes against conventional wisdom.
You can’t get much out of this thing, but it is probably good news for Houston Nutt. The guy just has nine lives and, no matter how bad things get, nothing can get rid of him.
(Broadcast June 19, 2007)
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• 10:06 pm 0
This is the kind of thing we have all been taught to do. You know. It’s the golden rule to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
So how does that work in real life? Ask William Hoover of Alma. His story is in today’s Southwest Times Record.
Hoover saved a life. Today, with no health insurance and collection agencies knocking at the door, he faces losing everything.
Hoover says he does not regret the decision that has cost him so dearly.
While a young woman was about to be burned up alive, 20 frightened people looked on. It was a dangerous situation. Maybe it is understandable not to step into harm’s way. Can’t we find a way to help this man today?
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• 9:11 pm 0
Bill Vickery and I will have our weekly winners and losers ready. It is bound to speak a fight, so tune in!
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• 9:01 pm 2
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Why they bother is a mystery, but the right wingers keep filling my mailbox with giberish. Funny thing. I just do not consider drug dealers on the same level hard working roofers and waitresses. If I can tell the difference, why can’t the misguided people that send out this stuff?
Illegals light border fires to sidetrack U.S. agents
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
June 19, 2007Wildfires are being set by alien and drug smugglers, authorities said, to create a diversion in an attempt to gain undetected access across the border. The fires correspond to a dramatic rise in assaults against Border Patrol agents — up more than 100 percent over last year.
“Criminal activity by both illegal immigrants and citizens in forests near the border is a threat to members of the public trying to use their public lands and to our employees trying to manage these lands,” Tina J. Terrell, a Forest Service supervisor told a House Appropriations subcommittee last month.
She said law-enforcement personnel have been assaulted, threatened with weapons and shot at, and their vehicles have been rammed by cross-border violators. Because of the remoteness of the area, she said, timely assistance from other law-enforcement agencies is not always possible, and communications limitations and active interference with radio frequencies in Mexico create additional safety risks.
“Even normal enforcement duties bring our officers in regular contact with cross-border violators,” she said. “Our officers risk their lives every day to enforce the law in these remote federally managed lands.”
The Coronado National Forest is not the only area along the border being targeted for wildfires. Other blazes also have been set, including two this month near the San Luis, Ariz., port of entry as the result of Molotov cocktails — one of which barely missed a Border Patrol agent.
Authorities said agents are being targeted by illegal aliens and their smugglers for rock attacks — including grapefruit-size rocks wrapped in rags, dipped in gasoline and set on fire.
The wildfires have destroyed valuable natural and cultural resources in the National Forest System and pose an ongoing threat to visitors, residents and responding firefighters, according to federal law-enforcement authorities and others.
In the Coronado National Forest in Arizona, with 60 miles of land along the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. Forest Service firefighters sent in to battle fires or clear wild-land fire areas are required to be escorted by armed law-enforcement officers.
Armed smugglers of aliens and drugs have walked through the middle of active firefighting operations, the authorities said.
The Border Patrol’s Tucson, Ariz., sector, which encompasses most of the Coronado National Forest, has the highest incidence of cross-border violators in the nation. Nearly 500,000 illegal aliens were apprehended last year — more than 30,000 a month. In addition, nearly 100,000 pounds of marijuana, with a street value of $200 million, was seized as it was hauled through the Coronado National Forest.
Last month, the Border Patrol — in a single operation targeting illegal aliens causing what Forest Service officials called “significant damage” to the Coronado National Forest — apprehended more than 300 illegals along just a three-mile section of U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona and confiscated 600 pounds of marijuana in a 10-day period.
At least five fires were set below a Border Patrol observation post during the operation in an effort to burn the agents out, according to a Forest Service report. The fires were extinguished, and no one was arrested.
To read entire article see this link:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070619-121814-2527r.htmBob Hester, Director
Arkansas Family Coalition
blhester@m34u.net
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• 8:55 pm 0
One of the conservative nuts that bombards my email with crazy right wing spam finally sent me some good news. This is not to say that all conservatives are crazy, but something happens when you give one an email account and broadband.
LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas State Chamber of Commerce, the Poultry Federation and Arkansas Farm Bureau have announced support for the pending comprehensive immigration reform legislation that is currently in front of the United States Senate, citing the additional border security, increased and enhanced workplace enforcement, and a workable guest worker program as critical components of the current legislation.The three organizations have lobbied Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor on the topic, identifying the critical nature of any immigration reform and the need to get something passed this year, and hope that both senators will vote for the bill.
“Everyone, I believe, is in agreement that the status-quo is not working. It is time to act, and to get something passed, for the security of our country and for the legal access to immigrant workers.”
Harvel says the State Chamber, Poultry Federation and Farm Bureau’s unified stance on the immigration issue is apolitical, because it is in the best interest of all Arkansans.
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• 12:02 pm 0
Despite University of Arkansas contentions that only 5% of Hog fans are disenchanted with head coach Houston Nutt, a survey of 600 random fans shows 15% to be “very dissatisfied.” The survey was commissioned by Roger Wooley of Pinson, Ala. The University has lost its’ offensive coordinator, several star players, and Athletic Director Frank Broyles was forced to retire in the wake of these events and an abusive email sent by a booster to a student-athlete.
Arkansas State University’s athletic teams will have a new mascot and a new nickname when they take the field in the fall of 2008.
Between 20,000 and 30,000 people are expected to flock to Little Rock this week for the annual American Taekwondo Association World Championships. The ATA officially kicked off the annual week long celebration at the Statehouse Convention Center. It’s the largest convention in the Little Rock area this year.
The company whose genetically engineered rice is at the center of an ongoing government investigation – and has disrupted U.S. rice exports – has been quietly testing another transgenic variety in Arkansas. This spring, Bayer Crop-Science planted four 0.2-acre plots near Proctor, Newport, Stuttgart and Tillar, according to the state Plant Board. Greg Yielding, executive director of the Arkansas Rice Growers Association, says that his group requested information from the board under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act.
A group of black farmers in Jefferson County says the USDA has discriminated against them. The Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association held a sit-in protest at the USDA office in Pine Bluff. The group didn’t talk about specific local incidents, but says there’s discrimination nationally and here in Arkansas.
Rep. Denny Sumpter of West Memphis is drafting a ballot initiative to create a $25 million-a-year state-subsidized hospital trauma case network, which is something that failed during this year’s legislative session.
The man who crashed a stolen car into another vehicle last Thursday, killing two, will face two counts of first-degree murder once he’s released from the hospital. Jonathan Moore was driving a gold 1995 Lincoln Continental Thursday night when he was pursued by a Little Rock police officer who recognized that the vehicle was stolen.
A Fouke man is still missing after making a leap Saturday into the Red River from the Two Rivers Bridge on Arkansas 160. The man’s friends and family say the jump was a stunt and not an attempt to take his own life. Jody Cook was last seen about 7 p.m. when, without remark, he hopped over the south side of the Two Rivers Bridge, about 100 feet above the water.
Excessive water flows on the Arkansas River have forced postponement of the Arkansas Big Bass Bonanza, tournament officials announced Monday. Billed as the nation’s largest amateur big bass tournament, the three-day event originally scheduled for Friday through Sunday has been rescheduled for July 13-15, officials said.
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• 3:28 am 2
Arkansas Republican Rep. John Boozman has introduced a proposal that would essentially eliminate Amtrak’s preferential access rights to freight railroad lines unless the U.S. Secretary of Transportation first certifies that Amtrak would not cause increased highway congestion, fossil fuel usage, air pollution or greenhouse gas emissions.
As a Republican, it is to be expected that he would be completely in the bag to Wal Mart, Tyson, Hunt, and all the other greedy big money special interests, but this is an extraordinary proposal. Boozman is suggesting Amtrak causes pollution, which is the most outrageous illogical nonsense one could imagine. Out here, the small number of Amtrak trains and passengers don’t effect much of anything, and he obviously wants to keep it that way.
This would be one more roadblock to building a sensible transportation system, which is the last thing big highway hogs would ever want. This idea is so ridiculous, so totally preposterous, that it has no chance in the world. But we better play it safe. Contact your representative and let them know that as a matter of national security, America needs a balanced transportation system.
Till now, Boozman has appeared to be merely a benign self-serving conservative, now he seems to have gone down to irrelevant. Honestly, it is hard to imagine somebody so beholden to special interests that he can suggest such foolishness with a straight face.
(Broadcast June 19, 2007)
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