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Nov 2007
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The Arkansas Way
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Fri 2 Nov 2007 16:00
by McGehee
71° and sunny
in Coweta County, GA
[Get Offa My Lawn!]
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You know, maybe we just plain don’t need anybody in the White House anytime soon, who has roots of whatever depth in Arkansas.
Some former staffers of then-Gov. Mike Huckabee and one current employee of the office that did some of the destruction are saying that the media shouldn’t assume that all computer data and other documents were destroyed in the aftermath of Huckabee’s order to literally wipe the slate clean after he left office.
Huckabee had ordered that the hard drives in 83 personal computers and four servers be destroyed. That equipment and data resided in the state Capitol, a state office in Washington, D.C., the Arkansas State Police airport hangar, the governor’s mansion, and the Arkansas State Police drug office. Additionally a number of paper documents were shredded and burned.
Huckabee’s office claimed the records were destroyed as a courtesy to the incoming governor. Critics believe that the records—particularly those from the governor’s mansion and the airport hangar—were destroyed to further conceal ethical breaches from an administration that many considered more ethically challenged than that of Bill Clinton. »
Record Removal
I don’t see how any administration could be more ethically challenged than the Clintons’, but I readily admit that may simply be a failure of imagination on my part and I’m not particularly eager to see that envelope get pushed any further. It’s almost certainly unfair to Huckabee to write him out of the presidential race if he hasn’t done anything wrong here—but it’s hard to see this in a way that doesn’t put him in a bad light, and dammit we just don’t need this bull$#!t anymore.
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Heh
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Thu 1 Nov 2007 21:40
by McGehee
55° and clear
in Coweta County, GA
[Humor?]
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Heh heh (read the subsequent few comments to see the real reason I’m chuckling).
Update: Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. It’s just that it’s so rare for people to forget I’m not as funny as I think I am.
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My Day
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Thu 1 Nov 2007 21:11
by McGehee
56° and fair
in Coweta County, GA
[Asides]
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Went and got my new driver’s license, a ten-year renewal. Only claimed a 95-pound weight loss, though. Just to be modest.
Then I went and checked out a new local bookstore and picked up some reading material, including this one, the latest in a series Chris the weather weenie discovered. I knew she’d appreciate the find.
To my disappointment, I didn’t find a section, nary so much as a shelf, for the Western genre. Guess I’ll have to keep going to another store for those.
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God Hates Haters
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Thu 1 Nov 2007 7:54
by McGehee
50° and sunny
in Coweta County, GA
[Courting Disaster]
[Get Offa My Lawn!]
[Wackadoodle]
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Baltimore—A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict Wednesday against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals out of a belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation’s tolerance of homosexuality.
Albert Snyder of York, Pa., sued the Westboro Baptist Church for unspecified damages after members demonstrated at the March 2006 funeral of his son, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, a Marine who was killed in Iraq.
The jury first awarded $2.9 million in compensatory damages. It returned in the afternoon with its decision to award $6 million in punitive damages for invasion of privacy and $2 million for causing emotional distress.
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Earlier, church members staged a demonstration outside the federal courthouse. Church founder Fred Phelps held a sign reading “God is your enemy,” while Shirley Phelps-Roper stood on an American flag. Members of the group sang “God Hates America” to the tune of “God Bless America.” »
Anti-gay church must pay Marine’s father $11 million
Every so often our justice system actually lives up to its name. These birds have no redeeming value, even as compost.
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Boo
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Thu 1 Nov 2007 7:46
by McGehee
50° and clear
in Coweta County, GA
[Out West]
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The Casper Rockies have a new name and new look.
The team announced that they will now be known as the Casper Ghosts, and unveiled four new logos for the team at a press conference Tuesday at the Wonder Bar.
“The future in professional baseball in Casper is the Casper Ghosts,” said Matt Warneke, the Ghosts’ general manager.
Naming Casper’s minor-league baseball team the Ghosts is not a new idea. Team owner and CEO Kevin Haughian initially wanted to name the team the Ghosts when he moved them here from Butte, Mont., following the 2000 season.
Haughian said there was a deal in place for the team to be named the Ghosts, but that former Colorado Rockies CEO Jerry McMorris wanted all Rockies’ affiliates to be called the Rockies and Haughian complied.
The Ghosts remain an affiliate of the big-league Rockies, but the team wanted the name change to create a unique identity for the team. Haughian said economics also played a role in the change.
“The Casper Rockies brand never really took off, unfortunately. »
Casper Rockies turn into Casper Ghosts
At first glance, and knowing how Casper, Wyoming came by its name, I was none too pleased to read this headline—but on reading past the end of the excerpt I can see why it was done and have a little more sympathy for the owners.
I think a more historically appropriate name would have been better, but when I was a kid and heard about Casper, Wyoming, what do you think I thought of? Hint: it wasn’t a cavalry officer killed by Indians. So I guess it works.
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It’s Dog Eat Dog Out There
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Thu 1 Nov 2007 7:28
by McGehee
50° and fair
in Coweta County, GA
5 comments
[Alaska]
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A pack of wolves killed and ate a dog in a residential subdivision in North Pole early Wednesday morning.
The dog, a 15-year-old black Lab mix named Shilo, evidently ran into the wolves while it was out taking care of its morning business, said owner Ed Lesage, who lives off Mavencamp Court in North Pole, a subdivision at the end of Hurst Road on the edge of Chena Lake and the Chena Lakes Recreation Area.
Lesage said his wife, Teresa, both teachers, let their two dogs, Shilo and a 4-year-old husky named Chief, out to go to the bathroom at about 4 a.m. just as they do every morning.
“We let ‘em out, they go to the bathroom and they come back 15 or 20 minutes later,” Ed Lesage said of their morning ritual.
On Wednesday morning, though, Lesage noticed that all the dogs in the neighborhood began barking shortly after he let the two dogs out.
“Something just didn’t seem right,” he said. »
Wolves kill, eat pet dog in North Pole subdivision
That’s only a few miles from where we used to live up there, from 1995 to 1999. Mavenkamp Circle can be seen here, and the site of our home is within the frame near the upper left-hand corner (at least, it is on my monitor with 1280 x 1024 resolution). Chena Lake has been the scene of previous dangerous encounters with Alaska wildlife, including a family that died of exposure some years back after retreating into the water to get away from grizzly bears.
As for wolves, I can remember at least one or two occasions where they got into yards in outlying areas such as Two Rivers, north of North Pole, and killed several sled dogs. Yet for all the years we lived up there, we never saw a wolf or grizzly bear—and the only wild bears we did see were a couple of black bear cubs while driving on the Dalton Highway after a quick trip to the Yukon River bridge in 1995.
Condolences to the Lesages.
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