Arkansas Moves Backwards at a Fast Pace

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />Hola y’all! Boy howdy things are just crazy these days. Check out some of the things I was just reading about today:<br /><br />A republican over in Jonesboro, AR who has written a book in which he makes the argument that <a href="http://talkbusiness.net/2012/10/rep-jon-hubbard-slavery-a-blessing-in-disguise/" target="_blank">slavery was a blessing for blacks</a> has a HUGE lead in his state senate race over his democratic opponent. He has also asked “when will blacks take responsibility for their own lives?” (Sounds like someone’s 47% video huh?)<br /><br />Another republican over in Northwest AR who has publicly argued for <a href="http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/10/05/god-according-to-charlie-fuqua" target="_blank">stoning of rebellious children in accordance with the Bible</a> is also cruising to victory. Children aren’t the only ones he wants dead though. He claims anyone who is convicted of any crime who isn’t “rehabilitated” in two years should get the death penalty. Oh and that all Muslims should be kicked out of the country.<br /><br />Yet another republican is running in west Arkansas who has written a series of letters to the editor defending slavery and <a href="http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/10/06/loy-mauch-update-the-republican-rep-is-on-record-on-slavery-too" target="_blank">castigating Abraham Lincoln as a “Northern War Criminal.”</a> His money quote was “If slavery was so God-awful, why doesn’t Jesus condemn it?”<br /><br />Right here in Redneck County we have a real live white supremacist<span style="color: red;">*</span> running for a position on the Quorum Court. And we all know he’s going to win, don’t we? Of course we do. His primary concern is that allowing all these immigrants into the country is causing us to lose our “purity” and that whites are a superior race and all that KKK stuff.<br /><br />And finally, I found out today that US Olympic high hurdler and <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/news/lolo-jones-off-strong-start-214547060--spt.html" target="_blank">hottie Lolo Jones is now a bobsledder</a>! When will it all end???<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWCspsrOwP0wkMr-_4uCXaZj3177gxpIf6xMg8oSqgyERSjNACWFYDaVxMGsaIpi54gYydUwz65u92pqNDIqOIqKeCVMVVDnXwHN2Zg3jY7vPqCswHsQOSHbXLDKKca6N2o1gE92pmNMU/s1600/Lolo+Jones+Bobsledder.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWCspsrOwP0wkMr-_4uCXaZj3177gxpIf6xMg8oSqgyERSjNACWFYDaVxMGsaIpi54gYydUwz65u92pqNDIqOIqKeCVMVVDnXwHN2Zg3jY7vPqCswHsQOSHbXLDKKca6N2o1gE92pmNMU/s320/Lolo+Jones+Bobsledder.jpg" width="238" /></a></div>I don’t know how much of this I can take. Okay, I can handle Lolo bobsledding. That doesn’t seem like anything that will hurt us as a society. It just means I have to put up with her <strike>hot</strike> annoying ass much longer than I thought I would have to. Why hasn’t anyone just given her a reality show yet? Sheesh.<br /><br />Anyway, the steady march backwards here in Arkansas has turned into a dead sprint as every kooky weirdo racist freak is looking to get into elected office and the fine folks in these districts, specifically designed to elect such people, appear ready to oblige them. What a state huh?<br /><br />And where is the Republican Party while these guys are heading for victory? Cheering them on and making plans to put them on “relevant” committees and such. Oh sure, publicly they’ve said all the right things and claim to have stopped supporting these guys. But, what a party does publicly and what it does privately are often times two different things.<br /><br />After the initial pretend pearl clutching by the republicans things settled back down and it was business as usual. And of course you have lots of good and decent citizens saying idiotic things like “well, I don’t agree with him on those things, but I support his policies.” What fucking policies?<br /><br />These positions they’re taking on slavery, race and gays ARE their policies. It’s their belief that these are the MOST IMPORTANT things our government should be focusing on. That’s because they truly believe that all of our problems as a nation can be blamed on blacks, immigrants, gays and women. If you get them back in line and suppress them, and just impose “God’s Law” then all our problems go away.<br /><br />And you know what? We’re gonna find out in January when these people take their seats whether the Republican Party has adopted their views and will quietly help them push their agendas or if they will attempt to isolate them and their crazy, dangerous and offensive ideas.<br /><br />I’m not optimistic. Nor should you be because this isn’t an isolated occurrence. It will all be coming to your enlightened,  tolerant community in the years to come too.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">*</span>Local races are here are technically non-partisan, but you can find all of Mr. White Supremacists campaign materials at the local republican party headquarters.<br /><br />Jayman<br /><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jayman_iws" target="_blank">@Jayman_IWS</a><br /><br /></div>

Arkansas Moves Backwards at a Fast Pace

Hola y’all! Boy howdy things are just crazy these days. Check out some of the things I was just reading about today: A republican over in Jo...

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