ArtfromArk

in a mid-term election was Jimmy Carter

https://jp.reuters.com/article/csports-us-sports-olympics-covid-idCAKBN25Z01D-OCASP

The IOC has already come out and said that the Olympics WILL be held in Japan in 2021.

things are pretty laid back. No riots, people wear masks in enclosed public spaces. However, the Japanese government is still discouraging foreign tourism. But the country will have to come up with an equitable solution pretty soon, especially if it still wants to host the 2021 Olympic/Paralympic Games.

It only counts guns with a bore of more than half an inch. That would leave out, for example, 9mm handguns, whose bore measures only 0.34 inch.

The Bush team maintained that the font in the documents, which are dated 1972 and 1973, were not used in typewriters back then.

My guess is that Tom’s campaign will fizzle out faster than Mike Huckabee’s did.

Also remember that there were never any public Congressional hearings about 9/11. You can bet your sweet bippy that if Al Gore had been President during 9/11, there would have have been 20 Congressional committees raking him over the coals if he had exhibited that same type of behavior that GWB had exhibited in that 2nd grade Florida classroom.

in a state that had earned a reputation as a hillbilly backwater, let me make a few comments here.

First, I’m glad I had the opportunity to get a free public education. I remember quite a transition between 1966 and 1967, when Arkansas’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction, Winthrop Rockefeller, started to make some much needed changes…[Read more]

have been bought out by a conservative rag, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.  That includes the Rogers Daily News (which had morphed into the Northwest Arkansas Morning News, whold old offices have now been demolished), the Benton County Democrat (Bentonville paper which featured a silhouette of a Confederate statue on its masthead), the Springdale…[Read more]

They and their ancestors have had to endure so much, including becoming a landlocked country as a result of the 19th century War of the Pacific.

“William Golding can be said to be a writer of myths. It is the pattern of myth that we find in his manner of writing.

“A very few basic experiences and basic conflicts of a deeply general nature underlie all his work as motive power. In one of his essays he describes how, as a young man, he took an optimistic view of existence. He believed that…[Read more]

You can’t make this shit up

How much does it cost to extract coal and ship it to Japan? On top of that, what’s left after a coal-bearing mountain is “decapitated” to extract the coal? In this area, lots of new houses are being built with solar panels. If I were younger, and sure that I would still be here 10 years from now. I do have the option of moving back to the US, and…[Read more]

The last bill was for $40. The highest bill is generally around $100 for each of the 3 winter months. I have passive solar heating, as I have large patio doors that face the south. My yearly electric bill comes to around $600 (including all-electric heating and cooling). The last time I looked into solar, it would cost me more than $10,000 to…[Read more]

I know that Japan and South Korea are very wary of China (although the new Japanese prime minister has been making overtures to China). China also has territorial disputes with nearly all of its neighbors, including Japan (Senkaku Islands), so I’m not sure how far this will go.

My electric company is the same one that ran the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power complex. They have since converted to coal-fired generation. I have wanted to convert to solar, and many households of means in my area have done so, but it’s still out of my reach, and I would probably die before I could recover my investment in solar at the current…[Read more]

I’ve voted Green on numerous occasions, including for Rebekah Kennedy, who holds the distinction of getting the greatest proportion of votes for a Green candidate  in a US Senate election (20+%) and the second-highest vote total ever for a Green candidate (second only to Medea Benjamin),…[Read more]

The amount of fossil fuels that MIGHT be involved in the production of solar panels PALES in comparison with the amount of fossil fuels that are consumed EVERY DAY just to produce electricity.

as it was 6 years ago. And the state is paying a total of $600 million to…[Read more]