SubscribeMike Huckabee has a problem
Nine years ago while Mike Huckabee was the governor of Arkansas, he commuted the 60-year prison sentence of a man named Maurice Clemmons. This same man is now wanted for questioning in the shooting deaths of four Washington State police officers.
Whoops.
If it wasn’t for Huckabee, Maurice Clemmons would still be in prison in Arkansas. He wouldn’t have been able to walk into the Lakewood, Washington coffee shop and gun down four police officers as they sat doing paperwork on their laptop computers.
It’s not like this is even Clemmons’ first transgression since been being let out of prison by Huckabee. Clemmons is on bail awaiting trial for third-degree assault on a police officer and second-degree rape of a child. How does someone even get bail for raping a child?
I’m guessing this means the end of Huckabee’s presidential aspirations. I imagine anyone running against Huckabee in the Republican primary will make Maurice Clemmons their poster child.
Remember the Jonesboro school massacre?
On March 24, 1998, 11-year old Andrew Golden and 13-year old Mitchell Johnson pulled the fire alarm at Westside Middle School near Jonesboro, Arkansas and opened fire with high-powered rifles at teachers and students exiting the school building.
Four girls and a teacher were killed.
Both children were charged as juveniles in Arkansas state court for murder and then later transferred to federal custody for the crime of bringing a firearm to school. Golden and Johnson were each released from prison on their 21st birthday with a clean record and evidently, new names.
Who know juvie was kind of like the French Foreign Legion?
Andrew Golden changed his name to Drew Douglas Grant and recently applied for a permit to carry a semi-automatic handgun. The request was denied not because he murdered a teacher and four children, but because he lied on the application as to where he lived two years ago.
He might even be charged with lying on his application. Instead of going back to juvie, he would be facing the prospect of going to Big Boy prison.
The Quiverful movement
I blogged a couple of months ago about Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, a married couple in Arkansas that were expecting their 18th child. They were getting their own reality show on the Discovery Channel, 17 Kids and Counting. At the time I thought they were just incredibly weird. As it turns out, there is an actual name for what they are doing.
It’s called the Quiverful movement.
A quiver is the thing an archer uses to hold all of his arrows. To someone who practices Quiverful, their home is the quiver and their children are the arrows. The idea is to stock their quiver with as many arrows as they can. It’s practiced primarily by conservative Christian evangelicals here in the United States. They almost never use any form of birth control or any other type of family planning.
The Duggars are people living the Quiverful or “QF” life.
I still think it’s pretty weird. They must think very highly of their genes to so heavily overstock the gene pool. Evidently the Duggars can afford the Quiverful lifestyle. I read on the Discovery Channel website that they own their own cellphone tower. I didn’t even know they had cellphones in Arkansas.
Woman pregnant with 18th child
This is a photo of Michelle Duggar and her family. She’s 41-year old and she is currently pregnant with her 18th child.
That’s right. She has given birth to 17 children and that is not enough. She must have at least one more. I read the whole article over on Yahoo, but I didn’t really need to. As soon as I heard there was a woman pregnant with her 18th child, I already assumed certain facts to be true. These facts include:
- She lives in Arkansas.
- She and her husband have named every child with a name starting with the letter “J”. To be honest, I wasn’t certain what the actual letter was, but I knew the names all started with the same letter.
- All of the children are home schooled.
- They are Republicans.
- They plan on continuing to have children as long as “God wills it”.
- They are supporters of former Republican Presidential nominee Mike Huckabee.
To put this into context, I know people who haven’t even had sex 18 times.
I can’t imagine the pain someone must feel that desperately wants to have a child, but for whatever reason, cannot become pregnant. It must be very similar to what someone who is starving to death feels when they have to watch someone at an all-you-can-eat Chinese food buffet go up and get 18 plates of snow crab legs.
And of course they have a reality TV show. I don’t watch reality TV shows that revolve around a single family unless that family includes midgets.
Little People, Big World rocks!
The Oakland Raiders show why they are the Oakland Raiders
The NFL held the first two rounds of it’s draft Saturday and the Oakland Raiders chose with the fourth overall pick Arkansas star running back Darren McFadden.
Dumb, dumb, dumb, and dumb.
I think this was a stupid move not just because running backs in the first round usually don’t pan out, but because this guy is just a huge messy “off the field trouble” waiting to happen.
This is the guy you let someone else draft on the first day.
It’s just not worth taking a chance. Mini Muhammad, his mother is a recovering crack addict. He has 11 brothers and sisters. One gang banging brother is a Crip, another is a Blood. He missed Arkansas’ 2006 season opener against the USC Trojans with a broken toe he suffered in a bar fight. Who brakes their toe in a bar fight? He was also involved in another bar fight earlier this year. This time it was at a piano bar. What where they fighting over? If Barry Manilow truly wrote the songs that makes the young girls girl? Then there’s the paternity suite being leveled against him by one Little Rock woman along with the statement from McFadden that he has two other children on the way.
For those keep score at home, that’s two bar fights and three baby mamas.
This is not the NFL from 10 years ago. Character is now important. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell isn’t screwing around when it comes to players committing infractions off the field. What are the chances he’s going to get into another piano bar fight? He’s about to get paid an awful lot of money and the likelihood that he’s going to screw up seem too high to me.
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