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BELL RUNG In the wake of reporting Rep. Nate Bell’s doltish Tweet last week, the Arkansas Times was flooded with comments on our Arkansas Blog, posts on our Facebook page and letters to the editor castigating the state representative from Mena. Here’s a sampling.
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Kinda like rock paper scissors. AR-15 does not beat explosive devices sir. Dustin Mabbitt on Facebook.
Do you think you know what Boston is like from your redneck stereotypes of overly educated Cambridge elites with their heads in the clouds? These are fairy tales created by out of touch rural conservatives to make you all feel better about your political and intellectual impotence. Try going to an Ironworkers Union meeting in South Boston and shoot your mouth off there. You’ll find a room full of Democrats who have more in common with Whitey Bulger than Elizabeth Warren. From a letter to the Times from Liam Clancy of Boston.
My dad is a cop in Boston, just ended a 21-hour shift, risking his life to protect the people there. Go to hell, Nate Bell. Lanna Cauley-Jones on Facebook.
Dear God, Please smite Nate Bell with the butt of an AR15, for he knows not how ignorant he is. Let that strike knock some sense into him. Hennysmom in a comment on the Arkansas Blog.
A meathead to infinity. Tom Miller on Facebook. @NateBell4AR You are a moron. Tweet from Boston city conuncilor Matt O’Malley.
Hey, @natebell4ar, I was a sgt in the USArmy, Hawkeye, and Boston liberal. Go to hell, you ignorant douche. ElizabetPowell (@sargep) on Twitter.
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INSIDER, CONT. he wished Mills had talked to him. He says the National River has lost more than 60 percent of maintenance staff as a result of flat budgeting and the rise in fixed costs, such as utilities. Despite that, he thinks the staff has done a good job of keeping up, through strategic closures and other means. But he says that everyone needs to pitch in, including through concession operators letting their customers know about closures and making preparations, such as restroom stops before heading to launch spots. Both Pruitt and Ponca are near still-operating restrooms, for example, Cheri said. Cheri also said the Park Service was working with some private groups to provide volunteer help, such as the adopt-a-highway litter cleanup programs. “We’re doing our best with what we have,” Cheri said, “but we’re asking users too to be more sensitive.”
West Memphis anniversary
I respond as a native Arkansan who has lived in Boston for twenty years. The answer to your question Sir, is ZERO — I assume you can count. Your statement disgraces the entire nation and is a grievous insult to the citizens of Massachusetts, of which I am proud to be one. Keri Dawn Jones on Facebook Bell is the kind of guy that gives idiocy a bad name. Mike Gundolf on Facebook. Well geez, Nate... thanks once again for bringing national embarrassment to the Natural State. E.W. Swan on Facebook
Really? Political posturing at a time like this? Didn’t your mama teach you to think before you speak? Neil Kelly on Facebook
Another example of how we here in Arkansas put some of the most evil spirited, ignorant, intolerant “people” in office. Lori Adkins on Facebook
Social media accounts give us our best chance to look into the souls of people like Nate Bell. They reveal their innermost thoughts without thinking, because they don’t have a capacity to really ‘think’. Thanks Nate for sharing with us who you really are. Now nobody can say they don’t know what Bell stands for. Offensive doesn’t begin to describe him. Sound Policy in a comment on the Arkansas Blog. Absolutely disgusting. As a Boston resident, I find this statement incredible offensive, ignorant, and disrespectful to our entire nation, not only our city. To imply that any of YOUR FELLOW CITIZENS were “cowering in their homes” at a time when you should have been praying for their safety shows your lack of intelligence and compassion, but perhaps most importantly, your utter lack of patriotism. Shame on you, you are not an American. Lauren Brownell on Facebook
May 5 will mark the 20th anniversary of the slayings of three Arkansas children in what would come to be known internationally as the West Memphis Three case. The “three” refers to the defendants convicted — wrongly, many now agree — in the slayings of three 8-year-olds, Steve Branch, Chris Byers and Michael Moore. There’s a memorial to the victims at their school, Weaver Elementary in West Memphis, that includes a gazebo, benches and a memorial stone. The principal there, Sheila Grissom, is trying to raise money to refurbish the memorial. Those interested in donating or seeking more information can contact Grissom at sgrissom@ wmsd.net or 870-735-7670, or send a donation to Weaver Elementary Reading Grove/Playground Fund, 1280 East Barton Ave., West Memphis, AR 72301.
CORRECTIONS In last week’s cover story “Pig out,” we misidentified Reno’s Louis France, a member of the Reno’s Pit Crew team in the Arkansas Times Heritage Hog Roast, as Lewis Franks. The story also said that Falling Sky Farm would provide all of the hogs for the hog roast. Freckle Face Farm will also provide heritagebreed hogs.
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