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| GREAT MOMENT IN HISTORY |
| Thursday, May 31, 2007 |
| Thanks to one of my listeners for sending this to me. I remember when this happened. Good for you Rick Monday. |
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| Get Your Doctorate Of Talkology Today! |
| Tuesday, May 29, 2007 |
Scott Wallace wants to do his part for the education of Americans, so he's arraigned for everyone to receive a Doctorate of Talkology from KARN Newsradio. Click on this link to download yours today. (Requires Adobe Reader) Labels: education, Scott Wallace |
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Barack Obama has the answer to our health care crisis. Simple. Take from the kinda rich, give to those who don't have health care. Force business to pay for it and tap you as well. Oh well guess everyone might understand that there's no free lunch.
If you didn't see the USA Today article concerning the Razorbacks here it is for your reading pleasure. This was on the front page, so non-sports fans across America read it as well. 'Darksiders' what do you think the rest of the nation thinks of our state now. Guess you can understand why in Kansas City they refer to this as Deliverance Part 2. Watch that movie, they think you're one of those backwoods hayseeds as well as the rest of the state.
We'll talk about Iran with author Mike Evans again Wednesday in the 3:05pm hour. He's on till 3:30 so call early with your question. Also we'll cover Obama's universal health care and for all you conspiracists we'll look at the President's so called plan to be dictator. See ya Wednesday |
| posted by Dave Elswick @ 9:08 PM |
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| Memorial Day |
| Monday, May 28, 2007 |
It's Memorial Day. I hope you took a few moments from your BBQ, boating, family fun or what else you may have been doing on this beautiful day and thought for a few moments that literally hundreds of thousands of men and women made your freedom possible. From Bunker Hill, to Bull Run. From the trenches of WW 1 to the mushroom cloud of WW2. From Pork Chop Hill to Saigon, from the first Gulf War to the War on Terror, to the small skirmishes around the globe. Men and women have bled and died for you to be free. It's a true statement "Freedom isn't Free. It's bought with the blood, guts and death of your family, friends and neighbors." God Bless out fighting men and women in uniform and those who now sleep in eternity.
Went to OKC Sunday and Monday. Cheapest gas I saw on the trip 2.95 in Russelville. Most expensive 3.25 in OKC.
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| More Torture |
| Thursday, May 24, 2007 |
| Here's a link to The Smoking Gun with more on the torture story. |
| posted by Dave Elswick @ 4:04 PM |
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| CNN Torture |
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Here's the segment on torture from Cnn
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| posted by Dave Elswick @ 2:45 PM |
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| More On Bio Diesel Interview From Yesterday's First News |
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On yesterday's "First News with Bob Steel," Bob interviews Mike Shook from API on the use of bio diesel to combat the high gas prices, and I immediately had calls for additional question we couldn't get into the five minute window of the interview. So as promised, I got Mike back on the phone and let him expand on the information already given.
To hear the original interview done by Bob Steel, click here.
To hear my extended interview, click here.Labels: bio diesel, gas prices |
| posted by John Payne @ 1:06 PM |
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| ELSWICK May 22nd |
| Tuesday, May 22, 2007 |
OK you may not have gotten through today when I was asking for songs that make you think of summer. If you have a song you'd like for us to use as bump music during the summer on KARN, please post in the comments section.
Today PQC JP Allen Kerr was on the show. We talked about the possibility of the PQC joining in on a lawsuit charging those who make cold medicines and allergy medicines using ephedrine with causing the meth problem. Just another example of lawyers looking for a fresh cash stream. 100% of you said we should not in any way have anything to do with that lawsuit. To learn more here's Allen's website.
Here's the scumbag who said he killed, burned and hung people up in a mosque in Iraq.This guy is a pathetic lying sack. Iraq Veterans Against the War, didn't even try to validate this guys story they just put this on their website. View it here
For the whole story go here.
And finally for the ultimate disgusting story of the day, check this out. Guess it just another preference huh?
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| Text of Senate Immigration Bill |
| Monday, May 21, 2007 |
So that you'll understand what's being proposed in the new immigration bill that will be debated by the Senate in June, here's a link to the full bill. Hope this helps.
Dave |
| posted by Dave Elswick @ 10:13 PM |
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| I'm BACK! |
| Friday, May 18, 2007 |
Hi everyone, Dave Elswick back blogging here on our KARN blog site. Just a couple of things for today. Someone please explain to me how gasoline can jump 15 cents a gallon in under 12 hours time. I understand when a new shipment comes in the station has to make their price such that they can pay for the gas and make a profit, but that's not what's happening. Gas stations are hiking their prices for gas that's all ready in their tanks.
The consumer is getting screwed as the middleman in this extreme gas situation. Refineries say they are having problems, oil companies plead the cost of crude, stations say it's because of what they are charged for the product. Everyone has an excuse and we take it in the shorts.
Did you hear Senator Pryor on KARN yesterday? Paraphrasing what he said when asked about high gas prices, his answer was something on the order of, "there's no short term solution here. We need to raise the mpg of cars our car makers sale, and we need to develop alternative fuels like ethanol. Plus I'll make sure we keep a close eye out for price gouging at the pumps."
Notice the couple of big things he didn't mention? One, how bout drilling in areas we know have oil here in the good old USA. How bout relaxing the Federal regulations for getting new refineries built? How bout telling the refineries they don't need to make all those different blends of gas so that they can produce one in major quantities? He didn't bring any of that up because his party is sold out to the 'greenies'. So of course he only looks at part of the answer and his part is the for the most part more difficult to implement.
Last but not least....GO JERMAIN TAYLOR!!!!!! If you can't make Memphis for the fight it's on HBO Saturday night and gets underway around 9:30pm with the under card.
Talk to you at 2:25pm from the Greek Food Fest.
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| posted by Dave Elswick @ 9:37 AM |
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| Great Response So Far... |
| Wednesday, May 16, 2007 |
I want to thank all the folks who have played along with our relaunch of the Reaction Blog . . . and your suggestion are appreciated. We're in the process of cleaning up this place, along with with hopefully finding a proper 'new blogger' template to use.
All the hosts, producers, and our news director have been given logins, and I hope to get them posting soon.
In the meantime, keep the suggestions coming, and keep checking us out for updates!Labels: blogs, KARN Newsradio |
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| 5/11/07 "DAVE ELSWICK SHOW" Live Posing/Mother's Day |
| Friday, May 11, 2007 |
| John Payne on the last day of a week of last hour fill in on the "Dave Elswick Show" Live Posting On Mothers Day! |
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| 5/10/07 Live Comments: "Dave Elswick Show"/Tonight's Special Little Rock School Board Meeting |
| Thursday, May 10, 2007 |
Day four of the John Payne marathon work week 5 o'clock fill in continues, and trust me, we'll be going out with a wimper when this is all over.
The planned topic was pretty tame: Mother's Day and maybe messy desks. But with tonight's special meeting of the Little Rock School Board with news the Dr Katherine Mitchell will be giving a statement to begin the session...well, we are news talk and this is breaking and a lot more interesting (sorry, Mom...).
If you can't give us a call, please post to us a quick comment. Thanks.Labels: Little Rock School Board |
| posted by John Payne @ 4:36 PM |
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| 5/9/07 Live Comments: "Dave Elswick Show"/Living With Technology |
| Wednesday, May 9, 2007 |
John Payne, sitting in for the last hour of "The Dave Elswick Show" and attempting to get live comments on the blog.
The plan is to talk about technology, and the myths of early adopters and technophobes, but today's Diabetes Radio-thon and the possibility of severe weather may change that.
If you're listening and can get to a computer, leave me a comment anyway... |
| posted by John Payne @ 4:32 PM |
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| Dave Elswick Big Snake Picture & Recipe |
| Tuesday, May 8, 2007 |
You've heard him bring it up on his show, and this is the big snake picture Dave talked about.
And here is the recipe for DEEP-FRIED RATTLESNAKE
1 medium-sized rattlesnake (3-4 lbs.), cut into steaks
1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup cornmeal
1/4 cup cracker crumbs
1/2 cup milk
1 egg
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder (not garlic salt)
1 teaspoon salt
Dash pepper
Mix dry ingredients. Whisk milk into beaten egg and use to dip snake steaks. Then coat them with dry ingredients. Fry, uncovered, in 400 degree oil until brown.
Yum,Yum! It sorta tastes like chicken. Labels: Dave Elswick, snakes |
| posted by John Payne @ 4:15 PM |
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| 5/8/07 Live Comments: "Dave Elswick Show"/Rush Parodies Obama In Song |
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Welcome back to the KARN Newsradio reaction blog!
We're testing our new blog, and offering all listeners a chance for instant feedback to the issues. Today, we're talking about Rush Limbaugh and his parody song, 'Barack, The Magic Negro,' inspired by the Los Angeles Times opinion piece, 'Obama the 'Magic Negro' by David Ehrenstein.
KOVR-TV/CBS13 in Sacramento did a story on the song, and put a poll on there website asking if the public thought it was racist. Rush blasted the station for not getting the joke, and put a poll on his website asking if the news anchors are morons.
Call me to talk about it, click on post a coment to post your comments! UPDATE:(and just to read comments aparently...this is very much a work in progress...)
Here is the story from the CBS13/CW31 web site: http://cbs13.com/topstories/local_story_127191135.html
Here is the story from the Rush Limbaugh Website: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_050707/content/01125108.guest.htmlLabels: Barack Obama, news coverage, parody, Rush Limbaugh |
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