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Bush and Cheney made statements in the pre-war that they knew were inaccurate. Say it ain't so.

They're demanding some accountability in the Air Force, through forced resignations, for mismanagement. Too bad the house cleaning doesn't go higher.

Motorcycle fans should mark their calendars for a coming exhibit at the Clinton Library -- Art of the Chopper, a display of 30 customized bikes based on the book shown. It opens Sept. 20.

Bush's approval rating is down to 25 percent, a mere point away from Tricky's. You can do it, W.

Talk Business is first in my in-box with the news. Price: $28 billion, a bit more than the investment group paid to acquire it last year. But it looks like the investors might make a billion on the flip. Here's Arkansas Business' update.

LR job outlook? Cloudy.

UPDATE: Lots of Little Rock working schlubs may get the boot thanks to this deal, but the guys in the executive suites -- Scott Ford et. al. -- will score some big paydays, Arkansas Business reports.

Arkansas Business also has the memo sent to Alltel employees today. No time to panic, the execs intone. Easy for them to say. It is true that there won't be any immediate changes and most that are to come won't happen until after the deal closes -- if it does -- by the end of the year.

Talk Business reports on another memo urging Alltel employees to keep working. Company officials will meet the press at 2 p.m. today. There may be some statements about future employment in Little Rock. The key will be representations about the long term, not the remainder of 2008.

Beebe statement on the jump. And, oh yeah, Jim Harris notes, that arena over in Argenta might be due for a name change eventually.

The state can look up Sudafed purchasers on-line. You can't. But take heart, you can unearth matters potentially far more embarrassing.

You can find out whether Pulaski County voters participated in the Democratic, Republican or Green Party presidential primaries this year. Remember the old slogan: Friends don't let friends vote Republican.

The Democrat-Gazette has assembled the database from Pulaski County voting records. Go to this link on their website, plug in a name, and you'll find the ballot that person chose, if he or she voted in February. You'll also find a home address there should you care to drop a note of congratulations or condemnation.

For example, Democrat-Gazette publisher Walter Hussman, 1 Sunset Point, is listed as having voted in the Democratic primary. No records turned up in a search for either executive editor Griffin Smith or editorial page editor Paul Greenberg. Jay Grelen, at 135 Ridgeland Drive, Maumelle, voted Republican.

(The Arkansas Times' publisher and editor picked up the D ballot.)

I count on readers to mine nuggets to share.

Note: You can search by street. For example, I plugged in my own street name, Edgerstoune Lane, and found that all 12 February voters with home addresses on that street picked up the D ballot.

By way of comparisons, the split on ritzy Chenal Circle was 15 Democrats and 30 Republicans. (Better than I feared, actually.)

PS -- Susan Inman at the Pulaski County Election Commission wants to clear up a piece of misinformation in the D-G's posting and advertising. The database was built with information supplied by County Clerk Pat O'Brien's office, not by the Election Commission.

UPDATE: I did a little checking with O'Brien on account of numerous complaints from people who said they voted but didn't turn up on the D-G database. O'Brien went to the county's record and found, for example, that it shows, as Orval wrote, that Paul Greenberg indeed voted in the Republican presidential primary. Why it doesn't turn up on the D-G database is unknown. At least one voter who voted early is NOT on the county record, but that doesn't mean his vote didn't count. Election workers sometimes make tabulation errors and fail to properly note when a vote is cast. In theory, of course, it means that a voter not tabulated could vote again. O'Brien said the error rate is generally small.

O'Brien mentioned, by the way, that he didn't work with the D-G on this. Computerized voting records may be purchased as a matter of routine from his office, however, and manipulated as desired. Political consultants purchase them to reach frequent voters, Republican voters, Green voters, etc.

I've asked the D-G for thoughts on the gaps in the database and at least one reader whose wife was omitted said he thinks he has an explanation and will share it if he can substantiate it.

Arkansas politicians have steadily been banging the meth drum for political points -- none more assiduously than Attorney General Dustin McDaniel. Now, believe it or not, there's a state registry for purchasers of cold medicine. I don't know why they don't take it to the next step -- as with sex offenders -- and put it on a database linked to Google map. Then you can pinpoint the Sudafed users who might live next door to you.

In touting the wonders of cold pill tracking, McDaniel yesterday touted the reduction in meth labs in Arkansas. I didn't see any figures about meth usage, however. The market being what it is, it might be that the efficiencies of high production of quality dope in Mexico has supplanted the need for amateur cookers in Arkansas.

The Audubon Society had a luncheon at the Governor's Mansion yesterday. It got the usual hospitable reception from Gov. Mike Beebe, but no encouraging words for the group's fight against the poison-spewing coal-fired power plant SWEPCO has begun building in southwestern Arkansas.

Beebe said the alternatives are not in place to replace coal power completely.

"You're not going to do away, as much as you want to, with coal tomorrow. It's not going to happen, people," he said.

Beebe's Department of Environmental Quality is the biggest remaining obstacle to this plant. Other states have decided to make a break from coal. Doesn't sound like we should expect similarly visionary leadership from the Beebe administration.

Talk Business offers some analysis for the possibility of a speedy resale of Alltel by the private investment group. But all that is secondary to the important angle of the story here -- how many of Alltel's Little Rock jobs would survive a merger. It seems to be a given that some -- maybe a lot -- would be shed.

Arkansas Business reports that Vodafone, an owner of Verizon, has confirmed that talks are underway.