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For those of you who read my site regularly, you know that while I reside in Nashville, El Paso, Texas is my home...and it's not safe. I was on the phone last night with a friend from El Paso, when a bulletin came across his television that 3 Consulate workers were killed in Juarez. From AP: Gunmen killed a U.S. consulate employee and her husband as they drove in this violent border city with t...
SharonCobb.com - Sun 10:45 p.m. - 3 clicks 
I was beginning to think that Clinton would go down in history as the most inept Secretary of State in many years. But finally, finally someone in this gov’t stood up to terrorism and called the true criminals on this planet out. Well done, Madame Secretary…. Decades overdue, a ranking US Gov’t official has publicly lambasted the Terrorist State of Israel for it’s...
Ablogination - Sun 12:20 p.m. - 4 clicks
Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla. Karen Ignagni, President, America's Health Insurance Plans ...
SharonCobb.com - Sat 8:26 p.m. - 4 clicks
Thanks to the Elizabethton Star for including this in Friday's paper! First Presbyterian Church will host a live and silent auction on Sunday, March 14, beginning at noon. The auction is being held to raise funds for the church's upcoming youth mission trip through Appalachia Service Project. This event is open to the public. The auction will include a week's use of a Myrtle Bea...
Shuck and Jive - Sat 11:00 a.m. - 2 clicks
I am proud of Constance McMillen and ashamed of the adults in her community. From today's Johnson City Press : JACKSON, Miss. — Constance McMillen didn’t believe her Mississippi school district would really call off her senior prom rather than allow her to show up with her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo. On Thursday, a day after the Itawamba County school board did just that, the 18...
Shuck and Jive - Fri 1:46 p.m. - 5 clicks
The following letter to the editor is a response to the response to the response to my recent Evolution Sunday sermon and article . A creationist has words for my apostate church ! Woot! It is the latest in the evolution/creationist smackdown in Elizabethton, Tennessee! From today's letter to the editor section in the Elizabethton Star: Editor: I would ...
Shuck and Jive - Fri 12:13 p.m. - 3 clicks
Glenn Beck recently offered spiritual advice to his listeners: "I beg you, look for the words social justice or economic justice on your church website . If you find it run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words....If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop and tell them, "Excuse me, are...
Shuck and Jive - Thu 3:25 p.m. - 7 clicks
Evolution Sunday celebrations and their aftermath have been a hoot. To catch you up. Article in Elizabethton Star about upcoming Evolution Sunday. My Evolution Sunday Sermon . Harvest Baptist Responds with Creation Sunday. And today! Here is a letter to the editor from one of our peeps. Call it a response to the response: Editor: I would just ...
Shuck and Jive - Tue 6:23 p.m. - 9 clicks
The idiot who forwarded the racist email comparing First Lady Michelle Obama to a chimpanzee has been fired. Walt Baker, CEO of the Tennessee Hospitality Association, has put Tennessee back into the national and international headlines as home to racist idiots. One would like to believe that a blatant racist could not rise to his position. Alas, racists, like sexists, appear to be...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Tue 12:04 p.m. - 10 clicks
Of Manure and Figs John Shuck First Presbyterian Church Elizabethton, Tennessee March 7th, 2010 Third Sunday in Lent Bhagavad Gita 3:3-8, 17-19 Isaiah 55:1-9 Luke 13:6-9 ...But when a man has found delight and satisfaction and peace in the Atman, then he is no longer obliged to perform any kind of action. He has nothing to gain in this world by action, and nothing to lose by refraini...
Shuck and Jive - Mar 7 - 5 clicks
Most of us would assume that being the CEO of a hospitality association would mean one would have a talent for showing hospitality, or at the very least some knowledge of PR. The CEO of such an association would know how to make a potential visitor feel welcomed. I mean who would ever assume comparing them to a chimp wouldn't be funny? Well apparently the Tennessee Hospitality Association CEO Wa...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Mar 6 - 5 clicks
Craig Crawford has left MSNBC. I'm a fan of Crawford's. Scroll down for the video clip of Craig Crawford's famous critique of the frat-boy media for its primary hate-fest coverage that tagged Bill and Hillary Clinton as vile lowlife racist scum. After all this time, I still want to applaud and give Craig Crawford a rousing standing ovation for saying it. What he got was kicked off the MSNB...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Mar 5 - 6 clicks
We celebrated Evolution Sunday , February 14th, the Sunday closest to Darwin's birthday. It was a lot of fun and we received some great publicity for it as well including this article in the Elizabethton Star. In today's Elizabethton Star another point of view is being presented. Harvest Baptist is celebrating Creation Sunday on March 7th. Here is the story : Harvest Baptist...
Shuck and Jive - Mar 5 - 7 clicks
There is a reason why the following poem by Hafiz rings true for so many of us today: The great religions are ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know Has jumped overboard! That is good for business, Isn’t it, Hafiz? On Saturday, February 20th, the PCUSA made the Faith section of our local paper, the Johnson City Press. It was in regards to the survey the ...
Shuck and Jive - Mar 5 - 7 clicks
This song is dedicated to this guy, my next ex husband, Alexander Skarsgard. WE made it through another week, and it's time for bloggers and journalists around Tennessee to post a music video, and put aside their political and personal differences. My choice this week is a Marvin Gaye classic that makes me want to turn up the speakers and sing along--and so will I, and ...
SharonCobb.com - Mar 4 - 5 clicks
Add stiff tuition hikes and severe funding cuts to the hard financial times students were already experiencing and you have some very frustrated and angry students . From the University of Memphis to California's Berkeley campus, students and faculty will stage protests across the nation today - in at least 29 states. Teachers, parents and students at k-12 schools will also...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Mar 4 - 2 clicks
I salute my colleagues at Dumbarton UMC in Washington. Here is the story . A United Methodist congregation in Washington, D.C., has vowed to celebrate same-sex weddings, putting itself at odds with other Christian churches protesting the District of Columbia 's new marriage equality law. The pastor and 12 other ordained clergy who attend Dumbarton United Methodist Church in Georgeto...
Shuck and Jive - Mar 3 - 2 clicks
I Want to be An Ancestor John Shuck First Presbyterian Church Elizabethton , Tennessee February 28 th , 2010 Second Sunday of Lent Genesis 15:1-12; 17-18 Luke 13:31-35 The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will be meeting in Minneapolis in a few months. Once every two years Presbyterians gather to celebrate, lament, and make decisions in a revelry of Roberts Rule...
Shuck and Jive - Feb 28 - 8 clicks
This article was in the Faith section of today's Johnson City Press. SMITHFIELD, N.C. — Vickie Jordan and her husband, Eddie, were all set to open a gun store in Smithfield, but they were missing one thing: the name. “I went to bed one night and was real apprehensive because we couldn’t come up with a name,” Vickie Jordan recalled. When she finally got to ...
Shuck and Jive - Feb 27 - 9 clicks
A small kid stood in front of me at a convenience store today as I was trying to pay for gas as I was headed out of Memphis back to Hoots Commons. He was tow-headed and about six-years-old. “Today was say something nice about someone day at school, Mama,” he lisped. “Did you say something nice.” “I did. I [...]...
Newscoma - Feb 25 - 3 clicks
Sen. Lamar Alexander, the dazed and confused Senator from East Tennessee, has accomplished nothing in his entire career. Now, we find him working even harder at accomplishing even less…. Lamar Alexander cares nothing for the people of Tennessee. That much has become abundantly clear. He is a reclusive, beltway insider politician who has been proven to be out of touch and out to lunch ...
Ablogination - Feb 25 - 5 clicks
With a tip of the hat to Steve Ross who did the morning round-up today at Speak to Power, we find a story by Smart City Memphis on what would happen if local news was more positive. I encourage you to read the whole thing first and then come back here. I’ll wait. The term of “if [...]...
Newscoma - Feb 21 - 4 clicks
I’ve been in Hoots for a few days but I’m heading back to Memphis. Big doings down there and to be honest, it’s kind of weird having one foot in Hoots and one foot there. I’m adjusting to it but it’s kind of weird. The S.A.D has kind of broken with actual blue skies breaking through [...]...
Newscoma - Feb 20 - 5 clicks
On Smart City Memphis, many of us make things sound easy. Let's just build dense, walkable neighborhoods. Let's just remove bus fares and make the routes go here or there. Let's tear down the rest of the public housing and humanly integrate "those people" into "normal neighborhoods". We know why things are messed up, how to make things right and are mad as hell that things aren't cha...
Smart City Memphis - Feb 15 - 2 clicks
Five years ago today I launched Enclave with a quote from and reflection on Peter Taylor : As one walks or rides down any street in Nashville one can feel now and again that he has just glimpsed some pedestrian on the sidewalk who was not quite real somehow, who with a glance over his shoulder or with a look of a disenchanted eye has warned one not to believe too much in the plastic present ...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Feb 8 - 2 clicks
