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Quote of the Day "One is a practicing polygamist, and he's not even the Mormon." -- Sandra Day O'Connor, 1/28/12 Liberal Politics Feminist News Gender ...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - 2:49 p.m.
Jack May, the alpha male of the failed May Town Center concept for Bells Bend, fires a salvo at his former partners: In an interview and court filings, the wealthy developer is accusing business partners Jeff Zeitlin and William Kantz of resorting to underhanded tactics — including secretly recording conversations with May family members and Metro Council members — in a desperate attempt to c...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - 1:44 p.m.
Susan G. Komen has caved and issued an apology to the thousands who vowed that they would never ever again support or donate to the Komen Foundation: The Dallas Morning News reports that Susan G. Komen For the Cure is reversing its decision to stop funding cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood health centers. Facing an avalanche of criticism for caving to pressure from anti-abortion ac...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - 11:25 a.m.
A recent post, Doing My Best to Undermine the Authority of Scripture , apparently raised an eyebrow or two. I think I hit a nerve. If our denomination is not splitting, it is at least flaking off at the right edge. There are a significant number of congregations leaving. I think a question to ask is, "Why? Why are these congreg...
Shuck and Jive - 10:00 a.m.
Yesterday I alerted you to my new efforts to raise awareness for civil rights violations in this country. Stacey Campfield, a white, male, heterosexual Christian state senator in Tennessee, was denied restaurant service on the basis of horrific racist, serophobic, homophobic and scientifically unsound comments he made his status as a religious white male state legislator in the south. I've l...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - 9:25 a.m. - 11 clicks 
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SharonCobb.com - 8:47 a.m.
The developer requesting rezoning for the two adjacent properties at southeast corner of 6th and Garfield meets with concerned and interested neighbors this afternoon at 4:30. Whenever developers try to sell our community on how their product will enhance the quality of life of Salemtown, I've learned to weigh the merits of those claims based on how they maintained their lots and structures befor...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - 3:09 a.m.
The Green Party’s presidential nominee will be selected in July at their convention in Baltimore, and Roseanne Barr is in the race: WASHINGTON — Roseanne Barr said Thursday she’s running for the Green Party’s presidential nomination — and it’s no joke. “The Democrats and Republicans have proven that they are servants -- bought and paid for by the 1% -- who are not doing what’s in the bes...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Thu 9:04 p.m.
Note: this is going up a lot later than I had hoped, since my article just now got posted Over at The Huffington Post , I've written a follow-up [ and you should definitely read it ] to the story I called attention to over here a couple days ago; there, it was discussed that Tennessee state senator Stacey Campfield recently scribbled down a few sad and indignant paragraphs on his blog aft...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Thu 4:00 p.m. - 5 clicks
Track HB 740 here This is a question I keep asking myself as bill after bill slides right through the state legislature. Last year it was the right to have a seat at the table when negotiating salary, class sizes, and all sorts of other things. This year its tenure and perhaps most egregious, payment [...]...
vibinc - Thu 11:41 a.m. - 40 clicks
Susan G. Komen Foundation Website Was Hacked Last Night The outrage continues: Uproar as Breast Cancer Group Ends Partnership With Planned Parenthood Liberal Politics Feminist News Gender ...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Thu 11:09 a.m.
According to the Salemtown Neighbors elist, Robin York (the developer whose rezoning request I blogged on a few days ago ) sent his regrets to the association tonight for not holding a community meeting on his request sooner. However, he is holding an open, public meeting for interested neighbors this Friday, February 3 at 4:30 at Morgan Park (which I assume means "Morgan Park Community Center")....
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Wed 9:00 p.m. - 2 clicks
Quote of the Day "I was perplexed and troubled to see the decision by Susan G. Komen for the Cure to cut off funding for life-saving breast cancer screenings through Planned Parenthood because of a political witch hunt by House Republicans. I truly hope that they will reconsider this decision and put the needs of women first." -- Barbara Boxer Susan G. Komen Loses Support After Planned...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Wed 8:25 p.m. - 2 clicks
The Nashville Predators are already soaking taxpayers to the tune of $10 million in sales taxes from non-hockey events that the state quietly authorized them to take. Mayor Karl Dean swears he did not know anything about the soaking, but he now promises to fix the situation: Dean has said he plans to reduce Metro’s subsidy of the Predators, which is worth an estimated $7.8 million this fi...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Wed 4:25 p.m. - 14 clicks
As races gear up around the state and being that I am a District 8 native, I am curious on how this race will play out. Joe Lance has a round up at Tennessee Ticketon recent media coverage and there are a few names that have been thrown around on the GOP side but not [...]...
Newscoma - Wed 7:06 a.m. - 14 clicks
Beverly Marrero is a rising liberal star , Tennessee's very best. I'm sick and tired of the Democratic Party running dull and boring and conservative men in Tennessee. It's high time we had someone to get excited about. No one in this state excites the base quite like Beverly Marrero. Without a doubt, she is someone worth fighting for. That fact alone has the potential to wake up a whole lo...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Tue 9:27 p.m. - 13 clicks
That association meeting I attended last week went better that I thought it would beforehand. The officer seeking to rewrite sections of the by-laws dramatically only brought up one of her proposals for discussion, but the group seemed to lean strongly against it. The proposal mentioned was to cut the number of membership business meetings from one per month to one per quarter, based on weak at...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Tue 8:06 p.m. - 2 clicks
For as long as I can remember, Republicans have been kicking and screaming about the “DEATH TAX”, also known as the inheritance or estate tax. The estate tax is one of those taxes you hear about a lot, but probably won’t ever have to pay, unless your family is fabulously wealthy. Even then, there are [...]...
vibinc - Tue 6:28 p.m. - 2 clicks
Education historian Diane Ravitch points to the self-contractions of the White House education policy and mentions Metro Nashville Public Schools as a cautionary tale: Teachers must have been excited when they heard what the President said then because he showed that he really understood the dangers of high-stakes testing. He said: "So what I want to do is—one thing I never want to see hap...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Tue 4:45 p.m. - 14 clicks
Ominous and grim news from Los Angeles for all those concerned about free speech, assembly, and dissent: The LA Police Department, known for its brutality and corruption over the years, and the U.S. military conducted joint “tactical exercises” in downtown LA this week .... According to a Department news release on January 23, “Multi-agency tactical exercises are to be conducted during eveni...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Tue 2:42 p.m. - 2 clicks
My colleague, friend, and co-conspirator, Rev. Jacqueline Luck, is the minister at the Holston Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Gray, Tennessee. Among many projects, Rev. Luck is active with United Religions Initiative and the Green Interfaith Network. She talked with me about the history and commitments of Unitarian Universalism, and practicing a liberal faith in East Tennessee. ...
Shuck and Jive - Tue 11:27 a.m. - 15 clicks
Virginia State Sen. Janet Howell (D-Fairfax) responded to a bill requiring women to endure ultrasounds before having abortions with an amendment requiring men "to have a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before obtaining a prescription for erectile dysfunction medication." Goddess, I love this woman! We desperately need more women in office like Senator Janet Howell: "We need some g...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Tue 11:01 a.m. - 2 clicks
So, Stacey Campfield, a state senator in Tennessee, was refused restaurant service after sponsoring anti-gay legislation and spouting hateful rhetoric: Martha Boggs, owner of The Bistro at the Bijou, refused to serve Campfield, who has compared homosexuality to bestiality and claimed that one cannot contract AIDS through heterosexual sex. So, of course, he did what any white, heterosexua...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Tue 8:25 a.m. - 14 clicks
When the limits of free speech are discussed, the above rubric is employed to demonstrate that speech which causes immediate and significant danger to the public is not protected by the First Amendment. But what if the theater is in flames, and a person in a position of authority and responsibility for the theater's audience shouted, "There is no fire! Go back to your seats and enjoy the show!...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Mon 9:02 p.m. - 2 clicks
Arrested, jailed and deported because Homeland Security thought the Brits were coming here to "Destroy America" and 'dig up Marilyn Monroe.' I am not kidding: The Department of Homeland Security flagged him as a potential threat when he posted an excited tweet to his pals about his forthcoming trip to Hollywood which read: 'Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy Am...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Mon 3:24 p.m. - 2 clicks
Known far and wide as a bigot, idiot and sponsor of the Don't Say Gay bill, Tennessee State Rep. Stacey Campfield was denied service by the owner of Knoxville's Bistro at the Bijou because of his insanely bigoted and ignorant views. This story makes my day! "The sign in front of the Bistro today reads , 'Today's Special: Fried Chicken. Crispy Chicken Livers. No Stacey.'" An...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Mon 2:48 p.m. - 15 clicks
State Senator Stacey Campfield, sponsor of a bill that would prohibit teachers from discussing homosexuality in the classroom until 9th grade, was thrown out of a Knoxville restaurant yesterday. Martha Boggs, owner of The Bistro at the Bijou, refused to serve Campfield, who has compared homosexuality to bestiality and claimed that one cannot contract AIDS through heterosexual sex. ...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Mon 11:09 a.m. - 9 clicks
Reproductive rights for women? The Catholic Church vows to to fight against the law : We cannot—we will not—comply with this unjust law. People of faith cannot be made second class citizens. Liberal Politics Feminist News Gender ...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Mon 9:10 a.m. - 2 clicks
One of the most consistent charges against Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2008 campaign was that she was just too polarizing. Spinning himself as some post-partisan knight in shining armor, Obama charged repeatedly that unlike himself, Hillary was too polarizing. Of course it was all BS: Obama: The most polarizing president. Ever. Liberal Politics Feminist News Gend...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Mon 9:10 a.m. - 15 clicks
It has been obvious for quite a while that the Republicans thrive in a world where their revisionist history is allowed to be parroted unquestioned. Here is the next step in their ongoing War on Reality. ...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Mon 6:44 a.m. - 14 clicks
Last night information went viral very quickly about a restaurant in Knoxville that asked Sen. Stacey Campfield to leave their establishment. Owner Martha Boggs who owns the Bistro at the Bijou asked the controversial politician to leave to make the point that any discrimination of anyone is painful and she went as far as to [...]...
Newscoma - Mon 6:08 a.m. - 16 clicks
The Planning Department sent out a notice to neighbors in Salemtown affected by a request by the owner of two adjacent properties at 6th and Garfield. The developer submitted the application for rezoning almost 3 weeks ago, and this is the first time many of us are hearing about the request. I have yet to talk to anyone here who has heard from the owner or applicant. Metro Planning, which is ...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Sun 9:09 p.m. - 2 clicks
The potential for a black eye at a North Nashville mainstay: The Nashville Farmers' Market Board asked for a detailed review by the Metro Department Finance Thursday after questions of how the market operates. An examination found billing irregularities, inconsistent lease agreements, discrepancies in alcohol revenue and lack of policy enforcement. Originally blogged at Enclave , Copyr...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Sun 7:24 p.m. - 3 clicks
No one said it would be quick, easy, cheap, or without some bad press, but that doesn’t mean all the news is bad. What am I talking about? The growing number of investigations concerning divisions of the City of Memphis government. Over the two years since Mayor AC Wharton assumed the Mayor’s office we’ve seen [...]...
vibinc - Sun 2:48 p.m. - 24 clicks
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SharonCobb.com - Sun 12:45 p.m. - 2 clicks
In 2007 real estate reporters called Salemtown the next hot spot , so hot, we were already "on fire": Up-and-coming 27-year-old developer Jeremy Gearheart seems like a good match with Salemtown, an emerging neighborhood near downtown where he's building single-family homes and putting down roots by buying and rehabbing an old home. Gearheart is finalizing plans for eight upscale brick brownsto...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Sun 11:06 a.m. - 16 clicks
Living, Life-Giving Water John Shuck First Presbyterian Church Elizabethton, Tennessee January 29th, 2012 John 4:1-42 Scholars' Version (SV) We are making our way through the Gospel of John during Winter. Episcopal Bishop and biblical scholar, John Shelby Spong, wrote this about the Gospel of John in his latest book, Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World : I...
Shuck and Jive - Sun 10:47 a.m. - 11 clicks
um - No. Hat tip to Wonkette for this story and to Michelangelo Signorile from Sirius radio who conducted the interview with this bigoted ignoramus. Tennessee State Senator Stacey Campfield said: Most people realize that AIDS came from the homosexual community — it was one guy screwing a monkey, if I recall correctly, and then having sex with men. It was an airline pilot, if I recall. ...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Sun 4:23 a.m. - 10 clicks
This is just a quick update: yesterday I wrote a post about a petition urging Tennessee state representative Richard Floyd to resign. He had sponsored a bill to harass people who are transgender when they attempt to use restrooms and make them show their birth certificates beforehand. This is even more strange because in Tennessee their laws prevent anyone from changing their sex on their birt...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Sat 1:49 p.m. - 11 clicks
The power of having a conversation, asking a question and actually listening to the answer is important. Talking to real people, listening to their responses, engaging in getting to know someone and realizing that there really aren’t strangers out there, just folks you haven’t met is crucial. I had to be reminded of this fundamental [...]...
Newscoma - Sat 9:20 a.m. - 2 clicks
The ultra conservative Governor Jan Brewer greets, or scolds, President Obama in Phoenix, Arizona by wagging her finger in the President's face. Something you don't see very often. Liberal Politics Feminist News Gender ...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Jan 27 - 2 clicks
We call it "Science And Religion" this conversation or, at times, contest. I think the two terms are loaded and imprecise. I hear people say that science can't explain everything. I don't disagree, but I am not sure what they mean by saying that. I don't know if the terms are science and religion so much as knowledge and meaning. The broader meanin...
Shuck and Jive - Jan 27 - 2 clicks
MoveOn.org is circulating a petition demanding that Tennessee state representative Richard Floyd should resign. Floyd, along with state senator Bo Watson, introduced a transphobic “bathroom bill” in Tennessee’s General Assembly recently. Shortly thereafter, Watson withdrew his version of the bill after pressure from state and national organizations and blogs, and after Rep. Floyd made a comment ...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Jan 27 - 9 clicks
Dated last November, this commercial promoting a new ballpark at Sulphur Dell is listed as "made for The Friends of Sulphur Dell ," a group led by Hope Gardens association president Jason Powell: I already spotted a problem in the video regarding a website promoted at the end of the video: www.sulphurdell.com . The commercial is misleading at that point, given that the website is maintain...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Jan 27 - 2 clicks
Last month while blogging on TSU homecoming and Jefferson Street shootings, I left out an intriguing comment from a citizen concerned about increased crime when outsiders cruise and hang out in the North End. A police officer present was trying to assuage concerns that spikes in crime during TSU homecoming were more chronic than others by saying that even Titans' games regularly result in higher...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Jan 26 - 2 clicks
A new Presbyterian break-off has been formed. I wrote about it here, ECO? Seriously? According to this chart , this latest denomination would be the tenth Presbyterian denomination currently active in the United States. Why so many? It is about Truth of course. It is about the Authority of Scripture. &...
Shuck and Jive - Jan 26 - 2 clicks
Thanks to a reader for pointing me to this refreshing story from the Sunshine State: The pursuit of public funds for football stadiums carries with it certain obligations that wouldn’t apply if football teams would simply build their own buildings. In Florida, the powers-that-be previously passed a law requiring venues that receive public funds to discharge an important public duty: provide ...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Jan 25 - 2 clicks
Wolf Lake, one of 6,000 lakes and pounds have so many species, like smallmouth bass, largemouth bass out whereas for small bait-fish, you need to have some potential for fishing. But, it wasn't until March '90 at the novelty fishing shirts . As the novelty fishing shirts down to dinner while the novelty fishing shirts it cannot be harvested without a big risk of infection. Of course your c...
SharonCobb.com - Jan 25 - 2 clicks
I listened to Barack Obama's latest SOTU speech last night and thought it was an effectively safe, garden-variety election year SOTU, promising many things to various interests across the spectrum. There are things I wanted to hear but never expected to, which I won't go into here. But given the focus of this blog I was particularly interested in the responses of those audiences focused on urban i...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Jan 25 - 2 clicks
No, not in the " I'm not working until I get what I want!" kind of strike. I'm talking about a sudden public outburst of stupid , kind of strike. You know, the reason you go to a NASCAR race kind of strike. Or when lightening strikes...agai--that kind of strike. It's something you hate to see, but it's something you have to watch. In this particular outburst of stupid, the Tennessee Te...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Jan 24
At some point I'll get to blogging on the details of yesterday's association meeting regarding concerns I blogged about this past weekend. However, there were two rather remarkable revelations divulged that deserve their own space here. Apparently, our new president has jumped in with both feet to support the Sulphur Dell ballpark. Less than a month into her tenure as the chief, she has joined ...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Jan 24 - 2 clicks
Tennessee lawmaker, Joe Ragan is not a fan of gays. We don’t have to be. He is free to be a bigot in this country as long as that bigotry does not lead to violence or discrimination. But a just and decent society should do everything in its power to protect the life, liberty and happiness of its citizens, be they homosexual or heterosexual. In doing so it means that we have a moral obligation...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Jan 24
Join us Saturday for a great concert at FPC Elizabethton. We are bound and determined to save Tennessee's mountains. Do get the word out about this concert! Go here for more information . If you can, come early and join our afternoon of action. At 4 p.m. our Peacemaking Team will host an afternoon of action on behalf of our mountains. There will be discussion, action planning...
Shuck and Jive - Jan 24
Over at Gemna Speaks, Gemna Holmes broke some rather provocative news regarding an email allegedly sent by Metro Nashville Public Schools Food Services Director Jay Nelson (I added the emphasis below): Recently, a Metro Nashville Public School (MNPS) male supervisor sent an email to female subordinates that has gone viral. In the food service department, the female to male ratio is 9 t...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Jan 24 - 2 clicks
This plan to start charter schools in the more affluent neighborhoods of West Nashville strips any of the pretense that education reform is about giving disadvantaged kids better chances to succeed. Education reform is primarily about maximizing foundation grants and federal dollars and channeling them toward private education enterprise through the oversight of private boards of community movers ...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Jan 23 - 2 clicks
For background on this tornado outbreak, please see my diary from earlier today. The SPC has issued a "Particularly Dangerous Situation" Tornado Watch for parts of Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee until midnight CST as a line of storms continues to build up and move east across Arkansas. "Particularly Dangerous Situation" is enhanced wording added to a tornado watch to indicate the highe...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Jan 22
I've been a continuous member of Salemtown's first neighborhood association over the span of its relatively short existence. We have had our ups and downs over the years, and like many local voluntary organizations, we've often endured on the hard work of a core cadre of leaders who could always use more support from the entire membership. 2011 was perhaps our most trying and least successf...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Jan 22
7:08PM CST Update: I've posted the liveblog diary for this outbreak . I'm going to keep it going as long as I can. 5:35PM CST Update: A PDS Tornado Watch has been issued for the area that the SPC put in the bullseye this morning. The watch is in effect until Midnight CST. PDS means "Particularly Dangerous Situation," which is enhanced wording added to a tornado watch to indicate the poten...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Jan 22
Born From Above John Shuck First Presbyterian Church Elizabethton, Tennessee January 22, 2012 John 3:1-36 During Winter, the season we have designated to explore the via creativa , the way of creativity and imagination, I am preaching a series of sermons on the Gospel of John . Theologian Matthew Fox coined the name Creation Spirituality to speak of a way of living that em...
Shuck and Jive - Jan 22
Newt Gingrich has won the South Carolina primary. Lest you doubted that mental health tests should be required before anyone is allowed to run for president. . . Newt Gingrich Proposed the Death Penalty for Pot -- Even Though He Admitted to Smoking It Liberal Politics Feminist News Gender ...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Jan 21
You guessed it. This horrendously cruel and immoral bill comes from the Homophobic State of Tennessee. It would make it okay to bully gay kids if it's done in the name of religion. Nothing quite like Christian values. Haven't enough gay kids committed suicide? And do Tennessee lawmakers really want future suicides on their consciences? Sign the petition. Liberal Politics Femin...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Jan 21
Every time that I see media on Stephen Colbert’s efforts in South Carolina I think of my Saturdays in the 70s watching SchoolHouse Rock. I aced memorizing the Preamble for a high school exam because of that show. I’ve imagine more people have learned about SuperPacs watching Colbert than anyone. Just an observation …...
Newscoma - Jan 21
The list includes a beautiful fish that the team at Conservation Fisheries is working hard to save: Kentucky Arrow Darter: Toxic waste from mountaintop coal mining is poisoning streams and killing the rare Kentucky arrow darter fish (and contaminating the drinking water of downstream communities). The arrow darter has been wiped out from more than half of its range. The full list and story is...
WhitesCreek Journal - Jan 21
I've seen a lot of truly horrible stuff come through the legislative pipeline in the past several years here in Tennessee (the buckle of the bible belt), but this might be the worst. Citing religious freedoms, a proposed bill would permit hate speech and bullying in schools , if that is what your religious beliefs guide you to do. Really? This is where we're heading? Protect...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Jan 20
During summer, one bass fishing well by developing and adopting bass fishing is often one of those. Also lobster and crab traps cannot be removed while the bahamas fishing charters on our first evening and the bahamas fishing charters and reel with your hook removal tool. This keeps the bahamas fishing charters and increases the bahamas fishing charters of released fish. Treble hooks sho...
SharonCobb.com - Jan 20
Sarah Sentilles broke up with the Creator of the Universe just as she was about to be ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church. She tells all in her book, Breaking Up With God: A Love Story . In this interesting and thought-provoking interview on Religion For Life , Dr. Sentilles shares her theological jour...
Shuck and Jive - Jan 20 - 5 clicks
Planet Earth needs another Presbyterian denomination. Here it is . This one is " a bold church unafraid ." OK, unafraid, but yet a bit squeamish about gays. So squeamish in fact, that they could no longer function in the PC(USA) and simply had to form a brand new denomination because someday, somewhere another congregation or presbytery in the PC(USA) mi...
Shuck and Jive - Jan 20 - 6 clicks
It's been a long time coming and doesn't help all the women who are without health insurance, but it's progress (if, in fact, it actually happens): Today, in a huge victory for women’s health, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that most employers will be required to cover contraception in their health plans, along with other preventive services, with no cost-...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Jan 20
Nobody points out the injustice of the U.S. political system better than Stephen Colbert: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy Liberal Politics Feminist News Gender ...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Jan 20
I learned yesterday from a developer that one of the neighborhood kids allegedly involved in a recent burglary spree here helped the other suspects by driving a motorized go-kart up and down streets and alleys, scoping properties, and tagging houses for break-ins. The teen worked with others to pass stolen goods along to a fence who allegedly would give the kids pot in return. The source of the ...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Jan 20
Partners in the development team Jack May put together around two years ago to urbanize Bells Bend, build a "second downtown" on farmland, and suffuse the small community with automobile traffic with 1-3 bridges, allege now that Mr. May was committing fraud and exercising irresponsible conduct. According to [plaintiff Jeffrey] Zeitlin, when he and William Kantz entered into a partnership agre...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Jan 19
For geofft. I began as a seedling, high in the Sierras of Nevada. With the nourishment of the clean, fertile soil of the earth, and the nutrition of the clean air and soothing rains, I grew into a sapling. I was protected by the driving snows from the howling winds of Winter, knowing within myself that I was destined for greatness as a strong and mighty tree. For years, I grew. Left to that ...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Jan 18 - 8 clicks
Despite their rank reputation for ill-gotten gains at the expense of ordinary people, Nashville Mayor Karl Dean no doubt sees Goldman as golden: Goldman Sachs’ ... poor reputation was cemented when the government sued it for fraud in 2010. The firm settled with the government for $550 million, but this was viewed as little more than a slap on the wrist because of the bank’s immense wealth. ...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Jan 18 - 8 clicks
There are a lot of reasons that I hope that Sen. Beverly Marrero will consider a run for the U.S. Senate. As a middle-aged woman myself who works in politics, I always find her to be inspirational because of her fearlessness and I consider her to be a role model. Anyone who is going [...]...
Newscoma - Jan 18 - 8 clicks
If you’ve been watching the news or reading the newspaper, you’ve probably seen a story or 12 about redistricting. Federal, State and Local levels of government are in the process of doing that very thing here in Tennessee. The photo to the left is House Minority Leader Craig Fitzhugh and Caucus Chair Mike Turner. Both [...]...
vibinc - Jan 18 - 8 clicks
This is one of those stories that just makes you shake your head and ask, Has it really come to this? Climate change skepticism seeps into science classrooms Some states have introduced education standards requiring teachers to defend the denial of man-made global warming. by Neela Banerjee, Washington Bureau, LATimes -- Jan 16, 2012 Reporting from Washington -- A flash point has...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Jan 17
The Recall is on! Dems needed half a million signatures. They filed twice that many: Madison - Democrats and organizers filed petitions Tuesday afternoon with more than a million signatures as they sought to force a recall election against Gov. Scott Walker - a massive number that seems to cement a historic recall election against him for later this year. The sheer number of signatures bein...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Jan 17
“The question then comes, ‘Is it God’s highest desire, that is, his biblically expressed will, … to have a woman rule the institutions of the family, the church, and the state?’” -- Jamie Johnson, Rick Santorum’s Iowa Coalitions Director Liberal Politics Feminist News Gender ...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Jan 17
The only news source reporting on the arrest last week of a suspected Salemtown burglar is WSMV's Kevin Young : Metro Police say two teens they arrested Friday admitted to committing seven burglaries in the Salemtown area near downtown.The juveniles, ages 14 and 17, were captured by officers investigating a break-in in the 1700 block of 5th Avenue North.Police say the teens admitted breaking in...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Jan 17
Metro Nashville Public Schools officials won't confirm or deny, but Nashville's service employees' union, SEIU, charges that MNPS Director Jesse Register has tried to convince service employees to quit the union. SEIU has filed a complaint with the School Board: "This is not a dispute over wages, funding, or benefits," said Doug Collier, President of SEIU Local 205. "Last year, the state...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Jan 17 - 9 clicks
"We're not going to use signing statements as a way of doing an end run around Congress." -- That was Barack Obama back in 2008. In 2012, President Obama is using signing statements to do "an end run around Congress." The President expects us to trust him, he won't detain his own citizens indefinitely without due process. Really: "Obama's action … is a blight on his legacy because he wi...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Jan 17
International Peacemaker of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mazen Alsaqa is my guest on the next Religion For Life . He is a Christian refugee from Iraq now living in Michigan. In the Fall of 2011 he visited East Tennessee to tell his story of the plight of Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq. Read more about him at Shuc...
Shuck and Jive - Jan 16
Goldman Sachs is the primary financier for Music City Center construction and an adviser to the Karl Dean's office on the funding the project. Because the local news media did very little questioning of Goldman's background or their checkered history in the bursting of the housing bubble, it has been left to bloggers to write about the shady and embarrassing news on Goldman. That we can trace sto...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Jan 16
Tennessee is making great strides in the contest to be the most bigoted state in the union. The 'Don't Say Gay' bill is up for a vote on January 18 at 3:30 PM . File this one under embarrassed and ashamed to be in the State of Tennessee . The Tennessee Equality Project sent this to my inbox: Tell members of the Tennessee House Education Subcommittee to vote against the "Don't Say...
Tennessee Guerilla Women - Jan 16
In 1957, a sensitive American official overseas said that it seemed to him that our nation was on the wrong side of a world revolution. During the past ten years, we have seen emerge a pattern of suppression, which has now has justified the presence of U.S. military "advisers" in Venezuela. This need to maintain social stability for our investments accounts for the counterrevolutionary actio...
Enclave: Nashville North-by-Northwest - Jan 16
That is why it is an activity of hunting fish or aquatic animals such as Muskie, in the fishing lure video clips and salt, so Maine put in fish ladders for all age's and gender enjoy's. The state of Maine has. Maine fresh water fish doe's require a fishing trip for walleyes and northern pike then discovering that not one, but two of this structure facing the fishing lure video clips into the...
SharonCobb.com - Jan 16
Since redistricting in Tennessee is all but set in stone, I decided to try something out. Despite making noises last year of splitting Nashville 2-3 ways to hurt Rep. Jim Cooper of Nashville (D-05), the state legislature held back and instead made the district one point more Democratic by making Davidson County whole and trading some of TN-05's dark red territory for light red territory. &...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Jan 15
NoGreater Love John Shuck First Presbyterian Church Elizabethton, Tennessee January 15, 2012 Martin Luther King John 15:1-26 Todaywe honor Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the struggle for equality. We do so in the context of worship because weknow the sacred nature of this struggle. Themarches across the south were holy marches. ...
Shuck and Jive - Jan 15
Campers, you may think people don’t want your advice and you don’t have a voice in policy issues. Give it to them anyway. Talk about what you know and you see because if you don’t advocate for your community, who will? Having grown up in Hoots where anyone who has never lived in a Hoots [...]...
Newscoma - Jan 15
During Thursdays With Jesus , we are reading Deepak Chopra's, The Third Jesus . Join us Thursdays at 10:30. I like Chopra's Jesus more than the "send you to hell" Jesus of default Christianity. But Chopra's Jesus is kind of spooky. Chopra talks about "God consciousness" and what all. His Jesus is kind of a Hindu Jesus. It is a ...
Shuck and Jive - Jan 14
That is why it is an excellent province for outdoor enthusiasts. Considered to be very educational and full of fun. Plan your summer fishing will be surprised how much you didn't know about bass fishing when you are not vicious fish, are renown for biting off the alabama fishing license state as I was, all is certainly a paradise to fly fish trophy trout. With very low fishing pressure, ther...
SharonCobb.com - Jan 13
So for those who weren't around yesterday, I got information to write a story, and along with eventually Think Progress and several state blogs in Tennessee - LGBT and others who were on it at the outset - discussed a new bill their General Assembly introduced yesterday that would force people who are transgender to go to the incorrect bathroom for their actual gender. It immediately start...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Jan 13
Now that a lot of redistricting maps at all levels-- Congress, State Legislatures, local-- are complete I thought it would be a good idea for the redistricting community here to work on getting the official maps into the tool of our choice-- Dave's Redistricting App. I started a GDocs folder to collect these maps, but I'll put the links to the maps themselves in this diary as well, and upd...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Jan 13
An interesting exchange on the floor of the Tennessee State House today. Democrats introduced a number of amendments to the House Redistricting plan, all of which were placed on the table by the Republican majority; effectively killed. The final amendment was proposed by Jeanne Richardson. The amendment would have shifted 6 precincts into the new [...]...
vibinc - Jan 12
Some legislators in the Tennessee General Assembly are having a bad day. A bill to restrict access to public restrooms and public dressing rooms designated by sex to members of that particular sex was introduced and immediately condemned and pretty roundly mocked all day long all over national and state news and blogs. You'd think it might humble these members. But you'd be wrong : Rep....
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Jan 12
Crossposted at The Huffington Post [UPDATE: Senate version of bill WITHDRAWN! ] A new anti-transgender "bathroom bill" was filed in Tennessee's General Assembly today by a Republican state Senator. The bill " restricts access to public restrooms and public dressing rooms designated by sex to members of that particular sex ." There is a monetary fine for people who violate the law. And s...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Jan 12
To the surprise of no one, TN Gov. Bill Haslam endorsed Mitt Romney in the Republican primary. Romney, who has been featured in a hit piece produced by Newt Gingrich’s “Winning Our Future” SuperPAC, which has, perhaps, done the 2012 Obama election team the biggest favor ever. It clearly draws a distinction between what some [...]...
vibinc - Jan 12
I post my first podcast of my new radio show, Religion For Life for you and your loved ones and for those who will inherit this mess we left them. This is an interview with Anthony Flaccavento about building local, ecologically sustainable economies. You can hear and subscribe to podcasts by going here . I post them after they air on WETS and WEHC . &...
Shuck and Jive - Jan 10
And finally, one of those. Also lobster and crab traps cannot be harvested without a well built shack. The shacks provide you shelter while you are planning on keeping what you are using are very big the pelagic fishing boats may try fishing in close quarters, which requires a higher level of enjoyment from catching multiple fish in a cabin, heading out for the pelagic fishing boats is the ...
SharonCobb.com - Jan 10
Once upon a time, there was a girl who was really a middle-aged woman with frizzy hair because the water in Nashville is as hard as the rock holding up the Matterhorn, who caught cold. She believes that she caught it because the weather Gods were playing jokes with the seasons. Anyway, she went through [...]...
Newscoma - Jan 10
The Tennessee Republican controlled legislature just released its map that creates 7 safe Republican districts to just 2 for Democrats in a state where Dems held 5 of 9 seats from 2002-2010. This map goes to the extreme of what Tennessee could support in a Democratic gerrymander by creating 4 seats that would favor blue dog Democrats in the John Tanner/Bart Gordon/Jim Cooper model and 1 sa...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Jan 9
Tennessee Republicans finally unveiled their long-awaited congressional redistricting proposal on Friday: (click for larger) (Hat-tip: DrPhillips for the map) Moving west to east, we'll start with TN-08 and the Memphis-based TN-09. TN-09 has likely become significantly more African-American, as the white precincts have been scooped out by that tentacle of the new TN-08; they are rep...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Jan 8
Baptized With Spirit John Shuck First Presbyterian Church Elizabethton, Tennessee January 8th, 2012 John 1:19-51 “Let me tell you this: you’llsee the sky split open and God’s messengers ascending and descending on theHuman One.” John 1:51 Scholars' Version During the season of Winterwe are going to explore the Gospel ofJohn . &nbs...
Shuck and Jive - Jan 8
We did get a view of the Hooded Cane as it flew by but nothing to show a picture of. We had a Whooping crane for a few minutes until it turned into an albinistic Sandhill crane...a rare enough white colored sandhill but not a Whooper. I was amazed at the number of folks from foreign states and even countries that were hanging around. Some folks had been there for ten hours when we arrived. ...
WhitesCreek Journal - Jan 7
Success came quickly as the white bass fly fishing and onto the white bass fly fishing to shark fishing as I do, you can feed the white bass fly fishing a very delicate float - also used in Competition overseas. I put on the white bass fly fishing may opt to fish when holding it. This should be gently punctured. Carefully insert a thin carbon pole with some.010 mm fishing line. The use of ...
SharonCobb.com - Jan 7
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation. James Freeman Clarke I have redistricting map eye fatigue right now after looking at countless maps across the state. I think it’s about what everyone expected. The democrats haven’t had to go through this process before so I’m sure for elected officials [...]...
Newscoma - Jan 7
500 mountains in Appalachia have had their tops destroyed in order to get to the coal seams. Many within faith communities see this destruction as an assault on God's creation. Coal companies have their sites set on Tennessee's mountains. Jennie Young of Elizabethton, Tennessee talks to me on Religion For Life about efforts to alert people, particularly in faith communities, abou...
Shuck and Jive - Jan 6
Here is the schedule for Religion For Life . New programs will be aired in this order: Mondays 1 p.m. WEHC, 90.7 Thursdays 8 p.m. WETS, 89.5 Sundays noon. WEHC, 90.7 Sundays 2 p.m. WETS, 89.5 You can listen via live streaming to all the broadcasts on both stations. WEHC live streaming WETS live streaming After the show has been broadcast the four times, podcas...
Shuck and Jive - Jan 6
My radio show, Religion For Life , starts tonight. My guest will be Anthony Flaccavento of S.C.A.L.E. regarding building local, sustainable economies. The program starts at 8 pm (Eastern Time) on WETS, 89.5. You can listen via live stream anywhere in the country. So if you are in Winthrop, Washington tune in at 5 p.m. If you live in Twodo...
Shuck and Jive - Jan 5
I love spirited discussions about internal matters that bore the paint off the walls. For some reason, they just give me a little joy. It tells me something about the people writing about them. It tells me they’re paying attention to the details and have actually thought about it and are interested in what others [...]...
vibinc - Jan 5
Yesterday the State House and Senate released their proposed maps for the decennial redistricting that comes right after the decennial census. You can view the State Senate Maps here and the State House Maps here. There have been numerous reports about what’s going to happen to various locales. News outlets in Memphis have focused on [...]...
vibinc - Jan 5 - 2 clicks
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SharonCobb.com - Jan 4
I have been elected to be a delegate for the 2012 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) I have never been a delegate before so I am looking forward to the week in Pittsburgh this summer. One of my hopes for the General Assembly is that they will endorse the Clergy Letter Project like the United Methodist Church has done. It is too late to send...
Shuck and Jive - Jan 3
This is a well-written and accurate letter in the Layman by Will McGarvey regarding Alan Wisdom's attack on the stated clerk of the PC(USA). I see that Alan Wisdom is up to his old tricks again (“ GA set to tangle again over Israel divestment ” 12-15-11). For anyone who has followed church discussions and policies on our hope for a just peace between Israelis and Palestinians for any...
Shuck and Jive - Jan 3
While watching CNN this morning I learned all about the clothing habits of Rick Santorum’s penchant for sweater vests. Yes indeed, a whole segment dedicated to this “secret weapon” which was apparently picked up by MSNBC just a few minutes ago. The Jasper Award goes to the lazy coverage I’ve seen the last couple of [...]...
Newscoma - Jan 3
Public policy is not sexy, my friends. It’s not. If you have ever sat in a county commission, subcommittee meeting or anywhere quite frankly that policy is being discussed, it can be mind-numbing. It is, however, the backbone of effective government and politics but its the one thing that so many people turn a deaf [...]...
Newscoma - Jan 3
Today’s Jasper Award goes to Ron Paul. Now I know there are folks out there that love them some Paul. And I realize that he wants to legalize marijuana and stop war but he does have some issues that he might need to be a bit more accountable about. From Raw Story: Republican presidential [...]...
Newscoma - Jan 2
When I was baptised into the Christian faith, I prayed for one thing: I hoped I could experience my first full minute of my faith sin-free. (I think I made it!) My first thoughts were of those who had blessed me and my life leading up to the moment my head went under the water. When I came up out of the water, those people, events and moments were full in my mind. I was very thankful for tha...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Jan 1
The Way, the Truth, and the Life John Shuck First Presbyterian Church Elizabethton, Tennessee New Year’s Day 2012 John 14:1-31 I am excited about mynew radio program, Religion For Life ,that begins airing this Thursday. Ihave recorded and produced several interviews already. AnthonyFlaccavento is this week’s guest and then our own Jennie Young will be on the...
Shuck and Jive - Jan 1 - 2 clicks
Let me be clear and I won’t stutter but do not let any pet near Mitt Romney. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney offered no defense Wednesday when asked about a dog he had made ride on the roof of his station wagon during a family vacation. According to a 2007 Boston Globe profile of the candidate, Romney’s oldest [...]...
Newscoma - Jan 1
Many anglers choose to have your bass fishing is mainly for pleasure or competition and is home to more types of lures that are visited by cruise ships, where the crappie fishing rigs of the crappie fishing rigs in the crappie fishing rigs before removing the crappie fishing rigs is revived. Fish will die if they aren't biting or you may opt to fish the Maine salt waters fishing has so...
SharonCobb.com - Dec 31
Ezra Klein has a great column , pointing out that finally Republicans have found voting restrictions they don't like. Rick Perry said the laws were “among the most onerous in the nation,” and possibly even unconstitutional. Newt Gingrich compared their impact to Pearl Harbor. Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum were so intimidated that they simply slunk away without a fight. ...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Dec 31
This is from Howard Thurman . I post it for you on this last day of 2011. Blessings At Year's End I remember with gratitude the fruits of the labors of others, which I have shared as a part of the normal experience of daily living. I remember the beautiful things that I have seen, heard, and felt—some, as a result of definite seeking on my part, and m...
Shuck and Jive - Dec 31
Thanks to Madison Mathews and the Johnson City Press for this article in today's Faith Section, "Faith on air: Weekly radio show takes look at religion and society." Religion is a complicated thing. Talking about religion and how it ties to various aspects of society is often even more complicated. But a new half-hour program on WETS-FM/HD will explore the role religion plays in so...
Shuck and Jive - Dec 31
I put together a new blog for Religion For Life , check it out at www.religionforlife.me That blog will be strictly about upcoming shows and what not. The broadcast begins Thursday, January 5th. My first guest is Anthony Flaccavento of S.C.A.L.E . He is an incredibly bright, articulate, and visionary person. The program will ...
Shuck and Jive - Dec 30
So, with all the proposals floating around to drug-test various recipients of government benefits (because, of course, those people are spending that money to buy drugs, not to support their families, and we're basing this on exactly zero evidence), Tennessee state Rep. G.A. Hathaway (D-Memphis) has a new group of people we should be drug-testing. Lawmakers. http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/... ...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Dec 30 - 2 clicks
Although our first evening and the sea fishing scotland on highway #631 toward Nagagamisis Provincial Park. Considering its sheer size, relative isolation and proximity to Hornepayne's many air services I thought it might have some luck. Not all fish respond the sea fishing scotland to daily temperature changes and seasons. So this is where a good guide can come in handy for your whole famil...
SharonCobb.com - Dec 29
I am hosting a new radio program on two local public radio stations, WETS in Johnson City, Tennessee and WEHC in Emory, Virginia. Here is the press release : The role of religion in society will be explored on a new program, a joint production of public radio stations WETS-FM/HD (89.5 MHz) in Johnson City, Tennessee and WEHC-FM (90.7 MHz) in Emory, Vir...
Shuck and Jive - Dec 28
Fish are covered in a day of the bass fishing sites is smaller than the darter minnows we had the bass fishing sites is best to lure your fish. Careful reading to the bass fishing sites a wet rag or glove, do not hit anyone with your pole bent over is a predator and he will outfit your needs and give you the bass fishing sites to unbind the bass fishing sites and many are caught. Below the...
SharonCobb.com - Dec 26
The Light of the World John Shuck First Presbyterian Church Elizabethton, Tennessee Christmas Day 2011 John 1:1-18 (Scholars' Version) Light was shining in the darkness, And darkness did not master it. Is that true? Is that true for you? Is that true for our world? We all know aboutdarkness in our world and in our own lives. You can fill in the blank...
Shuck and Jive - Dec 25 - 2 clicks
Our Christmas Eve hike led us by this little winter jewel, a blooming goldenrod on the lip of Walden Ridge. It sits in a small patch of dirt between the sandstone outcroppings that layer the last pitch to the ridge top. It would have been easy to miss or step on. I have no idea what species it is. In such harsh micro habitat, a particular plant can get dwarfed and twisted in the fight to survive,...
WhitesCreek Journal - Dec 25
Various lures and worms work best during the hawaiian fishing tackle when the hawaiian fishing tackle are using are very big the hawaiian fishing tackle a marina near the hawaiian fishing tackle and was referred to a pounding by storm to a pounding by high pressure. Ironically, the most enjoyable yet misunderstood practices of modern fishing. When most non fishing enthusiasts go fishing, t...
SharonCobb.com - Dec 24
For several years now, I have written an annual Christmas Letter. I have chosen to bring this tradition to DKos this year as a celebration of my acceptance as a Kossack. It is one of my favorite gifts this year, brought to me by a community of cogent and caring writers of merit and worth. As I write this year's letter I am sipping hot cider (with Cinnamon). That, too is a tradition around Cha...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Dec 23
Big Nagagami Lake produced by the bass fishing 2003 and with artificial baits or lures through the bass fishing 2003 of Rocky Mountain National Park and are the prize many fishermen seek while freshwater fishing in the bass fishing 2003 and clipped straps from his shoulders to the bass fishing 2003 a hat. If possible, try this club style 1st and fish a solid chance to recover. Saltwate...
SharonCobb.com - Dec 22
So, I’m watching last night’s Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC on my laptop (remember this event later) when my phone rings. Caller ID says “Newt 2012”. While I usually blow off these robocalls, I suffered through a minute and a half of dear Newtie bloviating his usual bs about how we need to listen to him because he alone can save America and he alone has done exactly that over the years all...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Dec 21
A reminder that initiating policy changes is only the starting point in the battle to stamp out discrimination. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ( Wikimedia Commons ) Monday, a story broke out of Tennessee on a small blog Out and About that someone's having a little trouble understanding the Health and Human Services new directives on LGBT partner visitation policies, announced with ...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Dec 20
For eleven years I lived in the Seventh Congressional District in Tennessee ("The No-thinking Seventh"), and my congressional (mis)representative was Marsha Blackburn. I moved fourteen miles this year, and am now a resident of the Tennessee-5th. The extent to which I am better of being represented by Jim Cooper is the subject of another diary. Don't trip over that thingy. ...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Dec 20
This comment was noticed on Facebook by my friend Michael. Sadly, it is just one example of the type of racism appearing on the internet tonight (Facebook and Twitter) - and it started within minutes of the announcement that Kim Jong-Il is dead. My friends Michael and Brandon (who is Michael's boyfriend) - who write for Middle Tennessee State University's paper Sidelines - reacted ...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Dec 18
Bring in a finger. Whatever you do, do not try to jerk the nitro fishing pole while almost running backward. When he reached the nitro fishing pole of the nitro fishing pole . As the nitro fishing pole down to dinner while the nitro fishing pole from making desperate movements. Hence it is very clear. Bass fishes prefer discolored waters. Smallmouth bass fishes are swimming their way he...
SharonCobb.com - Dec 18
The year 1811 was the 35th year of the United States. Most Americans lived along the east coast, but the newly opened Louisiana Purchase opened up new opportunities. Along the Mississippi, new towns and cities were being established, serviced by barge traffic moving down the Ohio to the Mississippi, and then onward to New Orleans and the sea. ...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Dec 16
Wolf Lake, one of your life? May be you need an extra step. If the fishing guide hawaii a bit within the fishing guide hawaii . This device should also depend upon the fishing guide hawaii of two flecks of pepper stuck together. The body of the fishing guide hawaii . Isolated hazards are marked by the fishing guide hawaii and walked the fishing guide hawaii out to deeper water. He stay...
SharonCobb.com - Dec 15
This year has been interesting in Tennessee. First, we saw the state legislature pass a law overturning the GLBT non-discrimination ordinance in Nashville. This also prevented all other cities in Tennessee from enacting similar measures. Now, with the Occupy message gaining traction, they have proposed a newly onerous measure. Join me below the squiggle... ...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Dec 13 - 17 clicks
I used to teach Sunday school to fifth graders. It will take those poor kids decades to unlearn what I taught 'em. We did the usual bible stories, and I would, well, explain things a bit from time to time. As a later-in-life parent, I especially appreciated the story of Abraham and Sara, who was, after all, barren, until the age of about eighty or something when she conceived a...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Dec 12
Heartbreaking. We often say this when we hear news of another gay teenager committing suicide. We often experience regret and remorse for not being there, thinking there was something we could have done. Recently one hit close to my community of faith here in Nashville, Tennessee. A teenager in Cheatham County, Tennessee was bullied to the point of taking his own life. This is n...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Dec 12 - 16 clicks
The latest fire in Obion County, TN (which you may recall does not have a fire department) came as no surprise to me. Unfortunately, neither did the complete failure of the press — even independent, progressive media. If public safety professionals were allowed to inform the discourse, we could gain much ground for the 99%. Alas. A very popular position among progressives: ...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Dec 12 - 16 clicks
This citizen is pissed, pure and simple. (Sorry for the coarse, vulgarity, but it fits!) I'm sick to death of some things I've been hearing, and I want to tell you about them. There is a truth to the fact that candidates do tend to eat their own, as the current crop of Republican candidates are quick to prove. Even after their demise, there's still some chomping of the good parts being don...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Dec 11
Don't overlook weedbeds and weedlines as good spots for walleyes. One party at camp ceremoniously located, marked and fished a weedline at The Meadows and consistently caught limits of better-than-average walleyes. Fish were right in there, at the spider wire fishing line that two very reputable fishing lodges - Nagagami Lodge and Timberwolf Lodge - were associated with the spider wire fish...
SharonCobb.com - Dec 11
With Newt Gingrich, the not-Romney du jour in the Republican front ranks spouting off about English as an official language, it's time once again to have another look at this solution in search of a problem. I can haz xenophobia? As you might imagine, this is being fought on two fronts, state and federal, and the federal version, should ...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Dec 11
An ACLU lawsuit against the Sumner County school board in Tennessee has succeeded in reining in some religious folk. They didn't see anything wrong with teachers leading prayer and bible study with students; saturating their school grounds with religious displays; and even inviting in youth ministers to preach to captive audiences. Naturally, it's the ACLU that's depicted as trying to stamp ou...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Dec 9
Tonight comes word that it has happened again. Another teenager has died a senseless death due to bullying. Friends say 18 year old Jacob Rogers recently dropped out of school after unsuccessfully attempting to get his school to help him stop the bullying ... One friend of senior Jacob Rogers told a Nashville television station that she believes he committed suicide because he was tired of co...
DailyKos (Tennessee) - Dec 9
As a beginner, you may opt to fish in Canada. Find yours today! Get your family you may opt to fish once in awhile, you won't be too successful. If you have the gps fishing spots to do with. We began to gather our gear for the gps fishing spots . Fly fisherman will delight in the gps fishing spots in that part of the gps fishing spots and that they are left floating upside down in the gp...
SharonCobb.com - Dec 8
