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Re: “Four stories of immigrant mothers who braved hard work, perilous journeys, even separation to raise their children as U.S. citizens”
"The single mom of two had seen her San Salvador neighborhood grow dangerous and crime-ridden. Gangs extracted protection money from business owners; many shops closed. She wondered whether her son, then 11, would one day fall in with the gangsters who lurked outside his school."
I know I should not respond to pathetic trolls like "bobsguns", but how can you read something like paragraph above and then compare them to child molesters? It's highly unlikely Bob even knows any immigrants, legal or otherwise, because if he did, he'd find out that most are sympathetic to the plight of the people mentioned in the article. Most people with real human emotions are. I know quite a few legal, naturalized immigrants and none think like Bob. Bob, just some advice: your commenting history makes you look like an angry person at best, at worst a sociopath. You might want to seek some help.
Re: “Four stories of immigrant mothers who braved hard work, perilous journeys, even separation to raise their children as U.S. citizens”
>>"illegals" (an epithet, to her mind)<<
Ask those immigrants who did the LEGAL route what they think about "illegals". I'm also sure child molesters also think that description is an "epithet" in their minds as well.
Re: “Four stories of immigrant mothers who braved hard work, perilous journeys, even separation to raise their children as U.S. citizens”
Kevin you are a great inspiration to us all, I'm very happy for you and I know that you are going to go far in life.
Re: “Four stories of immigrant mothers who braved hard work, perilous journeys, even separation to raise their children as U.S. citizens”
Please take time to read these incredible stories - they are filled with brave love and extraordinary care.
Re: “A grieving son finds no justice on Rev. Maury Davis' path to redemption”
Growing up in a suburb of Nashville, I grew up with Pastor Davis' triplets, have attended many services at Cornerstone ranging from early days in the old sanctuary to the massive worship fests that unfold in the new sanctuary. He baptized my cousin, my uncle served as an usher with them, and my aunt went there for years up until recently. From this experience, I have a point to make about Pastor Davis. He is an imperfect man, born in flesh, still walking around with a sin nature living inside him. We sin every day, from thoughts to actions to ideas. While some may view it as a cop-out, I have felt and seen enough in my life to know that there is a God and that He loved me enough to send His Son to die for the sins of the whole world -- Pastor Davis included. The Jesus of the Jailhouse is the same as the Jesus of the church house; I have seen this quite well from my perch as a jail chaplain and Ordained Minister for nearly 10 years. I have seen people come into jail so addicted to meth that they would sell their first born for a fix and leave so disgusted by meth that they would rather set themselves on fire than to do the drug again. I have met people with emotional disorders, mental disorders, anger issues, violent tendencies, sexual deviations, and the like. My guiding verse on this situation is Ephesians 6:12, which reads,"For our enemies are not flesh and blood, but principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness in this world, and spiritual wickedness in high places." We have to understand that there are forces around us that we are overwhelmingly susceptible to, and it is only by the grace of God and His strength that I make it through each day. Pastor Davis, despite being the pastor of a mega church who lives in a million dollar home, is a flesh-and-bone human being. Being such, he sins. Yes, the crime is heinous. No, there is no good reason for him, or anyone, to commit such a horrid crime. Yet, at some point, we have to forgive those who have wronged us and find closure in and of ourselves.
Pastor Davis takes hard stands on things, I believe, because he has seen the sin in his own life and understands that if something can lead him to commit such an unspeakable crime (whatever that motive may be), then it can lead others to do other horrible things. He understands that tools of evil, such as sexual deviation and the desire to cause harm to the people of this nation, exist and are active in this world. Someone who has killed knows what it's like to be the one with the urges, someone with the voices, someone holding the weapon wondering what in God's name they just did. I certainly hope that Mr. Liles' family finds closure if they have not yet. I will be in prayer for him and his family and pray that the peace of Christ brings comfort to his heart and soul. Yet, it is hypocritical to label someone as such a terrible person when we do things every day that harm others. You must remove the plank of wood from your own eye, Christ said, before you can even remotely come close to seeing the speck of sawdust in your neighbor's eye. It is easy to perch one's self on a catbird seat, playing Deskchair Judge, making calls on who is horrible and who isn't. I, for one, have marveled at what the Lord has done through Maury Davis, and I expect nothing but more amazing things. Pastor Davis is a lot of things, but the most important is forgiven.
Re: “Nashville's Sinatra, Billie Holiday or John Coltrane — that was George Jones, the voice of heartbreak”
Sorry Mr? Hurt but to me that's about as big an insult to Ol' George as you could give! The people you compared him to aren't/ weren't worthy of carryin' his guitar or lightin' his cigarette. There's no "may have been" about it......He WAS the greatest popular music singer of the twentieth century!
Re: “Nashville's Sinatra, Billie Holiday or John Coltrane — that was George Jones, the voice of heartbreak”
Lovely writeup...
Re: “The Rep's production of David Auburn's The Columnist is just the latest triumph for the Ingram New Works Project”
Joe Alsop's IS a household name (remaining so as does the name of his brother, and early professional collaborator, Stewart Alsop) to we political junkies who grew up reading the Alsops' work.
Considering Joe's response to the invasion of his privacy, I'm not sure it is fair to suggest that he was "well-closeted" to that point (save, perhaps, for a modern-day argument that Alsop married a woman- divorcing only after 17 years of heterosexual marriage). Subsequently, throughout the remainder of Joe Alsop's life (as well as posthumously), there was no suggestion of a missed opportunity to become an activist, let alone any expectation that Alsop would become an advocate for gay rights (which, might have been initially confusing, what with gay, in the preferred usage of the day, meaning carefree).
What good would it have done to, in effect, have a leader without a movement?
In short, Alsop was a man of his time in a world where the private lives of public people (entertainers being a notable exception) remained private unless, like Joe Alsop, they were subject to blackmail. Even then, once targeted, Alsop was able to say, in effect, "bring it on" brilliantly leaving those who chose to become his enemy without any further "ammunition" to use against him.
Stacy Harris
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Stacy's Music Row Report
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Re: “Telecommuting is awesome, except for the working from home part”
Brilliant! I know this thread is a couple of years old, but the best post I've seen on the evils of telecommuting. And true. A conversation (meaning more than one comment one response) taking 5 seconds face-to-face and then forgotten can take days to complete when you telecommute and makes you look like a nag to the office! And let's be honest, those of us with the dedication to do it find ourselves too exhausted at the end of the day to even call friends. There are no work distractions to give you a few minutes breather here or there. I would even disagree that it is a "Green" form of employment. All it does is save gas, but I live in the NE and if I don't want my pipes bursting in winter I've got to keep the temp up and heat a home for one stinking person! (and the AC in summer). In an office, you could fit 40 people into a space and heat the place for the same amount of carbon. I work for a firm in an earlier timezone (west coast). They think I am doing nothing in the mornings (instead on the phone and remoting in to clients) and that I want to attend their 4 pm meetings when I need to eat my dinner. The flexibility to telecommute partially creates work/life balance, but dedicated telecommuting just sucks.
Re: “Women account for less than 5 percent of producers and engineers — but maybe not for long”
The reason there aren't women engineering and producing is because they don't want to. I went to sae nashville and it was a sausage fest. we had 2 girls in my class one dropped out in 2 weeks the other graduated and never put any effort in to get a internship. The cold truth is there are not any music industry jobs you have to start your own business as an engineer its all freelance. I would gladly hire a female intern if she really wanted to try at it
Re: “Songwriter Desmond Child's modern family includes a partner, twin boys — and the boys' surrogate mother”
You and me both!
Re: “Songwriter Desmond Child's modern family includes a partner, twin boys — and the boys' surrogate mother”
Now there's a byline that makes me very happy!
Re: “Want to do the 2013 Nashville Film Festival in just five films?”
pretty sure you should've included THE GO DOC PROJECT in at least 3 of those...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs6bwT57uVc
Re: “Six Nashville apéritifs to prepare your palate for a feast”
This "Corpse Reviver No. 2" sounds intriguing...
Re: “Six Nashville apéritifs to prepare your palate for a feast”
@Mr Pink - Perhaps, but I quite like the end result. I'm about halfway through a bottle at home (which has a large artichoke prominent on the label). :)
I particularly like the way Cynar plays with Rye in the "Little Italy" cocktail...
Re: “Six Nashville apéritifs to prepare your palate for a feast”
You are exactly right, pogo. The Cynar reference has been corrected online. Our apologies for the error.
Side note: I thought asparagus was bad, but people must have been hard-pressed to get their drink on if they turned to artichokes.
Re: “Six Nashville apéritifs to prepare your palate for a feast”
Be still my heart.
Love our city's creative, culinary mixologists. And I can't wait to try every one of these.
Re: “Six Nashville apéritifs to prepare your palate for a feast”
Cynar is artichoke based, not asparagus.
Re: “Strip clubs are the secret backbone of the convention business, right? Think again”
This seems well-above plausible, to me.
I'm struggling to determine exactly which element of this article the negative comments take issue with...
Re: “Four stories of immigrant mothers who braved hard work, perilous journeys, even separation to raise their children as U.S. citizens”
>>It's highly unlikely Bob even knows any immigrants, legal or otherwise<<
I know a great deal of immigrants, Mr. Allen, & I work with many. Virtually ALL of the ones I work with jumped thru hoops, filled out reams of paperwork & waited patiently for their turn at the chance on the American Dream. Nor did they sneak over the border, bringing their troubled issues with them in the way of brothers/cousins/sons who are gang members. Ask Metro Police about MS13 & the issues that particular gang has wrought upon Nashville.
Furthermore, illegals working on a cheap cash basis takes away jobs from the economically depressed, mostly black folks. I know lots of black men whom would jump at the chance to get back into construction work. Instead subcontractors hire ILLEGALS at a cheaper rate & pay NO TAXES. Hear that, liberals? PAY NO TAXES.
Mr. Allen, you lump ALL immigrants into one tidy little package nothing could be further from the truth. As for me personally, I do in fact welcome all LEGAL immigrants as I've worked in foreign countries myself & know what it's like to not know the language very well & so forth.
As for my "anger", yes, I am "angry" every time I read in the paper about an ILLEGAL who got drunk, drove & killed someone & then fled the country. Or every time an ILLEGAL raped, robbed or murdered someone. And in case YOU didn't know it, illegal immigrants are preyed upon the most by their illegal ganged-up brethren as the gangbangers know their victims most likely won't call the police. But clearly this is all hunky dory with you, sir.