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Matt Bonner writes, in his case for guns, that "the only thing that will stop a bad man with a gun is a good man with a gun." Is he aware that it was a woman who stopped Nidal Hasan at Ft. Hood? A woman with an impressive body of firearms training and experience, who herself was shot multiple times and nearly killed? She was a police officer, her daily work dedicated to understanding and defusing the very situtation in which she found herself. But Mr. Bonner expects me to believe that he or some other "good man" would perform as effectively or rationally? If he quits his communications job and goes through years of police and firearms training, I might believe that.
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Mr. Bonner, Thank you, thank, thank you! For your artical. This county, state, and the whole country needs MORE MEN like you. I'd rather have you as a friend and neighbor than those sissy no gun law cowards. Robert Hagood
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Since you don't know the heck what you are talking about read this review it is one of many that are prasing this movie. As for the budget they it was 29 million and since they made 34 million the first week guess they have got their money back. In is being reported that this is going to hit over 100 million. Review from the Austin paper Grade A All the performers in this film rise to occasion. It is said that this is an Oscar-worthy performance by Sandra Bullock and that’s not exaggerated. Hancock’s Jae Head steals every scene as elementary school kid, S.J. (Sean Jr.) Touhy and will make you laugh every time. Also Tim McGraw, Kathy Bates and Ray McKinnon as Coach Cotton are phenomenal in their roles. http://weareaustin.com/content/entertainment/story?cid=38741#tvg
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What a sorry excuse for a review. Is Nashville jealous of Tim McGraw's success I wonder. What was that comment about Tim and a wig, in all the reviews and comments I've read from people that have seen the movie, NO ONE has mention that. All the cast including Tim McGraw have been receiving awesome reviews. Word of mouth is making it a big hit. The movie not only was the highest first week sales of Sandra's career but the highest first week for a sports movie. The movie is amazing and NO ONE excpet cares about Tim's hair. What a joke you are.
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Well, I'm not a frequent visitor to the parks, I'd rather be deep in the woods at a hidden lake or nice size pond fishing. :-), But back to the Parks issue, Nashville is naturally a beautiful city, with it's Bradford Pear Trees and always allowing the trees to line the inner city streets in the right places, Melrose, Greenhills, West End is my favorite, but it don't take rocket science to know how to lead the things that are naturally God given. Centinial Park can be improved, anything that man has his hands on can be improved, simply because we are not perfect. But given the fact that we are all given different gifts and talents, well, leadership may be lacking in quite a few places where the job was given due to a friendship, relative, or prejudice. Whatever the problem, it needs to be corrected yesterday. We have more pressing problems in attracting tourists to Nashvillle than for them to see parks lacking artistic flavor. We are blessed beyond measure here in this beautiful city to be counted as less than in the top 10 cities in North America. Therefore, I'm submitting my apl. for the position of overseeing the parks. I majored in Fine Arts for 4 years at Jackson State University, learned persuasive rhetoric, and served my country honorably in the Marine Corps for 3 years and 9 months. I know leadership, " you have to love what you do in order to do a great job, while treating your staff and associates right and just, the job will be done right everytime ". This I know. Thanks for reading my comments. God bless all yall Happy People of Nashville Tom 11-22-09
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Brett Lashlee's LTE reflects this now Independent Voter"s thoughts very well. I've voted for both parties over the last many yrs in both state and national elections. While my roots belong to the Democratic Party I've had a tough time going along with the Leaderships social agenda, and now that both parties are so endured to Wall St and hugh Global interest I'm giving up hope on both parties serving America's interst and freedom!
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What a pity that Mr. Martin chose to fire off his scathing criticism of Alice Randall’s stirring new novel "Rebel Yell" after (by his own admission) reading about three paragraphs. If he had read Rebel Yell cover to cover as I did a few Sundays ago, he would have been moved by the intimate human portraits Ms. Randall paints of all the characters in this serious work of fiction. If novelists were not allowed to draw upon their real life experiences for inspiration, sadly very few novels could or would be written.
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Well Ias I see it it's all unconstitutional all of it.. matter of fact most everything done by OUR government has been. I say the one who know OUR constitutionalright and yes our GOD given rights and uses them without hurting there people should be the only one running... and the ones who are in there now (our government need to read up!!)because the dumming duown of the people really hasn't work =) We are out here and we know our true rights and we will take a stand. okay enough babble I just woke up ...where's my coffee =)
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Mary B's comment was interesting: '...Is it even possible for the right wing to act like Christians (they always claim they are) and do what Jesus would do? That is, help the least among us. Give to Caesar what is his, give to God what he commands. What a bunch of hypocrites!' Nowhere in the entire Bible does God command the state to coerce wealth from its citizens and give to the poor. Christians are told to do so, but not by means of the state's gun. Everyone has an obligation to support honorable charities and take care of those within their own associations and abilities.
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Just because you call Marsha Blackburn a conservative doesn't make it true! Marsha Blackburn is my Congressman. She is no conservative. See her unconstitutional votes at : http://tinyurl.com/qhayna Mickey
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Thank you Walter Jowles for your recent story and confessions concerning felines and duct tape. It made me laugh, what a gift for today.
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Sorry, Paul King, but your claims of "Nashville's overwhelming conservative population" are simply delusional and in contrafactual. To address the most obvious point: you cite Al Gore's statewide loss in 2000 as supposed support for your argument, but if you actually look at the numbers, Gore lost TN *despite* winning Nashville/Davidson County by a 58-41 margin (source: uselectionatlas.org). Then in 2004, Kerry carried the county 55-45. Last fall, Obama whalloped McCain 60-39 in our fair metropolitan area. I had to go back to 1988 to find a year in which the Democrat lost a presidential vote in Davidson county. Doesn't sound much like an overwhelmingly conservative city to me.
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Some readers miss the point on the tennis equal pay. Some equate # of sets with value or work. Tennis, like the US Open, is like any other entertainment event........you pay for the stars......not how long they play. Oprah gets millions for 1 hour a day. Why should she make 50+ times as much as Bill O'Reilly who also does 1 hour? Because people will pay to see it. They demand it, that is what drives the price(winner's share) not equality of work. Can't believe we are still explaining this to the rear guard.
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Non-discriminatory laws infer that the government can intervene into a private corporation or business and force them into hiring all classes of people. Trespassing laws keep undesirables off one's property that they choose not to associate with. By extension, a company or corporation has the same rights as individuals holding title to the company. As a private entity, it has the right to choose with whom it will associate and when. The 1st and 14th amendment intends that the property owner has rights of association, assembly, and speech in regards to his property, possessions, business, etc. This negates the hiring of certain classes of individuals if so desired. The government does not own a person or the extension; a company or corporation. Since 1964, the Civil Rights Act has allowed a 'slippery-slope' in this area to include all forms of behavior to be accepted by law. The emphasis on 'group rights' strips away individual rights. By implication, the government is stealing jurisdiction from individuals and their extensions of business. By altering the original intent of the Civil Rights Act to include behavior along with race, the door is open for forced acceptance of all types of behavior. Where does one draw the line if we use arbitrary ethics as our foundation for truth?
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real good music presents Nashville's first Honkytonk Art Fest. 5 great local bands: KimMystry, Bj Omalley, Rebecca Jed, The Jones', and Gabe Zander, 3 great local artist's: Will Van Zandt, Rudy Siciliano, and Austin & Ryder, and i would like to have some one from the nashville scene there on September 5, 2009 at the Foobar Too to review this magical event. Artist are going to be painting live art that will be raffled off at the end of the night, and 50 percent of the door goes to rondald mcdonald house.
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Hype and Funny Money - 7/18/2001 We interupt this transmission of Love and Hate leaks to bring you an important note of encouragement! "Hate is not a family value." Now an important message about privacy and the internet. I want to warn you...This isn't what you might think. It is more propaganda. As an 'obcessed writer' I need to write. I am motivated and inspired by the events of my life, yet, you won't find the usual maundering here, unless of course the internet at large starts paying 8-bit metal bands to translate whatever it is they are screaming about...Creating and perpetrating internet fraud and other small crimes? Not to worry this bothersome sometimes annoying phase is temporary, I think? They are not noisey, just opinionated. Violating and infringing upon copy-right law is not a joke. This is a joke. "As nothing original originates here, and is intented to be nothing more than entertainment; Nobody important lives here. I have no life." This stuff is not my invention, generally speaking these events are conjured by others...WHO? Is all this just a figment of my imagination? All these characters online are, ficticious, any resemblance to anyone real; alive or deceased, is purely coinsidental. What does that mean? Because of the diversity of internet veination the possibilities for all this are endless. Basically, I am motivated to make more friends than slush. Is it possible to meet 4,000 friends in less than one day... This concept is flawed. Be real, being 'blessed' by all intensive purposes is just as cool as being 'bullied' not to mention cool whatever that is... Is anyone on the internet of this Earth? Who else feels as though the internet is a rip off and hates it? As a writer I investigate different opportunities in order to secure my investments.B.S. you are a spamer. Money is an issue but, not the focus of my message. In the nineties we became no stranger to this sort of criminal, their legacy continues. Anyone with the need for power control and dominance is totally and unequivicably sickening. At the pit of my stomach is an apathy for this particular situation. Do not give them any money if you can help it. Not to mention all the pop-ups, cookies, and movie trailers, at the worst they are annoying. Our privacy has been mutilated and more! Why do these people insist upon maintaining a continuous line on perpetrating these crimes? I ask because I want to understand; why do you think it a novelty to destroy a persons credit or even worse? Drive a friend to the movies. What are you gonna do? The problem: I cannot say why the problem persists only that these inividuals are vaccant, a vacuole of ethical principles...They are for the most part unrestrained and free to commit this crime seemingly at their leisure, which is, in my opinion how easy it is for them...And unfortunately how ignorant they see all the rest of us; those who have no interest in using the technology for criminal activity. There is nothing right about the activities of these persons, they gloat at their intellect when it wasn't even invented by them. At this point they are nothing more than 'scripters'. I do not want to participate in their sport because there's not anything I want to know so bad that I have to steal the information to get it. This is a public site, I know, I would be more amiable if I was receiving an appropriate salary. I would be less inspiring to them though which is the reality of their unscrupulous nature. My advice to all who read this ban television and radio stations as a means to receive information...Examine, if you will, the time you spend on the internet. Do you just hate yourself or what? Other Missions: 1.Boycott the multi-media complex as a source for entertainment/information. 2. Go outside and get some fresh air. 3.Pursue your online projects, whatever, they might be, provided it involves legal activities. 4.Maintain and update these endeavors whatever it might involve, as it changes, we'll call it a quiet evolvolution. 5. Flyby Earth once every great while so we may be reminded what you really look like. The first step toward this is to unplug your computer, television, game, radio,and flush all your medication secondly, avoid reading any material published by any corporate entities. Do this as a favor to yourself unleash your personal power and contribute to the world at large...You remember a thing called humanity. Walk in the light of your humanity without a cell phone in your ear. Free youself. How stupid is that idea really! Be well and behave but only on a good day or when ever you want to. And remember when you break a nail texting there is always fix-a-flat. Bye. next week...Paper pulp and detergent don't mix.
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There are many laws that are mis bent to arrest homeless folks that were not meant for the purpose they are being enforced. There are violations of homeless people's civil rights that are being violated on a regular basis. There are some homeless people who are unfortunately doing a life sentance one day at a time bucause they are on the radar and cannot do or be different than they are. We are crimanalizing the homeless in Nashville and in a lot of other cities in America. Open container law was designed for being in a car with an open container. But it is used to arrest homeless people but ignored when they have the wine tasting events on the Shelby Bridge and at Titan's talegatting parties. I just want laws to be enforced the same for all. It is not happening. Blocking the right of way was designed to keep big trucks from stopping on streets and keeping others from being able to pass. But it is used to arrest a homeless person with a backpack larger than his back. They arrest homeless now for aggressive pan handleing if at an intersection but kids with buckets ren to cars begging for money, often with no adult supervision, and nothing is done. The use of blocking the entrance to a public building sitting on the front steps of the Custom House when they are not an entrance at all and only a fire exit. Arresting homeless peoples for this is sad. After all we are being denied access to public space. We the people -- all the people -- should have access to public spaces. Homeless people are on their feet most of the time. I am over 50 and walk aroung downtown a lot myself and there is not enough places to sit downtown for anybody. The little spiked fences, no trespassing signs and those BS ATM machines placed to be able to take advantage of the Panhandleing law. I have not tried to use any of them to see if they even have money in them. And as far as 211 I have been a service provider for 20 years and have had to complain to get information I know was in the system and where are the pay phones anyway? They are scarcer than benches. I'm just saying that in order to understand the harrassment, the system's unfairness and the way people treat homeless people you have to be educated about the injustices. When events are downtown there are sweeps done to arrest homeless people. This is fact, not just here but everywhere. If you donot believe it then go down town, before a run, walk, or scheduled downtown event and just sit on a wall, wear the clothes you have in bottom of your hamper, take a backpack and a couple of little sacks and see if you might get to go to jail for the weekend. But they will let you out if you plead guilty with time served. Say you are innocent and you maybe there a month or two at least. There is no pre release, no bond money for homeless folks. Just try it. Get a group of college student and go sit on the Custom House Steps, you won't get arrested. But homeless people do. There is a war of sorts against the homeless. Not everybody does is aware of it, or wants to believe it. But it is real. On the streets there is no freedom of speech, no freedom of peaceful assembly, no equal rights. We were the first downtown residents. Low income housing with services is cheaper and makes more sence. We supliment the Preditor's rent but it is like we ask for the impossible when we ask for housing that we can afford. We had 2200 kids with no addresses in Metro's school system last year. We have more than 500 homeless veteran's on our streets every night, mostly vietnam Vets but they are coming home from Bush's War homeless. We have had people with mental illness on the streets since Reagan. These are not 'by choice' homeless. This community does have good services for some things but they are also arresting or threatening to arrest good church folds who are trying to feed homeless folks. This is why I am glad for articles that show the plight of my brothers and sisters still on the streets.
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There are many laws that are mis bent to arrest homeless folks that were not meant for the purpose they are being enforced. There are violations of homeless people's civil rights that are being violated on a regular basis. There are some homeless people who are unfortunately doing a life sentance one day at a time bucause they are on the radar and cannot do or be different than they are. We are crimanalizing the homeless in Nashville and in a lot of other cities in America. Open container law was designed for being in a car with an open container. But it is used to arrest homeless people but ignored when they have the wine tasting events on the Shelby Bridge and at Titan's talegatting parties. I just want laws to be enforced the same for all. It is not happening. Blocking the right of way was designed to keep big trucks from stopping on streets and keeping others from being able to pass. But it is used to arrest a homeless person with a backpack larger than his back. They arrest homeless now for aggressive pan handleing if at an intersection but kids with buckets ren to cars begging for money, often with no adult supervision, and nothing is done. The use of blocking the entrance to a public building sitting on the front steps of the Custom House when they are not an entrance at all and only a fire exit. Arresting homeless peoples for this is sad. After all we are being denied access to public space. We the people -- all the people -- should have access to public spaces. Homeless people are on their feet most of the time. I am over 50 and walk aroung downtown a lot myself and there is not enough places to sit downtown for anybody. The little spiked fences, no trespassing signs and those BS ATM machines placed to be able to take advantage of the Panhandleing law. I have not tried to use any of them to see if they even have money in them. And as far as 211 I have been a service provider for 20 years and have had to complain to get information I know was in the system and where are the pay phones anyway? They are scarcer than benches. I'm just saying that in order to understand the harrassment, the system's unfairness and the way people treat homeless people you have to be educated about the injustices. When events are downtown there are sweeps done to arrest homeless people. This is fact, not just here but everywhere. If you donot believe it then go down town, before a run, walk, or scheduled downtown event and just sit on a wall, wear the clothes you have in bottom of your hamper, take a backpack and a couple of little sacks and see if you might get to go to jail for the weekend. But they will let you out if you plead guilty with time served. Say you are innocent and you maybe there a month or two at least. There is no pre release, no bond money for homeless folks. Just try it. Get a group of college student and go sit on the Custom House Steps, you won't get arrested. But homeless people do. There is a war of sorts against the homeless. Not everybody does is aware of it, or wants to believe it. But it is real. On the streets there is no freedom of speech, no freedom of peaceful assembly, no equal rights. We were the first downtown residents. Low income housing with services is cheaper and makes more sence. We supliment the Preditor's rent but it is like we ask for the impossible when we ask for housing that we can afford. We had 2200 kids with no addresses in Metro's school system last year. We have more than 500 homeless veteran's on our streets every night, mostly vietnam Vets but they are coming home from Bush's War homeless. We have had people with mental illness on the streets since Reagan. These are not 'by choice' homeless. This community does have good services for some things but they are also arresting or threatening to arrest good church folds who are trying to feed homeless folks. This is why I am glad for articles that show the plight of my brothers and sisters still on the streets.
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i tried to post a comment in the blog section and it would not let me. it said i posted too many comments.i have never commented at all .this is my first time..
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Apparently, John Roberts has read just enough history of the US Constitutional Convention and The War Between the States to be dangerous. An humble suggestion: take the time to thoroughly review the contentious debates regarding State sovereignty that took place before and during that Convention. When the US Constitution was adopted, there was absolutely no prohibition against secession. Had there been, the Constitution would never have been accepted. Each of the original States feared a powerful central government, for good reason. That is why The Articles of Confederation preceded The Constitution. The default was to establish a very weak national government. When that government proved incapable of functioning in an adequate manner, it was replaced by the result of the Constitutional Convention---a government intended to be INCREMENTALLY stronger. Additional reading will probably surprise Mr. Roberts with the facts that (1) New England States threatened to secede in 1814--The Hartford Convention, and (2) that those same States actually supported the concept of Southern secession, early in the process. The simple point is that each State joined the Union voluntarily and DEFINITELY presumed that it retained the right to leave in the same manner. The fact that the US government claimed, after The War, that the Union had been indivisible ab initio DOES NOT make it so. There never would have been a "United States of America", under the original Constitution, had such a precondition existed----period. The current "Tea Party" movement is seismic. Whether the State Sovereignty movement takes on those characteristics remains to be seen. An aggressive, wasteful, extremely intrusive, and--a rapidly increasing number believe---incompetent national government is at the root of these initiatives. Confederates firmly believed they were following in the footsteps of their Patriot Forefathers, by fighting a Second War for Independence. A quote from that earlier period might well be applicable today--"If this be treason, make the most of it!"