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Re: “Two Years After the Fairgrounds Fight, Things Are Still ... Awkward”
What does the woman down the street look like?
Re: “We Might Be Rednecks, Natalie Grigson Might Be a Dumbass”
zzzzzzzz....
Re: “Kermit Gosnell Doesn't Prove Your Abortion Point. Yours Either.”
"Kermit Gosnell is a serial killer. Trying to make public policy based on the actions of a serial killer is foolish. There aren't that many of them. How serial killers act tells us nothing about how the majority of people who have superficially similar traits to them. The BTK Killer was a Boy Scout leader. Should we pass policy treating all Boy Scout leaders like murderers? Or, on account of Ted Bundy, should we make it illegal for good looking men to date, since any one of them might be a danger to women? Or should we ban 20-somethings from living together because of Charles Manson?"
Now, apply that VERY SAME LOGIC to Adam Lanza, James Holmes and the like. They are not representative of law-abiding gun owners, therefore the whole "gun control" effort was a very misdirected, flawed, and EMOTIONAL attempt at making PUBLIC POLICY based on the actions of a handful of people.
Re: “Kermit Gosnell Doesn't Prove Your Abortion Point. Yours Either.”
Next you'll be telling us that there's nothing to the IRS scandal....
"Move along, folks... nothing to see here...."
Re: “Kermit Gosnell Doesn't Prove Your Abortion Point. Yours Either.”
Rationalize it away any way you can....
Re: “Kermit Gosnell Doesn't Prove Your Abortion Point. Yours Either.”
I'm just glad everyone now realizes what is growing inside a woman for 9 months is a person.
Re: “We Might Be Rednecks, Natalie Grigson Might Be a Dumbass”
Yes, Men's magazine gave us a ranking we can be proud of: 3rd in the laziest cities listings. That's behind Jackson, Ms, and Charleston, WV. That survey supposedly has nothing to do with race or class. Maybe it's the late sleeping musicians that helped out, or the large number of State and Metro workers within our population, or the Belle Meade loafers, whatever! I say let's go for number 1 in the next survey. I'm starting on my part of that today.
Re: “Kermit Gosnell Doesn't Prove Your Abortion Point. Yours Either.”
Well, he wouldn't be the norm, you're right. But neither would he have had a slew of clients eager for his services if abortion were more affordable and readily available. In other words, perpetuating a situation where abortions are increasingly difficult to obtain makes it more likely that a Gosnell can set up a business and succeed in it.
I also think that Gosnell was much more motivated by money than by dealing death. One thing that has been underreported on is his sideline of prescription drug dealing, working together with various pharmacists in the area. He made a LOT of money that way and enjoyed spending it.
Re: “Kermit Gosnell Doesn't Prove Your Abortion Point. Yours Either.”
"Trying to make public policy based on the actions of a serial killer is foolish. There aren't that many of them. How serial killers act tells us nothing about how the majority of people who have superficially similar traits to them."
You are talking about gun control, right?
Re: “Haslam Vetoes Ag Gag Bill”
While I'm very pleased the Governor vetoed this bill, I was sorry to see that
his remarks left open the door for another similar bill next year.
Re: “We Might Be Rednecks, Natalie Grigson Might Be a Dumbass”
Just saw a story on Yahoo, Nashville is also the 3rd laziest city in the U.S....
Go Nashville!
Re: “We Might Be Rednecks, Natalie Grigson Might Be a Dumbass”
I like how Mark says the place with the most restrictive zoning laws in the state is the best governed. I thought zoning was the mark of the Agenda 21 beast!
Williamson County is what they are now because they built a mall that half the state shopped at for 15 years. They took in a lot of money that came in from other counties and used it to build a pretty little suburb. They use that tax money to put into schools and public services. Imagine that.
But yes, it's still a redneck town. It's run by old money. It's pretty much all white. They drive as many trucks and SUV's as any other county in the state, if newer ones. They passed resolutions of hate against the gays and the Muslims, and accused our Republican governor of not being Republican enough to suit them. They elect the redneck con woman Marsha Blackburn to Congress, and she tries all kinds of redneck tricks in Washington.
Re: “We Might Be Rednecks, Natalie Grigson Might Be a Dumbass”
Daisy Deadhead, Bob Jones is full of Holy Rollers, which are not related to the Redneck. Rednecks are partial to Natural Light , "Natties", which is disdained in Holy Roller culture. Holy Rollers are closer to Hillbillys, note that Bob Jones is close to the Smokies/Appalachia where people handle snakes in religious services and have often been described as Hillbilly Holy Rollers.
Re: “Haslam Vetoes Ag Gag Bill”
@bobsguns: I was thinking the same thing. Here's a link that justifies Haslam sidetracking certain preferential treatment MNDC legislation last year. (As if that needs justification.)
http://blogs.tennessean.com/business/2013/…
Re: “We Might Be Rednecks, Natalie Grigson Might Be a Dumbass”
Chris Allen,
David Frum, really? There's nothing more mealy than that guy, and I consider myself a conservative.
Re: “Haslam Vetoes Ag Gag Bill”
Simply amazing to read the retarded comments from the libtards. Here Haslam does the VERY thing they were urging him to do & GD if y'all don't turn right around & slam him for doing it.
Congrats, if anyone ever had ANY doubt, liberalism IS a mental disease.
Re: “The Hippodrome: They Still Race Horses, Don't They?”
Why not build a legitimate horse track out there and give the Kentucky Derby a run for its money?
Re: “We Might Be Rednecks, Natalie Grigson Might Be a Dumbass”
@Mark Rogers: "Nashville is either redneck or it isn't."
Not really, that would assume an absolute and we all know there are NO absolutes, which in and of itself is an absolution! Nashville has qualities of many different cultures, be they redneck, sophisticated, and/or various other descriptions. IMHO Pith derides the falsities of assumption that most often rule our rhetoric. While it is far from perfect, and often rife with absurdity, it does stimulate discourse, which is it's mission is it NOT?
Re: “We Might Be Rednecks, Natalie Grigson Might Be a Dumbass”
@Min: I was about three years old and had never seen or heard, that I know of, of a snake. Mom was around back making lye soap in a black kettle and when I looked down and saw that snake head I didn't know what it was, but I took off running for her. It ended up with a neighbor from across the road sticking a shotgun under the board and blasting the snake. At the time Dad was out in California picking fruit for the cash money - he rode the freight trains four different times to do that - so maybe my memories of what my folks did to raise four kids is where I get my antipathy towards a government that gives out welfare to people who aren't truly desperate. (Cell phones, for Pete's sake. Did you notice my segue? Can't help myself.)
@ Mark Rogers: Nice point about The Scene's staff.
Favorite Foxworthy joke: You might be a redneck if you think a family reunion is a good place to meet women.
Second favorite: You might be a redneck if you use your wife's ear rings for fishing lures.
Re: “Kermit Gosnell Doesn't Prove Your Abortion Point. Yours Either.”
Serial killers are difficult or impossible to predict. Not that many things, other than mental pathology connect them: Manson, BTK, Bundy, Dahmer, and probably a dozen others are just about impossible to predict.
The mass murderers committed with guns are similarly unpredictable, I'll grant. Where we part ways is that you see no reason or benefit in some reasonable limits: background checks for mental and criminal issues, and a lower limit on the size of ammunition feeding devices. Safe storage requirements should be made law, too. These would have saved a number of lives in the past decade, and would cause minimal disruption to responsible, law abiding gun owners.
The guns used in shootings at Aurora, Tucson, Blacksburg and Newtown were acquired legally. The limits I just mentioned would have made a difference in each of these.