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Re: “Whose Faith & Values Is The Tennessean Covering?”
The story on "the Lutheran," ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson, was from January. I was disappointed; I thought they'd done a story on Pr. Nadia Bolz-Weber. She's awesome. I think Betsy would like her.
Last week was pretty big for mainline Christianity, as the Festival of Homiletics was here.
Re: “Whose Faith & Values Is The Tennessean Covering?”
Bill, I agree. But you're messing with Betsy's MO.
Re: “Whose Faith & Values Is The Tennessean Covering?”
That's cute, gast, and something he might have said.
Re: “Spurgeon’s General Warning: Hammer Time”
Miss Trashley, the answer is, "no," you should not watch the Sgt. Pepper movie, unless you really want to know what it would be like to see Frampton and the Bee Gees together in a crappy cover band.
Re: “Whose Faith & Values Is The Tennessean Covering?”
[I didn't realize Betsy was a paid staffer at the Tennessean.]
Honestly though, isn't the raison d'être of the "alternative" press to cover the unreported or underreported stories out there? Betsy takes the Tennessean to task over the pagan festival, wouldn't this article have been way more constructive and/or interesting had she decided to do an article on the festival itself? She could have had all the festive pagans visiting pith to see what was reported about the festival...
I mean why do the pagans need a "unity" festival? What are the dividing issues among pagans?
Re: “Hey, Gov. Haslam — CEOs are Accountable to Shareholders, Right?”
To place the blame on the poor is idiocy of the highest degree. 1st loan originators over sold loans to purchasers based on inflated values of those homes. many found them selves to be "upside down" on their homes resulting in foreclosures, which in turn exacerbated the already crashing market. Lack of adequate government regulation allowed these loan originators to run their game and dump those loans.
But that is not the only reason for the recession now is it? the repeal of Glass-Steagal separating banking and investing, Fannie Mae and Fannie Mac tried to inflate property values lowering standards on loans, even after the SEC being warned about what was to happen, they ignored the warning. AIG manipulated credit default swaps, shorting the sub prime mortgage market. All this happened in 2007 or about!
Yeah the poor and Obama conspired to create this mess.......NOT!
Re: “Amerigo Wine Tasting Series: Still the Best Deal in Town”
Great article. I absolutely believe to the statement, "You never know until you try" especially when we talk about wines. Wine tasting is indeed some great event. For me, this is one of the most interesting parts in the world of winery. Enjoying the fruit of the vines is amazing. Thanks for sharing this very interesting post!
-http://www.gogrape.com/
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
Who in their right mind would try to please everyone. It is accomplished in all of the arts by gently stroking the Emotions, the emotions of the performers touching the viewers, or readers and turning them into participants. Apathy is failure. Emotional response is success!
Re: “Whose Faith & Values Is The Tennessean Covering?”
xray/zoombah/gasttheinert/vladthetotallypassedby: I think you missed the entire point of David's post!
As far as your defense of Mormon's, perhaps you are still in hopes of a Mittens victory, eh? Got NO problem with them as long as they are tolerant of other beliefs.
I fail to see where you have learned a lot from anyone!
Re: “Racist Who Attended Racist Conference in Tennessee Still Being Racist Back at School”
oh please greta, that its the most common sentence of trolls, please, go and choke on some dick
Re: “Racist Who Attended Racist Conference in Tennessee Still Being Racist Back at School”
Anti-racist is a codeword for anti-White. Nothing more, nothing less.
Re: “Whose Faith & Values Is The Tennessean Covering?”
@Donna Locke: You taught hatha yoga? What a coincidence, I learned a lot from Yogi Berra.
Re: “Racist Who Attended Racist Conference in Tennessee Still Being Racist Back at School”
but gast aint brave i challenged him to go to nolesville road and start his rant about blacks and hispanics, he never answered, hes a rat and a coward
Re: “Dean Proposes $1.8 Billion Metro Budget, Minus Subsidies for Auditorium, Farmers Market and Fairgrounds”
>>affordable events like Rollergirls<<
I wonder what their average attendance is?
There's nothing the Auditorium can do that can't be better done at A) the "old" convention center; B) War Memorial; C) the Fairgrounds (I know this flies in the face of asshole Mayor Dean wanting to shut it down).
All of these places are much better maintained, have better facilities & could quite probably be negotiated to be pretty close to costing what events now cost @ Municipal. The property is worth more to Metro than what the Municipal brings in for revenue, I bet. I would also like to see what the figures are on the cost of running it for one year versus revenue. Anyone have a link to that info?
Re: “Hey, Gov. Haslam — CEOs are Accountable to Shareholders, Right?”
>>Please go away<<
Yeah, if I couldn't disprove anything & people called on me to prove wild outlandish claims & I couldn't do it, I'd tell them to "go away" too. However, I don't make outlandish claims, I usually manage to prove them when asked to do so & I'm not going anywhere.
Liberalism IS a mental disease.................
Re: “If You Can Afford a Gold Coin, Why Can't You Afford Taxes on a Gold Coin?”
There's never a win-win case wherever the government gets involved.
Bruce Thomson;
http://www.goldprice.net/historical-gold-p…
Re: “Dean Proposes $1.8 Billion Metro Budget, Minus Subsidies for Auditorium, Farmers Market and Fairgrounds”
Municipal Auditorium is used for more affordable events like Rollergirls. It is also used for corporate events and tech rehearsals. These non-public events make it seem to be not busy when indeed it is.
Re: “Whose Faith & Values Is The Tennessean Covering?”
Well, what Chas wrote above. If Betsy subscribed to and read the print version of The Tennessean, she would have have seen more diversity in the coverage. So, I presume she doesn't subscribe. I seldom read that paper online, so I don't know what's there, but I get the print version.
The cast of the paper's religious/spiritual coverage could be wider and deeper, but sometimes I see mention of other paths I know, as in Saritha Prabhu's recent op-ed column about yoga and Hinduism.
Personally, I could do without Ray Waddle.
I taught hatha yoga in a night-school program for many years and defended it against the local Baptists (in Georgia). I'm an infidel.
Re: “Racist Who Attended Racist Conference in Tennessee Still Being Racist Back at School”
I doubt she'd choke on yours.
Just sayin'