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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: “On TV News, Sweeps and Sensationalism”
Oh dont worry Kevin, we know all your station's stories have no credibility regardless of the month!
Re: “Racist Who Attended Racist Conference in Tennessee Still Being Racist Back at School”
NIce..Bigotry goes corporate.
Re: “If You Can Afford a Gold Coin, Why Can't You Afford Taxes on a Gold Coin?”
That's why you should never get into gold investment before being well-informed about what's going on.
http://www.goldcoin.net/buy-gold-coins.php
Re: “Hey, Gov. Haslam — CEOs are Accountable to Shareholders, Right?”
@Jim Collins: "As for who's to blame for Wall Street failures, why I'm sure it's poor people, they cause ALL the world's woes, don't they?"
They did this time. They defaulted in large numbers on their "affordable home loans" which became known as "toxic securities" (oh, you forgot) because they poisoned the financial well of the whole world. Normal mortgage failure is 5%, affordable home loan failures were 14%. These affordable home loans were forced upon the lenders by the government through the threat of lawsuits. On the other hand, the borrowers lost nothing as they were put into these homes with no money down so they had nothing invested to lose and were, in effect, paying rent while acquiring equity which, unfortunately never materialized. So when one lost a home, they didn't lose anything except rent money which they would have had to pay to somebody anyway to keep a roof over their head. But, yeah, the poor, through the threats of Dodd and Frank, et al, brought down financial institutions around the world. Now, don't you wish you'd known that before you asked your silly question?
@Chris Allen: What institute awarded you a masters degree in Business Administration?
Re: “Racist Who Attended Racist Conference in Tennessee Still Being Racist Back at School”
He cruises around at night looking for "black predators" (his words) not simply predators, no matter the race. The fact that he distinguishes shows a racist tendency despite his convenient anti Hitler-Klan-Nazi proclamations, perhaps he is simply cutting down the comparisons, and/or downing the competition so to speak! No real need to "bet" on that observation!
This cracker is just looking for his 15 minutes of fame and trying to create a money making organization (with him as head) in order to solicit funds and peddle influence. It would take a Bozo to defend him as anything other than a "rabble rouser"!
Re: “Hey, Gov. Haslam — CEOs are Accountable to Shareholders, Right?”
Chris,
Fair enough.
And I am no fan of Texas and the undeserved arrogance of self-styled Texans. They robbed Mexico and found oil. Hardly on par with something difficult like the founding of Utah or the settlement of Alaska.
LBJ and W were poor Presidents in part because of their Texas-sized arrogance.
Re: “Hey, Gov. Haslam — CEOs are Accountable to Shareholders, Right?”
Mark,
I wasn't really praising California as much as I was just defending them a bit and commenting on the reflexive habit of certain individuals to just dump on the state while seemingly having no knowledge of the complexities that are involved. It's easy to just look at the negative and ignore the positive, be it states, countries, or political leaders, while doing the exact opposite for those things we like and value. Other states have huge natural resources also (like Texas with oil), but the major difference is that Texas isn't hamstrung by a referendum system that makes it near impossible to inact needed changes. And even with that, Texas isn't quite the well-run paradise that some claim.
Re: “Hey, Gov. Haslam — CEOs are Accountable to Shareholders, Right?”
Chris,
Before you praise California too much, it helps to remember that the state has huge natural advantages that most states lack and it benefits from massive specific government subsidies {water being the biggest} that do not get reflected in the 'costs' of life in the Golden state.
For example, let's tax California for all the water that goes to the overpopulated region of Southern California. And let's also consider all the defense spending that has gone into the state since just before WWII. And California has most of the port space on the Pacific coast, something that its businesses and unions didn't create.
To be sure, California has done some excellent things in the area of public policy. Their state system of higher education was one although it is in serious economic trouble, in no small part due to public service unions. But it is also blessed by nature and government largess {all those electoral votes come at a price}.
Re: “Whose Faith & Values Is The Tennessean Covering?”
While you're correct about the persecution of Mormons, I think calling them the "epitome of what successful citizens are all about" is stretching it.
I used to be Mormon, and grew up in Utah. There are some fine Mormons. There are some POS Mormons. They're just people; their religion is pretty much beside the point.
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!