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Re: “Whose Faith & Values Is The Tennessean Covering?”
@Anglerdr: Your words: "There are some fine Mormons. There are some POS Mormons. They're just people; their religion is pretty much beside the point.'
When I say something similar about African-Americans I'm labeled a racist. Imagine that.
Re: “Racist Who Attended Racist Conference in Tennessee Still Being Racist Back at School”
I thought that these sorts of students were called "College Republicans"...
Re: “Hey, Gov. Haslam — CEOs are Accountable to Shareholders, Right?”
@Jim Collins: You cite happenstances and then give erroneous reasons and chronology of causations. You haven't got a clue.
Re: “Caption Contest: Those Darlins Prize Pack Giveaway! [Updated]”
I love the smell of baby powder in the morning, smells like.... victory..
Re: “Caption Contest: Those Darlins Prize Pack Giveaway! [Updated]”
I reckon maybe I shoulda double bagged it.
Re: “Tennessee Tries to Bully Berry College”
As an FYI the comments to the Chronicle article indicate this occurs with other states, too. It appears that the potential fee to TN is much higher than most. The comments also say that some states charge out-of-state colleges money to send emails to residents of the state.
That doesn't excuse the blatant money-grab from the government.
Re: “Tue Mommies' 'Jan & Elsie' [Fresh Vid]”
That was a nice little ditty "Gold Man". / An added interest: I recently learned about drummer Chester Thompson in a songwriting class at FT. Campbell, KY taught by a successful Nashville based songwriter. Two fellow students in the class are in the 101st Airborne Division Army Band and they recommended I try to go see Chester at a show at F Scotts in Nashville. They also told me Chester played with Frank Zappa and Phil Collins and he teaches at Belmont University. Here's his web site, www.chesterthompson.com . He's on tour in Europe this month and a few days into June but when he gets back to his home in Nashville I hope you will look Chester up "Gold Man", do an interview with him, bring along a Nashville Scene photographer to take some pictures and give us all an update on this very successful jazz/gospel/pop/rock drummer. Once the guys in the army band told me about Chester and I did my research on him I became very fascinated the we have such a great musician living amongst us and I doubt a lot of music folks around the music town know about Chester. Since all 3 of Third Man Records' head honchos (Jack White, Ben Swank and Ben Blackwell) are all drummers I dropped TMR a little note to say they may want to get to know Chester personally and do some stuff with him at TMR. I would love for you to do an interview with him and share that with us and for TMR to bring him in to record...maybe even do a "live" show in the Blue Room, inviting all the successful young rockers that are now living in the Music City.
Re: “Stephen Fincher Loves Government Handouts, Just Not for the Poor”
You know who loved that particular piece of the Bible? Lenin. Dude couldn't stop quoting it. He used it in "State and The Revolution." Hell, it's in the Soviet Constitution. You can look it up, right there in Article XII.
"In the USSR work is a duty and a matter of honor for every able-bodied citizen, in accordance with the principle: 'He who does not work, neither shall he eat.'"
Re: “On TV News, Sweeps and Sensationalism”
How about the most Laughable sweeps story of all: Nick ___ on Channel 5 some years back with his planted cameras at Panama City Beach for "Spring Break." What a silly hoot that one turned out to be. Similar to the Capone Vault fiasco.
I must say Channel 4 has improved their stories over the last couple of yrs to more important items. Those by the Amos gal were the worst.
Re: “Racist Who Attended Racist Conference in Tennessee Still Being Racist Back at School”
A gratuitous assertion, Frau Greta. Did the Fuehrer tell you that?
Re: “On TV News, Sweeps and Sensationalism”
If you really want somebody to know something, you could just tell them.
I hate when they tell me that there's something really damned important that I cannot LIVE without knowing, but they're not going to show it to me until 10. Bull.
Re: “Racist Who Attended Racist Conference in Tennessee Still Being Racist Back at School”
I doubt she'd choke on yours.
Just sayin'
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: “The State of Metro According to Karl Dean”
Maybe he has a dream.