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      <title>Comments On: Davidson County vs. Williamson County
    
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      <![CDATA[City mice and country mice: Choice is a good thing, is it not? Preservation of options is wise, is it not?
        
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      <![CDATA[Chris,<br>
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My point was more that Williamson County offered potential solutions that would benefit Davidson County. And the title of this post is 'Davidson County vs Williamson County.<br>
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For example, Davidson County could improve aspects of education quickly by giving the Metro Council a line item veto over the School Board's budgeting.
        
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      <![CDATA[Same here, Chris. I like living in the city, with all its challenges and opportunities.
        
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      <![CDATA[Mark, the comments may be biased against Williamson, but you are making the same mistakes. You're comparing much smaller, much more homogenous Williamson County, citing it's strengths, and then comparing it against much larger, more complicated Davidson County.
        
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      <![CDATA[Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell, as Edward Abbey noted. Without restriction, "progress" and "development" end up looking like, well, a tumor and something you want to be rid of.
        
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      <![CDATA[The fact that you think Dean is a capable mayor is baffling. All he does is reward his crony backers with boondoggles (Convention Center despite most of the city not wanting it, and now a baseball stadium in the works).
        
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      <![CDATA[It is so enjoyable to read so many informed comments by people who know absolutely nothing about the subject. <br>
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I have worked in or campaigned in Williamson County for 20 years and I can accurately observe that the vast majority of comments above are just the sort of stereotypical {and bigoted} nonsense that Pith loves to criticize when made by conservatives.<br>
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Allow me to elucidate:<br>
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1) Williamson County is no hot bed for social conservative rabble rousing in local issues.
        
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      <![CDATA[Did someone say "artisanal fixed-gear Tumblr iPhone small batch reclaimed Instagram"?
        
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      <![CDATA[We call that language "Moderican Hipstic."
        
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      <![CDATA["The Scene is already written in a mix of Modern Hipster and American Cynic"<br>
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I misread that at first as "American Cyrillic," and was thinking that it was just going to be a few minutes until Gast accused the Scene of reprinting articles from Pravda.
        
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      <![CDATA[As far as the embarrassingly racist, homophobic, misogynistic and just-plain anti-American bent of the TN RICO (nee GOP), I have only one question: <br>
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Why do the best people who remain in the Republican party seem so hell-bent to act like the worst people who ever called themselves Democrats? (Coming from pre-civil rights era Mississippi and having witnessed how elections were administered in Daley Senior's Chicago , I know of what I speak).
        
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      <![CDATA[I laugh everytime I see that "Welcome to Franklin, #1 Small Town In Tennessee" sign in Cool Springs. If they are still considered a small town by anybody and not just a tony, sprawlish Nashville suburb with major traffic problems, then I have no idea what a "small town" is anymore.
        
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      <![CDATA[It's the fiberglass that makes it classy.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Moost]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["The Southron flag in the county seal is a nice touch. Of yahooliganism."<br>
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How quickly we forget that we in Nashville prefer our confederate flags be located next to the interstate adorning fiberglass statues.
        
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      <![CDATA["Nope, they're usually beating the same drum, because a lot of them are religious and they agree with this crap."<br>
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Okay, but when are we going to see some of these religious people act like they actually read the Gospels? That's the thing that confounds me.  They claim the moral high ground based on Biblical principles, but where are the actual works without which faith is dead?
        
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      <![CDATA[Democratic because of growing black <br>
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Where are you seeing this??? If anything, folks are talking about gentrification.<br>
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Anyway, party talk is for sheeple and I think social issues are nothing but distractions from the important obligations of gov't (Fiscal responsibility, protecting our freedoms, and paving roads).
        
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      <![CDATA["The Nashville Scene will eventually become the Franklin Scene or a foreign language newspaper catering to an immigrant community."<br>
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The Scene is already written in a mix of Modern Hipster and American Cynic. What other foreign languages would they find room for?
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Donna Locke]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[We saw much the same pattern years before in Atlanta and its suburbs, and in one Atlanta suburban county in particular as it became a Republican powerhouse in the state. When I moved back to Tennessee, I felt like a time traveler from the future.
        
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      <![CDATA[Betsy, I love your optimism, but, I fear Southern Beale's post is more reflective of the reality in Williamson County. And, even though many educated conservatives don't agree with the yahoos, they don't want to alienate them or their votes by standing up for what is right.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Chris Allen]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["I think a lot of those people are social conservatives too. I don't exactly see the "sane" Republicans stepping up and saying, "hey, this anti-Muslim, anti-gay, anti-immigrant stuff is making us look like a a bunch of hayseeds which is bad for business."<br>
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Exactly.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Zombie Ronald Reagan]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The Southron flag in the county seal is a nice touch. <br>
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Of yahooliganism.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Southern Beale]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Meh. I think a lot of those people are social conservatives too.
        
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:12:03 -0600</pubDate>
    <source url="http://www.nashvillescene.com">Nashville Scene</source>
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