Thursday, October 29, 2009
Barry / Media Morning Roundup: It's Impersonation Thursday
Posted by Bruce Barry on Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:15 AM
A spirited debate weighs the financial risks of building a new convention center and accompanying hotel. ... They're talking layoffs and service cuts as possible ways out of the Metro parks budget morass. ... This weekend won't bring the demise of auto racing at the Fairgrounds after all, but the stay of execution is a brief one: lousy weather means the last race is postponed for three weeks. ... The verdict is guilty as hell on charges of kidnapping, robbery, theft, rape and felony murder at a high-profile trial in east Tennessee.
What kind of haul can you expect when you break into a school system warehouse? Liquor and porn, it turns out, if the warehouse in question is in Sullivan County. ... Down in the 'boro, a guilty plea for sending a sexually explicit Christmas card, or so reads the headline. It isn't actually illegal to send a sexually explicit Christmas card; the charges were unlawful photography and criminal impersonation for taking explicit photos without girlfriend's knowledge and sending them in holiday cards following a nasty (but one gathers advisable) breakup. ... And speaking of impersonation, Jeff Fisher clues us in today on whether it'll be Kerry or Vince taking the snaps at QB come Sunday. The city waits with bated breath.
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If Vince is tapped it'll be the golden opportunity to see his self prophecy come true. If it does, it would be poetic. I'm rooting for him. And Jeff Fischer too.
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For the record, the Xmas card story has a new headline for today. Plus a sub-headline!
http://www.dnj.com/article/20091029/NEWS06/910290332/+Boro+man+avoids+jail+in+explicit+card+case
I hope that Davidson fellow in Knoxville avoids the death penalty. He could get saved in prison, become a pastor and start a giant multi-media church.
"This weekend won't bring the demise of auto racing at the Fairgrounds after all, but the stay of execution is a brief one: lousy weather means the last race is postponed for three weeks."
Tennessean.com story comments are notable mainly for the way they attract the most far-right lunatics, including Stormfront nutcases, and the way in which no position is too extreme for the crackpot fringe. Pretty stomach churning stuff, to know that literal Nazis walk among us.
But the supporters of racing at the fairgrounds are good entertainment value. Lisa Leeds, for example, shreds her libertarian credibility on a daily basis by arguing that the government should subsidize auto racing (I don't see the racetrack operators trying to buy land on the free market, instead relying on the government to lease them land at a far cheaper rate than a mortgage and construction financing would cost). It's nice to have proof that activist libertarians are a bunch of hypocrites and hacks.
But my favorite argument for keeping auto races at the fairgrounds is the argument that, because a few horseless carriages went around in circles on the site in 1904, no local property owner has the right to complain about late model stock car racing going on for hours every week (or more often) for most of the year. It's a weak case at best, but they think they really have categorically trumped any argument with that stupid pseudo-precedent. Even taking it on its face, however, there is continuity of ownership of property in the neighborhood, with a few houses or tracts not having been sold since before 1904. I pointed this out and the race crowd had a freaking meltdown.
Ladies (or lovers)
Use that xmas card story as a cautionary tale. No matter how in LOVE you are, how in the heat of the moment it is - if the fucker takes out a camera, bite, bite as hard as you can until he hands over the camera.
Stupid fucking men, like myself, cannot be trusted. plain and simple
