Thursday, November 19, 2009
Barry / Media Morning Roundup: No Surrender
Posted by Bruce Barry on Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:00 AM
Embattled Nashville parks director Roy Wilson resigned to take another job out of state. ... Phil Bredesen says he won't endorse in the 2010 governor's race because "people are entitled to run and have a free shot at it." Apparently the gov didn't think "people" were similarly entitled a few weeks ago when he publicly endorsed Doug Henry in the contested 21st District State Senate primary race. ... Charter school advocates are in a bit of a tizzy. ... Former Metro school board chair Marsha Warden calls the public school rezoning effort now being challenged in federal court a gift of love. Go figure.
A January 12 trial date is set for the woman charged with kidnapping a four-day-old baby in September. ... Taylor Swift goes into the greeting card business. ... Clarksville is "Tennessee's Best Place to Raise Your Kids" according to Business Week magazine. Hendersonville and Johnson City were runners-up. ... A bossy fellow with a curiously appealing first name used a ring of fire to blow the roof off the Sommet Center last night. No prisoners taken.
Update: The Spin weighs in on the Boss over there Creamside.
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Professor Barry: Please explain the gift of love statement? I can't figure out to whom it was a gift of love: North Nashville or Bellevue or both? What's Marsha running for? Eric Crafton's slot?
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Henry is an incumbent. Smart politics for Bredesen to endorse him. He has to work with him.
There is no incumbent in the Dem Primary for gov.
Please explain the gift of love statement?
I guess it sounds better than "gift of resegregation." Otherwise you'll have to ask Marsha.
Bruce does "Ring of Fire" and dances with women in pink cowboy hats. Only in Nashville!
"A new analysis by a Washington tax policy think tank finds that Tennessee's tax system is is the fourth most regressive among the states. Only South Dakota, Florida, and Washington state have systems of taxation that are more punitive toward low-income residents. .."
All such "studies" are nothing more than liberal propaganda, since they are all based on the bogus premise that "fairness" in paying for government services is related to percentages of income rather than the dollar value of actual services received by the individual.
McDonalds isn't being "punitive" to lower income customers by charging them the same price for a Big Mac that higher income customers pay. That Big Mac cost is mathematically a higher percentage of the lower income customer's annual earnings than it is for the higher income one. But that, of course, is irrelevant. They both got the same product and they paid the same price for it. And there's nothing at all unfair abou it.
Gilbert honey, bless your heart, I'm gonna send you one of my greeting cards and maybe you'll stop being Mr. Grumpy for a little while!
I should make a graph showing the decline in the number of posts at Pith.We're down to an average of 2 a day I'll bet.One of which is a morning roundup that doesn't really count.
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"Gilbert honey, bless your heart, I'm gonna send you one of my greeting cards and maybe you'll stop being Mr. Grumpy for a little while!"
Grumpy?
Nah - I'm having fun knocking the absurd premises that liberalism is based on right out of the park.
