Archive for February, 2008
A political internship that will really get your resume noticed
Sen. Larry Craig is looking for summer interns.
Yes, that Sen. Larry Craig:
An Exciting Opportunity To Be Larry Craig’s Summer Intern! It’s that time of year again, and the Hill is looking for 2008’s crop of ambitious, savvy whippersnappers to make up its corps of summer interns! They’ll get to organize back room deals and schmooze [...]
Chris Lugo goes nuclear at Roane Views
Chris Lugo, former Green and current Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate weighs in on East Tennessee’s role in nuclear weapons productions over at Roane Views:
As a candidate for federal office I support full and open disclosure regarding our nuclear arsenal, the dismantling of all weapons of mass destruction, elimination of the nuclear weapons maintenance and [...]
Read More..>>“Southen Pride” (sic)
From The Prettiest Denny’s Waitress:
This morning on the way to work I was sitting in traffic next to a pickup truck that had a horn that played “Dixie,” just like the General Lee in The Dukes of Hazzard. As he pulled away I saw the lettering on the back window that read “SOUTHEN BOY” (sic). [...]
All he is saying is give guns a chance
John Lennon is surely spinning in his grave…
A Vanderbilt student columnist comes out in favor of a well-armed student body:
Specially training and arming designated faculty members and students holds promise as a deterrent. Potential killers, with the knowledge that there is a high chance that an armed and ready-to-fire individual already in the building they [...]
Which Knox County official spent how much on what?
Check out this supercool database widget Jake Jost built over at WBIR.com that allows you to easily search specific budget items and staff members from the just-released p-card draft audit.
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PHOTOBLOGGING: A new way of looking at the Duncan Federal Building
Photo by Shane and Ruth.
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Bill Hobbs: Middle Easterners feel connected to Obama
Hobbs continues speaking out on the TN GOP/Obama flap, this time to CNN
Hobbs told CNN the party will no longer use Obama’s middle name in forthcoming press releases.
“We’re not going to be using the middle name now because apparently it’s become a distraction,” he said. “But I would note not too long ago I saw [...]
So are all Knox County taxpayers now Club LeConte members?
That’s what commenter Mainchannel is asking at the KNS:
Seeing that Finch has made monthly payments to Club LeConte and is a member with a Knox County owned credit card, does this mean all of Knox county are members? I like to go up there, just don’t want to pay monthly dues.
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Read More..>>Most interesting charges in draft audit report?
In reviewing the individual charges listed in the newly released draft audit report, different people are struck by different items, not all of them “big ticket” purchases. For example, one of the commenters on the story at WBIR.com says:
My favorite questionable expense was from Requitta Bone’s account, www.flashingblinkylights.com
And I found one from November of [...]
Read More..>>That’s a lot of lobster
An interesting point from the release of the draft audit of p-card spending by Mayor Ragsdale and his staff:
$34,000 was spent on local meals by Ragsdale and six top staffers between October 2002 and May 2007.
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BREAKING: Serious concerns raised in Ragsdale draft audit release
Read the complete draft audit at WBIR.com
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Hindsight is 20-20 when it comes to water rights
Jack Neely on Georgia’s bid to “retake” part of the Tennessee River:
Atlanta, which has never known what it’s like to live with a big crazy river, grew. Knoxvillians watched, with some alarm, the arrogant little toy town come to dominate the region, get the big stores and the big airports and the big rock ’n’ [...]
PHOTOBLOGGING: Inside the Sunsphere, looking out
Photo by Rachael Barry.
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Mourning the loss of a VIF (very important feminist)
I learned today via Rachel Walden that Barbara Seaman died yesterday.
Every woman in America who has ever taken birth control pills or any type of hormonal pharmaceutical owes a debt of gratitude to Seaman for her tireless public inquiries into the safety of these drugs.
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WBIR to push for public audit release
The long-awaited draft audit of purchasing card expenditures in Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale’s office will be released Friday (tomorrow), and it is the position of the Ragsdale administration that their office should get to privately see and review the audit — perhaps for weeks — before the public gets a look at it. [...]
Read More..>>Sen. Alexander takes TN GOP to the woodshed
Apparently, Tennessee’s moderate GOP senator wasn’t real happy with the TN GOP leadership’s approach to campaigning against Obama.
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Can you be pro-rapture and pro-gay-marriage at the same time?
Apparently not in Tennessee:
A new wide-ranging poll by Middle Tennessee State University reveals some interesting findings on the issue and candidate preferences of Tennesseans….
Gay Marriage: “[O]nly those who disavow being born again, who regard the bible mostly as fable, who never try to convert others, and who reject the Rapture approve of gay marriage by [...]
A more damaging moniker for Obama than “Hussein”
If the TNGOP (remember, they’re the TENNESSEE GOP) really wanted to hit Obama hard, they’d pay attention to what Say Uncle points out:
Don’t tell the Tennessee Republicans but his last name is only one letter off from another unpleasant moniker.
That’s right Bama. And nothing sucks more than Bama.
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Read More..>>Vaccines and autism - a parent’s dilemma
A science teacher and new mother makes the decision that more and more parents are questioning:
The handyman (who is more anti-vax than me since I am a science nerd) and I both read The Vaccine Book by Dr. Sears and decided to wait on the MMR vaccine due to the Bean at her one year [...]
Dogtopia in Knoxville
Always wanted to run your own dog spa? Well now’s your chance!
Maryland-based Dogtopia, a dog daycare and boarding facility, is seeking a franchisee for a new West Knoxville location.
The company has already signed a lease on a 5,000-square-foot building at 9715 Kingston Pike, near Pellissippi Parkway. President and CEO Amy Nichols said Knoxville is an [...]
