My fave search of the day
Like most bloggers, I generally take a look each day at what search terms people are using to end up on my blog.
My very favorite today (and I believe Terry will get a kick out of this one) was - I kid you not: “Is Terry Frank a Republican or a Democrat?”
Heh.
Maybe next week, someone [...]
Hell may have just frozen over…
….as Terry Frank shows Hillary Clinton some love:
Personally, I think Hillary has performed the most impressive makeover of modern times. She used to be the lady of the left, the GOP voodoo doll symbolizing all things Marxist, Socialist, Counter-culture.
She may not pull this one out. But she’s savy. While the [...]
Wright gone wrong
From The Vol Abroad:
Certain right wing bloggers have a race theory about this - that because Wright’s ideology is based on pervasiveness of racism and oppression in America to the extent that a black man could never be president - he has to make sure that this remains the case if a black man gets [...]
Read More..>>National press takes note of Oak Ridge property taxes
Terry Frank points to a WSJ article:
Oak Ridge, Tenn., near Knoxville, is preparing to raise its rate 5%, in part to cover the rising cost of items, such as gasoline for police cars and asphalt to resurface streets. The city’s sales-tax revenue has stayed about flat, as the weak economy keeps a check on consumer [...]
Single mothers lead us down the slippery slope to socialism
So sayeth Terry Frank:
Pick your head up and look overseas. Broken families lead to broken society. The welfare state. Socialism.
Nature abhors a vacuum. No daddy? Papa State will fill the void. And Papa State has rules if you’re going to live under his roof. Prepare to sacrifice more American liberty.
By the way, my personal [...]
Read More..>>Some new WBIR bloggers
The response to my call for folks interested in blogging at our soon-to-be-launched, completely redesigned WBIR.com has been huge. I’m still trying to wade through dozens and dozens of e-mails from great people who’ve expressed an interest in becoming one of the featured bloggers for the new site. So for those of you who have [...]
Read More..>>A bad record on open records
Apparently Bill Hobbs has also had some difficulty getting records from Lola Potter with the state’s Department of Finance and Administration:
I have my own story about Lola Potter and an open records request. A few weeks ago I requested a copy of video tape that the agency had made of construction blasting at the governor’s [...]
What goes unreported in the schools?
That’s what Terry Frank wants to know:
Check out this Sentinel Headline: School officers’ woes aired before board
School officers’ woes?? What’s going on here is a cover-up! I want to know what crimes have not been reported by school officials and administrators. Rape? Assault? Weapons crimes?
Three top law enforcement officials and a phalanx of school security [...]
Spiritual Perestroika
Gorbachev is a Christian? Who knew?
(Apparently, Ronald Reagan did)
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Communist leader of the Soviet Union, has acknowledged his Christian faith for the first time, paying a surprise visit to pray at the tomb of St Francis of Assisi.
Accompanied by his daughter Irina, Mr Gorbachev spent half an hour on his knees in [...]
Read More..>>In case you weren’t clear on this:
Terry Frank is NOT in favor of Bredesen’s plan for universal pre-K for Tennessee kids.
Someone needs to keep Bredesen off his high horse. Not everyone thinks the state is the answer to cure all of mankind. And in fact, Governor, the latest Pre-K Study showed that some children, namely black boys, were HARMED by their [...]
Read More..>>Tennessee parents NOT happy with public schooling
Terry Frank points to some interesting research indicating the state of general unhappiness parents have with public schools:
Respondents to the statewide poll of likely voters were asked which type of school they would select—regular public schools, charter schools, private schools or homeschooling—in order to obtain the best education for their children. Only 15 percent of [...]
Read More..>>Al Gore’s true green colors?
Terry Frank says Gore is all about the green, alright:
Al loves Green! Green Cash!
From the Tennessean:
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore left the White House seven years ago with less than $2 million in assets, including a Virginia home and the family farm in Tennessee. Now he’s making enough to put $35 million in hedge [...]
Once you let teachers open that gay Pandora’s box…
Terry Frank says more people should have supported Stacey Campfield’s failed legislation to prevent teachers from mentioning that gay people exist:
For the record, Democrats don’t seem to mind if the issues are raised to your kindergartner, despite the fact that we have graduates of Tennessee schools that can’t even read. They argue Campfield is just [...]
Campaign strategery for Bob Tuke
Terry Frank offers the newly-announced Democratic candidate for Senate some free campaign advice:
Can Tuke defeat Lamar? Hmmmm….I don’t think it’s impossible. But I don’t think it’s going to happen by trying to run into the fields left of Lamar with campaign prose about the “cold wind of hunger and poverty” whistling through “open doors of [...]
Read More..>>“Lamar, Lamar, Lamar…”
As the person who invited both Terry and Gray to appear on Inside Tennessee this week, I can tell you that for the sake of better ratings (a bloody fracas always means better ratings, don’t you know), I could only hope that Stacey Campfield’s entertaining pre-broadcast description of how the show went off was [...]
Read More..>>“Must choose Democrat”
Terry Frank has some photos of directions posted at her local polling place on Super Tuesday (she just figured out how to get them online) that seem to show written instructions steering voters toward the Democratic primary.
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No Prius for the little guy
Terry Frank predicts a future run by environmentalists:
The little people will be mandated, nay forced, to SAVE earth via cutbacks, higher energy prices, remote controlled thermostats, etc. Meanwhile, the power-brokers, the political class, will be riding in their Jags and flying their jets…
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Terry Frank: Prepare yourselves, McCain supporters
Terry Frank says the “slice and dice” of John McCain is just getting started:
Attention Republicans who voted McCain: You allowed the media to pick our candidate. Brace yourself for the upcoming evisceration. It starts with the New York Times.
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Terry Frank’s favorite Democrat
Yes, there are apparently a few Dems Frank likes okay, but this particular one is actually retiring:
Well, I have to say that I like a lot of things Representative (Frank) Buck stood for. If we’re going to have Democrats in Nashville, I wish there were more like him. Heck, it’s pretty bad to say it, [...]
Conservatives are losing that lovin’ feeling for Huckabee
Terry Frank on Huckabee’s strategy , and how it’s helping McCain:
Now out at polling places around the country, fly into the DANGER ZONE with the long awaited sequel to the 1986 movie hit Top Gun, Top Gun 2: the White House Mission….Starring John McCain as Maverick…And Mike Huckabee as Goose.
Conservatives are not happy with the [...]
