Sun
Mar 17 2013
02:05 pm
By: EricLykins
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Discussing:
- Any thing wrong with U.S Sec. Health and Human Services? (1 reply)
- Alcoa Electric raising rates too much? (1 reply)
- Natural gas cost nearly double from a year ago (3 replies)
- Many in Nashville still without power (2 replies)
- Snow! Again. Maybe. (1 reply)
- President & Mrs. Obama: a wake-up call to every American (3 replies)
- Are you snow ready? (2 replies)
- Geographic Clarification (1 reply)
- Small dam in Walland to be removed (2 replies)
- Embarrassed? (1 reply)
- Feds looking for West Knox detention location? (6 replies)
- Search for Mike Johnson's Spine (2 replies)
TN Progressive
- Alcoa Safe Streets Plan Survey (BlountViews)
- WATCH THIS SPACE. (Left Wing Cracker)
- Report on Blount County, TN, No Kings event (BlountViews)
- America As It Is Right Now (RoaneViews)
- A friend sent this: From Captain McElwee's Tall Tales of Roane County (RoaneViews)
- The Meidas Touch (RoaneViews)
- Massive Security Breach Analysis (RoaneViews)
- (Whitescreek Journal)
- Lee's Fried Chicken in Alcoa closed (BlountViews)
- Alcoa, Hall Rd. Corridor Study meeting, July 30, 2024 (BlountViews)
- My choices in the August election (Left Wing Cracker)
- July 4, 2024 - aka The Twilight Zone (Joe Powell)
TN Politics
- Hundreds pack Wilson County meeting to speak out against ICE detention facility (TN Lookout)
- John Cole’s Tennessee: The one commandment (TN Lookout)
- Tennessee House panels expedite immigration bills (TN Lookout)
- Ford changed direction on plans for its West Tennessee plant. What happens now? (TN Lookout)
- Federal judge rules ICE can’t take Kilmar Abrego Garcia back into custody (TN Lookout)
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement reverses course, says it hasn’t purchased facility in Lebanon (TN Lookout)
Knox TN Today
- Alice Gerrard: A Life in Song (Knox TN Today)
- The Book Whisperer recommends ‘The Correspondent’ (Knox TN Today)
- Ads visit ETCH + Powell update + Ball Camp Valentine’s Day + In Memoriam ++ (Knox TN Today)
- Bella Mason celebrated as Hero Kid (Knox TN Today)
- James Agee Conference is ahead on Saturday (Knox TN Today)
- HEADLINES: News and events from the World, the USA, Tennessee, Knox & Historic Notes (Knox TN Today)
- Young Reader’s Shelf: ‘Sarah, Plain and Tall’ (Knox TN Today)
- Knoxville Choral Society to present Together We Sing: Young Artists Concert (Knox TN Today)
- Clinton Dragons basketball teams take 1-seeds and momentum into postseason (Knox TN Today)
- Aja Grimes credits journey to her faith (Knox TN Today)
- TSWA/USA Today High School Basketball State rankings (Knox TN Today)
- More advance to Smart Sixteen in TN Scholars’ Bowl (Knox TN Today)
Local TV News
- Nancy Guthrie case sparks questions about laws around DNA testing (WATE)
- Man accused of killing Blount County deputy arraigned (WATE)
- TDOT expanding program assisting drivers to rural areas (WATE)
- Lawsuit accused US Fish & Wildlife Service of failing to protect giant salamander found in TN (WATE)
- Program preserving historic structures in the Smokies fully funded after $750,000 donation (WATE)
- Oak Ridge man arrested in Madisonville statutory rape investigation (WATE)
News Sentinel
State News
- Former Bishop Richard Stika dies - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office investigates self-inflicted gunshot death during traffic stop - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Chattanooga Convention Center director departs after less than a year - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- The Champ - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
Wire Reports
- Stocks gain as Nvidia leads tech shares higher, traders assess Fed meeting minutes: Live updates - CNBC (Business)
- 6 skiers rescued, 9 still missing after avalanche near Lake Tahoe - San Francisco Chronicle (US News)
- F.D.A. Reverses Decision and Agrees to Review Moderna’s Flu Vaccine - The New York Times (Business)
- DOT wants to block transit money to states that aid migrants - Politico (US News)
- Trump's economic adviser says authors of tariff study should be "disciplined" - Axios (Business)
- Microsoft to keep buying enough renewable energy to match all its electricity needs - Yahoo Finance (Business)
- Colbert's Unaired Talarico Interview Brought $2.5 Million In Campaign Donations - Forbes (US News)
- Billionaire Les Wexner to testify before Congress about ties to Epstein - The Guardian (Business)
- Mamdani Threatens NYC Property Tax Hike as Last-Resort Option - Bloomberg (US News)
- 'Difficult' Russia-Ukraine peace talks end without breakthrough - BBC (US News)
- Ferguson outlines his requirements for WA ‘millionaires tax’ - The Seattle Times (US News)
- Epstein files suggest acts that may amount to crimes against humanity, say UN experts - The Guardian (US News)
- Mark Zuckerberg faces a jury today. And, the top DHS spokesperson resigns her post - NPR (Business)
- Unprecedented ‘Jobless Boom’ Tests Limits of US Economic Expansion - Bloomberg (Business)
- Palantir moves HQ from Denver to Miami - Denver Gazette (Business)
Local Media
Lost Medicaid Funding
To date, the failure to expand Medicaid/TennCare has cost the State of Tennessee ? in lost federal funding. (Source)
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Wonder what the Repubs mean when they say they're going to "recruit minorities?"
Do you suppose they're actually going to start promoting the legislation those minorities want, or are they going to start handing out free toasters or what???
They have no idea. THey
(in reply to Tamara Shepherd)
They have no idea. THey think just "reaching out," rather than "appealing to" is the way you win elections. It ain't, but it's what all the overpaid people tell each other when they can't handle the truth, and they don't want to change.
I will take a stab at the
I will take a stab at the real autopsy.
Romney went overnight from a somewhat reasonable Massachusetts Republican (who could have passed for a "Democrat" in the South, not that it mattered) to a right wing douchebag because of all the right wing douchebags running the Republican party.
And Paul Ryan. (Or maybe that's Exhibit A re. the above.)
Plus, Obama is a Rock Star. Rock stars rule pop culture media.
Republican Autopsy - meet Illegal Alien Autopsy
This says it all better than I ever could.
(link...)
The hundred-page report is
The hundred-page report is finished.
"When someone rolls their eyes at us, they are not likely to open their ears to us."
Illuminating.