Post Politics: 16 April 2008 - Afternoon Edition
Posted on April 17, 2008 at 11:42 amWhat’s in a name: A Chattanooga poultry plant gets raided by Immigration Control and Enforcement Agency. A plant run by a company named “Pilgrim’s Pride.”
Today is the last day to sign up for Debix, the identity theft monitoring company which Metro contracted with to provide free services for registered voters after the Metro Election Commission was compromised during a Christmastime theft.
The Tennessee Democratic Party points out that if you subtract monies raised by Senator Lamar Alexander during a major fundraiser where the President of the United States was the star attraction then he only raised $50,000 more than one of his his Democratic opponents during the same period.
Praise Lamar!: Newt Gingrich shows a bit of love for Lamar new flat tax proposal.
The Nation for Change will hold a rally on April 19, 2008 at the State Capitol at 12 noon until 2:00 p.m in support of Barack Obama for President.
Congressman Jimmy Duncan sponsors a bill aimed at reducing the number of unneeded properties in the federal portfolio.
So-called “mountaintop removal mining” takes a hit today in the Senate Environment and Conservation Committee when the committee voted 8-1 to ban the practice.
Kay Brooks defends Marsha Blackburn against those taking pleasure in the news that the Congressman had some problems with her campaign bookkeeping.
The U.S. Supreme Court turned back a constitutional challenge a challenge to Kentucky’s three drug execution procedure (one very similar to our own) by a 7-2 vote.
Metro political gadfly Mike Byrd continues to investigate whether the Bound’ry violated noise ordinances.
Knoxville News Sentinel blogger Michael Silence on Bill Frist’s chances at becoming Governor: “The irony is rich. What propelled Frist to a win over out-of-touch [Sen. Jim] Sasser [in 1994] will now keep his anticipated bid for governor from happening. And that’s not a diagnosis I need to make over the telephone. The rap on Sasser at the time was that his support was a mile wide and an inch deep. The same can now be said of Frist.”
The anti-feminist feminism of Marsha: Aunt B. castigates the Nashville Scene for dismissing Marsha Blackburn’s insistence that she be referred to as “Congressman” not “Congresswoman.”
10 tips to drive traffic to your campaign website.
Sassing back to cynicism: Tennessee Democratic Party Chair Gray Sasser declares the Democratic Party united.
A Vanderbilt law professor pens an opinion piece on the “Tennessee Plan” for picking judges.
Pan to the sound of the guns: Memphis takes the fight on crime to 1984.
And finally, independent U.S. Senate candidate Chris Lugo is forced by police to move his peaceful war protest to a more remote spot while a radio station continues to hand out pizza to promote their station in the very same location.
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Recently one of my friends started an obsession with the actor Nicholas Cage (mostly because their names are both Nicholas - sounds strange but he is strange and that isn’t the point). After asking around the rest of my friends he seems to be a very controversial figure.
What does the forum think? do you love the all action superhero? Or do you hate the droning voice of the man who does nothing but action shooters?
How many times you eat during a normal … every day life?
are you the type of person who eats a bit and often?
or rarely and too much?
i usually have 3 and i’m the 2nd type of person (though it’s not that healthy)
8 am breakfast
3pm lunch
9pm a snack.
What would you do if the internet crashed for good? Would you get used to life with less communication and less “being connected” or would you be pretty bummed for the rest of your life?
This is assuming it was not fixed. Perhaps some largescale EMP attack or something that crippled it for the next 50+ years or so.