Every once in awhile, do you find yourself wanting to say “I told you so” so badly that you grit your teeth until bloody pieces of tongue starts floating around your mouth. Well, by golly, I’m going to do it right now just because I feel that we don’t talk about the Republicrat as much...
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It’s hot. Damn hot. It’s “steal a popsicle from a toddler” hot. Well, maybe it’s not that hot. Yesterday, I was in a hot warehouse with no air conditioning all afternoon. It sucked. Today will be similar. There was a bit of relief late in the afternoon. Maybe I was delirious, but it seemed...
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I’ve been a posting fool today y’all. Actually, I started writing last night, but I shouldn’t pull the veil back too far, you might see all my secrets. Anyway, as I am a fairly violent typist, my fingers are killing me. What I mean by violent, is that I type very hard on...
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With just two meetings left, the Memphis and Shelby County Metro Charter Commission is wrapping up the proposed charter for submission by August 10th. Last night the Commission decided on a date for elections. This Thursday they will look at more options for the single member legislative districts. The Commission adopted a 25...
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There are a lot of things I don’t understand, and this picture is one of them. How does someone support the most liberal member of the Tennessee delegation to Congress, and two Republicans who are anything but liberals? I won’t rush to judgement. For all I know these folks are personal friends of all three...
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Since the first reports of the Deepwater Horizion disaster in the Gulf there have been questions about the safety of fish coming from the region. Now the government has cleared some fish caught from the region based on human smell tests. Seriously? Here’s a report from the Kingsport Times News: Despite splotches of chocolate-colored crude that...
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As I noted in yesterday’s Happy Hour, former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton had a presser yesterday. I was only able to listen to a little of it because I was working, but what I heard was interesting, and not entirely untrue. I can’t vouch for the complete accuracy of Herenton’s numbers. The Voter...
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Election day is just two days away and the campaign is heating up. Candidates are out working to get their supporters out, there’s more news than you can shake a stick at, and Election Commissions all over the state are making their final preparations to the deluge of voters on election day. Yesterday the...
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The problem with writing a post about Happy Hour on your lunch break is the cruel reality that you’re still half a day away from Happy Hour. Then there are things that happen between the time I’m writing this and when it’s going to post, like, oh I dunno, the 3pm presser with Willie Herenton....
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Just to prove how intent Senate Republicans are in turning the United States into a backwater of patchwork state laws, they’ve picked their new enemy, the 14th Amendment. Under the guise of an attack on illegal immigration, Senators Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Lindsey “Huckleberry Hound” Graham (R-SC) have hatched a plan to go after the...
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Turns out, ending those tax cuts only negatively impacts people who make more than $300,000. Who knew? Oh yeah, just about everyone. Check out Southern Beale for the money quote.
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The race for the 9th Congressional district Democratic nomination is, perhaps, the race that I’m watching with more interest than any other. Sure, there are contests with greater impact across the state and the county, but the contest between Congressman Steve Cohen and former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton is epic, as far as I’m...
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I’ve been looking at text a lot over the weekend, which got me to thinking about ASCII Art. I remember seeing ASCII Art for the first time back in the early 80’s when I still lived in Osceola. It was printed on that old green and white lined paper. I remember it because...
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It’s been an exasperatin’ week. I haven’t written anything over here since Tuesday. A 50 hour work week on top of a research project that’s dominating what little spare time I have will do that to ya. I’m not complaining, just explaining. Sorry the writing has been so scarce this...
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