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MONTESSORI
—Mommy Moments
Have I mentioned lately on here that I LOVE Montessori?? Each week I get a little sheet that shows what Veg is working on so I get to feel involved... even when he doesn't want to tell me because he says its none of my business. *smile*
A couple things on [...]
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Something I just don't understand...
—Pull up a chair...
Here is something I don't understand.
Why have we become so desensitized to one another? How did it happen? When did common courtesy get thrown out the back door with yesterday's trash?
Oh, it's not everybody. We all know that. Whether we'd like to admit it [...]
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Proposed Real Estate Listing
—Dave Foulk Internet Flyer
I don’t do a lot of political commentary. For one thing, I have a tendency to talk myself into a bucket.
But I’m going out on a limb today. Our nation has to do something to re-coup the $700 billion bailout. It would be easier to get the recipe for [...]
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FahQ of the Day 1/17/09
—blogitude.com
Note: Glenn and Mark FAHQ… I am not the only one who is supposed to keep this post running…
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The Balloon is About to Go Up
—Shots Across The Bow
Last week, I talked about how we fund our debt, and what happens when we print money to cover shortfalls in revenue. To recap, when you print money without a correlating increase in value, you decrease the value of your money, and we call that inflation. It takes more dollars [...]
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FahQ of the Day 1/16/09
—blogitude.com
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What a difference a year makes
—Effor.com
Last January I was beginning to get tired of reading stuff like “kitchen sink quarter” and “this is a great time to buy real estate” and “this is the time to buy stocks”. One evening I happened to read a post by Doug Kass entitled “Buy the Financials. Yes, [...]
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A PENNY AND THE LEMON
—Mommy Moments
Number of comments: 0Veg brought home two pennies today. A clean one and a dirty one. He said they did a science experiment in class, and this is what they discovered:
Real Lemon Juice will clean a penny, but Fake Lemon Juice will make a penny dirty.... It was a great chance for him to see [...]
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An ode to the beginning of another season
—RacingWithRich
Enclosure: [download]
If you are anxiously awaiting the start of the NASCAR season and want to pass the time with some bad poetry click on the link below to hear my latest pod cast, “An ode to the beginning of another season”. As you can tell, I have some time on my [...]
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promises fulfilled
—Frank Murphy dot com
Bishop-elect Richard Stika was in East Tennessee most of this week. He was introduced at a press conference on Monday. Lori Tucker interviewed him on Tuesday morning for a piece that aired on WATE Thursday night
While he was in town, Stika traveled around the [...]
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The $1B expansion at the Spallation Neutron Soruce
—Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground
ORNL announced today that the Dept. of Energy had approved Critical Decision-0 for a second target station at the Spallation Neutron Source, which would eventually double the research instruments available to scientists and greatly expand the capabilities at the Oak Ridge experimental facility by 2020.
CD-0 establishes [...]
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SBTS Spring ‘09 Chapel Schedule Now Online
—Pastor Steve Weaver's Blog
The chapel schedule for the Spring ‘09 semester at Southern Seminary has been posted online. Highlights include six messages by President R. Albert Mohler, Jr., three messages from School of Theology Dean Russell Moore, messages by SBTS faculty/staff such as Denny Burk, Timothy Beougher, Hershael York, Dan Dumas, and Chuck [...]
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2008 Review/ 2009 Preview: Jamie McMurray
—RacingWithRich
By Richard Allen
Over the next few days and weeks I will be presenting a review of 2008 and a preview of 2009 for each of the drivers and teams who appear to be set for a full time run in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. For the most part these [...]
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Music to my Ears: KSO Blogger's Night
—Shots Across The Bow
I love music of all types so when I heard through Frank Murphy that the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra was conducting their second annual blogger's night, I quickly signed up.
Now I already have a bit of a reputation as a know-it-all, so I'm not going to make it [...]
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'Paul Blart: Mall Cop' web reviews
—The Screening Log
His name is Blart, Paul Blart, and he's struggling to protect his mall. In Steve Carr's latest comedy "Paul Blart: Mall Cop," Kevin James plays a good-hearted security guard who declares war on a bunch of crooks taking over his mall. Here is what the Web's critics [...]
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'My Bloody Valentine 3-D' web reviews
—The Screening Log
How about some blood splatter in 3D? That's exactly what you get in Patrick Lussier's "My Bloody Valentine 3-D," a horror remake about a freak who gets a kick out of killing all kinds of people, etc... Let's check out what some online critics have to say [...]
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IS THE OBAMA HONEYMOON STARTING TO FADE? We’re not there yet, but there are early signs. In the c…
—Instapundit.com
IS THE OBAMA HONEYMOON STARTING TO FADE?
We’re not there yet, but there are early signs. In the current dust-up over Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s tax problems, even the left-wing Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial page has admitted there is a double standard. . . . The honeymoon isn’t over yet, and [...]
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Review: “Paul Blart: Mall Cop”
—The Screening Log
Seen on: January 16, 2009
The players: Director: Steve Carr, Writers: Nick Bakay, Kevin James, Cast: Kevin James, Keir O'Donnell, Raini Rodriguez, Adhir Kalyan, Jayma Mays
Facts of interest: Steve Carr also directed "Daddy Day Care."
The plot: A devoted mall security guard (James) tries to stop [...]
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Brutal cold still grips the Smoky Mountains – Hikers beware!
—Smoky Mountains Information: Your Smokies
No it's not as cold as it gets in Alaska but the Smokies are really feeling the arctic blast the blew in here 2 days ago and tonight even low elevations in the Smoky mountains are expecting temperatures of degrees. The next few days will see continuing brutal temperatures and [...]
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Bill H to Nashville press corps: I don' know nothin' 'bout no 'bortions, y'all, ceptin' I'm agin' em
—KnoxViews
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Battlestar Galactica : The Top Ten Things You Need to Know
—Dave and Thomas
Battlestar Galactica
Watch of the “Top Ten Things You Need to Know” about Battlestar Galactica! With the premier of the last episodes tonight, it might be a good time to get caught up. Battlestar Galactica begins the end of Season 4 better known as Sesaon 4.5. [...]
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PARSING THE STIMULUS BILL at ReadTheStimulus.org. “$850 Billion, 334 pages, and counting… somebod…
—Instapundit.com
PARSING THE STIMULUS BILL at ReadTheStimulus.org. “$850 Billion, 334 pages, and counting… somebody needs to read it!” They’re looking for volunteers if you’ve got a free hour or two this weekend.
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Oxytocin-the scientific liquid trust
—Political Leverage
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Liquid trust is very interesting. It uses a hormone that regulates trust in the human mind. So basically spray this stuff on and people trust you more. I haven't tried it yet but I am thinking about it! The reviews are mixed but the [...]
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Tango.....
—Straight White Guy
...... for the record, I'm a huge Tom Waits fan...... and I truly do enjoy his music..... sure, his voice is an acquired taste - but getting past that facade to sink your teeth into the amazing lyrics is worth... [...]
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Kent Williams Commitment to Jason Mumpower
—The Roundtable
Bryan Haynes of the East Tennessee Conservative appears to have broken the story about a Kent Williams radio interview. In it, Mr. Williams says he planned to support Mumpower for Speaker of the TN House. Of course, in a power-hungry grab, he aligned with the Democrats and voted for [...]
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We don’t need no education
—Effor.com
Other than commenting on the overwhelming Christian influence in Eastern Tennessee, I’ve made a point to be careful about what I say about Knoxville and Tennessee in general. After all, I don’t want to piss off too many people that I may have to deal with on a day to [...]
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You can have my...
—View From The Porch
...steak when you pry it out of my cold, dead jaws, you damned grass-eater, you!
Look, the minute a cow walks up to me and looks deep into my eyes with its solemn, bovine gaze, chews its cud thoughtfully and asks in plain English "Please don't kill me, [...]
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I really should be writing
—mediocrity rules
I should be writing, but I'm not. Instead I am drinking wine, catching up on Corner Gas, and making icons. Specifically icons from the Matthew Gray Gubler Sleeping Beauty article, because a few people have asked about my default icon and it seems no one more talented has stepped [...]
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A Great Wind
—From These Hills
“A great wind is blowing,
and that gives you either
imagination or a headache.”
Catherine the Great, 1729-1796
Empress of Russia
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Crank Up That Heat Baby!
—Rambling Redundant
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It's cold...damn cold!
But I a not going to yammer on about the weather, instead...I choose to yammer about money.
It's amazing to me what is going on with "money" in our country. It's everywhere but locally I am seeing and FEELING the impact of our rapidly declineing [...]
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Osama VS Obama
—Effor.com
According to an ABC News story, Osama bin Laden directly challenged soon-to-be-President Barack Obama. According to the story Osama bin Laden questions whether America “is capable to keep fighting us for more years”.
Stay tuned - Osama VS Obama has a nice ring to it. I’m guessing Obama will come [...]
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Obama’s Lego Inauguration
—Dave and Thomas
Thousands of tiny people have gathered to witness the historic Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama in Legoland, California including Oprah!
Barack Obama's inauguration in Legoland, California
Barack Obama's inauguration in Legoland, California
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Clinch River dredging operations approved
—KnoxViews
According to this Knoxville News Sentinel report, an interagency task force approved TVA dredging operations in the Clinch River to clean up fly ash from the Kingston spill. The approval was given by unanimous voice vote during a conference call.
Concerns about dredging in the Clinch River relate to stirring [...]
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Barack Obama MAD LIB Inauguration Speech Generator
—Dave and Thomas
Barack Obama is leaning on the Internet once again. With the inauguration of the 44th President less than a week away it seems like the Obama team is coming up short on the speech end of the ceremony. Dust off your Mad-Lib skills and help [...]
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FoxNews is hypocrital
—Effor.com
Check out this story on FoxNews.com. They have a story about “Hero Pilot’s Records, IQ Scores Released by School District in ‘Accident’” and eventually they say “Boettger, who was shocked that the files had been made public, asked FOXNews.com to delete them.”
As of now, the story is still there [...]
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Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it)
—Dave and Thomas
Uh oh. Someone hasn’t seen Star Wars. Better let George Lucas know. Apparently, releasing a new DVD set every 2 months has left someone in the dark.
My friend Amanda had never seen a whole Star Wars film. When I asked her if she wanted to watch the original trilogy she [...]
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Hey! Where Did That Carrot Go
—Dave and Thomas
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Mindy the hamster shoves a carrot half her size into her cheek because that’s how women learn to be popular.
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AACK!!! THE (dirty) CATHY ART SHOW
—Dave and Thomas
We love it when dirty minds take an American standard and run it through the gutter. One group of liberal-minded artists took a swipe at the 80’s feminist cartoon CATHY and stripped her down to her core. The collection is a wickedly clever look at a rather routine comic strip. [...]
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TNGOP should check their autodialer phone number list
—KnoxViews
According to an e-mail being circulated that is allegedly from Kent Williams' daughter-in-law, TNGOP fundraisers looking to raise money to oust Kent Williams (how'd that work out for you last time?) called his ailing 91 year old father at home to trash talk his son and ask for money.
In related [...]
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Om nom nom nom
—Dave and Thomas
We like this cat. He’s a pig and he doesn’t mind actually doing the “om nom nom nom” thing. Saves us the effort.
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Of Being Dad
—Reality Me
I think I could hire my children out to the FDA for testing the effectiveness of blood pressure medicine.
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Our Next Governor...Zach Wamp
—Brian's Blog
This video details why I support Zach Wamp for Governor of Tennessee over the guy that is Mayor of Knoxville. Zach is one of us. Zach was raised like we were. Zach and Kim began their family like all of us. Zach worked real jobs and raised his two kids [...]
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Forrester reaches out to Tennessee Obama supporters
—KnoxViews
Chip Forrester, candidate for Tennessee Democratic Party Chair, to Obama for America 2.0: "I know I will have the help of the executive committee, county parties and Democratic elected officeholders. But we need you too to make the changes that have to be made."
His letter outlines several steps he sees [...]
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Hire Me: Melissa Whitley
—Knoxify
Looking for a well-organized graphic designer? Melissa Whitley, a transplant from Virginia, might just be your next employee.
Confident, self motivator with a strong background working with people to help coordinate day to day operational support activities.
Resumé Download: Melissa Whitley
The ‘Hire Me’ series is the least we can do to help those [...]
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Win!
—View From The Porch
Unpacking and sorting through ammo boxes today, what should I find but a 50rd box of Winchester .44-40!
These days, that's like finding a $50 bill in an old coat pocket... [...]
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Do you know who's writing your bridal column?
—No Silence Here
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The amazing timeline of the pilot's amazing heroics
—No Silence Here
From takeoff to plane doors opening for emergency exits took less than four minutes. The timeline captures the pilot's exceptional performance in incredible circumstances. (Via Lean Left)
Also: Air Force Academy praises splashdown pilot
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Ernest Slyman's Radio Interview
—The Evangelical Spectator
Enclosure: [download]
Listen to Ernest Slyman's recent hour-long radio interview below. The subject matter is his book "Tall Tales of The Bible Belt."
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CYA Dubya
—KnoxViews
Goodbye Pres. W. We will miss you. What may be good for Pres. O is that expectations are so low and that the country is beaten down to the point where the only hope for the American Dream left is making it to the final round of American Idol. I [...]
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Freaky Friday
—The Modern Gal
Number of comments: 2
This video of a demon robot is probably the most disturbing thing I've ever seen on You Tube. You have to watch it all the way through for the full disturbance.
I guess Chucky has found new life. [...]
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McIntyre's Decision Will Cause a Targeted Status on NCLB
—Brian's Blog
Within NCLB (No Child Left Behind) a school must maintain a percentage of average daily attendance. Some schools are so close that a fourth of their students being absent one day with cause them to be targeted with the year-end NCLB.
One of our sources reported to us that [...]
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Blogger's wife hiking Mt. LeConte today
—No Silence Here
Oh, my, that's got to be cold: I'll be a nervous wreck all day, since The Primary Wife has begun her trek to the top of Mt. LeConte, in temperatures bottoming out at around 20 below. Once her and her friends arrive, they should be fine, as there [...]
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Denso cuts work week from 40 hours to 32
—KnoxViews
Just last night, on that thread about UT possibly laying off up to 700 people, I had wondered aloud how Denso is faring. I'd read that nearly 45% of their orders come from GM.
Well, Denso doesn't plan to lay off anyone. They're just cutting hours (and consequently, their payroll) by [...]
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BofA back for seconds
—The Bank Draft
Bank of America will get a $20 billion investment from the Treasury Department, to go along with a $15 billion TARP deal announced previously.
In addition, "Treasury and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation will provide protection against the possibility of unusually large losses on an asset pool of [...]
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Cheers, Decadence, Poverty, and the Littlest Pianer I Ever Seen
—Two Ells
Let me set the stage. We’ve chopped some organic vegetables and put aside a dozen organic eggs and are going to mix them with a bit of local raw milk to make a quiche for dinner. A friend is coming over to watch our children so that we can go [...]
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Live Blogging: Journalism conference as a participant observer
—My Tennessee Home
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Journalism students will be working in a converged media world. How will they learn to do that when technology and opportunities change every six months? A conference group hosted by the Tennessee School of Journalism and Electronic Media is discussing that right now.
The inaugural ICONN conference (Inter-Collegiate [...]
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Knoxville Symphony Orchestra Blogger Night Success!
—Reality Me
Enclosure: [download]
Number of comments: 2Last year the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra tried something bold and invited 50 bloggers to come to the symphony for free in exchange for writing about their experiences good or bad. It was the KSO’s first Blogger Night. Noah and I went and really enjoyed ourselves so when Frank [...]
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Domenici's reward at Los Alamos
—Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground
DOE announced today that a group of buildings at Los Alamos National Laboratory will now be known collectively as the Pete V. Domenici National Security Science Complex.
"The honor acknowledges Senator Domenici's long and distinguished career as a U.S. Senator from New Mexico and is a testament to the vision and [...]
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Blog Commenters UNITE!
—Hear ItFrom.Us
The announcement of this new left-leaning blog made me wonder something…
When left-leaning blogs and websites show advertising, what happens to the money? I mean, a blog is nothing without its readers, just like a company is nothing without its workforce, right?
Is the money left over after operational costs [...]
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As promised, my NFL predictions...
—This blog's awesome!!!
Baltimore vs. Pittsburgh -- Those thunderclaps you're going to be hearing Sunday evening aren't from any storm, but from Heinz Field in Pennsylvania, as two of the hardest-hitting teams ever knock hel... [...]
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New Report: Obama Favors Same-Sex Marriage
—VOLuntarilyConservative
Number of comments: 0
Of course, this comes out now...
"I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages."
- Barack Obama in a 1996 questionnaire for Outlines newspaper. This was a typed, signed statement.
The Windy City Times has the complete story.
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Ammunition for Men - Study Says Romantic Comedies Bad For Your Love Life
—VOLuntarilyConservative
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The next time that your ladyfriend tries to take you to see some garbage like "Bride Wars" or "Maid in Manhattan," just tell her, "Babe, I'm committed to this relationship, and that's why I can't allow for this to happen. Now let's go see (fill in the name of current [...]
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TVA in the news
—Because I said so
More than 1,300 coal-ash waste sites are dotted across the United States, about half of them actively used, federal data show. Some are landfills. The rest are "surface impoundments" (storage lagoons), which, like the one in Tennessee, mix ash with water.
Coal ash has some beneficial [...]
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i'm talkin' 'bout sweet 16s not m16s
—design : : a blog by christopher king
First up, Andrew Bird has a new album coming out (!) and you can preview it over at NPR, who have become the big Bird cheerleaders. We'll see how the Indie World's coolest classical violinist follows up my favorite album of 2007.
And [...]
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Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, it's ca ca ca ca cold out dar!
—Knoxville Trivia Blog
Okay, it is officially cold in K-town. I woke up to temperatures right around (that's zero) degrees this morning. Even if we didn't "officially" break a record, it is down right miserable. It was one of those times when you breath in and form [...]
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Don't go blaming Obama
—Because I said so
If the soon-to-be unleashed mega-stimulus program doesn't work, don't blame Obama, since - according to GOP lawmakers now working on the plan - the proposal has been altered to the point that it no longer resembles Obama's plan.
Asked by "Newshour" correspondent Margaret Warner why he was surprised given that the [...]
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UT to Move 700 Academic Jobs into Football Program
—Snark Bites
Will transform remaining unfilled positions into 'Museum of Academia'
From APB reports. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. In an effort to save a few of the remaining academic functions of the University of Tennessee, the administration may move 700 academic positions under the football program. All other open academic positions [...]
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New site for left-leaning Mid-South bloggers
—No Silence Here
Mid-South Liberals is up and running, and I assume they'll get around to adding to the blogroll such noted left-leaning East TN bloggers as R. Neal, Russ McBee, Joe Powell and Katie Allison Granju. And don't forget Carole Borges, LIBERADIO(!), Sean [...]
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CNN Poll: TARP not working; don’t spend more
—Right At Home
The CNN Wire: Poll: TARP not working; don’t spend more, Americans say
61% say TARP isn't working and oppose providing more government money in the financial bailout.
Not news to me, but it is to Lamar Alexander. [...]
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Diary 6 Part 3
—Reflections of Dannick
Reese and I watched as The Runt clomped down the 2A stairs in his oversized combat boots back to his little friend. Sam was impatiently waiting at the bottom. The Runt jumped over the last three steps and landed with a loud thud, together again the two gutter rats ran [...]
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Circuit City liquidating
—KnoxViews
According to the article, Circuit City has 567 stores and 30,000 employees, after already closing 150+ stores. It was nice having one nearby over here in Alcoa. It was the anchor store in a new development that opened less than a year ago as I recall. [...]
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News for the Deaf
—AphexMandelbrot's Fun Depot
Things you may have missed today:
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Citigroup Reports $8.3 Billion Loss, Splits Into Two
Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Citigroup Inc. posted an $8.29 billion loss, twice as much as analysts estimated, and said it will split in two under Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit’s plan to rebuild a capital [...]
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Correction to Island Job website
—Jennifer's Blogosphere
Hey, it's this website: [www.islandreefjob.com]
I had Island F-R-E-E job. It's Island R-E-E-F job. Little dyslexia. Sorry. [...]
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Robin phenomana
—Deerfield Diary
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On Thursday the bright sunshine and threat of single digit temps brought out the robin show we had seen only once before in Southern Indiana.
Robins by the hundreds filled our woods both in the trees and on the ground. They seemed to be [...]
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Outdoor Channel Acquires DownrangeTV
—SayUncle
Number of comments: 1Cool:
Outdoor Channel, America’s Leader in Outdoor TV, has acquired the leading firearms and shooting sports online portal, Down Range Television (DRTV). Founded by Outdoor Channel personality and journalist Michael Bane and cowboy action shooter Marshal Halloway, www.downrange.tv is one of the most successful online communities for shooting [...]
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My trainer, Roxy, asked for a mid-loss ...
—Fit Together
My trainer, Roxy, asked for a mid-loss testimonial, so I wrote one: Finding Roxy’s ad has been one of the best things to happen to me. I’ve been overweight or struggling with my weight for a long time. I hit rock bottom, though, at the beginning of 2008 when I stepped on [...]
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Best Job in the World
—Jennifer's Blogosphere
Number of comments: 0
There is a job opening in Australia you might be interested in. The tourism department in Queensland is offering someone $100,000 to lay around on an island near Australia’s Great Barrier reef for six months. Seriously. They are calling it The Best Job in the World. All you have to [...]
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Camera Obscura: The Age of Superhero Decadence
—Cup Of Joe Powell
I had the chance to read through some of the posts at the much-hyped Big Hollywood web site, the creation of conservative writer/web mogul Andrew Breitbart (the man who helped launch both The Drudge Report and Huffington Post).
Conservatives like Breitbart have a [...]
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4 Minute Daily Devotions: Hudson Miracle
—Heaven's Highway
Yesterday, we all saw a miracle unfold on the Hudson River. A US Airways flight heading to Charlotte lost both its engines as it was taking off, and the veteran pilot had to glide the plane into the water. His remarkable handling skills enabled both he [...]
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4 Minute Daily Devotions: Hudson Miracle
—Heaven's Highway
Yesterday, we all saw a miracle unfold on the Hudson River. A US Airways flight heading to Charlotte lost both its engines as it was taking off, and the veteran pilot had to glide the plane into the water. His remarkable handling skills enabled both he [...]
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Tennessee Needs Negedu
—BigOrangeBasketball.com
Number of comments: 1
An All-Points-Bulletin should be issued regarding the whereabouts of Vol freshman Emmanuel Negedu. He’s been missing in action from the court recently and was nowhere to be found on the floor in Tuesday night’s home loss to Kentucky. I’ve been advocating more minutes for Negedu for several weeks now. His hustle and aggressive [...]
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a few of my favorite things
—design : : a blog by christopher king
First up, Andrew Bird has a new album coming out (!) and you can preview it over at NPR, who have become the big Bird cheerleaders. We'll see how the Indie World's coolest classical violinist follows up my favorite album of 2007.
And [...]
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A Night with Mendelssohn, Mozart and Bach
—Chris For Liberty
Number of comments: 3
"Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God."
Felix Mendelssohn
I've been interested in music going [...]
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An evening with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
—Knoxville Tennessee Real Estate Blog
Image via Wikipedia Felix Mendelssohn On a recent, chilly Thursday evening Knoxville area bloggers were treated to a special evening with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra (KSO) at the Tennessee Theatre on Gay Street. This was the Symphony’s second “Bloggers Night” and my first. It was a great evening with 2 hours [...]
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Kohlhorst talks Y-12 & jobs
—Frank Munger's Atomic City Underground
The federal budget situation in Washington is fast-paced and chaotic at the moment, with Congress poised to consider the economic stimulus package, a wrap-up budget bill for the rest of fiscal 2009 and -- within the next few weeks -- begin consideration of President Obama's proposed budget for 2010.
Darrel Kohlhorst, [...]
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Goody's formally announces going-out-of-biz sale
—The Bottom Line
Goody's Family Clothing, which filed for bankruptcy the second time in seven months this week, has formally announced that its going-out-of-business sale is underway.
Gordon Brothers Group and Hilco Merchant Resources are running the liquidation sale for Goody's, which is advertising discounts of 40 percent off or more. The sale is [...]
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Are summer breaks' days numbered for TN students?
—No Silence Here
Tamara Shepherd: Just stumbled across this AP story on Obama's (popular) pick for Education Secretary. Looks like Save Our TN Summers won't particulary care for Chicago's Arne Duncan on this count:
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Some days you gotta dance
—The Modern Gal
Number of comments: 6
You know the best way to keep yourself warm when the temperatures are in the single digits and you don't have someone to snuggle with? Answer: Dance so hard that an invitation to hang your head out an open window is a welcome one.
That's exactly what I did [...]
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John Hawkins at Right Wing News has ...
—Dr. Helen
Number of comments: 5
John Hawkins at Right Wing News has an interesting interview up with Tony Blankley, author of American Grit: What It Will Take to Survive and Win in the 21st Century. [...]
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Mmmm coffee.
—Busymom.net
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