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September 22, 2007
I'm here to help with your weekend reading
If you're not out enjoying the warm but sunny weather — which I insist that you do, but you know how you like to defy me — here are a couple of things to read. If I'm going to be stuck inside working, but in doing that work having to wait on action from others before I can do ANYthing, I am going to share links. I should be working on next week's Pulse installment, which will be a guide to all the Senate District 10 candidates. But I procrastinate, and it's Bill's last issue.
From The Crone Speaks: how accurate are the TSA screenings?
The day I almost got an "Instalanche" was when Glenn Reynolds linked to a Michael Silence post that in turn linked to me. More people picked it up, and there were comments all over the place about how wrong I was; only, no one decided to come here and tell me how to fix my thinking. And here's part of my rebuttal: even though it has been delayed, there is a lawsuit in the works that will challenge the extremely strict legal hurdles upon which Tennessee's two major political parties have colluded to keep independents and "third" parties out of the process. "[N]o party other than the Democratic or Republican Parties has petitioned in that state successfully since 1968." That's as long as I've been alive, folks; and I'm getting old. More examples of how the actual laws here are rife with phrases like "both parties" are in the works. You can start by reading some of the material on the Hamilton County Election Commission's website. It's right there in black and white (or blue and red, if you will).
Speaking of political parties in Tennessee, I'm very intrigued by the possibility of any connection between the "wonderful and crooked" means of doubling campaign contributions through the state Democratic party, alluded to in FBI recordings of Ward Crutchfield's campaign manager (and then-Election Commissioner) Linda Johnson, and the recent big news that the media's current favorite bad boy, Norman Hsu, ran a scheme under which donors were reimbursed their contributions. More from Bill Hobbs and Terry Frank, whose partisan motives are to be well considered. Me, I'm looking at this from the outside. Maybe the timing isn't right, as the FBI sting tapes were made in 2004; but who knows?
Another independent calls for impeachment. (I have myself done so.)
No matter how many cool gadgets I get, there is always someone of whom to be envious. Seriously, I want the rest of Tom's rig. I have the MBP. GarageBand is great for messing around, but everyone knows that ProTools is [however the kids say "the best" this second]. Tom has also continued to make me jealous with his stories of the road. My life isn't in a place where doing that would make sense, but that doesn't stop me from hungrily reading his escapades.
They have lots of bluegrass in Murvl.
But then again, I don't know why we give music the time of day, given this.
Elections , Government , Miscellaneous | By joe lance | 11:59 AM