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Re: “Modern-Day Slavery”
Haven't complimented the Flyer staff in some time. Sorry. With that, let me say this is one hell of an issue. Nice work, all. Best team in town.
Re: “Westboro Baptist Church Takes on the NBA, Ignores Elvis”
Why is it there's nobody but white people down there doing this stuff. I don't condone gayness at all but I refuse to picket them or act an ass about it like those folks down there. Some people just don't have nothing better to do then stirring up trouble ...
Re: “Haslam Cautions Fellow Republicans at Lincoln Day Dinner”
AP,
There are two new public acts that will be of interest to Germantown et al. Public Chapter 411 regarding open enrollment which, among other things, makes it difficult to demonstrate any racial animus in forming city schools, and Chapter 393 regarding high performing schools.
Re: “Haslam Cautions Fellow Republicans at Lincoln Day Dinner”
@ merc,
I believe thats "different mothers". -Dan Fogelberg.
Re: “Haslam Cautions Fellow Republicans at Lincoln Day Dinner”
@Diogenes
Keep your eye on the prize.
Re: “From the Editor”
Life is happening "off the grid". Everyone else's life is what's happening "on the grid". At some point, even people under 30 will be needing to live their own lives for the preservation of sanity.
Re: “John Willingham: "I believe in the freedom of barbecue."”
A great man & a champion in the BBQ field. He will be missed. Billious
Re: “Corky's Founder Don Pelts Passes Away”
Hands down, the best BBq in Memphis or anywhere . R.I.P.
Billious
Re: “Rick Masson Named Special Master”
this is very useful tool for electronics
led large screens
Re: “Game 2: Spurs 93, Grizzlies 89 (OT) — Can’t Repeat the Past?”
As for hoping for no more FAKE fouls....flagrant or otherwise; that will most likely depend on Mr. Ginobli.
Re: “Bikes and Memphis Aim Beyond Paint on Pavement”
As the blogger for Car-Free Memphis, I wonder why it is that anyone is wondering if biking has gone beyond the white middle class. How ignorant can one get than to think such a thought. Poor black folks, for example, have always been ahead of this curve for several decades when it comes to walking, biking, and riding on public transit. In fact, their carbon foot print is far smaller than any other group of people. It's just that poor black people, about 40,000 strong here in Memphis, TN, do not have a place to walk, bike, or push a wheel chair to that is within ten minutes of their homes. Indeed, poor black people have food deserts and junk food stores and liquor stores on every corner; and for them to get anything nutritious to eat, it generally takes them as long as five hours to get back and forth to such stores via our despicable public transit service. The poor spend at least 30 hours or more on a Memphis Area Transit Authority bus each week and at best the poor can only make one pit stop per day; because, these buses only run every hour and these buses are generally late getting to the bus stops. For example, some people wait as long as 20 minutes out in open air rain or shine at bus stops. Therefore, the only question that should be asked at this point is as follows: When is there going to be any social justice whereby the poor communities are redesigned to be more like car-free cities so that the poor people can meet all of their essential needs without leaving their community just like the weathly class people are doing right now? Instead, what is going on is that the poor are getting booted out of their community; and then, the rich are redesigning these same communites to fit their rich lifestyle; once again proving how greedy they are when they want their way...and then acting as if they are the one's who are ahead of the curve and how much they are throwing the poor a bone by giving them vouchers to move further out to more desolate locations far and away from bus stops and still without having cars to get around. What gets to me is that the weathy class is doing all of this redesigning process to accommodate their gas guzzling vehicles, and then has the gal to fund it heavily with billions of corporate welfare tax dollars; while they do not ever want the poorest or the poor to even have a miniscule amount of welfare and food stamps. I have got news for those people who feel this way: there is plenty of money for everyone to live comfortably within a car-free zones and these zones can be off the grid via solar and wind power.
Re: “Game 2: Spurs 93, Grizzlies 89 (OT) — Can’t Repeat the Past?”
@GCMemphis,
the Grizz can't SCORE, the Grizz can't DEFEND,
how exactly do you expect them to "protect" home.
the better team and the better coach will win, I'll let you figure it out.
here is wishing a great game 3 and 4.
PS. hopefully no more FAKE flagrant fouls.
Re: “Haslam Cautions Fellow Republicans at Lincoln Day Dinner”
GroveReb84
I know you are a better man than me. You have to be to still be willing to offer the olive branch to Ritz and the CC8. If the Memphis side was willing to negotiate earlier I wish they could have put it in the press. Also it is too bad their meeting was 'closed door' which I think is against the Shelby County law for 'official business' and we didn't have anyone recording what went on. That being the case I still go by my post on 4/23/2013 at 12:39am dealing with Ritz. Adding to that how does one be civilized with a rattlesnake? I know that's an insult to rattlesnakes but it is what it is. Still I take my hat off to you for being the better person.
Do you know that when the Honorable County Commissioner Ritz and the rest of the CC8 die it is said that they have requested to be buried 12 feet deep. Do you know why?
Deep down every body is good.
Re: “Haslam Cautions Fellow Republicans at Lincoln Day Dinner”
Oldtimeplayer,
You must realize that as a nom de plume, you have no actual mother. This may or may not come as quite a relief to you actual progenitor.
Re: “Beale Street Club 152 Hearing Postponed”
"The DA has to realize that you can't trample the rights of people, you can get away with it for awhile with poor, powerless people, but you can't pull that with people of means."
OTP, if only you'd apply that unusual bit of sage advise to the man in the White House.
Re: “Haslam Cautions Fellow Republicans at Lincoln Day Dinner”
Mad_Merc
Leave mothers out of this for you are treading on thin ice, very thin ice.
I can accept any criticism that you throw at me, but, I will not tolerate any mother talk!
Re: “Beale Street Club 152 Hearing Postponed”
Barby910
Another conservative until something happens to you personally.
Why not arrest the people that were selling and buying drugs at the time they were doing it. It seems as though she had the club in her sights, not the criminals.
What is so bad about this is that with this publicity, when that clubs opens again, it will have overflow crowds and be able to charge more than it does now. It is just like putting Martha Stewart in prison for 9 months on a bullshit charge. While she was locked up, she made another 400 million dollars. Was she really punished?
If the club goes all the way in court and does not make a deal with the DA, a judge will have to rule whether the DA overstepped her bounds. No, I don't believe the DA wants this to go to a full blown hearing.
Re: “Westboro Baptist Church Takes on the NBA, Ignores Elvis”
How sad that the adults had children do their dirty work....speaks volumes of the example their parents set. I'm always amazed at man's insensitivity to his fellow man.
Re: “Beale Street Club 152 Hearing Postponed”
Closing at the busiest time IS sending a message .... money talks, sh*t walks. It's the American way...unfortunately ;-/
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Re: “Haslam Cautions Fellow Republicans at Lincoln Day Dinner”
@Diogenes,
Believe me, I'd love to stick it in Ritz's face and rub his nose in the dirt. I'd love to have him be forced to parade around each of the suburbs in a clown suit with people throwing rotten vegetables at him.
However, the ultimate goal here is MSD formation and successful schools. I'm not against Memphis having success either. In fact, I hope they truly make significant progress towards improving their school performance. I'd even be more than happy for our school boards to cooperate in any way possible to make the school experience better for the kids all around the county.
For that reason, I'm willing to put aside the personal animosity towards a snake like Ritz if it means we get to focus on what's important, education, rather than fighting over who controls the pot. To me, the ultimate victory of having this process and transition to MSD formation run smoothly is more important than sticking it to Ritz, even though he more than deserves it.