The View from My Kitchen Table

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36200705427024319972012-01-30T13:10:14.490-05:00The View from My Kitchen TableWhites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.comBlogger2431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-14042315088756382302012-01-30T13:09:00.001-05:002012-01-30T13:10:14.493-05:00NASA: Global Temperatures Over The Last 130 Years

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-15692117109560144082012-01-25T07:02:00.004-05:002012-01-25T07:39:21.469-05:00Newt...The Perfect Republican Candidate

Committed to the sanctity of marriage between one man, one woman, and one other woman. Today's Must Read, "Why Republicans Must make Newt Their Candidate" Thank You, Clay Bennett

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-9571968579234171182012-01-17T07:42:00.001-05:002012-01-17T07:42:53.445-05:00Republican Debate Cliff Notes

Thank You, TPM...

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-51314358337482567492012-01-12T13:11:00.003-05:002012-01-12T13:17:38.021-05:00What If....

The Tennessee Conservation Commission had the pleasure of meeting with author Amanda Little at its winter meeting at Radnor Lake. Her book is "Power Trip"

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-17487124608392411412012-01-11T19:47:00.001-05:002012-01-11T19:47:30.239-05:00Quote of the Day from our Progressive Schools Dept:

Do you know how difficult it is to walk into a classroom of 25 enthusiastic pre-service teachers and try to explain to them that sociopaths are destroying TN public schools and turning their profession over to profiteers and fools and they will be forced to endure disgraceful mistreatment if they stay in the state to teach?

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-56434328798011686672012-01-10T08:01:00.002-05:002012-01-10T08:01:26.297-05:00From Our Misplaced Priorities Department

Why is letting a cuss word or a naked breast slip out on broadcast TV a bigger deal than an intentional lie repeated incessantly by the news department? The Supreme Court is considering whether government regulators may still police the airwaves for curse words and other coarse content at a time when so many Americans have unregulated cable television, and the Internet is awash in easily

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-58733714465537881962012-01-04T18:34:00.002-05:002012-01-04T18:34:23.209-05:00Hurley Protection Plan Hacks Up Roane County

You know the state Constitution actually forbids splitting a county, but it's done all the time.

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-24363793263402672382012-01-04T09:13:00.002-05:002012-01-04T09:13:57.836-05:00How to Tell Them Apart

Sure, some GOP candidates are crazier than others but that's just a matter of degree. They all have that disease. If you really want to tell them apart you have to look at the differences in the policies they are pushing for, so here's a handy dandy chart that should help. Hmmm...OK, we'll work on a chart that ranks them by crazy, since this one didn't help much in telling them apart.

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-6645516136306821192012-01-02T10:46:00.004-05:002012-01-02T10:50:24.412-05:00Saint Paul Has Today's Must Read, "Nobody Understands Debt"

...when people in D.C. talk about deficits and debt, by and large they have no idea what they’re talking about — and the people who talk the most understand the least. I personally would say this a bit differently because it's rather obvious that anyone who says deficits are our biggest problem is just plain lying. Still, you should read Paul Krugman's piece that lays it all out plain and simple

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-73487508062298029152012-01-02T10:10:00.001-05:002012-01-02T10:10:33.970-05:00Quote of the Day

Interviewer Susan Bankston:How did Rick Perry get to where he is today with these rumors about him floating all over Texas? Author Glen Maxey: I think he’s just an ignorant, uneducated politician who has lucked his way into enriching a butt-load of people who saw the ka-ching! ka-ching! of the presidency as a continuation of their slot machine. They’d look past anything to install their boy toy

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-10486551906682387422011-12-25T06:54:00.002-05:002011-12-25T06:55:21.495-05:00Peace on Earth, Good Will to All

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-75758809142942056582011-12-22T19:50:00.002-05:002011-12-22T19:50:19.119-05:00So Now Killing Me Slowly Becomes Harder?

The Environmental Protection Agency released far-reaching air pollution regulations Wednesday, 21 years after they were first mandated by Congress and six days after they were signed by the agency. Mercury

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-82628495841181197032011-12-22T06:58:00.003-05:002011-12-22T06:58:34.627-05:00And Now These Seasonal Tidbits

Environmental problems are now to the point that the supply of Frankincense may cease to exist. Is the Second Coming threatened as a result? And not withstanding that finding Frakincense will be hard enough, now where the heck are we going to find THREE wise men? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16270759 Frankincense may gain in popularity if certain properties get

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-43045778960413256872011-12-21T08:57:00.001-05:002011-12-21T08:57:55.041-05:00Pat Robertson is Upset But I think It's a Great Sermon

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-65688704039272777322011-12-18T09:43:00.000-05:002011-12-18T09:47:10.434-05:00One Percenter Groups Attacking Republican Candidates From Within

From the AP: Last week alone, anti-Gingrich ads from a Romney ally outspent Gingrich by an 8-to-1 margin on television. The powers behind the thrones of the GOP, often referred to as the One Percent, are suddenly not happy with Gingrich as the front runner. He serves them well delivering their message of "Greed and corruption, good! Working for the good of the middle class, bad!" Newt is a

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-55334208224060230742011-12-17T07:31:00.000-05:002011-12-17T07:31:16.913-05:00Quote of the Day From Possum Drop HQ

“They are Southern gentlemen dressed up as Southern ladies,” he said. “I don’t like it to be wrote up as men in drag... That comes from the organizer of the New Year's Eve Possum Drop in North Carolina, where a possum is traditionally lowered from a tall pole at the stroke of midnight. Peta is doing their usual thing saying: ...the opossum “suffers through a barrage of terrifying stimuli” such

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-41097790848623223262011-12-15T19:24:00.004-05:002011-12-15T19:24:41.220-05:00Quote of the Day...Bill Moyers

America has a long record of conflict with corporations. Wealth acquired under capitalism is in and of itself no enemy to democracy, but wealth armed with political power — power to choke off opportunities for others to rise, power to subvert public purposes and deny public needs — is a proven danger to the “general welfare” proclaimed in the Preamble to the Constitution as one of the

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-12350478819044827102011-12-12T06:57:00.001-05:002011-12-12T10:36:22.496-05:00Red State Update

"Hell, I'd rather vote for Larry the Cable Guy than Newt Gingrich." "Well we all would, Jackie, but Larry the Cable Guy ain't running."

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-42876653137599109382011-12-08T17:50:00.001-05:002011-12-08T17:51:21.173-05:00Season's Greeting?

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-53599341856324793182011-12-06T08:18:00.001-05:002011-12-06T08:36:58.942-05:00Courage is a Wispy Thing Compared to Fear

Newt Gingrich just called taking credit for everything that happened in America since 1981, when Ronnie Reagan initiated the downward spiral of this once great country. After he called Barack Obama a long list of negative meaningless buzzwords, he told me that I should stay on the line and speak with his assistant which I decided would be fun, so I did. His assistant turned out to be a nice

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-3676865734911930502011-12-03T10:11:00.001-05:002011-12-03T10:12:17.081-05:00Quote of the Day: Newt, Please Don't Peak Too Soon!

I do worry that Gingrich is peaking far too soon. The number of knives that are going to be out for this fellow, just among members of his own party, is going to be something to behold. I think we'd all rather they hold off on their Brutus moments for a bit longer, so that we can get maximum enjoyment from the Republicans being so hard up for serious candidates that even Newt Gingrich, of all

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-43776918439645002082011-11-29T08:04:00.001-05:002011-11-29T08:06:14.101-05:00From Our "Now Can We Move Onto Something Else?" Department...

Quote of the day: Marine Gen. James F. Amos, the face of opposition in the military to lifting the ban on gays serving openly, now acknowledges his concern has proven unfounded that repeal would undermine the war effort. In fact, he says, Marines have embraced the change. Times Free Press

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-38102634783324210562011-11-28T19:55:00.001-05:002011-11-28T20:00:17.872-05:00It's Official...Whites Creek is a Miley Fan

Miley Cyrus releases a song supporting Occupy!

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-47496168307428248202011-11-25T18:37:00.001-05:002011-11-25T18:38:25.707-05:00Black Friday Quote of the Day...

When I die, I want to be real old, real sick, or doing something worth dying for. I do not want “innocent bystander” anywhere in my obituary.

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-40266117659249375112011-11-22T12:43:00.001-05:002011-11-22T12:50:14.339-05:00"Breezily Inflicted Discipline"

Customer Review 678 of 684 people found the following review helpful: Accept no substitutes when casually repressing students, November 21, 2011 By D-bag of Liberty This review is from: Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band/1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray (Misc.) Whenever I need to breezily inflict discipline on unruly citizens, I know I can

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-43685583261254101492011-11-17T08:21:00.001-05:002011-11-17T08:58:21.148-05:00Told Ya So!

Over the past ten days, more than a dozen cities have moved to evict “Occupy” protesters from city parks and other public spaces. As was the case in last night’s move in New York City, each of the police actions shares a number of characteristics. And according to one Justice official, each of those actions was coordinated with help from Homeland Security, the FBI and other federal police

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-26604682439426876082011-11-15T17:07:00.001-05:002011-11-15T17:13:08.943-05:00I Stand With the Occupy Patriots and I Ask: Who is Pulling the Strings In America?

Just this morning I posted the question, "Who is pulling the strings in America right now?" That was because I was seeing news reports of mayors having cops forcibly evict and arrest Occupy Patriots, even going against judges orders to do so. Something looked odd that all of a sudden the same mayors across the country had come to the same conclusion about how to proceed against their own citizens

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-78554600371646533842011-11-15T11:07:00.001-05:002011-11-15T11:08:20.919-05:00I Want A Senator Just Like Her

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-35588784633564083972011-11-14T08:54:00.001-05:002011-11-14T08:58:44.816-05:00From Our "Now I Get It" Department

The earliest sacrificial offering to God appears to have been made by Cain and was all veggies. The Old Testament has a long list of the particular items that were to be offered up to God depending on the sin committed. Everything that God did not consume was to be given to the priests, who apparently had quite a taste for Flambe. From the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-41330187442102480492011-11-13T08:53:00.001-05:002011-11-13T10:03:54.700-05:00Occupy WhitesCreek

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-18618983805112706842011-11-10T08:40:00.000-05:002011-11-10T08:40:50.043-05:00Read and Quote

There is sometimes a piece written that is so good almost every line is a worthy quote... Bush and Cheney proved once and for all that tax cuts for the wealthy produce only two things: "lower growth and greater inequality." ...what little expansion there was under Bush culminated in the worst fiscal crisis since the Great Depression. "The wreckage was left by Dick Cheney, Grover Norquist

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-6579796663719210302011-11-09T18:45:00.001-05:002011-11-09T18:45:47.838-05:00"The Park is the Spark"

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-78775741880711349822011-11-09T08:27:00.000-05:002011-11-09T08:27:42.520-05:00Make It So!

Progressives can take heart at what went down yesterday in a fabulous day at the polls. Personhood for zygotes was resoundingly defeated in Mississippi...Mississippi! The author of the anti-immigration law and President of the Senate in Arizona was resoundingly kicked out of office...Arizona! Governor Kasich's anti-collective bargaining bill was resoundingly defeated in Ohio...Ohio! In

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-34985490821142411062011-11-07T13:12:00.006-05:002011-11-07T13:13:42.723-05:00Do All Zygotes Go to Heaven, or is That Just in Mississippi?

Mississippi is on the verge of passing a law that says all fertilized eggs have a soul. That raises serious questions about the zygote soul, personhood, and the amount of guilt and or sorrow women should feel when they dispose of a tampon. Does 26 chromosomes a soul make? Since it has 52 chromosomes does a duck billed platypus have TWO souls? Since they split a zygote, do identical twins have a

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-91050430363139121192011-10-31T08:21:00.000-04:002011-10-31T09:19:47.947-04:00Headlines (My Version)

Yard Eats Man (Getting newspaper far more dangerous than believed) People Don't Like Rick Perry But Only Those Who Have Met Him (Cain Leads in Texas) Herman Cain, "I did not have sex with that woman those women." (No need to type anything in here) Ghadaffi: Getting Killed Pain in the A## (OK, don't click on this one, please) Bernie Madoff's Wife and Son Will Never Forgive Him (Have you

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-24673962661380123872011-10-26T21:00:00.001-04:002011-10-26T21:01:33.578-04:00Chesapeake Bay Island And Way of Life Going Away

Link if Embed isn't working

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-65210905219821199062011-10-20T08:00:00.000-04:002011-10-20T08:00:02.478-04:00Thank You Clay Bennett

See it full size: Clay Bennett at the Times Free Press

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-63259671950421069982011-10-20T07:33:00.003-04:002011-10-20T10:40:53.196-04:00US Health Care System Most Costly, Care Substandard

As we've been saying, Americans pay the most for healthcare and get crappy service to boot. Where's my public option? Sharply rising costs are putting both access and budgets at risk. Health care spending per person in the U.S. is double that in several other major industrialized countries, and costs in the U.S. continue to rise faster than income. We are headed toward spending $1 of every $5

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-41803373232775281322011-10-19T07:54:00.000-04:002011-10-19T07:54:23.502-04:00Science...The Search for Truth, and Those Who Love It

It's a sane position to think that science should answer to science and not religion. How many times have we watched some religious leader make fools of his congregation when the world didn't end at the appointed moment of his biblical calculations? Religion is a dismal failure at predicting scientific events, but a master at the destruction of rational thoughts that contradict its teachings. I

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-17863906911216928352011-10-18T10:24:00.001-04:002011-10-18T10:24:36.102-04:00Uber Christian Mike Huckabee Advocates Dirty Tricks

So Republicans only care about Democratic voter fraud, not theirs: Former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has some advice for people who support the anti-union law passed in Ohio that faces a statewide repeal vote on November 8: Find out who's voting to repeal the bill and block them from ballot box. The onetime Arkansas governor suggested deflating tires and giving these voters

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-22274177814766484942011-10-16T08:48:00.000-04:002011-10-16T09:20:11.691-04:00Cain Kills in TN

I am stunned at the reception GOP Leading presidential candidate Herman Cain got in Tennessee. If he had said he's going to raise taxes on poor people and the middle class, end Social Security, and raise Sales tax to 18% in Tennessee, the crowd would have cheered...Oh, wait...That is exactly what he said! The U.S. should secure its border with Mexico by building a 20-foot, barbed-wire,

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-20586726661876909242011-10-15T13:05:00.003-04:002011-10-15T13:05:27.830-04:00Elizabeth Warren

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-75748020812540380212011-10-15T12:34:00.004-04:002011-10-15T12:34:55.772-04:00Must Read Post of the Day, or Week or whatever for that matter

Thanks to Newscoma for the link on this writer. This is good stuff and you better read the whole thing, or else... I understand you don’t care about me. I understand that because I am not a corporation, because I have a uterus, because I don’t make $250,000 a year or more that I am not now, nor will I ever be, important to you. I get it. All I have is my vote. So I understand that even if

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-80912862376532930832011-10-14T07:02:00.000-04:002011-10-14T07:56:26.158-04:00Banks Failed the Public Trust So Why Not Public Option In Banks?

Today's must read: [T]he demand isn't simply to make a public bank, but is to treat the banks generally as a public utility, just as you treat electric companies as a public utility.... Just as there was pressure for a public option in health care, there should be a public option in banking. There should be a government bank that offers credit card rates without punitive 30% interest rates

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-88771281681568368632011-10-12T08:30:00.004-04:002011-10-12T08:30:48.452-04:00Quote of the Day: Naomi Klein Speaking to Occupy Wall Street

An excerpt from today's must read... We pointed out that the deregulation behind the frenzy came at a price. It was damaging to labor standards. It was damaging to environmental standards. Corporations were becoming more powerful than governments and that was damaging to our democracies. But to be honest with you, while the good times rolled, taking on an economic system based on greed

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-10869147323285978452011-10-11T08:22:00.002-04:002011-10-11T08:22:37.011-04:00Even Republicans Don't Like Republicans

The echo chamber blather this morning is all about Romney backing into first place in the Gallup poll for GOP presidential nomination, mainly because Rick Perry is a Christian and Romney belongs to the Mormon cult. Here are the numbers: Romney: 20 (24) Cain: 18 (5) Perry: 15 (31) Paul: 8 (13) Gingrich: 7 (5) Bachmann: 5 (5) Santorum: 3 (2) Huntsman: 2 (1) Other: 1 (4) Undecided: 20 (10) Morning

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-75389443164170178102011-10-10T16:02:00.002-04:002011-10-10T16:03:30.649-04:00Watch This Now!

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-33971584217854555872011-10-10T08:25:00.002-04:002011-10-10T08:25:21.508-04:00Quote of the Day (The Protests are NOT about Hating the Wealthy...They Don't Hate Steve Jobs)

The legions in New York and across the country do not protest wealth; they do not hate success. Rather, they object to those who extract value through predation rather than contribute value through innovation and creativity. "You don't earn a hundred million dollars...You steal a hundred million dollars"... Annie Liebowitz talking about CEO salary

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-117791222637245202011-10-10T08:07:00.003-04:002011-10-10T08:07:43.720-04:00Why Occupy? Here's Why...

This should disgust and anger everyone except Wall Street Bankers. "What? We don't see a problem here," says Wall Street.

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-38408805782561040342011-10-08T10:23:00.000-04:002011-10-10T18:14:42.233-04:00Earth A Lujah!

I've been thinking... We need a new religion. The ones we have now aren't working. I suppose we shouldn't expect all that much from current religions when the Big Three all have the same Eden myth. You know, the one where Adam and Eve get kicked out of paradise for getting smart and becoming aware of their genitals because they were talked into eating a magic apple by a talking snake. How do you

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-22745816754104810522011-10-07T19:10:00.002-04:002011-10-07T19:10:51.658-04:00Thank You, Clay Bennett

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-69429493955503128112011-10-04T07:42:00.002-04:002011-10-04T07:43:44.545-04:00"Where's Jesus When You Really Need Him", or "The Zombie Theme Seems To Be Big This Year"

We had nuclear zombies at the TVA Board meeting and now we have money grubbing corporate zombies on Wall Street. At least the media is grudgingly admitting that something is going on even if it's two and a half weeks late to the party. Can America toss the money changers out of the temple? "At this point, we don't anticipate wider unrest," said ... an FBI spokesman in New York, "but should

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-81759292313615452632011-10-03T19:43:00.000-04:002011-10-03T19:43:35.829-04:00From Our Hank Williams Jr. is a Jerk and We'll Never Listen To Him Again Dept:

ESPN drops Hank Jr after he compares Obama to Hitler Well, Ok...I dropped Hank Jr long ago but this just justifies me in a strong way. Hank...You suck as a human being!

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-675479689768749372011-10-03T19:35:00.001-04:002011-10-03T19:35:16.679-04:00Everything Nice I ever Said About Belmont U...I take it Back!

Alberto Gonzales Named 'Distinguished Chair of Law' By Belmont University Gonzales was the AG who authorized torture and forever tarnished the moral worth of the United States of America. What are you people thinking?

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-2935902784977574422011-10-03T08:37:00.002-04:002011-10-03T08:37:56.516-04:00Today's Top Story Not Mass Uprising against Wall Street

So hundreds of people have been arrested for peaceful protests on Wall Street, the Brooklyn Bridge was shut down by thousands of people who want government to be "Of, By, and For The People" instead of the Wall Street financial interests. Protesters were roughed up and a police supervisor walked over and maced several women who were standing on the sidewalk leaving them blind and screaming as he

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-71385008684737557312011-09-27T08:03:00.002-04:002011-09-27T08:03:29.658-04:00Quote of the Day

When taxes are raised on the rich, oh sure – that’s class warfare. But when libraries are closed and national parks left to rot so rich people can have more money, that’s trickle-down economics. As usual we get the truth, not from our politicians, from our comedians, Will Durst.

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-77165279160317468762011-09-20T06:52:00.003-04:002011-09-20T19:50:35.849-04:00Conservatives on Supreme Court Tell Georgia It's OK to Execute Innocent Man

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia writes that there is nothing constitutionally wrong with executing an innocent man. Justice Clarence Thomas agrees. These are the people that conservatives appoint to the highest court in America. Liberals are outraged at the statement. So in the next presidential election we will see if pro-lifers are really pro-lifers or if they are merely forced birthers.

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-11752740587450754552011-09-19T18:03:00.001-04:002011-09-19T18:03:25.935-04:00Why!

In 1784 Kant wrote, “There will never be a Newton for the blade of grass.” What he meant was that physical science could never explain anything with a purpose, whether it be human thought or a flower’s bending toward the sun. That would have made everything special about living things — and especially us — safe from a purely scientific understanding. It would have kept questions about humanity

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-78444831864861413512011-09-15T16:25:00.000-04:002011-09-15T16:31:30.859-04:00Face It...Republicans Kill Jobs

We should not fight the deficit with spending cuts. We've done that and look what it got us. Fight the deficit the same way Bill Clinton and Al Gore did by spending money in the right way to grow jobs. More people working equals more people paying taxes equals more revenue equals a lowered deficit. Republicans hate the idea of a country that works to the benefit of all its people. That's why

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-43238339746611896022011-09-15T08:22:00.000-04:002011-09-15T08:22:37.453-04:00Alter News

If you have a strong stomach for outrage, this should be one of your daily reads: Alternet News of the Day

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http://climaterealityproject.org/

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-45506914309611152102011-09-11T16:19:00.000-04:002011-09-11T16:19:12.151-04:00Why We Were So Easily Mislead After 9-11

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-42356438824659574662011-09-10T10:58:00.001-04:002011-09-10T10:58:54.173-04:00Bumper Sticker?

Herownself

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-75281726052923670592011-09-08T20:02:00.002-04:002011-09-08T20:02:48.988-04:00Quote of the Day

...what we can’t do – what I won’t do – is let this economic crisis be used as an excuse to wipe out the basic protections that Americans have counted on for decades. I reject the idea that we need to ask people to choose between their jobs and their safety. I reject the argument that says for the economy to grow, we have to roll back protections that ban hidden fees by credit card

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-32908512694858439422011-09-06T08:37:00.001-04:002011-09-06T08:37:57.484-04:00Labor Rainy Day Picnic...Good!

A great appreciation to Senator Andy Berke who stood and delivered a great message to the East TN Labor Day Picnic. "Republicans don't want to climb mountains, they want to blow up mountains!" The crowd was well in excess of the torrential expectations and several local notables came out and heard things they don't normally get to listen to in their regular circle. Roane County Commissioner

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-87888887423411216752011-09-05T08:57:00.001-04:002011-09-05T08:58:37.324-04:00Labor Day Special...Tea Party GOPers Kill Economy

Mission accomplished: Tea party Republicans took the economy hostage and killed job growth:

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-80881689885368722042011-09-03T19:10:00.000-04:002011-09-03T19:10:03.135-04:00Quote of the Day: "Dear Mr. President"

...if you cannot bring yourself to fight for us, if you do not have the stomach for a battle, that is understandable. But step aside and give your base an opportunity to elect the champion we so desperately need. We will always love you, Mr. President, but your base is weary. Lift us up. Susan

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-3647742620656751182011-09-01T08:47:00.002-04:002011-09-01T08:47:52.368-04:00Quote of the Day: Lisa Jackson Smacks Down EPA Haters

Some in Washington are working to weaken safeguards and undermine laws that protect our families from pollution that causes asthma, cancer and other illnesses, especially in children. Big polluters are lobbying Congress for loopholes to use our air and water as dumping grounds. The result won't be more jobs; it will be more mercury in our air and water and more health threats to our kids. As a

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-74413927706676916822011-08-30T20:17:00.000-04:002011-08-30T20:17:20.298-04:00TVA Environmental Impact Statement for Bellafonte

Odd that this is the source that showed up on my Google Alerts but here it is.

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-33000630262759260392011-08-30T17:05:00.000-04:002011-08-30T17:05:56.321-04:00Science Guy Confuses Fox Viewers With Facts and Stuff Like That

This is too weird but true.

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-92146872162365810772011-08-29T13:16:00.003-04:002011-08-29T13:18:29.479-04:00Republican Officials Who Don't Support Workers Can't March in Labor Day Parade

Well. duh! "It should come as no surprise that organizers choose not to invite elected officials who have openly attacked worker's rights or stood idly by while their political party fought to strip public workers of their right to collectively bargain," Radtke said. "It is a time for working families to come together to celebrate their hard work and a time where we recognize the labor

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-55124520765342427472011-08-29T08:16:00.000-04:002011-08-29T08:16:19.192-04:00Quote of the Day

"We don't have a deficit problem. We have a jobs problem."...Richard Trumka From the one man in America who makes the most sense...

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-88615902968681770912011-08-25T20:35:00.000-04:002011-08-25T20:35:03.090-04:00From Our "Ya know, if I lived in Virginia right now, I’d be looking for some tar and feathers" Department

Eric Cantor's state had an earthquake, is about to have a hurricane, and he thinks FEMA is a four letter word? Idiot!

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-69799440460920079072011-08-23T12:25:00.000-04:002011-08-23T12:25:33.497-04:00Why Taxing the Rich is Right

Exactly: The very rich benefit most from national security, government-funded research, infrastructure, and property laws. Defending the country benefits the rich more, because they have more to defend. Why the Rich Should Pay More Anybody who thinks we are in Afghanistan and Iraq because poor people and the middle class needed us to "Fight 'em over there, so we won't have to fight 'em over

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-52139996839114728962011-08-17T08:41:00.000-04:002011-08-17T08:41:37.189-04:00What Group Ranks Lower Than Atheists and Muslims in America?...The Tea Party

Actually, there is more than one group that ranks lower than Atheists and Muslims...Americans don't much like the Christian Right, either. Name one thing that is good that TeaHadists have done for people?

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-42429035553445331022011-08-17T07:34:00.001-04:002011-08-17T07:34:50.026-04:00Quote of the Day

Intimidation, deception, subterfuge and basic spelling errors will not intimidate us nor will it chill a free press rooted in comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-71909258897441177332011-08-15T08:17:00.000-04:002011-08-15T08:17:44.748-04:00If You'll Quit Posting Photoshops of My President, I'll Quit Posting Actual Photos of Your Candidate

I'm not saying Rick Perry is dumb...Wait...That is exactly what I'm saying. Perry got a C minus in animal husbandry at Texas A&M. He would have made a much better grade but there were two goats in the class and they must have crashed the curve.

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-76614869197011826462011-08-14T18:15:00.000-04:002011-08-14T18:15:21.325-04:00Sunday Reader: What Do You Call a Cult With Puppetmasters instead of a Leader?

This piece is very well done. I plan to refer to it often: In this latest incarnation, this new rebranding of the same conservative ideologies has been renamed the "Tea Party". It was largely started and funded by the lobbyist/corporate wing of the GOP, and promoted by Fox News to such an extent that it was beginning to look like a national sport. The premise was "average citizens" who just

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-26024658036325109432011-08-12T08:03:00.000-04:002011-08-12T08:03:09.790-04:00Today's Must Read: Democrats Need a Platform and a Plan

Democrats pledge that if you vote for them they will fight for you. Democrats will make the wealthy pay their fair share. We will end Republican tax policy that sends American jobs abroad. We will run government like it should be run, for all the people and not just for business, special interests, or the wealthy. We will protect your right to organize and fight for a fair wage and safe

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-21018203052741047822011-08-09T18:40:00.002-04:002011-08-09T18:40:39.006-04:00Thank You, Tea Party!

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-84526020874601253852011-08-09T18:32:00.002-04:002011-08-09T18:32:51.101-04:00Just ten years ago this country was running huge surpluses and paying off its debt. But then we elected Obama and all hell broke loose. Oh, wait...

Today's must read: Just ten years ago we were paying off debt at a rate that would have completely paid it all off by now. But under George W. Bush we cut taxes for the rich and more than doubled military spending. We deregulated and stopped enforcing laws. We let the big corporations run rampant. Our federal budget turned from huge surpluses to massive deficits, and Bush said it was "

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-85372484270506687162011-08-08T20:40:00.000-04:002011-08-08T20:40:34.799-04:00Quote of the Day

“Mark my words on this: we became the greatest country on earth because we made better decisions than any other nation,” he continued. “And we made better decisions because we used shared consciousness, shared reality, rule of reason, best evidence, democratic discourse, free debate to figure out what’s more likely than not to be the best decision here. It didn’t always work, but it worked a

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-63928559763271678042011-08-07T09:20:00.001-04:002011-08-07T11:36:32.533-04:00Sunday Reader

If you only read one thing today make it this. What do you get when you cross a long drug habit, a quick temper and a gun? The answer is two life terms for murder, earliest release date 2026. On the other hand, what do you get when you cross two nation states, a large corporation, three tons of poison and 8,000 dead human beings? The answer is, retirement with full pay and benefits. And then

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-60131409619536078722011-08-05T13:14:00.003-04:002011-08-05T13:15:27.576-04:00Stock Market

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-27364492098813222712011-08-02T08:14:00.000-04:002011-08-02T08:14:38.289-04:00Republican Corruption...But then I repeat Myself

Apparently desperate in Wisconsin, Republican operatives working for the Koch brothers funded group Americans For Prosperity (AFP) have been caught sending absentee ballots to Democrats with instructions to return the ballots after the election date. From the Examiner

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-35840598161277921322011-07-29T10:39:00.000-04:002011-07-29T10:39:57.527-04:00From Our "Bradlee Dean is a Dick" Department

I wish for every parent moments when you are more than just proud of your children. One of these came for me when I got a call from my son from inside Roane County High School saying he and his brother had walked out of the Bradlee Dean "concert" in the gym during school hours because of its overt racist and homophobic message. They were with about twenty other students who rose up in protest and

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-36609837025474486882011-07-29T08:17:00.000-04:002011-07-29T08:17:25.159-04:00A Sane Republican?

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-4598774775667845722011-07-26T08:06:00.003-04:002011-07-26T08:07:15.501-04:00

Here's the complete must read article.

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-89416093554414190012011-07-21T14:07:00.000-04:002011-07-21T14:07:17.562-04:00Coal news

Local Roane County citizens were up in arms when they thought our county fathers were going to allow TVA to dump coal ash into the Midtown landfill. I wonder how they'll feel when they find out that their new Teahadist Congressman Scott DesJarlias is in favor of allowing coal to be classified the same a kitchen garbage and, yes, going into the Midtown landfill? The Midtown landfill is currently

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-31891651160927871562011-07-17T08:18:00.001-04:002011-07-17T09:21:25.255-04:00The Sunday Reader: ALEC Pushes For the End to "Truth, Justice, and the American Way"

The American Legislative Exchange Council, ALEC, is working overtime and with huge cash infusions to become America's shadow government. The recent rash of anti teacher, public school, union, environment, regulation, tax, etc. legislation all hails from ALEC's legion of hired legal hit men run by Shook, Hardy, and Bacon, the law firm representing big tobacco and big coal and big TVA in their

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-3972170446549652422011-06-08T09:18:00.000-04:002011-06-08T09:18:46.378-04:00This Story Should End Our Wars...Why hasn't it?

...At one point, soldiers in 3rd Platoon talked about throwing candy out of a Stryker vehicle as they drove through a village and shooting the children who came running to pick up the sweets. Where are the prosecutions of Americans for war crimes? Why isn't this on the news? Why are we turning our troops into monsters? This is very disturbing and you will see pictures that will blister your

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-73481255901898811462011-06-08T09:11:00.000-04:002011-06-08T09:11:10.997-04:00Olbermann Speaks to the Stone

Rolling Stone lets Keith talk.

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-68277437092487014502011-06-06T21:45:00.000-04:002011-06-06T21:45:03.654-04:00Architecture as Sustainable Art

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-5865470265028931362011-05-24T20:38:00.001-04:002011-05-24T20:38:40.005-04:00We Don't Have a Deficit Problem...We Have a Republican Problem

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-28628335360822864932011-05-23T09:55:00.000-04:002011-05-23T09:55:57.948-04:00Republicans Good For Corporations...Humans and Other Living Things Not So Much

Congressional Budget Office and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services did the math: Republicans will double the out of pocket cost of health care for older Americans. For Tennesseans it will more than double. Da Facts

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-17560855036644710362011-05-18T11:26:00.000-04:002011-05-18T11:26:34.473-04:00They're laughing at us and they're sad for us at the same time

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-25989877376648074932011-05-18T08:20:00.001-04:002011-05-18T08:26:43.817-04:00Listen While You Work

AS I observe four traitor Democrats support the Republican standoff to preserve the billions of tax dollars we give to big oil even in the face of massive big oil profits and high gas prices, I get upset and frustrated at ever changing things for the better in this once great nation. AS evidence witness Newt Gingrich, bless his black little heart and soul if he has one, being publicly scorned

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-77585576697985513872011-05-14T08:53:00.001-04:002011-05-14T08:53:53.213-04:00Can We AS an Exceptional Nation Read Simple Things?

http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/6/jpg-2.png Even more of the obvious

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-88428839099792804942011-05-12T10:11:00.000-04:002011-05-13T16:48:51.088-04:00"I'm Not a Very Good American...I Do My Own Thinking"

Whites Creekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07272181564543086371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620070542702431997.post-34348197382313176342011-05-12T07:11:00.000-04:002011-05-13T16:48:51.213-04:00Congressman, Why Do You Hate Women?

Roane County, TN, is split by Congressional districts and therefore has to suffer the pain and disgrace of having TWO Tea Party Republicans in Congress. Rep.s Fleischman and DesJarlais have taken the rapists side in the battle against women's health. While their brothers in the Senate filibuster job creation in America, Joe and Scott are busy making sure rapists get what they want in having their

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