Mon
Dec 31 2007
06:35:pm
By: R. Neal  shortURL
What are your predictions for Blount County for 2008?
Here's mine:
Blount County Mayor Jerry Cunningham will resign and open a sensitivity and anger management training school, and Judge W. Dale Young will step down from the bench and start an immigration law firm offering free services for "illegals".
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- Alcoa Schools close for teacher shortages (1 reply)
- City of Alcoa's costly wish list for Alcoa Highway. (1 reply)
- Blount County coronavirus cases at 39,189 as of 4/23/2022 (1 reply)
- Blount County coronavirus cases at 39,079 as of 4/2/2022 (1 reply)
- Blount County coronavirus cases at 38,344 as of 2/12/2022 (1 reply)
- Blount County coronavirus cases at 33,274 as of 1/22/2022 (2 replies)
- Blount County coronavirus cases at 26,253 as of 1/03/2022 (1 reply)
- Blount Memorial at record high for COVID-19 hospitalizations (1 reply)
- Blount County coronavirus cases nearly 16,000 as of 07/12/2021 (3 replies)
- Blount County coronavirus pandemic numbers (2 replies)
- The City of Alcoa's uncontrolled and costly development (2 replies)
TN Progressive
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- Pellissippi Parkway extension delayed again (BlountViews)
- Blount County early voting record turnout (BlountViews)
- Louisville, TN, town center coming soon? (BlountViews)
- WATCH THIS SPACE. (Left Wing Cracker)
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TN Politics
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- Judge allows UFC cage matches to go ahead on White House lawn (TN Lookout)
- Stockard on the Stump: Tennessee keeping intensive probation program alive – barely (TN Lookout)
- Tennessee waste task force eyes changes to law allowing local rejection of landfills (TN Lookout)
- Nearly half of adults struggled to afford healthcare last year, survey finds (TN Lookout)
- Trump says ‘great settlement’ of Iran war in the works, signing ceremony soon (TN Lookout)
Knox TN Today
- Famous DGG is out there, DeSean Bishop is here (Knox TN Today)
- Thomas Cole: New KFD Asst. Chief, 134th Wing’s Chief Master Sergeant (Knox TN Today)
- Chris Bryant + Winston Fellows + D-Day for Derek Dooley ++ (Knox TN Today)
- Meet Miley, Monday’s Parent-A-Child (Knox TN Today)
- Dr. Conrad Ivie performs first of a kind surgery in the state (Knox TN Today)
- Mission Monday: Today’s focus on YWCA Knoxville’s Victim Advocacy Program (Knox TN Today)
- 6/15 HEADLINES: News and events from Knox, World, USA, Tennessee & Historic Notes (Knox TN Today)
- The Knox County Sheriff Primary will stand. Here’s what the GOP board was really deciding. (Knox TN Today)
- Knoxville Street Medicine seeks to support the unhoused (Knox TN Today)
- Vols win 4×100 relay, team is third in NCAA track (Knox TN Today)
- PAT the play returns to the stage in June (Knox TN Today)
- Easy Bacon & Swiss Quiche: Breakfast meal prep (Knox TN Today)
Local TV News
- Low humidity through mid-week (WATE)
- Knoxville Police search for two missing children (WATE)
- Ethanol detected upstream from Rock Creek Campground in Wartburg (WATE)
- Knoxville Weather: Less humid and quiet weather to start the workweek (WATE)
- 'Breaking a window may save that child's life' Knoxville Fire Department addresses hot car dangers (WATE)
- WEATHER AWARE: Sunday storm chances bring a damaging wind threat (WATE)
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- Vols’ new strength coach may play key role in Baylor star DGG’s decision - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Teen charged in connection with disappearance of Collegedale man - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Chattanooga’s July 4 drone show needed federal approval due to Spanish national team - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Losing Ground: Historic Black neighborhoods in Chattanooga face new pressures - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
Wire Reports
- Trump sought to break Iran’s regime. He settled for reopening Hormuz. - The Washington Post (US News)
- U.S. stock futures jump on Iran deal to end the war; Japan's Nikkei surges 5%: Live updates - CNBC (Business)
- Trump won't back FISA renewal without his SAVE America Act voting bill - Axios (US News)
- Exclusive | Mining Tycoon Gina Rinehart Buys Over $1 Billion SpaceX Stake - WSJ (Business)
- Backlash Is Growing Over Kevin O’Leary’s Data Center. He Is Blaming China. - WSJ (US News)
- Trump, 80, Gets Ultimate Birthday Humiliation on Fight Night - The Daily Beast (US News)
- US: Skydiving plane crash leaves 12 people dead in Missouri - DW (US News)
- In Georgia, Senate hopeful Mike Collins celebrates being Trump's latest 'MAGA' pick in GOP primaries - AP News (US News)
- Kennedy Center to establish new endowment in Trump's name after court forces name change - CBS News (US News)
- Dollar hits 10-day low as US, Iran reach peace deal - Reuters (Business)
- Gold extends gains after US, Iran reach peace deal - Reuters (Business)
- Anthropic scrambles after Trump administration freezes its top AI models - Financial Times (Business)
- In a surprise twist, Brian Kemp endorses Burt Jones for governor - Atlanta Journal-Constitution (US News)
- Nara Organics recalls infant formula after 3 babies are diagnosed with botulism - NBC News (Business)
- SpaceX Stock Began Trading. What’s Ahead for It This Week. - Barron's (Business)
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heehee
Mine is not as good as yours but here it is.
In 2008 the Blount County Good Old Boys Network will see unprecedented opposition to their style of doin' bid'ness behind closed doors and on open patios. To retaliate this uprising they will have to resort to all kinds of name callin' and tomfoolery which will only make their dirty dealin's all worse.
It other words kids, the fun* has not yet begun.
Year of the Paranoid ... again
I believe that there will be an invasion of Blount County by Gay Illegal Russian Immigrants, that'll break into everyone's houses, steal everyone's Guns, and force the homeowners to watch Gay marriages on their own front lawns, while they burn American Flags at the reception. Then, and only then, will Republican Jesus' brother, Mike Huckabee, descend from the heavens, and will offer all non-neocon believers a chance to redeem themselves, at His feet. Local Party officials will rejoice, as they find out that Global Warming was merely a Left Wing conspiracy designed to destroy Commerce. Iraq will give away ALL of their Oil to Chevron, BP, Shell, and Exxon; and the price at the pump will miraculously drop to $0.90 / gallon. Iraqis will celebrate in the streets, tossing chocolates and flowers to everyone, as they wave their G. W. Busche posters in the air. Baghdad will be renamed New Crawford, in honour of the Crusading King of America.
aargh
The predominately republican government will keep us in chains, do business they want to, and lie to us....
Sorry to be a realist....
Realism
Yes, I agree and digress. I do predict that next year, we'll be 20 inches down in rainfall--at least. Skeptics will claim it's a cyclic phenomenon, until the following year, when all the Mountain Top dwelling folk will be forced to import drinking and non-potable water, after they realize their Wells can't be drilled deep enough.
Water Crisis Scenarios For The US Southeast
Ha
You mean when all the mountaintop dwelling folk sue the county to drag water lines up the mountain to service them.
How funny. "Back in the day"
How funny. "Back in the day" these areas were populated by moonshiners and other types of folks hiding from the law and such and now everyone wants to live there. Who'd a thunk it??? LOL
I liked BL's remarks on another post about the sewer systems ansd septic tanks delighting residents living below who have well water!
Another year watching our beautiful mountains being raped.
Hey R!
You going to make a few predictions for 2010?
Hah! My guess, but not
Hah! My guess, but not putting words in his mouth, the prediction for 2010 is more of the same.