Wed
Jan 23 2008
02:04:pm
Discussing
- 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)
- Alcoa City Schools opened Wednesday, July 22nd (1 reply)
TN Progressive
- Alcoa Safe Streets Plan Survey (BlountViews)
- WATCH THIS SPACE. (Left Wing Cracker)
- Report on Blount County, TN, No Kings event (BlountViews)
- America As It Is Right Now (RoaneViews)
- A friend sent this: From Captain McElwee's Tall Tales of Roane County (RoaneViews)
- The Meidas Touch (RoaneViews)
- Massive Security Breach Analysis (RoaneViews)
- (Whitescreek Journal)
- Lee's Fried Chicken in Alcoa closed (BlountViews)
- Alcoa, Hall Rd. Corridor Study meeting, July 30, 2024 (BlountViews)
- My choices in the August election (Left Wing Cracker)
- July 4, 2024 - aka The Twilight Zone (Joe Powell)
TN Politics
- Federal judge orders release of some records for Abrego Garcia’s vindictive prosecution claim (TN Lookout)
- Trump administration agrees to drop anti-DEI criteria for stalled health research grants (TN Lookout)
- Through a glass darkly: The photographs that told 2025’s stories (TN Lookout)
- Homeless youth say they need more from schools, social services (TN Lookout)
- Afghans flee Taliban, find refuge and faith — and ICE — in Memphis (TN Lookout)
- Tennessee’s top stories of 2025 (TN Lookout)
Knox TN Today
- Cheers to a New Year! (Knox TN Today)
- The Book Whisperer’s Family 2025 Jólabókaflóðið (Knox TN Today)
- Vols find way to lose to Illini; Heupel promises improvement (Knox TN Today)
- Young Reader’s Shelf: The Hobbit & JRR Tolkien’s birthday (Knox TN Today)
- Justin Mowery + Melissa McDonald + Jim Crabtree of CCP (Knox TN Today)
- Mia Kinney, 2025 5-Star Preps Volleyball Player of the Year (Knox TN Today)
- Hats off to creativity (Knox TN Today)
- HEADLINES: Happy New Year’s Eve with tracking 2026 from the world, NYC, to local (Knox TN Today)
- 5Star Preps names their Boys and Girls Golfer of 2025 (Knox TN Today)
- John Götz: The British sympathizer who also contributed (Knox TN Today)
- Have a great 2026! (Knox TN Today)
- Four former Lady Vols land on Naismith Hall of Fame ballot (Knox TN Today)
Local TV News
- Tennessee caps non-conference slate with dominant win over SC State (WATE)
- Funeral arrangements announced for Blount County Deputy Justin Mowery (WATE)
- USPS postmark change could impact Tennessee voter registration (WATE)
- Anticipation builds in Knoxville for New Year's Eve celebration (WATE)
- Two charged after stabbing in Tazewell involving Pagan’s Motorcycle Club (WATE)
- How to protect yourself as Tennessee sees increase in flu activity (WATE)
News Sentinel
State News
- Remembering the life of Esther Lee Cleven - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Hargis: Important offseason ahead for Heupel, Vols - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Readers pick top Chattanooga area stories for 2025 - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
- Five observations as UTC’s men enter SoCon play - Chattanooga Times Free Press (Times Free Press)
Wire Reports
- Times Square has a dazzling new ball for the New Year’s Eve drop — and it’s the biggest yet - CNN (US News)
- US stocks are set for a third-straight year of stellar gains - CNN (Business)
- China urges Netherlands to correct Nexperia 'mistakes' - Reuters (Business)
- European markets open mixed on last trading day of 2025; Defense stocks rise - CNBC (Business)
- Trump vetoes bipartisan bill to provide clean water to rural Southeastern Colorado - Colorado Public Radio (US News)
- Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of JFK, dies aged 35 - DW (US News)
- Trump administration says it's freezing child care funds to Minnesota after series of fraud schemes - AP News (US News)
- Today is Warren Buffett’s last day as Berkshire CEO. Business leaders tell us what they learned from him - CNN (Business)
- China's factory activity snaps record slump on festive stockpiling - Reuters (Business)
- Former US Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, of Colorado, dies at 92 - Politico (US News)
- Body found amid search for missing Texas teen Camila Mendoza Olmos - CBS News (US News)
- Is the US economy strong heading into 2026? The picture is complicated - Al Jazeera (Business)
- Deep Divide Inside Fed Raises Questions About Timing of Further Rate Cuts - The New York Times (Business)
- What's driving the rollercoaster in gold and silver prices? - ABC News (Business)
- Donald Trump confirms US carried out strike on ‘dock area’ in Venezuela - Financial Times (US News)
Local area websites:
Blount DemsMC Democrats
Raven Society
League of Women Voters
Wendy Pitts Reeves
Stop Alcoa Parkway
KnoxViews
Knox Dems
RoaneViews
TennViews
TN Clean Water Network
TN Dems
Government websites:
Blount CountyCity of Alcoa
City of Maryville
State of Tennessee
TN Code Annotated
TN General Assembly
UT CTAS
UT MTAS
Media websites:
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Bonds
If China were to dump all of their US Bonds, what would happen? What if China, Japan, and Saudi Arabia decided that the return on U.S. Bonds were of little value to them, and decided not to buy anymore? What would happen to our vibrant Economy? Would we be able BORROW money anymore, and from who?
I do not believe in the
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. Thomas Paine, Age of Reason.
Do birds have feathers? Of
Do birds have feathers? Of course they lied. And anyone in his administration that was worth anything stepped down when they discovered it was all a scam. Then when he (Bush) realized that the people were getting wise, he finally had that dumbass Rumsfeld step down, and tried to claim that he was misinformed. Just because he's a moron doesn't mean everyone else is. Maybe those of you who watch Fox News, cause you don't like the Liberal slant, would have known all about this years ago instead of just the past 6 months. Fox News should be called the Bush News Network!
mrsbrad04
they discovered it was all a scam
Do you really think that the ones who stepped down, didn't know that this was an Oil Grab from the beginning? I knew, as I'm sure many others did, that when Cheney had that Secret Energy Task Force meeting in 2002, and the rhetoric came out about WMDs; we were preparing for one of the most unethical journeys ever imagined in Human History. 100,000 to 600,000 Iraqis and 4,000 Brave American Soldiers later; our Nation's bankrupt, yet there are still Sheeple who go out shopping for Humvees and other Gargantuous SUVs, Detroit shows off their new Gasoline Hogs, because they all have this wild thwarted mindless belief that the Oil companies are gonna win, and we'll be paying $1.00/gallon at the pumps again. It ain't gonna happen, and to add to our War Bankruptcy, we're gonna be paying over $5.00/gallon within a year.
MrsBrad, I am wholeheartedly glad that you and most of the folks here, weren't sucked into this mindless Texo-Fascist nightmare. We WILL overcome, but our Nation will unfortunately first have to suffer a very painful era of re-educating the masses.
Obama versus McCain
Coming Novembre 2008: Obama vs. McCain (based on SC's returns)
McCain was borne in Panama, so I guess we need to git Katherine Harris outta retirement to so she can force the issue of McCain's inability to serve as President, since he's not naturally borne, and yet again overthrow the election.
Let's borrow Money for an Oil War. Ye'awn to?
2 TRILLION Dollars ago, we could have weaned ourselves from Middle Eastern Resource dependency, but a bunch of backwood Texans in the Whitehouse decided to invade and steal another's resources, to merely protect their buddies stranglehold on our wallets. And what do we have to show for it? $100 / barrel Oil with $3.00 / gallon Gasoline, $6.00 / gallon Milk, $1000 / ounce Gold, a worthless currency, Emergency Economic Stimulus Packages, and a Military stretched to a breaking point. We are witnessing Corporate Fascism, via the Neo-Con Party. (Not even all of the Repubs are falling for this crap.) The ONLY tool the Neo-Cons have left, is to rule by fear. And they're pretty good at getting their Corporate Owned Media Outlets to spout off "Terror Here, Terror There, Terror Terror Everywhere!" Real News has to be sifted from the Internet and Blogs.
You have got to be kidding.
Apparently, you did not read the link below while surfing the left-wing website you got the story from. You are sourcing a story propagated by an organization receiving funding from George Soros. Nice.
(link...)
Typical liberalism.
Lester
receiving funding from
receiving funding from George Soros.
So?
Does that make any of the facts about the non-facts non-factual?
Please cite your evidence.
Did you expect Haliburton and Fox News to fund the study?
(Sorry if I stole your punchline to the poll, Forrest.)
No, but I did expect an anti-Bush group to fund the study.
The point is rational thinking people do not take groups funded by George Soros seriously. Much like you probably would show no credence to a survey administered by the National Right to Life Committee finding that the majority of American’s are opposed to abortion.
Lester
Rational as Pastor Ted
Are you talking about this sexually repressed, meth smoking superfreak? (link...) Or are these the rational folks you're talking about? (link...)
God needs an army? BTW- There is a second half to the Bible.
I'm beginning to think your right, we can't prove some people have evolved.
Yes. 935 times
Yes. 935 times apparently.
(link...)
I'm guilty
I do get my news from FOX because I just don’t like liberal slant. So, guilty as charged.
I know. Bush lied, people died. Blah, blah, blah.
Lester
Please tell us what you learned from FOX.
Dear Lester (phinney),
Please tell us what you learned from FOX.
What was the WMD capability the Bush / Cheney Administration said Iraq HAD?
What WMD capability did Iraq actually have?
What did the Bush / Cheney Administration say was the Iraq government activity with al-Qaida before we invaded?
What did Iraq government activity with al-Qaida did pre-invasion Iraq actually have?
Forrest Erickson
"A clergyman is a man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his earthly ones." Ambrose Bierce
wow
I don't know you from Adam, Lester, but my goodness that comes across as cold and heartless.