You might be a Knox Countian if...

[bird jam]

More gun laws = fewer deaths, 50-state study says

This has nothing, directly, to do with being a Knox Countian, but....

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...I'm so pleased Knoxville has fewer homicides than one might expect if one were familiar with Knoxville.

How many of the states had giant warehouses full of trampolines though? I would imagine those states had more deaths.

[toby]

How many of the states had giant warehouses full of trampolines though? I would imagine those states had more deaths.

You win the Saysuncle poster logic award for this month!

[Tess]

By coincidence, this photo appeared on my Facebook page today -- Bergen Co., NJ.
Click and note the autos in the background

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Awesome! That is it. The old timey trampoline park--they were the rage at one point. We even had one in Harriman, up by the Beacon drive-in.

[SnM]

S'funny, saw an ad earlier for trampolines from Kmart I think. It's like "Invasion of the Body Bouncers."

[SnM]

The weather shamans were off on precipitation amounts today, by about a factor of 3. Got about 1.75 inches here so far, much of it in the last few hours. Wonder if another daily precipitation total has been/will be set? Edit: The answer, apparently, is no. According to one almanac, the record is 2.98, set in 1963.

Just occurred to me that, had that been snow instead of rain, it would have been about 18 inches, meaning we avoided a week-early 20th anniversary reenactment of the the Blizzard of '93, which many northeast of us were forced to participate in.

[SnM]

Speaking of the county mayor's political philosophy, the latest Cityview

COVER STORY: You Don’t Know Burchett

reveals it: As one might expect, libertarian, "except for drugs and stuff."

[SnM]

TN GOP, friend of the worker, when, like Mitt Romney, they think workers can't hear them:

Caught on tape, state Rep. Jimmy Eldridge, the Republican chairman of the House Consumer and Human Resources Committee:

In the video taken before the start of a committee meeting, you can hear Eldridge complaining to a couple of people who appear to be constituents about this letter to the editor in the Jackson Sun. The letter criticizes Gov. Bill Haslam's workers' compensation bill, which rigs the system for employers. After making a few disparaging remarks about the letter writer, Eldridge promises to ram the bill through his committee.

"I’m going to take care of that bill," he says, "that freight train is going off ..."

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...This morning, the bill cleared the House Consumer and Human Resources Subcommittee whose chair, Rep. Susan Lynn, wouldn't agree to hear from injured workers in attendance and hoping to testify. She said they could all speak once the bill is heard in Eldridge's full committee. We hope they can talk fast.

When the only good coming out of your legislators is when one of them withdraws a bill

Jim Tracy Withdraws His Ultrasound Bill

you know you have bad legislators

New Anti-Gay Bill Passes Senate Committee; Should State's Psychology Students Learn to Pray Away the Gay?

Haslam Concerned About New 'All Comers' Bill

They're even embarrassing you on the national stage, too

Congresswoman Diane Black (R-TN) Fights Birth Control

And regarding these legislators, MP's Cagle has some choice words

Law-Making Hypocrisy: Conservative Legislators Hate Mandates, Except When They Don't

When even fellow conservatives decry your hypocrisy, maybe you should rethink what you're doing?

Cue arch-conservative-apologist J. Ringo to come along with his rote "they do it too" defense, only when you got the supermajority, and're pretty much the only game in town, pointing fingers at "them" gets revealed as the shallow, reflexive, unthinking exercise it is real fast.

[Johnny Ringo]

Cue arch-conservative-apologist J. Ringo to come along with his rote "they do it too" defense, only when you got the supermajority, and're pretty much the only game in town, pointing fingers at "them" gets revealed as the shallow, reflexive, unthinking exercise it is real fast.

See? I don't even need to post any more. You can print my comments for me, and then condemn me for them, and I don't even have to lift a finger or press a key. That frees up a lot of time for me. Thanks!

[Boris]

See? I don't even need to post any more. You can print my comments for me, and then condemn me for them, and I don't even have to lift a finger or press a key. That frees up a lot of time for me. Thanks!

Thank you, too. And go thank yourself.

[binR Bishop]

Speaking of the county mayor's political philosophy, the latest Cityview

COVER STORY: You Don’t Know Burchett

reveals it: As one might expect, libertarian, "except for drugs and stuff."

Apparently I DO know Burchett, cause I didn't learn one thing from that story.