You might be a Knox Countian if...

[Brian Paone]

You might be a Knox Countian if...

...you have the stones to call publicly on the Commission to do as it says, or the citizens will do it for them.

I have been told my sense of humor can be a bit puzzling at times, though.

Of course, that particular quote got a little butchered in translation. It was meant to read something like this:

"...we feel it's paramount the commission takes it upon themselves. It shows their leadership; says that, 'Hey, we want to be held more accountable.'"


Of course, that doesn't read a whole helluva lot better, but I think I was running on about 3 hours' sleep at that point.

Anyway, I see #9 has been spreading the word around here. Thanks, #9! We got 130+ online signatures in our first week of operation, plus another 7 full paper petitions. Grand total - about 235 or so. We need to average about 350 signatures a week in order to reach our target of 2,000 informal signatures to take before the Commission in November. I would be shocked if we fell short of this goal.

I know I'm a new poster here, but I'd still like to make just one request of this community. Please, if you believe this county needs a recall amendment to its charter, take the literal 10 seconds that it would take to sign the petition:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/r...ent/index.html

All you have to do is sign. We'll take care of the rest.

Thanks!

[SnM]

You might be a Knox Countian if...

...calls for a special election are all just the result of smoke and mirrors in the moocher's office.

[binR Bishop]

You might be a Knox Countian if...

You just busted a gut laughing at the Intergovernmental Committee meeting, in which Lumpy's declaration last week that he discussed the stormwater ordinance outside Commission meetings was brought up.

John Ownings recommended that to cure potential Sunshine violations, Commission needed to reconsider the ordinance (which is significant, of course, because the final result could be very different with this 11 person Commission).

Lumpy vehemently denied "deliberating," whined about being picked on, and eventually threatened to go through the record and find other Sunshine violations by other Commissioners if he was "singled out."

He interrupted Ownings while Ownings was answering a question, prompting Ownings to tell him "I haven't finished my statement yet."

He'd just started picking a fight with Tony Norman when Chairman Craig Leuthold cut him off and adjourned the meeting. The last thing I saw before the screen went black was Lumpy stomping out of the room.

It was truly his best performance yet. And of course, the funniest thing is that if he'd just learn to keep his yap shut, none of this would have come up. I bet his friends the homebuilders are REAL happy with him about now.

And oh yeah, end result was that Intergovernmental took no action, but there will be a motion to add reconsideration of the ordinance to next Monday's full Commission meeting.

[SnM]

You might be Knox County Commission if...

...all that smoke and those mirrors from the mayor's office must have bedazzled you, because here you are, setting forward a plan to seek a special election.

[SnM]

You might be a Knox Countian if...
...Lumpy vehemently denied "deliberating," whined about being picked on, and eventually threatened to go through the record and find other Sunshine violations by other Commissioners if he was "singled out..."

...He'd just started picking a fight with Tony Norman when Chairman Craig Leuthold cut him off and adjourned the meeting. The last thing I saw before the screen went black was Lumpy stomping out of the room.

It was truly his best performance yet. And of course, the funniest thing is that if he'd just learn to keep his yap shut, none of this would have come up. I bet his friends the homebuilders are REAL happy with him about now...

Ah, Lumpy. The circus done run off and joined county commission. We'll miss him when the clown car rolls up and swallows him in for the final time.

And he was apparently in good form at the special election meeting, too, arguing with fellow commissioners and the public. Could his developer buddies have put an emu up his wazoo?

[SnM]

You might be a Knox Countian if...

...with apologies to Donovan, Glenn Campbell and Lumpy Alan Coe...

...recent events remind you of a song or two:

Sunshine Scoobieman
Sunshine shone plainly on my cellphone today
Could've flipped out easy a-but I'll get my way
It'll take time, I know it but in a while
It's gonna be fine, I know it, I'll do it with guile
'Cause I made my mind up the vote's going to be mine

I'll tell you right now
Any trick in the book now, Lumpy, all that I can find
Commission's hustlin' just makes a little scene
When I say they'll be fooled I think that you know what I mean
We stood in a hall at sunset, do you remember when?
I know a hall where, Lumpy, the votes never end
When you've made your mind up your vote's going to be mine

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm
I'll pick up your vote and buffoon your little mind
'Cause I made my mind up your vote's going to be mine
I'll tell you right now
Any trick in the book now, Lumpy, all that I can find

Herb Moncier and the chancellor ain't got a-nothin' on me
I can make like a turtle and dig the dirt in our streams, yeah!
A you-you-you can just sit there a-thinking on your concrete throne
'bout all the developers you can a-have for your own
When you've made your mind up your vote's going to be mine
I'll pick up your vote and buffoon your little mind
When you've made your mind up your vote's going to be mine

Lumpy Lamb and John Valiant, they got a-all that I need
I can make like a turtle and dig the dirt in our streams, yeah!
A you-you-you can just sit there a-thinking on your concrete throne
'bout all the developers you can a-have for your own
When you've made your mind up forever to be mine
I'll pick up your vote and buffoon your little mind
When you've made your mind up your vote's going to be mine

I'll pick up your vote
I'll pick up your vote
And buffoon your little mind
(Fading) Buffoon Your Little Mind


Concrete Cowboy
I've been on Commission so long
Never knowin' right from wrong
I know every pipe in these dirty sidewalks of Broadway
Where hustle's the name of the game
And nice guys get washed away like the dirt in the rain
There's been a load of compromisin'
On the road to my horizon
But I ain't gonna be where the sun's shinin' on me

Like a concrete cowboy
Fighting off the best pipe with newfangled placebos
Like a concrete cowboy
Taking text and emails from developers I don't even know
And offers comin' over the phone

Well, I know my rep is stained
But a smile hides all my shame
And I'm no clown when I'm plyin' the trade that's takin' the wrong way
And I dream of the things I'll do
With a developer's promise of a dollar tucked inside my shoe
There's been a load of compromisin'
On the road to my horizon
But I ain't gonna be where the sun's shinin' on me

Like a concrete cowboy
Fighting off the best pipe with newfangled placebos
Like a concrete cowboy
Taking text and emails from developers I don't even know
And offers comin' over the phone

Like a concrete cowboy
Fighting off the best pipe with newfangled placebos

(Fading) Like a concrete cowboy
Taking text and emails from developers I don't even know

[binR Bishop]

That's beyond cubes.

[SnM]

That's beyond cubes.

Awwwwwww...

[Daizy]

You might be a Knox Countian if...Lumpy vehemently denied "deliberating," whined about being picked on, and eventually threatened to go through the record and find other Sunshine violations by other Commissioners if he was "singled out."

He interrupted Ownings while Ownings was answering a question, prompting Ownings to tell him "I haven't finished my statement yet."

I am so, so sorry that I did not get to see this.

[SnM]

You might be a Knox Countian if...

...you welcome georgia to East Tennessee.

As you pass through, please pay no nevermind to our
arrogance, incompetence, nepotism, and corruption.








(We still haven't got a handle on this whole "government of the people, by the people, for the people" thing. But we're trying. Very trying. Forgive us.)