WEATHER ALERT...THE PENETRATING COLD FRONT
IS CAUSING FOLKS IN THE NORTH TO
GET A GRIP AND BRACE FOR A VERY
DEEP AND EXTREMELY HARD STABBING
OF FAST STRONG WIND THRUSTS FOLLOWED
BY BUCKETS AND BUCKETS OF MOISTURE.
GOOD NEWS IS IT WILL MISS THE
SOUTH!
News BREAKING LIKE THE WIND!
Hillary Clinton to accept Obama's offer of secretary of state jobHey as Zeek's great grand mother Zelda used to say
"If you can smell it then you is about
to step in it!"
After two years of amplified agenda reporting
the "CHICKENS HAVE COME HOME TO ROOOOOOOOOOOST!"
Boy that sounds so failure..who said that?
Anyway a guy who flat knows the media business
has it figured out..
"With newspapers cutting back and predictions of even worse times ahead,
Rupert Murdoch said the profession may still have a bright future if it can shake free of reporters and editors who he said have forfeited the trust and loyalty of their readers."
OK hold your hammer and sickle..we know Rupert is all about that
nasty old FOX group but unlike most... HIS tribe is still
MAKING MONEY so give him a read OK?
We want to know what you think of the
new KNS! Yep Zeek's Cuz, Zorba has
fixed us a nice poll and you are encouraged to dash over
and vote. Gay Street Quarterbacks were
grousing today about the lack of real news
in the first NEW installment of the KNS.
Fine, is that BAD? Hey they had a heck of a good
murder story, copied from their old files dating back
to 1968 and it has the smell of both a Movie Of The Week
and at least one COPS episode all over it. Did it make
you read the paper today??
FIVE different Republicans have sent
the following into the Media Report Bunker
so it must be worth the space. If you
are looking for it at Hussein's
web
site forget it, his toads PULLED it right
after the last ACORN vote was counted.
Anyway might be fun to put it on the
Frigidare and check them off as he
does what he said he would do!
Check it out.
Few presidential candidates have made more specific promises to American voters than Barack Obama. They came so fast and furious in the latter part of the campaign, you'd be excused for not keeping up. So as a public service, we've put together a handy checklist of some of the biggest Obama promises — culled from his "Blueprint for Change," his campaign speeches and advertisements. Clip it. Save it. And see how he did in four years.
Read More: Election 2008
Taxes
• Give a tax break to 95% of Americans.
• Restore Clinton-era tax rates on top income earners.
• "If you make under $250,000, you will not see your taxes increase by a single dime. Not your income taxes, not your payroll taxes, not your capital gains taxes. Nothing."
• Dramatically simplify tax filings so that millions of Americans will be able to do their taxes in less than five minutes.
• Give American businesses a $3,000 tax credit for every job they create in the U.S.
• Eliminate capital gains taxes for small business and startup companies.
• Eliminate income taxes for seni ors making under $50,000.
• Expand the child and dependent care tax credit.
• Expand the earned income tax credit.
• Create a universal mortgage credit.
• Create a small business health tax credit.
• Provide a $500 "make work pay" tax credit to small businesses.
• Provide a $1,000 emergency energy rebate to families.
Energy
• Spend $15 billion a year on renewable sources of energy.
• Eliminate oil imports from the Middle East in 10 years.
• Increase fuel economy standards by 4% a year.
• Weatherize 1 million homes annually.
• Ensure that 10% of our electricity comes from renewable sources by 2012.
Environment
• Create 5 million green jobs.
• Implement a cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
• Get 1 million plug-in hybrids on the road by 2015.
Labor
• Sign a fair pay restoration act, which would overturn the Supreme Court's pay discrimination ruling.
• Sign into law an employee free choice act — aka card check — to make it easier for unions to organize.
• Make employers offer seven paid sick days per year.
• Increase the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour by 2009.
National security
• Remove troops from Iraq by the summer of 2010.
• Cut spending on unproven missile defense systems.
• No more homeless veterans.
• Stop spending $10 billion a month in Iraq.
• Finish the fight against Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaida terrorists.
Social Security
• Work in a "bipartisan way to preserve Social Security for future generations."
• Impose a Social Security payroll tax on incomes above $250,000.
• Match 50% of retirement savings up to20$1,000 for families earning less than $75,000.
Education
• Demand higher standards and more accountability from our teachers..
Spending
• Go through the budget, line by line, ending programs we don't need and making the ones we do need work better and cost less.
• Slash earmarks.
Health care
• Lower health care costs for the typical family by $2,500 a year.
• Let the uninsured get the same kind of health insurance that members of Congress get.
• Stop insurance companies from discriminating against those who are sick and need care the most.
• Spend $10 billion over five years on health care information technology
GOT THAT? GREAT!
Another column was sent today concerning the
rag tag mess called THE UT VOL FOOTBALL TEAM. Learned
sports writers are saying this team is like
a bicycle without a front wheel.
Here is a disclaimer, the author of this column
has promised a hate book about UT for years! No really,
reportedly had a clandestine sidekicker in Alabama
with tons of back fill to spread on the pages...but
guess what..NO BOOK?
That said, the guy did teach
Sunday School at First Baptist Maryville to
several management types here at the
MR...so there must be at least a
grain of truth in his column..or not?
Give it a read and let us know if
you think it has a smell or is
outstanding unbiased reporting?
Bob Gilbert Column (630)
For Monday, Nov. 17, 2008
It is unthinkable. Unless you think about it.
Tennessee losing nine games in a single football season?
It has been 44 years since Tennessee lost to both Vanderbilt and Kentucky in the same season. That was 1964 when Doug Dickey was in his first year as Vol head coach.
But here we are on the threshold of the final two games of 2008, and the Vols face the possibility, as unthinkable it is might be, of losing in the same year to Vanderbilt and Kentucky, both of which already are bowl-eligible (a minimum of six wins).
The 2008 Vol season is coming to an ugly end.
Athletics director Mike Hamilton has fired head coach Phil Fulmer, who has won 150 games since becoming Tennessee’s head coach in 1992. And the madness of trying to hire a new coach is under way.
Some on Tennessee’s secret “wish list” already have said “thanks, but no thanks.”
In a recent speech at a Maryville civic club, retired SEC commissioner and former Vanderbilt AD Roy Kramer, without naming Hamilton or Tennessee, commented that it is a lot easier to fire a coach than to identify and hire a new one.
Hamilton’s precipitous action, forcing Fulmer to resign or face being fired, could have set the stage for one of the shortest tenures as AD in Tennessee history. Hamilton, in short, could botch this one.
Hamilton hit the jackpot when he hired basketball coach Bruce Pearl a few years ago, but football is the engine that drives Vol athletics. The difference is stadium capacities. Neyland Stadium can seat 100,000 for football. Thompson-Boling Arena can accommodate only 22,000. Do the math. Football has to be successful at Tennessee to generate enough revenue to support the other sports, including women’s basketball, which has won eight national titles.
Hamilton has no coaching background and, until succeeding Dickey a few years ago, no experience as an AD. At Clemson and Wake Forest, he was a bean counter, a fund-raiser. He wouldn’t know the world’s greatest football coach if the man walked into his office, kicked off his shoes and put his smelly feet on Hamilton’s desk.
The deep-pocket donors and influential alumni who endorsed the elevation of Hamilton to succeed Dickey may well have endangered Tennessee’s athletics future.
Hamilton’s gross mishandling of money is a loud alarm bell. He’s run up an enormous debt to build new Vol athletics facilities and to enlarge and fancify existing ones.
By June 30, 2037, if no new projects are undertaken, the UT athletics department will owe approximately $106 million in debt, plus the principle. It is extravagance beyond all comprehension, and Hamilton is the guy with the rich tastes.
If Vol football falls on its face the rest of this decade, Vol athletics will take a hard financial hit, and Hamilton will be responsible. The virtual collapse of the football team in Fulmer’s final season has started Tennessee down that road to disaster.
The current SEC football standings tell a frightening story. Eight of the SEC’s 12 schools, including five in the SEC East, already have qualified for 2008 bowl games. Tennessee is the only one in the SEC East that has not, and the Vols have no chance because their record is 3-7 with only two games left. Auburn (5-6) and Arkansas (4-6) can still qualify.
Vanderbilt, Tennessee’s foe this Saturday, and Kentucky the following week, once were two certain “Ws” in Tennessee’s win column, but they can no longer be taken for granted.
This is a delicate moment in the history of Vol athletics, and there’s no quick-fix on the horizon.
Will the next head coach, whoever it is, be able to reverse Fulmer’s losing trend and begin to replenish the Vol coffers? It is problematic.
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Columnist Bob Gilbert, former Associated Press writer, retired University of Tennessee news operations director and author of the Bob Neyland biography, can be reached at rwgilbert@charter.net
ONE last happy thought today,
the guy we still call
GREAT and made everyone who
lives in a blue state stand
taller is SO missed today.
If you are one of those far left
commie pinko democrat loving VIEW watching
knoxviews.com posting folks, don't read it,
it will make you a tad HOT!
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