In spite of what that email from your buddy says:

Obama, the front-running Democratic presidential candidate, is a Christian, has never been a Muslim, swore his Senate oath on the Bible, says the pledge and generally puts his hand over his heart when he sings the national anthem.

But where do these things come from? From people who dedicate themselves to hateful attacks like that...say, someone like a former CIA operative:

I just talked to friend who was one of the 40 or so people purged without warning or severence pay. Apparently IdleAire has hired a "chainsaw Al" to "fix" things but it doesn't look good.

Odd who got terminated...There is some great programmer/IT talent available for hire, all of a sudden.

Here's the best story to hit Roane County in Years and I can't post because the Roaneviews web host has problems.

So Here

This place is or will be right up the river from my office. I've been having lots of fun with certain folks in my office...The Baptist ones.

I don't go TO Knoxville as much as I go THROUGH Knoxville, and I've been dreading the closing of I 40. So yesterday was my first trip from West to East and back again. I allowed extra time, performed a ritual meditation designed to counteract road rage, and hit the road.

This was a great aftenoon for tree beasts.

Anybody know what this one is?

Who's going?

I mean besides me and Mrs. Creek...

(and I might know someone who wants to sell two tickets if you p.m. me)

You won't believe this.

There is a continued controversy regarding science textbooks that actually teach science. With that in mind, several folks have decided that it would be appropriate for informative stickers to be applied to books containing certain material.

Here are sample stickers that might be considered.

Lots of speculation is going on as to where George will live after he leaves the Whitehouse. I figure it's here.

In honor of the second Anniversity of KnoxViews.com I think we should revisit one of the Golden oldies of our esteemed and honored mentor.

(A certain part of it has renewed relevence.)

Maybe you'll see why we read every word "Bubba's" writes.

Myth v Fact

An Artist friend sent this link to me. I had to make myself stop. I decided to send it toward the end of the day so that productivity would not drop so precipitously.

Jackson Pollock

"Enter" changes colors. Remember to leave at five.

"Control" picks up your "drip"

Post a Favorite of yours.

Mine will be in the comments

Message to House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy from American Lawyers Defending the Constitution

We are lawyers in the United States of America. As such, we have all taken an oath obligating us to defend the Constitution and the rule of law from those who would violate and subvert them, and to hold wrongdoers accountable.

Protect and Defend

Bobby was being pulled from his car by an assailant. His girlfriend was in the other seat. He made his decision and fought back, pummeling the would be carjacker with his fists.

Bobby won the fight and the criminal is behind bars but there's a catch...Bobby's insurance won't cover the injuries he suffered while subduing the criminal and saving his girl friend.

So the way "News" spreads is much like a disease?

...the technique works just like systems for detecting disease outbreaks in water ...

And where does this infection start? A Carnegie-Mellon study has Two local blogs are on the list.

Disease? Vectors of infection? Here are the local representatives:

Instapundit.com at No. 1, and still in the top 100, SayUncle.com

Downtown Knoxville Bird Problem

Grackles? Starlings?

Anyway, the cannon just annoys them and makes them somebody else's problem.

They are gone, my poor insomiac. Walking the picket line.

But why?

Because there needs to be justice.

Well then

Looks like Lamar was NOT interested in having his picture taken with President Bush. It's a stark testament when the President of the USA comes to town for a fundraiser, only raises $600,00 for a sitting Senator, and it doesn't make the news.

Other state political info

I guess AT&T just needs some target for its Institutional Bigotry.

One more reason not to go with Cingular, I guess.

Tom Tomorrow

Stop whatever it is you're doing, go outside, breathe deeply, and look up.

I like Obama a lot. I just can't come around to thinking he's ready for the Presidency. This sealed it for me.

(MoveOn.org) adds that the resolution, which was backed by many Democrats (but not Sen. Hillary Clinton, with Sen. Barack Obama not voting) "absurdly" claims that MoveOn impugns the honor and integrity of all the members of the United States Armed Force "despite the fact that MoveOn includes hundreds of thousands of veterans and military family members, who've led our campaign to bring our troops home."

There is a certain courage that will be required of the next president, if America's march into fascism is to be halted. I need to see it in my candidate.

MoveOn.org responds

The screeching of the Christian right, the shrill alarmism from cultural conservatives regarding everything from sex and drugs and music to gays and nipples and creationism, the rejection of science, the attacks on women’s rights, the abuse of the environment, all the way up to the bleakest and ugliest manifestation of all, a brutal and unwinnable war — taken as a whole, these can, if you so choose, be seen as merely the embers of a hugely failed... worldview.

I hope he's right...and this country realizes what this means.

The War As We Saw It

By Buddhika Jayamaha, Wesley D. Smith, Jeremy Roebuck, Omar Mora, Edward Sandmeier, Yance T. Gray and Jeremy A. Murphy

The New York Times
Sunday 19 August 2007

The seven people who wrote and signed this editorial are United States Soldiers currently serving in Iraq. On Monday...Two of them died in a roadside attack on their vehicle.

What they wrote explicitly contradicts the testimony of General Petreaus.

Olbermann is hosting Countdown on NBC at 7 pm tonight.

Turn that thing off and go watch!

Tom Tomorrow

Some folks label Knoxviews as a "Liberal" blog but I would promote the term "progressive" as a better fit, since several of us like certain "conservative" ideas as opposed to classic liberalism, but we, as a group, certainly tend to lean away from the right with a few exceptions.

What I think sets Progressive blogs apart is the "Where's your evidence?" response to most blog threads. If you can't back it up, prepare to do battle with the forces of truth, which we've all learned first hand at one time or another.

It's tough to get away with a hit and run post in these here parts, as the great Lobster Tale would illustrate.

Now we know more than we want about the price of tail in Knoxville.

My largest friend sent me this. I'n not sure I totally buy into it yet but what the heck...it matches my WhitesCreek blog site:

"When your screen is white - an empty word page, or the Google page, your computer consumes 74 watts, and when its black it consumes only 59 watts. Mark Ontkush wrote an article about the energy saving that would be achieved if Google had a black screen, taking in account the huge number of page views, according to his calculations, 750 mega watts/hour per year would be saved.

In a response to this article Google created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the white version, but with a lower energy consumption, check it out."

Blackle.com

Thursday's Knox News page 1:

Two stories on Knox County officials...totally apropriate unless you have a problem with them being black and female. (I don't)

One story on the Iraq soccer celebrations being bombed killing 50 people...and an inset pointing out Democsrats attempt to end the war...That's legit news.

The big story "focus" was on soldiers returning from the war and making babies. I isn't until page 8 that you find out that many of the fathers are back in Iraq when the baby is born...Well sort of legit for a first page but a bit rah rah for what should be noted as a national tragedy.

And we've lost Alfalfa, an owl.

That's totally more important than the story on page 5 about the highest ranking justice official in the United States of America lying under oath while testifying before Congress about his involvement in the Bush ADministration's spying on American citizens without warrants.

So the Attorney General of the United States committs perjury to cover up an illegal act that should get most of the Administration impeached and the Knox News Sentinal gives us...

The bird?

Just so you don't go around thinking you're significant or anything.

Thanks to Xenisma for the reminder.

Peace