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Submitted by R. Neal on Fri, 2009/12/11 - 3:35pm

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Do they play "Kansas" over

Submitted by jbr on Fri, 2009/12/11 - 5:45pm.

Do they play "Kansas" over the PA system at the Register of Deeds office?

Mrs. Owings

Submitted by StaceyDiamond on Fri, 2009/12/11 - 6:33pm.

So bizarre! Who knows how many partiers we have over there. More goes on in the Bible belt than you'd think. If this was Cali she could get herself a med. card. I wonder if the Locketts party as well?

Give us ten years and pot

Submitted by sugarfatpie on Mon, 2009/12/14 - 6:02pm.

Give us ten years and pot will be legal all over the western US. And I don't mean just for medical purposes.

Already a majority favor legalization in one national poll.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/187783.asp

A 53 percent majority favored legalization of marijuana: The support was 61 percent among Democrats, 55 percent with Independent voters, and 43 percent among Republican voters.

Wonder how long it will take TN to re-legalize.

-Sugarfatpie (AKA Alex Pulsipher) "X-Rays are a hoax."-Lord Kelvin

Former Law Directors wife!

Submitted by B Harmon on Fri, 2009/12/11 - 6:30pm.

OMG. The employee is the wife of John Owings, caught smoking in a Mercedes. Hey, do they confiscate the car here in TN? Will they do a search of the house for more pot? Inquiring minds want to know.

Oh

Submitted by WhitesCreek on Fri, 2009/12/11 - 7:54pm.

Wow

Man

How to make your work day last for freakin ever? Smoke a joint at ten freakin am in the freakin morning whatwereyouthinkingnotthatIwouldknow xceptsomebody toldmeonetimeohwowdidIjustwritethatmanIwonderifthereareanyofthose christmascookiesleftinthebreakroomohmygodisthatacopsorryofficer Idon'thaveenoughtosharewithyoucanIjustgo? Can I? Pleeeeze?

Heh. Now I'm wondering how

Submitted by R. Neal on Fri, 2009/12/11 - 8:01pm.

Heh. And then it would only be 10:05.

Now I'm wondering how you tell the difference between a government employee and a stoner. Apparently you can't!

(OK, sorry, that was a low blow. To stoners.)

Shiiiittt... How is it she

Submitted by bizgrrl on Fri, 2009/12/11 - 8:13pm.

Shiiiittt...

How is it she can work some place so long and just now get caught smokin'? Just how stressful can the job be?

This is definitely a Cheech and Chong episode. I mean really, in the City County building parking garage? She should have just driven across the bridge to SoKno. That would be normal behaviour on the south side.

Trippin' in court

Submitted by Tamara Shepherd on Fri, 2009/12/11 - 11:53pm.

This is definitely a Cheech and Chong episode.

Hizhonor: "Yada, yada, yada. Do you have any questions?"

Margaret Owings: "Yeah, man. Who cuts your haaair?"

Hizhonor: "Bailiff, whack her pee-pee."

Deeds Rocks. Man.

Submitted by Stick Thrower on Fri, 2009/12/11 - 10:40pm.

Well, I gotta say, the Register of Deeds office has always been a decent county office to deal with. Looking up records for our neighborhood history project was, well... no problem. Whatever gets them through the day.

I'm curious why comments are enabled on this post but not the "Unfortunate" Bill Hobbs post. Bill and Anna Hobbs have defended themselves on Nashvilleistalking.com (a really weird and probably a terrible idea). Is enabling/not enabling comments an option now with the Knoxviews redesign? If so, I think that's a good idea... just wondering if I missed something about it. ??

Stick Thrower, re.

Submitted by R. Neal on Sun, 2009/12/13 - 11:40am.

Stick Thrower, re. enabling/disabling comments:

That feature has been there all along but rarely used. This seemed like an appropriate time to use it.

Bubba, this is one of the

Submitted by Bbeanster on Sun, 2009/12/13 - 12:00pm.

Bubba, this is one of the rare times I'll disagree with you.

The Hobbs case is an absolutely classic example of domestic abuse denial. If I hadn't heard this tired old "he didn't mean to do it" story dozens (maybe hundreds) of times, maybe I'd feel the same way. It sounds very similar in its broad outlines to the Bill Phillips case, minus the deadly weapon, for example.

I've never been accidentally slugged in the jaw and I don't need to know Hobbs personally to know that he is an unforgiving, brutal judge of others in similar situations. A man who gives no quarter has no right to expect to receive it.

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Submitted by Anonymously Nine on Sun, 2009/12/13 - 12:26pm.

Bubba, this is one of the rare times I'll disagree with you.

Disagree in that the comments on a he said she said personal matter should be open to let people express themselves? That will advance meaningful discussion.

I thought it was a good idea to keep the bile in Nashville. People can express themselves silly on Post Politics or what used to be NIT.

Nine, an assault warrant

Submitted by Bbeanster on Sun, 2009/12/13 - 12:29pm.

Nine, an assault warrant is not a personal matter. If it were the former Mr. and Mrs. Ragsdale instead of the Hobbses, I've got a pretty good idea what you'd be saying.

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Submitted by Anonymously Nine on Sun, 2009/12/13 - 12:47pm.

If it were the former Mr. and Mrs. Ragsdale instead of the Hobbses, I've got a pretty good idea what you'd be saying.

Not a Hobbs fan. Don't care for his tactics. That isn't the point. If memory serves when the material hit the fan with the Ragsdale's, RNeal had the same approach. It seems consistent. I was surprised you disagreed.

Is this the parking garage

Submitted by KC on Sat, 2009/12/12 - 12:11am.

Is this the parking garage that is off limits to everyone except to those who work...and apparently party there?

The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. President Abraham Lincoln 1862

Does this really warrant a

Submitted by bizgrrl on Sat, 2009/12/12 - 7:29am.

Does this really warrant a KNS front page above the fold headline?

With all the trouble with

Submitted by KC on Sat, 2009/12/12 - 10:08am.

With all the trouble with county corruption, I believe it does.

The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. President Abraham Lincoln 1862

Housing slowdown

Submitted by Up Goose Creek on Sat, 2009/12/12 - 9:58am.

Another victim of the real estate slowdown. Any other year she would be busy registering deeds, now she finds herself bored to distraction.

no rest...

Submitted by Bird_dog on Sat, 2009/12/12 - 5:57pm.

for the weary snark master. those crazy knox county employees just won't give the poor guy a break.

If memory serves when the

Submitted by Bbeanster on Sun, 2009/12/13 - 5:47pm.

If memory serves when the material hit the fan with the Ragsdale's, RNeal had the same approach. It seems consistent. I was surprised you disagreed.

Don't really remember, but adultery's not a crime (except under sharia law). Assault is, and it's not a private matter. There's a reason the state prosecutes domestic assault cases even when the victims change their minds.