Don't let the GOP rain on our parade.

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Concise synopsis of the feminazis:

Why the hell do women get offended when they're called chicks? ... Why do some feminist extremists think pornography is degrading to women? ... What's the point of not shaving your armpits and not wearing your bras? ... I'm pretty damn sick of hearing feminists bitch about men being paid more then women.

Excellent points, my man. Excellent points indeed.

I saw a couple of weeks back Number 9’s Halls Shopper Tyler Harber string with a couple of posts about Bill Johns should be our county mayor.

I doubt that Mike Ragsdale will let the Sentinel ever cover this guy, but maybe the Metro Pulse will since he is also an organic farmer. As suggested, here is a new string about the guy I met last week:

It is funny about that "degrees of separation" thing since last Thursday; I met Bill Johns at the Society of Manufacturing Engineers Nanotechnology Conference in Oak Ridge. Bill Johns was the keynote speaker about nanotech business.

It just so happens, he is the guy who ran the "Marty" for mayor campaign (dog - voter awareness) in which I wrote about last month. Apparently, my wife also met him that same day at Bearden High School when he was talking about the new high school ( Link... ).

If you did not watch the County Commission meeting on this past Monday, you should have. With Mike Ragsdale sitting a few feet from him, Bill Johns gave probably one of the most serious, facts-based, and informative talks linking education, technology, and economic development that has ever been heard before the commission. He also laid down the law about financial management and proactive planning of our community.

I heard he blasted the proposal of the PBA conducting a $600,000 study to determine if our schools are overcrowded to the likes of studying if Al-Qaeda wants to kill us. Bill Johns also talked about how politics and bureaucracy are hurting us and referenced an e-mail group he had with the school board and the PBA.

During his talk, he mentioned his background and referenced his site:

Link...

For those who are interested in nanotechnology, education, politics, conservation, and other information, you should check him out.

If anything, check out the posts about education. Our community has really dropped the ball on education and Bill Johns clearly states it there.

Perhaps we should start shopping around for a new vision and leader. If the current guy is already looking at Nashville, then why not start?

Bring us your hurricane weary. With 1,000 people a day moving TO Florida, there are 400 people a day moving FROM Florida. Some Floridians are choosing "rural" Columbia, Tennessee (Pop. 38,000) to live.

According to the Census Bureau, all of Tennessee may be considered rural, not urban. Census urban classification:

• core census block groups or blocks that have a population density of at least 1,000 people per square mile and
• surrounding census blocks that have an overall density of at least 500 people per square mile

Here, deep religious faith trumps deep pockets, and, with more than 100 churches in town, you see pastors, not plastic surgeons. This town is more catfish than caviar.

"We're not the beautiful people," says Alton Kelley, executive director of the Middle Tennessee Convention and Visitors Bureau. "There aren't 10 BMWs in town and we like it that way. The bling ends many miles from our borders."

The cost of living draws some to move to Tennessee, cheaper car and home owners insurance, as well as cheaper real estate taxes. Neither state has an income tax. I hope these Floridians check out the "other" Tennessee taxes, income tax on dividends and distributions, a higher sales tax and sales tax on food and drugs.

I welcome the Floridians, New Yorkers, and whoever. Tennessee is a beautiful state to be shared and a little more diversity is welcome.

Robert Booker has a great column (registration required) on downtown Knoxville urban renewal in the early 60s and how it wiped out a thriving black community.

By way of KAG over at the Blab, here's an outrageous and disappointing newspaper column. And here's a sad story from the same community, just three days later.

Check out the campaign website for this Republican candidate for U.S. Congress from Tennessee's 8th District. Be sure to scroll down and take a look a the "war on poverty genes" post.

Apparently the Stormfront White Nationalist community is supporting him (you can google that for yourself). Curiously, he asks that campaign donations be sent to a P.O. box in Kentucky.

I wonder if he will be at the Republican Leadership Conference in Memphis this weekend? (Thanks to Alice and Fletch for the tip.)

P.S. That website is no joke. He got the Republican nomination in 2004 and ran in the general election. He was beaten soundly by the incumbent Democrat.

So I get my paper this morning, and on the front page is an enormous illustration of Nathan Bedford Forrest standing in front of a huge Confederate flag with the caption "Nathan Bedford Forrest: Man of Two Faces."

It's a teaser directing you to the front page of the local section, where we find today's Black History Month Feature: "Nathan Forrest: Still confounding, controversial" noting that "debate over his legacy rages on."

The article says he was a misunderstood genius, there's no proof he ordered the Fort Pillow massacre, the KKK was a militia outfit that served a useful purpose in the lawless days of the Reconstruction, and that Forrest was actually a progressive champion of race relations.

OK, then.