Tennessee

In history we read about the men who were not afraid to stand up for their beliefs, for right against wrong. Men who against all odds never knew defeat. Below we have indicated such men from Tennessee. Men we can trust and know they will never let us down. Continue to vote and support them and the ones not indicated, may need to be removed from office because they have failed the voters who elected them.

We are proud of Congressman John Duncan Jr, a hero to the veterans and the voters of Tennessee. Senator Alexander we are watching because he has indicated he is part of the status quo in Washington, a yes man for the President.Senator Corker was picked by the voters of Tennessee not the President or the Republican party, they spend thousands to elect someone else. The voters of Tennessee controls who is elected not the party or big money. Senator Corker has every right to be proud because he has joined ranks with Congressman John Duncan, the best congressman in Washigton. He will always remain in office with 80% of the votes because he is their to protect us and he does.

Ever played a game with the neighborhood bully? You know, the kid who made up the rules or changed the rules as the game went along? You may have thought that kind of behavior was only found on the school playground. If so, you are not very familiar with the Tennessee House of Representatives.

Oh, they have rules. They just sometimes ignore them! Take last week for instance. Rep. Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville) had a bill that probably most parents in Tennessee would agree with. It simply said that,

1). in view of the fact that “human sexuality is an immensely complex subject
2). with enormous societal, scientific, psychiatric and historical implications
3). best understood by children with sufficient maturity to grasp such issue,”

No “public elementary or middle school shall provide any instruction or materials discussing sexual orientation other than heterosexuality.”

Most parents would say that they, not the school, should be explaining sexual issues to their children. It’s like religion. Most parents don’t want their schools telling their young children what to believe about God.
But in the State House of Representatives, prohibiting the promotion of homosexuality is “controversial.” So they killed the bill.

That is bad enough, but how they killed it helps explain why traditional values legislation has such a hard time passing in the House.

Rep. Campfield, knowing that the bill would probably get killed, asked at the start of the meeting for a roll call vote taken on his bill. Having a roll call vote is important so that you, the voting public, will know who voted consistent with your values. Under the House rules, the sponsor of a bill has a right to request a roll call vote.

After some members of the subcommittee finished roasting Rep. Campfield, Rep. Les Winningham (D-Huntsville) “moved” that the bill be sent to the Department of Education “for action.” Here are two important lessons.

Lesson No. 1: You don’t have to vote “no” to vote against a bill. Motions such as that made by Rep. Winningham are effective ways to kill a bill without having to cast a vote against the bill.

Sometimes bills are legitimately sent to a department with the request that certain information be collected. The department then reports back to the committee. But this was not one of those kinds of motions.

This motion was “for further action.” The problem is the department wasn’t told what action to take. It can’t really take any action because it wasn’t told what action to take. So all those who voted for this motion were effectively voting against the bill.

Lesson No. 2: The rules don’t really mean much if the chair refuses to abide by the rules. In spite of the fact that Rep. Campfield asked for a roll call vote, Chairman Towns ruled creatively. He ruled that the committee was not voting “on the bill” but just on “a motion.” In short, the Chair’s ruling was a sham, or perhaps even a scam to fool the public. Why? Because every action taken on a bill in a subcommittee or committee is the result of a “motion.” And Rep. Campfield clearly wanted any action on his bill to be recorded. You can see it for yourself on this YouTube video clip by clicking here.

Now to add insult to injury, any member of the committee who was in support of the bill could have challenged the ruling of the chair. Unfortunately, none of those who might have been in favor of the bill challenged the chair’s ruling. But, in all fairness, it would have been a waste of time. The chair would have appointed a “substitute” chair who would agree with him.

But had just three members of the committee wanted to help Rep. Campfield’s get his right to a roll call vote, they could have asked for one, as well. No one did so. But some members have learned that invoking the ire of a House chair over a request for a roll call vote will result in their own legislation getting rough treatment.

The House rules do allow a member to request that he or she be recorded as voting no. Others who are present will be considered having voted yes. But, unless you are there to see who is present and who is not, it is too easy for a Representative to say they weren’t there and they would have voted “no.” So, all we know for sure is that Rep. Harry Brooks (R-Knoxville) and Rep. Gerald McCormick (R-Middle Valley) audibly asked, at the time of the vote, to be recorded as voting against Rep. Winningham’s motion. We commend them. Presumably all the other members of the subcommittee voted to kill the bill: Rep. Joe Towns (D-Memphis), Rep. Richard Montgomery (R-Sevierville), Rep. Tommie Brown (D-Chattanooga), Rep. Beth Harwell (R-Nashville), Rep. Ulysses Jones (D-Memphis), Rep. Mark Maddox (D-Dresden), Rep. Larry Turner (D-Memphis), and Rep. Les Winningham (D-Huntsville).

Unfortunately, things like this are far too common in the state House. Next week SJR 127, the resolution to amend our state constitution to “reverse” our state Supreme Court’s decision to write abortion into our state Constitution, will be heard either on Tuesday, February 26, or Wednesday, February 27, in the Public Health and Family Assistance Subcommittee of the Health and Human Resources Committee. It will be interesting to see what happens on that issue.

Girls Gone Wild … going, going gone!

This Tuesday, February 26th, the Civil Practice Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee will hear a bill sponsored by Rep. Mike Turner (D-Nashville) that will make it a crime to air obscene material on television in Tennessee. As importantly, the bill will make it a crime to advertise for sale obscene material. It will also make it a crime to advertise material that is harmful to minors during times when younger children are most likely to be watching TV.

Senator Doug Jackson (D-Dickson) has already passed the bill in the Senate by a vote of 31 to 0. But, as usual, as a “pro-family” bill it is stuck in the House.

You might think, “Who could be against doing whatever one can to get tough on this stuff.” Well, there are members of that subcommittee who do not think that way. It is amazing to see the length some will go to rationalize not doing something they don’t want to do. Watch out for the legislator who says he’s all against some evil like obscenity on TV but will not give it his or her all to stand against it.

For example, I’ve heard some members of the subcommittee say that the law won’t do any good. They say proving something is obscene is too hard. They think the state will never get a conviction. Proving obscenity can be hard, but you for sure can’t prove it if there’s no law against it.

I’ve heard some members say that parts of the bill may be pre-empted by federal laws. The State’s Attorney General has said that this issue is unclear, but noted that three other states, even liberal Connecticut, had passed similar laws. One thing is clear – nothing is gained if nothing is ventured!

If the bill passes and a federal court will not allow certain parts of the law, so be it. Our legislators will have tried. But in voting against the bill, they will have unilaterally “disarmed” our state from trying to stop the spread of obscenity.

I’ve heard some say it’s just “political grandstanding” to vote for a bill that you don’t think will accomplish anything. Usually that is a charge made by Democrats against Republicans who push “traditional values” bills.

But this bill is sponsored by two Democrats! I say “Hooray for Democrats Doug Jackson and Mike Turner.” I know these men and, and while I do not always agree with them, they are not grandstanding.

They have families. They have raised children. They know this material is harmful to families. And if the bill passes and does not, for some reason, do as much good as they hoped, they will have done what they could. I trust that the other subcommittee members will find it in themselves to come to the same conclusion.

We’ll let you know how the vote comes out in our next issue, but if your Representative votes “no” don’t be fooled into believing that he is opposed to obscenity – given the chance to try to do something, he will have folded his cards before the first bet was played.

The members that support teaching our children that perverted sex is ok needs to be removed from office!

We elect men and women to protect us, they pass laws to protect the criminals and put the american people in danger. Is it because they do not know any better or are they so corrupt!

This is a good example of the people we elect, they have let the corrupt lawyers and the courts destroy this nation. We have watched criminals that should have been put to death in Knoxville, Tennessee and they get a few years because of deals made between the lawyers and the DA. If you care about this nation, this needs to be stopped. We elect a president and he is more concerned about his own personal agenda then this nation and the safetry of the people who put him in office. Congress needs to stop the deal making between lawyers and the DA, if a person killes someone they need to be put to death.
This is a good example of congress and the white house, they can start wars, pass hate crime laws, racial profiling, anything that takes away the rights of the hard working americans and protect the criminals.

> This is a statement that was read over the PA system at the football
> game
>
> at Roane County High School , Kingston , Tennessee , by school
> Principal,
>
> Jody McLeod.
>>
> "It has always been the custom at Roane County High School football
> games, to say a prayer and play the National Anthem , to honor God and
> Country."
>>
> Due to a recent ruling by the Supreme Court, I am told that saying a
> Prayer is a violation of Federal Case Law. As I understand the law at
> this time, I can use this public facility to approve of sexual
> perversion and call it "an
>> alternate lifestyle," and if someone is offended, that's OK.
>>
>> I can use it to condone sexual promiscuity, by dispensing condoms and
>> calling it, "safe sex." If someone is offended,
>> that's OK.
>>
>> I can even use this public facility to present the merits of killing
> an
>
>> unborn baby as a "viable means of birth control."
>> If someone is offended, no problem...
>>
> I can designate a school day as "Earth Day" and involve students in
> activities to worship religiously and praise the goddess "Mother Earth"
> and
> call it "ecology."
>>
> I can use literature, videos and presentations in the classroom that
> depicts people with strong, traditional Christian convictions as "simple
>
> minded" and "ignorant" and call it "enlightenment."
>>
> However, if anyone uses this facility to honor GOD and to ask HIM to
> Bless
> this event with safety and good sportsmanship, then Federal Case Law is
> violated.
>>
> This appears to be inconsistent at best, and at worst, diabolical.
> Apparently, we are to be tolerant of everything and anyone, except GOD
> and
> HIS Commandments.
>>
>> Nevertheless, as a school principal, I frequently ask staff and
> students
>> to abide by rules with which they do not necessarily agree. For me to
> do
>> otherwise would be inconsistent at best, and at worst,
>> hypocritical..Isuffer from that affliction enough unintentionally. I
>> certainly do not need to add an intentional transgression.
>>
> For this reason, I shall "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's,"
> and
>
> refrain from praying at this time.
>>
> "However, if you feel inspired to honor, praise and thank GOD and ask
> HIM,in the name of JESUS, to Bless this event, please feel free to do
> so.
> As
> far as I know, that's not against the law----yet."
>> One by one, the people in the stands bowed their heads, held hands
> with
>> one another and began to pray.
>>
> They prayed in the stands. They prayed in the team huddles. They prayed
> at
> the concession stand and they prayed in the Announcer's Box!
>>
>> The only place they didn't pray was in the Supreme Court of the United
>
>> States of America - the Seat of "Justice" in the "one nation, under
> GOD."
>>
> Somehow, Kingston, Tennessee remembered what so many have forgotten. We
> are
> given the Freedom OF Religion, not the Freedom FROM Religion. Praise GOD
>
> that HIS remnant remains!
>>
> JESUS said, "If you are ashamed of ME before men, then I will be ashamed
> of
> you before MY FATHER."
>>
>> I'm not one bit ashamed to pass this on, Are you?

You may not believe in God, if you did something would be done to stop the Supream court from destroying this nation.

Knoxville, Tennessee, the DA refuses to do his job. He makes deals with the defence layers to make hin look good.

If you're like I am, you've heard scores of media reports about the 2006 Duke University rape case, in which three white lacrosse players were falsely accused of raping a black stripper at a wild party at the home of one of the team members. These guys, convicted by the news media and Duke faculty, were later found innocent. It turned out that Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong was running for re-election. In seeking the black vote, he concealed DNA evidence that would have exonerated the lacrosse players.

You might remember hearing scores of stories about the 1998 murder of James Byrd, a black man who was stripped, chained to a pickup truck and dragged through the streets until he was decapitated in Jasper, Texas. The incident provided fodder for the NAACP and others to attack then-Texas Gov. George Bush, during his 2000 election campaign, for not supporting hate crime legislation. It turned out that two of Byrd's murderers were sentenced to death, and the other, life in prison.

I don't know about you, but it was just recently that I heard about a gruesome murder in Knoxville, Tenn., that is far worse than the false charges in the Duke rape case and is at least as horrible, if not more so, than the dragging death of James Byrd. Unlike the Duke rape case and the Jasper lynching, the national news media's coverage of the interracial Knoxville murders paled in comparison. On Jan. 6, 2007, University of Tennessee student Channon Christian and her boyfriend, Christopher Newsom, were carjacked and kidnapped in Knoxville. Both of them were later murdered.

According to a 46-count indictment, suspects Darnell Cobbins, Lemaricus Davidson, George Thomas and Vanessa Coleman, all blacks, are charged with committing rape, including sodomy against Christian and Newsom, both of whom are white. After being raped, Newsom was shot several times and his body was found burned along nearby railroad tracks. Christian was forced to witness her boyfriend's rape, torture and subsequent murder before she was ultimately raped, tortured and murdered. The police discovered her body inside a large trash can in the kitchen of the home where the murders took place. Before disposing of her body, the murderers poured bleach or some other cleaning agent down her throat in an effort to destroy DNA evidence. Trial dates have been set for next May.

What have we heard from the NAACP, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and others who rushed to judgment and outrage as they condemned whites in the cases of the "Jena 6" and Don Imus when he referred to the Rutgers ladies basketball team as "nappy-headed hos"? Where were the national news media and public officials? You can bet rent money that were the victims black and the perpetrators white, Knoxville would have been inundated with TV crews, with Jackson, Sharpton and other civil rights spokesmen and politicians from both parties condemning racism, possibly blaming it all on George Bush.

According to the 2004 FBI National Crime Victimization Survey, in most instances of interracial crimes, the victim is white and the perpetrator is black. In the case of interracial murder for 2004, where the race of victim and perpetrator is known, more than twice as many whites were murdered by a black than cases of a white murdering a black. The failure of civil rights leaders, people like Jackson and Sharpton, as well as politicians to vocally condemn black-on-white crime – and the relative silence of the news media in reporting it – is not simply a matter of double standards. It's dangerous, for it contributes to a pile of racial kindling awaiting a racial arsonist to set it ablaze. I can't think of better recruitment gifts for America's racists, either white or black.

The police can not protect you and the democrats in congress, the local government tries to take away your right to protect yourself.Knoxville needs a new DA.one that will uphold the law, one that will not let criminals off because his friends are the defence lawyer.

President Bush opened our borders to let thousands of Mexicans trucks cross our border.It is not afe for American to drive and now with thousands of Mecican trucks, it will be like taking your life in your own hands.

People died when the bridge collapsed, who paid the price for the Bush attempt to open our borders. The people we elect to protect us and this nation let it happen..

From: mail-3805478935030331208@list.timbueler.com
Date: 8/7/2007 6:22:57 AM
To: worldnewstoday@dove777.com
Subject: Officials warned foreign trucks threatened bridge

OFFICIALS WARNED FOREIGN TRUCKS THREATENED BRIDGE

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Public officials in Minnesota had been warned that increasing truck traffic from international trade was placing an undue stress on the state's transportation infrastructure, including specific warnings concerning the now-collapsed bridge over the Mississippi on Interstate 35W in Minneapolis.

A Federal Highway Administration study begun in 1998 warned increased NAFTA truck traffic would endanger Minnesota bridges along I-35. A separate study by the Minnesota Department of Transportation, or MNDOT, published in May 2005 – a "Minnesota Statewide Freight Plan" – identified the need to improve bridge and pavement deficiencies affecting trucks.

Before collapsing, the bridge was not under any restrictions, despite multiple reports of deficiencies. Overweight trucks were permitted to carry loads of up to 136,000 pounds on the interstate.

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Estimates are that the collapsed I-35W bridge carried 144,000 vehicles per day, including 4,760 commercial vehicles.

Internal documents from MNDOT and the Dallas-based trade organization NASCO – North America's Supercorridor Coalition – show the Minnesota agency joined NASCO to help deal with the strain NAFTA and other world trade freight loads were placing on the state's I-35 infrastructure, including support to repair the Minneapolis bridge.

In a Feb. 15, 2006, letter, Abigail McKenzie, director of the MNDOT Office of Investment Management, wrote to Melvin identifying a list of approximately 100 MNDOT requests for NASCO to assist with finding funding for the years 2007-14, including a request for $3 million to "replace overlay, joints, repair anti-icing, etc." on the I-35W bridge.

Truck traffic carries the vast majority of international trade. According to the FHWA, in 2002, trucks carried 797 million tons of international shipments, valued at approximately $1.2 trillion. By 2035, trucks are projected to carry 2.1 billion tons of international freight, valued at approximately $6.2 trillion.

The importance of international trade to I-35 has resulted in the interstate being designated as the "NAFTA Superhighway," even by prominent trade associations such as NASCO.