February 15, 2007

Poile roils hoyle*, Preds fetch Forsberg from Philly

Predators GM David Poile is a gambling man. The team was build by developing youth and draft-picks and seasoned with some accomplished veterans…but, even though the Preds are the best in the West (Western Conference) and near the top of the entire league, too many fans disguised as empty seats are still appearing regularly.
So, [...]

February 15, 2007

I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again..

See THIS play (Ordinary Heroes at Fisk Chapel every weekend night in February). Civil Rights Movement in Nashville in the 50s and 60s..It DID happen here. Apartheid: More than just a South African custom…
Buy or download THIS CD (Patty Griffin - Children Running Through). Soulful, harmonized, sometimes silky smooth, other times serrated. [...]

February 15, 2007

The sun is shining, the streets are dry…

and public school teachers and kids are deliriously happy because SCHOOL is OUT. HUH????*
I must be missing something…here’s the quote from Metro Officials:
Metro schools are closed today due to inclement weather
*I do want my wonderful wife to be happy, but geeze loueeze, THIS day off is RI-DIC-U-LOUS.

February 15, 2007

Here’s one for all you folks who want to cut out waste in government

I don’t blog much about my job. Not because I don’t like the job. I love it. But, sometimes people get in trouble and accidentally say things that are misunderstood or they post things that rebound back to the job…well you know that drill. Despite the potential pitfalls, here I [...]

February 15, 2007

Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there (to screw you and then leave)..

Those pesky homeowners in Mississippi who had their homes destroyed by Katrina AND who were lucky enough to have had their homes insured by State Farm….those pesky ungrateful home owners who had the nerve to SUE STATE FARM for denying their claims finally got some relief after 18 months…but the relief had to come though [...]