“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves; be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.“ – Jesus Christ, in Matthew 10:16 (KJV) AGENDA JANUARY 5, 2010 – 9:00 A.M. GEORGE A. SMITH MEETING ROOM I. CALL TO ORDER. II. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO FLAG. ...
I received this morning some rather alarming news about our city audit which came to me in the form of a letter from Alexander Thompson Arnold PLLC. December 8, 2009 Honorable Jerry Gist, Mayor Members of the Council City of Jackson, Tennessee We have completed our audit of the City of Jackson, Tennessee, and...
A “Committee to Recall U.S. Senator Robert Menendez,” sponsored by the Sussex County Tea Party has announced plans to launch an effort to recall Senator Robert Menendez from his position in office. Helping to lead the charge is New Jersey Tea Parties United, the state’s grass-roots coalition of county and regional Tea Party groups...
Friday, Mayor Jerry Gist released his report to the council on areas important to city and its well being. My remarks are included. Financial: December sales tax receipts (October, 2009) are running 2.9% above 2008 within the city. Madison County receipts are down 0.7%. (Remember that 2008 was not a particularly good year...
As we approach the celebration of Christ’s birth, I am reminded of the words of John Quincy Adams. On July 4, 1837, he spoke these words: “Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day? … Is it...
It is the near the end of 2009 and this has been a tough year, but this is my time to take a few days off to celebrate the holidays with family and friends and unless it is something very local I will be out of the fray till December 29th, 2009. Our next...
The regular meeting of the Madison County Board of Commissioners will Ag center on Airways this morning at 8:30 A.M. One of the more important items on the agenda is: CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION CONCERNING PARTICIPATION IN THE REDEVELOPMENT TRUST FUND, PURSUANT TO SECTION 21 OF THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1998. This would be...
On the Enviroment Senate Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry today said Congress will prove the naysayers wrong and pass climate change legislation next year. Speaking at global climate talks in Denmark, Kerry said, “With a successful deal here in Copenhagen, next year, the United States Congress — House and Senate — will pass comprehensive...
Press release from late yesterday. Typical case where man shoots a woman with the intent to kill her, leaving her crippled for life, and he could be out in 6 years… don’t you love it. CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION DIVISION JACKSON POLICE DEPARTMENT DATE: December 15, 2009 BY: Chief Gill Kendrick Man Sentenced to 20...
The Federal Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-commissioned trials found filtering a blacklist of banned sites was accurate and would not slow down the internet. But critics, including the online users’ lobby group Electronic Frontiers Australia and the Greens communications spokesman Scott Ludlam, said the...
LIBERTY DOLLAR NEWS: November 2009 Vol. 11 No. 11 Death of Liberty Dollar Site and More URGENT: The Liberty Dollar site may be killed. I suggest you save the site while you can. Pleases read the first article and the Legal Update below. My apologies for this late Newsletter. My computer had a terrible...
I, on occasion, have blistered the city council for poor decisions based on facts that really didn’t exist. Normally, in a situation similar like this, I would have been the only councilman to have voted no. However the atmosphere has changed on the council and three additional council members agreed that the offer was either too...
I have been receiving a lot of emails lately in regards to a program that LANA (Lambuth Area Neighborhood Association) with the NAACP and in association with West Tennessee Healthcare Foundation. That program is called One Less Gun. This program, as I have been told, is a privately funded program, whose aim is to remove some...
In an article by By Joseph Farah, editor and CEO of WorldNetDaily he stated his reasons for selecting Roy Moore in his run for Governor of Alabama. There is one very interesting governor’s race shaping up for 2010 – one in which every American who values liberty should be engaged, no matter where you...
“Posterity, you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent that ever I took half the pains to preserve it.” – John Adams, 1777 “They that give up essential liberty to obtain...
From the Family Research Council: Nowhere in the Bible or the Constitution are we told that health care is a fundamental human right. Gov. Bradford observed that the socialistic system embraced by the Pilgrims brought out the worst in them: laziness, selfishness, even thievery became commonplace. Free market reform led to their recovery of...
Now it’s Barack Obama’s war. After campaigning against “George Bush’s War” in the Middle East, Obama has escalated that war. By transferring thousands of America’s forces from Iraq to Afghanistan, and by sending an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, the liberal Democrat has demonstrated that his administration is not so different from that of...
From JBS There are certain provisions of the Patriot Act handed to the American people in the wake of 9/11 that are set to expire at the end of 2009. The Senate is set to disentangle itself from the healthcare debate long enough to address the issues in response to the Obama administration’s desire...
Members of all branches of the United States Military will soon be facing a most critical decision. The European Union Times is reporting here that Obama is using the deployment of additional troops to Afghanistan to cover for the movement of some 200,000 troops, presently on duty in countries other than Iraq and Afghanistan,...
By ERICA WERNER Associated Press Writer On the Senate floor, Democrats are debating Republicans on health care. Behind the scenes, they’re debating each other. Those closed-door discussions may be less predictable — and more consequential — as majority Democrats struggle to settle controversies within the party that are standing in the way of passage...
How do you like this bowl of chilli? A House panel today approved a bill that would give the government power to shut down financial firms that pose a threat to the economy. On a 31-27 party-line vote, the House Financial Services Committee sent the bill to the House floor, where a vote could...
The state of Tennessee did its job in executing Cecil Johnson at the Riverbend facility early this morning. May God have mercy on his soul. “He was convicted in the murders of 12-year-old Bob Bell, Jr., James Moore and Charles House during a robbery at Bob Bell’s Market in Nashville in 1980. Bob Bell...
As far as illegal immigrants being able to access the proposed health insurance “exchanges,” the House version of the bill gives ‘em a green light. But Dan Carter of Air America claims the Catholic Church “has declined take up the cause for undocumented workers in the Senate.” Not true. (I’m shocked! Air America is...
“The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone expects to live at the expense of everyone else.” Frederic Bastiat If the ILLEGALS can use the argument that giving birth to a child on American soil means those children are henceforth the financial and social responsibility of America and American’s taxes – then...
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