Summer/politics/hallsnews!

How hot is this summer? SO HOT that my "special" tomato bush got too hot, rambled under the tall grilling table and started growing in the S H A D E! I kid you not, this thing left the patch, dashed over to the lower deck, found the shade and after getting a nice hold to the center of the table went skyward! I bought this plant a few months back at the Maryville Farmer's Market on a cold Saturday morning, after being told by a hippie that it was organically created. Fine, but she forgot to
tell me the sucker was HAUNTED! I have a great story about a neighbor whose dawg chewed up his watermelon vine to the point where his daughter had to toss it on the burn pile (southern term for a place to fire up crap the county won't haul off) and now it is hundreds of feet long and full of melons! I shall get pictures as soon has he and his wife go to work tomorrow.

NOW for the fun part!

hallsnews.com is again a MUST read this week! It has the never ending story of Tyler and his adventures as a political flack for the mayor across the river. I won't give away the ending, go read it and enjoy. I will tell you good old WATE finally bent over and talked about the series of articles in a very left handed way this morning. They have a Sunday show that isn't half what MULLS SINGING CONVENTION is but because they promoed they would talk of the Tyler saga I flat tuned in!
On their behalf they tried to have a good group in their discussion circle but kinda came up short. Some conservative woman who has a blog sat on the far left, a very fat guy who has been a spokesman for EVERYONE in the last few years in the middle and good ol Frank rounded out the tribe.

Gene did get them all to agree if TYLER is such a bad boy W H Y did the Rags hire him and WHY did he keep him? Brothers and sisters this thing is more fun that the petting zoo at the TVA@I Fair! A big old attaboy for Gene, at least he cracked the TV ego ceiling and talked about the story that has ALL of Knoxville (OK, all of the city county building) talking. I kid you not, the powers of the Gods are quaking in their shoes in anticipation of the next installment and I flat love being a bleacher rat!

Check it out at hallsnews.com

Denver,Mother,Tyler! LOL

My idea of cooking dinner involves car keys and a place where the line is very short! Tonight I did a frozen thing that faked its way into being a meal and that Denver begged for it like a raggedly man on Cumberland headed to Alabama for a job!

Naturally when he was finished he gave me that famous, WHATS YOUR POINT LOOK.



Lots going on in the media/political underworld here in Knoxville, Tennessee. Thought I would give both the town's name AND the state encase that mummified old Mike Wallace might wanta come down and get in on the investigation.

The paper I am privilege to write for (hallsnews.com) is doing a three part story concerning an insider in the county mayor's administration. Up frontI will be the first to say the "insider" has baggage and as a very young republican, privileged to shoulder running with the alledged movers and shakers of said county, reportedly took liberties with his status and reportedly made a horses behind out of himself on several occasions.

That said, this young man is now spilling the beans (as he understands said beans) to the above linked paper. IF a third of what he is saying turns out to be fact, half fact, kinda true, or a dang good rumor the foundations of the county mayor's office might need more than B-DRY to keep from cracking!

From a personal standpoint I really don't care, heck I am blessed to live across the river from the former home of the 1982 World's Fair and although I dig for spending money inside its boundaries my tired old heart is still in Maryville. Still, the expose of a politician is just great fun participate in, even from the bleachers.

Walk with me for a minute...OK, name O N E politician you would want to be seen in public with? How about one you would invite over for a burger and diet coke? SEE!! Bless their hearts most if not all are just strange fellows and ladies who if younger your mother would NEVER let you play with!

If you wanta follow this path (the Tyler story on hallsnews.com) then jump in, it is slated to be a three part series and those in the know say part two is going to be a real barn burner of a story!

PS

If you do know Mike Wallace forward this thing over to him. The local TV stations are all taking a pass cause they both got scooped and some say (not me) they are scared of the consequences! OK, so you don't know Mike, keep e mailing it and eventually someone like MSNBC or CNBC or BRAVO or Shopping With The Stars might get involved, as Andy's deputy used to say..THIS COULD BE BIG!

Media and DAWGS!

Monday!

After finding two ticks on Denver (first ever) the committee decided a trip to the dog spa for both of the kids was needed. Up this AM before 7, running dawgs outside (they never get up before 9) and then loading them into the old Buick for their appointments.

When I picked them up I mentioned I had pulled one TICK off Denver (the Golden) and there was still one very close to his eye that I couldn't get. I held, the guy went to work and after a couple of yanks he determined it was a small growth! Nothing serious but SURE nothing for a half blind old man and a strong young kid to be pulling on! I apologized to Denver and even though I made him and his bud wear the dork handkerchief home, I fixed him up with all sorts of smoked turkey and peanut butter to make up for my miss-diagnosis!

Naturally when you spend more than you would at a human spa to have the Dawgs trimmed, dipped, bathed and festooned with Yuppie rags you have to take their pictures for the blog. Right now they both just want that junk off their necks but their Grandmother loves it so they are stuck until after she goes to bed.


Media

Early this morning while hanging for the dawgs to do their thing I had the TODAY SHOW on. I hate the TODAY SHOW but someone had fired it up and I was kinda watching the door more than the TV.
Anyway they had a group of experts telling us why HILLA would be the Dem candidate for President and also why she would WIN! After I heard (from my vantage point at the door I couldn't see the TV) one "expert" quote a poll that said she was a polarizing candidate but not near as bad as GW, I had to move closer for a look. Brothers and sisters, the EXPERTS the network were using were all members of the Hillary For President Campaign! I kid you N O T!

Now mark your calendar 8 21 06 as THE DAY NBC launched their candidate for the leader of the Free World! Only thing that would have made it worse would have been if Katie had still been working for this tribe.

Want real news? SO DO I!
Know where to get it?
Please tell me cause you can't get it from the alphabet networks

November should be a wild ride!

Denver takes a walk

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Good Old Denver took a walk around the Rockford Bunker tonight and confided in me why he still votes republican. He said even though GW has stumbled at times, the Elite Drive-By Media coupled with the John Deans and Teddy Kennedys of this world just scare him to death! He has a point!
PS

He really wanted to include a picture of the Lilly in the front yard because the box it came in said it was a Wyoming Lilly and he knew his grandmother would love to see it on the blog.

TOmattters,evening,mom

Mother, Molly and I went for a ride at dark to hunt deer. It was too dark cause none of our eyes could spot one in the twilight, but we still had a fine time! Before we left she checked out the GIANT tomato plant and gave a thumbs up to the fact that I had already planted some seeds in a clay pot for next year. She also told me she marked off a place in the laundry room that will provide just the right amount of light for them to grow over the winter. She then added she has picked a spot for them next spring! As we drove along we covered 57 years of memories and although both of us had forgotten more than a few facts, we really enjoyed filling in the cracks with made up thoughts that fit much better than the truth!

MORE GOLF!

Golf Thoughts!

It is an evil game, filled with ups and downs, but mostly downs.

It is a game that you will never win.

It is a game that everyone and I am talking EVERYONE plays better than you.

It is a game of anger and sadness.

It is a game that looks so simple but it lies.

It is a game that ONE just ONE good hole will draw you back.

It is a well...great damn game!

More golf and media

Golf at Laurel Valley (Townsend) is now under 30 dollars every day except Saturday. The course is in super shape and the old slow greens are now old FAST greens. Located across the street from the old Laurel Lake, now a wet area (or Tree Hugger terminology for swamp) Laurel Valley has grown from a 9 hole course to a well kept 18 hole track filled with great looks at Rich Mountain and the surrounding hills. The restaurant is open this season and the private pool is also open to those who rent certain cabins. A new addition (to me) is a flock of wild turkeys who hang around between the green at 10 and the T box over on 18. In the past late afternoons would find deer on 9 near the green but I didn't see any this trip.

Now that my knee is working again I hope to head back for some late summer and fall golf in the Valley, if you don't mind a 16.5 mile drive from Maryville give it a try.
448 6690
http://www.laurelvalleygolf.com

On hallsnews.com the new column is up and it links you over to a couple of places if you have an interest in the latest Arbitron numbers. Radio is really just too predictable in East TN and so are the numbers. WIVK is always number one followed by WIMZ, News Talk, B 97, STAR and a host of others. The links on hallsnews.com don't have the numbers for the non-commercial stations but if they did I am sure WDVX would be in the top three.

Da Big Orange have a group of home games up front and a few will be on CBS or Jefferson Pilot (locally WVLT) but if they suck early then the bulk of the season may not make the CBS lineup, still a coin toss at this point. Check out Volunteer
TV.com for your listings provided we manage to beat Cal, Marshal and Florida. Hey, considering all the press coming out of the Large Orange nothing is a lock this year!

Townsend Golf

First golf of the year and it turned out just fine. Cool wet morning followed by a dry warm afternoon. MORE people and golf on the next post.

Flag letter!

The "other" blog (http://maryvilleclassof66.blogspot.com) is devoted to my Maryville High class of 1966 and features tons of pictures from our 40th reunion. This morning one of my classmates and long time friend sent out a mass letter on the use of our flag in the reunion pictures. Anyway if you are a pro flag or anti flag or a neutral flag or a non flag thinker, dash over and read it. As always your thoughts are welcome!

Locally I was two for three in the column on hallsnews.com

Seth (the new part time anchor and former Style host) is leaving along with the News Director down the street at WATE.

As for the arbitron, well sometimes you win and sometimes you don't even get to bat. I said B 97 was falling out of the number two slot and STAR was moving up, well they WERE until the last trend and now B is still number 2 and STAR is still number three. I know who gives the south bound brown eye of a rat.

Lots of election fall out which is just about as boring as the Arbitron, talk among yourselves and send me a note on the comment doober. Oh and if you have any flag thoughts I would flat love to read them also!

Late Evening Deer

Because it was almost dark and because these guys were not close their eyes look like something out of a John Carpenter movie! They are a family mom, dad and an older fawn. Really good looking but because it was late and the parents were very protective of their kid I had to hang back to take the pictures. Worth the ride out to see them though!

HOT days and DORK media news

HI KIDS

OK here we go, first the dang weather sucks.

I am still a GW man and think GORE is a fool but man this summer is hot!

Now, on THURSDAY the few and the strange will flock to the polls to set the process in motion to elect our congressional leaders. Friends I ask you is there ONE candidate on either side of the aisle you would invite to lunch? Heck no, most of what runs today is pure trash with a streak of larceny running from their toes to their eyes!

Anyway we best go vote OR the party of Babs, Teddy, Diane Boxer, and that wild lady in GA. will take over the seats in Washington! I know lesser of two evils!

Locally lets elect TH for the simple reason that Randy is a nice buy but he is a lost ball in high weeds. No shit, this old man is just rambling around tossing soft
balls at TH and if we don't all go vote some of them might stick.

Moving on... the Jews are kicking butt and I love the fact that GW is letting them do their thing. No joke, we need to run in and make nice AFTER they are finished protecting their country and not a minute before. If you ever wondered where the national media stands look at their reports from Cuba. They love that old man and are all pulling for the last commie standing to keep on trucking 90 miles from Miami!

Read the net for your news, vote your mind and lets all see what happens!