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The Official White House Photostream now on Flickr
This is so cool: The Official White House Photostream on Flickr. The photos are all by official White House photographers–predominately chief White House photographer Pete Souza–and, as The White House Blog indicates, give a different perspective from the images we all see on television every day.
The photostream already contains a number of iconic presidential photographs, [...]
Posted in Arts, Government / Law, History, Internet, Technology
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Tennessee Legislature honors “The Killer”
The Tennessee legislature has unanimously voted to name a section of Getwell Road in Shelby County–from the Mississippi border to Interstate 240–as the Jerry Lee Lewis Highway.
Posted in Entertainment, Music, Tennessee
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Goodbye, Pontiac
Fox News/Associated Press:
The president of General Motors announced his plans Monday to discontinue production of its celebrated Pontiac brand and cut 21,000 factory jobs by next year as part of a massive restructuring effort needed to secure more government aid.
Sad. I hated to see Oldsmobile go back in 2004.
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Baptisms and membership decline for Southern Baptists
Associated Press/The Tennessean:
The number of people baptized in Southern Baptist churches fell for the fourth straight year in 2008 to the denomination’s lowest level since 1987, and membership dipped slightly as well.
The continued decline in the number of followers in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination reflects a trend in other mainline Protestant churches.
Non-denominational churches are [...]
Posted in Religion, Social Commentary
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Atheists and other freethinkers are coming out and speaking out
Excellent piece by Laurie Goodstein, writing in yesterdays New York Times, More Atheists Shout It From the Rooftops:
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Two months after the local atheist organization here put up a billboard saying “Don’t Believe in God? You Are Not Alone,” the group’s 13 board members met in Laura and Alex Kasman’s living room to [...]
Posted in Atheism, Church and State, Family, Freedoms / Rights
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Plan B to be available to 17 year olds
Good first step an undoing Reverend Bush’s restrictions limiting the sale of the (non-abortive, sorry, but those are the facts) contraceptive to those over the age of 18.
Associated Press:
The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it would accept, not appeal, a federal judge’s order that lifts Bush administration restrictions limiting over-the-counter sales of “Plan B” [...]
Connecticut legislature codifies legality of same-sex marriage
Associated Press:
A decade-long battle for marriage equality in Connecticut ended late Wednesday when the General Assembly voted to update the state’s marriage laws to conform with a landmark court ruling allowing gay and lesbian couples to tie the knot.
Wow. Reason. Cool.
In an effort to appease some gay marriage foes, lawmakers amended the bill [...]
Wilson County Christian group not content with Constitutional equality
You may recall the Wilson County “pole strokers”–a parent-led prayer group who seemingly can only talk to their god from the general area of the flagpole in front of a public school in Wilson County, Tennessee. You may also recall that the Wilson County School System not long ago cost the taxpayers of Wilson County [...]
ACLU obtains Bush administration memos regarding torture
The American Civil Liberties Union has secured the release of four Bush administration memos:
NEW YORK – In response to litigation filed by the American Civil Liberties Union under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Justice Department today released four secret memos used by the Bush administration to justify torture. The memos, produced by the [...]
John Madden retires from broadcasting
NBC Sports:
NEW YORK – NBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol announced today that John Madden, Hall of Fame coach and the most honored broadcaster in sports television history, has decided to retire from broadcasting.
John Madden:
“It’s time. I’m 73 years old. My 50th wedding anniversary is this fall. I have two great sons and their families [...]
Posted in NFL, Television
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Teabaggers gather outside Tennessee State Capitol
It was reportedly one of the most cheerful “protests” in recent memory, as thousands of Tennessee Teabaggers gathered outside the Capitol yesterday to protest having lost the presidential election.
I don’t like taxes any more than anyone else, but here’s the deal: President Obama’s tax increases have been exactly the one’s he talked about during his [...]
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Tennessee to begin random drug testing of students in 6-12 grades?
A bill before the Tennessee legislature would allow random drug testing of any students engaged or seeking to become engaged in voluntary extracurricular activities.
The Tennessean:
HB 1508/SB 0074, sponsored by Rep. Les Winningham, D-Huntsville, and Sen. Jim Tracy, R-Shelbyville, goes before key committees this week.It would give the drug-testing authorization to local school districts and target [...]