“In America, the richest men… [are]... abandoning our great allies and siding with dictators against those struggling for their freedom. They’re defunding American universities that won’t bow down to their ideological demands. They’re removing residents off American streets and, without due process of law, are deporting them to foreign detention centers and prisons. This is all happening now.” He criticized lawmakers who have “no…idea of what it means to be deeply American.”

“The America that I’ve sung to you about for 50 years is real and, regardless of its faults, is a great country with a great people, so will survive this moment.”

Bruce Springsteen

From: The Rockwood Times, Rockwood, TN, Thursday, 2 Jun 1904, Vol. XXIV, No. 12.
Collin ROBERTS, for whom the town of Robertsville was named, had a cousin by the same
name. He was also related to the MARTIN family of Kingston. He left Roane county about
1820 and settled at Clarksville, Tenn., and entered into the mercantile business. There was a
raftsman on the Cumberland river who had landed a raft of Cedar posts at Clarksville and
had sold all except one hundred and seventy. He was anxious to close out and pressed
ROBERTS to buy. Roberts had several barrels of beans in the store and jokingly offered to
exchange beans for them. After some bantering STOKES offered to exchange at 1 bean for
the first post and doubling the amount for each post. The offer was accepted by ROBERTS
and the trade closed in the presence of witnesses. Then began a count to ascertain the
amount of beans due him. ROBERTS was appalled at the result and refused to comply with
terms of the trade. STOKES sued on the contract in the circuit court at Clarksville. As a
court could not render a judgment to be paid in beans, it became necessary to first ascertain
the number of bushels due and the price per bushel that the judgment might be rendered in
dollars and cents. To ascertain the amount, it was submitted to the principal of the school at
Clarksville, and he reported that he had counted, allowing 20,000 beans to the bushel, till the
sum reached due decillions of bushels and was not yet through but could count no father, as
there was no way to numerate a larger sum known to him. But he had gone far enough to
know that it would cover the entire area of the state more that ten feet deep with beans. On
motion of W.L. BROWN, one of the greatest lawyers the state ever produced, suggesting
that the attorney for the defense get an injunction to restrain Stokes from storing the beans in
the State and driving out the inhabitants, and after indulging in the fun for a time, Judge
Haskell ordered the case stricken from the docket a

Trump says:

"Congratulations, this is great for everybody that prices are going to go up."

What a loser. Trump is a sickness. Check out the Meidas Touch. Subscribe!

Martin Harley is one of the best live performers out there.

I've been following Dan McClellan for a while. I often disagree with his conclusions but generally accept his research. Here is a warning:

Can we exist without religion? OR perhaps the question should be, "Who will write a new religion that can save us?"

"In 2025, this tech priesthood has entered into a makeshift alliance with MAGA Republicans. While they may share an interest in hierarchical power structures, they differ in their ultimate source of authority: Technology versus God. This distinction is a crucial fault line, and it may lead to trouble on the information superhighway to Techno Damascus."

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On January 31, David Lebryk, the most senior career civil servant in the Treasury, announced he would retire; he had been placed on administrative leave after refusing to give Musk’s DOGE team access to the federal payment system. The next morning, sources tell WIRED, Elez was granted read and write access to PAM and SPS.

On February 3, Politico reported that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Republican lawmakers in the House Financial Services Committee that Musk and DOGE didn’t have control over key Treasury systems. The same day, The New York Times reported that Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said that DOGE’s access was “read-only.”

...Sources tell WIRED that by afternoon of...February 5, Elez’s access had been changed to “read-only” from both read and code-writing privileges.

...The significance of this is that the ability to alter the code on these systems would in theory give a DOGE technologist—and, by extension, Musk, President Donald Trump, or other actors—the capability to, among other things, illegally cut off Congressionally authorized payments to specific individuals or entities.

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Mark Harmon:

Inspired by a recent trip to Walt Disney World, I’ve decided the only way to understand the current Tennessee legislative session is to approach it as a theme park. Here is my guidebook to Legislative Land.

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Trump did not place his hand on the Bible.

A summary of what's going on:

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Tennessee State Republicans have filed a bill that would allow Tennesseans to sue the manufacturers of abortion-inducing medication if a family member uses it to obtain an abortion.

The House sponsor of the latter bill is Rep. Gino Bulso, a Brentwood Republican who also happens to be trial attorney with a successful track record of personal injury suits. The Senate sponsor is Joey Hensley, the Hohenwald Republican physician who was found in 2020 to have violated medical ethics by prescribing opioids to his medical assistant/cousin/romantic partner.

There are two articles that speak to where we, in America, are right now:

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The first one indicates what Tennesseans think and how far off base from reality they are. The second tells us why this is so.

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