demise

The Tennessee GOP has released video of Republican National Committee Victory '08 Chairman Carly Fiorina's speech Monday, July 21, 2008, at the Women of Distinction luncheon hosted by U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. It's in six parts, including two videos comprising the post-speech Q&A session.

In a small Texas town, Drummond's Bar began construction on a new
building to increase their business. The local Baptist church started a campaign
to block the bar from opening with petitions and prayers. Work progressed right up till the week before opening when lightning struck the bar and it burned to the ground.

But it seems my timing was off on predicting GM’s demise. I guess you have to expect those things, since time has passed since then. After all, it’s been six whole days.

Jeff Woods reports that the city is not renewing Planning Commission attorney David Kleinfelter contract:

There is an excellent analysis article in the Memphis Daily News today regarding the possible demise of Tennessee's current non-democratic method of selecting appellate judges - the so-called "merit selecti

The Wall Street Journal points out that Tennessee is the first state ever to dump "merit selection" of judges after adopting that system.

today i spent time online with tim & others in tim's organized weekly skypecast. it was cool, my microphone worked the whole time this week. the first time i plugged into the skypecast the microphone crapped out after about 10 minutes and i did the chat thing.

Senator Bob Corker says that reports of the demise of his net worth are greatly exaggerated:

What I said the other day about thoroughbred breeding in the wake of Derby 2nd place finisher Eight Belle's demise? I'm in good company: