hammers

Aged stadium needed major upgrade to be playable
By RACHEL STULTS • Staff Writer (Tennessean) • April 11, 2008

The paint was still drying in the stands.

And the sound of hammers and saws echoed through the ballpark Thursday as workers scrambled to get ready for the Sounds' home opener against the Iowa Cubs.

If it's anything I DON'T need to be right now it's sick. I started feeling puny on Tuesday. I had a really bad bout with reflux. I've suffered from it, since I was a teenager and have been hospitalized for it before. I knew I had to get a handle on it really quick. I felt yucky yesterday too, so I took off from work.

today will be known more prominently for another tragedy. but i am strolling down memory lane of another tragedy of a different sort. today is the 10 year anniversary of downtown nashville tornado. the sister got me thinking.

Aged stadium needed major upgrade to be playable
By RACHEL STULTS • Staff Writer (TENNESSEAN) • April 11, 2008

The paint was still drying in the stands.

And the sound of hammers and saws echoed through the ballpark Thursday as workers scrambled to get ready for the Sounds' home opener against the Iowa Cubs.

Our government has, in the past, been criticized for paying inexplicable amounts of money for things military - like toilets for submarines or $20,000 hammers - but it seems that they are into cost savings and there’s proof.

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John Edwards in New Orleans

Following is the transcript of John Edwards's announcement to suspend his campaign, as provided by CQ Transcriptions.

Edwards Is Dropping Out of Race for Nomination (January 30, 2008)

Thank you all very much. We're very proud to be back here.

John Edwards has withdrawn from the Presidential primary.

FULL TEXT OF JOHN EDWARDS ADDRESS IN NEW ORLEANS
Thank you all very much. We're very proud to be back here.
During the spring of 2006, I had the extraordinary experience of bringing 700 college kids here to New Orleans to work. These are kids who gave up their spring break to come to New Orleans to work, to rehabilitate houses, because of their commitment as Americans, because they believed in w

Writer Jeffrey Lord has a rambling, bullying op/ed at The American Spectator On-line about some Mike Huckabee statements in reference to American corporate greed as reflected in CEO salaries. I say “bullying” (and “rambling”) because Lord spends way too much of the piece beating up on a strawman . . . perhaps he’s actually building the strawman for most of that copy–I don’t know.