Posted on 12/11/2002 8:15:59 PM PST by Doctor Raoul
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1 | Begin at 601 Mainstream Dr on Mainstream Dr and go 0.4 miles | 0.4 |
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2 | Turn right on Great Circle Rd and go 0.4 miles | 0.8 |
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3 | Bear left and go 70 feet | 0.9 |
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4 | Turn left on Metrocenter Blvd,TN-12,US-41A and go 0.9 miles | 1.7 |
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5 | Bear right on ramp to I-65 and go 0.6 miles | 2.3 |
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6 | Continue on I-40 West Ramp and go 0.6 miles | 2.9 |
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7 | Continue on I-40 and go 81 miles | 84.1 |
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8 | Exit I-40 via ramp and go 15 miles | 99.4 |
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9 | Continue on access road and go 400 feet | 99.5 |
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10 | Turn right on W Main St,US-70-BR and go 1.0 miles | 100.5 |
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11 | Continue on E Main St and go 400 feet | 100.6 |
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12 | Turn left on Hall Ave and go 200 feet | 100.6 |
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13 | Turn right on TN-191 and go 8 miles to 1825 Pilot Knob Rd | 108.6 |
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Click Here For INSIDE THE BELTWAY by John McCaslin or read below:
We're listening
We've written in recent days that Al Gore is getting more "on air" time of late than the real vice president. Click on the tube, and there's Al Gore.
In his most recent prime-time appearance, on CNN's "Inside Politics" Monday night, Mr. Gore became one of the latest Democrats to blast Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott for saying at a senator's 100th birthday party last week that "the United States would have been better off had Strom Thurmond won his 1948 presidential campaign."
It was a compliment that Mr. Gore and his Democrat brothers, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, quickly called racist, given that Mr. Thurmond ran in the first half of the last century on the "Dixiecrat" ticket.
If Mr. Gore is serious in condemning both Mr. Lott and Mr. Thurmond, in his next television appearance let's hear him attack his own state's allegiance to fellow Tennesseean Nathan Bedford Forrest, one of the leading cavalry generals of the Civil War.
Has Mr. Gore forgotten that Forrest, after the war, not only joined the Ku Klux Klan, he became one of its early leaders?
That didn't stop Mr. Gore's state of Tennessee, however, from dedicating Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park, a popular recreation area. Look around Tennessee and you'll even find a Nathan Bedford Forrest monument or two. Many residents still celebrate Nathan Bedford Forrest Day on July 13, the day he was born.
Now every good race baiting Democrat knows "picnic" is a code word down south, and damn if this state park doesn't have a picnic pavillion.
FROM THE STATE PARK WEBSITE:
This park was named for General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the intrepid Confederate cavalry leader, who on November 4, 1864, attacked and destroyed the federal supply and munitions depot at (Old) Johnsonville at the mouth of Trace Creek. His operations were concentrated along the river in the vicinity of the park and the town of Eva.
The park was dedicated to Nathan Bedford Forrest, one of the greatest military tacticians and leaders of the American Civil War, in 1929 on land acquired in part from Benton County.
FUNNY, NO MENTION OF SILENT AL'S HERO.
Bet those were mostly minorities in that chain gang.
Al Sharpton should demand reparations from Al Gore.
Dorgan has delivered the first message. Algore isn't bright enough to realize that he will be destroyed before the Democrat establishment lets him get anywhere near the nomination again.
I'm sick and tired of race baiting Democrats.
As I've said at FR before, there is a democrat strategy afoot to create as much dissonance in the public forums, in anticipation of the coming debates over partial birth abortion which will expose the long defense of the indefensible by the democrat party. This was the most race baiting hate-filled approach I've ever seen to divide blacks from the rest of the politi. It can't be accidental and it is far more designed than the buffoonery and idiocy of Trent Lott in his exposing his bigotry. Hold on to your saddles folks, the noise and hate baiting is only just beginning! divide and conquer is the democrat methodology ... it's just so astonishing to see it done so blatantly.
Where are they when Daschle, Bird, Clinton, Jackson, etc, speak their little 'gems'?
By the way, I don't trust internet map directions. My daughter lives 2 miles down a straight road from me. The internet directions tell me to turn left and go around a large block, then back onto the original road!! LOL.
Clinton said recently, "We don't have a destruction machine like Rush Limbaugh." And just when you thought Bill Clinton stopped lying.....
Nice smile Al.
AL and Tipper armin arm with the homophobes.
FROM THAT WEBSITE:
Gore, who was quoted by the Nashville Tennessean in 1984 saying homosexuality is not "an acceptable alternative that society should affirm" and said in his 1984 U.S. Senate race that he would not accept money from gay rights organizations and that he opposed a "gay bill of rights," reportedly sought the support of the Phelps family in his 1988 presidential campaign, and invited the Phelps' to the Clinton-Gore inaugurations of January 1993 and January 1997.
I don't tolerate Phelps, why does a caring liberal like Gore?
Where was Al?
"Strom Thurmond is a man of character, wisdom, energy, and leadership, and he's one big reason America is back on the road to greatness again."
President Reagan, at a fund-raising dinner for Sen. Strom Thurmond, South Carolina Republican, in Columbia, S.C., Sept. 20, 1983
Run, Forrest, run
We're pleased that the majority of Tennesseans who contacted us yesterday and there were dozens read between the lines as we challenged Al Gore to condemn his state's allegiance to Nathan Bedford Forrest, cavalry general of the Civil War who became a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
Should Mr. Gore really attack admiration for Forrest? Of course not.
Are Tennesseans racist for dedicating a state park in Forrest's name? Of course not.
Is Trent Lott a racist for saying Sen. Strom Thurmond, South Carolina Republican, would have made a great president? Of course not.
History is history, and somebody in Tennessee or elsewhere needs to remind Al Gore that it cannot and should not be rewritten (we're reminding him up here because after he made his big announcement that he was moving back "home" to Tennessee, he appears to have returned to Washington).
To give our readers their due, Jay Hubbard, a "Proud Tennessee Volunteer," writes: "I wanted to give you the opportunity to clarify and, if need be, apologize to readers from the state of Tennessee. I was born and raised in Tennessee, and still live in Tennessee today. I think instead of saying that the entire state currently pledges allegiance to [Forrest], you should rather have challenged Mr. Gore to defend his father's stance on the Civil Rights Amendment, and ask him to clarify the reasons his father was adamantly opposed to ending segregation."
Good point, Mr. Hubbard.
Adds Jeff Harwell of Taft, Tenn.: "You note that Al Gore has not spoken out against various memorials to Confederate Cavalry General Nathan Bedford Forrest in Mr. Gore's adopted home state of Tennessee (we real Tennessean know that he is about as native to our state as Hillary Clinton is to New York). But you forgot one of the most prominent memorials to the general a large bust of him that occupies a niche on the legislative level of the State Capitol Building, along with other giants of Tennessee history.
"And this after Al Gore tried to give George Bush grief in 2000 over a Confederate flag in a state [South Carolina] that was home to neither candidate."
A point made by you and several others, Mr. Harwell.
Turning to readers outside of Tennessee: "Come on. You can do better than cite General Forrest," writes B. Ray Holland of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. "This year when Democrats meet at their [Thomas] Jefferson Day dinners to commiserate their decline into the minority party, they should begin by denouncing the man they claim founded their party and condemn him for slavery (but not for acts of adultery with his slaves, of course, since Democrats do not consider that a moral defect)."
Point taken, Mr. Holland.
And speaking of Southern gentlemen named "Forrest," B.A. Rucker of Virginia observes: "Every time I hear Al 'Forrest' Gore speak, I picture Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump saying, 'Stupid is as stupid does.'"
American history
Another column item of yesterday that generated considerable response was the renaming of Northern Virginia's historic "Sully Plantation" to "Sully Historic Site."
"You remind me of an incident as I drove past Sully Plantation with some guests from Massachusetts visiting me in The Plains, Va., in 1995," writes Jesse Merrell. "The woman's daughter saw the sign and asked: 'What's a plantation?' Rather than give a lengthy explanation to an offhand query by a 15-year-old, I said simply: 'It's a big farm.'
"'Yeah!' sneered her mother, her voice dripping with venomous, puritanical sarcasm. 'Where they had slaves!'
"I felt like saying: 'Yes, hauled here on Massachusetts slave ships,' pointing out that the hideous thumbscrews and degrading chains sprang, not from Southern plantations, but Northern slave ships, such as the first slave ship built in America, in 1636 the year Harvard was founded to 'train ministers of the Gospel' and launched from Marblehead, Mass.
"It occurred to me to remind her that the first law in America legalizing slavery was passed, not in the evil South, but in enlightened Massachusetts, on Dec. 10, 1641, with the rather curious title of 'Body of Liberties.' I could have also told her that Massachusetts passed the first fugitive slave law in America, and that she enslaved her captives in the Pequot Indian War.
"I didn't say any of this, held back by my awful Southern manners, which also kept me from inquiring into the Salem Witch Trials, where 19 people were hanged in 1692, and one 80-year-old man (churchgoer Giles Corey) was crushed to death with heavy stones during bloodthirsty hysteria, when Massachusetts became the first and only state in America to hang 'witches,' and the last in Christendom to halt the medieval atrocity."
John McCaslin, a nationally syndicated columnist, can be reached at 202/636-3284 or by e-mail: jmccaslin@washingtontimes.com.
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