Geraldo supports Child Rapist

Today, on His Radio Show Geraldo a well known Libtard interviewed Child Rapist Lawrence Taylor. I wander how much he paid this child Rapist to be on air? Geraldo why interview these guys? We have proof you paid him.

The Shopper News

Well, I don't know about y'all but I'm sick and damn tired of this new "Free" Newspaper called the Shopper News. Who the fuck wants this paper it litters my yard and I almost got ran over picking mine up. Do they bring their old ones to.east Knox to dispose of improperly? The answer is yes. Instead of taking it to the Landfill you recycle your trash in my yard and my neighbors yard.

Scripps which owns Knoxville News Sentinel also owns this Rag I want them ticketed for littering in my Yard. Scripps we don't want your trash!

Knox County music teacher arrested for shoplifting

KNOXVILLE (WATE) - A Knox County teacher was arrested Tuesday for shoplifting items from a West Knoxville department store.

An arrest warrant states Patricia Dueber, 54, was seen taking $180 worth of brassieres from Kohl's, 11530 Kingston Pike, and hiding them in her purse.

Dueber then attempted to leave the store when a store loss prevention manager stopped her.

Dueber was released form jail on $500 bond with the condition that she must stay away from all Kohl's stores.

A Knox County Schools spokesperson says Dueber is a music teacher at Lonsdale Elementary and Beaumont Magnet Academy. Her status with the school system is under review.

Knox County Schools Security Officer Arrested

Knox County Schools Security Officer (KCSSO) Kevin Lee Waggoner has been charged with Criminal Homicide. An Officer with Knox County Schools should be above reproach, be calm and handle all issues with a Professional attitude.

The School Security Officer is the first Officer many of our kids will encounter first. This is a bad Representation of Knox County Schools new Chief of Security. Knox County Schools has not fired KCSSO Waggoner. They have merely just put him on un-paid suspension. This sets a bad example for Officers showing them you wont be terminated. This also makes the public fear that their School Officers could be a danger to themselves or others. Looks like Knox County Schools needs a lot of Damage Control. At this point KCSSO Waggoner currently holds a Security License. State Law requires you to notify the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance of any arrest.

License Status ACTIVE - FULLY LICENSED
License # 617700
License ID 617700
Expiration Date Feb 28 2014 Original Date Feb 23 2012 Profession Code 3705
Profession Name Armed Security Guard/Officer
First Name KEVIN
Middle Name LEE
Last Name WAGGONER
City LUTTRELL
State TN
Zip Code 37779
Rank Armed Guard

Is Knox County Schools safe for your kids?

Is Knox County Schools safe for our kids? After Reading this it will be a resounding No. In Defense of the Schools I have sent them an E-mail asking for their Response but, as of the time of this Article they have not Responded and I will post their Reply as I get it. They haven't had a chance to do damage control.

There is a few schools that have 8th graders that can't read "see cat run" much less focus in the real world. This is a lack of caring on the part of Knox County Schools. I am going to touch on the safety of our children in Knox County School.system and the fact that Knox County Jail is full of people that are hired to keep our Children safe.

I am appalled at Knox County.Schools. The ones I am listing here are the high profile ones. I remember when working at a school was an Honor but, the ones I am listing here is less than honorable. In April 2013 Knox County Schools Security Officer (KCSSO) Rondal Capshaw Was working a side job at the Elks Club got into a verbal altercation with Jefferson Grady. Then KCSSO Capshaw shot Mr. Grady in the Groin. Now lets flash forward 5 months to September 2013.

KCSSO Kevin Lee Waggoner is being Questioned about the shooting of Michael Adam Woodby by Union County Sheriff's Office. Both incidents will be covered up and will disappear. Both men are paid to protect our kids but shoot people that argue with them. Would they shoot your kids for arguing? Should people with short tempers be able to work with kids or in this Industry ever?

Knox County Schools has school with Black Mold. If you find black mold in one place you will find it in other places in the Building. A Knox County School Maintenance Man changed one tile with Black Mold and was asked why he didn't do all 3 and his Response was it wasn't on my work order. My Response was WHAT!!!! Our kids wasn't important to that Maintenance Man nor Knox County Schools. I want them to send a crew into every Knox County Schools and eliminate the Black Mold our kids are breathing this shit in on a daily basis 8 hour days 5 days a week.

Don't forget the infamous bus stop at a Place that serves alcohol and owned by a murderer. Hold on he might have a career with Knox County Schools Security.  This stop has been moved next door. So, they can tell you that they moved the bus stop. But next door? Seriously? Knox County Schools is that the best you can do? The parents still have to use the Bars Parking lot.

On July 9, 2013 Knox County Schools Teaching Assistant Shelley Hedgepeth was fired after his indecent Exposure Charges. The Name Hedgepeth really sticks out because there's an high ranking former Administrator named Ed Hedgepeth. The last name could be a coincidence but you have to add Ed Hedgepeth is a Former Principal at Farragut and Shelley Hedgepeth was at Farragut too.

On September 16, 2013 Knox County Schools Teaching Assistant Gary Hamilton was arrested for the simple assault of a student. I don't give a shit who you are you don't hit a kid. This is the kind of school system that Knox County Schools has. Knox County Schools is not a safe place for your kids.

Knox County Schools Music Teacher for 2 Elementary Schools arrested on 09/17/2013 for Stealing Bras yes folks she needed boulder holders! I am proclaiming 24th of August National buy your teacher a bra day.

This story is still developing and I will add more as it warrants

7 of 12 Navy Yard victims identified

By Melanie Eversley USA TODAY

In their last press conference of the night after Monday morning's fatal shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard, officials identified seven of the 12 victims.

They are, according to Washington's Metropolitan Police Department: Michael Arnold, 59; Sylvia Frasier, 53; Kathy Gaarde, 62; John Roger Johnson, 73; Frank Kohler, 50; Kenneth Bernard Proctor, 46; and Vishnu Pandit, 61.

None of the victims have been identified as active-duty military personnel, officials said.

Officials still need to notify the loved ones of the five remaining victims.

An additional victim was identified by the Washington Post as Arthur Daniels, 51.

Online records identified a Vishnu Pandit in his 60s living in North Potomac, Md. A person who answered the telephone at the address said, "Please tell your colleagues not to call."

Neighbor Mike Honig told the Post that Pandit was "a very nice man with an Irish setter."

Michael Arnold's profile on LinkedIn, an online professional network, identified Arnold as a logistician and supply chain executive with LMI, a consulting firm based in McLean, Va., and said he was a graduate of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

For 29 years, he was a Navy supply corps officer before working at the Pentagon from 2010 to 2012, according to the profile.

Gunman in Navy Yard rampage was hearing voices

By Brett Zongker, Eric Tucker and Lolita C. Baldor The Associated Press

The former Navy reservist who slaughtered 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard had been hearing voices and was being treated for mental problems in the weeks before the shooting rampage, but was not stripped of his security clearance, officials said Tuesday.

Aaron Alexis, a 34-year-old information technology employee with a defense contractor, used a valid pass to get into the highly secured installation Monday morning and started firing inside a building, the FBI said. He was killed in a gun battle with police.

The motive for the mass shooting -- the deadliest on a military installation in the U.S. since the attack at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009 -- was a mystery, investigators said.

U.S. law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that there was no known connection to international or domestic terrorism and that investigators have found no manifesto or other writings suggesting a political or religious motivation.

Alexis had been suffering a host of serious mental problems, including paranoia and a sleep disorder, and had been hearing voices in his head, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the criminal investigation was still going on.

He had been treated since August by Veterans Affairs for his mental problems, the officials said.

The Navy had not declared him mentally unfit, which would have rescinded a security clearance Alexis had from his earlier time in the Navy Reserves.

The assault is likely to raise more questions about the adequacy of the background checks done on contract employees and others who are issued security clearances -- an issue that came up most recently with National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, an IT employee with a government contractor.

In the hours after the Navy Yard attack, a profile of Alexis began coming into focus.

A Buddhist convert who had also had flare-ups of rage, Alexis, a black man who grew up in New York City and whose last known address was in Fort Worth, Texas, complained about the Navy and being a victim of discrimination. He also had two run-ins with the law over shootings in 2004 and 2010 in Texas and Seattle.

In addition to those killed at the Navy Yard attack, eight people were hurt, including three who were shot and wounded, authorities. Those three were a police officer and two female civilians, authorities said. They were all expected to survive.

Monday's onslaught at a single building at the Navy Yard unfolded about 8:20 a.m. in the heart of the nation's capital, less than four miles from the White House and two miles from the Capitol. It put all of Washington on edge.

"This is a horrific tragedy," Mayor Vincent Gray said.

Alexis carried three weapons: an AR-15 assault rifle, a shotgun, and a handgun that he took from a police officer at the scene, according to two federal law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the investigation.

The AR-15 is the same type of rifle used in last year's mass shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school that killed 20 students and six women. The weapon was also used in the shooting at a Colorado movie theater that killed 12 and wounded 70.

For much of the day Monday, authorities said they were looking for a possible second attacker who may have been disguised in an olive-drab military-style uniform. But by late Monday night, they said they were convinced the shooting was the work of a lone gunman, and the lockdown around the area was eased.

"We do now feel comfortable that we have the single and sole person responsible for the loss of life inside the base today," Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier said.

President Barack Obama lamented yet another mass shooting in the U.S. that he said took the lives of American "patriots." He promised to make sure "whoever carried out this cowardly act is held responsible."

The FBI took charge of the investigation.

The attack came four years after Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan killed 13 people at Fort Hood in what he said was an effort to save the lives of Muslims overseas. He was convicted last month and sentenced to death.

The dead in the Navy Yard attack ranged in age from 46 to 73, according to the mayor. A number of the victims were civilian employees and contractors, rather than active-duty military personnel, the police chief said.

At the time of the rampage, Alexis was an employee with The Experts, a company that was a Defense Department subcontractor on a Navy-Marine Corps computer project, authorities said.

Valerie Parlave, head of the FBI's field office in Washington, said Alexis had access to the Navy Yard as a defense contractor and used a valid pass.

Alexis had been a full-time Navy reservist from 2007 to early 2011, leaving as a petty officer third class, the Navy said. It did not say why he left. He had been an aviation electrician's mate with a unit in Fort Worth.

The Washington Navy Yard is a sprawling, 41-acre labyrinth of buildings and streets protected by armed guards and metal detectors, and employees have to show their IDs at doors and gates. More than 18,000 people work there.

The rampage took place at Building 197, the headquarters for Naval Sea Systems Command, which buys, builds and maintains ships and submarines. About 3,000 people work at headquarters, many of them civilians.

Witnesses on Monday described a gunman opening fire from a fourth-floor overlook, aiming down on people on the main floor, which includes a glass-walled cafeteria. Others said a gunman fired at them in a third-floor hallway.

Patricia Ward, a logistics-management specialist, said she was in the cafeteria getting breakfast.

"It was three gunshots straight in a row -- pop, pop, pop. Three seconds later,it was pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, so it was like about a total of seven gunshots, and we just started running," Ward said.

___

Associated Press writers Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Jesse Holland, Stacy A. Anderson, Brian Witte and Ben Nuckols in Washington contributed to this report.

Gunman 'seemed harmless, if really awkward'

By David Crary The Associated Press

Aaron Alexis seems a study in contradictions: a former U.S. Navy reservist, a Defense Department contractor, a convert to Buddhism who was taking an online course in aeronautics. But he also had flashes of temper that led to incidents with police over shootings in Texas and Seattle.

A profile has begun to emerge of the man authorities identified as the gunman in a mass shooting at a Navy complex in Washington, D.C., that left 13 people dead, including him. While some neighbors and acquaintances described the 34-year-old Alexis as "nice," his father once told detectives in Seattle that his son had anger management problems related to post-traumatic stress brought on by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Alexis also complained about the Navy and being a victim of discrimination.

U.S. law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that Alexis had been suffering from a number of serious mental issues, including paranoia and a sleep disorder. He also had been hearing voices in his head, the officials said. Alexis had been treated since August by the federal Veterans Administration for his mental problems, the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the criminal investigation was continuing.

The Navy had not declared him mentally unfit, which would have rescinded a security clearance Alexis had from his earlier time in the Navy Reserves.

Family members told investigators Alexis was being treated for his mental issues.

At the time of the shootings, he worked for The Experts, a subcontractor on an HP Enterprise Services contract to refresh equipment used on the Navy Marine Corps Intranet network.

Alexis lived in Seattle in 2004 and 2005, according to public documents. In 2004, Seattle police said Alexis was arrested for shooting out the tires of another man's vehicle in what he later described to detectives as an anger-fueled "blackout." According to an account on the department's website, two construction workers had parked their car in the driveway of their worksite, next to a home where Alexis was staying. The workers reported seeing a man, later identified by police as Alexis, walk out of the home and fire three shots into the rear tires.

Workers at the construction site told police Alexis had stared at them daily for several weeks. The owner of the construction business told police he believed Alexis was angry over the parking situation.

Police eventually arrested Alexis, found a gun and ammunition in his room and booked him into jail for malicious mischief.

According to the police account, Alexis told detectives he perceived he had been "mocked" by construction workers the morning of the incident. Alexis also claimed he had an anger-fueled "blackout," and could not remember firing his gun until an hour after the incident.

Alexis also told police he was present during "the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001" and described "how those events had disturbed him."

In 2007, he enlisted in the Navy reserves, serving through 2011, according to Navy spokeswoman Lt. Megan Shutka.

While he was still in the reserves, a neighbor in Texas reported she had been nearly struck by a bullet shot from his downstairs apartment. Alexis admitted to firing his weapon but said he was cleaning his gun when it accidentally discharged.

After leaving the reserves, Alexis worked as a waiter and delivery driver at the Happy Bowl Thai restaurant in a suburb of Fort Worth, Texas, according to Afton Bradley, a former co-worker. Alexis left in May, Bradley said.

Having traveled to Thailand, Alexis learned some Thai and could speak to Thai customers in their native language.

"He was a very nice person," Bradley said in a phone interview. "It kind of blows my mind away. I wouldn't think anything bad at all."

A former acquaintance, Oui Suthametewakul, said Alexis lived with him and his wife from August 2012 to May 2013 in Fort Worth, but that they had to part ways because he wasn't paying his bills. Alexis was a "nice guy," Suthametewakul said, though he sometimes carried a gun and would frequently complain about being a victim of discrimination.

Suthametewakul said Alexis had converted to Buddhism and prayed at a local Buddhist temple.

"We are all shocked. We are nonviolent. Aaron was a very good practitioner of Buddhism. He could chant better than even some of the Thai congregants," said Ty Thairintr, a congregant at Wat Budsaya, a Buddhist temple in Fort Worth.

Thairintr said Alexis told him he was upset with the Navy because "he thought he never got a promotion because of the color of his skin. He hated his commander."

As Thairintr and others at the temple understood, Alexis took a job as a contractor and he indicated to them he was going to go to Virginia. He last saw him five weeks ago.

In the early 2000s, before he moved to Seattle, Alexis lived with his mother in an apartment in New York City, said Gene Demby, who said he dated one of Alexis' younger sisters at the time.

"I wouldn't call him nice, but he seemed harmless, if really awkward," said Demby. "He was insecure. He was like a barbershop conspiracy theorist, the kind of guy who believes he's smarter than everyone else. He also was kind of like perpetually aggrieved, but not megalomaniacal or delusional."

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, which offers online courses in aviation and aerospace, confirmed that Alexis was enrolled as an online student, started classes in July 2012 and was pursuing a bachelor's of science in aeronautics.

"We are cooperating fully with investigating officials," the university said.

------

Associated Press writers Mike Baker and Phuong Le in Seattle, Nomaan Merchant in Dallas, John L. Mone in White Settlement, Texas, and Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman, Lolita C. Baldor, Ben Nuckols and Brett Zongker in Washington contributed to this report.

Russia against use of force in Syria resolution

Courtesy The Associated Press
Moscow is insisting that a new United Nations resolution on Syria not allow the use of force, but Russia's foreign minister appeared to suggest Tuesday that the issue could be reconsidered if Syria violates an agreement on abandoning its chemical weapons.

Sergey Lavrov made the statement in a news conference with his French counterpart Laurent Fabius. France and the United States say that a military option remains on the table and are pushing for the U.N. resolution to reflect that.

Lavrov said that Russia "spoke clearly" about rejecting the use-of-force clause when the chemical weapons agreement was worked out in Geneva.

But if signs emerge that Syria is not fulfilling the agreement or there are reports of further chemical weapons use, "then the Security Council will examine the situation."

The meeting of Lavrov and Fabius came a day after U.N. inspectors submitted their report on the Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack that precipitated the heightened tensions over Syria. Although the report confirmed that chemical weapons were used, it did not say who used them -- and Lavrov and Fabius differed sharply on their interpretations.

"The report exposes the regime," Fabius said. "On the basis of the information of our external agents, we consider that the report proves the responsibility of the regime for the chemical weapons attack of Aug. 21."

But Lavrov said: "We have serious reason to suggest that this was a provocation" by the rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime.

Former Army Capt. Will Swenson to receive Medal of Honor for heroics in Afghanistan

Courtesy Navy Times

By Dan Lamothe Staff Writer

The White House announced Monday that former Army Capt. Will Swenson will receive the Medal of Honor, more than four years after he led a small contingent of U.S. military advisers through the teeth of a deadly ambush in eastern Afghanistan.

Swenson was an embedded trainer working with an Afghan Border Police mentor team on Sept. 8, 2009, when his unit was ambushed in Kunar province's Sarkani district. The controversial battle sparked national outcry when it was learned U.S. forces on the ground were repeatedly denied air and artillery support they had requested. Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyer received the Medal of Honor in September 2011 for heroism in the same battle.

"It's a monumental event for me, for my family and for my teammates," Swenson said in an Army news release published Monday night. "This day also means lot to those I served with."

Swenson, who left active duty in February 2011, will be the sixth living service member to receive the nation's top valor award for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan. He will receive the award Oct. 15 in a ceremony at the White House alongside his family, White House officials said.

The grueling six-hour battle is one of the most infamous of the war in Afghanistan. At least 50 well-entrenched insurgents in the mountainside village of Ganjgal ambushed a group of about 60 Afghan soldiers, 20 Afghan border police and 13 military trainers shortly after dawn as the group was on its way to meet village elders. The enemy fighters appeared to know they were coming, and launched a fierce barrage of small-arms and rocket fire.

Killed in the battle were Gunnery Sgt. Edwin Johnson, 31; Staff Sgt. Aaron Kenefick, 30; 1st Lt. Michael Johnson, 25; and Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class James Layton, 22. All were members of Meyer's unit, Marine Embedded Training Team 2-8, out of Okinawa, Japan. A soldier working for Swenson, Sgt. 1st Class Kenneth Westbrook, died the following month at the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center due to medical complications after sustaining a gunshot wound to the neck and face in the battle.

The battle and its aftermath have both been filled with frustration. Swenson, Meyer and the family members of the fallen all have criticized commanders who were found to have abandoned the troops on the battlefield that day, and the military's handling of the incident afterward.

Two Army officers who were at a nearby tactical operations center nearby later received letters of reprimand after they were cited for "negligent leadership" that led "directly to the loss of life" on the battlefield, according to the investigation's findings. It cited them for repeatedly refusing pleas for artillery support from U.S. forces on the ground, especially Swenson, and failing to notify higher commands that they had troops in trouble, the investigation found. They were with Task Force Chosin, an Army unit comprising soldiers from 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, out of Fort Drum, N.Y.

What Swenson did

Swenson is credited with braving enemy fire repeatedly to help U.S. forces get out of a kill zone and in helping to find and recover the bodies of the four military advisers killed in the ambush.

U.S. forces left Forward Operating Base Joyce before dawn that morning to meet tribal leaders in Ganjgal, but as the lead element of the unit approached the village, the troops could see the lights in it flicker off. Moments later,they faced a hail of fire, and the four-man team of Marine trainers was quickly pinned down in the village with Afghan soldiers, according to military documents outlining the battle.

The team pleaded for fire support, but was denied because the officers at Joyce underestimated how bad the ambush was and were concerned about killing civilians or U.S. service members with artillery rounds. After the Marine team stopped responding to their radio, surviving U.S. forces reported them missing and began a frantic search to find them, uncertain whether they were dead.

Swenson and other U.S. forces were farther from the village, but still in the valley and facing heavy enemy fire. He began requesting fire support shortly after the shooting started, but after a few early artillery shells were dropped, he and other troops on the ground were denied additional support, the investigation found.

Pinned down on a hillside with several wounded comrades, Swenson and a Marine officer, then-1st Lt. Ademola Fabayo, defended the group from advancing enemy forces, who dressed in Afghan National Army uniforms and helmets, according to military documents. Swenson killed at least two of them with a grenade at close range, while Fabayo engaged them with his M4 carbine.

Fabayo and Swenson also worked together to evacuate more casualties under fire in an unarmored Ford Ranger pickup truck used by Afghan forces, and cared for service members who were wounded in the battle, including Westbrook. Then-Cpl. Meyer, meanwhile, worked with another Marine, then-Staff Sgt. Juan Rodriguez-Chavez, to free other Afghan forces from the kill zone.

On a last push into the village, Swenson hopped in a Humvee with Rodriguez-Chavez, Fabayo, Meyer and an Afghan interpreter. Rodriguez-Chavez drove, Fabayo manned a 7.62mm M240 machine gun turret, and Meyer sat in the back with the interpreter.

Meyer hopped out of the vehicle close to the village and found the missing troops shot to death and stripped of their radios and weapons in a hillside trench that had been marked with a smoke canister tossed from a helicopter. The gunfire was too fierce for the Air Force's elite pararescue jumpers to help, but Meyer and Swenson faced it to load the bodies, the investigation found.

Interviewed after the incident, Swenson unloaded on the rules of engagement used in Afghanistan, the leadership of officers who didn't send help and the second-guessing he experienced while requesting fire support, according to a copy of his witness statement.

"When I'm being second-guessed by higher or somebody that's sitting in an air-conditioned TOC, why [the] hell am I even out there in the first place?" Swenson told investigators, according to redacted documents reviewed by Military Times. "Let's sit back and play Nintendo. I am the ground commander. I want that f---er, and I am willing to accept the consequences of that f---er."

Mixed feelings

The five families who lost loved ones because of the Ganjgal ambush learned about the approval of Swenson's award late last week and over the weekend, and have been told they will be invited to the ceremony, said Susan Price, the mother of Kenefick, one of the Marines killed in the ambush.

"We intend to honor him for his sacrifice and all that he went through in the battle," said Price, whose son was posthumously promoted to gunnery sergeant. "We're just so happy. This is a joyous occasion."

Meyer, who has argued repeatedly that Swenson deserved the award, said Monday he was happy to hear the decision.

"It's great that the Army finally got through the process and made the right decision to award him the medal," Meyer said Monday in a phone interview. "It's something we all fought long and hard for."

Left unexplained thus far is how Swenson's initial nomination was lost in Afghanistan. Army officials said in 2011 that the captain was initially put up for the award shortly after the battle, only to see the paperwork get lost in bureaucracy. He was put up for it again when Marine Gen. John Allen, then the top commander in Afghanistan, took interest in the case shortly before Meyer received his award.

Swenson is said to be an intensely private individual who nevertheless has gone above and beyond to honor the memory of the men who died because of the ambush. In April, he traveled to Fort Benning, Ga., as the Army posthumously awarded the Silver Star, the nation's third highest award for combat valor, to Westbrook. Charlene Westbrook, the fallen soldier's widow, credited Swenson with making sure that Westbrook's heroism was recognized.

Westbrook's wife said Monday that she always had hope the award would be approved. She had not talked to Swenson since the White House announcement. "It's awesome news," she said.

Fabayo, now a captain, and Rodriguez-Chavez, now a gunnery sergeant, received the Navy Cross in 2011 for their heroism in Ganjgal. It's second only to the Medal of Honor in recognizing combat valor.

At least eight other U.S. service members in the battle have received Bronze Stars with V device for heroism that day.

Only one other battle in Iraq and Afghanistan has led to two service members receiving the Medal of Honor for actions the same day. Former Army Staff Sgt. Clinton Romesha and Staff Sgt. Ty Carter both received the award for valor in defending Combat Outpost Keating in eastern Afghanistan on Oct. 3, 2009. The two battles took place about a month apart.

A letter to those Tennessee Fans that want Coach Jones fired

Dear Fake Ass Fans,

I am writing this letter to tell you to SHUT THE FUCK UP! We are not getting rid of Coach Jones! He will not take us to a National Championship no matter what. I equate him to a Cancer Doctor. For the Past 3 years we have had a cancer at the helm and that cancers name is Dooley. I will forever call him the Dooley Disease.

Now if you had cancer and the doctor prepped u all summer and gave you 3 treatments do you expect to be cancer free? If you do you are dumber than I think you are! It sometimes takes years to get rid of a cancer. The first year you see a small change, the second year you have an improvement, the third year you get up and dance, and the fourth year that cancer is gone. So, I want y'all to give this coach a chance.

Sincerely,
A Real TN Fan

TBI takes over deadly shooting in Luttrell

Courtesy Volunteer TV

LUTTRELL, Tenn. (WVLT) -- The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has taken over the investigation of a deadly shooting in Luttrell late Monday night.

Family members identified the victim as 46 year-old Michael Woodby. They said the shooting happened outside their home on Highway 370.

Authorities said the shooting occurred around 10:00 p.m.

Local 8 News' Courtney Elledge is in Union Co. and we will update this story as more information becomes available

Tennesseecelebrity hunter banned from hunting anywhere on Earth

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- A celebrity hunter from Tennessee who unlawfully killed a deer in Kansas has been banned from hunting anywhere in the United States or the world for the next year.

The U.S. attorney's office also announced Wednesday that 50-year-old William "Spook" Spann must spend a total of 30 nights and weekends in federal custody by the end of February.

U.S. Magistrate Judge James O'Hara imposed the sentence Tuesday after finding that Spann violated the terms of a plea agreement that banned him from hunting for six months.

Last year, Spann pleaded guilty to transporting across state lines the antlers of a deer he killed on land adjoining his central Kansas property. He was only permitted to hunt on his property.

Spann has a hunting show, "Spook Nation," on the Pursuit Channel.

Federalprisoner pleads guilty in2006 Monroe Co.murder

Courtesy Volunteer TV

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WVLT)-- A federal prisoner has pleaded guilty in the murder of a Monroe County man.

Charles Kaczmarczyk, 59, who is currently serving time in a federal prison in Kentucky, was sentenced to 25 years in state custody for the murder of Robert J. McClancy. The 56-year-old was found dead in his Tellico Plains home May 2006.

The Monroe County Sheriff’s Department responded to a call of a possible shooting and discovered McClancy in the chair with a pistol in one hand and a bottle of pills in the other hand, but McClancy had not been shot.

According to TBI, Kaczmarczyk stated that he and McClancy's wife Martha conspired to kill McClancy by causing him to overdose on prescription pills. He told investigators he and Martha staged the scene to make it appear as a suicide.

The 10th Judicial District Attorney General requested TBI investigate the homicide and provided an investigator who worked the case with a TBI agent.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General and Social Security Administration OIG were instrumental in providing the evidence and information needed to investigate the homicide.

Dozens of Tennesseebridges red-flagged in collapse survey

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Federal data show that dozens of Tennessee bridges are among the thousands nationwide that have advanced deterioration or are at risk of collapsing.

That works out to a small percentage of the state's total bridges, but it could be enough to cause concern among drivers who travel them regularly.

The Associated Press analyzed data involving 607,380 U.S. bridges in the National Bridge Inventory. They are subject to National Bridge Inspection Standards. The most recently available data show that on a national basis, 65,605 bridges fall into the structurally deficient category. More than 20,800 are categorized as fracture critical.

Some 7,795 bridges nationwide fall into both categories. Experts call that combination particularly problematic.

In Tennessee, 64 of the state's 19,721 bridges listed on the federal inventory are in both red-flag groups.

Orlando stationexplains why it hasto show Jags game

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — An Orlando television station has issued an on-air explanation for why it's airing the struggling Jacksonville Jaguars while many NFL fans probably would have preferred seeing the Denver Broncos-New York Giants game, a possible Super Bowl preview featuring the Peyton and Eli Manning.

WKMG TV issued the scrolled message on Sunday. It read that NFL policy states the station must carry all Jags away games. At the end the message said: "We apologize for any inconvenience."

Viewers then took to Twitter to remark on what many saw as an apology from the station.

But WKMG Vice President and General Manager Skip Valet says the arrangement is nothing new. He says for nearly two decades Orlando has been designated the secondary Jaguars market and has carried all the away games. As he put it: "I know it's frustrating, but as a CBS station in this market you have to carry the away games."

Jaguars scored an NFL-low 2 points last week and are coming off the worst season in franchise history. They have missed the playoffs 11 of the last 13 years. Associated Press Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

CRST dropped Ball and Driver Looses Livelihood

We sent CRST the Following E-Mail on September 16, 2013. " We are doing a story on your company.
One of your former Drivers received a ticket in Arizona. This Driver has produced video of him including the Ticket in a TripPak. Why don't you explain to us why your company didn't satisfy the ticket requirements before this driver lost his livelihood?
Why haven't your company offered to pay for this ticket?
Why don't you offer to pay for his lost wages?
Is it True that you don't care about your drivers?"

Now lets see how long they take to get back to us and what they sat

Syriacrisis:UNtoconfirm saringasusedinDamascus

There is "convincing evidence" that sarin gas was used in a rocket attack in the Syrian capital, Damascus, last month, a UN report is to confirm.

Text seen in a photograph of the front page of the report - to be released later -does not apportion blame.

US allegations that the government was responsible led to threats of military action and then a US-Russia deal for Syria to make safe its chemical arms.

World powers will now try to hammer out a UN Security Council resolution.

Earlier, UN investigators said they were probing 14 alleged chemical attacks in Syria since September 2011.

'Between the parties'

The text of the front page can be seen in a photograph of chief UN chemical weapons investigator Ake Sellstrom handing over the report to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

It says: "The environmental, chemical and medical samples we have collected provide clear and convincing evidence that surface-to-surface rockets containing the nerve agent sarin were used... in the Ghouta area of Damascus'' on 21 August.

"The conclusion is that chemical weapons have been used in the ongoing conflict between the parties in the Syrian Arab Republic... against civilians including children on a relatively large scale," the report says.

Mr Ban was scheduled to brief the Security Council on the report at 11:00 local time in New York (15:00 GMT) and is then expected to address the media.

Assigning blame for the attack in Ghouta was not part of the inspectors' remit.

However, diplomats have suggested the way the facts are reported may point to the Syrian government as the perpetrators.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has denied allegations his government was behind the attack, instead blaming the rebels.

Earlier, Paulo Pinheiro, the chairman of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, said the commission had been investigating 14 alleged chemical attacks since it began monitoring Syrian human rights abuses in September 2011.

Mr Pinheiro said investigators had not so far been able to assign blame and were awaiting details from Monday's UN report.

He said the commission believed both President Assad's government and the rebels were responsible for war crimes, but that the regime alone had perpetrated crimes against humanity.

War crimes, including mass executions, rape and torture, were continuing, the commission said.

Its investigators said a referral to the International Criminal Court was imperative.

'Transparent and timely'

French President Francois Hollande and his Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius earlier met British Foreign Secretary William Hague and US Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris on Monday to discuss the Syrian crisis.

The meeting follows the deal brokered at the weekend by Russia and the US under which Syria will disclose its chemical weapons within a week and eliminate them by mid-2014.

The US, UK and France said they were seeking a "strong" UN resolution with "serious consequences" if Syria failed to hand over its chemical arsenal, along with a "precise timetable" for dismantling it.

The UN Security Council is expected to draft a resolution in the coming days.

Mr Kerry said the resolution had to be "forceful, accountable, transparent and timely".

He said that all the countries involved, including Russia, had agreed that military intervention could be an option "should diplomacy fail".

"The framework fully commits the United States and Russia to impose measures under Chapter VII of the UN charter in the event of non-compliance."

Chapter VII permits military action if other measures do not succeed.

But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said any calls for swift UN action against Mr Assad showed a "lack of understanding" of the chemical weapons deal reached with Syria.

Mr Lavrov said: "Yes, our American colleagues would very much like there to be a Chapter VII resolution. But the final declaration, the final document that we approved and which has the guiding principles for how we proceed and for our mutual obligations, makes no mention of it."

The Impostor President Gets Caught

During the 2008 presidential campaign, the New York Times ran an article on what psychologists call the “impostor phenomenon.” To measure it, they ask test subjects questions like, “At times, I feel my success has been due to some kind of luck” or “I can give the impression that I’m more competent than I really am.”

Although the article had nothing to do with Barack Obama, he would surely have scored off the charts had he answered those questions honestly. He was a reasonably bright guy but not the “brilliant” author and savant white liberals thought him to be. His “luck” derived from the fact that he grew up almost exactly as those liberals had but in the body of a black man. Hearing him they heard themselves. Seeing him say what he said surprised them, validated them, delighted them with its very whiteness. Although they would be the last to admit it, they suffered conspicuously from what George Bush has called “the soft bigotry of low expectations.”

In speaking of Obama in early 2007, Joe Biden framed those expectations with dunderheaded clarity. “I mean you got the first mainstream African-American presidential candidate who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” Not to be out-patronized, Senate majority Leader Harry Reid found comfort in Obama’s having “no Negro dialect.” The always-observant Shelby Steele summed up the phenomenon, “Blacks like Obama, who show merit where mediocrity is expected, enjoy a kind of reverse stigma, a slightly inflated reputation for ‘freshness’ and excellence because they defy expectations.”

At least 48 die in Iraq bombings

By Sinan Salaheddin
The Associated Press

A new wave of insurgent attacks in Iraq, mostly car bombs targeting Shiite-majority cities in the center and south of the country, killed at least 48 people on Sunday, officials said.

The attacks continue a surge in bloodshed that has engulfed the country for months. No one has claimed responsibility for the blasts, which targeted commercial areas and parking lots in seven cities. But systematically organized waves of bombings are used out by al-Qaida's local branch, known as the Islamic State of Iraq, to undermine confidence in the Shiite-led government.

Sometimes insurgents launch multiple attacks for two or more days in a row. On Monday, 27 people were killed in suicide attacks, bombings and shootings.

The deadliest was in the city of Hillah, 95 kilometers (60 miles) south of Baghdad, where a car bomb explosion near an outdoor market and parking lot killed nine civilians and wounded 15 others, a police officer said. A few minutes later,another car bomb went off nearby, killing six civilians and wounding 14, he added.

In the nearby town of Iskandariyah, 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of the capital, another car bomb hit a parking lot, killing four civilians and wounding nine, police said.

Another explosives-rigged parked car bomb went off in an industrial area of the Shiite city of Karbala, killing four and wounding 25, a police officer said. Karbala is 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad. In the aftermath, security officials inspected burnt-out cars in front of what appeared to be a smashed row of workshops.

And in Kut, another Shiite-dominated city 160 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of Baghdad, a car bomb targeted a gathering of construction workers and food stalls, killing two and wounding 14, another provincial police officer said.

Seven more civilians were killed and 31 others were wounded when four separate parked car bombs ripped through the towns of Suwayrah and Hafriyah outside Kut, police said.

In Baghdad's northern Sunni-dominated Azamiyah neighborhood, a car bomb that exploded near the convoy of the head of Baghdad's provincial council killed three and wounded eight, police say. The council head escaped unharmed.

Two other car bombs hit the southern cities of Basra and Nasiriyah, killing eight civilians and wounding 26, two police officers said. And two more civilians were killed when a bomb hit a police patrol in Baghdad's Sunni western suburb of Abu Ghraib. Nine other people were wounded.

To the northeast of Baghdad, gunmen broke into a farm in the village of Abu Sayda and killed three Sunni farmers, police said.

Eleven medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. All spoke anonymously as they weren't authorized to release information.

Iraq is going through its deadliest bout of violence since 2008, raising fears the country is returning to a period of widespread killing such as that which pushed it to the brink of civil war following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. More than 4,000 people have been killed in attacks since the start of April, including 804 just in August, according to United Nations figures.

U.N.: 'Convincing evidence' of Syria chemical attack

Courtesy Navy Times

The Associated Press

United Nations inspectors said Monday there is "clear and convincing evidence" that chemical weapons were used on a relatively large scale in an attack last month in Syria that killed hundreds of people.

The inspectors said "the environmental, chemical and medical samples we have collected provide clear and convincing evidence that surface-to-surface rockets containing the nerve agent sarin were used ... in the Ghouta area of Damascus" on Aug. 21. The report mentioned the areas of Ein Tarma, Moadamiyeh and Zamalka.

"The conclusion is that chemical weapons have been used in the ongoing conflict between the parties in the Syrian Arab Republic ... against civilians, including children, on a relatively large scale," the inspectors said on the first page of their report to Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.

Ban was scheduled to present the report to the U.N. Security Council later Monday morning. The Associated Press saw the first page of the report.

The Aug. 21 chemical attack unfolded as a U.N. chemical weapons team was in Syria to investigate earlier reported attacks. After days of delays, the inspectors were allowed access to victims, doctors and others in the Damascus suburbs.

The inspectors were mandated to report on whether chemical weapons were used and if so which ones -- not on who was responsible.

The rebels and their Western and Arab supporters blame President Bashar Assad's regime for the attack in the rebel-controlled area of Ghouta. The Assad regime insists that the attack was carried out by rebels.

Chief weapons inspector Ake Sellstrom handed over the report to the secretary-general on Sunday amid a flurry of diplomatic activity aimed at getting Syria to put its just-acknowledged stockpile of chemical weapons and chemical precursors under international control for destruction.

In Geneva, the chairman of a U.N. war crimes panel on Monday said it is investigating 14 suspected chemical attacks in Syria, dramatically escalating the stakes after diplomatic breakthroughs that saw the Syrian government agree to dismantle its chemical weapons program.

Paulo Sergio Pinheiro said the Geneva-based U.N. panel he heads has not pinpointed the chemical used in the attacks and is awaiting evidence from a separate team of U.N. chemical weapons inspectors expected to be made public later Monday.

That report is expected to add momentum to a deal to eradicate Syria's chemical weapons program.

Pinheiro also said the panel believes Assad's government has been responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity, while rebel groups have perpetrated war crimes but not crimes against humanity "because there is not a clear chain of command."

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry ended a weeklong diplomacy tour in Paris on Monday. Just a week ago, he was there lobbying for global support for military strikes against Assad, but after a breakthrough with Russia, Kerry's latest visit was intended to secure support from allies for the deal to secure and then eradicate Syria's chemical weapons arsenal.

Kerry and his French and British counterparts laid out a two-pronged approach in Syria, calling for enforceable U.N. benchmarks for eradicating the chemical weapons program and an international conference bolstering the moderate opposition.

France and the U.S. insisted that a military response to the Aug. 21 poison gas attack that killed hundreds remained on the table, and were pressing for a U.N. resolution reflecting that in coming days.

"If Assad fails to comply ... we are all agreed, and that includes Russia, that there will be consequences," Secretary of State John Kerry said.

But Russia's foreign minister said ongoing attempts to threaten the use of force against Syria would provoke the opposition and disrupt a chance for negotiations.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in a news conference with his Egyptian counterpart Nabil Fahmy, responded to comments by French President Francois Hollande that the "military option" against Syria was not off the table.

Meanwhile, invitations were going out Monday to top members of the Syrian National Coalition -- the main umbrella opposition group -- for an international conference in New York timed to coincide with next week's U.N. General Assembly meeting, French officials said.

Bolstering the Western-backed SNC is just as crucial to Syria's future as Assad's agreement to give up chemical arms, said French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.

"He must understand that there is no military victory, no possible military victory for him," Fabius said. He acknowledged that broad popular support for the rebels has been hampered by fears that Islamic militants are now playing a major role in the 2 ½-year-old uprising.

In briefing the allies, Kerry was pressing for support for the ambitious agreement that averted threatened U.S. military strikes. It calls for an inventory of Syria's chemical weapons program within one week,with all components of the program out of the country or destroyed by mid-2014.

Those who blame Assad for the chemical attack and supported military strikes say it is up to Assad to uphold his end of any deal.

"It is extremely important that there are no evasions, that there is no cat and mouse game going on over these weapons," said British Foreign Secretary William Hague.

Kerry acknowledged the chemical arms deal would have little immediate effect on the bloodshed in Syria, which has killed more than 100,000 people, but he said full compliance was a key first step.

In Geneva, Pinheiro said the "vast majority" of casualties in Syria's civil war came from conventional weapons like guns and mortars.

___

Associated Press writers John Heilprin in Geneva and Matthew Lee in Paris contributed to this report.

Shooting reported at Washington Navy Yard

Courtesy of the Navy Times

Police are confirming that four people are injured, including one police officer in a Monday morning shooting at the Washington Navy Yard.

Police and emergency crews gathered outside the Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters building, where the shooting was reported.

People inside the building have been directed to stay in place.

Naval Sea Systems Command is the largest of the Navy's five system commands and accounts for a quarter of the Navy's entire budget.

It builds, buys and maintains the Navy's ships and submarines and their combat systems.

Police from multiple local and federal agencies were responding along with SWAT crews.

Coast Guard court-martial scheduled Monday in Va.

Courtesy Navy Times

A Coast Guardsman accused of sexual assault and other charges is scheduled to face a court-martial in Virginia.

The Coast Guard says the court-martial of Petty Officer 3rd Class Mathew Rogers is set for Monday in Norfolk. He is accused of sexually assaulting a civilian woman in a hotel in Portsmouth in August 2012. He also charged with making a false official statement and other counts.

Rogers could be sentenced up to 120 years in prison if found guilty on all counts.

Rogers is serving at Coast Guard Station Marblehead, Ohio, but he is assigned to the Cutter Alder, a 225-foot sea-going buoy tender homeported in Duluth, Minn.

He was assigned to cutter Alder and was attending training in Virginia at the time of the alleged sexual assault.

Knoxville Police Department lets cars like this run on city Streets

Knoxville Police Department tickets people for things like no plate lights. Hey dumbasses that made up the plate light law. Plates are Reflective. I have even seen them ticket people for impeding the flow of Traffic on the sidewalk for walking to slow. What's the speed limit for Walking to slow?

I swear KPD makes up their own laws but they let the beauty I pictured here drive up and down the road. Is it because the Driver is Female?

Knox County Dumps Constables

Knox County has dumped the elected position of Constable. The Position of Constable is the oldest Law Enforcement job in this country! Knox County has eliminated this position. Could the reason be that a Constable of issued a ticket to an election official or a council member? Probably these elected members gets paid for their elected position while the Constable didn't.

The Constable is not issued a cruiser, a Uniform or Weapons. The Constable pays for this on their own. Constables pay for everything out of their own pockets. Leaving the Tax Payer a total bill of 0 dollars and 0 cents. I personally wish more elected offices would follow this model.

They say it is because of misconduct of the few then, why don't we abolish the Knoxville Police Department because of the few officers every year that get caught beating unarmed suspects?

Twitter shares secrets with Vladimir Putin

Straight from Twitter on their website an employee states.

" “When I started, I had very little real-world experience—I’d never coded professionally before—so, I was really excited and really nervous... On my third day at work, I got to see the President of Russia... A few weeks later, Kanye West (@kanyewest) ’dropped by’ for lunch.” My Awesome Summer Internship at Twitter by Siddarth Chandrasekaran"

Can Twitter use their App to put spyware on your phone? The Answer is Yes

Can Twitter be used to see your files? The answer is yes

Why else would Russian President Vladimir Putin visit Twitters Office

2 million bike rally on 9/11

All I can say is impressive and thank you

Click here to see video

Advertisers Wanted

We are Seeking Businesses that want to Advertise with us. We will Advertise your business on our Blog, Our Twitter Account and on our Online Radio Show. We are Reasonably Priced at $20/month or $200/year we are read and Listened to all over the World! Imagine your brand reaching Russia, Germany, France and England just to name a few. All you have to do is click the Subscription Button and you put your Company Name and Web address into the text field its that simple.

Pick Payment Type

Monthly : $20.00 USD - monthly 6-Month : $100.00 USD - monthly 1 year : $200.00 USD - monthly

Company Name/Website Address

Football Time in TN is a Fraud

R. Carringer an alleged Reporter gets smacked down on Twitter by a Lawncare Guy. Mr. Carringer wouldn't respond to can you prove what Journalism school you attended. I would be Leary if I was handing out Press Passes to this Individual. He gives a bad Representation to Tennessee Sports Radio

Knox County Schools moved the Bar Bus Stop

Knox County Schools officials has moved the bus stop from in front of Brokers it has now relocated it next door on the east side of the bar. Tennessee Tonight wants them to follow the rules for bars to schools minimum 500 feet. The bus already stops in the afternoon at Greater Warner AME Zion church to drop off a TA in the afternoon this would be a great location and wouldn't be a nuisance to the parents.

A Plea for Caution From Russia

By VLADIMIR V. PUTIN September 11, 2013

MOSCOW —RECENT events surrounding Syria have prompted me to speak directly to the American people and their political leaders. It is important to do so at a time of insufficient communication between our societies.

Relations between us have passed through different stages. We stood against each other during the cold war. But we were also allies once, and defeated the Nazis together. The universal international organization —the United Nations —was then established to prevent such devastation from ever happening again.

The United Nations’ founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America’s consent the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.

No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.

The potential strike by the United States against Syria, despite strong opposition from many countries and major political and religious leaders, including the pope, will result in more innocent victims and escalation, potentially spreading the conflict far beyond Syria’s borders. A strike would increase violence and unleash a new wave of terrorism. It could undermine multilateral efforts to resolve the Iranian nuclear problem and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and further destabilize the Middle East and North Africa. It could throw the entire system of international law and order out of balance.

Syria is not witnessing a battle for democracy, but an armed conflict between government and opposition in a multireligious country. There are few champions of democracy in Syria. But there are more than enough Qaeda fighters and extremists of all stripes battling the government. The United States State Department has designated Al Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, fighting with the opposition, as terrorist organizations. This internal conflict, fueled by foreign weapons supplied to the opposition, is one of the bloodiest in the world.

Mercenaries from Arab countries fighting there, and hundreds of militants from Western countries and even Russia, are an issue of our deep concern. Might they not return to our countries with experience acquired in Syria?After all, after fighting in Libya, extremists moved on to Mali. This threatens us all.

From the outset, Russia has advocated peaceful dialogue enabling Syrians to develop a compromise plan for their own future. We are not protecting the Syrian government, but international law. We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today’s complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not. Under current international law, force is permitted only in self-defense or by the decision of the Security Council. Anything else is unacceptable under the United Nations Charter and would constitute an act of aggression.

No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces, to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists. Reports that militants are preparing another attack —this time against Israel —cannot be ignored.

It is alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States. Is it in America’s long-term interest? I doubt it. Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan “you’re either with us or against us.”

But force has proved ineffective and pointless. Afghanistan is reeling, and no one can say what will happen after international forces withdraw. Libya is divided into tribes and clans. In Iraq the civil war continues, with dozens killed each day. In the United States, many draw an analogy between Iraq and Syria, and ask why their government would want to repeat recent mistakes.

No matter how targeted the strikes or how sophisticated the weapons, civilian casualties are inevitable, including the elderly and children, whom the strikes are meant to protect.

The world reacts by asking: if you cannot count on international law, then you must find other ways to ensure your security. Thus a growing number of countries seek to acquire weapons of mass destruction. This is logical: if you have the bomb, no one will touch you. We are left with talk of the need to strengthen nonproliferation, when in reality this is being eroded.

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

A new opportunity to avoid military action has emerged in the past few days. The United States, Russia and all members of the international community must take advantage of the Syrian government’s willingness to place its chemical arsenal under international control for subsequent destruction. Judging by the statements of President Obama, the United States sees this as an alternative to military action.

I welcome the president’s interest in continuing the dialogue with Russia on Syria. We must work together to keep this hope alive, as we agreed to at the Group of 8 meeting in Lough Erne in Northern Ireland in June, and steer the discussion back toward negotiations.

If we can avoid force against Syria, this will improve the atmosphere in international affairs and strengthen mutual trust. It will be our shared success and open the door to cooperation on other critical issues.

My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this. I carefully studied his address to the nation on Tuesday. And I would rather disagree with a case he made on American exceptionalism, stating that the United States’ policy is “what makes America different. It’s what makes us exceptional.” It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

Vladimir V. Putin is the president of Russia.

The above OPED was put in the New York Times. Is President Putin Smarter the King Obama? Is this a warning from Putin that America is becoming Communistic? Is this a Warning that Putin will attack America if we carry on with attack?

Dennis Keith Rodman and Kim Jung Un a couple?

I will keep this short and Sweet kinda like Dennis Rodman. Do you feel that since Rodman came out in the 90's as to being bi-sexual. Maybe him and Kim Jung Un have a relationship going. Think about it #1 his name is Kim
#2 Rodman Flys to him Frequently
#3 They spend a lot of time talking on the phone
#4 Rodman gets mad if anyone says anything bad about Kim Jung Un

Hmmm you tell me

State of Arizona continues to still hate the American Trucker

Well as most of y'all know I am a Truck Driver by Trade. I do these articles for fun and Stress Relief. I am in a battle to get my Drivers License back for what amounts to be a bullshit charge but still one I don't deny. Now let me inform you. Arizona is a Driver Responsibility State and for those that have no clue as to what that means. It basically amounts to if you are driving a vehicle that you don't own. You get pulled over you will be cited for thing like no insurance if the owner don't have insurance on the said vehicle.

Here's my story. I started my day out at about 3:30 that evening. At around 3:30 am the following morning I was traveling east bound on I-10. I got through the banning coops that night. They checked my paperwork and I was good. I pulled into the Quartzsite Coop and a DOT officer was handpicking who he pulled in I am cool with that the man has a job to do. But, at 3:30 in the morning he could of nailed the asshole that didn't have a single working trailer light. I went in thinking everything was cool since the Communist state of California thought it was but who knew the socialist state of Arizona would poop on my day.

The DOT in the socialist state of Arizona got me for the companies insurance card being expired by 3 measly hours. I notified dispatch immediately of the ticket and they told me to send them the ticket in my TripPak and they would take care of it.

Now let's Fast Forward till later in the Year I had quit driving, Transferred my CDL to Tennessee and dropped it down to a class D drivers License and lo and behold no letter or nothing I get pulled over and my license is suspended I had to pay someone to take me to the Drivers License Station which is about $150 round trip via Taxi. They advised me it was suspended by Arizona. I called Arizona and got all the stuff I needed to have and I called to verify that I could FAX it to them. They said yes and I spent $10 to FAX the paperwork and they said they wanted the Original and would accept it. I mailed them the Original and kept a photocopy. Now they claim they didn't get the Original and I can't get the company to call me back and now I'm pretty much fucked. I need people to contact Quartzsite Justice Court and tell them to release my license. So, I can become Gainfully employed.

I wrote an E-mail to Governor Jan Brewer asking for her help and here's the E-mail I got.

" On Jul 22, 2013 1:36 PM, "AZGOV" <azgov@az.gov> wrote: Dear Mr. Kirkland,

The Governor's Office of Constituent Services is in receipt of your e-mail.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We regret to read of the hardships you have encountered. As you may know, the Governor does not have the authority to intervene in local law enforcement or court matters. Only a judge or magistrate in the appropriate jurisdiction has the authority to reinstate your license.

We urge you to reach out to the appropriate court to express your concerns and explain the hardship this has created for you. Additionally, you may consider contacting an attorney, that may be able to assist you with this situation.

Thank you for taking the time to reach out to the Governor's Office.

Sincerely, JANICE K. BREWER ARIZONA GOVERNOR

/s/Governor's Office Constituent Services www.azgovernor.gov"

I am sorry Governor Brewer I don't have the cash for an attorney but I am sure a word from you would help. I want to work and can't get there to the Jobs without a drivers license. But I can't get a Drivers License without the Socialist State of Arizona releases my License so my State can reissue. I want my readers to tell your family and friends to help me and call Quartzsite Justice Court at 928-927-6313 and Tell Justice of the Peace E.M. Williams to give Gary Kirkland case #TR2008-00723 back his license so, I can support my family. Thank You for your time Godspeed

Crossville man, 1 other arrested in fatal Florida stabbing

Click here for Video

CROSSVILLE, Tenn. -

#1 Trusted Emergency Alert Solution Unified one-step notifications

Crossville man, 1 other arrested in fatal Florida stabbing

Posted: Sep 09, 2013 5:30 AM EDT Updated: Sep 09, 2013 6:26 AM EDT

A Middle Tennessee man faces a murder charge in Florida.

According to the Tampa Tribune, Crossville native Justin Gonzalez, 22, along with one other person, face charges of stabbing a Florida man.

A Pasco County Sheriff's deputy found the victim dead in a car along the side of Interstate 75 on Saturday night.

He'd been stabbed in the chest and abdomen several times.

Jesse Blair, 23, told deputies he and Gonzalez planned on killing Leon Mascorro because he was a snitch.

Police say Gonzalez admitted to driving the car and handing the knife to Blair, who then stabbed him to death.

"The only thing that we can as the Pasco Sheriff's Office give [the family] is the satisfaction of knowing that whoever killed him will be brought to justice," said Sheriff Chris Nocco.

The two suspects face first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

Bail has not been set.

*The Tampa Tribune contributed to this report.

Mechanicsville man charged with arson after house fire

KNOXVILLE (WATE) – Knoxville firefighters say a Mechanicsville man tried to burn down a house he was renting.

The fire started just before midnight Saturday in the 400-block of Citico Street.

Firefighters were able to put out the flames in a couple of hours, but the home sustained some damage.

Donald Manns, 42, is now being charged with arson.

Is Obama's CDC racist?

I was doing research for another article and boom it hit me. My article on preventable heart deaths went down like Austin Peay against the University of Tennessee. The CDC calling African American people blacks. Here at Tennessee Tonight we don't tolerate racism. Here's the proof.

" Blacks are nearly twice as likely as whites to die from preventable heart disease and stroke."

" Blacks are nearly twice as likely as whites to die early from heart disease and stroke. Sex: Men have the highest risk of death across all races and ethnic groups. Black men are most at risk."

"Black men are at highest risk of dying early from heart disease and stroke"

There 4 instances where the Term "Black" was used instead of African American. The Obama Administration should correct this if he cares about race relations in the United States.