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Philly Inquirer Says No 4th For You, America is Evil, WOT is a ‘Scam’

Posted by Warner Todd Huston On July - 1 - 2008

You know, I was wondering when this was going to happen, when someone in the MSM would say Bush has ruined July Fourth? The Philadelphia Inquirer didn’t disappoint by wallowing in the worst example of blame-America-above-all as well as the most extreme case of BDS that I’ve seen outside the kind of nutroot sites like Daily Kos and the Democratic Underground. A mainstream paper has now gone that extra mile to let us all know that America does not deserve a July Fourth celebration this year because of Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, CIA secret prisons, and, lest you imagine otherwise, the fact that we have made George W. Bush our president. “Cancel the parade” because America is evil. It’s all there in all it’s anti-American splendor in A not-so-glorious Fourth, U.S. atrocities are unworthy of our heritage.

Inquirer columnist Chris Satullo thinks that America is fraught with sin and that we don’t deserve a Fourth celebration. “This year, America doesn’t deserve to celebrate its birthday,” he whines. “This Fourth of July should be a day of quiet and atonement.”

We have failed to pay attention. We’ve settled for lame excuses. We’ve spit on the memory of those who did that brave, brave thing in Philadelphia 232 years ago.

We’ve “spit on the memory” of the Founders? Does he mean when the Democratic Party helped us lose Vietnam? How about when liberals somehow divined in the Founder’s name a “right to privacy” in the Constitution? Were either of those times when we spit in their faces? How about when the American left destroyed religion in America, or when they invented a “right” to abortion, or when they turned our various systems of education into places where fringe, wackos reign supreme and American history, civics and… well, anything actually educational… is banished into the mists of the past? Does Our pal Chris Satullo mean those times when the Founders saw the spittle fly?

You can guess that no is the answer to my questions.

No, to Chris Satullo, the only time we’ve “spit on the memory” of the founders is when we reacted to the time when 3,000 of our own were killed in New York City by Islamic terrorists. He is all upset that we’ve tortured prisoners, illegally imprisoned people “for years,” and practiced “rendition.”

The America those men founded should never torture a prisoner.

The America they founded should never imprison people for years without charge or hearing.

The America they founded should never ship prisoners to foreign lands, knowing their new jailers might torture them.

Satullo hits all the anti-American, leftist tropes to be sure.

And, guess who’s fault it is? (Cue the dramatic music…)

We have done such things, on orders from the Oval Office. We have done them, without general outrage or shame.

Bingo, right for the Bush Derangement Syndrome.

And what did that eeeevil Bushitler do?

Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo. CIA secret prisons. “Rendition” of prisoners to foreign torture chambers.

Outrageously Satullo calls the War on Terror a “scam.”

And all for a scam. The waterboarding, the snarling dogs, the theft of sleep - all the diabolical tricks haven’t made us safer. They may have averted this plot or that. But they’ve spawned new enemies by the thousands, made the jihadist rants ring true to so many ears.

9/11 must have been an illusion. The War on Terror is merely a Bush lie, apparently.

And Satullo’s idiocy isn’t close to being expended. He also has to misappropriate the history of the Founders for his socialist inspired, Peace-in-our-times, blather.

The men huddled long ago in Philadelphia had better reason. A British fleet floated off the Jersey coast, full of hands eager to hang them from the nearest lampposts.

Apparently, Satullo doesn’t think the nation had anything to fear on the afternoon of 9/11? And as to the real history of the Revolution, need I remind Satullo that the British neither intended, nor had the capability of killing 3,000 Americans with one incident? Might we have had a right to take measures against a foe that killed many thousands with a single strike?

Then Satullo goes on and on about “human rights” as if WE are the guilty party on that level, as if the U.S. can be compared to Islamofascists who send children to blow themselves up, who cut off the heads of live prisoners, who have manuals on torture, and who have no respect at all for human life on any level?

I might also want to direct this historically illiterate columnist to the real historical record of the American Revolution where tax men were covered in boiling tar and sent screaming back to their tax houses that were burnt down around them by colonists showing their ire against the crown. I might show Satullo where General George Washington summarily hanged spies and shot deserters and traitors. I might alert him to the vicious internecine fighting between Colonists loyal to the Crown and those Patriots that were rising up against them.

I could show this man where Revolutionary history — the REAL history, not the sanitized, fake one he is selling in order to beat up George W. Bush — was quite vicious and mean. It WAS war, after all, and at a time when people still knew how to fight a war to actually kill the enemy.

Anyway, this simple minded claptrap is all full of laments and moaning, but no where is there any real logic and no deeper discussion of the real historical record is offered. Neither is there any introspection that his fellow travelers are the ones responsible in the first place for casting us in the very situations he bemoans.

Satullo ends with his most earnest attempt at piety.

Let us atone, in quiet and humility. Let us spend the day truly studying the example of our Founders. May we earn a new birth of courage before our nation’s birthday next rolls around.

Humility? He doesn’t know the definition of the word. For a man who so obviously has no clue about history and who so blatantly wants to steal the luster of the Founding Fathers to burnish his cracker jack prize of a crown is certainly an outrage. For him to wag his America hating finger in all our faces on the day we are to celebrate our freedom from tyranny is the height of hubris.

Still, I know that Satullo is quite sincere in his hatred of the United States. In fact, I’m sure he feels this low at every July Fourth celebration. July Fourth is probably a black day for him no matter who is president. I feel bad for his heartburn, but that he spews his bile for the rest of us to be bothered with is downright unneighborly.

Happy July Fourth, folks. Be proud of this great nation, Satullo’s nonsense aside. The U.S.A. is still the shining light on a hill shining the light of freedom on all the world. Anti-Americans like Satullo might have blinders on, but for those willing to see, we stand like a rock.

Unfurl those flags and let freedom wave.

The Irrationality Of Demofuel

Posted by JR Dieckmann On July - 1 - 2008

If you think that the high price of gas today is the fault of President Bush, and not due to the obstruction by Democrats of petroleum development over the past 30 years, then consider this: President Bush has asked Congress to approve oil drilling offshore and in ANWR, to try to hold down gas prices in every year of his administration. The Democrats in Congress have consistently blocked it, forcing more and more dependence on foreign oil.

In 1998, the Republican led congress passed legislation to allow drilling in ANWR. President Clinton, on the advice of Al Gore’s radical environmentalism, vetoed it.

For 30 years Republicans have been trying to achieve energy independence by expanding oil production to keep up with growing fuel demands, and allow licensing of new nuclear power plants to keep up with growing energy needs. In every case, these efforts have been blocked by Democrats in Congress.

To borrow a phrase from Al Gore, “The debate is over.” This is fact, not “consensus.” You only have to check the congressional record to see the proof. While the American population has increased by 50 million people, Democrats have not allowed our energy resources to keep pace, putting us at the mercy of OPEC. This is an indisputable fact.

Another fact: The price of any commodity is governed by supply and demand. What did those Democrats think would happen when they consistently and intentionally prevented supply from keeping up with demand? Are we to believe that they had no idea that their actions would cause the price of gas to increase dramatically over time?

One can only conclude that this was a direct attack on American energy producers and American industry for the purpose of driving down the American standard of living, as the left is now proposing we do. Drive less; ride bicycles; use crowded public transportation; buy small electric cars and hybrids; turn down your heating thermostats in winter and turn up your cooling thermostats in summer; use CFLs instead of light bulbs; conserve, conserve, conserve, etc.

In other words, we are not going to supply America with the energy it requires to maintain an American lifestyle, so just get used to living like they do in 3rd world countries, because that is the direction we are taking the country in, whether you like it or not. No wonder 75% of the people are unhappy with the direction in which the country has been going recently, and over the past few decades.

Personally, I have no problem with conservation, as long as it’s reasonable and necessary conservation. What the Left is forcing upon us is neither reasonable nor necessary.

I hate wasteful spending in government as much as I hate the excessive waste of “disposable” commodities. “Use once and just throw it away” was the craze of the 2nd half of the 20th century. I said it was a mistake then and I say it today. I don’t drive when I don’t have to, I shop on the way home from work. I don’t leave lights on in the house that aren’t being used. I use CFLs (Compact Florescent lights) in my light fixtures and consume only 16 watts of power for normal evening time lighting.

I ask for paper and plastic bags for my groceries, then recycle them as trash liners for the trash cans. I reuse paper towels whenever possible. I never throw anything away that still has some use left in it. When my computer tells me that my printer ink is gone, I continue using it until it no longer prints on the paper. I don’t need some idiot in government telling me to conserve. To me, conservation just makes good sense.

Have you seen the new ad? I think it’s from General Motors. It discusses their research and development in new energy saving cars. At the end of the ad it shows one of their new ideas in the form of a small car that looks much like a baby shoe on wheels, like something you might see in Europe. Oh, but it will get 75 mpg or runs on batteries and uses no gas at all.

Just don’t have an accident in one. I wouldn’t be caught dead in one myself, but I have no doubt that a lot of people who buy them, and become involved in accidents, will.

Is this really what Americans want? I know I don’t. I want to drive a car that looks like an American car, that runs like an American car, and that sounds like an American car - not a washing machine. Electricity is for running appliances, not cars.

Gasoline is the ideal fuel for powering motor vehicles and has always been the most practical and economical fuel for that purpose, until the Left in this country decided they hated the oil companies and launched their misguided program to destroy them and replace them with alternative energy sources that rely heavily on government subsidies of tax payers’ money, managed by socialist bureaucrats.

In doing so, they have not only driven up the price of gas, but of food and most everything else, causing world food shortages.

Oxfam is calling on the European Union to scrap a target for biofuel to replace a tenth of transport fuel by 2020. It says the target will not fulfill Europe’s goal of either reducing greenhouse gas emissions or cutting its dependence on imported oil.

Biofuels currently provide a solution neither to the oil nor to the climate crisis, and are now contributing to a third: the food crisis,” Oxfam spokesman Robert Bailey told reporters.

The group claims that biofuels are partly responsible for hikes in food prices and are to blame for dragging some 30 million people worldwide into poverty.

The sad part is that none of this is necessary. American ingenuity has provided us with the superior lifestyle that we all enjoy today. There is absolutely no good reason why this should be destroyed when we have all of the energy resources we need right here in America.

Americans don’t want to live in a 3rd world country, ride bicycles to work, and live by candle light. So what do we do? We buy oil from 3rd world countries and trade our wealth for their resources. We give them control over what we pay for our energy and fuel, then demand that they produce more, when we could be doing it ourselves.

What would we be paying for gas if we were not dependent on OPEC and foreign oil? Here’s a hint: Kuwait pays 91 cents a gallon; Saudi Arabia pays 45 cents a gallon; Venezuela pays 14 cents a gallon (subsidized by government); Iran pays 40 cents a gallon; Libya pays 50 cents a gallon; Egypt pays 89 cents a gallon; Bahrain pays 80 cents a gallon.

Why are gas prices so low in these countries? Notice that these are all oil producing countries which use their own resources to power their cars and industry, as we should be doing. We could be doing the same with the immense oil and natural gas resources we have right here in our own country, instead of relying on oil from international oil traders at ridiculously inflated prices. George Soros couldn’t have planned it better himself.

Why do we allow environmental extremists and liberal Democrats to continue to force us to be dependent on oil from countries who are determined to steal our wealth and bankrupt the Untied States? Why do we continue to vote these enemies of American lifestyle into office?

Is it to protect the porcupine caribou and polar bears in Alaska? No. They are all doing just fine and thriving around the oil wells and pipelines in Alaska. Anyhow, who needs caribou and polar bears anyway? What have they ever done for us?

Is it to protect the fish swimming in the waters offshore? No. Even in the worst hurricanes, there have been no incidents of oil spillage from any American oil rig at sea. These rigs would be at least 5 miles offshore where we can barely see them. There is plenty of open waters for the fish to swim unmolested by oil men.

Is it to protect the pristine wilderness in ANWR and the Colorado Rockies? No. The proposed drilling site in ANWR is a barren and lifeless wasteland, and oil extraction in the Rockies would be mostly done underground with little activity on the surface. The size of areas effected would be the equivalent of a business card on a basketball court.

Is it to protect the planet from “global warming?” This hypothesis has become laughable with the lack of any real evidence that human activity on the planet has had any measurable effect on the climate. The temperature will continue to do what it has always done - go up, go down, and change with the natural forces that are inherent to the Earth and sun. It’s just another excuse to take away our energy.

Try telling that to James Hanson, former NASA climatologist. Hansen is calling for the chief executives of American oil companies to be put on trial for “high crimes against humanity and nature,” accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

Hansen had better include me in that trial too. I have no connections with oil companies, nor have I ever been influenced by any doubts the oil companies may have spread about global warming, so it‘s not just the oil companies to blame for half of the country questioning the validity of global warming claims. Someone should be suing the Democrats for an unsuccessful brainwashing campaign to mislead the public.

My God, global warming has become a sacred religion with this enviro-wackos and anyone who speaks blasphemy against it must be put on trial. This sounds like it comes straight out of Islam.

Makes you wonder if Hansen had anything to do with the Challenger disaster that was caused by a launch in weather that was too cold for the O rings. Maybe the Challenge crew didn’t believe in global warming either and Hansen made them pay the price by giving false weather information to NASA.

In fact, there are virtually no credible environmental concerns associated with clean, modern oil drilling, these are all just excuses to stand in the way of progress. The real goal here is to lower the standard of American living, to kill off capitalism, and reduce American lifestyle to a level of equality with other less industrious and less productive nations.

Then America will be ready to surrender her sovereignty to the Untied Nations and join in a new world order of global socialism. Want proof? Just listen to any of Barack Obama’s speeches, those parts when he actually says something, that is.

Have you ever heard him say anything patriotic about America that didn’t relate directly to his own presidential campaign? Have you ever heard him talk about America’s greatness, generosity, leadership in the world, defense of innocent nations under attack, entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity?

What about our country being the world leader in freedom and liberty for its citizens? What about America’s great ability to overcome challenges, remain independent and self reliant? What about America’s ability to solve its problems with ingenuity, while preserving our lifestyle and what we are as a people?

I haven’t. All I hear him talk about is ambiguous change of everything that he considers is wrong with America - and that seems to be just about everything. We should be more like Europe and learn from them. We should make friends with our enemies in the Mideast and convince them that we are not really so bad. Of course we are not bad, it is they who are bad. It is they who need to change, not us. But you won’t hear that from Obama or the Left.

America developed the mass produced automobile. Americans developed the internal combustion engine to power them. The gasoline powered automobile is the American legacy and tradition, it is an important part of our culture that began the industrial revolution. America was built on wheels powered by gasoline and it is as important and vital today as it was 100 years ago.

We won’t need to replace gasoline in this country for more than 150 years if we simply allow our own energy companies to do their job without excessive government interference. Alternative energies can be phased in and the current ones phased out when new energies have been developed and become as plentiful and more economical than the current ones. But that should be decided by the free market and the American people, not political dictators in Washington D.C.

Forcing gasoline out of American life prematurely, with no practical substitute, will have disastrous consequences for the country. What if we had obstructed the use of rubber while the development of synthetic rubber was still 25 years away? And by the way, synthetic rubber is made from oil as is everything in plastic. Check the price of tires the next time you buy them. Then try making tires out of corn.

Oil could be flowing from ANWR and offshore in less than 5 years. It’s going to take 5 to 10 times that long before any alternative energy is ready to replace it. If gas prices continue to go up as expected, do we want to be paying those prices for the next 5 years, or 25 years?

The Democrat Socialists must be stopped before their anti-American policies cause disastrous and irreversible consequences for the country. Actions have consequences, and your actions in the voting booth in November will have the most serious consequences ever, for our country. Do you want $2.00 a gallon gas or do you want $10.00 a gallon gas? It will be your choice in November. Either way, we will continue to use gas in our cars for many decades still to come. Our priority now must be energy supplies, not artificial environmental concerns. Tell the tree huggers of the left to go hug their trees and get out of the way. We are tired of paying for their insane obstructions to progress in America.

JR Dieckmann is Editor, Publisher, Writer, and Webmaster of GreatAmericanJournal.com. He also works as an electrician in Los Angeles, Ca. He has been writing and publishing articles on the web since 2000. His articles appear on other publications such as: The Conservative Voice; Real Clear Politics; New Media Journal; Mich News; Daley Times-Post; Renew America, The Reality Check, and other conservative websites. JR can be contacted at http://www.greatamericanjournal.com/contact.htm.

CBS’ Steve Hartman Has an Ugly Baby

Posted by Warner Todd Huston On July - 1 - 2008

Last week, with an “Assignment America” report on the CBS Evening News, Steve Hartman perpetrated a perfect example of why the media simply has no credibility on any subject, even humor. Hatrman’s report was not only dishonest, but missed the main point by a fair margin.

To set his report up, Hartman claims that before his son was born he had wondered why parents universally felt their own children were be so darn cute? He wondered how it could be that every parent thought theirs was the cutest child ever born? So, after Hartman himself recently had a son, George, he thought that he might go out and explore his curiosity on the subject.

The result was Is My Baby Cute? Really? where Hartman went out on the street to ask parents if they thought their own babies were cute. CBS had also previously asked parents to send in to them photos of babies, ugly and cute, in preparation for the story.

Hartman said that…

Nearly 200 people sent in pictures of their supposedly adorable offspring, but not one parent copped to having even an average looking child. It’s not right, since logic demands that half of all babies must fall in the bottom 50 percent of cuteness.

Fair enough… if it weren’t for that whole human nature thing where babies evoke the visceral desire to love and protect them. Still, it is an amusing bit of human nature that finds few parents ever thinking their progeny was in that “bottom 50 percent.”

Hartman next admitted that, despite being a “journalist” he was succumbing to that blasted human nature thingie, too.

That’s why, after my son George was born, I tried to maintain my journalistic integrity. Now, the older he gets, the more I fall in love with him, the more I find myself thinking like all the other parents.

I suppose he imagined that the god-like powers of journalists made them better than all they survey and this magical power might have shielded him from becoming just like the rest of us lowly humans. Still, that is a niggling point, to be sure, and I don’t want to beat Hartman up too much for merely being human, despite how it must have disappointed him to discover the singular truth.

Here is where it got dishonest, even for a report that was supposed to be lighthearted.

Hartman then took a photo of young baby George and asked folks on the street if they thought his baby was cute or not. “As I expected,” Hartman quipped, “everyone said he was cute.”

So, Hartman had the art department do a little photoshopping of his baby photo to make the face appear just a little odd. He “uglied him up” as Hartman termed it.

The picture I originally showed people was an actual picture of my son. Then I started showing an “uglified” version. Believe it or not, everyone still gushed over my little monster, although some more convincingly than others.

And so it went, no matter who I asked, or how ugly I made the picture. I couldn’t find anyone who’d give it to me straight. I even showed a priest the picture.

Isn’t that funny?

To end, Hartman gave us his best aphorism:

After all that, I’ve come to the conclusion that cuteness is relative … if the baby’s your relative, it’s cute.

OK, so what’s the big deal, you might ask? It’s just a fluff piece, a Summer time throw away to make the Katie Couric show seem more likable and human, right? Why get so darn picky?

Well, you’d be right with all of those questions should you ask them of me. It really was a meaningless, throw away, faux report to fill space on TV. But, still, despite how flippant the report was, despite how unserious in nature, there is still an underlying dishonesty about it.

See, here is the thing: no one will look a parent straight in the face and tell them that their baby is ugly. It just isn’t nice, it isn’t neighborly… it isn’t even human. Besides the fact that people don’t want to be seen dissing the babies, who wants to stand in the middle of the street and get in a fight with a proud parent by telling them that their kid is ugly? Even if the kid is uglier than Helen Thomas, no one is going to say to a parent that his kid is ugly.

It just isn’t done.

So, in the end, Steve Hartman did not find out that everyone thinks babies are cute, even ugly ones. What he found out was that people are too nice to look him in the face and tell him his baby was ugly… and that is a whole different issue.

Now, they showed little George. I thought he was a fine lad. He was not Gerber cute, but he was no Hunchback of Notre Dame! Still, I can’t imagine looking proud papa Steven Hartman in the eye and saying, “Eh, this kid’s just average.”

Could you?

Will the Circle be Unbroken, Part I

Posted by Ken Marrero On July - 1 - 2008

What Circle? 23 Music Circle East - Nashville, TN to be precise. And broken may be the kindest way to describe what the owner of the business at that address faces. Shattered, decimated, mercilessly hounded into oblivion all come to mind to describe what Joy Ford, owner of Country International Records (CIR), is facing at the hands of Nashville’s Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA).

For almost 30 years, Ford and her late husband Sherman, have operated one of the first studios on what would become Music Row at that address. While much of the rest of the Row has gone corporate with multi-million dollar facilities, CIR remains privately owned. This earns CIR the classification of an Independent label or “Indie” as it’s known in the trade. Usually reserved for recent entries into the field who don’t have the juice to or don’t want to compete with the big boys, in the case of CIR, it’s deceptive. Joy and Sherman Ford were making music, writing songs, developing artists and cutting tracks at Country International Records long before many of the current Music Row elite were born. The walls of Ford’s business are filled with pictures of the legends she’s personally worked with. Stars like George Jones, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Tracy Lawrence, Tim McGraw and more.

If government has anything to say about it, that won’t be true much longer. Chas Sisk at The Tennessean, who has covered the story since March, reports,

The Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency filed papers in a Nashville court Friday to start a process that would take the offices of Country International Records at 23 Music Circle East.

The action, the city’s first test of eminent domain since the state legislature tightened condemnation laws two years ago, was taken after the agency determined that negotiations with building owner Joy Ford would not work, said Joe Cain, the agency’s development director.

“We’re not having any conversation,” Cain said. “We’re hopeful that now she will meet with us.”

The government is filing papers to take Ford’s property. When they asked her to sell she said, “No”. Problem was, Joe Cain and MDHA didn’t like that answer. Having determined “negotiations with the building owner Joy Ford would not work” (read: this woman doesn’t want to sell her property at any price) they are having her property condemned as “blighted”. If she will not sell, they’ll force her out. With the pressure on, they’re “hopeful that now she will meet with” them. Mr. Cain and the MDHA seem to be confusing conversation with coercion.

A casual read of the issue sounds like a business deal moving along, working out small contractual differences as it goes. A “win-win” in the buzzword parlance of business. Except Joy doesn’t want that sort of victory. Her idea of winning is Joe Cain and MDHA leave her alone to continue the dream she and her late husband pursued for years, making music. This being America, she should be able to do exactly that. The property is hers. She owns it free and clear. She pays all her taxes. To most Americans that means that she can do what she wants with her land as long as it’s legal.

Welcome to the real blight in this story. Just a week after Kelo v New London’s 3rd anniversary and in a week celebrating the quintessential remembrance of American freedom from governmental tyranny, the spreading blight of governmental abuse of Eminent Domain has arrived in Nashville. The arrogance and hubris of Joe Cain and MDHA reminds one of the royalty we opposed for our freedom over 230 years ago. If Joe Cain has his way, Joy Ford’s dreams and right to do what she pleases with her own property will be bulldozed to make room for a $100 million dollar development deal with a private company in Texas.

At it’s heart, this is the real issue. True Eminent Domain is about the government requisitioning property for Public Use for the good of all the citizens. This is just a business deal. And it’s the stuff of Hollywood, not Music City. It reads like a boilerplate movie script, not a hot Billboard single. The widow v the conglomerate. MDHA signed a deal with Houston based Lionstone Group, a private developer, to sell them the property they wanted at cost. They inked this Music Row deal in March of this year. At the time, Ford’s property was not theirs to sell yet they sold it anyway! Now, they are using strongarm tactics to keep a promise they had no right to make. In doing so, they are not simply trampling on the rights and dreams of one woman. They are making a mockery of our Constitution and rights and values paid for with the blood of tens of thousands. The question is, will this movie script, as yet unfinished, have a happy ending? How will this sad country song finish after the bridge?

I met Joy Ford just this afternoon. But three weeks ago I wrote ‘Eminent Domain, the other ED’ in which I said,

New ED will be eradicated when Americans choose to reclaim their constitutional rights and responsibilities. We must trust ourselves and our neighbors more than those in government when making decisions about our property. We must reject the idea government is our source and reclaim the notion we are responsible for ourselves and have specific rights, including to own property. And we must be willing to defend our Right to private property ownership by exercising our other Rights as needed. The Right to Free Speech, to Assemble, of the Press and perhaps even to Keep and Bear Arms will be needed to stem the encroachment of government on our Rights.

Joy Ford is going to fight. She’s going to need some help. I’ll stand with her. This is just the first of several posts I have planned. Phil Valentine will stand with her. Metro Councilman Mike Craddock will fight for Joy. There are some country music legends chiming in, too.

I’m inviting you to stand with her as well. I’m asking you to be like Bill R. from Washington, DC. He read Joy’s story in the Tennessean and walked from downtown’s Renaissance Hotel to Joy’s part of Music Circle. Having seen her place and her plight, he wrote her a check and an encouraging note. His actions said he believed this is a fight Joy can win but it will take more than just her. Watch this space, tune in to Phil and other talk radio shows for more information. Call Mayor Dean and your Council member. Put the pressure on and keep it on. The MDHA is saying they are doing this to benefit all the people, not just one developer. Tell them there are limits to how far you want them going in your name.

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