Source: Knoxville News Sentinel

KNOXVILLE — Three former Pilot Flying J employees pleaded guilty today in federal court to taking part in a conspiracy to defraud customers out of diesel fuel rebates.

That brings the total to five who have admitted their roles in the scheme that became public with a massive raid on Pilot’s West Knoxville headquarters in April.

Earlier this afternoon, co-worker Jay Stinnett entered a similar plea.

This morning, Kevin Clark admitted to one count of mail fraud.

Read more: http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2013/jun/18/pilot-guilty-plea-former-regional-sales-manager/

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kee[ going up the ladder, come on come on.

The idiot with the dissertation linking ethnicity and IQ. Here is a video of this guy from 2008 from cspan. He is a racist. He is a smug self-important little racist. I wish that I could have been on his dissertation committee.

Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press

HOUSTON — The National Rifle Association kicked off its annual convention Friday with a warning to its members they are engaged in a “culture war” that stretches beyond gun rights, further ramping up emotions surrounding the gun control debate.

NRA First Vice President James Porter, a Birmingham, Ala., attorney who will assume the organization’s presidency Monday, issued a full-throated challenge to President Barack Obama in the wake of a major victory regarding gun control and called on members to dig in for a long fight that will stretch into the 2014 elections.

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“This is not a battle about gun rights,” Porter said, calling it “a culture war.”

“(You) here in this room are the fighters for freedom. We are the protectors,” said Porter, whose father was NRA president from 1959-1960.

Read more: http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/may/04/nra-official-culture-war-more-gun-rights/

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the new nra president is an angry old blowhard

Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press

The Chattanooga police bomb squad disabled two devices in a Red Bank apartment after a barricaded man was taken into custody early this morning, authorities said.

Chandler Wynn Mauldin, 24, of 4223 Tacoma Ave., is in the Hamilton County Jail on $140,000 bond, Red Bank Police Chief Tim Christol said in a news release. Mauldin is charged with two counts of assault and one count of possession of a prohibited weapon.

Christol said authorities were called to Mauldin's apartment about 10:30 p.m. Saturday on a report that he had an explosive device. Mauldin refused to open the door and told police he had a bomb and several weapons, Christol said.

Several nearby families were evacuated or told to stay indoors. Red Bank and Hamilton County Sheriff S.W.A.T. teams, the Chattanooga Police Department bomb squad, emergency services and the Red Bank Fire Department staged at a nearby parking lot.


Read more: http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/apr/28/emergency-responders-alert-red-bank/?breakingnews

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copy cat?

Eta looks like a troubled kid. Arrested at 18
http://www.bustedmugshots.com/tennessee/chattanooga/chandler-wynn-mauldin/86201301

and 21
http://www.bustedmugshots.com/tennessee/chattanooga/chandler-wynn-mauldin/87559431

and 23
http://arrestfiles.org/publicinfo/chandler-wynn-mauldin

all of a sudden I am seeing ads on the internet for new web sites concerning Boy Scouts of America and gay membership.

I followed a link and they look pretty slick.

Compare the scouting for all website, obviously low budget an home made by former scout volunteers with their names listed in the about us, that has been chugging along for years:

http://www.scoutingforall.org/data/home.html

or the inclusive scouting network:
http://www.inclusivescouting.net/

with
http://www.onmyhonor.net/

That describes itself on the about page as "the official coalition of concerned parents, scout leaders, etc." but lists no names. I got in an ad on facebook. It is paid for by the "National Christian Foundation," which describes itself as "the largest Christian grant making foundation in the world."

http://www.nationalchristian.com/


or
http://standwithscoutssunday.org/
from the "Family Research Council"(listed by SPLC as a hate group). It has a web cast on Sunday that they are trying to get churchs to host.

Why I don't understand is, who pays for these web sites opposing lifting the membership ban? That has got to cost some money. What is in it for them?



edited to fix a link and to add:
I think these are astroturf facebook pages-
https://www.facebook.com/saveourscouts

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Moms-of-Boy-Scouts/562408540450774

https://www.facebook.com/BsaStandStrong

from police scanner.

They are saying that the guy on the ground is in his 60s. The tv news seems to be acting like it is suspect 2, but that doesn't match the scanners.

"we have a few objects inside the house, we have five out (PEOPLE?) but still objects in the house
we're all set for now, cheif we just haven't gotten inside the house yet

They gave a very American name and dl #, I am not going to write it because I don't know what is for.

they are at 30 Adams in the basement.

Not like "action figures" or "charts and figures" but like "he figures."

Is it really a word?

Read this "news story"

http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/21974771/north-ga-child-finds-skull-in-yard-possibly-human

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"Them little eyes, they don't miss nothing," Jeff Stevens said.

An experienced hunter, Jeff Stevens didn't figure this skull could belong to any animal.

"About this big and about 3/8 thick on the skull part. I've killed a little bit of everything there is and there ain't no skull I've ever seen that looked like that except a human just in seeing pictures and stuff," he said.

He said their dog, Annie, is always dragging stuff up into the yard from the woods and figures that's how it ended up just feet away from their home.

I'm so sick of the 3rd week of April terrorism - its like copy cats.

Branch Davidians, Oklahoma city, Columbine, Virginia Tech.

The time is associated with the first shots of revolutionary war (April 19th) and Hitler's birthday (April 20).

I just like taking it off though, can't defend it.

I think this article is pretty biased, but I thought it might give insights to people from other places about the local attitudes here. I originally posted it in LBN but was asked to post it here instead because it is an analysis not news - the story is here:



Spurred by Hollywood depictions, flip-flopping among national politicians and a persistent homosexual-rights offensive, popular sentiment about gay marriage has shifted dramatically and swiftly. In 2001, Americans opposed same-sex marriage by a 57 percent to 35 percent margin. This year, polling shows a reversal. Forty-nine percent of the country say they are for legalizing gay marriage and 44 percent remain opposed, according to the Pew Research Center.

The rise in favor is sharpest among the millennial generation, those born since 1981. In 2003, only 51 percent of young Americans were in favor of legalizing gay marriage, now 70 percent are. Those unaffiliated with a religious group show support at similar levels. Only 38 percent of baby boomers are in favor, and only 24 percent of white evangelicals, an increase from 13 percent white evangelicals in 2001, Pew reports.

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Only the Deep South states, including Tennessee, remain opposed. In 2012, 59.4 percent of Georgia residents said they wouldn't be in favor of legalizing gay marriage, according to a Landmark Communications/Rosetta Stone poll.

Yet even in Tennessee, where more people are opposed to gay marriage than any other state in the South -- 62 percent -- according to Middle Tennessee State University polling, many are reluctant to express their qualms with others.

Read more: http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/apr/07/dont-say-gay-takes-on-a-new-meaning/