I want to build a stone monument (or stornger material) to the situation in Obion county.

[LoZoccolo]

One one side would be the giant head of the guy whose house burned down, but it would be carved such that if you looked at it from one side you would see hopelessness and despair as he watches his house burn down, but if you looked at it from the other side you'd see a look of regret for not paying the $75, and anger at himself, but if you looked at it straight on or from some intermediate angle you wouldn't notice anything wrong like he was melding two different expressions and it would look perfectly natural.

On the other side would be the fireman, one turned away from the guy whose house burned down and looking down at an Igloo cooler on the ground on top of which is a backgammon board. He's the only one looking away, one of the other guys is looking at the fire, one of the other guys is looking at the guy whose house is burned down, and the other is visoring his eyes to look at the place where the fire is about to go into the field next door.

A giant gulf would separate the two sides, which would represent the gulf between the people who are on either side and the issues in between them, but there would be angles that you could look at it where they would not look far from each other, to symbolize that we do not know how really far they are from each other.

The pets would be made out of glass, possibly the clearest glass we could find, to symbolize that we are not sure if these pets ever existed. They would actually be some distance away from the other statues, and would take a while to notice, to symbolize the long span of time that elapsed between the time that the story broke and the time that we heard about them during the Olbermann interview.

Then there would be a huge cliff some distance away where you could see all the people looking at the statues from far away, to try to get a glimpse of the breadth of the issue and the different places where people stand within the whole thing.

[HuckleB]

1. 72...

[leftstreet]

4. ...

:spray:

[happyslug]

2. The price of such a monument would pay for Fire protection

Maybe a a county wide fire protection plan would be a better monument?

Remember, this is a Tennessee County, unlike the North, they are NO local Governments except Corporate Cities i.e. No Townships (and No villages or towns) as those terms are used in the North. This is typical of the South, no local government except cities. If you live outside a city border, you do NOT have any local government that can provide fire protection, all you have is a County Government. The County this incurred in voted 19-1 against fire protection. Sorry, he had a choice, live in a City where his taxes would pay for fire protection, or pay the $75 a year.

Furthermore the people in the County, outside the City borders tend to have higher income then the city residents who are paying for Fire Protection in the form of taxes. Sorry, if you want services you must be willing to pay for them, local government and its Police and Fire Protection is one such service. The people in this County did NOT want to pay for such services so did NOT get such services. The City offered, but only to those people who would pay the city. When the City would out out fires outside the City and bill the people, most of them would not pay. The City then adopted a policy, no payment to the city from NON-city residents, no fire protection for those non-city residents. The City Fire will, and has, saved people;s lives outside the city, but drew the line where all that is being protected is property. The Rich can NOT depend on the poor to bail them out, and that is all that is going on in this case.

[petronius]

3. Will there be a snack bar at this monument? Because I will definitely need some mechanically-

separated chicken nuggets (and probably a HFCS-containing coke) to provide sustenance while I contemplate your artistic masterpiece. (And for the record, I rarely use the word "masterpiece".)

[Iggo]

5. Long as you make it fireproof...

...'cause, well you know...