Flippant Stray Thoughts for Wednesday, 2/8/2017...

I think they should put in railroads wherever liberals are trying to stop pipelines from being built. Then run every oil train in the country over them. After all, trains must be safer than pipelines...

Am I the only one pissed because ESPN schedules college basketball games to close together? Unless your team is in the first game of the day, you never get to see the beginning of your team's game. They need to budget an extra 30 minutes between games. If they come up short, go to a talking head to read sports news to fill in any extra time...

Does Channel 5 have the most biased local news in town?

Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall was in Washington for a law enforcement pow-wow, but refused to see President Trump. Hall feared he would hear support for the President's temporary immigration hiatus. I guess Hall isn't tolerant or mature enough to entertain views different than his own...

Americans elected Trump and they support his immigration review. But Hall apparently chooses to join Mayor Megan Barry in harboring illegals who commit murder and rape. Shameful...

Hall is the same idiot who addressed a white supremacy group a few years ago. He claimed he did not know it was a white supremacy group. I typed the name of the group into Google, and in less than two seconds I discovered it was a white supremacy group. Is Hall so damn busy running his jail and serving summons he can't punch something up on Google himself?

The ACME Feed & Seed building sat vacant for years on a highly visible corner downtown. So somebody comes along and fixes up the joint, and puts in a bar, restaurant and club. And now a dude breaks in and smashes things all to hell. He did get caught...

Jerk...

Speaking of a jerk, the human debris for whom Metro Police Officer Eric Mumaw gave his life trying to save, has been charged with aggravated vehicular homicide. A 44-year-old, 18-year veteran of the department is dead because of' her actions...

Mumaw's funeral was held in a 4,000 seat church, and it was filled. He will be buried in Ohio...

People get shot, and killed here, everyday. But every once in a while a story brings Nashville to its knees in horror. This is one of those stories...

R.I.P. Officer Mumaw. You are a hero...

Metro Police Officer Eric Mumaw

'Till next time, see ya...

Flippant Stray Thoughts for Monday 8/22/2016...

A local TV news observation: I record the 6 am news from Channels 2 and 5 every morning. It is fairly common for Channel 2 to have overnight news items that Channel 5 missed...

Channel 17's Jen French has left for greener pastures in Albuquerque NM. Best wishes to her...

Channel 4 to 23-year veteran Dennis Ferrier: Get the hell out...

Channel 4 to Nancy Van Camp (22 years): Ditto...

Ferrier was tossed immediately after returning from his father's funeral. Broadcasting is a tough business. Trust me, I get it. But WSMV is obviously having some serious financial issues. Van Camp was replaced with an obviously cheaper replacement. When I worked in broadcasting, I referred to this as the 50/50 rule. No matter how good you are, if they find someone half your age willing to work for half of your salary, you are history...

Rudy Kalis shared his thoughts on this cowardice via social media...

They probably spent six figures (at least) to erect a free-standing tower with a radar ball on top of it. Head south towards Nolensville and you'll see it in Williamson County. They could have just as well taken that money and thrown it in the street in front of the station and gotten the same result...

As I commented earlier, if that money pit made any difference, then when Channel 4 shows their radar superimposed with the National Weather Bureau radars everyone else uses, the blobs should jump forward whenever the Williamson radar passes, then jump back when the next government radar passes. That doesn't happen...

If you're Joe Nashville sitting at home watching this, you probably don't understand the significance of "middle Tennessee's only live radar." That's because there isn't any. They piss away all that money, then subject a 22-year meteorologist to the 50/50 rule. And Ferrier was one of the best they had...

Channels 4 and 5 are like the U.S. and the Soviet Union back in the day. The Soviet Union eventually fell apart after spending themselves into oblivion trying to keep up with the U.S. Channel 4 is the Soviet Union. They are a sinking ship...

I stopped watching Channel 4's news, and discovered Channel 2 does a helluva good job. Without all the expensive gimmicks...

Channel 2's new chief meteorologist, Danielle Breezy, who came here from Boston, is doing a great job. Welcome to Music City! It's always tough following a legend...

For example, that whiny over-hyped morning guy on WSIX-FM...

Big lib Bill Freeman is hosting a Hillary Clinton fundraiser tomorrow. They expect to raise $1 million. Tim Kaine will be in town for the event. Freeman has already raised untold millions for Hillary...

 Hillary tried to throw Colin Powell under the bus, but Powell is having nothing of it...

Clinton and Obama: it's always somebody else's fault...

Donald Trump will bring millions of new voters to the polls in November. People who have never voted before, or haven't voted in a long time. Are those folks represented in the gazillion polls that are out there? I ask because I have a funny feeling they are not...

OMG! A black female Republican Vanderbilt professor was on Fox News over the weekend. Didn't know such a person existed...

Why do people try to swim across the Cumberland River? There is a high probability for a very bad outcome...

Till next time, see ya...

Flippant Stray Thoughts for Wednesday, 11/11/2015

Happy Veterans Day! Please be sure to thank any veterans you see today for their service to our country...

Their sacrifice allows low-level hacks such as myself to spout off flippant stray thoughts worldwide...

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This is the first Flippant column on the new page. Probably won't keep a schedule here either...

Here comes the Progressives

The train wreck known as Megan Barry is already rolling out her progressive agenda. First she created new six-figure salaried positions so we can have more over-paid bureaucrats. Now Metro won't be asking job candidates if they have a criminal record...

So we're going to have Metro employees working with our children without knowing whether or not they have a criminal background?

We better not ask them if they have any experience or training either, because that might be unfaaaaiiiirrr. Or perhaps raaaaaaacist...

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Why do I think the Franklin Kia guy thought of his advertising campaign all by himself?

If he's trying to be like the 399 Sofa characters, he's missing the mark. By a lot...

The sofa guys

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Smoking and oxygen tanks do not mix well...

Standard time sucks...

I told you the Titans were more than a quarterback away from the playoffs...

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I'm starting to educate Metro Council members on what happens when the minimum wage is raised. Glad to report my councilman, Robert Swope, is on board. Swope wrote back...

 "When I learned my craft, I worked for FREE. not $5 an hour, and definitely not $15 an hour. I suspect that if this world goes the way in which you have revealed…… everyone will be a millionaire… and NOTHING will ever be accomplished again.

"Not my definition of reality."

I had a job in high school unloading trucks and washing tanks. Not very exciting, but I worked for a wonderful man and I liked it. I started at minimum wage, but received several raises during my two years there. So I don't want to hear any crap from someone working at Wendy's for eight years and is still making minimum wage...

If that's you, that is on you. Try showing up on time and not leaving early. Be courteous to customers and co-workers. Do your job. Let them know if you're not going to be able to come in. Don't show up at work drunk or stoned. Bathe. If that doesn't get you anything, get another job. You're working for an a-hole...

But don't go around whining that you deserve $15/hr. No you don't. You haven't earned it. You don't have any job skills beyond living and breathing. Besides, you're being manipulated by union hacks who are only interested in stealing part of your hard-earned pay so they can pass it off to union fat-cat bosses whom they'll never meet..

With that, I must say adieu until next time. See ya...