Rants from TimesFreePress.com | http://timesfreepress.com/news/opinion/rants http://timesfreepress.com/news/opinion/rants FRIENDS OF THE Festival: Wake up, smell the coffee. Some of yesterday’s “stars” should be singing in bars. Please don’t let Riverbend become “Riverend”! http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/jun/28/rants/ THE CROSSBEARERS at Riverbend are anti-Christian, anti-American hatemongers. That’s what they look like to me. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/jun/21/rant/ PASSPORTS ARE the only ID accepted throughout the world except at Riverbend. Who decided my passport is not an acceptable document to get a wristband? http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/jun/14/rants/ “MADE IN USA’’ acquires new meaning when GM imports more cars from Mexico, Korea, Japan and China to the U.S. after receiving stimulus money. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/jun/07/rants/ GOP REALLY stands for “Grown Old Politics.” http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/may/31/rant/ MOST AMERICANS are tired of petty partisanship. Wouldn’t it be great if our representatives would just vote with their heads instead of their party heads? http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/may/24/rant/ WAMP HAS 10 reasons why he will win governor’s race. He states four. I guess a high school certificate only gets you so far. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/may/17/rant/ CONGRATULATIONS TO the LFO academic team for the great finish in national competition. Shows what is possible with good teachers, students and a focused effort. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/may/10/rant/ PEOPLE UPSET with government spending by President Obama, remember, he is spending a lot of it on “us” instead of Halliburton and Blackwater. Be grateful! http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/may/03/rant/ THOSE WHO were eligible to vote in the runoff elections and didn’t don’t deserve to call themselves Americans. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/apr/26/rant/ EASTER WAS here. Left page: “Right-wing” dust bunnies under the bed. Right page: The Easter story. From which do you draw sustenance and hope? http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/apr/19/rant/ WHY IS PRESIDENT Obama under such scrutiny? Could it be because he is African American? Even his sneeze is newsworthy. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/apr/12/rant/ THE STATE GOP introduces a bill allowing AT&T to charge Tennesseans whatever they want. Well, you voted for them. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/apr/05/rant/ TAX TO THE MAX the AIG bonus money! What a novel solution from Congress! Is it illegal to off-shore congressional thinking? http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/mar/29/rant/ SEC MISSION: Protect investors against fraud and mismanagement. FDA mission: Protect us against tainted food and harmful drugs. Both failed. Who will protect us, ghostbusters? http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/mar/22/rant/ SOMEBODY PLEASE teach state Rep. Jim Cobb how to use e-mail! He’s yet to acknowledge any. Doesn’t he know how, or is he just rude? http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/mar/15/rant/ THE AUDACITY of the U.S. Congress! Have they no conscience? Watch as they “royally” hold hearings to grill others while hiding their own illegalities! http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/mar/08/rant/ IF DR. PETERSON voluntarily resigned, he should not be entitled to a severance package. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/mar/01/rant/ JOE PREBUL’S assets are frozen. Maybe I should have put my 401(k) in the freezer! Would be better off than what’s happened to it. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/feb/22/rant/ WHAT IDIOT would spend $18 million to fix up their house and not fix the leaking roof first? Oh, the Hamilton County School officials. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/feb/15/rant/ IN THIS NEW postpartisan era, can’t we (you) put politics aside and work together (do it my way) to restore (spend, spend) the economy? http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/feb/08/rant/ IT’S NOT OBAMA’S White House now; it’s Obama’s to occupy. It’s the American people’s White House. It belongs to all of us. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/feb/01/rant/ ON JAN 20, a local TV station announced the survey results regarding the job President Obama is doing. He wasn’t even in office one day! http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/jan/25/rant/ Got something on your mind? Tell us about it in 25 words or less. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/jan/18/rant/ Got something on your mind? Tell us about it in 25 words or less. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/jan/11/rant/ CONGRATULATIONS TO the CSO and Bob Bernhart for presenting yet another fabulous “Home for the Holidays” Christmas performance. Outstanding! http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/jan/04/rant/