Rants from TimesFreePress.com | http://timesfreepress.com/news/opinion/rants http://timesfreepress.com/news/opinion/rants IF REP. RICHARD Floyd isn’t smart enough to fact-check information before forwarding Internet lies about the president, he needs to forfeit his e-mail privileges. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/nov/22/rants/ I THINK IT is time that we somehow got our Congress to understand the meaning of "representative." Who exactly are they "representing"? http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/nov/15/11-15-rants/ MIGHT AS WELL throw a "Going Out Party" for the GOP. They are going, going ... gone! http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/nov/08/11-8-rants/ WOULD SOMEONE please explain why the General Welfare Clause of our Constitution does not apply to taxpayers? http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/nov/01/rants/ ON AVERAGE, 30 percent of the Tennesseans polled think Obama wasn't born in the U.S., is Muslim and is going to take away their guns. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/oct/25/10-25-rants/ WONDER HOW many elderly people could have had food and medicine with the money NASA spent to crash into the moon twice? http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/oct/18/rant/ IF ANN COULTER and Sarah Palin are the inspiration of the GOP, the future of the Dems is bright, indeed! http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/oct/11/10-11-rants/ ENOUGH! Mr. President, you are not the deity! Kindergarteners should not be singing songs to you to the tune of "Battle Hymn of the Republic.'' http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/oct/04/10-4-rants/ SOMEONE PLEASE tell Gov. Perdue we've had enough rain already! http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/sep/27/9-27-rants/ DOES CONGRESS think uninsureds will pay for insurance? A majority of them already get everything free, so they will expect insurance free as well! http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/sep/20/rants/ TAKE-HOME VEHICLES for policemen are not a right but a privilege. It is not a benefit that is guaranteed. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/sep/13/9-13-rants/ SEN. CORKER SAID that 60 days wasn't enough time for guys like him to make a decision. Let's elect someone who can make decisions. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/sep/06/9-6-rants/ THE ECONOMY is about to begin a recovery. Right! Everybody who believes that, raise your hand. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/aug/30/rants/ WHAT IS A 15-year-old doing with a gun in the first place? What would you do if someone pointed a rifle at you? http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/aug/23/rants/ BE CAREFUL of the school kids, they can’t help who their parents are. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/aug/16/rants/ IF SIX CHATTANOOGA police officers firing 59 bullets at one man isn’t considered by them to be excessive use of force, what would be? http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/aug/09/rants/ IF OUR PRESIDENT and Congress want to give us the best health care, I want the same kind they have. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/aug/02/rants/ IF YOU HAVE a gun, do not point it at or play with it around a cop! http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/jul/26/7-26-rants/ AMERICAN CITIZENS deserve the kind of health care that our “representatives” provide for themselves with the money we pay in taxes. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/jul/19/rants/ IT’S TRAGIC, a teenager was shot to death in East Lake Courts. Did anyone ask the mother why her 15-year-old son had a pistol? http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/jul/12/rants/ IF THE DEMOCRATS were enacting even moderate leftist change they’d be so popular there wouldn’t be a Republican party to call them Socialists. http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/jul/05/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/