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This morning's Tennessean recognizes the new media blogs in this morning's edition. While we appreciate the nod new media folks reading via the web will recognize that the paper still doesn't understand that hyperlinks are expected.

Councilman Eric Crafton and his Save Our Students groups aren't the only ones who can crunch the education statistics.

I used to have a separate page of "isms" for the last mayor with quotes tackling nebulous and goofball statements, such a State of the City Address where (paraphrasing) landowners were supposed to lower the price of their property so developers could by it for a song - and developers be the one to make a profit, not the landowners.

Mark the time: 8:24.

In a 7-1 vote, D-Mac, Burger, Petersen, Moore, Klatt, Bransford, and Barnhill voted against the will of the 3rd Ward and in favor of a developer ... leaving Skinner as the island he was chosen to be.

(Red Hat) Rob Schearer posts over at the Tennessee ConserVOLiance his take on this whole HB2795 testing for every student dust up. He starts with:

Red Hat Rob explains why one should not be surprised at Republicans opposing Pre-K:

The sad, but cynical truth is this: the goal of the public education system is not to educate children but to keep the dollars flowing to the education bureaucracy and the education bureaucrats.

Let me sum up tonight's BOMA meeting for you tonight by paraphrasing Ken Moore's stern ... and I mean stern damn it ... warning to developers when discussing Item No. 12 on the agenda:

'We don't change the rules in mid-stream.'

Dude. Quit embarrasing yourself. Maybe you missed Klatt's Three Ring Red Hat Circus or D-Mac's forgetful 700-pound gorilla characterization.