I’m usually pretty sanguine about tornado watches, but the creepy all-caps NOAA alert has me a little spooked.

Stay safe out there, guys. 

“Williamson County GOP chief blasts school lunches”

As more Williamson County schools begin to serve breakfast to students, the county’s Republican Party chairman, Kevin Kookogey, says it is not the role of the government to feed people….

“I am sure you have heard about this happening in other areas, but ladies and gentlemen, Williamson County, one of the wealthiest counties in the nation by any measure, is now operating under a perverse incentive to increase the number of students taking government hand-outs,” Kookogey wrote. “Of course, those handouts are courtesy of you and me, the federal taxpayers.”

Kookogey did not answer a reporter’s phone calls, but he did respond via email to questions about his comments on the breakfast program.

“This is not a complicated issue,” he said. “It is not the role of government to feed people. Government exists to protect and defend our God-given rights.”

About 12 percent of the county district’s 32,000 students qualify for free and reduced-price meals. In the 2005-06 school year, that number was 7.6 percent. In the Franklin Special School District, about 41 percent of the 3,800 students participate in free and reduced-price lunches.

What. The hell.

w4lrusss:

untitled by colie parks on Flickr.

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Floyd strongly believes a man does not belong inside a women’s restroom or dressing room, not matter the circumstances.

“I don’t care for what reason, how depraved their mind is, how perverted their mind is, or for what reason they think a man has a right to go into a women’s bathroom, or dressing room to try on clothes,” Floyd said.

His proposed bill would require a birth certificate to prove which restroom a person would be required to use….

“I’m just sick and tired of society having to adjust to every little alternate life style, or little whim or someone who thinks they’re different,” said Floyd.

Sometimes I feel like I live in the absolute worst state.

(Source: nashvillest.com)

New Years Eve Eve on Beale Street!

Am I seeing this correctly????

Tennessee public school website, what are you doing???

spikedsweettea:

magnoliamerryweather:

rightchpick-html; sweetandwildd:

i’m always happy when i see this sign. :)

Ditto!

(Source: johngoing)

meetingofthemimes:

chels:

50 and 50 - The State Mottos

This is a great project to visually represent all the state mottos. I love this one for Idaho (and if you’ve ever seen the beauty of Idaho, you probably get it). It’s just such a perfect description of how life feels when things are going well and you just can’t even acknowledge that time is moving because you want to hold onto that feeling. Sort of like how summer felt when we were kids. Like something could actually last forever. 

Most of them are quite poetic. I’d never heard Oregon’s state motto, which is “She Flies With Her Own Wings.” I love this more than I can really say. It makes me smile that my home state operates under the same motto that I try to.

(h/t nickdouglas)

I had no idea that was Idaho’s motto. It makes being born in Idaho a tiny bit cooler.

Rhode Island’s motto is simply Hope (yeah, Obama, we said it first.) I like its simplicity and kind of wish the designer had rolled with that instead of adding the superfluous text. I wonder if they were worried it would look like an Obama poster.

Tennessee is “Agriculture and Commerce,” which isn’t particularly inspirational, but its poster is lovely.

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