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Are America's intelligence agencies second best or worse?
Posted Monday, November 16, at 3:43 PM
What are your thoughts on America's intelligence agencies or lack thereof?

You can look all the way back to Pearl Harbor, to the 9-11 attacks or as recently as the tragedy at Fort Hood and, to me at least, something is totally amiss and hopelessly outdated.

I find it disgusting when one agency has information sending up flags all over the place and that agency fails to share that information with other agencies. Does it seem like a greedy child finding a goody and refusing to share it?

I've been around one member of the CIA in my life. That person was crazy and dangerous to everyone. While I'm certain that person was the exception rather than the rule, I have to wonder if our leaders are looking in the wrong direction for people capable of getting he job done for our intelligence agencies.



Our sports inductees were musicians????
Posted Thursday, November 12, at 4:04 PM

Please read this carefully before questioning my sanity. Sanity may be an issue here, but in these cases perhaps it should go to a couple of band directors, one here and one in Louisiana. Charle Coffey of Shelbyville and former Shelbyville baseball coach John Stanford were among 10 people named today to the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame...



Most responsible politican
Posted Thursday, October 29, at 3:45 PM

What politican-local, state or federal- do you think best serves the people he or she represents?



What about us?
Posted Wednesday, October 28, at 1:43 PM

Are the rights of tax-paying, responsible American citizens and their economic wellbeing compromized to a critical extent while our federal government is supposedly trying to make life better for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan? Do you sometimes feel as if you come in second or even third at this point in time in your government's priorities?...



Halloween thoughts
Posted Saturday, October 24, at 2:40 PM

What are your thoughts on Halloween? Should there be some type unofficial limit, whatever unofficial even means, on what age a person becomes too old to go door-to-door with bag in hand trick-or-treating? Does it bother you when you open your door looking for small kids and find someone six feet tall with a mask over their face?...



Your thoughts now?
Posted Monday, October 5, at 3:42 PM

On Thursday, Aug. 27, I asked in this blog if you thought the Titans were ready for regular season play. At that time, the Titans had two pre-season games remaining before opening regular season play at Pittsburgh. They had looked sloppy in previous pre-season gsms...



Bedford County Bingo
Posted Wednesday, September 30, at 2:46 PM

During the time I covered the sports and police beat for the Times-Gazette, many nights, and sometimes days, I'd hear things really begin to get erratic at best and downright crazy at worst over the police scanner on my desk or else get called to come take photos...



Warning signal or violating rights?
Posted Wednesday, September 23, at 3:17 PM

How would you feel about anyone who has been convicted at least three times for DUI being required to have yellow reflective tape on the front and rear bumpers of their vehicle with the wording DUI Offender? Or perhaps those drivers with even worse records being required to have red reflective tape with the wording Danderous Driver?...



First frost and snow
Posted Tuesday, September 22, at 4:14 PM

Today, Tuesday, Sept. 22, is the first day of autumn. We can see a little tinge of color in some trees, the grass isn't growing as rapidly and the weeds seem to be thriving. Based on my admittedly unscientific research, I think we will have our first frost on Oct. 29 and our first snowfall on one inch or more on Jan. 14, 2010...



Let's try kindness
Posted Tuesday, September 15, at 2:46 PM

I've always thought American's greatest strength is the American people. We're all tired of some of the ridiculous actions of our federal government squandering our tax dollars, giving huge amounts of money to save some businesses only to have them use large amounts of that money to give huge bonuses to the top dogs that got such businesses in trouble in the first place and leading us into bankruptcy...



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Bo Melson is a retired sports and police beat editor of the Times-Gazette.
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