Stacey Campfield: Russian sleeper agent?

(picture of Campfield wearing Russia Red)

Wow! I was reading about Russia's new crackdown on the LGBT community, and it sounded familiar. Then I remembered Campy's "don't say gay bill." Then I found this post where he wants to deny authors of school textbooks their due royalties, and have those profits (not to mention the talented authors of the books whom we should be recruiting to TEACH HERE) go elsewhere.

So let's see... Campy hates paying hard-working authors money. He doesn't see value in professors writing textbooks for classes they teach... and he hates gays and anyone talking about being gay.

Just like the powers in Russia! What's next? Will he start funneling TN guns to our enemies in Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and North Korea? He's already proven he will only ever vote for one party (as they do in totalitarian regimes like N. Korea), so we already know he's a facist. But is Campfield a Communist too?

He's even been found to deliberately post misinformation to prop up his views, just like they did at Pravda during the peak of the Cold War!

Oh and he wants to remove a hospital from North Knoxville. And put a hospital in an area that doesn't need one -- like they used to do in the Soviet era! Is there no end? Now he wants AMERICANS TO DIE!

I would say he's an enemy of the state but surely we can trade him for someone currently rotting in a Russian gulag. Unless he's a rogue agent and Russia won't have him back. Hmmm...

Let's be nicer, shall we? (tax-free holiday edition)

I'm doing this thing where I try to be more positive. In that vein, let's look at the experiences of just ONE mom trying to get school supplies during tax-free weekend. Yes, I know we are all rushed and bothered and annoyed on these days. But:

1. Watch This Is Water and consider this next time.
2. Try putting on relaxing music, or whale noises, or *anything* to calm you down while you drive. 
3. You're just shopping. This isn't a UN food drop. Be patient.

Of course it's hard to just "be patient." I'm not patient, and it has caused me no end of troubles. Still, when I weigh the plusses and minuses of living in the South I did used to regard "politeness" as a positive.

If this bad behavior keeps up I will consider Southern manners dead. That's unfortunate.

When will KPD take gang violence seriously?

Watching Jamie Satterfield on Twitter cover a press conference about a recent run up in shootings in the town. Apparently Chief Rausch refuses to admit they might be related. But they are, it's quite clear.

This all harkens back to the year I briefly left Knoxville. A young girl named Brittany Daniels (5) died when a stray bullet hit her on a playground. A year later her father died after being shot by a robber.

Then, as now, Knoxville saw a rise in gang violence. Then, as now, the police chief stuck his head in the sand and pretended that our town couldn't possibly have a "gang problem."

Do we learn nothing? Do we apply no knowledge to our actions? Who holds this man's flawed, ignorant thinking accountable?