******Official Tennessee Fire Thread********

[taterguy]

I'm sick of trying to keep track of all the threads about the subject.

If you have thoughts about the issue then post them here.

Thanks in advance for your cooperation!

[dionysus]

1. !

:hide:

[adamuu]

2. find something else to do? n/t

[HughMoran]

3. hide thread

at least the others have substance and I can chose to read them or not.

[taterguy]

4. There will be substance in this thread

As soon as someone else provides it.

[Fumesucker]

5. There's substance on this thread too..

It rhymes with "pap"..

:hi:

[thelordofhell]

6. So what your saying is you wish this to be all in one rich thread

Instead of farming it out to multiple poorer threads?

:popcorn:

[taterguy]

7. Exactly

[randr]

8. The community where this happened needs to take a long

hard look at themselves and think of ways to make their neighborhood a better place to live.

[rucky]

9. Then I'll say my piece here.

If we want to live in a civilized society, we need shared services. Everybody needs to pay-in their fair share, according to their ability to pay, so everyone can benefit from them when they may need them.

the end.

[NoPasaran]

10. I blame Prometheus

[RandomThoughts]

12. Sounds like a variation of creation myth.

However depends what you think fire is.


However it also explains some of the same things that creation myth explain.

Basically God kicks people out of Eden, and swears wrath on some people later also, they can never enter into his love. But with a person that frees them, they can, since it is the love given to that person that they then share. Leading back to connection to the love of God.

The idea of job, and Christian ideas also. Where a fallen, can not share God's love, God did not see Adam and Eve after sin, but a person can see in the dark, and see through sin, and can find them, so a person as an intermediate that is in God's love can share it with them. That is what Jesus is called in Christian faith, and is in some views of the story of Job.


Story is said in a few places, that would makes sense.

[BootinUp]

11. I really don't care too much because...

I don't live there, if I did, I would care enough to advocate, vote for a change in how the fee is collected. Namely, I don't think an upfront fee separate from taxes makes sense. If they must charge separate from taxes than bill and collect after the fucking incident like in Bethlehem PA where I had to pay 50 bucks after they extinguished my poor '71 Z car. (a tear for my poor Z car).

[hayu_lol]

13. BootinUp, the Obion County commissioners...

settled on two ways of providing fire service. One was a fee on the light bill and the other was to subscribe ($75/year)with the S Fulton City FD. They decided not to add the fee. They refused to consider a tax base to form their own fire service and so they chose the subscriber method. Up to the individual to subscribe or not subscribe. Head commissioner made a statement after the decision was made to go for the subscriber option: You can subscribe and get fire service and you can not subscribe and will get NO service. The fire Department was in the city of S Fulton whose 2500 residents voted to establish a tax base to support the VFD. This department used to cover the county area as a matter of helping people and did not establish any fees for doing so. Things got more expensive, some 75% of the calls were in this non-supporting area so that the city was paying, through taxes, for the fire service outside the city's boundries.

[BootinUp]

28. If you are making excuses for stupid government, please stop nt.

[zbdent]

14. get ready for some serious flaming ...

[hayu_lol]

16. LOL! Naw, thats on the other ...

10,000 threads.

[BzaDem]

15. Good luck with that. n/t

[taterguy]

19. I have confidence in my fellow DUers to accede to my simple request

Even though I'm not sure what the word accede means.

[Iggo]

17. So does that mean this is the Official Hide Thread thread, too?

'Cause that'd be great.

[obxhead]

18. unrec. Some of us are just getting tuned in for the evening.

Would it have been that hard to add in a broad brush link on the subject for those just tuning in for the evening?

[taterguy]

20. Yes

[slackmaster]

21. Fires are bad, drugs are bad.

Mmmmmmmmmkay?

[taterguy]

22. Most be nice to live in a place where the temperatures never get below 70

How do you cook your food?

[slackmaster]

24. Hey, it's in the low 60s outside right now

How do you cook your food?

We subsist on sashimi, fresh fruits, nuts, and raw vegetables out here.

[taterguy]

29. Thank god out here is far away from where I am

[slackmaster]

30. Sashimi exists in your neck of the woods too

It's not all Calabash.

[taterguy]

31. Cockroaches exist in my neck of the woods

But I don't voluntarily put them on my dinner plate.

[KamaAina]

23. Anyone who is tempted to make sport of the (ex-)homeowner should realize

that s/he is siding with Glenn Beckkk.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9268648&mesg_id=9268648

:scared:

[taterguy]

25. Beck and I both agree that breathing is good

Damnit, I just outed myself.

[madinmaryland]

26. Oh, I already un-recced this thread.

[taterguy]

27. Here's a quarter

Call someone who cares.