The rant

Why all of the panic over Ebola? Why not panic over the flu? Flu kills an average of 36,000 people every year. Get a flu shot.

Isn't it ironic that the same people who voted to slash funding for the CDC are the most vocal critics of the CDC's job performance?

The only boots on the ground against ISIS should be CIA agents sent to join them as terrorist recruits.

I am one American who thinks it's about time some other country should put boots on the ground.

They probably don't take back the Nobel Peace Prize, but if they did, I'd start with Obama's.

Can you believe the GOP is considering Jeb Bush? Are you kidding me? Bush! Really?

The only thing Republicans have given us is a $24 billion government shutdown. I will never understand why y'all keep voting them back in.

When does our society stand up and recognize the issue on domestic violence? Why should it take athletes and movie stars to talk about it?

If people worried less about preventing gays marrying and more about heterosexuals not marrying before babies, there'd be more kids with stable lives.

State income tax will help the poor? If we get a state income tax, it'll be on top of the already existing high sales tax.

All of the carrying on from liquor stores about lost sales of wine and hurting employees' incomes from wine sales in grocery stores turns me off.

Chief innovations officer position at Chattanooga State: salary -- $108,000? Jim Catanzaro's long-standing TBR line of credit continues with no accountability required.

School board members, if you use that $360,000 for consultants to pay teachers and fix schools, you won't need any consultants. What a waste.

Judge Curtis Collier sentenced me to prison. I still think he is one of the most honorable men ever to occupy the bench.

Stan Sewell, you are my hero.

God bless Ladarius Nollie for having the courage to testify against murderous gangsters.

Time for new blood at CSO? The board and management ran off core constituents by dissolving the guild and are now suing a major donor.

It's unacceptable to have the firing range in Moccasin Bend but okay for the sewage treatment plant, which at times stinks up the whole city.

Insurance companies are holding Americans hostage with health care. They are playing God with their decisions and those in power don't seem to care.

Thank you, Franklin McCallie, for making the world a better place. True Christians should follow your example.

Since when did rear windshields become tombstones and Facebook communicate with the dead? Dead people don't read the newspaper either. Seriously?

To the ranter who ranted about Missed Connections, you are missing the point. It is more humorous than the comics. Lighten up.

Why was there no mention of the Chattanooga Head Race last weekend? Rowers were here from all over the United States. A baby brought to the hospital after abuse was released to his abuser while the investigation was ongoing -- as was abuse. Precious life was lost.

Insurance company stock went up as much as 34 percent this year. Guess they're for Obamacare.

The Wamp sign on Signal Mountain Road isn't under kudzu; it's with mine that says "Passionate, Principled, Fearless." I hope he runs again.

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