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Old news now, but The View’s Whoopi Goldberg on why the Hollywood elite wants director and rapist Roman Polanski to be set free:
“I know it wasn’t ‘rape’ rape. I think it was something else, but I don’t believe it was ‘rape’ rape,” said Goldberg, dismissing the possibility that Polanski had forced himself on anyone.
“He pled guilty to having sex with a minor and he went to jail, and when they let him out (on bail, pending sentencing), he said, ‘You know what, this guy’s going to give me 100 years in jail. I’m not staying.’ And that’s why he left.
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Here’s exactly what Whoopi is talking about: In March 1977, the 44-year-old Polanski fed a 13-year-old girl champagne and a sedative, forced himself on her and anally raped her, according to the girl’s grand jury testimony. He was convicted of a lesser charge — statutory rape — because he agreed to plead guilty.
Stay classy, Hollywood.
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You think it’s cold on the Plateau
? The mountains have experienced their first freeze of the season with this cold front. Mt. LeConte dropped to 30 this morning. That’s one degree colder than yesterday morning. Newfound Gap was 25 yesterday morning (and a balmy 35 this morning).
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Michael Silence points out this bit of good news for the newspaper industry. Adds Michael:
People are tired of all the noise out there, the online Opinions R Us.
Instead, they want, as I’ve said before, “just the facts, ma’am”.
I remain unconvinced that newspapers are ready to present news with facts alone, but I am eternally hopeful.
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I’ve always been dedicated to UPS, but this sure does speak well of FedEx:
Jada Harper, who turned seven on Sept. 1, has an inoperable malignant tumor in her brain and is in a coma with a ventilator doing her breathing for her.
She has been at the famous cancer center in Houston since July, but her situation is now at the point not much else can be done to help her.
Friday afternoon, Jada was flown home to the Ozarks — on a gurney, attached to the machine that breathes for her. FedEx Freight paid the $11,000 bill for the special medical flight her family was unable to afford.
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Emergency personnel are working to get to the scene of an ATV accident near the Grave Hill community of West Oneida this afternoon. EMS paramedics, Rescue Squad personnel and 7th District firefighters are among those on scene.
Reports from the scene indicate that the ATV’s accelerator jammed as the driver was backing up, causing the ATV to travel down an embankment and off a 10-ft. rock ledge, striking a tree. The victim — a female who has been tentatively identified as Judy Autry, 57, of Oneida — suffered what is said to be a serious head injury.
Firefighters are prep
aring a landing zone for a Lifestar air evac helicopter in a field nearby, from where she will be airlifted to a Knoxville-area hospital.
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20Goes%20Off&vt1=v&at1=Sport&d1=259767&LaunchPageAdTag=Sport&activePane=info&rnd=22435256″>in this video are highlights from Kingsburg, Cali.’s win Friday night. Kingsburg is the home school of Tennessee verbal Tyler Bray.
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If I had reason to be looking out for the first frost and the end of the growing season, I would circle Oct.
10-12 on my calendar.
That isn’t to say that it’s going to happen then; it’s only to say that this time period is intriguing.
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We’re told that coal mining activity is set to increase in Scott County in the coming months, with surface mines planned for lands on Lloyd Mountain and Round Mountain on the North Cumberlands WMA (formerly Brimstone land). Round Mountain is the mountain on the “Four Lane” of Brimstone that is visible from most of the community, with a radio tower at its top. Lloyd Mountain is across the valley near Bull Creek.
This comes as natural gas exploration, which had been so prevalent in Scott County, is dying down. A Knox Energy employee said several weeks ago that his company plans no expansion in the next couple of years unless natural gas prices go back up. Prices have nose-dived over the past 12-18 months, going from well in the double-digits to less than $4 MMBtu. Gas exploration had been heavy on parts of the WMA, as well as the south end of the Brimstone property and in the Chitwood Mountain area of eastern Scott County.
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This weather makes you want to rub your head on the newel post, doesn’t it?
Seriously, on my way out the door this morning I stopped by the dogwood that overhangs the sidewalk and created a licking branch.
(Non-deer hunters may not get it, but the rest of you do . . . because if you’re being honest, several of you probably stepped out into the back yard this morning and freshened up a scrape.)
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It’s a little late, but for the football junkies who just can’t get enough, Chris Brown has an outstanding evaluation of the defensive scheme employed by Monte Kiffin against Urban Meyer’s spread offense.
Meat and taters for the football soul.
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