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Friday Open Thread: Glib Subtitle

Good morning, Hooligans.Â I’ve got two Parkside meetings, a disc golf round, and a new brewery on my schedule today.Â Then tomorrow it’s Master Planning and Mountain Sports Festival.Â Scott McClellan is being savaged across the thirty-percentosphere.Â Liddy Dole’s plastic surgery has become a topic of conversation.Â Hot Carl is panhandling for five bucks.Â Stew Coleman is busily wrecking his own reputation.Â The County Commissioners are eerily silent.

What do you know?

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bobaloo
May 30th, 2008 at 9:07 am

Godspeed Harvey Korman:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyw_o6P6-WQ

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David Lynch
May 30th, 2008 at 4:13 pm

Was that Liddy Dole in that campaign ad? I thought it was Agnes Moorehead playing the part of Liddy Dole!

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xty
May 30th, 2008 at 4:58 pm

I am going to go dance around a tree. So I’ll be famous. No, infamous!

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Tim Peck
May 30th, 2008 at 5:52 pm

The next formal Asheville City Council meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 10, 2008, at 5:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, located on the 2nd Floor of the City Hall Building.

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Tim Peck
May 30th, 2008 at 6:03 pm

The Asheville City Council will be holding a special meeting on Tuesday, June 3, 2008, at 4:00 p.m. in Room 209 of the City Hall Building, Asheville, North Carolina . The purpose of the special meeting is to conduct a closed session in order to consult with an attorney employed by the City about matters with respect to which the attorney-client privilege between the City and its attorney must be preserved, including litigation involving the following parties:

Â· Louise Pack Metcalf
Â· Barbara Pack Holcombe
Â· Michael Lawrence
Â· Black Dog Realty, LLC
Â· Buncombe County

The statutory authorization is contained in N.C.G.S. 143-311(a)(3).

It is anticipated that as soon as the special meeting is opened, Council will immediately go into closed session.

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Tim Peck
May 30th, 2008 at 6:28 pm

It’s actually 143-318.11(a)(3)

Â§ 143â€‘318.11. Closed sessions.

(a) Permitted Purposes. â€“ It is the policy of this State that closed sessions shall be held only when required to permit a public body to act in the public interest as permitted in this section. A public body may hold a closed session and exclude the public only when a closed session is required:

…(3) To consult with an attorney employed or retained by the public body in order to preserve the attorneyâ€‘client privilege between the attorney and the public body, which privilege is hereby acknowledged. General policy matters may not be discussed in a closed session and nothing herein shall be construed to permit a public body to close a meeting that otherwise would be open merely because an attorney employed or retained by the public body is a participant. The public body may consider and give instructions to an attorney concerning the handling or settlement of a claim, judicial action, mediation, arbitration, or administrative procedure. If the public body has approved or considered a settlement, other than a malpractice settlement by or on behalf of a hospital, in closed session, the terms of that settlement shall be reported to the public body and entered into its minutes as soon as possible within a reasonable time after the settlement is concluded.

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Gordon Smith
May 30th, 2008 at 6:59 pm

Thanks, Tim.

It’s almost as though they’re trying to resolve it before Mtn. X’s big cover story on Parkside comes out next Wednesday.

Sure does look like they’re in a rush.

Remember that Coleman approached the City over a year ago asking for this “swap”, in which he gives up the park land for a very valuable piece of City property.

When he did it before, the City said “Hey, great idea, submit an RFP”. Coleman refused.

City Council ought not succumb to ransom demands from Coleman. Maybe if they make enough conditions on the “swap” (LEED, back look as good as front, no dumpsters in front of Market St. Church, meet PSC guidelines, give money to affordable housing funds, no staging in the park, and more), it will force Coleman to refuse and go into a buyback deal with the county?

Regardless – it’s time to email your City Council folks about your thoughts on the controversy:

http://www.ashevillenc.gov/government/mayor_city_council/city_council/default.aspx?id=1354&ekmensel=116_submenu_0_link_2

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Tim Peck
May 31st, 2008 at 9:42 pm

Is War With Iran Imminent?
This time, it’s more than a rumorâ€¦

by Justin Raimondo
April 28, 2008

[...] McCain, too, is helped by the ratcheting up of tensions in the Persian Gulf: think what the outbreak of war with Iran would do for his underdog candidacy.

[...] This administration, which has been in thrall to the Israel lobby more than any other, has been increasing the volume in its war of words with Tehran since January of this year, and, as Bush’s reign comes to an inglorious end, there apparently remains one last act of perfidy the neocons will leave as their legacy. Bush’s going away gift to the American people looks more than likely to be another war â€“ one that truly does make the Iraq war seem like a “cakewalk” in comparison.

[...] By all indications, Iran is the next victim to be made an example of, sometime in mid-summer, or so the rumor goes…

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=12755

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