2007 is coming at us all very fast...so its time to keep your best friends!

THIS IS THE LAST DAY OF A PRETTY ROUGH
YEAR 2006. TIME TO MAKE SOME NEW
FRIENDS AND KEEP SOME OLD FRIENDS.

2007 WILL BE ANOTHER ROLLER COASTER
YEAR WITH NOLENSVILLE FACING NEW AND
EVEN MORE PRESSING ISSUES WITH AN
UNCERTAIN BUDGET AND A SEVERE LACK OF
QUALIFIED PEOPLE DIRECTING OUR LOCAL
GOVERNMENT.

2007 WILL BE ANOTHER YEAR OF "BLOGS
THROWING PROVERBIAL ROTTEN FRUITS
AND VEGETABLES, OR EVEN COWPIES AT
LOCAL POLITICANS. "

"THE DEAL IS, IF YOU WANT TO COMMENT
ON THE SHENANIGANS, POLITICAL OPPORT-
UNISTS, CONFLICTS OF INTEREST, PROPERTY
OWNER RIGHTS, AND OTHER OBTUSE AND
TACTLESS DECISIONS INVOLVING OUR LOCAL
BOARD OF MAYOR/ALDERMEN, PLANNING
COMMISSION, OR OTHER FACETS OF OUR
LOCAL NOLENSVILLE GOVERNMENT---EVEN
HAVE A LITTLE FUN AT THEIR EXPENSE--
HAVE AT IT! IT'S BEEN GONG ON FOR
HUNDREDS OF YEARS." (As far back as
Andrew Jackson appearing as a jackass in polit-
ical cartoons).
(Courtesy franklinkoolaid.blogspot.com)

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Only in America! If it's worth doing it's worth overdoing it!

Awesome In Sync Christmas Lights


How would you like this Christmas Music and Decorations
next door to your house? Better yet what if they had a
motion-sensor to start the music everytime a car went by
the house? Wanna bet your teenagers will think this is the
very best, yet!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOURS AND HAVE A
VERY GOOD NEW YEAR...2007 IS COMING AT YOU ALL
VERY FAST.

CHRISTMAS EVE 2006 & WHAT IT REALLY MEANS!

The Eve of Christmas

By Joseph Farah

When I was a kid, Christmas was just about the
biggest deal in the whole wide world.

As Jean Shepherd, the screenwriter of "A Christ-
mas Story," would say, the entire annual calendar
of kid-dom revolved around this holiday.

We'd start thinking about it in September. By
Thanksgiving, there was a feeling of imminent
inevitability. Hysteria began to set in by Dec. 1.

We didn't just celebrate Christmas. Christmas
Eve was nearly as big a deal. And we began a
countdown in our household many days before
that. Today, for instance, would be the eve of
Christmas Eve. Yesterday was the eve of the eve
of Christmas Eve, and so on.

With all the attacks on Christmas in recent
years, I wonder how much of the fun and delight
of Christmas has been robbed from our kids.

But, of course, the attacks are not really
directed at Christmas, at all. Christmas is only
a target of the secular jihadists of the American
Civil Liberties Union and their co-conspirators
at Americans United For Separation of Church
and State because their ultimate goal is destroying
what Christmas represents.

They remind me of the terrorists in the Middle
East who say they want a state of their own, but
what they really want is to destroy another state.
Since they haven't been able to achieve their goal
in an all-out assault, they settle for getting there
piece by piece.

The real target is not Christmas. It's Christianity.
That's where the real battle lines are being drawn.

And we should expect this. It's just what Jesus
]told us to expect:

"Remember the word that I said unto you, The
servant is not greater than his lord. If they have
persecuted me, they will also persecute you.
…" – John 15:20

A talk-show host on Air America asked me last
year at this time if I "feared" this persecution. I
tried to explain that I don't fear it, I welcome it.
Because unless we pay a price for our belief in
Jesus, our faith has not really been tested –
we're not really following in His footsteps.

Think about this: Jesus came to Earth as a little,
helpless baby. He knew that even His very birth
would result in worldly authorities attempting to
hunt him down and slay Him in an effort to pre-
vent Him from doing what He came to Earth to do
– preach the gospel, go to the cross to atone for the
sins of mankind and be resurrected.

Many Christians have considered the agony Jesus
went through in the Garden of Gethsemane,
through the humiliation and torture leading to Cal-
vary. But how many of us have considered the deci-
sion Jesus made before that – to come into the world
as a helpless little infant?

That's faith. That's love. That's Jesus.

What his detractors in 2005 don't get is that
the battle is over. The war is already won.
It is finished.

You can invent new holidays to try to marginal-
ize Christmas. You can change the words of
"Silent Night." You can tell little kids they
can't say "Merry Christmas" in school. You can
do all kinds of things to try to get mankind to
forget about Jesus.

But all it gets you, ultimately, is more company
in hell.

Another reporter asked me who was winning the
battle over Christmas.

The battle was won a long time ago, about 2,006
years ago, when a little baby was born in Bethle-
hem, a God-man who would become the Savior of
the world. Kings tried to kill him shortly after His
birth. Priests marveled at his knowledge when He
was but a boy. He turned the world upside down
with His teachings. He healed the sick and the lame.
He raised people from the dead.

To this day we measure time itself by His coming –
not just kid-dom, but the whole world.

In another week or so, we will turn the page on the
calendar and celebrate the new year – 2007. It isn't
because it will have been 2,007 years since the
beginning of the world. It isn't because it will have
been 2,007 years since the beginning of history. It's
because it's 2,007 years since the birth of the
Messiah, the Prince of Peace, the Wonderful
Counselor, the King of Kings.

Happy birthday, Jesus. Please come back soon.

Joseph Farah is founder, editor and CEO of World
Net Daily. His latest book is "Taking America Back."

Franklin Circus Blog Reader's Comments Apply to Nolensville in Everyway!

This was a comment left on this blog. It is so well written
that it deserves its own post:"Call me crazy, but I don't
see how doubling the size of Franklin (Nolensville) will
add to my quality of life, given the roads, water and other
infrastructure, so I am not for more development.I am
for preservation, as long as the preservation project has
some sort of plan, we can afford it, and the thing to be
preserved is more or less real.The "preservation" as
currently practiced is not planned, is fiscally irresponsible,
and may preserve places where nothing really happened.
Was the horse farm ever on any plan or did it spring from
Miller's head de novo? Why did we buy that particular
piece of land (letting the owners stay and raise their
horses) and sell, through FSSD, a nearly identical piece of
land across the street for development? Who benefitted
from those deals?Why did we buy the CCOF where a battle
may or may not have taken place and let the Target comp-
lex be built when we can prove a battle was fought there.
For the record, there were so many civil war buffs scann-
ing the Target site with metal detectors during excavation
they had to hire guards. We know something happened
there.

I'm for public transportation at taxpayer expense for
those who need it (sick, poor), but everyone who is not
visually impaired knows the Trolleys are always empty,
yet they still ply the streets, belching their diesel exhaust.
We know we have trolleys and not vans because some-
body at the HF saw the trolleys in Pigeon Forge and
thought they'd be cute in Franklin for Christmas.

So the trolleys were never a planned urban transport
system; they mostly serve the HF at its many functions.
Anon 7:58: You are right: I don't want 25,000 more
people sharing my limited roads and water. I think using
tax money to enrich the friends of politicians is wrong.I
think having a government largely run by development
interests and real estate people is a bad idea. (Dugger &
friends).

I think spending millions on questionable "parks" is
poor public policy. I think the trolleys are a waste
because they are EMPTY and were not designed for
and do not serve the people they are supposed to help."

Nolensville need not look any further down the road
than Franklin to see what is happening to our town.
Send in you comments.

HOW ABOUT 2 Yr.TERM LIMITS FOR MAYOR & ALDERMEN?

Spring Hill is one of the fastest growing cities in the
United States, and five years from now it will be an
entirely different place than what it is today.

Mayor term court decision Spring Hill Tenn.
For those that are interested, the judge has come
back with a ruling today in the case contesting our
mayoral term. The ruling was in favor of the defen-
dant (Danny Leverette), stating that the Spring Hill
mayoral term cannot be reduced at this time to a two
year term. Unless Mayor Leverette decides to give
up his seat and run again in April for the remainder
of his term, it is a done deal. (www.springhilltn.blog-
spot.com)

What this tells us is that other small towns are having
serious second thoughts about 4 year terms for their
Mayor and Aldermen? Think about it in 4 to 5 years
Nolensville can really change for the better or otherwise?

How many think 4 years is too long? Send in your
comments.

WANTED..AN AMERICAN CHURCHILL ASAP! EXCELLENT READ ON IRAQ REPORT!

Thursday, December 14, 2006
Wanted - An American Churchill
Posted by Dean Barnett 5:50 PM
It’s been over a week now since the Iraq Study Group
released its consensus findings. It is an indication of how
much faster things move today than in the past that has
taken the Baker Commission a mere eight days to find
history’s ashbin. It took Marxism a century to reap a
similar destiny.

So what happened? Throughout the election season,
anxious Democrats panted that they couldn’t venture
any policy prescriptions regarding Iraq because they
had to wait to hear what the vaunted Study Group said
first. The intimation was that regardless of what tune
Jim Baker and his cohorts called out, the Democrats
would eagerly dance a jig to it.
But even in Democratic precincts, the Report, once
read, was dead on arrival. While the country’s liberals
did a collective swoon over the Report’s admission that
things aren’t going swimmingly in Iraq, they were no
more eager to implement the Committee’s 79 keys to
success than their Republican counterparts.

Aah, the Republicans. On the conservative grassroots
scene, the return of James Baker to prominence was
greeted with the kind of enthusiasm last seen when
the “The Conservative Soul” thudded into bookstores
across the land. But even given the right’s well-founded
suspicions of the erstwhile Bush family consigliere, the
Study Group’s Report was a surprisingly dreadful effort.

Considering the genesis of the study group, there’s a
touch of irony concerning the Report’s ultimate nature.
Representative Frank Wolf, a Republican from Virginia,
asked Jim Baker to form a commission so that “fresh
eyes” might be brought to the Iraq struggle. Set aside
for the moment that one could scarcely imagine a group
of less-fresh eyes than those belonging to a pride of
wizened, septuagenarian, one-time Beltway lions.

Wolf sought boldness, but obviously he went looking
for boldness in all the wrong places.What made the
Baker Group’s Report so supremely pathetic was the
tepid nature of its prescriptions. In an era that cries
out for boldness and leadership, the Baker bunch
offered compromise and defeatism.

FOR ALL HIS TIME IN AMERICA’S CORRIDORS
OF POWER, James Baker has never understood his
country. America and Americans aspire to greatness.
This country is full of people and the descendants of
people who came to America seeking better lives.
They didn’t get on the boat so they might pursue
mediocrity; they wanted more, a lot more.

An ambitious and striving nature is an integral part
of our national DNA. That’s what makes the situation
in Iraq at the moment so intolerable for most of the
country. Nearly 3,000 troops have sacrificed their
lives there, and yet the nature of the mission for
most of the country is opaque. It’s not the sacrifice
itself that’s unbearable; it’s the seeming pointless-
ness of it.

It’s interesting that the sacrifices don’t rankle the
members of the military and their families the same
way they do the rest of the country. The military
understands the ambitious nature of the Iraqi under-
taking. But the military is a self-selecting group of our
most ambitious and patriotic citizens who believe in
America’s greatness with a fervor that the typical
citizen doesn’t match. It’s understandable that their
perception of the fight would be different from others’.

I think it’s fair to ask, why the gap? And I think it’s
fair to point to the White House as the cause. The
American people have never shrunk from a challenge
when they’ve understood the necessity of taking it on.
That too is one of the characteristics of our country’s
genetic code. By putting so much emphasis on Iraq
while never putting the battle for Iraq in the context
of the bigger global struggle that’s afoot, the adminis-
tration has caused the public to view the Iraq War as
an exercise in nation building on behalf of a bunch of
people who really don’t want us to build them a nation.

At some point, I think President Bush flinched and lost
faith in the American people. I think he thought if he
explained the scope of the struggle ahead and the sacri-
fices that are going to be necessary to prevail, the
American people would have blanched and turned to a
different leader, perhaps even one as lame as John Kerry.

The good news for the president, and the good news for
all the guys and gals jockeying for position in the 2008
presidential race, is that the American people have never
wanted a path to mediocrity. Such a thing may knock ‘em
dead in Europe, but Americans want more. None of those
Goldman Sachs people who are in the news this week for
pulling down eight figures in 2006 have ever advocated
for the 35 hour work week. And while they make more
money than the rest of us, their ambition and their drive
are American through-and-through.

Today and for the foreseeable future, America will face
great challenges. The forces of darkness are gathering,
this week literally as they’ve convened a Holocaust denial
conference. They can only be defeated by force. Prevailing
will require willpower. And it will have to be a communal
effort; the upcoming struggle will be of such a scale that it’s
likely that every American household will feel its impact.

So let the small-minded James Baker-types offer their 79
point plans for national mediocrity. Let the entertainment
community sing their tired hymns about peace, under-
standing and how George W. Bush is worse than Hitler.
Let the academics bicker as they prepare their never-to-
be-read monographs, and let the newspapers look to
today’s opinion polls as if they’re as definitive as
tomorrow’s history books.

The great majority of the American people pine for a path
back to greatness. The first politician who honestly
confronts our problems and illuminates that path will be
the American Churchill. Hopefully it will be President
Bush since time’s a-wastin’, but the title is currently up
for grabs. Send in your comments and emails.

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BREAKING NEWS! "PIG"GLY WIGGLY IS CLOSING 12/23/06! (MOSES') MILL CREEK FOODS ROBBED RECENTLY!

Goodbye Piggly Wiggly Supermarket...doors close on
12/23/06? Question is how will our new mayor and
town hall team react to this loss of thousands of $$$'s
in sales tax revenue for town budget? It is curious as
to how many different markets have occupied this
site over the years? Bates, H.G.Hill and we're told
Piggly Wiggly somewhere in the past?

You tell us what is the problem? Certainly they could
be competitive to the new Kroger and Publix markets
up by Concord? Nolensville has plenty of new homes
going up and new customers everywhere?

It is scary what might go into that former supermarket
location? Hopefully there can be some kind of approval
procedure from our town hall that will be selective?
Send in your comments about the market moving on?

Now to the not so well known ROBBERY of Mill Creek
Foods north up by Burkitt Road. This retail location is
leased from Moses' family. People are curious as to
why nobody knows about it? Don't know if a Police
report was filed? Nolensville needs to crack down on
this sort of thing especially since it is on the northern
entrance to town. Normally a neighborhood not known
for crime and robberies. People in the area should be
notified about it so they can protect their property.
Send in your comments about this super-secret
robbery right in the neighborhood.

YO! AL' COME ON DOWN TO NOLENSVILLE! CHRISTMAS HAS COME EARLY!! $70M PER ACRE IS OK!

WELCOME BACK--DEVELOPERS, REALTORS,
ATTORNEYS, LAND SPECULATORS, ETC!!!!

You 'allllllll come on down to Nolensville! Christmas has
come early even before Thanksgiving! You probably
heard about our recent election and how almost every-
body hippity-hopped from chair to chair till they got the
office they wanted. Dugger graduate of the Knapper
school of "giveaway" government momentarily arose to
an upright stance then captured the alderman seat be-
hind our new mayor Lothers. Felts floundered in the
voting machines only to be pitched out of local govern-
ment wearing the badge of censure by fellow board mem-
bers. Ken Thomas, a total newcomer to local government
and sponsored by Lothers won an alderman's seat form-
erly occupied by Felts. Alexander the Pudmeister still
shilling as a sidekick for Dugger.

What an early Christmas present to all developers and
their attorneys! You just couldn't ask for a better gift-
wrapped basket of old and new goodies. No need to fret
and worry about 2007. Knapper taught Dugger real good
about not asking for even one impact fee in the entire ten
years they both served in our local goverment. No need
to change now...besides if we did the developers would sue
the city. Because no impact fees were applied for the last
ten years!

YES!!!!! Contrary to the ignorance on the part of some--
our town is entitled to collect impact fees from develop-
ers just like Brentwood and Franklin have been doing for
years. How about $5,000 for a water hook-up in Brent-
wood? No wonder they have a fat bank account and our
town has none?

Now after ten years Dugger has gotten approval to hire
an outside consulting firm to tell the town whether they
can charge any impact fees? Scary isn't it after ten years
to witness such forward thinking?

To ALL 757 of you out there who voted to re-elect
Dugger as an alderman for the next four years enjoy the
ride! Only a realtor/alderman and former iterim mayor
could come up with such a "done deal." The developers
get a free ride and our newly elected alderman/realtor
collects the agent fees when and wherever he can. After
all, a person has to make a living and the $160. pay per
month an alderman gets just won't cut it.

What about the consulting firm? Won't they recomend
impact fees? For fear of another law suit probably not!

Don't even think about asking what role the new mayor
will play in this puppet-play? Just remember this ALL
830 of you that voted for Lothers! (That includes all of
the Knapper/Moses "hate-mailers" and their not so
annoymous helpers. How awful proud you must feel?
Thumbing your noses at the law and getting away with
it?) How proud Lothers must feel for having such an
effective group to swing an election her way? In the
next four years "what goes around comes around" it
never fails. People who "cheat" to win an election will
eventually pay for it.

SOOOOooooo get ready the old guaranteed majority
vote is back in full strength ready to vote whatever
way Dugger wants them to vote. Hope you voters
that voted for Lothers/Dugger enjoy the deception.
Strange isn't it voters usually get exactly what they
deserve. Nolensville didn't get what it deserved.
Please don't start with a sick "sour-grapes" comment
this goes way beyond that and everybody knows it.

Send in your comments about the next FOUR YRS?

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