I thought I'd heard everything, but...

OK, we did it. We took those missing receipts. Missing signatures? We erased them. Outrageous expenses for meals, etc? We dummied up those expense reports and slipped them into the files when Team Ragsdale wasn't looking. Those phony FedEx Kinko's receipts? We created them for no other reason than to make Ms. Finch look guilty because we're a pack of racist rednecks.

Aren't we media types just the most clever, devious bunch you've ever come across?

Memo to Mr. Arms, Mr. Ragsdale, Ms. Dupes (I still laugh when I see that name - a PR person no less!), et al: Once, just this once, at long last, 'fess up. I didn't take your receipts, Lewis Cosby didn't take your receipts, Jake Jost didn't take your receipts, Kay Watson didn't take your receipts, Ansley Haman didn't take your receipts and Scott Barker didnt take your @#$&! receipts.

For what it's worth, Ragsdale's blog goon squad has swung into action on a couple of fronts with what amounts to a defense of "it's no big deal." The amount of money involved, say these cretins, is insignificant relative to the county budget.

Well, excuse me and several hundred thousand other naysayers for pointing out that your brains and apparently your moral compass are located in your derriere. Whether $10 or $10,000,000 were illicitly removed from taxpayers' wallets is hardly the point. The County Mayor has a moral and legal obligation to refrain from the type of behavior the audit has revealed. Further, the Mayor is responsible for seeing that his staffers follow the rules.

Ragsdale falls short on both counts. It's time for action, not words, from the legal authorities empowered to protect the citizens of Knox County against raids on their treasury.