A totally biased and unreasonable list of blogs that I think you might enjoy reading.
Another Freep gem, posted on Craigslist:
Great with children (assuming you don’t like the children). Probably best used for professional catfighting. He is housebroken, but only because he wants to be. This attack cat has trained himself to seek out his food anywhere you hide it and rip the bag open to feed himself, great for [...]
My fellow ODBA blogger at Skeptical Observor has a good post about this fiasco. He covers Clark’s comment and the hypocrisy of the left and I agree with his post. James writes “I’ll vote for John McCain, with grave reservations based upon some of his positions (hostility to the First Amendment, for example), but it’s clear that the moonbat Left finds little in his military record to commend
Continue reading " Skeptical Observor - Wesley Clark: Four-Star Moonbat "
On Monday, June 30, President Bush signed into law landmark legislation introduced by Senator Jim Webb (D-Va.) to provide post-9/11 veterans with comprehensive educational benefits. Last week, the legislation was overwhelmingly passed by both the House of Representatives and Senate.
Senator Jim Webb introduced this bill eighteen months ago on his first day in office. The bipartisan measure– principally cosponsored by Sens. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), and John Warner (R-VA), has unprecedented support from all major veterans’ organizations, in addition to strong bipartisan support in Congress, with a House vote of 416 to 12, and a Senate vote of 92 to 6.
The following is a statement from Senator Webb:
“This is a great day for our veterans. This bill properly provides a modern and fair educational benefit to address the needs of those who answered the call of duty to our country–those who moved toward the sound of the guns–often at great sacrifice.
“Eighteen months ago, we began with the simple concept that those who have been serving since 9/11 should have the same opportunity for a first class educational future as those who served during World War II. Today, we have accomplished that goal.
“I would like to emphasize that this is not simply an expansion of veterans’ educational benefits. This is a new program, a deserved program. It has now been nearly seven years since 9/11 — seven years since those who have been serving in our military began earning the right for a proper wartime GI Bill.
“We have delivered this new, robust GI Bill with a great deal of collaboration and cooperation among members of the Senate, members of the House, and with the guidance and support of all of our nation’s leading veterans’ groups.
“It also gives me confidence and renewed hope that the Congress can begin working more effectively across party lines to do the work of the people.”
Read the Washington Post Article;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
The expansion of education benefits for Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans is part of the $257.5 billion emergency spending bill that passed the Senate on Thursday.
It is a shame that the only way to get it passed was to attach it to another spending bill.
Now this is the level of narcissistic arrogance I have come to expect from the increasingly mindless world of the Politically Correct. Jimmy, you get an "F" for e"f"fort, indeed:
Requires review: Yes …
Holding up public policy and the affairs of state to throw a tantrum for extra privleges. Behind the scenes, Sen. Webb has told colleagues the holds are punishment for the Pentagon failing to provide him answers relating to Blackwater Worldwide,…
In the most recent Southside Messenger, investigative reporter Wilkie Chaffin reports on the transfer of land belonging to the county to the IDA (Industrial Development Authority) in order for them to give the land away to various development projects. The Board Chair, and the Vice-Chair (Bucky Fore and Howard Simpson) had been involved in [...]
Continue reading " Questions About Prince Edward County Land Transfers "
After having sniffed John Kerry’s credentials for Commander in Chief based on Kerry’s command of a power boat in Vietnam and found them exemplary, ex-Clinton supporter General Wesley Clark attacked John McCain’s credentials for the same position for only having been commander of an aircraft squadron, and I suppose more importantly failure on the part of McCain to slander his fellow serviceman. The upshot from Senator Obama himself, whose record is entirely bereft of military service altogether, was to toss Clark under the bus to join a growing list of Obama supporters already firmly embedded…
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Looks like the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues to be busy in the Richmond area, following on a workplace enforcement raid in Richmond City at the construction site of a federal courthouse in May. Of note, the following press release from ICE mentions that Attorney General Bob McDonnell played a significant role once [...]
Continue reading " 46 Illegal Alien Gang-Bangers Nabbed In Richmond "
Yes, a shameless play off a great Jack Nicholson movie. A movie of my youth that looks so blotchy and washed in old copy color now.
And, exceptionally boring to all, except those who can relate and, thus, gain from a few words illuminating the path of one lifetime.
Today, June 30th is the 40th anniversary of the day before the day I stepped off the edge of the earth. It was the last day of my upbringing, call it childhood, before I walked into the old gym at West Point.
My life is 17 plus years from birth to West Point, becoming a man at West Point, serving as a soldier, living Life After Army, and, someday, life in Heaven doing whatever is my joyful work there.
I could have divided life into before Christ and after, or before marriage and after, or before children and after, but all of those demarcations - as much as they are more important than I am - aren’t the pieces of my life that gave them their context, color, depth, and motion for me.
I remember the heat of my high school graduation (Yorktown 68, Arlington, Virginia). I remember so many things from that last month before my world changed totally and forever for me.
40 years is mind boggling old, irrelevant, antiquated and obsolete - meaningless - to so many younger folks. To me it is indeed odd - the size of the number - but it is 40 years fresh, vibrant, alive, awake - meaningful - to me. And, I’d guess my peers and seniors.
I’ll share more as I have time and inclination of 40 Years After.
The recent spat of Democrats attacking John McCain’s war record is really strange, considering what the point of it is. The point, for those who might not know, is to devalue military service when it comes to being able to…
Continue reading " Come on America, John McCain Was Only “Isolated”! "
I was hoping we’d see something like this:”A group of international elder statesmen, including Nobel Peace Prize winners, urged the African Union on Monday to reject Zimbabwe’s presidential vote and called for a transitional government and a new election.”See more about The Elders.
Continue reading " Mandela’s “Elders” Urge African Union to Pressure Mugabe "
Check out Del. Bob Marshall and Del. Jeff Frederick (and Chairman RPV) proposals for this transportation session. Winners all.
It’s the common sense alternative to the political suicide of HB 6055.
Continue reading " Virginia Republicans - Please Don’t Commit Suicide "
Like we all don’t know its James Martin who is passing around e-mail lists. Every time I get an e-mail from some random campaign, I can easily find that James Martin was the webmaster.
He could have easily grabbed lists from half a dozen campaigns, VA Partisans (webmaster), and given them to Deeds (webmaster).
James Martin, your [...]
Continue reading " Hey Skippy Martin, Quit Whoring The E-mail List "
Like we all don’t know its James Martin who is passing around e-mail lists. Every time I get an e-mail from some random campaign, I can easily find that James Martin was the webmaster.
He could have easily grabbed lists from half a dozen campaigns, VA Partisans (webmaster), and given them to Deeds (webmaster).
James Martin, your [...]
Continue reading " Hey Skippy Martin, Quit Whoring The E-mail List "
The Huffington Post’s David Sirota was told to remind others that Barack Obama told him that progressive activists should judge him explicitly by what he does - and not come up with wild theories that absolve him. Those who think they are being Obama loyalists by either concocting apologist rationales about his behavior or telling [...]
Continue reading " Reminder: Obama Told Us To Judge Him, and Pressure Him "
VH1 just completed their top 100 songs of the 1990s. And it was spectacular! I was born in 1981, so I am an unabashed child of the 90s - the decade of my youth, I went through it all from…
The Party of Hope, Change, and freebies is once again dividing Americans with fierce partisan rhetoric and the politics of class envy.
Check out this radio ad, featuring a Bush impersonator:
Pattie, ‘W’ here, thank you for continuing to support the Big Oil energy agenda. ‘Preciate you voting to keep giving billions in tax breaks to [...]
Police officers have been telling me privately that they’re seeing a measurable decrease in crime over the past year, and today the DC Examiner tells us that those anecdotal reports are now backed up by official statistics. While Fairfax County sees their crime rate increasing, Prince William County saw a 22% drop in crime in [...]
Who do you think has to suffer more for their work? The Log Cabin Republicans trying to make a case for John McCain as a friend or the National Black Republican Association attacking Obama’s racist party?
Continue reading " Log Cabin Republicans v. National Black Republican Assoc. "