A fortnightly rant, FL-S style:
BALLSTON, Va. - Greetings from John McCain’s brother Joe’s favorite place - The People’s Republic of Arlington - where capitalism is alive and well.  And, after the pounding that the financial markets have taken, well, thank goodness for that.
The old-style A-Frame IHOP just 2 blocks from here is packed with hungry customers.  Business there is brisk.
We just finished [...]

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You know the mood at the Gilmore for Senate campaign is depressed.  And certainly what follows doesn’t make Gilmore staffers feel any better:
Mike Allen at Politico is reporting today that retiring U.S. Senator John Warner might cross party lines to vote for his 1996 election opponent, Former Gov. Mark Warner.
Read the story, here.
Could Mark not John [...]

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A fortnightly rant, FL-S style HALFTIME SHOW. A shoutout to a good friend from my junior high school days in Mo.Co., Maryland.
Back in the day, my friend Kathy Kearns told me and a bunch of other kids that her dad had invented something very important: the intermittent windshield wiper. And I am sure that my [...]

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From HuffPo:
Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago — about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct — the teacher said.
I wonder [...]

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As awful a notion as it is, that the U.S. taxpayer has to bail out this collosal mess made by Wall Street, Congress has no choice but to pass an Economic Recovery Bill.  And do so NOW.
The estimated $700 billion price tag is nothing to sneeze at.  But when the House of Representatives rejected passage of [...]

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A fortnightly rant, FL-S style with a bowed head for the fine folks in Coleytown:
Yesterday, the world lost a rightous human being.
Silver screen-legend, activist, part-time race car driver, and philanthropist Paul Newman has died following a long bout with cancer. He was 83 years old.
Talk about a life led well.
Newman was an Academy Award-winning actor [...]

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Uh-oh. (Check out about 5 minutes in.)

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A forthnightly rant, FL-S style.
Let’s say local Republicans stage an event and the featured guests are Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, AG Bob McDonnell, Congressman Rob Wittman, and Speaker of the House Wild Bill Howell.  Then let’s say a local GOP committee chair calls the FL-S and its political reporter Emily Battle to see if they would be [...]

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ABC World News Anchor Charlie Gibson has gotten the “get” - he’s been promised the first interview with Sarah Palin at home in Alaska this Friday.
And now the future credibility of all MSM (and for that matter - THE SURVIVAL OF THE PLANET) rests on the ABC News anchor’s shoulders.  We can only hope Gibson will make the most [...]

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Jerry, just remember, it’s not a lie if you believe it.
 - George Costanza, Assistant to the Traveling Secy, New York Yankees
I told Congress ‘Thanks, but no thanks’ for that bridge to nowhere up in Alaska. If our state wanted a bridge, we were going to build it ourselves.
- Sarah from Wasilla
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Fred2Blue is thrilled to have Stafford County’s own Laurie Williams - an acclaimed canine behavior expert, owner of Pup’n’Iron Canine Fitness & Learning Center and co-finalist (with her Maltese Andrew) of CBS TV’s The Greatest American Dog - join us today to help answer a very pressing question of national importance:  What kind of dog should the Obamas add to their family?
Dan:  [...]

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We are pleased to welcome a fresh new voice to Fred2Blue, John LeFebre from Spotsylvania County.
John is a great “get” who will bring a much-needed Spotsy perspective to this blog.  But his contributions won’t end there; John will light a blue flame under the FL-S and post on important local, statewide and national stories, as well.
We [...]

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With New York Fashion Week kicking off this Friday, we decided to take a look into Gov. Sarah Palin’s closet. Governor Go-Go Boots might be stylin’ now, but let’s just say big hair wasn’t her only 1980’s fashion disaster.  From her days as a Univ. of Idaho undergrad:

The message on her t-shirt reads:  I may be [...]

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Photography courtesy of Amy LaMarca:

Congressman Bobby Scott and Amy LaMarca

The Virginia Delegation standard.

The stage at the DNC 08.

Joe Biden accepts the VP nod.

Virginia and Illinois delegates hoist their Biden standards.

Barack greets the Delegates!

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UPDATE:  The guy in the yellow traffic vest to the right of Carlos Del Toro (photo below) is television and film actor/producer Kal Penn, an Obama supporter and an aide to the Virginia Delegation at the Democratic National Convention.  Earlier this month, Kal was in Fredericksburg to support the Obama campaign.
A fortnightly rant, FL-S style (LATE [...]

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The Republican National Committee had to have known that Minneapolis/St. Paul - its 2008 convention site - ranks among the gayest metros in the U.S…right?
Apparently, this discovery was late to reach the RPV.  From an AP dispatch, posted this morning:

The publisher of a Twin Cities magazine says he was caught by surprise after a group [...]

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Plutocrat Thurston Howell III is defending longtime friend and presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain from criticism by “those dreadful, just dreadful one-at-a-time home owners.”
Reached by satellite-phone, Howell a scion of Newport, R.I. society and a 1932 graduate of Harvard College, said that he doesn’t even know how many homes he personally owns.  “Counting homes is for the [...]

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Creepy.

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