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SWAC Girl: Sending cookies to the troops

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:11:00 -0500

Sending cookies to the troops? This website has absolutely the best cookies to ship to Iraq and Afghanistan (and anywhere else) ... along with packing suggestions and everything you need to know about sending homemade goodies to our soldiers and Marines.

H/T to Tea Party Sue[...]

Yankee Philip: More Sunday Rule 5 Shameless Plugging.

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:41:00 -0500

Yes, I have 2 links over there.
Go take a peek
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Hop on over and see some Rule 5 entries here
Congrats to 3 beers for a groundbreaking expose

The Berman post gives' [...]

SWAC Girl: Home schoolers thrive at bees

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:28:00 -0500

Op-Ed in Washington Times
by J. Michael Smith
HSLDA President

It is well-known that homeschoolers excel in competitions like the Scripps National Spelling Bee and the National Geographic Bee. Homeschoolers regularly comprise 15 percent of the entrants to these competitions despite being about 3 percent of the [...]

Yankee Philip: 4 out of the top 5 blogs are from Augusta County ! !

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:27:00 -0500

Paint the Valley Red ! ! !
5 out of 5 are Conservative.
SWAC Girl (1)
Yankee Philip (2)
From On High (3)
Augusta Conservative (4)
Fishersville Mike (5)
#7 is local too
On the Western Banks of the [...]

Blacknell.net: Nice Job, Switzerland

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:13:58 -0500

Rank stupidity abounds:

Projections based on ballot results suggest Swiss voters have backed a campaign to ban the construction of minarets, local television reported.

[ . . . ]

Rightwing parties led by the nationalist Swiss People’s party, the country’s largest, have labelled minarets symbols of [...]

Blue Virginia: Hey Switzerland, Now Can You Please Ban Yodeling?

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:03:00 -0500

/begin snark

Now that the Swiss teabaggers Islamophobic bigots people, in their infinite (lack of) wisdom, have voted to ban minarets at mosques in their country, I've got a suggestion for them: ban the incredibly annoying form of "singing" known as "yodeling". How bad is yodeling? Watch' [...]

SWAC Girl: ObamaCare could cost billions and billions and billions of $$$

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:53:00 -0500

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This is getting more depressing every day. Our country is sinking further into depth under an inexperienced Democrat president and an agenda-driven liberal Democrat Congress enabled by cowering Blue Dog Democrats and "Make me a deal ... I'm for sale" Mary Landrieu-types ... so the news that ObamaCare' [...]

SWAC Girl: CyberMonday shopping deals

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:37:00 -0500

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Fox & Friends was talking about CyberMonday, November 30, when 90% of businesses will have online deals looking to lure in their share of the 68 million online shopers. Here are some places to find the best deals:

- www.walletpop.com - helps find honest deals online
- [...]

Tidewater Liberty: Beating Trees into Hockey Sticks

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:32:22 -0500

Not that you would know it from the mainstream press, but the largest economic fraud in history, greatly dwarfing the housing bubble, has just been revealed. The press on this side of the Atlantic is carefully avoiding it, but in Britain, where there is still a free press, Climategate is [...]

SWAC Girl: MSM ignoring Climate-Gate?

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:28:00 -0500

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This is a huge controversy ... a huge lie that has been ongoing for years ... the "global warming" hoax that is being disproved ... but the mainstream media are ignoring it. The hypocrisy continues as they wrap their arms tighter around a liberal agenda....

Meanwhile, DJ has [...]

Virginia's 5th District: Will Climate Gate Affect Warner and Webb’s Vote?

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:17:20 -0500

Congressman Perriello voted in favor of the job killing, tax raising bill known as Cap and Trade. He did this saying that it was important for our national defense, claiming it will reduce our dependency on foreign oil. Proponents of this bill as well as Tom state that this legislation [...]

Blue Virginia: Overhyped Nonsense by "Powerhouse" Panelists: Yes, It's "This Week" Time Again!

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:16:00 -0500

Check out this overhyped nonsense from This Week With George Stephanopoulos:Plus our powerhouse roundtable: George Will, Cokie Roberts, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, political strategist Matthew Dowd and former Iraq Coalition Provisional Authority spokesman and author Dan Senor take on the difficult Afghanistan decision. And the lagging [...]

SWAC Girl: Eric Holder is dangerous

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:13:00 -0500

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"I'm not an attorney."

So begins Eric Hill in Townhall as he writes:
For better or worse I didn’t go to law school, but rather, I instead went to graduate school to study philosophy.

But you don’t need to be an attorney – or a philosopher –' [...]

United Conservatives: Yes Dearhearts He Is Back and Badder Than Ever

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:06:00 -0500

Our very good friend Uncle Jimbo has flipped the switch over at www.unclejimbo.com and he is a man on a mission.

"All ready on the right
All ready on the left
All ready on the firing line
Shooters Lock and Load 20 rounds" [...]

Virginia Right!: Democrats And The Press Begin To Turn On Obama

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:43:56 -0500

Obama prostrates himself

It is taking it’s own sweet time, but the movement is undeniable. As the polls show a steady erosion of support for President Obama, so goes the press, and even his own party. President Bush spent 8 years with an [...]

Charlottesville Tomorrow: Growth strains highways, residents

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:43:03 -0500

This article is the first in a four-part series on the future of Route 250 published jointly by The Daily Progress and Charlottesville Tomorrow. Part one is published here by permission of The Daily Progress. [Part: One, Two, Three, Four]... [...]

Bearing Drift: Cash for Flunkers

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:24:55 -0500

SNL just nails it in this skit. My favorite line at 3:21 states “each of your plans to save money involves spending even more money”

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Tertium Quids: The Big Idea may come off the shelf after all

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:48:00 -0500

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Bob Holsworth is more correct than he lets on in this matter:The Governor-Elect gave a tantalizing hint in an interview last week when he noted that his economic team is looking at some policy initiatives that were not highlighted during the campaign. I could certainly be wrong, but this sounds [...]

SWAC Girl: It's called "t-e-r-r-o-r-i-s-m"

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:46:00 -0500

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Terrorism. War on terror. Terrorists.

The Democrats and Barack Obama have eliminated the word "terrorism" from their politically correct vocabulary ... but that does not eliminate the danger to Americans. Just ask the Russians who had terrorists attack a train on Saturday that left dozens dead and dozens [...]

Blue Virginia: Whipple Clip Dozen: Sunday Morning

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:35:00 -0500

Thanks to Del. Bob Brink (D-48) for bringing us the "Whipple Clips" today.

1. LAWMAKERS EXPECT FOCUS ON ETHICS REFORM IN WAKE OF PHIL HAMILTON
2. WHITE HOUSE CRASHERS PARTIED WITH WARNER, KAINE
3. TAREQ SALAHI DONATED TO VIRGINIA POLS AND SOLD $25K WORTH OF WINE [...]

SWAC Girl: RT-D looks at McDonnell's disciplined campaign

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:34:00 -0500

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The analyzing of Virginia's 2009 gubernatorial campaign continues as today's Richmond Times-Dispatch take a look back at what they consider a "competent versus incompetent" campaign between Republican Bob McDonnell and Democrat Creigh Deeds:
The McDonnell effort never faltered. The candidate and his team stayed on message. If someone were to [...]

Tertium Quids: What a difference an election makes

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:31:00 -0500

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Recall, if you can, that in the waning days of the campaign, Democrats desperately tried to tag Ken Cuccinelli as an embarassment and a bigot, a militant conservative who would make Barry Goldwater look like a wimp.How times, and a landslide win, can change things:"We frequently disagree with Senator Cuccinelli," [...]

From On High: Gov't In Action

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:27:00 -0500

I wonder if the kids over at the Roanoke Times - the ones who are really big on the government takeover (and assured destruction) of what most Americans consider to be the finest health care delivery system the world has ever devised - think about their position when they read [...]

Fishersville Mike: For my journey 'round Appalachia

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:16:00 -0500

It's a short roundup because it's a busy weekend - Thanksgiving, kids home, starting to decorate for Christmas and traveling to West Virginia to see family.
I have to watch out for that "global warming" snow. Two-lane mountain roads are more slippery than English climate researchers.
For the latest from [...]

From On High: Tom Perriello a One-Termer?

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:06:00 -0500

If the reaction of the people of Virginia's 5th District continues to grow ever more negative towards ObamaCare, it certainly is a possibility. For the anger toward Obama's abominable government takeover of the health care system continues to rise. And heads (including Tom's) will surely roll:
Growing public backlash over' [...]

SWAC Girl: Powhatan wins high school Group AA, Division 4 football

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:05:00 -0500

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Powhatan High School has won the Group AA, Division 4, Region I football championship.... [...]

SWAC Girl: Former speaker of VA House John Warren Cooke dies

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:59:00 -0500

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Virginia has lost a long-time Byrd Machine Democrat House leader:
John Warren Cooke, a former speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates and the last son of a Confederate veteran to sit in the General Assembly, died Saturday at Palace Green, his home on Put In Creek in Mathews.
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Good Sense: Foreclosure Support?

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:51:00 -0500

Ok, maybe I’m old fashioned, but isn’t foreclosure a way that banks protect themselves from defaulted loans? Like a quack doctor, Barry insists on treating the symptom rather than the underlying disease. In this case, the disease is unqualified, high risk borrowers who have no means nor the intentions [...]

SWAC Girl: Green Valley Book Fair open through Dec. 13

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:43:00 -0500

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Those of us in the Shenandoah Valley take for granted the Green Valley Book Fair is at our back doors ... so it took me by surprise to see that Bill Lohmann had written about it for the Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Point your car away from Interstate 81 [...]

SWAC Girl: VA Tech 42 ... UVA 13

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:25:00 -0500

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Saturday ... 3:30 pm ... time to head to the airport with the Texas sister and family who were heading home after Thanksgiving week in Virginia. But one member of the family had his TV tray set up in front of his chair in the den to eat a late [...]

From On High: Be Careful What You Wish For

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:14:00 -0500

We all hate the rich. Right? We want them punished. We want them to bleed. To squeal like pigs. That's why, when we hear talk of capping their salaries and taxing the living hell out of them, we all smile. They deserve it.

If only it worked out that' [...]

From On High: For The Love Of God

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:13:00 -0500

YIPPEE!
Climategate: University of East Anglia U-turn in climate change row

Leading British scientists at the University of East Anglia, who were accused of manipulating climate change data - dubbed Climategate - have agreed to publish their figures in full.
Excellent.

There is a growing chorus of [...]

SWAC Girl: Christmas decorations beginning to show up in SWAC area....

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:56:00 -0500

Number of comments: 2
Snowmen and penguins and nativity scenes and lights ... some SWAC bloggers were busy this weekend and it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the central Shenandoah Valley.... [...]

From On High: Another Reason The Global Warmists Lost

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:40:00 -0500

They are hilariously ridiculous in their efforts to make their case.

From the "You can't make this stuff up" page (sometimes referred to as the op/ed page) of the New York Times:
Before the Climate Conference, a Weather Report

President Obama and other world leaders will gather' [...]

United Conservatives: You Want Unprecedented, Here it Is

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:03:00 -0500

If this happens the backlash against the US Government by its citizens will be historic. We will not stand by and allow our Warriors to be tried as criminals for protecting us from terrorists. This is unconscionable.

No; wait a minute...you know what this is?

UNPRECEDENTED. Zero appears [...]

Left of the Hill: Sunday Morning Talk Show Lineup

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:25:00 -0500

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Not too surprisingly, the major themes that will be discussed on the Sunday morning talk shows today will be Afghanistan and health care. It looks like David Gregory will be doing something a little different by doing a show that focuses on giving back to the community. However, I'm a' [...]

Sisyphus: The risks to U.S. interests should Israel attack Iran

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:58:00 -0500

Number of comments: 1

Iran’s nuclear program was launched in the 1950’s as part of the Atoms for Peace program promoted by the United States. Western governments supported Iran’s nuclear program until the 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the Shah. Following the revolution, the Iranian government [...]

SLANTblog: Groh's parting poem

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:58:00 -0500

Here's a bizarre twist to the postgame scene that followed the drubbing head coach Al Groh's Virginia Cavaliers absorbed from their arch-rival (Va. Tech 42, UVa 13) today at Scott Stadium. Virginia finished its season, losing six games in a row, to establish a 3-9 record for the season.

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On The Right: On The Right talk’s with Laurence Socci, 8th District Republican candidate

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:13:29 -0500

I would like to thank Mr. Laurence Socci for contacting me to answer some questions about his run in the 8th District. The 8th District now has two highly qualified candidates going for a Republican nomination to defeat Jim Moran. I wish to wish both Mr. Socci and Mr. Berry [...]

Virginia Virtucon: ClimateGate HQ admits to throwing away data

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:45:41 -0500

Number of comments: 2
This is absolutely mind-blowing (The Sunday Times of London): SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a [...]

Right-wing liberal: ClimateGate HQ admits to throwing away data

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:38:40 -0500

Number of comments: 1
This is absolutely mind-blowing (The Sunday Times of London): SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a [...]

Rule .303: 5 Deer Hunting Gadgets That Really Work

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:32:00 -0500

Locavore hunters like myself have an easier time hunting deer than trophy deer hunters do. We don't need to use such elaborate techniques to catch up with our prey as trophy hunters do. While a 6 year old buck requires tremendous wits and patience to encounter in daylight during hunting' [...]

Virginia Intelligent Transportation Systems: Va. officials push for Dulles rail sound walls

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:29:00 -0500

Five federal lawmakers from Virginia are calling for the installation of sound walls along portions of the Dulles corridor to protect communities from the noise of a new Metro line.
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More at The Washington Examiner
[www.washingtonexaminer.com] [...]

Virginia Intelligent Transportation Systems: Crowdsourcing Social Networks to Inform Public Policy

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:22:00 -0500

Six Apart co-founder Anil Dash plans to reinvent the way the government listens to its citizens. We’re not talking about wiretapping. Rather, he wants to solicit expert opinions on scientific matters through a new social network belonging to the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Expert Labs. Dash pumped [...]

Virginia Intelligent Transportation Systems: The Many Dimensions of Real Time

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:18:00 -0500

With posts like this driving the debate over the value of real time ‘news’ we should stop and think a little about the nature of time, information, the networks through which information is propagated and the values we associate with various aspects of this complex.
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More at Data Mining
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United Conservatives: Here's Something You Don't See Very Often

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:55:00 -0500

Dhimmicrats playing politics with our Warriors lives by using the Tax Code to punish those of us who believe in the neccessity of victory over the goat humping sub-humans who want to wipe us from the face of the Earth in the name of a false-prophet who preferred little boys [...]

Augusta Conservative: Christmas Lights.

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:36:00 -0500

The Karaffa family is a very big Italian Catholic family and we never let a good holiday go to waste, especially Christmas. Most every year, my father has decorated the house with Christmas lights, every year its a little different, but they never fail to [...]

Equality Loudoun: Frank Wolf’s discriminatory religious conviction

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:25:33 -0500

Last week, I called Congressman Frank Wolf’s office and spoke to his aide Andrew. I asked Congressman Wolf to support H.R. 3017, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2009 (ENDA). I told Andrew that I didn’t expect Congressman Wolf to support the legislation [...]

Clem's Politics: Peru-Chile espionage dispute

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:10:36 -0500

Just as the recent Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit was about to convene two weeks ago, Peruvian President Alan Garcia left Singapore and returned to Lima because a Peruvian air force officer was arrested on charges of spying for Chile. See CNN.com. Chile's foreign ministry quickly denied the charges of espionage, [...]

Augusta Conservative: Albemarle Schools face Major Cuts, will Augusta?

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:29:00 -0500

In the Daily Progress is a story about Albemarle schools facing everything from reducing the number of hours that the students are in school, increasing classroom size, furlough days for school employees, to actually laying off teachers. The Albemarle school system is expecting to [...]

Augusta Conservative: The Young Invincible.

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:17:00 -0500

The News Virginian has an article about Health Care and young people, age 19-29, who make up 13.7 million uninsured people in the nation. The article suggests that young people who are starting out after college are unable to obtain Health Insurance at an [...]

Augusta Conservative: Crashers Meet President Obama!

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 19:08:00 -0500

According to the News Leader, the couple that crashed the first state dinner of President Obama's Administration, actually meet President Obama!
Wow, this is really concerning for the Secret Service. Think, someone just waltzed into the White House and was face to face [...]

Republitarian: Robbed from John Elledge’s Facebook page………

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:27:21 -0500

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You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
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Fishersville Mike: Our global warming tree

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:23:00 -0500

The Penguins, Polar Bears and snowmen are doing just fine on our Christmas tree. [...]

Yankee Philip: ObamaCare’s Cost Could Top $6 Trillion

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:13:00 -0500

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Congressional Democrats are using several budget gimmicks to disguise the cost of their health care overhaul, claiming the House and Senate bills would cost only (!) about $1 trillion over 10 years.
The Cato Institute has a report here.
Reid says Obamacare costs $2 [...]

Yankee Philip: MudPit asks for Perspective.

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:52:00 -0500

Number of comments: 0

Perspective please.
The Toxic Mud Pit, aka Sunversuswind, aka Dirty Dangerous Hole, aka huge, spinning ball of hot gas and nuclear reactions combatting the outgassing of light chemical elements from a planet's atmosphere into space has a nice collection of videos [...]

Yankee Philip: Gotcha, You Betcha. All the lib blogs are orgasming over video of Sarah.

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:42:00 -0500

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They all seem to think she was "owned", "punked", "pwned" etc....
Looks more like Comedienne Mary Walsh got nothing from Sarah, but is getting famous from all the Lib blogs.
Well I will help out Mary too.
Take a view of the clip. Try not to yawn.

HuffPo [...]

Anonymous Is A Woman: All That Glitters

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:31:00 -0500

All that glitters not only isn't necessarily gold, it could be as bold and cheap as brass. Here is a perfect example

By now most people know who the Salahis are. But just in case you spent this past holiday weekend as a castaway on a desert island,' [...]

Yankee Philip: Tiger Woods: Injuries Caused by Wife, Not SUV

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:19:00 -0500

Number of comments: 0

Thats what TMZ is saying.
His facial lacerations were inflicted by his wife, Elin Nordegren according to a report.TMZ says his wife had confronted him about reports that he was seeing another woman. Rachel Uchitel, the alleged other [...]

snapped shot: Gaza Photos Reuters Missed

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:56:58 -0500

Based on the coverage the world's news agencies give of the poor, oppressed Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, your average reader would most likely be left with the impression that the entire Gaza area is nothing but a barren, shell-shocked wasteland of decay [...]

On the Western Banks of the Shenandoah: The Cat’s Meow

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:42:33 -0500

Friends and readers will know that I am a cat lover. Not to the point where I subscribe to Cat Fancy and tour the country from show to show with my constant companion Bella, but they are an important part of my life. Also, I can tell you the difference [...]