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Deo Vindice: POTUS Jobs Conference

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:32:09 -0500

The President’s Job Conference at the White House today was just another pathetic joke. BHO is following in the footsteps of Hoover and FDR at making an economic bubble into a disaster. Socialism never works. The laws of economics are like the laws of physics. When governments raise taxes, they kill [...]

Bearing Drift: Kaine extends 11th hour benefits to gays…I wonder how felons feel about it?

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:11:18 -0500

Number of comments: 4

Apparently felons don’t rank very high on Tim Kaine’s end of administration check-list (extending voting rights). It would appear gays get the nod first:

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jessica's universe: shhh... you blog too much

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:50:00 -0500

i've been quiet lately with all that has been going on. hopefully this will change soon.i found christmas sixlets tonight at the store and was so excited! eating a little package tonight made me feel like a kid again.' [...]

Brutally Honest: You knew they'd be coming

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:11:55 -0500

Tiger Woods jokes:

Apparently, the police asked Tiger’s wife how many times she hit him. She said, “I don’t know exactly, but put me down for a 5.”

If the only person that can beat Tiger is a blonde with big breasts, it’s time for Phil Mickelson to bleach his hair.

What’s the [...]

Brutally Honest: Confronting Al Gore

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:04:06 -0500

It's a seriously beautiful thing:

The Washington Times has a related story that suggests that things are indeed heating up for Mr. Gore:

Former Vice President Al Gore on Thursday abruptly canceled a Dec. 16 personal appearance that was to be staged during the United Nations' Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen,' [...]

Bearing Drift: Verga demands “fair fight” if the Fifth

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:51:48 -0500

Laurence Verga, candidate for the GOP nomination in the Fifth Congressional District, has penned editorials for Red State and Virginia Tomorrow recently lamenting that the NRCC appears to be going four-square behind State Sen. Robert Hurt for the nomination. Verga wastes no time in [...]

The ELFF Diet: What GREAT News!

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:30:51 -0500

I'm speaking at Fitbloggin! YAY! I'm so, so excited!

Anyone going? The line up looks amazing!

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Bearing Drift: Guest Post: Hit and Run Politics

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:35:34 -0500

Number of comments: 7

By Brenda Haegley

The final few weeks of Virginia’s 8th senatorial district race for the Republican nominee have been like watching a continual hit and run. The Wilson campaign has mastered this tactic. While a real hit-and-run situation is disturbing and reflects a lack of responsibility or [...]

Dustin Long: Dale Jr. worries about N'wide team; What Montoya did to Stewart in Vegas

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:25:51 -0500

Lots going on in Las Vegas from Dale Jr. to Tony Stewart-Juan Pablo Montoya to what Jimmie Johnson did on The Strip on Thursday and such, so let’s get to it. [...]

Bearing Drift: Second District GOP to have a canvass May 8

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:15:13 -0500

Number of comments: 6

By a vote to 11-0, the congressional district chairs of the Republican Party of Virginia have Second Congressional District Committee of the Republican Party of Virginia decided that the nominee in the second congressional of the district shall be decided by canvass on May 8, 2010. [...]

Journal: OVERPASS & STATION

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:01:49 -0500

Number of comments: 1

The other day a friend of mine whom you'd recognize in a minute if I told you his first name, Chris, referred to a popular quiz show on NPR as "Wait, Wait, Don't Ask Me." Wait, Wait, Don't Ask Me! Ah ha ha ha ha. Normally,' [...]

Mom to the Screaming Masses: Again She Posts Some Questions

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:33:42 -0500

Let's see... on DietsInReview, I wrote about bread baking and a new process that transformed my cooking experience. I also posted Simple Solutions to your Fitness Excuses.AND! Remember when I took part in Neils great experiment? My interviewer never contacted me, so the wonderful blogger that I interviewed [...]

Avenging Archangel: TPPC December 3, 2009

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:05:00 -0500

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The Transportation, Parking, and Pedestrian Committee (TPPC) of Virginia Beach's Resort Advisory Commission (RAC) met this morning. It was the delayed November meeting, as the normal November date would have fallen on Thanksgiving morning.

Barry Frankenfield gave an update on the Laskin Gateway Project. The sticking point is the [...]

Avenging Archangel: Wally Erb, Light Rail, and Race

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:41:00 -0500

Number of comments: 1
Nothing like a trip back through the microfiche. Wally Erb is heading up the VBTA front group trying to petition a light rail referendum question onto the ballot. I have a good memory for detail, and recalled an article from the 1999 light rail campaign, Sure enough, I found this [...]

The Shad Plank: Federal Stimulus to bring technology jobs to Eastern Shore...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:35:12 -0500

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced Thursday that Northampton County has qualified for $1 million worth of federal stimulus cash to upgrade broadband access along Virginia's Eastern Shore. The project is expected to create 20 technology jobs in Northampton. “Today we are announcing an important project on Virginia’s Eastern Shore that [...]

Avenging Archangel: "The Miss Of The Century"

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:35:00 -0500

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It's only 2009, but this blown play by English soccer player Rocky Baptiste has already been dubbed "The Miss Of The Century". Baptiste takes a pass, gets past the goalie...only to have to ball squirm loose on him and hit the outer side of the goal.

I played a [...]

Vivian J. Paige: Kaine proposes extending state health benefits

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:28:42 -0500

Number of comments: 1
Governor Tim Kaine is proposing to extend state health care benefits to “other qualified adults” living in the households of state employees. Under the proposal, adults without health benefits who share a home with an insured state worker would be eligible for coverage. This would include domestic partners – heterosexual or [...]

Cube Candy: Beyonce, Swift top Grammy noms; Tiger's been busy

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:53:41 -0500

-- Grammy nominations: Taylor Swift has won just about every top music award there is this year, but the possibility of winning not just one, but eight Grammys, had the 19-year-old screaming for joy as the nominations were announced. wift's haul of eight nods was only second to another blonde [...]

Ken's Garbage Can: Obama’s Job Summit is a Joke

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:51:12 -0500

Small business owners account for about 80% of all private sector jobs in our economy, and about 70% of all jobs being created and neither one is represented in this “job summit”. The biggest proponent and supporter of free enterprise in this nation, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce wasn’t even invited. BHO and his team of [...]

Brutally Honest: Houston, we have a problem

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:35:35 -0500

One easily solved it'd seem to me:

The fight over global warming science is about to cross the Atlantic with a U.S. researcher poised to sue NASA, demanding release of the same kind of climate data that has landed a leading British center in hot water' [...]

The Shad Plank: McDonnell taps top advisors - keeps on Kaine's finance guru...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:32:46 -0500

Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell tapped top administration staffers on Thursday, naming a handful of close advisors including Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's finance chief Ric Brown. McDonnell, who handily won the governor's race, is starting to put in place the building blocks for the first Republican administration in Richmond since Gov. Jim [...]

Rich Radford: Hofstra drops football

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:05:05 -0500

Hofstra University has dropped football. That's two CAA schools in one month as this comes on the heels of Northeastern dropping its program. What does that mean for Old Dominion's Monarchs? That means they may go searching for a sophomore on that Hofstra roster that can help them. Stay [...]

Captain of a Crew of One: HOA outrage.

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:59:00 -0500

Number of comments: 5
Medal Of Honor recipient in a suburb of Richmond ordered to remove a flagpole from his lawn.

Col. Van T. Barfoot, a local Medal of Honor winner, is under the gun from his Henrico County community's homeowner association.

In a five-paragraph letter to Barfoot that he received' [...]

SmartRegion.org: Hampton Roads has Great Neighborhoods, Public Spaces, Streets

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:46:30 -0500

The American Planning Association (APA) brings together thousands of people — practicing planners, citizens, elected officials — committed to making great communities happen. APA celebrates excellence in American planning with its annual “Great American Places” awards. In 2009, Hampton Roads ranked in the top ten of all three categories: [...]

Vivian J. Paige: RHIP: Let him fly the flag

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:56:53 -0500

Number of comments: 6
There is a saying in the military that “rank has its privileges.” As a corollary to that, I often say that age has its privileges. I think both apply in the case of 90-year-old Medal of Honor recipient Col. Van T. Barfoot. According to a number of stories, the Henrico man [...]

The Virginian Federalist: Afghanistan Marginalia

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:30:00 -0500

The MSM and the blogosphere are surfeited with comments on President Obama's (shown in official White House photo) Afghanistan policy described in his Tuesday night address at the U.S. Military academy. I have taken the liberty of including some marginal comments (in italics) to the full [...]

Brutally Honest: Nick Kristof will write anything to further the ObamaCare agenda

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:26:40 -0500

Is there a Pulitzer Prize for shoddiness?

Today, I did something that Pulitzer Prize-winning NYTimes columnist Nick Kristof apparently didn’t do: I talked to a spokesman at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Oregon.

I called them up after OHSU’s Dr. Johnny Delashaw left a comment about Kristof’s piece [...]