American Legion protests protests.
In a press release, The American Legion writes:
Legionnaires Condemn War Protests, Pledge
HONOLULU, August 23, 2005 - Delegates to the nation’s largest wartime veterans organization meeting here in national convention today vowed to use whatever means necessary to ensure the united support of the American people for our troops and the global war on [...]
Bruce Roemmelt, Ed. D.
Hey, Bob Marshall! That’s Doctor Roemmelt to you.
UVa’s Rick Turner on…Rick Turner: “Everybody knows that Rick Turner is the dean of African American students, not Latinos, not whites.”
http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110007156&mod=RSS_Opinion_Journal&ojrss=frontpage
MSNbot can go screw.
I’ve had 9,000 hits on cvillenews.com today. 3,941 of those are from MSN’s crappy bot, which is downloading each and every comments RSS feed from WordPress over and over and over again. To the tune of 6.6MB of traffic today. It keeps overloading my server, which falls back into chill-out mode for [...]
“A Google search of these sets of lyrics has brought me to the conclusion that the Platinum Record in my bathroom contains the 12” single for ‘You’re Just The Right Size’ by the Salsoul Orchestra.”
http://valentinehellman.com/platinum.html
How to lose a Charlottesville election in one easy step.
From The Hook:
Christian Schoenewald has no name recognition. But although he’s lived here only two years and almost no one knows who he is, he’s challenging Dennis Rooker, chairman of the Board of Supervisors, for the Jack Jouett seat.
“I’m a newcomer,” concedes Schoenewald. “There are college students who’ve been here longer than I have.”
But obviously [...]
A little quiz.
My mother writes:
Evidence of links between Iraq and Al Qaeda have been found. True _____ False _____
Weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq. True _____ False _____
World public opinion favored the US going to war with Iraq. True _____ False _____
I did pretty well. How’d you do?
“You - Cindy Sheehan - and al-Qaida - are fighting for the exact same causes.”
http://bassizzzt.blogspot.com/2005/08/dear-cindy-sheehan.html
Slashdot reviews C’ville blogger Erik Hatcher’s book, “Lucene in Action.”
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/24/1645211&from=rss
Video Podcasting The Daily Show.
Much as Doug Wilder is the only guy who could overturn Dillon’s Rule right now, Jon Stewart is the only guy who could make video podcasting a viable business model right now.
I just devoured Wired’s interview with Stewart, in which the primary topic is people downloading clips of the show on-line and the future of [...]
Robertson: Both a jerk and a liar.
Pat Robertson, Monday, regarding elected Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez:
If he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it. It’s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war. We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we [...]
$1,000,000 for you if you can prove that Jesus Christ is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Podcasting intro at Neon Guild.
Charlottesville blogger Duane Gran writes:
Buzz over Participatory culture was in the air as Sean Tubbs revealed the inner workings of the C’ville Podcasting Network to over sixty people at last night’s Neon Guild meeting. Tubbs has been building the network over the past ten months as a venue for wider distribution of interviews, music and [...]
Count me out on the e-voting status quo.
Early this morning, I read Rick Sincere’s blog entry on the matter of e-voting. Rick is a member of the Charlottesville Electoral Board, and his blog entry addresses some concerns about e-voting. The thrust of his post is that Charlottesville citizens have not complained about any security concerns, and that, practically speaking, security [...]
Fun with strobes.
Nat pops a balloon. From Chris DiBona’s High Speed Flash Photography at Foo Camp ‘05 Flickr set.
(Via Boing Boing)
Wilder and Dillon’s Rule.
There’s one man in Virginia who might be able to eliminate Dillon’s Rule and turn Virginia into a home-rule state: Richmond mayor Douglas Wilder.
AP: Pat Robertson calls for the assassination of the president of Venezuela. Man, the bar to qualify as Christian is set pretty low these days, isn’t it?
A little perspective.
I got an e-mail from a fellow (non-political) blogger yesterday, in which the writer pointed out that we’re on opposite ends of the political spectrum, indicating that perhaps this might be a problem for me. I suspect that I’m inferring more than was implied, but this is a recurring theme in my life. [...]
Gate City Mayor attacks Kilgore.
A reader writes: “This is the Gate City mayor talking about the corruption and crime down in Jerry’s home area. He several times basically accuses the Kilgores of running a political protection racket, complete with a now soon-to-be-felon bragging about how he’s spoken to the AG (Jerry) and there will be no investigation of [...]
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