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Saturday May 09, 2009 · 7:58 AM PDT

2009/05/09 · 07:58

I think my property has just been invaded by one of Obama's brown shirt fascist ACORN infiltrators pretending to be a Census worker

He sure looked and sounded like one of the good ole boys who hang out at the country store two miles down the road: cowboy hat, big pickup truck, and the standard drawl for this part of Virginia, but I'm sure it was just a clever disguise.

Would have chased him off my land, waving my rifle, but another one of Obama's ACORN minions stopped by last week and took all my guns away.

We sense our honor crumbling

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Saturday April 25, 2009 · 4:47 AM PDT

2009/04/25 · 04:47

I did a double take last night when I took a look at the opinion page of my hometown newspaper. I grew up in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley; always has and most likely always will be conservative country. Can't remember the last Democratic representative we had on the state or federal level.

The editorial board of the local paper has always been a reliable parrot of those GOP views. Thus, imagine my surprise when I read their take on the spectacle of our former Vice President continuing to salivate over the use of torture:

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Thursday February 19, 2009 · 4:37 AM PST

2009/02/19 · 04:37

One of the items in the stimulus plan frequently highlighted by the media has been the 65% subsiddy of COBRA benefits. Well, unfortunately, it not as great a benefit as it might seem on its face.

COBRA, if you don't know already, is a government-statutory based plan which requires employers to provide a health insurance umbrella for the newly unemployed. It can last up to 18 months and has to cover any pre-existing conditions. Those are the good features. The bad feature is the premiums are high. For example, it's not uncommon for a family of 3 to pay around $1300 a month.

That's why the 65% subsidy was such welcomes news for folks like myself benefiting from the program. But what the media didn't immediately highlight was the cutoff date for subsidy eligibility. You only qualify if lost your job on or after September 1, 2008.

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Thursday February 14, 2008 · 9:44 AM PST

2008/02/14 · 09:44

My grandfather was a politician of some local reknown back in the '50's and '60's. Also very active in a variety of statewide civic organizations. Through these contacts, he got to know Virginia Senator Harry Byrd, but they lost contact after my grandfather had a series of strokes and pretty much was a mental invalid for the last ten years of his life.

About a year before he died, Senator Byrd came to the speak at the local dedication of a bandstand. Was surrounded by throngs of admirers after the speech, but immediately spotted my grandmother and singled her out for personal attention. Knew the nursing home my grandfather was at, how long he had been there. Was an impressive performance.

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Wednesday November 01, 2006 · 3:07 PM PST

2006/11/01 · 15:07

on the drive home this evening had an interesting listen to the Washington Post's radio station which has been relentlessly plugging every GOP talking point for the last week . . .

despite the host's pleadings, none of the three guests were buying the story line that the Kerry's statements would have an impact on next week's elections in favor of the Republicans. Two were basically saying it's 2004 revisited and that except for the White House's need to feel relevant in the midterm elections, the American people were way beyond 2004 and just didn't feel that attached to revisiting the 2004 race.

Jonah Goldberg was reduced to whining that the media wasn't covering the story enough.

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Sunday September 10, 2006 · 8:17 AM PDT

2006/09/10 · 08:17

What shining Republican accomplishments are the party planning to highlight in this years mid-term election campaign? After all, they've had control of the Congress for awhile now. What have they done for America in that time? I really want to know.

Oooopps, looks like they don't know either:

"The National Republican Congressional Committee, which this year dispatched a half-dozen operatives to comb through tax, court and other records looking for damaging information on Democratic candidates, plans to spend more than 90 percent of its $50 million-plus advertising budget on what officials described as negative ads."

Ninety percent of their campaign funds to be spend attacking the other guy. So much for a positive Republican vision for America.

(quoted material from today's washingtonpost.com)

Howie The Hack strikes again

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Monday May 01, 2006 · 10:09 AM PDT

2006/05/01 · 10:09

If it wasn't so sadly predictable, it might actually be funny.

Howard Kurtz, the Washington Post's media critic, who is often criticized as being in the bag for the RNC, wrote his first Media Notes column today since the arrest of Limbaugh and the Colbert appearance at the White House Correspondents dinner.

Guess how many times Howie mentions either event?

Zero, zilch, nada.

Just anothe Bushie stenographer doing his daily duty for The Great Leader.

My email to washingtonpost.com

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Wednesday March 22, 2006 · 4:58 PM PST

2006/03/22 · 16:58

I wonder if the former sports editor (and now executive editor) of the website will have the guts to reply:

Mr. Brady,

I recall much wailing and gnashing of teeth from you about how the horrible lefties were so uncivil and nasty in their comments vis a vis the Deborah Howell controversy.

I trust you'll be just as morally aghast about some of today's posts from the right like the one below:

"Lefties suffer from TMS. (Tertiary Moral Syphillis)"

Or does being fair and balanced just apply to appeasing the right?

Tom H

So where are the Targetgate stories

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Sunday March 12, 2006 · 7:22 AM PST

2006/03/12 · 07:22

Scanning the t.v. dial this morning, I see nary a mention of the arrest of Bush's top domestic policy advisor and nominee for the fourth circuit court of appeals for swindling more than $5,000 from two local department stores.

Could you imagine the media frenzy if this had happenned during the Clinton adminstration. Hell, back then if even anyone remotely connected to the Clintons say within the last twenty years even farted in church FoxNews brought out the extra flag and went into special report mode 24/7 about the far reach of the evils of the Clintons.

Just now on FoxNews. A cooking segment.

Go figure

The Rovian stenographers on the job

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Thursday February 16, 2006 · 3:39 PM PST

2006/02/16 · 15:39

Listening to WTOP radio on the drive home this evening, the news station out of our nation's capital. They are featuring an interview with a local quail hunting expert. Their tag to the piece--repeated over and over in the five minute interview--is the Vice President being too hard on himself?

Then it's time for news at the bottom of the hour. First story, quotes from Bush's defense of the Vice President, mainly that the incident must have been very "traumatic" for Cheney.

Nice to see WTOP so on message with the White House talking points.

Our liberal media at work no doubt . . .

A timely Richard Pryor quotation

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Saturday December 10, 2005 · 3:11 PM PST

2005/12/10 · 15:11

Just heard this on the national CBS radio news, from a long ago interview with Richard Pryor, when questioned about the profanities in his routines, he replied:

"What I find obscene is the President killing the people of South America in the name of fighting Communism" Read More

Good news for Virginia Dems

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Monday November 21, 2005 · 10:09 AM PST

2005/11/21 · 10:09

Former Republican Governor Jim Gilmore is plotting his political comeback in the state, so says a column by veteran state political reporter Bob Gibson in today's Charlottesville Daily Progress:

"For weeks, the biggest rumor in Virginia conservative circles was that former Gov. James S. Gilmore III, R-Henrico County, hungers for another statewide bid for public office.

Gilmore acknowledged his hunger last week and said that recent Republican gubernatorial nominee Jerry W. Kilgore wasn't willing enough to blast Gov. Mark R. Warner's record $1.4 billion tax increase last year.

Gilmore has his eye on the mansion again in a 2009 bid to return to public life if U.S. Sen. John W. Warner, R-Alexandria, doesn't decide to retire and create an open-seat Senate race first in 2008." Read More

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We sense our honor crumbling

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2004 is so over

An Amazing Number

Howie The Hack strikes again

My email to washingtonpost.com

So where are the Targetgate stories

The Rovian stenographers on the job

A timely Richard Pryor quotation

Good news for Virginia Dems