One award recipient at the BOCS meeting this week will be the county mosquito people for “thinking outside the box.” The blurb says that it is for using an ipad 2 and putting the data in the cloud (assuming icloud) rather than using a pencil and paper in the field. I am curious why using one of the main applications for ipad is being considered an example of thinking outside the box, but ok. When I told Mr. Howler of the good news, he asked if “thinking outside the box” meant another years worth of excuses for not spraying on Sudley Manor Drive. That must be it.
Why does the truck not spray on Sudley Manor Drive? I have been told because the speed limit is 35 minutes per hour. Stop! It isn’t 35 miles per hour. It hasn’t been for 15-20 years. Its 25 and 30 mph. No matter what I say, I cannot convince this office to update their records on the speed limit. Furthermore, so what. I have given up trying. I don’t go outside in the summer. I am allergic to mosquitoes. I get huge bites, often larger than old silver dollars. I have to “suit up” with Deep Woods OFF just to get from my front door to the car. Sitting outside is impossible for me. It has to be a near perfect day for it to even be worth the trouble.
I want my street sprayed. I pay taxes for mosquito control. Everyone who lives in Westgate and Sudley gets eaten alive all summer if mosquitoes like them. The mosquito control people are probably nice people. I know they used to work for a very unpleasant person who I had annual fights with and who accused me of thinking I knew more than she/he did because I was alarmed over West Nile being in Yorkshire. This person stood me down that Yorkshire was miles away. I told them that mosquitoes could fly the distance. (now does that make me a smart ass?)
The mosquito people probably work hard. They just aren’t allowed to work hard in Sudley, or perhaps I should say “work productively.” Let’s get the mosquito truck out here on Sudley Manor Drive. I want it sprayed nightly! My government is not serving the needs of the community.
@Mom
Glad we could help ’em out!!!
No he doesn’t and Frank stole his thunder with the P-Nat Stadium deal announcement. 🙂
Well, Corey pissed me off already and I only watched 2 minutes. Is that a new record?
He lectured the victims of the Derecho. I hope THE Derecho gets him.
He did. He blamed the victims for not being prepared. The govt. can’t take care of you. What a prick….errrrr….PRINCE, yea that’s the ticket…PRINCE. That’s what I meant to say.
@Moon-howler
Done, in a sense.
@The Derecho
I knew you could clothes-line him.
I was mean about the mosquito people. they don’t set county policy.
@Moon-howler
The majority of troops in WWII were volunteers. The demographics just made the age group older as the demographics of the baby boom made the age group younger in Vietnam.
I don’t think that there were any lawsuits. I think that they were threatened and Congress preempted them.
In honor of the President’s recent speech.
http://didntbuildthat.com/
🙂
That was fast.
This is just mean.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/07/hit-show-white-collar-debuts-new-shady-con-man-character-named-barry-soetoro/
Funny though. 😉
Have you noticed that this blog is doing its best to ignore the candidates?
@Cargo
@Moon-howler
Have you noticed you have email? 👿
@Moon-howler
Actually, no… I missed that. I figured that Romney just had said anything objectionable to you and Obama was being ignored as usual.
Here’s something non-political that you’ll like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oa-H_EIfjoc&feature=colike
Here’s another that warms the cold cockles of my heart.
http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2012/07/old-dude-dont-play.html
Watch the guy in the white shirt around 29 sec. What’s he holding in his pocket?
@Cargosquid
HAD NOT said
EDIT then POST.
http://www.manassasvotes.org/
FYI from the Big City.
Steve, how do you feel about this?
It seems that the local elections get lost in the shuffle at “real election time.” I suppose having them on off years might make the local elections less likely to get lost.
Pros and cons to making the change.
More people vote in the fall and it saves some money, but will local
candidates get lost in the noise from up ticket races?
( Note that Manassas Park moved their municipal elections to
November last year.)
Hmm, just went through the VPAP data and noticed an $800 contribution to our fearless leader on March 13 by none other than NOVA Digital Films. Kind of makes the kvetching going on elsewhere in the blogosphere ring a little hollow.
I guess a guy can change his mind…..bwaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
He has a new hero, apparently.
@Mom
I guess the film biz in P-Dub is doing good and feeling generous.
You need to review the thread under this one. 🙄
Wayne Powell is challenging Eric Cantor for the 7th Congressional district. Go Powell.
He sounds like one of the good guys!
He is former intel. He says the books were cooked on Iraq. Not so much on Afghanistan. There was reason to be there. His son is currently in Afghanistan.
Powell thinks Cantor just has bad manners! He doesn’t believe Cantor has been honorable to John Bahynor, Biden or Obama.
Someone needs to slap the ACLU in the face and remind them what team they play for.
How DARE they sue Obama over assassinating a US citizen and his drone war!
The ACLU plays for Americans, especially the Little Guy when government abuses him.
You should be more appreciative.
Someone doesn’t understand sarcasm………. 😉
Yes someone does. Its all a matter of how its played.
For my Mac friends out there, Mountain Lion is nice and smooth so far, with superior integration into iCloud, if you use iCloud.
You added it to your power mac?
The cut-spending/fiscal responsibility crowd in the House showed its stripes tonight voting to restore funding for DoD to be a NASCAR sponsor which has gotten $165M over the past 4 years. I’m a lifelong NASCAR fan and retired military member, but I don’t see how this is a good use of my tax dollars. The military has far more applicants than it has billets to fill (for the JAG Corps, we get about 20 applicants for every 1 slot). Also, the NASCAR demographic is only about 1/3 in the age range to enter military service. This isn’t, in my view, a matter of fiscal prudence, it’s just politics using the taxpayers’ money. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0712/78701.html
@Morris Davis
I thought the funding was killed?? Things changed in the last few hours. Will read. Thank you.
I was sort of hoping the sponsorships would go away. No sacred cows in the budget.
I was really excited to see bipartisan support for a smart cut in the defense budget. I knew the cut was gaining momentum, but seems it went down to defeat, proving that when it comes to fiscal responsibility, the “Rs” are just as bad.
As an example of what a mess we’ve become, the typical NASCAR fan is likely to identify with the Tea Party. They are mostly working class people who aren’t particularly fond of the federal government and will work up a froth railing about the government handing out money (many of them call it socialism) while they are busting their butts to pay their own bills. They are not 1-percenters.
The National Guard pays $26.5M of the taxpayers’ dollars to sponsor Dale Earnhardt, Jr.’s #88 car. Dale ranks #23 on the Forbes list of highest paid athletes with $28.2M in earnings from June 2011-June 2012 and his net worth is an estimated $300M. The #88 car is owned by Rick Hendrick. Rick was convicted of mail fraud in 1997 for bribing Honda officials. He said he couldn’t do prison time because he had cancer (that was 15 years ago and he’s still at the track every Sunday), so he got house arrest. President Clinton gave him a pardon in 2000. His dealerships do $3.5B in annual sales and his net worth is estimated to be over $200M. The #88 car races in NASCAR, which is owned by the France family. Jim France ranks #664 on the list of the world’s billionaires with a net worth of $1.5B. Earnhardt, Hendrick and France are 1-percenters.
And next Sunday, as the working class NASCAR fans are in their cars, stuck in traffic trying to get home from the race track, Earnhardt, Hendrick and France will be high aloft in their private jets that taxpayer funding helped make possible.
This is not here to restart our global warming argument. I place this here only to add additional information on the topic about the supposed increase in sea level rise along the Eastern seaboard that we were discussing. Apparently, the reports were used incorrectly.
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/07/18/debunking-the-lateast-global-warming-hysterics/
@Morris Davis
Is that Corporate Welfare or Crony Capitalism? I don’t want to use the wrong term.
In full disclosure I bought my Honda Accord from Mr. Rick Hendrick’s dealership in Woodbridge and my wife’s step-grandather worked as one of Mr. Hendrick’s accountants.
I’m one of those chuckleheads that will support NASCAR sponsors fully with my money.
But, even I think the money from the Government needs to be turned off. I do think anecdotally that the relationship with NASCAR does help the military both improve its brand image and recruit new personnel but in lean years when the military is being selective on recruitment on the whole I don’t see an issue with cutting off the spigot.
My issue with the existing legislation is that it only really cut it for NASCAR and it didn’t “save” the money — it only moved it to other marketing venues. So, the taxpayer was still spending the same money just in another way (which may not be as fruitful)
I’m not one to jump on meme’s but the “You didn’t build that..” one is pretty darn catchy.
My take on that is is:
My wife and I didn’t make our kids. The Government did it for us!
Now, I’m not saing Romney is any better. He didn’t build it either.. He just outsourced it. 😉
That gymnist Gabby Douglas is the cutest thing! What a talent! Holy cow.
I can remember when Mary Lou Redden (?) was the cat’s meow. I can’t wait to see Gabby perform!!
@Morris Davis
Tell me again why Congress authorized OUR tax money to go to Nascar? It sounds to me like I ought to be hitting them up for a loan.
Thanks MOe.
@Moon-howler
Because it seemed like a good idea at the time? Good ol’ boys being recruited?
Because NASCAR!
Because…..because…… I got nothin’
http://blogfromonhigh.blogspot.com/2012/07/caption-of-day_19.html
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Sorry guys….doing my best not to discuss the presidential race. Too Gwoss and Degusting to quote my granddaughter when she was 2.
@Moon-howler
That wasn’t about the race, just a comment about the man himself and the inanity that the Nobel Peace Prize has become.
The man is in the race. I really am trying to ignore it. We have about 3.5 months more of this and I cannot stand it. At this point, I can’t imagine anything making me change my mind. I have lost the joy in late night TV even, because I am so sick of it.
@Cargosquid
Does hot air say it all, Cargo?
@Moon-howler
Um…not sure what your question means.
Hot Air is just reporting that the reports in the media do not match up to what the original reports put out.
As to the content…. I didn’t post it for that. We’ve covered THAT. I just wanted to point out how the original reports are misused.
@Cargo, I was just being snarky kiddy.
@Moon-howler
I get it now….HOT AIR…. I see what you did there. I missed it completely! Very good.
@Cargo [evil grin]
Skeeters got me yesterday. One of the little bastards got in the house and gnawed about both elbows. 6 major bites! I had to use benadryl so naturally I couldn’t stay awake. that stuff zaps me even through skin.
Death to all mosquitoes.
I blame Noah for not swatting them when he had the chance.
I know it smacks in the face of science but he could have zapped cockroaches also.
Just when it looked like MN Rep (R) Michele Bachmann had locked up the the congressional “guano-crazy” title, TX Rep (R) “Screwy” Louie Gohmert says “not so fast, sister!” and launches his own run for the “guano-crazy” crown. On a Heritage Foundation radio show, Gohmert linked the massacre in Colorado to “attacks on Judeau-Christian beliefs.” Coupled with his earlier “terror babies” tirade, Gohmert has proven his “no facts or logic required” cred and could be a formidable challenger to Bachmann in this ignorance-fest battle royale.
http://goo.gl/3fTjT
The battle of the crazies! New reality show.
Let’s look at some of the good things supervisors do. I just went to Maureen Caddigan’s website. She has listed all the committees and her appointees. 6 thumbs up to Mrs. Caddigan for doing this.
It is extremely helpful to see the different District advisories, committees, etc and who represents that district. All supervisors should emulate Ms. Caddigan.
http://www.dumfries.com/AppointeeList