Month: October 2012

 STOP SPENDING is a bumper sticker.  Let’s take a look at what it means on a local  level for those of us living here in Prince William County in Northern Virginia.

I have been asking around about 287(g) and Secure Communities.  I uncovered a little more than I intended.  See for yourself–

Final Remarks

The debate has been consolidated to 2 minutes. (How merciful!)

Who won and lost?  Probably the person YOU like the best won.

Are we even less clear how Romney would lead? 

What is the one thing you walked away with during the debate?

Election 12 Fact Check  from the Washington Post

To set the stage, the Foxies pick up on President Obama using Stewart’s expression, “optimal.” Welcome to the the hashtag, Not-Optimal which has become, Not-optimal-gate.

It seems that Senator McCain committed to something without proper vetting since he could not have possibly seen the president using Stewart’s term.  It aired an hour later than he made his proclamation.

Bulls#%t Mountain: Episode I – The Phantom Menace

Oh those Foxies are at it again.  Jon exposes the BS and lies.  Welcome to Bulls#%t Mountain.

Jon Stewart tells us that is the one thing about living on Bulls#%t Mountain, when it rains, you get the mudslide.

Tim Kaine is currently holding a telephone town hall meeting.  It’s around noon on Monday.  What an interesting strategy. He is reaching a lot of people on lunch hour and a lot of women. 

Tim Kaine is the best choice for Senate. He is very concerned over sequestration coming to Virginia.  He is addressing transportation issues, health care issues, job issues, and women issues.  Very informative.   Kaine is knowledgeable and doesn’t always think straight political ticket.  I like that independence (other than the rest areas.)

A current caller wants a Constitution Amendment to do away with Citizens United.  Kaine thought Citizens united was  a horrible decision and agreed with the caller.  He doesn’t think it would necessarily take a Constitutional Amendment.  He is concerned the secret money being dumped into campaigns more so than corporations.  He wants a shareholder vote for corporate giving.  That seems fair.  Kaine thinks  this can be done via congress rather than amendment.

He tells his audience that his biggest public concern is Education.  That is how he got his start, improving education in the Richmond area.  He would want to be on the Education committee in the Senate. 

He hasn’t once brought up Macaca.  I will, however.

The third and final presidential debate is tonight. Foreign policy is the focus and each candidate will have 2 minutes to answer.

President Obama should have the strength here but who knows.  I am not a betting woman. 

How many different election cycles, in recent memory, have been close in popular vote?  The polls have both candidates neck and neck…something like each having 48% of the likely vote. 

What would happen if there were an electoral college tie?

Did the Iranians drop an October surprise and were they attempting to manipulate the election?

Meanwhile, we will never agree on winners and losers.  Its obvious that the one who wins is the one we personally like the most.

Yawn!  I am so tired of this election.  We get this one over and the state cranks up.  Moan!  Groan!!  More fools.

Remember Hitchcock’s The Birds?  Scary film, even for an old one.  Tonight Tippi Hedron gets to tell her story.  She was the dainty blonde girl who was tortured and nearly pecked to death by demonic birds in a coastal town,  At 82, Hedron tells us that despite the fact he was evil,  Hitchcock ruined her career but not her life:

TVNEWS.com

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — After a private screening of HBO’s “The Girl” held for Tippi Hedren, her friends and family, including daughter Melanie Griffith, the reaction was silence.

Make that stunned silence, as the room took in the film’s depiction of a scorned, vindictive Alfred Hitchcock physically and emotionally abusing Hedren during production of “The Birds.”

“I’ve never been in a screening room where nobody moved, nobody said anything,” Hedren recounted. “Until my daughter jumped up and said, ‘Well, now I have to go back into therapy.'”

Hedren, 82, as polished and lovely as she was taking her turn as a rarified “Hitchcock blonde” in “The Birds” (1963) and “Marnie” (1964), tells the story with a casual smile.

Tonight HBO premiers The Girl which is the story of Hedron’s life with Hitchcock.  it runs from 8:10-9:45 and then is repeated on the various stations throughout the evening. 

So many of those with special talents and gifts like Alfred Hitchcock seemed so twisted. 

The Orionid showers tonight or early this morning before the sun comes up will put on a good show, if the clouds don’t get us again.

The Orionids aren’t the heaviest meteor show but they have a pretty sky location and are easy to find.  Everyone knows where Orion is.

This meteor shower is a result of Halley’s comet and is known for producing fireballs.  One exploded over San Francisco Bay last night.

No one is this stupid. No one. Surely this is a hoax. The good news is, this woman is in North Dakota.

What Cuccinelli fails to address is the fact that everyone went through the process. The Board created the rules based on the governor’s directives. Cuccinelli did his own thing and refused to certify their findings. What a hypocrite!

Good times were had at the Obama Rally at George Mason University.  I emailed my brother to see if my nephew, a student there (remember the twin with Joe Biden at Tech?), had attended. My brother said no, too early for the DMan but he had gone.  Good for my  brother!

He had a great spot.  I hope all the young voters don’t take after my nephew who considered it too early to deal with.

So what are the symptoms of Romnesia?

!8 more days until the election.  12 more days until Halloween.  Do you plan on getting more or less candy for the Trick-or-Treaters?  We get fewer kids each year, it seems.

President Barack Obama appeared Thursday  night on The Daily Show.  Jon wasn’t quite the funny man.  Enjoy:

Thursday–Colin Small of Pennsykvania was arrested for his involvement with trashed voter registration forms.  Small is part of RPV.

From 29nbc.com:

Just hours before the Monday deadline for voter registration, a Harrisonburg store manager made a discovery that will keep eight citizens from being silenced. Their completed registration forms were discarded like trash. Investigators don’t yet know if it’s criminal activity or just bad business.

A typical Monday afternoon at Tuesday Morning, a store in Harrisonburg, took a strange turn, when the manager Rob Johnson spotted someone putting a bag of trash in his recycling bin. Johnson went to retrieve the misplaced refuse.

“That’s when I realized, this bag is really light and looked inside,” Johnson said. “There was the manila folder with the eight voter registration applications, and I was like, we’ve got something here.”

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