Month: October 2012

…you display this political statue of a monkey in an Obama mask.

How strange that people always have an excuse why they aren’t racist.    Well, Mr. Caldwell is a racist by most anyone’s standards, in my book.  I rarely call anyone that.  He told us what was in his heart.

Curtis Caldwell of Craig County reminds us that free speech has a real ugly underbelly.  I am not sure why it is always thrown in that someone is a veteran, Vietnam or otherwise.  That makes him no more or less offensive.  He gets no pass.

He definitely crosses over the good taste and good manners barrier.  I also really resent him using the Confederate flag to spew his hatred.

If this dude lived here in Prince William County, how would the denizens handle him?  Would they snub him or would things get carried further?  Craig County is in rural Virginia, west of Roanoke.  I think this good ole boy might face a rough time here in NoVA.   What if he were your neighbor?  What on earth would you do?  How horribly embarrassing!

Are people just becoming more brazen  in their racial taunts?  This man embarrasses me, as a Virginian.

Don’t take his name off the door yet….

From Pilotonline.com:

Virginia Sen Mark Warner, who in recent days has refused to rule out a 2013 gubernatorial bid, Saturday night convened a reunion in Richmond of several hundred of his former advisers and supporters.

One topic, according to sources present at the trendy “Plant Zero Café,” dominated the social conversations from alumni of Warner’s business career, campaigns, previous gubernatorial administration and Senate tenure.

“Everyone in that room was hoping he’d run for Governor again,” said a senior Virginia Democrat. “Though it was hard to tell how much of that was pro-Warner vs. anti-McAuliffe sentiment.”

Wait. Stop.  Flag on the play.  Mark Warner is a U.S. Senator.  He was elected in 2008.  He will be in there until the beginning of 2015, a full year after the new governor takes office.  How will that work?  My guess is, if he is elected governor, he would resign.  Why would he want to be governor when he is a senator?

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This Tuesday marks the 10 year anniversary of the first of the tragic DC sniper shootings.  I can remember right where I was when I first heard of the first shooting.  The fear that gripped the region didn’t let up for 23 days.  Those 23 days seemed much longer.  I doubt that anyone who lived in the area at the time will ever fully recover from the psychological ordeal of a this type of terrorism.

Yes, Lee Malvo was a monster.  A monster of the worst kind.  A monster who picks off  mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, friends, sisters, brothers, without rhyme or reason.  Yet knowing all of this, there is just something tragic about listening to this young man speak.

Perhaps most noticeable is the fact that Lee Malvo makes no excuses nor does he play an ironic victim card.  After all, he was practically brain-washed by an older, malevolent vicious man.  Notable is that Malvo has had to be his own shrink, priest, and teacher.  Such luxuries aren’t afforded inmates with life sentences.

I am not comfortable with Lee Malvo.  Something is missing.  I sure don’t want to turn him loose. I don’t want to torture him either.  Even though he doesn’t think so, I feel he was a victim.  I would at least hope he had a kindle and a good book swap program.   John Allen Muhammad?  I want him to rot in hell.  He took one more life than accounted for in the sniper shootings–the life of a kid who looked up to him.  Lee Malvo.

Full Interview with Lee Malvo  with Josh White