Imagine if these people had not been snuffed out by hate, bigotry and jealousy. What a different world we might live in.
3 Marines shot and killed at OCS at Quantico
Two Marines were shot and killed Thursday at the Officer Candidate School at the Marincs Corps Base Quantico and the suspected shooter fatally shot himself at the base, Marine Corps officials said.
The shootings happened at the school located on the Marines Corps base in Quantico at about 11 p.m., said 1st Lt. Agustin Solivan, a spokesman for the base.
Marines from the Provost Marshal’s office and officers from the Prince Williams Police Department responded and found two active-duty Marines dead at the scene. Officials declined to identify the victims until next of kin could be notified.
Military officials put the base on lockdown shortly after the initial reports and urged base personnel to remain indoors behind locked doors for nearly four hours.
Authorities said the suspected gunman had been barricaded inside a building on the base for several hours.
By 2:45 a.m. Friday, investigators had entered the building and found the shooter, also an active-duty Marine, dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The incident has been described as isolated. This one is a little too close to home. Details are very sketchy.
Bachmann not getting any saner
Living proof that Michelle Bachmann is not getting saner. With a flair for the dramatic, Rep. Bachmann pleads with Congress to repeal Obamacare with the threat that it is going to kill women, children and senior citizens. Huh? Even those who don’t like it haven’t said they thought it would kill them. No explanation was provided as to HOW the ACA was supposed to kill anyone.
Cuccinelli says state can’t be sued for forced sterilizations
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is at odds with fellow Republicans over whether victims of the state’s involuntary sterilization program 50 years ago can sue the state for compensation.
The state’s top lawyer released a legal opinion recently that said the state can’t be sued in its own courts and therefore “it is unlikely that a claimant could successfully bring an action against the commonwealth for having been sterilized.”
That runs afoul of Republican lawmakers, who were pushing legislation earlier this year that would give $50,000 to each of the victims of a state eugenics program — at a total cost of $15.5 million. But lawmakers killed the bill, saying eugenics victims can sue the state so there’s no need to offer them payments. Cuccinelli’s opinion that they can’t sue revived prospects for the bill.
National Weather Service Director attributes some extreme weather to climate change
Wild weather in recent years — from Hurricane Sandy and deadly tornado outbreaks to extremes of drought and floods — likely can be traced, in part, to climate change, the National Weather Service director says.
The onslaught of wild weather that has battered the USA in recent years — from Hurricane Sandy and deadly tornado outbreaks to extremes of drought and floods — looks to be part of a “new normal” for weather patterns in the U.S., new National Weather Service Director Louis Uccellini said Wednesday.
In comments to the USA TODAY Editorial Board, Uccellini also cited the “likely” contribution of global warming to the extreme weather.
Why ARE PWC Schools over-crowded?
One of my husband’s favorite sayings is “Captain Obvious” when someone says something so incredibly, well, obvious. There are parents in the PWC community that have suddenly come to the realization that our class sizes are woefully too full, so full, that quality instruction is being jepoardized. PWC school has reached the state’s legal limit for class size.
PWCS raised class sizes to the state limits this school year in response to current budget constraints. In the executive summary of the 2014 budget, Walts notes that reductions of teacher staffing ratios (or increases in class sizes) have led to savings of $4.3 million at the middle-school level and $5.3 million at the high school level. Walts also notes that next year’s budget does not restore those cuts.
In response to concerns about class sizes, Walts’s office has said it would cost $15 million annually to reduce average class sizes by one student at all levels. The Code of Virginia sets the following maximum class-size limits: 29 for kindergarten classes; 30 for grades one through three; and 35 for grades four through six. English classes are limited to 24 in grades one through 12, otherwise there are no state maximum class-size limits for grades seven and above, according to Dena Rosenkrantz, an attorney with the Virginia Education Association.
Corey goes to Cirque du CPAC: the model of just “hanging out with the bros”
It seems that when Cirque du CPAC came to town, Corey bought a ring side seat as well as setting up his own p[rivate sideshow.
I hope this is a do as I say, not as I do lesson from Mr. Stewart. I really want to know where he goes to hang out with the bros and the hombres here in Prince William County.
I simply don’t believe it has happened. He doesn’t hang out with minorities. Now just what would he tell them? Would he tell them about how he “led the charge” to run illegal immigrants out of the county? Would he tell them how he has bragged everywhere there is a mic about how forceful he is? Would he share with them how he has manipulated [read LIED] crime facts and figures to indicate how much crime was diminished since he, Corey Stewart, ran off all the ” illegals?” I just bet they were all impressed. NOT!
Cuccinelli called out over climate change on the US Senate floor
RICHMOND — U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse frequently takes to the Senate floor to warn against climate change, having done so, by his count, at least two dozen times in the past year. So perhaps it was only a matter of time before the Rhode Island Democrat got around to calling out Virginia’s most prominent global-warming skeptic by name.
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II, the presumptive Republican nominee for governor, got a backhanded shout-out in a Whitehouse floor speech last week for his unsuccessful legal battle against a University of Virginia climate scientist.
The battle went something like this:
“In 2010, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli used his powers of office to harass former University of Virginia climatologist Michael Mann and 39 other climate scientists and staff,” Whitehouse said in a speech Thursday, which was posted on YouTube. “As a U-Va. grad, I am proud that the university fought back against this political attack on science and on academic freedom.”
Castle Doctrine Tragedy hits Loudoun Community
Washingtonpost:
The teenager had been drinking, and his friends drove him to his home in Sterling at about 2:30 a.m. Sunday, law enforcement officials said. But instead of walking into his house on the quiet cul-de-sac, they said, the teen entered a similar-looking red brick home in the same block.
Inside, the startled homeowner confronted the teen, authorities said, before shooting and killing him. The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office described the shooting as a homeowner killing an unknown intruder, although officials released few details about the shooting.
To our Republican Friends on St. Patrick’s Day!
Erin Go Bragh!
For the Reverent Irish
I always consider Danny Boy the true test. I defy anyone with a drop of Irish blood to listen without having their eyeballs sweat just a little.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Nothing like a little fighting….
Mitch McConnell refers to Hillary as a Golden Girl
I can’t resist. It takes one to know one. Mitch McConnell was born in 1942. Hillary was born in 1947. So someone please tell me why he is cracking on Hillary? Why is he cracking on Biden? Biden is about 3/4 of a year younger than McConnell.
The bottom line is, he can say what he wants about men. When he starts the ageist stuff with a woman, he is treading on thin ice. It’s always been that way. No wonder women don’t vote for Republicans.
McConnell should have known better. The Kentucky Democrats are demanding an apology. That seems a bit extreme. Poor Mitch. He thought he was being funny.
What else is happening at C-PAC? I just didn’t have the energy to wade through it all.
Return of the Weiner?
Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, who resigned from Congress after misfiring a racy photo over Twitter, spent more than $50,000 on polling in recent months, according to New York City campaign finance filings.
The latest filing with the city’s Campaign Finance Board for Weiner’s close-to-dormant mayoral campaign account shows he spent $54,000 on polling by David Binder Research on March 5. He spent another $52,500 on the firm for consulting work a day earlier, the filings show.
Weiner declined comment, and it’s unclear precisely what the polling was for. The New York Post reported earlier this year on a polling survey being conducted tossing Weiner’s name into the mix for city comptroller and for mayor.
Perhaps the former Rep. Weiner wants to run again for Congress. The question becomes, will Anthony Weiner be forgiven for his rather obvious and large indiscretions? Should we expect our congressmen to not participate in sexting? Is that too much to expect?
Will his little old ladies who made up excuses for him continue to support him? If he wins the office he runs for, will he behavr himself? What possesses a person to throw it all away on a naughty picture or two?
Republicans throw each other under the bus (and a few Democrats too)
The future of the Republican Party took some shots at its recent past on Thursday, as two top potential 2016 White House hopefuls made a conspicuous effort to distance themselves from the past two GOP presidential nominees.
Speaking to activists at the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor, Sens. Rand Paul (Ky) and Marco Rubio (Fla) offered sharp, and only slightly veiled, critiques of Mitt Romney and John McCain, the two most recent men to carry the party standard in presidential elections.
“The GOP of old has grown stale and moss-covered,” Paul said. “I don’t think we need to name any names here, do we?”
