Month: March 2013

You know, maybe it’s time for a little fun and relaxation, time to take a breath and remember that life is short and children can be our best way to ground ourselves.

There is a community easter egg hunt being organized by the Coles District, via Supervisor Nohe.

Look, in my house, the non denomination Easter Bunny comes every year, he leaves baskets full of goodies at the front door for my kids.  I LOVE watching their faces as they delve through the basket.  I have to get my plug in though for fair trade chocolate here.

Here is the information if you are interested in attending!

Bring your Easter basket and camera and join me for a new event, the Coles District Easter Egg Hunt. The event will feature Easter egg hunts for all ages, games, prizes, refreshments and a visit from a very special guest. The event is free for all Prince William County families, but pre-registration is required. For more information or to register, click to attend this event, call my office at (703)792-4620 or send an e-mail to [email protected]. I hope to see you on March 16th!Read More

Daffodils are blooming everywhere.  Mine have been blooming since the end of February.  I don’t think that mine will begin to see April for those April showers.

Is this a sign of climate change?  Is it normal for daffodils to bloom in February?  How about early March?  What else is blooming around town?

Does that mean that the iris will be along in 3 weeks?

It is supposed to get colder.  Will that affect the bloom?

When do the bluebells peak?

 

 

ABCnews.go.com:

One man and three women who were sexually assaulted and harassed in the military shared their personal experiences with a Senate subcommittee Wednesday morning–the first hearing on  sexual assault in the military in 10 years.

Former Army Sgt. Rebekah Havrilla, who was raped by a fellow service member while serving in Afghanistan,  recounted how she sought guidance from an Army chaplain after she unexpectedly encountered her assailant a year after the assault, and the chaplain told her it was “God’s will” that she was raped.

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Here we go again folks.  For all those people with their axel’s rapped around a pole over the tax rate, bad development’s like Stonehaven is what ultimately drives our taxes into the ground.  Who builds the schools to support these developments?  Yes, that’s right, taxpayers.  Who builds the roads to support the several thousand people now crowding roads?  Yes, that’s right, the taxpayers.  Who has to build more firehouses and hire more police?  Yes, that’s right, the taxpayers.

Stonehaven is a wolf in sheep’s clothing and the Grizzly Football leadership (via their most recent blast  email begging members to support Stonehaven), once again, is doing the bidding of Wally Covington and Corey Stewart.  It wasn’t enough that they were instrumental in providing cover for the intrusion in the Rural Crescent via Avondale?   If the Grizzly leadership team had any sense, they would understand that advocating for massive development will NOT solve our infrastructure problems, it will only contribute to more overcrowding of schools and roads. Sort of like needing to lose weight but eating hot fudge triple ice cream sundaes in hopes you will drop a few pounds.  BTW, if only that were true!

Corey Stewart, lo many elections cycles ago (well, only 2006 actually), ran on a smart growth platfrom, I even had one of his huge signs, practically a billboard, on the frontage of my property “Corey Stewart, Supporting Smarth Growth”!  Guess what project was his poster boy for a poor land use decision that would ultimately cost tax payers?  Yes,  you are correct, Brentswood.  Well, Stonehaven is simply a reduced reincarnation of Brentswood.

I hope our BOCS votes no tomorrow to initiate this CPA, if Corey, Wally,  and Pete truly want to wear the mantle of low taxes, they have no choice but to vote no.  Turning a few hundred housed into a few thousand  houses is fiscal stupidity, plain and simple.

 

write to the BOCS and urge them to just say NO and protect your tax dollars!

 

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So much for  government regulation of the amount of soda a person can drink.   At what point do we have the right to poison ourselves if we want?

I am not sure govt. has the right to control how much we drink, regardless of the substance.

New York Times email:

A judge invalidated New York City’s ban on large sugary drinks on Monday, one day before it was to go into effect, dealing Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg a major blow.

The decision by Justice Milton A. Tingling Jr. of the State Supreme Court in Manhattan blocks the city from putting the rules into effect or enforcing them.

Justice Tingling said the rule banning the drinks was “arbitrary and capricious.”   So is the judge right in this case?  You can be sure john Stewart will have something to say about this!

 

 

So is Stewart condoning or mocking or somewhere in between?

There are just some stories that make me smile.  We all love it when the little guy wins. That feel-good glow gets even better when the little guy wins over some detestable human being.  Such is the case with the for ACORN worker who was baited and “edited” into looking like a real jerk, when in reality, he was the victim.

According to the Washington Post:

SAN DIEGO — A conservative activist who secretly filmed employees of the now-defunct community group ACORN has agreed to pay $100,000 to settle a lawsuit with one of those workers.

James O’Keefe and his partner in the videos, Hannah Giles, agreed to make the payment to Juan Carlos Vera. O’Keefe said in the settlement he “regrets any pain suffered by Vera and his family.”

The videos showed Vera and other ACORN employees appearing to give O’Keefe and Giles advice regarding prostitution, illegal immigration and other activities. The widely aired footage and the resulting outrage led to ACORN disbanding.Read More

Huffingtonpost.com:

WASHINGTON — One of the Senate’s leading hawks, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), took to the Senate floor Thursday to fire back at Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), saying the Kentuckian’s rant against extrajudicial drone killings was “simply false.”

Quoting extensively from a Wall Street Journal editorial that mocked Paul, McCain also argued that Paul had belittled the growing use of drones to kill terrorism suspects by invoking the name of Jane Fonda and suggesting a drone could have killed her when she was a Vietnam War protester.

Paul took to the floor Wednesday for nearly 13 hours, hoping to pressure the White House to declare whether or not it might use a drone to strike an American citizen in the United States.

McCain, a former Vietnam prisoner of war, was not impressed.

“I watched some of that, quote, debate, unquote, yesterday,” McCain said. “I saw colleagues who know better come to the floor and voice some of this same concern, which is totally unfounded.

This bi-polar reaction from Graham and McCain baffles me. One minute both are obsessing over Benghazi and the next week they are both chiding one of their own over the criticism of President Obama and the use of drones.

I tend to side with McCain and Graham at this point. I see little difference in a Apache helicopter, a Patriot missile or a drone. All are weapons or have weapons that can take out city blocks. All can kill. At what point does killing become killing?