Month: August 2013

Virginia just can’t seem to stay out of the national news.  From “Governor Ultrasound” to all the current ethic violations by the Govenor.  Maybe Virginia needs to revisit our love or rule of law?  And Cuccinelli?  Oy Vay.  Between his obsession with the reproduction of women, sodomy, and his own ethics issues, it isn’t looking for a future “Governor” Cuccinelli!

IN THE midst of Virginia’s most toxic ethics scandal in years, isn’t it curious that almost no one in Richmond — not the governor, not Democratic lawmakers, not Republican lawmakers — wants a special legislative session to clean up the state’s laughably lax ethics laws? Why is it that the only prominent official who has called for a special session is Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II, the Republican candidate for governor, who has his own ethics problems?

Among elected officials in Virginia, there has been something approaching a conspiracy of silence on the subject of Gov. Robert F. McDonnell’s unholy involvement with Jonnie R. Williams Sr., the favor-seeking businessman who plied Mr. McDonnell, his wife, Maureen, and their daughters with tens of thousands of dollars in cash, gifts, loans and stays at vacation homes.

One need not go as far as State level to see the influence of money in elections and local issues though!

Mr. McDonnell, who has apologized for embarrassing the state, repaid the loans to Mr. Williams, with interest, and says he will return the cash “gifts” as well. Mr. Cuccinelli has refused to do the same, asserting feebly that “there are some bells you can’t unring.”

In fact, Mr. Cuccinelli is trying hard to unring that bell, albeit in political rather than monetary terms. Instead of doing the honorable thing by returning money to the favor-currying Mr. Williams, Mr. Cuccinelli has tried to distance himself from the scandal by calling for a special legislative session to put some muscle in Virginia’s anemic ethics laws.

DC News FOX 5 DC WTTG

Lies, lies, and more lies.  Secretary Connaughton put on quite a show this afternoon.

“Supervisor Caddigan,” Sean replies in response to her concern regarding turning 234 into a truck route, ” freight traffic will only be little things like flowers and computer chips.”  So we may not have massive 18 wheelers, but just regular large trucks will be oh so much better? Hey, maybe the freight traffic will be a fleet of fiat 500’s?

Here is what we do know, the CTB, in the very beginning, have said that the reason the Bi County Parkway is needed was because Dulles was a ten billion dollar annual business and required a cargo route that had access to 95.  Dulles wants to be a truly competitive cargo eastern cargo hub.  Now suddenly, what, are we to believe the CTB was just jokin?  We aren’t really going to use 234 as a massive transit alternative for cargo trucks, we are just gonna kinda use it!

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Washingtonpost:

From the banks of the Potomac River, in a region steeped in American history, a massive fossil was dug up last month that apparently can be traced back to a time long before this country’s recorded history, a time deep in the world’s prehistory.

The fossil is the skull of a whale that is “approximately 15 million years old,” said John Nance, the paleontology collections manager at the Calvert Marine Museum in Southern Maryland.

The skull is about six-feet long and is believed to weigh about 1,000 pounds. It was excavated in July from the cliffs at the edge of the Potomac on the grounds of Stratford Hall, the home of Virginia’s Lee family and the birthplace of Robert E. Lee.

The rest of the skeleton, which experts believe belongs to a type of baleen whale that has since gone extinct, remains embedded in Stratford Hall’s sand-colored cliffs.

Stratford Hall is in Westmoreland County, and both George Washington and the country’s fifth president, James Monroe, were born in the county on the Northern Neck, about 100 miles southeast of Washington.

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In a letter to the editor, Prince William County School Board Chairman Milt Johns has written a cogent, well stated endorsement of the aquatic center initiative at the soon-to-be built 12th high school.

By Milt Johns
Chairman at Large, Prince William County Schools

“Pool” has two meanings in Prince William County this summer—a place to cool down and an issue that is heating up as residents debate the proposed addition of a countywide aquatics center to the building of the area’s 12th high school. Opening that school by September 2016 means the School Board must decide on the issue one way or the other and award building contracts by year’s end.

I strongly support the center proposal but respect thoughtful opinions on both sides. However, I urge all concerned to ignore misinformation and personal attacks from online provocateurs who offer nothing but negativity. Let’s decide the issue based on important questions.

Is an aquatics facility needed and central to the PWCS mission? Would it benefit the entire community rather than just one school? Is it a smart investment in tough financial times? To each, I say a resounding, “Yes!”

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Not allowed to accept gifts? Don’t make me laugh! That’s all those clowns do is accept gifts.

Rep. Brady just drips with insincerity. “Thank you for being here.” Translation: “Leave you ungrateful slob before I have you arrested.” [throwing cantaloupe in trash can and then washing his hands.]

My hat is off to each one of those immigrant kids who has come here, studied hard and done well in school. They enrich our country. I have known many. If you haven’t already, get to know some hard working kid who is forced to live in the shadows because their parents are undocumented.

Each year more and more young folks graduate from Prince William County Schools. Some are documented and some are not. You can’t see the difference. Undocumented immigrants aren’t branded with the scarlet I.

Our laws need to change. It’s that simple.