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Friday, October 31, 2003U.S. Officials See Hussein's Hand in Attacks on Americans in Iraq Grreeeeaaat. Now Saddam is coordinating attacks against Coalition forces in Iraq. Or is he? Officials acknowledged that the reports of a significant role by Mr. Hussein could not be corroborated, and one senior official cautioned that recent intelligence reports contained conflicting assessments.So Saddam is sorta-kinda-maybe running the show? Gee, that's a great basis for a story. Wednesday, October 29, 2003"What crawled up yer ass?" Okay, so I was having a bad day yesterday. But that's not my fault entirely! Thank you for the concerned e-mails though (concerned bah, most of y'all were pickin' on me). Translation of Goethe's Hyperchonder by request (what, you think I'd write something original?) Devil take the human race! Its enough to drive you insane. I continually make firm resolutions to stop seeing people and consign the whole nation to God and to itself and to the devil! And then have I only to see a human face and I love it again. The whole point of it being that as much as I want to rant and rave about people, deep down I genuinely enjoy, respect, and love human beings for what they are. I just have a hard time when folks sell themselves out so cheaply. . . if that makes any sense. Tuesday, October 28, 2003I HATE POLITICS (or at least what it does to normally good people) 1. People get nasty during the last week of the election cycle. And not just the opposition - folks that are supposed to be on your side. 2. People get really nasty during debates. What ever happened to good ol' fashioned your-side-versus-mine discussion without the crowd doing everything possible to disrupt the process? 3. People are rude and impolite. Well, not all people. But get folks riled up during an election year, and you'd be surprised how inconsiderate folks get. 4. People are people. Der Teufel hol das Menschengeschlecht! Man moechte rasend werden! Da nehm ich mir so eifrig vor: Will niemand weiter sehen, Will all das Volk Gott und sich selbst Und dem Teufel überlassen! Und kaum seh ich ein Menschengesicht, So hab ichs wieder lieb. Monday, October 27, 2003Senator Allen on FOX News, C-SPAN Radio. Fresh off the press: U.S. Senator George Allen (R-VA) will appear on the Fox News morning show, "Fox and Friends" tomorrow morning at 8:10 AM. Later in the morning, he will be the guest on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" at 8:45 AM; the program will air nationally on cable, as well as on C-SPAN radio in the Washington area. In the interviews, Senator Allen will be discussing current events; in particular, he will be talking about the recent developments in Iraq and his legislation that would permanently ban taxes for accessing the Internet. Be sure to tune in! 39 America Japan 26! For anyone cultured enough to be interested, America won the Rugby World Cup. WASHINGTON'S WHISKEY!!! I just might have a new favorite brand! Washington started his whiskey business in 1797, after leaving politics. The enterprise, which relied on slaves, thrived. It yielded 11,000 gallons of whiskey and a profit of $7,500 or about $105,000 in today's dollars in one year.Mmmm. . . one more reason why George Washington was the greatest president ever. 40 die in Baghdad carnage In five separate attacks, Ba'athists dressed up as foriegn aid workers sent ambulances through security checkpoints. The blast blew down a 40ft section of the wall in front of the three-storey Red Cross building, destroying a dozen cars and shattering a water main. Emergency services fought to control the blaze as ambulances swept through the city, ferrying the suicide bombers' injured victims to hospital.Ramadan tends to be the green light for terror attacks. No doubt that there are a number of non-Iraqi terrorists involved in the attacks, as it is (a) a large scale operation that (b) involved a large degree of planning. Typical al-Qaeda. This should get interesting. . . Saturday, October 25, 2003Confederate Cemetery Wall Collapses WOAH! I didn't know this happened, and its almost 36 hours later!!! About 6 a.m. yesterday, an 85-foot section of the Fredericksburg Confederate Cemetery's brick wall collapsed. Friday, October 24, 2003Scalia Goes After the Loose Constructionists Of course, that's not how ABCNews interpreted the speech, entitling their article "Scalia Ridicules Court's Gay Sex Ruling." If I can find a transcript of the speech I'll post a link, but this seems like a great speech: "Most of today's experts on the Constitution think the document written in Philadelphia in 1787 was simply an early attempt at the construction of what is called a liberal political order," Scalia told a gathering of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.EXACTLY!!! Space storm coming to Earth THE END IS NIGH!!! Well, not really. . . but your cell phones could go out. . . Scientists are warning about a strong geo-magnetic storm expected to hit the Earth tomorrow. Thursday, October 23, 2003J's Notes makes Top Ten Blogs Looks like my bro Jason made the top ten Blogs of the week. So how did he manage this feat of blogging? To assess a site's weekly ranking, we use Google to find those sites that were indexed during the week period. Google ranks sites based on it's own assessment of a site's importance. One of the major factors in assigning rank (SEP or Search Engine Placement) are the number of incoming links a blog has. Frequent updating also helps since Google will spider sites more frequently if the site has content that changes often. In limiting the search to the prior week, more new sites have a better chance of making our list.Hmm. . . guess who has been linking to Jay like mad over the past week or so. ME. I could go into a Tenacious D-style rant, but I will refrain. . . congrats to J's Notes! Do You Come From the Land Down Under? Well if you do, you probably know all about this: "Security in the Asia-Pacific region will always depend on the willingness of nations to take responsibility for their neighborhood, as Australia is doing," Bush told parliament."I love free speech." What a great response!!! Wednesday, October 22, 2003Groundpounding Local politics is a tricky business. I particularly enjoy Fredericksburg politics, because you can have folks from both sides of the political spectrum come together to work for a common purpose. Spotsylvania politics is another beast altogether. One one side you have the monolithic Spotsylvania GOP - by far the largest and most influential political organization in the area (and arguably in the 1st District). Arrayed against and sometimes along side the Spotsy GOP is a variety of small groups - the NAACP, Voters to Stop Sprawl, Committee of 5(00?), Spotsy Dems, the local VEA, etc. By and large there are two sacred cows in Spotsylvania politics - taxes and education. Raise taxes and you are dead. Cut education and you are dead. Or so the old line of thinking went after the 1999 elections. The reason why I am musing over this is because the introduction of growth into Spotsy politics has caused sort of a fallout. Sure everyone opposes sprawl, but how? In what manner? How do you oppose sprawl other than by just saying, "I don't like traffic." In addition, you have opportunists such as Hap Connors who rail against the Town of Chancellorsville with one closed fist while accepting campaign contributions from developers with an open palm. You also have the wild juxtaposition of environmental groups such as VSS endorsing Republican candidates - something you would never see on the national level (and is something to the credit of VSS). Of course, smart growth initiatives cost money, and that means additional sources of revenue. I too can hear my wallet screaming for mercy in five years. . . I wrote a rather lengthy article in May '01 concerning the tools that supervisors had to deal with growth. Concentrating new development, downzoning initiatives, preservation of open spaces, axing waste from school budgets, demanding impact assessments from new development, and putting the brakes (or carefully planning) on industrial and commercial growth are all good initiatives. But who is running on these issues? VSS? The Cof5(00)? The Spotsy GOP? Independents? Not even Hap and the Hapinistas are running on solutions to sprawl. Everyone is just plain ol' "against sprawl." Maybe I think that voters are intelligent enough to understand solutions. Maybe I am just rambling (and I am). But there has to be something concrete that lasts well beyond the four year term of our supervisors. High growth localities need more than a short term fix, they need a vision that will carry them through the storm. Certainly there is no way to stop the growth from coming, but there is a method in which we can properly engineer and plan so that growth doesn't interpret into sprawl. So I ask you in November, challenge your elected officals to start presenting a vision of how they intend to meet growth. Don't settle for vague ideas and hazy concepts - ask them why public schools cost twice as much as private schools. Ask them whether new developments are going to "pay their own way," and if not how they intend to compensate the county for the services existing taxpayers provide. Above all else, force the issue and demand accountability. Too many fixed income residents and first time homeowners are being pushed out for this issue to die quietly under political rhetoric. Feeding Tube Re-inserted! The Associated Press reported that Terri Schiavo's father, Bob Schindler, in responding to Bush's decision to issue the order that would keep his daughter alive, said, "We are just ecstatic... It's restored my belief in God."As well it should. I am really impressed with the Florida Legislature for having the guts to do this. Now we get to see whether or not it sticks. . . Tuesday, October 21, 2003Florida lawmakers jump into Schiavo case to let governor step in 'Bout time. . . During a two-hour debate in the House, several Democrats argued that the Constitution doesn't let the Legislature give the governor the power to overrule the courts.Although this may save Terri Schiavo's life, it may be a law that gets struck down by the Florida Supreme Court. This would be the best example of a legislature attacking judicial activism I have seen in a long, long time. Monday, October 20, 2003Scientists make electricity from tap water Courtesy of J's Notes, it seems as if a Canadian research team has created a way to make electricity by moving water through a "microscopic channel," providing a source of clean energy that could power small electronic devices: The key to the phenomenon is the way that charges naturally separate at the interface between the surface of a channel and a fluid. Scientists believe that this occurs because minute parts of the solid of one charge (either positive or negative) dissolve into the water. As a result, the surface becomes charged. FLS Editorial: Scalia's recusal unfortunate, but honorable An opinion that echoes my own: By virtually pre-ruling on a case he should have expected might soon land before him, he was unjudgelike. You would expect this kind of revealment more from a one-gallus JP than from a man addressed as "Mr. Justice." Still, his spot-on Fredericksburg statement about the Pledge case--that courts have, without historical warrant, too often chased faith from the public square--merely reiterates some of his past written opinions. Under such circumstances, most judges would stay in their robes and hear the case. Mr. Scalia won't. He deserves credit for choosing the high road of self-disqualification.Which is where I stop agreeing with the editorial, because like Justice Scalia I do not believe that there is room to eliminate "under God" from the Pledge. The hard truth is that precedents concerning religion in public schools, set in a half-dozen landmark Supreme Court decisions since 1948, appear to bolster the 9th Circuit's ruling. A daily, solemn, patriotic vow that recognizes a deity does indeed work to establish religious faith. But by agreeing to hear a California school district's appeal of the Newdow case, rather than just leaving it be, the court sends the message that its prior rulings may need "refinement."A good point to make, and one that is certainly backed by court rulings post-1948. Unfortunately for Newdow, there is no room to argue how the mention of the deity should be removed under the 1st Amendment's umbrella of freedom of religion. Furthermore, Newdow has to make the further argument that somehow mentioning God without prejudice to denomination promotes the establishment of religion as defined under the Estabilshment Clause. There are only two routes. Newdow must argue that atheism must be protected under the Establishment Clause, in which case he sets up atheism as being recognized as a religious belief. In doing so, by forcing government to whitewash any theistic reference from American society, it could in very real ways be construed as establishing atheism as the official religion of the American government - which is a direct violation of the Establishment Clause. The second route is to simply recognize that there is no room in American jurisprudence for atheism. America was founded on a principle that God guarentees certain inalienable rights, and that foundation is what the Constitution is founded upon. The only wild card in play is the recent fad of the Supreme Court to introduce foriegn jurisprudence into their decision-making process (as what happened in Lawrence v. Texas concerning anti-sodomy laws). If European jurisprudence is introduced into the decision, this could turn out to be very bad for the Pledge of Allegiance. Added to the mix is the introduction of the "under God" stanza of the pledge during the 1950's and we could see the "One Nation Under God" motto above the U.S. House of Representatives removed, barring a far-reaching Constitutional Amendment. The Red Light Into Central Park Now this is pertinent information! Q: Is this a legal right-turn-on-red situation? Coming from Interstate 95 onto State Route 3 west, there are two right-turn lanes to enter Central Park. I often see folks going through this traffic signal when it is a red light, but I wonder whether it is considered a "right turn" or a "straight through" situation. If it is not a legal right-turn-on-red situation, a sign should be posted.And yes, I do sweat about traffic issues like that! Al-Burger Qing That's right, even Iraqis can now enjoy the flame broiled goodness of a Whopper: Deep inside Baghdad International Airport, past a vehicle search, a body search and four checkpoints, soldiers are lined up for burgers and fries. They have come by plane from Mosul, 220 miles north, for onion rings. They have picked up Chicken Royale sandwiches while picking up buddies flying back from a two-week home leave. They have begged and borrowed Humvees, making up any excuse for a trip to the airport and a reminder of what the pink mixture of ketchup and mayonnaise oozing from a fresh Whopper tastes like.Now what I like is the cardboard quarters, plus some of the cool gear you can pick up at the PX: Prices at the Burger King range from 75 cents for a soda to $3 for a Double Whopper with cheese. Of course, only U.S. bills are accepted. Instead of giving coins as change, the restaurant gives out cardboard chips worth 25 cents each, redeemable at the post exchange. The PX sells snack food, CDs, DVDs and magazines with busty women on the cover. On one clothing rack, T-shirts for sale read, "Who's Your Baghdaddy?"I want one of those T-shirts! Sunday, October 19, 2003What's Radical About the Weblog Form in Journalism? Courtesy of J's Notes, this is a perfect example of how weblogs differ (for better or worse) from professional journalism. I have to hand it to this list, some of items on this list are pretty heads on, especially #8. The commentary reminds me a lot of Hilaire Belloc's commentary in The Free Press. Great book on the media and suprisingly relevant to the modern day. 1.) The weblog comes out of the gift economy, whereas most (not all) of today’s journalism comes out of the market economy. 2.) Journalism had become the domain of professionals, and amateurs were sometimes welcomed into it— as with the op ed page. Whereas the weblog is the domain of amateurs and professionals are the ones being welcomed to it, as with this page. 3.) In journalism since the mid-ninetheenth century, barriers to entry have been high. With the weblog, barriers to entry are low: a computer, a Net connection, and a software program like Blogger or Movable Type gets you there. Most of the capital costs required for the weblog to “work” have been sunk into the Internet itself, the largest machine in the world (with the possible exception of the international phone system.) 4.) In the weblog world every reader is actually a writer, and you write not so much for “the reader” but for other writers. So every reader is a writer, yes, but every writer is also a reader of other weblog writers—or better be. 5.) Whereas an item of news in a newspaper or broadcast seeks to add itself to the public record, an entry posted in a weblog engages the public record, because it pulls bits and pieces from it through the device of linking. In journalism the regular way, we imagine the public record accumulating with each day’s news— becoming longer. In journalism the weblog way, we imagine the public record “tightening,” its web becoming stronger, as links promotes linking, which produces more links. 6.) A weblog can “work” journalistically—it can be sustainable, enjoyable, meaningful, valuable, worth doing, and worth it to other people —if it reaches 50 or 100 or 160 souls who like it, use it, and communicate through it. Whereas in journalism the traditional way, such a small response would be seen as a failure, in journalism the weblog way the intensity of a small response can spell success. 7.) A weblog is like a column in a newspaper or magazine, sort of, but whereas a column written by twelve people makes little sense and wouldn’t work, a weblog written by twelve people makes perfect sense and does work. 8.) In journalism prior to the weblog, the journalist had an editor and the editor represented the reader. In journalism after the weblog, the journalists has (writerly) readers, and the readers represent an editor. 9.) In journalism classically understood, information flows from the press to the public. In the weblog world as it is coming to be understood, information flows from the public to the press. 10.) Journalism traditionally assumes that democracy is what we have, information is what we seek. Whereas in the weblog world, information is what we have—it’s all around us—and democracy is what we seek. Friday, October 17, 2003LONG LIVE THE CURSE OF THE BAMBINO!!! Nothing pleases me more than watching two sets of Yankees beat the crap out of each other. Too bad that Roger Clemens choked, but that's okay. So now that "The Fan" sealed the deal on the Twin Curses a mere 72 hours ago, it is a Marlins-Yankees World Series matchup. And even though most folks who lived in New York retire in Florida (thus making Florida a Yankee state), there is no way I can ever root for the Yankees. . . GO MARLINS!!!! Wednesday, October 15, 2003Alou Forgives Fan Now that's class. ''I feel sorry for the guy,'' said Alou, who thinks he had an excellent chance to catch the ball the Marlins' Luis Castillo hit into the first row of the stands down the left-field line and perhaps short-circuit what turned out to be an eight-run eighth inning in the Cubs' horrific 8-3 loss. ''Every fan in every ballpark goes for the ball. He wants a souvenir. Hopefully, he won't have to regret it the rest of his life if he's a Cubs fan. Hopefully, we can take that burden off him tomorrow.Now I know there are a lot of folks out there who are taking it out on The Fan. And yes, as an Orioles fan who is still wounded from the 1998 ALCS game, fan interference is an unfortunate part of the game. But I wouldn't go so far as to start picking on this guy for "losing the game." Seriously, an eight-run inning is not one person's fault. No talk about how Mark Prior should have shut these guys down, no talk about Cubs fielding. . . no no no. . . just lots of excuses. Some Cubs fans are talking about the curse of the goat. With the way Cubs fans have treated this fan, they deserve to lose the NLCS. Thankfully team players like Alou are rising above the talk of curses and fans and focusing on the game: Alou was asked whether he thought the fan's play, which preceded a wild pitch by Prior and an error on a routine grounder by shortstop Alex Gonzalez that opened the floodgates to the Marlins' big inning, would be considered to be part of the curse that seems to have plagued the team through the years. Monday, October 13, 2003State Sen. Edd Houck's daughter gets a free ride. . . It appears as if a cottage that is given to visiting professors and dignitaries to MWC is currently being occupied by the daughter of State Senator Edd Houck. . . rent-free. Anderson said he met with Greta Houck after her father asked him this summer about the possibility of enrolling his daughter in a class at MWC.Now having attended classes at Mary Washington, exactly how many times has the college simply let an unpaid bill sit around on a desk? I can think of only one occasion, and I think I'm reading it here. According to campaign finance reports, Anderson gave $500 in August to Houck's campaign for re-election. As of Aug. 31, Houck was the only candidate to whom Anderson had made a donation.Hmmm. . . U.S. Believes Saddam Recently in Tikrit And the beat goes on. . . Saddam, who was born in a village on the southern outskirts of Tikrit, was last seen in Baghdad in early April as the city was falling to American forces. His sons Odai and Qusai were killed July 22 in the northern city of Mosul. Thursday, October 09, 2003Vatican: condoms don't stop AIDS Now it is my understanding this was indeed true - the pores in the latex are much larger than the actual HIV virus itself, therefore condoms are by no means a failsafe preventive measure against contracting HIV. The Vatican seems to agree and is promoting this information in Africa. Unfortunately for safe-sex advocates back in Western Europe and America, debunking the condom myth in favor of abstenince is not something we want to do quite yet. . . or at all. I'd be open to scientific data that demonstrates the pores in latex condoms are not much larger than the HIV virus, but for lack of any evidence, the Guardian article seems to be more venom against Catholics than fact. Wednesday, October 08, 2003TABOO Here is an interesting ethics questionairre.  My results:
Your Moralising Quotient is: 0.50. Your Interference Factor is: 0.25. Your Universalising Factor is: 1.00. There was no inconsistency in the way that you responded to the questions in this activity. It is likely that you think that what makes any of these actions morally problematic has to do with God or some other source of morality external to nature, society and human judgement. You indicated that an act can be wrong even if it is entirely private and no one, not even the person doing the act, is harmed by it. There is nothing contradictory then in a claim that the actions depicted in these scenarios are morally problematic. What do the results mean? Take a look: Your Moralising Quotient is an aggregate measure of your tendency to condemn the actions described in these scenarios as morally wrong. A score of 1.00 indicates a fully moralising position. A score of 0.00 is a fully permissive response. (See below for more on these.) Whooooo Let the Cows Out?! Moo! Moo Moo Moo! Israeli warplanes break sound barrier over Lebanon Not good news: Israeli warplanes overflew the main Lebanese cities of Beirut and Tripoli Wednesday, breaking the sound barrier amid reports of a troop buildup on the border, Lebanese police said.It appears as if the IDF has sent troops to the northern Israeli border, which could mean several things. Either a re-establishment of the security zone that Ariel Sharon set up during the 1980's, or simply a matter of boosting troops strenghts in preparations for potential scenarios. It could mean virtually nothing, but the violation of Lebanese airspace is one more affront that cannot be ignored. Of course, it could also be a method of dealing with two birds with one stone. As the Syrians have deep interest in the politics of Lebanon, going after Assad without dealing with the Hezbollah in Lebanon is only a half-measure. A sonic boom over Beruit is a low-cost method of putting both countries on notice. Syria to Israel: We Will Respond With Force Next Time Syrian Ambassador to Spain issued a forceful warning to Israel stating that if the IDF attacked Syrian territory again, the response would be with weapons - not words: "If Israel attacks Syria one, two and three times, of course the people of Syria and the government of Syria and the army will react to defend ourselves," Syrian Ambassador Mohsen Bilal told Reuters in Madrid.Must be nice to be able to define all your offensive military actions as "self-defense." I like the statement "Israel does not seek an escalation with Syria," because it sounds like the Israelis are counting on the fact that Syria would not respond militarily without the backing of Egypt and Jordan, and therefore would not risk a one-sided confrontation. Alternatively, the IDF doesn't want war with Syria because at this point it would be a bit too much to chew (especially along the Lebanese-Israeli border where Hezbollah still remains active). Interesting chess game, although diplomatically it looks as if the Syrians have the upper hand. Keep your eye on this folks. . . TERMINATED! Democratic Governor Gray Davis of California has been successfully recalled and defeated by Republican challenger Arnold Schwarzenegger with 48% of the recall vote. That's a far cry from the 30+% that Ahnold was expected to get. Nearly 54% of California voters said yes to the recall. What is interesting is the ramifications. Former President Clinton campaigned hard for his old friend Gray, as did a number of California Democratic heavyweights, which could show the lack of clout the post-presidency Clinton really has, which is good news for President Bush in the upcoming 2004 elections. . . Now that the Gubernator is in California, this could be enough to keep the state Republican for 2004. Big time ramifications here, which is why the race was so closely watched by the good folks in Washington. Candidates speak in Spotsylvania And nary a mention of Hap Connors' antics during the NAACP debate. While the rest of the candidates were content to take their seats and address the crowd from their assigned place, Hap took the podium for his closing remarks. This added to the fact that his campaign volunteers were defacing Republican challenger Claude Dunn literature just turns the stomach of the common sense voter. Ridiculous that Hap should be polarizing this campaign the way he is. But that's all going to change. As of yesterday I accepted responsibilites as Claude Dunn's campaign manager. I have four weeks to resurrect this race from a Hap Connors mudslinging contest to a debate on issues. Good luck you say? Thanks, I'll need it. Monsignor Stephen Happel Dies at 59 Monsignor Happel was the recently appointed dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America. He did a tremendous amount of work there streamlining a department in sore need of reform. We'll see what the CUA Tower has to say about his passing on Friday. Tuesday, October 07, 2003We Want Your SOUL! Check this out. . . hilarious! WWYS® has been formed by a consortium of international companies - including leading financial and genetic research institutions - to create a product that gives you an actual CASH VALUE for your soul.Obviously a joke, but in case you are interested, my soul has been valued at £57490, or $95513.87 in dead presidents given the exchange rate of 1.6614. China details space plans  I don't understand why the upcoming first Chinese manned space launch isn't getting more press than what it has. Of course, with the California elections and the reconstruction of Iraq going on I suppose that something has to come third. But this isn't even on the radar. . . Although no dates have been officially revealed, the mission is believed to be just days away. Monday, October 06, 2003Iraq did pursue banned weapons programs Here is a great editorial from the San Diego Tribune. Read on! The headlines on David Kay's report to Congress focused on the failure, so far, to find chemical and biological weapons or evidence that Iraq had resumed the active pursuit of nuclear weapons. McClintock Calls on Schwarzenegger to Resign If Charges Prove True And rightly so. McClintock was careful not to condemn Schwarzenegger out of hand, but made his feelings on the issue clear. "If the allegations are true, and again coming as late as they are, I believe they need to be treated with great skepticism, that conduct is reprehensible," he said.How are Republicans ever going to gain the moral high ground when we chastize Clinton for being a philanderer while allowing Ahnold to occupy the California governor's seat? GO MCCLINTOCK GO!!! I'm glad he stuck it out in the race. . . hopefully he can get some push out of this in time to win. Syria Urges U.S. Not to Veto UN Resolution on Raid "We hope that the United States does not use the veto and that it practices its role as a superpower in preventing aggression and escalation," an official source at the Foreign Ministry told Reuters.. . . while lesser powers continue their role in promoting agression and escalation. Saturday, October 04, 2003French-Made Missles Found In Iraq Now we know why the French and Germans were so opposed to Coalition forces invading Iraq. Perhaps its because we might find these: Earlier, the Polish defense ministry said a Polish patrol had found four Roland anti-aircraft missiles south of Baghdad, apparently manufactured this year.Yeah, they must have been confused. . . Friday, October 03, 2003LAST DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE IS MONDAY!!! If you haven't done so already, this upcoming Monday is the last day to register for the upcoming November elections in Virginia. For those of you who live in and around the Fredericksburg area, here's the information. If you are outside, check on your voter ID and remember to vote come November! Stafford County - phone: (540) 658-4000 web page: http://www.co.stafford.va.us/registrar/ Spotsylvania County - phone: (540) 582-7124 web page: http://www.spotsylvania.va.us/departments/voterreg/ Fredericksburg City - phone: (540) 372-1030 web page: http://www.efredericksburg.com/registrar/ Friday at Jay's! Yep, pretty cold this morning. But no worries because not only is it Friday, it is also poker night with the Kenney Bros! The best part is that I have all of Jason's beer in the back of my trunk, and God made it nice and cold for me. Mmmm! Enjoy your Friday and keep the Holy Father in your thoughts and prayers. China inches closer to manned space mission The People's Republic of China is getting ready to send it's first takionaut into space. "Barring major technical issues and inclement weather, the historic Shenzhou V mission would likely be launched between October 11 and 17," Wen Wei Po reported.In the grand scheme of things, this is a non-event. Anyone can send a payload into space, be it materials, satellites, dogs, monkeys, or human beings. The real trick is to get a permanent presence up there. . . like mining the Moon or beating the United States to Mars or something. Now that would be an accomplishment! Ahnold Praised Hitler in a Proposed Book Deal Again from the Drudge Report. . . Asked about his heroes, the young Schwarzenegger, in 1975, was quoted as saying; "I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power.Question is whether this will play out as well in California as it would back here on the East Coast. Here we seem to take things like this more seriously, but California politics has a way of shrugging off all but the worst and driving home some of the weakest of slander. We'll see. . . hopefully this will give a boost to McClintock! Hey, a guy can always dream. . . Thursday, October 02, 2003Austrian Cardinal Says Pope Nearing Death Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn is the latest high-ranking Vatican official to say that Pope John Paul II is nearing death: "The whole world is experiencing a pope who is sick, handicapped and dying -- I don't know how close to death he is -- who is approaching the last days and months of his life," Schoenborn told Austrian radio.
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