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Sunday, November 30, 2008No Acorns in NOVA?Perhaps they're all registered to vote... "I'm used to seeing so many acorns around and out in the field, it's something I just didn't believe," he said. "But this is not just not a good year for oaks. It's a zero year. There's zero production. I've never seen anything like this before."Come on down to Central Virginia... plenty of acorns (and I mean plenty) raked out of my garden this year. Sunday, November 23, 2008$100 on Jeff FrederickWaldo Jaquith's $100 says Jeff Frederick will bail on his promise not to seek re-election: Surely somebody out there thinks that Frederick isn’t a liar, and is willing to back that up with some cash. Who’s game?My $100 says Jeff Frederick keeps his word. Loser donates the money to the opposing state party. Winner gets bragging privileges for at least a week.
Sunday, November 09, 2008Contemporary Conservative: And So It Begins...Unit chairmen are starting to publicly call for RPV Chairman Jeff Frederick to step down. Politico: Obama gains in fast-growing countiesOr better titled, Obama made gains in areas most effected by the mortgage crisis. Gee... wonder why that is? $25mil mini-nuclear plantsNow how cool is this? Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at Los Alamos, the US government laboratory which developed the first atomic bomb.Now we're talking. Cheap, affordable energy? Sure, it's not a fusion reactor outside every home, or fuel cell technology. Still, nuclear power is about as clean as you're going to get. The best part is because they are so small, there is no real fissionable material -- so no terror threat. All it is is super hot... hot enough to turn a turbine and generate electricity for a community of 20,000. That's 70 MWt of clean, affordable power -- almost like a massive battery in the ground. More info here if you're really interested. Sunday, November 02, 2008South of the James: The Cordial CricketTaking a brief respite from the confines of political wonkery, Conaway Haskins talks about the limits -- or otherwise -- of blogging: These days, blogging in the political realm in on the verge of being cliched or at least passe. Everybody - campaigns, media companies, political parties, lobbyists and average Joes (plumbers and otherwise) - is hitting the blogosphere to drop news, give opinion, attack opponents or just mouth off. I'm not going to hate on them because, hell, political blogging has paid dividends for me (see: employment). But, if you look at the world wide web through the lens of political blogging, it's easy to feel like you've come to the end of the "Internets." Fortunately for web junkies, that's oh so untrue.Not a bad way to build a reputation online. The hardest part is sticking with it for a time, even though the stats are low. Someone's watching... and reading... and will one day tell their friends. And that's advertising you can't buy! Obama Hearts Coal (Not)Now I will be the first to admit that something has to be done about the byproducts of coal, namely the carbon impact. Just as there are all sorts of great solutions for storing the CO2 (in mines for instance), there are excellent applications for coal freeing the United States from dependence on foreign oil. Sadly, Barack Obama disagrees, and does it in such a way that the future of Appalachia's coal industry would be jeopardized: The only thing I've said with respect to coal, I haven't been some coal booster. What I have said is that for us to take coal off the table as a (sic) ideological matter as opposed to saying if technology allows us to use coal in a clean way, we should pursue it.This isn't even an argument for clean coal. Obama is opposed to coal, period. Bummer for the coal miners of Southwest Virginia, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia... Saturday, November 01, 2008Now Why On Earth Would This Be Necessary, Mr. Obama?
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