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Archive for May, 2009

29 May

Live hate-blogging of the Republican Party of Virginia convention starting at 10:00 am.

Why should you follow my live-blogging instead of those other guys out there? Because I’m the only one that’s going to be live hate-blogging!
2009 Republican Party of Virginia Convention

29 May

John Brownlee claims he wants to “reduc[e] drug dependency”, but why did he oppose the building of a drug treatment clinic in Roanoke County?

I should preface this post with this statement: If someone is selling (distributing) illegal narcotics, I think they should be locked up in prison for an appropriate amount of time. If someone is arrested for using or possessing illegal drugs, I also believe that they should be locked up unless they have a genuine desire [...]

29 May

Two city of Richmond police officers injured at shooting range in Caroline County.

Richmond Times Dispatch:
Two Richmond police officers were injured by shrapnel during target practice at the department’s firing range today in Caroline County, but neither injury was believed to be life-threatening, authorities said.
Police early this afternoon confirmed that the incident had occurred, but officials said they were still gathering information and had no other immediate details.
The [...]

27 May

Memorial Day Honored in Caroline County: Video

The video isn’t great, you can hear cars in the background and someone that was beside me talking, and the camera gets a little jerky because I was trying to record with one hand while simultaneously setting a tripod.
I was a little late getting to the event and I had to find a spot where [...]

26 May

Mark Warner certainly isn’t the brightest (in re online medical records).

From Virginia Lawyers Weekly:
A hacker’s theft of millions of Virginia’s most sensitive prescription drug records isn’t slowing Sen. Mark Warner’s push for electronic medical records.
The former governor convened a conference in Richmond last week about the medical and cost-saving benefits of digitizing hundreds of millions of patient records nationally.
“We’ve been talking about this subject, policymakers [...]

25 May

Memorial Day Honored in Caroline County: Pictures

25 May

Memorial Day Honored in Caroline County.

I have some pictures and video from the memorial day celebration at the Caroline County Circuit Court from earlier today that I will be posting today or tomorrow as time permits.

25 May

99th House of Delegates Mass Meeting: Terry Beatley, Catherine Crabill: tomato, tah-mah-toh?

For those that are unaware of Terry Beatley is, she’s the woman that managed to get a special grand jury convened in an attempt to indict a movie rental business in Lancaster County for creating a ‘public nuisance’ because they were renting pornographic movies. They managed to get an indictment against the business, but I [...]

22 May

Bravo, Caroline County School Board: Do you bother running criminal records checks on your prospective employees?

The Free Lance–Star:
After Ben Boyd was hired as Caroline High School’s football coach May 11, Cavaliers Athletic Director Dan Dickey said a 10-person search committee had thoroughly vetted his past.
However, three members of the committee said in recent interviews with The Free Lance-Star that they weren’t aware of Boyd’s 1991 guilty plea to federal misdemeanor [...]

21 May

99th House of Delegates Mass Meeting: Video: The votes come in and the district becomes a statewide, if not national, embarrassment.

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