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Month: October, 2007

NASA reverses course on hiding survey results, regrets mistaken "impression"

31 October, 2007 (15:32) | Aviation, Politics | By: ricjames

Last week I wrote about NASA’s incomprehensibly idiotic move to deliberately conceal the results of a national aviation safety survey from the American people. NASA Administrator Mike Griffin has reversed course and promised that he will have the data released “as soon as possible.” In testimony prepared for a congressional hearing Wednesday, Griffin said he [...]

Office worker shoots himself in both legs

31 October, 2007 (14:38) | 2nd Amendment, Human Interest | By: ricjames

There’s a fishy story coming out of Ft. Worth, TX this afternoon about an office worker who managed to shoot himself in both legs: A 47-year-old man was shot in both legs when he accidentally discharged a handgun while sitting in his cubicle at an insurance office, police said. (Great. Man works for an insurance [...]

Nader sues the DNC

31 October, 2007 (08:19) | Politics | By: ricjames

Via Instapundit, here’s a story that’s sure to make Dems wish yet again that Ralph Nader didn’t exist. Nader has filed a lawsuit against the DNC alleging that party officials “conspired” to keep him from taking votes away from nominee John Kerry. Now, at first glance I immediately thought, “Well, no sh*t, Sherlock. That’s what [...]

Happy Halloween!

31 October, 2007 (05:56) | Human Interest | By: ricjames

Happy Halloween, folks!

Has York abused his office to claim he's not been abusing his office?

30 October, 2007 (21:54) | Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

I got a very interesting e-mail this evening. Seems Scott York is very concerned over Mike Firetti claiming that York has abused his office. What’s interesting is that this e-mail – clearly a campaign-related communication – was sent via the official Loudoun government systems. Take a look at the full-size screen shot linked here: What [...]

And another thing about Firetti's residence…

30 October, 2007 (12:00) | Uncategorized | By: ricjames

That last post got me thinking about the document attached to it, a shot of the tax assessment for a property owned by Firetti. As pointed out in the comments section to that TC post, the attached screenshot of the tax assessment shows pretty clearly that this is a vacant lot, not a residence. So [...]

Mountain out of molehill regarding Firetti's candidacy and residency?

30 October, 2007 (11:33) | Uncategorized | By: ricjames

I have to apologize in advance for what I’m about to do. I like the blog Too Conservative, I really do. I find most of the stuff they’ve put up to be informative and well written, but this campaign season has apparently knocked their gyros a little out of adjustment. The last time I happened [...]

Smoking: it's for the children!

30 October, 2007 (09:31) | Human Interest, Politics | By: ricjames

Sometimes, a good satire is the only way to get the point across. Without further ado, have a look at “SCHIP: Care Enough to Smoke?“ Technorati Tags: SCHIP, smoking, Congress

Recent Herring mailings regarding Phillips are lies, Phillips says.

30 October, 2007 (08:33) | Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

State Senate candidate Patricia Phillips (R) is working to unseat 1-term incumbent Mark Herring (D) in the Virginia Senate 33rd District. Up until this past week or so, the race had been fairly low-key outside of the active campaigns of both contenders. Then, last week, I got more of the season’s many campaign mailers (these [...]

Ahlemann responds to the Post article Updated!

30 October, 2007 (07:52) | Politics, The Media, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

Loudoun County Sheriff candidate Greg Ahlemann gave a response yesterday to the front-page “news” story that appeared in Sunday’s Washington Post. I wrote about that story on Sunday and I said then that I was hopeful he would respond effectively. I believe he has. In recent interviews with print and television media, including today’s press [...]