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Vote in the Republican primary on August 23

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[Promoted by Liz, because I’d like to see where this discussion leads. Keep it clean, folks.]

I’m voting in the Republican primary on August 23, and I’m going to vote for the most right-wing crazy-crack-pot candidates on the ballot.  If you want to keep these folks out of office, get out and vote in the primary.  It’s the right thing to do.

Here are my recommendations:

 

Senate 13:

Dick Black: A crazy, woman-hating, spitting and shrieking racist and homophobe

Bob FitzSimmonds: A Cuccinelli clone with negative charisma

John Stirrup: A slick, sleazy, anti-hispanic, hater

Vote: Dick Black

 

House 10:

Randy Minchew: A purportedly moderate Republican who steered the Loudoun GOP to the right and believes that unimplanted fertilized embryos have more Constitutional rights than women.

Cara Townsend: A Christian conservative leader who says: “All leadership must bring honor to God”

John Whitbeck: “I am pro life – period.”

Vote: Cara Townsend

Update!

Ken Reid has a LTE endorsing Minchew.  Reid says “Randy is a man of integrity and commitment to God, family and community.”  Reid also says “John Whitbeck, has flooded the 10th district with outlandish mail pieces which often stretch the truth about Randy’s record.”  It sounds like Whitbeck is the front running challenger, and if Reid thinks he’s “outlandish”, he must really be out there.

Vote: John Whitbeck

 

House 87:

Jo-Ann Chase: Off the charts crazy a la John Grigsby

David Ramadan: Big money Republican establishment

Vote: Jo Ann Chase

 

What happened to Randy Minchew the “moderate”?

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I “liked” Randy Minchew’s campaign page on facebook and posted a few factual comments.  Within 30 minutes, the comments were removed and the campaign “de-liked” me.  What kind of transparency can we expect from Randy, none?  What kind of “virtue” can we expect?

Here’s a screen capture of the removed content.  It seems to me that a moderate candidate would at least be willing to discuss the root cause of the deficit and not lay the entire blame on President Obama, but not in Loudoun in 2011.  What a shame.

Mark Warner – Gang of Six

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Having just learned that Senator Mark Warner (D-Va) is a member of the gang of six, I’ve lost all hope in the Democratic party. Independents like Bernie Sanders are the future and our only hope within the predominately two-party system.

David Ramadan has a “Transportation Plan” press release

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The David Ramadan campaign just sent out an email boasting that he has a “Transportation Plan”.  Specifically, his email says:

South Riding, VA | July 12, 2011—David Ramadan, Republican candidate for the 87th District seat in the Virginia House of Delegates, today put forward a major package of strategic and achievable transportation solutions he will work to implement if elected.

Check out his web site.  It links to a press release that contains a list of work items.  They aren’t work items, per se.  Some are just wishes, for example, (emphasis mine):

Ask VDOT to study ways to improve traffic flow on Rt. 7 and Rt. 50…

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Fix the Rt. 28 and Pacific Boulevard and Waxpool Road choke-point – Find a workable solution to the Rt. 28 and Pacific Boulevard/Waxpool Road bottleneck that will smooth traffic flow, as well as reduce gridlock and long delays at traffic lights.

“Wish list”, “brain fart”, “transportation plan”, “achievable”, “fluff”.  They’re all words aren’t they?  I guess Ramadan can say whatever he wants.  If he calls it a transportation plan, by golly it’s a transportation plan.  That sounds a lot better than a “fluff press release”.

I was hoping for something like this or this.  Anybody who knows anything about transportation and quality of life should use the terms “network” and “multimodal”.  Of course, neither word or concept is found in Ramadan’s “plan”.  Here’s a short translation of David Ramadan’s “plan”.

“Hey citizens, let’s spend lots of taxpayer dollars on asphalt and concrete because the road builders are big Republican donors.  I have a plan to spend your money and you’re going to love the results.  Trust me.”

Sign litter courtesy of the Black campaign

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[Promoted by Liz, because it’s awfully early in the season for signs on the roadways. Yards, yes. Roads, no.]

The photo below was taken on July 8, 2011 at 11:07 AM at the intersection of Rte 7 and Rte 287.  The driver was littering the highway right of way with Dick Black campaign signs.  The campaign worker’s car was facing North on Rte 287 in Purcellville.  At the time the photo was taken, the young man was littering the South side of the Westbound entrance ramp – behind me.  I would have liked to have snapped his picture, but Dick Black supporters are virulent homophobes and I didn’t want deal with additional filth.  Please click on the image to view a full size image.

Isn’t littering a crime?  I wonder if Dick Black knows?

Dick Black campaign places signs at Rtes 287 and 7 in Purcellville

Why I like Ayn Rand

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“The abortion industry claims that abortions do not cause psychological harm to either women or men.”

Chuck Colson

Colson was describing the horrible fifth month botched abortion of Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler’s girlfriend.  I’m not sure Tyler would appreciate being portrayed as a victim of the “abortion industry”.  Real people make these difficult decisions, and it’s best to allow them to do so without the “help” of a nanny-state.  It’s also best that they make informed decisions and that they understand the consequences.  This is where family, friends, spouses, significant others, counselors and doctors can provide vital information if their liberty to do so is not abridged.

Thinking about how deeply personal these choices are, it’s hard to imagine that the decision making process is controlled by an “industry” and that women don’t “own” their own bodies.  If women don’t own their own bodies, what do they own?

“If you have an IRA or a 401K, chances are, you own an energy company”

Television commercial sponsored by energytommorow.org.

Energy tomorrow explains that energy is integral to our lives and our economy.  This advocacy arm of the American Petroleum Institute admits that there is an energy industry, but they claim that the industry is owned by all of us.  Isn’t that what socialism is, public ownership of the means of production?

I wonder what Ayn Rand would think if she saw women being degraded as passive victims of an “industry” while energy production/consumption is portrayed as the publicly owned consequence of progress and human nature.  I think she’d look at our transportation system – the mixing bowl and other “natural features” of that public ownership – and ask how a modern-day American politburo decided to build these monstrosities.  She’d visit repeated copies of new subdivisions of three story townhouses and vinyl sided colonials, from New York to Los Angeles and notice that they all look the same.

She’d shake her head and ask where Howard Roark is today and how “capitalism” produced the same outcome that she attributed to socialism in her writings.  She’d have words for the propaganda mills at the API and Colson Center and their “second hander” stranglehold over individual liberty and innovation.  She’d wonder why her world has turned into its opposite.

Neo-nazi group names PHC “next best choice”

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(Promoted by Epluribusunum)

The neo-nazi group Stormfront.org has honored Patrick Henry College. “Since there are no more pro-white colleges, the next best choice are conservative colleges.”  Stormfront has moved on from pure unadulterated racism to the kinder gentler worship of Kinder, Küche, Kirche, or in their their own words “If you are going to spend money on your kid’s college at least pick a place that does not have Feminist Studies.”  FYI, the phrase Kinder, Küche, Kirche, was invented in the U.S.A.  Hitler never used it.  He did argue that a woman’s “world is her husband, her family, her children, and her home,”.

Stormfront found a photo of armed and booted state troopers, lined up against a small Soulforce prayer group to their liking.  The caption reads “Protest against Patrick Henry College for “bigotry.” The college permits nonwhite students, I do not know what they are complaining about.”

It’s good to know that modern day bigots no longer need to be pro-white.  As long as they are anti-woman and anti-gay, they are ok.  Good to know.  It’s also good to know that even in the most conservative of “Christian colleges”, they have to use force against their own student body to keep them from talking to people outside the cocoon.

LEC 9011

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Promoted by Epluribusunum – This post is especially insightful in light of yesterday’s developments, in which Supervisor Burton withdrew his support from the CBPO in part because of too much uncertainty regarding which parcels would be affected and how. I note in particular the chorus on the LTM forum decrying Burton as an “opportunist” for taking exactly the position the LEC are demanding. It suggests that nothing could possibly make them happy, and lends yet more support to the theory that LEC is nothing but a Republican campaign organization. A fraud.

Roy Jacobsen, President of the Loudoun Environmental Council marched up to the BoS podium and presented a list of 9011 properties affected by the proposed Chesapeake Bay Preservation Ordinance.   He was quoted in the Leesburg Today.

“Staff was asked for a list of impacted parcels caused by the implementation of the CBPO. They said it would take two to three weeks…Then they said four to six months. Here’s a list,” Jacobsen said. “We had our engineers using the county’s GIS system compile this. This calls to question whether the county is trying to provide this list or not… is it just incompetence or is it a cover up?”

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