End This War: A Video Requiem
The video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmPkCUXyVjY As we all know, this filthy war perpetrated by criminals has only sacrificed the limbs, the futures, the lives of thousands. Hundreds of thousands....
View Articlevideo of Michael J Fox, Jim Webb and Wes Clark at Clarendon Ballroom event
Teacherken wrote http://www.dailykos.com/... about the "exciting" 11/3/06 fundraiser for Jim Webb in Arlington, Virginia yesterday evening. Michael J Fox and Wes Clark joined Jim Webb at a "people's"...
View ArticleThe shift in politics of Northern Virginia
I found an interesting article in today's Richmond Times Dispatch on the shift of politics in Northern Virginia. Think Virginia isn't shifting from "red" to "purple?" Consider this: In 1996 Senator...
View ArticleBloggin' the Peace Conference
Crossposted to Blue Mass Group I’m at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel in Arlington, VA at the 2007 Department of Peace Conference. I just flew down this morning to participate in the Student Peace...
View ArticleWhat Price Glory?
Something I put on Youtube. I went to the Wall and Arlington in '05. The pictures are mine and this video conveys my feelings of that moment. The song is "The Green Fields of France."
View ArticleKnown only to God
HONORED GLORY "Here lies in honored glory an American soldier known only to God..." Here, lies are solemn. Here, lies are told in the cadence of boot heels ringing on stone, in the snap of a bolt...
View Article"Obedience to lawful authority is manly"
Hat tip to MB at Blacknell.net found via leftyblogs. Hey all you rabble rousers! Don't you get it! Being manly is it, and the way to be IT, is to obey the "lawful authority!" Obedience to lawful...
View ArticleArlington, VA Poll Report (high turnout)
I've just returned from my polling place in Arlington, VA (South Arlington, west of I-395) and there was a constant stream of people into the polling place. Things of note: My wife went at 8AM this...
View ArticleArlington official fired for allowing coverage of funerals!
It all began with an April 24, 2008 column in The Washington Post by Dana Milbank. It began, "Lt. Col. Billy Hall, one of the most senior officers to be killed in the Iraq war, was laid to rest...
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Rally at One of McCain's Luxury Homes - Arlington, VA
I just got back from a rally in front of just ONE of John McCain's many luxury homes. He owns so many, in fact, that he can't even remember the number (his staff will get back to us, he says). Here's...
View ArticleArlington GOP to Dems: Stop Being So Hopeful!
And the Republican party wonders why it can't attract young voters. At the party's rain-delayed picnic over the weekend, a "top Republican" who apparently requested anonymity complained to the Sun...
View ArticleToday I voted for Obama-Biden
and for Mark Warner, and for Jim Moran, and for local officials and local bond issues. Arlington has early in-person absentee voting on the first floor of the building holding county offices. I was...
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BREAKING: Joe McCain Calls Arlington, VA "Communist Country"!!!
Uh, last I checked, John McCain's HEADQUARTERS is in Arlington. Also, John McCain has one of his many homes in Arlington. So...why is John McCain living in "Communist Country" (according to his...
View ArticleCanvassing with the Commies (smile) w/poll
So, John McCain's brother thinks we here in Arlington are communists. I suppose I could say, "I've been called worse by better," but instead let me tell you about canvassing the commies this afternoon.
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AP Picks Up My McCain "Communist Country" Story!
Now that the AP has picked up our story (without attribution to the blog, of course, and also spelling Loudoun County wrong - mass media morons!), I was thinking a bit more about Arlington and...
View ArticleHyphenated American Neighbors in NoVA
I've worked on campaigns going back to the 70s, so you'd figure that well before middle age I would have learned something about the value and meaning of retail politics. Well, duh, I learned it again...
View ArticleHeavy Voting In Virginia
Reports across the state indicate polling locations were swamped with voters this morning - some lines began forming as early as 4:00 a.m. Hampton and Newport News, located in the southeast corner of...
View ArticleIt is set in Stone (Updated to Clarify)
So, I’m watching a special segment on PBS about Arlington National Cemetery and the different wars that are represented there. World War 1 World War 2 Korean War Vietnam War And then, there it was,...
View ArticleMemories of my Dad and the Kennedys
This is my very first diary. I've enjoyed reading other people's diaries and commenting, but today was the first time I felt moved enough to write one of my own. Because the buried Teddy today and it...
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PHOTOS - Sen. Kennedy Now Joins His Brothers
1. FUNERAL SERVICES - OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP, BOSTON 2. 3. 4.
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