Snapped Shot

Why is it that Democrats only ever "regret" comments they've made if the comments in question threaten their electability?

Warner has made no mention of his prior positions before, but now that his "commentary" on we ignorant Virginians is making the rounds, he suddenly finds it necessary to apologize.

At least by saying you didn't stand by his past remarks, we know that we'll need to "selectively" listen to his future ones.

Earlier today, when I was stopped at a stop sign going through Gerry Connolly's diverse and tolerant Vienna, Virginia today, another driver flew right up next to me in his silver Acura.

He then proceeded to lean out the window, shake his fists at me, and yell in my general direction pretty loudly.

Of course, seeing how I drive a nice and cozy Saturn Aura, and my windows were up, I didn't hear a word of what he said. Which means Saturn has worked wonders in sound-proofing the car, no?

I'm guessing that he must be a fellow fan or something. It's a mystery to me.

Anyway, while I'm on the topic, and before I go and pass out, the Mrs. has pointed me to a group of Russians celebrating American politics, as only Russians can.

With poetry, yo!

To wit, a poem which will evoke the very essence of America's own Walt Whitman:

И как бы демы не пытались (No matter how hard the "Dems" try)
Надеть стране тюрбан чумазый, (to make the country [America] wear a grimy turban)
Мы победим, не зря ж старались - (We [Republicans] will win, we didn't do it for nothing)
Утопим сучек в нефти с газом ("Da b*tches" will drown in oil and gas)

More neo-classic Russian poetry beyond the fold. Continue reading »

Means asking the kinds of questions that we all want to know. The kinds of questions that should never really need to be asked in a "civilized" nation.

Sadly, at least as far as Fairfax County goes, I think I already know what the answer is going to be.

Who knew that Joe Biden has had Americans' Mother Russia's interests at heart for so many years?

Of course, considering that the Democratic Party saw nothing wrong with nominating a man who admittedly went to Moscow to dodge the draft for the Presidency, and then subsequently elected him (twice) to that office, I doubt the left's going to think much of this.

After all, America Is Always Wrong, Man.

Aren't you so glad that the Supreme Court kicked that dastardly Christianity out of our nation's public school systems so they could concentrate on teaching children more valuable life-long lessons?

This comes from the Commonwealth that gave us John Adams, no less.

Can you imagine what he would have ended up as if he had gone through the Lexington public school district as it exists today?

(h/t kindred)

News like this does not bode well for any Republican in Virginia:

Thousands of new voters have registered in Fairfax County this year and election officials are preparing for a big turnout at the polls.

I'm sure the Virginian-hating staff over at Mark Warner's office is jumping for joy at this very moment.

Shame on anyone who dares to suggest otherwise to our robed elite:

A public school's decision to fold over a portion of a kindergartner's poster to hide an image of Jesus did not violate the youngster's right to free speech, a federal judge has determined.

Antonio Peck's teacher and school principal had "legitimate pedagogical concerns" when deciding to edit the boy's poster for a school display promoting environmental awareness, Northern District of New York Judge Norman A. Mordue ruled in Peck v. Baldwinsville Central School District, 99-cv-1847.

Our public school system simply cannot be bothered by all of this student-initiated religious speech. After all, it distracts from the hours and hours of kindergarten sex-ed and mindless environmentalism that they're trying so hard to preach.

Oh, and speaking of that last part, here's the very next paragraph in the story:

Those valid concerns of Antonio's teacher, Susan Weichert, and the principal, Robert Creme, were that parents at the Catherine McNamara Elementary School in Baldwinsville, outside Syracuse, N.Y., would think Weichert was teaching religion if they saw the image of Jesus on Antonio's poster about ways to protect the environment, according to Mordue.

Mindless. Drivel. Is. All. We. Teach.

We're doomed.

(Belated h/t to Behind Liberal Lines. I complain constantly about living in "Occupied" Fairfax County, Virginia, but I can't even begin to imagine what it'd be like to live as a conservative in Ithaca, New York. Shudder!)

When he's out in public, he may sound all nice and stuff, but who would've guessed that behind closed doors amongst friendly faces, Mark Warner is nothing more than another barking moonbat?



Memo to the Rt. Hon. Governor:—I'm a Christian, and I vote. Got a problem with that, sir?

(h/t Bearing Drift via Mason Conservative)

It occurs to me to add: To the one I will now refer to as the laughable dunce, Virginia's Coalition Governor, I might point out that those "scary" Christians that he's so frightened of have been here in Virginia for nearly 400 years before his arrival. So it doesn't really seem all that absurd to me that some of said Christians might want to have a say in how this Commonwealth is governed.

Of course, if this concept scares Virginia's Coalition Governor too much, I'd be more than happy to point him in the direction of New England, where he would probably be happier.

Since they're all "progressive" up there.

By which I mean "bankrupt."

Since that's where "progressive" policies always end up.

See-Also:

BVBL, I'm Surrounded By Idiots (he must live here in Fairfax)

California, as I had mentioned a long while back, is completely insolvent. The State government out there spends billions of dollars more than it brings in every single year, resulting in an ever-increasing load of debt that is heaped upon every citizen there now, and every citizen born there for centuries to come.

Enter our current credit "crisis," in which people high and low are suddenly surprised to learn that they can no longer get credit as they once did. Alas, we now discover that California, being one of the largest debt-consumers in the nation, is no longer able to tap the bond markets quite as heavily as it once did.

So what does California think the appropriate solution for its self-inflicted financial problems is?

If you guessed "Ask Washington, D.C. for a bailout," give yourself a big fat pat on the back.

And then prepare open up your wallet.

Seriously, folks, it's stuff like this that makes me wish we had a Federal law prohibiting any exit from California. With as many of Them as we have here in Fairfax County, it's no wonder we can't go through a single election without "voting" ourselves another $60 million into debt.

See-Also:

Michelle Malkin, who loves bailouts just as much as I love Californians.

Remember the hate letter that our 9/11 memorial here in Falls Church received about a week ago? The sculptor sent it in to Gerry Connolly's Fairfax County Police Department, trying to determine from them whether she should be worried about it or not. Their response?

the threat could not be investigated as a hate crime because it "was against Americans and would not work."

Thanks to the wonders of Diversity, we learn that hatred expressed against Americans is not hatred at all.

Muslims need never fear, though, because the power of Virginian Bureaucracy quickly put her "offensive" art to a halt:

On Sept. 12, the Fairfax County Permits Division of VDOT contacted Swenholt to tell her that she did not have a permit to keep the statue on VDOT land.

"The piece of property she used is actually part of the Interstate 66 right-of-way and requires a permit for its use, which she does not have," said VDOT spokesman William Dunlap. "She can apply for it but if she is looking for a permanent display place, then the right-of-way would probably not be the right choice."

Bureaucracy:—Swiftly stopping the 9/11 rememberance that hatred couldn't stop.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is what a willful disregard for the law looks like.

Why bother with silly little things like "zoning" and "health" and "safety" laws, anyway? It's obvious that there's a large proportion of Northern Virginia's population that isn't the least bit interested in obeying them.

Gee, I couldn't come up with a logical explanation for stories like this if I tried as hard as I could:

There has been a 700 percent increase in the number of unlicensed driver tickets issued in the Town of Herndon in the last five years, even though the number of licensed drivers in the town has stayed about the same.

According to police Lt. Jeff Coulter, the Herndon Police Department issued 106 tickets for the offense of driving without a license in 2002. At the end of 2007, that number had increased to 756.

You can thank Gerry Connolly and the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors for their complete inaction with respect to our ballooning illegal alien population, which has resulted in this 700% increase in license-less (and presumably insurance-less) drivers.

After all, if you don't enforce the law, why in the heck would you expect that anyone would actually follow it!

That's the kind of change Gerry wants to bring to Congress, folks.

For a free bonus fact and hint as to what could be causing this incident, be sure to read on beyond the fold! Continue reading »

... that's fit to manufacture.

As my ODBA compatriot Jason Kenney points out, you can't use one of these in the big debates, chief.

Believe me, I will savor watching the savior Barack "Astroturf" Obama fall apart without the use of his li'l buddy.

Change!

See-also:

Hot Air, Bash, The Weekly Standard, The Anchoress, Sweetness & Light, Stop the ACLU

A: Neither one tolerates dissent.

But hey, I thought dissent was patriotism, maaaan!