"No need, People want our signs"....

When I asked a volunteer supporting the Tony Wilt campaign for Delegate of the 26th District why I only saw numerous Kai Degner campaign signs in the medians of Rt. 33 and no Wilt signs he replied:

"No need to do anything like that, people want our signs for their yards and property, and in fact we had to order more yard signs!"...

Driving around Harrisonburg I saw numerous "Degner for Delegate" campaign signs in the center medians of Rt. 33 and many other public "Right-of-Ways" in the area...

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Now this is nothing new and it has happened in the past but usual courtesy is for these campaign signs to "appear" in public areas 24 hours before the actual election day and removal within 24 hours after the election..

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But more then 2 weeks before election day and in the center medians headed East towards the mountains and to great seasonal tourist coming into town?

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"Nuge" gets it right...

Uncle Ted has a great piece in the Washington Times...

With the possible exception of the tobacco industry, no industry is held in more contempt and scorn than big oil. This is strangely foolish in that tobacco has been proved to cause cancer and has no beneficial use whatsoever, whereas oil literally fuels the American dream. Another clear example of the disconnect that brought us President Barack Hussein Obama.

When gas prices go up, Americans condemn big oil for making profits. When catastrophes happen, such as the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Americans demand that big oil be severely fined, demand more government oversight of the industry by a proven incompetent Fedzilla and demand that more safety features be implemented to prevent another oil spill while expecting gas prices to stay low.

BP and other energy companies are not evil enterprises that are out to rape the environment. They are in business to make a profit and provide us affordable energy while taking prudent measures to protect the environment. Consumer demand drives production, pure and simple. No one escapes guilt from this guaranteed cause and effect.

The facts about green energy are in, and they are uglier than an oil spill in your living room. All the wind, sun and hydro energy currently provide us with about 5 percent of our energy needs. That's all the energy they are going to provide for many years to come. At this point, green energy is a fool's game that will not provide us with meaningful energy that our energy-gluttonous, unsophisticated society requires.

UVA says NO to Cuccinelli... But this is why we should be able to see the data...

UVA University of Virginia has now come back saying that they will not release the data compiled by Prof. Mann, while using taxpayer funded grant money, to come up with his famous "Hockey Stick" theory for Global Warming...

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Seems that 810 of the other scientist, who I venture to guess live on a depend on taxpayer funded grants, have gotten together to urge UVA not to release the data to the Attorney General who is investigating if any fraud is involved...

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ICECAP has some great info on why UVA and Mann should release the data for all to see and review to justify the claims of Global Warming as related to the data...

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Mann is the former UVA professor, whose “hockey stick” temperature chart was used to promote claims that “sudden” and “unprecedented” manmade global warming “threatens” human civilization and Earth itself. The hockey stick was first broken by climatologists Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas, who demonstrated that a Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age were clearly reflected in historic data across the globe, but redacted by Mann. Analysts Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick later showed that Mann’s computer program generated hockey-stick patterns regardless of what numbers were fed into it - even random telephone numbers; that explained why the global warming and cooling of the last millennium magically disappeared in Mann’s “temperature reconstruction.”

Simple... Show us the data if there is nothing to hide... The taxpayers paid for it...

This behavior certainly gives Cuccinelli “probable cause” for launching an investigation. As the AG notes, “The same legal standards for fraud apply to the academic setting that apply elsewhere. The same rule of law, the same objective fact-finding process, will take place.” Some witch hunt...

Grants are BIG BUSINESS and at many levels...

Work by Mann and other alarmist scientists is not merely some theoretical exercise that can be permitted to “play itself out” over many years, if and when the “academic arena” gets around to it. These assertions of climate crisis are being used right now by Congress, states, courts and the Environmental Protection Agency to justify draconian restrictions on energy use and greenhouse emissions. They would shackle our freedoms and civil rights and hammer our jobs, economy, health, welfare and living standards...
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Obama now has his Attorney General Eric Holder in the Gulf claiming that they will sue and punish any company that they determine causing the Deepwater Horizon incident. Think maybe he will get the Department of Justice looking at Mann, UVA, and the "Gang"?...
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Permit fishing aboard Compass Rose in the Florida Keys...

After "Top-Kill"...

The "Top-Kill" eefort has been called off due to poor results and they are moving onto the Low Marine Riser Package...

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Energy Tomorrow blog has a good description of this procedure...

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Three Flags for Three U.S. Marines Warriors from the Shenandoah Valley...

Three Flags now on a overpass bridge along Route 81 near Verona Virginia in memory of the three USMC Lance Corporals from the Shenandoah Valley lost in the war on terrorism while serving their country in Iraq...

Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel Scott R. Bubb
19, of Grottoes, Va.; assigned to the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, Calif.; attached to 2nd Marine Division, II MEF

Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel T. Morris
19, of Crimora, Va.; assigned to 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii

Marine Lance Cpl. Jason C. Redifer
19, of Stuarts Draft, Va.; assigned to 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C

Shenandoah Harley Davidson will once again be hosting "Rides to The Wall" in Washington D.C. on both Saturday and Memorial Day Monday...

Kai Degner seems to hiding several things....

Kai Degner has claimed that he wants numerous debates before the upcoming election for Delegate to represent the 26th District but refused to participate in the Valley Family's debate...

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He has also failed to return the NRA survey that is sent to all Candidates to find out how they stand on many important issues thus informing voters as to how they may vote on these issues as our representative...

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Bama was mad when Supreme Court said Corporations could donate... What about the Unions?...

President Obama called out the Supreme Court at his last State of the Union speech for ruling that Corporations could donate toward political campaigns. But yet did he forget how many MILLIONS the labor unions donate, mostly to Democrats, each election cycle?

IBD has info here...

A bill making its way through the Senate would bail out union pension funds to the tune of $165 billion. The bill's author, Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, wants the public to pay for the gold-plated union retirement benefits that the funds have mismanaged into oblivion

This has to be galling to average working saps who watch as their 401(k)s and IRAs plummet, only to be asked to pony up billions of dollars in subsidies for unionized workers — many of whom get to retire into the lap of unlabored luxury while still in their 50s

Don't agree? According to OpenSecrets.org, 12 of the 20 biggest spenders on public elections since 1989 have been unions. In just the 2008 election alone, unions spent $400 million dollars. Virtually all of it went to Democrats...

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"Top Kill" procedure in use...

The Energy Tomorrow site has more information and links regarding the Top-Kill procedure now being used...

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