…then these two pictures are PRICELESS:

How Hillary looks upon a crook…..

How Hillary looks upon an American hero….

While Virginia is known as the Mother of Presidents, she is also the Mother of Heroes. Today we mourn the passing of two of her heroes. Rep. Jo Ann Davis paved the way to the U.S. Capitol for other daughters of the commonwealth to one day tread. Her first piece of legislation, passed by the House, increased the life insurance benefit paid to survivors of military members killed on duty.

Pvt. Daniel Fisher, of Henry County, was preparing to also serve his commonwealth and country. He also lived by the motto, not self but others. We are truly blessed to live among such great Virginians.

Godspeed.

badrose wants to wish Steve a very happy birthday!  Hope it’s a great one!!

Schoolchildren in the US state of Ohio were left bemused after images of nude women were shown in a politician’s lecture on the legislative process.

(Full Story Here)

“Shame on him,” said State Senator Roscoe Reynolds, D-Ridgeway, of caption entries posted on a blog by Will Vehrs. “If I were him, I would resign,” Reynolds said. “Or if I had the power to fire him, I’d fire him.” ~Martinsville Bulletin, May 5, 2006~

“As far as I know, the only thing that Joe has done for me is to design a website,” Reynolds said. “I don’t know much about blogs, and I am not aware of what this is about. I am just not into blogs.” ~The Franklin News-Post, Sept. 3, 2007~

Soooooo…. Roscoe Reynolds knew enough about blogs a year and a half ago to call for a bloggers resignation. NOW, after attending a blog conference, Roscoe doesn’t even know enough about blogs to comment. Roscoe may be sellin’ it but I ain’t buyin’ it. Roscoe’s a HYPOCRITE. Or must we now be forced to say HYPOCRITIC to be acceptable in this new age climate of panty-waisted whiners who want to pick apart syntax because they don’t have any real progressive ideas?

Hypocrisy: Calling for the resignation of a conservative blogger for making fun of a stupid picture but then sticking your head in the sand when your liberal blogger buddy pulls a “prank” involving advocates of pedophilia. The only thing worse than a hypocrite is a cowardly hypocrite.

Roscoe may be a member of a special genus of hypocrites. The Richmond Times-Dispatch calls him homo hypocriticalis because he boasts about fending off a rate increase after he voted for a considerably larger tax increase. Does anyone else notice a pattern here?

I don’t think I’ve ever been prouder of my buddy, Alton Foley, than I was last Thursday night when he appeared as a guest on a local call-in show. In simple terms, he patiently described how members of the Old Dominion Blog Alliance had promoted YouTube videos of Roscoe Reynolds in all his glory, his arrogance and condescension displayed for all to see. Joe Stanley punished them by reserving a website in their name and linking it to NAMBLA. He later removed the NAMBLA link and replaced it with his rambling Mea Culpa complete with some links to blogs that don’t even belong to the ODBA.

It is complicated. Watch the video of Alton and decide for yourself. Send it on to Roscoe - maybe then he’ll finally stop flip-flopping and take a firm stand on something.

Or maybe a homo hypocriticalis can’t change its spots.

before I salute Jesse MacBeth.

Normally, I don’t endorse or support any candidate for the presidency. Namely, because my endorsement is the “kiss of death” to a candidacy (as well as to mutual funds). The last time “my guy” won the White House was 1984 and Ronald Reagan was the incumbent. Even my support couldn’t keep him down.

This year, I’ve quietly been pulling for Fred Dalton Thompson. Two reasons:

1. He entered the race later than the other candidates so there hasn’t been as much time for “the dirt” to come out but primarily because

2. He’s a Dalton. I’m a Dalton. Daltons are good people. Chances are, Fred and I are related because Daltons love to marry other Daltons. My grandfather and Judge Ted Dalton became aware of this when they first met and started tracing their ancestry to see if they were related. Genealogy wasn’t as popular back then and they didn’t have the internet to guide them. Once they realized that Daltons do indeed like to marry other Daltons, they decided to claim each other as kin. That concept has pretty much continued through to the present. If you’re a Dalton, we’ll claim you. And if you’re a Dalton that wants to be president, we’ll support you.

So why, despite our bloodlines, have I decided he won’t get my vote? I’ll gladly tell you - and it’s not pretty. The man dropped me as a friend on facebook. That’s right. Blood is obviously NOT thicker than water when you want to be president. What was my crime? I invited him (Dalton to Dalton) to join the Vote Ham Sandwich for PWC Commonwealth Attorney group. And he dropped me - just like that.

Fred’s obviously fickle and can’t be trusted. One day he’ll say Ahmadinejad looks tacky. The next day you’ll see them suit shopping together at Barneys.

If Fred doesn’t have the courage and conviction to back Ham Sandwich (who has the toughest stance on crime I’ve ever seen** - one I agree with COMPLETELY) then I don’t have the patience to back Fred. I may vote for Ham as a write-in candidate.

Your vote is yours to do with what you will. But remember: Fred dropped me like a bad habit. He’ll drop you, too.

**Ham Sandwich on Criminals:

* Criminals belong in jail.
* Only people who actually are criminals should be in jail.
* If you’re not a criminal, you should not be in jail.
* If you are a criminal, we should put you in jail.
* Jail is only for criminals.
* If there are criminals who are not in jail, we should find out who and where they are and put them in jail.
* Jail is good, but only for criminals.
* Criminals are bad. They belong in jail.
* Felons belong in jail, too.