An off-duty pirate is a good pirate in my book. They're not all swashbuckling and whatnot, trying to charm you with their faux-rowdy ways. Who decided we neede strolling pirates in our lives, anyway? At least mimes are quiet.
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by Anna Shoup, Local/National Editor, Online NewsHour, [newshour.pbs.org], [twitter.com]
Posted: 07.03.2009 / 8:15 AM PDT
A party, even to celebrate America’s independence, just didn’t make it into the spending plan in parts of Patchwork Nation.
Nixa, Mo., a socially conservative “Evangelical Epicenter,” ended [...]
Patchwork Nation sent a request for a snapshot of Independence Day holiday plans in the Hampton Roads region. SmartRegion.org readers and guest bloggers were more than happy to comply.
Many here in “Military Bastion” Hampton Roads mentioned that while July 4th is a [...]
I was attending the Game/Fireworks today at Harbor Park and, since I was in Portsmouth checking out the Love Life in The Loop promotion, I decided to ride the #90 across the river to try out the Harbor Park ferry.
Once the [...]
The new Town Point Park is a lot flatter and has a lot fewer trees, and that's about it, as far as I could tell. The end result is that Harborfest looks more like the Suffolk Peanut Festival than it used to.
[...]What, you might be asking, is this?
This:
What happened in Honduras was not a military coup. Honduras has a civilian president, Roberto Micheletti, a member of former President Manuel Zelaya's own Liberal Party, who was elevated to the post after Mr. Zelaya was removed. The army did not seize power, [...]
Posted here and at The Borg Conspiracy, by guest blogger Locutiprime.
Ever since the breaking news announcement this afternoon concerning Governor Sarah Palin, I have been at an increasing loss for words and bewildered of thought, as to exactly what has happened and what was or [...]
Via The Washington Times:
Colin Powell, one of President Obama's most prominent Republican supporters, expressed concern Friday that the president's ambitious blitz of costly initiatives may be enlarging the size of government and the federal debt too much.
"I'm concerned at the number of programs that'" [...]
Here's an interesting map for you demographics buffs.
Patchwork Nation was first developed to cover the 2008 election. But it is being reincarnated to "cover more communities and more topics, with a focus on the economy and how it affects different sorts of communities".
Maine is in big trouble [...]
She either got real bad advice, her heart’s not in it, or she’s an idiot. None of those possibilities strike me as especially positive to her future electoral possibilities.
[...]How about an update on the housing market?
We're also thinking of moving (HELP), and I wonder how you get it "realtor ready"?
The housing market is the pits. Is it any better for you? We ended up taking our house off the market - it was on for six [...]
Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska announced Friday that she would step down by the end of the month and not seek a second term as governor, fueling speculation that she is seriously weighing whether to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012.
Ms. Palin, who [...]
I hope we find out why soon. Her announcement is promising ... and shows that she is anything but conventional.
Popeye Doyle chased some surrender monkeys down this stretch, I'm told. Or, to be more accurate, Gene Hackman. Or, to be even more accurate, a stunt driver pretending to be Gene Hackman pretending to be Popeye Doyle. Not that being accurate has anything to do with' [...]
Despite economic woes, the City of Williamsburg is engaged with an ambitious set of Initiatives aimed at nine big picture Goals and tracking progress through dozens of Key Output Measures and National Citizen Survey results. The next progress update will be issued [...]
Unemployment numbers released yesterday showed the unemployment rate at a 26-year high of 9.5%. This translates to 467,000 jobs lost in the month of June alone.
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Dear Mr. President:
I’d like to request a refund on the Stimulus package you [...]
Can anyone say rank hypocrisy:
Politicians may want the greedy bankers and CEO's to suck it up and skip their bonuses, but don't expect the elite in Washington to share in the suffering. This may be the worst recession since the Great Depression or since the Reagan years but' [...]
We had just come out of the Bacon exhibition. I love bacon. Just a scribbly drawing because it was rilly hot out on the steps, and I was hankering to find a mobbed-up bar with zebras on the wall. And so we did.
[...]
$2.8 billion in the red. That’s the Post Office, and it’s expected to double this year, according to the Postmaster General.
Rep. Tom Perriello chose to equate this model of inefficiency and red ink to Cap and Trade legislation.
“The reality is that the most people [...]
With the Supreme Court's decision in Ricci v. DeStefano this week, we can now report that Sonia Sotomayor is even crazier than Ruth Bader Ginsburg. ...
This week, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 for the white and Hispanic firefighters, overturning Sotomayor's endorsement of racial quotas.
But all nine [...]
This whole cap and trade thing reminds me of a discussion I took part in as part of our city’s Master Plan Rewrite Committee.
As part of the Master Plan Rewrite we filled out an SGRAT survey (Smart Growth Readiness Assessment Tool, [...]
Guest post by Rep. J. Randy Forbes
“Health care debate could derail over government plan.”
It was 7 a.m. and I had pulled up Google News to see a flurry of headlines on the health care debate in Congress.
“Lawmakers face health care fight.”
“Health-care debate heats up [...]
A constitution is a unique document. It's a popular contract, either explicitly or implicitly given force by the acquiescence of the mass of the people, that sets down the terms under [...]
Via Eternity Road
