BlogNetNews.com » Hampton Roads » Dashboard « Today's Most Clicked Blogs http://blognetnews.com/HamptonRoadsVa/ BlogNetNews.com » Hampton Roads BlogNetNews.com en The Virginian: “Party Crashers” had five-year relationship with Obama before state dinner http://blognetnews.com/HamptonRoadsVa/go.php?http://moneyrunner.blogspot.com/2009/11/party-crashers-had-five-year.html Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:08:00 -0500 http://moneyrunner.blogspot.com/2009/11/party-crashers-had-five-year.html Number of comments: 0
Could it be that they were not "party crashers" at all? How do you crash a party ...when they came into the tent with a Bravo Reality TV Show “Real Housewives of DC” professional camera crew and makeup artist in tow ...? [...] ]]> Brutally Honest: The global warming house of cards is on the verge of collapse http://blognetnews.com/HamptonRoadsVa/go.php?http://www.brutallyhonest.org/brutally_honest/2009/11/the-global-warming-house-of-cards-is-on-the-verge-of-collapse.html Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:26:08 -0500 http://www.brutallyhonest.org/brutally_honest/2009/11/the-global-warming-house-of-cards-is-on-the-verge-of-collapse.html

So much for peer review:

SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.

It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to [...] ]]> SmartRegion.org: The USS Monitor http://blognetnews.com/HamptonRoadsVa/go.php?http://smartregion.org/2009/11/the-uss-monitor/ Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:39:00 -0500 http://smartregion.org/2009/11/the-uss-monitor/

James River, VA. Close-up view of officers on the Deck of the U.S.S. Monitor near the turret. Taken July 9, 1862 (photo: James F. Gibson, b.1828)
(source: United States Library of Congress)

It was the most celebrated ship in the U.S. Navy at the time, [...] ]]> Pen and Sword: Bananastan Delusions http://blognetnews.com/HamptonRoadsVa/go.php?http://zenhuber.blogspot.com/2009/11/bananastan-delusions.html Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:15:00 -0500 http://zenhuber.blogspot.com/2009/11/bananastan-delusions.html Number of comments: 5

President Obama’s Dec. 1 speech about his decision on the Bananastans (Afghanistan and Pakistan) is unlikely to surprise anyone. The sanctioned leaks have been coming fast and furious the past few days, and it appears that Gen. Stanley McChrystal will get what he asked for. Maybe.

[...] ]]> Bearing Drift: Cash for Flunkers http://blognetnews.com/HamptonRoadsVa/go.php?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bearingdrift/~3/OfCeDMj3cRc/ Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:24:55 -0500 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bearingdrift/~3/OfCeDMj3cRc/

SNL just nails it in this skit. My favorite line at 3:21 states “each of your plans to save money involves spending even more money”

[...] ]]> Brutally Honest: Behold, thy King cometh unto thee http://blognetnews.com/HamptonRoadsVa/go.php?http://www.brutallyhonest.org/brutally_honest/2009/11/behold-thy-king-cometh-unto-thee.html Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:53:43 -0500 http://www.brutallyhonest.org/brutally_honest/2009/11/behold-thy-king-cometh-unto-thee.html Posted by guest blogger Fr. D.

Advent 1

Romans 13:8–13

St. Matthew 21:1–13

+ In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

Romans 13:12   12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us [...] ]]> Brutally Honest: Iran emboldened by Western weakness (UPDATED) http://blognetnews.com/HamptonRoadsVa/go.php?http://www.brutallyhonest.org/brutally_honest/2009/11/iran-emboldened-by-western-weakness.html Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:35:17 -0500 http://www.brutallyhonest.org/brutally_honest/2009/11/iran-emboldened-by-western-weakness.html

Ahmadinejad is clearly thumbing his nose at Obama:

Iran's government will build 10 new sites to enrich uranium, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday, a dramatic expansion of the country's nuclear program and one that is bound to fuel fears that it is attempting to produce a [...] ]]> Brutally Honest: Obama's brilliant first year http://blognetnews.com/HamptonRoadsVa/go.php?http://www.brutallyhonest.org/brutally_honest/2009/11/obamas-brilliant-first-year.html Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:51:11 -0500 http://www.brutallyhonest.org/brutally_honest/2009/11/obamas-brilliant-first-year.html

Chronicled nicely by Chris Muir's Day by Day cartoon:



' [...] ]]> VB Dems: Sen. Mary Landrieu Channels Sen. Frank Wagner: "Shit Happens" http://blognetnews.com/HamptonRoadsVa/go.php?http://www.vbdems.org/diary/3512/sen-mary-landrieu-channels-sen-frank-wagner Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:49:41 -0500 http://www.vbdems.org/diary/3512/sen-mary-landrieu-channels-sen-frank-wagner Louisiana's Sen. Mary Landrieu was presented with the facts surrounding offshore drilling at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee last week. First, she accused those testifying against drilling of lying. Then standing in front of a large poster of the flaming Australian oil platform, she exclaimed "The fact" [...] ]]> Tidewater Liberty: Beating Trees into Hockey Sticks http://blognetnews.com/HamptonRoadsVa/go.php?http://tidewaterliberty.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/beating-trees-into-hockey-sticks/ Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:32:22 -0500 http://tidewaterliberty.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/beating-trees-into-hockey-sticks/ [...] ]]>