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• Clip and Send to Webb and Warner.

  —Yankee Philip

  SEND THEM PACKIN' ! ! ! !
  
  Both Voted for the step towards Socialism' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:01am EST
  by Phil

• One person is screaming"sign our books" and one person is booing

  —Yankee Philip

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  And the Youtube clip is titled "CROWD BOOS Palin"
  
  How Silly can they be? The story is that over a thousand people stood in line to have her sign the book, not that 2 numbskulls, who arrived late, didn't get their book signed.' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:47am EST
  by Phil

• Local Bloggers at Swac Roundtable

  —Yankee Philip

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  Lynn from Swacgirl
  Bob Kirschman from The Journey
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:40am EST
  by Phil

• Local Notables at SWAC Roundtable

  —Yankee Philip

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  Alex
  
  
  Ed Long
  Kelly, Bill, Barb , and Katy
  
  Lynn and Tom
  
  Bill
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:30am EST
  by Phil

• Many Groups were represented at the SWAC Roundtable

  —Yankee Philip

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  Notice for Webb and Warner
  Family Forum...Dean Quelty(Ihope I got that right)
  Tea Party...Mr.Armstrong
  Constitution Party...Charles Kraut
  Constitution Party..Dave Mason
  [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:10am EST
  by Phil

• SWAC Conservative Round Table Breakfast attended by 67 people.

  —Yankee Philip

  Number of comments: 0
  We filled the back room of Shoney's and then some.
  
  
  I did a head count of 67 people.About 20 more than last month.
  I wouldn't be surprised if the media said' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:01am EST
  by Phil

• November SWAC Conservative Round Table Breakfast

  —Yankee Philip

  Number of comments: 0
  The SWAC Conservative Round Table
  held a Breakfast this morning.
  67 Conservatives showed up to hear the guest speaker, Keith Drake.Former Albemarle Republican Chairman.Kurt Michael and Keith Drake.
  [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:56am EST
  by Phil

• Obama's Plan To Bankrupt the Coal Industry ...

  —From On High

  ... kicks into high gear:
  
  Interior increases oversight of mountaintop mining
  
  Here's the short-hand version of the article:
  
  Obama's Interior Department will soon be rolling out regulations that will make it impossible for any proposed surface mine to ever receive the necessary permit again.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:38am EST
  

• 'I Am Stupid'

  —From On High

  "So Philip Morris owes me $300 million."
  
  Only in America, 2009:
  Ex-Smoker Wins Against Philip Morris
  By Duff Wilson, New York Times
  
  Legal experts predict that thousands of tobacco lawsuits could gain momentum in Florida after a Fort Lauderdale jury ordered Philip Morris USA to pay $300 million [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:51am EST
  

• Spin 101

  —From On High

  The New York Times this morning:
  
  "A variety of economists say that stimulus legislation is helping an economy in free fall a year ago to grow again and shed fewer jobs than it otherwise would."
  
  Like Obama's "jobs saved or created" chimera, this cynical "fewer shed" jobs [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:23am EST
  

• This Is News?

  —From On High

  About an hour ago, a pack of coyotes was howling and yipping like crazy in the pitch darkness that enshrouded the forest just beyond my barn.  Like they do every morning.
  
  It's an every-night/morning occurrence.
  
  That's why this doesn't startle me:
  
  Coyotes roam Botetourt area
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:17am EST
  

• Say What?

  —From On High

  So I'm perusing a list of endangered sites in the Roanoke region as provided to the Roanoke Times by the Roanoke Valley Preservation Foundation, and, mixed in with the not-surprising homesteads and abandoned factory buildings, I came across this on the list:
  Several mountainsides that are undergoing logging operations,' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:10am EST
  

• Titan In Running Shorts

  —From On High

  They've tried their best to destroy her.
  
  They have failed.
  
  She shoulders on.
  
  Still they hate her.
  Palin-Hating 101
  By S.E. Cupp, Town Hall
  
  Her influence and allure are practically unprecedented among failed vice presidential candidates. (Can anyone imagine Lloyd Bentsen, Jack Kemp or' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:04am EST
  

• Obama Is Known To Say Just About Anything

  —From On High

  As he stood atop the Great Wall, amiring its "majesty":
  
  Obama says Asia trip about jobs
  
  
  Whatever you say, Barry. [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:06am EST
  

• Lest We Forget

  —From On High

  There are those we become accustomed to ignoring.
  
  Those who never ignored us.
  
  
  
  I think I'll call my mother this afternoon.' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 5:13am EST
  

• Solutions To All Our Problems

  —From On High

  From the desk of former Delegate Barnie Day:
  Solving The Budget Crisis
  
  Forget the $3-per-ton tax credit we give Virginia’s billion-dollar-profit utilities for burning Virginia coal. Forget the billion-dollar rebate we send to localities for taxes they impose. Forget the hundred million dollar fee we pay retailers just for [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 5:04am EST
  

• It Isn't Funny Any More

  —From On High

  I always got the biggest kick out of ridiculing those "scientists" who believed - despite all evidence to the contrary - that the globe is warming.
  
  This goes beyond fun.  And deserves far more than ridicule in response.
  
  Exile is appropriate.  If not the lash.
  
  As [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 4:56am EST
  

• Welcome to California

  —Yankee Philip

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  Higher Education Cost
  CALIFORNIA BROKE?
  Tax TV's?
  ' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:40pm EST
  by Phil

• The Real Heroes, a few pics

  —Yankee Philip

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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:39pm EST
  by Phil

• Just a few pics on Congress

  —Yankee Philip

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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:38pm EST
  by Phil

• Write Webb and Warner. Say NO to Obamacare

  —Yankee Philip

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  Click here to contact Senator Webb
  Click here to contact Senator Warner
  Tell them
  
  "I am writing you to encourage you to vote ‘No’ on the Senate health care coming up for debate tomorrow night.
  
  Vote ‘No’ so debate cannot proceed.
  
  Vote ‘No’ to" [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:35pm EST
  by Phil

• Catch this before it is blocked

  —Yankee Philip

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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:30pm EST
  by Phil

• Latest Newsbusted

  —Yankee Philip

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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:24pm EST
  by Phil

• Climategate: Emails Hacked from Climate Research Unit

  —Yankee Philip

  Number of comments: 0
  Did their Balloon go POP?
  
  The conspiracy behind the Global Warming myth has been suddenly, brutally and quite deliciously exposed after a hacker broke into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU) and released 61 megabites of confidential [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:00pm EST
  by Phil

• Will Mark Warner vote anti-business and create new federal agency?

  —StrictlyVA

  Call Sen. Mark Warner (804.775-2314 or 202.224-2023) and tell him NO new federal agencies.
  
  While most eyes are on the massive federalized government health care bill now making its way through the Senate, Congress is secretly working on other legislation to broaden and expand government even more. We cannot [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:00pm EST
  by SWAC Girl

• Psalm 109:8

  —Yankee Philip

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  I am not a biblical scholar. I haven't read it in a while, so I went and looked up Psalm 109:8. This is what I found.
  
  Psalm 109:8
  New International Version (©1984)
  May his days be few; may another' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:36pm EST
  by Phil

• SWAC Conservative Round Table Breakfast

  —Yankee Philip

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  SWAC Conservative Round Table Breakfast Please note............NOT CONNECTED TO GOP
  Date: Saturday, November 21 Time: 8:00 a.m. Place: Shoney's Restaurant, Staunton Cost: $7.49 per person for breakfast bar (watch for $4.99 coupons in newspapers) or order off menu RSVP: Lynn Mitchell (LynnFromVa@aol.com) Please join us for breakfast [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:12pm EST
  by Phil

• Will Mark Warner vote anti-business and create unneeded federal agency?

  —SixtyFour81.com

  Call Sen. Mark Warner (804.775-2314 or 202.224-2023) and tell him NO new federal agencies.
  
  While most eyes are on the massive federalized government health care bill now making its way through the Senate, Congress is secretly working on other legislation to broaden and expand government even more. We cannot [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:00pm EST
  by SWAC Girl

• Will Mark Warner vote anti-business and create unneeded federal agency?

  —SWAC Girl

  Number of comments: 0
  Call Sen. Mark Warner (804.775-2314 or 202.224-2023) and tell him NO new federal agencies.
  
  While most eyes are on the massive federalized government health care bill now making its way through the Senate, Congress is secretly working on other legislation to broaden and expand government even more. We cannot [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:56pm EST
  by SWAC Girl

• Prayers for blogger warrior Concrete Bob

  —SWAC Girl

  Number of comments: 0
  Shock this morning reading Concrete Bob's post at United Conservatives of Virginia. In his light-hearted way and after quoting W.C. Fields, he wrote:
  Short and sweet, I had a serious heart attack on Wednesday night. I'm in the hospital, hooked up to a bunch of tubes.' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:50pm EST
  by SWAC Girl

• Mark Warner set to vote for cloture?

  —SWAC Girl

  Number of comments: 2
  Is his mind already made up? [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:01am EST
  by SWAC Girl

• Should Palin fan cross-examine MSNBC reporter Norah O'Donnell?

  —SWAC Girl

  Number of comments: 1
  Condescending liberal reporter alert ... MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell staked out the line of supporters waiting for Sarah Palin's Thursday book signing and zeroed in on a young lady to tackle and blindside. Interesting recap and video at Media Research Center.' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:00am EST
  by SWAC Girl

• News Virginian: Augusta County supervisors ignored warning

  —SWAC Girl

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  The Waynesboro News Virginian was a champion of the people of Augusta County throughout the 2009 real estate assessment issue when outrageously high assessments were loudly protested by residents by the hundreds and even as warnings were issued by Supervisor Tracy Pyles.
  
  The NV's Wednesday editorial talked' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:50am EST
  by SWAC Girl

• "Let your light so shine...."

  —SWAC Girl

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  "Let your light so shine
  before men,
  that they may see
  your good works,
  and glorify your
  Father
  in heaven."
  -- Matthew 5:16 [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:15am EST
  by SWAC Girl

• It's Come To This

  —From On High

  Where once thousands were employed, this part of Virginia now looks for someone to kick in a few thousand ... dollars:
  Railroading groups join to woo tourists
  By Jenny Kincaid Boone
  
  Tourism gurus have a plethora of options for marketing the Roanoke Valley and its surrounding areas as a [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:18am EST
  

• Quote of the Day

  —From On High

  From Charles Krauthammer:
  Finally, there's the moral logic. It's not as if [Attorney General Eric] Holder opposes military commissions on principle. On the same day he sent KSM to a civilian trial in New York, Holder announced he was sending Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, (accused) mastermind of the attack on [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:05am EST
  

• Like a Ping Pong ball

  —From On High

  This was our foreign policy two weeks ago:
  
  US vows to get tough on Karzai
  
  This is our policy today:
  
  A softer approach to Karzai
  
  Two weeks from now?
  
  If I were Karzai, I'd be finding a new "ally."' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:59am EST
  

• Obama Embarrasses Us All

  —From On High

  
  
  This is humiliating:
  Obama in China: A wake-up call!
  By David Gergen, AC360
  
  Barack Obama has recently been reading up on the presidency of John F. Kennedy. Coming home from China, he might well focus on Kennedy’s first summit overseas with the leader of the [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:32am EST
  

• I Learn a New Word

  —From On High

  Intaxicaton
  Noun: intaxication  in-täx-sə-ˈkā-shən
  
  1. Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:15am EST
  

• Frightening

  —From On High

  Go to "The Decline: The Geography of a Recession" to see an evolving map depicting the spread - by county - of the effects of the 2006 Democratic takeover of Congress (and later of the White House) on the economy.
  
  This should give you nightmares. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:09am EST
  

• I Learn Another Word

  —From On High

  Palinoia
  Noun: palinoia pā-ly-noi'-uh
  1. A psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution by Sarah Palin.
  Palinoia
  by Megan McArdle, The Atlantic
  
  Y'all well know that I really don't like Sarah Palin.  In fact, more than one of you has yelled at me about this.  And I find the whole schtick' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:07am EST
  

• Giving New Meaning To a Word

  —From On High

  Watchdog
  Noun: watchdog wŏch'dôg'
   1. What Obama's Stimulus Watchdog ain't.
  Watchdog Urges Caution on Claims of 640,000 Stimulus Jobs
  By Michael Cooper, New York Times
  
  Washington — The government watchdog overseeing the federal stimulus program testified Thursday that he could not vouch for the Obama administration’s recent claims' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:05am EST
  

• Global Non-Warming Gaining Mainstream Attention

  —From On High

  Hey, Al.  Want an inconvenient truth?
  Climatologists Baffled by Global Warming Time-Out
  By Gerald Traufetter, Der Spiegel
  
  Global warming appears to have stalled. Climatologists are puzzled as to why average global temperatures have stopped rising over the last 10 years. Some attribute the trend to a lack of sunspots, [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:49am EST
  

• These People Have a Screw Loose

  —From On High

  From the lunatic asylum:
  ‘Climate change pushes poor women to prostitution, dangerous work’
  By Joseph Holandes Ubalde, GMANews.TV
  
  Effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines to risk dangerous jobs, and sometimes even into the flesh trade.
  
  Suneeta [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:38am EST
  

• How They've Changed Their Tune

  —From On High

  Whereas in 2006, Democrats were admonishing young Americans to "study hard, do their homework, and make an effort to be smart," or they'll be forced to go into the military, today the Democrats see those in uniform differently.  Now that Obama's in charge, they're useful tools:
  
  "You'" [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:32am EST
  

• We Love Her In The Heartland

  —From On High

  Truly a phenomenon:
  Palin's Gold Mine
  by Duff McDonald, The Daily Beast
  
  Going Rogue is going gangbusters, and it looks like both Palin and her publisher, HarperCollins, are going to make some serious money off of it.
  
  A HarperCollins insider told The Daily Beast that the book sold' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:26am EST
  

• Sarah, Alaska, and growing up free

  —SWAC Girl

  Number of comments: 0
  Many are writing about the MSM's irrational obsession with tearing down Sarah Palin. Irrational ... obsession. Are they afraid of a self-confident, strong woman who gets things done?
  
  Donald Douglas at American Power blogs about Gov. Palin's background as described in her new book, Going Rogue: An American [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:13am EST
  by SWAC Girl

• Sarah Palin strikes fear into liberal hearts

  —SWAC Girl

  Number of comments: 0
  Tom White at Virginia Right nails it in his entire post about Sarah Palin and the power of someone not even in public office yet loved by so many. Witness her book tour where thousands are lining up to see her. The woman has a way of turning out [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:56pm EST
  by SWAC Girl

• Are the Toronto Maple Leafs getting a new style to boost ticket sales?

  —Yankee Philip

  Number of comments: 0
  
  The Toronto Maple Leafs are the basement dwellers of the NHL. They have only won 3 games so far this year. [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:46pm EST
  by Phil

• Global Warming Causes Prostitution. Not a Joke, Read

  —Yankee Philip

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  "Women are taking the brunt of climate change."
  
  In an interview with the Inter Press News Agency, Marita Rodriguez of the Centre for Empowerment and Resource Development, Inc. said women are taking the brunt of climate change.
  "Aside from their household chores and participation in fishing activity, they have" [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:35pm EST
  by Phil