Archive for July, 2008

George Allen: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

By From http://fred2blue.wordpress.com • Jul 7th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

As Not Larry Sabato points out, the Obama campaign should run this ad in NOVA from now until election day:

And while we’re at it, let’s throw this one around as well:



F2B Exclusive: July 4th Weekend Holiday Crash on I-95 (UPDATE)

By From http://fred2blue.wordpress.com • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Stafford

UPDATE by Dan:  On Monday, July 7, Pamela Gould of the FL-S reports that the I-95 crash shown below was in fact a fatality.

There was a nasty accident at approximately 1:30 P.M. today on I-95 northbound in Quantico. My friend, Stuart Katz of Florham Park, N.J. was just a few cars behind this […]



Heritage Festival Report

By From http://burgnews.blogspot.com/ • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Thanks to G from http://dandelionsinmygarden.blogspot.com/ for sending in this report from the Heritage Festival and all of the events around town July 4th 2008 (see more text over at her own blog):Here’s a few pictures from the Fredericksburg festivit…



links for 2008-07-06

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Don’tspotting: Browse galleries of fashion dos & don’ts: glamour.com
Wil Wheaton and the clown sweater on Glamour.com. The comments are made of awesome
(tags: funny, wheaton)



Independence Day storms

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

As has happened during a number of past Independence Days Nature provided her own fireworks Friday just as our cookout with friends and family was in full swing. The chicken and hot dogs were done just in time to avoid the downpour, and in the meant…



Stafford BOS manages to please absolutely no one.

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Which is always a politician’s goal, right? 🙂
The Stafford BOS voted to impose a Business and Professional Occupancy License (BPOL) tax starting in January 2010.
Well, from the right side of the aisle, here’s what D. J. McGuire had to say about it at The right-wing liberal:
Indeed it is, and there is hardly a tax more […]



Using your Xbox as a MP3 player

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I’ve had figure out how to play MP3 collection through home theater on my list of things to do for a very long time. I’ve had a plan to put a music server down there and plug the sound card into the receiver. However, I haven’ gotten around to procuring a sufficiently cheap obsolete […]



Yong Hui Zhang found dead in Sussex.

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Richmond Times-Dispatch:
The body of a Fredericksburg deliveryman who was abducted Thursday night was found last night in a remote area of Sussex County, Fredericksburg police said.
Yong Hui Zhang, 24, disappeared sometime after 9:30 p.m. Thursday while making deliveries for his family’s restaurant, China Express at 1500 Jefferson Davis Highway in Fredericksburg.
Zhang was found shortly after […]



Diary of Betty Herndon Maury – August 2, 1862

By From http://thehouseoncarolinestreet.blogspot.com/ • Jul 6th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Saturday August 2nd [1862]Jourdan Roper came down last night with his father’s horses. The Yankees were at the Bowling Green. Early this morning Mr. John William prepared to start with twenty five of the best negroes and some of the horses. He told t…



Good Riddance

By From http://fred2blue.wordpress.com • Jul 5th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

To Jesse Helms, Virgil Goode, and any other former Democrats that I’m forgeting about. The exodus started with Strom Thurmond’s Dixiecrat candidacy in 1948. It continued with George Wallace’s segregationist movement in the 60’s. And on and on it goes. But reason number #1 I’m not a Republican is Jesse Helms.
In 1996 I went down to North […]