Archive for July, 2008

Murder a newborn, get 8 months in prison.

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Jul 25th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Sounds reasonable, right?:
An Anne Arundel County judge has released a 19-year-old woman who served eight months in a juvenile detention facility for the death of her newborn baby.
The judge ruled the woman had been rehabilitated and the woman was released to her father’s custody. The woman had been sentenced last December to stay at a […]



Tasting Events This Weekend

By From http://vadavid.blogspot.com/ • Jul 25th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Looks to be a pleasant weekend weather-wise, for Virginia anyway. You know what they say about Virginia weather? Don’t like it? Wait 5 minutes, it’ll change. I hope to see some of you next week at the Fredericksburg Blogger Happy Hour on Thursday, July…



Diary of Betty Herndon Maury – September 21, 1862

By From http://thehouseoncarolinestreet.blogspot.com/ • Jul 25th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Sunday. September 21st [1862] My dear husband went down to Richmond this morning. He has made another application for a commission in the army and has gone to further it as much as he can. I wish I could be more patient and gent…



No need for another bullet; POS manages to accomplish one thing in his life.

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Jul 24th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The Washington Post:
A man suspected of raping at least nine women in Prince George’s County, many of whom he met through the popular Web site Craigslist, died after shooting himself in the head yesterday while barricaded inside a Hyattsville apartment building, Prince George’s police said.



The other end of search

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Jul 24th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

(I wrote this last night, then could not post due to my web host taking the server down for maintenance.)
As I sit here with no TV due to a storm, missing Natalie Portman as a guest judge on Project Runway, I was poking around my site stats. I sorted incoming Google visitors by time spent […]



I say give the guy another bullet.

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Jul 24th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

WTOP:
Prince George’s County police say a Suitland man suspected of raping at least nine women shot himself in the head yesterday while barricaded inside a Hyattsville apartment building.
Police say 33-year-old Mark Antonio Humphries shot himself Wednesday and was taken to a hospital, where he was listed in critical condition.
They say Humphries visited Craigslist and chat […]



Spotsylvania funnel fest

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Jul 24th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

After reviewing the nearly 100 photos I snapped during yesterday’s chase I have concluded the following:(1) This was a tornado at 8:11 pm (my fourth in Virginia chasing). I should note that the visible condensation pieces were rotating around the cent…



Obama: Ich Bin Ein Berliner Redux?

By From http://fred2blue.wordpress.com • Jul 24th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Barack Obama addressed a HUGE crowd in Berlin, today.
h/t HuffPo



iPint for iPhone – Trivial Fun

By From http://vadavid.blogspot.com/ • Jul 24th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Here’s a way to have a little bit of fun when you’re out practicing good beer etiquette with friends. iPint is a free application for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch from the makers of Carling beer. The game uses the phone’s accelerometer to sense moveme…



Grant $ Gets Green

By From http://burgnews.blogspot.com/ • Jul 24th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

This article, Grants Awarded to Help Protect Chesapeake Bay, in today’s Washington Post is about school kids converting parking lots to rain gardens, grants for green roofs, and 32 other project grants intended to improve the Chesapeake bay.Here in the…