Archive for February, 2009

Elsewhere on the Internet (February 15th 23:55)

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Feb 15th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Main Page – StimulusWiki – A wiki to track the stimulus bill



Spelling Fail

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Feb 15th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

While driving around the Wilderness battlefields we came upon this housing development. For those of you that are local, it’s about here.

From Random



Chancellorsville and Wilderness Battlefields

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Feb 15th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

With the girls out horsing around, Breck and I took advantage of the reasonable weather to tour Chancellorsville and Wilderness Battlefields. This was not our first time, although it has been about 4 years and both if us are much better versed in Civil War history today.

Chancellorsville was an important battle and I think the […]



“Furious” George Schwartz, An Angry Man Doing a Bad Job Lusting for More Power

By From http://rappahannockred.wordpress.com • Feb 15th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Politics, Stafford

May the video clips begin to flood the blogs now!
Schwartz, an 80-ish year old,  New York “come-here” of Falls Run active-adult community, got involved in politics because he had a problem with his new retirement house that he couldn’t work out amicably with the builder to solve.  1,200 other unit owners had punch-list items and […]



My Valentine’s Day

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Feb 15th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Morning: Removing “XP Antivirus Cop” malware infestation from son’s PC. It’s a fake antivirus program that throws up bogus warnings in an effort to get you to register the program with your credit card.
Late Morning: Researched idea of putting lightweight Linux distro in a virtual machine on his PC and having him do all his […]



Rappahannock Red 2009-02-15 07:48:36

By From http://rappahannockred.wordpress.com • Feb 15th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Stafford

A “Furious” George Schwartz victory would not only bring a local socialist to the state House of Delegates, but would also knock out our current Speaker, Bill Howell.
If fighting for a new tax on small businesses wasn’t enough, having secret meetings with radical so-called environmentalists like Cecilia Kirkman wasn’t enough, then certainly getting your tax […]



Let’s Talk Taxes

By From http://questeverything.blogspot.com/ • Feb 14th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

“The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.” Lao Tzu“Taxes grow without rain.”Jewish Proverb“He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by …



George Schwartz Running Against Speaker Howell

By From http://fred2blue.com • Feb 14th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Stafford Co. Board of Supervisors Chairman George Schwartz is running against Speaker Bill Howell in the 28th HD. The full press release is below.
Barack Obama captured 50.2% of the vote in the 28th last November, a district that includes the city of Fredericksburg and part of Stafford County. Although Schwartz is the Stafford BOS Chairman, […]



Market Statistics January 2009

By From http://sarahiouslyspeaking.com • Feb 14th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Fredericksburg City:

197 days on market – this is 57 days more than in January 2008
Sellers received, on average, 81.6% of their list price when the home sold
There is 9.86 months of inventory on the market
14 homes sold in January 2009 – this is 2 more than in January 2008
The most popular price range was $100,000-149,999 and $200,000- 249,999 equally. 
The average sold price was $225,459, compared to $338,775 in January 2008

Orange […]



Latest book published!

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Feb 14th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I pushed the button today and published Volume Two of my chase chronicles. I have ordered my proof copy but won’t receive it for a few days, so I can’t verify that I’ve found all the mistakes yet. I can tell you that it is more photo intensive than t…