Archive for February, 2009

Real News About Tuppers Beers

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Feb 2nd, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The Tuppers’ website was updated on February 1 with some exciting news. A new Tuppers’ beer, and significant progress towards a return of Tuppers’ beers. From the website:New Beer from Tuppers!No, this isn’t the big story you’ve been waiting for, but i…



February stormchase?

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Feb 2nd, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

This graphical forecast from the GFS 228 hour projection shows a strong low pressure system steaming eastward, with the Mid-Atlantic – northern Virginia specifically – firmly in the warm sector. A bit of instability is also indicated in other views….



Tanning Perils in Fred. Vegas!

By From http://fredvegaschronicles.blogspot.com/ • Feb 2nd, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Emily Battle posted a funny blog entry last week which reminds me I really need to link up with my fellow Fred. Vegas bloggers. But over-tanning is a big problem around here, for ladies and more inexplicably for men. Why is this? Why is it cool to be ora…



Little Blue House

By From http://fredericksblogger.blogspot.com/ • Feb 2nd, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Remember this tiny house I mentioned at the end of a post a couple of weeks ago? I heard that it was owned by Tommy Mitchell, the same local developer who owns (along with partners) the Marriott hotel that is growing up around it, and that the little h…



A House Dividing

By From http://fred2blue.com • Feb 2nd, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Last year Republicans sported signs that said: ‘Country First’. This year, they’re rooting for the President of the United States to fail during one of the toughest times in our country’s history. Nowhere is this blatant and intentionally divisive attitude more evident than in the House of Representatives in D.C. and the House of Delegates in […]



Elsewhere on the Internet (February 2nd 10:05)

By From http://www.odonnellweb.com • Feb 2nd, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The Agitator » Blog Archive » A Letter I’d Like To See (But Won’t) –



Happy Hedgehog Day! (Groundhog Day)

By From http://sarahiouslyspeaking.com • Feb 2nd, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Once again Americans mess, I mean, enhance, with the original.  February 2 was also celebrated in Roman times, but not as Groundhog Day.  Hedgehogs are predominate in Europe and every February 2 the hedgehog would emerge from hibernation and predict the winter/ spring season.  If the hedgehog saw it’s shadow, then there were 6 more weeks of winter.  Since […]



Dear Jeff,

By From http://fred2blue.com • Feb 1st, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The RPV’s top fundraiser just handed Del. Jeff Frederick (?-52) a Dear John Jeff letter.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Stafford County Sun:
The chief fundraiser for the Republican Party of Virginia is quitting, branding the GOP “dysfunctional.“
The departure of Walter M. Curt, a wealthy Shenandoah Valley businessman, is another setback for the party’s embattled chairman, Del. Jeffrey […]



Another Tuesday snow prediction

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Feb 1st, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Here we go again, altho’ the flip-flopping of the forecast models every 12 hours is wreaking havoc in weather forecast offices along the East Coast. Each successive run shows a substantial low pressure center, with one run moving the storm well east o…



It Couldn’t be Any Worse Than Seeing Grant Become President

By From http://fred2blue.com • Feb 1st, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Last night:
I am seriously glad to be here tonight at the annual Alfalfa dinner. I know that many you are aware that this dinner began almost one hundred years ago as a way to celebrate the birthday of General Robert E. Lee. If he were here with us tonight, the General would be 202 years […]