Archive for April, 2009

Virginia Fusion Center: Black and Christian colleges and universities “potential breeding grounds for terrorism”.

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Apr 26th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

UPI:
Colleges and universities in Virginia’s Hampton Roads area are potential breeding grounds for terrorism, a state police report contends.
A 200-page report issued by the state police’s Virginia Fusion Center says terror and extremist groups have links to the state’s schools, singling out unnamed historically black colleges and the evangelical Christian Regent University, the (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot […]



Spotsylvania May Be Coming Around…

By From http://fred2blue.com • Apr 26th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Spotsylvania

Spotsylvania Supervisors Hap Connors (Chair) and Gary Skinner (Vice Chair) will appear at the Committee of 500 General Membership meeting on Monday, April 27 from 6:30 to 8:30, at the Salem Church Library.    The public is invited.   One topic sure to come up is VRE.   The Board is pondering a vote […]



Record High

By From http://fredericksblogger.blogspot.com/ • Apr 26th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

This is my antidote to a 95 degree day in April.



Which is the better deal, a foreclosure, or a bank owned property?

By From http://fredericksburgrealestateblog.com • Apr 26th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

As Realtors in the Fredericksburg real estate market, we very often find potential home buyers who iare looking to purchase a foreclosed home.  No problem with that, we have LOTS of them.  But, occasionally we meet a buyer who is adamant they want to buy a home at a “foreclosure sale,” or in other words on the courthouse […]



Stimpson Running for Supervisor

By From http://fred2blue.com • Apr 25th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Stafford

The worst kept secret in Stafford is now official, as county GOP Chair Susan Stimpson is indeed running for Supervisor in the Falmouth district.
Personally, I’m just glad she’s gotten her life back together since getting rejected from season 6 of American Idol.



What Right-Wing Extremism?

By From http://fred2blue.com • Apr 25th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

WIRED:
Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, was arrested by FBI agents who identified him as the Twitter user CitizenQuasar. In a series of tweets beginning April 11, CitizenQuasar vowed to start a “war” against the government on the steps of the Oklahoma City Capitol building, the site of that city’s version of the national “Tea Party” protests […]



April 25th target

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Apr 25th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I confess to being lazy last night and not looking at models, but I had been thinking about northwestern OK as a target location (Woodward again?). The forecast discussion sounds like the storms in this area will initiate late this afternoon into the …



Lake Anna Winery

By From http://fredericksblogger.blogspot.com/ • Apr 25th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

We saved this trip for the first nice day after a long bout of rain. We’ve been down there before to see the Renaissance Faire a few times, but we hadn’t tasted any Lake Anna wine in quite a few years. We were actually very surprised, because the w…



Oh yeah, watch out Beatrice NE!

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Apr 24th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Radar-indicated rotation is circled in this doppler image of a storm approaching Beatrice NE. Told ya that was a good chase target today!!



Name That Warner: Climate Change Edition

By From http://fred2blue.com • Apr 24th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Dirty, tree-hugging hippy Sen. John Warner (not Mark) was on the Hill today, speaking out in support of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009.