Archive for December, 2009

Did you know? Only 5.15% of Krystal Ball’s campaign contributions from individuals come from within the 1st Congressional District.

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Dec 18th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

That’s what her campaign finance disclosure reports show through September 30, 2009.
$13,700 from nine donors (one of whom is her husband who chipped in $4,800) from within in the district.
Only $23,400 (8.79%) from within all of Virginia.
Meanwhile, she’s received $87,093 (32.71%) from the state of California. If you don’t include the money from her husband […]



Local Homebrewers Rock

By From http://www.musingsoverapint.com/ • Dec 17th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Events

The Third Annual Virginia Beer Blitz was held Saturday, December 12 at St. George Brewery in Hampton, VA. This annual event is sponsored by The Colonial Ale Smiths & Keggers (CASK). The Virginia Beer Blitz is a BJCP/AHA Sanctioned Competition and a…



Delegate Albert Pollard starts a blog.

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Dec 17th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Check it out.
No comment from Bill Kling or Catherine Crabill about the latest addition to the list of evil bloggers.



Mid-Atlantic snow storm potential

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Dec 17th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Check out my general weather blog post for the latest on the upcoming Mid-Atlantic snowstorm. StormsRUs is focused on convective severe weather, while Fredericksburg Weather covers most other weather events.Sometimes it’s just nice to separate the two…



Witch-hunt in the 99th House District.

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Dec 17th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I first got wind of this little witch-hunt at the 1st Congressional District Republican Committee meeting on December 11th. I was sitting in the back of the room when Bill Kling (Crabill’s campaign manger) went to up Larry Kile (King George County Republican Committee Chairman), who was sitting about ten feet away from me, and […]



Uh oh…where’s the snow shovel?

By From http://fburg-weather.blogspot.com/ • Dec 17th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

I was a bit conservative in my last post; of course my excuse is that the forecast models changed considerably since then. We now have a whopper of a coastal low that looks to form off Cape Hatteras and dump inches and inches and inches…(sorry)… o…



2010 General Assembly Session: The good, the bad, and the ugly (so far).

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Dec 17th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Or the “great”, the “good”, the “bad”, and the “what the…” bills that have been prefiled so far for this coming session.
Great
HJ5 (Oder): Creates a transportation lockbox.
SB 4 (Smith): Requires General Assembly members to disclose if them or anyone in their families makes more than $10,000 from any state or local agency or government.
SB 5 […]



Since I’m too lazy to post anything for Christmas: Check out Kat’s Carnival of Christmas.

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • Dec 17th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

A Carnival for anything Christmas related. You can share Christmas stories, Christmas poems, Christmas podcasts, Christmas parodies, Christmas pictures, etc. The only requirement is that the post be respectful of the Holiday and in the Spirit of Christmas cheer and kindness.
Check it out.



May 15 2009 gust front in Oklahoma

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Dec 16th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

This picture reminded me of the awesome squall line that rumbled through Kansas and Oklahoma on May 15th, our last Plains chase day before I flew back home. We saw a lot that day, including many members of the Vortex 2 chase team, but we didn’t see an…



Snow this weekend, and rain on Christmas?!!

By From http://fburg-weather.blogspot.com/ • Dec 16th, 2009 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The forecast models are starting to converge on a solution that appears to throw some snow our way this coming Saturday into Sunday. (Surprise! Yet another wet weekend!!) Based on the current amounts of moisture and available surface temperatures we…