Jerry, just remember, it’s not a lie if you believe it.
 – George Costanza, Assistant to the Traveling Secy., New York Yankees
I told Congress ‘Thanks, but no thanks’ for that bridge to nowhere up in Alaska. If our state wanted a bridge, we were going to build it ourselves.
– Sarah from Wasilla
Check out Sarah’s new diary […]

Fred2Blue is thrilled to have Stafford County’s own Laurie Williams – an acclaimed canine behavior expert, owner of Pup’n’Iron Canine Fitness & Learning Center and co-finalist (with her Maltese Andrew) of CBS TV’s The Greatest American Dog – join us today to help answer a very pressing question of national importance:  What kind of dog should the Obamas add to their family?
Dan:  […]

We are pleased to welcome a fresh new voice to Fred2Blue, John LeFebre from Spotsylvania County.
John is a great “get” who will bring a much-needed Spotsy perspective to this blog.  But his contributions won’t end there; John will light a blue flame under the FL-S and post on important local, statewide and national stories, as well.
We […]

With New York Fashion Week kicking off this Friday, we decided to take a look into Gov. Sarah Palin’s closet. Governor Go-Go Boots might be stylin’ now, but let’s just say big hair wasn’t her only 1980’s fashion disaster.  From her days as a Univ. of Idaho undergrad:

The message on her t-shirt reads:  I may be […]

Photography courtesy of Amy LaMarca:

Congressman Bobby Scott and Amy LaMarca

The Virginia Delegation standard.

The stage at the DNC 08.

Joe Biden accepts the VP nod.

Virginia and Illinois delegates hoist their Biden standards.

Barack greets the Delegates!

A fortnightly rant, FL-S style (LATE EDITION) with h/t to Amy for some great jpegs:
As our Fred2Blue Land friends Carlos Del Toro, Amy LaMarca and Jhana Porter took their seats inside the Virginia Delegation of the joyous 2008 Democratic National Convention, my thoughts turned back to my one-and-only political convention experience, 28 years ago this month: the Buswreck at Seventh Avenue […]

The Republican National Committee had to have known that Minneapolis/St. Paul – its 2008 convention site – ranks among the gayest metros in the U.S…right?
Apparently, this discovery was late to reach the RPV.  From an AP dispatch, posted this morning:

The publisher of a Twin Cities magazine says he was caught by surprise after a group […]

Plutocrat Thurston Howell III is defending longtime friend and presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain from criticism by “those dreadful, just dreadful one-at-a-time home owners.”
Reached by satellite-phone, Howell a scion of Newport, R.I. society and a 1932 graduate of Harvard College, said that he doesn’t even know how many homes he personally owns.  “Counting homes is for the […]

Creepy.