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Something for Memorial Day: Remains of Maryland airman returned to family.

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • May 27th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

NBC4:
The remains of a Maryland airman missing in action during the Vietnam War will be returned to his family for burial, the Department of Defense announced Tuesday.
Air Force Senior Master Sgt. James K. Caniford, of Brunswick, will be buried May 28 at Arlington National Cemetery.
Caniford and 13 other men were aboard an AC-130A Spectre gunship […]



Richmond Times-Dispatch shills for a convicted capital murderer.

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • May 27th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Gag a maggot:
Kevin Green is scheduled to die by injection tomorrow night for the 1998 capital murder of a Dolphin woman during a robbery.
Green shot Patricia L. Vaughan four times inside Lawrence’s Grocery, a small business that she and her husband, Lawrence T. Vaughan, opened in 1981 in the small community where they grew up […]



Rob Wittman (R) to give Americans’ jobs to unskilled aliens at the behest of businesses.

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • May 26th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

From a press release:
Congressman Robert J. Wittman (VA-01) today announced that the Department of Labor recently issued new rules and regulations to reform the current process that applies to temporary worker visas.
The rules will improve the current system and make it easier for business to hire the employees they need. The action comes as […]



Forget about prosecuting terrorists, drug dealers, and murderers; get those pornographers!

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • May 26th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Of course, the first three are not mutually exclusive.
The crap that The Free Lance–Star publishes in their opinion space:
Imagine that 19 pro-family and pro-decency groups such as the Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, and Focus on the Family called a press conference to criticize the Bush administration. Wouldn’t every network, news magazine, and […]



Get the stones, torches, and pitchforks: We’re going to run those Mormons (and others) out of town!

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • May 25th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The WaPo:
If 16th Street is famous for leading straight to the White House, it is also God’s Boulevard, with at least 45 congregations lining the seven-mile stretch between Lafayette Square and Silver Spring.
But love thy neighbor? Not this time.
The Mormon church’s plan to build another house of worship, one with a steeple-topped tower that will […]



Obligatory moron escapes from courthouse post

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • May 23rd, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

NBC 4:
Authorities are looking for a prisoner who escaped from a courtroom Thursday afternoon in King George County.
Virginia State Police said Ritchie Faltz. Jr. was sentenced Thursday to serve 90 days for misdemeanor destruction of property.
When Faltz heard his sentence, he assaulted a law enforcement officer, ran from the building and was last seen heading […]



Not letting someone get away with murder.

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • May 23rd, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The Press of Atlantic City:
An Atlantic County man whose daughter has been missing for more than 13 years is recovering from the shock that her alleged killer was arrested in Virginia on Friday.
“You have no idea what a feeling this is,” said Joseph Marto, of Somers Point, speaking on his cell phone as he drove […]



Not guilty plea in 13 year-old cold case.

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Press of Atlantic City:
A Virginia man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to murder charges in connection with a 13-year-old cold case involving a woman who grew up in Atlantic City.Virginia State Police arrested Lawrence Gaudenzi, 44, of Timberville, Va., on Friday and charged him with the murder of his ex-wife, Lisa Gaudenzi, who went missing in […]



County to contribute $1,200,000 to school system.

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • May 21st, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The Board of Supervisors agreed last night to contribute $1,200,000 in local funding to the school system.
$600,000 will come from the general fund.
The other $400,000 will be sent back to the schools from the school’s unencumbered balance (i.e., money that is left over from this closing fiscal year that would go back to the county […]



And they [the Caroline BOS] have a Plan — oh wait, no they don’t.

By From http://www.imsurroundedbyidiots.com • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

(Pardon the vague reference to Battlestar Galactica.)
To recap:

Caroline County has requested and received $490,000 from the federal government in the form of a FY08 earmark for a “commuter rail station” (Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008; p. 2465).*
Caroline County has received $100,000 from the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation in the form of a grant […]