Last night I (with the help of some amazing bros) I dug a five foot by 3 foot hole. This is easily the biggest hole I have ever dug. If you listen closely you can hear Chinese people on the other side. At the bottom of the hole is a pipe with a crack in it. If you are a plumber or know a plumber who will actually return my phone calls please send an email to MaxPower [at] haduken [dot] com. That would be awesome.
Until I figure this out, I may be MIA for a while.
You’ll be hearing a lot this week about the Challenger disater, which hits its 20th anniversary tomorrow. But today is also the anniversary of another space disaster, that of Apollo 1. Three people (Command Pilot Virgil I. Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee) died when a spark turned the 100% oxygen environment of the test capsule into a blazing inferno.
Grissom is one of the lesser remembered heroes of the early Space Age. He is probably best remembered as the guy who said:
If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business and we hope that if anything happens to us it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.
He died shortly thereafter. But first, he wrote a book about his experiences in the Gemini Program, called Gemini.
Har! Actually (via Waldo) Del. Jack Reid accidentally shot off the handgun he regularly carries into the legislative sessions. Amazing? I’m all for the ol’ amendment numero duece, but stuff like this makes me think perhaps concealed weapons permits are kind of insane. Also last time I walked into the capitol building I was confronted by a metal detector on the right side of the hallway and a wide open space on the left side. Being in possession of my purse bag — which contains various tools and implements — and seeing no officer of the law about, I chose to walk through the wide open space on the left. So security is pretty good I’d say.
Anywayz no one was hurt thankfully. You can bet CNN will pick this up as another front page story though: “In Richmond, former Confederate stronghold, a local lawmaker almost kills a truck full of babies.”
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Virginia ranks up in the top 7 states for economic activity, according to the “Corporation for Enterprise Development” - I have no idea about who they are or why we should listen to them, besides that they like Virginia. Which is reason enough for anything, right?
Here is the article.
Gooooo Virginia!!
In an attempt to talk less about gay people and their various plights, here’s this thing. Slow news day maybe? I’m gonna tag some people at the bottom of this post, don’t feel required to respond…although you might have BAD LUCK FOREVERZ if you don’t.
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OH DEAR!!!
Somehow the “Congrats to Chris Peace” story turned into a “People Who Don’t Support Gay Marriage Go to Hell” discussion. In order to give such an important topic as Gay Marriage a rightful home, let’s allow this to be the place for that discussion and let Chris Peace have his place (not that I even know the guy). Eh??
Seriously check this out, on my wife’s W2:
Insert finger here and slide along this edge…
The results are in: Chris Peace 50.83% to John Montgomery’s 48.39%! For those of you not in the know, one of my friends Chris Peace ran for the 97th District seat in House of Delegates and, just tonight, won.
First how cool is it that I know and hang out with a delegate? I mean Vanimal is cool and all, and I am sure one day he’ll be a delegate too, but first come first serve. Second, my company, PharrOut designed his website (linked above). It came out really well if I do say so myself.
So hurrah for things!
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Welcome regulars and guests to Haduken’s first, and Virginia’s umpteenth Virginia Blog Carnival. The VBC offers “just a sample of the topics Virginia bloggers have been writing about during the week. We hope everyone’s curiosity will be piqued to read more of the selected posts, thereby giving more exposure to each participating blogger’s site.” See it’s like a celebration of Virginia bloggerism. Get stoked, because here we go.
From RiverCity Rapids, Snoopy extols the need for a downtown Richmond organizing committee. Here I’ll let him say it:
We need a new committee to work with the many diverse and disparate groups, people, and businesses to advocate their needs - and the overall need for the city to have a healthy downtown - to the city government. Little has been done in my mind or from what I see to indicate what we have now is adequate.
Roci at Rocianante’s Burdens doesn’t see the need to send 600M$ into space to explore Pluto. I think space exploration is awesome. If you can get as much bang for you buck out of this mission as you did with Galileo (RIP) then blast off!
Big Daddy Chad from Commonwealth Conservative submits a pretty funny caption content. My favorite: Passions in Canada were high on election eve.
SpankThatDonkey in his piece – voted longest VBC title ever – Last Donkey Gov to rebut Bush on State of the Union Speech said Hussein had WMD !!!! says that Tim Kaine will be the democrat of choice to call out “the Greatest Sitting Republican President since Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush.” SpankThatDonkey.com also has a nice picture of Miss Virginia winning the Miss America Swimsuit contest.
Anyone who exists around these parts is probably familiar with the anti-civil-union-slash-pro-family amendment that’s going around. Ben Kyber from Blue in VA brings to our attention an attempt made by Del. Sickles (D-43rd) to clear up the ballot question regarding the amendment. He also thinks “Republicans don’t really trust the people“. A good read.
An author, presumably Matt, from Matt’s Word, calls Harry Belafonte an outspoken anti-Bush blabbermouth.
Doug over at Below The Beltway brings up and goes off on a recent situation in NYC involving Kelo. With eminent domain being such a powerful yet unpopular political power I’m surprised to see politicians willing to use it. Doug also submitted another post here dealing with the evil empire Wal-Mart.
I had a professor in college who devoted an entire class at the end of the semester to answering any question his students asked of him. Any question that was not about Religion or Politics. Early Riser at Early Riser talks about both in his post Religion & Politics. The wikipedia article on Unitarian Universalism may or may not be helpful to those not familiar with the tradition.
Xyba(?) over at Once More Into the Breach posts a commentary on the Lobby Reform Act.
And there you have it folks. The umpteenth edition of the Virginia Blog Carnival. Take a quick look, before you go, at the ratio of political to non-political entries submitted. Also note one of Waldo’s founding ideas of the VBC: “It’d be a great way to get attention for lesser-known blogs, and for politically-minded people to discover the blog world outside of politics.” So lets work on that non-political bloggers!
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