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.

Non-political

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.

Read the whole entry.

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.

Political

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.

Things I thought were great but weren’t submitted

• Waldo’s post on his time spent at the House Appropriations public hearing. Honestly, it isn’t boring like it sounds.
• Peyton Manning sucks at the big game from SicSemperTyrannis.
• A review of House of Leaves from flying cars dot net.
• A Super Mario Brothers video tribute from Indelible.
• Harvey family fundraising thoughts from SLANTblog.
• Get the hell out of my way during a fire drill from Double Vision

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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