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July 3, 2009
 BREAKING NEWS! SARAH PALIN RESIGNS AS ALASKA'S GOVERNOR: To leave office as of 26 July
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IGNORE THE BELL: WALL STREET CLOSED for the holiday - Earnings key in setting tone for week ahead
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MAJOR NATIONS SHOULD BACK THE DOLLAR AS KEY CURRENCY, Japan urges as G8 begins consideration of something else at the behest of China: Move part political but the fact that it comes up is indicative of the U.S. plunge into 2nd rate status
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WORLD MARKETS SLIDE ON U.S. JOBS REPORT taking oil prices with them
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OBUMMERNOMICS - U.S. JOB LOSSES SPIKE IN JUNE Dampen recovery hopes
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The corrupting influence of Power Center Politics
 JULY 3, 2009 - - Power Center Politics: Power Centers control decision making and guide the process to the desired goal.
The Power Centers are those oriented to and driven to accomplish specific self-serving goals.
In our political system, power over the decision making process of elected officials by several centralized groups continues to grow.
In Virginia Beach, Power Centers are organized around developers, real estate companies and tourism related businesses.
Does Power Center control corrupt or eventually lead to corrupted officials? If the influence of Power Centers results in decisions that favor the few individuals in the Power Centers rather than benefit all citizens, than we have become corrupted. Read rest of the story on Bob O'Connor's blog
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Local Headlines
CLOSINGS FOR THE 4TH IN TIDEWATER
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TIDEWATER GETS TASTE OF 30 YEARS OF INCOMPETENCY - GRIDLOCK as VDOT fail-safe systems fail following violent storm
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SHOULD HAVE RENAMED IT 'CONFLICT OF INTEREST' PARK - Town Point Park with contract to Councilman Barclay Winn to reopen today with much fanfare, but no note of Winn's part of $11.5 MILLION renovation contract
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BETTER DEAD THAN DEALING WITH GOVERNMENT REPORT REQUIREMENTS? Cancer patient finds out "COMPASSIONATE ALLOWANCE PROGRAM" is anything but
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UH, WOULDN'T IT BE BETTER OFF TO STICK WITH HEALTH? Bon Secours wants to get into full-blown social welfare - from housing to health in East Ocean View
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ALL SUSPECTS ARE INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY IN A COURT OF LAW; That's the defense's story in the murder for hire case against two dirtbags in death of Norfolk sailor; they claim the wife is at fault. Would you vote for all 3?
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CALL CENTER MAY HAVE TO DITCH 176 Tidewater jobs because of changing business needs of 'a client'
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WELL IF THEY SUN DOESN'T SHINE...NORFOLK CO. GETS $100.7 MILLION contract to sap energy from the sun for Navy projects. (Yeah, lets follow and see how this works out!)
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BLACK, FEMALE & ONLY 15, CA YOUTH SEEKING TO SET TRANSCONTINENTAL FLIGHT RECORD will land her Cessna 172 at Newport News on her cross country venture
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HU DROPS LAWSUIT AFTER ITS accreditation is re-instated until 2011. Withdrawn because of inadequate faculty, among other issues
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Destruction of a nation!
| QUOTES OF THE DAY |
GOD and Obama
Are alike in that neither has a birth certificate
Are dissimilar in that God does not think He is Obama
-VNS National editor-
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"The middle class have no more to give. The poor have nothing to give. So, let's go and get it from those who've got it."
-Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-Maryland)-
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State & Regional Headlines
NOT GUILTY! NO ONE SAW US DO IT! SAYS FUNERAL HOME IN FALLS CHURCH accused of mishandling bodies awaiting burial at Arlington National Cemetery
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FEATURING PRETTY DANICA PATRICK AND A COMEDIAN, (NO - Not Al Franken), AIRTRAN launches unconventional ad campaign at Richmond
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LOUDON CO. HOMELESS SHELTER wins 'Green Building Award." (At the real homeowners' expense)
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BANKRUPT CIRCUIT CITY'S CANADIAN operations have been sold
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DEFECTIVE ANCHOR BOLT SNAPPED causing 9 injures from the collapse of Giles County footbridge across Walker Creek last year
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BEAZER HOMES, PROMISING TO PAY $50 MILLION TO VICTIMS of its predatory lending practices, may never pay full amount
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NC GOV. PERDUE: HONEYMOON OVER, hard times taking a toll on new governor
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WILDLIFE COP KILLING OF TURKEY HUNTER justified, official said
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National Headlines
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: America's most cited, but perhaps least understood document
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BORN IN THE USA? The billboard campaign that revived eligibility debate nationwide - The government-controlled press is just not letting you see it
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BORN IN THE USA? PRESIDENTIAL ELIGIBILITY BILL WINS MORE CO-SPONSORS: Proposed law would require eligibility proof of future presidential candidates
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U.S. SWIMMING IN GASOLINE: Increased summer demand has not materialized; Demand has, in fact, gone down - Perhaps prices at the pump will follow
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MEDIA CORRUPTION! WASHINGTON POST SELLS ACCESS White House denies complicity: Newspaper's flier offered "exclusive access" to "Obama administration officials, Congress members, business leaders, advocacy leaders and other select minds" for between $25,000 and $250,000
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OBAMA DISMANTLES FREEDOM OF THE PRESS Following the Chavez Model: Chavez dismantled Venezuela’s free press a little at a time, all the while consolidating his own power. As he became stronger, the press became weaker, until ultimately, it merely became a transcription service for his speeches - So goes it with Obama
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NOT EVEN NIXON TRIED TO CONTROL THE PRESS LIKE OBAMA IS, claims veteran White House correspondent: “What the hell do they think we are, puppets?...They’re supposed to stay out of our business. They are our public servants. We pay them”
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CAP AND TRADE EXTRAS REVEAL THE OBMAMCRATS KNOW THAT THE RESULT OF THIS BILL WILL BE HIGHER COSTS AND JOB LOSS: When Obama says otherwise, he is lying - Check the bill, see how your taxes will pay money to those who lose their jobs, and/or pay money to those who can't afford the higher prices the bill generates - The gratuitous increase in the Earned Income Tax Credit has nothing to do with the environment; the Democrats just threw that in there because they knew their plan to prevent anyone from reading it before the vote would prevent objections - END TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION; FIRE THE 11th CONGRESS
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FREE HEALTH CARE: Under Democrat-controlled senate plan: Either way you pay
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CONGRESS HARD AT WORK? Not!
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FEDS THROW RUTH OUT ON HER CASH, as they seize Madoff's $7M penthouse: She left "with just the clothes on her back" and the $2.5M the court awarded her
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WHITE HOUSE CLAIMS SANCTIONS AGAINST N.KOREA ARE WORKING: Even as the the North "tests" 4 missiles in one day - Now that's spin
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HERE A CZAR, THERE A CZAR, EVERYWHERE A CZAR Obama has appointed 31 figureheads to hide behind at latest count
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GOOD NEWS: THE ECONOMY MAY GROW. The bad? IT WON'T LAST - Analysis
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TECHNOLOGY: U.S. TAKES AIM AT CYBERWARFARE: Unified cybercommand raises as many questions as it answers
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HE'S DEAD! LET'S DITCH HIM! Discussion turns to removing Reagan's name from National Airport
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International Headlines
IRAN TO TRY BRITISH EMBASSY STAFF for inciting election protests: "Naturally they will be put on trial, they have made confessions"
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PIG FLU "UNSTOPPABLE" WHO warns
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RUSSIA PRACTICING CHECKBOOK DIPLOMACY: Using its energy wealth to shore up influence abroad, pouring billions of dollars in loans and grants into former Soviet states and long-standing allies - even as it faces its own severe economic downturn - ANALYSIS
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MARINES TAKING OVER TOWNS IN AFGHANISTAN: Hard part will be winning support in a region where few foreigners have ventured.
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MR. PRESIDENT: CALL THAT MOMMA AND TELL HER...MARINES SUFFER FIRST CASUALTIES IN OBAMA'S WAR: 1 Dead, several others injured/wounded
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| Letters: Pat should have had consideration of others along the way! |
 Editor:
While Pat's plight may be pathetic, it doesn't seem the years of criticism and name calling had any impact until it came back on him. You should have left his last column up so people could see how sick he is.
But he should have realized other people had feelings too.
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Posted by moerowe on Friday, July 03 @ 07:26:22 MDT (27 reads)
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| Letters: At least Pat Murphy changed, Wally Erb hasn't |
Editor:
Interesting news; as one who has been attacked by Pat Murphy, I still cannot say I am delighted at his departure, especially for the reason indicated.
Wally's musings certainly had been hinted at before, and if Pat took that as an attack, he has much thinner skin than many he was attacked much more viciously.
No, the reason I am chagrined is that Murphy has at least shown an inclination to reassess where this Commonwealth is heading after domination for over a decade by the republicans in the House of Delegates. Wally regretfully has not.
Wally apparently is satisfied with the incompetence and neglect of this state's strategic issues that have been characteristic of the majority in the House of Delegates. Murphy is not. For all his other faults, he has this right on.
Michael Barrett - Virginia Beach
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Posted by moerowe on Thursday, July 02 @ 17:45:14 MDT (19 reads)
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Photo of the Day
Fireworks in the Sky
Taken with my iPhone Thursday night following the game at Harbor Park.
VNS Staff Photo by Skip Summers
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