VIRGINIA BEACH (December 2, 2010) – - WikiLeaks is a blessing.  Government is corrupt.  It uses legitimate secrecy mechanisms, such as security classifications,  like ‘Secret’  ‘Top Secret’ to hide its corruption from the citizens and trample the 1st Amendment.

WikiLeaks has done Americans and the world a service.  Nobody has been or will be hurt physically by the leaked information.

Hurt will be egos, pride, and lost cover for stupid acts.

What might be deemed OK from someone else’s perspective might be criminal in another’s.  Transparency is the only way to know for sure.  We want to see government at work, not hiding behind some classification system.

Government has to learn it isn’t OK for cover unfortunate, misfortunate, embarrassing, and criminal acts with the National Security Classification system.  That wasn’t its intent.

The intent was to legitimately allow government to keep certain functions secret for a reasonable time period – not forever from the public.

No government should have the power to make such sweeping and unaccountable determinations without yearly review and reclassification.

That’s why a government that governs less is best. VNS believes governments during the past 50 − 100 years or more have used the ‘secrecy’ system to willy, nilly trample on the First Amendment of the Constitution.

Trust us:  The fact that Hillary Clinton stirred in a pile of camel dung to find the prime minister’s credit card does not justify a state secret.

Support WikiLeaks – they are doing no harm to the public.  It’s simply exposing fallibility of stupid government behavior.

VIRGINIA BEACH (November 23, 2010) – - We recently logged a rant about the TSA for its sexual molestation under the guise of national security. I’d personally rather risk being among 3,000 killed in a new terrorist attack in the U.S. than to give up my rights under the Constitution.

Would you ever have believed your government would sanction sexual molestation of its law abiding citizens?  While at the same time it hunts down whackos who have a picture of a naked kid on their computer?

I have just spent a week walking the hallowed grounds where our freedom was won more than 230 years ago under harsh, deadly conditions.  

Reliving the terrors of yesteryear has to bring a tear to your eye if you care anything at all about our country and why so many of our ancestors died in the name of freedom.

If you don’t care you need your ‘junk’ manhandled by a government paid molester.

If you do care, you should rebel.  You should act to force the government to cancel this unconstitutional violation of the 4th Amendment.

If you don’t the invasive abuses continue to expand, will continue; next they’ll want to slip a finger in your body cavities.

Let us be perfectly honest:  Giving up our constitutionally guaranteed freedoms and rights is not worth the prospect of another terror attack. There’s not terror attack – NONE – that can justify destruction of our Constitution.

We’d rather run the risk of another 9-11 – with all the ensuing deaths – than to see us sit passively by and allow this corrupt, criminal government steal our rights using the ‘terror’ excuse.

Contact all your legislators and let them know:  You like the government feel up or you don’t.

Government sanctioned sexual molestation has gone too far.  They are illegal, but they could put the ‘thrill’ back in flying!

The American public should show their displeasure by refusing body scans and physical molestation by Transportation Security Administration.

Such searches will continue only as long as the public refuses.  Holiday flyers have a perfect opportunity to refuse – would could draw attention as it gums up the national transportation network.

This continued and gradual theft of individual rights is one reason I don’t fly anymore.  I worked for an airline.  I loved flying in the old days.  Frequently I’d get off work at 10 or 1    1 p.m. at Los Angeles International, board a plane and fly to Seattle or Portsmouth overnight – getting great night’s sleep.

On the return trip to LA, I be awakened and served a filet migon steak and champagne breakfast, offboard and go home for rest of the morning.  Travel was fast and easy.  I designed a system to move bags from airliner to baggage area as quickly as 30 seconds after opening the hatch door.

Now, that freedom and convenience has been replaced by bureaucrat whackjobs applying increasing frustrating and ineffective rules and regulations.

PROFILE – that’s the solution.  60 YO Iowa grannies ain’t a threat. Mormon infants in diapers ain’t a threat.  If you can’t look at a couple and tell whether they are likely to make homicide bombers out of their babies, then the bureaucrats should be loose on the public. Read the rest of this entry »

DAW Award

VIRGINIA BEACH (October 3, 2010) – - How Virginia News Source came to give Virginia Beach
Mayor Will(ing) Sessoms its “Dumb Ass of the Week’ Award.

Or how personnel mismanagement killed a homeless dude on the beach and Sessoms’ is making taxpayers atone for it.

Sessoms

Here’s how the concept development

Last Friday a pizza delivery driver hit and killed a 3 YO Aragona boy who was lying in the roadway.

Earlier a TV fell from the shelves at Walmarte′, killing a 6 YO who was trying to climb the stack of television cartons.

Both companies acted like the City of Virginia Beach:  The pizza company raised the price of pizzas from $10 each to $20 each.  Walmarte′ added $100 to each TV sold.

No action was taken against any employee in either case. The pizza driver said the 3 YO was wearing a black diaper and he didn’t see him until it was all over.

Walmarte′ said it was going to teach the employee how to better stack television cartons on the display floor.

To cover any future losses it said it implemented the two price increase policies.

But Jack Smith said, “I didn’t have anything to do with falling televisions, why do I have to pay $100 more for my set?”

Walmarte spokesperson said, “Well, we felt bad the accident happened and we are going to use part of the price increase to send climbing gyms to parks in poor housing areas so children can learn to climb properly.”

The pizza company used the same logic:  We feel bad about killing the baby, so we are going to use part of the increase to buy fluorescent orange disposable diapers for everyone on the subdivision so neglected children will be easier to spot lying in roadways.

Virginia Beach Mayor Will(ing) Sessoms saw the story and suddenly his ‘chrome’ dome lit up like a comet in the night sky.

“I’ve got it,”  he told City Council.  “You guys know we are immune from suits, like the homeless dude our trash truck driver killed on the beach?  We are.

“That poor bloke’s family can’t legally get a penny from us. It’s called sovereign immunity.  And thank God it exists, because no matter how careless and reckless we are or out employees are, we can thumb our noses and say, ‘nanny, nanny, boo boo.’

“But boys and girls I tell you what lets do.  I know all of us feel badly about this.  It really wasn’t the poor truck driver’s fault.  Yeah, I know she didn’t have a perfect driving record, but driving on the beach?  What the hell could happen?

“We need to atone for our employee’s bad performance and whacking of that old guy.  I have an idea. Let’s build shelters – homes -  for male and female homeless people (otherwise they might re-produce if the lived under the same roof and got drunk or high) – separate but equal  – great concept.  Government schools did it for years.

“Nobody can criticize us for that kind of atonement,” Will(ing) Sessoms told the council.

“Er, mayor where’re we getting this money?” the councilman asked.

“Well we are going to pull it out of our ass – -  another special reserve fund – - and we’ll replace it next year with a hidden little tax or fee increase someone.  They taxpayers won’t even notice it.”

Councilman David, a mobile phone guru, bubbled up and said, “Since we’re already losing so much utility tax money by people discontinuing land lines  and using cell phones, we could add 1-¢ a month to the cell phone bills and nobody’d ever know it, mayor.”

“Brilliant,” said Will(ingress), “absolutely brilliant.”

Beachfront Councilman Urine said, roaring with laughter, “Absolutely.  The taxpayers can pay for our mismanagement, carelessness, our ‘grief’ for offing an old homeless dude, and our atonement.

“I don’t want to sound callous, but it we could put that driver in a higher truck with less visibility, maybe we could get rid of a lot more trash that hangs at the beach.  Our atonement would already be in place.

“Mayor, you just can’t believe the quality of people we have on the sand these days.  A loss of any of them would be no loss to us, trust me. And the taxpayers will pay for our atonement.”

“Great idea, John,” Will(ing) snickered.  Anybody object?

“Git ‘er done!” the mayor  roared tickled over his own brilliance!  The council didn’t object.  Even the taxpayers didn’t object.  VNS’ objects.

So for that great philosophy and policy of Mayor Will(ing) Sessoms, he receives Virginia News Source’ “Dumb Ass of the Week” Award, shared by the citizens of the city who let him get away with it.  Salute to All!

Purkey

VIRGINIA BEACH (August 16, 2010) – - On Saturday, in a display of candor (and stupidity?) senior Virginia Beach Del. Bob Purkey acknowledged what many conservative Republicans and others have been saying all along:

There is no difference between Republicans and Democrats.  They are all peas in the same political pod.  That’s why government is corrupt, inefficient, and doesn’t work for the benefit of the people.

Purkey, long described as arrogant, hot-tempered, self-important, told the GOP weekly breakfast that a dollar is a dollar:  Not Republican dollars.  Not Democrat dollars.  Just a bottom-line political dollar$$$.

The wrong message for the intelligent young minds of 2 tables of students from Princess Anne High School who were attending.

While admitting no credibility as a Republican and admitting he plays political footsie, financed, and even voted for Democrats, just to ‘get along,’ Purkey did score points for candor.

But no points for valor or integrity or honor.  Some say it is senility catching up. That while he made a little speech supporting GOP contributions, support, and compromise with Democrats at the expense of integrity and morale values of the party, he simply displayed the falsehoods he’s wrapped himself in over the decades as a Republican.

Rigell

He fell on his sword trying to defend GOP 2nd District Congressional candidate Scott Rigell who donated $1,000 to Obama, said he was impressed by Obama’s rhetoric, his campaign language, and to keep Queen Hillary Clinton from getting the Democrat nomination.  Rigell has also supported other lesser, state level Democrats.

Purkey said people in business and politics have to do that for their survival – not the people’s survival.

For the most part Rigell’s contribution to Obama and other Democrats had been off the radar screen.  If Purkey thought he was the ‘Lone Ranger’ helping Rigell out by stepping out front on this issue again, he was terribly wrong.

This is the last thing the Rigell campaign wanted brought back to the forefront, where staunch, conservative core Republicans have already abandoned him and middle of the roaders in the party are having second thoughts.

Independent Congressional Candidate Kenny Golden was head of the Virginia Beach GOP before resigning to run for Congress, first as a Republican.

When he determined the GOP national machine was covertly backing Rigell to the detriment of the other 8 in the GOP primary race, Golden dropped out as a Republican candidate and filed as an independent, refusing to be part of the GOP’s candidate fodder for appearance sake.

At neighborhood affairs and ‘town halls,’ Golden is attracting more and more supporters with his plain talking message directed at  conservatives, disgruntled Republicans and Democrats.

So far neither Rigell nor the incumbent, Democrat Rep. Glenn Nye are giving him any help.  Rigell claiming Golden is a fleeting ‘outside candidate’ who doesn’t deserve recognition by being elevated to a debate platform, has refused to debate Nye if Golden is included.

Nye is using the opposite argument to avoid confrontation with Rigell and Golden by saying he won’t participate in a debate unless GOLDEN IS INCLUDED.

Using these tactics to dodge debate among major party candidates sets both of them up as weaklings, cowards who would both be ‘demolished,’ as some say, if there was a 3-way debate with Golden in the middle.

Nye is hoping to win on his ‘conservative’ Democrat record – voting for most GOP-approved issues, except the election of Nancy Pelosi for House Speaker.

Rigell has hitched his campaign wagon behind the GOP national professional machinery, great monied ad campaign, and staying below the public radar by not engaging in any potentially dangerous confrontation situation.

A 3-way debate is scheduled Aug. 19 from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Princess Anne High Auditorium, sponsored by the Citizens Advisory Committee for the 3rd Police Precinct.  No evidence anyone except Golden will show.

The Virginia Beach Taxpayer Alliance, which has traditionally hosted candidate forums in congressional races is also planning for a joint event.  Any candidate who doesn’t show will be represented by name tag and empty chair.

Questions will be addressed to the empty chairs and answers will be ‘candidate so-and-so refused to answer.’

We are still a long way from the November election.

VIRGINIA BEACH (August 10, 2010) – - Just pondering:   Who’s yo daddy?  Did Obama’s daddy (a part time sex toy for his white mama for a short while) really serve in World War II as the president claimed?  Is oral sex cheaper than a haircut?  Can a Christian-educated at religious entertainer Pat Robertson’s Regent University be the largest booze seller in the state? Can government really run a railroad?

Those are just some questions people ask.  They come from the Internet, the barber and the news media.  Some of them stick around for a few hours each day, some longer, but not all for real long.

President Obama, in talking about veteran services and need to support them, told the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials on June 28, 2008 that his father served in World War II and when he came home he got the veteran services he needed, including treatment for PSTD.  (See YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv4jnlkxOaw).

His father born in 1936 would have only been 5 years old when WW II started and less than 10 years old when it ended.  Obama lied?  Or simply ‘mis-spoke?’

Most of us believe he probably lied.  Snopes, an Obama apologist organization, chalks it up to he mis-spoke.  You can listen to the his speech on YouTube and make up your own mind.

Oral sex cheaper than a haircut?  My barber said it was!

I went the cheap route and decided to try a ‘regular’ barber shop instead of a fancy-smancy stylist I usually went to, a couple months back.  Hadn’t been in such a place since I was a child when it was 2-bits for a shave and a haircut (and I was too young for the shave).

There was foreign female barber, possibly Filipino, open and I was her next victim. Being noted for big mouth and no forethought, I flippantly quipped, “Hair cut $5?”

Without missing a beat, she said, “Oral Sex, $5.  Haircut $15.”  “Lets proceed with the haircut,” I replied.

Big Mac, our GOP governor, who once had a problem of trying to determine if  he had ever experienced oral sex, came out of Regent University – a devout Christian lawyer.

Like down in the Bible belt where the Southern Baptists were in a conspiracy with bootleggers and ’shine runners’ that kept us good ole hillbillies ‘dry,’ it’s hard to believe that Big Mac has to tour the state to dump its liquor industry.

Cretins fear it is going to cause liquor stores to be ’seeded’ on every  corner of every city, county, and town.  Who cares?  If they can’t make money, they’ll shut down on their own.  For the rest us, it’ll offer competitive prices.

And no!  No government in the U.S. can run a railroad.

In Norfolk, the executive black director who was trying to build a ‘light rail’ monument to himself was so incompetent that he allowed the project to go over budget $108 MILLION in 1-year and get a year behind completion schedule because he was ‘black’ and everybody was afraid to challenge him.

They finally gave him a wealthy ‘black’ parachute to go away.  It was cheaper than a prolonged discrimination court fight they were sure he’d launch against Hampton Roads Transit if they’d didn’t buy him off.

So now, new management is swamped with trying to correct everything from engineering mistakes to personnel matters.

And Washington’s Metro which has had numerous problems, has asked the National Transportation Board to tell it how it can prevent fatal accidents.  I have an idea:  Turn it over to private industry or park the trains.

Ain’t it fun to ponder stuff?

On VA Route 40, west of Stoney Creek

During a recent trip through the back roads of Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina I found my mind wandering to earlier days.

Here and there I found dilapidated ‘country’ stores, long closed by economic pressures of modern day shopping, giving way to the ravages of time and weather.

These stores along the Middle Atlantic states were to the community what the ‘juke’ joints were to the Mississippi Delta  These famed old juke joints existence is slowly dying out from modern entertainment around casino country.

But they were the place to be in their day.  In the deep south, always great fried fish, hush puppies, cold beer, the lonesome music of the blues with maybe dancing and a little gambling.

In the country stores, it was much the same.  A place for the locals to gather, swap farm and crop stories, gossip and speculate why the constable’s car went by so fast last night.

North of McKinney on VA Route 40

You could get a piece of thick sliced bologna or cheese, served across the counter on two pieces of cracker – in 4-unit pieces or a moon pie and a cold RC Cola or Big Orange.

There wasn’t much dancing, but in the evenings the good ole boys would come by with their banjos, guitars, maybe a fiddler and there’d be picking’ ‘n singing on the porch or around a pot bellied stove in the middle to the store in the winter time.

In TN beer or booze was out in such establishments – thanks to the  Southern Baptist church folks’ support of the moonshiners and bootleggers. They joined hands to defeat every vote attempting to approve the sale of beer or wine,  It kept the bootleggers happy and in business and the Baptists could go to church slapping each other on the back for another defeat of legalized booze.

After the country store closed in the evenings,  the younger hangers on would pile into the cars, drive down the road to a house sitting down a long drive, park under a huge tree in the back yard, out of sight of the main road, and the bootlegger would sent someone out to take your order and your money.

Then filling themselves with the spirit(s), the car’d park along a lonely back road and the tales would get wilder and the music louder until time to head home.  Nobody ever came by to bother them.

Those were horrible old days, but I can’t help but miss them when I drive by a closed country store.

Nye at Democrat breakfast

VIRGINIA BEACH – - 2nd District Rep. Glenn Nye is running for re-election.  And he appears to be running scared.

At a Democrat breakfast appearance Saturday, his campaign handlers were totally unprofessional and the appearance, while it didn’t come unglued, it was certainly rusty around the edges.

The red meat attack on his opponent, promised in a city committee email announcing Nye’s appearance, failed to materialize.

The announcement said, “Also come learn more about millionaire car salesman Scott Rigell’s pro-Cuccinelli agenda and why we must win in November.”

To begin the meeting two staffers sought to stifle media coverage of by asking the city Democrat chairwoman Susan Mariner, a very nice, attractive woman, to ban media recording of Nye’s remarks.

Ms. Mariner said, “The request was made by his press staffer because she is very nervous and this is her first campaign.”

Informed that VNS would leave the meeting or would force the Democrats to throw us out before we would refrain from recording the event.

Mariner said, “The Republicans don’t allow you to record.”  The editor replied, “I have been in the media since 1960 and I have never been banned or asked to not record a meeting.

“In fact,”  he replied, “the Republicans encourage the media’s participation.”

Mariner said she didn’t know what to do as the deadline for starting Nye’s presentation passed.

VNS sought out Nye’s handlers, press girl Jennifer Koch, and Eric Anderson, identified as political advisor.

The editor explained and Ms. Koch said they would arrange an after the event interview or anything if the media didn’t record the meeting.

VNS stated that it had never honored such a request at a public meeting.  Ms. Koch lamely said, “This isn’t  a public meeting.”  It was quickly pointed out that it was a public meeting, the public had been invited, and Nye is a big boy and public figure capable to operating in a media environment.

It was also pointed out that as X-2nd District Rep. Owen Pickett’s press representative that the editor had ‘written’ the PR game book that Nye is trying to follow except in trying to censor the media.  Nye thanked the editor for that.
At that point, 15 minutes past starting time, the editor asked Nye, “Do you have any objection to our recording the meeting?”  Nye tossed it back to Ms. Mariner.  “It’s Susan’s call,” he said and when pressed refused to change his position.

At that point the editor again talked with Mariner.  “What would you do if this was WAVY or WTKR television?”  “We’d do the same thing,” Mariner said.

VNS then told Ms. Mariner, since she continued to waffle, “We are going to record the meeting and to stop us, you’ll have to throw us out.”

The whole media debacle was just rough, unprofessional, amateurish and Ms. Mariner admitted that she had no policy.

Nye obviously modified his planned remarks with a slight display of annoyance and made no controversial comments about his opponents nor about substantiative issues.

He abruptly ended his remarks and departed.  An attempt to talk with him was refused by his staff on the grounds ‘he’s in a hurry to leave.’

Armpit shows Nye's stress

The editor got the distinct impression that without his people having total control, Nye was unsure of himself and ill at ease.

The building was well air-conditioned, but Nye was sweating profusely, soiling the armpits of his shirt.

VNS’ impression?  Nye will try to avoid all confrontation with any opponents by rejecting debates; will only appear before soft, supportive audiences, where his staff can have control.

He doesn’t appear to have the confidence to expose himself, his comments, or his positions to a mixed party or objective audience where he can’t control the environment or questions.

He seems like a really nice guy, but unwilling to debate his opponents.  Watch and lets see.

NORFOLK – - Norfolk City Council Wednesday perpetuated the dependent ’slave mentality’ of the community’s black population.

Because the promoters of Afr’am -  a contrived 27 YO event displaying black behavior in a music and arts setting at Town Park – ignored the signs that declining attendance over the years also meant declining revenues and went in debt.  They looked to the council to pull their butts out of the hole.

Because they signed a contract to hire city employees off duty to provide security, at a higher price than the City Council hired for the non-race oriented HarborFest.  The black organizers whined when they couldn’t meet payroll. They wanted city help because they couldn’t meet their labor contract obligations!

And what was the first thing they did?  Blame the city of Norfolk, not the fact the event is beyond its purpose and usefulness.  Many educated, middle, upper class blacks say they wouldn’t be caught dead at the event.

But the most distressing thing of all, the majority white Norfolk council feeling guilt because the black promoters paid $32/hour for security and the non-race HarborFest only paid $25/hour gave in to the inequity.

The signal they sent was: “Well, you all blacks didn’t know better.  You all blacks didn’t know that a contract is a contract, not to be modified after the fact just because you fail to meet your obligations. And you paid more than the city did (out of your own stupidity) so yes, ‘we’ll ante up a grant for $11,000 to help make up the difference between the two pay scales.”

As dire as the city’s budget was.  As dire as the economic situation is. The City Council shelled out the money of other nonparticipating citizens to bail out this racist event.

Is it any wonder when their children get in trouble or need anything, all they have to do is play the race card to get a pass?

Give us a break! The people of Norfolk would be more than justified in firing all members of council who used their taxes to pay for this ‘black cultural event.’

Loyola

The founder of the Hampton Roads Tea Party Monday endorsed GOP’s Ben Loyola for congress in a move that could test the new activists’ political horsepower.

Karen Miner Hurd said Loyola best represents the principles of conservatives that Tea Partiers like her represent.

The Tea Party officials either know something about Loyola’s strength at the polls that we don’t, or Ms. Hurd is putting her neck on the line which in effect will test Tea Party strength in Tidewater.

Win or lose, the results will be interpreted as being for or against the Tea Party.

Either way June 8’s primary is going to get real interesting.

Loyola was born in Cuba.  His family fled the repressive communist government of Fidel Castro when he was a baby.

Loyola loathes socialism and Obama’s brand of Obummerism.  A self-made successful entrepreneur, Loyola is a patriot whose voice cracks and eyes begin to tear up as he talks of his love for America and the U.S. Constitution.

A grad of the U.S. Navy Academy, he is a retired Navy pilot who unflinchingly supports the military.

His beliefs, background, and campaign pushes all of the Tea Party’s hot button.

His closest opponent pollsters believe is car dealer Scott Rigell, anointed as the GOP’s establishment candidate.

Rigell has taken heat from hardcore right-wingers for a $1,000 contribution to Obama, support for 22% sales tax hike and a system of an regional government that would have given taxing power to an unelected.

Nevertheless Rigell has corralled a number of top Republican endorsements, nationally, statewide, and locally.

Even Gov. Bob McDonnell has endorsed Rigell in the primary race.  This reporter has covered VA politics since 1966 and is unable to recall a single time a sitting governor has gotten involved in local politics openly before a nominee has been selected.

Asked if those kind of endorsement deviations are indicative of problems with Rigell campaign, a top official said, “The top is a little shaky.”  Asked if he’d ever known of a previous incident of a sitting governor getting involved in a local campaign, he replied, “Never.”

Loyola and Rigell are in a 6-way race for the June 8 primary.  Other candidates are Scott Taylor, Bert Mizusawa, Ed Maulbeck, and Jessica Sandlin.

The winner of that contest will not only face Democrat 1st term incumbent Glenn Nye, but Kenny Golden, former chairman of the local GOP, who because  he felt the party deck had been stacked against him, dropped out of the primary to run as an independent.

He’s yearning for a Rigell victory because he thinks he’ll easily overwhelm both him and Nye.

A recent push poll for Rigell only included Loyola and Mizusawa among the questions asked about Rigell.

There’s no question Rigell has party’s national support, more than adequate funding, and is the recipient of professional party grooming and training.

The rank and file Republicans cover the spectrum.  Many support Rigell, but just as many are opting for Loyola and Taylor, rebelling against what they feel is unnatural national and state party interference.