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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?

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.

There are six GOP candidates running for the party’s nomination to Congress to oppose incumbent Democrat Glenn Nye.

Virginia News Source has been talking with most of the candidates and today we have conducted a 9 minute interview with GOP candidate Ben Loyola.

Loyola, a native of Cuba, came to the U.S. after his parents fled when Fidel Castro took Cuba communist. Ben tells part of his story in this podcast interview with VNS.

VIRGINIA BEACH – - Bill Fleming, self-employed and in the Democrat Party, is facing the biggest uphill battle of his career:  An run for the 8th District Senate seat against Jeffrey McWaters,  elected last weekend as the GOP standard bearer.

Fleming has only until January 12 to marshal a campaign against overwhelming odds of money and organization.  McWaters is still officially reporting about $165,000 in campaign funds received in his campaign against fellow GOPer, Councilwoman Rosemary Wilson.

However, insiders have speculated that when the final tally is in, it would run $500,000 to $800,000 from his special interest friends among a political machine that Mayor Will Sessoms’ hardcore of supporters are trying to build around him.

In an appearance before the Saturday Democrat breakfast of about 65 – 23 Princess Anne High School students, Fleming admitted his entry was a last minute move as he denied being ‘extreme,’ but admitted being an otherwise conservative candidate. Read the rest of this entry »

I don’t know how many times or ways we have to say this: Tidewater’s traffic problems aren’t caused by lack of funding or lack of new taxes. They are caused by human incompetency.

Every single problem – and recent ones were massive – were caused by ineptness of Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), its shiftless, untrained, unsupervised, disloyal management and employees.

VDOT out and out LIED about the most recent problem Wednesday night during which an abnormal rainfall caused closure of the Downtown Tunnel? First blaming it on debris washed down by the heavy rains, but later admitting one of the pump to keep it clear wasn’t even hooked up. No amount of new taxes or funding would have done anything to have changed that outcome. Read the rest of this entry »

VIRGINIA BEACH (July 11, 2009) – - Lets be completely clear about our traffic problems: (1). They are caused by years of ineptness in VDOT; (2). More than 40 years of political abuse and neglect; (3). The masses of ignorant drivers.

None of these problems can be solved by any amount of money or any hike in taxes. Both would only feed the problem, the ineptness already built into the system.

HR3202 (the so-call regional taxpoortation bill): Would have done absolutely nothing to prevent the problem that developed at the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel starting the July 4 holiday. NOTHING.

The traffic nightmare would have been just as great with HR3202 as it was without it.

Don’t you people get it? THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM IS CORRUPT: Read the rest of this entry »

VIRGINIA BEACH (June 8, 2009) -- - Light rail supporters, under the guise of involving the public in the light rail decision will ‘Delphi’ the opinion to be what government leaders want -- not what the people wants.

In a May 23 detailed, highly documented presentation on the fraudulent economies of Norfolk’s proposed light rail project to the

Oceanfront, Part 1 and Part 2 have dealt with the facts.

The fraud is how officials ‘low-balled’ the projected costs and ‘hi-balled’ usage to obtain federal and state money — a crime most places. Once the funds were obtained, the projected skyrocketed over budget by $56 MILLION; and the first car hasn’t been put on the tracks.

If a member of the public had pulled that kind of shell game involving government funds,  they would have been charged with fraud or other crimes.

Reid Greenmun, chairman of the Virginia Beach Taxpayer Alliance’s Transportation Committee, is undeniably the most expert citizen transportation not on the public payroll.

Greenmun made the dramatic presentation (on YouTube) based on the facts supplied from the public record by the agencies involved in the area’s transportation projects.  Anywhere documentation didn’t exist, Greenmun pointed that out by saying it was his opinion based on ‘the best available facts.’

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by Darl Anderson

VIRGINIA BEACH (March 31, 2009) – - Embattled GOP state chairman, Jeff Frederick,  dodged his problems in a speech Saturday at the Virginia Beach GOP breakfast, saying instead he wanted to talk about his accomplishments to date.

He may be, however, one of the very few that sees accomplishments in failure.

Senior GOP bigwigs say that his problems, in which a strong front has formed to boot him out of his current job, stem from Frederick’s dabbling in policy when the role of state chairman is primarily fund raising – sucking up to the fat cats to drain them of loot.
GOP ultra-conservatives are cheering him on for trying to return the party to its roots of old.

VIRGINIA BEACH (MARCH 16, 2009) – - Dr. Chris Stolle, brother of Virginia Beach’s senior State Sen. Ken Stolle, is holding a reception next week prior to formally announcing his candidacy for the House of Delegate seat he lost last year.

Stolle’s reception will be in the Town Center City Club @ 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 26 from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Stolle said, “While I have not formally announced … the time for a decision is fast approaching.”

Retired Navy Capt. Joseph (Joe) F. Bouchard, a previously unknown, untested, Democrat political newcomer, took the 83rd District seat held by retiring GOPer Leo Wardrup by 50.6% to 49.2% over Stolle.

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VIRGINIA BEACH (March 10, 2009) – - State Sen. Ken Stolle who wants to leave the senate after 17 years to be sheriff, may be suffering health problems and his retirement benefits – if he could last 3 years as sheriff – would be far greater than his piddling package if he remains in the General Assembly for the last 3 years.

From the Senate his retirement would be based on about $30,000 a year versus about $151,000+ a year if he could get elected sheriff.

At a <a href=”http://www.virginianewssource.com”>GOP City Committee meeting Monday night</a>, 3 people approached Virginia News Source commenting on Stolle’s appearance and condition. Read the rest of this entry »