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Archive for April, 2007

Prince William Supervisors Want To Make Housing Less Affordable

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, April 29th, 2007. Filed under Prince William County, Virginia, Virginia Politics

Still adhering to the same slow-growth agenda that led them to pass a moratorium on approval of new rezoning applications in December, the Prince William County Board of Supervisors is now proposing increasing the “proffer” fee that builders have to pay when the build in the county by 35%:
Prince William County officials yesterday proposed a [...]

Now This I Just Don’t Get

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, April 29th, 2007. Filed under College Sports, Ohio State Buckeyes, Sports

The NFL Draft is in it’s second day. They’re already on Round 5 and yet Troy Smith, who won the Heisman Trophy and led the Buckeyes to winning seasons for three years still hasn’t been selected.

Is Torre In Trouble ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, April 29th, 2007. Filed under Baseball, New York Yankees, Sports

Last fall, after the Yankees were eliminated in the first round of the American League playoffs by the Detriot Tigers, there was about a week of time during which the question of whether Torre would return for the final year of his current contract with the Yankees was very much up in the air. George [...]

About That Simpsons Nude Scene

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, April 29th, 2007. Filed under Movies, The Simpsons

You know it’s a slow news day in the blogosphere when this is the hot topic of conversation:
To make it on the big screen, you have to give people something spectacular. Something extraordinary. Something like Bart Simpson?full frontal. It happens early in “The Simpsons Movie,” when the animated 10-year-old takes a dare from his goofball [...]

Finally Some Relief….And Then A Bit Of A Rant

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, April 28th, 2007. Filed under Baseball, New York Yankees, Sports

After suffering through a losing streak that started last Friday, the Yankees finally found some salvation. And it came in the name of a guy named Ken Igawa:
It is the ultimate sign of Manager Joe Torre?s satisfaction, bestowed only on pitchers whose work far exceeds expectation. When Torre claps on his way to remove a [...]

Speaking Truth To Power

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, April 28th, 2007. Filed under Iraq, War On Terror

William F. Buckley Jr. on the current state of the War in Iraq:
[B]eyond affirming executive supremacy in matters of war, what is George Bush going to do? It is simply untrue that we are making decisive progress in Iraq. The indicators rise and fall from day to day, week to week, month to month. [...]

Scotty Headed Into Space

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, April 28th, 2007. Filed under In The News, Star Trek

Later today, the ashes of James Doohan, who played Lt. Commander Scott on Star Trek, will be launched into orbit:
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — If all goes as planned Saturday, the cremated remains of the actor who portrayed “Scotty” aboard Star Trek’s starship Enterprise will sail into suborbital space aboard a rocket launched from the [...]

Ham Sandwich For Commonwealth’s Attorney

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, April 28th, 2007. Filed under Prince William County, Virginia, Virginia Politics

Well, it looks like there may be a Republican challenger to Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney Paul Ebert after all, a dark horse candidate is staging a write in campaign:
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA ? Republican write-in candidate for Prince William County Commonwealth?s Attorney, Hamilton ?Ham? Sandwich, Esq., has launched his new campaign web site. The [...]

Disliking The French….It’s Chic In Paris

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, April 28th, 2007. Filed under France, In The News

Apparently, the French like themselves even less than we do:
PARIS (Reuters) – The French dislike themselves even more than the Americans dislike them, according to an opinion poll published on Friday.
The survey of six nations, carried out for the International Herald Tribune daily and France 24 TV station, said 44 percent of French people thought [...]

News From The War On Islamofascism

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, April 28th, 2007. Filed under In The News

Polygamous Lesbians Flee Sharia
There really isn’t anything I can add to that.
H/T: Brendan Loy

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