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• 2009 Republican Advance is this weekend in Williamsburg

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  The Grand Illumination ... Busch Garden's Christmas Town ... and the Republican Advance will make it a busy weekend in Williamsburg this weekend. We have much to celebrate even as we roll up our sleeves preparing to get to work for the future.
  
  Friday night's reception honoring the Virginia [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 7:25pm EST
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• Palin's "Going Rogue" is #1 NYT best seller

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  Heh. For all those naysayers ... read it and weep. [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 6:56pm EST
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• Staunton 2009 Christmas parade is a GO

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  There has been rain on and off all day in the SWAC area but as of 3:30 the Staunton Christmas parade was a go as folks scramble to decorate floats and be in the lineup for tonight's 7:00 start time.
  
  According to the [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:04pm EST
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• A look back at a Virginia family Thanksgiving 2009

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  My sisters and I were together for Thanksgiving 2009 with our families and our parents. We all pitched in on Thanksgiving dinner ... homemade cranberry sauce, homemade baked macaroni and cheese, homemade stuffing, homemade gravy, homemade mashed potatoes ... we all enjoy cooking.
  
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:08am EST
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• Autumn in Virginia

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  The American flag in my parents' yard on Thanksgiving Day.
  Chesterfield County autumn woods Thanksgiving weekend.
  
  Photos by SWAC Girl
  Lynn Mitchell
  Thanksgiving 2009' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:00am EST
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• Rainy day in Shenandoah Valley

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  A front worked it way into the area Sunday afternoon and could be seen along the Alleghany Mountain range. Rain is in the forecast for Monday, rain that stretches up and down the Eastern Seaboard.
  
  Tonight is the Staunton Christmas parade so we [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:37am EST
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• RedState's Erickson subject of DNC oppo research

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  Way to go, Erick!
  
  Erick Erickson of RedState.com has the Democratic National Committee after him which means he's been pretty darn effective. Noting that the DNC sent oppositional research about him to a young journalist who was a Berkley graduate, he wrote:
  I was a bit annoyed that the [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:26am EST
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• Mike laughs at Al Gore and the faux climate crisis

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  A "ClimateGate Carol" from Fishersville Mike is his latest parody. Funny stuff to the tune of "Winter Wonderland".... [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:08am EST
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• Video: "A Different Kind of High School"

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  Follow a day in the life of a Richmond area home school high schooler, Josiah Robertson, who directed this 3-minute video for Project New School. Watch it and consider voting for him to win. He has 139 votes so far ... let's push him over the top! Good job, [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 12:06pm EST
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• Sending cookies to the troops

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  Sending cookies to the troops? This website has absolutely the best cookies to ship to Iraq and Afghanistan (and anywhere else) ... along with packing suggestions and everything you need to know about sending homemade goodies to our soldiers and Marines.
  
  H/T to Tea Party Sue[...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 11:11am EST
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• Home schoolers thrive at bees

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  Op-Ed in Washington Times
  by J. Michael Smith
  HSLDA President
  
  It is well-known that homeschoolers excel in competitions like the Scripps National Spelling Bee and the National Geographic Bee. Homeschoolers regularly comprise 15 percent of the entrants to these competitions despite being about 3 percent of the [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 10:28am EST
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• ObamaCare could cost billions and billions and billions of $$$

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  This is getting more depressing every day. Our country is sinking further into depth under an inexperienced Democrat president and an agenda-driven liberal Democrat Congress enabled by cowering Blue Dog Democrats and "Make me a deal ... I'm for sale" Mary Landrieu-types ... so the news that ObamaCare' [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:53am EST
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• CyberMonday shopping deals

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  Fox & Friends was talking about CyberMonday, November 30, when 90% of businesses will have online deals looking to lure in their share of the 68 million online shopers. Here are some places to find the best deals:
  
  - www.walletpop.com - helps find honest deals online
  - [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:37am EST
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• MSM ignoring Climate-Gate?

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  This is a huge controversy ... a huge lie that has been ongoing for years ... the "global warming" hoax that is being disproved ... but the mainstream media are ignoring it. The hypocrisy continues as they wrap their arms tighter around a liberal agenda....
  
  Meanwhile, DJ has [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:28am EST
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• Eric Holder is dangerous

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  "I'm not an attorney."
  
  So begins Eric Hill in Townhall as he writes:
  For better or worse I didn’t go to law school, but rather, I instead went to graduate school to study philosophy.
  
  But you don’t need to be an attorney – or a philosopher –' [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:13am EST
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• It's called "t-e-r-r-o-r-i-s-m"

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  Terrorism. War on terror. Terrorists.
  
  The Democrats and Barack Obama have eliminated the word "terrorism" from their politically correct vocabulary ... but that does not eliminate the danger to Americans. Just ask the Russians who had terrorists attack a train on Saturday that left dozens dead and dozens [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 7:46am EST
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• RT-D looks at McDonnell's disciplined campaign

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  The analyzing of Virginia's 2009 gubernatorial campaign continues as today's Richmond Times-Dispatch take a look back at what they consider a "competent versus incompetent" campaign between Republican Bob McDonnell and Democrat Creigh Deeds:
  The McDonnell effort never faltered. The candidate and his team stayed on message. If someone were to [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 7:34am EST
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• Powhatan wins high school Group AA, Division 4 football

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  Powhatan High School has won the Group AA, Division 4, Region I football championship.... [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 7:05am EST
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• Former speaker of VA House John Warren Cooke dies

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  Virginia has lost a long-time Byrd Machine Democrat House leader:
  John Warren Cooke, a former speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates and the last son of a Confederate veteran to sit in the General Assembly, died Saturday at Palace Green, his home on Put In Creek in Mathews.
  [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 6:59am EST
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• Green Valley Book Fair open through Dec. 13

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  Those of us in the Shenandoah Valley take for granted the Green Valley Book Fair is at our back doors ... so it took me by surprise to see that Bill Lohmann had written about it for the Richmond Times-Dispatch:
  Point your car away from Interstate 81 [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 6:43am EST
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• VA Tech 42 ... UVA 13

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  Saturday ... 3:30 pm ... time to head to the airport with the Texas sister and family who were heading home after Thanksgiving week in Virginia. But one member of the family had his TV tray set up in front of his chair in the den to eat a late [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 6:25am EST
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• Christmas decorations beginning to show up in SWAC area....

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  Snowmen and penguins and nativity scenes and lights ... some SWAC bloggers were busy this weekend and it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the central Shenandoah Valley.... [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 5:56am EST
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• The vilification of Rush Limbaugh

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  Kenneth Hutcherson is a former NFL linebacker, pastor at Antioch Bible Church in Washington state, and a friend of Rush Limbaugh. He defends him in an article in today's American Thinker, and concludes:
  This is extremely personal to me. It's about a friend. When I look at Rush, [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 9:30am EST
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• UVA med student dies in Utah cave Thanksgiving day

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  [UPDATE: The body of John Jones will remain entombed in the cave, according to Utah authorities: "The popular Utah cave where a 26-year-old medical student died earlier in the week will be closed permanently and his body will not be removed, state and county officials said Friday."]
  
  A [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 11:41am EST
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• Snow in Highland County....

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  Twitter from Del. Chris Saxman in Highland County this morning....
  It's snowing in Highland County. Not much accumulation....but the stores out here don't open at 4am. So...another log on the fire.Could you send some to Augusta, Mr. Delegate?' [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 11:12am EST
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• Fog lights upgraded to make Afton Mountain's I-64 safer

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  Afton Mountain is a danger in fog and even more so in ice and/or snow. The runway lights, in place since the 1990s, have been upgraded, according to the Waynesboro News Virginian:
  VDOT has upgraded the fog light system on Afton Mountain and a 5-mile stretch of Interstate 64 [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 9:53pm EST
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• Happy Thanksgiving from Ross Mackenzie

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  My all-time favorite newspaper editor, Ross Mackenzie offers up a Thanksgiving column that brings it all home.... [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 9:48pm EST
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• Boomer Generation: Top Ten reasons to be thankful

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  John W. Martin wrote in Thursday's Richmond Times-Dispatch his list of the Boomers' top ten reasons to be thankful:
  1) Family
  2) Health
  3) Home
  4) Pesonal Time
  5) A paycheck
  6) End of wretched excess
  7) The sound of music
  8) The freedom to be
  9) The written [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 9:46pm EST
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• Thanksgiving 2009 ... much to be thankful for

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  I'm taking a brief break from the kitchen ... sister and brother-in-law put the bird in the oven at 5:30 this morning and the house smells good. We're aiming for a 1:00 dinner time which leaves the afternoon for a walk, playing board games, working over [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 11:12am EST
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• Good guys can finish first

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  ABC Good Morning America ... Donnie Osmond wins "Dancing With the Stars." [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:05pm EST
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• RPV Network Thanksgiving greetings

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  From Tom and O.P. who run the Republican Party of Virginia Network....
  
  Happy Thanksgiving!
  
  As we celebrate and give thanks with family and friends, we remember and honor those who came before to make our celebrations possible and those who could not make the journey this year.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:33pm EST
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• Chesterfield County School Board okays Bible classes

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  From Victoria Cobb and the Family Foundation....
  
  Last week, the Chesterfield County School Board voted in a unanimous way to allow their high schools, as one supporter said, “...to teach the Bible as an elective from an academic perspective.”
  
  Any real student of history is [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:04pm EST
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• Thanksgiving 2009 ... remembering and giving thanks for our military

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  Thanksgiving 2009 ... remembering and giving thanks for our military men and women around the world, stateside, and especially those in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan. May God keep them safe ... just as they keep us safe here at home. That's all I ask for anymore.
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:51pm EST
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• Thanksgiving "Fun with taters" from Hoops & Yoyo

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  Fun Thanksgiving time from Hoops & Yoyo.... [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 3:55pm EST
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• WKRP "Turkeys Away" ... was it really 31 years ago?

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  WKRP ... Thanksgiving 1978 ... "As God is my witness ... I thought turkeys could fly." -- Mr. Carlson
  
  "Not since the Hindenburg has there been a tragedy like this! The turkeys are hitting the pavement like bags of wet cement!" -- Les Nessman
  
  H/T to [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 3:48pm EST
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• Turkeys of the Year

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  Tea party bashers ... the stimulus bill ... Green Job Czar Van Jones ... these are among the "Turkeys of the Year" from Michelle Malkin in honor of Thanksgiving 2009. [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 3:17pm EST
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• "Are We Really Thankful?" by Chris Klicka

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  Long-time home school advocate Chris Klicka passed away on October 12, 2009, after a lengthy battle with Multiple Sclerosis. This is a reprint of his column "Are We Really Thankful?" passed along in this week's newsletter from Home Educators Association of Virginia (HEAV). He reminds us that the trials [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:26pm EST
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• Newsweak ... newest magazine from The Journey

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  First we had THYME Magazine ... now we have Newsweak Magazine from Bob at The Journey ... and he's tweaking some liberal noses that have been knocked out of joint by Gov. Sarah Palin, the wildly popular conservative leader currently on a nationwide book tour touting her best selling [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 1:08pm EST
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• Donnie Osmond wins Dancing With the Stars!

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  Growing up Osmond ... this is the way it's done. First Marie two years ago ... now Donnie as a competitor on Dancing With the Stars ... and Donnie won the finale last night. Love those Osmonds! [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:46pm EST
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• Del. Saxman receives recognition

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  Retiring Delegate Chris Saxman (R-20th House) has been recognized by the Mental Health America of Augusta organization for his help in saving a local agency during the financial crunch of last year's state budget crisis:
  The Mental Health America of Augusta presented awards to area agencies and individuals who [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:58am EST
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• Inaugural website for Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell

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  The inaugural website for Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell's January 16, 2010, inauguration as Governor of Virginia.... [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 2:13pm EST
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• Sarah Palin video arriving in NC to visit Billy Graham

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  Thanks to Conservatives 4 Palin ... we have video of Sarah Palin arriving at the Asheville, NC, airport earlier this week to visit with Billy Graham at his mountain home. She is met by Rev. Graham's son, Franklin, and others who show up to welcome her to the Tarheel [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:48pm EST
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• THYME Magazine ... Nanny State Government

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  The newest issue of THYME Magazine from Bob over at The Journey. Conservative citizen journalism at its best. [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:19pm EST
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• Cantor-sponsored job fair in Culpeper turns out 700

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  Congressional Whip Eric Cantor (R-7th CD) sponsored a job fair Monday in Culpeper ... and more than 700 unemployed Virginians turned out to take advantage of the opportunity to talk with 50 employers looking for new employees. WVIR NBC-29 was there to cover the event and has details as [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 1:15pm EST
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• Life's journey ... savor the gusto!

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  "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty, well-preserved body; but rather a journey into God's arms, skidding in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, 'WOW! What a ride!!' "
  -- From home school friend Leah[...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:58am EST
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• Hope Michael is enjoying his time off from blogging

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  Does anyone else miss Mike and his writings at The Write Side of My Brain? I know, I know ... he's busy with a number of things during the holiday season ... but that doesn't change the fact that his absence is noted in the Virginia blogosphere. I especially' [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:40am EST
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• Deen Brothers "making it easy" to cook

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  It's Thanksgiving and all those who love to cook are planning and shopping and preparing for the big meal with family and friends.
  
  It was fun to see Paula Deen's sons, Jamie and Bobby, on Fox and Friends this morning as they offered up recipes that are not [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:07am EST
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• ACORN parody has me tapping my feet

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  OK, I've got to admit I checked out Smitty's parody -- by way of Mike -- because it was a Barry Manilow tune. Sure enough, my foot started tapping as I worked my way through the lyrics of ACORN shenanigans to the tune of Copacabana.
  
  Now I'm [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:50am EST
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• Climate-gate ... global warming is a hoax and now there's proof

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  For years many prominent scientists raised the alarm that global warming was a hoax and pointed out that Al Gore was not a scientist and was incorrect in promoting global warming. How could the climate turn on a dime from the fear of global cooling just a short 30 years [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 8:32am EST
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• Virginia budget 2010 ... ouch

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  Twitter from Bill Bolling....
  I attended a meeting of the Governor's Advisory Council On Revenue Estimates today in Richmond. The budget outlook is not good for 2010.The budget is going to be a challenge for the Republican team as they inherit a huge deficit after eight years of Democrat gubernatorial [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:04pm EST
  by SWAC Girl