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Left of the Hill: Video: the Inside Scoop Focuses on Native American Nations

For those of you who might have missed it, here was the episode of the Inside Scoop which aired on Sunday. It was part of our Emerald Planet series and focused on issues relating to the Native American Nations.

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Blue Commonwealth: Lemmings and Sheep

Are we, the American people, sheep, stupidly deluded repeaters of talking points we do not really understand, baaing trustingly after cruel masters who clip us over and over of all our pelf?  Or, are we Americans more like lemmings, blindly and frantically swarming over the cliffs of a broken system, [...]


SouthsideCentral: PETA gets smacked down in Roanoke parade idea

Another of the organizations’ stupid-ass ideas goes down in flames…

Feathers ruffled over proposed PETA float

There’s nothing like an evil Ronald McDonald to advance your cause, eh?

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Yankee Philip: I warned Fisherman…. They are coming to get you.

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Obama administration will accept no more public input for federal fishery strategy is the headline in an ESPN article.
I was ahead of the curve on this.
The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit [...]


United Conservatives: If You Hunt or Fish, This Will Not Be Good News

Culled out
Obama administration will accept no more public input for federal fishery strategy

"When the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) completed their successful campaign to convince the Ontario government to end one of the best scientifically managed big game hunts in" [...]


Old Va: ID Cards Again. Schumer & Graham, Kiss the Southside

Here we go again. Another massive try at licensing the American Citizen. ID CARDS.

I hate to burst your bubble Graham, but I haven’t seen my SS card since 1970 and I fully expect to go to my grave without getting a new one. I don’t give a damn what stupid laws you pass…I’ll pass.

Lawmakers working to craft a new comprehensive immigration bill have settled on a way to prevent employers from hiring illegal immigrants: a national biometric identification card all American workers would eventually be required to obtain.

The biggest objections to the biometric cards may come from privacy advocates, who fear they would become de facto national ID cards that enable the government to track citizens.

Mr. Graham says he respects those concerns but disagrees. “We’ve all got Social Security cards,” he said. “They’re just easily tampered with. Make them tamper-proof. That’s all I’m saying.”

Charges of animal neglect against Goochland County animal shelter

Two warrants were sworn out last week against Thompson, one alleging animal cruelty, a class 1 misdemeanor, in the death of a horse last year at the foundation and one alleging animal neglect, a class 4 misdemeanor.

County asks for extension agent’s post to be filled immediately

Smyth County supervisors adopted a resolution Thursday in support of Virginia Cooperative Extension officials’ filling the extension agent position vacated Jan. 1 by the retirement of Walter Robinson.

Blacknell.net: REAL ID, Version . . .

what version are we on, again? Whatever it is, here’s another increment:

Under the potentially controversial plan still taking shape in the Senate, all legal U.S. workers, including citizens and immigrants, would be issued an ID card with embedded information, such as fingerprints, to tie the card to the worker.

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Blue Virginia: Sexually Harass Male Staffer, Become “conservative media hero”

This says it all about conservatives' desperation to attack Barack Obama on health care or anything else.
He’s spent only 431 days in Congress, has never seen any of his bills pass out of subcommittee and was best known for voting against major pieces of legislation because they' [...]