Apologies for those who got bombarded by a ton of old posts. We’re just doing some cleanup here and I was running some correction scripts and it caught some old posts. Carry on.
There are two versions of this post, one for Christianists and one for everyone else.
For Christianist (everyone else scroll down):
The Aricebo Telescope is a radio telescope used to send prayers to God and disprove evolution. It destroys the homosexual agenda and gives Jerry Falwell access to cable television while in Heaven. Aricebo will guarantee that Bibles are distributed to every person in the world and that anyone who isn’t Christian will burn in hell.
The decision to ensure full funding currently rests upon votes in Congress on Senate Bill S. 2862 and House Resolution H.R. 3737. These bills desperately need more support.
Please take a moment to help us SAVE ARECIBO.
Clicking the link below will direct you to a web page that allows you to print out letters prepared for your Senators and Congressional Representative urging them to support Arecibo. Printing and mailing the letters is really easy, too! You will also have the chance to add a few personal thoughts, if you wish, to let your Senators and Representative know why this funding is important to you! And if you’re really feeling passionate about saving Arecibo, please use these letters as the basis for letters you write yourself, urging your congressmen and women to vote to save Arecibo.
Because our representatives in Congress rarely give much attention to all the email they receive, printing out and MAILING these letters via standard U.S. Postal mail remains our best option for contacting them and our best hope for saving Arecibo (The second best option is to call your representatives). Your 42 cent stamps on these letters could help us get the millions of dollars needed to save Arecibo.
For Everyone Else:
Arecibo Observatory, the world’s largest radio telescope and the source for the SETI@home data that your computer analyzes, faces massive budget cuts that will END its ability to continue the search for life beyond Earth. The decision to ensure full funding currently rests upon votes in Congress on Senate Bill S. 2862 and House Resolution H.R. 3737. These bills desperately need more support.
Please take a moment to help us SAVE ARECIBO.
Clicking the link below will direct you to a web page that allows you to print out letters prepared for your Senators and Congressional Representative urging them to support Arecibo. Printing and mailing the letters is really easy, too! You will also have the chance to add a few personal thoughts, if you wish, to let your Senators and Representative know why this funding is important to you! And if you’re really feeling passionate about saving Arecibo, please use these letters as the basis for letters you write yourself, urging your congressmen and women to vote to save Arecibo.
Because our representatives in Congress rarely give much attention to all the email they receive, printing out and MAILING these letters via standard U.S. Postal mail remains our best option for contacting them and our best hope for saving Arecibo (The second best option is to call your representatives). Your 42 cent stamps on these letters could help us get the millions of dollars needed to save Arecibo.
Our search cannot continue without the necessary support. Your work, as SETI@home participants, represents an indispensable resource for conducting the search. Now, we need your help to ensure that our other most valuable resource - our eyes and ears to the cosmos - can continue to probe the universe as we seek to answer the question: Is there anybody out there?
Thank you for your help,
The SETI@home Team
We’ve added some photo galleries and a new page with random things that amuse us. We also have a gallery of of fellow bloggers (right now, it’s just that Asian kid from 750 Volts). So, if you want, send in a picture and we’ll add it to the gallery (or if you have some amusing photos or documents, feel free to send those). Remember, we don’t really have any standards here.
Now, for your amusement, a picture of Kenton Ngo in 60 years.
Like we all don’t know its James Martin who is passing around e-mail lists. Every time I get an e-mail from some random campaign, I can easily find that James Martin was the webmaster.
He could have easily grabbed lists from half a dozen campaigns, VA Partisans (webmaster), and given them to Deeds (webmaster).
James Martin, your actions are worthy of a rating of 3 poo flinging monkeys (out of 5).
Update:
From this post comes this comment:
Hey Waldo, i added you and a small group of bloggers to the list becuase of all the recent blog stuff, especially on my blog… I didnt know you would be a problem. Sorry about that.
Posted by James Martin on 25 April 2007 @ 7pm
My mom: okay so the home remedy guide has several tips for people with Raynauld’s syndrome
Don’t smoke
for the reasons listed above
eat iron rich foods
avoid dehydration
no coffee
no alcohol
stay cool and calm
hahahaha sucks to be you
hahahaha
Aimee: LOL
If you have Raynaud’s phenomenon, then you know gloves and mittens are never enough. Not only are your fingers (and sometimes toes) often cold, but the reaction to sudden cold as your blood vessels constrict and bloodflow slows can be excruciatingly painful.
That’s because when blood vessels to your extremities constrict, a spasm occurs. Beyond the pain are the color changes. As bloodflow slows to the affected area, the lack of oxygenated blood causes fingers and toes to pale, maybe even take on a bluish tinge.
Yet not everyone experiences Raynaud’s in the same way. Some feel numbness from the lack of blood, then their fingers turn red again when the blood returns. In advanced stages of Raynaud’s, poor blood supply can weaken the fingers and damage the sense of touch.
Cold isn’t the only culprit. This odd but common affliction, which rough estimates show may affect 5 to 10 percent of the U.S. population, can result from injury to the blood vessels caused by vibrations from powerful equipment, like chain saws and pneumatic drills; hypersensitivity to drugs that affect the blood vessels; or disorders of the connective tissue or nerves.
For some reason, I’ve ended up on the Gilmore for Senate email list. Which is really odd to me, especially because he has praised me for being a Republican leader. And I am so confused–I want to know where he’s going in Virginia that he’s consistently hearing good things about himself and bad things about Mark Warner. Honestly, half his own party doesn’t like him. Anyway, I guess we all owe him a debt for getting rid of our car taxes…we should give him the “emergency gift” he’s asking for.
(bolding mine)
Great news!
I am pleased to say that I have been traveling the Commonwealth of Virginia all throughout the month of June since my nomination. I have been listening to regular people at every gas station, hotel and restaurant I go to, and they all say the same thing. . .
“. . . don’t let Mark Warner go to the U.S. Senate to tax our hard earned money, increase our dependence on foreign oil and give another liberal vote to Washington!”
But I need your generous contribution to support me and get my message out. Only $10 from you will help my campaign immensely!
I need your donation to fill the gas tank as I drive around the Commonwealth.
I need your donation to put yard signs in my supporters’ lawns to show our strength.
I need your donation to put my message on the radio and TV to let people know that they will have someone to go to the Senate and fight to keep money in their own pockets.
Please make a generous contribution of only $10 right now to help me get the message out!
I also want to thank everyone again for all you’ve done to help. Without you I wouldn’t be heading into the election as the nominee with so much momentum.
But we’ve got to keep building on our hard-earned momentum, and that’s why I’m asking you for an urgent contribution today!
We have an important Federal Elections Commission filing deadline coming up in 24 hours. This is the first major test of the general election campaign, and we cannot afford to fail it.Please take a moment right now to make an immediate secure contribution online of $10!
And please do everything you can to make sure I hear back from you within the next 24 hours.
You’ve been active in politics for a long time, and you know how critical these FEC reports are to modern campaigns.
Reporters with the Washington Post, Richmond Times-Dispatch and elsewhere will pore over our financial documents line by line, looking for any signs of weakness.
They already seem eager to call this race early in favor of their hand-picked liberal favorite, Mark Warner.
And I’m not going to sugar-coat it — this will be a tough race. But your immediate gift will go a long way towards keeping us on the path to victory.
You and I have a great opportunity to prove the media — along with the National Democrat Party and all the far-left interest groups — WRONG!
Let’s continue down that road by putting up a strong FEC report on June 30th — a report that demonstrates the kind of broad grassroots support and strong financial resources we’ll need to win on November 4.
Your immediate gift will help in two important ways. It will send a message to our opponents that we are not going to let Mark Warner buy our Senate seat with his millions . . .
. . . and it will also help fund our critical media, voter education and Get-Out-The-Vote operations over the next four months.
So please act today.
I’ve won two statewide elections in Virginia, and in both of those races, I relied on a strong network of Republican leaders like you to help me overcome attacks from my opponents and left-wing special interest groups.
And that’s the only way I’ll be able to win this race, especially since Mark Warner can write huge personal checks to his campaign account from here on out.It is critical for us to continue building momentum all the way to Election Day, so please let me hear from you quickly!
Thanks again, for everything.Sincerely,
Jim Gilmore
P.S. Thanks to your help, I just secured the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, and our Party is united on the path to victory. I know you’ve done so much already over these past several months, but I ask that you please stand with me as we begin the general election campaign. We need a strong 2nd quarter FEC report, so please send an emergency gift today. Thank you.
This e-mail sent out to on campus residents today by VT Housing:
Dear On-campus Resident:
According to our records, you hold a 2008-2009 Housing/Dining Contract. In accordance with the terms of this contract, I am writing to notify you of a new University policy which affects the contract terms and conditions. As this policy was approved at the June 20, 2008, Virginia Tech Board of Visitors meeting, it is thus incorporated into and made part of the current housing/dining contract terms and conditions.“Any individual who must register as a Sex Offender is prohibited from living on-campus in a University residence hall. This policy is effective immediately.”
Please contact my office if you have any questions.
Cordially,
Kenneth E. Belcher
Associate Director for Occupancy Management
Office of Student Programs - Housing and Dining Services
Way to be on the ball, VT.
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From the Economist (H/T RK):
“Mr Webb is an indifferent campaigner. His speeches are awkward, he clearly dislikes all the flesh-pressing and he looks like an angry potato. “
So, Economist (which sadly I no longer have a subscription to 
), if Jim Webb is an angry potato, what kind of potato is John Kerry?
This is a clear example of ageism. I am OUTRAGED.
Developing….
Notice how while Obama monkey is cute and full of life, McCain monkey looks as if he is on his last legs, and hardly fit to be President. Lucky he (and many others in his generation) don’t use computers, or the outrage would be almost impossible to measure.
Over on RK, Skippy analyzes poll numbers that are essentially inconsequential at this point saying “These numbers are a HUGE boost to Creigh Deeds.”
An insider in Virginia politics, who wished to remain anonymous, was heard saying in response: ”OMG, people need to stop being dumbasses!”
Skippy–it’s ok to love your Creigh, but it’s not ok to LOVE your Creigh. Holy mother of golly!
P.S. These were the poll results:
Bob McDonnell- 32%
Creigh Deeds- 27%
Undecided- 40%
Bob McDonnell- 33%
Brian Moran- 27%
Undecided- 39%
Taken this afternoon.
Proving once again that people have too much time, and are also insane:
At least he’s cuter than a Bush monkey would have been. But seriously, can you imagine? “No mommmmm, I wanted the OBAMA MONKEY!!!”
Seriously though, I want one. Now.
Only time will tell if he has just done something very good for us, or something very stupid.
The Davis machine is vanquished! Free booze and hookers for all!
Congrats to Gerry Connolly and James Walkinshaw on the win.
7:45 PM–Projected winners Jim Moran, Judy Feder, and Gerry Connolly.
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Final Results:
In the 8th:
3.2% turnout. Jim Moran wins, with 86.60%.
In the 10th:
1.8% turnout, Judy Feder wins with 61.79%
And here is the breakdown in the 11th:
5.3% turnout. Connolly wins, with 57.9%, Byrne 33.35%, Denneny 6.13%, and Alexander 2.59%
If the race were just Connolly/Byrne I feel like it would have been a lot closer–but in some ways I’m glad that he won by enough that people aren’t yelling spoiler today.
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