40,000 Comments!
By Greg L | 18 November 2007 | Blogs | 123 Comments
While I was out dealing with a family issue this weekend, comment number 40,000 on BVBL appeared courtesy of “/\/\3|)ic 64″ (aka “Medic 64″ for those who don’t understand “leet speek“) on Nov 16, at 3:21 PM. Although “No worries Mr. Smalls!!” wasn’t the most enlightening comment ever entered, it at least was representative of the community that has built up here at BVBL offering their insight and discussion in regards to the 1,766 articles that have been posted on this site.
In this thread, BVBL reader Rob Smalls all but announced his intention to run for a seat on the Governing Board in Manassas Park in 2008, which would absolutely be a hugely positive development for the beleaguered residents of this troubled locality. Hopefully more potential candidates will emerge, as some major changes need to be made in Manassas Park. Comments like these make the discussion threads at least as valuable as the posts that inspire them.
In the mix of comments, 6,393 were identified as spam, 2,372 comments are anonymous, and the top three commenters are Lafayette, The Patriot, and Dolph. The post with the most comments (a whopping 861 comments) was “It’s Show Time!“, which ended up being a liveblog in the comments section of the final meeting of the PWC Board of County Supervisors. The next highest comment count on a thread was 376, on “The Aftermath“, which was one of the threads that discussed coverage of this blog in the Sunday edition of the Washington Post this summer.
Thanks to all of you who help make this site what it is. The lively discussions add more to this site than I can say.
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Greg L,
Thank you for BVBL. Oh, LIVELY it can be. Perhaps, a BVBL t-shirt for /\/\3|)ic 64 ? Congrats.
I sure hope The Patriot will return to see his “honorable mention”. I miss him. Although, Mr. Smalls is doing an EXCELLENT job as Patriot-Temp.
I too thank you for your blog and think medic 64 should get a standing ovation. Did you see it medic 64? sorry if you didn’t.
Lafayette- It can get more than a bit lively on here at times. Can’t say I’m ever bored reading the postings on here.
Imagine that people outside Manassas read your words. I wonder, then how self-congratulatory you would be?
If you spent as much on international travel as you spend on cigarettes, then you might have a defensible position. If you spent as much on hard cover books as you spend on tabloid newspapers, then you might have informed decisions.
Folks used to define folks from Manassas as having fewer teeth than toes… a perception we slowly overcome over the course of many decades.
The sad thing, really, is how unexceptional Manassas has become. I remember hearing a discouraged liberal state that they used to believe in the common man… until they realized just how common the common man had become.
If you earn less than the median income in Manassas, if you have less than a master’s degree, if you haven’t invested so simply in yourself to travel internationally, then you are the reason that our town, our state and our country continues to define itself downward.
If any of you attended the Harvest Festival in Manassas, I wonder what you perceived. What I perceived was a bunch of fat, poorly-dressed, poorly-coifed, slack-jawed, bearded beflanneled buffoons.
For those who remember the Fun Day of 1973, it was truly shocking to see how the citizenry of Manassas has devolved since then (and I’m not talking immigrants).
the vast majority of folks roaming Old Town at the Harvest Festival this year were grotesquely obese. They parents were fat, there children were equally doughy… even their pets were pudgy.
The only way that Manassas will move forward is if we take measures that make the rednecks as unwelcome as the illegal aliens.
Spend more money on schools. Spend more money on parks. Spend more money on culture. Spend more money on infrastructure.
If we invest, invest, invest, then we will become exceptional… and the rednecks will feel as unwelcome as we have made the immigrants feel.
Turn the heat up on the rednecks!!!!
Life can be good, but not if we allow the RNs (aka rednecks), and their supreme leader, Steve Thomas, to define our future.
Oh, I’m sure you’re going to win over a whole lot of Manassas residents with incongruent blather like this.
Assuming you’re speaking to me, which isn’t clear, let me set you straight. I’ve lived overseas, speak two foreign languages, have spent time in seven foreign countries (one of which was Honduras — a rural and impoverished area, working with counter-insurgency forces dealing with the last remnants of the Sandinista revolutionaries while I was in the Army), have a degree in international relations, and am no “newbie” by any means to the world around us.
I’m sure you’re well traveled as well, but don’t assume that just because someone has a different perspective than you, it is necessarily a product of ignorance. Some of us just have a firmer grasp of the “ugly” that is out there.
And by the way, if you’re talking about Steve Thomas, a former officer in the United States Marine Corps as being unschooled in the ways of the world, you really are speaking out of ignorance. Marines are among the most well-traveled Americans in the world.
I Love Manassas(what a joke that is!)- I say we turn the heat up on you!
I guess you have the body of a model, the education higher than most you care to acknowledge, and have travelled the globe. Well, I say good for you. Don’t be sohigh and mighty. It could be quite the fall when you fall off of that high horse you seem to be riding on.
Somebody drank their Hater-ade today!
I guess all that education and travel doesn’t protect you from being a very angry little person.
Manassas,
It sure sounds like you have a love-hate relationship with the old ‘hood.
Have you considered moving to a place that is more commensurate with your superior education/looks/kids/pets/passport stamps?
I beg your pardon, “I Love Manassas?!” I’ve lived in this county for 46 years in the “redneck” western end of the county (Nokesville and Manassas area). Prior to my retirement to family life I traveled extensively abroad, primarily in Europe and the UK, as well as throughout the US; have represented various US groups at political conferences in those countries, aside from personal and business travel; have been hurled into a nest of Marxists by the USIA and debriefed at a European think tank; was a representative to the UN Conference on the International Year of Youth…and I could go on for 6 pages single spaced. If you believe for one moment that I am not representative of the people you so rudely refer to as “rednecks” then you are sorely ignorant of the people in this area with whom I spent the previous 46 years of my life (lived in Alexandria before that).
So, if I may ask, how DO you define “redneck?” The people on this blog have often been unfairly accused of racism when all they are seeking is enforcement of the law, so I hesitate to throw out that accusation…but I might consider an exception in your case. You see “I Love Manassas” (which I doubt), racism is defined by the Anti Defamation League as “the hatred of one person by another — or the belief that another person is less than human — because of skin color, language, customs, place of birth or any factor that supposedly reveals the basic nature of that person.” I submit, ILM, that your pejorative use of the term “redneck” to define the people of our area actually defines your own character, or lack thereof.
I Love Manassas(I doubt it too),
You have a lot of nerve to call your fellow legal citizens “rednecks”. I’m a Western PWC native, and I like AWCheney are most definately representative of the county like myself and MANY others here on bvbl. You are unbeleivable.
Also, your name calling is just simply childish. I guess you don’t have a leg to stand on when comes the issue at hand, and therefore are left to resort to name calling and putting others down that aren’t on your “superior” level. Then to top it all off you want to make “hate-ade” drunken comments about Steve Thomas, get a life, and why not just leave Manassas all together since you seem to be so disgusted by it all. You seem to have IT all according to you, and you should just find a better suited places for your taste.
Greg,
Thank you for the sense of community this blog has given to all of us. I am proud of Manassas and the stand that PWC has taken. Together we can get something done.
Funny how the “pro-illegal” crowd screams racism and then taunts “la raza” and “RN” in your face. They can be so silly…they really need to learn that civil rights are for all people.
But then OTOH, you “Rule of Law” folks scare me too. Anti-illegals are worried about pressing “1″ for English, while the Pro-illegals are thinking about taking care of their families. Do you think creating fear, enemies, and a police state is better than creating work visas? Building fences to trap people in this country and enforcing the War on Illegal Immigration is forcing people further underground and apart. As a country, how can we scream about human rights violations in other countries when we deny so many basic human rights to millions of people living in our own country?
The best way to resolve this problem is to restore human dignity to the people working in this country and to snip the problem at its root…poverty in the home countries. Building fences and giving up all of our freedoms to the state is the resort of a corrupt and dying culture a la the Soviet Union.
The rule of law is going to make it intolerable for illegal immigration to be a viable option for anyone thinking about immigrating. The huge increase in deportees arriving in other countries is getting the message out. I hear through the grapevine that there has been a drastic decrease in Mexico of busses heading for the northern border with the United States.
These deportees, maybe for having had a taste of a different way of life, can work on change in the home country.
Nobody gives me dignity or takes it away and I would think that’s the same for all people and countries.
I’m a little torn on building fences from an environmental and property rights point of view. However, if it’s such an exercise in futility, as pro-illegals like to point out, why is it such a big deal? They want non-enforcement. They want open borders.
I also feel bad for the families, but the actions of the parents have consequences.
One last thing… the people creating fear are Ricardo Juarez and his type. It would have been much better to tell the truth of the resolution, but they chose to exaggerate and instill fear.
I love Manassas, I pray for your enlightenment and peace towards your fellow city folk.
“Life can be good, but not if we allow the RNs (aka rednecks), and their supreme leader, Steve Thomas, to define our future.”
This is the same clown who loves to take shots at me over on the Harrover blog. He/She goes by the name, and goes by the name “Old School Republican”. To define someone’s worth or value by whether or not they traveled abroad, have an advanced degree, or how much they make is the epitome of elitist thought.
I am glad that this person thinks that I have that much power and influence. I must be doing something right. I now have a blog-stalker. I have hit the big leagues now.
I have been called many things in my life, but never Redneck. For an Irish kid who grew up 10 miles outside of Boston, MA, this wasn’t a term that I had heard until joining the Marines. However, if being a “redneck” means that you are socially and fiscally conservative and support the rule of law, which is what I Love Manassas/Old School Republican likes to criticize me for, then call me a Redneck. Redneck was once a term used by the upper-crust of southern scociety to describe working-class people. These people may have owned their own plot of land, and worked it themselves, rather than owning slaves. Because they toiled in the Sun, their necks were exposed and burned.
Travel? I have been to 38 countries during my carreer as a Marine. I didn’t travel for pleasure. I traveled in service to my country, and in some places got shot at.
Education? I graduated 2nd in my class from the Citadel.
Income? I do just fine, thank you.
Let me ask “I Love Manassas/ Old School Republican” something: What have you ever done to make an impact on your country or your community, when you weren’t busy traveling or getting your education?
I Love Manassas said: “the vast majority of folks roaming Old Town at the Harvest Festival this year were grotesquely obese. They parents were fat, there children were equally doughy… even their pets were pudgy.”
I see that Master’s degree has served you well seeing as you clearly don’t know the difference between they, there and their…
Move along people, nothing to see here except for a troll….move along.
IGNORE BUTTON-Activated!
Dignidad said on 19 Nov 2007 at 6:34 am:
I love Manassas, I pray for your enlightenment and peace towards your fellow city folk.
I Love Manassas, I pray for your physical safety if you are ever brave enough to confront Steve Thomas directly.
“a bunch of fat, poorly-dressed, poorly-coifed, slack-jawed, bearded beflanneled buffoons”
Lafayette, could this be “mom”, more disgruntled than ever after the defeat of Sharon P?
I love Manassas:
Perhaps you should change your name to “I Love Manassas Stereotypes”. By your standards, my wife is contributing to the decline of normalcy in Manassas by virtue of having completed only her undergraduate degree and staying at home as mother to our children while not earning the median income. My initial spar with you had merit. The above diatribe does not. If anything sounds “self-congratulatory”, it’s your perception of your very enlightened views as opposed to any resident of this county who disagrees with you. You spent a lot of time at the keyboard to make yourself sound like a fool. Or, perhaps more disturbingly, you felt you didn’t spent enough time. Something tells me your love for Manassas likely stops at your doorstep, since you would have to contend with the citizenry you degrade if you were to go any farther than that threshold.
Congrats to Doc on the 40,000th comment! I’m proud to have inspired you to greatness, shipmate!
Rob, I seriously doubt that this so-called “I Love Manassas” even earns a median income. If she (and I strongly suspect it is a she) did she wouldn’t have time to always be well coifed and superbly dressed for even an outside festival (and let’s not forget the manicure, tanning salon, etc.). Steve Thomas was absolutely correct…this woman is obviously elitist and wouldn’t deign to chip a nail. I’d be curious to see if she can offer any major accomplishment in her life other than a college degree, sorority sisterhood, and being punctual for her regular hair appointment. I imagine it’s a very sad and unfulfilled life. Perhaps we should pity her.
AWCheney -
You’re likely correct. It’s a shame for all his/her alleged education, they have learned very little of the real world. Moreover, I will no longer waste my time posting about “I Love Manassas”, because the suppositions they make defy any serious consideration.
WOW…How the celebration turned!!!
It just goes to show the ignorance and apologetic attitude of some. I am for enforcing the law!!! If I Love Manassas can only see the negative in people, then there is nothing we can do to change that. I find people that are hung up on looks are shallow at best! Your lack of compassion towards your fellow residents just shows that you feel you are above everyone else. This is a rough row to hoe there!! Your attitude WILL come back to bite you in the end.
Steve “King of the Rednecks” Thomas, Thanks you for your service and protecting the rights I have!! As far as salary, I doubt that you are paid enough for the sacrifices, unless they really raised the pay scale since I was a Corpsman back in the late 80’s!! (c:
Thank you RS!!! Shipmates do that for each other, inspire and move to greatness!! Corpsmen improvise, adapt and overcome as well!! Especially the ones with the Marines, I was an 8489/8404 Corpsman. For those that do not know, I was an Ortho tech with a secondary job code to run with the Marines!! OOORAAAHHH Mr. Thomas!!
UnMasMexican please press one for English!! If you wish to say your piece, then say it in English so everyone can understand.
Would someone be kind enough to press one for me so I can understand what they are writing??
Greg, At least the 40,000th comment was respectful!! (c:
This calls for a rousing chorus of Anchors Aweigh!
“We sail at the break of DAY DAY DAY DAY!”
Nancy (sigh) Pelosi drops congress’ ratings still lower.
http://opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110010881
LOL @ Smalls. I went to Boot Camp in Great Lakes and we had to sing it while marching under the street through a tunnel.
Doc, same here. I went in November when the tunnel flooded with the rain. We had to march through the 14+ inches of cold cold water while belting that song out to deflect the ire of our CCs.
Good times, good times.
Greg L and yo’all sure took the bait with the “I love Manassas”.
Couldn’t you tell it was a ruse? However, it gave several of you a chance to brag about your travels, military acheivements, foreign language knowledge, etc. (rah, rah, rah) , and it was interesting to learn about that.
3Dic64 - Your comment abt being hung up on looks. Remember when there were comment after comment of how ugly Ms. Lyall is? There were also plenty of comments with regard to senor Jimenez’ weight. Guess looks DO matter on both sides.
I think an English on the job is not a bad idea. IMHO, I feel that most of the problems with illegal aliens is 2 fold; first, they came here illegally and second, the blatant desire NOT to assimilate.
Like many here, I do not hold any prejudice to LEGAL immigrants no matter what color, race or national origin they are.
I have been on the receiving end of immigration problems. My ex-wife is from the Philippines. She, my stepson and daughter (A US Citizen born abroad) had to wait in the Philippines until some of the immigration issues were satisfied. Yes, the US Gov’t broke up a family. It was 4 months before they were able to come over here LEGALLY!!!!
I do not want to hear about the anchor babies and their parents here illegally crying about separation. It happens and you should be aware of the possibilities when you have these children.
Krusty,
Mind like a steel trap! I am envious. In fairness to Medic, I don’t think he made those remarks. He seems like a pretty courteous guy to me. Plus he is sort of a neighbor, give or take a mile or 2.
I am going to defend anyone who marches under a street in a tunnel. Yuck! Not my idea of fun. I whine about going to my car in the rain. Woos girl here.
Krusty,
To be fair, “I Love Manassas” had made something of a coherent argument on a previous thread. That the poster devolved to this level of discourse after initally developing some credibility is regrettable, but it’s also iluminating to the degree that the life experience of this blog’s regulars came to the fore regarding that poster’s “points”. I’m happy to know more about some of these people, several of who I have met briefly but none that I know well beyond a digital acquaintance.
As far as looks go, any argument based on looks is superficial at best, although everyone is entitled to their personal opinion of the opposition. I’m sure it’s Nancy Lyall’s policies and actions that garner the greater interest, not her mug. God help us should this debate on illegal immigration (or any policy debate, for that matter) turn into a beauty contest. Hollywood will be running things in no time.
Dolph - I don’t understand your last paragraph. Does it have anything to do with what I wrote?
Smalls, I went in Jan when it was too cold to do anything but march to chow!! They would call ahead so we didn’t have to wait outside.
And yes good times if you were first in line for chow, but sucked if you were last, I barely got to finish my chow by the time they had everyone get up. I ate chow in the line to drop off your trays to be washed MANY times!!!
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Krusty, I am sorry I do not remember. I just recently got involved with this blog.
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This past weekend my fiancee asked me why I was so upset, I told her I had watched some of the youtube videos and felt that we are being invaded. I watched as an illegal alien dragged the American flag through the dirt on the ground and claim he wanted to stay here. It upset me that these people want the American dream, but do not want to follow the rules to get it. It aggravates me when the illegal aliens cry racism when they are racists in their ways. I am appalled at the behavior I see and wonder where are the ICE officers at these demonstrations asking for legal status.
As someone that served the country that flag represents, I can only think that those shown in the video do not respect the meaning. If they want to be US Citizens and want us to welcome them, then they need to show it by proving their pride in the US instead of calling everyone that wants the law enforced a racist. I want ICE officers to come to every gathering and check for status. Not only here, but in CA also. I see so much hate for America, yet the illegal aliens want to be here. For some reason they have it stuck in their heads that they still own part of the US. UHHH NOOO!!!! Ya’ll sold it back in the day, so get over it!!!
Krusty,
Yes, I was impressed that you remembered that Ricardo and Nancy’s appearance had been the topic of conversation on the blog. I had totally forgotten. I was just remarking that Medic had not done that. I don’t think he was a regular back then.
Doc,
I was the dummy who let his recruiter talk him into going in the beginning of November, so I got to miss Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s out in the world. It wasn’t like I was alone, though.
I didn’t have the chow line blues as often as you. I was a tall boy, so I was up front in formations. When we split ranks, I was up as either one of the first dozen with a tray, or somewhere in the middle. Though, given the food we were eating, I don’t necessarily count myself as a winner in that regard.
RS, what did you do in the Navy?? I was one of the tall boys as well @ 6′3″!! I was at the front also, but for some reason the left side got to go in before the right more often than not (c:
It was nice to see one of my old CC’s in sick call. He was apologetic for the way he treated me. I guess it can come back to roost when the shot record disappears or some STD documentation stays in the health jacket (c: Of course, I am not admitting I would ever do something like that, but I do know it happens!!! (c: I started on Jan 15th so it was COLD!!!
I do remember getting off the plane in the PI wearing my dress blues because it was the uniform of the day in Great Lakes. Imagine going from 30-40 degree weather wearing a wool dress blue uniform and getting off in 90+% humidity in the Philippines. I was drenched before I got to the foot of the steps of the plane. (there were only three of them) (c:
Dolph - Thanks for the explanation. I have no memory of WHO made the comments about Ricardo and Nancy but I remember that there were plenty.
Doc,
I was a Fire Control Technician on fast-attack submarines. I went through Great Lakes in November 1995.
I’ve never been to the PI - they stopped letting subs pull in there after the Mt. Pinatubo eruption, I believe - but I have done port calls in Singapore and Guam, and they were hot enough without my crackerjacks on. I’d imagine you were treating yourself for heat exhaustion before you got to the baggage claim.
“I Love Manassas” is a WaPo reporter continuing a long
tradition of bashing Manassas.
“Manassas is nothing to grow romantic about. It is a
town on which the sun has set, a crossroads where
God forgets to wind the clock.”
Washington Post
August 15, 1937
(Over SEVENTY years and never a fair article -
-The best we can hope for is that they ignore us
and don’t do another “Local Yokels Go Nuts”
story for a few months.)
Just more insight from the mind of an elitist liberal. Life must be rough in New York City.
This posters on this Blog, my association with HSM, and my involvment in the campaigns of our fine county and state leaders have reaffirmed that I chose one of the very best communities in this Country in which to live, work, and raise my children. Let’s continue to fight to keep it that way.
Advocator,
I agree 100%. I was blessed enough to have been born here, and didn’t have to chose Manassas. However, I think you made yet another WISE CHOSE by settling in PWC. We will prevail.
What percentage of Manassas residents do you guys think were born here? I moved to Fairfax County right after my high school graduation in the mid-sixties. Even then a glimpse of a native-born DC resident was a rarity considering the transient nature of the population. In my neighborhood in PWC, I’ve met few native PWC residents. I’d venture to say way more than 50% of our population is from somewhere else.
I wasn’t born here. I’m a Navy transplant that decided to stay here after separating from the service. But I’m glad to live here and to have found this online community at BVBL.
Rob Smalls,
My husband was an Air Force brat who settled here after getting out of the AF (Vietnam era). We’re the ultimate liberal couple…born in New York and California! We wear the sign of the beast on our foreheads and drive European cars. Ha!
I Love Manassas said on 18 Nov 2007 at 10:40 pm:
“Imagine that people outside Manassas read your words. I wonder, then how self-congratulatory you would be?”
Ok, genius, Greg DOES NOT have to imagine!!! I live in Fairfax County and read BVBL to get ALL my local news. Yes, I said “local” because what happens in neighboring counties DOES impact my county, and vice-versa.
When it comes to illegals, I have learned on BVBL that PWC has a supervisor who DOES NOT bury his head in the sand like Gerry Connolly (Ffx Supv).
When it comes to the head of the local Republican Party, I learned that PWC HAS a person (Tom Kopko) who looks like he is about to be “Gilled” (my word for “rejected by his own people) next time he runs for re-election of PWCGOP head. And for that, I thank God for Jim Hyland (Chairman of the Fairfax County Republican Committee).
(”They parents were fat, there children were equally doughy… even their pets were pudgy.”) For someone who calls him/herself “educated”, let me say that “there” means “location” and “their” means “belonging to an individual”. And never, EVER say “They parents”. I realize I am just a lowely grad from The Citadel (BS in International Politics and Military Affairs) and Strayer University (Masters, with honors, in Computer Information Systems), but even this former grunt and 2nd LT (Infanty) can see that “spell check and grammar check” is in order.
Though I have been involved in some “friendly dialog among differing parties” on certain issues, for all but a VERY select few it does NOT diminish the respect that I have for them and their issues concerning the County.
anonymoustoo - born and raised here in Virginia (born in Falls Church, only hospital in the area at the time) and raised in the same house my parents are still living in since the mid-60s (upon their return from Greece).
I have always said that we natives should start a club. All 10 of us could meet once a month - lol
And if we’re to nitpick spelling, there is no “e” in lowly.
This has sure been a great blog for all the proud males to strut their formidable military backgrounds. Interesting! - Is it something special about having lived in the same area one’s whole life? If so, please explain. Seems to me that might narrow one’s outlook somehow.
anonymoustoo-
haha-no one siad aynthnig aoubt seplilng. It’s a refrnce to gramamar! Such a knucklehead!
Doc and Rob,
Thanks for chiming in, and thanks for your service to the country. I too am a transplant. I was stationed at Quantico in the early 90’s and decided to return to NoVA after leaving the Corps. I met and married a native Manassas girl.
Manassas is not unlike the city I grew up in outside of Boston, in size and character. However, it is very different in how it is goverened. Waltham MA was a mix of blue-collar and white-collar families. Many were immigrants and I went to school with many6 kids who spoke French, Italian, and Spanish in the home. We dodn’t have an illegal problem. The majority of the population was democrate. They voted for Barney Frank, and Ted Kennedy. The local city council was made up of tax and spenders. The mayor had an interest in a single-channel VHF movie service, and kept cable TV out of the city, and the council supported him. They taxed small business so heavily that Moody Street (our old town) declined into nothing. Huge sections of the city, entire neighborhoods declined into slums. We had great schools, libraries, parks and rec, social services, etc. all supported by high taxes, but this didn’t stop high wage-earners from moving away to places like Framingham, Natick, Marlburogh and Sudberry.
I left in 1984 to enter the Marines, and everytime I went back on leave I was convinced I would never again live there by choice.
By contrast, Manassas is relatively well-goverend. Economic policies, while not perfect, attracted firms like Lockheed and Micron. Many Federal workers chose Manassas as home. The City Council does a good job of keeping tax rates low, and quality of life at a level that people still want to live here. “I Love Manassas” wants us to be taxed more heavily to have lot’s of “nice to haves”. Whether he/she choses to post as “Tudor Hall”, “Old School Republican” or “I love Manassas” doesn’t matter, and his/her comments don’t bother me. He/She is just mad that the agenda they espouse is rejected every election cycle, and for some reason thinks that the role I play in making that happen is far greater than it is. I am the “Karl Rove” of Manassas, master strategist, and “maker of Kings”.
I am just going to keep doing what I am doing, both in HSM, and in local politics. When liberal elitists like “I Love Manassas” wet their pants in a tantrum, it just lets me know that I need to keep at it.
“For those who remember the Fun Day of 1973, it was truly shocking to see how the citizenry of Manassas has devolved since then (and I’m not talking immigrants).”
What is so special about this year? Was this the last time you have had fun? There have been numerous Fun Days since.
I feel bad that YOUR heart is full of HATE and your nose full of SNOT!
MickeyMouse,
“spell check and grammar check”, knucklehead!
But you can always count on me for grammatical errors and misspellings. I could cite my educational experiences in a rural southern school (aka Third World) as an excuse, but I honestly just got mad when I got stuck in a spellcheck loop one day while trying to misspell a word and decided that, henceforth, I would just “wing it”.
Hey, “Tudor Hall” is hero/heroine to many of us! There are many enjoyable things in life (art, skating, concerts, a local museum,good roads and schools) that come from paying more than the bare bones in taxes.
Anonymoustoo,
I was an Air Force brat too, born at RAF Lakenheath in the UK and homesteaded at Ellsworth AFB for my more formative years prior to donning my bell-bottoms in service of the fleet.
Steve,
Thanks for the mention, and thanks for your service as well.
Rob Smalls, my husband and I spent some time yesterday using GoogleEarth to look at his old bases in Vietnam. Little remains of one base except the revetments. (That was after we looked at all the neighborhoods where we had grown up.)
anonymoustoo said on 19 Nov 2007 at 12:43 pm:
“And if we’re to nitpick spelling, there is no “e” in lowly.”
That’s what I get for typing at work - lol. Thank you for the correction
Big Dog “Manassas…a crossroads where God forgets to wind the clock.”
I know you were quoting and that was NOT written by you, but I am asking you…and that’s a BAD thing??? lol
How quick they back peddle!! Spitzer and Clinton have decided it is not a good idea to give the illegal aliens a drivers license. This is one step in the positive.
I was listening to Laura Ingram during my lunch break on XM. She had Linda Chavez on her show. Linda seems to think the problem is with the current laws not the great influx of illegal immigrants. She doesn’t think they deserve a driver’s license either, but by listening to her, it sounds like she is for amnesty for those already here.
She has come up with the idea that immigration should be based on the market, for example, if there are many jobs to be had, we let more immigrants in, when there are fewer, we let in less. As it is we let in too many. Please see my gum ball video I posted. For those that missed it, here it is again. It is very eye opening!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7WJeqxuOfQ
How many gum balls do we really need or can afford??
Krusty, I think living in one area may not narrow the outlook, but give you insight on what has evolved over the years. Living in one area allows you to see first hand the way it has evolved. Sometimes for the good and sometimes for the bad. You can see neighborhoods go through the changes of life as they do. Granted, not seeing the rest of the world may allow for some to look with blinders, but in today’s society, much more than earlier years without the internet and cable TV with 24 hr news, I think they can see more than you may realize. (c:
Krusty said on 19 Nov 2007 at 12:51 pm:
This has sure been a great blog for all the proud males to strut their formidable military backgrounds. Interesting! - Is it something special about having lived in the same area one’s whole life? If so, please explain. Seems to me that might narrow one’s outlook somehow.
KRUSTY is a person of the world. Ran off and joined the circus and got a job a clown. Still dresses and acts like one. A real “professional.”
NOOOOOOOOOOOO I wanted to be king of the rednecks
Mr Light, Don’t think the theme was - A Virginia Brigadoon.
“Down toward Main Street we walked and the store windows
made us sad right away. Dusty articles were displayed
hit and miss behind dirty panes … with crayon
figures on bits of cardboard telling the prices …
Main St. itself was narrow and short … the half dozen
churches, standing forlorn and still were depressing,
rather than peaceful.” Get the drift?
The WaPo just doesn’t like Manassas and
never has - be it 1937 0r 2007.
I found something interesting. A way to get around the anchor baby loophole:
http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2007/11/19/randy-terrills-future-plans-for-oklahoma/
Randy Terrills wants to obtain a birth certificate from the parents country of origin consulate for babies born here of parents that are illegal aliens. WOW!!! What a great idea. This will further turn the tide of illegal aliens in OK and I am sure it will work everywhere in America that is not a sanctuary city. I have to wonder how long the sanctuary cities will be sanctuary cities once they have all of the illegal aliens??
A couple more links of interest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxe1WO27B_I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBONmdeRvpM
“PWConservatve said on 19 Nov 2007 at 2:33 pm:
NOOOOOOOOOOOO I wanted to be king of the rednecks”
Some seek fame. Some have fame thrust upon them.
Steve
how did you get that name anyway?
Back to basics. WSJ had an article today at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119543645830297550.html.
UVA professor James Ceasar, no slouch in the political science discipline despite his Harvard background is quoted, “A heck of a lot of middle-class Democrats feel they’re being overwhelmed [by illegal immigrants] and they’re reacting the same as Republicans, only they’re more ashamed to say so.”
The rank and file of the Democrat Party need to wake up to the fact that their leaders are selling this country out to invaders just so they can pander to the Hispanic voting bloc.
I think warner and kaine are trying to steal that title
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http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p197/jtvagop1/kainewarnerbluegrass.jpg
Does that make me the “Queen of the Rednecks”?
how have y’all been?
it’s been awhile
Future Governor Joseph Taylor
actually i think you have to own a ford to be truly classified as a redneck
“PWConservative said on 19 Nov 2007 at 3:01 pm:
Steve
how did you get that name anyway?”
My blog stalker, Old School Republican/I Love Manassas has bestowed that honor upon me. He/She seems to think that Manassas City politics and populace have devolved to the point where we are all “Rednecks” and I am their leader. Thus, I am the “King of the Rednecks”. I believe that would make Mrs. Thomas “Queen of the Rednecks”
So, Ya’all better pay proper respects when ya see us comin’, ya hear!. Ruffles and Flurishes should be played immediately before “dualing banjos”.
And Pabst Blue Ribbon beer should flow freely as well!!! Yer hine-azz
Oh, and when you hear the song “Freebird” played, please remove all ball-caps and cowboy hats, and place your hand over your heart.
Doc,
Pabst in the spring and summer, Old Mil’ in the wall and winter. We aren’t completely uncultured…
LOL…Gentleman Jack is fer them speechal ochazions huh? Old Mil’ will have to do in the fall and winter. I will have to dust off the vinyl copy of dualing banjos. Now I have to find something to play it on….hmmm, the good ole days are gone it seems.
I guess nuttin’ like PBR nex to de cement pond in da summer time.
Steve,
Don’t forget about the Beast! Milwaukee’s Best is a time-honored tradition among us “Sons of the Soil”. Why, it makes me want to adjust the cinder blocks holding up my house just thinking of that sweet, sweet, flyover-country nectar.
Excuse me while I make a fried-baloney on Wonder Bread before I get back to rebuilding my Chevy Silverado’s transmission in the living room. Pork rind, anyone?
O/T - Doc, have you read “Lone Survivor” by HM2 Marcus Lutrell? Excellent book, if you want to borrow it.
A “Beast Ice” sounds great, with an plate of gravy-bread and some chili-fries. Maybe some pork-cracklin for an appetizer! Now if you will excuse me, the Queen and I are fixing a flat on our house.
When and where is the coronation ceremony?
I sure want to fly by with Jimmy Beam or better yet some white lightin’.
oops: lightnin’
Rob “Sparky” Smalls, I have not read that one. I would like to though. Where could we get together to meet for an exchange?
Pass dem pork rinds over here….mmmm nuttin like pork rinds and vinegar to get your blood pumpin’ Dat spring doesn’t go in da hole ya have it in dare Sparky…it will cause it to mis shift if you don’t change it (c:
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ST, I have one of dem fancy hydraluic jacks if ya need to barrey it.
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WGW has da rite idear wif the litenin’
ST will the missus be wearin’ her fancy halter top or sumthin much more so-fist-icated? I’m needin to make sure my tuckseedo t-shirt and ball cap will be suitable or if I have to go to wally world and pick up sumfin else more so-fist-icated..
Doc,
It’s too cold for a halter. Tube Top and an untucked flannel is appropriate wear for the season.
Me, I’ll be wearing my Dale Jr. shirt.
Doc,
Send me an email: RobSmalls [at] yahoo.com, and we can work out the details.
WHEE HAWW ST. Go Dale Go!!! I’m a guessin’ my tuckseedo t-shirt will be fancy enuff. I understand bout the chill air and the halter top. Tube top with flannel will werk jus as gooder though. Sounds a bit more so-fist-icated too!! Like havin’ one of them fancy dinner jackets and such.
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Bubblehead, I sent ya an email (c:
Medic 64: “And Pabst Blue Ribbon beer should flow freely as well!!!”
Pabst!? Oh! That’s foul swill, Sir!
Really, worst rot I’ve ever passed
West Gate Witch : “I sure want to fly by with Jimmy Beam or better yet some white lightin’.”
Un-uh. Be kind to your innards. Try ‘Maker’s Mark’. A fine bourbon.
Mr. Dolph loves his pork rines and his Miller Lite….sometimes so much he leaves his truck door open for Lafayette.
Meanwhile, all you sons and daughters of the soil enjoy this lil’ old early Christmus greetin.
http://www.toonedin.com/movies/WhiteTrashXmas.html
This ought to make ya’ll feel down-right gentryfied. I knowed it did me.
Maker’s Mark? Try Ol’ Grandad. Equally useful as an intoxicant or to strip grease off shop tools.
“PWConservative said on 19 Nov 2007 at 3:08 pm:
how have y’all been?
it’s been awhile
Future Governor Joseph Taylor”
I may be King of the Rednecks, but when Joseph Taylor runs for Governor, I’ll be voting for him.
Joseph, hope Mom and the rest of the family are doing well. Missed you this election season at HQ.
“Meanwhile, all you sons and daughters of the soil.. ”
Of the soil!? I’m trying to put that off as long as possible!
I was at a gun show the other day and I asked a guy how he was doin’. He said, “Well, I’m on the right side of the grass so I must be doin’ alright.”
I laughed for a long time.
“I may be King of the Rednecks”…
Your carriage awaits, Sire….
http://www.jonco48.com/blog/redneck_20limo.jpg
es_la_ley,
I wonder how many illegal day workers you could get in that bad boy?
Let’s rent it and send them over to see how Josh is doing….grin…
Doc - Got your email and sent my reply. Thanks
es_la_ley…I usually say in the morning, doing good so far, but the day is still young and in the afternoon I change it to it is great to be on this side of the daises (c: Similiar to his, but flowery fer da gurlz (c:
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Good idea Dolph!!!!
“Every day above ground is a good day”
es_la_lay….you are wantin’ that so-fist-icated drink with ole gran dad. Wheww doggies, that is the hi falootin’ stuff right there (c: That is the stuff you use the most hi falootin’ voice ya can and say…pardon me, let’s ajurn to the parlor and sip this fine swill…..weehhhaaaa.
RS Sent a reply (c: LOL…
Before someone says anything, I do know how to spell and talk (c: Shame you have to have a PC disclaimer these days.
The Royal Spa…….
http://newmedia.funnyjunk.com/pictures/0333.jpg
es_la_lay…You are going to get me in trouble girl…I let out a laugh here at work. People want to know what is so funny.
/\/\3|)iç 64:
es_la_lay…You are going to get me in trouble girl…
I’m a guy.
I must have given out the wrong impression somewhere on here! Hahahaha.
“I let out a laugh here at work. People want to know what is so funny.”
Sorry!
Sorry, I will revise (c:
es_la_lay… You are going to get me in trouble here dude…
I always want to be PC in fear of the PC Police.
An assumption on my part and you know what happens when you assume….fortunately for you it only applied to me (c:
The Royal Wedding picture (don’t laugh out loud Medic!)
http://www.3rednecktenors.com/RedneckWedding2.jpg
This turned into a real comedy show. Thank y,awl! “White Trash Christmas”, redneck pool, and more. Got to have myself a widemouth Mickey before dinner.
Geez, Greg, you’re a cheapskate! Ben Tribbett bought me lunch for meeting such a milestone. Medic64 should demand equal treatment!
Krusty:
“This turned into a real comedy show. Thank y,awl! “White Trash Christmas”, redneck pool, and more.”
Aw c’mon Krusty! It’s just a little levity!
“Got to have myself a widemouth Mickey before dinner.”
Have two!
We are just celebrating the coronation of the King of the Rednecks and his queen. I remove my teeth and curtsy.
Dolph,
Curtsy is a must for such royalty. To think you only got to be Queen for a day.
Lafayette,
Shhhhhhh! I was a self-appointed Queen, having nothing to do with the current royal family. I do not want to start rumors. Translation: I do not want a rear end full of buckshot when it is not deserved.
es-la-ey - Hey, fellow blogger! I REALLY enjoyed it all. I would never have found anything like that on my own. I’m not a prude, prig, or preacher and….. I ended up having a (maybe two) martini, straight up! After dancing along with “dancing with the stars” I’m ready for the sack. Ta ta ’til morning!
Well, well, well look what’s in the MJM today.
Police find no evidence of intimidation.
http://www.manassasjm.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=MJM/MGArticle/WPN_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173353559770&path=
This is long over due. However, I knew from the get go this did
NOT happen.
Interesting article on foreclosures in the same edition of the paper. Amazingly enough, Virginia as the third lowest foreclosure rate in all 50 states.
http://www.manassasjm.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=MJM/MGArticle/WPN_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173353556082&path=
Krusty on 19 Nov 2007 at 10:41 pm:
After dancing along with “dancing with the stars” I’m ready for the sack.
I thought you always wore the sack?
PWConservative said on 19 Nov 2007 at 3:12 pm:
“actually i think you have to own a ford to be truly classified as a redneck”
Ok, since I own 2 Fords, does that make me a Duke? I graduated from The Citadel (went thru as a cadet), drive Ford, seen Larry the Cable Guy and Ron White live on stage and have been to numerous “Ford Monster Truck Jams”. Served in the military, go to church, revere God and love my parents.
But, since I have a Masters, all my teeth, been to numerous countries and around the world multiple times, am a “soccer dad” who is able to take 2 kids on separate travel soccer teams to all their games as well as get 3 kids dressed and ready for church, school, or any other function they will be attending, and if I drink alcohol, it is foreign, not domestic (except micro-brewery) and I prefer Vodka…therefore I am NOT a “red neck”.
Seems to me that “red neck” is more of a state of mind rather a locality. I can take you to various points of PA (Dayton, PA comes to mind) where I can show you MANY rednecks but be hard-pressed to find them in Northern Virginia. Though West Virginia went to the other-side in the War of Northern Agression, I dare say that minus the FBI types, the vast majority of that populace would fall under the distinguised term which Steve Thomas rightfully wears with pride.
John Light - You drink FOREIGN?!?! I thought you were all American, driving Fords an’all. Is Stolie or Absolute vodka your preference, or is it one of the newfangled Slavic concoctions being sold at outrageous prices?
” I get the kids dressed and take them all over, etc.” Are you a single parent? If so, my hat is off to you. If you have a partner in parenting, then he/she ought to get some credit too, don’t you think? Unless you, indeed, do it all yourself.
Krusty, actually, I am a single Dad with the 3 boys living full time with me during the school year then in the summer, 2 of them take off for Florida to be with their Mom and her husband and his 2 kids.
Stolichnaya is my vodka of preference. I have a bottle in my freezer as we speak. But I will drink the others as well and the Slavic ones if bought for me when I go out with my cousin - lol.
Change of topic - great read on “Sesame Street”: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/magazine/18wwln-medium-t.html
John Light,
UFB!
John Light - I admire you. Sincerely, I do. Sounds as if you’re a pretty darn good dad. Hope you sons appreciate you. If they don’t do it at present, I’m sure they will when they become adults. Happy Thanksgiving!
Krusty, thank you for the kind words. Yes, I know that they do and we all are a very loving family. Happy Thanksgiving to you as well