Comments on: Snowpocalypse: The Aftermath http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/ Blog-Fu for Prince William, Manassas and Manassas Park politics. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:02:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: let'sstartfromscratch http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92135 let'sstartfromscratch Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:56:21 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92135 Chicko - AMEN brother! Chicko - AMEN brother!

]]> By: chicko http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92076 chicko Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:32:24 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92076 kevin, I completely agree, like the above mentioned article about the snow shoveling. I'll agree that race is not generally an issue, but come on! When you have the black kids in my neighborhood charging 50-60 bucks to shovel your snow and the white kids are doing it for free (well, maybe a cup of hot chocolate) makes one start to wonder. Last night at my home, we heard someone trying to enter our home through the front door, kept trying to open the door then the guy rang the damn doorbell. Opened the door with wife standing behind me with a shotgun...lo and behold...it was a hispanic guy, drunk, who couldnt find his way home. He got the wrong townhouse he was so hammered! Or, what about the hispanic guys in a 4-wheel drive who wouldnt stop to help a lady stuck in her mini-van in the snow? they rode right on by, even waving at her...laughing. Yep, white people again to the rescue by bailing her out. So it's not racism, but realism.. kevin,

I completely agree, like the above mentioned article about the snow shoveling. I’ll agree that race is not generally an issue, but come on! When you have the black kids in my neighborhood charging 50-60 bucks to shovel your snow and the white kids are doing it for free (well, maybe a cup of hot chocolate) makes one start to wonder.

Last night at my home, we heard someone trying to enter our home through the front door, kept trying to open the door then the guy rang the damn doorbell. Opened the door with wife standing behind me with a shotgun…lo and behold…it was a hispanic guy, drunk, who couldnt find his way home. He got the wrong townhouse he was so hammered! Or, what about the hispanic guys in a 4-wheel drive who wouldnt stop to help a lady stuck in her mini-van in the snow? they rode right on by, even waving at her…laughing. Yep, white people again to the rescue by bailing her out. So it’s not racism, but realism..

]]> By: Kevin C http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92064 Kevin C Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:06:00 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92064 It's a SHAME the way some people can't tell the difference between RACISM and REALISM!!! All you people who told the TRUTH, you're not being POLITICALLY CORRECT!!! Nowadays, political correctness comes BEFORE the truth!!! It’s a SHAME the way some people can’t tell the difference between RACISM and REALISM!!!

All you people who told the TRUTH, you’re not being POLITICALLY CORRECT!!!

Nowadays, political correctness comes BEFORE the truth!!!

]]> By: chuck http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92061 chuck Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:45:09 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92061 the anti-blog thing is considerably worse than this one mike...they keep a couple people around posting, beat up on them and then when they get tired of them "fire" em'...eventually another comes along to take their place. it's a blog of full of "the mean women down the street" essentially the mean lady you avoided as a child because you stepped on her part of the sidewalk or something. that blog is full of excuses that call themselves people, every once in a while you'll see a few "hitler" or "nazi" themed posts with one of the founders (who is jewish) chiming in with her infinite wisdom on the subject. that blog is rich in something but it's sure not intelligence. the anti-blog thing is considerably worse than this one mike…they keep a couple people around posting, beat up on them and then when they get tired of them “fire” em’…eventually another comes along to take their place. it’s a blog of full of “the mean women down the street” essentially the mean lady you avoided as a child because you stepped on her part of the sidewalk or something. that blog is full of excuses that call themselves people, every once in a while you’ll see a few “hitler” or “nazi” themed posts with one of the founders (who is jewish) chiming in with her infinite wisdom on the subject. that blog is rich in something but it’s sure not intelligence.

]]> By: anon http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92049 anon Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:19:07 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92049 Back in the 1600s Virginia was considerably warmer than it is now. Back in the 1600s Virginia was considerably warmer than it is now.

]]> By: Citizen12 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92042 Citizen12 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:08:56 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92042 So.....how many carbon credits do we get for shoveling all this snow? So…..how many carbon credits do we get for shoveling all this snow?

]]> By: michael http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92041 michael Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:01:06 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92041 And yes since the 1100's we did have more snow than we do in Virginia today, because we should be and were entering a minor ice age period started in the Middle ages, 6000 years ago Virginia was dry (no snow) but a cold dry desert of -20 degrees), today however global warming carbon burning has changed the weather patterns of both summer and winter to be larger and more unstable between poles and tropics, causing wilder weather swings between warm weather and cold weather, all a function of more heat and instability in the atmosphere and more carbon, water vapor and methane in the atmosphere...the extremes will be like the eocene epoch (lack of oxygen and high heat due to carbon) and the precambriam ice epochs (due to ocean current cutoff caused by fresh water melting and continental current closure.... But hey that's science and not religion right, so most people who "believe" in what they are told, will believe what they are told and not study it for themselves....until its too late and obvious to even the densest and most ignorant among us... And yes since the 1100’s we did have more snow than we do in Virginia today, because we should be and were entering a minor ice age period started in the Middle ages, 6000 years ago Virginia was dry (no snow) but a cold dry desert of -20 degrees), today however global warming carbon burning has changed the weather patterns of both summer and winter to be larger and more unstable between poles and tropics, causing wilder weather swings between warm weather and cold weather, all a function of more heat and instability in the atmosphere and more carbon, water vapor and methane in the atmosphere…the extremes will be like the eocene epoch (lack of oxygen and high heat due to carbon) and the precambriam ice epochs (due to ocean current cutoff caused by fresh water melting and continental current closure….

But hey that’s science and not religion right, so most people who “believe” in what they are told, will believe what they are told and not study it for themselves….until its too late and obvious to even the densest and most ignorant among us…

]]> By: michael http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92039 michael Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:11:37 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92039 I belong to neither blog politically, but I am often shocked at the pettiness and similarity between both for outright anger at others for not being or saying what they want to hear..politics over truth...sad...very sad.... I belong to neither blog politically, but I am often shocked at the pettiness and similarity between both for outright anger at others for not being or saying what they want to hear..politics over truth…sad…very sad….

]]> By: michael http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92038 michael Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:09:44 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92038 I'd invite those of you offended by assults on Democracy, censorship and oppression of free speech by moderation for politically disageeeing with the moderator of a blog to visit the hypocrisy and failure of true democracy and openess on anti-bvbl.net. This is the kind of scary thing our forefathers tried to warn us about anarchy and autocracy... Seems I recall that blog was started because of the anger and resentment from one of its founders for being moderated and banned from this blog..here is an offering for your scrutiny and personal assessment that they are just as inconsiderate as anyone else they oppose and claim is inconsiderate to them.... Wonder what she is afraid of? Could it be free speech or the truth? Read my thread "michael" on snow (the moderated thread) and the previous thread on Political Correctness, and determine for yourself if the moderator is being inconsiderate and resentful or is justified in moderating the following... "I guess those who are afraid of snow have never enjoyed the beauty of Alaska…." "I’m glad that global warming has made the large polar and tropical systems over the poles and equatorial belts unstable all summer and winter…I like the weather variety…that’s about the only thing I like about continued global warming impact on our weather systems…wait until the oceans rise, methane releases and we start something we can’t stop…my advice is to study history diligently, and study archeological records for this area (Virginia once used to be a cold barely inhabitable desert of -20 degrees, only 6000 years ago, and the entire planet was frozen solid over 650 million years ago, and had no oxygen above 5000 feet, 39 million years ago with temperatures typically at the equator 130 degrees and an average change only 2.5 degrees above what it is today, all changes no where near and occuring more rapidly now than at any other time in history, with the same conditions and extremes of the past only about 50 years into the future if we do not stop…we will finally learn when we first experience a global heat approaching that of the Eocene Epoch of 130 degrees (only a few more hundred PPM of carbon away from where it was then), and then a rapid dive to a period colder than the last ice age if the ocean deep currents stop due to fresh water melt of the ice caps…last proved as the Younger Dryess… And of course “some” of you and probably “most” of you don’t believe this weather has anything to do with that Global warming crap, its COLD right?" I’d invite those of you offended by assults on Democracy, censorship and oppression of free speech by moderation for politically disageeeing with the moderator of a blog to visit the hypocrisy and failure of true democracy and openess on anti-bvbl.net. This is the kind of scary thing our forefathers tried to warn us about anarchy and autocracy…

Seems I recall that blog was started because of the anger and resentment from one of its founders for being moderated and banned from this blog..here is an offering for your scrutiny and personal assessment that they are just as inconsiderate as anyone else they oppose and claim is inconsiderate to them….

Wonder what she is afraid of? Could it be free speech or the truth?

Read my thread “michael” on snow (the moderated thread) and the previous thread on Political Correctness, and determine for yourself if the moderator is being inconsiderate and resentful or is justified in moderating the following…

“I guess those who are afraid of snow have never enjoyed the beauty of Alaska….”

“I’m glad that global warming has made the large polar and tropical systems over the poles and equatorial belts unstable all summer and winter…I like the weather variety…that’s about the only thing I like about continued global warming impact on our weather systems…wait until the oceans rise, methane releases and we start something we can’t stop…my advice is to study history diligently, and study archeological records for this area (Virginia once used to be a cold barely inhabitable desert of -20 degrees, only 6000 years ago, and the entire planet was frozen solid over 650 million years ago, and had no oxygen above 5000 feet, 39 million years ago with temperatures typically at the equator 130 degrees and an average change only 2.5 degrees above what it is today, all changes no where near and occuring more rapidly now than at any other time in history, with the same conditions and extremes of the past only about 50 years into the future if we do not stop…we will finally learn when we first experience a global heat approaching that of the Eocene Epoch of 130 degrees (only a few more hundred PPM of carbon away from where it was then), and then a rapid dive to a period colder than the last ice age if the ocean deep currents stop due to fresh water melt of the ice caps…last proved as the Younger Dryess…

And of course “some” of you and probably “most” of you don’t believe this weather has anything to do with that Global warming crap, its COLD right?”

]]> By: Ayn Rand IS Right! http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92036 Ayn Rand IS Right! Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:56:25 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92036 Ok folks...let's cut out the race-based observations. I am sure there are the slackers and do'ers in every ethinic group. Haven't had one kid of any race come by and offer to shovel for any amount of money. When I was a kid we'd be out before school, hitting the folks who needed to get to work, and if school was canceled, we'd shovel all day, making a couple hundred bucks each. Ok folks…let’s cut out the race-based observations. I am sure there are the slackers and do’ers in every ethinic group. Haven’t had one kid of any race come by and offer to shovel for any amount of money. When I was a kid we’d be out before school, hitting the folks who needed to get to work, and if school was canceled, we’d shovel all day, making a couple hundred bucks each.

]]> By: Truth to Power http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92030 Truth to Power Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:01:48 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92030 Something funny - In Sterling they are have an Al Gore snowman look-a-like contest. Something funny - In Sterling they are have an Al Gore snowman look-a-like contest.

]]> By: Howard the Duck http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92029 Howard the Duck Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:36:49 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92029 Around here the bean people are walking right through the deep snow to knock on doors asking for work. Great way to case the neighborhood. Around here the bean people are walking right through the deep snow to knock on doors asking for work. Great way to case the neighborhood.

]]> By: InTheNavy http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92028 InTheNavy Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:34:47 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92028 Unfortunately, after waiting all day for two guys to arrive and clear my driveway, they balked at the job when they finally arrived after 4:00. A neighborhood high school senior was out trying to earn some money, so I offered him $100 (it's a very, very long driveway). His father and mother showed up as well with a snowblower and stayed last night until it was all clear (missing the Super Bowl, of course, and with family waiting at their home). Even cut and moved a neighbor's tree that had fallen across my driveway (the tree's owner refused to do it). The mother said the money is going toward the kid's college fund. I ended up giving him $200 and it was definitely worth it. Very nice family. Unfortunately, after waiting all day for two guys to arrive and clear my driveway, they balked at the job when they finally arrived after 4:00. A neighborhood high school senior was out trying to earn some money, so I offered him $100 (it’s a very, very long driveway). His father and mother showed up as well with a snowblower and stayed last night until it was all clear (missing the Super Bowl, of course, and with family waiting at their home). Even cut and moved a neighbor’s tree that had fallen across my driveway (the tree’s owner refused to do it). The mother said the money is going toward the kid’s college fund. I ended up giving him $200 and it was definitely worth it. Very nice family.

]]> By: chicko http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92027 chicko Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:51:54 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92027 the black and mexican kids are the ones haggling for money in my neighborhood, and they are also not making any money. I'll save the 50-60 bucks and shovel my own snow. It's damn good exercise too and you get some fresh air. the black and mexican kids are the ones haggling for money in my neighborhood, and they are also not making any money. I’ll save the 50-60 bucks and shovel my own snow. It’s damn good exercise too and you get some fresh air.

]]> By: chicko http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92026 chicko Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:50:32 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92026 saw some hispanic guy last night stumbling home drunk, could barely keep on his feet he was so hammered..was taking the dog out and I could smell this dude coming up the path. he tried to get into a house on the corner, failed and continued to make his way further..Not sure if he lived there or not. saw some hispanic guy last night stumbling home drunk, could barely keep on his feet he was so hammered..was taking the dog out and I could smell this dude coming up the path. he tried to get into a house on the corner, failed and continued to make his way further..Not sure if he lived there or not.

]]> By: chicko http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92025 chicko Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:48:36 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92025 Interesting about the snow shoveling, white kid next door has been shoveling snow for about 3-4 hours per day since saturday and he's not charging a thing. Yesterday I swear the kid was out there for 6 hours straight helping people dig their cars out, everyone started bringing him hot chocolate, cokes, food, etc...and he just would not quit. He just did it out of the kindness of his heart, and this was not wimpy snow shoveling either, he was shoveling mounds of snow that were 4-5ft high behind cars because of the plow. Makes me hopeful for the future that there are still kids around like this, however few. Interesting about the snow shoveling, white kid next door has been shoveling snow for about 3-4 hours per day since saturday and he’s not charging a thing. Yesterday I swear the kid was out there for 6 hours straight helping people dig their cars out, everyone started bringing him hot chocolate, cokes, food, etc…and he just would not quit. He just did it out of the kindness of his heart, and this was not wimpy snow shoveling either, he was shoveling mounds of snow that were 4-5ft high behind cars because of the plow.

Makes me hopeful for the future that there are still kids around like this, however few.

]]> By: anonymous2 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92024 anonymous2 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:37:25 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92024 Anonymous said on 8 Feb 2010 at 10:18 am: Flag comment What really bugs me is when people shovel the snow back into the street. What really bugs me is when after hours of shovelling my driveway, the plow comes by and and plows the snow back into my driveway. Anonymous said on 8 Feb 2010 at 10:18 am: Flag comment

What really bugs me is when people shovel the snow back into the street.

What really bugs me is when after hours of shovelling my driveway, the plow comes by and and plows the snow back into my driveway.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92023 Anonymous Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:18:59 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92023 What really bugs me is when people shovel the snow back into the street. What really bugs me is when people shovel the snow back into the street.

]]> By: NoVA Scout http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92022 NoVA Scout Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:15:54 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92022 Superb photo in the post. Superb photo in the post.

]]> By: DPortM http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92019 DPortM Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:07:56 +0000 http://www.bvbl.net/index.php/2010/02/07/snowpocalypse-the-aftermath/#comment-92019 My neighbors across the street had uncovered their cars and cleared their driveway to the street by 6 pm on Saturday evening. At approximately 10:30 pm, my neighbor looked out his window and saw two males attempting to break into their cars. He yelled at the males and took off after them. Unfortunately, he lost them. So the snow didn't keep the burglars off of the streets on Saturday.... My neighbors across the street had uncovered their cars and cleared their driveway to the street by 6 pm on Saturday evening. At approximately 10:30 pm, my neighbor looked out his window and saw two males attempting to break into their cars. He yelled at the males and took off after them. Unfortunately, he lost them.

So the snow didn’t keep the burglars off of the streets on Saturday….

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