There are a lot of fishy things that have gone on in Loudoun County in the last ten years or so.  One thing that has baffled me has been the very minimal news of significant drug arrests in this county.  This was mentioned in comments on this story at the LTM about kids being caught with pot brownies at an Ashburn middle school.

Just what was the previous Sheriff and his people doing in regards to drug dealing in this county?  Or any other high profile felony crime?  I really can;t recall any big headlines about drug dealers being arrested or convicted in this county.  We still have high profile unsolved murders, and our county’s reputation for skeevy land deals is unparralleled.  It seems the last Sheriff did little other than focus on street stops and low level and very obvious crimes that couldn’t be avoided.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, the local Good Old Boy and Girl Network wanted desperately to keep their vassal Sheriff in place, and they lost that battle.  It will be interesting to see where some of these new investigations go.  I’ve never done an illegal drug in my life, let alone smoked a cigarette.  How easy is it to get drugs in Loudoun County?

Yeah, I know, the election is in November, but come on, all Frank Wolf really needs to do is announce he is running again to win another term. And he did that tonight in front of several hundred people.

As I said in a recent post, I am very much in favor of term limits. But as long as we don’t have them I’ll keep supporting Frank Wolf for as long as he wants to run. He’s hard working, committed, and ethically sound. We’re lucky to have him.

Good grief, my stalker is still at it over on this ridiculously long gay-centric comment thread at NovaTownHall.  Now he’s so worried about me that he is considering asking for a restraining order against me.  I’m not kidding.  As is the case with bloviating blowhards like this tool, his bark is way worse than his bite.  Here’s my basic response to such obnoxious jerks, from the greatest movie ever made, Reservoir Dogs:

But then he says he really doesn’t want to get into it with me because his life is, and I quote, “blossoming”.  Yes indeed, blossoming.  And let the record be clear – I have never threatened physical violence against this creep – that’s the territory of Bullet Box himself and his fellow LCRC tough guy enforcer.

So here’s a long distance dedication to the Bullet Box Monk, the theme song from what must be his favorite TV show, Blossom (I must say I do love Dr. John, who is singing this tune!):

On top of some inspiring news from Somalia, where US Navy SEALs rescued two aid workers from scumbag pirates holding them hostage, comes a great story in the Washington Post about songwriters working with veterans to heal their spiritual wounds.

I’m a huge fan of music and musically inclined myself.  A good song never fails to cheer me up, or make me sad, depending on the goal of the songwriter and performer.  While I disagree with many of the foreign entanglements we find ourselves in as a country, you can never take anything away from those who sacrifice so much for so many, for so little in terms of compensation.

One of my favorite songwriters, Radney Foster, has been heavily involved in this program.  He was a great songwriter and a great American before becoming involved with this, but his involvement in this program makes me admire him even more.  What a way to give back (and we can all help give back to him by buying some of his stuff!).   He’s an authentic American voice in a sea of modern musical mediocrity.

To prove it, here’s a Foster tune from 2009 honoring those who fly the bodies of the fallen back home.  If this fails to bring a tear to your eye you need to have your head examined.

A new (as far as I can tell) commenter named Chrisi splashed on to the scene this week at TooConservative, full of vitriol and contempt for anything and everything written here.  But, just as quickly as Chrisi appeared, Chrisi fell silent.

Did the check not clear, Chrisi?

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Love this image from this website!

NLS’s latest post “Cuccinelli’s Rat Lie” sent me to this PolitiFact piece on Cuccinelli’s latest attention grabbing crusade.  After railing away on various radio talk shows about how DC is banning the killing of rats and how he thinks they’re shipping them over the Potomac to Virginia, the legal eagle’s office is referred to the first page of the law that specifically exempts “commensal rodents“, i.e, pest mice and rats.  The live capture preference was meant to apply to larger mammals such as squirrels, racoons, etc.  Perfectly reasonable.

So what does Cuccinelli’s office do when confronted with the error?  Admit the mistake?  Hell no, they simply dig their hole deeper and say that the regulation could still apply to rice rats and deer mice, therefore their crusading leader was correct in what he said.  Trust me, neither of these species are trapped in appreciable numbers in Washington DC, if at all, and especially not in houses by your typical exterminator.  This was someone’s non-scientific attempt at diversion that only makes them look more idiotic and slanted, if you happen to research it a bit.

As expected, Cuccinelli has made a mockery of his office, focusing on push button dog whistle issues (or rat whistle issues as an astute NLS commenter noted!) that bring attention to himself as savior, not to the real nuts and bolts of being the Commonwealth’s lawyer in chief.

Speaking of sore losers, Kelly Burk has now announced that she will be running for Ken Reid’s vacant Leesburg Town Council seat in the upcoming special election in April.  That seat is open because Ken Reid beat Burk in November, a race hardly anyone thought Burk had a chance of losing.  Then she tried to get appointed to fill Reid’s seat temporarily, and couldn’t even get the votes she needed from her fellow Democrats on the Town Council.

So now she’s going to try it again with basically the same electorate that tossed her out a few months ago.  Of course much will depend on her opposition, but for God’s sakes, it surely can’t be any worse than Ken Reid, so I don’t see her winning this one either.

Oh man, I hadn’t been over to former Loudoun School Board Chairman John Steven’s “Our Loudoun Schools” blog for a while, and he continues to be bitterly obsessed with the new School Board that deposed him and most of his cronies in November.  This guy goes so far as to make up bar graphs of how many questions each board member asks, while continuing to derisively refer to the six new members as “the six-pack”.  Nice.

What a tool.  Fortunately no one is paying much attention and he’s lucky to get a single comment on any blog post – most are stuck at zero.  He seems to be plotting his revenge, but I just don’t see it going anywhere.