Spank That Donkey

Really, some one forgot to tell these guys huh?

Been There and seen that a couple times.  The best time was hopping out of a natural hot spring, and laying on my back in a small stream beside the river.... hot to cold pool... you'd think it's crazy, but oh so relaxing... and refreshing....

(Click to Feel the Heat)

 This is what I mean... 

From here to:

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You don't sweat in the hot pool, but your body temp is up, and when you get in the cold pool, or in the river, it's just as relaxing and refreshing...  Went there once at night, and you're laying on your back staring at this huge display of stars, because there is hardly any light pollution way out there, like 15 miles from Pucon...

I need a vacation.... but then again, who doesn't?

 Jim Gilmore pounded home the message that basically the Democrats have failed to deliver on energy after taking over Congress in 2006, and responds to critics of drilling in the ANWR, or off-shore.

The SNL highlights his Governor Jim Gilmore's visit to Waynesboro, and his message:

"What I'm seeing now is the best thing that I can do as a United States senator is to address these economic issues, which are quite specific in the minds of the people; and that means you've got to have a decisive energy policy, and that means you've got to drill in ANWR (Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge)."

Gilmore said that although some won't agree, he and others believe that the drilling can be done in an environmentally-sensitive manner that will benefit the country.

"And therefore I say we should do that, and the same with off-shore (drilling) as well," he said.

Gilmore said he believes in investing in other energy resources as well, listing as examples everything from solar power to cleaner coal and nuclear resources, but he said that expanding U.S. drilling sites and refineries will help relieve prices in the shorter term.

Asked about the time it would take to reach oil at new drilling sites, Gilmore said he doesn't think it would take as long as some critics have said.

"The heart of it is that people who say, 'Gee, it's going to take 10 years to get the oil,' are just trying to deflect the right policy ... it won't take 10 years, but even if it would take 10 years, that's what they told us 10 years ago," he said.

Governor Mark Warner vetoed a bill that would have moved Virginia forward to produce our own domestic resources.  He has also repeatedly stated he will not drill for oil in ANWR.  He would fit right in with the 'do nothing' on energy Democrats in Congress if Virginia's voters if he can fool enough of them between now and November.

 Via Spark it Up, and from our good friends at Bearing Drift a pod cast with the candidate for Attorney General who told me point blank, he'd help to repeal HB 172.  The other candidate couldn't even bring himself to vote against the monstrosity, and favorite candy for the trial attorney's this year's in the General Assembly.

The Washington Times ran a front page article in it's Sunday Read, "Millions Ventured little gained", that takes a chunk out of Mark Warner as an entrepreneur, and questions whether his ventures were really just political motivated.

I especially like VV's comment on the subject:

See what happens when Marky Mark doesn’t have inside information to rely upon.  More proof that the man is nothing more than a scam artist who doesn’t have a lick of business sense for himself.

You know what gets me about Mark Warner is his inability to be honest.  I think he is making an honest statement here concerning the failure of four of his five ventures:

Mr. Warner and other investors said the funds floundered because of poor management and poor timing - they were created just before the stock market crashed in 2000, prompting scores of technology companies to fold.

Yet, when elected Governor, the same stock market crash, and then the 9-11 attacks aren't the focus of his explanation for less revenues coming into the Commonwealth's coffers.  He instead insists that Governor Jim Gilmore's No Car Tax plan left him a $6 billon dollar deficit?

There's tons of tidbits in the article, that's just for starters...