Sunday’s column: The 2012 Dano Awards
It’s that time of year, when peace, love and gladness ring in hearts all over the Blue Ridge.
Except for in mine. I am “sinister, brilliant and beautifully foul.” That’s how Roanoke reader Whitney Hollingsworth described me on Facebook one day in November, and I feel indebted.
By Grant Jedlinsky
It’s also a perfect description for the Grinch. Which means it’s time to give out the infamous Dano Awards, which are more or less Oscars for glaring stupidity.
They are named after me for obvious reasons. Month after month, people compete with reckless abandon to outdo me, no easy feat. But there always are standouts. So here we go:
For the first time, we’re handing out a national award, the Dano for Political Backfire. Congratulations are in order for Virginia Del. Kathy Byron, R-Lynchburg, who also represents northern Franklin and southern Bedford counties.
In a strange way, she probably did more to assure the re-election of President Barack Obama than any other state-level lawmaker in the country.
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December 9, 2012 - 6:00 AM
Funny stuff Dan!
Del. Byron, should she accept the ambassadorship to Saudi Arabia, would have to be paid a little more. That’s to pay for the new wardrobe she would have to have to serve there. She would also probably have to have special medical treatment to enable her to deal with being ignored by the Saudis.
My guess is that you will find a new way to “compliment” the Tea Party folks and thus another abject apology will not be needed next year.
I forgot how hilarious that “green menace” award was.
Glad she could help get Obama re-elected…I`ll bet the folks who rent from a property management firm in Colorado don`t thnk so…Due to Obamas WAR on small business, the Company is having to cut back staff, hours, and get this…Everybodys RENT is going to get RAISED…Maybe they should have done a little homework on Obama and his ideology…probably still wouldn`t have mattered with these folks…So, here it starts…job hours decreased or jobs lost…Rent increases for those that probably can`t afford it now….Hope all the Obama voters enjoy this for their fellow man…Remember Dan..“Don`t postpone JOY“
Hey Dan, the Tums Fast Relief 500 has been the title sponser in Martinsville for years. Are you going to backdate the Dano’s to cover all them. Maybe not to the city but to all the race fans who try to leave after a race, it’s got to be the worst place ever.
#3 How about link on that one, Doto? Me bets that if you really dug into it, this company is HAPPY to blame its already planned rent increase and hours cutback on Obama. Convenient scapegoat.
Butch Church, Ed Elswick, Chip Tarbutton, Ken Cuccinelli, Kathy Byron, and the Tea Party! What an all star lineup for the Danos this year! Are you planning a red carpet reception and awards ceremony for this august group? If so I’ll be glad to buy the tea flavored kool aid which I am sure would be the featured drink at such a distinguished gathering! You could probably get Bishop Jackson as the featured speaker. And I’m sure Governor McDonnell would be there. He’ll go any place that he can find a TV camera. Add an invocation by Jerry Jr. and an empty chair comedy routine by Tripp Godsey posing as Clint Eastwood and you’d be in for a rollicking good time. Hallelujah!
I love the Tea Party, but the “apology” to all “energizer bunnies on LSD” is priceless.
Mike T:
“Maybe not to the city but to all the race fans who try to leave [Martinsville Speedway] after a race, it’s got to be the worst place ever.”
I beg to differ, Mike T. I went to the spring race at Martinsville a few years ago, 2009 maybe, and it had been pouring rain. Once the track was dry, it was a good race, but the best action of all, by far, was in the parking lot after the race! Martisville has many open fields they use for parking and all the rain made them a muddy mess! I could barely make it to the top of the hill in all the mud in my four wheel drive, but sure didn’t want people sliding into me on the way out after the race as those hills are self-clearing via gravity if you know what I mean. The effort to the top of the hill was worth it, though; the show of mud bogging on the hill as the fans cleared out was hilarious. We spent over an hour watching people getting stuck, applause for drivers making it through, and one guy with an H2 pulling people out even pulling out a truck who got stuck pulling out a car. I can’t even remember off the top of my head who won the race, but I’ll never forget the show in the parking lot afterward.
I seriously wonder what all these businesses blamed their dirty deeds on before President Obama. Or do people like Jeff Doto think that layoffs, cut backs, bankruptcies and rent increases are a new phenomenon?
Sandi it must be convenient for them to screw over employees and pad their bottomi line while laying it ok Obama. I’d say I’m surprised anyone believes it, but I’m not.
Jeff Doto please provide a link for your comment about the company in Colorado. You throw comments out but don’t provide confirmation.
Sandi @3:00 pm It’s just so convenient to blame him.
I do Blame Obama for one thing. The rush of ammo sales after each of his election wins made it impossible for me to secure a decent ammo discount for my students and class.
Primers are in short supply, to be specific, and ammo manufacturers cannot keep up with demand. Good for them!
My husband laughed about the apology to “energizer bunnies on LSD”, too.
I agree with you John, spent many an afternoon either getting stuck (the reason for the headache) or sitting and watching the mayhem. The only track i know of that is like this except maybe Bristol.
I think maybe this is what Jeff Doto is referring to.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/335094/colorado-springs-apartment-manager-threatens-raise-rent-obama-voters-eliana-johnson#
“John Obringer sent a letter to his tenants Wednesday regarding staff and maintenance issues, but it included a post script that read, “BTW: If you voted ‘Democrat’ on Nov. 6, please notify me ASAP so I can raise your rent first to help pay for what you asked for.” Obringer’s letter began by decrying the “stupidity” of an electorate that would back “the Obama-administration’s continued assault on small business.” ”
Sounds all too familiar.
Yes it does sound familiar Sandi. It also sounds illegal. Still waiting for Jeff Doto to provide a link to his post, and to explain why Republican presidents never drove a stake into the heart of poverty, in his other post on a different thread. I have a feeling that I’ll be waiting for a long time.