Under the bridge on the Thursday OPEN thread
Shot by Dan under the Apperson Road bridge over the Roanoke River Greenway in Salem.
“Another Black Label motto. That’s what I think life is. It’s just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.”
Zakk Wylde
March 7, 2013 - 10:00 AM
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/citgo-flags-half-staff-hugo-chavez_n_2822387.html?utm_hp_ref=business
Interesting and ballsy move. It much be good to be in the petroleum industry and know that the demand for your product really can’t be diminished.
It must, not it “much”.
Dan
That’s where I like to walk. Maybe we’ll see each other some day.
Anyone besides me really disgusted by all the media attention give regarding e sex offender moving into Ashley Plantation? Which one of our neighborhoods do they want to push him off on? Where has the local media been when some neighborhoods in Roanoke, Vinton, Roanoke County, and Salem have been inundated by them? There’s a convicted rapist living on a street that borders the William Byrd property and that’s never been explored? I guess money buys politicians and the media too. Shouldn’t they be covering sex offender sentencing and the judges and laws that let him out rather than helping these people dump him on the rest of us because of their socioeconomic status?
I don’t disagree Teresa…there are sex offenders everywhere, as is easy to see when you check the website. I’m not sure why there’s such a fuss being made about this guy, other than that he reads like a 100% chance of recidivism. It doesn’t seem that he’s spent much time in prison considering his offenses.
Excellent point Teresa!
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BUT, the :”Sex Offender Registry” is really about as reliable as not having one. People are on there for the wrong reasons and it is as tainted as it can be. This guy seems to be an actual predator but you are right, the publicity would not happen if he were moving in anywhere else.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/07/rand-paul-john-mccain-filibuster_n_2829358.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D280466
It seems like McCain can’t decide where he wants to come down. On the side of sanity, or the side of bitter snippiness.
Kristen: “I’m not sure why there’s such a fuss being made about this guy,”
Obviously because it’s fancypants Ashley Plantation. I’m sure if you polled the residents anonymously, they wouldn’t want any non-married, non-white, non-christians in there either. It brings down the property value you know.
Speaking of Drone Hellfire strikes on US terrorists. Why does this guy get a pass?
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North Korea amplified its threatening rhetoric as the U.N. Security Council approved new sweeping sanctions, vowing to launch a first-strike nuclear attack against the United States and threatening to engulf Washington in a “sea of fire.”
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Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/03/07/north-korea-vows-nuclear-attack-on-us-ahead-un-sanctions-vote/#ixzz2MszjS3m6
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I think maybe we should take this nut at his word and take him out now.
Cold,
North Korea can’t hit us with a nuke. They can’t even make pizza, for goodness sakes. (They could do some serious damage to S. Korea, though).
This is all bluster. We’ve taught them over the years that the more they bluster, the more aid we’ll give them so fewer of their people will starve to death. They also know their goose is cooked as soon as they make an overt military move.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/16/obama-gun-research-violence/1840367/
This was posted earlier today by Dan Radmacher and was buried in another thread and deserves another airing. In 1996 our congress passed legislation prohibiting spending federal money on research which could be used to “advocate or promote gun control”. Of course this was spurred by lobbying from our friends at the NRA. Those who gripe at the over reaching of federal authority should look at this and then themselves in the mirror and feel ashamed. I do. I’m ashamed our law makers would even think to not study the cause of 30,000 annual deaths of our citizens just because a lobby threw some money at them. This is “1984″ at it’s worst. It is a shame the POTUS has to tell the CDC it’s okay for them to study this epidemic. This was legislation which was specifically geared to keep the deaths of our citizens happening because big money liked it that way.
It’s the old, Money talks and BS walks deal, Scott Whitaker.
The way we treat NK is why other countries want nukes. To get a nuke all the way here, they’d have to put it a row boat and row close enough to California to throw it on shore.
Glad to see that the paragraph break bug has been fixed.
Also glad to see the comment @ http://tinyurl.com/blnjesj , “We are currently working on updating our RSS feeds page. Once that is done, you will have to resubscribe to our new feeds. We hope to have that resolved by the end of this week. Thanks for your patience!”
Re: Debbie at 4:48 pm
Did you just concede that Gun Control is BS?
Who’ah thunk?
Wow. Just wow. What the hell is wrong with the Socialist Muslim Kenyan-in-Chief? Doesn’t he know he’s supposed to be dismantling capitalism instead of letting the Dow come roaring back? What will Doug Thompson, frank, Chuck, Henry and BobH whine about now?
Hey, I got it; maybe President Obama could harm the country by stopping hunting Al Qaida now that everybody’s transfixed on the resurging stock market! Oh wait…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/osama-bin-ladens-son-in-law-captured-turned-over-to-us/2013/03/07/50a2b1d6-8746-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394_story.html?hpid=z1
No, Dave HIcks, that is not what I meant. BS walks, referred to the members of Congress who take their orders from those who line their pockets/campaign coffers. They appear to be FOS.
steve c, give Barack Hussein Obama time. In due course he will: as you said, stop harassing the crap out of al qaeda and killing and jailing it’s leaders, he will try his damndest to halt the economic recovery in which we find ourselves, he will push for government paid abortions at any time for any reason, he will confiscate all guns except of course those of the police, military and his equivalent of the Nazi SS (shall we call it the HH for Hussein Hussein?), he will start taxing churches and ban all religious displays, he will nationalize all large companies, he will ban all gas cars and mandate all electric vehicles etc. It is meaningless that he has neither done nor attempted to do any of this now by the 5th year as POTUS, he will do it. And if he doesn’t it will only be for the grace of the likes of Limbaugh, Rand Paul and their TP cronies, true patriots, the defenders of family values, of truth and justice and the Amercan way! They will take our country back! I hope, because if they don’t we’re gonna be marching to Moscow’s orders any day now…
scott whitaker | March 7, 2013 at 8:00 pm
And OF Course he will use his magic wand to do all these things…
scott whitaker,
…very well said, sir.
steve c, you have claimed many times that you have an mba…sooo, prove it.
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What is the most important reason that the U.S. market has been so good for investors during the past year?
The fact that Obama has never done any of those things makes it EVEN MORE likely that he WILL do them before leaving office. I am brushing up my goose step as we speak.
yes Hillary, I forgot that magic wand…
Re: Debbie at 7:08 pm
Did you miss the “wink”?
http://tinyurl.com/atpp2ue
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Mar 7, 5:05 PM EST
Recent heat spike unlike anything in 11,000 years
By SETH BORENSTEIN
AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study looking at 11,000 years of climate temperatures shows the world in the middle of a dramatic U-turn, lurching from near-record cooling to a heat spike.
Research released Thursday in the journal Science uses fossils of tiny marine organisms to reconstruct global temperatures back to the end of the last ice age. It shows how the globe for several thousands of years was cooling until an unprecedented reversal in the 20th century.
Scientists say it is further evidence that modern-day global warming isn’t natural, but the result of rising carbon dioxide emissions that have rapidly grown since the Industrial Revolution began roughly 250 years ago.
SNIP
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Frank @ 8:39,
I’m gratified you’re finally starting to recognize my intellectual superiority. This is the same sense of accomplishment I experienced when I finally got my puppy to stop peeing on the rug in the living room. It’s a start, frank.
Now, on to more pressing issues; I told you before not to address me unprompted; kindly take a few minutes to go back through this thread and locate for me a post where I spoke to you. Take your time, frank; it’s not a timed quiz or anything. Find anything? No? Than why are you addressing me? Go find something useful to do like trying to piss up a rope or tilt at a windmill or learning to stop messing my good carpet. If your input is needed I’ll let you know.
Dave Hicks @ 9:02, I did. Sorry.
For all you gun lovers out there, it looks like a good cup of hot coffee beats a gun.
http://msnvideo.msn.com/?channelindex=2&from=en-us_msnhpvidmod&form=msnrll#/video/976afb0a-6436-9b00-7d8e-0ef4b457e8c1
Frank | March 7, 2013 at 8:36 pm
scott whitaker,
…very well said, sir.
I think frank failed to note the sarcasm in my post…
Ron
They got the idea from Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Warning: Bad language
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hReFx1kjuIE
frank ain’t real swift that way, Scott.
oh, shoot, scott, i thought you were leaving the dark side!
Re: Debbie at 5:20 am
No need to be sorry.
Lighthearted ribbing / sparing can be fun.
Dave Hicks, it was written in jest. We keep misunderstanding each other.
After the McDonald lawsuit that looks like a good way to get shot — if the robber had beed a real hard case.
Glad it worked out in this case.
FWIIW, in the Marines, we said, “I’m the weapon. These are my tools.” And “Improvise, Adapt and Overcome” was our mantra.
In this case, he improvise, adapt and overcome the bad guy as well as the handicaps imposed on him by his boss, local laws and mores, traditions, etc. Or maybe, he just got lucky that the robber was not a hard case.
IMHO, a good clip to show we should all be aware and armed to the level we are allowed by workplace rules, local laws and mores, traditions, etc.
Re: my last.
Somehow I lost the link to Ron May at 7:46 am.
Re: Debbie at 12:16 pm
“We keep misunderstanding each other. ”
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Seem as if a lot of that happens on this blog.
Not much of a problem when both are ribbing each other. But….
Teresa, Kristin, and Sandi, you all make some good points about the situation at Ashley Plantation. I, too, am weary of the hysteria.
Sandi, I agree with you about the sex offender registry. It can be very misleading. I am not advocating for the fella moving into Ashley Plantation, don’t know much about him, but I do have a few questions for the blog in general.
When does a convicted sex offender pay his or her debt to society?
Does a convicted sex offender, after successfully completing his or her
sentence, give up the right to live and work in our society?
I’m sympathetic to the stigmatization that can result from being on a sex offender registry because you can wind up on those, in this country, for “crimes” as minor as public urination. That’s ridiculous.
But it’s important to note that the person in question is no ordinary name on the sex offender registry. He’s been designated a “sexually violent predator.” This is a very rare designation, reserved only for the worst of the worst repeat offenders. They didn’t have it back in Ted Bundy’s day, but he was another one. That elevates this guy to a very different class from your typical sex offender.
How in the hell he managed to skate, in Virginia, with only three years in prison for raping one woman and abducting another, with a prior history — I will never understand that.
I suspect someone involved has some juice, and some phone calls were made.
Dan, no doubt this man is a repeat offender, and he has a disturbing history of violating terms of supervision. That said, he has apparently completed the period of incarceration imposed by two Roanoke Courts, and he is reportedly substantially in compliance with his conditions of release. He is also gainfully employed.
Does he have the right to live with his wife?
Does his wife have the right to live where she chooses?
Again, I am not advocating for this guy, but I do think what is going on right now seriously inhibits any chance at progress. And let’s be clear, statistically, he is likely to reoffend. There is virtually nowhere in the Roanoke Valley that Mr Thompson could live and not regularly encounter women and children. These cases are gut-wrenchingly difficult for neighborhoods to wrap their
minds around. I get that. They are also the most difficult cases for community corrections professionals to supervise.
So is the answer to perpetually incarcerate these offenders? That you think the sentences he received in Roanoke were too lenient is obvious, but this beef is more appropriately diected at the courts.
I don’t have a good solution. No one does. These offenders steal a bit of humanity from their victims. There is no recompense for that. So,
When does a convicted sex offender pay his or her debt to society?
Does a convicted sex offender, after successfully completing his or her
sentence, give up the right to live and work in our society?
Jason Perdue,
I suppose that a convicted sex offender could receive an exoneration like Thomas Haynesworth did from Ken Cuccinelli.
http://www.tv3winchester.com/news/headlines/Cuccinellis_Office_Hires_Man_Wrongly_Convicted_of_Rape_120970169.html