Virginia

Looking Forward to the Weekend

First weekend of fall, and we are going camping.  I’m bringing ponchos because its gonna be drizzly.  We are going to the Shenandoah River to teach the kid how to smack raccoons with sticks.

See my previous post here about this awesome camping spot.

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Virginia Supreme Court- Now Spam is Protected Speech

We have a few morons on the bench here in Virginia. Our Supreme Court Justices are trying to give rights to criminals that do not exist anywhere else in the country. In a stunning reversal of their own prior opinion, they have now ruled that anyone can send any type of spam they want to my computer, even if it contains malware, trojans and child pornography, because I am a Virginia resident and its the spammer’s constitutional right to free speech to do so.

From the WaPo here:

The Virginia Supreme Court today struck down a state anti-spam law, saying the statute violated the First Amendment right to free and anonymous speech. The decision also tossed out the conviction of a North Carolina man once described as one of the most prolific spammers.

The ruling, arising from the Loudoun County criminal prosecution of Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C., was also remarkable because the Supreme Court reversed itself: Just six months ago, the same court upheld the anti-spam law by a 4-3 margin. But Jaynes’s attorneys asked the court to reconsider, typically a long shot in appellate law, and the court not only reconsidered but changed its mind.

Jaynes was convicted in 2004 of sending tens of thousands of e-mails through America Online servers in Loudoun. He was the first person tried under the law, enacted in 2003, and Loudoun Circuit Court Judge Thomas D. Horne sentenced him to nine years in prison.

Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell said he intends to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

“Today, the Supreme Court of Virginia has erroneously ruled that one has a right to deceptively enter somebody else’s private property for purposes of distributing his unsolicited fraudulent emails. I respectfully but fervently disagree,” McDonnell said in a written statement. “We will take this issue directly to the Supreme Court of the United States. The right of citizens to be free from unwanted fraudulent emails is one that I believe must be made secure.”

It doesn’t matter what anyone wants to say in an email.  If you send it to a list of email addresses as spam, you are abusing computer access rights, which ought to be illegal.  Its illegal in most other states, but not Virginia.

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Washington Post Discovers That Local SchoolTeachers are Whores

I’ve been saying it all along. First its the filthy MySpace page and then they are tying up your 14 year-old kid like the gimp from Pulp Fiction.


Typical Myspace Teacher Whore. This one went to jail for banging a student.

This is a great story and shows the consequences of having a public-facing website. From the WaPo here:

One Montgomery County special education teacher displayed a poster that depicts talking sperm and invokes a slang term for oral sex. One woman who identified herself as a Prince William County kindergarten teacher posted a satiric shampoo commercial with a half-naked man having an orgasm in the shower. A D.C. public schools educator offered this tip on her page: “Teaching in DCPS — Lesson #1: Don’t smoke crack while pregnant.”

Erin Jane Webster, 22, a long-term substitute teacher in Prince William, posted under a “Work Info” heading, the page reads, “Employer: Prince William County Schools. Location: Parkside Middle School Language Arts Teacher.” The section lists where she attended college (Radford ’07) and high school (Osbourn Park High ’03).

But the page features multiple “bumper stickers,” including one that uses a crude acronym for attractive mothers and another that says: “you’re a retard, but i love you.” Teensy problem: Webster teaches students with emotional and learning disabilities.

Click “View Photos of Erin,” and you can see her lying on her back, eyes closed, with a bottle of Jose Cuervo tequila between her head and shoulder. Or click on her “summertime” photo album and see a close-up of two young men flashing serious-looking middle fingers.

In Prince William, Rich Davila, a real estate company director and the father of a 6-year-old first-grader, said that when he found a substitute teacher’s risque MySpace page recently, he complained to school officials and the teacher was eventually removed.

The teacher’s page includes a painting of a young woman lifting up her dress, exposing her lingerie, and another showing her bare chest. “I felt sick to my stomach when I saw the page,” Davila said. “These Web sites are the bars and restaurants of our new era. It’s like running into your teacher in a restaurant and seeing them not act appropriately. It’s going to come back and haunt him.”

If teachers claim free speech protection under the First Amendment, Simpson said, the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that governments can fire employees if their speech harmed the workplace’s mission and function.

Alina Espinosa, a teacher at Clopper Mill Elementary School in Montgomery, had written on her Facebook page in the “About Me” section: “I only have two feelings: hunger and lust. Also, I slept with a hooker. Be jealous. I like to go onto Jdate [an online dating service for Jewish people] and get straight guys to agree to sleep with me.”

Tax dollars well spent. I’m beginning to think its the chalk dust that makes teachers whores. Ah, who am I kidding? They were whores in high school and are merely conditioned to think that’s where they can get the most action, so they pursue a teaching gig.

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Sniper Fire in Virginia

Unlike Hillary Clinton, residents of Virginia are being targeted by Sniper fire. Again. Some loon is shooting at cars at the junction of Route 29 and I-64 near Charlottesville. What is it about Virginia that attracts crazed snipers anyways? When the snipers were running around the region after 9/11 I was one of the guys that would only get gas at stations far from the beltways and would pump gas while sitting in the car or crouched behind the car door.

In the mean time, the Clinton campaign released this video below to show that she really was under sniper fire and other war-time dangers during her trip to Bosnia.

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Snakes on a Plane at Dulles! OMG, Run!

An Arlington VA High School coach was bitten by a rattlesnake that had somehow stowed away in his airline luggage.

From the AP here:

A high school coach emptying his luggage after a team trip to South Carolina was bitten by a small rattlesnake that had somehow gotten into his bag, authorities said.

Andy Bacas was stable condition at Inova Fairfax Hospital.

Bacas, a rowing coach at Yorktown High School in Arlington, told authorities he felt a sharp pain on his hand Monday when he reached into his luggage. He then saw the nearly foot-long snake and slammed the suitcase shut.

Fire and rescue workers took the suitcase outside, opened it and blasted the snake, identified as a juvenile canebrake rattler, with a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher. The chemical essentially froze the animal to death.

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