{"id":1977,"date":"2008-12-08T13:49:03","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T17:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2008-12-08T18:09:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T22:09:22","slug":"friday-notes-monday-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/12\/08\/friday-notes-monday-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Notes: Monday Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve almost certainly heard the news already if you’re interested in Virginia online politics, but I’ll repeat it here – the New Dominion Project is open for business<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a collaborative effort by three\u00c2\u00a0 . . . hmm, I can’t exactly call them “fresh” voices, considering that each of them has been at this for a while.\u00c2\u00a0 Let’s go with “refreshingly youthful” voices.\u00c2\u00a0 I expect good things from them.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

Ah, the holiday season, where we all get to reflect upon and celebrate our priorities and values<\/a>.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

I had forgotten that Italy will be taking the EU<\/span> G8 Presidency [ed. note – d’oh] in short order, making the corrupt disaster<\/a> that is Silvio Berlusconi [slightly] more relevant to our lives<\/a><\/p>\n

Italian president and media baron Silvio Berlusconi said today that he would use his country’s imminent presidency of the G8 group to push for an international agreement to “regulate the internet”.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Italian postal workers, Reuters reports Berlusconi said: “The G8 has as its task the regulation of financial markets… I think the next G8 can bring to the table a proposal for a regulation of the internet.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thanks, Italy.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

Vivian Paige laments the loss of her weekly milk & eggs delivery<\/a> from Yoder Dairies.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m with her, if only in spirit.\u00c2\u00a0 The last place I had milk delivery was in Nottingham in the mid-80s.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

I am shamed to say that I didn’t lift a glass in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition last Friday (to be clear, I was lifting several glasses in celebration of other things – the anniversary just got lost in the shuffle).\u00c2\u00a0 Amit Singh had a brief note<\/a> about it up at Bearing Drift.\u00c2\u00a0 That post kicked off a discussion that turned into an amusing reminder that the (remaining) Republican rank and file are more concerned with the fact that someone somewhere may be enjoying themselves than actually living up to that small government and personal freedom gloss they love to claim.<\/p>\n

~<\/p>\n

Oh, and a begrudging congratulations to the dolts in Louisiana’s 2nd Congressional District, who finally ousted that crook, Rep. William Jefferson (D).\u00c2\u00a0 It’s begrudging because that district’s voters apparently weren’t smart enough to do it the last time they had the opportunity.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, it’s good to see him gone, and terribly amusing to see Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner hold up the Republican winner of that race as “the future” of the Republican Party<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 If relying on the Democratic incumbent to get found with a freezer full of cash and indicted is the Republican plan to win, well, I can live with that.\u00c2\u00a0 Note also that the winner – Ahn Cao – will be gone in two years.\u00c2\u00a0 He may be an entirely competent and decent fellow, but there’s no way a Republican wins reelection in a D+28 district<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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