Posts Tagged politics
Quotes of the week…
Instead of picking a topic and writing a lengthy thesis, here are three quotes/stories that really got me going in the past week:
Windows Bug Discovered
A Slashdot thread discussed a security bug that affects all Windows versions released within the past 17 years. One of the commenters really cracked me up:
Every time I read about one of these long-undiscovered instant pwn bugs, I always have to wonder if there’s someone sitting deep underground in an NSA computer center saying “Well shit, looks like we’ll not be using that exploit anymore.”
Is this a hole nobody knew about or a hole nobody but the people who knew about it knew about, and those people weren’t talking?
Obama on Scott Brown election
The election of Scott Brown really caused a stir in political circles, prompting a comment from Obama:
The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office. People are angry, and they’re frustrated. Not just because of what’s happened in the last year or two years, but what’s happened over the last eight years.
Accountability much? Whatever happened to “The buck stops here?” I’m sure there will be more blaming Bush in tonight’s State of the Union. If more people took responsibility for their own actions, including the president, maybe the current political and economic climate wouldn’t be such a mess.
Budget Proposal Halts Return to the Moon
A White House budget request effectively axes the Constellation program, with a Slashdot commenter reacting:
So unless Congress steps in (which isn’t unlikely), Obama will be the President that ended America as a space-faring nation.
This comes on the heels of India’s announcement proposing a manned space mission in 2016. Instead, the Obama administration wishes to focus on terrestrial science. Yet another step backwards.
The government we deserve
While I was running back to my apartment, I passed an old guy on the sidewalk walking in the other direction. The second I passed him he unleashed the nastiest gas I think I’ve ever heard in public. I still can’t believe he actually farted at me.
A local study says that almost one third of young professional Williamsburg residents intend to leave within four years. Although those polled stated that they liked the area, the main complaint was that the cost of living was too high and average pay was too low. This area just isn’t geared towards younger people, especially those who are recent college graduates. Instead, Williamsburg is focused on retirees and tourists, and those that aren’t in those groups get gassed.
Why? Because those in the local government are mostly older or retired and own businesses that cater to tourists. And who elects them? A dominant contingent of older workers and retirees. Since the most of Williamsburg thinks that anyone under the age of 30 is a nuisance, the government reflects this position. The government and locals protest any affordable or student-oriented housing. An effort is made by the city to prevent homeowners from renting out their properties. The noise ordinances have been strengthened. And of course, there’s the arcane three person rule, which effectively limits housing options for young professionals with a low income. As a student or young professional, you either live elsewhere or live with four or more people illegally. You just hope city officials don’t sue you or randomly inspect your residence to see if more than three unrelated people are living together. The city council even wants to remove the 24 hour warning before inspectors show up at your residence. What happened to the fourth amendment?
Younger people come to live in Williamsburg in two ways. They either grew up here or graduated from William and Mary with a local job offer. I’m more of the second category: I don’t think anyone my age would willingly move to Williamsburg unless they had existing ties here. The environment is just too oppressive for most people my age, with plenty of animosity.
Anyone would think that a grassroots effort could be made to at least get more student friendly officials in local government. It’s hard to do that when the voter registrar blocks student voter applications. Recently, the registrar allowed students to register in Williamsburg, which allowed a student candidate to run for office, but enough AARP members went to the polls to ruin his day.
So here in Williamsburg, most people get what they want out of their government: preventing fewer students and younger professionals from living within the city limits.
A similar situation exists with another local government I am familiar with: Virginia Beach. An overwhelming majority of Virginia Beach residents hate cyclists. Though two deaths have occurred in the past two years, drivers are still bloodthirsty. Recent efforts by cyclists to lower the speed limit on some of the more well traveled cycling routes only serves to make the driving population more enraged (the comments on these articles are insane). The roads aren’t safe for cyclists in Virginia Beach because of high speed limits, it’s because of drivers’ attitudes. Most drivers in Virginia Beach think no cyclist has any business being on a road, and the position of the elected government reflects that. When a cyclist died after being hit from behind, the Commonwealth’s Attorney decided not to prosecute the driver. Furthermore, thanks to the city council, there are no bike lanes in Virginia Beach. A more cyclist-friendly government would promote the installation of bike lanes and provide a more friendly environment for cyclists. Unfortunately, since most residents see bike lanes and more cyclists as an infringement of their personal space, they elect officials that share the same position they do. As a result, we get the situation we have now, with animosity building on all sides.
We elect the government that we deserve on all levels, even at the state and federal level. State governments are running out of money and making huge cutbacks in an attempt to balance their budgets. California is so desperate as to hand out IOUs instead of tax refunds. Since the federal government sees the power to tax its citizens as an indefinite line of credit, there is no mandate to balance the budget and the federal deficit is spiraling out of control. People complain that essential government services are being cut while the federal government is incurring serious debt. However, these people are no different than the government they deride. With almost half of all Americans spending more than they make each year, many voters are in no position to complain: they elected a government that acts just like they do. If people were able to make better spending decisions on an individual level, I would imagine the government they elect would do the same.
Somehow, people expect elected officials to be held to a higher standard then those that elected them. However, those in office act the same way everyone else does, bringing along all the same weaknesses and quirks. Though nobody in Williamsburg runs for office with the position to evict students and young professionals, it happens as a matter of course since those that vote share that belief. Since most Virginia Beach residents are on a crusade against cyclists, elected officials end up adding fuel to the fire. While most Americans acknowledge they have poor spending habits and wish to improve and never do, those in our state and federal legislatures do the same thing. Don’t expect the government to save you from anything since your failures are the same as theirs.
Are you gonna repave that?
Last week I was heading out on one of my usual cycling routes only to find the pavement end abruptly with a greeting of “Loose Gravel” from an orange sign. The road past Richardson Millpond was gravelized, with pavement replaced by sticky wet rocks which trashed my bike. It was impassible on a road bike, so I turned around and haven’t gone back there since. I hope VDOT is just repaving that section, but now I’m not so sure.
Is the deterioration of our nation’s road system yet another hole in the dike of government failures? Michigan’s transportation department is now giving up on road maintenance and turning many of its rural roads into gravel. Is this happening in Virginia? It sure seems like it.
A road over the dam on Jolly Pond was closed by VDOT since it decided the repairs were too costly. A few weeks ago following a storm, another cycling route of mine was blocked with orange barriers for several days because downed trees were not removed quickly enough. The ancient bridge over the Chickahominy on Route 5 was often closed until it was finally replaced late last year (it was a 60 mile detour).
There are plenty of rural roads in the counties surrounding Williamsburg that are in desperate need of repaving. Occasionally, a road crew will come out and put down a patch, which often crumbles faster than the older pavement around it and only makes things worse. There are bike lanes that I cannot ride in because the potholes are so bad. Most of these rural roads are probably going on decades since they were last paved, which was probably also the first time they were paved. Ironically, some of the worst sections (including the new gravelized section) are only within a few miles of a VDOT maintenance station in Croaker. All the people and tools required to fix the crumbling roads are at hand, but it took them well over a year just to fix a giant lane-consuming pothole right at the station’s entrance. I would go into the oncoming lane just to avoid it.
Supposedly, Virginia is getting $810 million in stimulus funds for transportation improvements, and it is also the last to request such funds. While I don’t really agree that dumping money on everything is the best answer to aid a struggling economy, the roads in this state could really use some help. The state had better put it to use wisely and start repaving before another Grand Canyon consumes a car on I-64.
Get Rich Quick: It’s too good to be true
After nearly ten months of work, I finally submitted a paper for review. At the end of next week, I go to Rome to give a conference presentation on work I had started over a year and a half ago. Research, like many things, takes a lot of time and effort to reach a milestone. There are no shortcuts to accomplishment, no matter what some sleazy TV salesman will tell you. People set out with dreams of instant gratification only to face the reality that only time and effort will provide them with reward. Instead of foraging on, they give up. In some cases, when faced with the prospect of immense effort for a small chance of success, others will just cheat. Why is this? What can be changed to provide motivation for long term efforts?
I recall a discussion in the locker room after cross country practice about a teammate I had never met. I don’t recall his name, but this guy had graduated before I even got to college. John, one of the well respected fifth year seniors said this guy wanted to go to NCAAs as part of the seven-man travel squad, but only “wanted to travel to the course, warm up with the team, and get a t-shirt.” He did not want to actually run the race. This guy never made the travel squad to NCAAs. To him, and many others, it’s all about instant gratification without any of the work. Running competitively isn’t like a movie where all the hard work is abstracted away and all that’s shown is the glorious win over the evil opponents. To date, our team has qualified for every national meet since 1997, one of only five schools. To do that takes considerable effort and years of training for hours every day. You can’t just fast forward to the good parts.
The zeitgeist of today is marked by a lack of intrinsic motivation to undertake any long term efforts. In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell cites James Flynn’s work on how Asian students work harder and longer on problems than their American counterparts. Given a tough math problem, most American students will work on it for only a short while before giving up. This ethos carries over into other areas. An article in the New York Times states that 95 percent of blogs are abandoned, many of which only have one post. The torrents of traffic and commenters envisioned by these blog posters just doesn’t happen overnight. They think blogging fame will come immediately, but it doesn’t. It takes time to build a reader base. More to the point, the blog also has to have content that people are willing to read. I’ll be surprised if many people read this post or others like it concerning my opinions and everyday life, but most of my traffic comes from my software troubleshooting/debugging and knee microfracture posts. Even in my little corner of the Internet, I have made gradual traffic gains over the months. People just don’t swarm in overnight:
Apparently, the same is true for Twitter: most users either abandon their account after signing up or just make one post. Again, the problem boils down to effort: few are willing to make the effort and post meaningful content at frequent intervals. Followers just don’t appear because you signed up. Like blogs, it isn’t just the frequency of posts, but the value of the content: I really don’t care what you ate for lunch today. I especially don’t care that you got a front row seat at the Apple Developer’s Conference after waiting in line since 4 AM. Most Twitter posts aren’t much better than spam. To attract followers, the posts have to carry some value to those beyond a small circle of friends.
Everyone just wants the massive blog readership or the Twitter following, but couldn’t care less about the content required to generate such traffic. Sometimes, when the desired outcome can’t be achieved with lackluster efforts, many try to lower the bar. Currently, there’s an effort in Virginia Beach to relax the public school grading scale from 7 point to 10 point. Parents think this will even the playing field with other school systems that have switched to a 10 point scale, but it’s really just lowering the standards. Parents want their kid to get in to his or her college of choice and to do it by studying less. Also along these lines, a state representive recently proposed that more in state students should be accepted to Virginia public universities because a constituent complained that the acceptance standards were too tough and he didn’t get in. I’m guessing that this “constituent” was probably the representative’s kid. What is the real secret to getting in to your college of choice? It isn’t done by getting easier As or by pushing out extremely well qualified out of state students. Work harder, and anything can happen.
It’s pretty bad that so many people give up when they realize some effort is involved. It’s worse when people lower their standards of success when their current efforts are clearly lacking. Believe it or not, there are even worse characters out there that will do anything to get instant gratification: cheaters. Instead of working hard for ten months researching state-of-the-art, tweaking out a system design, implementing the design, testing the design against existing works, and finally writing and submitting a research paper, some people are willing to cheat. A recent study reports that an astounding 2% of researchers fake their results. In a similar instance, some colleges are willing to fudge the statistics to improve their rankings. They play with class sizes and give peer institutions poor reviews to improve their standing. Instead of improving the school in an honest way, taking the time to hire more and better qualified faculty, increasing employee pay, and attracting better students, Clemson faked its way up 16 places in U.S. News reviews.
What is the real solution to this lack of motivation? How can more people motivate themselves to post regularly on their blog? How can people stick with something and work hard enough to achieve just rewards? Some slick researchers tried paying students for earning good grades. This approach improved state test scores by nearly 40 percentage points. Did money provide the motivation for these students to work harder and longer on their math problems and not give up? Apparently. Proponents of this system argue that the “real world” functions much in this way: perform better and get paid more. But money can’t be added as an outcome in every scenario. How many blogs or Twitter accounts are raking in the dough? Almost zero, I would guess. Instead, people need intrinsic motivation to produce results over the long term. I don’t write this post because I envision piles of Internet surfers reading and commenting on this. I do it because there’s satisfaction in organizing my thoughts and ideas and writing them down. I don’t care that nobody else will read this, but if someone else finds it interesting, then more power to them.
Aside from writing these inane blog posts, it is intrinsic motivation that keeps me working on long research projects. It’s what gets me up in the morning with the hope that I’ll be able to run normally again after knee surgery. I run slow, go out every other day, only go ten minutes, and feel terrible, but I know if I do it enough I’ll be able to run faster and longer. By keeping at it and going one step at a time, things will get done.
School isn’t about getting an education anymore
Increasingly, nobody seems to think the main purpose of school (especially college) is to learn and prepare for a career. It seems that college is becoming less of a place to get an education and more of some kind of camp where you go for four years. It’s not about learning as it is about the “experience.” I’ve been on this issue for some time and it only seems to be getting worse. Yesterday the Flat Hat had an interesting piece about one of the Deans of Admissions and admission policy. It used to be that admissions were based on high school GPA, difficulty of classes taken, SAT scores, and your essay. Now, according to one of the assistant deans, admissions considers:
“…all aspects of diversity, including socioeconomic, gender, race, disabilities, sexual orientation, geographic location and ethnicity.”
Aren’t all these “diversity” issues things that the admissions staff shouldn’t even know about when someone applies? Academic performance should dominate all other factors in deciding admission, and only after someone has the academic credentials and is accepted should any socioeconomic or monetary factors come into play. Truthfully, I don’t think that an applicant’s name should be on a college application: the admissions process should be completely blind to any external factors such as gender or race. The requirement that a student have some kind of college “experience” with a diversity quota seems to be overpowering the idea that going to school is about learning job and career skills. No wonder so many college students graduate and go back to menial jobs: it’s not about learning career skills anymore. It’s about the “experience.”
The Associate Dean of Admissions goes on to say that affirmative action “should be applied not just in grades K-12, but from the day a child is born.” I can’t believe she said that — especially coming from someone in her position. It’s the “spread the wealth around” mantra. It completely kills the incentive for anyone to work hard or accomplish anything. Those that have some property of “diversity” don’t have to prove their worth since they will get what they want based on their status. Those that aren’t in one of the “diverse” categories won’t have any incentive to apply to the schools they want to or to get good grades in high school since they know the admissions slots will go to those that meet specific diversity criteria.
The DoG Street Journal had an editorial recently illustrating the consequences of continuing these policies. The author argues that while there is still a gender gap in wage, that gap has reversed itself with respect to high school dropout and college admission rates. Following these trends, it is certain that the wage gap in gender will soon reverse itself as well. But, heaven forbid someone starts a movement to protect men’s rights. Those with the special privileges will fight hard to keep them, even after whatever divide they faced is long gone.
And fight they will, because those in control want to milk these policies for all they’re worth. Title IX was originally aimed at ensuring that women had an equal opportunity to attend college. With college admissions and attendance no longer a factor, the new focus is intercollegiate athletics. After JMU two years ago, Delaware, another school in our conference (CAA) is considering giving track and cross country the axe because of Title IX. Under Title IX, schools must try to have a ratio of women’s to men’s roster spaces that is representative of the entire student population. Thanks to football, this really throws things for a loop. Since most schools desperately want to cling on to a football team that incurs the school a net loss in expenditures, administrators have no choice but to cut other men’s sports. They do this despite the fact that equal opportunity does not equivocate to equal demand.
It is obvious that education is the key to solving any socioeconomic imbalances, but the key to doing so and generating a productive and globally competitive society is to reward those who work the hardest instead of those who happen to have some special property.
Yield to Pedestrians: Right Idea, Wrong Result
Earlier this week, I read in the Flat Hat that the local police would be cracking down on cars that fail to yield to pedestrians in the crosswalks. Specifically, crosswalks located along Jamestown Road and Richmond Road, which is right next to campus. Sure enough, as I’m driving towards the Rec Center, I see a cop car failing miserably at hiding itself among the other parallel-parked cars on Richmond. It’s tough to disguise a blue and white Dodge Charger with lightbar.
Signs were installed at the crosswalks around campus a few years ago commanding drivers to yield. Now that pedestrians legally have the right-of-way, they believe it’s safe to boldy march out into the street regardless of any oncoming traffic. Doing this anywhere else would be surefire suicide: when I was in New York City a few years ago with some teammates, they would try to cross the street regardless of the pedestrian traffic signals. I had to hold back one of my teammates by the jacket at nearly every intersection to keep him from getting flattened by oncoming taxis. At home in the suburban sprawl of Virginia Beach, pedestrians are unheard of, so when running I assume nobody is watching me as I come to an intersection. In Williamsburg, I guess nobody cares about Newton’s laws.
Before the yield signs were installed a few years ago, only a small handful of students would step in front of traffic at a crosswalk since most rational thinkers didn’t want to risk getting hit. Now, everyone crosses without caring about the traffic. The worst are the crosswalks in front of the sororities: gobs of sorority girls march right out in front of me every time I go by, cell phones clamped to their ears and not even looking for cars. Yesterday, walking home from the office, I came to a crosswalk and was going to wait for the traffic to pass. Instead, some guys came up behind me and continued into the intersection, causing everyone to jam on the brakes. In Williamsburg, stepping out into traffic is followed with the quintessential wrist flick/hand wave at the nearby cars, which serves as some kind of apology for any driver heart attacks.
The logic behind the signs was to give crossing pedestrians an extra margin of safety by telling the cars to stop. After a few incidents, the city put the signs in. I can understand this, but it creates an externality: most pedestrians (students) now think they are invincible and that all cars will stop. What about people from out of town not familiar with the hard to see yield signs? What about at night? Even paying close attention as I drive, it’s hard to predict when someone will suddenly pivot along the sidewalk and rush out into the street in front of me. The signs would work well if pedestrians still yielded to traffic at the crosswalks and waited for any nearby cars to stop and let them go. Unfortunately, that isn’t what happens.
As if one man will really make your life better…
Posted by Matt in Uncategorized on November 7, 2008
A quick post between SenSys sessions on the last day. It’s actually really nice outside.
Looks like everyone I voted for lost except for one — and he was the only Democrat I voted for (congressman).
I didn’t sleep at all on Tuesday night since it seemed all of Raleigh was out in the streets burning couches or something.
Honestly, I can’t see why people think that one person is going to suddenly solve all their problems. There is one person who ultimately decides your fate — you. If you want change, make your own change. Make your own life for the better if you’ve got problems. More to the point, how many presidential policies have really affected you, and if they did, how much of an impact did they really make?
Government can be a guide to help everyone move towards their (and their country’s) best interest, but it’s the people themselves that really make things happen.
Regardless, it’s still going to be interesting with Obama as president.
The Culture of Laziness
Posted by Matt in Uncategorized on October 30, 2008
This is my sentiment exactly.
With most Americans unable to recite basic history and civics (even after college!), it’s no surprise that I’m a tiny minority in a sea of foreign graduate students. The average American just doesn’t want to put in their best effort and try to be successful on a personal/community/national scale.
The article refers to IQ tests being cut in the 60s because nobody wants to be labeled as "below average". Today, colleges are eliminating the SAT requirement and some are even refusing to be ranked in US News. We can’t compare people anymore, for it’s "too unfair". There are even the rumors about elementary schools banning tag because it’s "too competitive".
You can see the result of this anti-competitiveness today. Everyone gets in to college and they don’t learn a thing when they leave. There isn’t any incentive to do well since the end result is the same no matter the effort. Even the law student at the bottom of his class graduates and may go on to be a district court judge (that’s a scary thought).
The issues aren’t the reason I don’t want Obama to win, it’s the attitude. The attitude of entitlement and laziness, the attitude that an Obama administration will magically take care of everyone without individuals having to lift a finger. Even Michael Moore calls it the "Slacker Uprising". Nobody wants to put in the effort to compete or accomplish anything and we are witnessing a huge shift as what little remaining cash, manpower, and brainpower flows out of this country and into others. With tax policies that increase as income increases, there’s no incentive to save or invest money — just spend it. With talk of legislation and funding to "rescue" those who default on their mortgages, there’s no incentive to pay your bills. When individuals get punished for being responsible, there isn’t any reason for them to continue.
The rewards must end for those who do nothing. Instead, help should go to those who do something. Bring back the competitive drive. Bring back the effort and creative thinking that brought us the moon landings, the Empire State Building, and the Eisenhower Interstate System. Start learning stuff in college that will be useful for the good of yourself and everyone else so accomplishments like this will happen again.
Until then, we continue to flush ourselves down the toilet.
Microfracture Surgery: +8 weeks
Posted by Matt in general, microfracture on October 21, 2008
Yesterday marked over two months since the surgery. I’ve come a long way, but there’s a long way to go too. I’m now allowed to bike and elliptical on my own, so I took advantage of that today and went to the school rec center: 15 minutes on the bike, and ten on the elliptical. This I did in addition to my usual morning weight routine which takes nearly 45 minutes. It would be great to bike outside, especially since the weather is nice today, but I don’t think I’m ready for that and won’t be for awhile. My leg still shakes with weakness after 15 minutes. Also, it seems that my good knee has been hurting and popping some, which must be some kind of compensation problem. I’m hoping it’s nothing serious and just a mild consequence of putting most of my weight on the good knee, since the pain started when I was on the crutches.
Last night one of my old teammates who goes to dental school in Richmond came down to see the team massage therapist. I dropped by while he was there since I hadn’t seen him since the summer. The massage guy, who punished and tortured me for so many years, had an interesting comment about leg strength that I hadn’t heard before: your quads should be 20 percent stronger than your hamstrings. That is, if you are on a leg press that works your quads, you should use 100 pounds if you are using 80 pounds on a leg curl machine for your hamstrings. No wonder runners have so much trouble with knees: quads get very little action compared to hamstrings and calves. Biking can change that, though.
My teammate’s got knee issues like I do and has been out ever since dominating the Boston marathon last spring. He really hasn’t been able to run since then and an MRI indicated grade 1 or 2 damage to the articular cartilage. That’s where the cartilage is bruised or has a small divot in it, but not like my grade 4 where it’s chipped out all the way to the bone. He seems so motivated to run again and get back into regular training, but with permanent damage like that, it may not be possible. Since his damage wasn’t as severe as mine, the docs say surgery wouldn’t accomplish anything, which leaves him out in the cold if the pain persists. Hopefully most of the pain is caused by some inflammation from whatever he did and once that subsides he’ll be able to run again, but if I were him I would change my mindset. Right now, I would consider my recovery a success if I am able to run 20 -30 miles a week. It’s so bad because he was running so well and even got some sponsorship offers. Maybe it’s not as bad and he’ll be out there kicking butt again soon.
It begs an interesting philosophical question: would you like to run the race of your life knowing that you would never be able to run again? You would sacrifice everything to blow the field out of the water. Your time and place would be so much better than you ever hoped it would be, but when you finished, you would never be able to start again. Would that be worth it instead of having a lifetime career of running but only making modest personal gains? I don’t know for sure, but I do like running just to be outside and to feel like I accomplished something.
I’m finally making some headway on the latest school project. It should be an interesting experiment since we will get to wear some sensors for awhile to test our model. Since we are going to use human test subjects, my advisor blindly checked off some box about it when sending in the research proposal to the school. Now they are making us fill out all this liability stuff and explain our exact test procedure when we aren’t really finalized on everything. And, we, the researchers working on the project, are the only ones who are going to be the subjects, so I think we are completely aware of any “dangers” that go along with wearing some sensors.
Lastly, I got home to vote absentee at the city municipal center when I was on fall break. I got that taken care of since I’ll be at SenSys on election day. Really, I don’t think either presidential candidate matches my choices. Obama’s tax plan raises marginal tax rates for those who make under $45k per year (poor grad student). McCain plans to freeze all research spending for a year after he enters office. Obama hasn’t even finished a full term in the Senate; McCain is going to be 80 if he gets elected for two terms.
Both have the wrong idea on the economy. The problem goes beyond government regulation or lack of it. It starts with individuals. A lot of people today are lazy and want everything for nothing. They want the car and house they can’t afford, so they go into credit card debt and default on their mortgage. They want the college that puts them $40k in the hole only to graduate and bus tables. They want health care and retirement benefits without lifting a finger. These people purchase what they can’t afford and then expect everyone else to pay for it when the repo man comes knocking. It’s a sense of entitlement and it drives me mad. Here’s a hint to fix this mess: stop buying stuff that you can’t afford or shouldn’t be, get off your ass, and start contributing to society. The same mindset of the CEOs with enormous golden parachutes and corrupt politicians taking enormous sums from lobbyists is present in everyone. If this persists, we’ll be in a barter economy real soon. The problem is that the candidates and government can’t blame the constituents without taking heat for it and risking their own jobs and re-election. The solution starts from the bottom up, with you and me, not from the top down (government).
Good thing he wasn’t the VP pick…
Posted by Matt in Uncategorized on August 27, 2008
Our governor, Tim Kaine, one of the potential Democratic VP picks said that Virginia shares a border with Delaware. With a comment like that, he shouldn’t be governor, much less Vice President.
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