[Novalug] Groklaw shutting down over privacy concerns

Jay Hart jhart@kevla.org
Fri Aug 23 12:33:29 EDT 2013


I feel that Prince William County is a fairly conservative county.  Further north, no.

Jay

> The Virgina outside of NoVA and the major cities is a very different
> state.
>
> William Sutton
>
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2013, Daniel wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 09:25 -0400, Greg Bledsoe wrote:
>>> 3. The states are now much more reliant on Federal funding for roads,
>>> schools, welfare, social security, and on and on and on.  They aren't
>>> going to bite the hand that feeds them.
>>
>> As a Texan, I can tell you of the baby steps that Texas has attempted to
>> break away from this particular pattern.  Most importantly is that Texas
>> has been pushing for its own substitution for social security (the worst
>> 'retirement plan' ever) as well as attempting to forgo highway and other
>> funding in order to quit being required to dilute gasoline with ethanol.
>>
>> But just as Texas appeared to be making serious progress, 'something
>> [unexplained] happens' and Texas government gives up the fight and
>> returns to the fold.
>>
>> It's actually rather creepy how things go.
>>
>> And as far as Virginia putting up a fight?  I don't know about the rest
>> of Virginia, but the Virginia I know may as well *BE* the Federal
>> government the way they tax and stuff.  The last state of the union to
>> fail to recognize that radar detectors INCREASE driver's safety and road
>> awareness?  Of course they do it for the money.  And let's not get into
>> Northern VA where everyone somehow works for the government and needs a
>> clearance to get a 'good job.'
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Novalug mailing list
>> Novalug@calypso.tux.org
>> http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/novalug
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Novalug mailing list
> Novalug@calypso.tux.org
> http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/novalug
>





More information about the Novalug mailing list