Monday, August 15, 2005
We're a "top conservative political blog"
14 Comments:
By 
Gordon Smith, at
Mon Aug 15, 12:09:00 PM:
I read this report and saw your blog listed in the top 100. I felt a sort of distant pride, Hawk. You've done a lot of thoughtful posting here, and I'm glad to see you're getting traffic commensurate with your talent (though that Cardinalpark fellow is something of a drag).
Good report, eh? Do you agree/disagree with the conclusions and recommendations in it? It looks like something that can serve as an important template for candidates in the '06 and '08 races.
By TigerHawk, at
Mon Aug 15, 12:27:00 PM:
Well, Screwy, every blog needs its edge. The Hooligans do not always write at the same register, either. It's all part of the beauty of blogging.
By Cardinalpark, at
Mon Aug 15, 02:01:00 PM:
Screwey -
You made my day...
Happy hunting,
CP
By Charlottesvillain, at
Mon Aug 15, 04:26:00 PM:
Screwie, I can't believe you left me hanging, dude! Show me some love!
By Catchy Pseudonym, at
Mon Aug 15, 05:02:00 PM:
Congratulations Guys. When I get bored with the lefty blogs, I always like coming here and seeing what you guys are talking about. Keep up the good work.
By Dymphna, at
Mon Aug 15, 06:29:00 PM:
Congratulations for a well- deserved spot! I would open up the pdf but I have sloooow dial-up, so I'll take your word for it.
Hey, maybe you could post a scan of the page so we could see y'all in all your resplendence...
Not all of us have the local luxury of Charlottesvillain, hanging out there in Berkeley East, drinking latte and listening to the Blue Bunch wail on about Virgil Goode while using his wifi in the Mud House...
some of us have visas, though, that allow us out of Buckingham and into Lil' Kumquat* but it's a long drive for a latte.
*NYC is the Big Apple, right? Well, C'ville is Lil' Kumquat: sweet on the outside, sour and seedy in the middle. You can eat an apple but to make kumquats edible you have to stew the heck out of them. Come to think of it, stewed Charlottesvillians are pretty mellow for knee-liberal jerks...I mean, knee-jerk liberals..
Why don't you post a button somewhere which would open up on your distinctive page with the listing?
By Charlottesvillain, at
Mon Aug 15, 06:37:00 PM:
Dymphna,
One thing I may not have revealed about myself on this forum is that I am all about Buckingham, as TH himself will attest, and unlike the vast majority, I live in C'ville so I can be close to Buckingham. My father, grandfather, great grandfather, and back several more are buried just a hop, skip and a jump from Willis Mountain, as I will be some day myself. My heart sings every time I cross the James River going south.
By 
, at
Mon Aug 15, 11:04:00 PM:
Keep Rockin TH. Great stuff and congrats on the well-deserved recognition/respect. You'll be in top 25 before you know it.
No hyphen in Sh*thead, BTW.
Did you write MR's review?
Crusader
By Dymphna, at
Mon Aug 15, 11:13:00 PM:
Charlottesvillain, I am humbled.
It took me soo long to get used to the country. The first week here I heard a bell in the front yard and thought, "company!" It was a neighbor's cow...eating the pea vines. The second week here I learned about yellow jackets and how they can follow you into the house...nine stings later I swelled up like a balloon.
...since my idea of true living is room service, lots of asphalt under my feet, and a few well-tended trees to gaze upon, it's been a long adjustment. But I'm here...ah, yes, I am here for good for I plan to be buried in Glenmore (bout midway between Route 20 and Yogaville)at the Episcopal churchyard there. Until he went away to W&M, our son was the organist.
The Baron's Boy went into C'ville to Tandem for awhile...the token conservative, along with one history teacher, and then on to Farmville. We homeschooled the early grades, though, so we could ruin him ourselves rather than have it done professionally.
Someday I'm going to do a big post on the Scout Master in Buckingham; he's probably got the state record for Eagle Scouts and he looks like the poster man for the BSA. Integrated the troop back in the '70's before it was the done thing.
So is this burial spot on Rt 15 or is it a family plot?
BTW, I worked for some years at the Shelter in C'ville. Back before it became so p.c....and I've done a bit of volunteering at various agencies there...
And the Baron has painted dozens of landscapes over the years of the Buckingham countryside. I keep saying I'm going to scan them...or what hasn't been sold.
PS There is a slim volume somewhere in the Chville main library written by one of Jefferson's slaves in which he says that from Monticello he could see Willis Mtn on a clear day. Don't know how I stumbled across it.
Ohmygod. Someone else from Buckingham is a blogger. ohmygod.
By , at
Tue Aug 16, 02:16:00 AM:
I downloaded the report, read through it and gave it a bit of a Fisking link. I don't think the liberal bloggers realize how far out of the mainstream they are, but I certainly hope they don't figure it out until after the 2008 elections.
By Charlottesvillain, at
Tue Aug 16, 08:07:00 AM:
Dymphna,
Our ancestral home (and plot) are about five miles from Sprouses Corner, along the ridge that runs east of Willis Mountain (which I am pretty sure you can no longer see from any spot in Albemarle. Of course it is a much shorter mountain that it used to be).
I too am stunned. I'll have to start reading your blogs!
By Dymphna, at
Tue Aug 16, 04:44:00 PM:
C-villain
I know where that is...on Rt 15, a lovely road...
Does five miles past Sprouses get you as far as Andersonville?
Pick a clear day and head up to Monticello...you might can see Willis Mtn still, even if it is right much shorter.
I only ever talk about Buckingham in my Neighborhood of God blog. However, the Baron has been itching to go over to Appamatox where there are supposed to be some Islamists holed up...I personally don't think we need first hand accounts.
That's the difference between boys and girls.
By Charlottesvillain, at
Tue Aug 16, 05:22:00 PM:
15 runs through Sprouses north/south. We're actually east, down rt. 60 towards Richmond.
Probably the strangest Buckingham reference I ever saw was in an early episode of the show Alias (which I imagine you do not watch). Syndey had to defuse an atomic bomb buried in a grave in "Buckingham, VA," which I took to mean Buckingham Courthouse.
I thought, what an odd place to put a bomb. I mean, it would wipe out a few hundred people (and make my house uninhabitable) but who else would even know it went off? It made no sense at all.
Of course that was before I heard about the Islamists in Appomatox. Now it's coming together for me...
By TigerHawk, at
Tue Aug 16, 08:54:00 PM:
That bit from Alias was hilarious -- I had the same reaction. The whole thing reminded me of the "Newfie" joke popular in Ontario when we were kids: "What happened when the hydrogen bomb went off over Newfoundland?"
A: "It did twenty-nine cents worth of damage."
Kind of the same idea.
