In this episode we look at the bit of the GameStop short sell saga, Covid issues, immigration, and first 7 days of the Biden administration.
CCCS Seeking Cleaning Person
Cape Charles Christian School is seeking a trustworthy and dependable cleaning crew to sweep and mop the wood floors throughout the school and clean the student restrooms once each week from now through June 15th.
The work must be done over the weekend when there are no students in the building. References and interview required. Call 757-331-1717 or email holly@cccsesva.org if you are interested in applying. Pay is $150 per week, paid monthly.
WHRO/VWU Virtual Chamber Series continues on 90.3 FM- Lee Jordan-Anders, piano featured
90.3 WHRO-FM and the Virginia Wesleyan University Concert Series present a Virtual Chamber Series. Concerts & interviews with the artists will be broadcast on air and online.
Broadcast events on 90.3 WHRO-FM include a Sunday morning interview with each artist on Musical Brunch and podcast, premiere of the full performance Wednesday evening on A Local Touch, and video premiere on WHRO’s Facebook page, linked on the Goode Center’s Facebook page.
Interviews – 90.3 WRHO-FM: 10am (Sundays on Musical Brunch): https://mediaplayer.whro.org/station/whro
Podcasts (anytime)
https://mediaplayer.whro.org/program/artsconversations
Video concert premieres – WHRO Facebook: 5pm (Mondays & followed afterward on the Goode Center facebook page)
https://www.facebook.com/whropublicmedia
Concerts – 90.3 WHRO-FM: 9:00pm (Wednesdays on A Local Touch)
https://mediaplayer.whro.org/station/whro
For further details on the performers – https://whro.org/virtualconcerts
Sunday, January 31, 2021, 10 am
Interview
Monday, February 1, 5 pm
Video Concert
Wednesday, February 3, 9 pm
A Local Touch
Concert #4: Lee Jordan-Anders, piano
Lee Jordan-Anders is Artist-in-Residence and Professor of Music Emerita at Virginia Wesleyan University where she served on the faculty for 29 years, founding the Familiar Faces Concert Series (forerunner of the VWU Concert Series), teaching classes in aesthetics, listening, music theory, chamber music, and applied piano. She was Music Director and Conductor of the Orchestra of the Eastern Shore, 2009-14, and taught at the Governor’s School for the Arts from 2014-18. She continues to perform frequently both as soloist and as collaborating pianist, and in this performance presents Debussy’s Estampes and Danse.
Virginia State Parks is seeking qualified candidates to fill Youth Conservation Corps (YCC)
RICHMOND — Virginia State Parks is seeking qualified candidates to fill Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) summer residential service opportunities across the state. Two three-week programs will be offered this summer.
YCC crews will assist Virginia State Parks staff with a range of operational projects including, but not limited to, trail maintenance, habitat improvement, and campground construction and restoration. Room and board is provided to all YCC crew serving at Virginia State Parks.
Applications for both crew leaders and crew members are being accepted for the following sessions:
Session 1: June 20 – July 10, 2021
Session 2: July 18 – Aug. 7, 2021
YCC Crew Members
Crew members will gain valuable experience in trade skills and resource management. Ideal applicants for crew member positions are young adults, ages 14-17, have a demonstrated interest in environmental protection, the physical ability to work outdoors in all weather conditions and the desire to make a difference in the communities they serve. Crew members who successfully complete a three-week service program will receive 120 service learning hours and a $500 stipend. Applicants for crew member positions are being accepted through March 15.
YCC Crew Leaders
Crew leaders will supervise a group of 10 Youth Conservation Corps members and work directly with park staff to complete a variety of projects that will enhance visitor experience. Upon completion of a three-week program, crew leaders will receive a $1,800 stipend and $350 travel voucher. All crew leaders are required to attend training at Twin Lakes State Park June 14-17.
For continuity of the service programs, crew leaders are encouraged to apply for both three-week sessions. Eligible crew leaders will be entering their junior year of college or equivalent. Applications for crew leaders are being accepted until filled.
Those interested can visit https://www.dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks/youth-conservation-corps to learn more and apply.
Due to COVID-19, Virginia State Parks reserves the right to make changes to YCC programs to follow Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.
Opinion: “All one thing or the other”…A. Lincoln. 1858
Special Opinion to the Mirror by Charles Landis
In the mid 1850’s the great issue leading up to the Civil War was the promise of the Declaration of Independence of “all men are created equal” and the denial by Chief Justice Roger Taney’s interpretation of the Constitution (Dred Scott-1857).
Lincoln said “I believe this government cannot endure, permanently if half slave and half free… I do not expect the Union to be dissolved… I do not expect the house to fall… but I do expect it will cease to be divided… it will become all one thing or the other.”
Today we are as divided and again it can be said we cannot be, permanently half of one thing and half of another. We cannot be half a constitutional democratic republic with capitalism and half a progressive socialist democracy dependent on government control of lives and livelihoods .
Party labels aside, our division is essentially the populism ushered in by election of Trump versus the progressive movement of the left. To simply view the divide as between Republican and Democrats is to ignore the existential essence of the divide.
Trump populism began when he announced his candidacy as an outsider Republican against establishment elites and progressive interests: main street media, the political class, academia, mega tech, and the deep state…the SWAMP. As with any populist movement, it was ordinary people (middle class, blue collar, and working folk) against elitists; assaults against time honored value precepts.
Th e one thing or the other question begins with two different views of the election process:
On January 11 (5 days after the January 6 official Electoral vote count) I participated in a briefing for members of Heritage Foundation on a meeting of the Heritage president with Vice President Pence that morning. The takeaway was the critical importance of the integrity of the voting/electoral process and what happened in 2020 must never happen again. Specifically, the widespread violation of Article 2 Sec. 1 of the Constitution which mandates the state legislatures as the sole authority in writing the rules in the voting process. Under cover and pretext of Covid considerations, Democrats persuaded election boards, governors, and judges to circumvent the Constitutional requirement and prejudice the integrity of the vote process.
Most important, was identification and verification requirements for both in-person and mail-in votes. The greatest and most egregious issues, of course, arose in contested elections in Democrat controlled battleground states. Democrats consider almost any identification or verification requirements as voter suppression.
The Heritage project is essentially a populist effort to insure integrity of the election process by working with state legislatures to enforce integrity by identification, absentee ballot controls, and verification standards to avoid abuses in 2020 election.
The progressive Democrat left has a different agenda. In HR 1, , The Peoples Act of 2019, the socialist Democrat party endeavors to federalize the election process by eliminating the Art. 2, Sec. 1 requirement of state legislatures and reconstituting the Federal Election Commission. A 5-member board, of which 3 members would be appointed by the president, would make election rules a federal partisan political n process. HR1 has passed the Democrat controlled House but may be defeated in the Senate. How the Constitutional challenge will be met without amendment is unclear.
What is clear, however, is the one way of the populist Republicans is faithfulness to the Constitution and a democratic republic. The other way of the Socialists Democrats reeks of Marxism. The Peoples Act is as of every other socialist/communist Peoples Republic. First there was the 1619 Project to rewrite our history. Now, on the 400 hundred year anniversary of that misguided assault, the socialist Democrats progress with the 2019 Peoples Act to the end of the great experiment.
Res Publica.
Support conservation and recreation efforts with a tax-time contribution
RICHMOND — Virginians who are passionate about land conservation efforts and funding outdoor recreation projects may contribute to the Open Space Recreation and Conservation Fund by donating all, or a portion of, their state tax refunds.
The fund is made up entirely of voluntary contributions. Citizen contributions are used to acquire lands that preserve natural areas as well as for matching grants to local governments to fund outdoor recreation and conservation projects.
The fund supports the Virginia Natural Area Preserve System, which protects some of the state’s best examples of natural communities, and rare plants and animals. Many natural area preserves have parking areas, trails and water access that allow people to study nature, observe wildlife in their habitats and enjoy low-impact recreation opportunities. Visitation to these areas has been overwhelming during the past 12 months of the pandemic.
In 2020, 14 natural area preserves benefited from donations to the fund:
• Antioch Pines, Isle of Wight County
• Camp Branch Wetlands, Floyd County
• Cape Charles, Northampton County
• Cave Hill, Augusta County
• Chestnut Ridge, Giles County
• Crow’s Nest, Stafford County
• Deep Run Ponds, Rockingham County
• Difficult Creek, Halifax County
• Grafton Ponds, York County
• Lyndhurst Ponds, Augusta County
• Pedlar Hills, Montgomery County
• Pinnacle, Russell County
• Poor Mountain, Roanoke County
• The Cedars, Lee County
Contributions may be made on Schedule VAC, Section II which accompanies the individual tax return Form 760 Line 31. To choose the Open Space Recreation and Conservation Fund, taxpayers must write Code Number 68 in the section for voluntary contributions.
To learn more about how the commonwealth benefits from the contributions to this fund go to www.dcr.virginia.gov/checkoff.
Enjoy a free virtual lunch with Rev. Dr. Paula Owens Parker, author of Roots Matter: Healing History, Honoring Heritage, Renewing Hope
Enjoy a free virtual lunch with Rev. Dr. Paula Owens Parker,
author of Roots Matter: Healing History, Honoring Heritage, Renewing Hope.
This presentation introduces the ways collective, chronic, and cumulative trauma is inherited from generation to generation. It presents criteria for recognizing how trauma influences family life and introduces practices to foster resilience.
History Notes this week of Jan 24
41 A.D. : Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar (Caligula) is assassinated by members of his Praetorian Guard. Nephew of the great Tiberius Caesar, Caligula’s five year reign quickly degenerated into an orgy of violence and sexual perversion. The Senate conspirators believed that removing him would allow for reinstatement of the Republic, but the army was so incensed by the murder that they spirited away Caligula’s uncle Claudius, rallying the troops to support the imperial throne against the Senate.
814 A.D.: Death of Charlemagne, first to hold the title of Holy Roman Emperor. His conquest and rule over a continuous empire covering most of central and western Europe created, for the first time in the post-Roman era, the political conditions for what we now know as “Europe,” an entity, rather than the plethora of tribes and anarchy that followed the collapse of Roman rule.
1225: Birth of Thomas Aquinas (d.1274), who began his career as an Italian monk, but whose force of intellect and spiritual insights catapulted him to professorship at the University of Paris, where he was prolific in his writings and instruction of the burgeoning cadre of church intellectuals. One of his key philosophical insights was the idea of the validity of truth being known through observation, a process he referred to as “natural revelation,” which helped lay the foundation for the growth and strength of the scientific revolution in Europe. A great bulk of a man, his taciturn nature caused one of his early professors to declare him a “dumb ox…[whose] teaching will one day produce such a bellowing that it will be heard around the world.” His life and works remain the gold standard for intellectual Christianity. He was canonized in 1323, and is today held as a model teacher for aspiring Catholic priests, and anyone who thinks seriously about the relationship of science and faith.
1547: Death of the mercurial King Henry VIII (b.1491), leaving in his wake the 6 year old Edward VI as king. If you are anything like me, you probably thought that his daughter Elizabeth went right to the throne, but no, it was her half-brother, born of Anne Boleyn’s successor, Jane Seymour, who died only a few days after giving birth to Henry’s only male heir. In fact, not only was Edward in the way, so was her half-sister Mary.
1564: Pope Pius IV issues the decree Benedictus Deus, ratifying the findings of the long-running Council of Trent. The Council was first seated in 1545 to begin a process of answering the practical and theological issues raised by the burgeoning Protestant movement, in particular the aggressive growth of Lutheranism in Germany, much of which was co-opted and exacerbated by the political struggles between Rome and the Empire. Over the course of its eighteen years, the Council of Trent conducted three major sessions and issued numerous canons and decrees, the vast majority of which remain in force to this day. While confirming some level of reform from the more egregious practices of the Church (i.e. indulgences), its primary products clarified and confirmed the beliefs and historical practices of Roman Catholicism, providing a stable catechism of faith for over three hundred years. The next ecumenical council after Trent took place in June 1868 at the First Vatican Council. The Second Vatican Council of 1962-65 is the most recent convocation of this stature.
1595: Death of Sir Francis Drake (b.c1540), of dysentery while anchored off the coast of Portobela, Panama. After a swashbuckling and heroic career at sea, which included significant harassment of Spanish treasure fleets, secret surveys, a circumnavigation of the globe, and the destruction of the Spanish Armada, Drake’s life ended while engaged on yet another crusade against the treasures of Spanish America. He requested to be buried in his full armour, and was buried at sea in a lead coffin, which is today the object of regular treasure hunts.
1627: Birth of Irish chemist Robert Boyle (d.1691). Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method. He is best known for Boyle’s law,[8] which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system.
1787: In the final battle of what today is an obscure incident, an unauthorized militia aligned with Massachusetts farmer Daniel Shays conduct a short, sharp battle with the legitimate Massachusetts Militia at the Springfield Armory. Four of Shays’ men are killed, twenty are wounded, and the rebels flee north, totally disbanded. Shays’ Rebellion grew out of attempts to collect debts left over from the Revolution. European investors were putting the squeeze on Boston business owners, demanding payment in specie. The businessmen, in turn made the same demands on their debtors, mostly small freehold farmers in the central part of the state. The collections quickly descended into complete seizures of properties, including houses of the farmers, who felt helpless to resist. Finally, in August of 1786, Bunker Hill veteran Daniel Shays had had enough, and under the rubric of revolution, organized his first band of militia to force the issue at the Springfield courthouse. The situation festered through the Fall and Winter, leading to the climactic battle this day, where the Massachusetts militia, without authorization, drew weapons and ammunition from the Federal Arsenal to prevent Shays’ group from expropriating it first. The threat of further actions of this nature underscored the fundamental weakness of the Articles of Confederation, and spurred calls for a constitutional convention to draft a more effective form of national government, which we now know as the Constitution.
1813: First publication of Jane Austin’s work Pride and Prejudice.
1832: Birth of British author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his nom du plume, Lewis Carroll (d.1898). His artistic bent was toward word-play and nonsense literature, most famously his Alice books and the Snark and Jaberwocky poems. He also spend his final 25 years mastering a new art form, photography, creating images of children that are frankly uncomfortable to look at in today’s context, but were in the center of Victorian haute couture when they were made.
1833: Birth of Charles “Chinese” Gordon (d.1885), one of the great British generals from the heyday of Victorian colonial expansion. He had a long and colorful career, which is reflected in his nickname, to say nothing of all the schools and roads named in his honor. And remember all the Islamist quacking about “the Mahdi” coming back after our invasion of Iraq? Gordon fought the guy himself in Sudan, and was killed by an onslaught of Mahdi forces on the steps of the palace in Khartoum.
1848: James W. Marshall finds gold at Sutter’s Mill near Coloma, California, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. News of the discovery triggered a massive Gold Rush, bringing over 300,000 prospective miners to the Golden State.
1853: Birth of Jose Marti (d.1895). Radio Marti, the Miami station that broadcast actual news and information a la Voice of America during the Reagan Administration was named after this Cuban nationalist who was unrelenting in working to extract Cuba from Spain’s sclerotic colonial rule.
1880: Birth of Douglas MacArthur (d.1964), American General, Medal of Honor recipient, Army Chief of Staff, Governor of the Philippines, chief executive of occupied Japan; a leader whose impact on the 20th Century rightly earned him the title “American Caesar” in the definitive biography by William Manchester.
1887: Birth of Marc Mitscher (d.1947), American Admiral who led his carrier strike groups through wide-ranging and brutally effective campaigns against Japan’s South Pacific empire. He earned particular distinction when, after ordering a late-day follow on strike after the Marianas Turkey Shoot, he subsequently ordered his carriers to brightly illuminate their ships and the skies around them in order that his returning fighters could find and land aboard the carriers in the dark. Early in his aviation career, Mitscher piloted the NC-1 flying boat in the Navy’s first attempt to cross the Atlantic by air. He and the NC-1 made it as far as the Azores, while NC-4 continued on to Portugal to complete the mission. The hazards of the mission cannot be overstated, and for his role in it, Mitscher was awarded the Navy Cross.
1890: Birth of Robert Stroud (d.1963), convicted of manslaughter of a love rival, and later the murder of a prison guard, before becoming The Birdman of Alcatraz and something of a folk hero to the intelligentsia set. Twice sentenced to death, he spent his entire bird-raising career at Leavenworth Prison, in Kansas, not Alcatraz.
1911: Aviation pioneer Glen Curtiss makes the first American float-plane flight in San Diego harbor.
1912: Birth of American artist Jackson Pollock (d.1956).
1919: The delegates meeting at the Paris Peace Conference in Versailles approve a motion to develop a League of Nations, based on President Wilson’s 14 Points.
1921: Birth of Donna Reed (d.1986). The perfect girlfriend in It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), the perfect wife and mother in The Donna Reed Show (1958-66), she also played a “fallen woman” in From Here to Eternity (1953).
1924: Opening day in Chamonix, France of the first Winter Olympics.
1924: The beautiful Russian city of Petrograd, nee St. Petersburg, is re-named Leningrad by the Soviet government in honor of the communist cretin who died two days before.
1938: First flight of Lockheed’s P-38 Lightning twin-engine fighter. The airplane was the machine that later carried Major Richard Bong, USAAF to 40 victories in the Pacific theater of WWII, making him the United States’ all-time fighter ace.
1943: The U.S. Army’s 8th Air Force launches its first raid into Germany, sending 91 B-17s and B-24s against submarine construction yards in Wilhemshaven.
1944: After 872 days of creating unrelenting shelling and misery for the population of the former Saint Petersburg, the German Wehrmacht lifts its Siege of Leningrad and withdraws, finally allowing the opening a broad corridor for the Soviet government to re-arm and re-supply the citizens and armed forces of that beleaguered city.
1945: The Red Army liberates the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.
1947: Death of Chicago mobster / businessman / politician / Ward Chairman Al Capone (b.1899).
1951: The U.S. begins nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Range, using a B-50 bomber (a modified B-29) to drop a Mk-4 device, approximately the same size and weight of the Fat Man used at Nagasaki but with new triggering mechanisms and a modified nuclear pit. The vast majority of the 1,054 U.S. live tests were conducted at the Nevada site.
1958: Lego Corporation patents its design for locking bricks.
1965: Death of Sir Winston Churchill (b.1874), one of the greatest Britons of all time. A prolific author on top of all his other pursuits, he remains one of the most quotable characters in history:
Lady Nancy Astor: If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee!
Churchill: And if I were your husband I would drink it!
1967: The crew of Apollo 1, Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, are killed when a fire sweeps through their Command Module during a routine rehearsal prior to the scheduled launch. The ignition source was not conclusively discovered, but the flaws inherent in the initial design were exacerbated by the module being pressurized with pure oxygen to 16 psi to simulate structural pressures in space. Redesign efforts put the program on hold for 20 months.
1971: In Uganda, Colonel Idi Amin (1925-2003) leads a coup d’état against Milton Obote, becoming president of that benighted land.
1986: Space Shuttle Challenger blows up 73 seconds into launch, killing all 7 astronauts aboard.
A&N Electric Reports Phone Scams
A&N Electric Cooperative has noted that some members have reported attempted phone scams targeting our service area. The scammer urges the co-op member to make immediate payment by phone using a prepaid card on their electric bill to avoid being disconnected.Please be on the alert for this scam.
While A&N Electric Cooperative may contact you by phone for various reasons, we will never call you to demand payment by a certain method or threaten an immediate disconnection of service if payment is not received.
If you have any doubt about a person representing the cooperative, please call us immediately at 757-787-9750 or 1-800-431-2632.
Northampton County Democratic Committee Meeting Feb 2 at 7:00 PM
The Northampton County Democratic Committee will hold its monthly meeting Tuesday, February 27 p.m.
Gene Rossi to speak on 2nd Trump impeachment and meet Lt. Gov Candidate Sean Perryman.
Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87611037003?pwd=SDBFa093YmEwYUdoNElucjdSd2dhUT09
Meeting ID: 876 1103 7003
Passcode: 088286
One tap mobile:+13017158592,,87611037003#,,,,*088286# US (Washington DC)+13126266799,,87611037003#,,,,*088286# US (Chicago)Dial by your location+1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC)+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)+1 646 558 8656 US (New York)+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)+1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose)Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcXD01VTJE
- « Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 359
- 360
- 361
- 362
- 363
- …
- 870
- Next Page »