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http://www.myvaresources.com/blogs/depotdazed new features. WOW!

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:54:11 +0000

The primary reason why I started hosting depotdazed on a private site along with this one is that the private site allows me to add a lot of nice features that cannot be available here. I just added a few new ones:)

You will now find RSS feeds offered by the RichmondSunlight which is a site that tracks legislative activity. At http://www.myvaresources.com/blogs/depotdazed, you can now find 4 new features:

RSS feeds for comments made by citizens on different bills.
RSS feeds containing those bills sponsored by Del. Dave Nutter.
RSS fees containing those bills sponsored by Del. Jim Shuler.
RSS feeds containing those bills sponsored by Sen. Ralph Smith.

One of the first things I noted was as comment: Kathleen SB1065. Following the links on that brought me to where I found that the bill was to prevent Associations from restricting people from saving energy by utilizing wind driven drying devices …..CLOTHESLINES. Del. Nutter voted against the bill, Del. Shuler voted for it.

Home all those Associations feel safe knowing that they will not have to tolerate some neighbor hanging bloomers in their backyards! Oh…my…gawd….this was just too much. I can see I am going to be spending a lot of time looking at what elected officials are doing here.

State Delegate Forum is Online: Frank, Nutter, & Shuler discuss the issues.

admin — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:12:37 +0000

You can see the recent Delegate Forum at the League of Women Voters of Montgomery County Website. While there, you can also see the Voter’s Guides where candidates gave a written response to biographical information and some questions. Thus far, videos/links to videos are available for:

Montgomery County Schoolboard forum
The first of two Blacksburg Town Council forums
State Delegate forum

Thanks to the Town of Blacksburg for recording and hosting the two Blacksburg forums.

Thanks to Montgomery County for providing copies of the video for the LWV to convert and put on the LWV’s website.

Thanks to the candidates and the audience participants.

And a special thanks to those members of the League of Women Voters of Montgomery County, the Virginia Interfaith Center, and the N.A.A.C.P. for the volunteer help that made these forums possible.

Dirty tricks are out there for people trying to check out elected officials before voting time

admin — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:48:37 +0000

Wondering how elected officials in Virginia voted to help you decide how to vote in November? Use case.

I just did a google search on Virginia delegate voting records and the second site on the list was:

Virginia Delegates Voting Record

Virginia Delegates Voting Record. Portillo’s Beef Nutrition Facts » Cat Hair Loss Hock » Poor Nutrition Fetal Dead » Body Hair Growth In Men …
brendenstickel.jsrqidyxw.cc/virginia_delegates_voting_record.html – 3 hours ago – Similar

***Note the part I put in italics: “Cat Hair Loss Hock….” This was my first indication that something was not quite right! Read before you click. If it looks like things are not quite right, then don’t click on it. I mean what has cat hair, fetal dead, and body hair got to do with Delegate voting records.

Also note the link listed at the bottom….who ever heard of brendenstickel as an entrance page to a Virginia site? I beefed up my security and clicked:

If you click on that link you are taken to a site that is related to something called searchand protect.net. You will immediately get noticed that your computer has a serious virus problem and is immediate danger.

The authors of the webpage have designed webpages that look almost identical to the Windows security page warning you would see if you have an actual problem. You will be prompted to continue by clicking buttons in order to save your computer.

DON”T DO IT!!!! I stayed only long enough to verify that this was a simulation of the security prompts before I hightailed it out of there.

I can’t believe that ANYONE would use something as important as voting records in this manner. Whoever is doing this needs to go to jail for a very, very long time!

Watch yourself when surfing the web. Take the time to look and if anything comes up looking funny. Get out of the site as quickly as possible WITHOUT clicking on anything within that site!