February 08, 2012

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Capital building, Richmond These are stories and parodies of stories concerning the Commonwealth of Virginia, our politics, our politicos, and those of us who have, or who should have, voted. Men and women come to the state capital in Richmond from far and near, just for the privilege of forgetting from whence they came and for what. Honestly, sometimes you have to wonder why people who work so hard to get into government turn around and hate government so much.

Gov.: Volunteers — Not Taxes

Sunday, 17 January 2010 00:47 Written by Don White

Governor Bob McDonnell

RICHMOND, Virginia — Robert F. McDonnell was inaugurated today as the 71^st governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia here today. He subsequently called on citizens to help him reorganize the state as a “commonwealth of tax-free opportunity,” promising a government so reduced as to not be noticed by anyone, anymore.

Governor McDonnell declared that Virginia and Virginians must create opportunity where absent without funding. If opportunities are limited, he explained, citizens must expand them for all without funding of any sort.

Legislative Stonewall

Friday, 11 July 2008 08:19 Written by Don White

Stonewall Jackson memorial

Just off of Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virgina, stands a memorial to Thomas J. Jackson on the Boulevard. Unlike the other memorials to Confederate officers, the equestrian statue of Jackson faces north, for those who subscribed to the project felt that Stonewall would wish to face the direction of his enemy.

A few miles to the south of this equestrian statue, there exists another Stonewall memorial today. Really, it is a memorial to the ability of legislators to stonewall and obfuscate and so do nothing.

That is, of course, the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Charge the Windmills!

Monday, 02 November 2009 10:33 Written by Don White

Tomorrow, November 2^nd, registered voters in the Commonwealth of Virginia will elect the next governor of our state. If recent experience is any clue, less than half of those registered will vote.

Charging at Windmills, a Southern Tradition!

I’m going out on the proverbial limb here to relate my choices—and my reasons for them—for the state-wide offices here in Virginia. Simply put, I will vote for:

Creigh Deeds (Governor)
Jody Wagner (Lieutenant Governor)
Steve Shannon (Attorney General)