McDonnell sorry for omitting slavery in Confederate decree

By now I think McDonnell has certain proven himself a sorry leader, but the big news is that he’s “sorry” for omitting slavery in his idiotic Confederate decree.

First of all, what is the intended point of celebrating the Confederacy, or for that matter hanging a Confederate flag today? Bob, in case you’re reading an entirely different history book, your boys lost that war. One hundred and forty-five years ago. And when did we start celebrating soldiers who fought for anti-American causes, like, oh, dividing the nation because they so adamantly wanted to enslave human beings? As many have pointed out, it’s the equivalent to Germany memorializing the Nazi party.

Second of all, omitting slavery from your so-called decree was not just a blunder on your part. It makes us look like a bunch of ignorant, racist, revisionist, backwater hicks. “It’s really one of the dumbest things I’ve seen a governor do in my lifetime,” said UVA political espert Larry Sabato, who added that “once you do something like this, it stays with you forever. This has been a PR disaster for him and for Virginia.”

And third of all, of the 835 comments posted in reaction to this Pilot story, hundreds of them are attempts to mitigate the very issue of slavery. Says kf757, for instance: “THERE ARE NO SLAVES TODAY so GET OVER IT! No one alive today was EVER a slave… I will also point out that NOT ALL SLAVES were mistreated or abused. Some were educated and allowed to be their own man.” Now, I know I need to just accept that there are always going to be stupid people with stupid beliefs–but justifying slavery on any level is BAD.

Virginia, you are like a really embarrassing, prejudiced, far-right aunt who says every wrong thing at get-togethers. I love you, but sometimes I’m ashamed that we’re related.

2 JMU students plead guilty in snowball case

Twelve months of probation for throwing snowballs?! Snowballs?!!! According to the Pilot, “Each 21-year-old student originally was charged with throwing a missile at an occupied vehicle, a felony.” WHAT?! How’d that snowball turn into a missile? Or this avalanche?!

West Virginia mine deaths highlight powerbroker CEO

Now here’s a case where justice I hope is actually served. This guy Blankenship seems the picture of pure evil: a short-fused, political powerbroker who is known as the “front man of the coal industry” and “by far the biggest Republican in [West Virginia]“. If this guy gets to wash his hands clean of the blood of 25 dead miners, I’ll truly have lost what little faith I have left in the American justice system.

TobyMac and Skillet to drop ‘joy bomb’ on us

I mean, the headline is a joke itself. I really don’t even need to say a word.