Happy Wednesday Hampton Roads!

The news today is awfully boring and completely eclipsed by the Casey Anthony verdict. As I want nothing more than for this story to go away, but know that the people want more Casey Anthony, I would like to open up with a compromise.

Sarah Palin comments on the Casey Anthony Trial!

Using her super power known as “Sarah Logic,” Palin took this senseless tragedy and exploited it for a sound-bite with a nonsense attack against the president. Who can blame her though, as we collectively decided to pay attention to this trial instead of any number of things that might actually shake the world to its knees (rapidly approaching debt default, the inventors of democracy having a complete loss of confidence in traditional governance structures, and Roger Clemens on trial).

Instead of a picture of Sarah Palin or Casey Anthony, how about this laser pointed toward the center of the Milky Way? (Pic | eso.org)

Sarah said the following: “Once again we see, with our nation in crisis, President Obama stands by and does idly nothing while an injustice is committed here in this glorious nation of ours. It’s almost strange that the president has not yet made one statement on the issue of the death of young Caylee Anthony. Why the strange silence, Mr. President?”

To be fair, this is a completely fabricated statement by an equally bored blogger over at Salon.com. However, as usual with crazy things and Sarah Palin, it would not have been surprising if she  had actually said this. Under the “Probability of Crazy Statute” of 1867, I believe it is completely fine to put words into her mouth that she probably meant to say but was too busy saying something else crazy.

In real news¦ China’s communist party turned 90 and many pictures were taken

90 years is quite a long run for a party with as many troubles as the CCP to hang on. They have really suffered from a bad international PR team for about 90 years now. Additionally, they had to gut a number of the basic philosophical foundations of communism in order to become an economic powerhouse.

For people who take an active interest in “communism,” whatever that might mean these days, the Chinese model can really be nothing but a disappointment. They threw out the altruism and kept mostly subversion, human rights abuse, closed government and profits over people.

The best that I can tell from these photos is that they decided to reenact the entire revolution in celebration. The revolution told through musical theatre with soldiers in ballet flats does not seem to capture the life altering violence of actual war, but I’ll give these commies one thing though, and it’s that they know how to set up a picture.

Are you part of the Great Reset?

Here’s someone who gets it:

Easy credit, limited bailouts, and targeted stimulus have simply created the illusion of growth, without beginning to address the structural nature of the crisis. And much of what the Tea Partiers have been calling for — slashing taxes and cutting critical public investments — will only make things worse. Our leaders just aren’t getting it; their mental models are so determined by the old order that they can’t acknowledge that it has already passed.

Last year I wrote something on New Year’s lamenting the failures of the Obama administration to make actual headway on any of the crises facing Americans as a people. As this man supports my argument, I support him. It is both of our hopes that two writers will make a fact.

The halcyon days of swimming in our money are long gone.

We cannot have things the way they were. The way they were was broken and to ask for that kind of existence to return is not only intensely selfish but detrimental to the future of America and our children. No matter how many times politicians use the word “innovate” it will not make the world any larger or our resources any less finite. By the end of this year there will be 7 billion people on this planet and we already suffer under energy and food shortages all over the world. This is to say nothing of the fact that those resources we do have are absurdly lopsided in their distribution.

That is the reality and it means we all have to be better people. If every single green energy project in the works right now was green lighted and brought online it would still only meet 10% of the world’s energy needs. We must use less, but more importantly we must realize we are happy with less.

Where is the World’s best coffee?

The best coffee in my opinion is out in Los Angeles in the Silver Lake area at a place called Intelligentsia. The place is as pretentious as it sounds and getting your coffee will take about 15 minutes while someone perfects it. And that’s just it – someone perfects it. This article from More Intelligent Life has some different favorite spots as well as a lovely talk about coffee in general.

Cure is also good about freaking you out with their chalkboard sign. (Art | Chelsey Barnes)

I’d like to give a local shout out to Cure for their Mexican mocha which spices up your morning and Fairgrounds for feeling and smelling like grandma’s.

The Virginia Beach neighborhood of Green Run is in the middle of civil insurrection

Faced with fee increases and questionable purchases, citizens have formed a rival neighborhood association.

I only needed to read this, “Scarborough, who owns and manages properties in Green Run but doesn’t live there, is trying to keep control of the organization.”

A neighborhood association is as local a form of governance as we can get unless we count family dinners. Yet, even on this level, the man running the show is just a rich guy who does not live there and is profiting from the neighborhood. One of the additional points of contention is that the current board wanted to create a CEO position for the association and give it to this gentleman for $68,000 a year.

It makes my heart shine to see people refusing to put up with something like this. Run Mr. Scarborough out of your neighborhood Green Run! If the man can’t even live in your neighborhood, why on earth would you let him run the place?

Norfolk’s new Crossroads Elementary to be a Green Building!

Way to go Norfolk School System.

Cuccinelli says take your guns to school UVA

The Cooch enjoys upsetting people and UVA in particular, so he has decided that their rule banning guns from the campus does not apply to people who have permits – which is everyone who legally owns a gun. Playing semantics because it scores him points with his base, Cooch said that UVA has a “policy” whereas GMU (which has a gun ban upheld by the state Supreme Court) has a “regulation.” Regulation being a word with slightly more letters and a more foreboding sound makes it a perfectly ridiculous thing to cite when asked to rule on what is more or less the same question already decided by the state Supreme Court.

One would expect for UVA to go ahead and make the leap towards “regulation” from the shifting sands of official “policy” in order to be in compliance with King Cooch’s kangaroo court.

Kaine is really understanding about the prospect of fellow Democratic Congressman Bobby Scott challenging him in a primary, because he has so much money that Scott will never get into the race.

Kaine got into the race in April and has raised $2.2 million. He is a giant in this state and while I like Congressman Scott, he would be wasting people’s time and money were he to challenge Kaine at this point – and everyone knows it. Therefore,  Kaine can afford to wax philosophical on things like intra-party competition and let the Congressman take his time backing out of this race.

The World Has a Right to Know about this but I don’t have the heart to tell you myself.