Vellie’s time

October 31, 2007  --  Got something to say?
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J.G. Azarcon ESQThis is it. Within a week, voters in Northern Virginia will go to the polls to elect their Board of Supervisors. Vellie S. Dietrich-Hall, the only Filipino-American in the race has come a long way from being a little known candidate challenging a longtime incumbent for Supervisor representing Mason District in Fairfax County into a viable candidate with a real shot at winning. She has earned the support of the Republican party establishment, but most importantly, the support of cross party voters some of whom have volunteered in her campaign.

Her campaign office is constantly humming with activity, thanks to the core of committed volunteers who work like theres no tomorrow. Every now and then, a concerned voter would walk into the office and voice out neighborhood complaints. Walk-ins usually end-up helping the campaign.

She has galvanized the enthusiasm in the Fil-Am community across party lines. At the Annandale community parade last Saturday, Vellies marching entourage was the biggest and loudest group of any candidate who participated.
It now depends on how many supporters actually bother to go to the polls. Local elections traditionally have a low turnout. Take time to vote.
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Former VP Al Gore was recently awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. My barber asked- what on earth did he do for the cause of peace? Another barber who really looked knowledgeable with his thick reading glasses volunteered an answer.

My friend, he was responsible for brokering peace between Bill and Hillary during the Monica wars. Now I know.
About the same time that Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, a Court in London ruled that Gores Inconvenient Truth movie had factual inaccuracies. The suit was brought by a parent who did not want Gores movie to be exhibited to school children without the opinion of scientists who do not share Gores conclusions being presented. The court ruled that Gores movie can be exhibited to school children but with qualifications that will address the factual inaccuracies.

Some scientists criticize Gores movie as alarmist. The United Nations agency dealing with climate issues, IPPC, shares the Nobel Peace prize with Gore. The UN agency says that sea level will rise within a century from three to eighteen inches because of global warming. Gores movie predicts increases in sea level within a century up to twenty feet.
Celebrities and politicians have been paraded by the media to tell us about the science behind global warming. Does Al Gore know more about the science surrounding global warming than the state climatologists in Delaware and Vermont who were fired by their governors because they were skeptical of the connection between global warming and human activity? Is that a heretical skepticism in the light of some scientific conclusions that there where times in the earths history when the atmosphere was warmer when man was not even spewing fossil fuel?

I do not need Hollywood Cheryl Crowe to tell me that the science on global warming is well settled and that we should limit ourselves to one square of toilet paper when going to the bathroom to save the trees and protect the earth.

Let there be an honest public discussion of global warming by people in the scientific community whose work deals directly on the subject. This may save us from unfounded fear and confusion. Unfortunately, the media have not given global warming skeptics an equal forum to be heard. CNN with its green logo has even signed on with Gores crusade.

Notwithstanding Al Gores hot air, let us support initiatives by the government and the private sector to finally wean us from dependence on foreign oil. That we will become hostages of our foreign oil suppliers is the threat that we should fear.

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