Charles

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:43:36 GMT

I like the premise of your site. The idea of someone policing the blogosphere is a good one -- I wish we would do it ourselves, but frankly I've found that other blogger's desire to call out one of their own seems to be directly related to their agreement with, or the perceived power of, those other bloggers.

I've always appreciated the job factcheck.org does for political advertising, even though sometimes they get it wrong, as I expect you will.

In that vein, I think your complaint about Del. Bob Marshall's comment at NLS may be a little off-base. As you well-documented elsewhere, an illegal living in virginia with NO license could well be covered under the bill, if they are deemed to otherwise be a "resident".

However, Bob's comment did not address illegals who have no driver's license. He specifically addressed those with VALID driver's licenses from other states or countries:

"Have your readers considered the fact that under HB 3202, the so-called "Transportation" bill, that after July 1 persons with a valid Virginia license should receive higher fines for traffic infractions than illegal aliens who say have driver's licenses from a Central or South American country, or from East Europe, or East Asia or anywhere else?"

Now, it is possible that, even with valid DL's, a person might be considered a resident of Virginia under the law. But the section you called out in your other post would not be the applicable part of the law, as it dealt with NO license or SUSPENDED license, not those with valid licenses from other jurisdictions.

It is also true that other bloggers picked up on the idea and took it further than what Marshall had stated -- that is somewhat common in the blogosphere, and what I hope you can focus a light of truth on. Because it's when we take a likely truth but then stretch it into falsehood that we are the most dangerous, since the truth is lurking behind the falsehood.

Good luck.

Googootz

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:33:19 GMT

Dear Mr. Krehbiel,

My compliments for taking time out of your life ( God only gives so much) to try and ride herd on the Virginia bloggers who either have no regard for the truth or recklessly parrot others, who have no regard for the truth. If I see any "whoppers" out in the blogosphere, I will be sure to pass them along.

Virginia BlogNark: What Is BlogNark?

Charles

Googootz