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Posted on 03.07.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 11:29 pm
The Urban Dictionary gained a new entry and definition last month courtesy of “2008 Enlightened Redneck of the Year” Sarah Palin. The entry: redneck teleprompter. The definition: “Crib notes written on a public speaker’s hand in order to remind him or her what to say during a speech or interview.”
Palin’s decision to fill the palm of her hand with the few verbal cues before a big speech predictably earned her the scorn of elitists like Mary Kate Cary in U.S. News & World Report:
But Palin got the last laugh the next day during an appearance in Texas. She wrote “Hi Mom!” on her palm when she knew the whole Palin-hating media world would be watching:
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Posted on 02.14.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 11:17 pm
A young Christian named Drew is staying with us a few months while he does an internship in the Washington area. A Georgia Tech student, he’s had quite the treat (or curse) the past week as the mid-Atlantic region has been slammed with snow. Last night, Drew spent quite a bit of time shoveling himself a parking spot out of the snow along our street. But when he returned from worship service this morning, someone else had taken it. We tried to explain that it’s a public street and we can’t keep people from parking there, but he couldn’t be consoled. When we returned home from evening worship a few hours later, the spot was vacant again so I went to the basement, grabbed a can of purple spray paint (the perfect color for a strapping boy who exercises every day) and laid claim to the spot for Drew.
I can’t guarantee folks will pay any attention to the sign, but I gave it the ol’ college try. Filed under: Human Interest and Just For Laughs and News & Politics and Photography Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.14.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 10:12 pm
The game was played two days after the Blizzard of 2010 that walloped the Washington area, so we snapped some great snow pictures in addition to shots of ‘Nova superstar Scottie Reynolds, who attended church at our congregation when Anthony was a baby, after the game. I got half of what I wanted from the trip: Scottie had a great game, but my alma mater lost to his team. But somehow seeing my Mountaineers lose wasn’t as depressing as usual because I got to see a friend win. The bonus: Scottie autographed a basketball for Anthony. The entries below this one feature snapshots from our road trip. Filed under: Family and People and Photography and Sports and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.14.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 10:08 pm
I love my point-and-shoot Canon Powershot. It gives me the freedom to multitask on the road — drive with my left hand on the wheel and the camera propped on top of it while I snap photos with my right hand. It’s not something I would do under normal circumstances, but I couldn’t resist the urge to capture travel memories of the Blizzard of 2010 as my son and I traveled from Virginia to West Virginia for a basketball game at the WVU Coliseum in Morgantown.
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Posted on 02.14.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 10:06 pm
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Posted on 02.14.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 10:04 pm
After the WVU-Villanova game in Morgantown, Rick Reynolds took my son Anthony, my brother Mark and his son Niko, several Villanova fans, and myself to the VIP section outside the ‘Nova locker room so we could see Scottie. It was great to see Rick interacting with Scottie Reynolds’ teammates. He’s a people person, and he has passed that personality trait along to his son, which will serve Scottie well if he goes pro.
 
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Posted on 02.14.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 10:00 pm
Scottie Reynolds sent the Villanova Wildcats to the Final Four in 2009 with a drive down the court that ended in a last-second layup to win the game against Pittsburgh. At the 2010 WVU-Villanova game in Morgantown, W.Va., Scottie signed copies of a black-and-white photograph that captured the moment. Here’s a snapshot of Scottie signing one of the pictures for the Villanova fan who brought them to the game:
Plus two more shots of Scottie outside the locker room in Morgantown:  
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Posted on 02.10.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 9:27 pm
The nation’s capital is buried in snow after two monstrous storms in less than a week. Today’s storm was so bad at times that visibility was deemed too dangerous for even snow plows to be on the road clearing the snow. The federal government has been closed all week and will be again at least through tomorrow. It is now officially the worst winter on record here since 1899. Yet the scene in Washington looks so peaceful in this snapshot of the Capitol building, taken this evening after the storm cleared out of the area: 
See more AP photos of the storm at Don Surber’s blog. Filed under: News & Politics and Photography Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.10.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 5:43 pm
The Cincinnati Tea Party decided that all of this year’s snow presented a great opportunity to make a statement in white, with dashes of red and blue: 
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Posted on 01.12.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 12:35 pm
The battle for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Florida also has become a battle for the soul of the GOP. It pits grassroots conservatives who support underdog former state House Speaker Marco Rubio against establishment Republicans, including the campaign arm of Senate Republicans, who are backing “Republican in name only” Gov. Charlie Crist. One of those grassroots conservatives literally shared his two cents with the National Republican Senatorial Committee when it asked him for money. The picture of his protest is priceless:
Michelle Malkin regularly posts images of such “rejected solicitations.” Political activists surely have protested in similar fashion for decades, but their messages are reaching broader audiences thanks to the Internet. Instead of one secretary seeing the protest and tossing it in the trash, thousands of readers are hearing stories that the intended recipients don’t want told. Hopefully the bad press will awaken organizations to the reality that they had better represent the interests of their donors. Filed under: News & Politics and People and Photography and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 01.08.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 12:05 pm
You might be an enlightened redneck … if your idea of a good time is paddling a tiny kayak into close range of feeding humpback whales so you can snap pictures of them.
“I have only a split second to decide whether I should either have my camera in my hands or my paddle to take evasive action,” Duncan Murrell said of his creative whaling expeditions. See the full gallery of 10 photos at The Telegraph. Filed under: Human Interest and People and Photography and Wildlife Comments: None |
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Posted on 01.05.10 by K. Daniel Glover @ 10:34 pm
Glenn Reynolds spotted a surprisingly unflattering picture of President Obama on the White House Flickr page over the weekend and posted it to Instapundit. His post sparked a heated debate about the president’s body language and, predictably for the left, which sees every criticism of Obama in black and white, whether Reynolds was racist for posting it. The blog fight was way too serious for me, so I held my tongue for once. This video, inspired by the picture that started it all, is more my speed: Filed under: Entertainment and Just For Laughs and People and Photography and Video Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 12.16.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 1:20 pm
Gotcha! Click the picture for the story behind it from the ongoing conference of global warming alarmists in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Posted on 10.31.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 10:39 pm
My father e-mailed me a bunch of pictures under the headline above. I searched the title on Google and found this slide show on CNN. Dad’s e-mail had more pictures, but the ability to embed the slide show makes this presentation more user-friendly for a blog. The message: Enlightened rednecks appreciate good art. Filed under: An Enlightened Redneck ... and Business and Culture and Just For Laughs and Photography and Redneck Humor Comments: 2 Comments |
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Posted on 10.31.09 by K. Daniel Glover @ 10:15 am
What a great name for a redneck restaurant! I’m going to have to find a good reason to drive West Virginia Route 2 between Point Pleasant and Huntington just so I can visit.
Let me revise that statement: Visiting Hillbilly Hot Dogs is all the reason I need for the trip. Go to the blog of Charleston, W.Va.-based photographer Rick Lee for the rest of the photos, inside and outside the beautiful dive. (Hat tip to Don Surber) Filed under: Business and Food and Human Interest and People and Photography and Rednecks and Travel and West Virginia Comments: None |
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