Born March 12, 1947, in Detroit, Michigan; earned his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University; attended both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, receiving both a law degree and an MBA.

In 1999, Romney stepped into the national spotlight when he took over as president of the scandal-ridden Salt Lake City Olympic Games; the games were $397 million dollars in debt, and were plagued by bribery allegations to make matters worse. As a result, reputable sponsors stayed away from the games. Romney went into the situation very quickly, cutting back expenses and eliminating frills, traveling world-wide to gather sponsorships. In the end, ticket sales surpassed those of any previous Winter Olympics, and the $397 million dollar deficit was turned into a $56 million dollar surplus, which went to fund future Olympics. Romney turned his salary over to charity, and in addition contributed $1 million dollars to the Salt Lake City games.

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Barack Obama

Presidential Candidate Barack Obama
Born to a Kenyan father and a Caucasian mother, the former community activist and lawyer came into national prominence with a show stopping keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, befitting his reputation as a brilliant orator. In 2008, after a hard fought win against Hillary Clinton to secure the Democratic nomination, the former Senator from Illinois crushed Republican John McCain to become the first African American to claim the presidency.

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Former Governor of Massachusetts

Mitt Romney

Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney
Born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of George Romney (Governor of Michigan and HUD Secretary), Mitt Romney graduated from Brigham Young University, Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, receiving both a law degree and an MBA. He stepped into the national spotlight as president of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games. A prominent and successful businessman, the former Governor of Massachusetts turned the debt-ridden Olympic Games from a $397 million dollar deficit into a $56 million dollar surplus toward future Olympic Games.

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I’ve had my fill of the way Culpeper is governed. All of the complaints of police and other "hot topics". I’ve had my personal dealings, as many already know. The same old guys keep being re-elected! Why??? Do folks leave their memories and minds at home when at the polls? I tried, in my hope and way, of an attempt to do something about the problems by creating this web site . I hope you visit and try to give it a chance and invite others to join you.

Anna Mozingo and 2 others like this.
Sherry Stewart Be patient Gary, change will come. We are working on it!
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Rupert Wilson Quaintance It’s like this everywhere. Chemicals in the food and water keep people docile. Unending entertainment keep all the mindless man-children busy with sports and fluff.

Also, people don’t want to risk not being able to cheer when their guy wins. Theyd rather celebrate a victory, than take a chance on something real.
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Maureen Kratochvil McNemar with the turnout at the last election I would say they just don’t care…so sad
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Gary Triplett
I feel the same, Maureen. I think there also may be a reason that these types of elections are held other than in November. Another reason for poor turnout may be that there are no coordinated efforts among those that do have interest. If t…See More

Rupert Wilson Quaintance Who has time to care? What, with SUVs and video games and American Idol and endless crappy country songs about blowing up brown people…. People are far too entertained to care. This is how Rome fell.

Gary Triplett Then, what are we going to do about it, Wilson? I have some ideas, but it means that we’d have to get away from our "SUVs and video games and American Idol and endless crappy country songs about blowing up brown people" for a little while

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Date of the elections for the town government officials and poor voter turnout.

I think there may be a reason that these types of elections are held other than in November. Another reason for poor turnout may be that there are no coordinated efforts among those that do have interest.

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It seems that the Town of Culpeper, VA is gradually moving toward becoming a homeowners association rather than an incorporated township. Up until recently, grass height was ordained to be a public nuisance beyond 18". Now, the grass height ordinance has been arbitrarily changed from 18" to 12" or less within the town. The original need for this ordinance was to protect the health and safety of residents from fellow residents who would allow garbage or yard waste to accumulate on their property, with the resulting stench; this could potentially create a breeding ground for disease that might cause imminent peril to the community. Slowly, this has evolved into appearance wants over the original health concerns. The beautification of the town has emerged as the contemporary imminent concern to this overbearing town council. The burden of satisfying their vanity, under threat of penalty, (coercion), is a financial burden beyond the ability of some property owners. The result is loss of property.

If the town upholds it’s ordinance, it must take care of its own property first, to include every inch completely and uniformly without exception. There must not be any targeted or highly visible area being priority. Anything less than this is hyporcritical.

Throwing out the Constitution, Property and Individual Rights in favor of vanity and commerce is the "silent but deadly" trend.

See the town’s actions just one year before…

Oh, I almost forgot… please, "Liberty or Death – Don’t Tread on Me!" (Culpeper History)

Town Photo: Triplett Milling Company lot
(See if you can find what warrants these extreme measures)

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The Hanover Tea Party Patriots will be holding it’s monthly meeting:

To be announced.

See The Hanover Tea Party Patriots Official Home Page

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I very much appreciate the idea behind this website and hope the idea catches on. It is a very unique and original idea to provide a forum for average folks to discuss topics of concern; or, if they prefer not to discuss, to post their own opinions, thoughts and comments. With the birth of the TEA party and the Occupy Wall Street movement, there does seem to be a new thought process emerging in America, a new energy of a citizenry that is no longer willing to stand idly by and watch the government continue carelessly along the same old path. Best of luck with this forum- it should provide a way to communicate and produce solutions to our common concerns!

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Good evening,

I’m writing to tell you that all US troops will return home from Iraq by the end of December. After nearly nine years, the American war in Iraq will end. Our servicemen and women will be with their families for the holidays.

The war in Iraq came with tremendous cost. More than a million Americans served in Iraq, and nearly 4,500 gave their lives in service to the rest of us. Today, as always, we honor these patriots.

When I came into office, I pledged to bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end. As Commander in Chief, I ended our combat mission last year and pledged to keep our commitment to remove all our troops by the end of 2011. To date, we’ve removed more than 100,000 troops from Iraq.

This is a significant moment in our history. For more information, including video, please visit WhiteHouse.gov/BringingTroopsHome.

The end of the war in Iraq reflects a larger trend. The wars of the past decade are drawing to a close.

As we have removed troops from Iraq, we have refocused our fight against al Qaeda and secured major victories in taking out its leadership–including Osama bin Laden. And we’ve begun a transition in Afghanistan.

On the first day of my Administration, roughly 180,000 troops were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. By the end of this year that number will be cut in half, and we’ll continue to draw it down.

As we welcome home our newest veterans, we’ll enlist their talents in meeting our greatest challenges as a nation—restoring our economic strength at home. Because after a decade of war, the nation that we need to build is our own.

Today the United States moves forward, from a position of strength.

Thank you,

President Barack Obama

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Gary, I’m guessing that most people don’t wanna comment on how they really feel because most of us don’t feel like it will make a difference, but the truth is that if you look around you MANY people feel the same way and we are TIRED of the way things are. Soooo if we join together maybe we can make a stand and make a difference and make a change in the way things are. I for one am tired of sitting on the sidelines and letting the government bulldoze their way along in life and destroy peoples livelyhood and families. So Let’s take a stand and get things rolling ….

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(Reuters) – ESPN pulled Hank Williams Jr.’s theme song from its "Monday Night Football" broadcast in a rebuke to the country music star for comments earlier in the day comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler.

Williams, a Republican, had appeared on a Fox News’ morning television show "FOX and Friends" on Monday, and was asked which of his party’s presidential candidates he liked.

"Nobody," he answered and then offered unprompted commentary on Obama‘s golf game this summer with House Speaker John Boehner. He called it a political mistake because "it turned a lot of people off."

Obama and Boehner played side by side that day against Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Ohio Governor John Kasich at the height of the congressional budget debate.

Asked what he did not like about the friendly bipartisan golf match, Williams replied, "Come on! It’d be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu."

"They’re the enemy! Obama! And Biden!" he added.

The network, which is owned by the Walt Disney Co, responded on Monday by yanking Williams’ familiar "MNF" theme, "All My Rowdy Friends," adapted from his 1984 hit song "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight," from the introduction of the broadcast.

The song has opened "Monday Night Football" on both ABC and ESPN since 1991.

"While Hank Williams Jr. is not an ESPN employee, we recognize that he is closely linked to our company through the open to ‘Monday Night Football,’" the sports channel said in a statement.

"We are extremely disappointed with his comments and as a result we have decided to pull the open from tonight’s telecast," the statement said.

A spokesman for Bristol, Connecticut-based ESPN said it had not decided whether the action would be permanent.

Williams, 62, later issued a statement acknowledging that his "analogy was extreme" but was intended "to make a point."

"I was simply trying to explain how stupid it seemed to me — how ludicrous that pairing was," he said. "They’re polar opposites and it made no sense. They don’t see eye-to-eye and never will. I have always respected the office of the president."

He added, "When both sides are high-fiving it on the ninth hole, when everybody else is without a job — it just makes a whole lot of us angry."

According to media reports, the team of Obama and Boehner beat Biden and Kasich at the summer golf matchup.

(Reporting by Zach Howard; Editing by Steve Gorman, Cynthia Johnston and Bill Trott)

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October in 1767, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon complete their survey of the boundary between the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland as well as areas that would eventually become the states of Delaware and West Virginia. The Penn and Calvert families had hired Mason and Dixon, English surveyors, to settle their dispute over the boundary between their two proprietary colonies, Pennsylvania and Maryland.

In 1760, tired of border violence between the colonies’ settlers, the British crown demanded that the parties involved hold to an agreement reached in 1732. As part of Maryland and Pennsylvania‘s adherence to this royal command, Mason and Dixon were asked to determine the exact whereabouts of the boundary between the two colonies. Though both colonies claimed the area between the 39th and 40th parallel, what is now referred to as the Mason-Dixon line finally settled the boundary at a northern latitude of 39 degrees and 43 minutes. The line was marked using stones, with Pennsylvania‘s crest on one side and Maryland’s on the other.

When Mason and Dixon began their endeavor in 1763, colonists were protesting the Proclamation of 1763, which was intended to prevent colonists from settling beyond the Appalachians and angering Native Americans. As the Britons concluded their survey in 1767, the colonies were engaged in a dispute with the Parliament over the Townshend Acts, which were designed to raise revenue for the empire by taxing common imports including tea.

Twenty years later, in late 1700s, the states south of the Mason-Dixon line would begin arguing for the perpetuation of slavery in the new United States while those north of line hoped to phase out the ownership of human chattel. This period, which historians consider the era of "The New Republic," drew to a close with the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which accepted the states south of the line as slave-holding and those north of the line as free. The compromise, along with those that followed it, eventually failed.

One hundred years after Mason and Dixon began their effort to chart the boundary, soldiers from opposite sides of the line let their blood stain the fields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in the Southern states’ final and fatal attempt to breach the Mason-Dixon line during the Civil War. One hundred and one years after the Britons completed their line, the United States finally admitted men of any complexion born within the nation to the rights of citizenship with the ratification of the 14th Amendment.

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There are two sites in one at gov.summit net

Intentions of gov.summit.net were never to create another "social networking" site as so many people use. Topic based discussions for the purpose of solutions to local, state and federal government issues is the true purpose. Unlike "wall-based" sites that is a mix of any topic that travels from newest to oldest substitutions, until lost to obscurity, topic based forums provide longevity with searchable and subscribable specific topics. The social side of gov.summit.net allows a comfort factor to assimilate those accustomed to using other popular social sites. As a bonus, however, the social side of this site is a useful tool for those wishing to collaborate with colleagues in efforts to compose or study laws for submission to elected government bodies for consideration to become newly proposed bills.

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Email to WSBA in York, PA

I just sent an email to the White House with content suggesting that his jobs plan, with intention to bypass the congress, may bring arms from patriots of Virginia.

Although I reside now in Pennsylvania, my heritage is of Jamestown, the first of our nation. I’ve been very upset by the trends of government, from federal as the lead, to state and then local, to act and grow to be an impact upon our lives each day. Growing and taxing and becoming a greater power and influence upon our lives.My hope is that elections will bring about a freedom of individuals, businesses and ingenuity. The free market, as we began, will bring forth this revival of our nation.

Thank you.

Make BILLS to become LAWS http://gov.summit.net

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This is great. Finally, a place where we can do more than just talk, like on Facebook. Everything gets lost there in the shuffle. Positive and productive things may just be developed here!

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This is so very true. We should learn from this and do something about it. Most of my friends seem to be very passive about this stuff. They are so busy trying to make a living and pay taxes. Tax upon tax, regulations and laws that are changing our culture fills their time. There seems to be little quality time with family and loved ones. My friends and I used to sit around and talk about science, technology, how to fix stuff around the house and create things and try to be inventive. Now, my friends seem to have less than two minutes because they have to rush to a business appointment, doing their taxes or are just not in any mood because they’ve been worrying how they are going to make it. Even the cost of driving to see each other is expensive. The price of oil is one thing, but the taxes almost kill us.

Thanks for the post and this site, Gary. Keep it coming!

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If you enjoy your life today, that all is well, productive, successful and believe your grandchildren will have an even better life, then you need not waste time to read any more of this. You are either receiving benefits of social programs or are very fortunate. If the latter, congratulations are in order. Maybe you can share your secrets with the rest of us how you can feel immune, independent and isolated from the condition of our nation and the path it’s taking.

If you’re still with me, then you must be a realist, have your blinders off and know that we are all interdependent. Like parasites on a thriving tree, even the strongest branches will eventually die along with the rest of the tree. The evidence and trend toward a more socialistic government and society surrounds our lives today in the U.S.A. Increased government involvement touches nearly every facet of our lives. We either haven’t studied history or are bound and determined to repeat it’s mistakes. Socialism has never worked in world history, unless you feel China is a success story (that’s an entire other story). Our nation nearly didn’t come into existence due to a "Utopian" socialistic experiment. This part of our nations history has been lost and seemingly not wished to be taught in our schools today. We want to "feel good", rewrite history and make everything seem "wonderful". It’s shameful. Sometimes the truth is difficult and hurts, but the lessons learned help to build a stronger future.

Let me know what you think…..

The American socialist experiment

By Charles F. Wickwire
September 2, 2002

The Mayflower On November 11, 1620, the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. The ship lay at anchor until March, the pilgrims living onboard while permanent housing was being built. When the Mayflower finally left, 27 adults and 23 children were left of the 102 people who set out across the ocean. Their governor was William Bradford and under his leadership, these first Americans began to make a new life in the New World.

What very few Americans today know is this very first colony on the shores of America started out as a socialist colony. The Pilgrims at Plymouth set up a common store that worked on the principle of "From Each According To His Ability – To Each According To His Need". Everything that the colony produced was placed in the common store and was then distributed out as needed.

For two years the colony worked to create a socialist Utopia but even with an additional 30 settlers who arrived a year after the Mayflower, the colony barely survived. Each winter the colonist would go hungry being reduced to rations of a quarter pound of bread at times. Governor Bradford relates his experiences concerning the socialist state he had helped to create:

"The experience that was had in this commone course and condition, tired sundrie years, and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanitie of that conceite of Platos and other ancients, applauded by some of later times; –that the taking away of propertie, and bringing in communitie into a comone wealth would make them happy and florishing; as if they were wiser than God. For this comunitie (so farr as it was) was found to breed much confusion and discontente, and retard much imployment that would have been to their benefite and comforte. For the yong-men that were most able and fitte for labour and service did repine that they should spend their time and streingth to worke for other mens wives and children, with out any recompense. The strong, or man of parts, had no more in divission of victails and cloaths, than he that was weake and not able to doe a quarter the other could; this was thought injustice. The aged and graver men to be ranked and equalised in labours, and victuals, cloaths, etc., with the meaner and younger sorte, thought it some indignite and disrespect unto them. And for men’s wives to be commanded to doe service for other men, as dresing their meate, washing their cloaths, etc., they deemed it a kind of slavery, neither could many husbands well brooke it. "

Finally, in 1623, Governor Bradford called a meeting to discuss how to have a more productive growing season and be better prepared for the next winter. Governor Bradford writes:

"All this while no supply was heard of, neither knew they when they might expecte any. So they [the pilgims] begane to thinke how they might raise as much corne as they could, and obtaine a beter crope than they had done, that they might not still thus languish in miserie. At length after much debate of things, the Gov. (with the advise of the cheefest amongest them) gave way that they should set downe every man for his owne perticuler, and in that regard trust to themselves… And so assigned to every family a parceel of land. This had very good success; for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corne was planted than other waise would have bene by any means the Gov. or any other could use, and saved him a great deall of trouble, and gave farr better contente. The women now wente willingly into the feild, and tooke their litle-ons with them to set corne, which before would aledge weakness, and inabilitie; whom to have compelled would have bene thought great tiranie and opression."

It was at this meeting between Governor Bradford and the chief members of the colony that the American free enterprise system was born. Governor Bradford writes about the results of this system:

"By this time harvest was come, and instead of famine, now God gave them plentie, and the face of things was changed, to the rejoysing of the harts of many, for which they blessed God. And in the effect of their perticular planting was well seene, for all had, one way and other, pretty well to bring the year aboute, and some of the abler sorte and more industrious had to spare, and sell to others, 50 as any generall wante of famine hath not been amongest them since to this day."

This little known failed experiment in American socialism isn’t taught in today’s schools. If it was, our children might grow up to doubt governmental programs that redistribute wealth "from each according to his ability – too each according to his need."

Source: William Bradford, History of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647

Charles Wickwire is a Computer Specialist who likes to share his opinion with those who are interested and even those who are not. He can be contacted at CharlesWickwire@yahoo.com.

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