For The Common Good of Gloucester, Virginia Government

There may be some people that do not like this letter.

Open Letter to the Citizens of Gloucester County Virginia,

“For the Common Good. “

The Virginia Constitution was written by men from all walks of life that wanted us to not live under the rule of an unjust government.  Have you ever read the Constitution of the United States?  How about the Constitution of Virginia? The Virginia Constitution is similar.

Article 1 Section 3. Government instituted for common benefit. This sounds like the definition in Wikipedia for a commonwealth.  We have to work together for the common good or be torn apart by those that want to treat us unfairly.  One way we are treated unfairly is when government employees and elected officials use their position working on the clock for their own gain.  There have been reports on this blog about government employees conducting personal business in government vehicles (Animal Control going to Hardees in a government vehicle) and opening the county garage for who knows what on a Saturday evening and elected officials in private organizations then voting to approve that organizations proposal.  According to Mr. Thompson, several active and former government employees have provided this information in an attempt to stop the activities.  If government employees are working to try and clean up these inappropriate activities we as citizens of the county should do our part and report these activities also.

  I am not saying that all government employees are bad or do things inappropriately most are good and dedicated to performing their jobs; however, for whatever reason they are not able or willing to go through their chain of command to report inappropriate behavior; this is also seen at higher levels of government.  Email the information to Mr Thompson’s blog site, he is willing to publish the information and provide it to the county officials to get it stopped.

  He does have a history of getting information to the people who can make decisions.  He was successful with an issue with a homeland defense employee that thought he was above the law, and there have been no more reported inappropriate visits of Animal Control Vehicles to Hardees.

Homeland Security has been telling everyone if they see something report it.  This should apply to us when we see county employees doing things that are not right.  How do I know if it is something to report?  Is it something you would do? What should you report?  Is there a county vehicle parked at a business and the employee shopping or seem to be taking long breaks instead of working, are people going into county buildings at hours that are not appropriate.  Do not hesitate to call 911 if they are obviously breaking the law.  However, we know there are people in the county that hold grudges so this blog site allows you the opportunity to make an anonymous complaint.  Mr. Thompson needs to have enough information to ensure it is not a false complaint which is against the law and not protected speech, if you can safely take pictures do so if not provide all the details you can.  As a reporter, Mr Thompson would like to know who he is receiving information from and will keep it confidential.

For the common good of all of us and to keep our taxes low we owe it to ourselves and the good government employees to do our duty and report the wrong when we see it.  We owe it to ourselves to have the best government and employees in our county.  “For the Common Good. “

Sincerely,

Alexander James Jay

P.S. I am not a lawyer so I am not giving you a legal definition but what these writings mean to me.

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Free Charlie Chan Comic Book

Charlie Chan Free Comic Book 1 from Chuck Thompson

Free download from our Slideshare site.  Charlie Chan comic book.  For those who remember when comic books only cost 10 cents each.  This is sure to bring back a lot of memories for many people.  For others, it's a chance to get acquainted with some old time material that is rather entertaining.  Back in the 1930's through the 1950's, Charlie Chan mysteries reached a wide range of audiences through radio broadcast shows, movies and later, TV.  There were a series of books and as you can see, comic books as well.

  Entertainment has dramatically changed throughout the years, so this can easily be considered an historical piece.  This comic also contains original advertising of the period which are rather unique and fun to read in and of themselves.  So have fun with this piece.

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7th Virginia Return To Gloucester - American Revolution This Saturday

The 7th Virginia regiment returns to Gloucester this Saturday, May 25th, 2013.  The volunteers interpret colonial era military movements and demonstrate musket firing as well as canon fire.  This is a once a year event and is only for one day.  If you have never had the opportunity to see these demonstrations, we highly recommend them.

The volunteers all recreate a very authentic colonial militia camp and atmosphere.  The 7th Virginia regiment even has a doctor on hand interpreting colonial medical care.



The above video gives you an idea of some of the demonstrations.

We checked the weather forecast and we are looking at a nice cool overcast day. Temperatures in the lower 70's.  No rain.  Good day to attend this event.  

The good doctor is always a hit as he has a great display and really knows his medicinal history.  Time travel is possible, so come out and support the 7th Virginia Regiment and travel back in time to America's colonial era.  You won't be disappointed.

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New Gift Shop Now Open - Features Gloucester Virginia Souvenirs.

 

Above is a picture of one of our new collector plates featuring a scene from the Battle of the Hook.  We have been working hard the past few days on getting a new online store up featuring all kinds of souvenirs that are just not available anywhere else.  We have everything from a Gloucester County, Virginia poster to postcards, Battle of the Hook ties, t-shirts for Gloucester and Battle of the Hook, an exclusive Gloucester Civil War print, Rosewell print, and a lot more coming.  Towards the top of this site is the links bar for various sections and links to other areas of local interest.  One of the new options is a link to the Gift Shop. The gift shop link takes you to the new store.

  This gift shop will also be featuring historical collectibles from all around the state of Virginia.  Each item is exclusive.  Retailers can order quantities at discounts to make these items available in their own stores.  At the bottom of this site is a new feature that shows the newest items available for purchase now.  We are creating new items each day.

http://www.zazzle.com/historicalva  is the link to the new gift shop.



We have over 100 products that will all be available by May 24th, 2013.  Within the next few weeks we should have hundreds more.  Our goal is to provide the world's largest collection of custom historical collectibles and souvenirs before the year is up.

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Let Them Not Take Our Freedom's - Alexander James Jay

Open Letter to the Citizens of Gloucester County Virginia,

“For the Common Good.“  Have you ever read the Constitution of the United States?  How about the Constitution of Virginia?

Happy Memorial Day to you!

Today we honor the men and women of our great country that have given service in the time of need to obtain and maintain our freedoms.  Virginia has given up many sons and daughters in the many wars since the beginning of our county. Some gave all for the cause they believed in.  We have many veterans that we live near or work with daily.

Let’s look at their accomplishments.  We won our independence from a county that did not respect our rights as citizens of that country, a country that placed unfair taxes on us.  There are many things that we fought for, read our Declaration of Independence to remember.  We have been in many wars over the years to maintain our way of life and to help others to obtain the freedoms that we have.

As our politicians like to ask us let us give back the freedoms that were fought for many times over.  They will give us security in exchange for giving up these freedoms.  Let’s think about that for a moment.  The countries without freedoms are the ones we have fought with during the many wars we have been in.  Did those countries have security? No.  They were little better than slaves to the powers in charge.  It took many years for all of our citizens to be given freedom and we should not allow our politicians to take away our freedoms.

How can we ensure our security, not by taking away our rights.  We are a commonwealth; “for the common good.“  We need to stand together, looking out for each other the way we have done in the past.  We are stronger together than separately.  Look what Virginia’s sons and daughters accomplished working together with other like minded individuals.  Virginia’s sons and daughters and those of the other 12 Colonies did not look at how different we were from one another but how we are alike; the things we have in common, our love of freedom, family, and the belief that others should not tell us how we can live. Because of their sacrifices we have our great country and the ability to honor those that have given us our freedom.

To survive and return to our greatness, before our current recession, we need to focus on how we are alike not how we are different.  We need to remember the freedoms in the Bill of Rights – Speech, Religion, etc and that we do not dictate terms to our neighbors we take care of our own house, but remember to look out for our neighbors.

For our veterans of the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marines, Merchant Marines, and Navy and families of these service members thank you for the love of and service to our county.

Sincerely,

Alexander James Jay

Have you read the Declaration of Independence?  Here it is if you have not.

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And now our Bill of Rights:  The original 10.

Bill of Rights - United States Constitution - original 10 from Chuck Thompson

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Numerous Complaints Of County Official Abuses of Position

We have received not one, but multiple complaints asking some valid questions. These are verified complaints that we are reporting on here.  One email sent to us reads as follows.

"Letter to the editor,

I wrote to you a few weeks ago about seeing a Gloucester County Animal Control truck being used for personal business.  I bring to your attention something much more disturbing.  Saturday evening I was traveling up Rt 17, a couple of minutes after 7:00 PM, I was at the intersection of Providence Road and Rt 17 stopped at the stoplight.  I noticed the County Garage had a garage door open, southern door, a private owned vehicle with a woman and a child in the car was going into the garage.  I have some very serious questions that should to be answered:

1. Why was the garage open on Saturday night?
2. Was the employee on the clock working on a privately owned vehicle?
3. What are non-county employees doing in the garage after hours?
4. Is the insurance company aware that these types of abuses are going on?

This appears to be a very large case of fraud, waste, and abuse by a County Employee. Are things like this going on causing county taxes to be as high as they are?"

Date of occurrence is Saturday, May 18th, 2013.   

We verified the above report with another witness to this incident.  What we learned was that the vehicle was a mid sized vehicle with a light metallic paint.

The people seen going in opened the garage door quickly and then proceeded to move the vehicle in as fast as possible then closing the garage door quickly to attract as little attention as possible.  So we are able to determine that it is a county employee with access to a key to the building.  The time frame is not in a usual county hours of operation.  

  If the people entering the building had a right to be there, why move a personal vehicle into the building?  This leaves open very valid questions as to what is going on.  Are county employees ordering parts for their personal vehicles and installing them at taxpayer expense?  Were the employees stealing tools or other equipment?  Once they opened the garage and turned on even one light, it was at taxpayer expense.  Were these people trying to hide something?  Were they trying to move something that they have been hiding?  All fair questions.  The building in question is the white building on the left hand side of the above picture.  The stoplight in question is also visible in the above picture.

  Your tax dollars working hard to enrich others.

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Free Advertising Tools For Gloucester, Virginia Businesses No 5

Here we are giving you the source files for our newest free advertising tools for Gloucester, Virginia businesses.  These source files are all licensed under a Creative Commons license so that there are no issues with anyone using these files.  We call this particular ad the "Bacon's Rebelllion Ad".  We have opened up a larger area of space for you to include your business information.  This is the largest space we have been able to open up to date.

   
Bacon's Rebellion Ad by Chuck Thompson of TTC Media is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at http://www.GloucesterCounty-VA.com.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.GloucesterCounty-VA.com.
This is the actual Creative Commons license.  It's for the United States only.  This license covers the following source files.  One Microsoft Office Word doc., that contains the entire ad and one Open Office Writer odt file that contains the same file.

  These are the following conditions for using the source files and participating in the ad campaign.  The ad campaign is free for any and all Gloucester, Virginia businesses.  You may change the font color and style.  You may change the background color of the document.  You may import and add in one or more images into the open space provided, in order to advertise your business.  You may add in text into the open space provided in the source file to explain your business to potential customers/clients.

  You may not remove any of the presently existing text anywhere in the advertising piece.  You may not remove the attribution or web site extension from the advertising piece.

 Links:
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https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5NJpRCvjyV8NkNDdXdsV2pBZnc/edit?usp=sharing  Open Office odt. source file.

Again, these source files are governed by the above Creative Commons license along with our additional terms and conditions.

No British Surrender At Yorktown During First American Revolution from Chuck Thompson

This is an example of what a finished ad looks like.  Once you have completed your piece, you are free to print and distribute the ad piece in any way you see fit.  Printing costs usually run at about 15 to 20 cents per page.  One idea would be to change the text font color as well as the background color into something more visual and take the ad to the Gloucester Mathews Gazette Journal and have them print out a few posters of your new ad piece and hang the new ads in a visible space for your customers to see.

  Printing of a poster, last we knew was only at about $1.00 each.

Now about the free e-book.  Bacon's Rebellion 1676.  This is what the book looks like.

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The download link for this e-book is as follows.
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The above link allows both online viewing as well as downloading options.  If you do not want to have an ugly link on your web site, embed the link into something like CLICK HERE  or FREE DOWNLOAD and the link will still stake them to the same location.

  If you do not have your own web site, you are welcome to direct your customers to our site and tell them to visit the e-books link at the top of the site to get their free download.  You also have the option to download the book yourself and host the book on your own site.


Bacon's Rebellion 1676 e-book by Chuck Thompson of TTC Media is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at http://www.GloucesterCounty-VA.com.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.GloucesterCounty-VA.com.

This is the license for the e-book.  We do not allow modifications to this e-book as it contains some of our own original works.  We are allowing you to use the e-book as a free promotional giveaway to help drive business to your web site and hopefully right back to you with repeat customers who appreciate these efforts.

Again, all of this is supplied to you at no cost and your only cost in using these tools is your time that you put into finishing a piece and any printing costs.  We want to see local businesses succeed in this tough market.

Some reasons for using this ad.

1.) You are promoting history.
2.) You are promoting education.
3.) You are promoting the local community.
4.) You are promoting tourism and showing tourists you are tourist friendly.
5.) You are promoting your own business.
6.) You are driving people to your web site for potential repeat business.
7.) You are giving something of value away to your potential customers that helps you stand out in their minds.

Each ad is designed to grab the attention of the reader right from the beginning.  After giving them something to digest, we invite the reader to learn more in several areas that include learning more about your business when they visit your web site looking for the free download.  We have put a tremendous amount of time and thought into each of these ad campaigns.  We hope that you enjoy them.  More are coming.

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No British Surrender In Yorktowwn During First American Revolution

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There was no British surrender in Yorktown during the first American Revolution.  The statement is correct when you take into account that the first American Revolution was held one hundred years before what most people consider the first actual American Revolution.  Bacon's Rebellion is often referred to as the first American Revolution and occurred in 1676 lead by Nathaniel Bacon.  This is the newest theme behind our free advertising tools for Gloucester, Virginia businesses.  The tools and source files are all free and it is free for any and every business in Gloucester County to use.

  Above is a sample of what a sponsored ad looks like.  We have opened up a larger area for local businesses on this piece.  Businesses can import into the source file documents, photos of their business and there is plenty of room for text to explain and promote your business.  The ad also promises a free e-book download when you visit the sponsor's web site.  We are hosting the download and all any business has to do is just import the download link into their own site so that anyone visiting their site can get the free e-book.

  The e-book is the history behind Bacon's Rebellion.

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This is a copy of the e-book that is being made available to the public.  We will have the download link available on this site for businesses as well as the source files very soon.  The source files as well as the e-book are all licensed for use through a Creative Commons license distribution.  Terms for use will be available when the files are made available.

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