F
OUR HUNDRED We, the citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia,will be celebrating our 400th Birthday beginning with the year to be tabulated as 2007 A.D. Four hundred is beginning to be a venerable and respectable collection of years and we will be looking back to see what we have done, things be,perhaps, should have done,but didn't - and make other such judgments.
We should not expect it all to have been a special era of pristine perfection,either. Too often celebrations of this type can get a bit out of control and fail to properly honor the men and women who were called upon to do the very best they could with the limited materials they had at hand.
At this came about by chance, I suppose.
Yesterday I as watching a delayed segment of C-Span when the speaker happened to be former Governor George Allen now Sen. George Allen (R) Virginia in our Congress. The C-Span program was part of that series being presented to showcase potential nominees to the office of the Presidency. You can bet I was listening with my very best ear forward when I heard our former governor George Allen say:
"...the Commonwealth of Virginia is doing something this year that it has never done in it's entire four hundred year history!"
I, along with a few other people, waited for the magic word of explanations. It was certainly true that the Virginia colony sent countless tons of tobacco to overseas markets. Later,after endless tons of processed tobacco as cigarettes and other forms followed and relinked to the word alluded to in the closing moments - was "micro chips" and I was left stranded way out in left field somewhere- without a glove.
The only possible way I see Virginia's micro-anything output beating anything is suggestive of the use of the system used by the movie industry to decide on "Best Picture of the Year" They no longer count the number of people but,rather, how much it costs them to see the movie."
A C-Span math explanation is something "former" Governor Allen and staff had best develop speedily lest it be
comes "former" Senator, as well.
A.L.M April 27,2006 [c378wds]
