Info here.  Full coverage tonight on “Cam and Company”.

I meant to post something earlier, but I was hanging out with at least three veterans.  Fairly sure there were four, but definitely three that I know of.

I was able to sneak away for a couple of hours yesterday to do some shooting… this time of a photographic nature.  I wanted to get some pictures of the fall leaves before the colors disappeared. 

You have to take your nature shots where you can find them.  On the other side of those trees is the Capital Beltway, all 8 lanes of it.

That was taken in Old Town Alexandria.  It would have been a much better picture had the flag not been wrapped around the pole, but what are you gonna do? 

Over at Bitter’s place (here’s the permalink), she’s found a story from my/our neck of the woods.  The gist of it is the local D.A. is prosecuting the owner of an adult video store for selling adult videos.

The Staunton grand jury indicted a Manassas man and his company Thursday on 16 felony obscenity charges concerning adult videos that were sold in October at After Hours Video, according to Staunton Prosecutor Raymond C. Robertson.

The six-person grand jury spent Thursday morning viewing parts of 12 videos bought at the Springhill Road video store from Oct. 15 to Oct. 18. It was the second time the grand jury convened within the last month.

Krial, the owner of 12 adult businesses in Virginia and Maryland, said in the past he has caught flak from communities but has never been criminally charged in connection with video sales. He labeled the Staunton indictments as “ludicrous.” Asked to elaborate, Krial said, “It is what it is. Everybody’s going to have their day in court.”

The opening of Krial’s Staunton business on Oct. 7 has spawned the Citizens’ Task Force Against Pornography and also generated a petition drive supporting After Hours Video. Thursday night, Krial said more than 800 people had signed the petition that’s being circulated at the Springhill Road store.

Rick Hudson, a free-speech expert and an attorney with the First Amendment Center in Nashville, said Robertson will have a tough time making the obscenity charges stick.

“They’re fairly hard to prove,” he said. “It has to be something really out of the ordinary.”

The story doesn’t mention the names of the videos, and I probably wouldn’t print them either.  I do have some sympathy for the community if they don’t want the stores in their area (and with 800+ signatures, sounds like there’s a decent grassroots effort there), but these are just your garden variety porn, I think it’s going to be a hard case for the prosecutor to win.