If Oatmeal can get me a ticket out of Virginia from time to time, I'll 
start buying it. 

A real outrage for lovers of Virginia might be the war in Iraq and the 
growing number of Virginians (106) who have been killed there. The total 
number of American service men and women killed is approaching 4,000 
with at least 50,000 Iraqis killed, according to the Los Angeles 
times).  A letter to Sen. Warner expressing your opinion on the war 
can't hurt.  His web site:

http://www.senate.gov/~warner/

His email (form):

http://www.senate.gov/~warner/contact/contactme.cfm

The Library of Virginia is keeping a list of Virginians killed in Iraq 
(and in other wars) here:

http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/mil/vmd/index.asp


 RLB6 wrote:
>  
>
> I am seeking the assistance of others who love Virginia to make our voices
> heard at the Quaker Company.  A new Quaker Oatmeal commercial features an
> attractive, older African-American couple who love to bowl and stay healthy
> by eating Quaker Oatmeal.  It's a cute ad, but it inexcusably begins with an
> insult to the Commonwealth and people of Virginia.  As they talk about how
> they met, he jokes that she was just "looking for a ticket out of Virginia."
> Unbelievable.  
>   


-- 
Ray Bonis
Special Collections and Archives
VCU Libraries
804-828-1108