The Executive Director for NARAL Prochoice Virginia was on the Rachel Maddow show last night to talk about Cuccinelli and his opinion that abortion providers can be regulated far more than an ordinary OB/GYN’s office. Abortions are already hard to get in Virginia, especially if you live in a rural area.
I am on the NARAL Prochoice Virginia Board, and I’m proud of it, and of Tarina.
The video is after the jump.
The flooding has affected millions. It is “a tsunami in slow motion.”
Loudoun Progress is, indeed, moving forward. You will see some aesthetic and admin-type changes coming in the next few weeks.
Stay tuned!
Peter Gabriel – Biko
Part 4 in a series
Russians by Sting
Part 3 in a series
From my inbox:
The Loudoun County Community Services Board (CSB) is seeking applicants to serve as representatives from the Dulles, Potomac, Sterling and Sugarland Run Districts.
The Loudoun County CSB is appointed by and accountable to the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors to set policy for, and to administer the provision of, community-based services for people experiencing mental illness, intellectual disabilities, and substance use disorders. That responsibility includes oversight of the Loudoun County Department of Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Developmental Services.
CSB members are drawn from the greater Loudoun community, and may represent a variety of backgrounds and interests, personal, professional or civic, that may give them insight into the issues that concern the CSB. The CSB is particularly interested in seeking members who have experience in the area of children’s services and communications, and who have multi-lingual skills. Each new appointee would be eligible to serve up to three, three-year terms.
By law, one third of the members of a Community Services Board must be self-identified as active consumers of a mental health, substance abuse, or developmental service (though not necessarily one provided directly by the CSB) or be the family member of someone actively receiving a service. No member of a CSB may be anyone who is employed by a CSB or by any agency that receives funding from a CSB.
CSB members are responsible for attending monthly CSB meetings, and each CSB member is expected to serve on one or more committees and to attend the meetings monthly of the groups on which they serve.
The Community Services Board will interview prospective members and will recommend qualified applicants to the Board of Supervisors for terms beginning January 1, 2011. The Board of Supervisors will make the final determination of who is appointed.
Interested applicants should visit the Community Services Board page of the county website at www.loudoun.gov/csb and click on the link under “Members” for an application and a summary of CSB roles and responsibilities.
The deadline to apply has been extended to Friday, August 20, 2010.
I sit on the Board of the CSB, and have found it to be an interesting, challenging, fulfilling experience.
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I am of the opinion that we don’t need to require real addresses to keep out trollish behavior. Please don’t prove me wrong.
Billy Joel – We Didn’t Start the Fire
Part 2 in what is definitely a series
Analysis at Prop 8 Trial Tracker
(Here’s a taste of the opinion issued by Judge Walker -P13)
In the absence of a rational basis, what remains of proponents’ case is an inference, amply supported by evidence in the record, that Proposition 8 was premised on the belief that same-sex couples simply are not as good as opposite-sex couples. Whether that belief is based on moral disapproval of homosexuality, animus towards gays and lesbians or simply a belief that a relationship between a man and a woman is inherently better than a relationship between two men or two women, this belief is not a proper basis on which to legislate.
So back on July 27, Rush Limbaugh said:
It’s left who thinks “America’s chickensssss came home to roost” on 9/11. It’s the American left that thinks we got what we deserved on 9/11.
Uh…No. It was Jerry Falwell who said that.
My friend, Michael, pointed out that it was Ward Churchill who wrote an essay on the Justice of Roosting Chickens. However, Falwell did say we got what we deserved. Look at the video after the jump.