Bob H.

Back when I was Virginia editor for BlogNet News, we had a policy of not allowing blogs into the aggregator until they were 90 days old, because so many blogs come and go in that time. That this blog has existed for six years is certainly longer than I ever thought it would.

But my reasons for this blog remain the same as they were when I started. So as long as I can find a few minutes to post something, I will.

As for site links – there really isn’t a way (that I’m aware of) to look at votes by issue. You can see the votes by each bill on the state website but you need the bill number. I tend to use Richmond Sunlight to find bills that are of interest to me.

Probably not a real long time, but it is when you are busy and one day you turn around and six years have gone by. Time goes so fast when a person is busy. I am deeply appreciative of you allowing me to write here. I have learned a lot from you over the last six years, and on into the future!

Thank you for being a friend.

People turn out and vote in federal elections even though they have little to no hope affecting change on the federal level. But they can be a factor in the government that effects them most which is their local government. It is amazing how many people you talk to in your city who do not even know who their local elected officials are much less what they are doing.

In the city of Hampton which has 137,436 people it only takes around 6,000 votes to win local office because so few people vote. It is really depressing and I do not know how to get people to care.

I am a gun owner and I considered buying one of the pink guns because I like pink. However, I choose another model because of the gun. I have nothing against them.

We can agree that SGK brought a few people with ulterior motives on thier board. They should keep politics out of saving tata’s..

xoxo, Jim

I challenge people to understand how women lacking the resources yet in need of diagnosis feel about this, unlike women like my mother who could easily afford mammography screening but due to a variety of reasons was misdiagnosed.. There is a busy market for specialized healthcare that so many people enjoying good health take for granted until they feel a lump that was not there before. Komen opened doors for more people who previously could not access the technology needed for early diagnosis.. But what does this politicization of Komen, apparently from the inside, do to further their cause? I felt sad to read the reports of how this charity has been beat down by political activism which imo has no business plying their trade by manipulating worthy charities..

Komen was founded by people who wanted to give something.. to do what we they could to alleviate some womens suffering. Political activists who twisted this charity and shook it up have no shame and that is most disappointing.

Many people give to organizations that over see the funds to various smaller agencys or studies that could not raise the money on their own. For example a graduate student might be doing research on an idea to cure some form of cancer. That student could not raise the money on his own but he can apply for a grant . If his research turned to be correct and he solved that problem wouldn’t it be worth it then.

Look how much the United Way raises each year is a good example. However, that said I tend to support the agencys directly usually.

I think it is sad that so many things are being effected by our political environment. I guess I was trying to look at the sad situation as the “glass half full” view. But it could also take the “glass half empty” where the people giving to the Komen foundation because they cut off funding will only give once and may not stay and the people who stopped giving, because of this, will either switch to another non-cancer organization or in this economy stop donating all together. That is why I listed the other breast cancer group in Va.

I am very sorry about your mother.

This IS an issue for me after losing my mother 8-11-94 from something easily detectable via mammogram. Nobody should be denied this basic test and merging it with a pro or anti whatever movement is divisive and politically driven.

Direct quote: “In 2010, Planned Parenthood health centers saw approximately three million patients, who collectively received nearly 11 million services during nearly five million clinical visits.”

And it says that abortion counts for 3% of services received, not that 3% percent of their patients get abortions.

If that’s 3 %, Al Gore is teaching them funny math again.