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  • Be a Part of History!

    VB Dems

    Ladies and Gentlemen:

    BE PART OF HISTORY!!!!!!

    Join the VBDC for 2010 and participate in the election of new Officers fro the 2010-2011 term. Dues can be mailed to the address on the form and are due by December 9, 2010. Make the Beach Blue. Elect more Democrats. Get involved. It's' [...]

    Posted: November 22, 2009, 8:38am EST
  • Words That Are a Line in the Sand for American Christians

    Deo Vindice

    Number of comments: 5
    Check this out.  http://www.demossnews.com/manhattandeclaration/press_kit/manhattan_declaration_signers   Worth reading:   Manhattan Declaration & Signers Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience Drafted on October 20, 2009 Released on November 20, 2009   Preamble
 Christians are heirs of a 2,000-year tradition of proclaiming God’s word, seeking justice in our societies, resisting tyranny, and reaching out with compassion to the poor, oppressed and suffering.  While [...]
    Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:40pm EST
    by James Atticus Bowden
  • Don’t Even Talk About Health Care!

    Great Blue Heron

    That’s what they’re saying. That’s what 40 unanimous Republican Senators, and any Democratic or “independent” Senator who might join them, are saying today by voting against even debating the Senate health care reform bill. We don’t want to talk about it. These grown men and women are saying that the prospect of [...]
    Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:24am EST
    by Great Blue
  • A VB Dems Legislative Agenda

    VB Dems

    Let's do it! I'll develop our environmental agenda. Dominic, can you do education? I'll ask Vivian about hers. What else?

    Then let's draft it in the form of a petition and get every VB Democrat out there to sign it. We'll then deliver it to our Republican delegation and when they' [...]

    Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:49am EST
  • 59 and Counting

    Deo Vindice

    This week my 59th birthday passed with the speed of going through a yield sign when you can see the way clearly.  So, now I am 59 years old and counting – to infinity. I’m only a year away from the age of my father, James Albert Bowden, when he died.  [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:16pm EST
    by James Atticus Bowden
  • Start Planning Now

    Avenging Archangel

    65% agreed that Hampton Roads should begin designing a series of dikes and levees with the sea's level expected to rise., with 35% opposed.

    The new poll question: who will win the Republican nomination for the 8th Senate District special election? [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:01pm EST
  • Opinion, please: “Black Fur-iday”

    Vivian J. Paige

    Number of comments: 16
    It seems that animal shelters find black cats and dogs difficult to be adopted. In a play on words, the Norfolk Animal Care Center is holding a “sale” on the animals, to coincide with Black Friday, the traditional start of the holiday shopping season. The “sale” provides for adoption fees [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:46am EST
    by vjp
  • Can You Say "Shellacked"?

    VB Dems

    This is an interactive map produced by VPAP which even on its surface shows how Democrats got shellacked. "The analysis shows Republican Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell carried 75 of 100 House districts and 29 of 40 Senate Districts", they write. Geez, in Virginia Beach Bobbo won by over 19%. [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:20am EST
  • Ten Things To Be Depressed About

    VB Dems

    1. Losing Joe Bouchard
    2. Having Bob McDonnell as my Governor
    3. Having Ken "Environmentalists are Watermelons" Kook as my Attorney General
    4. Knowing Glenn Nye doesn't stand a chance in 2010
    5. Knowing VB Mayor Will Sessoms is a puppet to Frank Wagner and Bob McDonnell
    6. Knowing that' [...]
    Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:19am EST
  • The End of Oprah

    Deo Vindice

    Oprah Winfrey ends her TV show in 2011.  Hurray.  Good for America.  Great for Christians. Certainly, somone will try to follow her as the diva of powerful female connections with folly for talk and stirring emotions. The sooner her bullhorn of sophistry as caring sweetness is silenced the better for America. Maybe some tough, bright, [...]
    Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:03pm EST
    by James Atticus Bowden
  • How we did in Hampton Roads in November

    Vivian J. Paige

    Number of comments: 1
    The Virginia Public Access Project today updated their website with the party performance data for statewide candidates for the House of Delegates and Senate districts. A lot of red on that house map to the left (click to enlarge). I took a look at the contested races in Hampton Roads where [...]
    Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:56pm EST
    by vjp
  • TRAC November 18, 2009

    Avenging Archangel

    The Transit Riders Advisory Committee (TRAC) of Hampton Roads Transit (HRT) met Wednesday evening at HRT Headquarters in Hampton.

    At their previous meeting, TRAC had approved their new committee guidelines, which include holding TRAC members to HRT's Sexual Harassment Policy. Copies of the policy were distributed to TRAC members. [...]
    Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:02pm EST
  • My Good Samaritan

    Avenging Archangel

    With yesterday's TPO meeting adjourning about 12:06 yesterday, I knew I had closely missed the previous Outbound Greenbrier 15, with the next Outbound 15 through the area being the one from Robert Hall at 12:18. I hurried towards a courtesy stop on Military Highway.

    As I made the final [...]
    Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:13pm EST
  • TPO November 18, 2009

    Avenging Archangel

    Hampton Roads' Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) met on Wednesday for it's November meeting. There was one speaker under Public Comment: a bicyclist pushing bike paths. The consent agenda was unanimously passed.

    Aubrey Layne, the recently-appointed member of the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB), addressed the TPO. He expressed his thoughts' [...]
    Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:46pm EST
  • Frank Wagner and Uranium Mining

    VB Dems

    Always knew there was something wrong about Sen. Frank Wagner.

    Rumor has it that the glowing Frank here is asserting pressure on VB Mayor Sessoms to overturn the City's resolution opposed to uranium mining in Virginia.

    Mr. Glow Man here has been so far successful in getting a state [...]

    Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:24pm EST
  • Another Question for Jeff McWaters

    VB Dems

    Another question for my "Get in, sit down and shut up" and "Suck it up, little Democrat" file...

    Jeff McWaters is CEO of AMERIGROUP, "a Fortune 600" company. (I thought it was Fortune 500... weird...)  

    Does his company offer health and life insurance benefits to the domestic partners of his [...]

    Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:32am EST
  • Question for Jeff McWaters

    VB Dems

    I've stopped counting all the mail pieces I've gotten so far from Jeff McWaters. He has obviously money to burn mailing to a hardcore Dem who has never and will never sully her clean record by voting for a Republican or in a Republican primary. But I did look over [...]
    Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:19pm EST
  • Question for Jeff McWaters

    VB Dems

    I've stopped counting all the mail pieces I've gotten so far from Jeff McWaters. He has obviously money to burn mailing to a hardcore Dem who has never and will never sully her clean record by voting for a Republican or in a Republican primary. But I did look over [...]
    Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:19pm EST
  • Who Would Jesus Assassinate?

    Great Blue Heron

    Number of comments: 1
    Once again, the so-called “christian” right has it wrong.  Now, along with t-shirts portraying President Obama as The Joker or as Chairman Mao, you can buy bumper stickers, coffee mugs and t-shirts (even teddy bears!) with the seemingly innocent message “Pray for Obama:  Psalm 109:8.” What’s wrong with urging people to [...]
    Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:43am EST
    by Great Blue
  • Democracy in action in Norfolk

    Vivian J. Paige

    Number of comments: 2
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever does.” — Margaret Mead The quote above is one of my favorites. And Tuesday, we got an opportunity to see it happen. It started with a phone call that I received [...]
    Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:45am EST
    by vjp
  • Getting a Move On

    Mosquito Blog

    I'm going on hiatus through Thanksgiving holidays. We are moving our household to Virginia's Blue Ridge mountains. I'm looking forward to living in a one stop light town that is filled with folks of differing beliefs who are able to create a community that is active, artistic and compassionate. What [...]
    Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:43am EST
  • Economists support health care reform

    VB Dems

    The Senate health care reform bill "will reduce long-term deficits, improve the quality of care, and put the nation on a firm fiscal footing. It will help transform the health care system from delivering too much care, to a system that consistently delivers higher-quality, high-value care." - Letter submitted by [...]
    Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:47am EST
  • Lesson Learned

    VB Dems

    "(Deeds') advisers basically said, distance yourself from the president. We think we have our base locked down, we've got to win independents...I always believed from the very beginning that the paradigm in Virginia had changed and that the way to win the race was to energize voters who had" [...]
    Posted: November 17, 2009, 4:35pm EST

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