Elizabeth Talbot
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On the article Virginia GOP Voter ID Law: Voter Suppression?
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On the article Gun Laws: Things More Difficult to Buy Than Guns
Elizabeth Talbot
7:14 pm on Thursday, February 14, 2013
ReplyHere's something you can do about gun violence without waiting for any laws to be passed. Don't get a gun! Especially if you are living with children or teens. The chances that you need one to deal with an intruder are very low. The chances that your children or teen will use it are much higher! The Sandy Hook massacre probably wouldn't have happened if the shooter's mother, the legal owner, didn't own the guns in the first place. She owned them because she was worried about a remote possibility, when the real danger, her emotionally unstable son, was living with her under the same roof!
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On the article Snyder One of Seven Republicans Running for Lt. Governor
Elizabeth Talbot
10:39 am on Saturday, February 9, 2013
ReplyI can tell from the candidate's comments that he is not familiar with local conditions. He envisions that his party will become popular with Virginians if he can show them a way to escape "failing schools." Virginians, for the most part, are pleased with public schools, especially in the northern suburbs where he lives. While "failing schools" may be a popular theme for conservatives on the national level, it won't work in Virginia.
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On the article Postal Service Ending Saturday Delivery
Elizabeth Talbot
8:18 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
ReplyIn 2006,the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act required the U.S.Postal Service to fully fund pensions 75 years into the future. No other government or private entity is required to do the same. Why is the U.S. Postal Service still required to do this in light of its losses? What is Congress doing about repealing this legislation?
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On the article Study for Virginia Currency Gets House Approval
Elizabeth Talbot
8:07 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
ReplyProposals like these make me wonder whether we should scrap the state legislature and start over. When they talk about a "metallic based" monetary unit - do they mean gold? How would one use a gold coin to buy a pastry and a Danish at the 7-11? This group can barely put together a Transportation Bill, let alone a currency. Don't we have more immediate problems? How about the health care needs of thousands of uninsured state residents? The care of the mentally ill?
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On the article Electoral College Change Could Weaken Influence of Urban Areas
Elizabeth Talbot
5:17 pm on Saturday, January 26, 2013
ReplyThe time has come for mandatory drug testing of all state legislators!
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On the article ALDI Opening Store on Rt. 17
Elizabeth Talbot
7:34 am on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
ReplyWhat I've never understood is why ALDI could not have occupied the vast amount of space available in the strip mall less than a quarter of a mile away. That place had ample parking. Now the store is scrunched up against Rt. 17 so I wonder what the traffic congestion will be like. Who does urban planning for Stafford anyway?
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On the article Cuccinelli: Jail 'Logical' Protest to Contraception Mandate
Elizabeth Talbot
7:34 am on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
ReplyConservatives have really muddied this debate by suggesting that women want "free contraception". Women either work for their insurance or pay for the policy. Contraceptives are not a "mere" elective as they are used to treat many gynecological conditions; from personal experience I know that some women are required to use contraceptives in order to obtain prescriptions that can cause birth defects. So an important part of medical coverage for women can now be made "optional" because one particular denomination objects. This is about control, not conscience.
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On the article Cuccinelli: Jail 'Logical' Protest to Contraception Mandate
Elizabeth Talbot
8:02 pm on Monday, January 14, 2013
ReplyThe Catholic Church and the attorney general believe that your employer should determine your right to health care, in other words, if your employer doesn't think its "moral", no coverage. I can foresee see many "moral reasons" for denying all sorts of coverage. Under such a system, your employer may refuse to cover treatment for AIDs, or maternal care based on marital status, or the fact your child is gay. If your employer is Jehovah's Witness, he could even deny coverage for blood transfusions. Why is the Catholic church only concerned about its institutional conscience - what about the conscience of individuals, or God forbid, women? Isn't it up to the individual to determine whether he/she wants a medical treatment? Or the Catholic Church does not recognize or respect the others beyond its membership to make their own decisions?
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On the article Dudenhefer: Romney Winning Virginia 'Important'
Elizabeth Talbot
9:44 am on Saturday, September 1, 2012
ReplyI'm sorry, but I don't relate to Ann Romney at all. She was lucky enough to marry a very rich dude with some powerful connections. So when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and multiple sclerosis, she could afford the best medical care and therapy horses. If she had been married to anyone else, or more precisely, a husband without the connections and the cash, she and her family would have been bankrupt or lost the house. Worse yet, if her family income had been low but not low enough to qualify for Medicaid, there is the possibility that she could be dead. This is what is happening in America right now. Since the governors don't want to expand Medicaid, or even cut back the rolls, a lot of people with serious illnesses will probably die. Those are the real "death panels."
Elizabeth Talbot
7:57 am on Sunday, March 31, 2013
Does this mean going to the DMV to have your picture taken? Imagine if you are student, an elderly or disabled person, or a working stiff. So what if your local DMV is over 30 miles away, you don't drive, and you can't stretch your budget to fit in a $20 cab fare. Or you work during DMV hours and your boss won't give you leave or you have to forego a half day's wages to sit all morning in the DMV office, to be told you didn't bring the right documents. Or you arrive in time to find out that the DMV closes promptly at five and they stopped taking new "customers" a half hour before. So what if you were an African American over a certain age who was born at home because in Jim Crow Virginia your mother wasn't allowed to go in a "white" hospital. Or you go by one name but one of your relatives put a different name on your birth certificate. It doesn't matter that the ID will be "free" if you lose wages or have to spend a bundle on a cab ride! This is a blatant attempt to get rid of poorer (undesirable) voters!