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fluffthebunny's good friend Taylor is in the hospital in critical condition, and she and her family could really use some assistance. (The previous link will provide some explanation of the situation.) I'm just going to swipe pretty much wholesale the post from Les' journal:

Taylor is fluffthebunny's chosen family/sister/friend/angel who is currently in a coma in a hospital in Indianapolis. She's been badly burned, and the cause of the injuries are currently unknown (and could have been an accident, or may have been a deliberate attack).

Taylor's mom and aunt came from Kansas to be with her, but their financial resources are very limited. Taylor was unemployed and was in the process of getting evicted. Taylor's belongings need to be moved to storage, and her family needs clothes, food, and a place to stay nearby the hospital (fluffthebunny's home is nearly an hour away).

If you'd like to contribute funds, go here.

They are also folks who are comfortable with receiving prayers/positive energy, etc.

I know that the "send help via Paypal" thing has been abused on LJ in the past. I'll say upfront that I haven't met fluffthebunny personally, but she's a partner of tenacious_snail's and that's reference enough for me to be comfortable sending in a donation.

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I found it interesting that when voting yesterday in Fairfax County, party affiliations were only listed for the two state offices (senator and delegate). If you went in intending to vote party line, you really needed to check ahead of time and make sure you knew which candidate you wanted.

In one of my local races:

One other seat was closely contested. With 100 percent of the votes counted, Sen. Ken T. Cuccinelli II (R) held a 91 vote lead over Democrat Janet S. Oleszek. Cuccinelli at 3:30 a.m. sent an e-mail appeal to Republican supporters for volunteers and donations to support him in a possible recount. As of this morning neither side had conceded defeat or claimed victory.

Even if that result stands, Democrats control the Senate for the first time in a decade and they also picked up House seats.

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Allsorts are SRS BZNS.