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Nov 7

Today's Front Pages

This is one of my favorite features of The Newseum here in Washington D.C., being able to view the front pages from newspapers around the world in person at the museum or online at this link.

I think in a few hours when the papers start printing the election results will probably be a great time for Obama supporters to check it out and see page after page of pictures of our President.

Nov 7

wereallllmadhere:

ryonovich:

Well, if Romney does win, at least America has the its first non-Christian president. I guess that’s something.

Uhhhhhh. Kennedy was a Catholic.

Logic fail.

Catholics are Christian. It’s a denomination of Christianity, like United Methodist or Presbyterian.

The delineation is that Catholics aren’t Protestant.  But they’re definitely Christian, they just also don’t believe in the separation of church and state (officially) but most modern Protestant denominations do.  Which is why it was a big deal to elect a Catholic.

(I’m married to a Catholic and I’m Protestant so we had to go through counselling together and talk about our religious differences and similarities so that the Catholic priest would officiate at the wedding).

Nov 6
This is for Kelly. At the Reston Obama campaign.

This is for Kelly. At the Reston Obama campaign.

Nov 6

Got in my car to go volunteer with the Obama campaign and Eye of the Tiger came on, was just finishing when I arrived. Perfect.

Nov 4

Just signed up to volunteer for two shifts for the local Obama campaign office on election day.

Might sign up for a few more for Monday as well, haven’t decided. I just hope there are things I can do that won’t aggravate my leg injury, which has been getting worse again the last few days.

But I need to stay busy and do everything I can at this point. I can’t let Virginia go to Romney if I could have made a difference.

Nov 4
suitep:

team-joebama:

wordscancrushtheworld:

THIS!!!!  
loudmouthradio:

TRUTH.


Romney in June: “He wants another stimulus, he wants to hire more government workers,” Mr. Romney said of Mr. Obama. “He says we need more fireman, more policeman, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It’s time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.”
In case you forgot

In case someone STILL needs a wake up call.

suitep:

team-joebama:

wordscancrushtheworld:

THIS!!!!  

loudmouthradio:

TRUTH.

Romney in June: “He wants another stimulus, he wants to hire more government workers,” Mr. Romney said of Mr. Obama. “He says we need more fireman, more policeman, more teachers. Did he not get the message of Wisconsin? The American people did. It’s time for us to cut back on government and help the American people.”

In case you forgot

In case someone STILL needs a wake up call.

Nov 3
BTW-I just got a notice yesterday that my health insurance premium was going up by $40 a month.
I have absolutely no doubt that the bulk of that increase is because I am a woman of the prime reproductive age. I’ve seen the rate charts, I know how much the rates increase as you go through the years where most women have kids, and I have to pay that fee.  Despite the fact that I have no maternity coverage (nor do I want it, I’m childfree by choice) I still get charged more because I have a uterus that MIGHT be used.
This discrimination has GOT to stop, because it’s going to bankrupt me paying this uterus tax.
Like I keep saying to people: this is like having to pay rent on a storage building I’m not even using.
Men don’t face this problem. This is an economic issue. It is one of the top economic issues of my life. This is why you can’t vote for Romney based on economic issues, because he is bad for those too.

BTW-I just got a notice yesterday that my health insurance premium was going up by $40 a month.

I have absolutely no doubt that the bulk of that increase is because I am a woman of the prime reproductive age. I’ve seen the rate charts, I know how much the rates increase as you go through the years where most women have kids, and I have to pay that fee.  Despite the fact that I have no maternity coverage (nor do I want it, I’m childfree by choice) I still get charged more because I have a uterus that MIGHT be used.

This discrimination has GOT to stop, because it’s going to bankrupt me paying this uterus tax.

Like I keep saying to people: this is like having to pay rent on a storage building I’m not even using.

Men don’t face this problem. This is an economic issue. It is one of the top economic issues of my life. This is why you can’t vote for Romney based on economic issues, because he is bad for those too.

Nov 2

Cracked: 6 Bizarre Factors that Predict Every Presidential Election

So, four out of five superstition/coincidences predict an Obama win?

One isn’t particularly useful because you can’t know what happened until election night.

And the other is a football game being played this Sunday. 

I can’t believe I’m actually rooting for the Redskins and care about a football game right now.

jezebelcom:

Yep. The SAME G-D DAY of the storm, this monstrosity shows up under doorsteps in Virginia. Produced by the extremely conservative, abolish-all-taxes-on-rich-people crazies over at Americans for Tax Reform, it’s hard to imagine something in poorer taste than this ill-timed attack ad. Oh well, I’m sure they’ll come up with something grosser tomorrow. 


Don’t forget: Mitt Romney’s answer to slashing that debt? Slashing funding to FEMA, and to firefighters, EMTs, and other emergency personnel.  You know, all of the things that saved Virginian lives.
Virginia: for the love of your loved ones and yourself, PLEASE understand what a Romney vote means. It means that next time there’s a disaster, we won’t be talking about the one man who died in our state. We’ll be talking about the dozens who died afterwards when they weren’t rescued, when their power wasn’t restored in time, when they had no emergency shelter, when they couldn’t get shipments of food or clean water, or when a fire started and nobody was available to put it out.
That’s on top of everything else.  If you actually don’t care about anything else, even if you don’t believe in equal rights, remember that this is a man who said that we need to cut back on teachers and firefighters and that federal disaster relief was “immoral.”

jezebelcom:

Yep. The SAME G-D DAY of the storm, this monstrosity shows up under doorsteps in Virginia. Produced by the extremely conservative, abolish-all-taxes-on-rich-people crazies over at Americans for Tax Reform, it’s hard to imagine something in poorer taste than this ill-timed attack ad. Oh well, I’m sure they’ll come up with something grosser tomorrow. 

Don’t forget: Mitt Romney’s answer to slashing that debt? Slashing funding to FEMA, and to firefighters, EMTs, and other emergency personnel.  You know, all of the things that saved Virginian lives.

Virginia: for the love of your loved ones and yourself, PLEASE understand what a Romney vote means. It means that next time there’s a disaster, we won’t be talking about the one man who died in our state. We’ll be talking about the dozens who died afterwards when they weren’t rescued, when their power wasn’t restored in time, when they had no emergency shelter, when they couldn’t get shipments of food or clean water, or when a fire started and nobody was available to put it out.

That’s on top of everything else.  If you actually don’t care about anything else, even if you don’t believe in equal rights, remember that this is a man who said that we need to cut back on teachers and firefighters and that federal disaster relief was “immoral.”

Just a quick reminder that Mitt Romney not only wants to get rid of FEMA (and/or defund them which is the same thing) but he also wants to cut funding to firefighters and other first responders and emergency personnel.

So while you’re looking at all those photos of people rushing to help each other and putting themselves in harm’s way to save other people, just remember, Mitt Romney doesn’t think those people deserve to get paid a living wage or to have a job at all.

Thank goodness this hurricane happened now, because if Romney was president the death toll would be higher, and keep climbing as people were left alone without help from emergency services.

A vote for Obama is literally a vote to save lives.