Slate.com explains why you shouldn't take Papa John's, Denny's, Applebee's, Darden Restaurants (who own Red Lobster, the Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, etc.) and a number of other restaurants complaining about Obamacare all that seriously.

Applebee's is making clear that it is not on a firing rampage because of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ( Read more... )

You guys have probably seen most of this on Tumblr already, but I have to record some of the notable things that happened last night besides Obama winning ( Read more... )

Yes, I went and voted. Dial-A-Ride picked me up at 8:30 this morning, and it was a good thing that the driver came so early, because the line to vote ran down one side of the voting place's hallway and up the other side. We were in line for forty-five minutes. Thank God I brought my walker; I needed something to lean on by the end, for my hips were ( Read more... )

Voter ID Requirements for the Fifty States, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas Island, Puerto Rico and the American Virgin Islands

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Still amassing links for Disaster Relief. Also, I am getting ready to vote on Tuesday. I hope to hell Obama wins. Romney is pretty much "anti-everything that Gehayi needs to survive ( Read more... )

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As sixty million people in this country are facing catastrophe thanks to Hurricane Sandy, it would be well to remember what Romney said to CNN's John King back during the Republican primaries when tornadoes hit Louisiana, Missouri and Tennessee. He was talking about how much the federal government spent and how much it needed to cut.

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You know, there are a lot of excellent programs on public television and national public radioI could list all of them as sterling reasons for supporting PBS and NPR in the face of threatened cuts to funding. But this is about more than Masterpiece, Masterpiece Mystery, NOVA, PBS NewsHour, Antiques Roadshow, American Experience, American Masters, ( Read more... )

2012 VOTING LAW CHANGES:

LEGISLATION THAT HAS PASSED OR IS PENDING THAT THE POTENTIAL TO SUPPRESS THE VOTEIf you live in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West ( Read more... )

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