I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Sending warm thoughts to E with upcoming surgery and Blue with a sore leg. Here's hoping all goes well for everyone.

On another note, I was surprised to find a link in my Facebook news feed indicating that there will be UN monitors for the US election. Not surprising considering the number of voter suppression and voter intimidation strategies in play. I looked it up to see if it was a satiric article - seems it's real. This is a more moderate article on the topic.

http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message2024911/pg1

((( Blue ))) I'm so sorry your pain has been exacerbated.  I've been shoveling and raking acorns and my back is killing me.  Time to call it a day and stop messing with the acorns.

hugs,

Bren

wow - pretty interesting that "true the vote" should have a problem with outside, totally objective observers - also sad that it's come to this state in the USA.

I think many of us outside the U.S. have a difficult time understanding why states have such authority over federal elections.  If you're voting for President, that's a federal position.  If you're voting for Senator or Representative, those are federal positions.

Why lump state, judicial (and municipal?) elections in with federal elections?  Why not a separate voting day for federal?

As for gerrymandering (or changing the makeup) of political districts (which I understand is the purview of the governing party in each state) shouldn't the federal government be in charge of congressional districts?

It's quite true that the U.S. election has become a talking point around the world.  While we were away, we spoke with many Americans who apologized for the farce this election has become, starting with the obscene amounts of money spent by both parties, and certainly including the Citizens United ruling by the conservative-dominated Supreme Court.  They feel helpless to change it back to respectability.  Bringing in observers from other countries must be the greatest insult to what is the largest democratic republic in the world.

Just my thoughts.....

They must all be rich enough to buy their own mammograms rather than go through insurance, because that will be the only way they get them of Romney is elected and follows through with his promises to eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood and destroy the ACa, and Ryan's intent to slash Title X family planning funds -- including the Breast and Cervical Cancer Program funds -- and devastate Medicaid. They certainly don't care about their sisters who need these things.



L

Who promotes those pink wrist bands they're all wearing? Could this be coordinated through Komen?

Thanks Linda - never have participated in one of those pink parades, but come to think of it, I recently found an ACS pink wristband in one of my "care" bags, but while on the topic of Ann Romney and BC, I understand she had DCIS.  This next part is only heresay, but she has called her BC "aggressive."  I suppose DCIS can be biopsied and graded, but is this a term used with DCIS?

DCIS is definitely biopsied and graded, and I do know a lot of people who describe their DCIS as "aggressive."  I think that has to do with the likelihood of it turning invasive.  (I had a mixture of IDC and DCIS, so naturally I was focused on the IDC, which was low-grade; but the DCIS was high-grade.)

Linda

Why would anyone be against monitors at the polling stations?  "True Vote" rather than "True the Vote".

Someone posted on FB yesterday a picture of a "team Romney" in pink with Ann Romney. The caption she wrote was the future first lady of the United States. Nearly puked. What made it worse is this is a person who asked me and others not to put anything political on FB. I did to her what I suggested to my posts, I blocked her.

Election season stress was getting to me and a friend just sent me the funniest little animated video. It doesn't have a thing to do with politics or breast cancer. It was just a nice little mental health break for me. It's called "Ormie the Pig."

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=FrTbnczYAd4&feature=player_embedded

I was disgusted that both Michelle Obama and Ann Romney dressed in pink at the last debate. Disappointing. It perpetrates a sexist movement.

Next Door: before the debate - hoping Soteria/Paula has done well in surgery.

Man, we're all sick as dawgs - it's pathetic. Just posted on another thread about my tragi-comical tale with hormone therapy.

But....ENOUGH...Looking forward to the debate tonight. I expect Romney will try to point the finger at Obama. I really hope Obama makes note of the fact that Romney managed to insult at least two peoples in one oversease trip (Britain and the Palestinians) and that he really needs to show more statesmanship.

A very good, detailed, reasoned endorsement of President Obama by the New Yorker:



http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2012/10/29/121029taco_talk_editors



L

Reproducing the last paragraph of the New Yorker endorsement of Obama:

The reëlection of Barack Obama is a matter of great urgency. Not only are we in broad agreement with his policy directions; we also see in him what is absent in Mitt Romney—a first-rate political temperament and a deep sense of fairness and integrity. A two-term Obama Administration will leave an enduringly positive imprint on political life. It will bolster the ideal of good governance and a social vision that tempers individualism with a concern for community. Every Presidential election involves a contest over the idea of America. Obama’s America—one that progresses, however falteringly, toward social justice, tolerance, and equality—represents the future that this country deserves. ♦

Wonderful editorial aside, I love how the New Yorker spells words like re-election and co-operation.

I still wish we would write "aesthetic" in this country instead of "esthetic." To say nothing of  "oestrogen."