Yes, it was over Cincinnati. The photo caption is:

This just flew over my house while I was outside gardening. Swing State. It must be time to head over to the University of Cincinnati for the BARACK OBAMA Rally.

I'm really thinking it's time to break out the pitchforks in Florida and Ohio.

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Gmail being glitchy for anyone else for the last hour? STABBY.

I kind of feel like there should be a general rule (not unlike with income taxes) that if the average voter has to wait more than 2 hours to vote, then some penalties need to accrue at the state level. If they do not have enough polling places/devices, etc. to accommodate the predicted number of voter turnout based on the previous major election cycle + population increase %, then penalties need to accrue.

So either that means an expansion of voting days OR expansion of mail in ballots. You aren't going to tell me that some of this suppression isn't also affecting GOP interests (perhaps only on a local level), but they would rather hurt themselves than serve the population

I'm going to step away from politics for awhile and see what I can do with this pumpkin. I leave you with big cats vs. pumpkins [link]

Well, I wasn't going to vote for the guy, but then I saw this dirigible...said no one, ever.

That's what we have now in California for state elections and I am not pleased, Liese.

Yeah, this would be for state level elections. But right now I've got third party candidates actually on the ballot all the way down to local government. And I damn well want it to continue that way. Sure, as a registered independent I can't vote in the primaries, but that's fine with me.

I'm in a new to me portion of the hospital! It's something between the ER and the observation unit. Which means new nurses, and mine is an Android-slut, so we talked Asus Transformers and the limitations and strong points of various OSes, as well as web sites with...useful stuff.

Why am I here? Because the ER wouldn't follow protocol, not even the wrong one. I didn't get one recommended dose, never mind the 2 or 3 that it would take to work. Guess what? The doctor hadn't even realised THERE WAS A SPECIFIED REGIMEN. Until the last dose, at which point he did up the dilaudid, but it was too late, and a bit too little to boot.

Silliness.

Anyway, that's my Sunday.

My poor sister. Due to my general embargo on political discussion (like, with parties involved, not rights, etc) she functioned as my only outlet during my first election ever.

She seems to care less about condoms in porn and more about GMO labelling than I do. Neither of which ostensibly have to do with parties, but they're right there next to party stuff.

Question (in the not having watched Schoolhouse Rock way): if I wanted a proposition voted on, what would I have to do to make it happen? I mean, who do I need to be, how much money do I need to have, how much do I need to spend, etc?

In California? I think it's just X number of signatures saying we want to be able to vote on this proposition. And X is a surprisingly low number, although I do not remember what it is, just that I was surprised it wasn't higher. More money means being able to hire more people to collect signatures, mostly. But it's supposed to be grass-roots and it's a pretty low bar to entry.

I'm glad I voted in the middle of the week. On Saturday, the last day of early voting in Georgia, there were reported waits up to 6 hours. The main advertising we have is over the charter school Constitutional amendment, which is essentially a blank check for for-profit school companies. During the past few days, there have been apocalyptic Romney ads.

I don't understand people. Some people are complaining that they missed part of SNL because the local news continued coverage of a breaking story about a helicopter crash that killed two police officers. Get some perspective and learn how to use a computer, people. The officers were part of a search for a 9-year-old who ran away after getting a bad grade. He was found shortly after that, and his mother is blaming herself for the officers' deaths.

Nothing quite like getting a collect call from a jail. No, I don't know who it was, and no, I didn't accept the charges.