If President Obama is re-elected, health care coverage will expand dramatically, taxes on the wealthy will go up and Wall Street will face tougher regulation. If Mitt Romney wins instead, health coverage will shrink substantially, taxes on the wealthy will fall to levels not seen in 80 years and financial regulation will be rolled back.
Dao: Daddy, can you tell me a story?
Dad: Once upon a time, there’s a boy named Dao and he loves train. He plays with nothing else but train all day. At school, his teachers have to put all the trains away so that he could do other activities. They gave him a book to read and he imagined the book as his train. He drove the book around like it was a train. His teacher told him, “A book is for reading, not for playing.” He threw a tandrum at his teacher. Why did he do that?
Dao: Because he’s not nice.
Dad: Exactly.
Dao: Can you tell me another story?
Dad: Once upon a time, there’s a boy named Dao and he loves candy. On Halloween night, he dressed up as a dragon and he tried to fly.
Dao: But that’s impossible.
Dad: That’s right. So he hopped into his train with his little brother Dan and they went around the mall treat-or-treating. They came up to the people and what did they say?
Dao: Happy Halloween!
Dad: That’s right. Then they gave them lots of candy. They even met an alien.
Dao: No, a pirate.
Dad: Oh yeah, a pirate and they stopped by the water fountain that has lots of…
Dao: Clouds.
Dad: Yes, and they had lots of fun and candy. The end!
Dao: Daddy, can you tell me the candy story again?
They repeated the story for five times before the daddy passed out. Not sure when Dao went to sleep.
When I step into the voting booth, I think about the world I want to leave my two daughters, and the values that are required to guide us there. The two parties’ nominees for president offer different visions of where they want to lead America.
One believes a woman’s right to choose should be protected for future generations; one does not. That difference, given the likelihood of Supreme Court vacancies, weighs heavily on my decision.
One recognizes marriage equality as consistent with America’s march of freedom; one does not. I want our president to be on the right side of history.
One sees climate change as an urgent problem that threatens our planet; one does not. I want our president to place scientific evidence and risk management above electoral politics.
Hitting the campaign trail one day after the arrival of Superstorm Sandy, Republican nominee Mitt Romney tweaked his position on abortion today, saying he now supports it in cases where it makes people vote for him.
“I would make an exception for abortion in cases where the life of my campaign is at stake,” he told a crowd in Kettering, Ohio.
Believe it or not, Romney’s campaign has been nothing but a big satire.
Many of The Economist’s readers, especially those who run businesses in America, may well conclude that nothing could be worse than another four years of Mr Obama. We beg to differ. For all his businesslike intentions, Mr Romney has an economic plan that works only if you don’t believe most of what he says. That is not a convincing pitch for a chief executive.
“Romney Versus the Automakers”:
Mr. Romney apparently plans to end his race as he began it: playing lowest-common-denominator politics, saying anything necessary to achieve power and blithely deceiving voters desperate for clarity and truth.
This satirical letter is provocative, but gets the point across:
Every time you say “I oppose a woman’s right to abortion, even in cases of rape,” what you’re also saying is “I believe that a man who rapes a woman has more of a right to control a woman’s body and life than that woman does.”
New York Times has a collection of Newspaper Endorsements From Across the Nation. I should have read this page instead. While most of the endorsements are similar, New Yorker‘s “The Choice” is still a standout piece.
Anyway, Less than one week to go. I hope you know who to vote for next Tuesday.
I am so glad Sandy is gone even though she was not so cruel to us. On the good side, I got two extra days to catch up with my school projects and spent time with my lovely boys and girl.
Looking after Dan is quite exhausting. His licking issue seems to get worse. Can’t leave him alone for 15 seconds without him licking something. He licks the carpet, the drawer’s knobs, the wheels, the chairs and anything else that he’s curious about. Even a toy book with buttons, he would press it repeatedly and like the sound that response to his action. Still he has to lick it to explore it. The licking is really driving me insane.
Dao never had that problem when he was around one. If he saw something he liked, he would touch it and look at it very carefully, but never put it in his mouth. Then again Dao doesn’t like anything in his mouth including food. Each kid has his own uniqueness I guess.
Dao is now could play all by himself, but he also wants us to play with him, which is nice. He’s still obsessed with trains and cars. His mom spoils him so much that everyday he asks for something special. You know your kid is spoiled when he expects a box infront of his doorstep everyday. His mom orders everything online. He’s actually surprised when he doesn’t see a box infront of the house.
So he asked me for something special and I said to him, “You want something special everyday. DO you think I just pull them out of my butt?” His response was, “That’s not a good idea.” My jaw dropped. I had never heard him said that before.
Warren would do more for Massachusetts:
[Warren’s] crowning achievement, the bureau guards the interests of average citizens contending with credit-card companies, student-loan holders, auto lenders, credit bureaus, and more. Anyone who’s felt powerless to escape a fee that seems unfairly imposed, or to cover an interest rate they didn’t bargain for, owes Warren a debt of gratitude.
My friends in MA, you have to vote for Ms. Warren.