If all 50 states had gay marriage, the wedding industry would be booming
My voter’s ballot came in the mail yesterday:
California has what is called a “permanent mail voter.” I’m one of them! It’s much more fun to vote at home, in the hot tub, drinking a margarita, eating jalapeño nachos, watching Star Trek: Voyager…….. Any number of things are far better than standing in a long line at an elementary school on election day!
Long-time readers probably know who I voted for. But if you don’t:
I’m wondering why Roseanne Barr was not included in the presidential debates. Maybe it’s because of how she tortured the National Anthem on July 26, 1990?
The booing was justified, in my humble opinion.
I had two main reasons why I voted for President Obama:
First, I went without health insurance from 2003 to July 2012. After having minor surgery on Halloween Day in 2003, my insurance company paid the bill and then dropped me. Since I now had a pre-existing condition, no insurance company would insure me. They wouldn’t even give me a quote. I told several of them, “Quote me what you would consider an outrageous, astronomical premium. I might pay it!” Nope. Summary dismissal.
Then, when some of the Affordable Care Act provisions went into effect in January 2012, insurance companies were calling, emailing, mailing, texting, sexting….. They were stumbling all over themselves to get me into their insured pool.
I now have affordable (defined as $280 a month) health insurance, and it does not have a lifetime cap like previous insurance did. I have been told that the lifetime cap elimination is one thing that went into effect in January 2012.
Second, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are vehemently opposed to people like me (i.e., gay people) getting married, even though the sky has not fallen in states — such as Massachusetts, where Romney was Governor — and countries that have so-called “gay marriage” — Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Mexico City, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont (and California if they got married between May and November 2008). I also have not heard of a single straight marriage that has fallen apart because a couple of gay people got married.
President Obama came out earlier this year in support of equal marriage rights. To my way of thinking, if all 50 states had gay marriage, the wedding industry would be booming. And if the wedding industry is booming, so, too, would be the tourism industry. After all, newlyweds have to go on honeymoons! ☺☺☺☺☺
Zoey the Cool Cat had her preferences, too, which pretty much coincided with mine. She loved the fact that the President has a pet, even though it’s a DD (dastardly dog). She will never forgive Romney for tying his dog to the top of the car and driving down the road. “Some people should not have pets,” she said.
Although Zoey the Cool Cat claimed she was watching me to make sure I filled out my ballot correctly, the following picture tells a different story. I guess she finds politics boring……..
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Posted on October 17, 2012, in Photos, SNIPPETS and tagged 2012 voting, votes for President Obama. Bookmark the permalink. 24 Comments.
put a plaid collar on that cat and she looks like my Kitty Bob
Fingers crossed.
Zoey is right – some people shouldn’t have pets – and they should not be presidents either
I don’t get it though – what’s this bigots problem with same-sex marriage? I understand they don’t want you having Church wedding at their congregation on Sunday (not that i understand – you know what i mean – that would be, like, their right), but if it is a civil marriage – for goodness sake, how they dare discriminate against you???!!! I hate that, really – i hate such small minds!
Excellent post!
Nice way to justify why voted this way..
I am glad you mentioned the dog tie down…that is the first thing I remember hearing about Mitt-ens—and is enough to be the last. (he won’t shut up though) Your kitty is looking awesome in this post…>^^<
the more I read from you the more seriously devoted to you I become!!!!!!! YOU ROCK, and kitty scratches to Zoey.
In Oregon we vote by mail and I love it. We haven’t received our ballots yet, but I expect they’ll be here any day now. I think this year is another election of voting more against than for – but truly, until our congress gets over its partisanship, does it really matter who’s president? This year, for me, it will be Democrats and women.
I agree, I could never vote for anyone who put their dog or any animal on top of the car like a suitcase. It says a lot about a person. So does “binders of women”. Good for you!
If I could vote for Obama I definitely would! I don’t think they let Australians vote in the US
Bravo Russel, well said. I watched the debate last night and snickered. I think Romney blamed Obama for the price of gas? Why should gov’t control gas prices Mitt, isn’t that socialism??? They do contradict themselves a lot. I can’t imagine not having insurance for so long. Regarding gay marriage…come on, it’s not like the hetro’s are so good at it. More than 1/2 the marriages end in divorce, give me a break.
It’s like some straight allies of gays say, “Hey, if gays want to get married and be miserable like the rest of us, why not?”…………….lol
hehe…or it might be the might bring you even closer than you thought it could? Good luck on election night, I’m cheering for your team!
Hi Russel
Thanks for sharing the video. Truly awful. Was it a joke or what?
Saw bits of the second debate and Obama looked like he had suddenly woken up! Hope he wins. He came in on such a wave of hope and optimism and although in some ways it seems that he did not live up to all the hype, in another he seems like a pretty safe pair of hands and you want them from a Commander in Chief in such a volatile world.
Have a good day.
Corinne
He got absolutely no help from the Republicans. It’s so sad when the Majority Leader of the Senate says on Day 1, “Our only goal is to make sure that Obama is a one-term President.” And they have spent two years striving to reach that goal, 315 other American citizens be damned.
Great post!
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Go Obama!
I, too, am a permanent absentee voter. It IS more fun and easier, cheaper, and cleaner. Did I say cleaner?
Your paragraph about going without health insurance for almost a decade really struck me. Now I get some idea why ObamaCare is such an issue. As a foreigner (Singaporean) who from a far distance occasionally dips into US Presidential Election news when I happen to come across them, I of course can’t make heads or tails. And I can’t invest the time to understand it better, not when I can’t even be bothered to do it to really grasp the politics of my own country. Politics = ugh no.
Most people as they get older turn to religion in the hopes of living into eternity. I figure that when I’m dead, I’m dead. No big deal. Thus as I get older I get more and more involved in politics because I see the injustice that governments and religions espouse in the name of money, greed, power.
That’s very noble of you, Russel. I wish you all the best in your endeavours for justice and equality
Good luck, my friend.
Great post, Russel. P.S. Star Trek Voyager, yes! I keep twinkle lights in my living room year round, and have a little Delta Flyer tree ornament that fits into them. When I turn on the twinkle lights, Captain Janeway greets me in her wonderful husky voice and reminds me that, yes, we are on a mission of peaceful exploration!
Even though my last name was Kirk when I was growing up, and Capt. Kirk was my nickname, Capt. Janeway is my favorite Star Trek captain. She was one of a kind.
I don’t know why Voyager was not embraced more by ST fans. I loved the idea of a woman captain, and I appreciated Janeway as an individual. I also thought the added element of their journey home added interest and complexity to the ongoing story. Someday–maybe for the 75th anniversary, I’ll post the drawings my kids made of Captain Momway!