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VOTER GUIDE FOR ELECTION DAY,  TUESDAY NOVEMBER 6, 2012 Tonight I was watching CNN and I realized I should post a fast and easy voter guide to take the polls on Tuesday. IF THIS VOTER GUIDE SEEMS VERY BASIC, THAT WAS MY GOAL. Elections are complicated. I chose to make this as clear and easy to understand as possible.  I wish I could make it even easier. These are my suggestions for voting if you care about keeping schools and public education strong, our nation safe sound, our people healthy and protect civil liberties.  This is the best way to vote if, like me, you are a Progressive Democrat in Orange County, CA who cares about public safety and a strong eduction. VOTER GUIDE FOR ELECTION DAY,  TUESDAY NOVEMBER 6, 2012 Yes: President Obama Yes: Diane Feinstein Congressmen/woman choices: District 38:  Yes: Linda Sanchez District 39: Yes : Jay Chin District 45:  Yes: Sukhee Kang District 46:  Yes :  Loretta Sanchez District 47:  Yes :  Alan Lowenthal Dis

I'm thinking that if Dickens were around today he would heartily endorse Maher's anti-greed and anti-hypocrisy opinion of our consumption-addicted society. What do you think?

 -- Or, The H1N1 Swine Flu vaccine.  Is it really safe, or not?  --  Swine Flu advice from an occasional "Chicken Little:" Okay, so the truth is, I really do try to keep an open mind to all things alternative and natural. I try to not be a pharmaceutical lemming jumping over the cliff with whatever "new drug" treatment is being offered simply because I'm being told to.  I've learned the hard way to research things first. I really do understand that there are safe and helpful drugs and bad ones which have been rushed to the market and have caused harm.  It's a major problem.   But, not all drugs are dangerous, medications are harmful and all western medicine is corrupt.  All ask is that people keep and open mind about the Swine Flu and make a wise decision. That's why, when I heard there was a city flu clinic last weekend, I stood in line for hours with hundred's of others a

Okay, I'm not proud of this fact, but I love my television shows. And, I can't believe I haven't blogged this before, but I wanted to share what my particular favorite shows are, in case anyone else shares the same addictions and wants to chat about how wonderfully awful they are. First of all there's the reality TV: Celebrity Apprentice, Wife Swap, Trading Spouses, plain old Apprentice, Survivor, Top Chef, Project Runway, I Can't Believe I'm Still Single (Yes, that really is what it's called.) America's Next Top Model, My Life On The D-List, and, as always, for my Friday night date with Pete, we have to watch Bill Maher. As for non -reality TV I adore, love and can't enough of Breaking Bad , Mad Men , Californication, Sex and The City, Extras (love Ricky Gervais) and...gosh, there has to more than that, isn't there? There used to be on HBO, but those dang series shows keep running out of episodes. I'm still really upset about Six Feet U

So, I just came across an Op-Ed piece by Joel Stein in today's Los Angeles Times: Nut allergies -- a Yuppie invention span">Some kids really do have food allergies. But most just have bad reactions to their parents' mass hysteria. Oh, really ??? Well, below is my full response to Mr. Stein's Op-Ed piece, which I tried (unsuccessfully) posting on the LA Times website. Unfortunately, at the time I kept getting an error message stating that it was "too long." Of course, I did have to fight the image of Mr. Stein sitting on the other side of the computer screen shooting down angry responses like rubber ducks at the county fair. I even began "testing" the Los Angeles Times Comment Page by posting far shorter "messages" like: "Dear Mr. Stein, You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch." But even that came back with an error message. However, since none of these visualizations helped my blood pressure, I decided to

I saw Bill Maher last night and his "New Rules" was so absolutely perfect that it had to go into my blog. As always, Bill Maher was entertaining, but he did, however, become quite profound, I thought, with this line: "You know what phrase ( from Republicans ) I do not want to hear used frivolously for the next four years?...'Disrespect for the rule of law." Right, so, we won. They lost, and the ugliness is only getting started. Look what they did to Clinton when he was in power, and all the others like him. -- We have so much work to do, please don't let them pull any evil, distracting, expensive, "Ken Starr" crap, now. Not right now with our planet as seriously in crisis as it is. We have so much work to do. We can't afford to become more divided. Can't we put partisan fighting aside for the sake of our kids? They deserve a better world than, well, the last 8 years provided them with. Palin's whining that she never did anything

I read a wonderful post by Larry David on Huffington Post called Waiting for November 4th , and if you haven't read it already, you really should. He's brilliant and honest about a certain anxiety we all share these days. But I've been thinking about this, and I have to admit it's not November 4th that worries me, it's November 5th. Can you imagine our world on "the day after?" Even if Obama wins, I've lost friends and made neighborhood enemies. For the record, I live in a blue collar section of Orange County, and by now my neighbors hate me, since I've been a visual thorn in their side with my Obama stickers and the like. And then there's just the election-road rage I have to worry about for another week or so. I simply don't know if I can survive the road-rage directed at me here in Orange County for having a "Women for Obama" (and the other three stickers) sticker on my car. I get a lot of people flipping the bird at me