RT @ChristopherFTL: #PaulRyan voted to Ban gun registration & trigger lock law in Washington DC.

RT @HuffPostDC: '"Path to Prosperity?" For Many Senior Citizens, VP Pick Ryan's Plan Would Be Path to the Poorhouse' @wendellpotter

RT @washingtonpost: The U.S. Army logged 38 suicides last month -- twice the number of troops killed in Afghanistan this month.

RT @washingtonpost: Military suicides last month: 38 Army, 26 National Guard (active), 12 National Guard (inactive), 8 Marines

RT @TheFix: David Maraniss on Bill Clinton. Just read it.

RT @asmith83: Even other countries add -gate after scandals: coalgate in India.

RT @BarackObama: 49 days until Election Day—if you’re not registered yet, start here:

I was attacked and hospitalized this year for being gay. My partner was refused from the hospital. He spent the night alone scared *I* might die alone. I did, too. This election year, there is a gentleman asking for your vote who believes we do not deserve equal rights-- including being together in the hospital. In the ever-after. Nor fiscally. I ask you to please not think of your wallets at the ballot, but of your hearts. Could you let your husband die alone? Mitt Romney would say that I deserve to die that way-- and I can't elect him. I hope that you cannot either. If you love me (or love your spouse) I ask that you pause and reflect on morals and compassion. I have never been so scared in my entire life as I was in that night-- alone. Please know that your vote goes beyond laissez-faire notions of capitalism and concerns of modified socialism and hits me directly at home. A vote for Mitt Romney will bolster an opportunity to strip me of civil rights, and I pray that your heart won't allow that. If you can in good conscience and faith elect an official who will allow me to die alone with a catheter but no solace, may peace be with you. I cannot. There is no tax break worth my humanity or my husband's tears. I pray that the reality of that notion means that you cannot either. If it doesn't, however, I wish you a moment of reckoning. Again, may peace be with you.

Yay-merica!!