Happy 43rd Birthday, Sesame Street! As my husband said when I mentioned that he shared his birthday with this wonderful crew, "Big Bird has an extra reason to celebrate. He's not going to be Thanksgiving dinner." Today my husband's celebrates his 65th birthday and officially becomes one of Mitt Romney's 47% by qualifying to start being covered by Medicare. Thank you to
Million Puppet March for the heads up that the Muppets are celebrating a special day.
Another reason to celebrate today is that Florida finally finished counting the votes from Tuesday's election today. Okay, not so much a reason to celebrate as it is a national embarrassment. We have to do something to make sure this never happens again! That's why I started a new group, which I introduced in this diary: “Do You Know Why We Vote on Tuesday?” Please join me in creating a stream of diaries to fight to make sure that the long lines, voter registration fraud, and voter suppression we witnessed here in Florida and in other states this year, never happens again.