What’s news today?

How about this? I know it’s important that these people get to use their right to vote, but how do you prevent fraud with this method? And does it really give them enough time, especially if they are still without power?

From the AP

“New Jersey will allow residents displaced by Superstorm Sandy to vote by email or fax.

Officials announced Saturday that registered voters can vote electronically. A resident must submit a mail-in ballot application by fax or email to the local county clerk.

When the request is received, a ballot will be emailed or faxed back. Ballots must be returned no later than 8 p.m. Tuesday.”

Mayor Bloomberg got a surprise, while making a surprise visit.

From the NYPost

“Storm-ravaged and weary Rockaways residents cornered Mayor Bloomberg yesterday to angrily demand more aid for their devastated neighborhood.

“When are we gonna get some help?” blasted one desperate woman, who had to be held back by the mayor’s security detail as Bloomberg stood by with a deer-in-the-headlights look.

“When are we gonna get some (censored) help?” she demanded.

“There’s old ladies in my building that don’t got nothing,” lashed out a man on video caught by a NY1 reporting crew.

Bloomberg’s trip to the Rockaways wasn’t announced and wouldn’t have been caught on cameras if the news crew hadn’t happened to run across him. Back in City Hall, he expressed sympathy with the residents’ plight.”

Meanwhile, the President continues his regulatory assault on the economy, and of course he’s got to hide it.

From the Daily Caller.

“Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act, the president is required by law to submit  his regulatory agenda to Congress twice a year, in April and October. The report  is required to include every economically significant regulation in the  pipeline. This year, April came and went and the legally required report wasn’t  filed.”

“Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) last week politely asked President Obama to follow  the law: “I request you comply with the law and publish the federal government’s  regulatory calendar this month. Businesses and communities need to understand  the future regulatory landscape in order to properly plan and invest in the  economy.””

“The reply? None.”

“We don’t know exactly how big the regulatory bomb is going to be because of  Obama’s illegal secrecy, but an estimate from the National Federation of  Independent Business of some of the known rules clocks in at over $515  billion in economic costs. That estimate doesn’t even include an expected ban on  coal-fired power plants whose costs could run into the trillions.”

The Soro’s funded Center for American Progress is targeting the military again. Given Obama’s fondness for groups like these and their recommendations, and his attacks on TriCare already, this should make military members a little nervous. The DoD will bow to whatever methods Obama proposes.

From AirForceTimes.com

“The Center for American Progress calls for capping pay raises, eliminating military health benefits for many retirees who are covered by an employer-provided plan, and reducing the value of military retired pay as well as making retirees wait until age 60 to start receiving it.

Recommendations are included in a report, Rebalancing Our National Security, released Oct. 31 by the progressive think tank and advocacy group. The report opposes across-the-board cuts in defense spending that could occur beginning in January under sequestration but still calls for major reductions in defense spending.”

“Similarly, the report endorses many of the Defense Department’s proposals for cutting health care costs by raising fees, mostly on retirees and their families. But the report goes a step further: “To truly restore the Tricare program to stable financial footing, the Defense Department should enact measures to reduce the overutilization of medical services and limit double coverage of working-age military retirees,” the report says.”

But don’t worry, the Redskin Rule says Romney wins!

From the Daily Caller.

“The Washington Redskins lost to the Carolina Panthers 21-13 on Sunday — meaning, if the past is any guide, that Mitt Romney will win the presidential  election on Tuesday.

The  so-called “Redskins Rule” predicts that, if the visiting team  defeats the Redskins in their last home game before Election Day, the incumbent  party will lose the White House. If the Redskins win the game, according to the  legend, the incumbent party will prevail.

The rule has held true since 1940, though it was amended in 2004 to define  the “incumbent party” as the party that won the popular vote in the previous  presidential election.”

Now I’ll sleep better tonight. Or not. Probably not.

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What’s news today?

I’m on news overload now.

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I had a lot to catch up on.

Some interesting things out of Jersey. I’m sure insurance companies will question the legality of this.

From NJ.gov

“Christie Administration Takes Action to Protect Storm-Impacted New Jersey Homeowners from Higher Insurance Deductibles”

“Taking action to save homeowners money following Hurricane Sandy, Governor Chris Christie signed Executive Order 107, prohibiting insurance companies from imposing costly hurricane deductibles on New Jersey homeowners. An important part of the recovery of New Jersey will be the influx of funds that occurs when insurers settle claims by New Jersey homeowners. This action will increase the total size of the payments made by the insurance industry, helping residents rebuild their homes and speed New Jersey’s path to recovery.

“We need to ensure that homeowners are not forced to pay higher out of pocket costs than required as they begin the rebuilding and repair process,” said Governor Christie. “While Hurricane Sandy was a devastating storm, it did not meet the regulatory threshold to trigger the application of hurricane deductibles by insurance companies in New Jersey. This executive order makes it clear that consumers do not have to pay these unusually large and often unexpected amounts.””

Also this, from CBS. Gas rationing has been ordered.

“Christie ordered odd-even fuel sales to help ease shortages and long gas lines that have occurred since Sandy decimated the coast earlier this week.

LINK: Read The Executive Order From Gov. Christie

Residents with license plates ending in an odd number can make gas purchases on odd-numbered days of the month Residents with plates ending in an even number will be able to buy gas on even-numbered days, the governor said.”

In New York, it’s even worse.

From CBS

“Staten Island residents are furious. They feel that in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy they’ve been ignored and left to fend for themselves.”

“You hope that the government does the right thing and steps in and helps us out. We have been looking for FEMA, [but] FEMA has not been here,” Hannula said.”

And it may actually get worse yet. From NBC

“Millions trying to recover from Superstorm Sandy were not getting much cooperation from Mother Nature: Lows this weekend were set to dip into the 30s, an issue for elderly and others without power, while a nor’easter winter storm is possibly on its way.”

“On top of the cold, the National Weather Service’s prediction center, in a Friday update, cited the “potential for a nor’easter along the Atlantic Coast next Wednesday and Thursday.””

Sadly, the death toll in the US from the storm continues to rise.

Also from NBC

“The death toll in the United States from Superstorm Sandy rose to 109 victims on Friday, as Pennsylvania reported four additional deaths and New York City reported two more fatalities. Mayor Michael Bloomberg warned: “There could be more fatalities.”

“Two bodies were recovered Friday on Staten Island. The toll in the nation’s largest city is now 41 deaths, according to the governor’s office. However, the New York Police Department had reported 40 deaths in the city.”

In other news……

If there’s nothing to hide, then why hide it?

From The DC

“Pelosi holds secret fundraiser with Islamists, Hamas-linked groups”

“Democratic leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi headlined a high-dollar fundraiser in May  that was attended by U.S.-based Islamist groups and individuals linked by the  U.S. government to the Hamas jihad group and to the Egypt-based Muslim  Brotherhood movement.

The donors at the undisclosed May 16 event included Nihad Awad, the  co-founder of the Council on American Islamic Relations, according to data provided by the nonpartisan  Investigative Project on Terrorism.”

On this one, liberals hardest hit by the news. Now they need a new meme.

From The Baltimore Sun

“But here’s one of several fascinating smaller findings of the study that are kind of stunning — even if they seem obvious and ho-hum to some of my more jaded, postmodern, aren’t-we-cleverly-ironic colleagues:

ON MSNBC, the ratio of negative to positive stories on GOP candidate Mitt Romney was 71 to 3.

That’s not a news channel. That’s a propaganda machine, and owner Comcast should probably change Phil Griffin’s title from president to high minister of information, or something equally befitting the work of a party propagandist hack in a totalitarian regime. You wonder how mainstream news organizations allow their reporters and correspondents to appear in such a cauldron of bias.”

Here’s the PEW/Journalism.org piece.

And lastly, wishful thinking?

From HotAir

“Michael Barone’s prediction: Romney 315, Obama 223”

“I can’t find an electoral-vote prediction from him in 2008 but on October 30th of that year he acknowledged that an Obama victory was “likely but not quite certain.” Karl Rove did, however, make an EV prediction: Obama 338, McCain 200. This year Rove has Romney winning at least 279 electoral votes and Barone has him catching a red wave in the midwest and surfing all the way to 315.

Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and Ohio, oh my:”

Oh my indeed!

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