Tomorrow is Election Day! You will probably not vote, because there are no contested races for anything important in 90% of the nation. But if you are a New Yorker, we have one message: don't vote for Michael Bloomberg.

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Obama Touched The Third Rail! Can Anyone Stop The Old People From Destroying The Country? Poll

Obama apparently can't. He touched the "third rail." He tried to reform old people's health care. They've risen up. They've ruined his Presidency. He's now doomed.

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In late July, President Obama recounted a letter from a woman who told him, "I don't want government-run health care, I don't want socialized medicine, and don't touch my Medicare." The president chuckled. "That's what Medicare is," he protested at an AARP town hall.

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Golly, it sure is heartwarming how conservatives everywhere are suddenly discovering a deep concern for the well-being of senior citizens.

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More than 50 million retirees can expect to receive $250 payments from the government in the next few weeks as their share of the economic stimulus package enacted in February.

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Why Do Old People Not Like Movies Made After 1939?

This is a followup to some comments I may or may not have typed here on Newsvine.

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Police in Japan are struggling to control a crime wave carried out by the most unlikely of criminal fraternities: the elderly.

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Fireworks. It's nearly that time of the year again.

Fireworks were originally invented by the Chinese for entertainment purposes, as a natural extension of the Chinese invention of gunpowder.

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Obama Campaign Desperate, Getting Mean; Has No Bearings; Will Lose

Americans don't like desperate politicians. This is one fundamental reason Obama's new campaign strategy of hitting harder, being meaner, etc., is going to backfire. Americans want a candidate who is going to stand up against the government, in favor of the American people.

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Aging can be a cruel process. You get liver spots. You slow down. You start hurting everywhere. You take more pills than Janis Joplin in her prime.

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Obama Trying To Scare Seniors Into Voting For Him

Obama is at it again. He is out telling members of AARP that John McCain is out to get them.

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We need about $41 trillion today to fund currently promised benefits for old people

This figure is from the Government Accounting Office. You can read the report here:

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Looking back on the last few years of my mother's life, with 20/20 hindsight and the belated knowledge that came from four years of reporting about aging for The New York Times, my single biggest mistake was not finding a doctor with expertise in geriatrics to quarterback her c …

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A convenience store became an unwilling drive-in when a 74-year-old woman plowed her car through the front window and then tried to buy a six-pack of Budweiser, police and the owner said.

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Obama And Old People

Man, I sure would like change in the poliical world.

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Hello, my name is John McCain, and I would like to be your next President. I am currently a United States Senator from Arizona, where I have been serving my constituents since 1879.

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US Republican John McCain has threatened to get his 95-year-old mum on to actor Chuck Norris for saying he is too old to be president. "I'm going to send my 95-year-old mother to just go over and wash Chuck Norris' mouth out with soap," Senator McCain said at a new conference.

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CHICAGO, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Researchers have developed a simple blood test that may be able to predict whether mild lapses of memory could be an early sign of Alzheimer's disease.

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Councils have made it harder for the elderly to stay in their own homes by increasing charges for basic support services such as shopping and laundry.

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I quote from Bill from Portland Maine: Republicans: We Need Your Greatness Now

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Facchiano, who will be 97 on March 10, also was named in a New York indictment accusing him of trying in to locate and intimidate a government witness in 2005.

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HONG KONG (Reuters) - A 107-year-old Hong Kong villager, who still enjoys an occasional smoke, has attributed his longevity in part to decades of sexual abstinence, a newspaper said on Sunday.

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BURLY Stephen Drake peers nervously from behind his curtains to check that the coast is clear. It's a precaution the shaven-headed 36-year-old insists on taking before he will even consider venturing outside his home.

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There is a report of a US Government study in to the use of anti-psychotic drugs in today's (Thursday) Washington Post as well. It does seem a bit of a scandal how drug companies have flogged their wares around the world.

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Faith and spirituality were cited most often by people over the age of 100 as the source of their longevity, according to a survey sponsored by a unit of UnitedHealth Group.

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