In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Kerry's FIRST draft concession speechMy fellow Americans, the people of this nation have spoken, and spoken with a clear voice. So I am here to offer my concession.Angry humor aside. We (blue america [and we really are blue these days]) are just stunned because we just got it so wrong.
I concede that I overestimated the intelligence of the American people. Though the people disagree with the President on almost every issue, you saw fit to vote for him.
I never saw that coming.
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I concede that I put too much faith in America's youth. With 8 out of 10 of you opposing the President, and with your friends and classmates dying daily in a war you disapprove of. With your future being mortgaged to pay for rich old peoples' tax breaks, you somehow managed to sit on your asses and watch the Cartoon Network while aging homophobic hillbillies carried the day. You voted with the exact same anemic percentage that you did in 2000.
You suck.
Seriously, you do.
There are some that may say that I sound bitter, and that now is the time for healing, and to bring the nation together.
We in blue states produce the vast majority of the wealth in this country and pay the most taxes, and you in the red states receive the majority of the money from those taxes while complaining about 'em.
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Blue state civilians are the actual victims and targets of the war on terror, while red state civilians are the ones standing behind us and yelling "Oh, yeah? Bring it on!"
The election wasn't about Iraq, Halliburton, the economy, mendacity, competence, or our liberties. It was about a war, a war the blue states didn't even catch on to the fact that we were fighting it (not really). It was the cultural war. Though the folks in the red states watch "wife swap" or "friends" just as much as those in the blue states, they feel angry that they had the option to watch it. They want that to end. They watch "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" but they want the cast to be behind bars. They don't see a separation between church and state they see a union. It is the only marriage that isn't between a guy and a gal that they are okay with.
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Excellent Post
Daily Kos :: Ohio Provisional Ballots, Recounts, and Fraud [UPDATED]
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O' Canada
Americans flock to Canada's immigration Web siteOTTAWA (Reuters) - The number of U.S. citizens visiting Canada's main immigration Web site has shot up six-fold as Americans flirt with the idea of abandoning their homeland after President George W. Bush's election win this week.
"When we looked at the first day after the election, November 3, our Web site hit a new high, almost double the previous record high," immigration ministry spokeswoman Maria Iadinardi said on Friday.
On an average day some 20,000 people in the United States log onto the Web site, www.cic.gc.ca -- a figure which rocketed to 115,016 on Wednesday. The number of U.S. visits settled down to 65,803 on Thursday, still well above the norm.
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I'm Shocked! Shocked I say!!!
From AP (just so you know we aren't paranoid): Machine Error Gives Bush Extra Ohio VotesCOLUMBUS, Ohio - An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus, elections officials said.But besides that these machines worked flawlessly.
Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast ballots in that precinct. Bush's total should have been recorded as 365.
Bush won the state by more than 136,000 votes, according to unofficial results, and Kerry conceded the election on Wednesday after saying that 155,000 provisional ballots yet to be counted in Ohio would not change the result.
Besides, the machines were just doing God's work. You ever hear of Ghost in the Machine? That's just God... and he wants you to vote for Bush, and if you don't, he'll do it for ya anyway.
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(thanks to phunkster J)
DSA! DSA! DSA!
a newly divided AmericaWorldly America, which of course John Kerry won by a massive landslide, faces, well, the world on its Pacific and Atlantic coasts and freely engages, commercially and culturally, with Asia and Europe in the easy understanding that those continents are a dynamic synthesis of ancient cultures and modern social and economic practices. This truism is unthreatening to Worldly America, not least because so many of its people, in the crowded cities, are themselves products of the old-new ways of Korea, Japan, Ireland or Italy. In Worldly America - in San Francisco, Chicago, San Diego, New York - the foreigner is not an anxiety, but rather a necessity. Its America is polycultural, not Pollyanna.
Godly America, on the other hand, rock-ribbed in Dick Cheney's Wyoming, stretched out just as far as it pleases in Dubya's deeply drilled Texas, turns its back on that dangerous, promiscuous, impure world and proclaims to high heaven the indestructible endurance of the American Difference. If Worldly America is, beyond anything else, a city, a street, and a port, Godly America is, at its heart (the organ whose bidding invariably determines its votes over the cooler instructions of the head), a church, a farm and a barracks; places that are walled, fenced and consecrated. Worldly America is about finding civil ways to share crowded space, from a metro-bus to the planet; Godly America is about making over space in its image. One America makes room, the other America muscles in.
Worldly America is pragmatic, practical, rational and sceptical. In California it passed Proposition 71, funding embryonic stem cell research beyond the restrictions imposed by Bush's federal policy. Godly America is mythic, messianic, conversionary, given to acts of public witness, hence the need - in Utah and Montana and a handful of other states - to poll the voters on amendments to their state constitution defining marriage as a union between the opposite sexes. But then Worldly America is said to feed the carnal vanities; Godly America banishes and punishes them. From time to time Godly America will descend on the fleshpots of Worldly America, from Gotham (it had its citadel-like Convention there after all) to Californication, will shop for T-shirts, take a sniff at the local pagans and then return to base-camp more convinced than ever that a time of Redemption and Repentance must be at hand.
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You know a lot a people voted for Bush because they were scared about gay marriage.- Thursday, November 04, 2004 -
And what is the first thing I hear Bush is chanting over and over? Man Date! Man Date! Man Date!
He finally came out of the closet I thought... but then I realized he was just under the illusion that all of America was behind him or something.
Well there is already a site to remind him That it is:
Not a Mandate
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Bush seems to be under the belief that having one of the worst reelection percentages in US History is a mandate.
Bush seems to have confused his being reelected President with being elected "Dictator for Life."
President Holds Press ConferenceWith the campaign over, Americans are expecting a bipartisan effort and results. I'll reach out to everyone who shares our goals.Wha? He'll work with anyone who already agrees with him?!?THE PRESIDENT: Now that I've got the will of the people at my back, I'm going to start enforcing the one-question rule. That was three questions. (Laughter.)He wasn't joking.Listen, thank you all. I look forward to working with you. I've got a question for you. How many of you are going to be here for a second term? Please raise your hand. (Laughter.)Oh Good Golly, our class President is going to have a lot of fun.
Good. Gosh, we're going to have a lot of fun, then. Thank you all.
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The "What The...?" heard round the world
The New York Times > A Blue City (Disconsolate, Even) Bewildered by a Red America
How George Bush's victory catapaulted liberal Britain into collective depression
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Ashcroft Likely to Leave AG Post
He is believed to be the first inline for the new "Secretary of God" cabinet position.
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Moral Values
You can do coke, drink, get engaged to a Jewish woman and then dump her because your family doesn't want a jew in the family, you can neglect your wife and children until you are forty because you are a drunk, you can drive while drunk putting the lives of innocents in danger...
but then you can find god and become a born again Christian and all that is washed away.
You can then lie and cheat your way into the highest office of the country (and thus become the most powerful person in the world) and then you can lie to get our nation into war and destroy the careers of those who may disagree with you, you can put the future of the country in danger with an insanely huge deficit, you can cynically use people's faith as a campaign tool when you really could care less (gay marriage... which I understand just means happy marriage)...
but then you can be reelected and become a born again President and all that is washed away.
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Thanks to Phunkster J: Better electoral map
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A Modest Proposal
7 New Nations to replace the current two nations that make up the United States:Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, Etc. would also become full sovereign nations.
- The Elitist States of America: The North East and Great Lake States, along with Newfoundland, Prince Edward's Island, Mew Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Ontario.
Can't you just hear the chants of "ESA! ESA!" at international chess championships and spelling bees?
- Surrounded by the ESA is the independent country of Quebec.
- The Saved States of America: The American Midwest along with Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.
I was thinking of calling it The American Saved States... but that is because I was just letting my sadness turn to anger, for which I am sooo sorry. I know and love many people in the SSA, sorry for even thinking of that.
- The Confederate States of America: The South (obviously).
- Ecotopia: British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, and much of Nevada.
- Northern Exposure: Alaska, Yukon, and the some of the Northwest Territories.
- Nunavut: The Inuits get full sovereignty ("which means you are sovereign").
Imagine the decrease in international tensions. Imagine the destruction of the monolithic military industry. Imagine the economic boost to Rand McNally!
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More from Britain:
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The view from the UK:- Wednesday, November 03, 2004 -
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Bushwa
bush, n. 1. A shrub; esp., a thick, densely branched shrub or cluster of shrubs; also, a thorn. 2. a Obs. A thicket, grove, or clump of bushes, esp. one used as an ambush. b A stretch of uncultivated country, esp. of woodland or land covered with shrubby vegetation; as, to live or settle in the bush. Hence, the country, or rural districts as opposed to town or city; the "sticks." Also, specif.: Australia. The vast area or areas of arid scrub-covered country distinctive of certain interior districts. 3. a A shrub or branch prop., a branch of ivy (perhaps as sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign. b A tavern sign or, Obs., the tavern itself. 4. A bushlike mass, as of hair, foliage, or feathers.
bush, v. i. To butt.
bush baby. Any of several small African lemurs of the genus Galago.
bush bean. A dwarf variety of bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).
bushbeater, n. A bushwhacker.
bush cinquefoil. A much-branched shrub (Dasiphora fruticosa) with compound leaves and yellow flowers, common through the North Temperate Zone, often as a weed.
bush disease. Veter. = CREEPS. New Zealand.
busher, n. Logging. A swamper.
busher, n. Baseball. A bush leaguer; -- used contemptuously.
bushfighting, n. Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.
bush goat. A bushbuck.
bushhammer, v.t., To dress with a bushhammer.
bush hook. A brush hook; a bill.
bushland, n. The bush. See 1st BUSH.
bush lawyer. See NEW ZEALAND BRAMBLE: A leafless prickly bramble . . . . It forms impenetrable thickets, and is also called wait-a-bit.
bushman's poison = ORDEAL TREE (Acocanthera venenata); a poisonous shrub.
bush marrow. A variety of squash with a bushy habit.
bushmaster, n. A snake (Lachesis mutus) . . . , the largest venemous species in the New World. It reaches a length of twelve feet and has more venom than any other pit viper, 350 milligrams having been extracted at one time from a single snake. It is the only member of the Crotalidae known to produce, not living young, but eggs, laid in the burrows of other creatures.
bushment, n. 1. An ambuscade. 2. A bushy mass.
Bush Negro. = BOSCHNEGER: A Negro living in the unsettled wilds and leading the primitive life of the Indians in the region.
bush pig. The BOSCHVARK: a wild hog.
bush poppy: A Californian shrub.
bush pumpkin: A variety of pumpkin in which the plant remains compact and does not become a vine.
bushranger, n. A highwayman.
bush rat = WOOD RAT.
bushrope, n. = LIANA.
bush scythe. A scythe having a short, thick, heavy blade, for cutting bushes.
bush sickness = BUSH DISEASE.
bush soul. Anthropol. Among some primitive peoples, that one of a man's several souls which inhabits some animal wild in the bush.
bush swamp. Ecology. A plant association, found in wet places, dominated by shrubs or low trees. It is common in the southeastern United States.
bush tit. Any small bird of the genus Psaltriparus, allied to the titmouse. There is a single species in North America, the grayish-brown P. minimus of the Pacific coast from British Columbia to Lower California, and several races, including the lead-colored bush tit, (P. m. plumbeus) of the arid interior from Wyoming to western Texas, and the black-eared bush tit (P. m. melanotis) of Guatemala and Mexico, represented in the southwestern United States by Lloyd's bush tit (P. m. Lloydii).
bush vetch. A European purple-flowered vetch with slender stems, occurring as a weed in hedgerows.
bushwa, n. Bodewash; esp., Low Slang, bosh; trash.
bushwhack, v.i. & t. To act, esp. to attack or fight, as a bushwhacker does. U.S.
-- From Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, unabridged, with Reference History, 1936
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Out of the ashes, I gleaned a few particles of clarity:
- There can be no crying foul the next four years about a stolen election. I didn’t like who won – or how he won – but Bush did win. And, going by the popular vote, decisively.
- The final nail has been put into the coffin of the 60s cultural revolution. Liberals lost. We won some good battles . . . 40 years ago . . . but we’ve lost almost all that territory since.
- The Democrats are – at least for the time being – the minority party. More importantly, they are not a national party and need to either embrace that or figure out how to change it.
- It appears abundantly clear that the next democratic president will require a Perot-like conservative to split the Republican party. The votes just aren’t there otherwise.
- The liberal media does not exist anymore. If it did, Bush would not be in office. Liberals and democrats need to stop thinking the media will give them a few ride.
Where to go from here? The Democratic Party needs to figure out how to address “faith/values”. It does not need to appropriate stances from the Republicans, but it does need to frame its cultural values around religion/faith rather than enlightenment rationalism. More important, the Dem elites need to stop ignoring religion or disparaging religion or both. In a country where 33% of people are evangelical, it is all but suicide for liberals in the Democratic Party to look down their noses at those who define much of themselves through their religious faith.
Democrats need to get better with messaging. Part of this problem lies in the particular candidate representing the party, but part of it is institutional – the democrats represent too many competing interests. And while that is good for governance, it’s awful for electability. Representing lots of interests gives the Republicans ample targets to point to when listing why the Democrats are bad for America. For a while it was the teachers unions, or unions in general. Even despite the Department of Homeland Security, democrats are still associated with big government programs. The democrats are attacked as being the party of trial lawyers. Of gun restriction. Of trade protectionism. There exist all these interests in the party, and they’re not disciplined. Republicans represent a far narrower band of interests, and those interests have traditionally been more aligned. Now there are conflicts between the religious base and the economic conservatives, but while only ½ of that truly scares left, there’s something in the Democratic party to scare everyone on the right. This means the Democrats have to consider narrowing their interests in order to attract more supporters. And, perhaps most difficult, it needs to stop looking outside out borders for justification on issues. The countries of Western Europe will not help the left in presenting its case because Western Europe is seen as “godless” largely because they shrink away from outward displays of religious conviction the same way liberal elites do.
The left needs to stop hoping the media will point out hypocrisy, lies, distortions, etc. Equally important, the left needs to seriously curtail their own hypocrisy, lies, distortion, etc. It needs to generate a cleaner, more streamlined worldview to present to the public – back to messaging – and one which is seeped in concretes but also appeals to “faith/values”.
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Let's all step back for a second and go back 25 years into the past and discuss the future.
Taken from (and with thanks) an excellent post at Daily Kos :: Re-reading Toffler's 3rd waveAlvin Toffler wrote The Third Wave in 1979, 25 years ago. We should be re-reading it now. It is the last of his three books which explained future trends, and the waves were a metaphor for huge changes in human society--the first wave being the wave of the agricultural society; the second, industrialization, and the third, the technological. Toffler describes the coming super-struggle where relationships will be restructured, including families, corporations, communications, and politics. He explains that two basic camps of political development will emerge--a Second Wave civilization dedicated to preserving the core of society such as the nuclear family, the giant corporation, and the politics of a pseudorepresentative government and the Third Wavers which recognizes that the problems of the world such as poverty, energy, and the breakdown of family relationships cannot be salvaged in the frame of the Second Wave world. He talks about a time when the two camps will sharply divide.
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This may be the time we are now entering. He says that the Second Wave defenders will fight against minorities, resist diversity, preach the nuclear family, and put down concerns about the environment. He also says that the most dangerous part of the coming battle is in the political realm...he says, too, that these changes will not come in a single climatic moment, but will take place over decades and involve thousands of innovations. If Second Wave groups resist change and are shortsighted and unimaginative, the risks of violence will be escalated.
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Here we are, caught between the Second and Third Wave at a time in history that may change, improve, or even destroy humanity. Politics on the Internet is clearly one of the innovations that Toffler foresaw.
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Instant Karma for Americans: Oil Jumps on Bush Win, Supplies SwellNEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices rose on Wednesday as the re-election of President Bush countered a big increase in spare oil supplies ahead of winter.
Traders said a Bush victory could bolster fuel demand and underscore anxiety over the security of Middle East supply.
U.S. light crude (CLc1) was up 93 cents at $50.55 a barrel, climbing back over the psychological $50 mark after settling below it for the first time in a month on election day. Brent crude (LCOc1) was up 60 cents at $47.15 a barrel.
A second Bush administration would likely continue filling U.S. emergency oil stockpiles despite high prices and could stoke nerves about U.S. policy in the Middle East, particularly OPEC's second-biggest producer Iran, dealers said.
"A Bush victory will be big for oil demand and keep prices high," said Phil Flynn, an analyst at Alaron Trading in Chicago. "Not only will the SPR be filled, but I think they may expand it."
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A Bush supporter tries to gather up international support for Jeb's 2008 run: 'Come Bite Me!' Right...TAIPEI (Reuters) - A man leaped into a lion's den at the Taipei Zoo on Wednesday to try to convert the king of beasts to Christianity, but was bitten in the leg for his efforts.
"Jesus will save you!" the 46-year-old man shouted at two African lions lounging under a tree a few meters away.
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Now that we know the era of Bush continues, why not continue to get wonderful Bush era articles posted?
Insurgents Blow Up an Iraqi Oil PipelineBAGHDAD, Iraq, Wednesday, Nov. 3 - Insurgents blew up a northern oil export pipeline on Tuesday, dealing a severe blow to the national economy, even as car bombs and gun battles across the country left at least 12 Iraqis dead, Iraqi officials said.
The sabotage of the northern oil pipeline forced a shutdown of crude oil exports to a port in Turkey, Iraqi officials said. The pipeline pumps out 400,000 barrels a day of crude oil and is the frequent target of sabotage.
Hours after the explosion, firefighters were still battling the pipeline blaze near the city of Kirkuk, where pipelines run from oil fields west to the country's largest refinery in Bayji and north to Turkey.
An Iraqi oil official in Baghdad told The Associated Press that the amount of crude oil in storage at the port of Ceyhan in Turkey was down to four million barrels, half of the port's storage capacity.
The attacks on oil pipelines near Kirkuk and around Basra in the south, where the oil fields are much more extensive, have sharply cut into Iraq's main economic hope. American and Iraqi officials are relying on steady oil exports to help revive the stagnant economy in a country where the unemployment rate hovers at 60 percent.
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Well... I guess the good news for us here at TCS is that we don't have to do a damn thing to the ThisCenturySucks.com Store to keep it current.
Okay, I admit that is pretty weak good news. Sorry.
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- Tuesday, November 02, 2004 -Well that didn't work out well - did it?
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Walking the walk on family valuesPRESIDENT Bush and Vice President Cheney make reference to "Massachusetts liberals" as if they were referring to people with some kind of disease. I decided it was time to do some research on these people, and here is what I found.Now the site lists reasons as to why, but, besides the northeast having more Catholics, the reasons are all about age of marriage, income, and education. But those sound like liberal concerns?
The state with the lowest divorce rate in the nation is Massachusetts. At latest count it had a divorce rate of 2.4 per 1,000 population, while the rate for Texas was 4.1.
But don't take the US government's word for it. Take a look at the findings from the George Barna Research Group. George Barna, a born-again Christian whose company is in Ventura, Calif., found that Massachusetts does indeed have the lowest divorce rate among all 50 states. More disturbing was the finding that born-again Christians have among the highest divorce rates.
The Associated Press, using data supplied by the US Census Bureau, found that the highest divorce rates are to be found in the Bible Belt. The AP report stated that "the divorce rates in these conservative states are roughly 50 percent above the national average of 4.2 per thousand people." The 10 Southern states with some of the highest divorce rates were Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas. By comparison nine states in the Northeast were among those with the lowest divorce rates: Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Could it just be that believing you are saved doesn't in any way shape of form give you a better life? That that is really still up to you. It seems those who preach the sanctity of marriage practice it the least.
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Bush did have a success in his war on terror. The arrest of the suspects for the attack on the USS Cole in October 2000.
Ooops: 10 USS Cole suspects escape Yemeni jailSANAA: Ten Yemenis suspected of involvement in the deadly October 2000 attack on the USS Cole escaped from a jail Friday in the southern port of Aden, local authorities said.
The men broke out of a window around 5:00 am (0200 GMT) and the jailers realized about an hour later that they were gone, said the officials, who requested anonymity.
Among those who escaped was Jamal Badawi, one of the principal suspects held over the attack, which killed 17 US sailors and was claimed by Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda terrorist network.
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Speaking of Voter Fraud, however ...
Maybe I shouldn't be so enamored of my "beloved" Shoup machine after all, according to
this report (Thanks to phunkster M:
"Unfortunately, the mechanism of a lever voting machine maintains no
independent record of each voter's ballot. Instead, the only record of
a vote is the count maintained on the mechanical register behind each
voting lever, where each register has a mechanism comparable to the
odometer in a car. Not only is this vulnerable to tampering by the
technicians who maintain the machine, but it means that the machine
has an immense number of moving parts that are subject to wear and
very difficult to completely test.
"Roy G. Saltman has noted that the number 99 shows up in the vote
totals on lever machines significantly more frequently than would be
expected if vote totals were randomly distributed -- that is, the
number of 99's is noticably different from the number of 98's or
100's. The probable explanation is that it takes more force to turn
the vote counting wheels in a lever machine from 99 to 100, and
therefore, if the counter is going to jam, it is more likely to jam at
99. The fact that this is a frequent occurance in vote totals reported
from lever machines is empirical evidence that the lever machines that
have been used in real elections are, in fact, inadequately maintained
and that this results in the loss of a significant number of votes.
Exhaustive pre-election testing would be expected to detect these
jams, but exhaustive testing of a mechanism as complex as a lever
voting machine is very time consuming, and performing such tests on
every voting machine prior to every election would be prohibitively
expensive."
OK, even though I doubt New York is going to Bush, the president isn't the only person being elected here. It does, however, beat having rotgut liquor poured down your gullet and being dragged through the streets by invidious political operators to vote again and again and again and finally left for dead in the gutter, like they did to poor Edgar Poe. Come to think of it, we haven't come very far at all.
So much for hopeful!
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Leaving aside for the moment Voter Fraud ...
Somebody just told me that his father said, re TCS, "What happened to Michael? He seems ... hopeful."
This is my reply:
I just this minute got back from voting (I don't care what anyone says, I LOVE the Shoup machines -- they're all I ever voted on) and yeah, I am -- although I wouldn't push it. This is gonna be a long, long day.
I figure it this way: If Kerry wins, it's a vindication that a majority of Americans may actually choose their president, which will have a huge beneficial psychological effect not only on those who voted for Gore in the last election, but for the entire rest of the world, which is watching this one with bated breath. It means the institutions of our system of government -- though badly damaged and having taken repeated fundamental blows by those who mean it harm -- is still intact, and that our Constitution may yet survive and the rule of law continued -- even if he won't be allowed to govern (which he won't).
If Bush wins -- a president who, by his own admission, takes his direct orders from an invisible man in the sky and who ardently believes in Armageddon and is utterly capable of delivering it in the next four years -- then America's constitutional democracy and the rule of law don't matter much in the overall scheme of things, do they?
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Fox News didn't realize the "gift" was addressed to Bush (see below)
Angry over on-air remark, adviser threatens a banDES MOINES -- John Sasso, a senior adviser to John F. Kerry's presidential campaign, threatened to ban Fox News staff from the candidate's plane Friday night when Fox initially refused to apologize for a talk show host's comment that a new videotape showed Osama bin Laden with a Kerry button.
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After the videotape of bin Laden was widely broadcast Friday afternoon, a Republican guest on Cavuto's show said the Al Qaeda leader's criticisms of President Bush amounted to ''an endorsement" of Kerry. A second guest objected, saying, ''I don't think he's going to have a Kerry-Edwards sticker in the cave."
Chimed in Cavuto: ''He's all but doing that. I thought I saw a button."
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Osama's "little gift" for George
See tape as boost for PrezBin Laden popping up like a malignant jack-in-the-box four days before the balloting may bolster John Kerry's argument that Bush should have finished wiping out Al Qaeda before turning his attention to Iraq.Osama and gift shouldn't be used in the same sentence.
But it also refocused the nation on terrorism, which polls show helps Bush. And it reminds voters of their horror on Sept. 11 and Bush's well-received response, as well as obliterating the recent flood of bad news for Bush.
"We want people to think 'terrorism' for the last four days," said a Bush-Cheney campaign official. "And anything that raises the issue in people's minds is good for us."
A senior GOP strategist added, "anything that makes people nervous about their personal safety helps Bush."
He called it "a little gift," saying it helps the President but doesn't guarantee his reelection.
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KERRY'S MAGIC SHIELD
Truth has a way of biting off your ass and feeding it to you whole, all at once, without even a two-minute warning. Some people know this -- including, I suspect, John Kerry, whom I hope manages to govern by this credo.
But we might have to eat our asses first.
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BUSH'S MAGIC SWORD
People need to be lied to -- in fact, they demand it -- because people can't stand hearing the truth. Anyone caught uttering anything resembling truth will be shouted down, ridiculed, stopped up, denigrated, and finally accused of having lied, and therefore a dangerous menace. That person will not be tolerated and will be considered a threat to America -- most of all, by George Bush, who lives by this credo.
- Michael 3:40 PM - [PermaLink] -
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Republicans for Kerry are too numerous to mention, but here's a couple of interesting ones:
Bob Smith picks Kerry over Bush
Former senator shocks RepublicansFormer U.S. senator Bob Smith, who's waved a plastic fetus to protest abortion and briefly left the GOP when it grew too liberal for him, has endorsed . . . Democratic Sen. John Kerry for president. Given their many differences, it seems enough that they both oppose President Bush.Here's some other endorsements from Republicans you might want to read: Even Republicans Fear Bush
"I believe President Bush had failed our country and my party (on Iraq and federal spending)," Smith wrote to Kerry this week. "I will do all I can do to encourage my friends in New Hampshire and Florida to join me in supporting you."
Here's a list of the endorsements from famous Republicans they quote from:There's more, check out the article for some great quotes.
- Ambassador John Eisenhower (soon of... well...Eisenhower)
- Former Minnesota Governor Elmer Andersen
- Scott McConnell, executive editor, The American Conservative
- Former U.S. Senator Marlow Cook
- Former Michigan Governor William Milliken
- Former U.S. Representative Pete McCloskey "Nixon was a prince compared to these guys" (talking about Bush obviously)
- Lee Iacocca
- Anne Morton Kimberly, widow of former Republican National Committee chair Rogers C.B. Morton
And here's an endorsement to make conservative Land's End workers in Wisonsin go "Wha?":Gary Comer - Founder of Lands’ End wrote:My credential for writing and paying for this ad are that I created thousands of jobs in three cities in southwest Wisconsin during my tenure as leader of Dodgeville’s Lands’ End. I no longer am an owner of that company, but I founded it.
And I have the greatest respect for Wisconsin people who built tat company with me. Together we put it on the list of the 100 Best Companies to work for in America. The values and work ethic and honest of Wisconsin people made Land’s End a success.
Knowing your character I understand the loyalties which conflict so many of you in the Presidential race. I have been a Republican and voted Republican most of my life. But in my opinion, this administration has high-jacked the Republican Party I knew and is taking Wisconsin and the United States in dangerous directions. If Bush is re-elected, you and your children and grandchildren and mine will pay dearly in their freedoms and opportunities long after his term of office expires. I believe that four more years of President Bush and the people who surround him is not in our Nation's best interest.
You could very well be the deciding factor in the electoral outcome of this election. Think carefully, vote your heart and head. I think of the debt that we will leave ourselves and everyone who follows, and I question the judgment that caused the deaths of 1100 U.S. friends and neighbors in a war that we didn't need to start.
- rob 12:05 PM - [PermaLink] -
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McCain: New Bin Laden Tape Helps Bush CampaignStamford ? U.S. Sen. John McCain, campaigning in southwestern Connecticut on Saturday, said Osama bin Laden's video message to Americans will likely energize President Bush's re-election campaign.again
?I think it's very helpful to President Bush,? said McCain, R-Ariz., while stumping in Stamford for U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays. ?It focuses America's attention on the war on terrorism. I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, but I think it does have an effect.??It focuses America's attention on the war on terrorism. I'm not sure if it was intentional or not, but I think it does have an effect.?Bin Laden knew exactly what he was doing. He knew this would help Bush because Bush is good for bin Laden. bin Laden wants a world conflagration, with Bush in office the anger towards America grows. And Rove needs bin Laden to keep Bush in office. Because bin Laden is Bush's Emmanuel Goldstein.
From Orwell's 1984 (also known as the Bush administration guide book):As usual, the face of Emmanuel Goldstein, the Enemy of the People, had flashed on to the screen. There were hisses here and there among the audience. The little sandy-haired woman gave a squeak of mingled fear and disgust. Goldstein was the renegade and backslider who once, long ago (how long ago, nobody quite remembered), had been one of the leading figures of the Party, almost on a level with Big Brother himself, and then had engaged in counter-revolutionary activities, had been condemned to death, and had mysteriously escaped and disappeared. The programmes of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Party's purity. All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his teaching. Somewhere or other he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies: perhaps somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters, perhaps even -- so it was occasionally rumoured -- in some hiding-place in Oceania itself.
- rob 10:35 AM - [PermaLink] -
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