Category: Politics

If Bush Ran Against Jesus

Humor, Politics

(from MAD Magazine)

I loved MAD magazine as a kid. It was funny, and smart, and even felt a bit subersive. When reading MAD, you knew that your folks wouldn’t get all the jokes, and that they wouldn’t approve of many that they did. So when browsing the blogs the other day, I found a link in a comment that led to this MAD Magazine parody, I was very pleased. They’re still smart, funny, and not afriad to offend. Good. This is funny, because it is so easy to recognize as the way things are, and the way they would be, should Jesus ever seek elected office in America today.

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The Depressed Democrat’s Guide to Recovery

Humor, Politics

Mark Fiore’s cartoons and animations are always worth a smile and typically dead-on the issues they present. And even two weeks later, a smile is something any Dem can use. Check out Mark’s recovery guide, it’s good stuff.

The Depressed Democrat’s Guide to Recovery

Thanks to Political Wire for the good find

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F the South

Politics, Rants, Web Surfin'

If you love a good rant like I do, then give this one a read. It’s not for the easily offended. But as a blue voter who lives not too deep in the red south, I found that it certainly strikes a chord. If you give it a read, be sure not to have a problem with harsh language, and check out the supportive links. I found the red state divorce rate statistics particularly interesting.

Fuck The South

thanks to Doug for sharing

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Election Maps

Politics, Web Surfin'

Tired of seeing that same old map that paints large empty spaces of our country red, as if the desert itself supported Bush? I am. Check these maps out for a more accurate representation of Bush’s 51% ‘mandate’.

Maps and cartograms of the 2004 US presidential election results

update: Am I a newsbreaker or what? You read about them here on November 11th, and the Washington Post catches up with their story on the 13th. Stay tuned to the Casey Blog to stay informed 🙂

Election Map Makers, Exercising Some Latitude
The Washington Post, November 13, 2004

thanks to Nathanial for sharing the maps with me to begin with

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Goodbye John, and Good Riddance!

Politics

John Ashcroft has resigned as the Attorney General of the United States of America. This is the guy who lost his race for re-election to the United States Senate to the late Mel Carnahan in 2000. Missouri voters preferred the dead Carnahan to the living Ashcroft, and they made the right choice. As George Bush’s Attorney General, Ashcroft initially ignored the threat of terrorism, and then following 9/11 used the fight against terrorism as an excuse to trample the Constution and shred the Bill of Rights.

So to say goodbye to John, tune in one more time to watch him sing his hit song, Let the Eagle’s Soar, not to mock him for his awful singing, but to celebrate his departure. Good Riddance.

for further reading: John Ashcroft from Wikipedia, John Ashcroft’s Patriot Games from Vanity Fair

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The Countdown to /BUSH

Bush's Last Day

Let the countdown begin. Four years won’t last forever. Watch is pass, one day at a time in this entry, and in the right nav bar on this site. For the non-HTML savvy, </bush> is web code for ‘end of Bush’, and that’s what’s coming in four years (follow the ‘continue reading’ link to find the source code you can copy to add this countdown to your own site).

<script language=”JavaScript”></script>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=”JavaScript”><!– Original: Alan Palmer –><!– Web Site: http://www.jsr.communitech.net –><!– This script and many more are available free online at –><!– The JavaScript Source!! http://javascript.internet.com –><!– Beginvar date = new Date(“November 4, 2008”);var description = “&lt;/BUSH&gt;”;var now = new Date();var diff = date.getTime() – now.getTime();var days = Math.floor(diff / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));document.write(“<H3><center>”)if (days > 1) {document.write(days+1 + ” days until<BR> ” + description);}else if (days == 1) {document.write(“Only two days until<BR> ” + description);}else if (days == 0) {document.write(“Tomorrow is<BR> ” + description);}else {document.write(“It’s” + description + “!”);}document.write(“</center></H3>”);// End –></script>

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Tell The World You’re Sorry

Politics, Web Surfin'
sorryeverybody.com

(photo from sorryeverybody.com)

Sure, 48% of us are still in mourning over the narrow defeat we suffered at the polls this week. But there’s a bigger burden that we bear. Our President is frequently referred to as “the leader of the free world”, and the power he wields leaves the rest of the world (free or not) subject to the consequences of his whims.

So, despite our best efforts, it’s certainly a reasonable and polite gesture to apologize to the world for our failure to remove the idiot boy President, and you can do just that with a photo sent to sorryeverybody.com.

thanks to Another Liberal Blog for the link

 

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Voting Patterns by IQ & Income

Politics

update: consider this one debunked by snopes.com

Take it with a big grain of salt *, because I can’t check the facts on the figures offered in these charts. But look at the correlations to be found here:

State Vote listed by Avg. IQ

State Vote listed by Avg. Personal Income

I’m glad to see my home state of Virginia near the top of the listed Red states. Perhaps there’s hopes for our aspirations to become blue after all!

Still, there’s little comfort to be taken from any conclusion that this election amounted to the triumph of the stupid and intolerant.

* DISCLAIMER: everything on the Internet is of suspect origin and questionable reliability. Be a skeptic. My favorite site for checking the facts on Internet facts, rumors and urban legends is snopes.com. I don’t find anything there specifically addressing these charts, but in time they might.

Thanks to Laura for the forward

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