The Milaukee Journal-Sentinel doesn’t want you to see their now famous photo of our Vice President, but you can’t hide from the Internet.
No wonder Cheney told Bush that Iraq’s missile’s would be easy to find, he’s hiding one of them in his pants! You’ve been warned, don’t look!
thanks to Political Wire for the trouser tracking
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.
thanks to Doug for sharing
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
Here’s one way for Dems to find an outlet for their anger…
See this ad from Craig’s List…
Straight male seeks Bush supporter for fair, physical fight
…but sometimes stupider people are also larger people. It would be a shame to get beat up twice!
thanks to Doug for the forward
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
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 = “</BUSH>”;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>
(photo from sorryeverybody.com)
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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
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:
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
This would sting even more if not from a country that still has a royal family. Then again, maybe we’re kidding ourselves to think that we don’t.
thanks Nathanial for the forward
Harper’s Magazine online has a great article titled Electing to Leave that should be of interest to anyone who threated such action in the face of our current electoral outcome. Turns out, it’s not as easy as you might think. Renouncing your U.S. Citizenship and becoming a citizen somewhere else is a process that can take years.
Take heart and remember, the result was 51-48. Blue America is not as small as it may feel at the moment. Instead of fleeing the country, consider instead having an raising some smart kids in a Red state. It’s a slow but solid strategy for breaking the strangle of the ignorant majority.
thanks to Political Wire for the story
