November 03, 2004
So many thoughts
This morning's post still says it best but my emotions ran the gamut all day. Fear and disgust. Surrender. Rebellion. Wondering what the job market for lawyers is like in Canada? (Tho my wife suggests someplace more tropical.)
Here's a sampling from others of various thoughts that also occurred to me today at various points:
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Here's a sampling from others of various thoughts that also occurred to me today at various points:
- TBogg on four more years.
- Doug Wiken at Dakota Today with the give 'em what they want approach.
- Don't Mourn, Organize (thanks to Michael Groetken at Daily Caucus).
- TalkLeft talks of continued opposition.
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Sadness and dismay
November 02, 2004
Election predictions
With absolutely no basis in fact or research and amounting to no more than SWAG, here's my predictions:
Bush-Kerry -- My heart says Kerry, my head fears Bush. The only thing that is certain is we won't know for days if not weeks as Bush will seek to hold on to his unelected position by quickly running to the trial lawyers he has been bashing.
Daschle-Thune -- Thune by 2% (or less).
Diedrich-Herseth -- Herseth by 5%.
Amendment A (selection of judges) -- Loses big (20% margin).
Amendment B (allows public schools to provide food and transportation services to sectarian schools) -- Wins with at least 10% margin.
Initiated Measure 1 (repeals sales tax on food) -- Loses big (more than 15% margin).
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Bush-Kerry -- My heart says Kerry, my head fears Bush. The only thing that is certain is we won't know for days if not weeks as Bush will seek to hold on to his unelected position by quickly running to the trial lawyers he has been bashing.
Daschle-Thune -- Thune by 2% (or less).
Diedrich-Herseth -- Herseth by 5%.
Amendment A (selection of judges) -- Loses big (20% margin).
Amendment B (allows public schools to provide food and transportation services to sectarian schools) -- Wins with at least 10% margin.
Initiated Measure 1 (repeals sales tax on food) -- Loses big (more than 15% margin).
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Election Day odds and ends
- It's a sad state of affairs when families of U.S. soldiers in Iraq have to help provide armor for them.
- So why is it that Springsteen and other Vote for Change tour members are attacked for voicing political opinions but there is no problem if sports figures like Mike Tice and Curt Schilling do so?
- The dilemma of the undecideds. Another example is the Slowpoke Voter Guide 2004 available here.
- I can't improve on this.
- Or this.
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November 01, 2004
Accountability follow-up
The ABCs below are just one example of why BUSH MUST GO. The Nation has 100 Facts and 1 Opinion. There's also 1,000 Reasons.
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October 31, 2004
ABCs of accountability
Much of the electorate seems unwilling or too brainwashed to hold Bush accountable for what he's done. And there's plenty for him to be accountable for. Here's some ABCs of the situation (with due credit for the concept to BushWars for its inimitable "A Child's ABCs of Terrorism"):
A - Oh so many to begin with at the start. Let's see... Abu Ghraib (stemming in part from a top-down culture of lawlessness), Afghanistan (abandoning pursuit of al Qeda to go after Saddam, leaving a breeding and training group for terrorists), Axis of Evil (hmm, seems like we went after the one that didn't have WMD programs and let the other two further their nuclear weapons programs).
B - Budget buster. Under Bush, we have gone from a $236 billion surplus to confronting a $477 billion deficit, thanks in part to the Iraq debacle and blind adherence to giving tax cuts to the rich (his "base").
C - Civil liberties. Actually, the assault on liberty.
D - Donald Rumsfeld; Dick Cheney. (Cheney, though, wins the face-off for also fitting under L for Liar).
E - Economic policy. We have lost more jobs under Bush than any president since the Depression.
F - Flypaper theory. Yep, if Iraq wasn't full of terrorists before, it is now (along with the rest of the Middle East).
G - Guantanamo and the new military "justice" system.
H - Halliburton. The only victor (no bid, of course) in Iraq.
I - Iraq. They knew they were misleading us.
J - John Ashcroft.
K - Keeping secrets. Historians, legal scholars, journalists and political observers agree the Bush administration has been the most secretive in US history, a virtual cone of silence.
L - Lies, lies and more lies.
M - "Mission Accomplished." Trying to use our troops and their efforts as a blatant political ploy that proved just as false as most of the other things he's told the country.
N - Neocon agenda. The altar upon which support for the US and American troops have been sacrificed.
O - Osama and Ordnance. These two go together because they are emblematic of the Bush failures in prosecuting its war on terror. We didn't catch Osama because we didn't put our troops into the effort and our soldiers in Iraq and now being decimated by explosives that could well have come from sites we failed to secure because we didn't have enough forces in the field.
P - Project for a New American Century (the guys who designed and implemented the neocon altar of regime change in Iraq; Patriot Act (see Civil liberties, erosion thereof)
Q - Quackery. What results when political and religious ideologies are more important than science.
R - Radical right turn. Bush ran as a moderate "compassionate conservative," lost the popular vote and won in the Electoral College only because of a political decision by the US Supreme Court. Despite that, he has used his four years to embark this country on a radical right-wing agenda absent any mandate and through exploitation of Sept. 11.
S - Squander. What he did to the support the US had after 9/11, actually increasing hatred of the US throughout the world, particulary the MIddle East.
T - Terror alerts. The trump card when approval numbers are dropping or there's been a few weeks of continuing bad press.
U - Uniter. He united Europe and, even more amazing, the Shia and Sunnis of Iraq. Unfortunately, he united them against the US.
V - Vietnam. I don't mind he did his best to stay out. It's the fact he lies about evading his duty
W - Women and children. The largest group in the 100,000 fatalities estimated by Johns Hopkins researchers to have been killed in Iraq since the invasion.
X - Camp X-ray. One of the first steps in detentions handled in a fashion that make a mockery of what the US should stand for in the eyes of the world
Y - Yellowcake. The falsehood that, when disclosed, required retribution to the extent of outing a CIA agent.
Z - Zealotry. Despite condemning religious extremists abroad, Bush advocates religious extremism himself.
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A - Oh so many to begin with at the start. Let's see... Abu Ghraib (stemming in part from a top-down culture of lawlessness), Afghanistan (abandoning pursuit of al Qeda to go after Saddam, leaving a breeding and training group for terrorists), Axis of Evil (hmm, seems like we went after the one that didn't have WMD programs and let the other two further their nuclear weapons programs).
B - Budget buster. Under Bush, we have gone from a $236 billion surplus to confronting a $477 billion deficit, thanks in part to the Iraq debacle and blind adherence to giving tax cuts to the rich (his "base").
C - Civil liberties. Actually, the assault on liberty.
D - Donald Rumsfeld; Dick Cheney. (Cheney, though, wins the face-off for also fitting under L for Liar).
E - Economic policy. We have lost more jobs under Bush than any president since the Depression.
F - Flypaper theory. Yep, if Iraq wasn't full of terrorists before, it is now (along with the rest of the Middle East).
G - Guantanamo and the new military "justice" system.
H - Halliburton. The only victor (no bid, of course) in Iraq.
I - Iraq. They knew they were misleading us.
J - John Ashcroft.
K - Keeping secrets. Historians, legal scholars, journalists and political observers agree the Bush administration has been the most secretive in US history, a virtual cone of silence.
L - Lies, lies and more lies.
M - "Mission Accomplished." Trying to use our troops and their efforts as a blatant political ploy that proved just as false as most of the other things he's told the country.
N - Neocon agenda. The altar upon which support for the US and American troops have been sacrificed.
O - Osama and Ordnance. These two go together because they are emblematic of the Bush failures in prosecuting its war on terror. We didn't catch Osama because we didn't put our troops into the effort and our soldiers in Iraq and now being decimated by explosives that could well have come from sites we failed to secure because we didn't have enough forces in the field.
P - Project for a New American Century (the guys who designed and implemented the neocon altar of regime change in Iraq; Patriot Act (see Civil liberties, erosion thereof)
Q - Quackery. What results when political and religious ideologies are more important than science.
R - Radical right turn. Bush ran as a moderate "compassionate conservative," lost the popular vote and won in the Electoral College only because of a political decision by the US Supreme Court. Despite that, he has used his four years to embark this country on a radical right-wing agenda absent any mandate and through exploitation of Sept. 11.
S - Squander. What he did to the support the US had after 9/11, actually increasing hatred of the US throughout the world, particulary the MIddle East.
T - Terror alerts. The trump card when approval numbers are dropping or there's been a few weeks of continuing bad press.
U - Uniter. He united Europe and, even more amazing, the Shia and Sunnis of Iraq. Unfortunately, he united them against the US.
V - Vietnam. I don't mind he did his best to stay out. It's the fact he lies about evading his duty
W - Women and children. The largest group in the 100,000 fatalities estimated by Johns Hopkins researchers to have been killed in Iraq since the invasion.
X - Camp X-ray. One of the first steps in detentions handled in a fashion that make a mockery of what the US should stand for in the eyes of the world
Y - Yellowcake. The falsehood that, when disclosed, required retribution to the extent of outing a CIA agent.
Z - Zealotry. Despite condemning religious extremists abroad, Bush advocates religious extremism himself.
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, Timothy Egan
, Lewis Black
, Yevgeny Zamyatin
, Daniel J. Levitin
, Richard Powers
, Nick Schou
, Cormac McCarthy
, Richard Dawkins
, Sam Harris
