George W Bush and the 14 points of fascism – Project for the OLD American Century:
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm

well…. it seems as if its fascism again….

Lawrence Lessig:
http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/002279.shtml

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this is wisdom…. but there is also reaction…

i mean whose permanent revolution do we want in the end? Bush’s?

because that is what we have…. I’d rather see democratic action, bring back the SDS, reprise 1968, or at least try to change things for the better. no one reads Debord anymore.

Kerry Victory Speech:

Good morning. I am proud to announce that I am the new leader of the Democratic Union of West and East Coasts (DUWEC). Late last night, it became clear that our nation is divided. On one side, the progressive and liberal secular values that made America, on the other, a radical expansionist, fundamentalist, faith-based project (Christian Reactionist American Patriots). This division is tearing our nation apart, and it has become clear that the differences are insurmountable.
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well sort of….. but anyway, lots of people have this sort of feeling i think.

Yahoo! News – U.S. faces ominous fiscal picture with huge deficit:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2027&e=17&u=/chitribts/usfacesominousfiscalpicturewithhugedeficit

Comptroller General David Walker’s most troubling briefing paper shows the federal budget growing progressively larger until spending reaches nearly half the economy’s total output in 2040.

The people of America have failed us today:

As Larry says, “It’s over. Let it go.” Jon is saying, “Don’t complain – organize!” Although the previous post about the wacky voting system is interesting, it’s unlikely that any sort of recount or technicality will change the fact that today, the people of the United States of America have voted for George Bush. It was close, but the Americans have chosen Bush. It’s a sad day, but in a democracy, you get the politicians you deserve/vote for. This was their chance to change their leader and they have failed. For awhile, many of us thought that they had been conned into voting for Bush – that they didn’t know he wanted to be a War President. Many people didn’t equate the US policies with the people of America. We thought they had made a mistake. Now US policies = US Citizens. You Americans have my sympathies, but it’s still your fault.
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Thanks Joi,

Next Stop, Hell In A Handbasket:

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somehow, i think that gary might be on to something with this post

Getting all cute and sexy again:

Election day is drawing to a close, so this blog is returning to its regular schedule of unrepentent perversion, news of the wild and strange, the usual assortment of nerdy scientific studies, and the occasional puppy or kitten photo to make you go AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

I’m sure I’ll have many choice words in the weeks ahead, particularly if the future brings us a long and bitter struggle to count and recount votes.

But why fret?

PANGLOSS:
Let us review
Lesson eleven!

STUDENTS:
Paragraph two
Axion seven

PANGLOSS:
Once one dismisses
The rest of all possible worlds
One finds that this isThe best of all possible worlds!…
(Thanks to Jay for Fluffy.)

(Thanks to Voltaire for Candide)
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this is an arbitrary cute picture repost by me, and it made me laugh.

Predictable Astonishment:

Like probably all of the World, I watched the election results tonight. And the more I watched, the more I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I still can’t. Intellectually, I fully expected it to be too close to call tonight. But emotionally I guess I was holding onto the hope that sanity would prevail and that we’d have a clean win tonight.

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i can’t believe it either….. i just don’t understand that when people take into account the situation as i understand it, they would vote in the overwhelming majority to support it. sure kerry might win the electoral college, but in the end, it doesn’t matter. the people want bush, they don’t seem to realize what has happened to the u.s. during his presidency….

In other news… | Metafilter:

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/36699

While you were re-electing a president:

Senator-elect Jim DeMint: Thinks that unwed pregnant women and gays are unfit to be schoolteachers.

Senator-elect Tom Coburn: Wants the death penalty for abortion doctors.

Senator-elect John Thune: Mr. School Prayer Amendment.

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sweet isn’t it…. these aren’t the type of people i think we need in the senate.