Month: November 2004

Who wouldda thunk it that maybe the Republicans stole the vote after all?
Well, it seems that those pesky lefties are starting to dig through the numbers and surprise, surprise, they don’t seem to make any sense. In Florida more ballots were cast for president than the number of people who voted. In Florida and several other states mostly democratic counties seemed to have voted overwhelmingly for Bush. Could it be that the exit polls (which are usually a highly accurate predictor) were correct and the voting machines were wrong? There are stories coming out about how people selected Kerry on their screens and had a Bush vote shown back to them. Now, I’m not a fan of conspiracy theories as a rule, but the evidence is mounting. Moby has some numbers in his journal. Michael Moore has got some good references as well.

The question is: who is going to investigate this? Can we trust the government to do the right thing? I doubt it. It seems to me that the right is consolidating their power by all means possible legal and otherwise. We’re being turning into a single party country against our will. I’m doubting that there is a way to fix this from within the system. The system has been corrupted.

Where do we go from here, we true fans of democracy, when the republic has become an oligarchy?

Me, I’m pondering creating an initiative to have Washington secede from the US.

Thinking about moving to Canada rather than face four more years of Bush? You and me both!

As someone who has spent a lot of time in our neighbor to the north and briefly considered moving there about 10 years ago, this election has made me think again about moving somewhere less moronic. It turns out that I’m not alone as this article on news.com mentions. There are some other cool sites too, like Immigration Canada, The Canadian Government’s Citizenship and Immigration website, this Harper’s article, and this Bushwatch site. Here’s a great top ten reasons to switch to Canada site which includes a link to download John Bender’s excellent Apple switch ad parody.

I like most of what Moby’s been saying. I’m thinking about secession.

My friend Heather pointed me over to Moby’s Website. His journal articles are doing a good job explaining how a lot of us feel. (I’m more pissed off than him, but thats ok). I’ve been thinking about secession a lot. There is that book, Cascadia, that I read a few years ago. It’s about how northern California, Oregon and Washington split off from the US and form their own country. It was written in the 60s, the new country of Cascadia is like one large Burning Man Festival except without the frat boys and with more free love. The hippy parts didn’t make too fond of it, but I’m thinking more and more how that might not be a bad idea.

Take California from San Jose northward, Oregon and the western half of Washington and you’ve got a pretty awesome country with abundant natural resources, a thriving tech economy, agriculture, manufacturing, ports and tourism. I think I’d be much happier in Cascadia, and I think those Southern states would be happier without us “freaks” making them have to go vote every four years to make sure they get another good ‘ol boy in the white house. Plus, we wouldn’t have to be supporting their asses with our taxes while getting so little back from D.C.

Anyone with me?

What the hell happened? What is wrong with this country?

My fellow Americans, at least 51% of you are idiots. I can’t believe you people. You’ve been suckered and now all of us are going to pay for your stupidity. You voted for a man who doesn’t care about you, your job, your family. You’ve voted to increase crime, increase terrorism, and make this country hated by both terrorist and free states. You voted for a man who looks you straight in the eye and lies to your face. A man who feigns faith without showing any understanding of what he claims to believe in. A man who will deny a woman’s right to choose but will willingly kill thousands and thousands of children in Iraq without compunction. You chose to vote for this evil asshole because you believed him to be moral, or Christian or a strong military leader. You’ve given him a mandate to pollute the world, invade your privacy and create a country that grows weaker not stronger as it continues to slide into chaos and poverty. You’ve voted to turn us into a third world nation with peasants working in the Wall Marts with no insurance or hope of ever living a comfortable life and corporate barons living in their luxury hill-top bunkers surrounded by walls and guards.

Welcome to the decline of a once great nation. We the people have chosen mediocrity and we will be forced to endure the spoiled fruits of our mistaken trust beyond the rule of this smug autocratic joke as his policies will ruin this country for decades to come.