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Someone at netscape has a sense of humor… this is not fake, this is the article, while it’s still around.

So it’s decided, we have Bush for Four more years. Frankly I was surprised by the quick response on the last post there, which should remind us all how divided this country is over one man. In fact, I find it incredible that his elections have been so close. If you think about it, what are the odds that the country would be divided almost exactly in half? And worse, the implication of that fact is that half the country feels horrible today, and will continue to be angry for the next four years. If it had gone the other way it would be the other half, but the same would be true. The country is divided, plain and simple, and it probably always will be.

What kills me is that the division is on issues people have such strong opinions about. I was talking with a friend yesterday, no longer quite the same friend after that conversation, who said she would never vote for a president who would let fags get married. I’m sorry, but that’s racism, no question. I don’t care what your reasons are, if you use a derrogitory word for a group of people (which is all a race really is) and you really mean it, you’re racist. It’s one of those things that will cut off all ties with me in an instant — if you never want to talk to me again, just call someone a fag in front of my face. Same is true for many people on the abortion issue. A friend of mine has a pin: “You cut off my reproductive choice, I’ll cut off yours,” and you’ll get a heated speech if you mention it. I don’t even want to start there, aside from saying that it’s another religious debate, and I hate religious debates.

I’ll leave you with some other reflections on the results from some other intelligent people. And also, just that I had hoped to read Maya Angelou’s “On the Pulse of Morning” this morning, a poem written for Bill Clinton’s inauguration, which expressed such hope and glory and peace that it uplifted the spirit of the whole nation. I still remember her reading the last line on TV, and I know now why my parents had me miss the first hour of school to watch it.

This morning, cold and dreary here in Berkeley, feels the opposite. Lets just say George Bush would never comission a poem, and that makes me sad. Yet, I still will say simply, very simply, with hope, Good Morning.

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This election seems closer than last year, maybe because more is at stake. Last election it was just a disappointment that the republican won, a man we knew would have policies toward the environment, business, and fiscal policy that we disagree with (I am of course using the term “we” loosely). This year, we know this man who should not have been president in the first place caused a war, destruction of the environment, the largest defecit in recent history, and lowered our international respect to nil. He is manipulative, dishonest, unintelligent, and what bugs me the most is that he can’t talk worth beans. Frankly, a man who can’t master the English language (or any language for that matter) isn’t fit to be a president.

Keep that, my opinion, in mind when I say I am scared about the outcome of this election. My parents are already talking about moving to France (Canada’s not far enough I guess) and about opening accounts and setting up residence there in case I need to leave for a draft. Don’t get me wrong, I love my country, and I would gladly serve in any truly justified war, but not for our current president, not for his war. But moving to France, wow… yes, they were half joking. But half serious, too.

Well, I just thought our country was smarter than this. I lost a little faith in it tonight, even if Kerry does win. It shouldn’t even have been close.

“The human being is the ONLY animal in the world that commits the same mistake twice.” from DailySnap

bushSpeech. Just go, it’s genius.

A friend of mine surprised the hell out of me this summer — he is a republican by design; an Italian mafia type businessman who was super-conservative in high school, and was very interesting in government class (albeit an internet-taught AP government class) — but this summer, he told me he was voting for Kerry.

“Why?” I asked.

“Bush is bad for business” He explained, and it makes sense.

So, this is for him. It’s something he mentioned in passing the other day, and I thought about it today, and it was too good to pass up donating my design skills to the cause. I hope it goes to a good purpose. Please, spread it around.

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License. In english: You can distribute it as much as you want (and please do), but you can’t modify it and you can’t sell it, and please give me credit.

The latest installment of misspeak from a president long known for his malapropisms came during a signing ceremony for a new $417 billion defense appropriations bill that includes $25 billion in emergency funding for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we,” Bush said.

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Warning: anti-Bush political post. For the love of our great country, go see this film. Michael Moore says a lot of stuff, and, to quote Donnie Darko, “I pray that this is merely a work of fiction.” But I know that at least part of it is factual, and I will say that even if 10 percent of the facts in the movie are true, then you have every reason not to vote for President Bush in the November election. God knows he has the power to win it, and for that very reason we must not vote for him. I’ll say one thing more:

I was sitting in the car with my father after seeing the movie. I asked him what we do if Bush gets reelected. I said, he could get out of control.

“He’s already out of control.” he replied, which of course, is true.

And I can’t finish this conversation, because I just realized that if I publish what I was about to write, I could get labeled as a terrorist and Bad Things could happen. And that is one more reason. Please, if you trust that I am a rational intelligent thinking person, incapable of subversion and brainwash (and I am), trust me. We must vote for Kerry. Not nader. Not anyone else. Kerry. Because, frankly, I don’t care what Nader has to say about our party system, a vote for anyone but Kerry is a vote for Bush.

This is not an extremist view. I am not being “too serious.” I am not blowing this out of proportion. Please watch the film, especially if you are planning on voting for Bush. I give you this argument: I, a non-christian, saw The Passion of Christ. You, if non-democrat, have the same obligation to see F9/11.

Rational Addendum: I know that F9/11 is a conglomeration of truths misleading the viewer into thinking there is a big conspiracy — we have to remember that we’re not getting Bush out of office because of anything like that — his views on the environment, economics, terrorism, oil, and mostly the war in Iraq are fundamentally wrong, conspiracy or not.

Woah, can you say tangent?

Didn’t think so. Anyway, I meant to say that Ben and Jerry’s is also giving away a free iTunes song to the first 50,000 people who pledge to vote in the coming election. I pledged yesterday, and the limit hadn’t hit yet, so if you go soon you might still be able to get the freebie.

Another music note — C|Net’s music.download.com is up, as a reincarnation of the late mp3.com, which was a mecca for indie artists trying to get their name and music heard. I’m quite glad to see that the design is entirely CSS. Go standards, beat the Microsoft! (Go bears…) ::