Glocksman wrote:Would this kind of bullshit even be an issue if we had a direct popular vote instead of the misleading 'red/blue' state maps?
Maybe, maybe not. If the nationwide popular vote was the only thing we looked at, then we could be objective about it and not even worry about Rep states and Dem states. But you know damn well the networks would still look at the state-level voting numbers just so they could stir up shit. American media + negativity = a match made in heaven.
Ironically, if this was the way we did things, we'd have been wondering whether or not to re-elect President Gore.
Take life by the balls!
The Universal Constants: death, taxes, and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones sucking ass.
http ://mena.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/canada20.gif is a rather amusing photo as well. Let me put it this way: "Baja Canada."
It's sorta like the Jesusland one, but better .
Stanley Hauerwas wrote:[W]hy is it that no one is angry at the inequality of income in this country? I mean, the inequality of income is unbelievable. Unbelievable. Why isn’t that ever an issue of politics? Because you don’t live in a democracy. You live in a plutocracy. Money rules.
Captain Kruger wrote:
Ironically, if this was the way we did things, we'd have been wondering whether or not to re-elect President Gore.
That, or it'd still be in the courts because of the closeness of the count and the allegations of fraud on both sides.
Dennis Hastert might have been the temporary President until the case was settled.
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours."- General Sir Charles Napier
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Rural Washington is a lot more rednecky than their California counterparts.
