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Seeing Red and Feeling BlueBetter Red than Dead By Ron Peacock (pavonews.com) In your recent travels, has anyone noticed a post-election despondency amongst a certain segment of our population? On November 2nd, President Bush won re-election and the Republican Party gained an unprecedented second term majority of congressional seats. In the month following the election, the realities of these events have been beyond comprehension to a certain demographic of our population. It seems some of our left leaning brothers and sisters are seeing red and feeling blue.It has come to this writer's attention that a number of John Kerry...

Want to travel abroad but don't want to be tagged as an American? A New Mexico T-shirt company suggests going Canadian. For 24-95, T-shirtKing-dot-com offers a "Go Canadian" package that includes a Canadian flag T-shirt, a Canadian flag lapel pin and a Canadian patch for luggage or a backpack. There's also a quick reference guide -- "How to Speak Canadian, Eh?" -- on answering questions about Canada. The "Go Canadian" idea emerged after a staffer had heard about someone being harassed about U-S politics during a recent overseas trip. T-shirt-King-dot-com President Bill Broadbent says it's not meant as a slight...

A group therapy session for those still having angst that the democratic process selected George Bush and not John Kerry this past Nov. 2, has turned into a hate-fest aimed at President Bush. According to the Boca Raton News, Bush's victory has triggered psychological disorders in this tony South Florida Democratic community. The paper reported last week that when some 20 Kerry voters met for their first therapy session Thursday at Boca's American Heath Association (AHA), the group's rage became uncontrollable. Members of the group opened their session by "screaming epithets" at President Bush for "breaking up marriages and dividing...

Yeah, we know, but we just can't resist: "Twenty John Kerry supporters met for their first group therapy session in South Florida Thursday, screaming epithets at President Bush as they shared their emotions with licensed mental health counselors," reports the Boca Raton (Fla.) News, which simply owns this story. "The first of several free noontime therapy sessions at the American Health Association in Boca Raton was designed to treat what mental health counselors have dubbed Post Election Selection Trauma (PEST)." The News's reporter wasn't allowed to attend the meeting but received an "anonymous transcript." Here are some choice quotes:

Just how hard are liberals taking the results of this year's election? Some are claiming to suffer from Post-Election Stress Disorder. It's amazing. Liberals are still having a hard time with the outcome of Election 2004. Some are still threatening to leave the country, while others say the election was a profound event that traumatized them. It didn't become clear to me just how deeply the left seems to have been affected by the results of Nov. 2 until I talked to the author of "The Bush Survival Bible," which is subtitled, "250 Ways to Make it Though the Next...

One might be forgiven for thinking that the first suit against the Republican Party for Post Election Selection Trauma (PEST) would have been filed in Palm Beach County, but a 38-year-old from Manhattan’s West Side has beaten her Floridian fellow victims to the punch. Barbi Weiner, a third grade teacher currently on disability, is suing the Republican party for having taken an active role in returning George Bush to the White House, a circumstance that resulted in Ms. Weiner suffering a nervous collapse last Nov.8th as she crossed West 72nd Street. "I looked up and saw the WestSideWaffle! sign with...

Barbi Weiner, a third grade teacher currently on disability, is suing the Republican party for having taken an active role in returning George Bush to the White House, a circumstance that resulted in Ms. Weiner suffering a nervous collapse last Nov.8th as she crossed West 72nd Street. "I looked up and saw the WestSideWaffle! sign with its big red 'W’s,'" she says. "And I realized it was true – he won. Then I started thinking about my life and I realized that I couldn’t go on living in a country where a war-mongering baby-killer holds the highest office in the...

A collection of drunken rats is helping University of North Carolina researchers understand how brains repair themselves after chronic drinking — and possibly find new ways to help alcoholics recover full mental capacity. Fulton T. Crews and Kimberly Nixon have discovered that heavy drinking slows the creation of new brain nerve cells, or neurons, in animals. Rats that have been intoxicated and then sobered up produce more than normal amounts of neurons. That might explain why the brains of rats with simulated alcoholism shrink during chronic drinking but grow after the abuse stops — just like the brains of alcoholic...

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Who is scaring the "Lemmings for Kerry" crowd? Quite obviously, someone on the left is stirring up problems: rumors of Republican vote fraud, a divided nation, psychological problems among the Kerry followers, people wanting to move to Canada, etc., etc Qui bono? Who profits from the nation becoming divided? What uncaring group would cause harm among the less stable in society this way? When one stops to consider that whatever group starting these problems has both a grass roots and media following, it tends to narrow things down some. Nonetheless, I must admit that the Lemmings for Kerry are great...

Last week the blue-staters got a whole lot bluer. In Boca Raton Florida a psychiatrist said that he was treating a dozen people for what he termed “Post Election Selection Trauma”. Apparently there are liberals so dejected that they are turning to psychotherapy and prescription drugs to get through four more years. No one has yet confirmed if these prescription drugs were re-imported from Canada. There has been a real outpouring of compassion for these dejected Democrats including on air counseling by Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. I guess this is what President Bush meant by “compassionate conservatism”. While this...

Within a week of the U.S. presidential election, Dr. Douglas Schooler, a Palm Beach Florida trauma specialist began treating patients for what is now known as PEST--Post-election selection trauma. Schooler told the Boca Raton News that he was treating 15 patients who were traumatized by John Kerry's loss to George W. Bush. Schooler described his patients as being "emotionally paralyzed, shocked and devastated, depressed and angry" and "threatening to leave the country" because of the election results. The good doctor also told the newspaper that these Kerry supporters have feelings of "extreme anger, despair, hopelessness, powerlessness, a failure to function...

The extended post-election public despair of disappointed Democrats has been nearly as remarkable as the Republican victory, its supposed proximate cause. Therapists, anxious to keep their couches warm, have rushed in to make up a self-serving syndrome for their clients to overcome, “Post Election Selection Trauma.” A nice bit of marketing, that. Most important is the acronym PEST. Turn the electoral mandate of George W. Bush into a public affliction, with overtones of vermin as the root cause. Throw in a hot button word like “selection” to get to the right four letters, dredging up memories of the 2000 Florida...

We have a new disorder, Post-Election Selection Trauma, or PEST which apparently strikes only those so certain of the superiority of their candidates, that they are unable to cope with the reality that they constitute a minority.It seems most of the people being treated for PEST are themselves pests, people like Vincent D'Onofrio of CSI who has been yelling obscenities at Bush supports on the set for months and is now passing out with increasing regularity.We now have psychologists trying to treat this new disorder. What sort of treatment should a psychologist recommend to a pest suffering from PEST? How...

Why is it called "Poest Election SELECTION Trauma"? What is this "selection" business? Shouldn't it be "Post Election REJECTION Trauma"? Or is the APA now formally enshrining as fact the idea that Bush was "selected, not elected"? If so, aren't they about 4 years too late for that? Seriously -- does anyone know what the word "SELECTION" is supposed to mean in this context?

As if psychologists didn't have enough avenues from which to reap fortunes off our loopiness and occasional gullibility, along comes a new malady found exclusively among Kerry supporters, called "Post Election Selection Trauma," or PEST – which is sort of like shell shock for soldiers of Democrat misfortune. A cure is nowhere in sight because it would appear the Democrats are perfectly happy to treat the disease with more of the disease. According to the Boca Raton News, one psychologist has treated 15 friends and family with "intense hypnotherapy." After hypnosis, the patients will demand a recount whenever they see...

More shocked John Kerry supporters on Wednesday sought psychological help with “post-election selection trauma” in South Florida, prompting the American Health Association to officially release symptoms of the disorder and open its doors for free counseling. “When someone commits suicide in New York and Kerry’s loss is even slightly connected, it’s serious,” Rob Gordon, executive director of the AHA, told the Boca Raton News. “There’s a lot of older Democrats here and they outnumber Republicans and you don’t want an epidemic of suicides with the elderly. So our counseling center is now open free to those with post-election selection depression,...

NEW ORLEANS -- Workers with the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals spent Monday morning catching approximately 69 rabbits loose in a Gentilly home. The owner became overwhelmed when his original two rabbits bred and the situation quickly got out of control. Rabbits were burrowing and living inside the homeowner's mattresses, couches and chairs. The homeowner's name and address are being withheld to protect his privacy. The rabbits are being temporarily housed at the SPCA until new homes can be found. Those who want to adopt a rabbit can visit the SPCA at 1319 Japonica St.

WASHINGTON--U.S. regulators said Tuesday they had sued a Las Vegas telemarketing company, the first time the government has gone to court seeking fines for violations of the Do Not Call Registry. The suit, filed in federal court in Nevada, charges Braglia Marketing Group with making more than 300,000 telephone calls to people on the Do Not Call Registry, the Federal Trade Commission said.

Since I am approaching my one year anniversary of being a "freeper" and since I have never contributed a dime to FR, jim or the republican party, I am going to beat the powers to be at FR and voluntarily leave, rather than have them come up with one of the cock and bull stories to ban me. Been fun,Bye