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Hello, Uranus? Got Any Room? (The Mark Morford Column We've All Been Waiting For)
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Friday, November 5, 2004 | Mark Morford, Spends a great deal of time at Uranus

Posted on 11/05/2004 5:55:20 AM PST by presidio9

I said it, you said it, pretty much anyone with a brain larger than a grape or a soul more nimble than a rock said it maybe a thousand times over. And you probably weren't even all that drunk when you said it and maybe you were even a little more than half serious and maybe you said it just like this: If Bush somehow snags another election, if the unthinkable comes to pass and the Dubya neocon nightmare refuses to end, well, that's it. I'm outta here.

Done. Over. Gone. Moving away. To Canada. Or France. Latvia. Uranus. Anywhere, really, that doesn't have Bush as leader and that doesn't make me openly ashamed to be a citizen and that doesn't make me feel like a sickened disillusioned ulcerated outcast in my own happily divisive country every damn day including Sunday.

You want a place, you say, that doesn't right this minute seem to be working heroically to make homophobia and born-again fundamentalism and pre-emptive isolationist warmongering and environmental ignorance a national religion. A place where SUVs aren't considered minor deities and where gay people aren't loathed for wanting to slice a wedding cake and where brazen heavily narcotized denial in the face of a veritable mountain of presidential lies isn't the national pastime.

Tempting, isn't it? To just move away to a sunnier, clothing-optional utopia and wait for it all to be over, for the dark days to pass and the Shrub era to sink into the tar pits of history and the fog to finally lift?

After all, most all of us on the progressive Left feel we truly faced the dragon this election, and we put up a valiant fight and marshaled as potent an army of dissenters and intellectuals and moderates and liberal crusaders and feminists

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: adamandsteve; chocolatestarfish; hersheyhighway; hyperventilating; lamentationofwomen; mandatorybarfalert; mba
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To: presidio9

Well. Wasn't that.... special? I think he drank the bong water.


81 posted on 11/05/2004 6:53:55 AM PST by theDentist (Proud Member of FreeRepublic 's "Pyjama-Hadeen")
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To: dd5339

We could all chip in a dime and pretty soon we'd have enough $$ to buy this fool a ticket outta here. Somewhere on the web yesterday, I saw the State Dept guidelines for renouncing citizenship. Perhaps we should email them to Morford...


82 posted on 11/05/2004 6:55:07 AM PST by Vic3O3 (Jeremiah 31:16-17 (KJV))
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To: presidio9
an artist, an intellectual and a Jew who's been living in Mexico and who now says she's so enraged and saddened by the election's ugly outcome that she's preparing to return to the States ASAP, just so she can help, so she can join the resistance,

This just too funny! THE RESISTANCE! LOL, where are these spineless weasels when it comes to resisting the REAL enemy. I swear I am going to call Canada and get those gates open fast. We need for all of these "Blame America Firsters" to exit the country pronto.

83 posted on 11/05/2004 6:59:53 AM PST by standupfortruth
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To: presidio9
Morford's "karmic vibrator":


84 posted on 11/05/2004 7:00:39 AM PST by spodefly (I've posted nothing but BTTT over 1000 times!!!)
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To: dirtboy
I thought I'd never see the most popular bathhouse pickup line used as a headline in a major paper.

And he ends with ""The tunnel is just a little darker -- and longer -- than we imagined. ". Mr. Morford, meet Dr. Freud.

I guess the theme of the column is "Don't mourn, ORGANize". Heh heh. Heh heh heh.

85 posted on 11/05/2004 7:01:51 AM PST by Right Wing Professor (Fingers now uncrossed)
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To: presidio9

He forget to mention Cheney! Wow he must be really pissed!


86 posted on 11/05/2004 7:04:20 AM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: LizardQueen

Keyword are still there. You'll have to go back to the first page to see the article and keywords.


87 posted on 11/05/2004 7:07:02 AM PST by demlosers
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To: LizardQueen; Fierce Allegiance; TheBigB

I wonder if the Mod can suspend me for other people's keywords. Probably.


88 posted on 11/05/2004 7:11:01 AM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: Question Liberal Authority

ROFL


89 posted on 11/05/2004 7:14:03 AM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: presidio9

Oh NO! The left is not leaving! They are going to "hunker down" and plant flowers!

I am an evil conservative and I like concrete!


90 posted on 11/05/2004 7:17:41 AM PST by Ditter
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To: presidio9

The mods can find out who posted them, but, given the history, I am surprised it hasn't happened. However, I though Thursday was the day you typically get banned.


91 posted on 11/05/2004 7:17:48 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance (Stay safe in the "sandbox" Greg!)
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To: Question Liberal Authority
VANCOUVER??? Oh, yeah. Great choice. Lots of clothing optional beaches there.

Brrrrr! Sounds kind of chilly this time of year.

92 posted on 11/05/2004 7:18:05 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: demlosers

There were a ton more keywords there that have been removed. They weren't exactly polite.


93 posted on 11/05/2004 7:19:23 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance (Stay safe in the "sandbox" Greg!)
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To: presidio9

It is apparent that Mark Morford has been watching too many Michael Moore cartoons.


94 posted on 11/05/2004 7:20:21 AM PST by PhilipFreneau (P)
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To: All

95 posted on 11/05/2004 7:21:32 AM PST by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: presidio9

Lick each other? Yuck!


96 posted on 11/05/2004 7:23:24 AM PST by ethical
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To: TheBigB
Best quote (at end of full article):

It's far from over. The tunnel is just a little darker -- and longer -- than we imagined.

The projection of hate and intolerance by the whacko left is unbelievable.

97 posted on 11/05/2004 7:29:49 AM PST by pierrem15
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To: presidio9
You become a bit more wary and alert and you stock up on the superlative porn and the expensive wine and the deepened sense of true beauty and sex and love and hope and you hunker down and grit your teeth and dig in for the long haul, and you work on making your own goddamn garden more beautiful than even you could have imagined, because, well, the neighborhood -- and the world -- needs it, more than ever.

Pretty much describes their moral depravity and self-indulgence! Their values are:

1. Porn
2. Sex
3. Love(presumably just a variation of the above)
4. Beautiful gardens
98 posted on 11/05/2004 7:37:59 AM PST by AaronInCarolina
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To: Mr Ramsbotham; TheBigB; Constitution Day; Slings and Arrows; Fierce Allegiance

99 posted on 11/05/2004 7:42:50 AM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

Actually lately its been Monday, because I usually need a good thread to get me going in the morning.


100 posted on 11/05/2004 7:44:28 AM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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