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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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Words fail me. I'm overcome.
1 posted on 11/05/2004 5:55:20 AM PST by presidio9
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To: presidio9

Well, at least he's not bitter.


2 posted on 11/05/2004 5:56:25 AM PST by Question Liberal Authority (THANK YOU, FREEPERS for re-electing President George W. Bush!)
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To: presidio9

He may be welcome at Uranus, but not mine.


3 posted on 11/05/2004 5:57:22 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim (I want to have fanatical henchmen when I grow up.)
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To: presidio9

Someone in San Fransisco is pining for Uranus? Hmmmm....there's a joke there somewhere...


4 posted on 11/05/2004 5:58:07 AM PST by Reaganesque
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To: presidio9

We gotta hold him to it.


5 posted on 11/05/2004 5:58:20 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: presidio9

BWAAAHHHHAAAAAA

6 posted on 11/05/2004 5:59:24 AM PST by mollynme (cogito, ergo freepum)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I've got a feeling there isn't much room left in Mr. Morford's Uranus.


7 posted on 11/05/2004 5:59:45 AM PST by MCRD
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To: presidio9

If he wants to move somewhere where people are not ashamed of Bush, I suggest Afghanistan or Iraq. Possibly Poland.


8 posted on 11/05/2004 6:00:06 AM PST by Question Liberal Authority (THANK YOU, FREEPERS for re-electing President George W. Bush!)
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To: presidio9

Send us a postcard, crackboy.


9 posted on 11/05/2004 6:00:53 AM PST by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: Question Liberal Authority
Well, at least he's not bitter.

Wow, I never realized that a KoolAid hangover was so brutal. :=)

10 posted on 11/05/2004 6:01:03 AM PST by Bob
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To: presidio9

Does he have any Uranus left?


11 posted on 11/05/2004 6:02:12 AM PST by Dallas59 ("A weak peace is worse than war" - Tacitcus)
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To: MCRD

Are you kidding? You could run a subway car through it.


12 posted on 11/05/2004 6:02:31 AM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: presidio9

Mark Morford, Andrew Sullivan's loofah sponge.


13 posted on 11/05/2004 6:03:08 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Congratulations President-Re-Elect George W. Bush!)
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To: presidio9

That's his title of his/her article? BWAHAHAHA!!!


14 posted on 11/05/2004 6:03:42 AM PST by NeoCaveman (We have not just 4 more years, but four more Senators too.)
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To: mollynme
What you said ...

Bwahahahahahahahahaha

15 posted on 11/05/2004 6:04:22 AM PST by G.Mason (A war mongering, UN hating, military industrial complex loving, Al Qaeda incinerating American.)
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To: presidio9
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.

Why exactly does this guy miss Saddam again? Wasn't he the ultimate homophobic, fundamentalist, warmongering destroyer of the environment?

Wake me up when Bush imprisons and tortures all his detractors, annexes Mexico or Canada, and lights all the oil wells in Texas on fire to spite the world.

16 posted on 11/05/2004 6:04:41 AM PST by Question Liberal Authority (THANK YOU, FREEPERS for re-electing President George W. Bush!)
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To: presidio9

The keywords people post are often the best part of these Morford threads!


17 posted on 11/05/2004 6:05:46 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance (Stay safe in the "sandbox" Greg!)
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To: presidio9

Keep it coming. I'm lovin' it!


18 posted on 11/05/2004 6:06:30 AM PST by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: presidio9

Have you seen Molly Ivans column today? Holy Moly. Something about dead chickens tied around our necks. She is truly bitter. Old goat.


19 posted on 11/05/2004 6:07:45 AM PST by mc5cents (The party's over, turn out the lights. Dandy Don)
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To: presidio9
"And besides, most hardcore Republicans would, of course, love it if you'd leave the country, and take your gul-dang gay-lovin' tofu-eatin' tree-huggin' pierced-labia values with you. They would love it, furthermore, if the libs in the morally shredded red states would split for the coastal cities and the major metropolises of America, all those godless heathen places where the neighbors won't yank the Kerry/Edwards sign outta your front lawn and chase you down and beat you with it and call it patriotism. Remember: bullies never deserve to own the playground."

Dont start none, wont be none, beeyatch!

20 posted on 11/05/2004 6:08:00 AM PST by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache and Karmic Hugs thicker than turnip soup!)
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