[The Loan Arranger]

No one has yet left Dara any comments. I feel almost certain that's about to change.

[Liberty Valance]

Luckily, this is only the world according to Dana.

Hey Dana:

Cheney/Rumsfeld '08

:o)

[You Dirty Rats]

Tuesday night, I went down to the graduate student lounge in my college ...

No need to read any further, is there?

[weegee]

Four years ago, Bush defeated John McCain in the Republican primary by starting a gossip campaign stating that McCain had a black child out of wedlock. This season, Republican operatives stood outside polling places where African-American congregations marched to after their services with signs saying things like “Gay Adoption Now!” matched with an actual Kerry/Edwards sign with a rainbow background.

Is that anything like flyering homes and businesses with a piece of paper that shows black men being hosed down by police in the 1960s and claiming that this is what you will get if you re-elect George Bush?

Is that anything like leading the nightly news with some forged "smoking gun" memos, attacking the critics of said documents, and also declaring that even if the memos are fakes we must consider the points that they raise?

Stop eating tinfoil!

[randog]

An attempt to reform the Three Strikes law in California to a more humane standard (and one that most people thought they were voting for when the original proposition passed) failed.

So, if I read this right, the author is saying that Californians never wanted the version of the 3-strikes law they got, but when given the chance to change this "unjust" law, they decided they wanted the version of the 3-strikes law they never wanted....????

Do leftists ever actually read what they write?

[Sooth2222]

Resolved: That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign powers over the Territories of the United States for their government; and that in the exercise of this power, it is both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism -- Polygamy, and Slavery. -Republican Party Platform of 1856

Nasty ol' Republicans have been against these "novel" marriage arrangements for more than 148 years now.

When, oh, when will the people WAKE UP????

/sarcasm

[I still care]

I don't know why this has a barf alert. I laughed all the way through it, especially this paragraph:

"To tell the truth, I wasn’t expecting Kerry to win. But I wasn’t expecting this either. A score of homophobic bans on gay marriage passed. An attempt to reform the Three Strikes law in California to a more humane standard (and one that most people thought they were voting for when the original proposition passed) failed. The Senate Minority leader ousted for the first time in 52 years. The popular vote not only in Bush’s favor, but a few million people in his favor. The first actual majority vote for a President since his father in 1988."

"This isn’t an election. This is a rout."

I read that part twice, for the fun of it. :)

[weegee]

My father tells me that when I was a child, my first steps of political activism were charmingly naive—I was calling up stores in the mall at 10 years old to say that they shouldn’t sell fur because it killed animals, because I was so sure that if I could just tell them, they would change. I just assumed that people did bad things because they didn’t know that what they were doing was wrong, and if I showed them, they would stop. I don’t know when it finally came home to me that sometimes people do the wrong thing because they didn’t care about injustice, or that they hold values that make an unjust result seem to them worth striving for.

Or perhaps it is because there is a DIFFERENCE OF OPINION about just what is right and what is wrong.

To Diarrhea, homosexuality is GOOD and MORAL, while killing animals for clothing (what about for food?) is WRONG and IMMORAL. Abortion is GOOD and MORAL while preventing the murder of small children is CRUEL and OPPRESSIVE. It is her opinion that our founding fathers were in ERROR including the Second Amendment (to protect the free speech assured by the First Amendment). Uncle Joe Stalin's socialism is GOOD while George W. Bush's War On Terror (including war on the nations that sponsor terrorism) is BAD.

They aren't liberals. They aren't progressives. They are socialists. Many are afraid to use that word because they feel it is "tainted" (and that it makes it easier for us to point them out as the Reds that they are). Others see it as a badge of honor (of course they still admire the Soviet Union).

[Safetgiver]

Maybe we realized the social programs they fought so hard for fifty years ago did not work and they spent trillions experimenting with them.

[I still care]

Actually, at a second look, it's an interesting insight into the twisted logic the left employs. For instance:

"Four years ago, Bush defeated John McCain in the Republican primary by starting a gossip campaign stating that McCain had a black child out of wedlock."

Many of the folks in my church were going to vote for McCain in the primary until he called the Pat Robertson (and by extension) the Christian Right "evil". Overnight every person in my church changed their vote. This train of thought is beyond Dara. She is convinced it must be a dirty trick, somewhere.

After all, its just religion, its just a few nuts in the South, somewhere.

[gridlock]

At least we're winning...

[weegee]

...people care more about one person’s position on abortion than whether their own children have health care. People care more about preventing a loving, monogamous couple from having the same legal rights as everyone else than stopping transnational corporations from exporting their jobs. People care more about injuring the “others” they hate than helping the “us” we should love.

Parents are in charge of their children's health care. Some immunization is FREE yet parents don't get their children vaccinated. How many homes have cable tv and cellphones and internet? Don't tell me that it is the government's role to provide free health care. People have a budget. They can spend on essentials (including TAXES, shelter, food, clothing, transportation, education, and SAVINGS) or trivial things like fashion/entertainment/addictions/vacations.

The "monogamous couple" that overturned the nation's sodomy laws (even those that did not just prohibit homosexual sodomy) were alerted to the police by an abused lover/roommate of one of the two men. That lover is now dead, murdered in an unsolved crime, while the two sodomites charged in Texas that day are not together.

We were told that we were getting all bent out of shape over the judicial tyranny which created this new constitutional right to homosexuality (other sex acts between consenting adults like incest and prostitution are still illegal). Less than a year later we see pushes for same sex marriage (nationally recognized marriages), same sex adoption, same sex foster parenting... It is not about two people but how those two people can "norm" the abnormal in society.

The citizen can choose the company he works for. The citizen can choose the company he invests his money in. The exporting of jobs is nothing new. Lobby for increasing the minimum wage in OTHER countries to $8/hour and you might find some jobs returning to the US and some economic "refugees" finding profitable work in their homelands.

[superskunk]

Several people have said they feel ashamed to be an American


The problem with the left is they have always been ashamed to be Americans. And what ever happened to the promised Exodus to Canada and France? Just like the left: say what you feel, not what you mean.

[BJungNan]

A score of homophobic bans on gay marriage passed.

So funny how they think people are afraid, or at least try to frame the arguement that way. Emotional, silly liberals. Differ? Yes. Afraid? No. Some sort of a phobia? No.

[eleni121]

Dara must have been in a zone during the election cycle.

Dubya won DESPITE THE HATE!

[Travis McGee]

Boo-frikkin-hoo.

[Polyxene]

Yet another dem-lib-socialist whose brain has been ravaged by PEST!

[weegee]

Progressive politics has never really been a discourse of hate—the closest we ever come is towards the rich white plutocrats oppressing the rest of the country, and apparently we can’t point them out as the enemy to the electorate because everyone is too busy wanting (hoplessly) to be them.

Liberal bigot. There are rich people of all nationalities. 5 of the 10 wealthiest people in the world were in the Middle East.

Michael Moore makes this same claim that "we" will never be rich. Fataxis Mikey sure has proven that claim to be so much flatulance as he has lined his pockets and climbed into the upper income brackets, million dollar homes, and all that.

I offer these progressive t-shirts to show that they most CERTAINLY do HATE, just as any totalitarian is capable of:

Class War: We Have Found New Homes For The Rich (note they are Christian graves)

Express Yourself (firebombed police car)

[AppyPappy]

I am swimming and splashing gaily in a pool of Dara's bitter tears.

[jigsaw]

It's all about you, isn't it Dara! You slobbering little Peegressive.

I went down...

My idea ... was to take along my laptop, which I did...

I figured ...

...even if the night didn’t go my way I could at least...

But somehow I’m not up to editing...

I finally left at 6:00...

When I finally went to sleep, I dreamed...

...as I write this, I’ve gotten back up...

...I wasn’t expecting Kerry to win.

But I wasn’t expecting this either.

And I don’t know what to say.

I can’t even muster up the righteous anger...

...I’ve also heard a lot of disgust.

...I’ve heard “they deserve him”...

But I don’t think that will ever happen.

...I still can’t quite believe...

I can’t believe that...

I wish I had an answer.

While I swing between poles ... I am usually willing to believe in hope.

...I don’t know how much hope I can draw...

My father tells me that when I was a child, my first steps of political activism were charmingly naive—I was calling up stores ... because I was so sure that if I could just tell them, they would change.

I just assumed ..., and if I showed them, they would stop.

I don’t know when it finally came home to me...

I don’t know how to move on from this.

I guess that’s our modern dilemma.

Dara, you whiny, little, self-absorbed Tampon, get a life!

[Cogadh na Sith]

Well Darla, democracy is a B%tch and so are you....