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Posted on 01/09/2005 6:05:03 AM PST by finnigan2
Thought for the day, from a gloomy party member on the Democratic Underground Web site: ''Reality sucks. That's the problem. We want another reality.''
Well, they're doing a grand job of creating their alternative universe. At midday Thursday, as George W. Bush was about to be confirmed formally as the winner of the presidential election, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, described by Agence France-Presse as the ''Democratic former presidential hopeful,'' led 400 other Democrats in a protest outside Congress. Presidential-wise, they may be former but they're still hopeful. So they were wearing orange, the color of the election protesters in Ukraine, who overturned their own stolen election with an ''orange revolution.''
Now, on the one hand it's very brave for the Rhymin' Reverend to lead an orange protest. There is no rhyme for the word ''orange.'' Irving Berlin tried and the best he could manage was ''door-hinge,'' which just about works in certain boroughs of New York but would make an unreliable jingle for the Rhymin' Rev to bellow at Bush from outside the White House:
''We're here, we're orange
We're pushing at your door-hinge . . .''
On the other hand, what's he really saying? That Americans are in the same situation as Ukrainians? That their election was stolen? In Ukraine, the one side poisoned the other side's candidate. His face broke out and his hair turned gray. John Kerry's hair is fabulous and for much of the campaign his glowing moisturized skin looked like an orange revolution all by itself. He was obviously worried about being poisoned, which is why he nibbled so tentatively during his pretend lunch stop at Wendy's and only took a couple of sips when he was doing his impression of a regular guy drinking beer at that sports bar in Ohio. But he managed to dodge that bullet and Jesse Jackson never got a chance to channel Danny Kaye: The pellet with the poison's in the Brahmin with the Botox.
But I'm beginning to wonder if Karl Rove didn't manage to slip something into the whine cellar at Democratic headquarters. It beggars belief that Rev. Jesse on the steps of Congress, and the Congressional Black Caucus in the House, and Barbara Boxer in the Senate would start the new term with yet another reprise of the same old song from the last four years -- that Bush, the World's Biggest Moron, somehow managed to steal another election. That makes three in a row. The GOP's obviously getting better at it.
As usual, the media did their best to string along with the Democrats' alternative reality. For the most part, the press now fulfill the same function for the party that kindly nurses do at the madhouse; if the guy thinks he's Napoleon, just smile affably and ask him how Waterloo's going. So Alan Fram of the Associated Press reported with a straight face that Sen. Boxer, Congressman Conyers and the other protesting Democrats ''hoped the showdown would underscore the problems such as missing voting machines and unusually long lines that plagued some Ohio districts, many in minority neighborhoods.''
I think not. What it underscores is that the Democrats are losers. Speaking as a foreigner -- which I believe entitles me to vote in up to three California congressional districts -- I've voted on paper ballots all my life and reckon all these American innovations -- levers, punch cards, touch screen -- are a lot of flim-flam. I would be all in favor of letting the head of Bangladesh's electoral commission design a uniform federal ballot for U.S. elections. But that's not the issue here. What happens on Election Day is that the Democrats lose and then decide it was because of ''unusually long lines'' in ''minority neighborhoods.'' What ''minority neighborhoods'' means is electoral districts run by Democrats. In Ohio in 2004 as in Florida in 2000, the ''problems'' all occur in counties where the Dems run the system. Sometimes, as in King County in Washington, they get lucky and find sufficient votes from the ''disenfranchised'' accidentally filed in the icebox at Democratic headquarters. But in Ohio, Bush managed to win not just beyond the margin of error but beyond the margin of lawyer. If there'd been anything to sue and resue and re-resue over, you can bet those 5,000 shysters the Kerry campaign flew in would be doing it. Instead, Boxer and Conyers & Co. are using a kind of parliamentary privilege to taint Bush's victory without even the flimsiest pretext.
And that's sure to work, isn't it? Another two years of Tom Daschle obstructionism and Michael Moore paranoia. You don't need to run a focus group to know that's the formula that will sweep Dems into office on Election Day 2006, right?
A Democrat chum said to me on Thursday, oh, well, they're just doing this to toss a bone to the base. But they're running out of bones to toss, and the base needs a reality check, not more pandering. One reason why the party has shriveled away to Greater New England plus the ''minority neighborhoods'' of a few cities is that it's all fringe, and no mainstream. The base is out of control; the kooks still holding their post-election vigil outside one of John Kerry's mansions sound no loopier than the big-time senators. The party has no urge to move on from moveon.org.
I say all this -- takes out onion and starts to peel -- more in sorrow than in anger. Two plausible parties are necessary for a functioning democracy, especially in war, especially in a long war which will inevitably have to be fought by presidents both Republican and Democrat. The Dems might get lucky. The GOP might nominate some freaky goofball in '08, and the other fellow will win by default. But, as the 2004 field reminded us, this isn't a party exactly brimming with talent and fresh faces. And, as for ideas, when was the last time you heard a fresh policy from a Democrat? The serious arguments about war, social security, immigration and pretty much everything else are all within factions of the right. The Democrats' only contribution is to insist that someone in Halliburton has figured out a way to get the touch-screen voting machines to make Democrats' votes vanish. Democrats' votes are vanishing because Democrat voters are vanishing because Democrat intellectual energy has all but vanished. Or as Republican Congresswoman Deborah Pryce summed up Thursday's Boxer rebellion: ''Their objection is a front for their lack of ideas.''
So did writing which replaced memorization. Which, when you think about it, is very interesting. Google represents a very fundamental shift in how we obtain and process information that rivals the invention of writing and the printing press.
We're here, we're orange
Protect your groins.
Perhaps someone could tell me what Boxing Day is also? (That's the day the Tsunami hit.)
Anyone?
As a LOUSY FREEPER TROLL over at DU myself, I can tell you that the fun for me is not in helping them make fools of themselves. That would be like helping the sun to rise. The real fun is in seeing just how much you can p*** them off without getting banned.
The whole point of TROLLING is to stir up the fish.
Steyn nails another one! As usual. :^D
Je$$e HiJack$on is so pre 9/11/2001.
I thought the base had to run like hell to keep up with the kookyness of Kennedy, Algore, Dean, and on and on ... right down the line the Democrat politicians are a freak show unto themselves.
'Cept for Jonah Goldberg, I can think of no one in his class for incisive comment coupled with withering humor.
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"At midday Thursday, as George W. Bush was about to be confirmed formally as the winner of the presidential election, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, described by Agence France-Presse as the ''Democratic former presidential hopeful,'' led 400 other Democrats in a protest outside Congress. Presidential-wise, they may be former but they're still hopeful. So they were wearing orange, the color of the election protesters in Ukraine, who overturned their own stolen election with an ''orange revolution.''"
Oh, please, let them continue this nonsense! They destroy whatever credibility the Dems may have had.
Unwittingly, these folks who can't get over 2000 may represent the magic formula for turning even the 'blue' states into 'red' states for 2008. They may be forgetting that there were many 'red' counties in the so-called 'blue' states. Didn't see any 'orange.'
Liberty allows such ridiculous political expression. Isn't it wonderful?
We now return to our regularly scheduled posts.
Seems like we need another Buckhead moment on FR. I am also sick and tired of the MSM and the big newspapers defending the dumbocRATs and their protests or recounts. There's not a week goes by that the Austin, Ultra Liberal, Un-American, Longhorn Pravda doesn't run something demeaning about Bush or Republicans.
You know, the Clintonista campaign funding scandal was run on page A-10 in that rag yesterday. Not more than three paragraphs to boot. Anything about Delay, is the #1 headline on page A-1, and just screams at the reader.
"But in Ohio, Bush managed to win not just beyond the margin of error but beyond the margin of lawyer."
The "beyond the margin of lawyer" reference is by far the most succinct way to describe the whole Ohio issue, as trumped up as the claims of fraud are.
I this from
Gary Stapleton's blog | 3 comments
Social : Boxing Day Origins
by Gary Stapleton on 26-Dec-04 10:14am
The day after Christmas, the Feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, is better known as Boxing Day. The term may come from the opening of church poor boxes that day; maybe from the earthenware boxes with which boy apprentices collected money at the doors of their masters' clients. Boxing Day, celebrated on December 26 in England, Wales, parts of Canada, and in some other countries of the Commonwealth of Nations, has nothing to do with the boxes from the Christmas packages.
Traditionally, on that day the gentry would give presents, generally of money, to servants, tradespeople, and others of humble life. These presents came to be known as Christmas boxes. Boxing Day is a legal bank holiday in Canada and England.
The holiday may date from the Middle Ages, but the exact origin is unknown. It may have begun with the lords and ladies of England, who presented Christmas gifts in boxes to their servants on December 26. Or it may have begun with priests, who opened the church's alms boxes on the day after Christmas and distributed the contents to the poor. Or even in England in the middle of the nineteenth century under Queen Victoria.
Supposedly poor people carried empty boxes from door to door, and the boxes were soon filled with food, Christmas sweets, and money. Parents gave their children small gifts such as, oranges, handkerchiefs, and socks. People also placed old clothing that they didn't need anymore in boxes, and they were given to those in need.
haha! Shed a tear for the poor disenfranchised voters, Bahbah!!
Sheesh! Not surprising. The a-holes.
(Assuming best Elvis impersonation voice...
"Thank you, thankyouverymuch..."
I bet the guys at google would like to believe that. It's a good point. A bit overstated.
The invention of the printing press singlehandedly changed the world.
Caveman wrote on the walls, so maybe it is not that earth shattering.
Google changed the speed in which we can obtain and process information. Fundamental? No. Nice evolution of technology already in existence. Yes.
For me the spell check is far better tool than google, but I'm a terrible speller!!!
it just may be that the reason the dems are having problems with vote counting in democrat counties in florida and ohio, is the democrat plantation skool system!
these democrat election workers may have been injured in their intellectual inquiries by the skool system, and consequently they count the votes wrong.
these educational malfunctions caused by democrat skooling happen all the time. been to the local drugstore or supermarket and a skool graduate mis-counts your change? or posts a .25 cents sign?
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