[ambrose]

Mongol General: We have won again. That is good! But what is best in life?

Mongol Warrior: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcon on your wrist, wind in your hair!

Mongol General: Wrong! Conan, what is best in life?

Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of the women!

[kabar]

Clueless in Seattle.

[The Loan Arranger]

"Symptoms include sadness, irritability, gluttony, weight gain, menstrual difficulties and interpersonal strain."

And that's just the metrosexuals aka men.

[asgardshill]

Liberals in general and Seattleites in particular seem to operate under the ongoing suspicion that somebody somewhere is doing something that they do not approve of. And they have made it their life's mission to find that "misbehavior" and use whatever governmental power they can bring to bear to punish it.

I hope right down to my feet that the fine sunny weather and moderate temperature here is burning a new duodenal ulcer in the innards of some liberal wastoid in Seattle as we speak.

[DestroytheDemocrats]

"almost all of it sponged up by thick blankets of concrete-colored clouds that, on average, squat over Seattle 226 days a year."

I would like this kind of weather. I get Seasonal Affective Disorder in the summertime from too much light and heat. I hate Daylight Savings Time with a passion. But it's worth it to live in the Sun Belt if it means not being surrounded by libs.

[Constantine XIII]

What a bunch of pansies!

I feel great, and I'm in freakin Norway. :P

[Libertina]

Oh good grief, the whining! CyberCowboy, pings please. Massive "interventions" to be performed here! LOL

[Scott from the Left Coast]

I live 30 miles south of there -- in another liberal city (not quite as liberal, but pretty close). They are bummed out in areas here because of environmental and gay issues. And, yeah, they're depressed as all get out. It's an absolute hoot.

They can't accept that the country won't sign onto the Kyoto protocols for another 4 years and that all their gay friends (everyone seems to have gay friends, but no one themselves admit to it!) we be second-class citizens. They were especially bummed out that the 11 marriage defense initiatives passed so soundly.

It is really funny listening to them go on and on. I love it when the majority here is depressed!

[goldstategop]

Soviet Seattle should make an application to join Canada.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I live in a high-rise in downtown Seattle.

I'm here to tell you that this article is propaganda:  it isn't a blanket of gray sadness and depression that fills the city right now, it's wide-open, venomous, spittle-filled, vitriolic hatred.

I'd honestly be scared to wear any sort of "Bush" or "GOP" T-shirt downtown because I would be verbally attacked.

True story:  My employer - a private club downtown - provides lunch to the entire staff of the company and we all eat in a common dining area.  On Wednesday morning I went down and ate as early as possible because I knew things were going to get ugly in that room and I didn't want to be there.  As the TV was announcing that Kerry was conceding the election, a man whom I normally respect walked in and said "Well, now the military coup is starting".

I just picked up my tray and left.

About an hour later a couple Bush voters were down eating with the room full of raving Kerry supporters who where clearly spoiling for a fight - this was the group of liberals I was going out of my way to avoid.  These two Bush supporters came to my office right after eating and were visibly shaken - they had actually been verbally abused by their co-workers.

A little while after that, some of the Kerry supporters filed a complaint with Human Resources against the two Bush people for - I sh!t you not - "Voting for Bush".  Believe me, I'm in a position to know these things.

I know a lot of FReepers are taking delight in Kerry's loss but for those of us living in Blue Strongholds all the elation of Bush's re-election has been short-lived and replaced by a low internal din of general nervousness:  Bush voters are actually having to whisper to one another and make sure that their words aren't being overheard by someone who might be a Kerry voter.

Any sympathy I may have had for liberals and their loss in this election is gone.  They can go to hell.

 

[McGavin999]

OK, here's a hint on how to overcome this disorder. Start voting republican so you won't have to be alined with the losers all the time.

[Clemenza]

Proud member of the 18% of Seattle who voted for Bush. There are three others in my building I know of as well.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Maybe had they tempered their own emotions and not given in to such a pathological hatred of President Bush, they would not now be suffering from such a mood swing. The hatred is disgusting out here. I try not to gloat, but the one thought that kept me from returning their hatred was, "It will be such a good feeling when Bush wins again and proves your hatred irrelevant and you have to wallow in your own decrepit mire for another four years."

[cocoapuff]

SADattle

[Edit35]

The danker the mood in Seattle, the brighter it is in the other parts of America.

Thanks, Seattle, for making it possible for us normal-folk to be so happy today.

[Edit35]

Or as they say in Philly, the closer the BONE, the sweeter the MEAT.

And the voters in Seattle certainly got BONED.

[TADSLOS]

A double shot of Starbucks espresso should do the trick for 'em...that and an immigration application to Canada.

[Republican Wildcat]

This is the city that has this statue of Lenin.

[Chad Fairbanks]

This is because of my Washington State "Get out the Gloat 2004" Campaign, I bet...