In what has turned out to be a great day for terrorists worldwide, the Democrats clean House and possibly the Senate as well. The Republicans claimed that a vote for the Democrats was a vote for the terrorists and boy were they right. As we speak, Iranian, Syrian, and North Korean troops have already taken out Alaska and are amassing troops for a full-scale invasion of the United States. With all our troops in Iraq and politicians hung over from election night, we are powerless against the vast military might of our enemy. Most Americans have already given up hope, as Canada is all that lies between the terrorists and us.
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November 8th, 2006 at 11:00 am
No, if they attack us with an army then they aren’t “terrorists” anymore… Right? Hrm, I’m confused again.
November 8th, 2006 at 11:01 am
Hooray! It was an election where people voted for the right reasons, ending corruption and an asinine war, instead of in support of a futile assault on butt-sex.
November 8th, 2006 at 11:07 am
In a political blog that I visit regularly, the republican supporters normally spend their day bashing anyone that dared to question the policies of the Republican Majority with the logic of “In this time of national crisis, how dare you question our elected officials!” I have to say, it was really fun to rub their noses in that statement.
I don’t feel that the democrats are without their faults. The main reason I’m so happy is that this proves that democracy is still running in this country. The republicans screwed up big time, and we voted them out of majority.
Now my big gripe is that with everything that just happened with Haggard, how could Colorado still vote down Domestic Partnerships and then Declare Gay marraige banned. If they’d allow it, then their Evangelical Preachers wouldn’t have to sneak around and lie about it.
November 8th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
Why the predictably gleeful news post, gasmonso? “We” didn’t win anything. It’s just another round in a rigged game of poker.
Sheesh.
November 8th, 2006 at 12:40 pm
Not to mention two democrats that were in favour of war won.
November 8th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
Could someone please explain this to a non-american?
November 8th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
Re: instead of in support of a futile assault on butt-sex
Not in Virginia. Here we’re amending our state Constitution to protect a law that doesn’t let gay folks marry. Furthermore, it invalidates contractual agreements that would confer marriage-like benefits on unmarried couples.
Technically, it prevent you from making your children a beneficiary.
Virginia: a load of closed-minded bigots.
November 8th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
What I was surprised me was that four states outlawed gay marrige, and yet Democrats carried the day anyway. I don’t know how the four states in question voted as far as party, but given the high vote for Democrats, and the votes for a gay marrige ban, it looks like gay marrige is not the life or death crisis many Republicans have pushed it as being. This makes me happy (although banning marrige for people who will probably have no effect on my life whatsoever does not).
November 8th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Unfortunately, you’re right Tommy. Virginia was not the only state to pass similar laws: Idaho, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wisconsin have joined VA, and probably Colorado, South Dakota, and Arizona are likely to join them (I don’t know what the final result of the votes were).
November 8th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
The twist with gay marriage bans, at least in Virginia, is that black Democrats are likely to support such bans. (I’m generalizing, but not by much.)
To many black folks, gay rights aren’t really a civil rights issue and they don’t see any parallels between anti-miscegenation laws in the past and anti-gay-marriage laws today. (Virginia’s anti-miscegenation was in force until 1967.)
November 8th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
Could someone please explain this to a non-american?
In America we have two political parties that both do really bad jobs of everything and spend their time in power pandering to lobbyists and doing their damned best to only achieve doing “not something the other would do”.
It used to be that these parties used some political lube while they screwed you, but now its all rough, dry and without foreplay. So this year, we’ve decided that the current hole we were being screwed in was too raw, so we might as well switch.
November 8th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
Most black people still think god is real and being gay is a choice. I don’t know a single black atheist (aside from myself) and many of them think there’s something ‘wrong’ with me. I don’t think gay-rights are civil rights, they should be considered human-rights. I understand marriage is a civil right due to the effects it has on taxation and other legislation, of course government is against it on the whole unmarried people pay more taxes than married. Always follow the money.
November 8th, 2006 at 3:31 pm
NEWSFLASH:
One incompetant party out, another incompetant party in.
November 8th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
I don’t think they’re incompetant at all, has anyone ever come out of politics worse off than when they went in? You don’t honestly believe that crap about public service do you?
November 8th, 2006 at 3:43 pm
Elliott nailed it.
November 8th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
I hate to glib but… ok I LOVE to be glib so, Elliott, I can think of a few people who came out of politics worse than they went in. JFK comes to mind.
In all seriousness, you have a very good point.
November 8th, 2006 at 4:14 pm
I don’t know a single black atheist (aside from myself) and many of them think there’s something ‘wrong’ with me.
This is an interesting point. I’ve noticed this myself with a few of my black friends. They have become angry with the Mega-churches fleecing their communities and are educated enough (read: passed Grade 6 Earth Sciences) to see that the bible does not hold with what we know about the universe. In fact, one even said that he couldn’t take anything the bible said as fact anymore. Through all of this, however, they still remain Christian and can’t give me any reason why they just don’t decide to become Christian Deists, Non-religious Deists, Agnostics, Atheists or the like. They simply retain the Christian moniker. I can only assume family and social presures.
I’d love to hear your opinions on why this might be (though maybe in an email conversation since its off topic here). I don’t feel like posting my email up on a public forum for fear of spam-bots grabbing it, but I’m pretty sure if you contacted Gasmonso, he could give it to you.
November 8th, 2006 at 6:51 pm
@ Humanistic Jones
I have no problem with that. I’ll do that, or you could contact me. I just created the account, I figure I lurked here long enough.
November 8th, 2006 at 7:01 pm
I have to correct you there. One peculiar misunderstanding of the Bible doesn’t hold with what we know about the universe.
You don’t even need to appeal to evolution to show that this particular misunderstanding is wrong. 17th century astronomy is enough.
November 8th, 2006 at 7:09 pm
The fuuny thing, as far as I know that USA is the only country has two parties and they don’t allow any other party to have a chance, which leads you to one result either black or white.
November 8th, 2006 at 7:36 pm
@Mohamed
That’s effectively true but not actually. The US has many parties, the problem is most voters are conditioned to vote for only two. The two biggies have all the money and saturate the media most voters don’t want to do any real research AND they’ve been conditioned to believe that voting for a third party is throwing your vote away or worse allowing the republicans to win. Third parties have developed the stigma of being kooks or extremist.
November 9th, 2006 at 2:23 am
true indeed, you’re very much allowed, so if you have a spare billion or two, feel free to start your own party.
add to that the fact that most people are to stupid to actually look what they vote for. “I’m votin’ [party] ’cause tat’s wha me pa used ta do”
Add to THAT the fact that Americans hardly realise there ARE more then two parties…
And you’ve got an effective 2-party system. It’s one of those sad things where people have the freedom to choose, but refuse to.
November 9th, 2006 at 9:12 am
Indeed, Alcari. It is sad. I like the way George Bernard Shaw said it:
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
November 12th, 2006 at 11:57 am
garbage in garbage out
November 13th, 2006 at 5:49 pm
Elliot, while I don’t KNOW a black Atheist, I know of one very high profile one! The Infidel Guy, Reggie Findley. Runs a very high profile subscription based Atheist website and internet radio. I wish I had the spare coin to subscribe to his site, but its a little rich for my blood.
Speaking of that, in response to something Humanistic Jones said about discussion and out of topicness, Gasmonso, any chance we will ever see Religious Freaks get a real forum section so we can carry on wild and crazy discussion on completely offtopic … topics?
As for the subject at hand? Eh. Just another non-event. It has been said before, they are both equally bad just in different ways. I can’t be bothered to stand in a 10 minute line to vote because it doesn’t matter anyway.
November 13th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
Hi Michael, I have thought about putting a forum up, but they are a nightmare when it comes to religion. I don’t want the quality of discussion to completely degenerate, but I understand the desire for one.
Let me set up a poll to get feedback from other readers. If there is a strong interest then I will have to cater to everyones needs.
I’ll start looking in to it soon.
gasmonso
November 14th, 2006 at 10:11 am
Hey Gasmonso, well religion and politics are the two topics most guaranteed to generate a flamewar and that is what makes them fun! :)
You could have a specific “war board” and I bet with some of the regulars around here you could scare up a few folks to help moderate the forum.