Quite a Protest

Ground Zero suicide follows post-election despair

A man fatally shot himself at Ground Zero of the World Trade Centre in New York, and friends believe the tragic suicide was a political protest against President George W Bush's re-election and the war in Iraq.

The body of Andrew Veal, 25, a university research worker from the southern state of Georgia who was engaged to be married, was found on the site of the September 11 terror attacks yesterday morning, his family and officials said.

Veal didn't leave a note, but those who knew the sensitive young man said he sent a grim message by choosing to end his life where almost 3,000 people perished.

"I'm absolutely sure it's a protest," said Mary Anne Mauney, Veal's supervisor at the University of Georgia survey research lab. "I don't know what made him commit suicide, but where he did it was symbolic."

"I see it as a political statement," agreed co-worker Stacey Sutherland. "He was so opposed to the war."

When Veal failed to show up at work on Wednesday, his pals assumed he was upset that Bush had beaten John Kerry in the race for the White House and was taking a few days off.

"We figured he was just devastated," Mauney said.

But fears for his safety grew when he didn't returns calls from his mother and his fiancee, an Iowa college student who was supposed to meet him in Seattle this weekend for a family wedding.

Hope turned to heartache yesterday when Veal's body was found. He had a head wound and police recovered a shotgun nearby.

"Andy was so anti-violence, I can't even see him holding a gun," Sutherland said.

Mauney said that other than the war and the election, she didn't know what might have been troubling Veal.

"I told his mother there are some people so sensitive and intelligent and passionate they don't belong in the world the way it is today," she said.

Map Mania

This guy over at The Blogging of the President has assembled a great assortment of maps interpreting the election with a proportional electoral map, county-by-county, kids' votes, and more.
We've Gone Map Crazy!

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And this bit of vandalism in North Carolina is only the beginning, to be sure.
Vandals Hits GOP Headquarters in North Carolina

More Election Fraud

While it might certainly seem like i'm obsessed with this, i'm not as obsessed about the election as i was, say, Monday.
though i had reached my burnout period a while ago.
Still, this election fraud problem needs to be addressed and looked at to ensure that the vote count we came up with on Tuesday is the correct one.
Voting Machine Error Gives Bush 3,893 extra votes in Ohio
Is this just the beginning?

Here's another story on the same subject
E-Vote Glitch Inflates Bush Total

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Meanwhile, the Democrats do what they do best, blame each other for their defeat.
This time, they're blaming San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Weak, very weak.
Some Democrats Blame One Of Their Own
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Even high school students in Boulder, Colo., are pissed off about the Bush win on Tuesday.
Sleepover Protests Bush's Policies

Students at Colo. High School Protest Bush

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And don't forget to apologize to the world for America's error once again.
But hey, we tried, right?
Sorry Everybody
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Ah, i like this posting on Craig's List. Sounds like me!
MC w/59,017,382 Americans
Or read the text below:
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You people, who voted for Bush. Who are you? Why did you do this to us? The man who did nothing to prevent 9/11, failed to react when the attacks occurred, and failed to find the two maniacs who orchestrated the attacks...has been re-elected!!??

Three years ago, everyone in the world cried over New York. You homophobes from Nebraska came and laid wreaths here. But you couldn't give an inch when we needed your help to get rid of this psycho-president. So here we are, in New York, scared of further attacks while this crackpot wages his crusades, and scared of you anencephalic neanderthals who stood up for his failures. To the east of us are islamo-fascist extremists who will stop at nothing to destroy the symbols of Western capitalism. (Yes, those symbols would be the Empire State Building, the broadway shows, and the Stock Market that you smelly, drooling, cow-eyed tourists come and stare at.) And to the west are hoards of pentecostal fundamentalist christians who are waiting with sweaty palms and bated breath for the wrath of God (in the shape of hairy mujhadeen) to come and burn this Gomorrah to the ground.

I don't know you. I don't have your myopic values, your religious fervor, your sanctified hate. And apparently, I don't have as many friends as you do, lemmings. So as this country slides into the stinking shitpuddle of conservative fascism, let me make one request: Don't stay in touch. Don't visit New York and enjoy its food, sites and entertainment. Don't see movies made in Hollywood. Stay in South Dakota, Ohio, and Alabama. Don't look to the coasts for entertaiment and excitement, then wipe your ass with us when we really need your support. Stay at the mall. Play with yourselves in your SUVs. Molest your suburban babysitter. But don't come 'round here no more. We don't know you, you're not our friends. You want values? Stick w/Britney and her 60-second marriages, I'll take an honest fag anyday.

It's hard being a New Yorker these days. It's hard being brutally attacked by a terrorist fanatic. It's hard being used as a backdrop for mindless nationalist posturing. It's hard getting shit on by inbreeds from Utah every election. It's hard being a New Yorker. But I'd much rather be a proud, sad, New Yorker than a mindless pious fuckwit from Jacksonville, Florida with a cross on the wall and six copies of Playboy tucked under the sofa.

So fuck you, red America. Stay out there, in the darkness with your satellite cable and 10-acre supremarkets. Drive around your suburbs in your retarded Hummers. Pretend you have somewhere worthwhile to go. Becasue without New York, and Los Angeles, and all us interesting blue-state people, your world is a boring, lonely place, and you deserve it. We're different, we don't suck.

We may never win an election, and all that proves is that majority rule is a woefully imperfect way to chose a leader.

Next time you want to come and have fun in New York, visit Tarramt County, Texas instead, assholes.

this is in or around Sodom and Gomorrah, USA

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buck up some more fellow progressives
Hello, Uranus? Got Any Room? Must. Move. Away. Cannot endure more Bush. Soul about to implode. Right? Not so fast
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And stay angry.
Guilty, Disgusted, American

Election Fraud??
There are Real Discrepancies
...And other misgivings

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Hate to already spring this on people, but some serious allegations are already being made regarding the potential for voter fraud and mischief in Ohio and Florida.
The differences in the exit polls and the machines are striking in those states, whereas most other exit polls almost perfectly match the outcome in other states.

This is just beginning to build but it's striking that it's already emerging two days after this election.
Here's an email i received this morning:
>>>>
I'm passing along some information related to the possibility that this election was rigged. Although I haven't seen enough of the evidence--and am not sufficiently confident in my statistical analysis abilities--to be able to verify this for you, I do think that fraud may have occurred, perhaps on a massive scale, and that this warrants serious further investigation. Perhaps some of you math types can take
a closer look and tell me what you think.

Do not forget that the Walden O'Dell, hard-core Republican fundraiser and chief executive of Diebold Inc (the company that makes most of the voting machines), said in a letter dated Aug. 14, 2003, that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its
electoral votes to the president next year." (see http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0828-08.htm).

I also find it fishy that Rove said that they would get 4 million more votes than they got in 2000 and, apparently, they did. Almost exactly.

I'm sure that you're all aware of the very serious problems with the electronic voting machines. If not, check out this site: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/.
Wired has an article out on e-voting in this election at Watchdogs Spot E-Vote Glitches.

Okay, so the info about fraud in this election is below. Much of it comes from
Exit polls analysis versus reported vote count.

I want everyone to see this and at least have a choice as to whether they want to be depressed because Bush won this election, or because Bush stole this election.

Black Box Voting and Greg Palast's report of a million votes thrown out in Florida before the election even began aside, basic numbers show that this election was a fraud, it was stolen just like the 2000 election was stolen.

Look at a site which lists the exit polls before they were "corrected." Correction is the procedure by which the exit polls are retrofitted to match the figures provided by the vote counting machines. It is easily done by changing the exit poll results, such as the 2.00 a.m. re-assignment of the Nevada exit poll scores which was done without varying the sample size.

Results can be also changed by other methods like screwing with the weighting (weighting in statistics is a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance).

So let's check out raw exit polls vs. announced results

Here is one list as an example of raw exit poll data: All exit polls predict Kerry victory, though early polls not considered reliable

Then look at the results by state, such as here:
Elections

The GOP says that the exit polls are not large enough samples and so there is a large random error in the results. If this were true, then the exit polls would scatter on either side of the actual result, ESP. if the final result is so close to 50/50.

When we compare exit polls with actual results we see a skew - but ONLY in states which the Republicans had previously stated to be target states in play. The skew favors Bush every time.

The exit poll results are not scattered about the mean, they are all on the Kerry side of the vote counts as issued by the states except for a few of states where the final figures are very close to poll figures.

Here are the figures. They list the four contemporaneous and uncorrected exit polls. Kerry is listed first and Bush second in each pair of figures. Published = the figure presented as the vote count as of 10.00 a.m. EST on 11/3/04

AZ Poll one 45-55 Final 45-55 Published 44-55
CO Poll one 48-51 2nd 48-50 3rd 46-53 Published 46-53
LA Poll one 42-57 Final 43-56 Published 42-57
MI Poll one 51-48 Published 51-48 Published 51-48
IOWA Poll one 49-49 3rd 50-48 Final 49-49 Published 49-50
NM Poll one 50-48 2nd 50-48 3rd 50-48 Final 50-49 Published 49-50
ME 3rd 55-44 Published 53-45
NV: 3rd 48-49 Published 48-51
AR: 3rd 45-54 Published 45-54
MO Final 46-54 Published 46-53

These tracking polls are as expected and within the margin of error. But in othe states that is not the case. Either the exit polls were wrong or the vote count is wrong:
WI Poll one 52-48 3rd 51-46 Final 52-47 Published 50-49
PA Poll one 60-40 3rd 54-45 Final 53-46 Published 51-49
OH Poll one 52-48 2nd 50-49 3rd 50-49 Final 51-49 Published 49-51
FL Poll one 51-48 2nd 50-49 3rd 50-49 Final 51-49 Published 47-52
MINN Poll one 58-40 3rd 58-40 Final 54-44 Published 51-48
NH Poll one 57-41 3rd 58-41 Published 50-49
NC Poll one 3rd 49-51 Final 48-52 Published 43-56

Taking the figures and measuring the size and direction of the poll to supposed vote count discrepancy, you will see:
OH Bush + 4%
FL Bush + 7%
NH Bush + 15%
NC Bush + 9%
etc.

Also:
...in several swing states, and EVERY STATE that has E-Voting but no paper trails has an unexplained advantage for Bush of around +5% when comparing exit polls to actual results.

In EVERY STATE that has paper audit trails on their EVoting, the exit poll results match the actual results reported within the margin of error.

So we have MATCHING RESULTS for exit polls vs. voting with audits vs.
A 5% unexplained advantage for Bush without audits.

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Here's what what one mainstream paper says:
>Exit Polls: Early Numbers Misread and Misused
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Fruit has returned to being deposited in my chair. a mysterious person has been putting various fruit in my chair at work off and on for the last few weeks.
today, the fruit returns. an apple. oh wait!
after reading the little tag, it's an Asian pear. it certainly looks like an apple. it's round.
also, i found a very tiny chocolate chip on my keyboard.
this can only mean apocalypse is upon us.
in the past, there has been a banana, pear, orange and persimmon -- DEF: the usually orange several-seeded globular berry of a persimmon that is edible when fully ripe but usually extremely astringent when unripe -- and...am i missing one? can't recall.

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it must be true that stress does in fact cause memory lapse. how else to explain that the unbelievable amount of stress upon my shoulders has enabled me to not only forget the specific paper i needed for my appointment with the DMV this morning to renew my license (despite the fact i have two copies, i can now only find one and i left that one at work - idiot), but also i pulled my salad for lunch out on to my kitchen table, only to then forget it there.
i am officially dumb sometimes
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guilt is good.
when we went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Sunday afternoon (gorgeous down there, btw), i noticed in all the bathrooms, there was quite a thought-provoking sign.

next to the paper towels near the sinks was this:
TOWELS = TREES

it made me take less.
see, guilt is good.

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i guess i won't be smoking my post-election day celebratory cigar i got in Monterey at Cool Cat Cigars. that was a cool place though. the dude working the counter had the best facial hair. mostly white, except for right around the mouth, which was tobacco-stained.
but his moustache was one of those long ones that went over his mouth entirely so you can't see his lips. and his handlebar part of his moustache was super long and in twisty curly Qs pointed out thanks to some fine wax.
He was a fine gentleman.
Fare thee well, gentle man.

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ok, i'm not getting ahead of myself here.
i'm kind of shaking after reading this government document regarding the Selective Service, which is the draft.
but apparently, same old financial aid/register tie-in. Ooooold law.
http://cryptome.org/sss110404.txt

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update: 4 p.m. PST

got some more stuff on the e-voting controversy that is continuing to swirl around on the web.

E-Vote Goes Smoothly, but Experts Skeptical

this next one's much more emphatic.
Kerry Won

here's a story from Salon, which is subscription only (here's a tip - sit through the 60-second or so commercial to get a free day pass each day, well worth it) that sort of discounts what some blogs are saying, so it's a good wake-up call, if nothing else.

Did e-voting fraud help Bush steal the election?
The Internets are abuzz with rumors that Bush won with the help of rigged electronic voting machines.
- - - - - - - - - - - -
By Farhad Manjoo
Nov. 4, 2004 | Lefty Web sites are buzzing with a supposed "statistical analysis" that they say proves that Republicans stole the election by rigging paperless touch screen machines. According to the analysis performed by a Democratic Underground regular who goes by the handle SoCalDemocrat, states that use electronic machines were all showing strong Kerry support in exit polls, but when the results came in, the states went to Bush. The polls (which are based on interviews with voters as they leave the polls) indicate that voters in the state really voted for Kerry, the lefties say; the machines distorted or changed their votes. "Maybe Dubayah believes God will see him through this, but it's going to take more than blind faith to pull the wool over the data and the facts," SoCalDemocrat writes.

But as we see it, SoCalDemocrat's evidence is quite thin. For one thing, he appears to be wrong on the facts. While he's correct that exit polls showed a Kerry victory in many states that actually went to Bush, this didn't only happen in states that use paperless touch screen machines.

The most obvious example is Nevada, the only state in the nation to use what many computer scientists consider to be the safest touch-screen machines -- machines that print a paper ballot that is reviewed by the voter as each vote is cast, a so-called voter-verified paper trail. In Nevada, the last exit polls showed Kerry leading Bush by 49 to 48 percent, with 1 percent for Ralph Nader. The actual result was a win for Bush by 51 to 48 percent.

And even in states that did use paperless touch-screen machines, it's not clear that Bush made his gains in the areas of the states that used them, rather than regions that use other machines. For instance, in Florida, it's the state's large South Florida counties that use paperless touch screens. But Bush did worse in these regions in 2004 than in 2000. In the 2000 race in Miami-Dade, Bush got about 47 percent of the two-party share of the vote, while Al Gore received 53 percent; this year, Bush only got 46 percent of the two-party vote there, while Kerry got 54 percent. What this means is that in the move from punch-card machines (which, as everyone remembers, Miami-Dade used in 2000) to paperless touch-screens, Bush actually did worse, not better. At the same time, the president gained in Orange County, Florida. In 2000, Gore beat Bush in Orange County, whose largest city is Orlando; this year, Kerry lost to Bush there. And Bush didn't need rigged machines to do it: Orlando uses paper-based optical-scan voting machines -- which computer scientists consider more reliable than the touch screen systems.

Even if unfounded, the Democratic Underground set's suspicion is understandable. The exit polls were odd. And who can forget the infamous pledge of Wally O'Dell, CEO of touch-screen machine vendor Diebold, to deliver Ohio's electoral votes to Bush this year? (Ohio, however, used few paperless touch-screens.) It's certainly worthwhile to scrutinize how the technology functioned in this year's election, but to date there simply isn't the evidence to conclude that the election was "stolen" using it. One way to make sure future presidential races are above such suspicion would be to add paper trails to all the paperless machines.

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I have some good news today.
Long absent, absinthe to become legal in its native Switzerland

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even better news. People want to fight Bush supporters.
Straight male seeks Bush supporter for fair, physical fight
Let the games begin!
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a quote from my good friend in the State That Would Be Florida:
"What gets me is the fact i'll never know the satisfaction of having defeated that smug bastard in a election and have to watch him admit defeat.
I wanted to see him stunned and angry."
Agreed on that sentiment.
though somehow i feel like Bush's just due is still coming. Karma's a real bitch.
then again, where the hell was karma during this election? out to play?

I was listening to npr last night, Terry Gross was interviewing one of the editors at New Yorker. He was clearly devastated and filled with grief.
One thing he said that was most striking concerned violent extremism and that we're likely to see some of that, in-country terrorism, and potentially violent actions against the U.S. government in protest, which i think will likely, in turn, bring about a bigger and much scarier police state.
Man...this is going to only harden people's attitudes.

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maybe this is why Florida voted the way it did.
Liquefied Heroin Discovered In Fruit Juice Boxes in Florida
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and a sign there's still humanity in the world, despite the re-election of the evil one.
this morning on 880-S, in a super busy area of the freeway, there were several cars stopped in the middle of the road.
Then i see a middle-aged executive looking woman get out of her car in the middle of the road because there was a damn KITTEN in the middle of the freeway.
then another guy gets out of his car and tries helping the woman get the kitty.
all of a sudden this big semi truck comes rolling up and i think it's over for the kitty and she darts in front of it and the truck stops in time. i was watching all of this as i slowly drove by, then out of my rearview mirror.
it looked like the kitty made it to the side of the road but i can't be sure. at least they got the kitty out of the road.
i can't imagine how a tiny kitten got on the freeway other than by some asshole dumping it out of the window or something. so sad.
so i am hoping the kitten made it safe and sound.
people are good, aren't they?
not everybody is an asshole.
Like, say, Republicans/Bush.

have a nice today and tomorrow! (but screw you on Saturday)

Feelings, Nothing More Than Feelings

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Any proper Republican would be laughing at me right now because i have feelings.
And it's true, i am officially in the minority. People want to believe in some religious mumbo jumbo than face the true reality of our world.

I'm completely crushed, deflated, have little hope for our future.
I'm frightened for our future.

I still don't understand how this could happen.

In fact, I woke up at about 4 a.m. last night with nightmares.

I actually felt like crying last night. Still do.

People need to really look hard at the final vote tallys in Ohio and find out why there was a discrepancy between exit polls and the raw data.

As well as florida.

I know this sounds like i�m grasping at straws here and it�s likely too late to change anything now.

My God, I just read something that compared present-day U.S. to 1920s Germany and the rise of Hitler.

It�s just blowing my mind, all of it.
Well, i know where i CAN live now, west coast or upper east coast and that�s about it.

But even here in California, there�s not a ton of solace.

I will say this, the red states are officially my enemies. I will boycott those states at all costs. None of my money that i can help will be going to any of those states. i realize i should be as angry if not more so with the federal government but this is something i can do.

I'm happy about Michigan turning to Kerry, but still. There's simply no reason to go to any red state. Fuck 'em.

Running the Local Numbers

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It's nice to know at least my immediate fellow citizens feel the same way i do about most things.

Alameda County
U.S. President : General Election
Choice / Votes / %

John F. Kerry Democratic / 326,675 / 74.3%
George W. Bush (I) Republican / 107,489 / 24.4%
David Cobb Green / 1,926 / 0.4%
Michael Badnarik Libertarian / 1,731 / 0.4%
Leonard Peltier Peace&Freedom / 1,155 / 0.3%
Michael Peroutka Amrcan Ind Pty /665 / 0.2%
100% of precincts reporting Updated 11/03 2:38AM

California Statewide Totals
Choice Votes %

John F. Kerry Democratic / 5,427,055 / 54.6%
George W. Bush (I) Republican / 4,403,495 / 44.3%
Michael Badnarik Libertarian / 39,793 / 0.4%
David Cobb Green / 31,679 / 0.3%
Leonard Peltier Peace&Freedom / 21,616 / 0.2%
Michael Peroutka Amercan IndPty /20,987 / 0.2%

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update 11:13 a.m. PST
Kerry's giving his concession speech right now.
just thanked Illanya Wexler from Oakland, who launched Kids for Kerry

i feel like i've been punched

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the world is going to hell. we're all headed down a really bad road. and people are worried about moral values???
what is wrong with american society?
what is happening?
how can this be?
it's so disheartening.
it's just simply horrible.
that a man as evil as george w. bush could possibly be re-elected.
how is it that all the exit polls were wrong?
did the gop cheat?
nobody is asking that question. and it's not out of the realm of impossibility.
i just don't understand how so many people could do this?

more nasty shit is gonna happen, that's for sure.
and where was the youth vote?

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it's all such a huge disappointment to thinking people everywhere.
because we all know this just isn't right.
George Bush doesn't seem to have the capacity for reasoned responses to anything.
It's all about making impulsive decisions and sticking with them no matter how illogical or idiotic.
the only hope is that he doesn't have to pander so much to the Christian element of his base. on the other hand, without them, he's not in office again.
this really hurts.
a lot.

i don't really want to talk to anyone.
i just want to bury myself underneath my headphones and get shit done.
at least i won't have this huge gigantic thing to obsess over anymore.

my heart hurts.
i fear the America of 2004.

it's sickening. all of it.

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some early rants and reactions from what is apparently the minority - thinking people.

A rant: Kerry Should Have Won

It's Mourning In America

The Dream Is Lost

I'm feeling weird/shitty/scared

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i don't want this to be true. how can this be true? it seems like the death knell for our future, at least a hopeful and positive future.
it's not over yet, there are still votes that need to be counted in ohio, but i'm nervous. and scared.
this is like bizarro world.
nothing seems right.
what the fuck is happening?
what the fuck is wrong with america?
what the fuck?

the mood is very somber.
it feels like that to me. at least.
nobody was on the streets. it was very dead.

the drive home from work was tense and intense.
i'm just stunned.
fucking stunned. what the fucking is wrong with america?

how can this be?
jesus.

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here's a realtime IM session i'm having with my pal in Cinci. he's a fine pal. him.

AIM IM with m____onthemic
10:18 PM
yeah it's over
puto
buttcake
10:20 PM
i'm speechless
why is this hapening
people are weak and like to be led.
poorly
they like to think god is on their side
it's just unbelievable
plus they are assholes
and dems are lazy or stupid too
i dunno
i really thought it was over for them
the GOP has come out opf the woodwork
even the news guys seem grim. it's like everyone with a brain knows this is grave
nobody on tv seems celebratory
supreme court
like half the court, easily
daschle is toast
i was so ready to be done with Bush/cheney
god
i didn't think there could be 4 more years
me either
Thanks media
yep
scum
so afraid of whiningGOP fucks
you know, cnn still hasn't called ohio for bush
eh, 51/48, 83%
i'm sorry, 89%
what happens now?
i just don't even know
bush will claim victory so its harder to take away....ustlike in 2000
yep
one good note. medical marijuana is up 63/36 here in oakland right now
you'll need it
dude, i feel like the coasts are separate from teh rest of the country.
i can see boycotts of people in the fly-over states
its like family youve grown apart from and canno longer relate to
man
fuck
i'm so glad i'm not of draft age
i'd be hella freakeed if i was 18 right now
california should secede
we could do it
kick out arnold and let him run for president of the rest
california is the 4th or 5th largest economy in the world
wait, kick out arnold
?
of Cali
10:35 PM
arnold isn't as bad as i expected him to be.
frankly,.i'd take him over bush for sure
i mean, the recall was dirty...
but...youknow
what can youd
ohio is in bush column
says who?
oh, shitty local affiliate
nope, 51/48 bush 90%
it's not declared
this guy on local abc affiliate just referred to rhenquist opening as a 'donnybrook'
fuckthegop
anti-gop stuff is going to get much harsher
NOTMYPRESIDENT
yah
btw, that stem cell proposition, gona pass
though i think it's lame because it's a bond measure (i'm giving you cali updates)
all good.
three strikes law repeal is winning though schwarzenegger has been saturating the airwaves saying to vote no
but only 37%
mental health servives prop is winning
how does same sex marriage hurt people?
it boggles my mind
nontribal game expansion is being rejected
people hate gays
tribal gaming compacts defeated...arnold helped defeat
people hate gays
their loving church tells them so
it really does feel more and more like california is separate from the rest of the country
it's big enough to be a country
people here stay in the state a lot
you'd have a dangerous,unpredictable neighbor
it's weird
uh yeah
it won't happen
we need federal funds
this just makes me believe in less than ever
how can i believe in my government anymore?
i can't
coors lost
yay!
really????
fuck yeah
nice
reduce violent crime measure in oakland, winning
medical marijuana still winning big
prostitution enforcement in berkeley losing
to legalize prostitution
10:45 PM
weird. medical mariujuana in berkeley is losing 53/47 right now
dude, what about absentee ballots?
are those being counted in ohio per se?
in these numbers?
ohio is currently....
smaller counties
51/49 92%
puto
nbc has ohio as bush
4 more years of that smirk
i'm happy coors lost
former sf mayor willie brown is not conceding ohio, he's saying some of the networks are projecting it too early
on KRON, local ind.
bush is going to win new mexico
iowa is still in play
wisconsin kerry
maybe
i think kerry wins wisc.
they just said fox and nbc has projected ohio but no one else has
everyone else is open
i agree with you on cheese heads
what about New Hampshire. What's wrong with them?
i'm getting drunk
new hampshire
?
surrounded by red
i thought nh was kerry
still in play
really, cspan says kerry
eh, 51/49 kerry, 93% reporting
tight
still 51/49 ohio 92
%
i got all these crazy political calls this past weekend
p_to
10:55 PM
is Ae there?
if so, tell her i send greetings of jovial goodness
if not, tell her something else
frank just gave up on watching tv
puto
shovel
clacker
i'm talking to myself

sorry. there was a cop at my door
11:00 PM
what?
christ, it's only 52/48 kerry in cali right now and 38% reporting
yeah. he;s knocking on doors trying to find out if we know the people that live in this one building
fox news is gving it to ohio, local fox affiliate
fuck
cop
crazy
you're busted
my guess is a house alarm was triggered somehow
ah
plus i'm busted
what
no. just kidding
puto
kerry campaign is disputing the calls for ohio by fox
according to local fox affliiate
hey
news
something about iowa not going to be done counting
barbara boxer won
big surprise
she's dancing with diane feinstein with arms raised and feinstein is barely moving, looking really uncomforable
11:05 PM
N.H. goes Kerry. the first switch from 2000
nice
i LOVE my new latptop btw
i was using doug's airport when i was talking to you earlier
you were SO RIGHT about laptop
ton of music software on here already
nice. they look fun
planning to use for dj-ing soon?
maybe
things are going strong in dj dept, i feel
this was a big/good move for me...goning to use to record a lot more oddball vinyl i have
not going to make this a mp3 heavy machine
itunes will be light
make my home machine my music storage
edwards is going to make a statement.
my desktop
oh shit, what channel
your desktop like a super-ipod
CBS just said that
cbs here is local affiliate
they also said Kerry camp is claiming a lead in Ohio
see
i think they atre at least trying to set up an appeal/reccount
yeah
11:10 PM
i'm not seeing that
seeing it on cnn
provisional ballots
heh
its talk between rather and others
yeah, here it's local affiliates because it's 11 news time
gotcha
51/49 ohio i'm seeing
i like the networks being more gunshy this year
nobody is jumping to conclusions
fucking youth vote being dissed on cnn
yes. its the one thing that got fixed since last time
jeff greenfield
yeah
i fucking hate larry
king
he's a walking skeleton
pssssssss
diss the youth vote. Crush their spirit and keep them from voting again....just like the GOP wants
man
i hate wolf blitzer
chump
tv news sucks
i don't like many CNN personalities
they all suck
uh oh, marijuana is losing now
in oakland
and weird, prostitution legality is now winning
Poor Dan Rather is holding out hope.
heh
maybe there will be a late reversal in Ohio
i love dan rather even though i hate him
flip-flopper
blackwell in ohio is speaking rightg now
Keyes did well
keyes? how well?
blackwell is black?
yep. Black cincinnati republican
he's refuting claims made by newtworks on provisional ballots
Michigan goes Kerry
trending toward 175,000 provisional ballots at the high end he just said
your sec. of state in ohio
watchign live covearge
kenneth blackwell
heh, that's in margin of difference
heh
puto
local dude just called ohio 'this could be this year's florida'
cinci
?
shuttlecock
cumquat
puddle
11:20 PM
sumptuous
pupple-fuss
kerry is up in mich
51/48 77%
CBS says its his
yeah?
they colored it blue
weird, making assumptions
dude
its a rally
shuttlecock
i forget it's 2"30 in the east
it's only 1120 here
...only to be crushed by a 4th quarter fumble
fumble
cumquat
arnold hasn't shown up to his hq yet
they just said
you know, arnold has a 65% approval rating?
it's crazy
jesse ventura has hair nwo?
he's in some weird pro-indian ad they just showed
weird
they are getting ready for Edwards to speak in Boston
he has a complex beard and corresponding facial hair. ...they are NOT conceding, i say
no
oh no, more footage of barbara boxer holding hands up in air sort of dancing with dianne feinstein, very uncomfortably
footage
i am still seeing local cbs coverage
i'll yell when i see him
here comes edwards
i see him
resolute
we can wait one more night
give them their own medecine
oh man
this may be long again
he slammed his book
reassurance to the peeps
yay!
ugh
enough with the victory punchs
he's stiff
good move on their part
yeah. not the positive i thought he'd be
it'd be rad if nevada went to kerry
watching nbc now w/ russert
brokaw is gettin age spots
125,327 difference in ohio
fuck
28.989 ahead bush for n.m.
kerry up 108,000 in mn
wisconsin kerry up 15,781, 87%
iowa 11,486, 97% bush
nevada 16.392 bush
kujp
michigan kerry up 90,000
oooh, kerry wins hawaii!
they're saying there's growing irritation from the white house
iowa on hold
yeah, this is becoming 2000 again
heh
crazy
it's changed in the last hour
i'm impressed they predicted this Ohio thing months and months ago
i know
florida loses the goat image
scapegoat
itmay relocate to cincinnati
heh
frank is very upset about the returns tonight
it will be cool
i'm sure
stella is very cute these days
;yeah?
getting fluffy
tina is out cold right now
as is the kitty and frank

you are what's wrong with america
damn you and you're manhands
ola
tina just did a big turnover and upset frank's space
i'm america's worst nightmare
i'm so stoked you did the silent protest.
nice work man
i wish you had pics
thanks. I was pleased. I was compelled
it's harder to get compelled here in cali when it's a dem state
lots of peeps around here traveled to ohio and fla.
i just couldnt' do it...too much work, new job, ya know
11:40 PM
i'm gonna bail soon.
nice talking w/you. Too bad the world may end
yeah
ok. it's not that bad....maybe
maybe
i'm unsure about everything
i lose faith in my country tonight
whatever happens
i lose faith in my country tonight