Where are all the “separation of church and state” zealots now????? I think Bush went WAY out of line even bringing it into the election. People knew he goes to church. (BFD. Alot of the creepy, slimy jerks I’ve ever known, also go to church). It was so obvious to me the minute he decided to play that up. It was what he HAD to do, since he just couldn’t get ahead in the polls.

This win was about VALUES????? PLEASE!!! I think Kerry has MUCH deeper, down-to-earth values and integrity than Bush could even dream about possessing. Kerry even said that he would tweak his big programs as we went along. In our extremely complex and fluid society, this make far more sense to me that Bush saying, “I have a plan and I’ll never waver!!” Vote for me!, because I’m a stubborn, small minded, and tunnel visioned son-of-a-gun!!!!

It’s bad enough that the red states elected President Bush and sent the blues into a psychic tailspin. bush wins: upper west side put on suicide watch reads a T-shirt in Manhattan. Shrinks in Beverly Hills say they’ve been stampeded by despairing patients. “People … pretty much believe American society is permanently destroyed,” a Washington, D.C., psychiatrist told the Los Angeles Times. Jon Stewart captured the blue zeitgeist when he mused that Bush’s ascent atop a tide of evangelicals was “their revenge for us controlling what’s on TV.”

Overwrought? Perhaps. But it’s time blue America realized it controls more than just the nation’s output of immoral culture, abortions on demand, and gay weddings. It also controls the purse strings. And that suggests a strategy.

As students of the federal budget know, the citizens of some states pay more in taxes than they get back from Uncle Sam in grants and benefits. The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan commissioned frequent studies that showed how New York was getting the shaft. Arnold Schwarzenegger was stunned to learn upon taking office that for every dollar Californians send to Washington, they get back only 77 cents—an imbalance that topped $50 billion in 2003.

But a new analysis in The Great Divide: Retro vs. Metro America, a coffee-table book/political rant by liberal billionaire John Sperling, shows that a fiscal map looks awfully like an electoral map. (Lest you think this is all just liberal bias, the right-leaning Tax Foundation supplies similar data.) Between 1991 and 2001, “winner” states got nearly $1 trillion more in federal benefits than they paid in taxes. Alabama won the biggest, raking in $100 billion. Losers California, New York, and Illinois each paid $250 billion or so more than they got back. The huge gaps are driven by higher average incomes in the “donor” states, plus subsidies for farms, oil, mining—”extractive” industries that skew red. There are exceptions (Texas is a loser, Pennsylvania a winner), but the map on this page shows the big picture. The heist is more impressive considering that the winners have only a third of the U.S. population.

For blue staters, it’s one thing to watch red states pick the President and set national policy on everything from Iraq to judges. But to pay them lavishly for the pleasure suggests that blues aren’t just losers, they’re stupid losers. You can feel blue anger rising. You reds don’t like taxes? Okay, stop taking mine! You can have your states’ rights too—and we’ll start by cutting your allowance!

No wonder the hot topic in Blueland is federalism, which now seems a source of, ahem, salvation. It starts with getting red states off the blue gravy train. But “the new federalism,” as Jonathan Taplin of the University of Southern California writes, could go further. “Ultimately,” Taplin says, “the citizens of the blue states have a right to live with clean air, efficient automobiles, good schools, honest corporations, and universal health care. Their desire to build a sustainable civilization is not a new quest.” Think of it as virtual secession without the Gettysburgs.

But I don’t really want to go there. The U.S. isn’t as divided as the hype suggests, and Moynihan himself never said state payments should be even-steven. “There is a national idea” behind this pattern, Moynihan wrote, “which is no more and no less than that we are all in this together.”

Still, this election would have steamed even Moynihan. Red states shouldn’t even want blue money, what with it coming from gun-confiscating pinkos on their way to hell. Cutting off that tainted cash would be doing reds a favor. That’s my opening position, anyway. The jig’s up. Nice federal highway system you have there, Alabama. I’d hate to see anything happen to it….

Oh by the way, did you know that Bush is thinking about a “go ahead” of drilling in Alaska WildLife Refuge??? Drilling for more Oil for himself and USA. That process will damage the Wild Life and the Global Warming more at a rapid speed. The Polar Bear up there are already on Endangered Species….Bush does not care if they die or not. He just wants drilling and polluting in order to get the Oil and its Profits. What a Greedy Bastard. And the Right Wing Christians Republicans just helped Bush just to do that. Destroying the Environment- the biggest enemy to tackle with Pollution and the like….I sure hope the Christians will wake up that they are destroying the WildLife and everything else in it. Destroying the Environment. Thanks for that, now all our next Generations will be losing these things….we need the Oceans, we need the WildLife and the Water, Trees to balance the World’s Order. That is why we get sick and sicker with diseases and Cancer because we are not taking care of Environment. :(

This week, a four-year study of the Arctic documented that the region is warming rapidly, affecting global climates.

Scientists project that industrial gases such as carbon dioxide will make the Arctic warmer still, which would raise the level of the seas and make the earth hotter. The world’s atmosphere now includes about 380 parts per million of carbon dioxide, compared with 280 parts per million in 1800, according to scientists.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Kyoto international climate treaty last week, which puts it into effect early next year without U.S. participation. The treaty requires industrial nations to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases below 1990 levels.

“President Bush strongly opposes any treaty or policy that would cause the loss of a single American job, let alone the nearly 5 million jobs Kyoto would have cost,” said James Connaughton, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Ok.

Canada has the strongest economy in the G7(8), and they implemented Kyoto 4 years ago. The US is the biggest polluter in the world and yet Bush will not sign a treaty that tries to combat this problem?

What a fucken idiot.

Thanks right-wing religous freaks, you just gave me four more years to bitch about this moron. Gives me somethin to do.

Mike

Fallujah, yes I saw the News, and it is drastic and terrible news that they are forcing Men inside the City…even the innocent ones…and the women,children are free to go…but they are keeping all the Men inside Fallujah…to be killed or not to be killed…we don’t know…but my guess that the majority of Insurgents and Terrorists went elsewhere hiding….The Loyalists will remain and fight for their Allah. But they (USA Military, Iraqi Forces, and Briton are faced with other 12 Cities that has Insurgents…12 other Cities!!! that is alot to deal with…just when the Iraq Elections are just around the Corner!! They thought dealing with Fallujah will solve the problem, but I think not! They still have Samarra, Ramadi, Nasirayah, Baghdad…and the list goes on…12 other Cities with these Terrorists and Insurgents…but there are more…in Syria, Saudia Arabia, even Kuwait….on and on…even in the Whole World!!! Bush Administration CANNOT beat them all…and they are thinking of invading Iran??? mmmm is that a good idea? or invading other Countries? While the Deficit is $7 Trillion????

Sooner or Later, they and Bush going to end up like the Fools!!

I can see it now…Bankrupting USA just like Bin Laden evisioned and wished to achieve that goal. Today more than $7 Trillion of Dollars already in Deficit…and climbing by $31 Billion. And when the strike will strike the Stock Market “hitting” the right target just like Bin Laden had indicated to do so in near future. The USA will see the horror of Bankruptcy. I think it is right for People to move out of the Country to prevent losing your money there! Bush has had indicated everyone to invest their Social Security in Private Investments in the Stock Market…is he Stupid or what??? That is where Bin Laden is targeting!! I am just glad I live in Canada…USA may or may not affect us while they go down with bankruptcy. Who knows? I don’t know and I cannot tell the future, but I know this for sure, that Bin Laden never backs down on his word! He is always true to his Word, every time!

God Bless you (Bush Voters and Bush Administration) and Good Luck when the bankruptcy will take place soon. I am saving my money and paying off my Credit Card Now even though if it is Christmas soon…I am just taking precautions and you should do the same. Put your Money in your Mattress and pay off your bills while you can. Better safe than sorry like that fateful day on 9/11.:~

And don’t worry, you will be holding that head up high when things get tougher, and they will, because you can take comfort in knowing that YOU did not vote for this madman.

I see more catosphrophic operations are under way in Fallujah today. Please pray for these people, we have no idea what it is like to be sitting in your kitchen eating supper when all of a sudden a cruise missle flies through the roof and kills your kids.

Don’t worry, Bush will pay dearly for all he has done.

Ponyboy

I too felt slightly suicidal also after the elections, but I figured, I can’t give up now. We need to keep the liberals alive. Also we need to not move out of the country, unless we did so in a mass exodus, leaving all the midwesterners completly impotent, as they would lose a great market share. Besides, we liberals are mostly city folk anyway, so we actually are the bread winners of our country.

No no, what we need to do is stay here and stick through this. If we are feeling suicidal, then that means that we have no fear of the most fearful thing of all, death. Think of how powerful we become if we have no fear. I mean, a person could dedicate their entire life to campaigning or something positive, instead of being dead and doing nothing.

Fallujah, Iraq is isolated and they are preparing for the bloodiest War ever since Hue, Vietnam, they acknowledged on the News that they said they had called them to get out of Fallujah so they can prepare the worst Bloodiest War against the Insurgents and possibly the Terrorist…who knows? It does not matter if one Fallujah City is isolated, there are more of those in Sammara, Naysriah, Najaf, Baghdad, and the list goes on, I am sure the Terrorists are hiding really well among the Iraqi Civilians…I was rather suspicious why they only isolate Fallujah? Why not Baghdad and the other Cities? They did flee to other places to hide…there is no where to find them All 100%! Perhaps some of them are in Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and even Iran. They are just wishful thinking that they can stop one city of Fallujah so the January Elections will go ahead with no problems…(yea right!)

Ah! Bush still rigging the Election, I see…same old, same old crook he is! Never mind that…we can live with same old shit all over again…what is another four more years, right? We would be willing to see who will take the blame for the Chaos in the World and its own USA. Like somebody said, May God be with you!

Saynora! Peace…;)

(Didn’t you see that Guy who killed himself in the Ground Zero of World Trade Center Site? Because he was too distraught over the Bush Election— De Ja Vu all over again!!) May the Prayers go to his Family for this Loss. Amen.

Here are 17 reasons not to slit your wrists:

1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again.

2. Bush’s victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since
Woodrow Wilson in 1916.

3. The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young adults
(Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%), proving once again that your parents are always
wrong and you should never listen to them.

4. In spite of Bush’s win, the majority of Americans still think the
country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn’t worth fighting (51%), and don’t approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%). (Note to foreigners: Don’t try to figure this one out. It’s an American thing, like Pop Tarts.)

5. The Republicans will not have a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the
Senate. If the Democrats do their job, Bush won’t be able to pack the
Supreme Court with right-wing ideologues. Did I say “if the Democrats do
their job?” Um, maybe better to scratch this one.

6. Michigan voted for Kerry! So did the entire Northeast, the birthplace of
our democracy. So did 6 of the 8 Great Lakes States. And the whole West
Coast! Plus Hawaii. Ok, that’s a start. We’ve got most of the fresh water,
all of Broadway, and Mt. St. Helens. We can dehydrate them or bury them in
lava. And no more show tunes!

7. Once again we are reminded that the buckeye is a nut, and not just any
old nut — a poisonous nut. A great nation was felled by a poisonous nut.
May Ohio State pay dearly this Saturday when it faces Michigan.

8. 88% of Bush’s support came from white voters. In 50 years, America will
no longer have a white majority. Hey, 50 years isn’t such a long time! If
you’re ten years old and reading this, your golden years will be truly
golden and you will be well cared for in your old age.

9. Gays, thanks to the ballot measures passed on Tuesday, cannot get married
in 11 new states. Thank God. Just think of all those wedding gifts we won’t
have to buy now.

10. Five more African Americans were elected as members of Congress,
including the return of Cynthia McKinney of Georgia. It’s always good to
have more blacks in there fighting for us and doing the job our candidates
can’t.

11. The CEO of Coors was defeated for Senate in Colorado. Drink up!

12. Admit it: We like the Bush twins and we don’t want them to go away.

13. At the state legislative level, Democrats picked up a net of at least 3
chambers in Tuesday’s elections. Of the 98 partisan-controlled state
legislative chambers (house/assembly and senate), Democrats went into the
2004 elections in control of 44 chambers, Republicans controlled 53
chambers, and 1 chamber was tied. After Tuesday, Democrats now control 47
chambers, Republicans control 49 chambers, 1 chamber is tied and 1 chamber
(Montana House) is still undecided.

14. Bush is now a lame duck president. He will have no greater moment than
the one he’s having this week. It’s all downhill for him from here on out –
and, more significantly, he’s just not going to want to do all the hard work
that will be expected of him. It’ll be like everyone’s last month in 12th
grade — you’ve already made it, so it’s party time! Perhaps he’ll treat the
next four years like a permanent Friday, spending even more time at the
ranch or in Kennebunkport. And why shouldn’t he? He’s already proved his
point, avenged his father and kicked our ass.

15. Should Bush decide to show up to work and take this country down a very
dark road, it is also just as likely that either of the following two
scenarios will happen: a) Now that he doesn’t ever need to pander to the
Christian conservatives again to get elected, someone may whisper in his ear
that he should spend these last four years building “a legacy” so that
history will render a kinder verdict on him and thus he will not push for
too aggressive a right-wing agenda; or b) He will become so cocky and
arrogant — and thus, reckless — that he will commit a blunder of such
major proportions that even his own party will have to remove him from
office.

16. There are nearly 300 million Americans — 200 million of them of voting
age. We only lost by three and a half million! That’s not a landslide — it
means we’re almost there. Imagine losing by 20 million. If you had 58 yards
to go before you reached the goal line and then you barreled down 55 of
those yards, would you stop on the three yard line, pick up the ball and go
home crying — especially when you get to start the next down on the three
yard line? Of course not! Buck up! Have hope! More sports analogies are
coming!!!

17. Finally and most importantly, over 55 million Americans voted for the
candidate dubbed “The #1 Liberal in the Senate.” That’s more than the total
number of voters who voted for either Reagan, Bush I, Clinton or Gore.
Again, more people voted for Kerry than Reagan. If the media are looking for
a trend it should be this — that so many Americans were, for the first time
since Kennedy, willing to vote for an out-and-out liberal. The country has
always been filled with evangelicals — that is not news. What IS news is
that so many people have shifted toward a Massachusetts liberal. In fact,
that’s BIG news. Which means, don’t expect the mainstream media, the ones
who brought you the Iraq War, to ever report the real truth about November
2, 2004. In fact, it’s better that they don’t. We’ll need the element of
surprise in 2008.

Feeling better? I hope so. As my friend Mort wrote me yesterday, “My
Romanian grandfather used to say to me, ‘Remember, Morton, this is such a
wonderful country — it doesn’t even need a president!’”

But it needs us.

Yours,

Michael Moore

One American asked to marry me so he can move to Canada, can you believe that?! America so divided and Bush will wake up in the morning finding half of the Americans moving out of the Country! Now why is that? Is that because they are out of shame? or Out of greatest fear that the USA will be attacked once again? Attacked like the 9/11 and bankrupted USA? It could happen again soon. Bin Laden told everyone so.

Everyone is right, May God bless America because we will need it bad when the time comes. Would be a good idea to save your money in your mattress! Since the USA will be bankrupted soon! All the Thanks to Bush! That there are more deaths more than ever in Iraq and Afghanistan. Every morning, I wake up, there is always 30 People dead and USA Soldier’s names announced on TV News. May you live with that for the rest of your Lives, the ones who voted for Bush! Please Bush Voters, do yourself a favour, don’t complain to us about your Health Care, the Job Loss, the Prescriptions, the Education, the Gas Prices at all, after all you voted for Bush! Keep your mouths shut! We can complain all we want because we did not vote for Bush. We have every right to complain about our high premiums, high prescriptions charge, high gas prices…and the list goes on…

May God have mercy on you all! Good luck in the next four more years! I will be here praying to God and Jesus Christ for Peace every day! That is what I am going to do! Spread the Love all around the World, not killing each other. The time will come as the Armmedegon and Destruction will come and wipe out the World of all Evil things. If Christians believe, they should know what Relevation fortells a Prophecy. It said five out of Seven had fallen. Look at this way: Afghanistan had fallen, that is one, Iraq has fallen that is second, Spain had fallen, that is third, British will be fallen, as Blair will be down and USA will be the Fifth- the bankrupting of
USA and more attacks to come. Religions will be attacked. Two of them are Christian versus Muslims. I guess God must have a purpose to keep Bush on, because he will be involved in all of this to be fallen- the one of the fallen Kings to be seen out of Seven Kings and the UN Nations. Worth thinking about, go read the Bible of Revelation 17, if you don’t believe, then why the hell you vote for this Clown? Like my Friend in America, he said we will be all DOOMED to HELL!!! He is right.

Peace and Out!
(Concerned about the World Outcome)

Maybe the flu will kill us all this winter anyway, then we won’t have to deal with it all. Drowned out by the pre-election static was the announcement Mon. by the World Health Organization that they were calling an “EMERGENCY SUMMIT” in Geneva next week, to talk about the possible flu pandemic that could kill millions this year! And NO ONE in Washington or even the media is talkng about it. Amazing. Are they SURE people really voted because of values? What about the value in the idea of “live and let live” and taking care of each other?

MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA, NOW MORE THAN EVER