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Just saw Cindy Sheehan on Market St. in SF doing some last-minute campaigning.
This morning I voted for her (as opposed to Leader Nance), Obama (happily but skeptically), no on Prop. 8 (anti-Ghey-marriage), and yes on naming the city sewage plant in honor of George W. Bush.
... keep the heat on!
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The Mighty Member of the Big Dog, the elected Democrat allowed to take office until Obama: The Cl[inton P]enis. Who could begin to define a signifier of such humongous power? The Clenis
™ is worth about $10 million per inch as measured by the Republicans investigating it.... And to hear the Republicans tell it, The Clenis™ is responsible for everything that's wrong with the country, then and now.... Watch them change the subject to The Clenis™ whenever they start losing an argument on the merits; it's fun, and educational! He don't need no stinkin' codpiece .... Originated by "Jennifer" of the Atrios comments section.
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dreams of sewage plants
ohpleaseohpleaseohplease
My secret hope list
1. George W. Bush Sewage Treatment Plant
2. Defeat of Prop 8
3. Representative El Tinklenberg (no mas Bachmann)
4. Senator Al Franken
I'm feeling greedy, but I think three of four would be a suitable outcome.
"A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
"A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
You _might_ get 1 out of 4 if you keep wishing for ponies.
Well, you're not getting 2, 3 or 4, as of 4AM.
I think the useful model for this election is, "People clung to their wingnut ways, but voted for the black guy, so the map looks really blue."
It all feels very 1980 to me this evening...
Yeah, Morning in America-esque
As I watched Obama making his speech on stage, everything felt and sounded so tinged with "Morning in America." Everyone else saw the first black president, and all I could see was a slightly more populist-sounding Reagan, if I'm being honest. But, then again, Reagan-chic is all the rage, these days. This kind of rhetoric has always made me uneasy. Perhaps, I'm just allergic to change and hope if I'm to believe what the OFB
says...
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...
Good luck on the naming question, but if it doesn't pass,
push for " SCLM
sewage treatment/novelization plant" as an alternative name.
( Strangely enough, there's a bond question on the ballot for improving sewage treatment infrastructure in my neck of the woods in PA.)
"Our country right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right."
Carl Schurz - U.S. Senator 1/17/1872
HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
(The Devil's Dictionary.com)
THB!
May all your wishes come true. Good luck in the Northlands!
WRhouse: the best argument I heard against re-naming the sewage plant is that it would start malfunctioning terribly just by having Bush's name in the proximity.
Sort of throwing up in revulsion to be
associated with number 43?
"Our country right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right."
Carl Schurz - U.S. Senator 1/17/1872
HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
(The Devil's Dictionary.com)
Love to See Sheehan
do well and make a strong showing. Winning is too much to expect, but putting a little fear into these people is a good thing.
Did Pelosi have to do much campaigning or spend much money?
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. " - Eleanor Roosevelt
I wish I did not get too busy to move
to San Francisco before the election, so I could vote for Cindy and on the sewage plant renaming.
19% for Sheehan?
is that right? that's wonderful!
http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/result...