The stolen election is good news.

[goldengreek]

Like a lot of people of good will around the country, I've been very upset with what happened on Nov 2nd. It was an especially large shock to my system because everything I could get my hands on indicated to me Kerry was going to pull off this election very cleanly. And with the world watching I was confident that Bush wouldn't try to steal this one.

Well, I was wrong. He did steal it. And we're proving it.

But if this tells me anything, it's that Bush and his constituents are a lot more desperate than I thought they were. And they ought to be. In a stand-up fight with their enemies they got their clocks cleaned. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. ALL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION STANDS AGAINST THEM. There ain't no red states over in Europe and up in Canada. Read it and weep with joy:

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/11/15/europe/index.html

Here's one of a zillion great parts:

"After adding 10 new Eastern and Central European nations last May, the European Union now has a much larger population than the United States, and a slightly bigger economy. As Jeremy Rifkin argues in his dense and contentious new research-driven tome "The European Dream," the United States remains ahead in per-capita GDP, but the difference is not as significant as it looks.

"Much of American 'productivity,' Rifkin suggests, is accounted for by economic activity that might be better described as wasteful: military spending; the endlessly expanding police and prison bureaucracies; the spiraling cost of healthcare; suburban sprawl; the fast-food industry and its inevitable corollary, the weight-loss craze. Meaningful comparisons of living standards, he says, consistently favor the Europeans. In France, for instance, the work week is 35 hours and most employees take 10 to 12 weeks off every year, factors that clearly depress GDP. Yet it takes a John Locke heart of stone to say that France is worse off as a nation for all that time people spend in the countryside downing du vin rouge et du Camembert with friends and family."

Break out your fangs and claws, friends. Our enemies are running on fumes.

[Hobbes199]

1. Yeah, but,

If we didn't have a 7.4 trillion dollar deficit, a fascist government, an idiot in the White House, and a tendency to start wars rather than end them, this would be the best nation on the planet.