Happy Thanksgiving! We have much to be thankful for in this better-than-all-the-other-countries country that we live in!
Best 2 things about about Thanksgiving: family & food (& for some football). Best 2 foods at Thanksgiving: stuffing (with gravy on it) and pumpkin pie (with cool wip on it).
I came across this article by Dennis Prager on the net. I don’t know much about him beyond what was in this article: “As one who was raised a Democrat and became a Republican only 10 years ago… a New York City born and raised, Jewish, Ivy League-educated intellectual who lives in Los Angeles”
Mr. Prager is answering a question posed by Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, reflecting on her party’s recent [election] losses, asked: “How did a party that is filled with people with values – and I am a person with values – get tagged as the party without values?” His short answer is that the Democratic Leadership has drifted away from the views held by many/most Democrats/Americans. I liked this article because instead of ranting and raving like most people in both parties, he listed specific examples of where the Democratic Leadership or prominent Democrats hurt their own cause by setting themselves apart from most Americans.
To most Americans, Michael Moore is a Marxist who has utter contempt for most of his fellow Americans, who goes abroad and tells huge audiences how stupid and venal his country is, and in his dishonest propaganda film, portrays the American military as callous buffoons. Yet, this radical was given the most honored seat at the Democratic Party convention in Boston, next to former President Jimmy Carter.
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It looks like Kerry has really energized the Democrats to get out and vote… Republican!
Gains in the Senate
Gains in the House
Daschle’s out
Bush wins the popular vote (w/ the most votes for a president in US History)
Bush will end up w/ 286 Electoral Votes
In Ohio Bush is up 136K votes with only 146K provisional ballets to be verified and counted…
It looks like we are just waiting for that tall, long faced, fat lady to start singing! (and save us from another drawn-out legal snaffu)
Another strong statement from the voters was the call against Gay Marriages/Civil Unions. In all 11 states that had a ban on such unions up for a constitutional ammendment, all 11 passed.
One commentator said it was an interesting topic when he was in a focus group of 12 Ohio voters that represented the political spectrum. He said of the 12: all 12 were for the ban (against gay unions), but not 1 of the 12 wanted to go into why. This reminds me of the gut feeling cited by the Supreme Court Judge about pornography (I can’t describe it, but I know it when i see it…). It would seem that most people are against such unions even if they can’t describe – or are even really sure – why.