Just A Touch of Bleak Pessimism At A Time of Rejoicing

OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE HAS JUST BEGUN – Yahoo! News

Points out that despite the opposition holding power in the legislature, Bush has already been granted dictatorial powers, and plans for concentration camps in America have been approved and are underway (courtesy of Halliburton).

On the upside — I seriously believed that Republican fraud in voting machines and vote counting machines and procedures would be enough to guarantee a stranglehold on the legislature. I was wrong. Things weren’t that bad. (Or if they are that bad whoever’s in charge of it isn’t a Republican…)

So perhaps something good can be done about this stuff too.

Via Steve DeKorte.

Phix??

Holy crap. Wapsi Square keeps slipping in obscure references — in today’s strip one of the Chimera Girls mentions what must be the Library of Alexandria, and mentions that “Phix would watch over me there.” Phix is the name used for the Sphinx by Hesiod, who is one of the oldest Greek writers. They just keep throwing in stuff like this! It rocks.

I’m sure there were folks who knew about the Yonaguni Monument who reacted the same way to this strip.

Update: Phix is totally hot.  Hope she doesn’t kill Monica.

Hooray?

Things look pretty good electionwise, but there’s still a lot of time for shenanigans. Keep those fingers crossed.

Lieberman seems likely to be reelected even after being rejected in the primaries? Wow. Gotta give him props for that, I guess. Extraordinary.

Santorum‘s believed to be history. Good show. It’d be nice if he took his buddy Pete Hoekstra with him but I have no info on how that race is going. I don’t expect Holland, MI is angry enough to vote Democrat though.

Word is that Granholm’s keeping her seat, which is really too bad, I understand that under Dick “It’s Alticor Dammit Not Amway! We’re Not Called That Anymore” DeVos, we would start engaging in “multi-level politics,” where we’d all become “independent government owners”, and attempt to recruit citizens who would pay us taxes, and we’d provide to them governmental services (police protection, roads, etc) which we ourselves bought from our upstream government by paying them taxes. But the real money comes from recruiting people to become downstream independent government owners from yourself, buying government services from you.

Or something like that.

Sadly it looks like Michigan’s going to ban Affirmative Action. Probably but not for sure. If for no other reason, that should have died because of the massive fraud involved in getting it on the ballot in the first place.

Anyway, I am not going to write further about it because I am not going to believe any of this is real till it’s official — there’s a lot of time left to steal elections in the counting. The GOP is warning people not to believe in exit polls, which is splendid, it’s like a shoplifter telling people how notoriously unreliable surveillance cameras are, or a rapist (or Democratic President…) warning people how unreliable DNA evidence is. So let’s see how it all plays out.

Peace out.

Nazis in Grand Rapids?

Tolerance.org: U.S. Map of Hate Groups

Find out how many freaks live in your neighborhood. Apparently there have been two incidents in recent years of neo-Nazi fliers being distributed around Grand Rapids, MI. (Oh, and suburb Caledonia has a chapter of the Council for Conservative Citizens (formerly known as the White Citizens Council) — you know, the genteel Southern white supremacist group that racist southern Republicans have to curry favor with while trying not to let anyone else notice).

25 hate groups is pretty extreme for a state Michigan’s size, but Michigan is a pretty diverse state — you’ve got the Ruby Ridge types hanging out in the Northern and Western woodlands, and on the flipside you’ve got Detroit with an ample selection of Black Separatist groups. From such a diverse cultural milieu we produce such prodigies as Ted Nugent, Pete “No Seriously, Iraq DID Have WMDs, REALLY REALLY, ask my buddy Santorum” Hoekstra (R-MI), Eminem, and Kid Rock. And that’s just the white guys.