Dump Duhbya

Dump Ahnold!

Amend for Arnold & Jen
[mjh: who the hell is Jen?]

Orrin Hatch introduced the “Equal Opportunity to Govern Amendment” into the Senate Judiciary Committee in July 2003. Since then, not much has happened.

We aim to change that.

Thousands of amendments are floated in Congress every year but virtually all of them sink out of sight. The last one ratified was the 27th Amendment in 1992. (It’s about Congressional pay.)

So……

We need 2/3 of the House and 2/3 of the Senate to vote for our amendment. Then we need 3/4 of the states to ratify the amendment.

That’s 38 states. That’s a lot.

We’re going to need help in every state…..and that’s where you come in.

As long as we’re shredding the Constitution for Arnold, let’s outlaw choice and gays. Might as well restore the original intent of letting only landowners (ie, Rich White Guys) vote. mjh

Mine

Left Undone, Part 3

And so, as you might guess from my previous message, we haven’t had an election in a long time. Even before the Vote Delivery System was completed, only Believers were winning. Eventually, only Believers were running. Finally, it was deemed too expensive to hold elections for the few rich white landowners still allowed to vote (the Supreme Court of Devout Elders called that “original intent” and “strict construction”, as pronounced by Cardinal Scalia). The very last election disbanded the House of Reverends and the Senate of Angels, replacing the Constitution with the Bible as interpreted by the True Patriot Act. With that, Our New Lord became God’s Right Hand for Life, with his brother anointed for succession. The Believers celebrated the final destruction of the Federal Government, the great enemy of free enterprise and the Confederacy. The heads of trial lawyers on pikes surrounded the Lincoln Memorial (some dared whisper Lincoln himself was a trial lawyer – blasphemy). The face of Our New Lord replaced Lincoln on Mount Rushmore.

But no one misses the elections. It was terrible enduring all those commercials, all the phone calls and mailings, all the people insisting that you pay attention to the process, think and choose carefully. And, at the time, the uncertainty was unbearable – why vote if you can lose? Eventually, the Believers convinced everyone the vile gay-liberals would only try to steal the elections on their way to destroying everything moral. We all know this from the Six O’Clock Gospel. His Truth: “Good news for you is bad news for the wicked.”

Most of us are too busy to care about “participating.” Everyone but the Righteous Rich has several jobs. His Truth: “Work will set you free.” Everyone listens to The Voice of Truth on radio and watches TruthTV (lottery winners every hour after Prayer Moment!) The Believers don’t care because their Day is very near.

Oh-oh, trouble’s coming.

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Warning! The Ministry of Faith-based Justice will not allow gay-liberals to continue to threaten the moral fabric of the Christian Republic of America. You traitors hate America and Our New Lord. You will pay on Earth and in Hell. Signed: Assistant Minister of Faith-based Justice Tom Delay

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Left Undone, Part 1
Left Undone, Part 2

Dump Duhbya

The Next Four Years

NOW with Bill Moyers. Transcript. November 5, 2004 | PBS

BUSH: I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it.

MOYERS: The President has the political muscle to back his claim to a mandate — and the enforcers to carry it out. One of them is with me now, Grover Norquist, one of the most prominent and powerful figures in the conservative movement.

From leading college Republicans — he himself has two degrees from Harvard — to running Americans for Tax Reform, which dubbed Senate minority leader Tom Daschle an “enemy of the taxpayer” and helped to defeat him, Grover Norquist is a prime mover on the right. In the words of Newt Gingrich, “the most creative and most effective conservative activist” in the country.

He’s also one tough hombre. This week he told Democrats to get with the program, accept the fact that they are powerless. The WASHINGTON POST quotes him saying after the election:

“Once the minority of House and Senate are comfortable in their minority status, they will have no problem socializing with the Republicans. Any farmer will tell you that certain animals run around and are unpleasant, but when they’re fixed then they are happy and sedate. They are contented and cheerful. They don’t go around peeing on the furniture and such.”

Grover Norquist assures us he was speaking tongue-in-cheek, but Democrats and liberals are now accustomed to have his thumb in their eye. …

MOYERS: You’ve got the power now, power you could hardly ever dream of. What are you going to do with it in the next four years?

NORQUIST: In the next four years, you’ll see the President had four tax cuts in the first four years. I believe you’ll see four tax cuts in the next four years. We now have the votes to abolish the death tax. We have the votes to go to expensing for business investment, for expanding IRAs and 401Ks so all Americans can save tax free for their retirement. We need to get rid of that three percent federal excise tax which was put in to fund the Spanish-American War 100 years ago and is still there, hitting low income Americans. We will reform Social Security so that every American has the opportunity to save for his own retirement. We’re going to defeat the trial lawyers, these billionaire parasites who’ve been raising the cost of everything Americans buy and do. …

Election

Two More Compassionates

alibi . november 18 – 24, 2004

This election was fun! … One of the best things I heard was it’s better to be right than win. Of course, being right and winning is pretty good, too.

I hope Bush will do more of the same. I don’t want Bush reaching across the table to anyone. I want him to keep kicking them under the table until they get the message we sent them loud and clear. — MO

Hopefully Nov. 3 was a day of mourning in the editorial offices of the Alibi (along with every UNM faculty lounge and yuppie?formerly hippie?coffee houses). … keep your liberal drivel to yourselves. Many of your readers are quite tired of it. Oh, and one other thing. “Na, na na, we beat ya!? — GS

Election

Red and Blue Don’t Cover It

MassINC – Beyond Red and Blue – Ten Regions Index

Detailed Descriptions of Each Region
• Northeast Corridor
• Southern Lowlands
• Upper Coasts
• The Farm Belt
• Great Lakes
• Appalachia
• El Norte
• Southern Comfort
• Big River
• Sagebrush

I was born in one surprising part of El Norte and live in another (though I prefer “Atzlan”, surrounded by Sagebrush), but I grew up at the intersection of Northeast Corridor, Appalachia (which my parents were from) and Southern Lowlands. mjh

map of El Norte

[from Internet Public Library via Silicon Heights Computers, Inc.]

Theirs

Dimdahl: ‘a cantankerous old man with no credibility’

ABQjournal: Dendahl’s Ramblings Badly Written, Poorly Researched
By Angela Wandinger-Ness, Biology Professor

There are many things to take issue with in John Dendahl’s commentary, “Bush is the Man with a Mandate.” I will comment on only two points: poor writing skills and unjustified accusation.

There should be accountability and a factual basis that underlies a credible opinion. An opinion should provide well-written, carefully crafted arguments with a take-home message? not just random musings and unfounded diatribe, particularly when it is presented to the public by a syndicated columnist who uses his credentials as a retired executive and political leader to give weight to his ramblings. …

Based on these examples, I submit that Dendahl’s column is nothing more than the ramblings of a cantankerous old man with no credibility.

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." — Sam Adams