Mine, NADA - New American Dark Ages

Left Undone

The Internet is so vast it now reaches across time. Here is a message from 2010:

At the time, I was surprised they rounded up the Catholics. I knew they would ignore the few atheists like me; Our New Lord doesn’t believe we exist. But history shows the Jews are the scapegoats, the victims, the sacrificial lambs. Not this time. The Jews are treated like prized pets by the Believers; they will have a special place until the moment of Rapture, at which point they can go to hell with the rest of us.

Besides, this time the gay-liberals have been revealed as the secret enemy within. The gay-liberals eat babies and want to sodomize your son and make your daughter have an abortion; they live to destroy the family and bankrupt hard-working people. Gay-liberals corrupt and poison our pure culture. His Truth: “Hate the sin, kill the sinner.”

The Catholics, however, know something about controlling through religion, about using faith to move empires, of preaching peace while waging war. That’s part of the reason the Believers sought them out as early allies. However, Catholics believe God is beyond human comprehension and much of their faith is allegorical, not literal as the Believers demand. In the end, it may have been the Catholics’ insistence that Jesus wasn’t born in Texas that did them in. Certainly, their refusal to wear Our New Lord’s cross made them easy to pick off.

The Latino Guard was of no use this time. Most of them had done their duty against the infidels in Europe and Asia. When they were brought home to sweep the streets of non-Believers, many complied. The others are said to have run off to the savage land – I think they may have been gunned down themselves. But, one can’t expect the largely-Catholic Latino Guard to happily imprison fellow Catholics.

So, it fell upon the NRA, in what was ironically their last domestic mission, to round up the Catholics. The able-bodied were conscripted and sent to one of the Freedom Frontiers. His Truth: “Sometimes dead is as free as you can get.” The youngest boys were sent to home schooling by the Believers. His Truth: “Don’t trust anyone else to teach you the truth.” The girls have been spared the burden of an education and were put to work clearing the forests for the Bureau of Good Stewardship. His Truth: “It’s not a resource if you don’t use it.” As for the women, well, there were rumors of rape-rooms next to nurseries to provide more troops, but I don’t think Believers have the patience – they say their Day is very near.

As for the NRA, most of them were shipped overseas as well. His Truth: “What good are guns at home when we’ve got enemies to kill abroad?” Where did they think their “inalienable” right came from? His Truth: “There is no law but God’s. All freedom comes from God and through his Believers.” I hope the NRA members appreciated that whole ‘cold-dead hands’ irony.

I can’t believe anyone ever thought the Believers were stupid. In no time, they’ve conquered much of the world. Now, they are ready for their final reward. In keeping with God’s will, they’ve given nuclear bombs to the infidels. It would be wrong – pointless – to try to thwart God. And, so, the Believers are right: their Day is very near.

If I am able, I will write about the conquest of Europe and the “Election” of 2008.

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The Ministry of Faith-based Justice has determined that enemies of freedom and faith may be spreading lies across time. These enemies of faith seek to destroy our culture and society. We demand that you erase such wicked messages. Only Our New Lord can protect you from these terrorists. Praise Him. Signed: Attorney General Limbaugh, the Voice of Truth.

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Election

Heard on the street

What pisses me off is my fellow Catholics. Kerry doesn’t approve of abortions — neither do I — he just wants to protect a woman’s right to choose. Catholics turning against Catholics!

I didn’t tell my Hispanic neighbor that the abortion rate is rising under Duhbya, the Uniter. Why upset him more? mjh

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Evidence Mounts That The Vote Was Hacked

Questionable Tactics by GOP by Thom Hartmann

in Florida’s counties using results from optically scanned paper ballots – fed into a central tabulator PC and thus vulnerable to hacking — the results seem to contain substantial anomalies.

In Baker County, for example, with 12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of them Democrats and 24.3% of them Republicans, the vote was only 2,180 for Kerry and 7,738 for Bush, the opposite of what is seen everywhere else in the country where registered Democrats largely voted for Kerry.

In Dixie County, with 4,988 registered voters, 77.5% of them Democrats and a mere 15% registered as Republicans, only 1,959 people voted for Kerry, but 4,433 voted for Bush.

The pattern repeats over and over again – but only in the counties where optical scanners were used. Franklin County, 77.3% registered Democrats, went 58.5% for Bush. Holmes County, 72.7% registered Democrats, went 77.25% for Bush.

Those faulty exit polls were sabotage=The Hill.com= by Dick Morris

Exit polls are almost never wrong. … So reliable are the surveys that actually tap voters as they leave the polling places that they are used as guides to the relative honesty of elections in Third World countries. … But this Tuesday, the networks did get the exit polls wrong. Not just some of them. They got all of the Bush states wrong.

To screw up one exit poll is unheard of. To miss six of them is incredible. It boggles the imagination how pollsters could be that incompetent and invites speculation that more than honest error was at play here. …

At the very least, the exit pollsters should have to explain, in public, how they were so wrong. Since their polls, if biased or cooked, represented an attempt to use the public airwaves to reduce voter turnout, they should have to explain their errors in a very public and perhaps official forum.

This was no mere mistake. Exit polls cannot be as wrong across the board as they were on election night. I suspect foul play.

Note that the infamous Dick Morris is suggesting that Dems rigged the infallible Exit Polls. mjh

Election

Red, Blue and Purple States and Counties

Blended Results By State
Dems and Reps
Purple-USA.jpg (JPEG Image, 616×483 pixels)

By County
Election 2004 Results

Using County-by-County election return data from USA Today together with County boundary data from the US Census’ Tiger database we produced the following graphic depicting the results. Of course, blue is for the democrats, red is for the republicans, and green is for all other. Each county’s color is a mix of these three color components in proportion to the results for that county.

The whole “red state” view serves the Republicans and the Media and dumbs down the facts. Talking about purple states doesn’t exactly fix the matter, but at least it shows more of the truth — Dems and Reps live everywhere; thank god we’re integrated.

The link below leads to a very different kind of map, a cartogram, which I find harder to digest. mjh

The Geomblog: The ‘Purple Haze’, revisited.

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How Can Anyone Trust the System?

How can we process billions of ATM, credit card, debit card and other financial transactions every single day with a miniscule error rate and not be able to do the same when it matters most to the entire nation? Because voting machines are a business and every business wants to get things done as cheaply as possible. mjh

NewsNet5.com – Politics – Computer Glitch Gives Bush 3,893 Extra Votes

Computer Glitch Gives Bush 3,893 Extra Votes

Software flaw found in Florida vote machines

Software flaw found in Florida vote machines

Wired News: Computer Loses 4,500 Votes

Computer Loses 4,500 Votes

Election

Pundits and Pollsters Are Losers — Or Should Be

Daily Howler: Boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo! We think it’s time for crying cons to say who belittles their religion

BEWARE EXPLANATION: We humans reason very poorly, to the extent that we reason at all. Consider the current attempts to “explain” Tuesday’s election results.

First, there may not be much to “explain” here. When the electorate goes from 49-49 (Bush-Gore) to 51-48 (Bush-Kerry), that is a very minor “change.” Except on the micro level at which political pros work, it’s not clear that there’s anything much to explain here. And when a change in the vote is so small, almost any factor can be said to “explain” it. For example, how many points did Kerry lose because of the endless Swift Boat attacks? We don’t know how to answer that question, but we haven’t seen the Swift Boat matter come up very often in the instant “explanations.” [mjh: Pat Buchanan called the Swift Boat Liars For Bush the “winners” in this election.] Instead, Stampeding Pundits have rushed toward a few standard “explanations”? of the minor change in voter behavior. Sorry–there will rarely be a way to “explain”? such a change, although many aspects of Campaign 04 are, of course, well worth discussing.

But we are all human, and we humans reason very poorly unless we work hard to stay on track. Such hard work is foreign to our press corps. How does the press corps approach an election? First, pundits waste their time (and ours) for weeks trying to predict the election’s outcome. And let’s face it, these efforts tend to go very poorly.( In this election, John Zogby couldn’t come close to “predicting” the outcome ten hours after the voting began!) But so what? Hours later, predictions in ruins, pundits begin “explaining”? the outcome–the outcome which they couldn’t predict. Of course, they can’t explain it either–but in that case, there is no objective check on the high theories that they throw off.

Why did this race end up 51-48? Most pundits can’t answer to that question, and don’t even know how to approach it. We make this suggestion: Beware explanation. Many aspects of this election are worth discussing. But most of the pundits you see on TV won’t even know what they are.

I recommend you read the rest of Howler’s column for a discussion of the Religious Right that feels ‘dissed’ by Democratic Elites. mjh

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Election Will Prompt Democratic Soul-Searching

Politics News Article | Reuters.com

It will not be an easy task. Defeated in the presidential election, the party that dominated U.S. politics from the 1930s until the 1990s also lost ground in both chambers of Congress and the Republicans retained control of most of the state governorships.

“I think this is a realigning election. The Democrats are going to have to get used to permanent minority status for a generation or two,” said Tom Schaller, a political scientist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. …

In many ways, the Democrats have become a coalition of minorities — blacks, homosexuals, Jews, the unmarried and the unreligious. Bush’s political strategist Karl Rove characterized the typical Democrat as “somebody with a doctorate … people who imbibed the values of the sixties and seventies and stuck with them.”

Yeah, those crazy sixties ideas like equality, justice, peace, love — what bunch of looney liberals! And, heck, we need to find a way to express ourselves more simply. mjh

TimesDispatch.com | Bush advances his agenda

A day after declaring victory in a hard-fought election, President Bush said at a news conference, “I’ll reach out to everyone who shares our goals,” adding that “I earned capital in this election, and I’m going to spend it.” …

Bush said he felt it was “necessary to move an agenda that I told the American people I would move,” adding: “When you win, there is a feeling that the people have spoken and embraced your point of view.”

Stop the Tape: President Bush Has Learned About The Enemy, Declares: “I Meant What I Said”

See, to them, you have to understand, to many in Washington and the White House press corps, and many in the left in general, you say things to fool people.

You say things to avoid controversy or you say things to actually deceive people. But you never say what you mean. That’s a sign of weakness. That’s giving your intentions away. You don’t do that. You gotta fool people. You gotta lie to ’em. You gotta set ’em up. You gotta deceive ’em, and I think that’s why so many people have trouble understanding Bush.

"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