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In this stunning video, one guy made all the difference. Vote as soon as you can and urge all of your friends, colleagues, and enemies do so too.
Yes or No?
I will say no. Its at 8,190 as of 9:35 AM EST, down more than 500 points. Follow all the action live right here!
Enjoy that cup of coffee, it may be the last you are ever able to afford. Predictions are that investors are going to get a big "B" carved in their cheeks by a bunch of thieves this morning. Japan closes down 10%. Germany, at the moment, down almost 11%. This could be the day that seals the deal for Obama. History tells us that when Americans are afraid to lose their homes their homes they tend to vote Democrat--when they are afraid of their homes being blown up they tend to vote Republican.
So their is the game laid out for ye. If we don't have a major attack on U.S. soil, or something akin to a "nucular" bomb going off in London or Tel Aviv, Obama will win this thing by 9pm EST at the latest (on Nov. 4, not tonight). He is tied or ahead in 10 states that Bush won in 2004. States like Florida, Iowa, and Ohio make sense for they represent traditional battle ground territory. But North Carolina? Hell, North Dakota? This is looking like a landslide that I think will grow if the stock market does what many say it is going to do today (though I have a hunch stocks will close up today. Then again anyone that's ever been to Vegas with me knows my hunches are seriously and painfully flawed). Remember, many people will be getting their October 401K statements in the mail around the 4th of November. And, as the video below explains, its never good when the ideologues that ran your economy for over a decade are referred to as "3 Bill Buckners" in public to no rebuke.
The way to sway young voters is NOT to mug them and carve letters in their face. I only say that because it's the truth and the freedom to vote for whoever you want to is perhaps the greatest perk this "greatest, best country God ever gave man" has left. Also, I live on an island of freewill and independent thought surrounded by a vast sea of W, McCain and Palin bumper stickers and I coulda been on the receiving end of this violent foolishness. A better tactic for trying to get a voter, especially a young one, to validate their decision or potentially change their mind is to ask them questions and to challenge them on what they THINK they know about their candidate.
Just for the record. But Bob Dylan rules:
Atheists in Great Britain have united for a unique cause; spreading the message that God, unicorns and Iraqi WMDs have a lot in common. I like this for a couple of reasons. First off, the message says "relax." Too often when people are wound up or motivated by fear, they make rash decisions (or allow rash decisions to be made for them). It tells people not to take things so seriously and to take advantage of the time they have, because, in all likelihood, this is all the time they'll ever have. The other thing I like about this message is that it saves lives. Gods (under any religion and in any form) have been responsible for more killing, oppression, discrimination and outright hate than any other issue or entity. From the Crusades to Muslims who hijack their religion to justify jihad against all those who think differently than they do. From the Holocaust to the Christian terrorism of the IRA. People latch on to the beliefs of a religion or God to save them from their mundane or unsatisfactory lives. Whenever people involve themselves with organized religion, there is the risk that they will encounter one of the countless predatory clerics and ministers who live high on the hog by duping the deperate and weak-minded. That includes anyone who adores a Pope as God's anointed. Popes have been the greatest abusers of this "executive privilege" since way back. Religion, or more importantly Faith, should not be all together discredited as it does lay the foundation for morals which so very many Americans truly lack. There is a Truth out there which is universal and flows throughout all cultures. But religion has become synonymous with Control. If you practice a faith rooted in the King James Bible, you're living life with a redacted perspective and you probably think Jesus was white.
(Did that come off as too Marxist?)
I live in a great small city. Tallahassee, Fl. Yep, that's right, the city of lights. I was with a friend this evening at a great Widespread Panic concert. I danced the Donkey Kong and then sat down for a slow minute to get lost in the music.
Suddenly, a police officer walked in front of me. He pointed to a guy up one row, "Come here!" The guy simply walked over. Then out of nowhere the ass hat grabbed the concert goer by his shirt with both hands and body slammed him onto the seats directly in front of me. The concert goer did not resist at all. He simply listened and obeyed the orders that Officer Ass Hat barked at him. Then Ass Hat slapped cuffs on one wrist and demanded that Concert Goer give him his other hand. The only problem was that Ass Hat had Concert Goer pinned down so hard he couldn't pull his other arm out. Ass Hat then threatened to shoot Concert Goer with his taser if he did not give him his hand immediately. Another concert goer helped Concert Goer and then Ass Hat toted him away.
I don't know why Ass Hat brutalized young Concert Goer and did not read him his Miranda Rights. As much as I could tell the guy got brutalized for taking a puff of marijuana. I realize the stuff is illegal in Florida but come on. Concert Goer will most likely have back problems for life from that brutal body slam onto chairs. We need to stand up for our rights in this country. The home of the free, right?
I beg my fellow blogger's pardon for this intrusion upon Cartographer Appreciation Day... but I just can't help it. I'm pleased with the traction that this crazy upstart holiday is gaining, and i applaud Sal "the Butcher" for his effort in making this an exceptional day. I guess... I don't know, I'm just depressed.
CAD, as the cool PBR-drinking kids are calling it, is a grand day for sure, but why has this become such an overwhelming success where so many of our past ventures have failed?
Virtually nobody showed up for Free-Bris and Brie Day. And now there are literally dozens of left-over triscuits and band-aids. And that Moyel will probably never speak to me again.
Larry Csonka Day was another huge disappointment. What with the death of the porn-stash and all...
I suppose I should be more appreciative on this day of appreciation. I certainly do hold cartographers among the highest respect.
So, in honor of this day, I would like to put bipartisanship aside as was requested by CAD founder and resident blogger Sal "the Butcher", to offer this map of Hell to John McCain and Sarah Palin. I have no idea what the intricacies of the image mean, but the general idea as well as my intentions are clearly defined.
Furthermore, a shout-out to Strange Maps (h/t to Frederick via L'ennui mélodieux).
Happy CAD ya'll. Be sure to tie one on for your favorite map-maker.
Admit it...You love knowing where you are and where you can go!!!
