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Great. The gun nuts are adding to their arsenals because Obama is a "gun snatcher." This is exactly what the U.S. needs right now. Paranoid, reactionary wackos with larger collections of assault weapons and a brand new reason to use them.

Here's the NYT story about it.

I sure hope Obama's Secret Service detail know what they're doing. Seriously. I can't be the only person worrying that some of this hateful, paranoid rhetoric will boil over into an assassination attempt...? I know people have been talking about the possibility for awhile, but some of this shit is really scaring me.

ALL of the "most emailed photos" on my Yahoo main page are versions of two shots of John McCain following last night's debate. In all of them, his tongue is HANGING out of his mouth. Like...it is dragging against the bottom of his chin, it's so far out of his mouth. In one shot he apparently gaffed by walking in the wrong direction to leave the stage, and he looks like he's barfing his tongue onto the floor or something. In the other, he and Cindy are standing with Barack and Michelle, and he's just standing there posing for the photograph...like he should have a press-ready smile on his face, but no. Tongue: out.

WTF?

republican prez candidates declare national debt a threat to national security. the article quotes mccain: "Any nation that no longer has economic strength sooner or later will lose its military strength, so it's a national security issue."

oh, we might lose our military strength? bummer.

what cracks me up is that these wankers are all talking about how necessary it is to elect a president who will "rein in spending." what is the single biggest expenditure in the U.S. budget? next to social security, which...ahem, yeah, i'm not going to open that bag of pissed off cats just now...it's the DoD. don't take my word for it. don't take wiki's word for it either. please notice that the "global war on terror" budget is separate from the DoD budget--it's under "supplemental and emergency spending."

DooooD. what part of "end the iraq war, end the afghanistan war, and don't even think about invading iran!" don't you understand? it even makes logical sense from the republican standpoint.

the serpent continues to swallow its tail...

meanwhile, back at the ranch, the mortgage crisis widens the already gaping hole in the hull of the u.s. economy.

wow. yesterday's election was kind of a disaster. especially the seattle city council races, almost across the board. i take heart in the fact that judy fenton, the insane lady whose main plank and call to action was "let's put fig leaves on the nude man/boy statues at the olympic sculpture park to protect our children!", was not elected. sherry carr isn't great, but she's better than that. as for the rest, though...wow, it's going to be a rough 4 years.

and how the FUCK did a tim eyman initiative pass? who stuffed the ballot box on that one? this is the last thing we need. now we'll never hear the end of it, and he'll never let up. the best thing you can do with insane people is to AVOID ENCOURAGING THEM!

i'm not exactly surprised that proposition 1 was voted down. i voted for it, but with reservations. it had big problems...but we really need to fund an extension of the light rail system. really. a lot. hopefully this part of the proposition will be revived next year.

finally, at least for my commentary right now, house joint resolution 4215: to allow investment of higher education permanent funds in the stock market. this has apparently been APPROVED? WTF? has everyone gone INSANE???

BAD VOTERS!
NO BISCUIT!

ganked from writerpunk:

in which naomi wolf discusses how to close down an open society in 10 easy steps, and argues that the bush administration has already initiated all 10...

red flags, anyone? pick one up on your way into hiding.

p.s. not crazy about what she says in step 1, though... she essentially validates the bush administration's pet threat, from "global islamist terrorism," which is ridiculously reductionist and racist. does she really need to say this? no. i don't think so...it's cheap, formulaic, stereotypical rhetoric. the real threat is from the bush administration. focus on that.