Thanks for trying, JFK

From his concession speech:
"I did my best to express my vision and my hopes for America. We worked hard and we fought hard, and I wish that things had turned out a little differently.

But in an American election, there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates are successful, the next morning we all wake up as Americans.

That is the greatest privilege and the most remarkable good fortune that can come to us on Earth.

With that gift also comes obligation. We are required now to work together for the good of our country.

In the days ahead, we must find common cause. We must join in common effort, without remorse or recrimination, without anger or rancor. America is in need of unity and longing for a larger measure of compassion."

Title 4, Chapter 1: The Flag


Section 8. — Respect for flag

Rule K.

The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.

Predictions: jon looks into his crystal balls

jon roy/miss cleo's psychic hotline predictions

1. The administration will continue to build the Fear.
2. Bush will recklessly exploit his "mandate"

now to the real predictions

3. Two supreme court justices will die of natural causes over the next four years and be replaced with neo conservative radicals.

4. Roe V. Wade will be overturned making abortion illegal.

5. The patriot act will be strengthened, putting a tighter stranglehold on our diminishing civil liberties.

6. The treatment of homosexuals will be worsed by the government...possibly an amendment to the constitution banning their civil unions.

7. Another instance of "terrorism" will occur, making it suddenly very clear that we must invade syria or iran.

8. The qualifications of citizens to become President will be altered, allowing Arnold Swartzenegger to run in 2008.

9. Bush, Cheney, and the Bin Laden family will continue to reap profits from shared oil, war, and reconstruction interests with their ties to the Carlyle group and Halliburton, while the deficit builds--putting outstanding pressure on the next generation.

10. This generation will be the first in American history to have it worse off than the previous generation.

11. Democrats will match John Edwards and Hillary Clinton to combat the Swartzenegger ticket.

12. The EU will grow in economic strength and unity, taking on new member states, developing outside the reigns of close consultation with the US, thanks to Bush.

and the worst prediction:

13. More innocent people will lose their lives in Iraq, and elsewhere in the world--thanks to the most proactive terrorists (defined so by their own military's definition of "terrorist") in the world--the US government.
it seems we ve come a long way from killing indians and civil wars.