I guess I better learn the rest of that.

Sheesh, what am I going to do for entertainment between now and Thanksgiving?

Not only will we now see four more years of Bush, we'll also see Hillary '08...

Time to buy my own private island.

Can someone tell me where I can sign-up for the upcoming Civil War?

4 years closer to Wal-Mart Nation... let's go get some NASCAR shit and go off to church!

Long live the Boy King!

I understand the sentiment, but wouldn't moving to Ohio be slightly more effective?

...lets out a resounding "Aw, crap."

It isn't over just yet. There are plenty of Democratic-friendly lawyers that will be happy to file lawsuits in Ohio, with or without Kerry support.

Two words :

Welcome, friend! [cic.gc.ca]

First the Red Sox win the Series, now this.

The only question in my mind is what form will the other two Horsemen take?

At least I don't have to update my .sig

Some silver lining.

Yeah,
Well, you're better off than me. I still gotta learn to speak Canadian!

I for one welcome our re-elected overlord.

http://www.autofrog.com/~chrisp/tv/cnn.jpg

You haven't been paying attention at all, have you?

Amen to that. I'm tired of getting flamed.

For god's sake, would you take Alec Baldwin with you?

Four years later and he's still here.

-Peter

In related news, Bush made certain to call "No take backs" during Kerry's congratulatory phone call.

-9mm-

you won't need to, you'll be drafted....

So, how do you really feel?

What bickering? We all know BSD is dead.

Are you sure you want to be a victim of America's foreign policy?

I thought it was vi vs emacs...Or is that too geeky for /. Or was it resolved that vi was clearly superior?

He's got a lot of people he has to kill now.

Watch Bush's speeches?

you, dear sire, seem to have forgotten to take your pills this morning...

Want to know what's worse? That the words are "I stand on God for thee!"

If I was God, I'd be, like "Get the hell off me ya freaking Canuck! I've got better things to do than be your rug!"

That's because it conceded to a superior operating system... emacs.

Have a rich father with influence.

Or buying Diebold shares!

So who won? Was it the giant douche or the terd sandwich?

http://www.johntitor.com/ [johntitor.com]

No problem. Just figure out where to insert the Eh's and you're all set.

For his last term bush may have been haunted by doubts that he was never truly the choice of the people.

At least this time he knows he is.

I have to say the MSNBC headline was confusing:
"Kerry calls Bush to concede election" - I interpreted this as "Kerry calls on bush to concede election" mean Kerry asked bush to concede.

Sam

I don't know where you can find it online, but I'm certain there is a copy in the Clinton Presidential Library.

Hope this helps.

-Peter

- Calculate your share of the National Deficit
- Take up assault weapon collecting as a hobby
- Figure out how to best invest your $300 annual Bush tax savings to cover the social security benefits you'll never get
- Become rich, then get all your income from mostly untaxed dividends and capital gains income
- Join the guard and train for a one year tour of duty in Iraq
- Move so that the selective service can't find you
- Take some gay people and a girlfriend (work with me here) to Vegas. Taunt them by getting married and divorced inside of 12 hours.
- Make a sign saying "The Government should stay out of our lives!" and go protest in front of an abortion clinic.
- Pick up bow and arrow making to capitalize on the new corporate tax incentives
- Do something illegal, get arrested, and excercise your right to trial before 4 years of Bush-appointed, Republican confirmed Supreme Court appointees uphold the Patriot Act's elimination of right to trial.

That was resolved ages ago. Emacs now has a vi mode proving finally that vi is the better editor, and emacs is the better operating system.

I'm non american, so can I leave the planet now? The moon is looking mighty good right now.

Maybe these guys [google.com] will hire me.

Dear Canada,
How do I move to you?
Sincerely,
Greg

Please do, that would be like winning twice today.

I, for one, welcome our new american overlords!

Now if only Bill Gates would concede that Mozilla is a better browser than IE. Or RMS that vi is better than emacs. Or William Shatner that Picard was a better star ship captain. Or ....

Don't go taking your own advice now!

I understand the sentiment, but wouldn't moving to Ohio be slightly more effective?

Move to Canada for 3.75 years, then swim south in fall 2008.

Just in case you are actually thinking about moving to Canada, you can take the Skilled Worker Self-Assessment Test [cic.gc.ca] to see if you meet the minimum standard to immigrate as a Skilled Worker.

Of course if you don't qualify as a Skilled Worker, you can always try the political assylum [cic.gc.ca] route :)

Emacs is an all right OS, but it lacks a decent editor.

Why don't you just start a website and call it Send-a-Liberal-to-Canada.com and take donations. My guess is you could start chartering buses by the end of the week.

It's not as simple as that, hoser.

Looks like all of the republicans didn't take my e-mail seriously and voted on Tuesday instead of Wednesday! This was only to help with all of the congestion with such a high voter turnout this year...

You fucking idiots. Love and kisses, The rest of the world

Pennsylvania is going to cede from the Union... We are then going to follow up with nuking the crap out of our "neighbor" - Ohio.
Feel free to join the |un|holy crusade. After that we will rejoin the Union, and do this again for other states in the center of the Union...wash, rinse and repeat.

Never did like that state anyhow :D

It's all Diebold's fault

Check out the California Governor's office sometime.

The American voters have brought shame on their once-great country. You can kiss our collective ass.

To: USA From: World

Thank you for your apology, it is greatly appreciated. Most of us quite like the USA, and we quite like many Americans. However, we don't really like that Bush fella and rather hoped you'd dump him like a DRM-crippled audio file. Wouldn't really matter who took his place, to be honest. But, I have to say, after you went and voted for him twice in a row, we do have to wonder whether we should reappraise our view of Americans. Anyway, it was your choice, so if it all goes tits up again we can blame you, the people, and not just your politicians. Have a good Thanksgiving.

Hugs and kisses,

Rest-of-world

For those Americans who need to start learning it, I am posting the lyrics here to Oh Canada:

The Canadian Anthem

"O Canada"
O Canada! Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North, strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

Refrain
O Canada, glorious and free!
We stand on guard, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee!

O Canada! Where pines and maples grow.
Great prairies spread and lordly rivers flow.
How dear to us thy broad domain,
From East to Western Sea,
Thou land of hope for all who toil!
Thou True North, strong and free!

Refrain
O Canada, glorious and free!
We stand on guard, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee!

O Canada! Beneath thy shining skies
May stalwart sons and gentle maidens rise,
To keep thee steadfast through the years
From East to Western Sea,
Our own beloved native land!
Our True North, strong and free!

Refrain
O Canada, glorious and free!
We stand on guard, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee!

Ruler supreme, who hearest humble prayer,
Hold our dominion within thy loving care;
Help us to find, O God, in thee
A lasting, rich reward,
As waiting for the Better Day,
We ever stand on guard.

Refrain
O Canada, glorious and free!
We stand on guard, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee!

Dear the USA,

I think I speak for surprisingly many here in the world when I say:

YOU MANIACS. YOU BLEW IT UP. DAMN YOU. GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL.

I wasn't done hacking the Diebold voting machine

Go ahead and move to the moon. We'll be up there to "liberate" the moon soon enough. Dubya wants to reduce our dependency on foreign cheese.

Well, I think this website might be popular today.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/

But as for the whole election it think Bart Simpson said it best..

"I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. "

Personally, I'm considering moving to Mexico and taking a job as a professional margarita drinker.

You forgot Greedo conceding that Han shoots him first.

I was looking forward to the recount-induced riots and looting...

I had my eye on this awesome 17" flatscreen display down at Staples :(

I'm non american, so can I leave the planet now? The moon is looking mighty good right now.

The moon is a harsh mistress

What's the economy currently like in Petoria these days?

My Democratic uncle's poem to my dad, a Republican:

The election is over,
The results are now known,
The will of the people
has clearly been shown.

Let's forget the quarrels
and show by our deeds,
and give our new leader
the help that he needs.

We'll all work together,
May all bitterness pass,
I'll hug your elephant
and you'll kiss my ass.

The American voters, like the proverbial battered wife have decided to stand by their man...

"He took our jobs away and gave us lower paying ones in exchange. He sent our kids to die in a senseless war based on a lie. He's maxed-out the credit card. He's trashing the environment and the constitution. Our friends are wondering what's happened to us....

But he's our president and we just love how he doesn't change his mind!"

I can accept that Bush won the election. What I have a hard time swallowing is that I live in a country where more than half the population is willfully ignorant, politically obstinate, religiously prejudiced, and embarrassingly gullible.

Yeah! Thank God, they didn't win this time.

Dear Slashdot,

I moved from the Northwest in February, and I'm currently quite happy in the UK, where even the most right-wing mainstream party (conservatives) are far more agreeable than Kerry and friends.

Hope you visit for christmas - I'm sure you'd love the climate. It rains a little, but those of you on the west coast are used to that anyway!..

Food is much better - popped next door to Belgium for some waffles yesterday; were delicious.

Hope that mad uncle Dubya is feeling better - is the verbal problem any better than it was?

Write me back - we miss you!

Much love,

The recently departed.

they essentially wasted thier vote twice over

Voting for the person who lost does not mean your vote was wasted. The only way to waste a vote is to not vote.

It's sad that you feel a person wasted their vote because they voted for the person who lost. Real sad.

Plato/Socrates was right when he wrote Democracy is one of the worst forms of government. The populous is, generally, unintelligent and uniformed, and should have no business voting in the first place. You prove this point.

You mean the guys on television don't tell you who's won based on predictions? What a warped system you have in the U.K.

You might be a whiny left winger, but as today as a resident from another country I can tell you you "whiny left wingers" are the only americans for which we keep some respect.

Damn right. I had twenty quid riding on the outcome of the election. I said that Americans weren't so brain-dead and masochistic as to vote themselves another four years of Bush. My friend said they were.

I'm going to give up making bets whilst being stoned.

"ALL HAIL CANADA" [ptbcanadian.com]"

Correction:

ALL HAIL CANADA [www.iam.ca]

The preceding was a joke, eh.

Now that Kerry has lost, will he be a good patriot and tell Bush what his detailed solution for IRAQ is? After all it would be for the good of the country.

...they want their statue back.

The popular vote should have been enough

I agree. Also, in the World Series, they should just add up the number of total runs for all the games, and declair the team that got the most runs in the series the winner.

Not "Team X won 4 games, Team Y, 3". It should be "Team X: 23 runs, Team Y: 24".

I saw a great T-shirt last week with a picture of Bush, Cheney, Rumesfield, and Ashcroft on horseback. The caption read, "You don't change horsemen in mid-Apocalypse."

Damn, I wish I had bought myself one.

Having moved from California to Michigan, I can say that it is pretty accurate, but I would also add EAT in several places on that list.

Geez, looks like I won't be vacationing in California for another four years.

Somehow I think we'll manage.

It is easy to bitch and moan. Lets see you do something for once.

And by "doing something" you mean beat the crap out of some pathetic desert shithole and then declaring ourselves heroes? Is that all that counts? Moron.

There once was a fellow named Kerry
who couldn't sway those that were wary
With less votes than he needed,
the race he conceded,
and W ate, drank, and made merry

We can have umpteen Rock-the-Vote,Vote_and_I_will_bear_you_a_child, Vote_and_I_will_sleep_with_you, Vote_Or_Die measures for the next election or we can impose this rule.

On the day of Election:

(a) MTV and the other Teen Channels would not air anything other than patriotic music plus Beethoven.
(b) Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo would introduce a trigger to their consoles which will power them down on the day of the election and stay that way for 24 hours
(c) Instant Messenger software will stop working
(d) Any celebrity who has graced atleast a corner of the 3rd page of any teen magazine will be made to report to a pre-assigned voting booth for better youth turn outs.
(e) Bitchslap the celebrity till they agree to have orgies with young voters once they vote
(f) For the rural areas, pass around ammo and matches to burn candidate effigies.

The election is over
The results are known
The will of the people
has clearly been shown!

So let's forget our quarrels
And show by good deed
That we'll give our new leaders
All the help that they need

Let's let bygones be bygones
And let bitterness pass
I'll hug your Elephant
And you kiss my...Donkey! ;)

In all seriousness...can somebody post the text of that Bush loyalty oath? Since /. skews left, I think we'll need to get a head start on memorizing it :(

whiny left winger

Left whinger?

Or horsemen mid-apocalypse.

The story of America's independance from England is very well known; but did you know that Canada was once also a part of the British Empire? It's true! We Canadian's threw of the same British yoke as you, only we took a more leisurely route to liberation. In fact you might say we've been declaring our independence for more than two hundred years... kind of.

Our style of revolution centered less on bloodshed and gorilla warfare and more on the time tested strategy of not making a fuss. For example, at the same time you were declaring war on the English monarchy, we were enjoying privlidges granted to us by King George in the treaty of Versailles which gave us fishing rights off the coast of Newfoundland - provided we did not dry or cure fish on land. And by the way, we later got the right to dry and cure fish on land thank you very much.

All I'm saying is, there's more than one way to skin a cat. Not that I'm saying in any way that I'd like to harm a cat. Quite the contrary! I like cats... unless America wants Canada to skin a cat, in which case we'll gladly do it.

The point is, we took our time waiting for the Canadian moment to arrive rather than forcing it upon the world. We waited in the cold watching the US, most of Central and South America, Africa and Asia throw off its colonial oppressors. I think it was us and Belize that held out. And our patience ultimately paid off for in the glorious year of 1982 we took the bold step of getting permission from England to amend our constitution so we could amend our constitution without getting permission from England. Let freedom ring!

Now the only remnants of the tyrannical rule of Queen Elizabeth II are an appointed governor general who represents her in Canadian governmental affairs. And the Queen is officially still our head of state, plus she's on all our money, and when we take government job we have to swear a loyalty pledge to her. All in all, a small price to pay for an independence achieved without bloodshed, violence, glory or independence.

I'm sorry if this in any way seems like I'm bragging.

Kidding aside, as some others here have mentioned, there are times when I wonder about getting out. Many a morning finds me having coffee at my favorite local breakfast dive and staring across lake Erie... wondering if I'm up for a swim today. However, usually before my feet are wet I remember that I love my country. I also recognize the differences between patriotism and blind nationalism and often wonder how those differing animals became the same ugly beast that is our national symbol today.

To the chagrin of many friends, family, colleagues and associates I am under the opinion that four more years of President Bush is exactly what we need. If for no other reason than to have undeniable proof that change is essential, necessary and unavoidable. It is time to tear apart the useless mechanism of the Electoral College, it is time to cast aside elitist political agendas that form in the stagnant water of bipartisanism. It is time to educate ourselves in the language of our liberty and take the responsibility of keeping it alive and healthy.

One thing is for sure... one way or another, this hazy, incoherent notion that we live in a democracy needs to come to an end. Look it up folks... our system of government is a Federalist Republic. If you want Democracy... you're going to have to fight for it.

GET OVER IT.

Face it. You all were fed a line... You had a choice of horseshit candidate #1 and horseshit candidate #2, and most of the people voted for horseshit candidate #1. Stop voting for what you think is the lesser of to piles of horseshit. Things are never going to get better while we still buy this ridiculous line of reasoning. Bottom line, more than %98 percent of the people who voted still voted for a pile of horseshit!!!

Half the country thinks their vote was for nothing and they lost. A lot of people who voted for the winner are sitting around thinking... "Whew... close call, pile of hs #1 might not be the best president, but at least we didn't get pile #2!!!"

Stop voting for piles of horseshit!!!! It doesn't matter which one you get, it's still horseshit!

Damn I'm glad I voted libertarian.

I, for one, welcome the apocalypse.

Message to fellow Americans:
Special thanks to Micheal Moore, George Soros and Moveon.org. We appreciate your wacko left propaganda. It help Americans realize how far out the left really is.

Message to Canadians:
Cut it out with the penis envy; we've heard it already.

Message to Europe:
Fuck ya!

But does BSD have an exit strategy on Irak?

How can we vote for a candidate who is dying. And that's the truth. Don't take my word for it, ask netcraft.

A Bill Clinton in his prime would've eaten Bush for lunch.

There are so many obvoius jokes that could be made on that statement, it's barely worth the post pointing out how many there are.

real Americans (such as me an dubya) kick some Towel Headed Terrorist ass.

You spelled Dumbass wrong.

Here's a headline from CNN from earlier today:

World leaders back 'whoever wins'

Doesn't this sound like something from the Daily Show or The Onion? Alas, it's a sad reality when the rest of the world doesn't have any balls. Where are all these highly opinionated Europeans now? Swallowed their tongues all of a sudden?

So, is it too early to emigrate to Mars for the next 4 years?

because I voted for CowboyNeal. ;)

That's an idea. Release a hit video game a month before election day and require the kids to mail in absentee ballots in order to get any access codes.

I (as a Kerry voter) also concede defeat to President Bush.

I plan on sending George a congratulatory bag of pretzels.

But does BSD have an exit strategy on Irak?

Q: what's the difference between the Vietnam war and the Iraq war?
A: Bush had a plan to get out of Vietnam.

Karl Rove is that you?

(Because its strawman argumentation which is not relevant)

Dude, if you're going to call someone an idiot you should at least spell check your post so you don't look like you want to welcome him to the club! =================== Try this ============== Look, quit your whining you stupid American. (American envy?) Obviously if you voted for bush you're an idiot. (Bitter is not just a pint filler in the UK) Here's why. Bush cheated to get elected the first time around. (Michael Moore) Yet that means squat to Americans it would seem. So the rest of the world now sees you as cheating, lying, scum bags who'd do anything to get into power and fearful, arrogant, cry, babies who would keep a cheating scum bag in power. (Most of us don't want to bear Mr. Moore's children as you apparently do.) Good on you America. Showing your true colors. (?????)

> assemilation (Pretty big words for an ignorant Republican, Huh?)

Yeah, because it's assimilation. Not so smart now, are you? Dumb fuck.