Suburbia is coming to kill us

Was it a re-alignment or a last gasp?

Pesky VeriSign

So apparently there's some sort of hold that the domain registrar places on domain names once they've expired for between 45 and 60 days, which means I can't get subwaysubversive.com back until sometime in December. Because I forgot about it expiring in October. What a pain. Oh well, I'd rather worry about raising some shekels for the Dance-A-Thon (link at top right, *plug* even $5 helps, kids.)

I've been having a stomach thing for the last two days. Apparently my latest bout of insomnia lowered my threshold and got me sick from holding the handrail on the subway or something. I've slept most of the last 50 some odd hours, and I'm getting a bit of the cabin fever. I did make it to my young married friends in Morningside Heights, there were couples with dishes scattered throughout the subways on my way up there. I always dig the empty streets of holidays in New York; I do not relish the longer waits for the trains.

Speaking of holidays, I'm not going anywhere for Christmas, either. I'm hosting Christmas dinner if anyone I know is in town...

Thousands of Ukrainians Refuse to Accept Election Results

At least in the Ukraine, they stand up for democracy.

Chris

I fucking love this Girl. She got me my apartment, and she's the perfect person to go have a cigarette with. Mme Uffish interviewed on Gothamist.

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"Moral Values" was a spin to pull the "ManDate"-wool over our eyes. Kinda like 'moral majority.'

Slice of Subway Life

A Two-Parter
1) Go read the speech for context.
2> Read bj's take on being there.

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And we still won't sign Kyoto or any other accord

Putsch by ballot

Am I supposed to be taking notes? Why the fuck aren't the rest of you? Not just my country, but the rest of y'all's, was stolen. This was not an irregularity, not pregnant and hanging chads this time. That set the precedent, though. If we let them steal an election once, do you think they'll stop at one? Not with the people behind them. Bush Sr. and his cronies? Hello?!? The Saudi royal family's money just bought the American politcal system - lock, stock, and barrel. Thanks for driving your SUVs. Remember in public school, when they taught civics? About how we live in a participatory democracy, and the best one in the world at that? Gone.

This was a multi-faceted coup. First was the hacking of the ballot count. Which by the way, can't be challenged because the methods used for 'security' are deemed secret. Ministers throughout the land told their cultsflocks to vote or go straight to Hell. And they continue to be tax-exempt, and don't expect that to be changed anytime soon. These are people that want women in dresses, AIDS patients in camps, and fundamentalism as the mandatory state religion. Allying themselves with Catholics is a temporary measure, and if they solidify their power more (bet on it,) those same Catholics shouldn't think themselves exempt.

To make all of this so much worse, the mainstream corporate media isn't reporting this. CNN just reports on how it was all so smooth, compared to expectations. They didn't challenge Bush on the invasion of Iraq, either. Apologizing for this after the fact isn't good enough. So the populace is effectively silenced, because they think if something was amiss, they'd hear about it, right? Things must be fine, right?

So the next time, it won't be a plurality of 3 million votes. And you'll wonder why the vote was so lopsided, even though all your friends voted for the other guy (if they bother to vote.) Because you most likely won't have exit polls to look to, as they will have been thoroughly discredited. ("They got it wrong two times in a row!") Some states might even ban them.

The left can't just sit on its collective ass and take this in despair. We're the only ones who actually believe in such original intent concepts as separation of church and state, due process before the law, that all men and even the psychochristians are created equal... A second term and the Republican Congress mean that PATRIOT II is a certainty. Wait til they start arresting librarians for erasing patron records. It also means the Constitution Restoration Act, which eliminate a crucial check on the Congress. School prayer will soon follow.

Remember being so sure that nothing like this could happen here?

It's not just a matter of waiting out the next four years. America is collapsing under the weight of its own overbearing 'morality.' And it's taking the liberated majority with it. We're facing a dynasty consisting of president-sons of the CIA. The same organization that toppled all those socially progressive governments, killing untold thousands, and created all this (*surprise*) animosity toward us in the world. The problem is us, people. And it will get so much worse if we don't do something about it here. We can't have coffee and wear ironic t-shirts and buttons on our urban man-bags. Something more is called for. Action is required, or else what's the point of this country?

Fuck the South

This may be too easy, but yet, true and funny.

Hey Florida, your vote was stolen.

Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked

for now look here

While I am still gathering my thoughts, the pinkhairedgirl says what I want to be saying right now.

The real agenda

Conservatives: Some Bush Supporters Say They Anticipate a 'Revolution'
psychochristians on the march.

I think the following from DailyKos explains a lot. The sky is actually falling.

Margaret Atwood saw this coming

Q: How would the creation of your imagined republic of Gilead be possible?

A: First of all, ask yourself the following question: If you were going to take over the United States, how would you do it? Would you say, "I'm a socialist and we're all going to be equal"? No, you would not, because it wouldn't work. Would you say, "I'm a liberal and we are going to have a society of multiple toleration"? You probably wouldn't say that if you wanted mass support. You would be much more likely to say, "I have the word from God and this is the way we should run things." That probably would have more of a chance of working, and in fact there are a number of movements in the States saying just that, and getting lots of dollars and influence. The society in The Handmaid's Tale is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated. The early Puritans came to America not for religious freedom, as we were taught in grade school, but to set up a society that would be a theocracy (like Iran) ruled by religious leaders, and monolithic, that is, a society that would not tolerate dissent within itself. They were being persecuted in England for being Puritans, but then they went to the United States and promptly began persecuting anyone who wasn't a Puritan. My book reflects the form and style of the early Puritan society and addresses the dynamics that bring about such a situation.

From http://www.randomhouse.com/resources/bookgroup/handmaidstale_bgc.html
special thanks to Carrie for sending this along

Looking in a murky crystal ball

Early exit polls seem to be indicating some sort of bounce for Kerry from the Osama tape. Or at least that's how I'm reading it. (in other words - the war on terror is a Failure.)

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I'm an American Hero

Rocking the vote

So I went to vote, first thing this morning. My polling place is not the convenient school across the street from me, but another school 10 minutes further into Crown Heights. From the outside it didn't seem any different than any other election day in New York, but once inside the school gym, it was obvious there was something different going on. The lines for several of the election districts were long and curling around on themselves. Here in New York, our voting booths are the 50 year old "technology" of pulling the lever, flipping little switches, and then pulling the lever back. Quaint. It took me about an hour to get through the line. I walked out of the booth with a sense of contentment washing over me, that perhaps the turnout will be high enough that it will be a clear victory. Let's hope.

Happy Regime Change Day

War Corporatism quicktime movie link.

Film Strip - your voter education guide. not all that safe for work with the sound on.

can't.... stop... laughing.....

2004's Scariest Halloween Costumes - better late than never.