Checksum Arcanius

…the rest of the world doesn’t get to vote in US elections?

Do you ever stop to think that maybe it’s because of the way people in this country vote compared to other countries that we are the leading economic, military, and social power in the world? And praytell, would any of you prefer some other country holding any of these positions? (Please leave a comment to let me know!)

I think the United States has done the job quite well compared to how any of the other candidates might have – say the USSR and Communism or an even more recent, ahem, “hostile ideology with global ambitions,” as a recent film I saw termed it.

But with the rhetoric and political leanings of some people I know, I really wonder if they would not have preferred living under the global domination of the USSR. They certainly don’t seem to have learned the little economic lesson that cold war provided to the whole world. Or perhaps they would like to try on for size life under the control of extremist “fundamental” Islamic jihadists? Thats is the only place I see these plans of apeasement leading.

But thats just me (and most people in this country), I guess.

I won’t pretend to not be happy with most of the results of the last election.

Bush was not my favorite candidate, but he was my least unfavorite candidate. Or something like that. And this time, there is no cloud of possible illegitimacy hanging over the presidency.

As Bobby says, its a major setback for socialism. Well, actually he used the term “progressive causes,” but we all know about watermelons…

Long die socialism, the intellectual opiate.

6569 of 6686 precincts – 98 percent

911,326 – 49 percent – Christine Gregoire (Dem)
911,294 – 49 percent – Dino Rossi (Rep)
38,791 – 2 percent – Ruth Bennett (Lib)

Of course it couldn’t be easy.

Goodnight.

The video linked to from this post sealed the deal. The ballot is sealed and headed to the polls tomorrow morning.

Its about time, because I’m ready for this one to be over. Oh, I also donated some $$$ to help get Miss Liberty to reach the $1,000,000 mark. Not too shabby.

A friend just sent me this link. The lack of real options is somewhat infuriating (its only Kerry vs Bush; it only lists the media-driven “issues”), but it seems to do a pretty good job nonetheless.

I scored Bush 75%, Kerry 31%.

I want to make one of these that doesn’t artificially limit choices, and lets users answer questions with more than a one-axis of differentiation. I’m neither “in favor” or “opposed” to appointing judges that would make abortion illegal, because thats not the real issue for me. I’m in favor of judges that would limit the federal government’s role on that issue, and all other issues as well. This is completely unaccounted for in this test. But hey, give it a shot anyway.

Ironically, the second time I checked my results, both candidates score 0%…

Does that mean I’m like Badnarik 95%, Cobb 5%?

Hrm.

I want to find someone who would otherwise (reluctantly) vote for Kerry to vote for Michael Badnarik, Libertarian for President, so that I can vote for Michael Badnarik, Libertarian for President as well, instead of Bush, who I would otherwise (reluctantly) vote for.

Why, you probably ask, would I ever vote for Bush? I happened to explain it quite succinctly to a friend a few monents ago. I would vote for him “because his dometstic policy goals are closer (although not much) to my own than the other major candidate (and 3 of the other 4 top candidates), and his Iraq plan needs a chance to work before we sell it short, imho.”

Besides, 9 out of 9 terroists agree – Kerry in 2004.

Ahem, sorry about that. It wasn’t supposed to slip in.