The US election

Soberman · 24-10-08 05:09:17

Methinks, Nihpuad, you generalize even when you may think you're not. Where do Independents stand? In years when they vote Republican, has a sexual Ice Age descended propelling their sexual inhibition? Should one vote Democratic just to await the surge of sexual liberation? One of the hottest women I ever had the pleasure to pleausre was a Mormon. A close second was an orthodox Jewess. Fortunately, we left our politics at the bedroom door. Sexual repression is an American past time and, I can assure you, is not party specific.

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nihpuad · 24-10-08 06:40:14

Soberman wrote:

Methinks, Nihpuad, you generalize even when you may think you're not.

No, I specifically said I was generalizing, the very first time I said anything about this, and admitted right up front that the generalization wasn't necessarily applicable to any given individual (or couple). In fact, the difference between individual behavior and the generalization about (sub)cultural norms (i.e., my original example about the Baptists I knew growing up in Texas who drank and danced and made out just like everyone else, but couldn't admit to any of it) was really kinda' the whole point of the joke.

And it was a joke. Really, it was just a smart-alecky response to a smart-alecky question, all in good fun. Y'all are taking this way too seriously.

And now for something completely different (and not a man with three buttocks!): this is just one example of the half-kazillion amateur videos about the election that are floating around, nothing special (except that the girl in it is cute). It only occurred to me to link it here because there are 4 or 5 seconds of it, starting at about 0:53, that will look oddly familiar to feck fans!

momentextase · 24-10-08 07:20:32

Well, trends seem to me to be longer cycle than administrations, although a couple of years ago here in the USA there was a big push by the moralists to censor the internet that was very annoying.

But yeah, some of those Mormon gals have it goin on don't they?

Anyway, I have never been able to make any meaningful correlations about sexual ...um...activity... based on religious preference.

OTOH, as much as I dislike Sarah Palin, she seems to have a "naughty librarian" vibe happenin... by golly.

cool link nihpuad, trade ya:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-QevraCQUc
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/cc65ed650d

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blissed · 25-10-08 00:00:15

Poor guys getting tired :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX7de11WF_Q

nihpuad that rap song was great.

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blissed · 26-10-08 21:52:17

I must admit I've been more than interested in this election, checking it's progress every day and searching the net for news. I don't think I could be more interested if I'd put money on it. Tho actually I think there's more at stake than that, so perhaps thats why I am so interested, because it effects the whole world.

I'm glad in my searching I found the new improved Daily show site http://www.thedailyshow.com/ you get about half the show there full screen. So I'll probly carry on using the site when the elections over and I definitely think Jon Stewart should run for president one day.

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nihpuad · 27-10-08 05:06:47

I don't know what Halloween customs are around the world, but here in the U.S., we carve pumpkins. Here's a site full of Obama-related pumpkin carving goodness:

http://yeswecarve.com/

Enjoy!

blissed · 31-10-08 18:46:35

This guys been making us laugh for such a long time so lets hear just one last speech :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YwYaNkj … =rec-fresh

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blissed · 03-11-08 03:25:55

OK we'll let him have the last word http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjmLE7pa … =rec-fresh

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youlookgreat · 04-11-08 05:56:28

To add a little fun to this looong thread, in the short time that it's still possible, here's a prediction of the outcome: Obama wins with 380-400 electoral votes (270 being the minimum to win).

nihpuad · 04-11-08 08:03:15

youlookgreat wrote:

Obama wins with 380-400 electoral votes

Well, I hope you're right, because a landslide that big would almost certainly give Democrats larger-than-predicted gains in the House and Senate (I personally am following the Al Franken/Norm Coleman Senate race in MN very closely, and I'd love to see Saxby Chamblis of Georgia get taken down).

However, my own prediction is more like Obama with 350 (+/-10) EVs.

BTW, Dixville Notch, NH, has already reported its votes, and it went 15-6 for Obama. It doesn't really mean anything, of course, but given that the town has gone Republican for at least the last 4 election cycles, maybe something big is brewing!

Finally, here's a look back at my artistic/political efforts for Halloween.

gala · 04-11-08 09:54:09

Well, it's almost time.

God help us. God help us all.

blissed · 04-11-08 12:56:01

Yeah, I'm gonna have to do something else with my time on wednesday :) nice pumpkins nihpuad.

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blissed · 04-11-08 15:00:13

Anyway, this is my closing speech on election day :)

and it's about this thing about socialism.

The state provides a bedrock and safety net and physical security that makes things stable enough for capitalism to function.

Every economy has a balance of socialism (safe state funding) and capitalism (the calculated risk of private funding) the right balance both provides opportunity for people at the bottom and maintains incentive to profit, I think the USA needs to shift slightly to funding opportunity for those people without because their talents are going to waste and you need more fiscal security and order to reduce the risk to private capital, so that capitalism can function (because you and therefore us are a hairs breadth from it being disfunctional and who wants to lose all their savings in a bank crash) so I think that slight shift would be constructive. You can't drift ever increasingly towards greater socialism because eventually you become unbalanced in the other direction and in most countries the government is then changed, plus the US culture is weighted pretty heavily towards profit incentive.

So go and VOTE OBAMA!!! :)

I'm Blissed and I approve this message.

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Soberman · 05-11-08 04:32:46

Obama wins. He just took Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Mexico. The only way McCain can win is if Bush invades Canada, declares it a state and McCain takes Toronto. But, Blissed, don't worry, Bush won't so you can go to bed happy and hope, instead, that Russia doesn't invade Ukraine tomorrow. Seriously, as a reluctant Obama supporter, my prayers are with him and may he be every bit as good as he appears.

gala · 05-11-08 05:08:37

I hope this works.

Soberman · 05-11-08 05:10:12

Less need to watch campaign news and more time to watch IFM and its beautiful women.

pcobb4759 · 06-11-08 00:52:37

What a night! I'm delighted! There hasn't been anything like this since I was 5 years old(JFK)--& I'm 53! Now we can begin not only rebuilding but building anew--can't wait!

nihpuad · 06-11-08 03:19:50

I would've posted sooner, but I worked a variety of election-day jobs from 6:00 am 'til we got our town's results at 8:45 pm... then I partied watching returns 'til 1:30 am.

And then I slept all day -- and I mean literally all day -- today!

I can't tell you all how much weight I feel has lifted from my shoulders!

blissed · 06-11-08 11:59:53

I can see how you'd feel that way, I feel a sense of relief and thats from across the atlantic!

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kirejos · 07-11-08 02:38:38

I am full of joy Canvassing in Cleveland for Barack as a part of the Rochester for Obama team has left me a changed person. I cannot tell you how rewarding it is to experience the enthusiasm of people who weep with passion for their hero. I literally held people weeping who had never participated in the democratic process before. We knocked on doors, and turned out the vote in East Cleveland. I cried on the drive home when I heard on the radio that Ohio had gone for Obama. This election is more significant than people realize, it is historic on so many levels. Social justice, economic equality, peace, tolerance, foreign policy prudence, and environmentalism. Yaaaaay! I'm so happy Let's celebrate

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Soberman · 07-11-08 04:19:58

For all of you glaze-eyed, Night of the Living Obamaniacs, this is a test to see if you've maintained your sense of humor and a hold on reality:

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/o … dded_video

kirejos · 07-11-08 05:40:59

Ha Ha, you wish.

Where are the McCainiacs?

kirejos · 07-11-08 06:13:36

P.S.-

I miss you Gala

kirejos · 07-11-08 06:22:16

Charmed+Happiness+Serenity=Blissed

gala · 07-11-08 07:10:19

Oh that is very sweet. I'm not sure exactly which absence of mine you're referring to (I just have so many!), but I think you should have more presence. Here.

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