Reply #17: it's funny, that week was good in many other ways [View All]

[BigMcLargehuge]

that I was able to enjoy, I took my wife and little boy to see The Incredibles, I helped out at the polls, the PS2 game Godzilla Save the Earth came out and I'd pre ordered it so had it the day it shipped... But the whole week was clouded over by the election, which isn't so unusual, but worse as so many DUers reverted to some pre-cro magnon forms and began visciously tearing into one another. It was like the candidate wars all over again...

A couple of cool other events happened that week outside of DU, my brother-in-law got his tax assessment and it went up over 10%. Boy was he pissed! AND a Bush voter, so I was able to explain that the 20 bucks he got from Bush's income tax cut just cost him a grand in property taxes. Then went on to explain unfunded mandates and stuff.

Next time he votes, he votes dem.

Then, Saturday night at a little restarant here in Londonderry I overheard an older man talking with his waitress about the election. He was so happy that Bush won and took great care to explain that the reason those "filthy Europeans don't like us" is because they are jealous etc... His waitress, a nice Greek lady, laughed and said, "don't talk about Europe, you've never been to Europe. You know nothing. America a young country, hell at 200 years old the Greeks controlled half the western world, developed democracy, create an urban social structure, developed science and medicine, and their work is still the cornerstone of what you Americans call democracy today. And that was 5000 years ago. So let me tell you that the reason those filthy Europeans don't like America is because you're arrogant and don't know anything... Have a nice night."

She slapped his check down on the table and walked away.