The Silly Season is finally over

Lieberman defeats Lamont to hold Senate seat.

Not a huge surprise. CNN kept stressing last night that Lieberman has promised Connecticut that he will work with the Democrats. Wolf sending a message? Perhaps.

Connecticut knows Joe only works for himself. He'll take the ripest plums the Republicans offer him and do what ever the hell they want him to do.

Six more years of this crap.

Independents and Republicans voted for him in droves. Thanks folks - you are responsible for this. Hope you're happy.

If Schlesinger had not been in this race I'm not sure Lamont would have received his votes. Lamont lost it after winning the primary. Schlesinger's numbers are mostly attributed to his good showing in the debates - goodness knows the Republican machine abandoned him . For Lieberman. That's gotta leave a bad taste in his mouth.

It's depressing that voters in seven states have decided to amend their Constitutions to define marriage as a union between one male and one female.

The conservative Concerned Women for American said it "rejoices with the American people on these important victories."

Depressing. It looks like only Arizona will not pass one of these marriage amendment issues.

Good news? Six states voted to raise their minimum wages; Santorum lost to Bobby Casey (whose Dad once dated my Mother back in the dark ages :) ); South Dakota’s law banning abortion was rejected 55 - 45; Webb might win Virginia - it's really close; the removal of Republicans wasn't just Federal - it was on the state and local level as well.

Not sure how I feel about Madam Speaker, the individual, but Madam Speaker... sweet.

Get the message Mr. Bush?

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In Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega won his presidential bid after Eduardo Montealegre conceded yesterday.

On the campaign trail, Ortega traded his olive-green military garb for white and pink shirts and ran on a center-left platform. Once an atheist, he has made peace with an old enemy, the Catholic Church. His running mate, Jaime Morales, is a former Contra commander whose Managua home Ortega confiscated as president and still lives in.

Tiger changing its spots? Perhaps. I wonder how long it will be before Bush declares Nicaragua one of the "Axis of Evil" nations.

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Britney Spears is divorcing her husband. This is news, apparently. Comes under the header "who gives a shit" for me... but then, that's me.

However... it's just fine for some foolish person, ala Miz Spears, to "marry" some equally foolish person during a drunken... well orgy might be too strong of a word… for 55 hours and get it... was it annulled or were they divorced? In any case, this child makes a complete mockery of marriage and that's just fine and dandy. Then she goes off with some other equally foolish person, whose girlfriend had given birth to their second child just a few months prior, and marries this clown. This is just peachy-keen. They have two more children who will now not have a full-time Father in their lives, just like his other two children don't. No problem, apparently.

But two people who love each other, have been committed to each other for some long period time in most cases, who wish the world to know and accept them as loving spouses/partners, and congratulate them as such, welcome them as such, just like the Spears-Fed "marriage" - that can't happen. Two people who just run rough shod over others lives, doing whatever the hell they feel like doing and making a joke out of what marriage is supposed to be about, can get away with this behavior - but two loving, committed adults cannot get married if they are of the same sex.

This makes sense? How? How can this possibly make sense to anyone? It's a sick joke. The State has no right to say who can and cannot marry beyond very basic guidelines such as age and mental health - this simple fact seems to allude most people. Amending the state Constitutions to give the State that power is the worst kind of insanity - if they can tell you that you must marry someone of a different sex, next they will tell you what color, what religion, what nationality your spouse must be.

You don't think so?

Think about it some more.

Today is a good day for civil liberties - the Democrats have taken back the government from Republican control. But only one of eight states rejected the notion of a state Constitutional amendment defining marriage as being between one male and one female. In 2004 11 states voted the same way - that's 18 states looking to amend their Constitutions to declare that marriage is between one male and one female. It’s not a huge stretch of the imagination that this could get much, much worse. Did you see this coming six years ago?

Four years ago?

I know I didn’t.