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Well, this fucking sucks.

EDIT: I'm so fucking livid over the state of this country right now that I can't even write about it. Plus, it's 1:30 a.m. and I have class in the morning. Since when did Evangelical Christians control this country? ISSUES SHOULD MATTER MORE THAN "VALUES." While Christians are the majority in this country and want to see basic Constitutional rights robbed from citizens who they view as sinners and lesser beings (aka, homosexuals and pro-choice women), the United States will cease to be a democracy. That is all I'm fucking saying for now.

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For those of you that are defending Bush by saying that Kerry would be no better, allow me to explain why I think that is certainly NOT the case.

The most obvious reason is that the Republicans control the House AND Senate. That means that any Conservative measure, war measure, or anything tickling Bush's fancy will pass pretty much without question. I imagine that there will be no attempt made whatsoever to appeal to both sides of the aisle. If Kerry were President, he would have to make a harder effort to get things done by making his ideas as bipartisan as possible. This doesn't mean that everything he passes would be exactly the same as what Bush passes. Not by a long shot. Look at how Clinton was able to make his ideas work with a Republican controlled Congress. Plus, he holds the ultimate power to VETO the really ridiculous shit that the Congress would try to pass. But Republicans could never try to pass anything ridiculous now could they? Well, if banning gay marriage and trying to ban abortion aren't enough for you, then I wonder how great your "morals and values" really are. Why don't we reinstate slavery while we're at it, or take away the right for women to vote?

Anyway, here is a list of things that I predict will happen in the next four years, and we'll see how right I am:

1. We will still be in Iraq.
2. We will also be in Iran.
3. We won't do anything about North Korea (unless they strike first of course).
4. Outsourcing of jobs and war/defense spending will only increase, so as a result our economy and the deficit will be even worse than they are now.
5. Education, Social Security, agricultural, and health care funding/aid will decrease, because you know, killing people in the Middle East without being provoked is more important than taking care of people at home or ensuring that we can still feed the world.
6. Something that violates the separation of church and state will be passed, even if it is taken to the Supreme Court, because guess who will be appointing the new justices.
7. We will endure another terrorist attack, possibly as a direct result of Bush being re-elected but more probably because of our shitty foreign policy, but in the end Bush will look like the hero for "bringing the country together in this terrible time."
8. Osama bin Laden will still be at large.
9. We will be even more isolated from the rest of the world, partly because they won't understand why we re-elected him, and mostly because Bush doesn't believe the opinion of the world matters. So when we are attacked again, I don't expect to see many countries reaching out to help us.
10. Nothing will be done about the Patriot Act.
11. Roe v. Wade could be overturned or at the very least modified to better suit the God damn Conservative majority in this country.
12. Embryonic stem cell research will never get off the ground, and in ten or twenty years from now millions of people will have died thinking that there could have been a cure for their disease if the "morals" of the healthy hadn't have interfered.

I think I might save this list and bring it back every time one of these things happens.

EDIT: Yes, I know that Kerry just conceded, so don't be a fuckwit and comment saying "Bush won, so stop talking about Kerry being President."

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I'm changing the subject for the sole reason that moping around my apartment contemplating the bleak future of this country is not getting my homework done. I need to redirect my train of thought and get some shit done around here.

I registered for my spring classes last week. Here's what I plan to take (unless English 314 miraculously opens up):

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
8 a.m.
9 a.m.
10 a.m.	Mteor 342		Mteor 342		Mteor 342
11 a.m.	Mteor 404	Anthr 230	Mteor 404	Anthr 230	Mteor 404
12 p.m.		(11-12:20)		(11-12:20)
1 p.m.	Mteor 443	Phil 201 (12:30-2)	Mteor 443	Phil 201 (12:30-2)	Mteor 443
2 p.m.
3 p.m.
4 p.m.
5 p.m.

Mteor 342: Meteorology 342--Atmospheric Physics II
Mteor 404: Meteorology 404--Global Change
Mteor 443: Meteorology 443--Atmospheric Dynamics I
Anthr 230: Anthropology 230--Globalization and the Human Condition
Phil 201: Philosophy 201--Introduction to Philosophy

I want you notice one very important thing. NO LABS!!!! This will be the one and only semester in my undergrad in which I will not have to sit through a two or three hour lab, and believe me, I will enjoy that.