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I'm Canadian. We don't have to discuss this inanity. All we're doing, even the atheists among us, is praying to a higher power that there's regime change.

I enjoyed the spin Cheneys office put on his remarks, i.e., Well, we face the possibility of more terrorist attacks if anyone gets elected, and at least we know that Bush and Cheney will rack up a body count for the alleged opposition rather than plumbing the scary and deeply upsetting causes behind it all. One way or another, I strongly suspect that American intelligence agencies will drop the ball on a significant terrorist event shortly before the election; if it effects the natural course of the election, Ill be shopping around for a new home, and frankly, Pluto wont be far enough away.

Also, keep in mind that, very recently, we heard that terrorists are planning an election-time assassination of a top-level politician, but for some reason Bush is an ineligible target. Now Cheney says were all going to die if Kerry gets elected, but were perfectly safe if we reelect the guy blowing holes in the terrorists backyards? What exactly are these terrorists motivations again? Assassinating any single American wont do much to disrupt the flow of capitalism, and if youre trying to disrupt the election process and you leave the fucking president off the list of potential targets, well, youre not being a very effective terrorist. I can understand some extremist Muslims believing an ultimate war between Christianity and Islam is brewing, and that Bush is the guy to make it really happen, but 1,000 coalition casualties versus hundreds of thousands of Muslim casualties makes it look like Allah hasnt mobilized his troops yet. The only rational for these terrorists to act in these ways would be a desire to see their countrymen killed, their country invaded and occupied, and their natural resources plundered; when you realize these arent reasonable motivations for a Muslim but exceedingly likely motivations for someone in or propping up the Bush administration, the arguments against wild conspiracy theories start to look a lot more puerile.

I hear Vega 4 is lovely this time of year.