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Domino Valdano ([personal profile] spoonless) wrote2006-11-09 01:14 pm

revolution is in the air!





Above are pictures from this halloween of [livejournal.com profile] icarusdiver (Zombie, front left), [livejournal.com profile] geheimnisnacht (mad baker, front right), and myself (V For Vendetta, back). The "bring pluto back" protester was with a group of people we ran into while wandering around downtown, physics undergrads. He handed me a flyer that said "Support a 9 Planet Solar System!" and had a web url http://www.bringbackpluto.org... looks like it actually is a real website, whether serious or not.

I just uploaded a bunch of pics from previous halloweens. Most of them I've already posted at some point or another to this journal, but they weren't actually in the gallery, which you can find here As a bonus, here's photo of evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins signing my copy of The God Delusion a couple weeks ago.

Congratulations, democrats, on retaking congress... well done. Gridlock will hopefully stop Bush and his cronies from further assaulting the freedoms of US citizens, such as his recent whimsical suspension of habeus corpus, and the bill he passed to make himself immune from being tried for war crimes, and the bill he passed giving himself emergency powers to declare martial law whenever he feels like it. It seems he was getting rather desperate towards the election to get certain things passed... hopefully, this will at least be enough to stop him from further abusing his power.

"People should not be afraid of their government--government should be afraid of its people." -V

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[identity profile] ex-memepr0g.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
I'm also pleased about the Democrats as well - I'm pretty tired of the Republican nutjobs already. I don't like Bush's economics either - he TAX CUTS and then SPENDS: he's an economic dumbass!

[identity profile] spoonless.livejournal.com 2006-11-10 04:33 am (UTC)(link)

he TAX CUTS and then SPENDS: he's an economic dumbass!

Yeah... basically, the poor fool who takes office after him is going to have to clean up the mess he's made by raising them up again... and whoever it is, he's sure to be unpopular for it while Bush gets a free ride. It's actually a pretty brilliant political strategy if you think about it... he gets all the praise from lobbyists for spending the money, without any of the accountability of having to pay for it.