Touch of Grey

  • Posted by smijer
  • November 8, 2006

Everyone is celebrating & rightly so. I just want to point out one of the downsides (though there were more than one). Hate amendments flourished yesterday, with Arizona the possible exception. Tennessee (80-20!), South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, Colorado, Idaho… my goodness. Or badness, in this case. And Tennessee the hatefulest of the bunch. Colorado also failed to pass a civil unions amendment. And then there’s Arizona’s English as Official Language amendment that passed handily showing that English speakers in Arizona need government help figuring out what language to speak.

And then there’s Harold Ford’s impression of Clayton Bigsby:

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Written by:
Buck
Posted on:
November 8, 2006 at 9:16 am

I hope you are just disappointed and not surprised. Surely you saw this coming.

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Written by:
smijer
Posted on:
November 8, 2006 at 9:48 am

The exclamation point marks my point of surprised disappiontment. I didn’t think Tennessee was so bad in those terms. I didn’t expect to defeat the amendment, but I looked for a moderate margin of victory.

I expected about this outcome in the Corker/Ford race, and was surprised to be right.

I am a little surprised to see the Senate so near to swinging control. I thought we would pick up 4-5 seats, but now it looks like there may be a 6 seat pickup.

I’m suprised & disappointed that Bill Lusk didn’t do better. He ran a hell of a campaign. I am at a loss to explain why he didn’t come at least within striking distance of Richard Floyd, especially for an open seat.

I’m disappointed but not surprised that Wamp beat Benedict. I’m disappointed that Lieberman won CT, and a little surprised that Lamont didn’t have a somewhat better showing there.

I notice that Nevada didn’t legalize recreational marijuana. Too bad for the hippies, huh? And libertarians, too…

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Written by:
Buck
Posted on:
November 8, 2006 at 6:16 pm

Legalizing marijuana would take every bit of the fun (and profit) out of it.

And I am in total shock at how badly the Repub’s got hammered. I expected the House but never, ever the Senate. I guess people were a bit more pissed than even I thought they would be.

But if there has ever been a group of individuals who deserved this drubbing this is the group.

Damn, they were terrible.

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Written by:
Jadarm
Posted on:
November 8, 2006 at 7:49 pm

I am sure that the once illegal practice of smoking mary-jane will now cease and desist (in AZ of all places) now that the voters have spoken.

But what is the big deal anyway? I mean, say if a bear was in a forest and came across a marijuana plant or crop, growing naturally of course, and decided to to eat it all…well, would the bear get stoned? And if no one was there to see the bear get stoned…would he really have been stoned?

And if he suddenly got the munchies would you feed him? And if you did feed him (and lived to tell about it) would he have preferred your “special brownies” as opposed to the standard ham sandwiches?

Would the bear have a peaceful buzz? Or would the fuzz take out an A.P.B. on the bear and his buzz?

And would the bear now become nervous and paranoid? Or would the bear now become a vegetarian and begin eating all the “green vegetation” that his glassy eyes could see?

And would the bear laugh his stoned ass off at that picture of a camo-clad Harold Ford in front of the rebel flag???

It seems that this vote has caused more questions than answers.