Decision time

[misscam]

Help.

Today, I may find out there will be four more years of Bush. Bro and I intend to do an election wake/celebration, depending on the result. I honestly have no feel either way. I just have no idea which way it'll go. Part of me doesn't want to know because if it's Bush, I may have to despair.

If you're American and haven't voted yet, vote now. And remember that your choice affects us here in the rest of the world too, please.

In the news today:
Summary of the election campaign so far
What if no clear winner?
Conservative Norwegian newspaper makes a stand
A Norwegian poll
Commando soldiers storm the Tampa - this time American ones

Hmpf.

And musemistress, you'll be happy to know I have decided to do your Babylon 5/Lord of the Rings challenge. It lured me in, like the sneaky plotbunny it was. Now I just have to find a beta who knows both fandoms and get my muse out of its Bush-depression so I can write. Sigh.

Yes, I know most of you asked for Discworld crossovers, but that'll have to be for another time when I can think of a Pratchett-worthy plot.

Comments

[jakie-f.livejournal.com]

Argh. I fully intend to spend the day pretending it's not happening or I shall go insane.

I wish I could vote. I wish I could, I really do...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I don't, as that would mean I'd have to call Bush my president. Just... no.

[sinneahtes.livejournal.com]

Just voted about 45 minutes ago! Still wearing my "I Voted Today" sticker. (I need not tell you for whom I voted, I assume.) There were a couple of high school kids standing outside the school I voted in holding anti-Bush signs. Nice to know some of the youth around here cares... but I think I was the youngest person voting there at the hour. Hopefully more 18-25 year olds will show up as the day wears on.

I'm pretty sure Connecticut's electorals will go to Kerry/Edwards (this site here shows how we've been increasingly voting Democrat since 1976), but we're no swing state and we're quite small when it comes to the number of electorals we have. Oh well. Our votes still matter on some level, even if only to give the finger to the candidate we hate or to vote in Congresspeople or Senators who will tick off the rest of Congress or the President, so I take the responsibility seriously.

I've eaten so much chocolate to deal with this today it's not even funny (and it's only 9:30am!). I'm looking forward to the Daily Show coverage of this. I need humor and chocolate and Bush out of office and I need it now, dammit!

*crosses fingers*

[da-think.livejournal.com]

I have the cheeks of my ass crossed for Kerry on this one.

[sliven.livejournal.com]

I'm nervous, too. I might even watch the election-specials on the telly tonight... scary.
I've come to believe that more Bush will make the US implode. More or less literally.
He's creepy, methinks.

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

My prescription: a really stiff drink. Or two. Or ten. I can't follow my own advice yet because I have to go to an important appointment, but as soon as I've done that and voted, I probably will.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Every vote helps!

Let's just hope it helps enough. *smacks Bush with a trout* You! Out of office! Off my TV screen! Away!

Gah, just the thought of four more years...

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Sounds painful.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Creepy? Well, he might be that too, I suppose. His smirk certainly is. *shudder*

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Alcohol is on stand-by, oh yes.

[musemistress.livejournal.com]

*grins like a complete mad nutter* SQUEE I am very honoured you think my brain worthy of its ideas, and the mere fact the genre meets your approval is getting me thinking as to why I did not think of this for myself.

Shit dammit!

Anyhow...the polls are looking scarily close and I'm sitting here biting my nails over what this could mean. And actually, who is worse? Strawberry or Shrub? No one will know until the final desicion is made...and knowing parliment (as has been the prime example in Australia) it's going to be a mass cheat sheet of catastrophic conscequenses. In Holland here people are losing jobs by the hundreds (myself included...am down to my last €100) and the taxes for the 'war effort' are going up with very little small people getting the benefit. Plus the downtime of free speech...unfortunately the western countries have screwed up any peaceful relation with the Arabian countries with the whole war thingy as now any free speech is condemmed. In Australia, the Liberal government (bloody Johnnyboy Howard) now has most of the seats and have been crushing the smaller people so hard that the polls on the internet that ask people if they are faring better under Liberal than Labour are actually almost even...as the poor people can no longer even afford a computer and can no longer take the damn polls.

ARGH!! This worlds going to the dogs...lets all claim an island somewhere and live in caves. At least we can still be allowed to light our own fires without needing a bloody license.


Be well Miss Cam...and if you (and I doubt it) need a beta reader...I know a LOT about Middle Earth bad sadly know nothing of B5. Hopefully that betareader will show up soon :)


~Vana E~

[nirix5.livejournal.com]

I voted for Kerry at six o'clock this morning. It was sheer luck, really, since the coffee hadn't kicked in yet and I could barely read the little tabby things... but it's done.

Of course, I would have voted for Grissom, but some fool forgot to put his name up there.

I just got back from voting!

[krazykat.livejournal.com]

I just got back from my polling place. It was good to see that there was a line there - I didn't like standing in that line, but I'm glad to see people voting. I will be watching the election results with baited breath and an anxious heart. I want an end of this error. I only hope that the election goes smoothly and that Kerry wins the majority of EC votes. I know I have done my part to help Bush move out of a house he should never have occupied.

Yes, I'm still bitter over the Florida voting disaster of 2000. It reaks of corruption.

[flamingofeather.livejournal.com]

*chants* Four more years! Four more years!

I'm more nervous than I thought I'd be about this. And not just about the results...nervous about my friends who don't care, about the people who didn't know there was an election on as of a couple months ago, and the people who will be voting in '08. This includes me--

But mostly about who will win. What kind of president would Kerry make? And Bush...what if he wins and doesn't try to clean up his act?

So glad we don't have school today. I'm too jittery.

Re: I just got back from voting!

[flamingofeather.livejournal.com]

>.< That was the worst. Corruption...oh yeah.

[da-think.livejournal.com]

Its a skill :D

[bjam1402.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'll get to vote next time too!

Except, damn, no I won't, I won't have citizenship by then. Bugger. Sigh. Oh well. Maybe I could marry an American when I'm 17, thus becoming a citizen when I'm 17, thus being able to vote in '08... Hrm. I don't think I'd want that though. I suppose it'll just be another four years of waiting on the sidelines.

(And there's no way in heck that I'll be in America when I'm 22.)

DON'T WORRY. KERRY WILL WIN.

[starsong24.livejournal.com]

See, everyone /thinks/ that Bush'll win. But many of his supporters won't bother to vote. They'll be too confident. And too lazy. They'll think: 'Oh, it's just a drop in the bucket'.

[visp.livejournal.com]

I've voted for Kerry, and fully intend to riot if Bush is reelected.

[musemistress.livejournal.com]

Riots are already occuring and are commonplace here...but only for lack of free speech, it's getting on our nerves.

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=218066

[misscam.livejournal.com]

I'm worrying about what kind of President Kerry would make too. But it cannot be worse than Bush.

There should be more choices, though. Better choices. It's like choosing between the plague and the cholera, as we say in Norway.

[b2wm.livejournal.com]

We were listening to Rush Limbaugh on the way home, and it sounds like both sides are already rioting. Republicans blocking parking lots and having their tires slashed... meh, it's a mess, but hopefully we'll see some action out of this that doesn't include rioting in the streets.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

:) B5 and LotR have more in common than you might think, which is what drew me to it. They're both very mythical. I think I can actually merge them. Will take a lot of work, but I like the idea. I fear it will be an epic though. But nothing ventured, nothing gained.

The world does indeed feel perilous sometimes. But if we do not fight for it, others will surely shape it for us. Every voice counts.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Aw, for shame. Grissom would surely be a better president than old Shrub, that's for sure.

(Hee, icon!)

Re: I just got back from voting!

[misscam.livejournal.com]

*cheers you and your icon*

Ah yes, the Florida debacle. The reason the US election is now being monitored by internation observers.