The states of Washington and Colorado have legalized the recreational use of marijuana, and it's not just for medical use. And its not just 'de-criminalization" but outright legalization. So "Rocky Mountain High" has become a reality. Also gay marriages have been legalized in Main and Maryland. So never again can the right wing claim that "no state has ever voted to legalize gay marriage". As such the American people, in a manner of speaking, have registered their views on social issues.
President Obama won re election last night when Ohio broke for President Obama at 8:13 last night and immediately cheers went up from the crowd. However coverage of the elections was so bad this time it's the first time I can actually remember that I fell asleep during coverage. ABC was particularly lacking in substance, "meat free" so to speak, in the early hours. They just played their music and their graphs and kept saying what they were GOING to do, and introduced all of their staff- - over and over again. Even when the numbers began coming in- - most coverage was filled with filler fluff. I switched to NBC, which was better. As you can see the President won ALL of the battleground states except for North Carolina, where nobody gave him a chance anyway. Florida is undecided and they say the rest of the ballots won't be counted till November 17th. But they are in Miami-Date county, where the President is leading. I roused last night at ten to listen to Mitt Romney's basically civil concession speech, even if he doubted that he had really lost Ohio. Actually the President has 305 electoral votes or some such thing. I want to hear Rush Limbaugh's sputtering for words this morning trying to explain the loss, and John Mc Laughlin has some "splaining" to do. Of course the President won despite efforts at voter supression and tampering in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida.
In California proposition 30 passed, after my thinking it had failed last night. For a while the President trailed Romney in the popular vote before the West Coast results had come in. So we won't have any Al Gore type situation this year. And it wasn't tied 269 to 269 either. Proposition 38, the other education amendment - - failed, which would have raised taxes even more. Proposition 32 failed, which I am happy about. Proposition 34 also failed. The way this one gray haired guy was talking you'd have thought it passed. This was the proposition to wipe out the death penalty. The citizens of California are still too attached to that. The sex and child trade amendment passed. And voters voted to tweak the three strikes law, so it isnt so draconian on the third strike. As it was you could go to prison for life for stealing a piece of pizza. Proposition 37, the genetic engineering labeling food one, failed. I am not happy about that. Proposition 39 passed. This is the one that returns to taxing out of state companies, and also supplies money for alternative energy research, which is something the tea party hates. Judy has said she was against anything that raised taxes or revenues in the least.
Eric Cantor won out in Virginia. I'm not happy about that. But Clair Mc Haskle beat Todd Akin in Missouri, for making his remarks on rape. Also in Indiana that Merdoch guy, who had said that rape was God's will - - also went down to defeat. Good. Tim Kane defeated George Alan in Virginia. And Elizabeth Warren defeated Scott Brown. With all these senate victories you'd think we'd be up more than two people in the senate collum. But never the less the democrats will retain control of the US senate so that Supreme Court justice selection will not be in jeopardy. Neither will the Affordable Care Act ever again be in jeopardy. In fact "Never Again" is a watch word in this election. Never again will we see the likes of Mitt Romney. Never Again will Mitt Romney have credibility with anyone even in his own party. Never again will the US have to worry about political and racial demographics, because these are now and will continue to be increasingly in our favor. This was the tea party's last shot, and not to gloat or anything but "You took your lucky break - - and broke it in two - - now what can be done for you". Too many people are going underground. Too many people are in the closet or hiding their marijuana crop stash. Now with this election these people can feel a little more free to come out in the open. From the serious to the rediculas, in that Valley congressional race, Shermon beat Burman in the run-off. These are the two old men who almost got into a fist fight at a public meeting and the video went viral on the internet. These two don't like each other one bit.
Meanwhile in the world of the Dead - - - It was Tuesday in the wee hours in the morning I was contacted by Burt Lombard. I had already not bee sleeping, I had woken up. I had an "itching in the brain". And I'd try t lie still and get back to sleep and I'd just "twitch". Later I was plagued with restless bowels that kept me up a lot of the night but went away in the morning. Burt Lombard said 'As long as you're up anyhow let me take this oppertunity to say that I think it would go better for you if you didn't vote for Obama. So I did as I had threatened here- - and voted Green Party, putting my money where my mouth was. I voted for Jill Stein. We use one of these electronic ballots where you dial to highlight the candidate you vote for. This system also has a paper trail. Otherwise I voted a straight democratic ticket and for the first time did not vote for a single republican. Burt wasn't concerned really about either abortion or gay marriage. But he brought up Jeremiah Wright and "turning your back on an old friend- - which isn't good". He also mentioned how Obama had led us on thinking he would take decisive action against Wall Street, which he didn't. Also raised was the whole idea of these Drone killings of civilians "Which isn't what the American people were led to expect". But the other thing was the whole bit about the trans-Canada pipeline. "The President didn't have the guts to stick by his convictions but is content to pass on whatever the tea party recommends". I had one more problem not raised by Burt, when it came to these "death panels' is Obama care goes into effect. I was thinking I didn't want to have anybody's death on my hands should I "turn out to be wrong' and there actually WERE "death panels". But Pete Richards - - WHO IS VERY MUCH ALIVE on the phone raised the idea of this government spying. And he brought up the idea that if the government doesn't like your site they will put a red X by it as "politically suspect". I told Pete that I am against any form of sensorship in this way. But Pete doesn't like the idea of government snooping. He and I both agreed that "If this kind of power fell into the wrong President's hands, we could all be in real trouble". As such I made it clear (to God, if nobody else) that if President Obama was going to win, he'd do it without my vote
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