{"id":13864,"date":"2004-11-09T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-09T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/09\/post-election-stories\/"},"modified":"2004-11-09T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-09T22:35:00","slug":"post-election-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/09\/post-election-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Election Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Borowitz Report<\/i> breaks the story that W &ldquo;announced the first major initiative of his second term in office today, canceling the agreement between nouns and verbs&hellip;telling reporters, &rsquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/borowitzreport.com\/archive_rpt.asp?rec=1001&amp;srch=\" target=\"_blank\">I has a mandate, and I intends to use it.<\/a>&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In other post-election news, <i>The Onion<\/i> led with the headline &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/news\/index.php?issue=4045\" target=\"_blank\">Nation&rsquo;s Poor Win Election For Nation&rsquo;s Rich<\/a>.&rdquo;  The article quotes Karl Rove, <strike>minister of evil<\/strike> senior advisor to W, &ldquo;You have selflessly sacrificed your well-being and voted against your own economic interest. For this, we humbly thank you.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorryeverybody.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sorry Everybody<\/a> allows the 49% of Americans who didn&rsquo;t vote for W to apologize to the world in advance for his inevitably divisive, destructive, and moronic actions.  Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorryeverybody.com\/gallery\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\">gallery<\/a> in particular&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sorryeverybody.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"sorry everybody\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/sorryworld.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>Oh, and W sucks.  :-p<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <i>CNN<\/i> reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/11\/09\/cabinet.resignations\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don Evans have both submitted their resignations<\/a>.  In celebration of Ashcroft&rsquo;s departure, revisit <a href=\"http:\/\/hublog.hubmed.org\/archives\/000778.html\" target=\"_blank\">Porncroft<\/a>, a photomosaic composed entirely of pornographic images (most definitely <acronym title=\"Not Safe For Work\">NSFW<\/acronym>), or listen to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/us\/2002\/02\/25\/ashcroft.sings.wbtv.med.html\" target=\"_blank\">horrible  rendition of the song &ldquo;Let The Eagles Soar.&rdquo;<\/a>  Good riddance&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-109991608515647804?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Borowitz Report breaks the story that W &ldquo;announced the first major initiative of his second term in office today, canceling the agreement between nouns and verbs&hellip;telling reporters, &rsquo;I has a mandate, and I intends to use it.&rsquo;&rdquo; In other post-election news, The Onion led with the headline &ldquo;Nation&rsquo;s Poor Win Election For Nation&rsquo;s Rich.&rdquo; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/09\/post-election-stories\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Post-Election Stories&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}