Dogs Steal Yarn

Aww, hen, I totally feel for you! Get the dogs to ferry chocolate and ice-cream. You (and every one else who tried to rid the world of an idiot) deserve it. If it was possible I'd come and ferry it myself.

If NY secedes, I can expatriate there. Perfect!

I would boycott the midwest, too if I didnt live there myself! I am in Ohio and Im just sick about the way things are looking. I've never been very political until this election and I guess all we can do is pray for a miracle now.

I did boycott the south, by moving out of there when I was 18. Apparently, it doesn't really do that much good. I'm totally depressed too. Hope fading.

ps - reyna's email? could use a friendly face.

I feel the same way about Colorado. How could we have voted for a Democratic Senator but a Republican President? Obviously fixed election.

I wonder if I could move to Canada....

Jon

I was contemplating moving to D.C. myself, where the voting was 90% Kerry and 9% Bush, but I don't think I could cheer for a team with the name "Redskins". Part of the midwest came through for Kerry, including my state, Minnesota.

I'm pretty disappointed in that comment - not because I'm Republican (I voted for Kerry), or because I know you at all (I just come here for pretty knitting pictures) - but because that is the kind of attitude that has created so much animosity in our nation. Pitting 51% of the country against 49% of the country (give or take) and saying "How could you vote for that moron??" And I told my husband the same thing when he said "I'm going to puke if Kerry wins."

Move over, hon...I'm gonna hide too. Oh my favorit comment "it's all about values"

I'm gonna hurl. It kills me. really.

Move over, hon...I'm gonna hide too. Oh my favorit comment "it's all about values"

I'm gonna hurl. It kills me. really.

Word.

California can join New York. In the mean time, I'm leaving the country.

I'm with you, girl. and the comments are RIGHT ON. Where I come from it isn't divisive to call a moron a moron. When deliberate lying and malice is involved as well, I think we could use stronger language and no apologies. I agree with Jon, it makes me want to emigrate. But I won't. Too stubborn to let them have my country. Heh.
We will rise, you betcha!

Thankfully I can stay in Massachusetts, otherwise I'd be joining you in New York...

I'm gonna be hiding out all day too. I've never been so embarrassed to be an American.

The only thing I have to look forward to is the big earthquake that we have been threatened with forever. Please oh please let us drop into the ocean.

Isn't America a great place, where you can vote for whoever you want to? I'm technically a Democrat, but remember: even though Kerry got the NY ec-votes, a lot of people in NY voted Republican too. Not all NYers are Democrat.

i hear vancouver is nice...

Believe me, I didn't have anything to do with electing that pinhead. I was terribly sad to have Tennessee show up in the dreaded "red." I felt betrayed by my own state. *sigh*

Well, at least you can still come to Chicago.

I am with you. 4 more years of saying aboot just so that I dont have to be embarrassed.

I am sick to my stomach thinking about it.

If I didn't have my yarn therapy to look forward to on Friday, I don't know what I'd do. You're coming out of hiding for that, right?

But dude, Threadbear is in the Midwest! I think we need to start a list of exceptions to the boycott (it'll probably be a short list, anyway). I hope you have a nice blanket and pillow under the bed.

Such high hopes dashed.
So very sorry.

Have you thought about moving out of the country? I don't suggest Canada. It's too close. We could invade any time. You're a writer - time in Bolivia, Portugal, Kuala Lampur could add international vision and insight into your novels. Think time away a la Gertrude Stein, Hemmingway, etc.

Oh, agony. I feel like I've been kicked in the gut.

Just major disappointment.

I sooo feel you! I have to control myself not to call the "other side" morons (so I don't blame you for saying it) and completely disappointed in our country for where it's headed. I like where I live, but I don't like that KS is so crazily Rep. Things are really sad right now.

I come by way of Em, and I share your pain. I watched -- with horror -- as the states turned red. Basically, the term "cultural conservative" is a laugh.

Today for the first time in my life I am ashamed to be from the south. We aren't all bad I promise, there are a few good democrats here. I just can't believe Americans were stupid enough to vote for that troll again. :(

i'm so sick. and sad. and angry. i've never felt this way after an election; not even after '00.

but wait, don't boycott the midwest! that went blue! it's that entire section (including where i'm from) down the middle, wy, mt, id, co, the South...that you want to boycott.

kerry on! ugh.

My county was one of the few to vote Democrat in Florida this year. And, oh yes, I was one of them.

I am shocked at how upset this election result has left me. I find I have untold vitriol and rage and disbelief and... well, you get the picture.

I understand the benefits of a democratic society and I am grateful to have that direct experience. But how that toad could have fooled enough people to get elected this time (and we all know he wasn't really elected last time) is beyond me.

here's a link to a great article that summed it up for me:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2004/11/03/second_bush_term/index.html

if you're not a salon subscriber, you can get a day pass. and if you're not a subscriber, and you're upset, it's a great place to give $19 and support independent journalism (and great articles)

http://saccharin.prettyposies.com/archives/000010.html

I'm a NYer and not a Democrat, though I understand your lament.

Up here in Canada we're just as shocked and horrified about the results of the election as you are. This doesn't bode well for our economy!!!!
As for all of you W-haters who are considering moving north, we'll take ya... just remember it's cold up here (well, except in Vancouver, i.e. southern British Columbia): Bring your mittens and your touques, eh?

as much as it pisses me off when new yorkers make these cracks about secession (oh, man will we be having words if 2008 brings us "president giuliani." gag.) i would consider expatriating to the republic of new york.

I wouldn't move to Australia, we just voted back in our own person idiot, and gave him control of the senate. Our only hope was that you lot would vote in someone slightly less ridiculous for our guy to follow.

I would recommend New Zealand. Nice climate, great people, English speaking, and their Prime Minister is a woman.

and, now that i've read all the other comments, i would also like to chip in that if you're embarassed to be an american today YOU WERE NOT WORKING HARD ENOUGH YESTERDAY.

my mom is sitting shiva for the western world today. i'd join her, if i didn't work for the government.

Vancouver IS a beautiful city.. and the idea of Kuala Lampur is rather interesting. My sis and BIL lived there for 3 years; he a chiropractor, she a writer... Made lots of $$ and saw much of the world around there.

Ahhh, I think that Maryland should secede from the South, since as the election showed, we were the last bastion of snaity before the real South showed its color....

all I can say, as an Ohioan, is that I don't understand, not one bit, how what happened last Tuesday could have happened. Please remember that LOTS of Ohioans voted for Kerry/Edwards and were really excited to do so. I think some of Ohio can be explained by our Issue 1, the Ohio constitutional amendment that was put on the ballot to define marriage as between one man and one woman. All the fundamentalist Christians loved it and while they were voting for that, they cast their Bush ballot as well...argh...

wrightnour, sick at heart

Before you start to think that anti-gay hysteria took over Ohio, remember that Oregon went heavily for Kerry AND an anti-gay marriage initiative. It apparently wasn't just Bush voters voting yes on this issue.