Note from Jude | Planet Waves for Nov. 4, 2004 (blog below is 4th, too) Jude is the moderator of the Political Waves list, a free distribution list for news and information. You can subscribe here. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/political_waves/ Begin quote: OK, so...an Old Testament God won over Science? Crony capitalism won over a struggling middle class and flailing lower class? In the United States of America, abstinence won over SEX? Naaaahhhh. We added 16.5 new voters this year.  We had a larger turnout than any since 1968.  We stood in the cold rain, the hot sun, or under the bright stars, til 2am NOT to confirm our confidence in the Bush regime, but to change it.  Sean P.Diddy Combs was chided by a reporter that the youth vote didn't count ... and he cited numbers that tromped that statement into the mud.  It counted ... it just didn't count in the black box.  We voted into contraptions that gave us no receipt and no solice, ultimately ... the Johns [Kerry and Edwards] COULDN'T track the vote, which I think is why they gave up so quick.  There was no way to recount. We don't see it yet...but we will. We've established a progressive intention and infrastructure that isn't going away anytime soon -- the Dub spent the last year deflecting every accusation by saying it was political electioneering, but ... the elections done.  Now he stands alone, responsible.  He will not take responsibility, of course ... it will be up to us to hold his feet to the fire.  When they break wind in Washington, we'll be there.  The work is behind us, and ahead of us -- and we'll be ready. Meanwhile, we need a little cosmic time out -- we need to repot the plants that have grown wild in the last six months -- we need to rake the leaves in the front yard before the snow flies -- to get the car tuned up, the office desk cleared, the snafu's taken care of.  We have friendships to catch up on, and children to hug.  We need time to lick our wounds, and smell the roses.