I’m not anti-Wyoming, or anti- most of the reasons you’ve given, I just think there’s a certain irony to the fact that the states which tend to be most adamantly “State’s Rights” oriented states are the ones which suckle at the federal teat most heavily. (Though Wyoming isn’t nearly as bad as some…I figure I’ve probably bought New Mexico by now.)

There was a sign across the street from where I work that said: “Politicians should wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, that way we could see who their corporate sponsors are.” Pretty much sums up my opinions with regards to politics, and especially politicians like Obama. Only trouble is, he’s making himself the sponsor. Wonder if they’ll put his logo on the hoods of all the GM race cars next season?

Well, maybe if you break it up by counties. but Oklahoma had 502,496 Obama votes and 960,165 McCain votes. Wyoming had 82,868 Obama votes and 164,958 McCain votes. Wyoming also had some third party votes, which Oklahoma did not have:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008

I didn’t vote for McCain, I voted for Bob Barr (Libertarian candidate.)

If Wyoming’s Governor Dave keeps up his good work, I may actually vote for him if he runs again, even though I swore I’d never vote Democrat again. The guy is pretty cool.

I assume he means the second meaning, “plausible but fallacious.”

Fallacious: From Websters: tending to deceive or mislead.
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I’d disagree. Almost everything I listed was FACT. The only things that could be considered opinion is “Obama is destroying America”, and that was stated as my opinion. And it is a FACT that is is my OPINION that Obama is destroying America. And as for “people are friendly in Wyoming”, well, a visit will prove that as fact. But people who think my list is sophistic probably shouldn’t visit, because they probably would want to change Wyoming into California!

— On Tue, 8/4/09, dooger watts wrote:

“Though I can hardly blame you for not wanting to live in calif, your explanations are reactionary and sophisitc. (A disappointing knee-jerk and not what I’d have expected from you) ‘Fraid I’m gonna have to unsubscribe.”
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I wrote him back:

You misspelled “sophistic.”

MWD

I thought it was Oklahoma, where Obama carried not a single county.

:::(I believe Obama is destroying America)::::

He’s just at the wheel of the Titanic. Unlike the original Titanic, THIS Titanic (i.e., the USA) has had a number of “captains” along the way, almost all of the recent ones having a particular fondness for steaming full speed ahead into icy waters. At night. While drunk.

Worst of all though are the “passengers” of the Titanic (that is to say, US citizens) who’d rather watch American Idle than pay attention to the progress of the ship. It’s always a rude awakening when you slam into the iceberg(s).

There are deep systemic inadequacies about the way this country insists on conducting its business. One of which is our two-party, winner-take-all, beholden-to-the-boys-with-money political system. It’s very curious to me that the US, when setting up a new constitution for Iraq, chose a parliamentary form of democracy—-and as far as I know, the US is the only “developed” nation which DOESN’T have a parliamentary / proportional representation form of government.

When you only have two choices—-bullshit or cowshit—-it doesn’t really matter that much what appears on your plate. It’s still gonna taste like shit.