Twitters of the World Want OBAMA!

It's just unbelievable. Twitter launched a few days ago the TwitVote, a mock opinion poll among twitter members worldwide. Although totally irrelevant as far as the actual outcome of tomorrow is concerned, as most Twitter members are aliens with no voting rights (like myself), it is still quite interesting to watch as it reflects the opinion of a large segment of the world's geekiest geeks, us twitters! In most US polls the two candidates are pretty close with single digit percent deltas. In TwitVote though it's not about percent point difference but about orders of magnitude. Obama reached 6 times the McPalin score, 12 thousand Twitter votes vs. less than 2.5 thousand.

Meaning, that if the world, the rest of us outside the US, who see our lives so much impacted by what goes on in the US, were to decide on those two, then Obama would be da man! I don't even believe that the World is against McCain whatsoever. It's primarily the Bush clan to blame for the strongly pro-liberal world opinion because of Bush's eight year long absurdly arrogant attitude and the cataclysmic damages they caused in our security and economies. And also McCain's selection of that appalling broad Sarah 'I betcha' Palin as a running mate, as she impersonates whatever we despise most in Bush's neocon regime!

Numbers talk for themselves. I only hope, at least the smart segments of the US electorate realize that and come to their senses tomorrow.

Update on Election day: Obama still leads McPalin by 6 to 1! Way to go my man!

Been to A'dam yesterday...

All Saints yesterday and we visited our eldest son working out of Amsterdam (A'dam for insiders). Has been three months ago I was there and not much had changed. Nevertheless, it is remarkable how much more an advanced country this is, as it appears to us from the south, with all the pluses that this brings about. From the quality of their highway asphalt decks to their bookshops in the middle of towns; from their planning of residential areas to their buses and trams. Things seem to work simply and effectively. Only negative spot of the visit... the hordes of weekend hooligans from England coming here to enjoy some grass in coffee shops and have a go at the hundreds of sex clubs stack inch by inch at the city's red district. Oh, yes... the weather was miserable too... drizzly rain all day long.

Anyways, the two hour drive was quickly forgotten once we got there and met our sibling. He's got a nice apartment that he shares with two colleagues, in the North area of the City... a district that I believe was built from scratch in the waters of the Ij, a kinda gulf (or is it a lake?) that expands north of old A'dam. It's cool to look at the organized way they built residential areas at this part of the town. Use Google maps to navigate to the area and see what I mean.

On our way by bus to the Central Station we passed by the Maritime Museum with a hundreds of years old armada boat parked outside, like those used in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. With side canons and all. I made a point to go visit the place next time over. It makes a wonderful opportunity for some unusual shots.

All Saints is a dead day in über Catholic Belgium, like those celebrated dead, with everything public hermetically closed. People have only time to visit their diseased relatives in cemeteries. Not in Protestant Holland though. All shops were Saturday open and tourists were present everywhere, German, English, Belgian, French! Even Dutch from Eindhoven were there... was really funny to see Dutch tourists visiting A'dam from the Deep South... the city of Philips 'Gloeilamp' Company, that is.

I had no other camera with me than my mobile phone Nokia N95 that, with the necessary attention, can shoot some remarkable scenes, at least if you are a wee-bit careful. Click the shot above to link to my Flickr postings of the day, if you're interested at all.

If not, don't worry... as long as Barack wins on Tuesday... ;-)

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Obama is a marxist !

I don't know which is true, really. Is it that the McCain campaign leaders are incredibly stupid, or is it that they are phenomenally smart as they strongly believe that half of the US citizens are incredibly retarded idiots? Either way, their attempts to scare people away from Obama are so pathetic that all of us, watching this election from the outside, are in the process of losing the last wee-tiny bits of confidence we had in the greatness of this nation. The final coup will be if the Republicans indeed win the Presidency again this time, after eight years of cataclysmic performance only second to an Armageddon-like meteorite impact on the planet. It will be the end of the US as we know it! I'll go learn Mandarin Chineze as a new pastime.

The 8 year old regime of the Bush Jr clan has diminished the reasoning and IQ of a 'normal' person living in the US to levels only comparable to plants. I watched clips and reports in the hundreds in the last year and my ears and eyes could not believe what was happening. 'Obama is a Marxist!' Oh no! 'Obama is going to redistribute our wealth!' Which wealth? Haven't you folks yet realized that you've been living, years now, on cash you borrowed from the Chinese and then went back to them to spend it on products they made for you? Do you still believe you are 'wealthy' and afraid to lose it? Got news for you. You already lost it. You wasted it on hamburgers and Starbucks coffee. OMG! 'Obama's auntie is an illegal!' BTW, aren't you all illegal as you came to this land from Europe and elsewhere and stole it from the natives! Remember your 'intellectual' ancestors? Jessey James and Billy the Kid? 'Obama is a terrorist'. 'His name sounds like Osama!' cried someone from Oklahoma...'Obama is a Muslim'. So what? Who said he had to be Christian or Buddhist, for that matter? I thought your Constitution allowed freedom of religion, right? 'Obama is the Antichrist!'... (that was the 'best' I ever heard, BTW). 'Obama is against free weapon trade!' Moses! What an anathema! I thought neocons were good Christians and creationists and church goers! Is there a spot in the Bible that sez about your rights to use arms and kill thy neighbors?

Worst of all, those who regularly came up with such arguments on TV looked themselves very much born losers; most I've seen looked like miserable double digit IQ white supremacist boneheads whose knowledge of the 'English' language made you doubt whether they were ever able to write down orthographically any English ten word sentence. Unfortunately, they all have one thing in common that is still alive and well, I am afraid, and may decide the outcome of this election. Their deep hate and contempt for the blacks. Sad story...

All the rest is pure motherhood and applepie...

Hilarious

To put undecided voters in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?”

To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.
I mean, really, what’s to be confused about?