More Ranting...

In what is sure to become a common subject on the ole blog, I'll join Troy on the Bush Bashing. Its just too easy. It's too bad that we don't have a conservative and a liberal here to give a balanced debate, but unfortunately both Troy and I are intelligent people, and not rich, so no Republican fans here. All you've got is that Troy is a tad more redneck than I am.

As Canadians, we're in a strange spot. We understand American culture, because its so similar to our own. We see our own systems fail when they try to emulate their American equivalents. All we can do is listen to the speeches, watch the spin, and shake our heads. We have the same Freedoms as Americans (well, more actually), but although all terrorists and insurgents supposedly "hate the US for their freedom", you'll notice that no one hates Canada for ours. (And the astute amongst us will also remark that we vote on pieces of paper with pencils and know the results to our elections within hours.)

Anyway, the other day I was reading a conservative blog, and in the margins they were offering republican merchandise etc. One of the items was a t-shirt with "George Bush's America" written across the vast collection of red-states on the map. This kind of pisses me off. The Red-State vs. Blue State map has been spun into the image of the election, rather than the truth of a slim majority... maybe slimmer if black people were allowed to vote.

So George and Co. take that map and use it to say that their mandate has been approved, that they don't need to apologize for Iraq because the people showed their approval of the occupation. Just look how red that map is! When he said that, I couldn't believe it.

So, although many of you have probably seen this before, here are a few maps dependant on population rather than area. If you figure that blue California alone would be the world's fifth largest economy, you realize it has a few more voters than red Montana, for example.

So its not just Red states and Blue, just one big purple country.