Praying is also good. Pray to God to forgive America for all the innocent civilians and childrem this administration has hurt. Pray to God to protect us against his wrong doings .

And remember tohelp your brothers in need these days. Give food, give jobs. Let's spend these four years as a family..
-DownBush

I am joining the Peace Corps. I have two reasons to be joining. One is to go to other countries and show that not all Americans are not evil like W. Also, it gets me away from his terror for two years. When someone asks me am I afraid to go to another country where they may hate Americans or worse yet, I could be sent to a Muslim country, I tell them I am not afraid of anything as long as no oil is discovered in my country and Bush doesn't want to spread democracy there.
-Jason

The best tip is a new joke. Here's one...

President George W. Bush visits a primary school classroom. They are in the middle of a discussion related to words and their meanings. The teacher asks the President if he would like to lead the discussion on the word "tragedy".

So W asks the class for an example of a tragedy.

One little boy stands up and offers: "If my best friend, who lives on a farm, is playing in the field and a tractor runs him over and kills him, that would be a 'tragedy'."

"No," says W, "that would be an 'accident'."

A little girl raises her hand: "If a school bus carrying 50 children drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a 'tragedy'."

"I'm afraid not," explains W. "That's what we would call a 'great loss'."

The room goes silent. No other children volunteer. Bush searches the room."Isn't there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy'?" he asks.

Finally at the back of the room a small boy raises his hand. In a quiet voice he says: "If Air Force One, carrying you, Mr. President, were struck by a 'friendly fire' missile and blown to smithereens, that would be a 'tragedy'."

"Fantastic!" exclaims Bush. "That's right. And can you tell me why that would be a tragedy'?

Well," says the boy, "because it certainly wouldn't be a 'great loss' and it probably wouldn't be an 'accident' either."

Here are a few of the ways they're planning to threaten our basic rights:

• Shifting the tax burden to working families. Undermining Social Security. Packing the Supreme Court with extremists.

• The Democratic Party will be there to fight all of these battles. And we're depending on your help to win them. It is up to us to protect our values from the Republicans' attacks. They want to take a narrow election victory and cast it into a broad mandate for an extreme agenda.

http://www.t-shirthumor.com/Merchant2/tops1.html
- Toni

We don't need them: With the Blue States in hand, the Democrats have firm control of 80% of the country's fresh water, over 90% of our pineapple and lettuce, 92% of all fresh fruit production, 93% of the artichoke production, 95% of America's export quality wines, 90% of all cheese production, 90% of the high tech industry, most of the US low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Harvard, Yale, Amherst, Stanford, Berkeley, CalTech and MIT. We can live simply but well.

The Red States, on the other hand, now have to cope with 88% of all obese Americans (and their projected health care cost spike), 92% of all US mosquitoes, nearly 100% of all tornadoes, 90% of all hurricanes, 99% of all Southern Baptists, 100% of all Televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia. A high price to pay for controlling the presidency. Additionally, 38% of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually eaten by a whale, 62% believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44% believe that evolution is just a theory, 53% that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11 and most hard to grasp, 61% believe that Bush is a person of moral conviction.
- Mary

Read John Perkins's Confessions of an Economic Hit Man:The Inside Story of How America Built an Empire on Third World Debt. To quote from the press on it, "Breaking the code of silence, John Perkins tells of working as an 'economic hit man' for an international corporation allied with the World Bank and the U.S. government. While working in this role, John Perkins cheated countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars and used fraud, rigged elections, payoffs, sex, and extortion as his tools. He reveals how these actions helped transform the U.S. into a hated empire, and offers potential remedies for the state of things."

For ten years he worked with the international consulting firm of Chas. T. Main. After 9/11 he decided to drop the "veil of secrecy around his life" as an economic hit man, to ignore the treats and brides, and to write Confessions.

Read about John as www.johnperkins.org.
- John C.

The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of sexually transmitted disease. This disease is contracted through dangerous and high risk behavior. The disease is called Gonorrhea Lecthim (pronounced "gonna re-elect him").

Many victims have contracted it after having been screwed by the Bush-Cheney-Rove-Ashcroft administration for the past 4 years, and failing to have taken adequate measures to protect themselves.

Cognitive sequellae of individuals infected with Gonorrhea lecthim include: antisocial personality disorder traits; delusions of grandeur with a messianic flavor; cognitive perseveration; inability to incorporate new information into a rigid idea fixation; xenophobia; inability to accept responsibility for actions; and a strong propensity for categorical, all-or nothing thinking.

This epidemic is out of control. MMWR reports it has already resulted in brain death in over 59,000,000 Americans. Excessive exposure to trailer parks, country gospel music and yellow ribbon asphyxiation are thought to be contributing factors. New CDC Director Archbishop Burke has ordered a halt to research into the disease after determining the disease is incurable and is merely God's will.

Apparently, however, at least 55,000,000 of us have natural immunity and are poised to lead a brief, but exciting life right after the rapture begins and our afflicted fellow Americans ascend to their eternal reward. Godlessness has its rewards.
- Kathy

If you live in a blue state, like I do, get a bumper sticker that says "Proud to Live in a Blue State". It will remind the fewer red voters in your blue state that their Bush vote didn't count!
- Robert

I'm keeping my Kerry/Edwards bumper sticker on my car for the next four years....and praying a lot!
- Susie

Using your book as kindling for my statement. I am full of hope that all blue state blue voters will follow my example and leave this world and the country to those who deserve it.
- Imma Liation

The best thing I can think of: try not to talk to any Republicans for as long as possible. You may not be able to hold out for four years but it's worth the effort. If you don't talk to any Republicans, you won't have to listen to all their blather about why women shouldn't be able to make decisions about their own bodies, or why gays shouldn't be allowed to live like everyone else, or why minorities don't deserve "special rights" ie: let's put them in jail where they belong. Oher than that, survival is a day-to-day strategy.
- Nate

#251: Get over it, already. We got through 8 years of Slick Willie, you can do this.
- Kevin

Don't move to Canada. Instead, start lobbying your elected officials to cut off federal and state aid to red states, counties and towns. No more rural electrification. No more rural internet access. No more highway projects in Timbuktu. No more bridges in towns of 400. No more Superfund clean-up sites in Red areas. No more envirnomental preservation. No more farm subsidies. No more paying for conservatives to tell us how to live our lives.
It's sad, but if the Blue-Staters want to make a point, they need to turn into themselves and protect their own. The cities and the blue states should flip the middle finger to the rest of the country, and let them figure out out to have a society without their economic engines.
- Blue State Hero

Join Physicians for Social Responsibility (especialy our Washington chapter) and let your dollars go to peace-building and disarmament rather than war-making and nuclear weapons contracts.
- Sunil

I just keep pretending that Jed Bartlett is President. Or Andrew Shepherd. Sometimes I can even believe that Dave is our President. How come Hollywood gets it right and we can't?
- Merianne

Let us Secede! They wanted to, and we'd be better off. Let's face it, we are as deeply divided now as we were before the Civil War. Compare maps: http://thechrisproject.com/images/map_nowvsthen.jpg

We'd have the Constitution, science, health care, Wall Street, West Point, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, the UN, the Clintons and a kinder, gentler Microsoft.

Just think, conservatives wouldn't have to pretend to be compassionate anymore! They'd have a lap-dog media, ENRONs, Halliburtons, faith-based Patriot Acts, prayer in schools, evangelical crusades, the KKK and NRA, assault weapons, pre-emptive war-profiteering, an ever-widening gap between rich and poor. They could bring back slavery (brought to you by Walmart and outsourcing, and have No Billionaire Left Behind.)

..AND they should take the immense national deficit, mostly from bush's obscene class-warfare tax cuts and unnecessary Iraq invasion. Neither was our fault, and I think we should refuse to pay for them.

So, let's let the red states go and have our own country where the liberal 49% doesn't get shut out of Bill Frist's government. So how do we start the paperwork?
- Tom

I like the section on Reality Shows in the book. I have another idea for one. It would be called American Survivor. In this show people would vote for a President and elect someone like George Bush. Then for the next four years, people would have to figure out a way to deal with it.
Oh, wait a minute. That's not a Reality Show. That's Reality.
- K.T.

The best tip I can think of: bet all your money that Bush is going to destroy the country--not just spiritually, also financially... the stock market in 2008 will be lower than it is today. Sell stocks short. Buy gold. Do everything you can to hold on to your money. Because in four years, you won't have as much of it.
- Jonathan

Join and support the ACLU.
- Lovice

I say, get yourself a slave, like it says in the Bible. And stone the people who don't follow the same religion as you. Heck, if we follow the bible about homosexuality, then we better follow all of it. Literally.
- Czarina

I would say to teach better the children, about what is right or wrong, and try to save world's future generations from people like Bush.
- Leandro

We don't need any tips -- we don't even need to worry. Consider: With the Blue States in hand, the Democrats have firm control of 80% of the world's fresh water, over 90% of our pineapple and lettuce, 93% of the artichoke production, 95% of America's export quality wines, 90% of all cheese production, most of the US low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Stanford, CalTech and MIT. We can live simply but well.

The Red States, on the other hand, now have to cope with 88% of all obese Americans (and their projected health care cost spike), 92% of all US mosquitoes, 99% of all Southern Baptists, 100% of all Televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia. A high price to pay for controlling the presidency
- Averill

Sometime around November 9th, I decided NOT to commit suicide and made a decision to DO something. I got off my ass and got it moving!!! I stopped crying and complaining and picked a cause; something I would physically work for - not simply give $$ to or sign online letters, petitions and the like for.

So many of us babble on about how horrific "it" all is and NEVER do ANYTHING to change "it". I'm a liberal in California surrounded by liberal friends and I know very few of them who are doing anything to help.

TURN OFF THE F*ING TV(haven't you seen enough car chases and heard enough lies??)AND DO SOMETHING!!!!
- Stephanie

Boycott Diebold and other makers of voting machines; Cancel subscriptions to New York Times, Wa Post, other allegedly liberal media who did not do their job.
- Lovie

Work your ass off to get asses into office and to show Bush he does NOT have the overwhelming support of the country. 4% is the smallest re-election margin since the early 19th century! Take to the streets! Protest!
- Jason

Put a bumper sticker on your car that reads: Don't blame me I voted for the smart one. Another Tip: If the world can make it through Hitler, we have a fighting chance of making it through Bush. Just keep on praying.
- James in Boulder

Here you can find a list of those that have contributed to the most money to the Republican Party. These are mostly corporations. My advice: do not give them your business. Ever. http://www.freenortheast.com/worst.php
- Will

Media watch. Watch your local media for fair reporting on current issues and events -- especially Republican lies and dirty tricks. Demand the truth. Write and call your local radio, tv and newspapers and tell them you refuse to purchase their advertisers products unless they work to expose the reality of Bush politics. Be specific -- if you know a particular scandal -- insist that they focus on it.
- Judy Wahl Talley

We need to make it clear to our elected Congress people that Bush has no mandate. We need to tell Republicans that we are here, we're not going away, and our vote counts. We need to be strong, vocal, and make sure that our side has backbone. We lost, but we aren't losers.
www.buffalonick.blogspot.com
- Deb

Some things to do before the Inaugural:

1. Get that abortion you've always wanted.
2. Drink a nice clean glass of water.
3. Cash your Social Security check.
4. See a doctor of your own choosing.
5. Spend quality time with your draft age child/grandchild.
6. Visit Syria, or any foreign country for that matter.
7. Get that gas mask you've been putting off buying.
8. Hoard gasoline.
9. Borrow books from library before they're banned - constitutional law books, Catcher in the Rye, Harry Potter, Tropic of Cancer, etc.
10. If you have an idea for an art piece involving a crucifix -do it now.
11. Come out - then go back in - HURRY!
12. Jam in all the Alzheimer's stem cell research you can.
13. Stay out late before the curfews start.
14. Go see Bruce Springsteen before he has his "accident".
15. Go see Mount Rushmore before the Reagan addition.
16. Use the phrase - "you can't do that - this is America".
17. If you're white - marry a black person, if you're black -marry a white person.
18. Take a walk in Yosemite, without being hit by a snowmobile or a base-jumper.
19. Enroll your kid in an accelerated art or music class.
20. Start your school day without a prayer.
21. Pass on the secrets of evolution to future generations.
22. Learn French.
23. Attend a commitment ceremony with your gay friends.
24. Take a factory tour anywhere in the US.
25. Try to take photographs of animals on the endangered species list.
26. Visit Florida before the polar ice caps melt.
27. Visit Nevada before it becomes radioactive.
28. Visit Alaska before "The Big Spill".
29. Visit Massachusetts while it is still a State.

Paste this, and click on it: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x73567
- Peace Person

Don't give up!!!! Each morning say, one more day until the next election!! Then do everything possible to support democratic candidates!!! Peace!
- Maria

My survial instincts are as follows: Whatever Bush or this administration has to say, it's always the opposite of what they do. Bush and this administration need to walk the walk.
- Kathi

Keep up the fight. Now is not "a time for healing". Plaster your car with bumper stickers... here's a good one:
http://bush-lies-about-everything.com

Listen to good anti-Bush music:
http://oregonwaterfalls.com/cc

Above all, STAY INFORMED!
- Clark Kent

As a liberal born-again christian, in a fundamentalist church, I will pray, keep my bumperstickers, and teach the Biblical truth when I can. It's just sickening that so many good people have been sucker-punched by today's strange alliance of religious leaders and politicians.
- Pat

Here's my tip: go back and read H. L. Mencken. He predicted a Bush win decades ago:

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Steve