Surely some revelation is at hand

[starlady]

I discovered this at The Economist online and thought it was pretty damn awesome. It's good to remember how lucky we are as Americans to be able to vote for the American President--the rest of the world just has to deal with our choice without a say in the matter.

With nine days to go, I suppose I might as well share my own opinion of how I think next Tuesday is going to shake down. Mind you, polling and early voting data suggest that far more states than I have as "tossup" may actually be in play (such as Georgia, Montana, North Dakota, and maybe even Arizona, South Carolina and West Virginia), but I thought I'd err on the side of caution. Mind you, it's not outside the realm of possibility that a certain Illinois senator racks up more than 400 votes in the Electoral College, though I think 375 is a more reasonable estimate.

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[spacevlad.livejournal.com]

Where does that Economist website come up with its results? Do people from all over the world vote in the poll? That's pretty neat, even if it is completely speculative. I like how China has 1800 electoral votes.

Hey, so I've been playing Yakuza 1 for PS2 recently, and now I want to ask you...did you have any run-ins or experiences with the yakuza in Japan? Did you ever see anybody on the street or any buildings or storefronts and though, "yup, that's yakuza"?

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Did I ever see any yakuza... This is going to sound stereotypical, but disliking Osaka and never having been to Yokohama, I haven't really spent enough time in places where they're more common to see a ton of them. But once or twice I did see a grizzled dude with tattoos and earrings and think, "Is he...yeah, probably." And the people who set up booths for festivals at shrines and temples are almost always completely organized by the yakuza, if that counts.

[(Anonymous)]

I noticed a lot of your recent entry titles come from W.B. Yeats' The Second Coming. Are you a fan of the poem or perhaps of Nick Bantock's Griffin and Sabine series? ^^

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Good question! I actually have a silly, pretentious plan for quoting the entire poem in entry titles, or at least most of it, but that's all one at the moment.

My history with the poem actually started with Margaret Weis' Star of the Guardians trilogy, in which its text plays a key part; I read Nick Bantock's excellent G&S trilogy later, and only after that and most recently came to Yeats himself, brilliant weirdo that he was, as part of the runup for my trip to Ireland.

[dhazard06.livejournal.com]

http://www.iftheworldcouldvote.com/results
That's the source.
"the rest of the world just has to deal with our choice without a say in the matter."
Unfortunately that is not true for all countries (see, Brazil and other Latin American's countries suffered a certain kind of 'influence' not so long ago from the 'scared of communists' country... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960s_in_Brazil )

But yes, I must agree, it is wonderful not having your country's sovereignty shattered because of another country's interests.