Bingo!

Thanks, Ake. Well said.

Okay, so Messrs. Don Firth, TIA, Bobert, and the rest of their "ilk" (in joke on Mudcat) are going to go on repeating their particular loyalty mantra forever and ever, and rushing heroically to the electoral barricades to get another phony Democratic president elected, imagining that that will somehow hold off the Neo-Con hordes...

And Ake and I and the rest of our "ilk" (most of whom live outside the USA) are going to go on repeating our particular mantra forever and ever, which is..."You guys in the USA are being had!"...

;-D

And Dschshunds will continue attempting to steal food off counters beyond their reach, pigs won't fly, and Israel will keep stealing their neighbour's land and killing 100 Palestinians for every Israeli that dies, and the USA will keep trying to relive the glory days of the Roman Empire.

Business as usual.

But let's try to have at least a little fun while we're doing it, okay?