Well, I am glad that Bush won the election. Four more years! There is not much more to be said since the election is over and so we continue, but the economy is happy as well.

From Reuters, Stocks Jump on Bush Win

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rallied on Wednesday, boosted by shares of health and defense companies that are likely to benefit from the re-election of President Bush, but higher oil prices checked advances.

Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry conceded in a close presidential election, which buoyed Wall Street with the certainty that there would not be a repeat of the 2000 election, when the outcome was not known for more than a month.

“Investors are happy that Bush retained the White House,” said Jon Brorson, managing director of growth equities at Neuberger Berman. “He’s a known entity, and he’s put through some favorable policies for investors. The expectations were that he’d win the White House.”

Third period, this morning, began with our teacher informing us that Kerry had conceded.

I applaud Kerry for doing this, as it takes some courage to give up a battle, and it saved much time and effort in many people’s lives better spent elsewhere. He is smarter than Al Gore in that, and he also did not say “I invented the internet!”

Now, please, let us continue with our lives and hope that the four more years we supported will be a prosperous term.

Now Playing: Delerium Ft. Sarah Mclachlan - Silence (Tiesto’s in Search of Sunrise Remix) / genre: Trance

So. Election Day, 2004.

I do not like Kerry. To me, Kerry is one who promises things just to win votes for the power. He is a waffle– in other words, a flip-flopper. He voted for the war in Iraq. Now it’s election time, and he says he’s against it, criticizing it. Well, we can’t pull out now. Pull out now and we’ll have more chaos. It wasn’t even Bush’s “fault” for initiating the war; he acted on flawed intelligence. He did not make up in his mind the reasons he acted on to go to war in Iraq. And no, Bush did not start a war with Iraq; he started a war with a few Iraqi people in control of Iraq, not the people.

Okay, also, Kerry does not mean what he says. We have him, a flip-flopping waffle, also saying that he is Catholic. My name is Stephen, and I am a Catholic. Kerry supports abortion. Oh wait, he says he doesn’t support abortion, but he wants it to be legal. He says religion and politics should not interfere with each other.

However, there is no excuse in the case of abortion since if one is pro-life and Catholic, he must believe that from conception, babies have souls, which means that aborting the baby can be classified as a murder (from the point of view of a pro-life person) since all babies have souls, correct? Well, if Kerry is Catholic, and therefore if he is pro-life, how could he stand to not outlaw what he must believe as murder? Well, I’m Catholic. I don’t know about you, Mr. Kerry, but I don’t support what we both classify as murder.

Oh, and Kerry is liberal. More taxes and government unprivatizing things? No!

I don’t care if you vote for Bush or someone else, but don’t vote for Kerry.

More pictures here and here

Election Day rant over! No more of talking about this for a while (I think). LET’S TALK ABOUT TIESTO IN CONCERT II. Well, I watched a video stream of Tiesto in Concert II on both days, Friday and Saturday (of last week). Day two (Saturday’s Tiesto in Concert II) was brilliant. It was amazing! He played Re:Locate - Typhoon on that day, and played the classics in the last/extra/request hour that took place because of daylight savings time!

The MC said, “We were gonna wish you good night, God bless, and have a safe trip home… But the clocks went back.” This was followed by a huge applause from the audience filling the sold-out Gelredome in Arnhem in the Netherlands.

Here’s what was dropped in the last set.

Special Request Hour 67. Push - Universal Nation/ The Anthem 68. Gouryella - Gouryella 69. Paul Oakenfold - Southern Sun (Tiesto Remix) 70. Kamaya Painters - Endless Wave 71. Yahel & Eyal Barkan - Voyage 72. BT - Mercury & Solace (Original 12″ Master Mix) 73. Veracocha - Carte Blanche (Original Mix) 74. Delerium - Silence (DJ Tiesto’s In Search of Sunrise Remix)

The tracklist is amazing. I like all the tracks in it. The mixing was not top-notch but the tracklist was certainly amazing. Not only were the songs good, but playing old trance classics and anthems in a modern venue brought nostalgia to both those present and those watching the video feed and was simply a great phenomenon. There was no progressive trance or modern uplifting trance in the last hour. There were old anthems and epic tracks!

I go to dinner now.