Christopher Merle

Que sera, sera, whatever will be, will be, but first I need more coffee.

Category: General (Page 36 of 55)

I didn’t like Uncategorized so I changed it to General. A catch-all category.

50 Barack Facts You Might Not Know

November 16, 2008 /

Check them out. The ones I found most interesting were:

  • He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
  • He has read every Harry Potter book
  • His favourite films are Casablanca and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  • He hates the youth trend for trousers which sag beneath the backside
  • He repaid his student loan only four years ago after signing his book deal
  • He has said many of his friends in Indonesia were “street urchins”

Oh, and check out Rahm Emanuel facts. Unlike Chuck Norris facts. Rahm’s are 100% true. Including:

After the 2006 midterm elections, Rahm Emanuel jumped on a table and said the Republican Party “can go fuck themselves”

I’m not quite ready to say that, but if they don’t give Obama a chance and work with the Democrats in the first 90 days of his presidency, I’ll be ready to say utter those words.

Book Meme

November 12, 2008 /

Got this via Planet Python. This is yet another stupid meme, that is amusing/interesting enough for me to follow blindly and do.

  1. Grab the nearest book.
  2. Open it to page 56.
  3. Find the fifth sentence.
  4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
  5. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

So I pick up The NPR Curious Listener’s Guide to Celtic Music by Fiona Ritchie. I didn’t even have to get up. It was sitting on the end table. Anyway, I was hoping it’d be the fifth line because the page starts with a end of a sentence. So, I started with the first complete sentence on the page. Here’s the sentence:

Ever developing on the bows and strings of musical people, the settlers’ dance tunes spurred the old-time fiddle and banjo music of the South, bluegrass, and rockabilly.

But if it were the fifth line it would be:

of the region, you may well argue to the contrary.

I like that better, so I’m changing rule 3 to: Find the fifth line. And I’m going to modify the second rule to: Open it to a random page. Here are the modified meme rules:

  1. Grab the nearest book.
  2. Open it to page 56.
  3. Find the fifth line.
  4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
  5. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

Where did they go?

November 12, 2008 /

My conservative friends have all gone quiet online. Have they retreated to an undisclosed bunker? Are they stocking up on guns and ammo? Are they depressed? Do they think the world is coming to an end? I can only speculate based on what they said before the election. If they don’t want to give Obama a chance and want to be miserable for the next four years, then that’s their prerogative. I gave Bush a chance in 2000. I vote for him. It wasn’t until after 9/11 that my support for him began evaporating. It wasn’t until after the taking of Bagdhad it was gone.

I told them at the outset of this campaign, I wouldn’t say ‘I told you so’ if Obama won and I won’t when he is inaugurated. I was cautiously optimistic about the election, but didn’t want to say anything to jink it. I would not have been surprised if the Republicans stole the election again. There are two possible reasons for why they didn’t. The Bush-Cheney cabal isn’t as evil as I thought they were. Or they’ve so damaged the country not even an Obama led country can fix it. We’ll know in the first six months how bad it really it is and within in a year how long it’s going to take to repair the damage.

Obama has only one year to begin turning this nation around. Why one year? Because in year two the next election cycle begins. It will a spectacle. So will the Republicans work with Obama or will they draw a line in the sand and be obstructionist? Not much was accomplished by a Democratically controlled Congress after they took over in 2006. If the Republicans want real bipartisanship and Democrats resist the urge to steamroll them, we’ll see progress.

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