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Posted February 11th, 2005 in General by Dave

I’m officially done with this page layout. It’s to the point where I spend more time de-spaming the comment section, than I do actually posting. So, this is probably my last post until the new site is up, which will be…who knows when. probably 5+ days. probably a layout similar to my beautiful, genius wife – Jen. unmerited.com :)

good ridance.

Posted February 6th, 2005 in Politics by Dave

There’s an article linked from Drudge about Americans immigrating to Canada in response to Bush’s re-election. You can read the article here .

The writer says that the people are “fed up with a country they see drifting persistently to the right and abandoning the principles of tolerance, compassion and peaceful idealism they felt once defined the nation.” I got news for you, it’s quite the contrary. Sure we have a right wing President in the White House, no one is disputing that. But if you’re judging the whole country from just one man, you’re way off your rocker. I mean, maybe Bill Clinton was a decent representation of the American people, but not George W Bush. Besides, since when was the USA tolerant, compassionate, or peaceful to begin with? If anything the US is far too tolerant! The decay of our country is not because of George W Bush, it’s because of moral relativism- the idea that there are no absolutes. It’s the people that believe in moral relativism that have such a problem with the President. They see a man driven by absolutes, conviction, freedom, and liberty for all (not just the USA).

You know what? If you really want to head to Canada, I say go for it. I definitely won’t stand in your way. But if you want back across the border in 4-8 years, to the land of the free- home of the brave, think again.

manchurian.

Posted February 5th, 2005 in film by Dave

Despite my foreknowledge that I probably wouldn’t like the film, I went a head and rented “The Manchurian Candidate” (2004) on Blockbuster Online a few days ago. Jen and I watched it tonight and as you might have guessed from my first sentence, it pretty much sucked. A few months ago we watched the original 1962 film, I drifted off to sleep in the middle of it, but Jen watched the whole thing. From what I did see of the original, I can say that they should have just let it be. The 2004 version wasn’t all bad, I thought Denzel Washington did an OK job. I usually like his work pretty well, however I don’t think this was by any means his strongest roll. Aside from that I thought the cinematography, lighting, sound editing, and pretty much everything else was bad. Add that to the fact that Meryl Streep was in the movie and had a major roll…UGH!

I can’t complain too much, I knew I probably wouldn’t like it, but I was curious to see what it was all about…”Curiosity killed the cat.” In this case curiosity killed about two hours of my life.

misc.

Posted February 4th, 2005 in Life by Dave

It’s been a few days since I last posted. I had something typed up a few days ago but didn’t click “save” accidentally and i didn’t realize that there was a post missing until now! Not a lot going on recently, at least nothing big. I posted a while back about getting a Mac computer, Jen’s Grandfather ended out giving us his iMac, which we recieved a few days ago. I’ve pretty much been glued to that thing for the past 3 days. It’s been fun learning how to use it…I could possibly be a closet Mac fan. I’ll probably post more about it later.

Tomorrow is the latest installment of “Fuel” – a time to get together with some friends, hang out, play games, and have a little devotion time with God. It was really great last time so I’m anxious to see what happens this time around.

well…it’s 3am and i’m tired. so…zzzzzzzzzz………