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 
Archive for February, 2005
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.
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.
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………