I thought I would share my predictions for the nominees for President and Vice-President for the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
The presidential nominees have been my prediction for several weeks. The vice-presidential nominees are fresh to my mind.
Democratic Party
President: Barack Obama
Vice-President: Bill Richardson or Joe Biden
Republican Party
President: Mike Huckabee
Vice-President: John McCain
I may be proven completely wrong when the nominating conventions occur but these are my predictions and I am standing by them.
Posted: January 3, 2008
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Movie Quotes
I know it's been two months since I last posted. Not much has happened: work, life, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and now it is 2008. Life has been good with Lifegroup and spending time with friends and family. Also, I am currently applying to graduate schools in international relations, public policy, and social work. Deadlines are up by February 1st and should hear back by March-April. We will see what God has in store for the next step.
On something a little bit more fun, I am going to share some of my favorite film and television show quotes. (NOTE: This is not a complete list. It could go on forever.) Before, I start, I'd also like to put in a plug for This American Life and All Things Considered, two great shows on NPR.
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"It has been decided that you will be dressed as a priest, to help you get away in the pandemonium afterwards. Chunjin will give you a two-piece Soviet Army sniper's rifle that fits nicely into a special bag. There's a spotlight booth that won't be in use. It's up under the roof on the Eighth Avenue side of the Garden. You will have absolutely clear, protected shooting. You are to shoot the presidential nominee through the head. And Johnny will rise gallantly to his feet and lift Ben Arthur's body in his arms, stand in front of the microphones and begin to speak. The speech is short. But it's the most rousing speech I've ever read. It's been worked on, here and in Russia, on and off, for over eight years. I shall force someone to take the body away from him and Johnny will really hit those microphones and those cameras with blood all over him, fighting off anyone who tries to help him, defending America even if it means his own death, rallying a nation of television viewers to hysteria, to sweep us up into the White House with powers that will make martial law seem like anarchy!"-----Mrs. Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
"Maybe it makes sense now. Maybe somewhere in all of this there's a reason. Maybe somewhere in all of this there's a why. Maybe somewhere there's that thing that lets you tie it all up with a neat bow and bury it in the backyard. But nothing, not getting angry, not prayers, and not tears, nothing can make something that happened unhappen."-----Leland P. Fitzgerald in The United States of Leland (2003)
"Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!"-----Auntie Mame Dennis in Auntie Mame (1958)
"The game's up, Scarlet. There are no more bullets left in that gun.
Oh, come on, you don't think I'm gonna fall for that old trick?
It's not a trick. There was one shot at Mr. Boddy in the Study; two for the chandelier; two at the Lounge door and one for the singing telegram.
That's not six.
One plus two plus two plus one.
Uh-uh, there was only one shot that got the chandelier. That's one plus two plus *one* plus one.
Even if you were right, that would be one plus one plus two plus one, not one plus *two* plus one plus one.
Okay, fine. One plus two plus one... Shut up! The point is, there is one bullet left in this gun and guess who's gonna get it!"-----Wadsworth and Miss Scarlet in Clue (1985)
"But that's what they say.
That's what they say, huh?
Yes. That's what they say.
I've always wondered this. Who are 'they'?
You know - Them.
'Them'?
Yes, the inimitable collective 'Them'.
And who says we're supposed to listen to 'Them'?
They do!"-----Drew Baylor and Claire Colburn in Elizabethtown (2005)
"You're Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.I am big. It's the pictures that got small."-----Joe Gillis and Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd. (1950)
"My parents didn't get me what I wanted for Christmas.
What did you want?
Hungry Hungry Hippos.
And how did you feel, being denied these hungry, hungry hippos?
Regret."-----Donnie Darko and Dr. Lilian Thurman in Donnie Darko (2001)
"The Pentagon has experience, as do the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the NSC, but in the event they all lose their way, the President can always send C.J. Cregg to Ramallah to swat at suicide bombers with her purse."-----Toby Ziegler in Liftoff (Episode 6.04), The West Wing
"I was happy. Wherever I...was...I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. Time...didn't mean anything...nothing had form...but I was still me, you know? And I was warm...and I was loved...and I was finished. Complete. I don't understand about theology or dimensions, or...any of it, really...but I think I was in heaven."-----Buffy Summers in After Life (Episode 6.03), Buffy the Vampire Slayer
"Sometimes to expect the best from everyone is arrogance."-----Hephaistion in Alexander (2004)
On something a little bit more fun, I am going to share some of my favorite film and television show quotes. (NOTE: This is not a complete list. It could go on forever.) Before, I start, I'd also like to put in a plug for This American Life and All Things Considered, two great shows on NPR.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"It has been decided that you will be dressed as a priest, to help you get away in the pandemonium afterwards. Chunjin will give you a two-piece Soviet Army sniper's rifle that fits nicely into a special bag. There's a spotlight booth that won't be in use. It's up under the roof on the Eighth Avenue side of the Garden. You will have absolutely clear, protected shooting. You are to shoot the presidential nominee through the head. And Johnny will rise gallantly to his feet and lift Ben Arthur's body in his arms, stand in front of the microphones and begin to speak. The speech is short. But it's the most rousing speech I've ever read. It's been worked on, here and in Russia, on and off, for over eight years. I shall force someone to take the body away from him and Johnny will really hit those microphones and those cameras with blood all over him, fighting off anyone who tries to help him, defending America even if it means his own death, rallying a nation of television viewers to hysteria, to sweep us up into the White House with powers that will make martial law seem like anarchy!"-----Mrs. Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
"Maybe it makes sense now. Maybe somewhere in all of this there's a reason. Maybe somewhere in all of this there's a why. Maybe somewhere there's that thing that lets you tie it all up with a neat bow and bury it in the backyard. But nothing, not getting angry, not prayers, and not tears, nothing can make something that happened unhappen."-----Leland P. Fitzgerald in The United States of Leland (2003)
"Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!"-----Auntie Mame Dennis in Auntie Mame (1958)
"The game's up, Scarlet. There are no more bullets left in that gun.
Oh, come on, you don't think I'm gonna fall for that old trick?
It's not a trick. There was one shot at Mr. Boddy in the Study; two for the chandelier; two at the Lounge door and one for the singing telegram.
That's not six.
One plus two plus two plus one.
Uh-uh, there was only one shot that got the chandelier. That's one plus two plus *one* plus one.
Even if you were right, that would be one plus one plus two plus one, not one plus *two* plus one plus one.
Okay, fine. One plus two plus one... Shut up! The point is, there is one bullet left in this gun and guess who's gonna get it!"-----Wadsworth and Miss Scarlet in Clue (1985)
"But that's what they say.
That's what they say, huh?
Yes. That's what they say.
I've always wondered this. Who are 'they'?
You know - Them.
'Them'?
Yes, the inimitable collective 'Them'.
And who says we're supposed to listen to 'Them'?
They do!"-----Drew Baylor and Claire Colburn in Elizabethtown (2005)
"You're Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.I am big. It's the pictures that got small."-----Joe Gillis and Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd. (1950)
"My parents didn't get me what I wanted for Christmas.
What did you want?
Hungry Hungry Hippos.
And how did you feel, being denied these hungry, hungry hippos?
Regret."-----Donnie Darko and Dr. Lilian Thurman in Donnie Darko (2001)
"The Pentagon has experience, as do the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the NSC, but in the event they all lose their way, the President can always send C.J. Cregg to Ramallah to swat at suicide bombers with her purse."-----Toby Ziegler in Liftoff (Episode 6.04), The West Wing
"I was happy. Wherever I...was...I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. Time...didn't mean anything...nothing had form...but I was still me, you know? And I was warm...and I was loved...and I was finished. Complete. I don't understand about theology or dimensions, or...any of it, really...but I think I was in heaven."-----Buffy Summers in After Life (Episode 6.03), Buffy the Vampire Slayer
"Sometimes to expect the best from everyone is arrogance."-----Hephaistion in Alexander (2004)
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