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I didn't see it live, but I wish I had. The ultimate Rickroll!!



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Ellen's been complaining that I haven't posted anything lately. So, here you go honey. Enjoy!



(My favorite line: "Even Dick Cheney doesn't want to see his grannie's titties in the breeze!")

Wil Wheaton had a great post yesterday about how he (and I, and I'm sure a lot of progressives) feel about the fallout from the election.

Read it here.

This was in my inbox this morning:

Bill --

I'm about to head to Grant Park to talk to everyone gathered there, but I wanted to write to you first.

We just made history.

And I don't want you to forget how we did it.

You made history every single day during this campaign -- every day you knocked on doors, made a donation, or talked to your family, friends, and neighbors about why you believe it's time for change.

I want to thank all of you who gave your time, talent, and passion to this campaign.

We have a lot of work to do to get our country back on track, and I'll be in touch soon about what comes next.

But I want to be very clear about one thing... All of this happened because of you.

Thank you,

Barack

Now, I originally wasn't going to post it because I know it's just a form email that was sent out to everyone who is registered with the Obama campaign, but one line struck me:

We have a lot of work to do to get our country back on track, and I'll be in touch soon about what comes next.

The idea that there is this group of committed volunteers, and the President-elect isn't going to let them all slink back into the background. The only way to change this country is to get all of us working together.

I was impressed during the whole campaign at the use of technology to bring people together for a common purpose, and I'm glad to see that it doesn't end here. I will be interested to see if it becomes a reality or if it's just political lip service. I suspect the former.

MSNBC just called the election for Obama!

I am struck most by the comments that things will never be the way they were because the baton has been passed to the "Obama Generation" - my generation. It is no longer politics as usual.

Yes. We. Can.

OHIO GOES FOR OBAMA!!!

At least MSNBC has called it. I think Ohio, combined with a win in Pennsylvania, should pretty much seal it up. Although, you never know. As my sister said, "When I went to bed, Al Gore was my President. When I woke up, it was George Bush."

But the good news either way is that the robocalls will stop! We've averaged 4 per day over the last week (including today) - all from John McCain. His calls have all seemed to try to scare me into not voting for Obama, using a variety of scare tactics and hyperbole.

I did receive two calls from Obama, but he was very calm and polite, and told me why I would want to vote for him.

I dropped Munchkin off at school and walked across the street to my polling place. I was expecting a huge line, but it wasn't bad. Longer than usual, but I was in and out in a half an hour.


Please don't forget to vote.
For Obama.

I hate making telephone calls. The thought of picking up the phone and speaking to someone, especially someone I don't know terrifies me.* (It makes ordering a pizza a true ordeal.) So, when I tell you that I called 40 strangers today to encourage them to vote for Barack Obama, you need to understand that, while it may not be a lot in the grand scheme of things, it was a really big deal for me.

I went to barackobama.com, signed up, and a list of 40 people from the Cincinnati area appeared on my computer. I fired up Skype and started dialing. The first person I spoke with - my first political call ever - was an 89 year old lady who hung up on me. I figured that it must be better than that, and kept going.

Unfortunately (or fortunately for me) I only ended up speaking to about 5 people, and left messages for everyone else. As I said, it wasn't much, but I feel really good about doing something over and above voting. If Obama loses tomorrow I wouldn't have believed it was my fault, but I would have been upset that there was something I could have done and didn't.

I'm glad I did it.




*Just for the record - work phone calls don't count. I can call parishes all over the place without hesitation and talk with rectors and lay people alike. I guess that when it's part of my job it's different.

A little late, but as yesterday was Halloween, here are a couple of pictures from the neighborhood.

Some people had scary pumpkins on the porch:


Some had scary spiders on the roof:

But, this house had the scariest decoration of all:


All pictures taken with the new camera, by the way.