Me and My Big Mouth

Thoughts on things I can speak of with some lack of expertise

Norwonk

Norwonk
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“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.” (Dr. Samuel Johnson) --------------------------------------- I'm a Norwegian blockhead and policy wonk with a troubling degree of interest in American politics. Currently blogging in two languages, due to severe overflow of useless opinions. Stephen Fry recently captured my feelings when he wrote: "I sometimes think that when I die there should be two graves dug: the first would be the usual kind of size, say 2 feet by 7, but the other would be much, much larger. The gravestone should read: ME AND MY BIG MOUTH."

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009 3:20AM

I Just Realised...

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... I've been blogging here for a year!

How does one celebrate ones anniversary on OS? I do it by remembering what November 5, 2008 felt like.

 
You can't say things haven't improved.

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incidentally it's also guy fawkes night, anniversary

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Happy Anniversary, Happy Anniversary, Happy Anniversary, HAPPY Anniversary. To be sung a la Fred Flintstone to William Tell Overture.
madcelt
November 05, 2009 04:37 AM
Congrats to OS's best political analyst!
Alan Nothnagle
November 05, 2009 07:17 AM
Congrats and Happy Anniversary. Thanks for a year of good reading.
Stim
November 05, 2009 10:30 AM
Congrats Norwonk. Wonderful vid. (I haven't heard the "fart in your general direction" line in years -- still cracks me up.)
Apparently, when they told Bush it was the 5th anniversary of the Iraq invasion, he asked: "Will there be cake?"
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john blumenthal
November 05, 2009 11:31 AM
Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tom Cordle
November 05, 2009 11:48 AM
that's the understatement of the century!
Kathy Knechtges
November 05, 2009 11:50 PM
With a big YIPEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

Thank you Norwonk, you have given us great entertainment, analysis and perspective.

Cheers and many more.
Stellaa
November 07, 2009 12:44 AM
Happy Anniversary. Me, too - but I missed mine. Here, have some cake. I stole it from .... you know who... ;)
the ranting boomer
November 07, 2009 12:57 AM
Guy Fawkes Night is an important event being celebrated in United Kingdom during 5th day of November. People have different ways to celebrate it, but the traditional fireworks display and building bonfire shouldn’t be missed. Remember, remember the 5th of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot – that's right, it was just Guy Fawkes Night. November 5th was celebrated as Guy Fawkes Night ever since, commemorating the safety of the King, and many people put instant cash into fireworks or bonfires, though Catholic Emancipation took another couple hundred years. To sum up – a group of wealthy English Catholics was tired of being discriminated against (for being Catholic) and hatched the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament and the King. Authorities were tipped off, and they busted Guy Fawkes on November 5th, 1605.
Mae N
November 13, 2009 03:58 AM