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Love, love, love that pic. Dale does excellent work.

Wish I could join y'all tomorrow live. But I'm happy to say, in this day & age, that I have a job to attend to.

tt

I think that is a DISGRACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s finally here. Inauguration Day, 2009. Cheney’s in a wheelchair with a pulled muscle and Obama will be standing tall.
And so the Bush era ends, hopefully the door is closed for good.
It’s been a long, hard siege, living through the administration of the worst president in history.
For the final time, I reiterate that I cannot understand how the electorate returned Bush to 1600 after his disastrous first term. I’ll let that go now.
It looks like Obama has no interest in prosecuting Bush and his crew for illegal torture at Guantanamo Bay , or anything else. That’s a shame, but if we’re just leave the Bush hijinks inthe dust, let’s move on.

Hey Dex!

As KO said tonight something like, 'tick, tick, tick, freakin' tick, tick tick."

BTW, I heard Limbaugh today, and he was 1 hare's/hair's breath from being an out & out racist.

Wadda jerk.

tt

HANG in there, TT...only TEN HOURS and 9 minutes left for Bush!! Oh...and Cheney? GET OUT OF BIDEN'S HOUSE!
I am getting butterflies now...it's really gonna happen!
I'll be 60 this year...I never thought this day would ever come...
I AM GEEKED !!

Your going to be 60 and you are getting butterflies from a man who is going to be the POTUS?

Lampe - you still there? I figured you were out for the night this late, and I'm glad I caught you.

Tell all the stories you want about that uncle. I have happy memories about a farm in Pennsylvania, in a little town out of Erie right on the shore of Lake Erie. We got there once a year only but man did we love it. We jujmped in the hay and played with the farm cats and had fried chicken and corn that had just been picked and fresh tomatoes. We were creeped out to see our cousins put sugar on the tomatoes!

The words 'we did without' are almost a foreign language to us anymore and I can't say they meant much to me until I hit my nightmare times with jobs and money. I realize now that that was what I did - I did without. To think of whole families doing without really bothers me, and it makes me angry that so many are doing so today, and that it is all caused by just a few people being greedy.

I salute you grandparents and parents and others like them, and love hearing about them. Thanks for sharing.

About eight and a half more hours, isn't it? I'm glad it's going to be a big deal and people are going to celebrate big time - it would be so depressing to not be able to enjoy such a moment.

This is not the time for self-denial Jimmy Carter-style.
That's gonna come soon enough - like Wednesday.

I am with Dexter I am geeked too. about 6 hours till the national nightmare is over.

I am with Dexter, I am geeked also. Around 6 hrs to go until the National Nightmare is over.

sorry for the double post I hate it when this program burbs like that.

burb = burps

Speaking of the long national nightmare....Dooty -- did you read this hilarious (in a horrible sort of way) old piece from the Onion? I posted it yesterday.

The Onion, January 21, 2001

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28784?Revisit

Thanks Patsi, I guess I missed that. It is from the Onion no? It is funny though. Did I mention I am geeked? I thought so.

I guess the Onion (even though a comedy site) got that one absolutely spot on....

Yes -- it's a grand day. And I think it's too late for Bush to bomb anybody now.

Craig,

Today, we'll see Democracy at its best. The Dupont Circle picture is an important facet of our democracy, even though it's toward the other end of the spectrum.

art and music to signify the day

janus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Janus-Vatican.JPG

hello goodbye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QShSmpI0r9k

glorious morning gang....

Lampe.... let me add my thanks for those great stories about your family....

I wonder if we'll see W and Laura waving at us as they take off in a helicopter or limo..... good riddance.....

Patsi.... I guess the prediction that W would declare Martial Law instead of letting this day happen isn't going to happen either....

as Jax said yesterday..... I too LOVE watching the process..... there's always so much hope in a new beginning.... I look forward to it being fulfilled in a better fashion than the last time....

CBob... as always.... thanks for the concert....

second that.....Cbob.....thanks for a lot of stuff.......all thru the fifties I made the ride back and forth between charleston and birmingham......Restrooms: Men--Women---Colored (one room for black men and black women) the water fountains, like you said......never made any sense at all to this little kid, as most of my friends at home were black, my father having moved us into a tarpaper shack in a "village" on the island when he moved here to work in the shipyard......

so hooray hooray, all is nice today.............

jax, you mentioned yesterday about looking forward to seeing your alma mater march in the parade today. are you a famu alum? the marching 100 is a pretty good show.

cbob, did you see charlayne hunter-gault yesterday talk about drinking from the whites only water fountain? both your story and hers were moving.

I must say, that though this day is nice for the election of a black man to the white house, it's ever more so much NICER that those evil bastards of the last 8 are finally and irrevocably and so decisively OUT. I throw a symbolic, virtual shoe at them on their way out the door......let the investigations begin.........

joke someone emailed me:

The Pentagon announced today the formation of a new 500-man elite fighting unit called the
United States Redneck Special Forces (USRSF)

These mostly Southern boys will be dropped off into Iraq and will be given only the following facts about terrorists :

1. The season opened today.
2. There is no limit.
3. They taste just like chicken.
4. They don't like beer, pickups, country music, or Jesus.
5. They are directly responsible for the death of Dale Earnhardt.

The Pentagon expects the problem in Iraq to be over by Friday .

Applications are available at your local Wal-Mart sporting goods counter.

"Patsi.... I guess the prediction that W would declare Martial Law instead of letting this day happen isn't going to happen either...."

Ha -- Renee -- I always knew he'd stop short of that. He knows how many rednecks have guns.

I was discharged from the service in Jan of 1970. It happened in Charleston, SC. One of my best friends traveled from Boston down to pick me up and carry me back to Boston. After I was released we drove up the coast.

When we were crossing the border into North Carolina we happened on a giant road side sign. It was a rearing white horse being ridden by a white robed clan member. The sign said to the effect "You are now entering Clan Country."

39 years later I hope that sign has been relegated to the junk yard in actuality and in spirit.

Sr. Dooty......there is a hilarious story about the klan in columbia SC in the book SOUTHERN FRIED + 6 by Wm Price Fox........book of short stories.........cant remember the name of the actual story, but the rest of the stories are hilarious as well.........the one on the klan shows them as the bumbling fools they were at that time and that place.........

Dooty.....ha.......I also got home to charleston in jan 1970 from my time in the service....did you catch me playing in any of the joints? lol

"drinking from the whites only water fountain? "

My first great love was a Hispanic. He was a 6'4" college basketball star when I met him. And he was treated like royalty on campus. He told me that while he was growing up, the Mexicans and blacks were served in paper cups in his local diner. Anglos were served in regular glasses.

When he hit high school and put the B-Ball team and the town on the map....things changed. He said that one day they went in for cokes and he was served in a glass, while his cousins still got paper cups. That was what was his final straw. Before that happened he never quite understood how ugly it was. It was just the way things were. But after he got the glass, he never went back to the place.

Senor Pescado,

sorry can't say we hit any joints on the way out of town. We were in a hurry to put as much real estate between us and the gov't that day. Did not want to be caught up in a recall. We cut a trail north that day. We made it to Washington, DC that day and spent the night with my friend's wife parents.

Do you remember seeing any of those signs?

si......i remember those signs and worse........but all the "klan" people on my island were like the ones in Fox's story.........low rent, one-toothed buffoons.........they were out in the open, but nobody paid 'em no nevermind..........we did, as a lark, make it to two different klan rally cross burnings which were awesomely comedic to us young drunks........

There is a big warehouse located on North Main here in Ft Worth. It has been the home of the Ellis Pecan Company for as long as I can remember. It is a large brick building and the Ellis Pecan sign sat in a recessed area on the top front of the building. A friend of mine when he was in Architecture School at UTA showed me a picture of that same building when it was built in the later part of the 19th century. Where the Ellis Pecan sign sat, the brick laid out the purpose of the building. It was the home of the KKK in FTW. No doubt it is the same building.

never got to attend a Klan rally however, there have been a few around here in the last decade or so. Just never felt I needed to go. A few of my friends and I went to a few "revivals" or "camp tent meetings" after drinking and smoking a few fatties. Those were interesting to say the least.

wooohoooo the president who never should have been is on his way out!

My neighbors are coming over in a bit for a celebration
I'll be happy if Obama just reverses everything Shrub did and sends us back to the end of the Clinton presidency.

Dooty and Sturge -- I have a photo taken at a Klan rally in Pulaski, Tennessee about 15 years ago. The original photo actually got a lot of national "press" at the time because of the irony involved. It all started when the Klan asked for "protection" for their march. So on the big day, a news guy snapped a photo that showed Klansmen parading around in the background. In the foreground, guarding these clowns, is a black police officer. The look on his face is priceless. He's not so much angry at his role in this fiasco, as he is disgusted. You can almost see him rolling his eyes.

I bet Cheney was lifting big boxes of classified documents into a shredder. That's how he pulled the muscle.

maybe today is my liberation day. Have an appt at the big Veterans hospital in Dallas for yet another x-ray and consultation concerning this damned broken ankle. I have been house bound for the most part since I am not supposed to drive with the "boot" on my right foot. See y'all after I get back. Hopefully it will be still daylight when I get to go home.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/01/out-with-the-old.html#comment-191083

Patsi,

Pulaski, Tn is the original home of the KKK. It was formed in 1865 after the Civil War. It was founded by six Confederacy soldiers.

LLib,

That's a good guess regarding Cheney's injury.

I want it to be alcohol related, so if there's any truth at all in the lifting boxes thing, I'm saying it's because he wouldn't trust the movers with his cases of bourbon, (or whatever his liquor of choice may be.)

Of course, it could be something much more simple. He may just have finally twisted himself into a pretzel, patting himself on the back for the way he and his boss/accomplice took care of their rich friends for the past eight years.

Here Patsi, this is for you and others with love denied, a most beautiful song of its time, and here's to the Janis Ian's of the future who will be able to sing of other sorts of heartaches.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW_rYLoIR08

Patd,
My Alma Mater is the US Merchant Marine Academy. A company from the regiment of Midshipmen and the band will be in the 5th division.

Despite the lack of class associated with some of the spectacle this is a day to celebrate our FREEDOM. That includes allowing the less than tasteful....:)

You just don't fucking let up do you- just go get happy and back off wanker!

Patd,
I did grow up about 80 miles from Tallahassee and the FAMU band was well known for their show.....

God's speed to Barack and to the American People. I join the many in wishing the best of success for Barack....
Let his reality begin

PS - Craig - even that thow did not mention the name in your text - did you have a relapse?
Why keep going backwards.....
Healing is forward

LL
It ill be a cold day in...... Oh it is !!!

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2009/01/out-with-the-old.html#comment-191084

Cheney needs to learn the secret of hiding the right amount of Doc's and not to worry as he to could take them one at a time from the Lib of Congress....

Posted by: Ping Pong Author Profile Page | January 20, 2009 9:44 AM

As long as he doesn't put them in his pants..

"Let his reality begin"

Well, the market is throwing in it 2 cents, the dow has plunged 150 point so far, do you suppose they could give him a gift by breaking below 8000 today?

Jack

Jack,
The lower it is when he starts the easier it is to run up.....timing is everything....:)

Ping pong

You forgot, Cheney is a law unto himself,
None of his papers will make it into the the library of congress.
I will not miss Cheney's arrogance.

Good riddance
Just wheel his butt on a plane and fly him to his new home at the Hague
Jack

"Pulaski, Tn is the original home of the KKK"

Oh, yeah...and some around there are still proud of it....

the box turtle speaks
oadblock thrown in way of Clinton's confirmation

By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

(01-20) 06:51 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) --

A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says Hillary Rodham Clinton will not be confirmed as secretary of state Tuesday because of a single senator's objection.

Reid spokesman Jim Manley said Republican John Cornyn of Texas has indicated he will block a move to confirm Clinton by an unanimous floor vote later in the day.

But Manley also said there would be a roll call vote Wednesday. And he predicted that "she will receive overwhelming bipartisan support" at that time.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/01/20/national/w065135S77.DTL&type=printable

Here Patsi, this is for you and others with love denied, "

Ha...OSH -- it wasn't ethnicity that our parents objected to. His parents didn't want him marrying a protestant, and mine didn't want me marrying a catholic. (None of them were too vocal about it, but we knew how they felt.)

But that wouldn't have stopped us. He was a senior and I was a sophomore. When he left college we kind of drifted on to other things. But for a year it was a grand thing!

KGC

I read something about that yesterday.

lol

Let the games begin.

Jack

I'm getting my oil changed today. The guy at the dealership said to me yesterday, "We're not that busy." It sounded like they really needed the work.

So....is today the day that all of us here are finally gonna be brought closer together? Will there be a group hug later?

So far, for me the best commentary came from Carl Bernstein
and he talked about the hope for a change in values. I hope planned obsolescence is part of that change.

There are few things worse than listening to Diane Sawyer gush but I think maybe Wolf Blitzer gushing is one.
I think I need to go to the doctor and get some insulin for all the sticky sweet stuff. I don't think my regular medicine can handle the overload.

I just turned the TV off, the silence is wonderful.

Jack

KGC

The problem with building stuff that last for ever is, it is around for ever.
Where do I put all the new stuff?

Jack

Jack, my sister said she wasn't going to watch tv today. It is a little overboard at times.

"a day off from name-calling and snotty comments. "

I can't tell you how many day's that I wished for this,,,,,just one day off,and hate,,,,I did have these day's of no name calling ( I kinda liked beaner,,,it was the nicest ). When I joined a bunch of kids that all that they wanted was to play sports,,,,(,they are still my friends,,,,of all nationalities),,,not once in 50 plus years did they ever utter a statement that made me feel bad,,,

Although I wanted H.C. in the White House,,,,I feel great that a black man is POTUS today,and will open up some doors for a hispnic (Im glad that Richardson never had a chance---he is the wrong hispanic IMO),,,now I hope that Obama makes me proud of him doing the right things,,for all of us,,,I hope that all the haters feel today,,,what some have felt all of their lives

My only problem is stay near the computer and the small TV or go up and watch everything on the new digital.

I did the same thing this morning Jack, right after the new press secretary said that "Obama is incredibly humble"

Corey just for you

KUMBAYA MY LORD VOCE CHITARRA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1vr16j0CMw

It is in Spanish too, so Solar can join in, heck it may be Solar singing.

RE: the gushing....I've noticed a less "gush" more "news and info" on WGN. I guess the local commentators don't feel they have to try to outdo one another.

mornin'.

Is it just me, or do things seem a little nicer here in the good ol' UD fo A today?

BTW, George, have a nice quiet retirement and GET OFF MY LAWN!!

Patsi

all week, the people all over, not only in Chicago have been in a super bowel mood,,,like the 85 Payton bears ,,,,Friendly,,and revved up----

A 6 ft 4" basket ball Mexicali and a nice guy to boot in college ----now that is a rare bird,,,I knew that there was a guy like that in your past---I just knew! "-)

"Obama is incredibly humble"

OSH

I guess the next question would be, as compared to what?

I think the process kinda screens out the humble. Just remember today is an event, it is our national coronation. As with many of life celebrations the truth takes a back seat.
Just think of it as a wedding, funeral or a mother passing around pictures of her first born. It is always a beautiful child, even if it is butt ugly.

Tomorrow is the time for reality.

Jack

Imus and Chris Wallace discuss the Inauguration, and Chris’s old age disease.

http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/01/chris-wallace-old-mans-disease-crs.html

make that the Good ol' US of A. damn.

Today is a great day....
It is American as America can be....

Today Barack get to trade in his made up sign "Office of Pres Elect" and the controlled events and Elements and his vote Present -
For the real thing......
It is interesting times

Well MSNBC just did the "Hail to the Chief" trivia bit for the outgoing and incoming Presidents. We chat about things 24 hours earlier and it shows up on MSNBC the next day. Gives you that sort of dejavu all over again feeling.

Jack

First of all I can't sing as good as that guy,,,and he sucks!!
2nd I wish that it was me----it's freakin cold here,,,and more snow,,,,,I would be in the water swimming.......but I did used to sing a little song in the shower,with the same tone as that guy,,,,drove my roommates crazy at 6 in the morning----Wanna hear it??

i

Love the scarf Holder's wife is wearing. Need better look at Mrs. Obama's outfit. First impression wasn't too favorable ... a little too much bling for the occasion.

After he's sworn in, Obama should take the podium and say, "Thanks." and then walk away. That would be pretty funny.

Thanks Jack- gosh I missed your pearls of wisdom while you were gone!

coming back into nashville oncet, probably '81, on a converted school bus, me and 3 other band grizzlies beat from the road happened to break into a klan parade down broadway......we rode in the parade about 6 blocks leaning out of the bus and waving like we were the hit of the show......lol

Sturge, was that you or Jake and Elwood? LOL!

Keeping up with my apparent reputation of behaving like a 12 year old -- thanks Renee -- I hope that the moment Obama takes the oath and is President, he will stand behind Bush and give him a SWIFT HARD KICK off the stage. Of course it cannot and should not happen, but it would be funny.

My ex pop-in-law was counsel for Robert Shelton (in his personal dealings only - none of that Klan shit) - Grand Dragon of the KKK back in the 70's - them was some mean ass bastards - no doubt slowly roasting in hell if there is one and it's like the Christains suggest. Hope they thought it was worth the stupidity.

One more thought before I go, my ex was watching the events on the DC mall yesterday with the men's choir and Josh Groban et al and hew as in awe. He said that this is what he likes so much about America, how proud people are about their country, something totally missing in Belgium. He had goosebumps and chills up and down his body.

Powerful stuff...

Never thought much of this before, but I guess it is true.

Michelle Obama is wearing Isabel Toledo.

ET

That reminds me of an old saw about the way Countries walk down a foreign street.

The British walk down a street as if they own it.
The Russians act as if they own it but are worried about who wants it back, and Americans walk down a street as if they are visiting and will give it back when they are through.

The Obama girls are beautiful.

Tom----STICK around,,,,not enough of us long posters around.

TV back on

Ya know, looking at lynn Cheney and Laura Bush, The have that hard edged Stepford wive look
Lotta hair spray in those doos

Jack

NEW THREAD for live inaugural discussion

Jack, ain't it th' truth?

It's a balmy 27 in DC today. Laura looks a little under deressed fo tthat temp.

Just saw Aretha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DZ3_obMXwU