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How long before the race riots start?
The ones in Oakland that the MSM is currently ignoring don’t count.
So who ISN’T ignoring them, Hank? Obviously someone, since you posted about it.
Comments
1.
HLP
Posted January 20, 2009 at 9:48 am | Permalink
How long before the race riots start?
2.
HLP
Posted January 20, 2009 at 9:51 am | Permalink
The ones in Oakland that the MSM is currently ignoring don’t count.
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Nice way to usher in a new President of the United States, Hank. I expected something better from a man who served his country for so long. Snide remarks or not, this is a historic occasion, and one the whole country should be proud of. I can see I’m wrong: still people around who are stuck in the fifties.
JMWalker,
Just chalk it up as Hank’s “eggs”. It’s all he has left. (Old duck eggs, more than likely. ;) )
lmao!
Scalia looks like a Catholic Cardinal in a black robe. :)
Cheney in a wheelchair. Hurt his back moving boxes.
WTF?
He couldn’t hire someone to move for him?!
Or was he moving evidence?
hehehe
Fresh duck eggs!
And the sun is shining in D.C.!
Cheer, pray, do a happy dance, smile, grin, wave your arms, jump up and dance with glee, etc., etc.
The Reagan-inspired nightmare is over, done in by the incompetence of the frat boy.
But remember, the slog back has just started. We’re in for a rough ride; there is a lot of damage to undo.
Big grin on my face all morning. I don’t even care what the cons think; they had their day, now they can slink back into the dark bowels of history.
Dennis
I knew you’d enjoy that, Hank! hehehe
Tipper’s looking good.
Mondale and wife look alike…
From The Onion, eight years ago, who would have thunk it?
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28784?Revisited
Dear Hank,
As you’re watching the ceremony, please try to forget that Obama will push for policies that reduce AGW, such as carbon taxes.
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cosmos_originally
Posted January 20, 2009 at 10:17 am | Permalink
Dear Hank,
As you’re watching the ceremony, please try to forget that Obama will push for policies that reduce AGW, such as carbon taxes.
_________________________________________
Hopefully he’ll be just as effective as Clinton!
Who was that standing in front of Al Gore?
Oops! My bad, it’s just some massive weight gain. :)
Gore has more ‘Chins’ now that the phone listing in China town, San Francisco!
wmd4Jesus
Posted January 20, 2009 at 10:16 am | Permalink
From The Onion, eight years ago, who would have thunk it?
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Whoda thunk it. Dead on in just about everything. Rasmussen, move over.
Gore has more ‘Chins’ now that the phone listing in China town, San Francisco!
And GHWB walks like a penguin.
Got anything else?
Regular
Posted January 20, 2009 at 10:25 am | Permalink
Who was that standing in front of Al Gore?
Oops! My bad, it’s just some massive weight gain. :)
Gore has more ‘Chins’ now that the phone listing in China town, San Francisco.
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Looked in the mirror lately, crip?
Ahhhhhh! I love the smell of division in America in the morning!
NOT
The Obama children looked darling I must say.
Hope the Secret Service brought those tiny bodies a heater. :)
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JMWalker
Posted January 20, 2009 at 10:27 am | Permalink
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Looked in the mirror lately, crip?
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Crip eh?
How politically incorrect.
HLP–
We should have had riot in December 2000, when Worst.President.Ever. stole the Presidency and told democracy in America to drop dead.
There’s W. now on TV, shucking and jiving like he doesn’t know he’s the worst POS on the planet.
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Regular
Posted January 20, 2009 at 10:30 am | Permalink
Crip eh?
How politically incorrect.
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And your comments are? Hypocrite, thy name is reg.
CapnAmerica doesn’t seem to know that Obama is tring to unify. He talks from both sides of his generous mouth. He also doesn’t know what people think of his worthless divisive crap.
plz read your post on the open thread for your “positive” comments. thx
A LOOOOONG time to wait for this day.
Now? It is only a few minutes until the most reviled administration in history ends.
I prepare to raise, for the first time in eight years, the American flag!
Here comes Obama. He looks like he’s thinking, I earned it, dude, I earned it . . .
jm, plz read your post on the open thread for your “positive” comments. thx
Capn,
WE earned it.
Before I ignore this thread, I have a question for Hank.
Riots? Why?
Is this something you normally expect when a president is sworn in? Or do you know something we don’t? Does Aryan Nations Brotherhood or the KKK or whatnot have something planned? They keeping you informed?
Inquiring minds want to know.
bluejay…what a true American……
outlander,
Obama may be all for unity, but I’m for revenge.
You eff with American democracy, you eff with me.
BTW, when I mentioned the egg throwing and boo-ing, that was “just fact” as Raptor said earlier.
W’s motorcade was pelted by eggs–he had to radically speed up to avoid “incoming” . . .
I have muted the sound while the Christo fascist bigot Warren speaks.
BUSH PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION DEATH WATCH
25 Minutes . . .
Hallejuah!
Let freedom ring!
Let the white dove sing!
Let all cons know that today is day of reckoning.
Now the weak are strong.
And the rights been wrong.
Roll the stone away let the guilty pay.
It’s independence day!
Wow . . . so few regrets from the reich-wing seeing their poster boy stand down.
He brought them everything they wanted–low taxes and expensive wars and all we got out of it was . . . a slightly worn pair of shoes off of an Iraqi.
capnamerica……..you are really going to stand up……..heck i figured you for a coward
Arethra still has it, doesn’t she? :)
BTW, when I mentioned the egg throwing and boo-ing, that was “just fact” as Raptor said earlier.
W’s motorcade was pelted by eggs–he had to radically speed up to avoid “incoming” . .
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That lack of class does not surprise me.
She does, Reg. It’s always a pleasure to hear her belt one out. ::grin::
capn…didn’t the dems vote and agree to those?…..hasn’t obama indicated that both will continue?
Go tell that long-tongued liar
Go tell that midnight flyer
Tell the ramblers and the gamblers and the old warmongers
Great God Almighty’s gonna cut them down.
wichhick–
The one thing I have never been able to abide was a bully.
In answer to your second set of question, Hick, the answer is “no” and “no.”
But thanks for playing . . .
As the TV guy said, even though they haven’t administered the oath of office, as of noon Eastern, Obama is officially the president of the United States.
Sweet.
Dennis
Nice arrangement by Williams with Perlman and Yo’, et al. :)
capn……..re-writing history are we?
As they say,
There it is…
It’s done
Dennis
Well, he botched the oath. Where’s his teleprompter when he needed it!
The CHIEF JUSTICE botched it. And Obama knew it too!
My flag flies again. It looks magnificent in the bright sunshine of a truly beautiful day!
Ah Hank, classy as ever.
Dennis
Maybe he should have memorized it to please you, Hank.
I don’t know, Predestined. Thirty-nine words. Shame he couldn’t get it right.
BlueJay,
What flag is that? Does it have the hammer crossed with a sickle?
bluejay…..classy as ever
I’d rather have him botch the oath than botch the job the way…
I thought BlueJay burned his flag. Oh, that’s what I get for believing a pathological liar.
Repeating an oath in little chunks like that isn’t all that easy. I know you’ve done it, Hank. I have, too, as a government employee. Plenty of brides and grooms have done the same with their wedding vows. I would imagine there was a lot going through his mind at that moment.
Speaking of “the job”…
Looks like the Big O will be continuing much of the foreign relations and domestic security policies employed by President Bush.
Maybe those daily terror briefings have tempered…
Very good speech by the “O-man.”
Now, it begins…
Today is the first day of the rest of our lives. Make it a good one!
raised by a white g-ma, had a white mommy and this is the first black pres? More white than black. What we need is a true black pres. One that grow up in the getto yo. This half bake stuff just aint cuttin it.
“When white should embrace what it right”. Is that a racist comment?
Baby steps, rush2112. Baby steps.
Say, “AMEN!”
Can I hear everybody in the building say, AMEN!
Can I hear everybody in the building say it again:
AMEN!
The Reign of Sauron has ended! :)
Donndummy–
As a lily-white suburban bourgouise, you are apparently not familiar with the black kids skip rhyme that goes as follows–
If you’re white, you’re alright.
If you’re yellow, you’re mellow.
If you’re brown, you have to get down.
If you’re black, you have to get back.
He’s no Randolf Scott!!
Rage,
Hehehe.
Frodo lives!
I thought it was great that he refused to repeat the lines that Roberts botched. “President to the United States,” hehe! Funny stuff.
http://www.ladyofthecake.com/mel/saddles/bssounds.htm
Dick Cheney in a wheel chair . . . a physical symbol of his crippled leadership . . .
That was funny when bush was booed by a million people audience. Bet hundreds of millions booed him world wide!
There’s the Nixon wave by Bush in the heliocopter.
Hasta la vista, baby . . .
Dick Cheeney in a wheel chair, papa bush walking like the penguin. W getting booed, it was great.
I think I will work a few extra hours today to help pay for all the free handouts obama is going to give out.
Lift off we have lift off!
And the removal of eight years of a cancer on our nation!
eight years and only one attach. unless we count bluejays lip
I liked the part where we won’t sacrifice our morals for fear and expediency.
Two million people.
And look at all the litter they left behind. :(
BlueJay borrows from the great Roy Orbison…
It’s over it’s over it’s OVER IT’S OVER!
IT’S OOOOOOOOOO VERRRRRRR!
Let the war crimes trials begin . . .
Hank posted January 20, 2009 at 11:13 am
I don’t know, Predestined. Thirty-nine words. Shame he couldn’t get it right.
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Yes, shame on Roberts.
We-eee-eeel….
You know you make me wanna (Shout!)
Kick my heels up and (Shout!)
Throw my hands up and (Shout!)
Throw my head back and (Shout!)
The Chief Justice couldn’t even get the words of the oath of office correct. He’s already missed on several ‘decisions’ too. Another of those banes of the bush legacy.
Ohmygosh, he didn’t swear the oath of office on a Koran like the reich-wingers were absolutely sure that he would.
I’m sure that they’ll apologize for baseless rumor-mongering.
. . . when pigs fly . . .
The only thing really exceptional here is that what we do is in fact exceptional. We have had a change of power, a change of party, a change in regime, if you like, and there are no tanks in the streets, no soldiers marching on the capital. It’s normal. It is normal to us, of course; we’ve done this now for 200+ years. For much of the rest of the world, it is still quite unusual.
For that, no matter what your political inclination, you should be thankful.And sorry, JR, no attempted coup, as you sorta predicted some time ago. It was silly then, and even sillier now. But then, you’re used to looking silly. I guess you’ll have to take down your barricades.
I’ve actually watched exactly . . . well, none of the ceremony. I’ve got got transcripts to read, work to do.
But I can just FEEL the clouds part, the sun shine, the birds sing, the second coming coming to pass. The ONE is in. I figure he’ll have everything fixed by next Tuesday, right?
Whoa! Wikipedia is updated already.
“Barack Hussein Obama II (pronounced /b??r??k h??se?n o??b??m?/; born August 4, 1961) is the forty-fourth and current President of the United States of America.”
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CapnAmerica
Posted January 20, 2009 at 11:49 am | Permalink
Donndummy–
As a lily-white suburban bourgouise, you are apparently not familiar with the black kids skip rhyme that goes as follows–
If you’re white, you’re alright.
If you’re yellow, you’re mellow.
If you’re brown, you have to get down.
If you’re black, you have to get back.
______________________________
Crapon America, I didn’t know that “bourgouise” came from the south end. What’s wrong with being a property owner? Are you socialist commies going to try to take it away from me?
Get off the crack, Jack.
‘Change Has Come to America‘
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
“But I can just FEEL the clouds part, the sun shine, the birds sing, the second coming coming to pass. The ONE is in. I figure he’ll have everything fixed by next Tuesday, right?” — GMC70
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We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
– H. L. Mencken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBZXeIb3z1Q&feature=PlayList&p=ABDDB11D226DDDE1&playnext=1&index=3
I’m so glad!
GMC70 posted January 20, 2009 at 12:09 pm
I’ve actually watched exactly . . . well, none of the ceremony. I’ve got got transcripts to read, work to do.
But I can just FEEL the clouds part, the sun shine, the birds sing, the second coming coming to pass. The ONE is in. I figure he’ll have everything fixed by next Tuesday, right?
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GMC70,
Thank you for sharing how your biases distort what Obama said, which you did not watch.
“CapnAmerica
Posted January 20, 2009 at 12:08 pm | Permalink
Ohmygosh, he didn’t swear the oath of office on a Koran like the reich-wingers were absolutely sure that he would.”
not that there would be anything wrong with that.
‘Change Has Come to America‘
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
`Insert Something Meaningful Here’
http://www.brianwestbrook.com/whitehousegov.html
I would say that’s a change. :)
Capn, understand from your personal perspective, but from a historical viewpoint, Bush is not the worst President ever:
that would be Harry Truman
Presidential Approval Ratings, Since 1950
Below are the highest and lowest approval ratings ever received by a president in a national opinion poll throughout his presidency.
President Highest Rating Lowest Rating
Harry Truman 87% 23%
Dwight Eisenhower 79% 48%
John F. Kennedy 83% 56%
Lyndon Johnson 79% 35%
Richard Nixon 67% 24%
Gerald Ford 71% 37%
Jimmy Carter 75% 28%
Ronald Reagan 68% 35%
George H.W. Bush 89% 29%
Bill Clinton 73% 37%
George W. Bush 90% 29%
This has been a short fact break. Now please continue your meaningless ranting and hate.
Hey GMC70,
I can see why your sad to see the regime change, yeah I know were all naive and all politicians are the same…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVuUfTNFNhk&feature=related
Somewhere beyond happiness and sadness
I need to calculate
what creates my own madness
And I’m addicted to your punishments
And your the master
And I am waiting for disaster
I feel irrational
So confrontational
To tell the truth I am,
Getting away with murder
It is impossible
To never tell the truth
But the reality is,
I’m getting away with murder
(Whisper)
Getting away
Getting away
Getting away
I’ll drink my drink and I don’t even want to
I think my thoughts when-
I don’t even need to
I never look back because I don’t even want to
And I don’t need to
Because I’m getting away with murder!
I feel irrational
So confrontational
To tell the truth I am,
Getting away with murder
It is impossible
To never tell the truth
But the reality is,
I’m getting away with murder
(Whisper)
Getting away
Getting away
Getting away
Getting away
Getting away
Getting away
Getting away
Getting away
Getting away with murder
“http://www.infoplease.com/spot/presrankings1.html”
Rage
Posted January 20, 2009 at 12:44 pm | Permalink
…
`Insert Something Meaningful Here’
http://www.brianwestbrook.com/whitehousegov.html
I would say that’s a change. :)”
No news like old news, eh?
No news like old news, eh?
Not sure what you mean. I thought it was an amusing contrast and, hopefully, a metaphor for each presidency (we already know how Bush’s tenure turned out!).
And now it begins, today is the first day of the chosen one’s four year campaign for the next four years.
And now it begins, today is the first day of the chosen one’s four year campaign for the next four years.
You’re confused, Hank. That was the last guy.
All Americans, even those named “Price” should be proud today – America has a new leader and a new direction.
Thank you, God.
Forty years ago, Sam Cooke sang “A Change is Gonna Come.”
Today, that change has come.
God bless America!
The few who want Obama to fail, those who will begin to criticize before there is reason, won’t slow the many who are willing to buckle down and do the hard work of meeting our challenges.
Good to see you WSClark! You’ve been missed!
What about all those last minute Bush pardons?
As I predicted, Cheney/Bush really believe they are protected by the Yoo/Addington re-definitions of torture into an essentially meaningless concept.
If we don’t have criminal trials, we at least need to have a truth and reconciliation commission (the latter being easier on the governing process when so many terribly broken things need fixing).
Eight Gitmo detainees were killed while being tortured. A treatment that clearly goes beyond the ridiculous Yoo/Addingtion definitions of torture.
I was impressed by the direct repudiation tone of Obama’s address. For a moment, I almost felt embarrassed for Bush, but then decided, he probably doesn’t get it, so he’s saved from the humiliation of it all. Bush once again proves the adage that “cluelessness is sometimes a gift”.
I watched ABC’s coverage of the inauguration. One of the commenters there said that Cheney in the Wheelchair will undoubtedly be referred to as Dr. Strangelove – a characterization that will make him very unhappy. Too bad, Darth.
I feel free
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb_Uu0eTNWk
What hard work does Linda plan on doing to meet our challenges?
hmmmm…blogging?
To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West – know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist . . . . .
I thought this was a good line
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Egyptian Cleric Wagdi Ghneim: Muslim Clerics Should Lead the Nation in Jihad
[ http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/1985.htm?auth=e7eb3d2239e4935abb4cbecf2b10e86a ]
The angel of the LORD also said to her [ Hagar ] “You are now with child and you will have a son .. You shall name him Ishmael [ father of the Arabs ] for the LORD has heard of your misery . . . He will be a wild donkey of a man .. his hand will be against everyone .. and everyone’s hand against him .. and he will live in hostility .. toward all his brothers” . . . .
( the Holy Bible .. Old testament .. Genesis 16 )
RFL
Posted January 20, 2009 at 1:17 pm | Permalink
What hard work does Linda plan on doing to meet our challenges?
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She will be digging me a swimmin’ pool…:D
for dadman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYbXNv0oyfY
“She will be digging me a swimmin’ pool…”
Well bless her pea pick’n heart.
Our country will be richly rewarded for Linda’s newly found desire for hard work.
To a handfull of you here. Ya know who ya are.
IT DIDNT HAPPEN
Not the inauguration, it happened. Of course it happened.
No, what didn’t happen was the following:
Bush didn’t suspend the 2008 election
Bush isn’t going to have a third term
Bush didn’t declare martial law and become our first dictator.
It’s official – you, and all those like you, are a bunch of thukin’ idiots. No two ways around it, you have the collective intellect of throw pillows.
Now, go back to whatever it was you were doing before Bush took over, like drooling on yourself and pooping your pants.
Me, I’m going to the range.
From Rustmeister
I can see why your [sic] sad to see the regime change, yeah I know were [sic] all naive and all politicians are the same…….
-annie_moose
I don’t think anything I posted reflected “sadness” in the regime change; if anything, it reflected a celebration of our continuing peaceful transfer of power, something much of the world knows little of and we take for granted.
As to the rest, I have no idea how it is relevant. Or if it is.
AmWay picks and chooses his stats very carefully–
In the just-released Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg Poll, the president won approval from 23% of all registered voters
latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/06/bush-approval-r.html
That would tie Truman’s low.
****
pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm
Some of these polls have Bush as low as 22 percent approval, which is lower than Truman.
Also, Bush has historically high disapproval ratings.
*****
And what was Bill Clinton’s approval rating when he left office? 67 percent–higher than W, than HW, or St. Ronald of Reagan
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GMC70
Posted January 20, 2009 at 1:37 pm | Permalink
I can see why your [sic] sad to see the regime change, yeah I know were [sic] all naive and all politicians are the same…….
-annie_moose
I don’t think anything I posted reflected “sadness” in the regime change; if anything, it reflected a celebration of our continuing peaceful transfer of power, something much of the world knows little of and we take for granted.
As to the rest, I have no idea how it is relevant. Or if it is.
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of course you don’t….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxeFMHyOx3I
Lind said-
“won’t slow the many who are willing to buckle down and do the hard work of meeting our challenges.”
Translation please?
The only Pres. with a lower “high” percentage than Reagan was Nixon… Perhaps Americans werent as dumb as was thought when Ronnie left office….
Nixon — high ranking of 67%
Reagan — high ranking of 68%
BTW, I was not basing my appraisal of the Bush Presidency on approval ratings, although the American people seem pretty savvy to how bad he is.
I was basing it on what he’s acheived: recession, terrorist attack, never-ending-war, wealth inequality, rise in poverty, job loss, lower wages, lower standard of living, loss of Constitutional rights, torture, war crimes, loss of environment.
As bad as all that is, I’m sure there’s much more . . . that’s how bad he’s been.
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Heckler
Posted January 20, 2009 at 1:43 pm | Permalink
Lind said-
“won’t slow the many who are willing to buckle down and do the hard work of meeting our challenges.”
Translation please?
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What is your native language? Have you tried Babel Fish?
don’t worry cons if Obama does this we will be the first ones to crawl up his arse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sep27sMmG-0
Sen. Kennedy has been taken out of the Luncheon on a stretcher… news reports are still pending….
Chas
Posted January 20, 2009 at 1:59 pm | Permalink
Sen. Kennedy has been taken out of the Luncheon on a stretcher… news reports are still pending….
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Say, anybody pick today to be THE DAY for Kennedy?
If you did, then you win the contest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Hy7ykqSKg
You didn’t know JimJohnson was a tv star
annie:
As to the rest, I have no idea how it is relevant. Or if it is.
I’ll spell it out for you: It’s not. It’s scroll-over.
Inaugural Poem
The following is a transcript of the inaugural poem recited by Elizabeth Alexander, as provided by CQ transcriptions.
Praise song for the day.
Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each others’ eyes or not, about to speak or speaking. All about us is noise. All about us is noise and bramble, thorn and din, each one of our ancestors on our tongues. Someone is stitching up a hem, darning a hole in a uniform, patching a tire, repairing the things in need of repair.
(Who fixes stuff? Ya throw it away and go to Walmart to buy a new one!)
Someone is trying to make music somewhere with a pair of wooden spoons on an oil drum with cello, boom box, harmonica, voice.
(Boom box? Racial overtones there?)
A woman and her son wait for the bus.
A farmer considers the changing sky; A teacher says, “Take out your pencils. Begin.”
(She forgot about tying your shoes)
GMC70,
boohoo
We encounter each other in words, words spiny or smooth, whispered or declaimed; words to consider, reconsider.
(Words. Uh huh. Very deep siht here.)
We cross dirt roads and highways that mark the will of someone and then others who said, “I need to see what’s on the other side; I know there’s something better down the road.”
(Why did the chicken cross the road?)
We need to find a place where we are safe; We walk into that which we cannot yet see.
(We walk BLINDLY to find somewhere safe? Only if you are a fool.)
Say it plain, that many have died for this day. Sing the names of the dead who brought us here, who laid the train tracks, raised the bridges, picked the cotton and the lettuce, built brick by brick the glittering edifices they would then keep clean and work inside of.
(Cotton pickers? Racist tones again. She forgot to mention the SOLDIERS.)
Praise song for struggle; praise song for the day. Praise song for every hand-lettered sign; The figuring it out at kitchen tables.
(Figuring it out? Go figure! How deep!)
Some live by “Love thy neighbor as thy self.”
Others by first do no harm, or take no more than you need.
(Others by HOW MUCH CAN I TAKE FROM MY NEIGHBOR WHO MAKES MORE MONEY THEN I DO!)
What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance.
(Huh? Beyond Marital – Like Gay Live-in!)
In today’s sharp sparkle, this winter air, anything can be made, any sentence begun.
(Wow, anyone can write!)
On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp — praise song for walking forward in that light.
(What a total piece of GARBAGE!)
This worked out well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2MKG2hFWao
Isn’t the mounted cavalry coming up soon? From Ft. Riley?
Or am I the only one still watching?
Can’t hardley stop the tears from falling from my eyes, after reading that very touchy poem from Jason Alexander’s sister.
Can’t stop laughing either!
Thank you Sarah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psyo4JDbJJ4
Alexander’s poem was written for a 9 year old. 4th Grade. That’s about the level of Obama’s audience.
COUNT
Words 340
Characters 1502
Paragraphs 15
Sentences 23
READABILITY
Passive Sentences 4%
Flesch Reading Ease 83.9
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level 4.4
Kinda like your posts, huh, JJ?
Thank you phill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NVjq2py7BA
I’m still there with you, Pre.
;-)
thanks john
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhuMgUkiVOY
I’m streaming from C-span, but it’s on in the living room, too. Doing more listening than watching at the moment.
Obama’s speech was at a much HIGHER level.
8th GRADE!
(I hope it didn’t go too far over the heads of Obama’s fans.)
COUNT
Words 2380
Characters 10910
Paragraphs 33
Sentences 107
READABILITY
Passive Sentences 11%
Flesch Reading Ease 66.8%
Flesh-Kincaid Grade Level 8.5
I hate to tell you this, JJ, but most modern fiction is written at 8.5.
Ahh the sweet taste of victory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p0z1y5mg_E
My guess is, “Is our children learning” wouldn’t even make the chart.
Oh man please turn off that horrible noise….oh sorry it is JimJohnson. It is a free country carry on. *insert earplugs*
Can you believe Barack Hussein Obama & the Justice BOTH screwed up the oath of office!?!
Not sure he’s techncially President. Did he promise to Faithfully serve the country or not?
He’s gonna serve the UN instead!
http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html
Hey jimmy we won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NawhWb8Uu5E
Obama swore on oath to protect and defend the constitution of the United States, which is required by law. Too bad Justice Roberts screwed up his lines…
Predestined
Posted January 20, 2009 at 2:42 pm | Permalink
I hate to tell you this, JJ, but most modern fiction is written at 8.5.
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Obama’s speech was FICTION????
LOL!!!!!!!!!!
Kinda funny, but I doubt all those riding in those limos can even hear the people cheering out there. Sad, too, that Presidents have to ride in armoured vehicles with dark glass because of a handful of nutcases.
PRESIDENTIAL OATH OF OFFICE >>>>
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/pioaths.html
That’s not what Obama said.
JimJohnson
Posted January 20, 2009 at 2:57 pm | Permalink
Predestined
Posted January 20, 2009 at 2:42 pm | Permalink
I hate to tell you this, JJ, but most modern fiction is written at 8.5.
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Obama’s speech was FICTION????
LOL!!!!!!!!!!
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Let ALL see plainly, that Johnson is now beginning his usual twisting of words, and will start calling those who call him out on it, liars….
Johnson, the Liar…. Some things never change!!
BTW, for the record: PreD never said the Address was fiction… LOL
Did anybody actually see the Bible used?
Can you be sure it was not the Koran?
Don’t worry jimmy cuz were
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJpyG3PXoKw
Chas
Posted January 20, 2009 at 3:02 pm | Permalink
JimJohnson
Posted January 20, 2009 at 2:57 pm | Permalink
Predestined
Posted January 20, 2009 at 2:42 pm | Permalink
I hate to tell you this, JJ, but most modern fiction is written at 8.5.
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Obama’s speech was FICTION????
LOL!!!!!!!!!!
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Let ALL see plainly, that Johnson is now beginning his usual twisting of words, and will start calling those who call him out on it, liars….
Johnson, the Liar…. Some things never change!!
BTW, for the record: PreD never said the Address was fiction… LOL
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As usual. Chas is twisting words again, by stating that I am twisting words, when clearly, I am not.
BTW, for the record: PreD never said the Address was fiction… LOL
Unlike JimJohnson’s posts…
Did Michelle O get that Gold Laced Yellow jacket from the Pharoah’s tomb? Or from Michael Jackson? She looked like a Bumble Bee.
And notice, her green gloves did not match her yellow jacket. At least that’s the buzz around Hollywood. The clash was just awful.
I never said Obama’s speech was fiction.
Time will tell though.
Barack and Michelle are walking. I bet the Secret Service is going nuts. :)
I recall that Dubya couldn’t get out of the car during his second Inaugural Parade for fear of getting hit by an egg. hee hee hee
I’ve been waiting for some tacky comments about Michelle’s and Jill’s choices of attire. What took you so long, JJ?
JimmyJohn–
He swore on Lincoln’s Bible.
You didn’t hear that on Fox?
BlueJay
Posted January 20, 2009 at 10:44 am:
“I prepare to raise, for the first time in eight years, the American flag!”
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Shame on you BJ but that philosphy seems to be common among you libs. This country is the GREATEST country in the world, it doesn’t really matter who the leader is. Since we have the freedom to elect our leaders it is not the leadership that makes this country GREAT, it is the people.
Doesn’t really matter that Mr. Obama is the president and I didn’t vote for him, I will pray for him and hope that he does what is best for this wonderful country. God bless the USA and God bless President Obama.
“CJM” declares –
“…it doesn’t really matter who the leader is.”
But it does, you know.
This country is the GREATEST country in the world,
Why?
Predestined
Posted January 20, 2009 at 2:42 pm | Permalink
I hate to tell you this, JJ, but most modern fiction is written at 8.5.
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JimJohnson attempts to twist PreD’s words into say8ing Obama’s speech was fiction with this screed >>>>
“Obama’s speech was FICTION????
LOL!!!!!!!!!!”
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Yep, Johnson is up to his usual attempts at twisting other posters’ words, in order to throw out more ad hominems… What a sorry, and confused loser of the Reich Wingnuts… If it wasnt so sickening, I might feel sorry for his low brain functioning…
Snips from George WorstpresidentEver Bush, Inaugural Speech, Jan 2001:
“We must show courage by confronting problems rather than passing them on to future generations . . . ”
Doubling of the national debt
“We will reform Social Security.”
Failure.
“We will lower taxes.”
Cf. doubling the national debt
“We will speak for the values that gave our nation birth.”
Except for the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments . . .
“Deep persistant poverty is unworthy of our nation’s promise . . . children at risk are not at fault. . . . Where there is suffering and need there is duty . . . ”
Poverty rates went up five years straight under George Worstpresidentever after going down five years in a row under Clinton
“Our duty is fufilled in service to one another.”
If “one another” means Cheney to the Board of Directors of Halliburton, then duty is indeed fufilled.
Otherwise, not so much.
Photo of hand on Bible…
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Most-Viewed-Photos/ss/1778;_ylt=AiuT_XbEpWmjot.3qotMesjBaMYA#photoViewer=/090120/ids_photos_ts/r1476216172.jpg
CJM, Al Franken got it right on:
“If you listen to a lot of conservatives, they’ll tell you that the difference between
them and us is that conservatives love America and liberals hate America…. They don’t
get it. We love America just as much as they do. But in a different Way. You see, they
love America the way a 4-year-old loves her Mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups.
To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is
bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad,
and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVC1QqKTIXQ
December 2006
AP Poll “Who’s the World’s Biggest Villan?”
Bush . . . . . .25 percent
Bin Laden . . . .8 percent
Saddam H . . . . 7
Satan . . . . . .1
Good picture PreD… That should shut up the Anti-American group posting here… And did you see all of those hundreds of thousands of flags?? Wow!! The Mall was full of flags… what a glorious sight!!
Yes Capn, give ‘em credit, the liberal media did a good job of bringing Bush down.
Now, my friend, you and your leftist wacko brethren need to let go of your hate. It will be therapeutic, and make you nicer, less negative people.
America is only great as it does great things…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW3aG24JaNI
Here’s what AmWay tried to fudge in his numbers:
BUSH IS MOST UNPOPULAR PRESIDENT IN HISTORY
Bush . . . . . . 76 percent disapproval
Clinton . . . . .54
GWH Bush . . . . 60
Carter . . . . .59
Nixon . . . . . .66
Truman . . . . . 67
MH – do you really base your allegiance to the USA on its leadership?
moose head annie – Why? Why do you think there are so many people willing to do whatever it takes just to get into this country. We’re spoiled here, try to speak out this way in Moscow, Beijing, Pyongyang. Do you think there are any OL’s in Tehran? In some counties, if you expressed your views, well, you would only do it once. Be thankful for what you have and for where you are.
“America: What a country!”
Actually, Wahine_Tara, I am a conservative. I am also a grown up.
“CJM” whines –
“…do you really base your allegiance to the USA on its leadership?”
No.
But leadership matters.
Good that bush didn’t issue pre-emptive pardons. Let the investigations, prosecutions, and perp walks begin!
Obama’s no C.S. like bush, he got out and walked the last 5 blocks with Michelle, Biden and wife did the same. Didn’t even see an egg get thrown, what a difference a president of the people makes.
MSNBC tells us Bush is the biggest villan of 2006?
Same network whose primary Obama coverage is his jump shot and the families choice of dog.
moose head annie – Why? Why do you think there are so many people willing to do whatever it takes just to get into this country.
Sorry moose head annie doesn’t know! my last walk through the wal mart says alot of those dern feriners went back to their home country cuz wait for it there is no work here. So what lofty ideals other than a pay check are those ferniners comimg here for?
Back to Michelle Obama’s green gloves…
They may not be green at all. Some fabrics don’t show their true color when photographed. Granted, this is video (live), but it’s still seen through the lens of a camera.
I worked in a photography studio, years ago, and we shot a wedding where the men in the wedding party wore brown suits. The pictures taken were excellent, but in the photos, those same suits appeared to be green. Everything else, even skin tone was correct. The suits still looked green.
annie,
those “feriners” you are looking for are in the IT labs, and engineering shops and hospitals emergency rooms all across this country, carving out their American Dream.
annie_moose,
I noticed all of the grownups in the Biden family walked–both of Joe’s sons and at least one of the girls. The grandkids were watching from the sidelines. One of the little ones was with Michelle Obama’s brother. These two families seem to genuinely like one another.
Ya know I agree, the cons can say and do whatever they want, aint nothing spoiling this day.
Phantom,
a “president of the people”? get real, he’s a hologram….looks real enough, but no substance whatsoever.
This is fun:
Republicans Whose Careers (Were Ruined by Bush
http://washingtonindependent.com/26173/the-great-bush-leadership-casualties-2
A snip from the above:
“If his last name wasn’t Bush, said Mitt Romney, Jeb would have been the man to beat in the 2008 presidential race.
This isn’t wholly true—what start would the man have ever had in politics if he was merely Jeb Smith, or Jebbrey Dahmer?”
Tis a mighty fine day indeed!
Why would that be fun MonkeyHock?
You enjoy destroying the inaugural thread with your usual irrelevant and off topic vomit?
kaz0819
Prove it. Give me numbers, this is a wingnut myth. Like Cadillac driving welfare moms.
Enjoy this “truly historic day” everyone. This country has been in a nose dive beginning with Reagan’s 2nd term, a descent greatly accelerated by Clinton and Bush 2. Obama has neither the heart nor the skill to do anything other than ride this goner into the ground.
annie,
I work at a company where fully one third of it’s IT and Mechanical engineers are not from this country. Most of the Cardiac and Cancer specialists in this city are not from the good ole USA. need more?
kaz0819,
Did they need a Visa? If they did who provided said visa? Sounds like your employer is undercutting the locals…. need I say more.,
By the way, thanks to our new president for acknowledging that us heathens are Americans, too.
Cheney is in the wheelchair so he wouldn’t have to stand up and honor a black man.
What a POS.
Botched the oath?
Maybe it’s a disclaimer for fraud in the future??
Bushco ruined themselves and their almost dead anyway party.
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annie_moose
Posted January 20, 2009 at 4:31 pm | Permalink
kaz0819,
Did they need a Visa? If they did who provided said visa? Sounds like your employer is undercutting the locals…. need I say more.,
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Have you been asleep the last 20 years?
Go check out Wichita State’s Engineering school. It looks like a transplant from the Middle East and India.
The same can be said for Medical schools.
Reg,
You mean this?
http://www.altiusdirectory.com/Society/h1b-work-visa.html
How to Apply For H 1B Work Visa:
The American company interested in hiring you for professional services as specified above has to move a H1B petition by filing a Labour Condition Attestation and a petition for Non immigrant worker.
You should file the following documents where the application for H 1B visa is from outside the US:
* Passport
* Employer details
* Certificates of Education
* Details of previous US visits.
* Photographs
* Details pertaining to dependent(s).
You are required to file the following documents where the application for H 1B Work Visa is from within the US:
1. Passport
2. Complete contact details
3. Details of previous visits to the US.
4. Previous H1B status and approvals
5. Employer details
6. Education details.
7. Social Security number.
Eligibility For H 1B Work Visa:
You should satisfy one of the following of H 1B Visa (Work Visa)
1. Hold a bachelor’s degree or a post graduation in the specialized field / professional job.
2. Minimum of 12 years experience in specialized /professional job
3. A combination of education and work experience totalling to 12years
“Regular” posts to the inauguration thread –
“Go check out Wichita State’s Engineering school. It looks like a transplant from the Middle East and India.
The same can be said for Medical schools.”
You enjoy destroying the inaugural thread with your usual irrelevant and off topic vomit.
annie,
no…simply put, the locals are unqualified, thanks to our wretched education system.
A transplant from…everywhere else.
America’s kids (and their parent’s) are too stupid now-a-days.
thanks to our wretched education system.
So our wretched education system told all the locals to fail?
Here is a new word for you.
arbitrage
Definition
Attempting to profit by exploiting price differences of identical or similar financial instruments, on different markets or in different forms. The ideal version is riskless arbitrage.
This content can be found on the following page:
http://www.investorwords.com/245/arbitrage.html
Think labor
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Monkeyhawk
Posted January 20, 2009 at 4:48 pm | Permalink
“Regular” posts to the inauguration thread –
“Go check out Wichita State’s Engineering school. It looks like a transplant from the Middle East and India.
The same can be said for Medical schools.”
You enjoy destroying the inaugural thread with your usual irrelevant and off topic vomit.
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Can’t even think of anything original to say eh MonkeyHock?
My answer was not divisive, but factual.
You are always looking to stir up a hornet’s nest or insult some body.
Your posts are worthless.
You know, we COULD make our standard to be like those countries….if you look, only the very rich kids there get educated. The others never get an education and they usually come to the US to get it because they have not enough to put their own kids through college.
So if you want to compare- our education system is still better than what they have that come here on VISAs.
I should just briefly note that comparing the amount of foreign talent in our universities and the corporate misuse of the H1B program is really mixing apples and oranges, folks.
But it’s a complex topic, and I can’t really do it justice by dashing off a quick post. So I’ll leave it at that.
JimJohnson was right, but unlike him, the fashion critics loved Michelle’s outfit.
First lady Michelle Obama wowed the crowds in a sparkly yellow-gold sheath dress with a matching coat by Isabel Toledo. Always the practical shopper, she topped her outfit with olive-green gloves from J.Crew and green shoes. First daughters Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, strutted their fashion feet in colorful pink and blue coats, also from J. Crew.
and…
Stylists like red-carpet and editorial stylist Mary Alice Stephenson swooned as well. From AP:
“What’s so powerful about Michelle Obama is we all see ourselves in her. She’s a modern woman who is fashionable and even flamboyant in her style and she is still taken seriously,” she said. “The dress is elegant, appropriate and has the individual style stamp of Michelle Obama and is timely for a woman in her 40s — and she wears embellishment during the day. Hallelujah!”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl220
Things that make you go, “hmmmmm.”
“Al Qaeda hit by Black Death fear as medieval plague kills 40 terrorists at training camp
By Daily Mail Reporter
Al Qaeda terrorists have been left fearing the Black Death plague after it wiped out at least 40 insurgents at an Algerian training camp, it was reported today.
The horror disease, which killed 25 million people in medieval Europe, is understood to have been found in a militant’s body dumped at a roadside.”
Full story at –
http://tinyurl.com/7wk23o
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So, what could this mean?
Was did al Qaeda screw up as they were working on a biological warfare weapon?
Or is there some reason Dick Cheney was so smug last week when he said “We still have a few days left” when Fox News asked him why BushCo was going out of business and Osama bin Laden still has his job?
Hmmmmm.
“Political_mama” says –
“…we COULD make our standard to be like those countries….if you look, only the very rich kids there get educated. The others never get an education and they usually come to the US to get it because they have not enough to put their own kids through college.
So if you want to compare- our education system is still better than what they have that come here on VISAs.”
That’s not entirely accurate.
“60 Minutes” did a piece on the Indian Institute of Technology.
Read about it here:
http://iit.org/news/excerpts-from-60-minutes
A quote:
“. my son … wanted to do computer science at IIT. To do computer science at IIT, you have to be in the top 200 and he couldn’t do that, so he went to Cornell instead.
STAHL: Think about that for a minute. A kid from India using an Ivy League university as a safety school. That’s how smart these guys are …”
Bush Mocked As He Arrives on Inauguration Dais
@ 11:52 am by Hill Staff
POST UPDATED AT 6:45 p.m.:
The crowd packed on the west side of the Capitol grounds serenaded President Bush in mocking fashion when he took to the inaugural stage alongside Vice President Dick Cheney.
“Nah nah nah nah, hey hey, good-bye,” a section of the crowd chanted.
The crowd packed immediately below the podium received Bush in stony silence when he took his seat on the stage surrounding the podium where Barack Obama was scheduled to take the oath office to become the 44th president of the United States.
The jeers are among the final public feedback Bush will receive as president.
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The wacko liberal left shows once again just how classless they can be. We on this blog already knew that because BJ and some others have practiced for days to get their nah,nah,nahs right.
I am sure Obama was very proud to be supported the this wacko fringe. Not. The man has class unlike some on here I could name.
In his speech today he made this bunch irrelevant. Childish won’t cut it. Not working to achieve won’t be rewarded. Lets see the wackos respond now.
Don’t forget to come and help celebrate Obama’s arrival at the White House at The Anchor on Friday night! We’re planning to start at 6:30 and go till they kick us out!
“okobserver
Posted January 20, 2009 at 6:51 pm | Permalink
….
The wacko liberal left shows once again just how classless they can be. We on this blog already knew that because BJ and some others have practiced for days to get their nah,nah,nahs right.”
I guess there are always a few jerks in every group.
“brian_nuevo
Posted January 20, 2009 at 7:00 pm | Permalink
“okobserver
Posted January 20, 2009 at 6:51 pm | Permalink
….
The wacko liberal left shows once again just how classless they can be. We on this blog already knew that because BJ and some others have practiced for days to get their nah,nah,nahs right.”
I guess there are always a few jerks in every group.”
(pushed send too soon)
But perhaps we should not be throwing stones….
“The wacko liberal left shows once again just how classless they can be.”
So you mock those that mock Bush? Doesn’t that make you just like them?
“Childish won’t cut it.”
Then maybe you might think about changing your own language.
Brian there are some things that shouldn’t be tolerated. This was senseless and was a product of the years of disrespect shown this man. It does make me angry that those who are telling us now to support Obama in the same breath tell us ‘they are better than him’. This from posters on the WEblog. I hope that Obama is afforded the respect the office deserves.
I guess I’m always somewhat surprised that those who expect others to be respectful don’t know how to be repectful themselves.
Mary what did I say that was offensive to you?
“Wacko liberal left”
I think it’s time to grow up and quit calling people offensive names just because they don’t share your opinions.
“kaz0819
Posted January 20, 2009 at 4:26 pm | Permalink
annie,
I work at a company where fully one third of it’s IT and Mechanical engineers are not from this country. Most of the Cardiac and Cancer specialists in this city are not from the good ole USA. need more?”
It is really a difficult and expensive process for an employer to hire a foreign national to come work in the United States. If they have hired foreigners (presumably on H1B visas) they had to prove and document their inability to hire qualified US workers for those jobs. There is a lot of paperwork to do, many steps to take and document (job posted for x number of months locally, lack of qualified applicants, etc) before the INS (or whatever it is called this week) will issue a visa.
Mary I invite you to go back the last couple of weeks and look at my posts. In direct response to something someone post I might say something that offends you but I am trying to be upbeat and stay postive in my posts.
I do however have a problem with somethings you post to Nathan. I feel you are way out of line and when he responds to your attitude you are offended. Just my humble opinion.
Mary_Caruso
Posted January 20, 2009 at 7:08 pm | Permalink
“Wacko liberal left”
I think it’s time to grow up and quit calling people offensive names just because they don’t share your opinions.
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Obviously this wasn’t directed toward you unless you were on the mall. I think there are extremes on both sides of the political spectrum. We have the wacko right and the wacko left. Just a fact.
But I do agree with stopping calling each other offensive names. It serves no purpose.
“okobserver
Posted January 20, 2009 at 7:04 pm | Permalink
Brian there are some things that shouldn’t be tolerated. ”
Well we have this thing called free speech here in the United States. And the last time I checked saying stupid crap and making a fool of oneself was not a crime.
If we are to have free speech then idiots saying stupid things are just something we have to tolerate.
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Mary_Caruso
Posted January 20, 2009 at 7:08 pm | Permalink
“Wacko liberal left”
I think it’s time to grow up and quit calling people offensive names just because they don’t share your opinions.
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Yeah Mary, do that.
Brian you of course are right and I of course have the right to say that I don’t approve of the disrespect shown to our former prez.
Just a difference of opinion and a lack of maturity on the part of any adults that would revert to this behavior at the solemn ocassion of Obama’s swearing in ceremony.
“okobserver
Posted January 20, 2009 at 7:18 pm | Permalink
…Just a difference of opinion and a lack of maturity on the part of any adults that would revert to this behavior at the solemn ocassion of Obama’s swearing in ceremony.”
I do fully agree with this statement. I was very disrespectful and immature.
“Mary_Caruso” reminds us –
Don’t forget to come and help celebrate Obama’s arrival at the White House at The Anchor on Friday
So where is President Obama gonna be on Friday? The White House or The Anchor?
I didn’t even know you’d invited him.
“Yeah Mary, do that.”
Give me an example of when I have called someome an offensive name, Reg.
I don’t take it personally when someone disagrees with me..and I think it’s sad that the blog has turned into nothing but an insult, name calling contest. I also find it funny that you and others like you (Nathan, OKobs, Boxlock, etc) are very insulting and disrespectful, but are the first to cry foul when someone reciprocates. If you want to be treated with respect, then you might try giving some.
You get out of a relationship what you put into it.
“I didn’t even know you’d invited him.”
Actually, today I tried to get him to come to the party, but his handlers were afraid I wouldn’t return him.
Well, let’s see…
You have no respect for our faith or military service…
What was it Obama said today for those who commit to military service?
oh yeah,
“They volunteer to participate in a service greater than themselves sometimes to sacrifice life and limb. This will be expected of all of us if our country is to succeed (military service and other types of service) (paraphrased)
Oh, and Obama started the ceremony with a prayer and mentioned his Christian values.
Suppose Obama is another Christian ‘kook’ that just doesn’t get it, right Mary?
I’ve seen you Mary deride Nathan like a beaten mule without mercy.
You can be down right cruel Mary at times.
Mary I do try to stay away from the name calling. When someone says something outrageous such as BJ always telling me I exploit prison labor, then yes I do question his intellect. When Linda says she is better than Bush ever was I do question her illusions of grandeur.
I do however not call you names because I think you are honest in most of what you post. I might not agree with what you post but I know you have the freedom to post it.
My opinions are mine and no one else has to agree. I read a lot and use that material in what I post.
On days like yesterday when no one was posting anything but calling each other names I just don’t participate.
“Regular” whines –
“I’ve seen you … deride Nathan like a beaten mule….”
That’s unfair.
A beaten mule has a mind of his own.
“You can be down right cruel Mary at times.”
Yeah, right. And you , “Regular,” are the Mother Theresa of WE Blog.
BTW Mary my husband and I had lunch with Nathan not long ago. We both enjoyed meeting him. He reminds us a lot of our middle son – one we are very proud of. He spent 10 years in the Navy.
So I can’t understand your strong dislike toward him.
pot meet kettle
“You have no respect for our faith or military service…”
I have respect for the Christian faith..but no respect for those who use it as a weapon to judge and condemn others who don’t believe as they do.
And when have I ever said I don’t respect your military service? I spent more than 7 years in the service with my husband. What I don’t agree with is illegal, immoral, and unethical wars…like the Iraqi war.
I dare you to give me an example of how I’ve been “cruel” to Nathan. I’ve never “mocked” his faith..I’ve questioned his faith because he doesn’t walk the talk. I’ve been much kinder and more respectful to him than he has EVER been to me, even though he doesn’t deserve it.
He is mean, nasty, cruel, abrasive, and rude…so you painting him as a victim just makes me laugh.
“So I can’t understand your strong dislike toward him.”
Well, I’d suggest you look back and read the insults he directs towards me in his posts.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I find it very hard to like someone who does nothing but insult and attack me.
When my nephew was killed in a gun accident..his response was…mocking me..”Oh Boo Hoo Hoo, my nephew died and so I don’t like guns”
If he reminds you of your son, then you have my condolences. He is a sad excuse for a person and is no example of what Christianity is really about.
“On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics.” The Prez…
Please…
“On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too long have strangled our politics.” The Prez…
Please…
Well, Reg..have you found of any examples of how I’m “cruel” to Nathan?
I don’t consider confronting someone on their hypocrisy being cruel.
If I were you grm, I’d suggest you read other sources.
I’ve never met Nathan, but I have no use for him just from what I’ve seen him post. And I agree with Mary…if that’s what you raised…wow.
P Mom, can you come Friday?
WELL REG?!?!?
How ’bout it?
crickets chirping….
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Mary_Caruso
Posted January 20, 2009 at 8:20 pm | Permalink
WELL REG?!?!?
How ’bout it?
crickets chirping….
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I don’t feel like going through dozens of threads to point out what I know is true.
I didn’t make anything up Mary.
You need to check your claws at the door. I’ll leave it at that.
Mary,
“He is a sad excuse for a person and is no example of what Christianity is really about.”
This is exactly the kind of crap you post about me.
Yes, you might not call me an idiot or other names, but you have no problem mocking my faith, me personally, and making other comments which are not very nice.
Then you sit around all proud of yourself declaring that you don’t call me names?
I honestly don’t give a crap what you do or say towards me. You are the one on here crying about me calling you an idiot and then act like an innocent person. So, don’t act like some drama queen when I call you an idiot if you are going to do and say the crap you do towards me.
And hiding behind your husband isn’t going to do anything either.
Idiot.
Like I said before, I don’t “mock” your faith..just your hypocrisy and the way you cherry pick your beliefs to suit your adgenda.
I haven’t been nearly as insulting to you as you’ve been to me.
It’s time you grew up, dear. Your childlike tantrums are getting boring.
“making other comments which are not very nice.”
So are you saying I should do what you say and not what you do? Clean up your own back yard, honey.
“Then you sit around all proud of yourself declaring that you don’t call me names?”
Why do expect others to treat you with more respect than you treat them? Don’t you know you get out of a relationship what you put into it.
Poor pathetic “Nathaniew” gots his wittle fewwings hurt.
Yeah, that’s my idea of a marine.
“I honestly don’t give a crap what you do or say towards me.”
Oh yeah? Then why are you talking to me at all?
“And hiding behind your husband isn’t going to do anything either.”
And WTF is that supposed to mean? Are you threatening me?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/20/MNAF15E20I.DTL
A disclaimer????
We’ll never know.
I’ll go with that, Roberts is a moron.
God, I hope he faithfully executes that job. I’m hopeful. Congratulations all.
People can make mistakes without being a “moron”…so are you perfect?
He rules on life and death court cases…you’d think he could get a paragraph down.
No, I’m not perfect, but I’m not paid tons of money, my job isn’t for life and I don’t hold peoples’ lives in my hands.
He’s a moron.
When the pressures on, lots of people make mistakes. I’m sure he’s kicking himself all over the place tonight..cut him a break.
I hold my “leaders” to a high standard, you’ll just take any old thing eh?
So all Bush did was make some mistakes right, he’s only human…leave him alone and don’t say another word about him.
I think you’re comparing apples to oranges.
They rehearse that thing over and over and over…it’s not a wedding.
You know pmom I have always laid off of you even when I felt you were asking for it. You can talk about my politics, my religion even my husband but hands off my kids. OK.
I said Nathan was a very polite young man. A good conversationalist. He gives on the blog as good as he gets, but then so do you, so does Mary, and many others I could name.
Yes I am very proud of my kids. Of their accomplishments. Of the kind of husband and fathers they are. And just generally who they are.
The pressure was on Bush from DAY 1, remember, he stole the election?
Cut him some slack…
It’s no big deal…Good nite, I’m suddenly in the mood for TV and a bowl of popcorn.
Hope to see you Friday night!
Stay tuned for a big splash soon:
WILKINS ICE SHELF, Antarctica (Reuters) – A huge Antarctic ice shelf is on the brink of collapse with just a sliver of ice holding it in place, the latest victim of global warming that is altering maps of the frozen continent.
“We’ve come to the Wilkins Ice Shelf to see its final death throes,” David Vaughan, a glaciologist at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), told Reuters after the first — and probably last — plane landed near the narrowest part of the ice.
The flat-topped shelf has an area of thousands of square kilometers, jutting 20 meters (65 ft) out of the sea off the Antarctic Peninsula.
But it is held together only by an ever-thinning 40-km (25-mile) strip of ice that has eroded to an hour-glass shape just 500 meters wide at its narrowest.
In 1950, the strip was almost 100 km wide.
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE50I4G520090120?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
“He gives on the blog as good as he gets, but then so do you, so does Mary, and many others I could name.”
I don’t think a person has to be rude or abusive to make a point. So please don’t compare me to Nathan..I find that quite insulting.
Enjoy your party Mary, and your popcorn.
I hope you’ll grace us with your presence, Pleefer!
Mary do you not think you give as good a you get?
Predestined
Posted January 20, 2009 at 5:30 pm | Permalink
JimJohnson was right, but unlike him, the fashion critics loved Michelle’s outfit.
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Thanks PRE for confirming the most significant happening during the inauguration.
Michelle’s Green gloves clashed horribly with her Gold laced Yellow Michael Jackson jacket. She looked like the pefect Bumble Bee except for the green gloves.
Obama’s speech, well, see nobody here bragging about the most Negative, Downer, Depressing, inauguration speech in the entire history of the United States of America.
For a guy who ran on a platform of Hope and Change, this guy is more full of DOOM & GLOOM then anybody I’ve ever heard.
If a new employee of mine came in and set such LOW EXPECTATIONS for his performance, I’d fire him.
You sure about that Mary?? LOL
Mary_Caruso
Posted January 20, 2009 at 9:16 pm | Permalink
I hope you’ll grace us with your presence, Pleefer!
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Who is US?
You and that tird in your pocket?
JimJohnson,
Unless you’re a fashion mogul or Yves St. Laurent slumming here on the blog, and you know what’s fashionable today, your opinion is just that–your opinion.
As for your comments on Obama’s speech, there are two presidential historians on C-span right now who have spent their adulthood studying the speeches of all of our Presidents and disagree completely with you.
But then if Obama had said everything was coming up roses, you wouldn’t have liked that, either. Face it, you will not be pleased in any way as long as there isn’t an R beside the name. Good luck with that.
Predestined
Posted January 20, 2009 at 9:27 pm | Permalink
JimJohnson,
Unless you’re a fashion mogul or Yves St. Laurent slumming here on the blog, and you know what’s fashionable today, your opinion is just that–your opinion.
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Wow! Thank you for sharing your opinion Pre. Your opinion, btw, is just that, an opinion.
Have a nice liberal group wanking day!
Predestined
Posted January 20, 2009 at 9:27 pm | Permalink
As for your comments on Obama’s speech, there are two presidential historians on C-span right now who have spent their adulthood studying the speeches of all of our Presidents and disagree completely with you.
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Oh Pre, you may bow down to the all mighty mouthpieces on C-span, but I do not. If they are on C-span, I’m sure they must be of the utmost highest regard by you Libs, but I don’t really give a siht what they (or you) think, even if they (or you) could think.
Have a nice liberal mutually orgasmic wanking day!
is obama’s birthday June 6th, 1966?
Predestined
But then if Obama had said everything was coming up roses, you wouldn’t have liked that, either. Face it, you will not be pleased in any way as long as there isn’t an R beside the name. Good luck with that.
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As a registered INDEPENDENT Pre, I couldn’t care less if you take one side or the other, but no matter what you post here, you cannot force any particular parties ID Tag on me. Wear your tag if you want. I choose not to belong to either group of filth.
And good luck with your defense of Obama’s speech. No matter what you might in your lil feeble pea sized brain to think, Obama’s speech was completely negative, with expectations for failure, with Hope for NOTHING BUT PAIN.
That might be your Hope. It’s not mine.
JimJohnson
Cute.
Most of this blog is filled with posts by non-working liberal wankers, who are orgasmic over watching their boy Obama.
Orgasm.
Orgasm.
Orgasm.
And he hasn’t done jack siht yet.
God help you if he ever does get a hard on for you.
wow, JimJohnson sure does have a preoccupation with Obama, wanking, and orgasms.
you should probably get some help JimJohnson
President Obama was born August 4, 1961.
Somewhere in Texas, a village got their Idiot back!
“Phantom
Posted January 20, 2009 at 9:44 pm | Permalink
Somewhere in Texas, a village got their Idiot back!”
LMAO
brian_nuevo
Posted January 20, 2009 at 9:39 pm | Permalink
JimJohnson
No thanks Brian. Not interested.
I’m straight.
And in some other village in another state, they have inadvertently allowed their village idiot to access a keyboard…. LOL
brian_nuevo
Posted January 20, 2009 at 9:42 pm | Permalink
wow, JimJohnson sure does have a preoccupation with Obama, wanking, and orgasms.
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Project much?
brian_nuevo
Posted January 20, 2009 at 9:42 pm | Permalink
wow, JimJohnson sure does have a preoccupation with Obama, wanking, and orgasms.
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I think you have him confused with MonkeyHawk.
http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2009/01/inauguration-open-thread/#comment-506679
I think this speaks for itself.
BlueJay
Posted January 20, 2009 at 10:44 am | Permalink
A LOOOOONG time to wait for this day.
Now? It is only a few minutes until the most reviled administration in history ends.
I prepare to raise, for the first time in eight years, the American flag!
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You burned your flag in front of your own son. Now how do you explain putting it back up again?
Even with Obama as POTUS, I wouldn’t burn a flag and disrespect all those who died to save that flag.
You BJ, proudly burn the flag and disrespect all who served in the past, and who served today.
I hope that makes you feel proud, and that your son can proudly display the burnt ashes of the flag in show and tell in your local public scrool.
jimmie (the little) Johnson Republican crybaby wet his pants all day today.
Go back under the bridge little Johnson baby boy!
This is our future >>>>
http://www.repoweramerica.org
There he goes again! Mommy! Change little baby Johnson’s diaper (again)!!!!
A Liberal Orgamic Moment:
CapnAmerica
Posted January 20, 2009 at 10:44 am | Permalink
Here comes Obama. He looks like he’s thinking, I earned it, dude, I earned it . . .
Mutual Liberal Orgasms:
Predestined
Posted January 20, 2009 at 10:46 am | Permalink
Capn,
WE earned it.
BJ ran out of paper towels at this very moment:
BlueJay
Posted January 20, 2009 at 10:54 am | Permalink
Let freedom ring!
Let the white dove sing!
Let all cons know that today is day of reckoning.
Now the weak are strong.
And the rights been wrong.
Roll the stone away let the guilty pay.
It’s independence day!
Obama Takes Oath, and Nation in Crisis Embraces the Moment
“The pageantry included some serious business. Shortly after he and Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. were sworn in, Mr. Obama ordered all pending Bush regulations frozen for a legal and policy review. He also signed formal nomination papers for his cabinet, and the Senate quickly confirmed seven nominees: the secretaries of homeland security, energy, agriculture, interior, education and veterans’ affairs and the director of the Office of Management and Budget.”
more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/us/politics/21inaug.html?hp
Raping the body after it’s cold:
CapnAmerica
Posted January 20, 2009 at 10:59 am | Permalink
Go tell that long-tongued liar
Go tell that midnight flyer
Tell the ramblers and the gamblers and the old warmongers
Great God Almighty’s gonna cut them down.
Very fast wank:
YellowdogLiberal
Posted January 20, 2009 at 11:06 am | Permalink
It’s done
Dennis
Finally, afer all these years! Viagra works for ma*turbation for JR:
BlueJay
Posted January 20, 2009 at 11:09 am | Permalink
The CHIEF JUSTICE botched it. And Obama knew it too!
My flag flies again. It looks magnificent in the bright sunshine of a truly beautiful day!
Get another kleenex for Capn!
CapnAmerica
Posted January 20, 2009 at 11:40 am | Permalink
Say, “AMEN!”
Can I hear everybody in the building say, AMEN!
Can I hear everybody in the building say it again:
AMEN!
Capn was workin up a sweat today! Had to switch to his left hand!
CapnAmerica
Posted January 20, 2009 at 11:49 am | Permalink
Donndummy–
As a lily-white suburban bourgouise, you are apparently not familiar with the black kids skip rhyme that goes as follows–
If you’re white, you’re alright.
If you’re yellow, you’re mellow.
If you’re brown, you have to get down.
If you’re black, you have to get back.
Easy prey for Capn and a fantasy come true too:
CapnAmerica
Posted January 20, 2009 at 11:52 am | Permalink
Dick Cheney in a wheel chair . . . a physical symbol of his crippled leadership . . .
Interesting. JimJohnson is enjoying beating me senseless over my opinion, yet I never stated an opinion.
As for your comments on Obama’s speech, there are two presidential historians on C-span right now who have spent their adulthood studying the speeches of all of our Presidents and disagree completely with you.
Viagra maximum velocity attained. Go for throttle up!
BlueJay
Posted January 20, 2009 at 11:56 am | Permalink
Lift off we have lift off!
And the removal of eight years of a cancer on our nation!
Screws you AND makes you feel good about it at the same time!
Phantom
Posted January 20, 2009 at 11:59 am | Permalink
I liked the part where we won’t sacrifice our morals for fear and expediency.
After all that self-effort, BJ has to light his own smoke after he catches his breath.
BlueJay
Posted January 20, 2009 at 12:01 pm | Permalink
BlueJay borrows from the great Roy Orbison…
It’s over it’s over it’s OVER IT’S OVER!
IT’S OOOOOOOOOO VERRRRRRR!
S&M is Capn’s game!
CapnAmerica
Posted January 20, 2009 at 12:01 pm | Permalink
Let the war crimes trials begin . . .
Squeel like a pig! Liberally orgasmic, though dirty.
Predestined
Posted January 20, 2009 at 12:05 pm | Permalink
We-eee-eeel….
You know you make me wanna (Shout!)
Kick my heels up and (Shout!)
Throw my hands up and (Shout!)
Throw my head back and (Shout!)
So profound, it’s hard to define!
cosmos_originally
Posted January 20, 2009 at 12:29 pm | Permalink
‘Change Has Come to America‘
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
So ecstatic, I can’t find my own words, so I’ll use someone elses’.
lindainks55
Posted January 20, 2009 at 12:34 pm | Permalink
“But I can just FEEL the clouds part, the sun shine, the birds sing, the second coming coming to pass. The ONE is in. I figure he’ll have everything fixed by next Tuesday, right?” — GMC70
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We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
- H. L. Mencken
Can’t find the words, so watch my porn video!
annie_moose
Posted January 20, 2009 at 12:34 pm | Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBZXeIb3z1Q&feature=PlayList&p=ABDDB11D226DDDE1&playnext=1&index=3
I’m so glad!
Good to see a Lib buckle down and work, for a Change.
lindainks55
Posted January 20, 2009 at 1:08 pm | Permalink
The few who want Obama to fail, those who will begin to criticize before there is reason, won’t slow the many who are willing to buckle down and do the hard work of meeting our challenges.
No Liberal Mutual Orgasms today. Nope.
Not one.
They sang solos:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=stroke%20me%20stroke%20me&rls=com.microsoft:*&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#
And as if by magic, Johnson’s handlers wrestle the keyboard from his slimy hands, and get him safely back into his padded room…
It’s been a long day…. Night all!!!
Some of you people just aren’t right at all.
Goodnight :: and Sugar too!
“Yeah, right. And you , ‘Regular,’ are the Mother Theresa of WE Blog.”
Now, that goes down in my book as a MonkeyHawk classic.
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StevenEDavis
Posted January 20, 2009 at 11:41 pm | Permalink
“Yeah, right. And you , ‘Regular,’ are the Mother Theresa of WE Blog.”
Now, that goes down in my book as a MonkeyHawk classic.
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You have no room to talk Davis.
In frank terms, you’re a prick.
JimJohnson
Posted January 20, 2009 at 3:02 pm | Permalink
“Did anybody actually see the Bible used?
“Can you be sure it was not the Koran?”
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Has JJ ever admitted he was the poster formerly known as “Max”?
Why was it necessary to change your nic, Max?
“You have no room to talk Davis.
“In frank terms, you’re a prick.”
From you, James McCluer, the penultimate loser, I will take that as a compliment that I will hold close and dear to my heart.
Happy 01-21-09 to you and yours.
I am a conservative American, and registered as a Republican. I make no apologies for either. I say
God Bless America, and God Bless President OBama.
Don;t get much time to post these days. And I guess I will skip the party since the theme has been changed. But may tomorrow and the next four years have the postive results you all hope for.
May President Obama preside with the wisdom of SOlomon. He’s gonna need it.
LJ,
Cool.
Heckofaday, America. You never cease to amaze me.
The President toned down his oratory somewhat, but I’ve reread the text.
It’s powerful stuff; albeit an “eat your spinach” speech.
Obama’s comments after Ted Kennedy was taken out of the luncheon in an ambulance were almost as important to me as the Inaugural Address.
Nothing out of the ordinary, and pretty mundane in the grand scheme of things. But compare Obama’s reaction to the news the Lion of the Senate, perhaps dying as the President spoke, on a day of magnified hope and challenge….. with Shrub reading “My Pet Goat,” for seven minutes like a deer in the headlights.
The black American who lives in my house slept through the ceremonies, ignoring the history of the event. But he woke up, licked his feet, jumped in my lap so I could scratch his tummy and his butt at the same time, just the way he likes it. After that purr-fest, he’s been strutting around like he runs the place.
(Oh, wait… He’s always done that.)
I think some of you will like this –
http://www.someecards.com/upload/somewhat_topical/this_inauguration_feels_like.html
Y’know, I’m gonna go back to what I had mentioned about the “botched” Oath.
Each president recites the following oath, in accordance with Article II, Section I of the U.S. Constitution:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Now, Someone like Roberts, who makes a fine living off of “knowing the U.S. Constitution forward and backwards” can’t get 35 words right?
I don’t want to find a friggin’ “conspiracy” in everything that involves this illegitimate government, but I can’t help not finding this at least somewhat peculiar. Maybe I should ignore it and cast it off as “a funny SNAFU”, but I’m not.
I believe in my heart of hearts that Obama has been getting praise and backing from “the left and right” media in order to make everyone treat him like some Elvis Presley-diety. This is classic, textbook demagogy and yet we’re all too dense to understand even the definition of the word. I believe this is the final putsch (look it up if my command of vocabulary befuddles you) to kill what is left of our former country.
It’s pure genius, he’s not only gonna fight terrorism for the righty’s benefit, he’s got the cover of “the left” to get whatever he needs done, done. People from all walks of life, from both “sides” of the aisle will clamor for him to make whatever changes need to happen in order “to ease our suffering”. And all of this simply, because he’s not Bush.
Big changes are coming in the next few months…no ginormous changes are coming. Changes so big, that we’ll all go, “what in the Hell just happened”. But then again, that’s what we wanted right? Change®
We’ll get it.
Like this “government ran” bank that Paulson and Bushco dreamed up.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aCcNKVDnUKMA&
I thought that’s what the Fed was? Government ran? Hahahahahaha.
I want a hero just like anyone else.
Did you just compare a black American to a dog Mr. Hawk? Is that what just happened?
Ohh, you were being funny…hahahaha, I get it now.
Wow, “Pleefer,” what happened?
Did someone shoot your dog?
Some people look at the glass at say it’s half-full. Some people look at the glass and say it’s half-empty.
You look at the glass and assume somebody out there is plotting to break your glass.
No man, my hope is in The People waking up. Not in some words spoken by a great orator. I have faith in The People.
I know I’m right but only time will tell.
I’m just glad I was wise and already started gathering my bread years ago, so’s I can drive by you all standing in that bread line. I know how tiring that can be (standing in line)…but then again America ought be used to it, every Black Friday we all just love to stand in line.
But we’re all free to think what we want (for the time being) right?
You go your way and I’ll just stand here being “crazy”, looking at my broken cup.
Happy September 12th, everyone!
Sad…
Yes, you will be.
Well, I know that I’m positively devasted by the horrific terrorist attack that happened yesterday. :)
As well you should be.
Don’t know where to put this question where it will be seen. My question is: did Beyounce lip sync the song, AT LAST, at Obama’s inauguration party yesterday? It sounded like the old classic AT LAST by the great Etta James from about 1962. Does anybody know?
JWink:
Beyonce played Etta James in a movie about Etta’s life. I imagine she worked hard to be able to sound as much like Etta as she could but I haven’t read anything either way about Beyonce singing or lip-synching. I do think Etta might have done it a little throatier–what do you think?
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