Inauguration has happened...So GET ON WITH IT!

I wasn't able to drink in today's big historical moment as much as I would have liked to. Being at work we tried to watch as much as we could but sadly we had a non-stop rain of ignorant phone calls. Which resulted in a somewhat frantic division of attention and made for kind of a dull thud occur where there should be a trumpeting to the heavens, so to speak. I am a bit bummed about that because I would like to feel more excited about today then most of my compatriots are. I sort of liken it to the end of a traumatic period in life that you have known the 'horror' (to be a little dramatic) so well that now that it is finally over you don't know how to feel about it?!? Of course, I am speaking of the Bush years...I am so inclined to negative thinking about government, about the President in specific, that I am still not fully adjusted to this whole "new President" thing.

Not the end of the world as today is merely a ceremony and now it is officially and finally time for that whole, "proof in the pudding" thing to happen. Hopefully, we will start seeing some of that tomorrow because he does not have one second to spare. I am happy as shit Obama won and he's *insert milestone here* but I am eager to get the show on the road and see what's what. Critics on the right have already decided that "we" think, "every thang gonna be a'ight" just like that *snaps fingers* and that we are also (as always) sheeple who are drinking this kool-aid (or "fool-aid" in some cases) so we had better watch out. For what? I have no idea. It is just STUNNING to hear and see this kind of horseshit after witnessing the last 8 years. Didja drink that kool-aid in 2003? Still waiting for the WMD to surface, are ya? Think throwing the 4th Amendment out the window is A-Ok, you know, "to protect your safety?" Big fan of torturing people then saying we don't? Illegal, pre-emptive war all good with you? Appointing Equine coordinators to head FEMA pretty much what you would have done?

Oh, and then there's that evil spectre, who has returned from it's 1990-something grave to haunt us, THE LIBERAL MEDIA!?!?! Look how the liberal media, the same one that didn't jump on the "Iraq war is AWESOME" bandwagon, and didn't aid in anointing number 43 illegally into office in 2000, and tell us everything the Bush Administration did not want us to hear for the better part of the past 8 years...Because they are all part of a liberal conspiracy to take away our fucking guns, abort babies and force us all to drive tiny, death-trap cars right into a Socialist Amerika Republic of Giant Vaginas who hate freedom almost as much as they hate themselves! Or whatever it is you fine folks on the right are told to believe by Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, or maybe Anne Coulter these days. I hate to continue my nasty, divisive diatribe here but when I see shit like this it just makes my stomach turn. Behold:

Keep drinking the Obama Kool-Aid!! There will be more problems in the US since we will now be run by special interest groups, european country's and Islam.

Submitted by Christyne 12:56 PM CST, Jan 20, 2009

That's some sound logic right there...I suppose the Oil, Gun, Pharmaceutical, Tobacco, Natural Gas Lobbies (to name just a few) have been totally power less the last 8 years? European Country's? Not sure what you mean there nor what possessive you intended, and I assume the Islam crack is attached to the unbelievable stupidity of everyone who was at a Sarah Palin rally last year? I mean, seriously, you are still buying that "secret Muslim" crap?

It means we don't have to watch you media people slobber all over yourselves about this "Historic" day. So much for equality. This day illustrates how we are not.

Submitted by Donald 9:38 AM CST, Jan 20, 2009

I have been encountering a lot of veiled racism like this...White people seem to think that having a black president isn't that big of a deal and say a lot of shit such as pointing out that this isn't a "historic" day because we've had 43 other Presidents and apparently they all had low-key, low cost inaugurations that no one bothered to pay any attention to until today. Most black people I have talked to are still blown away that a black person (of any percentage, whites who talk like this also like pointing out he isn't "black enough") is the President. Can you not even "try on" some one else's shoes a minute? Why do you feel slighted by this being special? Why is it whenever black folks do something they have never done you all got sit there and bitch about it? That simply implies to me that you think only white people deserve to be special? And the Media slobbers on everything they touch always and forever why do you folks keep insisting that they (the media) somehow made all this happen?! Look at the crowd shots from today? Did the media make those millions and millions come out and stand in the cold like that? Did the media make those millions and millions who voted for Obama? If that's true then did they also make the last two elections go the other way? To do what, exactly? Make things appear balanced temporarily?

It means tons of taxpayer's money is being wasted on an event, while fellow Americans are hungry, homeless, destitute, and dying.

Submitted by Mary 9:19 AM CST, Jan 20, 2009

Yeah! And I am sure you have felt that way about inaugurations forever! Or is this simply more because you voted for the other guy and don't think black people deserve shit...Despite the one being inaugurated clearly worked a little to get this gig...But that's neither here nor there and frankly so is this comment.

Where are we now?? How about fearful of a neophyte president who will make America less safe, and who will reach into my pocket to bail out those that cannot control themselves.

Submitted by mike 9:18 AM CST, Jan 20, 2009

Yes, he will make America less safe (if that is even possible after what has just happened these last 7 years!?!) just because and no Republicans would ever, ever give out an economic bailout! The couple already given out in the last several months were really secret Muslim, liberal, socialist using their magic liberal powers to manipulate a misunderstood President Bush to give out those bailouts...or something. And now one of my favorite claims I have heard more than once today...

Hitler was a charasmatic speaker, too. Be careful of great speakers - and their actions.

Submitted by Deja vu? 1:03 PM CST, Jan 20, 200

I guess when you have no legs to stand on you can always prop yourself up on some baseless Hitler talk, eh? Basically, what really seems to be happening here is a lot of sore losers, unable to adapt or actually change, clinging to a thicket full of abstract concepts, divorced from reality, and scared shit less by their own support system and throw out retardadry such as:

Listened to the whole speech. He said NOTHING. Don't tell me it was the best speech ever. He literally said NOTHING, just like he did NOTHING for IL and will continue to do NOTHING for our country. Sad 4 years of liberalism to come ...

Submitted by is he done yet? 12:57 PM CST, Jan 20, 2009

Yes, he said NOTHING...In fact, he just stood up their and mur-murred incoherently while those of us all hopped up on liberal kool-aid heard what we wanted to here...I, for one, have been doctrinated by the liberal media to hear:

Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land - a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.

Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America - they will be met.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

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.

That is NOTHING. Wishful thinking, which is nothing, language and words (also nothing), and an idea that I think is good (means NOTHING). Then he goes on later with this stupid, empty crap:

What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them - that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works - whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account - to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day - because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.

Stupid cynics don't fail anything...THEY KNOW! Look how great everything is?!?! (keep looking!) Now, and only now, everything is falling to shit and we are gonna be forced to become Socialist European Union member, The Liberal States of the Amerikan Republik" or something. Surely, B. Hussein's speech will look even more like NOTING when you see the in-depth, awesome-ness that we had in 2001:

Our national courage has been clear in times of depression and war, when defending common dangers defined our common good. Now we must choose if the example of our fathers and mothers will inspire us or condemn us. We must show courage in a time of blessing by confronting problems instead of passing them on to future generations.

Allow me to repeat a line in bold because the Liberal Media made me:

We must show courage in a time of blessing by confronting problems instead of passing them on to future generations.

AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAA!!!!

Oh and think about Katrina while you read:

Where there is suffering, there is duty. Americans in need are not strangers, they are citizens, not problems, but priorities. And all of us are diminished when any are hopeless.

Here's a nice one from Bush's second inaugural address:

All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: the United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.

Yeah? We will not ignore your oppression we will stop it by oppressing you! IF you have oil in your country that is. We haven't done a whole lot of oppression to those rascally North Koreans nor have we done diddly fucking dick about that something-something happening in Darfur...Probably because they were created by the liberal media or something, right?

Whatever, I don't even know why I am going on about this or pretending to be surprised at all. I think a lot of it has to do with my worry that we, collectively as a species, country, society, will never be able to pull ourselves out of the hole we are in due to so very many of us completely deluded by political horseshit. This is particularly painful when I read anything about global warming or climate change...Nothing can or is being done about these issues because there is still a significant amount of stupid motherfuckers out there going on and on about Al Gore and "junk science" and just plum, old fashioned, "I don't believe it." Now, I don't buy the extremes either (i.e. Gonna run out of gas in 20 years!, We don't do anything by 2012 we're fucked! kind of thinking) but to sit here and say that none of it's true and the whole environmental movement is another way to "trick" you into becoming a Socialist controlled by "big Government" is so depressing that I barely have words for it.

I don't want to save the world anymore than you do as we all know it's the human environment that is endangered...Not the "world" it shall go on with or with out us no matter what...But why trash the place? Don't you want your kids to have what you had? Let me show you some examples (check the comments) of what kills me every time I read them:

Global warming is a farce that is discounted by 50% of scientists. But when they speak out they are ostracized and attacked by the far left wing nuts. Let Al "THE BORE" Gore spend a few winters up here. I ever run into him, I'm going to stick his global warming tongue to a flag pole.

Face it. The "global warming" nut cases will never admit they are wrong, even if the entire Northern Hemisphere were covered by 35 feet of ice. Then they'll just say it's caused by "global warming" in the Sahara desert or some such gobbledygook. There have always been doom predicters like the charlatans who claim to be able to foretell earthquakes, famine, floods etc. 50 years ahead...but can't accurately predict a non-blizzard 3 hours in advance. Weather historically is cyclical so now it's much easier to say there will be "climate change." Oh yeah? What a revelation. Stop the presses! Scratch the surface of these phonies and you'll likely find that, like Al Gore, they're getting richer because of their panic attacks.

Global warming is a hoax. It's always been a hoax. It's a far left mantra that carries big political stakes and money to those who wish to take advantage. 100 years from now they'll laugh at these babbling fools and discover the earth climate has actually dropped a degree in overall temperature. The earth has been here over 4 billion years, our industrial age lasted less than 200 years and we're supposed to beleive man is destroying a planet that withstood, floods, meteors, earthquakes and fires? Jump in your Prius' and put your headphones on, we don't want to your stupid rants...

You see? It's all a liberal conspiracy to make people buy things they don't want from Al Gore! So, why bother seeking new and cleaner energy resources? Why bother trying to preserve biodiversity and attempt to restrict the deforestation of all the rain forests! Fuck it! They are ours to exploit after all God made them for us?!?! It's the same, tiny thinking I see in the above comments that fuels the same tiny thinking in the anti-Obama crowd and really, in general terms, it's the same crowd.

Is it everybody? No, of course not. And it is a little silly of me to sit here today and be sad that there happen to be a handful of crazy morons posting on the Internet and that somehow we are ALL doomed because of it. There will always be opposition to any position and if I really believed in 'democracy' I would want a certain amount of dissent and disagreement. And really I do! We need crazy conservatives to be in government just as much as wack-a-loon liberals and everything in between as that is the "American Way." I just wish the "debate" would be more substantive than the hate fueled stupidity I posted examples of above, which represents the bulk of what I encounter both off and online. To let 20th century thinking (racism in particular) to hold our country back...To let a dated hatred of Al Gore interfere with your entire scientific outlook and obstruct and drag back any efforts to perhaps clean up our act a little.

I drag out the Al Gore stuff largely due to the notion that I happen to buy some of this global warming stuff. How can it be that our environment wouldn't be affected by our over-population? Deforestation? And energy waste? Why am I so special to understand that GLOBAL (as in the whole planet) getting a warmer climate (by a degree or 2) doesn't necessarily mean winter will magically just go away? No argument, no facts are sent my way just baseless name calling; Fool-Aid Drinker, Gullible Warming, etc. And ya'all just go and drive off in your SUVs as retard as retard can be...I suppose. Some day I may delve deeper into this topic on here as I have been spending A LOT OF TIME thinking about energy, climate change and understanding why adapting to a "Green Economy" could be the best solution to our ills that we could possibly ever come up with but I think I have already blogged another book here as it is.

Anyhow, final thought to THIS post is simply a plea to get on board a little better my "conservative friends," would ya? I know, I know you didn't vote for him, you don't support him, blah blah blah...You will survive, after all I just survived the worst President in American history, and say, most of you survived Bill Clinton and most of ya'all still got your damn guns! So it probably can't get much worse than it has, can it? So, instead of bitching about black people deserving or not deserving this or that, or arguing with pure insult and making empty claims about Obama's empty claims...Start suggesting what we, they, he, you, I SHOULD be doing. Give us a plan, man! McCain didn't have one perhaps it's your turn to shine! So, quit yer bitching and start contributing. Turn off your Rush Limbaugh and Fox News and turn on your brain! Lord knows, I have turned off my Keith Olberman and Rachael Maddows and I never listen to NPR or Air America (or any radio at all). But hey, I am probably completely full of shit too...So, why bother?