Let me tell you right now. Don’t ask. I’m not a wacko. I’m in bed under two blankets. Watching it on TV like a SMART person. I want NOTHING to do with DC today. Between the cold and the crazy tourists and the security? No thank you. Much better view and far more comfortable here at my house.
Anyway, the address went well. The Cappy building is beautiful draped in all that red white and blue. And now the Marines are playing. I love the marine band.
Anyway, it is nice to see the festivities going on. Sometimes you really just need a reason to kick back and have some fun. The world is a dark and scary place. It is nice to be able to escape reality for a while. We can get back to the real world later.
On the bright note, because so many people are off of work today, my husband’s commute to Dulles wasn’t so bad. He’s just grumpy since all his friends got the day off because they are full time at the pentagon. Hopefully the drive home today won’t be too bad either. Yesterday was horrible enough for a week. Four and a half hours roughly! Ouch!
I really liked the Benediction. Especially the prayer that we can put apart our partisan natures and do what is right by this country. Amen! We need to leave party behind and focus on what really matters. What’s done is done. Let’s look forward.
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prncessconsuela said:
Tourists come to the Inauguration?! From where?
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Lady Ozma said:
From everywhere
You’ve got all the guests. All the parade people. All the tourists who want a moment of history. The bands. Etc etc etc.
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prncessconsuela said:
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Tourists from the US or other countries? I’ve never heard anyone say “Hey, let’s go see the pressie get inauged!” Okay, so I probably WOULDN’T hear anyone say that, but you know. 😉
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Lady Ozma said:
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There are also people from other countries. It’s a big thing. There’s a freaking two hour parade! The leader of a major nation is getting sworn in. Of course it’s something big. It’s so big most everyone got today off of work. To help ease the traffic and for security reasons.
But you get demonstrators going to protest or show their approval. There was a whole group of people who turned their back when the President drove by.
Did you see how far the people were spread out to during the address? It was huge!
The thing I don’t get is people who go and then gripe about the security. Security is one reason why I won’t go! (Traffic being the other. Weather being the last.) I’m sorry, you have pretty much our entire nation’s leadership there in one central location. They are NOT gonna let people just show up. Just not gonna happen! But there were so many people griping about the security on the news today. “I drove all the way from x state and then almost missed it because of the security and having to get patted down.” It’s the freaking president of the united states!! And the VP. And most of congress and senate. What the Freak??? DUHHHHHH!
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prncessconsuela said:
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Aw. That’s so rude, the turning of the backs. Nothing can be done now, so shouldn’t they show support for the President, or at least do SOMETHING useful?
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Lady Ozma said:
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Ahhh I see you have a brain and use it for the betterment of mankind. You’d think so. I mean that’s the right thing to do. THere’s nothing you can do about it now, you voiced your opinion as did a whole lot of other people, shouldn’t you just get past it? Move on to more productive things?
Apparently not. However, there have always been those who are unhappy with election results and they have the right to voice that. As this doesn’t actually harm anyone, I can’t completely find fault with the individuals who do it. I personally think they should look towards the future and not the past, but that’s just me. As long as they aren’t actually harming anyone, they do have the right to protest.
President Bush is most definately not the only president to have trash thrown at his motorcade on January 20th. He’s not the first, nor will he be the last. I hate the trash throwers the most. That’s littering and who has to clean that up? Sure as heck not the people throwing the trash. So they just junk up a beautiful city. 😦
I’ll tell you what makes my blood boil. Yesterday some military recruiters were doing their job and went onto a college campus to recruit. Military recruiters have done this for years. Well some protesting students harassed them and there was a 10 minute altercation where the students tore up the military literature. The campus security had to get involved to get the recruiters outta there. That’s destruction of property and that’s not right. It’s goverment property at that which means tax dollars. I’m all for protest, you have that right. However I’m sorry but I do not believe that you should be able to destroy the property or harm another. you don’t burn crosses on people’s front yards, throw bricks in windows, tear stuff up, or bomb abortion clinics. It’s just not right and it doesn’t do anything for your cause. *GLARE*
Anyway, my theory is that it is time now to put aside our differances. Like it or not, we are at war. Like it or not, we have our next leader for the next four years. It is time to look for things we can do to better our nation instead of focusing on the past. Learn from the past so you do not repeat it, sure. But we need to be looking forward. It is time to support our leaders and fellow Americans. There is nothing more that can be done for four more years. Or at least, nothing legal. If you want to change something, start finding peaceful and useful ways to do it.
I sure as heck was not happy when a man from Arkansas named Bill Clinton won an election with the votes of less than quarter of the nation in 1992. However I got past it by January and was ready to see what the man had to bring. Again in 1996. That’s the beauty of two and a half months between election and swearing in. They have time to prepare any switch overs and we have time to put aside our upset of Novemeber and start planning for the future.
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