Jan 20, 2008: Ticket

nicely done! How did you swing that?

I've got a class scheduled for 12:20. It has been rescheduled for 1 instead!

Lordy, I wouldn't be at that event for all the tea in China.

Maybe 'cause I hate crowds. Maybe.

Quote:

Originally Posted by smoothmoniker nicely done! How did you swing that?

Heard from an employee at another hospital ... Secret Service called to do a services assessment ... how many medical beds do you have, how may psych beds, what's the surge capacity of your emergency room ... this other hospital is 150 miles away. I guess that this is called planning for the worst case scenario.

Couple of times in the past patients have ended up admitted simply because the Secret Service did a sweep prior to a presidential visit in the area. We've heard they've also put up all the threatening nuts in hotels.

"We've heard they've also put up all the threatening nuts in hotels." I didn't know we had that many hotels in America.

It doesn't seem too hard to get an invite, seating is somewhere around the capitol...you could be standing in one direction or the other....

Yeah! Go to the inauguration! Feel the genuine history of what a gold rush pioneer felt like every time he went to town to buy food...

You want how much for a hot dog?!?!!!

Check eBay for all the others.

ETA: eBay has banned the sale of inauguration tickets, at least so far

But don't you think the news media just might cover this event?
I'd like a nickel for every TV camera in Washington today.

Yeah, I remember when Obama was sworn in.
How exciting, tell me all about it... do you remember what you were wearing?
Uh... nothing.

It'll be Washington's Woodstock! I was there, I was there, Me too!

I'll be glad when the honeymoon is over, so I won't have to hear the media gushing 24/7

I just hope that it ends. I'm presuming that the gushing will continue through any awful, stupid, damaging thing that he does.

I have watched and waited for so long for Americans to take back the ownership of their Country. I feel that we have now reached that point where we can begin to build upon the foundation built by our Founding Fathers.
I served my Country in Vietnam when I was called to duty. It was there that I learned what damage an ill conceived war can do to ourselves and to others. While there I lost my legs to a landmine, and I feel a great sorrow for those who serve in Iraq and Afganistan who are placed in harms way in those ill conceived wars. I pray that this intelligent and thoughtful man can lead us back to the stature we deserve in the world.
It is time that science and intelligence once again reside in the White House.
GOD BLESS BARACK OBAMA, and GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

why does this thread give me deja vu?

Ronald Ragan once said that "Government IS the problem". He was right. Under Bush the Government abdicated its responsibility to protect the Citizens of the Country from the unbridled avarice of big business. The Country was left without a leader, as Bush took less government to its ultimate by giving us no leadership or oversight.
We can now rejoice that Obama can now say "Government is the SOLUTION"! With science, technology and inovention we can begin to employ those workers left without jobs because of big business's haste to seek low wages of foreign workers (often children). I welcome this great man's leadership into the 21st Century--8 years late!

I wonder if obama will allow another [substandard mortgage scam] which , while making realtors and loan czars wealthy, is the main goddam reason we're in this crap.
Never bite the hand that feeds you.

I started my Mortgage Company in 1989, before that I was a Commercial Lender since 1975. So, as you can see, I have made a life long carrer in the HONORABLE profession of lending money. There are honest profits to be made in the banking industry. The fact that the Republican administration abdicated its responsibility of properly regulating that industry is an entirely different issue. I appologize to no one for my profession.

Hey Bob, I hate to interupt, but I have to laundry so I can go to work tomorrow. Do you mind getting off the soap box?

Took me two scotches and a deleted post to recover.

Hey guys, instead of berating Bob, why not just direct him to the politics forum where he can soapbox and debate to his heart's content, and better still be welcomed to do so? the Cellar isn't just aboout images, although that is how most of us find it in the first place....

Bob, go here: http://www.cellar.org/forumdisplay.php?f=5

How refreshing it was, to see a president gracefully step down from office after peacefully ending his term, WITHOUT spending his last few hours in office selling 140 presidential pardons to criminals.
And this time none of the outgoing white house staff vandalized the furniture or crapped on the copy machines.

Quote:

Originally Posted by newtimer How refreshing it was, to see a president gracefully step down from office after peacefully ending his term, WITHOUT spending his last few hours in office selling 140 presidential pardons to criminals. And this time none of the outgoing white house staff vandalized the furniture or crapped on the copy machines.

Quote:

Originally Posted by wolf ....We've heard they've also put up all the threatening nuts in hotels.

Quote:

Originally Posted by wolf I just hope that it ends. I'm presuming that the gushing will continue through any awful, stupid, damaging thing that he does.

Quote:

Originally Posted by newtimer after peacefully ending his term.

Heh, poor Obama. Just before Bush got into the helicopter and finally left he hugged Michelle and said "I'll keep in touch, I promise."
I'm imagining awkward, annoying relative scenarios now...

I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo tired of the words Barack & Obama. Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo tired.

(And, he looks like a pimp. :-)

nevermind - self editing.. LOL

Can you believe there was about 1.7 Million peoples there? Insane. I thought New Years in Times Square was crazy!

I couldve gone without stepping in the subway bum's poop, and him laughing at me though.

Glad you got to go.

Glad I didn't.