posted on January 19, 2009 07:30:06 AM new
Maybe I have been spending too much time alone (husband has been on a business trip in Australia since November 1), because I was sobbing when I watched a piece on GMA this am showing all the people who fought for civil rights and who made the inauguration of a black man tomorrow possible.
I found this postcard image in my archives, published just 40 years after the actual event. Obama will use that same Bible tomorrow.
What an historic day!
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posted on January 19, 2009 04:08:54 PM new
A bunch of my neighbors and I (the only dem in the bunch) took Obama at his word and spent the morning rehabbing a disabled neighbor's chicken coop. Used up all my good scrap lumber and plywood SWMBO is always carping about. Happy neighbor, happy chickens, happy wife. What's not to like??
Then the boy and I drove to town and saw "Gran Torino", figured it was a fitting film for MLK day. Eastwood deserves his best actor nomination. I never saw a Clint Eastwood movie I didn't like, with Outlaw Josey Wales and Pale Rider being my favorites, but this one may surpass them all.
posted on January 19, 2009 06:18:24 PM new
Our grandson, 7, and his best-friend/neighbor girl Cielo picked up trash on the 1-mile walking route to their school. Makes me proud!
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"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who ***dared to dissent*** from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, ***may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."*** --Eisenhower
posted on January 20, 2009 11:07:32 AM new
Tuesday.
Oh boy, what a day. Only sour note was the crowd booing the image of Bush on the screens as he came through the Capitol. I know how they felt, but it wasn't very civil.
Also, singing hey hey goodbye (which was pretty funny, but still not nice).
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"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who ***dared to dissent*** from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, ***may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."*** --Eisenhower
