Hicka-doo-la is… Obeying all the rules!
Wait, wrong word. Sorry. 
(Where’s Glenn Quagmire when you need him?)
In a local town near here, the Municipal Utility scheduled a maintenance electrical outage for 10am-3pm on Inaugural day, thus preventing residents from watching on TV.
They took an incredible amount of heat from customers, calling the Mayor (a former Democratic Legislator), the City Manager, Council Members, etc. It’s now been rescheduled for Thursday.
P.S. What kind of electric utility schedules an outage for the middle of the day, when nearly everyone is using electricity, rather than the middle of the night, when most people are asleep, and wouldn’t even notice it? And scheduling it in winter, so that furnaces are off for 5 hours – when the temp hasn’t been above 0º for nearly a week now?
In 1981 my school rescheduled lunch so we could all watch the Presidential inauguration on TV. It was at the time an overwhelmingly Republican area, but it never occured to me that we were being “indoctrinated” :dubious:
Gee, when they let us off school in November of 1963 for Kennedy’s funeral, I wonder what we were being indoctrinated into?? I guess I missed whatever it was due to my sadness over the death of the President.
I was 9 and I still believed that you got elected because you were the smartest and the best one for the job. So the thought that someone would kill the smartest and best man in the country was sad…
While we’re not getting the day off work, our biggest conference room will be set up to show the ceremony on the big Power Point screen, for those who don’t want to watch the feed on their computers.
To schedule the outage at night would mean overtime for the workers involved.
Only the higher ups are allowed to make money, not the plebs.
My god, there are people who can say things like that with a straight face. I’m sure she still doesn’t get why that statement is so fundamentally misguided.
I suppose she’s advanced, in a backwards kind of way: She doesn’t see race, color, or cultural background. All she sees is political party.
First, ‘all of the sudden’? Dialects other than mine are wrong!
Second, I bet she kept a straight face that whole time. Absolutely amazing.
So watching a Democrat being inaugurated is going to turn her precious little sprog into a Democrat? My god, she must never let her kids watch even the briefest part of a Broadway play! Homosexuality lurks!
One would almost think that it was an idiom, and doesn’t follow the normal rules!
Don’t do this. It’s been done, and done a million times on this board. It’s almost as common as bitching about posters who force everyone to read their sig (and at least the latter have grounds).
I can’t help but think it was intentional.
I’ve actually spoken to Republicans for whom this is true. They seriously cannot understand why it’s special or important and are pissed off at the Democrats for race baiting.
Everyone keeps saying, black, black, black.
Don’t forget the other half. He came from nothing. A mom on welfare, an absent father. Yeah. This is different. This is a teachable moment. You don’t have to be a son of a rich man. You don’t have to be part of the elite.
Anyone can be President. And this one made it the hard way.
Everyone keeps saying it has anything to do with the circumstances of Obama’s election… Go figure.
It is pretty clear that the complaints are more along the lines of “them damn liberals tryin’ to poison Joe Jr.'s fragile little mind with their homo-communism in the schools!”
Or as McAlister put it:
"“Honestly, I could care less what color (Obama) is,” she said. “The fact is that they’re using my tax dollars for an indoctrination. And speaking with other people, I get the idea that I’m not alone (in my concern).”
I ***love ***it that these kind of people are bent out of shape.
And then they say that this outlook proves that they’re the “real” color-blind people and that Democrats are the racists…
I’m a conservative.
Tomorrow morning, my son, 17, gets on a plane a flies to the inauguration. I think it is quite an honor because he was selected by his teachers to participate in this event. At the time we were deciding to send him or not, we didn’t know who who would be elected.
However, he is going to see a historic event. I may not agree with the president-elect politically, but his election does mean something to us folks that have been around for awhile.
I hope the president-elect does well. And, I hope my son comes home safely.
Well, crap, my son “gets on a plane and flies”
They might have done the same thing with McCain/Palin-as she would have been the first female VP. I can’t stand her, but it still would have been a milestone.
As a conservative, oliversarmy, I think that we should do this for every new president. I also think more emphasis should be placed on civics classes. The ones we have are clearly not doing their jobs.
:dubious:
Yeah. Definitely no Presidents before Obama that have come from nothing.
Well, it’s a change from the last one. That’s eight years.
Bill was raised as the son of a guy who owned an auto dealership, that’s pretty decent living.
HW is the son of a senator.
Carter? Son of a local businessman, prominent.
Nixon, son of a grocery store owner, fairly poor. Not the son of a single mom, though.
Johnson? Farmer, cattle speculator, not doing well.
Okay, so we have to go well before the lifetime of any of these kids to find Presidents who came from poverty. We definitely have to go beyond the memory of these kids to find a presidential inauguration of a new president. (Assuming middle school and earlier)
So yeah, it matters.
Just a reminder, racists do not typically commission a life history before reacting. They judge on appearance and perceived race. Obama’s family history may have nothing in common with his wife’s, but you can bet good money that his personal experience with strangers he encounters is the same as any other American black man, but not the same as any other white American man.