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Tuesday January 20th, 2009
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Inaugural Inanity
posted 01/20/2009, 10:50 AM (Becky Akers)
[Category: Commentary]
Ten thousand National Guardsmen, 7,500 active-duty soldiers, 25,000 cops from "99 federal, state and local law-enforcement agencies." A city "honeycombed" with "communication command centers" spying on supposedly free Americans with 5,265 surveillance cameras. And, as if we aren’t already up to our eyeballs in goons, an entire brigade of the US Army on call. The cost for this hyperbolic hysteria? Hundreds of millions at a time when many taxpayers can’t scrape together the next month’s mortgage. All for an inauguration that has attracted no "specific threats."
"Critics" contend that this is overkill. Go figure.
The piranhas swarming the security food-chain beg to differ. After all, they aren’t squandering their own money to guard against every conceivable threat, whether it’s a discarded cigarette igniting Obama’s hot air or the Almighty hurling a meteorite at DC’s massed mountebanks. Michael Chertoff, large intestine at the Department of Homeland Security, pompously assured CNN, "We are literally going to be watching this every minute between now and the conclusion of events on the 20th." Having turned Washington into an armed camp, this twit added, "You don't want to make this like an armed camp because it spoils the event itself."
Then there’s White House chief of staff Josh Bolton. He equates dreaming up the remotest of risks and spending other people’s money to prevent them with common courtesy: "In the post-9/11 world, this isn't just... (more) |
Washington's homeless told to move along for inauguration
posted 01/20/2009, 10:58 AM (AFP)
[Category: Tyranny/Police State]
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Before sunrise on Thursday, Frank Mearns will leave the place he calls home, a stone's throw from the White House, and join thousands of others in Washington who are upping sticks and moving out for the presidential inauguration.
But Mearns isn't about to make a quick buck by renting out his pied-a-terre. Nor is he heading out of town on an inauguration escape holiday.
He's one of Washington's army of homeless who are being cleared from the center... (more) |
Obama hosting pricey party in a dicey economy
posted 01/20/2009, 11:11 AM (Associated Press)
[Category: Politics/Corruption]
WASHINGTON – Unemployment is up. The stock market is down. Let's party.
The price tag for President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration gala is expected to break records, with some estimates reaching as high as $150 million. Despite the bleak economy, however, Democrats who called on President George W. Bush to be frugal four years ago are issuing no such demands now that an inaugural weekend of rock concerts and star-studded parties has begun.
Obama's inaugural... (more) |
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