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Barack Obama Sworn In As 44th President of the US
Just before noon today, Eastern time, Barack Obama was sworn in before the US Capitol building as the 44th President of the United States (Whitehouse.gov has already been updated to reflect the new President), and offered an inaugural address which outlined some of the challenges that the country currently faces, both within the country's borders and abroad. Obama's election has been called "a civil rights triumph," and his candidacy has inspired perhaps the most visible political involvement of young voters of any candidate since John Kennedy. Here's your chance to discuss the newest occupant of the White House and what you'd like to see happen over the course of his presidency.
I wish I was a nigger, I could drive a Cadillac with class
My pocket stuffed with welfare checks, and I could sit on my big black ass
Now you take a nigger, he aint nobody's fool
He doesn't buy any gasoline, to drive his kids to school
Our government has gone crazy, I'd change things if I could
If I was only a nigger, I could afford to live in a white neighborhood
Oh the things that I could do, if I was black and Hell-bent
I could send my kids to college, and it wouldn't cost me one damn cent
The wife and I were down on our luck, we were really getting uptight
They said at the welfare office, "You aint black, you're white."
Oh how I've tried to get a job, a diploma I had with pride
The post office man laughed, and said "You're not dark enough to even qualify"
I took a civil service exam, and passed it without shame
A nigger took one next to me, he couldnt even write his own name
The nigger, he got the job, now he's government top brass
He couldn't qualify for a trash truck, while I'm out on the street on my ass
If I was a Jesse Jackson, I'd be nobody's slob
Wearing $500.00 dollar suits, that nigger hasn't even got a job
If I was Barack Obama, I could sit back and relax
And when sworn in as President, I could paint The White House black
Damn, I wish I was a nigger
If I was a jig-a-boo, I could find me my roots
With a afro big as a watermelon, and a pair of white disco boots
If I was only dark complected, I could stand tall in this life
I could live high off the hog, just me and my white wife
Things used to be segregated, but things are a little off-key
I've never seen a white man as head of the NAACP
It aint that I don't like a nigger, if I've rubbed you wrong by chance
Take a look at that mistletoe hanging on the seat of my pants
If I was a kinky top, I could be a Martin Luther King
I'd have me a vision on a mountain top, my song the whole world would sing
I could have me a peace march on the streets of Memphis, Tennessee
I could tear up the whole damn city, and the police wouldn't dare stop me
A lot of things in life I know, but one thing I cant figure
Why a nigger can call me a honkey and I cant call a nigger, a nigger
If I was a jungle bunny, I could ring a golden bell
I could be a Mohammed Ali, and be loved by Howard Cosell
Damn, I wish I was a nigger
If I was a golliwogg, 7 foot tall and lean,
I could be a famous player on the Washington basketball team
If I was only chocolate brown, I could have me some turnip greens
A possum fat and watermelon, chitlens and a pot of butter beans
Now when Martin Luther King was buried in Washington with class
They put him face down in his box, so the politicians could kiss his ass
I guess its just politics, but it sure gets my goat
Kiss assing with a nigger, just so you could get his vote
If i was only a burr-head, I'd live high on the hill
Selling cocaine and prostitutes, and popping all kinds of pills
Now take the NAACP, they can march and raise all kinds of hell
Let the KKK start to move, and they'll all wind up in jail
I dreamed my life was over, I heard Saint Peter say,
"Today we're taken only niggers, you've gotta go the other way"
Then I heard the Devil, he said "I heard what Peter had to say
But I'm sorry to tell you son, Today in Hell is Nigger Day."
Damn, don't you wish you were a nigger?
The question I have for Obama is this: Who is stimulating the economy? Me, the guy who has provided 14 people good paying jobs and serves over 200,000 people per year with a flourishing business? Or, the single fat colored mammy sitting at home pregnant with her fourth child waiting for her next welfare check?
... Since everyone is treating the new president as the a new King.
Congratulations on your purchase of a brand new nigger! If handled properly, your apeman will give years of valuable, if reluctant, service.
INSTALLING YOUR NIGGER.
You should install your nigger differently according to whether you have purchased the field or house model. Field niggers work best in a serial configuration, i.e. chained together. Chain your nigger to another nigger immediately after unpacking it, and don't even think about taking that chain off, ever. Many niggers start singing as soon as you put a chain on them. This habit can usually be thrashed out of them if nipped in the bud. House niggers work best as standalone units, but should be hobbled or hamstrung to prevent attempts at escape. At this stage, your nigger can also be given a name. Most owners use the same names over and over, since niggers become confused by too much data. Rufus, Rastus, Remus, Toby, Carslisle, Carlton, Hey-You!-Yes-you!, Yeller, Blackstar, and Sambo are all effective names for your new buck nigger. If your nigger is a ho, it should be called Latrelle, L'Tanya, or Jemima. Some owners call their nigger hoes Latrine for a joke. Pearl, Blossom, and Ivory are also righteous names for nigger hoes. These names go straight over your nigger's head, by the way.
CONFIGURING YOUR NIGGER
Owing to a design error, your nigger comes equipped with a tongue and vocal chords. Most niggers can master only a few basic human phrases with this apparatus - "muh dick" being the most popular. However, others make barking, yelping, yapping noises and appear to be in some pain, so you should probably call a vet and have him remove your nigger's tongue. Once de-tongued your nigger will be a lot happier - at least, you won't hear it complaining anywhere near as much. Niggers have nothing interesting to say, anyway. Many owners also castrate their niggers for health reasons (yours, mine, and that of women, not the nigger's). This is strongly recommended, and frankly, it's a mystery why this is not done on the boat
HOUSING YOUR NIGGER.
Your nigger can be accommodated in cages with stout iron bars. Make sure, however, that the bars are wide enough to push pieces of nigger food through. The rule of thumb is, four niggers per square yard of cage. So a fifteen foot by thirty foot nigger cage can accommodate two hundred niggers. You can site a nigger cage anywhere, even on soft ground. Don't worry about your nigger fashioning makeshift shovels out of odd pieces of wood and digging an escape tunnel under the bars of the cage. Niggers never invented the shovel before and they're not about to now. In any case, your nigger is certainly too lazy to attempt escape. As long as the free food holds out, your nigger is living better than it did in Africa, so it will stay put. Buck niggers and hoe niggers can be safely accommodated in the same cage, as bucks never attempt sex with black hoes.
FEEDING YOUR NIGGER.
Your Nigger likes fried chicken, corn bread, and watermelon. You should therefore give it none of these things because its lazy ass almost certainly doesn't deserve it. Instead, feed it on porridge with salt, and creek water. Your nigger will supplement its diet with whatever it finds in the fields, other niggers, etc. Experienced nigger owners sometimes push watermelon slices through the bars of the nigger cage at the end of the day as a treat, but only if all niggers have worked well and nothing has been stolen that day. Mike of the Old Ranch Plantation reports that this last one is a killer, since all niggers steal something almost every single day of their lives. He reports he doesn't have to spend much on free watermelon for his niggers as a result. You should never allow your nigger meal breaks while at work, since if it stops work for more than ten minutes it will need to be retrained. You would be surprised how long it takes to teach a nigger to pick cotton. You really would. Coffee beans? Don't ask. You have no idea.
MAKING YOUR NIGGER WORK.
Niggers are very, very averse to work of any kind. The nigger's most
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He was fully capable of embarrassing us without saying anything at all.
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and I thought on Slashdot we were smart enough that speeches were nothing more than that. Promises of politicians are nothing, it is what goes on behind the scenes that matters. Until they I am not going to be one declaring he walked on water or cured me.
As for the separation of church and state being reaffirmed? Really? So that is written in the Constitution or Declaration of Independence? Do someone you just wallow so much in ignorance you don't read between the lines and only see flowers and unicorns now?
Mod me to hell, but the type of tripe being passed for insightful here is downright insulting.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
The United States of America
Born July 4, 1776
Died January 20, 2009
Rest in Piece.
The man with the most liberal voting record in the Senate since taking his seat has convinced America to listen to his voice rather than watching his actions.
I hope Obama follows what he says rather than continuing his divisive stances. You don't have to look hard to find some simple research on his past votes.
His thoughts on personal responsibility as the solution to our economic troubles are very conservative, even Reaganesque. He then hints at socializing healthcare.
Living in Illinois I cannot trust any politician from this state, but I hope he proves me wrong.
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He just proved the gov't is not broken, the system works, but all his speeches says the system is broken and needs renewal.
He is 'the example' and 'the critic', how ironic.
FUCK YOU!
There, fixed that for you.
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Yes. And now:
Please, President Obama, on your first day:
o Order the heads of the military to immediately commence an orderly and rapid withdrawal of all troops and equipment from Iraq and Afghanistan.
o Issue a formal, succinct apology to the people of Iraq for all acts of violence and coercion under the aegis of George Bush and his cronies, and formally disavow those acts.
o Order the heads of military to plan orderly and rapid closure of all military bases outside the borders of the United States and its possessions, including the return of all troops, the return of all equipment that is practical, and to execute the immediate sale or destruction of all weapons and defense systems that cannot be transported within a 90-day period.
o Issue a blanket pardon for all non-violent drug offenders
o Issue an executive order invalidating any past, present or future law that infringes upon the personal liberty to choose to import, grow, manufacture, carry, sell or consume any consumable substance as a matter of informed choice. This would in no way shield drug users from consequences of actions taken while under the influence of drugs.
o Order the closure of Guantanamo Bay and all other similar facilities, and the transfer and release of all prisoners to their country of origin, or to asylum in the US if they prefer
o Issue at least one executive order to strike down one of the myriad unconstitutional laws violating the bill of rights
o Issue at least one executive order to strike down one of the myriad unconstitutional laws that does not pass muster under the enumerated congressional powers
o Issue at least one executive order to strike down one of the myriad unconstitutional laws that depends upon the topsy-turvy interpretation of the commerce clause
o Issue at least one executive order to have a supreme court judge arrested for violating the constitutional oath they swore as part of their office. Perhaps Scalia should go first, based on his treasonous and unconstitutional assertion in Heller that the government has the authority to tell citizens where they may carry arms.
o Issue at least one executive order to have a congressman arrested for violating the constitutional oath they swore as part of their office. For the first one of these, I'd probably choose the top sponsor of the bill that attempted to suspend habeas corpus, I think it was in the Military Commissions Act.
o Make a short fireside-style speech explaining the difference between coercive, arbitrarily exercised government power, and authorized use of power as delegated to the government by the constitution. Go on to say that you consider it your job to defend the country and its possessions at their borders from foreign military aggression; to undo as much harm as possible that has been caused by out of control, coercive, unauthorized exercise of federal and state government power; to restore the income, property and liberties taken from US citizens by previous state and federal government misdeeds; to restore *authorized* power to the states, while reminding them they are absolutely bound by the bill of rights and other constitutional direction specifically to them; and finally, speak to the citizens about personal liberty and personal responsibility, explaining the concept that their right to exert personal power ends where another person's body, property and family begin. State your intent to focus the government on the jobs of providing and maintaining transport and communications infrastructure, education, and healthcare in an environment where the greatest possible safety and security of the individual, property and family from aggression from any quarter was assured. Announce your intent to institute a program that assured any individual a safe bed, practical clothing, and (extremely) basic sustenance, should they fall through to the bottom of the country's economic system.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
The leader is good!
The leader is great!
We surrender our will
As of this date!
Ninnle Labs has confirmed it. The Obama administration is going to switch the entire US government from M$ to open source, specifically, Ninnle Linux on the desktop, NinnleBSD on servers, with NinWM and Ninnle Office. The wholesale switch will be starting by the summer. The rationale is to save all kinds of $$$ on unnecessary licencing fees.
The uncritical adoration of Obama reminds me of this from 1984: "But the face of Big Brother seemed to persist for several seconds on the screen, as though the impact that it had made on everyone's eyeballs was too vivid to wear off immediately. The little sandyhaired woman had flung herself forward over the back of the chair in front of her. With a tremulous murmur that sounded like 'My Saviour!' she extended her arms towards the screen. Then she buried her face in her hands. It was apparent that she was uttering a prayer. "At this moment the entire group of people broke into a deep, slow, rhythmical chant of 'B-B! ...B-B!' -- over and over again, very slowly, with a long pause between the first 'B' and the second-a heavy, murmurous sound, somehow curiously savage, in the background of which one seemed to hear the stamp of naked feet and the throbbing of tom-toms. For perhaps as much as thirty seconds they kept it up. It was a refrain that was often heard in moments of overwhelming emotion. Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise. Winston's entrails seemed to grow cold. In the Two Minutes Hate he could not help sharing in the general delirium, but this sub-human chanting of 'B-B! ...B-B!' always filled him with horror. Of course he chanted with the rest: it was impossible to do otherwise. To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to do what everyone else was doing, was an instinctive reaction. "
can now feel how the world must have felt when Hitler was sworn in.
I'd be happy if he would just end the atrocity that is male genital mutilation.
LOL, Amen to that! I have a feeling Obama knows that the fat mammy is a drag on the economy, and he tried to motivate her to get off her ass with his speech today. However, weaning his peers off of the welfare vote is the single biggest challenge he faces, I think.
It was the Ws that the Clinton staffers took, since W is Bush's middle initial. H is Obama's middle initial, which is why the Hs and not the Os.
ubi dubium ibi libertas.
I wonder why there wasn't a Slashdot story about President Bush's inauguration back in 2005? Actually I don't wonder why, I know why! Because the authors of Slashdot are biased! // Someone, anyone, please prove me wrong...
Even though you copy/pasted from a chain email going around, all I can say is Amen!
This changeover was done in a professional and intelligent manor with class. Unlike the last one when "Bubbas" boys acted childish.
Professional Politicians are not the solution, they ARE the problem.
republicans lost the election and bush really sucks... accept it allready
Yeah, yeah Mr Clinton lover. You can continue to live in cognitive dissonance, and try to pretend it didn't happen, but the rest of us know the facts:
The General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, said today that ''damage, theft, vandalism and pranks did occur in the White House complex'' in the presidential transition from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush. The agency put the cost at $13,000 to $14,000, including $4,850 to replace computer keyboards, many with damaged or missing W keys.
Some of the damage, it said, was clearly intentional. Glue was smeared on desk drawers. Messages disparaging President Bush were left on signs and in telephone voice mail. A few of the messages used profane or obscene language.
I doubt you'll find any such reports as Bush leaves and Obama's staffers come in.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Well after winning an election for President while not proving US citizenship I am sure Obama felt no need to sweat a botched oath. Obama is a mannequin for George Soros and the neo-Marxists controlling the Democrats
Please, the GOP still goes after Bill Clinton like it will never go out of style. "Get stale" my ass.
Of his early childhood, Obama has recalled, "That my father looked nothing like the people around me â" that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk â" barely registered in my mind."[14] In his 1995 memoir, he described his struggles as a young adult to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage.[15] He wrote that he used alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine, as well as glass jars during his teenage years to "push questions of who I was out of my mind".[16] At the 2008 Civil Forum on the Presidency, Obama identified his high-school drug use as his "greatest moral failure."[17]
Some of his fellow students at Punahou School later told the Honolulu Star-Bulletin that Obama was mature for his age, and that he sometimes attended college parties and other events in order to associate with African American students and military service people. Reflecting later on his formative years in Honolulu, Obama wrote: "The opportunity that Hawaii offered â" to experience a variety of cultures in a climate of mutual respect â" became an integral part of my world view, and a basis for the values that I hold most dear."[18]
Yeah, like how they wouldn't let Obama stay at the Blair house...
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/07/howard-blair-house/
Military based empire? Who are you kidding? 2/3 of our budget is used to give free money to people who didn't work for it. Our government is socialism-based, not military. Terrorists have been killing people for over 3 decades but I also assume you don't feel this was long enough and don't feel enough people died before forcing them to stop. You also must believe that liberating 60 million people in Iraq and creating an environment where the the people could create their own government was a horrible idea. America hasn't been attacked since 9/11 proving that the war on terror was successful, but I bet you'll also find a way to throw that out the window too.
You also must have failed 5th grade Government class because you don't know that the President has no control over the economy. Congress has that power. Our economy was in a downturn at the beginning of Clinton until the Republicans took control and fixed it, but don't let that stop you from crediting Clinton for a great economy and budget surplus. Our economy was also doing great until the Dems took control in 06 where it began a downward spiral, and don't forget that the sub-prime crisis was completely caused by the Democrats.
It's amazing how many facts and how much history people toss out the window so they can believe Democrat propaganda. If you want to hate Republicans, you're allowed to start when McCain was picked as the candidate and Bush signed on to socialism by going along with Democrat bailouts.
It's true reports were exaggerated (for example Air Force One was not vandalized as some reporters claimed), but 17,000 dollars in 2009 currency is still a LOT of damage. Glue on computers? Profane language scrawled on walls? "W" ripped off keyboards???
There is simply no excuse for acting like a bunch of Vandals, and wasting the equivalent of 2 Walmart employees annual salary. It is FAR more than just "normal wear and tear" as the previous poster falsely claimed, and that's why Congress passed law that if such an event happens again, the office staff will be convicted. It's a waste of taxpayer dollars and an insult to the American People these staff are employed by.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
I am a foreigner in this country. Why exactly is there such an hype about Obama's swearing in?
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funny!
right wing twaddle, everyone would be in a far worse position without fiscal stimulus, or did you like the collapse of lehman brothers? how about if it happened to your bank? do you realise how much the collapse of lehman brothers has cost america?
You quoted salon.com which is no better than quoting a propaganda piece.
*I* quoted the New York Times, which is also corroborated by the L.A. Times, Newsweek, and of course the U.S. Congress itself (the General Accounting Office).
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CEFDE163CF931A25755C0A9649C8B63
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/jun/12/nation/na-clinton12
http://www.newsweek.com/id/167691
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
I guess ye rich folks have a different perspective.
If someone destroyed $14,000 worth of property, I'd have to declare bankruptcy. But I guess when you're the government, it's okay to destroy taxpayer dollars in wasteful bullshit. That's acceptable behavior when you're a rich politician.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
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"You're getting brutal, Sark. Brutal and needlessly sadistic."
"Thank you, Master Control"
-Sark and the MCP
Put up or shut up.
Post some cites of your dogmatic propaganda. Until then, I call bullshit.
Of course, if you weren't such a pussy and actually believed the garbage you've spewed, you wouldn't have posted as AC. I can regurgitate vomitous crap that talk radio has fed me as well.
"You're getting brutal, Sark. Brutal and needlessly sadistic."
"Thank you, Master Control"
-Sark and the MCP
No, there were also filing cabinets destroyed, desks damaged with glue.
Perhaps ye think this is acceptable to destroy $17000 worth of taxpayer currency (2009 dollars), but I do not. That represents the blood, sweat, and tears of workers dragging themselves out of bed and to a factory day-after-day-after-day. And for what? So the taxes they paid could be thrown-away on silly nonsense? Ridiculous.
But then this is the government we're talking about. Rs or Ds - doesn't matter. They love to waste.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
I am continually amazed at the staying power of right wing nutbar myths.
Right, and "Bush lied", rather than operated in good faith on bad intelligence, or Bush "stole the election" (even though not a single recount by the media has ever shown Gore, even with his cherry-picking of votes, would have been the winner), the latter being repeated by Bob Shrum two days ago. Or that firing US Attorneys is something that only Bush did and it is unprecedented.
Glad those left-wing myths have no staying power!
Slashdot "libertarians": Small government for me, big government for those I disagree with. -1, I disagree with you
Excuse me if I think for myself for a second, instead of relying on an article some random dude wrote. Every president in history stocks his adminstration full of his supporters and true believers, those who agree with his views. That's why we have elections, and they have consequesnces. Just like Clinton and every president before Bush did, Bush picked law enforcement guys who see eye-to-eye with the chief law enforcement officer in the country.
There is a reason US Attorneys are POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS rather than civil service jobs. The system is purposely set up for the president to appoint people who will execute the laws as he sees fit, since he (and the VP) is the one guy in the whole branch who is actually elected! But suddenly, for the first time in 200+ years, political appointments are not supposed to be political. I guess you would want a bunch of Bush appointees who disagree with Obama's vision of justice to not be fired? Should Obama also keep all of Bush's other appointees too? Maybe hire Karl Rove, lest he be considered "political?"
Slashdot "libertarians": Small government for me, big government for those I disagree with. -1, I disagree with you
Since when has the Media been "Liberal"? Cripes... it is a profit making machine run by huge horizontally invested corporations. If anything lends itself to conservative ideas, it is a media that doe snot want to spend money on actually finding out the facts, and focusing on what brings in the bucks rather than what is best for the public to know.
The way that Bush did it is unprecedented, because only certain Attorneys were fired. Clinton, for example, fired ALL 90-something of them.
You are joking, right? You are actually a Republican being sarcastic. You aren't seriously defending the practice of Clinton firing 90 of Bush 41's US Attorneys, and packing all 90 openings with lawyers who pass Clinton's litmus test - you know, the guy who fired the White House Travel Office and packed it with cronies from Arkansas? - and Criticizing Bush for firing 8 AND RETAINING 82 of Clinton's appointees. Bush is the bad guy. Amazing. Just another example of "the rules are different for Republicans."
These are POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS. They are MEANT TO BE POLITICAL. Elections have consequences, one of them being is that the person who wins the presidential election, to some degree, gets to define the executive in his image. In areas that are to be shielded from politics and patronage, (99.9 percent of government employees), they get civil service protections. US Attorneys do not have that protection for a reason - they serve at the pleasure of the president.
I love this "don't politicize" line. The US government is a political system, politics being the process by which policy is made - and implemented.
I can only hope the Democrats are dumb enough to burn political capital on investigating Bush for something he has the full right to do. Unfortunately, I believe Obama is way too smart for this, and will stop the likes Pelosi and Reid from such idiocy.
Slashdot "libertarians": Small government for me, big government for those I disagree with. -1, I disagree with you