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Mark Steyn: Inaugural Disaster
National Review Online ^ | January 19, 2009, 5:00 p.m. | Mark Steyn

Posted on 01/20/2009 12:28:00 PM PST by kellynla

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To: Nephi

He’s gone... maybe you would like to stop kicking him now.


21 posted on 01/20/2009 1:39:25 PM PST by carton253 (So this is how liberty ends - with thunderous applause.)
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To: shoutingandpointing

Or the Macy's Parade on Thanksgiving. I was waiting for
the giant inflatable Underdog and Fred Flintstone floats to
come down behind the Obamas. Siegfried & Roy
leading white tigers, followed by a herd of elephants
and maybe the Spice Girls in bright orange gocarts.

22 posted on 01/20/2009 1:45:37 PM PST by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: kellynla; All

Well, Hi, KLA, all, fellow FEMA districts.


23 posted on 01/20/2009 1:46:02 PM PST by combat_boots ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."Aldous Huxley)
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To: kellynla

“The proposition that a new federal administration is itself a federal emergency is almost too perfect an emblem of American government in the 21st century.”

Steyn, here’s looking at you, kid.


24 posted on 01/20/2009 1:47:03 PM PST by combat_boots ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."Aldous Huxley)
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To: Nephi

Grumble, grumble, harumpf.


25 posted on 01/20/2009 1:49:05 PM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity

I know I was disappointed when the UPS driver came into the neighborhood today and didn’t bring my Obamanation Rainbow & Sunshine package. I am snowed in and it would have been nice. Maybe tomorrow.


26 posted on 01/20/2009 2:14:03 PM PST by momincombatboots (The last experience of the sinner is the horrible enslavement of the freedom he desired. -C.S. Lewis)
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To: Deb
Let's look at the bright side. For the next four years everything is "Obama's Fault".

L

27 posted on 01/20/2009 2:31:33 PM PST by Lurker ("America is at that awkward stage. " Claire Wolfe, call your office.)
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To: Lurker

And am I excited!!! Can’t wait for the first massive blackout, tsunami or tick infestation!!!


28 posted on 01/20/2009 2:34:55 PM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: kellynla

Nothing the federal government does surprises me any more. Absolutely nothing. It’s well beyond out of control.


29 posted on 01/20/2009 2:38:42 PM PST by Swing_Thought (pes.si.mist: [pes-uh-mist] 1. a well informed optimist.)
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To: Deb

Or maybe the first time the market dives 300 points. Hey, that just happened!


30 posted on 01/20/2009 2:51:32 PM PST by Lurker ("America is at that awkward stage. " Claire Wolfe, call your office.)
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To: Lurker

Yeah!!! We can start!!


31 posted on 01/20/2009 2:55:12 PM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: kellynla
I was shocked at the lackluster speech, and I am one who was not all that impressed with his speech-making ability in the first place, or at least his speech-writing ability (he does get a strong B+ for delivery).

"We must get ourselves up off the ground,... We must dust ourselves off....."

So original, so fresh, so..........cliche-ridden.

---Is this really the guy who wrote those two books? I'm beginning to think the Ayers Ghost Writer Theory might be something to be taken seriously.

32 posted on 01/20/2009 2:56:15 PM PST by cookcounty ("A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built." ---Governor Sarah Palin)
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To: henkster
The real tipping point was passed in November, 2008

Not quite. The taxpayer vote for Obama was substantial, less than McCain, but still substantial, he certainly would not have won without them. The other factor is the lazy also don't get themselves to the polls, they have to be carried there by the leftists. Soros and other leftist "taxpayers" paid for this election.

33 posted on 01/20/2009 3:05:39 PM PST by palmer (Some third party malcontents don't like Palin because she is a true conservative)
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To: kellynla

MSM talking heads are all in bed with B.H. Obama. They are all getting tingling feelings all over their bodies.


34 posted on 01/20/2009 3:23:13 PM PST by FreedBird (BB)
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To: kellynla

“This is the Emergency Broadcast System! This is not a test! In the event of a Marxist getting elected as President, conservatives are advised to not ‘duck and cover’! Please continue monitoring Free Republic for further reports and updates. Repeat, this is not a test! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee”


35 posted on 01/20/2009 3:31:12 PM PST by ushr435
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To: Swing_Thought

wow. Isn’t this an outright abuse of the FEMA program? Confusing.

Today I wore black to mourn the loss of my income.

If the use all the FEMA money to bail out the Inauguration, how are they going to have enough funds to bail out public unions in debt ridden California?

Oh - wait. the Feds can PRINT money!

My bad!

:^/


36 posted on 01/20/2009 4:05:38 PM PST by 4Liberty (Discount window +fractional reserve banking = moral hazard + bank corporate welfare + Inflation tax)
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To: 4Liberty

If the use all the FEMA money to = If THEY use all the FEMA money ...


37 posted on 01/20/2009 4:06:29 PM PST by 4Liberty (Discount window +fractional reserve banking = moral hazard + bank corporate welfare + Inflation tax)
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To: carton253

He’s gone...but the stench of his zillons of dollars of betrayals lingers.


38 posted on 01/20/2009 4:16:41 PM PST by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: cookcounty
-Is this really the guy who wrote those two books? I'm beginning to think the Ayers Ghost Writer Theory might be something to be taken seriously.

I always took it seriously. The word-scan evaluation was pretty compelling it was actually Ayers. And then talking about mariners...kind of clinched it.

39 posted on 01/20/2009 4:19:25 PM PST by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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To: Paul Ross
"He’s gone...but the stench of his zillons of dollars of betrayals lingers."

Well look at the other side. Bush blew the money so Obama is too broke to do much. Unless he starts inflating the money supply.

Ask anyone who voted for Obama this- "Are you enjoying that hope and change sandwhich yet?" It might take a while for them to figure out what it refers to. The biggest market drop ever in history during Obama's inauguration today.

I have fear, apprehension, and a hightened awareness for us all on FR.

I'm fine with work this year and next. Many contracts and likely 60 hour weeks in my specialty are signed. The U.S. and foreign aerospace companies and our military needs. Countries buy stuff from us are very nervous about IRAN.

40 posted on 01/20/2009 5:55:23 PM PST by BobS
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