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Aaaaaaand we're back on the road again, this time going up to Dallas to visit one of Kara's friends, and do some sight-seeing. We're just hitting Waco right now, and her friend lives in Plano so there's still a way to go.
America's got ourselves a brand new president! Competence and intelligence return to the White House! And within the first 3 days he's already re-opened up transparency, restored basic civil rights, amd new ethics orders, and started trying to fix the mistakes of the last 8 years.
I of course watched the inaguration on TV, down in the cafeteria at work with about 75 other people. You only get to see history like this once in a lifetime. I wish I could have been in DC, but I can tell future generations I saw our first non-white president get inagurated. I thought the speech was pretty good, not my favorite though, but I loved the line about restoring science, which has been trampled on by Bush the last 8 years.
I also find it amusing how Fox News is freaking out about this. And the conservatives who freak out about how much the inaguration cost. None of it is taxpayer funded, its the free market deciding to spend money on this with donations, which is exactly the kind of economic spending we need, and also exactly how conservatives would want to see, but because it's for Obama, suddenly its an outrage.
Here's a really cool demonstration of the gatling gun equipped Suburban's that trail the Presidents limo at all times. Also apparently with its 7 inch steel plates in the doors, his limo can withstand a direct RPG attack. Gets terrible gas milage though.
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