When the inauguration is over will the work really begin?
It is a strange thing to me that while we sink trillions of taxpayer dollars into bailouts and rail against AIG (and others) for spending frivolously, we then throw one of the biggest inaugurations ever. Who pays for that?
What about the loss of productivity today? at least 3 hours of corporate time for each person… what about the government work not getting done?
I’m obviously not the first to note this. And, no, I did not agree with the expense when GWB spent a similar amount last go around.
Let’s celebrate modestly and get on with the real work.

What a sad, tragic day for this country. This isn’t America happening, it is America ending.
naw.
c’mon. no matter your views. no one person can be the end of anything.
There is right and wrong (based on consequences). It isn’t a big relativistic stew of ‘no matter’. It matters on a tiny scale and on an evolutionary scale. Eileen has a history that makes selection of her words of value representing that past and her current context.
Some analysis of it all may show something of the order that came to elicit that response to/in a blog. Maybe not. Her words are hers and they are shared by others. But, to her disfavor, her two simple sentences are not contextual so they describe or explain only the prick of the needle she is feeling.
Maybe the Social Mode blog master here can feature a day when all the ‘America is lost’ can be featured and we’ll all see if she and others can relate to those without that assessment… or not.
If not, Eileen has volunteered to be content in her own self designed and inhabited dungeon. Mysterious as it is.