President Bush has declared DC a federal emergency area!

"President Bush on Tuesday declared the District a federal emergency area, clearing the way for the city to receive federal money to help cover the overwhelming cost of providing security for official inauguration events.

Officials said it was the first time the designation had ever been used for anything other than a national disaster, such as a hurricane or widespread flooding."  Source

I wonder how the Liberals would have reacted if President Bush did the same thing for his 2005 Inauguration?

Obama: My job is above my pay grade

I can't seem to find in the AP article the little detail about Bush getting FEMA Funds to help with his inauguration? Oh that's right . . . Bush didn't get FEMA Funds to help support his inauguration . . . that will Obama who will be recieving funds set aside for disasters to help throw his socialist parade!

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But let's not mention any thing about that!

Clinton's Military Philosophy - Tanks In Waco OK . . . Tanks In Mogadishu NOT OK

The double standards are so obvious...if the President is of the right political party (the Donkey House), it's Party Time! If the President is Republican...you know the rest.

As for this inauguration/coronation, nothing's too good for "Ears". Oh, brother!

is the Associated Press once again tsk-tsking the high collar cost? Nope.

Ah but it was in full Associated Parsimony mode during September/October 2008.

Remember the snit the AP was in till election day? That was after the RNC kitted out VP candidate Sarah Palin with a rented wardrobe, which AP "alleged" cost $150 million.  Or something really high.

Oh sorry -- that's the cost for Obama to spend two minutes outside getting inaugurated. And there's no refund, unlike Palin's wardrobe.

"The nature of an ideology is not determined by majority vote—but by logic... The logic of environmentalism leads to a society without technology... even if various environmentalists would deny this." Ayn Rand, 1971

 It seems as though they dont even care to hide it anymore...

conservatives: GWOT global war on terror

liberals: GWOW global war on weather

I'm thinking Michelle O comes up with the worst gown ever (if it's anything like that horror show of a black widow spider costume she wore election night)....and it's going to cost the most, too.

Eliot Spitzer spent more than that on whores in just 18 months.

How about $5 million for a stage for a one-hour acceptance speech? Or Clinton spending $42 million way back in 1997?

But Bush, of course, was completely wrong to spend $40 million eight years later. No double standard at all.

You can't put a price tag on history. Let's party like it's 1861!

When the opposition is so willfully forgetful of remarks they made, there are only two possibilities.  They are so INCREDIBLY stupid that they make Paris Hilton look like the President of Mensa.

Or, it's willful deceit, done with full knowledge and awareness that they contradicted themselves x years ago with the intent of irritating, or harassing their opponents or possibly to destablize opinion of the Federal Government.

Either way, it's intellectually dishonest. 

"What you can not enforce, do not command" -Sophocles-

From Wikipedia: "The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staffers. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, paying a fee to use AP material without being contributive members of the cooperative." 

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It takes an advanced notice of two years to cancel a subscription to the AP. As more and more of us turn away from print newspapers and get our news online, the Associated Press has seen an increase in the number of cancellations.

* From AP.org: "By way of background, over the past two decades, an average of about 4 percent of newspaper members have cancellation notices on file for AP basic services at any one time. Many papers file notices protectively, and then lift them before services are actually stopped. The number of cancellation notices now is running at about 7 percent. Any cancellation notice is cause for concern and we will be working with members to address the issues that led them to submit it."
Arizona State University: "The Minneapolis Star Tribune got some press a week or so ago when it gave The Associated Press the required two year’s cancellation notice. The Star Tribune is at least the fifth and perhaps the biggest paper to take this action."
From Editorsweblog:"he Associated Press, a co-operative established to share costs and news, is heading into choppy waters. The AP has recently received a raft of cancellation notices from newspapers in the United States."
An interview with AP execs:“We have a lot to make up. We’ve been working on the revenue side; this undoubtedly is going to require some work on the cost side. For a company where the costs are primarily its people, it’s going to mean having to look at some positions.” AP already has a hiring freeze; now it’s looking at staff cuts. “
From the Columbus Dispatch notice:"The changes to AP's rate structure were not as substantial as we were led to believe or that we need to maintain our service. Given the choice of maintaining our staff or AP's service, it's in the best interests of our operation to maintain our local reporting staff."
AP - a cancellation letter

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"There is no longer a media in this country. There is simply an established propaganda arm for the Democrat Party and any and all who relate to it in any way, elected and unelected." ~ Rush Limbaugh

AP Slammed Bush’s ‘Extravagant’ Inaugural in ’05, But Now It’s Spend, Baby, Spend

"This is a time to celebrate. This is a great moment. Do not dress down. Do not wear the Washington uniform," said Tim Gunn, a native Washingtonian and Chief Creative Officer at Liz Claiborne, Inc.

"Just because the economy is in a downturn, it doesn't mean that style is going to be in a downturn," agreed Ken Downing, fashion director for Neiman Marcus.And if anyone does raise an eyebrow at those sequins, remind them that optimism is good for times like these.

"Just say you're doing it to help the economy," chuckled good manners guru Letitia Baldridge. 

Or as President George W. Bush said after the devastating terrorist attack of 911: “Go Shopping!”   Oh yeah, I forgot, the Democrats slammed Bush relentlessly for attempting to remind people “that optimism is good for times like these.”  And just forget about the idea that people would be ‘doing it to help the economy.’

We all root for our home team. We boo the opposition. We cheer our team, oftentimes even when they don't deserve it. We put "I'm the proud parent of a wonderful kid" stickers on our bumpers, even though we don't believe it. We tell our wives they look gorgeous, even those times they don't. But the reality is that we KNOW when we're lying. We know when we're trying to delude others, but we never actually believe ourselves. Unless of course, we're liberals, or secular progressives, or Democrats, or academia, or Hollywood, or the media. In those cases we apparently seem to believe every line of crap that is self-contradictory, illogical, doesn't square with experience or even reality. It's called intellectual dishonesty. It's propelled by self-centered, feel good goals, and if each of these folks were to look behind the curtain at what's driving those self-deluded, intellectually dishonest actions, they'd see Lucifer pulling the strings, whispering in ears, and goading each to an end that is so obviously (to those who listen, watch, analyze and think) evil and self destructive.

"Bold or insolent heedlessness of restraints, as of those imposed by prudence, propriety, or convention"

Definition of  "audacity"