Another Inaugural Gem

You will have to go to Wiki to check, I'm not going to do that.

Some trivia from the new WH website: (3+ / 0-)

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In 1829, a horde of 20,000 Inaugural callers forced President Andrew Jackson to flee to the safety of a hotel while, on the lawn, aides filled washtubs with orange juice and whiskey to lure the mob out of the mud-tracked White House.

Wow

Save this for your children. It's iconic.

Kos Commenter

says the people with "Arrest Bush" signs along Penn Ave got a permit to be in front of the FBI building. I love America, I really do. I always have.

Everybody Liked This, It Seems

so worth repeating:
Reverend Joseph Lowery-Inaugural Benediction

We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around. When yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen

These Guys!!

(I mean that in the generic sense) rushed over to the White House while he was still speaking, because there was a lot to (un)do.

One of President Barack Obama's first acts is to order federal agencies to halt all pending regulations until his administration can review them.

The order went out Tuesday afternoon, shortly after Obama was inaugurated president, in a memorandum signed by new White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. The notice of the action was contained in the first press release sent out by Obama's White House, and it came from deputy press secretary Bill Burton.
The waning days of former President Bush's administration featured much debate over what rules and regulations he would seek to enact before he left office.

The Day

in 100 seconds. TPM does this every day now.

Oh, The Age Of Irony

is not over after all.
Nina Totenberg (sp?) of NPR just informed us that Obama's oath of office will be administered by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, a man whose appointment he voted against.
Only in America.
There is a ton of race commentary.