Monday, January 26, 2009
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Nifty little Info graphic from Digg
Monday, January 19, 2009
Barack Obama and a Plunger
Barack Obama and a plunger: He might not want to remember this photo
It shows him in 2003 at a St. Patrick's Day parade, brandishing a plunger—and it will be on display during his inaugural parade
—Bob Secter
January 19, 2009
It shows him in 2003 at a St. Patrick's Day parade, brandishing a plunger—and it will be on display during his inaugural parade
—Bob Secter
January 19, 2009

Before he was even a senator, let alone president-elect, then-unknown Barack Obama was, at a 2003 St. Patrick's Day parade, a plunger wrangler. (Photo courtesy Mats Selen)
Take that, Joe the Plumber: Here's evidence that the soon-to-be leader of the free world knows his way around a plunger.This very unpresidential photo of Barack Obama, blown up to poster size, will be rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue on Tuesday along with the most unorthodox participants of the inaugural parade: the World Famous Lawn Rangers, a 28-year-old Central Illinois-based precision lawn mower drill team."We are the whoopee cushion of the parade," declared Ranger veteran Tom Bruno, a member of the Champaign City Council.Obama met the Rangers in 2003 at Chicago's St. Patrick's Day Parade when he was just launching his bid for the U.S. Senate. As they joked around, the little-known candidate grabbed one of the plungers that Ranger leaders use in lieu of batons. Ranger Mats Selen, a University of Illinois physics professor, snapped a picture, which everybody promptly forgot about until Obama was elected plunger-carrier-in-chief.
Then, on a lark, Ranger founder Pat Monahan of Arcola applied to march in the inaugural parade, and somebody on the parade committee apparently had a sense of whimsy.The 48-mower contingent will include one topped with a 5-foot replica of the Washington Monument, another with a well-endowed mannequin wearing a T-shirt declaring "D.C. or bust," and another called "Obama the self-starter." It features two hands emerging from the mower and grabbing the starter rope.The group, which calls the new president "Mow-Bama," is selling the photo on T-shirts, aprons and the like at http://www.zazzle.com//tombruno. Also available is kitsch with the Ranger inaugural credo: "Bringing dignity back to Washington."
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
DC hates VA and other random DC annoyances
That's right. I said it. Why else would they close off every single road that crosses the Potomac from Virginia to DC? I could understand it if it was JUST for inaguration day, cuz frankly, I'm looking forward to the four day weekend it gives me with pay, but apparently all the roads will be closed off starting on Saturday Morning.
Ok, why? Seriously? Saturday? How frakkin retarded is that? Why should I as a Virginian have to drive all the way around the beltway nto Maryland and come in from the back to get to work. And even if I DID drive into DC, I STILL could not get into work. Because unfortunately, our office is two blocks from the White House and on the parade route.
DC is a bunch of morons. Course the head moron lives there (at least he is being replaced, Tuesday) 5000 port a johns for 3 MILLION people????? that's it??? Yeah they can go into teh smithsonian, but even the lines there are gonna be horrible because the smithsonian bathroom are tiny as hell!
And the metro thing just irritates me still. Make me pay extra the WHOLE weekend before because you want to get a bunch of money. Seriously just convience the locals.
I will laugh hysterically if the number of people they are expecting doesn't show up. Monica has decided that the homies aren't gonna leave the ghetto for the inaguration cuz they just do't care. I would hope that our country is smart enough to get beyond the fact he is Black. Not to diminish the accomplishment as I never thought i'd see it in my lifetime, but yeah history is made...let's see how well he does. Will he keep his promises?
He frakkin better because frankly, DC is pissing me off n account of him.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Screw the Inagural
Period. I hate DC when there is any type of special event like this. I will LAUGH hysterically if the number of people they are expecting does not show up!
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