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[captainsblog]

That is not half a season of Lost, but rather a small slice of calendar, preserved in the amber of these terrabytes. Of three alternate days in January, two of them repeating in significance every year, one unique to this year only.

In random order:

20.

You know how, usually, weather from the Rockies and plains states, gets here a couple of days later? And you may have heard (as I tauntingly did, late last week) that Denver was basking in 60-degree sunshine at the end of last week?

Well, we didn't get that a couple of days later, but no matter.

Today's forecast is wind. Blowing gently at the moment, but sometime this afternoon to increase to several hundred miles an hour, bearing a planeload of bad memories back to a Texas ranch where the man will hopefully never be heard from again. (There's been some talk of memoirs, but I'm not sure if they've ordered in enough crayons yet.)

Tomorrow's forecast: brighter. With a wind of change sweeping across the nation and beyond.

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22.

My Flist is all a-vibe this morning with reflections and hopes about the journey our nation will be beginning today. One stands out among them for being fair, and logical rather than ideological, and above all, genuine. Like its author:

Apparently, if you're an Obama supporter, you think he's a demigod/Messiah that will step in and not only do no wrong, but have a magic touch that will reverse the wrongs of the outgoing administration.

Oh, come on.

Obama is human (I'm assuming). He's going to make that wrong turn in Albuquerque every once in a while. He'll mess up. Maybe not royally, maybe not in a global sense, but yeah, he'll make boners in the next four (eight?) years.

We Obama supporters are just looking forward to an administration where phuq-ups are not a legacy.

Where wars are chosen with a wiser eye, to find justice for innocent lives and not for oil.

Where domestic disasters are not glossed over and virtually ignored and being felt almost three years later.

Where the rich stay rich (hey, they've earned it somehow!), but the poor don't get any poorer.

I could go on and on, but I gotta go to work.

See you on the flip side of the inauguration.

That author's birthday is in two days. The happiests to one of the deservingests, elbiesee ::hugs::

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18.

In the midst of all the medical woes of the past two days, another birthday went by- unnoted but certainly not unnoticed.

Terri is not one who will be sharing in the rainbow liberal glow of today's events. Yet I know her to be just as fair, and just as genuine, and just as pissed off by the wing-nut ideologues on her right flank as she is by the wing-nut ideologues over on our left. 

She's my most reliable commenter and always among the most thoughtful, and relates to so much of what I post here, it's downright frightening. Mostly for her.

Happy Be Lated to headbanger118 (note how subtle hints like the birthday in the username don't work on Us Guys):)

Comments

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

You crazy guys, you. Thanks for the fairness endorsement; I do try. I wouldn't actually say I'm a Republican as much as I'm a Conservative, meaning I favor free economy and strict interpretation of the Constitution. It just happens that the GOP endorses more of my position points than the Dems, although I give credit where it is due when the Dems support those points.

Obama is indeed a man. I hope that the country, and more specifially those who seem to think he will wave a magic pen and fix the country's ills immediately, remember this. This is esp. true of those who are struggling financially and see him as The Wizard. I hope he is not, in fact, the old man behind the curtain. If he can help America be a strong, safe leader in the world, then good on him. I reserve judgement and pray for a good first year.