Tomorrow is Inauguration Day for incoming President Barack Obama. If you are alive and breathing in the US, I’m sure you know this already. I’m not going to carry on about how he’s this or that. I don’t trust him, personally; his agenda is far too liberal for me to accept from a man who proclaims to be Christian. I know, I know, there are lots and lots–oodles & gobbs, scads & scads, even– of good Christian people who call themselves Democrat. I just struggle with how the two can be side-by-side.
That’s not what I want to get at. I’m going to speak my mind, and risk sounding like some sort of hater bigot. Call me that if you think you must, but I’ll disagree, and reserve the right to delete comments. Comment if you like, but keep it clean: no vulgarity, no swearing, no playground-esque name calling. Here goes…
I’m worried that some of my more liberal friends are going to become self-righteous smug caricatures of themselves in their bubbling rapture at Mr. Obama’s swearing in. I’m not sure if the root of their joy is a deep despisal of President Bush, their giddy joy in a non-Anglo President or a combination of the two. I just don’t want to see a bunch of ’sore winners’ dancing around the Washington Mall over the next two days.
President Clinton had the same Svengali hold on his party, and with some across the aisle. There just wasn’t a throng of people a million strong crushing on Washington DC for his inauguration– either of them– and he came into office after 12 years of Republican presidencies, war, economic recession and terror attacks.
I am celebrating with our country over breaking the racial barrier for our highest elected office. I can not celebrate having a Democrat move into that same office. So I hope we can revel in this moment as an historic achievement, but please, no “Booyah! We win, you guys suck!” attitude.
What do You Make of This?
14 January, 2009 — Linda~~~ ~~~ ~~~
This was on the New York Times quiz-of-the-day on Facebook today. I can’t believe that someone somewhere really thinks it necessary to have an Rx medication for growing longer eyelashes!
Who needs this?! Ponder that a moment….. ummm…. no one.
Of all the things a pharmaceutical company could spend billions of dollars researching, why on earth LONGER EYELASHES! Botox wasn’t created as a wrinkle reducer, but that’s one of its alternate uses, which is really good for sales and helps recoup research costs. Now if this drug was created to treat hair re-growth for Alopecea patients, and longer-than-before eyelashes came as a bonus for them, well that’s fabulous!
As if the world doesn’t see Americans as self-involved, elitist pricks already, this shall surely add to that opinion. Of course, this will feed the self-involved vanity for women– and a few men I’m sure– worldwide, but that won’t matter in the world of public opinion.
While we’re still absorbing this astonishing news, let’s add this little head shaker: think about where the money came from for this desperately needed new drug. If the US government spent any of my hard-earned tax payer money on this project, someone in Washington DC needs to be recalled and lobbyist definitely need more control and oversight. If all the money came from Allergan’s own deep pockets then I’ll un-ruff my feathers a little, but we still end up paying for it somehow or other in higher retail prices for other products sold by and through them, or their parent- or sister-company.
There was a time when medications were developed to actually prevent, treat and cure physical ailments. Now we develop them to prevent, treat and cure our perceived genetic flaws. Steroids for your eyelashes, what’s next: steroids for non-public hair? puhleeze.