Technically yes, but according to some constitutional law eggheads I work with the power to sign legislation (ie closing Guantanamo bay) is dependent on a successful completion of the oath. So there is a suggestion that the oath be readministered in private ASAP to forestall any future challenges.

And speaking of Guantanamo bay....

Does anyone know if Obama is shutting down:

Guantanamo bay naval station

or

Just the prison at Guantanamo bay naval station?

If he shuts anything down it will just be the prison. There's no way we're letting the forced lease of Guantanamo Bay lapse any time soon.

If it will be difficult for Obama to start normalizing relations with Cuba while Fidel/Raul/puppet are still in power it would be a complete ****storm if he gave up the base. The best $3,000 our government tries but fails to spend each year.

As for Lowrey ... those who think all the blacks, reds and yellows of this country haven't been consistently oppressed and victimized by whites need to get that reality check Obama referenced in his speech, and stat. (Yeah, not by all whites, but all who oppressed and vicitmized them HAVE BEEN WHITE.)

Sheesh. What a load of perfect-example White-Privilege Blindhood crap from scaeagles and jazzman. Get a fracking clue! No one's accusing YOU personally.


And yeah, a black man was inaugurated president on the National Mall yesterday, where Martin Luther King famously had a dream 30 years earlier. If you didn't expect other black men to take a dig at White Supremacy on that day, you yourself were dreaming.

metaphor? Apropos of what?

Chris Matthews said over and over and over that Cheney in a wheelchair was "like a metaphor". It was retarded.

That is lame.

I don't think he looked like he had a stroke. He just looked pissed off that he was stuck in the wheelchair, and pained to be alive. Like he always looks.

As a smarter person than I quipped, "Cheney in a wheelchair would be a metaphor....if this were FICTION."

After we had enough crappy commentary we switched to CSPAN. Ahh.

I guess generalities are OK if you think they're OK, but not if you think they're not. I didn't suggest anyone was talking to me personally. When McCain used the term Gook he wasn't talking to every Asain. I'm sure Koreans in the Los Angeles area don't hate every black person. I would figure that women are oppressed by men of all races. A large majority of the black population voted for prop 8 in CA. I could go on and on, but it's pointless.

Next time someone uses the term "that's so gay", I'm sure they don't mean it as demeaning to all gay people, so it must be OK. Or if someone says they want to "Jew someone down", that's OK, because they didn't mean all Jews are greedy. Or if I call a man a rag head, it's OK, because not all Middle Eastern people wear headdresses.

Open your eyes, ISM, and you get a "fracking clue" that the only generalities that are acceptable are negative toward white people. They aren't the only ones used by any means, but they are the ones that are even remotely accepted.

Yes, it was.

Oh, and under the heading of "Oh No, She Didn't"...

A group of coworkers and I were discussing the Inaugural. One woman piped up with "I didn't watch it, but is it true he used a Koran?" We all stared at her with astonishment. "Well, he's a Muslim, and I heard that's what he was going to use." she added.

God God(s)! I have to work with this person!