This Land Is Your Land

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Chat on!

Signs of the Times?

My rusty old brain is 98.27% sure I posted these pics before…. did I? 😕

I took them when I arrived for the We Are One concert in DC, two days before President Obama’s 2009 inauguration (Pete Souza need have no fears, his job is safe) – I’m sure lots of you saw the same, or similar, when you went to election rallies.

The funniest thing was the reaction of the crowd to the nutters, who were charmingly abusive, not least that of my sports nut pal who was especially upset by ‘sports nuts’ featuring on the banner between ‘porno freaks’ and ‘drunks’.

Was she as offended by, say, the ‘baby killing women’ and ‘Homos’ references? “‘Yeah! Of course! But WTF?! Sports nuts?!” (As a sports nut, I felt her pain).

Any way, it kinda struck me today, especially after seeing the photo in the post below, that back in January 2009 we could dismiss these people as freaks …. now, you know, it’s beginning to feel like this level of insanity and hate is the ‘conservative’ mainstream.

All that was missing from the banners was a racist slur or two, and a call for the Voting Rights Act to be shredded.

But, yep, ‘mainstream’ insanity and hate, 2013 style.

This land….

More news of the day….

We the Geeks Part 3

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FACT: Health care reform saved consumers nearly $4 billion on their insurance premiums last year. http://t.co/bLrfwFy98e #ObamacareInAction

— The White House (@whitehouse) June 20, 2013

Report referenced below

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New ACA report http://t.co/StE0yBei1h shows “medical inflation will likely fall to 6.5 % next year — a 50 year low.” http://t.co/tZ7x35EaJr

— The Lovely Plains (@DaRiverZkind) June 19, 2013

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We’re in this fight for the long run. RETWEET if you are, too. #DemandAction pic.twitter.com/BxcgOtuLvz

— Demand Action (@DemandAction) June 19, 2013

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Looking forward to speaking to a great audience tonight at @LULAC. –VP #LULAC13

— Office of VP Biden (@VP) June 20, 2013

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RT if you agree: We can’t afford to let student loan rates double in 11 days. #DontDoubleMyRate, pic.twitter.com/RU49Xb5zJQ

— The White House (@whitehouse) June 20, 2013

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Wow. Just. Wow. http://t.co/vUKjuPHmb7

— Brad Woodhouse (@woodhouseb) June 20, 2013

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“Yes, we will find you.”

 

Happy Presidents’ Day – This Land is Your Land

We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial, January 18, 2009

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Some of you have already had the pleasure of seeing a selection of my epic photos from the concert, but for anyone unlucky enough to have missed them…..

Okay, this isn’t actually one of mine:

But this is: 😎

Photographic proof I wasn’t right at the back, there were some – true, not many – behind me:

Denzil, looking me right in the eye, in a swoony kind of way:

Me and Bono:

Bruce serenading me:

A close-up of President Obama about to speak:

Another Pete Souza-esque photo of President Obama:

If you’re not careful, I’ll post more some time soon.

Happy Presidents’ Day everyone.

‘Telling the President how we got engaged’

Thank you Meta!

“Yes we did – and yes we will”

Thank you @utaustinliberal

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