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Scared Silly
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UT
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 20, 2009 - 12:06pm PT
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Some 35 years latter this excerpt from former President Gerald Ford's remarks after taking the Oath Of Office as President seems appropriate:
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
I should add that for the first time in my life I actually watched the inauguration. Yo-Yo Ma and company were very nice. Though I could do without the religious aspects the benediction was excellent. Senator Feinstien did a very nice job as well.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Jan 20, 2009 - 12:27pm PT
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You can wake up from a nightmare, and realize you have to live with a hangover.
But that's reality. Let's live with it as best we can and make it into an adventure.
Peace
Karl
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Jan 20, 2009 - 12:28pm PT
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Amen
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Crag
Trad climber
Pennsyltuckey
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Jan 20, 2009 - 12:34pm PT
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Well put Karl...
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philo
Trad climber
boulder, co.
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Jan 20, 2009 - 12:36pm PT
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Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last!
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Forest
Trad climber
Tucson, AZ
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Jan 20, 2009 - 12:40pm PT
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This is also the first inauguration I've watched.
Something in me was dreading something coming up at the last minute, unlikely as I knew that to be.
As my dad likes to say, today is the first day of the rest of our lives.
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Barbarian
Trad climber
stealth camping and hiding from the man
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Jan 20, 2009 - 12:42pm PT
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George Bush is no longer President.
Cheney is still and will forever be, a D*ck.
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graniteclimber
Trad climber
Nowhere
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Jan 20, 2009 - 12:46pm PT
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Goodbye George, W. Bush, worst president ever.
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blackbird
Trad climber
the flat water trails...
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Jan 20, 2009 - 12:50pm PT
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I can only echo the sentiments of Karl and Forest
To that I'll add my thoughts on the classical arrangement: Copeland's version (Appalachian Spring) of Simple Gifts has always been one of my favs both to play and to hear/feel. In either presentation (Copeland's or the traditional Simple Gifts) I find it to be a rather appropriate - and hopeful - selection.
BB
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Jan 20, 2009 - 12:57pm PT
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Perlman, Yoyo and company rocked the house.
"Aretha's a big lady, but when she rocks, everybody digs it! Everybody wants to party with Aretha!!"
Jack Black
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Arid-zona
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Jan 20, 2009 - 01:23pm PT
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I have to say that Yoyo ensemble was amazing.
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Barbarian
Trad climber
stealth camping and hiding from the man
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Jan 20, 2009 - 01:33pm PT
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Yes. The ensemble and the choice were perfect for the time. Play a tape of that performance for your local school board when they try to cut your music program to save a few bucks!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Jan 23, 2009 - 07:57pm PT
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Hilarious!
Play a tape is right!
Just heard on the news that that is what THEY did!
Looks like its time for the Milli Vanilli comeback,..
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Jan 23, 2009 - 08:25pm PT
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aint real. don't count. do-over
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Chaz
Trad climber
Boss Angeles
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Jan 23, 2009 - 09:03pm PT
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The Marine Corps Band managed to actually play music, live right there on-the-spot.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Jan 23, 2009 - 09:39pm PT
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They should have got jstan to play his bagpipes. Now THAT would have been something to see!
Although I gather that bagpipes, if not their players, are quite weather sensitive.
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Chaz
Trad climber
Boss Angeles
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Jan 23, 2009 - 09:42pm PT
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The Marine Corps Band had cooler haircuts.
And they played live.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Jan 23, 2009 - 09:46pm PT
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dirtbag
climber
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Jan 23, 2009 - 09:52pm PT
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"Been so damn inspiring watching Obama the last couple days!! "
I've actually enjoyed following the news.
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Chaz
Trad climber
Boss Angeles
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Jan 23, 2009 - 09:55pm PT
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Unless you watch TV, you'd never know anything was different.
Day-to-day American life goes on today exactly the [mc]same as it did last week.
Only Geeks think they can see a *difference*.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Jan 23, 2009 - 10:03pm PT
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TGT,
Your post reflects my pre-election fears, but so far, he's doing OK. I hope he continues doing well. That depends on his ability to keep his congressional friends, or maybe I should say fiends, in check.
As for Yo-Yo Ma, as fine a cellist as he is, he disappoints me in the music that really matters -- the Beethoven Sonatas Ops. 102a and 102b -- but I still liked the ensemble. Overall, it was a good day and a good week, even for this Republican.
John
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Jaybro
Social climber
wuz real!
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Jan 23, 2009 - 10:05pm PT
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"Live it, of live with it!"
Yo Yo, is one of the good ones, I've always though.
Funk never stopped burning the house down!
-"We need the Funk!!"
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bobinc
Trad climber
Portland, Or
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Jan 23, 2009 - 10:05pm PT
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John Roberts could have benfited from some lip-syncing on Tuesday.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Jan 23, 2009 - 10:17pm PT
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I ferverently hope that he's a down and dirty pragmatic Chicago pol, but I fear he's going to be every bit a Carter.
As far as the inaguration,
Aretha, overwrought, (I'l give her slack for the emotion and the cold)
Williams score, somber, depressing
The poet, an embarasing waste of third grade vocabulary
The speech, journeyman in delivery, trite in composition.
The benediction, insulting to those that voted him into office.
The Marines and the Navy, on top of it as always.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Jan 26, 2009 - 06:21am PT
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Now I did not see or hear the inauguration, so I cannot comment on it.
But I was wondering what the Aretha Hat thread was about. Am I to understand that Aretha Franklin wore some sort of hat that caused a bit of comments?
Did the Beatles really play live on the Ed Sullivan Show, or was it taped and they lipped the words?
Maybe my nephew, once he graduates from the Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego this week, can apply to get into the Marine Corps Band. At least it will keep him out of harm’s way.
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