That's an insult to head lice everywhere.

He's just freakin' NUMB. Totally numbed out.

Deterioration on parade.

I remember hearing that song - "Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, HEY-hey-hey, GOO-OOD BYE!!!"

I remember hearing that song that day - emanating FROM THE CROWD.

From the CROWD!!! As that helicopter lifted off. You could hear it on TV, during the live coverage. People in that crowd saw and responded - just spontaneously breaking into song as that helicopter lifted off, carrying those detestable people away. I couldn't believe it! I was so proud, and happy - just the capper of a GREAT day when we were starting over with a NEW President - one for whom I'd voted and worked and donated! It felt like a huge release from a long, miserable, arduous hostage hold. I felt as though I'd just been released from jail or something. My son was there as a Presidential Scholar, and he called me about that - from there where the crowd was singing. He told me he sang along - and he knew I would approve! AND I DID!!!!!

What a great day - and a SUPER-GREAT moment, capping off a great day! Like a jumbo-sized hot fudge sundae with a cherry on top that was the size of a basketball!

Man, NO KIDDING, randome.

No kidding. I'm going to be thinking about this for a long time. Thank you for sharing this so generously and eloquently, SmileyRose. It's a journey we'll all be taking sooner or later.

Another DUer, GiveMeFreedom, also just posted here about facing that new turn in the road.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2744090

I don't like the thought of losing some of our beloved voices here, although it's part of life, for sure.

SmileyRose, you're meeting this transition with such peace, calm, poise, strength, class, courage, serenity, and acceptance.

This one's gonna stay with me, too.

Safe passage.

Thanks!

He's certainly the apple of my eye (well, one eye anyway. The other eye is his sister's)!

Thanks. I'll take every micron!

Well put!

I don't see it in this case, either. They had a horrific job to do with two murderous renegades with homemade bombs forcryingoutloud! Just finding them - in the photographs as well as on the city streets - mindblowing what a task that would be! I don't see any police state stuff in this. I see law enforcement protecting the people during a crisis of life-threatening magnitude. They run TOWARD trouble, the way firefighters run TOWARD the inferno. While the rest of us are instructed to run to safety. And there were no civilian casualties in bringing the perps in. And only one of them was killed. The other's condition was upgraded from serious to fair today and he's lived to hear his Miranda rights.

Great point by Will, too - these were the very same precautions the greater Boston area heard just a couple of months ago. Anyone remember Storm Nemo? My kid's band had to withdraw from the last three nights of their tour because their little tour buggy couldn't make it to New England through all the snow and wind and blizzards. Awful. Boston was shut down then, too.

Can we cut republi-CON legislators' pay - just BECAUSE???

You know the whole "starve the beast" thing? Maybe they should wear that one around for awhile.

Awwww... sweet baby dog!

Hope she feels better!!! Goldie sends her best...

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Welcome to DU, Soundman!

Glad you're here! I still despise ronald reagan. Thought, at the time, that he was THE MOST Dangerous Man in America, if not the world, because he made it all sound SOOOOOOOOOoooooooo nice and folksy and harmless and amiable as hell. He made it all go down easy, swallowed whole, and had all the swallowers begging for more.

He singlehandedly did more damage to this country than anyone short of Lee Harvey Oswald, Nixon, bush/cheney, and Mohammed Atta.

If I were unencumbered and a lot younger, I'd launch a campaign to follow around whoever that asshole is - who's determined to stick ronald reagan's name on schools, highways, public buildings, parks, and sewers too, I suppose, in every state or county or whatever it is, and DISMANTLE whatever he just did.