Our next president here in the U.S. of A. in a little more than 12 hours will be a part-white/part-black kid whose mother is from Kansas and dad is from Kenya. He was born in Hawaii, became an adult in Chicago and will live with his beautiful wife and two children in the White House for at least the next four years. So, I think the most apt song for the occasion is Woody Guthrie’s “This Land.” Feel free to join in the chorus.
Bye George (for good this time)
The President and Mrs. President during an elegant-type moment.
In less than 24 hours George W. will no longer be president. Since I gave him a hard time practically the entire past three years EFD has been around, I thought I’d just sit back and give the blog a big smile in anticipation of no more Bush-Cheney.
The Folksmen – Blood on the Coals
Bottle Rockets | Indianapolis
Fox News does what it does best: Hypocrisy
Fox News, which can be sanctimonious as often as it can demonstrate a right-wing bias, jumped on the Denison, Texas, school district today for releasing the elementary school records of Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger III. Sullenberger was the United Airlines pilot who miraculously landed his Airbus A320 in New York’s Hudson River Thursday without any loss of life or life-threatening injuries.
The news story on the Fox News Web site said the district released the 57-year-old Sullenberger’s records, which were almost a half-century old, by accident. And even though Fox’s headline castigates the Denison district for giving out the private information, the network doesn’t see anything wrong with running a copy of those same records for all to see. Luckily Sullenberger was a very intelligent individual as a young man as well as in adulthood so perhaps the release won’t be too upsetting to him.
Sullenberger is rightfully being hailed as a hero for his actions. That is almost as obvious as his intelligence and his overwhelming luck. For as one news person noted yesterday, whenever a plane crashes rarely is just one thing that has gone wrong but it instead is a chain of events. All the events involved in the ditching yesterday, the flock of geese excepted, seemed to go right for Sullenberger, his crew and his very alive passengers.