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user-inactivated  ·  2624 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 18, 2017

How'd you do? The thing happened, I think, although I was on a plane.

A plane, incidentally, which had to be rebalanced by the trustworthy method of moving a couple of people toward the back. I was thinking of demanding compensation for playing the role of counterweight in addition to that of passenger.





wasoxygen  ·  2624 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, as veen pointed out I didn't have to watch very long to find out that another bet went bust. I left it on though, and NBC News cut back and forth to downtown protesters. One guy with an "antiestablishment slant" took questions as an ad hoc spokesperson for the vandals and gawkers and hardly flinched as flashbang grenades and tear gas bombs went off just behind him. Periscope has been entertaining as well.

Norman Borlaug got a long mention before the victory luncheon, and the new president did not close his eyes during the prayer. A Starbucks on I Street got its windows smashed, possibly the one I patronized on Thursday morning. I asked the manager why all the furniture was missing; he said they were expecting record crowds and they wanted to maximize flow; he said nothing about projectiles.

veen  ·  2624 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I watched his speech (for some reason, Dutch public broadcasting thought it was important enough to broadcast live) and he did name previous presidents in his first line.