Today is the last full day of the George W. Bush presidency

And how will you celebrate?

(Since the big party friends are throwing will be Tuesday night, for tonight I'm thinking a good dinner with some excellent sake so I can toast W. with a hearty 'farewell and fuck off.')

good riddance

I'm having some friends over so I can read the crimes of Dick Cheney aloud. After each crime is read we will raise our glasses and toast "Go fuck yourself!"

apparently i will stay up rather late and then sleep in

This all goes on at like 3 am here. Tempted to get up specially but probably won't.

I'm going to spend all day hanging out at my ranch instead of working

I'm having some friends over so I can read the crimes of Dick Cheney aloud. After each crime is read we will raise our glasses and toast "Go fuck yourself!"

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, January 19, 2009 2:13 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

ay big hoos, there is this tradition on the jew holiday of passover wherein the 10 plagues of passover are read allowed and after each one everyone at the table says "dayenu", a hebrew word that roughly translates to "enough to us" and then everyone dips their pinkie in red wine and dabs it on their plate to symbolize the blood of the dead

i think you should involve red wine in your ceremony

oh btw

attn: george walker bush

http://flywithbats.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/l_5828718d04046479dbeda956f6bd2c50.jpg

BIG JEWS aka the...........nevermind

Wow, I'd never heard of that Passover ritual. I love Jordan's suggestion.

it's my tradition to make a smiley face with the drops of red wine.

i'm going to invade a small, defenseless nation and do all the plundering and earth-scorching i can until 11:59pm, when i will pull out.

I read that the wine ritual was originally spitting, but that got too gross.

honestly i think if i thought too hard or did anything for this i would cry

I moved to Seattle just days after GWB first got inaugurated. So, I'll just be looking around seeing a Seattle with a Democrat president for the first time ever. It will be weird.

granted, WTO happened on Clinton's term, to name one example of how little this matters, so I don't expect the city to just crack out of a pupa of self-imposted depression or anything, but I think the city as a whole will have less of a common cause or thing to rant about. Maybe good or bad.

i cant believe how long george bush has been in my life - its sort of ridiculous - im ready for a change - sry bro smell u l8r

srsly i have never really seriously been conscious of another president i don't know if my mind can handle this

I am trying to think of the inevitable things the press will tell us about over the next 100 days.

* weekly update on how the economy has not improved (enough) in the past week under Obama's stewardship
* at least two or three massive magazine or major newspaper puff pieces profiling military members who are now able to be openly gay (though everyone they worked with knew already)
* continuing endless stream of weird, unconsciously bigoted shit from the NYT

So much to look forward to!

btw

i think you should involve red wine in your ceremony

― jordy (J0rdan S.), Monday, January 19, 2009 10:17 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

am down

* Watchmen review that is actually just about the last eight years instead of being about the movie (bonus points for spending at least one para on how 300 was also a political statement)

tombototm

* daily gitmo/iraq/pakistan "IS THE GWOT OVER? CIRCLE ONE YES NO MAYBE"

* Daily Kos outrage at unicorns not coming out of glittering ponds days after inauguration

I am envisioning the Kos/SCA crossover world and wish to vom.

im thinking the why isnt everything better already meme will only really take hold amongst sarcastic wingnut bloggers - everyone is just so exhausted by the bullshit at this point the combination of small incremental change and grand symbolic gestures will satisfy prob for a couple years

like have u heard this rumor obamas gonna give a big important speech in a muslim country in his 1st 100 days - genuinely curious to see what political pyrotechnics hes got up his sleeve

i read egypt, probably somewhere near the pyramids

No wonder the Grateful Dead support him.

it's big whoopdee-doo news up here that Obama's first foreign visit will be with Canada (not a Muslim state) (yet).

apparently he's going to fix all our problems too.

actually, the news outlets here for the last few days has been pondering whether or not he will be "bad for Canada".

In what sense?

if Harper manages to get himself a majority government, Canada might actually consider their leader more embarrassing than Obama.

:-O

and you know what that means to a lot of "U.S. Sucks, neener neener" Canadians. (none of which are here, but they do exist. oh do they exist.)

am going out drinking tonight with buds at bar w/ tons and tons of beer on tap

good riddens you fucking sociopath, though I will miss your way with words

In what sense?

the whole free trade issue - some are worried he may try to renegotiate it (which might not be all bad imho) or just walk away from it in favour of a more protectionist approach. there's arctic sovereignty - no one is quite sure how Obama feels on this one but having Clinton take on the issue does not bode well for us. and then there the oil sands - the concern is that since it's "dirty energy" it may find itself with some harsh critics in his administration (who will be ignored, i think).

if Harper manages to get himself a majority government, Canada might actually consider their leader more embarrassing than Obama.

i'm already embarrassed by Harper.
beyond words.

what the hell is arctic sovereignty? why would anyone argue over a fucken giant icecube?

A rapidly melting ice cube

and soon to be new ocean

resource rich ocean.

yah ships sailed that melt this summer

and you guys are being totally unreasonable about the whole thing!

xpost

yeah there was a great article in harpers a couple months back about the whole detente shit happening and how hilarious it is because we're laying claim to something we basically have no right to lay claim to other than because FUK U WE AMERICA

america n canada n mexico should just join 2gether already would be a amazing country imo

Forming the Organization of North American Nations?

we'd need a kick-ass new name tho.

Acronymic jest cribbed from David Foster Wallace.

xpost "FONAN" is no good.

what the hell is arctic sovereignty? why would anyone argue over a fucken giant icecube?

Putin's Arctic invasion: Russia lays claim to the North Pole - and all its gas, oil, and diamonds

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/06_03/PutinDM_468x658.jpg

Needs tweaking?

RIP

sad day for all comedians frankly

joe biden jokes ahoy

I am celebrating in my heeart

Yeah, will the Daily Show drape the set in black?

I keep hearing Bill Hicks yell "The elephant is dead!" and then chortling.

IT'S THE 20TH HERE!!! All over as far as I'm concerned (although bush was never president of fucking anything at all imo)

I hope everyone is celebrating this:

'Vice President Dick Cheney is set to attend the inauguration in a wheelchair after pulling a muscle in his back while moving boxes.'

I have spent this evening with my class at a potluck in my flat. As most of my class is indian there has been indian food and dancing to bollywood videos on youtube.

My fondest wish: Bush opens his mail in his Crawford home, and finds a Congressional subpoena.

l-r: lame duck, lame dick

^cackles

ay big hoos, there is this tradition on the jew holiday of passover wherein the 10 plagues of passover are read allowed and after each one everyone at the table says "dayenu", a hebrew word that roughly translates to "enough to us" and then everyone dips their pinkie in red wine and dabs it on their plate to symbolize the blood of the dead

i think you should involve red wine in your ceremony

― jordy (J0rdan S.), Monday, January 19, 2009 5:17 AM (17 hours ago) Bookmark

I think you're mixing up two different traditions. One is where you read the plagues and spill a drop of red wine for each one for the Egyptians who died. Dayenu is a separate thing where you talk about all the great stuff God did and say if he had only done x "it would be enough."

Number of news stories from 1998 to Election Day 2000 containing “George W. Bush” and “aura of inevitability”: 206
…
Minimum number of calls the FBI received in fall 2001 from Utah residents claiming to have seen Osama bin Laden: 20

Harper's Index: A Retrospective of the Bush Era

Fun stuff.

http://www.swotti.com/tmp/swotti/cacheZ2VVCMDLIHCGYNVZAA==UGVVCGXLLVBLB3BSZQ==/imgGeorge%20W%20Bush3.jpg

see u!

http://63.134.213.184/_media/imgs/articles/a301_b9.jpg

Bye! Don't smack your head and fucking DIE on the way out

Dumbya!

I'm in no more mood to celebrate than I was when Reagan died. Damage done.

This is the last day of our acquaintence
O O O

yeah i don't think i'll be celebrating in any way? i mean, i'm going to watch the stuff this morning, but i think that's it

i might fart and act crazy

so, just another day.

troo

i have done both already this morning

o man that harper's index is great

Number of box cutters taken from U.S. airline passengers since January 2002: 105,075

wtf

What, you don't bring a box cutter with you wherever you go?

uh yeah i'd be more likely to celebrate bush's departure if he'd been voted out instead of serving a full two terms. SUCK ON IT BUSH YOU ONLY GOT EIGHT YEARS OF PRESIDENCY

cutting boxes is a great way to pass the time on long flights

i use a box cutter as my keychain :/

I'd like to know what the crowd at that backdoor "departure ceremony" for Shrub and The Angler is gonna be like. GOP funders only, I assume.

and a couple of depressed hookers

Well, there was this party.

He waved goodbye over the opening chords of "Don't Stop Believin'."

CUT TO BLACK

hahaha

"He's good," Perino said, describing the president's mood. "He's the president of the United States, the way he always is. He hasn't changed. He gave me a big kiss on the forehead."

and a couple of depressed hookers

"rock, paper, scissors? loser has to 'around-the-world' Turdblossom"

"In light of popularity poll numbers that make Richard Nixon look like a greased Chippendale at a bachelorette party, I just want to say that we can all agree on one thing: whether you're an immigrant terrorist or non-terrorist, a bellyaching homo, a legless Iraqazoid, a drowned corpse bloating in the New Orleans sun, an effete Huffington Post-reading urban iPhone zombie, or a Hannity-worshipping redneck patrio-fascist, a negro, a Mexi-rican, a normal guy, a feminist, a stoner, or a fixed income oldster reduced to buying Walgreens-brand Depends, odds are you're tickled pink that I'm getting the fuck outta Dodge..."

http://whitehouse.org/news/farewell.asp

The Bushes left the Capitol in a helicopter at 12:55 — almost half an hour ahead of time.

Cheney providing the fucking lols:

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/332/cheneyaa9.jpg

ho boy

I listened on radio, so haven't seen the fashion stuff yet. He does look remarkably like he burned his hand on an egyptian amulet with directions to a secret treasure there, doesn't he?

nice of abramoff to lend him a hat

I am now watching live web streaming of President Bush's return home to Texas, sponsored by 7 Eleven and Fina.

l-r: nice man, cunt, dr strangelove

He does look remarkably like he burned his hand on an egyptian amulet with directions to a secret treasure there, doesn't he?

http://www.monstersandcritics.de/downloads/downloads/articles2/72105/article_images/image4_1207336168.jpg

http://www.scificool.com/images/2008/04/jennifer-connelly-dark-city.jpg

http://www.numberninethegallery.com/artists/200512171811_christopher_lloyd.jpg

Karl Rove on GWB: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123258532378704477.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_mostpop