On The Nobel

I was gonna write about that tonight, but then I saw this video from the Rachel Maddow Show from last night:



As usual, she nails it.

I may write more about it later.

Just What Do You Think A Stimulus Is?

More of President Obama's speech last night (a part of which I quoted below):

Quote of the Day

"When you start hearing arguments on the cable chatter, just understand a couple of things. Number one, when they say, well, why are we spending $800 billion -- we've got this huge deficit? First of all, I found this deficit when I showed up."

President Barack Obama, telling it like it is.

Has It Really Only Been A Week?

I swear, it seems like a lot longer since we saw Dubya get on that helicopter and fly away.

Maybe it's because President Obama has accomplished so much more for the People, We in his first week in office than the previous Occupant did in ... oh, his entire life.

What do y'all think?

Moon Bricks

Take some moon dust, add some ground up spaceship, zap the mix with electricity, and presto! Moon bricks. Astronauts living on the moon could someday use such a formula to construct an interlocking, virtually indestructible dome-shaped home. "The habitat would look just like an igloo," said Kathryn Logan, a professor at Virginia Tech involved in the project. "No nails, no cement would be necessary to hold it together. The shape of the bricks will do that."

Science is so cool!!

And now that we don't have an anti-science buffoon in the White House, well, lots of things can now happen.

Amen!

I hardly ever mention religion, cause it's my belief that yours is none of my business, and vice-versa, but sometimes....



Dr. Joseph Lowery giving the Benediction at the Inauguration of Barack Obama.

...that you will help us work for that day when Black will not be asked to get back, when Brown can stick around, when Yellow will be mellow, when the Red man, can get ahead, man, and when White will embrace what is right. Let all those who'll do Justice and love Mercy say "Amen!" Say "Amen! and Amen!!"

That was what a preacher should sound like. And yes, my agnostic self was saying "Amen!" at the end.

Yay C-SPAN!

They're already streaming inaugural events... right now I'm watching President-Elect Obama greet every single person at a Community Service Luncheon at some High School in DC.

Very cool.

So, if you're like me and don't have access to a TV, go here to see the happenings.

Lucky Number 851!

According to Blogger, this is post #851 here at Phydeaux and Phriends.

So, Dear Readers, about what should I talk for this most momentous post?

Please tell me, cause I got nothin'.

By the way, as of this writing, Barack Obama will be President of the United States in 39 hours.

Countdown

Nothing to do with Keith Olbermann.

If you will look to your right, in the sidebar, you will see that it is less than one Flood until we have a new President!!

Yay!!!!

What are your plans for 1/20/09?

Computer Side Chats?

President-elect Barack Obama will make weekly broadcasts on YouTube when he becomes president. His campaign said Friday that he will keep making the weekly radio reports that presidents have made on the model of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “fireside chats” — 30 speeches by radio that president made between 1933 and 1944. They’ve become part of American nostalgia and lore, with Norman Rockwell-esque images of families gathered around the antique radio set to hear the speech.

(Atlanta Business Chronicle)

How very cool. I like that he will be bypassing the MSM to get his messages directly to the public. When is the last time anyone actually listened to the "weekly radio address", anyway? All I've ever heard is snippets on the NPR hourly headlines.

Bookmark the YouTube Channel now and beat the (War Against) Christmas rush!!!!

Blue Gal Kicks Ass -- Yet Again

(h/t [duh] to Blue Gal)