Inauguration aftermath video on BBC

View it here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/7843635.stm

DEADLINE THIS FRIDAY, JANUARY 23. The Ukrainian-Americans for Obama-Biden team will publish congratulatory ads in several Ukrainian American publications. Add your name to the list of signatures. To be listed, you must be eligible to vote in the U.S. Send an email to olympics@brama.com with your full name and the state in which you reside. Each signatory should send a separate email.

Invite your friends and family members to join the list too. Send them this link:
http://www.ukrainiansforobama.com/node/39

Hallelujah! The inauguration ceremonies were a thrill to watch today. God bless President Obama and this country!

Well,

Say that it is 6 weeks from now or so, and that following fundamentals hold up:

1) What played in Chicago stayed in Chicago.
2) What's not good for GM is not so bad, after all, for America.
3) President-elect Obama meant what he said when he wrote the Audacity of Hope, so that, in fact, it would be safe for the President-elect to say:

"Ah (I) did not have politics with that man!", to paraphrase the last great Democratic Presdent.

I have yet to check the Rapture Index, but these are bad signs, aren't they?

Christian Monks have at it in Jerusalem:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7718587.stm

Riots in front of the Icelandic legislature, incidentally, the single oldest continuous democratic government in the Western Hemisphere, btw:
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-143003

What next?

Of course, if these were your tax dollars, they would not give a crap, but this is "GOP" money:

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-palin6-2008nov06...

Well, it's been almost 24 hours now since the Obama victory. I am pleasantly surprised that we Dems have not found a way to hork up our victory already.

So, in my never ending search for hard statistics to help me understand life, and in the spirit of, say, (Senator elect?) Al Franken, I bring you Yet Another Thing For Democrats To Worry About (YATDWA):

Turns out, we are nearing end times!
http://www.sltrib.com/faith/ci_10859913

As you can learn from this article, Obama is generally not considered to be the Anti-Christ, (Phew)

According to Wikipedia (okay, okay -- maybe not the most reliable source) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landslide_victory], a landslide win in the U.S. would be 60% of the electoral votes, or 55.5% of the popular vote.

I haven't seen any numbers yet on the popular count, but if 60% of 538 total votes in the electoral college constitutes a landslide victory, Obama's 338 (so far) has already beat the minimum of 323 by 15 votes.

Missouri (11) and North Carolina (15) have yet to be weighed in, and it would be excellent if he gained one or both of those.

Congratulations to our new President-elect Barack Obama. The country came together, voted for Change and gave President Obama a resounding mandate with an overwhelming margin in the Electoral College and big gains for Democrats in the House and Senate. Congratulations and thanks are also due to all the Ukrainian-Americans who did their part in this historic victory. Not only did U-A's contribute to victory in "safe" states like New York and New Jersey, they got in their cars and drove to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, etc. to join people already on the ground to help tip the margin in these key battleground states.

I've been living and voting at the same address in Manhattan for 25 years, and in all that time I have never encountered a line at the polls -- any line at all -- before today. It wasn't nearly as long as the ones being reported in states other than New York during early voting, but if my neighborhood is any indication, this is promising to be a record year for ballots cast. Fortunately, the process was pretty efficient and it took no more than 20-30 minutes to get to the voting booth. Now, there's just the wait to see how it all ends.