Tuesday, January 20, 2009

THE END OF AN ERROR

Is he gone yet? Really, are you sure?

I had a nightmare last night! Bush refused to leave the White House. Obama went into the Oval Office and found Dubya chained to that big desk! It took five Marines to remove him and throw his butt on Air Force One and send him back to Texas, where he can cut switch grass ‘til he bleeds!

We almost didn’t get to see the inauguration at Camp Nickleby today. Superintendent Kim Chee, announced with a last-minute memo to all staff, refused to let us show our students this historic moment, telling us to, “Keep teaching them how to fill in bubbles! That’s what’s most important! We don’t care about Obama!” A few of us decided to take a chance and watch what we could during morning break. We huddled in the boat house and watch most of Obama’s speech on my little 10” black and white, battery-powered RCA television. We asked Coach Shrewsbury, loyal McCain/Palin supporter, if he would like to join us. He adamantly refused and has been crying all morning. He will probably remain inconsolable the entire week.

We watched the MSNBC live feed, but about five minutes into the speech, we decided, just for the hell of it, to see what was going on at FOX News. Much to our surprise, they were actually televising the event. We tuned in just in time to see Sean Hannity’s head explode! Literally! Poor Brian Kilmeade, who was co-hosting with El Douché. A big chunk of Hannity’s medulla oblongata landed on Kilmeade head, and slowly inched its way down the side of his face! Unbelievably, Hannity continued pontificating about Obama’s plan to turn the United States into a liberal-homosexual-communist country, even with half of his head missing! What a masterful journalist he has become.

Can’t wait to see what Arne Duncan, Margaret’s successor has in store. By all accounts, it doesn’t look good. I came across this article on TomDispatch.com over the weekend. Read it if you want to cry yourself to sleep tonight. Sounds like we’re in for more of the same on the NCLB front. To the barricades!!!

And with some sense of melancholy, I retire my George W. Bush Countdown Calendar today. It has been a good friend to me this past year. I am in the process of papering the walls of my office with the little squares, to remind me of the wonderful gifts we have received over the past eight, glorious years. Can’t wait to find out what they decide his legacy is going to be.

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