Probably not… they’re really keeping it under wraps. But a few people found out about it somehow, and according to the Washington Post, they’re not happy about all the money being spent on it:
A grandmother of four sent the White House a tongue-in-cheek invitation to hold the inauguration at her house under rented tents, proposing to free up millions of dollars to feed and house the poor…
“I was just outraged when I was made aware of the amount of money being spent on a party,” said Sandra Mikovich-Pogorelc, a manager for a pharmaceutical company near San Diego who e-mailed her disgust to the White House.
“The money could be used for other things. I don’t resent anyone who goes. I just feel it’s such a waste…”
Internet blog sites… are filled with discussions about the human suffering that could be alleviated with the $35 million to $40 million being spent on the inauguration.
That seems a bit churlish, doesn’t it? A presidential inauguration is the celebration of a peaceful transfer of power. It’s an amazing symbol of what makes this country great. Is $40 million really that much to spend, when weighed against that? Shouldn’t these poor misguided folks put aside their petty partisan differences and get behind our new president?
Hey, wait a sec… $35 to $40 million? I thought Obama’s inauguration was going to cost more like $170 million? Hold on, let me double-check something…
Oh, I see what happened. I was looking at a WaPo story from January 2005. You know, when Bush was inaugurated again (assuming you’re naive enough to believe he actually won the first time). That changes everything. $40 million? Unconscionable! No wonder the Rethuglicans thought they could get away with spending all that money on Sarah Palin’s wardrobe. Four years later, I still can’t believe those bloodthirsty fatcat tyrants thought they could get away with blowing all that money on an inauguration!
But now that nightmare is finally over. What’s an extra hundred million or so for a coronation an inauguration? Can you really put a price tag on the most important day in American history? You’d better not if you know what’s good for you.
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You know what, this is typical Republican hateful bitterness exuding from every line of this hateful and bitter post! The Dali Bama is a GREAT man who accomplished a GREAT thing and . . . and . . . and . . . you know what, you Republicans are just sore that he won and you didn’t!
Because you know, if McCain won and had matched Bush’s inaugeration cost, he’d be crucified. But whatever our ethnically correct president-elect does is, y’know, the right thing.
Do anyone think there will be some CHANGE left after to do something worthwhile?
Habanada, hypocrites complained about Bush’s $40 million inauguration. Two Congressmen actually wrote letters to Bush bitching about the cost. So how many of those same critics are all over Obama for this? Oh that’s right, it’s okay for Democrats to spend in an economic crisis!
I never thought I would ever be sick of reading the news but here I am……
At least Obama has forced me to find a hobby.
It’s hilarious that you people think you’re the only one to notice the big price tag. I am so incredibly sick of the bitching. I thought it was overly extravagant as well, but Christ does everyone with access to the internet need to post their very own rant?
As a black person for the first time in my life. I’m proud to be an AMERICAN. I’ve always been happy to be an American but never proud. I guess what I’m getting at is… I don’t care if some people are crying about the cost of the inauguration. We will make it up with all the kids Obama will inspire to become doctors, lawyers, and teachers etc. Because they can see its possible to be something other than a drug dealer or football player. BTW I get taxed like everybody else who is lucky enough to still have a job.
Look if the banks can spend bail out money on a party, and the car companies can fly executives in private jets when they are asking for a handout. I don’t see any problem spending that kind of money on a party after he has already won. Because it grows on trees, you know, in my backyard.
You sir, are obviously a racist.
The above line(and it’s many variations) is why no one will criticize that man.
Wonder why Olbermann isn’t talking about such hypocrisy. Gee whiz. Can’t Michael Moore make a smarmy movie about this in his free time? You know how he hates capitalism and all. Except when it means that his movies make him truckloads of money, of course.
I love America.
You guys are all crazy. $40,000,0000 isn’t too much money for nude pictures of Rosanne Barr.
Wait what were we talking about again?
I’m a little confused- reading the article you linked to, it keeps talking about how the government budget for the event is still 45 million, but that a ton of additional money has been donated, and that the anticipated crowd needs are making the surrounding area request money to cover police costs etc.
Okay, still a ridiculous amount of money, granted. But…well, if people want to give more money to Saint Obama’s party than they did to Bush…what exactly is the remedy for that? And if more people are showing up than in previous shindigs and driving up costs…okay, I guess they could have told more people not to come, but that’s a different issue.
Sure, that money should be put to better use, but that’s not exactly a clear-cut example of how awful them Democrats are being…as I read it their big crime is being given more money than Bush was and being willing to spend it. And anticipating more people wanting to come. Which kind of boils down to the basic Obama complaint I keep hearing, that he’s more popular than he deserves to be. It’s true, but …that isn’t exactly ground breaking hypocrisy.
I still look forward to you guys catching more of the crap I know this administration is going to pull
tips@deceiver.com
There is a thought that if the money was not spent on the inauguration it may be spent on the poor. That thought is simply illogical.
Hey Deceiver, did you hear Oprah had the Bidens on her show? I wonder when the Bushes or the Cheneys are going on.
Hang onto your hat.
The hypocrisy is in complaining about the expense in 2005 but celebrating it in 2009.
Simon, it not hypocritical when there is “change and hope” involved. You must not have got the memo.
This is hardly a shocker. I don’t trust or respect politicians no matter what party they represent. So, coming from that mindset, I find it pretty frightening that Obama is getting away with things like this without widespread criticism because he’s just the second coming and all that. No matter what he does as president, he’s going to let down a lot of unrealistic worshippers.
And honestly, that’s an obscene amount of money.
Here’s to hoping all those big money Hollywood types footed at least some of the bill. They are the only ones in America who seem to have money these days.
For $3 you can cure a case of malaria. So we could have saved 56,000,000 people’s lives in the developing world, or see Bono and the Boss do a sing along. Did I mention Beyonce was there too?
Toubrouk
Jan 19th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
“Do anyone think there will be some CHANGE left after to do something worthwhile?”
Let’s HOPE so!
As a black person for the first time in my life. I’m proud to be an AMERICAN
Like Kaylee, I am also a black person for the first time in my life. It’s really less of an adjustment than I had expected.
Unlike Kaylee, I’m not a racist, so my pride in America doesn’t depend on having the same skin color as the President. I will agree that it’s great for all the black kids whose white families are sending them to private school to know that they can accomplish anything. It’s a wonderful change from a Republican administration that tried to teach African-Americans they could expect nothing better than Secretary of State, or maybe Supreme Court Justice.
From the Gospel of Barack, 12:4-5, 7-8
Then saith one of his disciples, Sandra Mikovich-Pogorelc,
Why was not this inauguration financed more cheaply, and the extra money given to the poor?
…
Then said Obama, Let them alone: much of the cost is defrayed by public donations.
For the poor always ye have with you; but this is an historic inauguration of Hope.
… okay, so I played a little fast and loose with the facts, but what comedian doesn’t?
…Christ does everyone with access to the internet need to post their very own rant?
Well, duh, Jess, yes. Yes, you do…apparently.
Love how if it’s a rant against Bush or for Obama, that’s allowed, but all others are strictly off limits. While I do care because that’s a lot of money, in the end I wouldn’t care nearly as much if 1) people hadn’t complained about Bush’s significantly lower price tag and 2) we weren’t facing economic problems.
Also, as for Kaylee… I’m sorry, I’m probably going to be hated for saying it, but if it took seeing a black man as president for black children to realize they can be anything, maybe they need to think outside the box a little more. As a woman am I supposed to not aspire to anything because we’ve never been president? Please.
“We will make it up with all the kids Obama will inspire to become doctors, lawyers, and teachers etc. Because they can see its possible to be something other than a drug dealer or football player.” Kaylee
Ummm confused isn’t telling your kids they can be something other than a drug dealer or football player their parent’s job? Or did I miss the announcement that Obama is going to raise our children too? The way mine is acting 170 million is a bargain
As a Jamaican immigrant, educated in American schools and supplemented by my own reading, and a naturalized citizen I have to reply to this because these two haven’t learned anything from Mr. Obama’s election.
Mr. Obama didn’t doubt this country or its citizens. He knew he could get elected. He did not wait for the Civil Rights heirs to bestow their blessings upon him, the man manufactured himself and kicked anyone who got in his way out of his way. He wasn’t going to be held back. Read what he did to get elected in Chicago, how he became a Senator. He knew his opportunities and he took them. He’s not President by accident. He’s not President because it’s his time, because it is owed him. He’s the President because he wants to be President. And who, who set the example for him? Not a damn person, because he’s the first. He’s his own example.
If he inspires people, he should inspire people to get up, go out there and take it because nobody is going to give it to you. This “Obama is President now the children can become lawyers and doctors” is crap. Anybody remember Johnnie Cochran? Anyone know Benjamin Carson? Frederick Douglass? Langston Hughes? What about Martin Luther King, Jr., the only individual who has a federal holiday named after him. And I’m only naming the famous ones. All alive and accomplished before Mr. Obama was a twinkle in his father’s eye.
A Republican administration named the first African-American Secretary of State, the lead ambassador for the country. And then named the first female African-American Secretary of State. And that’s a limitation?! Not a step forward? Graciousness. Unbelievable.
Obama won’t change much in terms of the youth, motivation and dedication come from within not without.
That’s one way of putting it.
One man’s ambitious is another man’s cutthroat.
Getting all 4 of your opponents taken off the ballot goes beyond “ambitious.”
Silence from the media on the cost of the todays Obamagasm? Are we suprised by this? To start off his presidency with such over the top spending is obscene and insulting but apparently not newsworthy. Maybe we will head back to Canada. At least that guy from Obama’s neighbourhood is not welcome there. http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/573462
Well, Simon, as the old saying goes… if you can’t beat ‘em, annihilate ‘em.
Glad to see that people are starting to read how the Dem’s were outraged by the $40 million Bush spent, but not a peep out of them about how much this is costing us. Hypocrisy again here in the US. And as far as Obama finally giving us hope? I thought Martin Luther King, Jr did a great job of that decades ago. Oh wait, Obama is the Messiah, right? LEt’s see him own up to all of his campaign promises.
“The money is going toward providing events which we hope are going to connect people, make them feel like we are all in this together and reinforce the notion that when we pull together, we’re stronger,” Douglass said. “And we need to pull together to face the challenges that are before us today.”
Among the expenses: a Bruce Springsteen concert, the parade, large-screen TV rentals for all-free viewing on the national Mall, $700,000 to the Smithsonian Institution to stay open and, of course, the balls, including three that are being pitched as free or low cost for the public.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Inauguration/story?id=6665946&page=1
This is the same media that ignored all the problems with PEBO until after the election, and they will be the same ones who will sing his praises till he leaves office. Sort of like how they treated Bill Clinton even when he went thru impeachemnet proceedings but unlike Richard Nixon who is thought of as Satan himself, Clinton is the darling of the press.
Nothing Obama does will ever be portrayed as bad.
bgates- bravo! Took the words right out of fingertips. Kaylee is a sad racist and oh-so-typical of the bigoted Left.
It worries me more than the inauguration cost is this blind, ignorant faith to a man that, when it boils down to it, is simply being so praised because he is black. It’s pretty darn sad that people are making skin color such a huge factor. It’s actually the hugest factor to some. Would Martin Luther King Jr. be proud about this?
Thank you bgates. Kaylee, you are an ignorant racist. Why would children not look up to a person of a different skin color that is a doctor, lawyer, etc? Is there something WRONG with being Hispanic or white?
“As a black person for the first time in my life. I’m proud to be an AMERICAN. I’ve always been happy to be an American but never proud.”
I didn’t realize one could change one’s race. Oh wait…Michael Jackson. My bad.
Can you imagine the backlash if a white person were to claim that they were no longer proud to be an American because a mixed-race man was elected to President?
And honestly, Kaylee, if you yourself can’t teach your children to aspire to be more than drug dealers and football players, then the problem isn’t with the government. It isn’t the government’s job to inspire your children…it’s YOUR job.
btw, I’m white and my son plays football. However, he doesn’t take drugs. What does that make us?
Okay, I’ll believe it’s hypocrisy when you show that it’s actually the same people donating extra non-federal cash to this event who were complaining about Bush’s party.
You’re blaming Messiah Obama for this. My problem with that? He isn’t every Democrat from the Bush era. Okay, his party complained back then. And republicans are bitching now. It’s not kosher, but I’ll have to see something from Obama’s actual campaign or harem or fan club or whatever before I point at him and yell “hypocrite! people who share your political ideology said something different eight years ago!”
Also…I still don’t see anybody addressing the whole “$40 million budget” vs “$170 million party” issue. If democrats complained about $40 million in taxpayer money back then, and are spending $45 million now…yeah, that’s still stupid and hypocritical of the democratic party. But the real figure that’s making everybody scream is the $170 mil…which is because lots of people are jumping on teh bandwagon and donating cash. Which…I dunno, I don’t see how having more idiots donate to them makes the dems hypocritical so much as lucky.
I guess they’re supposed to refuse it?
Not saying the party isn’t a fat, giant waste of cash, or that EVERY inaugaration isn’t. It is. But there’s a huge difference between “Obama is a hypocrite” and “democrats bitched about spending and then spent an equal amount and were given a lot more because everyone loves O-man” and “OMFG Obama is spending $170 mil!”
Long way of saying I love you guys, and I hope you really do nail Obama soon, but your snark would have more bite if you tried to be a bit more objective and weren’t so obvious looking for something to sink your teeth into. He’ll do something moronic and brain numbingly hypocritical soon, don’t worry!
As a militant, black, lesbian, trans-sexual, athiest, drug-dealer, I’m disgusted by all of you for the first time in my life. Your reflexive hatred of innagurations is absolutely shameful.
And you have bad breath, too.
I guess my rant is my own little way of saying “it ain’t all race, people!” I’m not even sure what the color of his skin has to do with how much money is being spent on the party, but we all knew that was going to come up. I’d rather whine and nitpick about the administration with blinders on.
My big “hope” for the next 4 years is that people will finally, finally start getting so sick of race being brought up every dang day when it’s not relevant that maybe we can finally let go and only bring it up when it’s actually relevant issue.
Sure, skin color is still a factor in a lot of ways. And I can see being excited about a barrier being broken. It is something worth being toasted. I know I’ll do a dance when we get a woman president. But here’s to hoping we can get beyond that once it’s no longer a “first” or a novelty and all whine about celebrities as brothers and sisters of the one universal color: snark.
*raises glass* here’s to proving that political incompetence knows no racial boundaries, and neither hopefully will online making fun of it.
After party is at Pasta’s house, if only to see if the hired stripper is someone Jrod will hit regardless of race.
I’ll get right on that.
Great article and very interesting comments.
Coronation indeed. It feels like we need to be learning how to curtsey and bow properly to a King and Queen all of a sudden. :-p
Simon said, “A presidential inauguration is the celebration of a peaceful transfer of power” and that’s so important for the world to witness. But I hope that the country gets back to earth and out of the clouds soon (without the usual *thud*), it’s giving me the creeps for some reason.
I also agree that no person who achieves greatness in this day and age got there without any standing on the proverbial shoulders of the giants who went before them. The grass-roots days of getting there all by yourself are over, and many people (some listed here) did indeed pave the way for B.O. to get where he is today and they deserve credit for their accomplishments as well.
“It isn’t the government’s job to inspire your children…it’s YOUR job.”
k, that is the best, most accurate thing I have read all day long.
Sorry. I’M the stripper at parties at my house.
Jrod?
By the way. It’s official right? Congratulations Barak Obama.
Seriously, whether you voted for Him or not, is this not the most awesome, motherf****ing country on Earth or what.
I meant to add…
Take that rest of the Earth!
No amount of money is too much to celebrate the coming of the messiah.
Phoenix, the Bush inauguration was also covered by private donors, but that didn’t stop the liberal media for saying it was an extravagant waste of money. The Hypocrisy here is that now with a price tag almost 4 times greater suddenly it is ok to spend huge amounts of money on a Democrat.
Rocko, I think you misinterpreted what bgates meant by him (is bgates a “him”? My apologies if you’re not) saying “It’s a wonderful change from a Republican administration that tried to teach African-Americans they could expect nothing better than Secretary of State, or maybe Supreme Court Justice. ” In politics, how many offices above these remain ? Not many. He was emphasizing an opposite, that people of African ancestry have indeed been promoted/elected/assigned to very high office in this land, and many other civilian positions as well in since the last days of Rev King. And it hasn’t just been under Republican administrations – it just takes time. Just like it’ll take time for the first Native American, the first of Chinese ancestry, Japanese, etc., to hold high offices, or be CEO’s. Since the US has been primarily “initially” comprised of people of European ancestry, I’m guessing the media won’t be keeping score of the first German, or Italian, or Swedish, or French (etc.) president. Which is okay with me. It is definitely more noteworthy to see a person of a downtrodden ancestry ascend to greatness, having overcome all sorts of obstacles in life.
I remember the first time I heard (and later saw – tall man, too – 6 foot ) of a black 4-star general, in 1975 – I immediately thought “this guy has to have been in the Air Force a while – 20 years, and he’s made quite a name for himself in that time – he had to have entered service before 1955. NO one gets to be a 4-star in just 20 years. SO, he must have been doing something right – I’m referring to Gen Daniel “Chappie” James. Just 7 years after Rev King’s death, and the AF has a black 4-star? That was impressive then. Since then, of course, there have been many more. My point is, there have been many black men and women to look up to during the 80’s, 70’s, 60’s, etc, … the Tuskegee airmen were a fine group of men who had accomplished much in their day, and all pilots today respect what they did. There’s a lady in our local school district who is a vice-principal, in Georgia, and was an Army helicopter pilot. Could she have been either in the 1960’s ? Hardly.
For the first lady to say “for the first time in my life I am proud to be an American”, I know what she means, but it just doesn’t sound right – it’s like she hasn’t noticed all the accomplished people of African ancestry in the last 40 years. Could that group have accomplished as much in other countries? I don’t think so. How can you not be proud of all that ? Dr’s, lawyers (well, okay … nobody likes lawyers), astronauts, sports figures, coaches, teachers, military, etc. It’s a different scene from just 40 years ago. Is there more to “to be done”? Sure, but look at the legacy already created in the last generation or two.
BTW, you may have noticed my non-use of African-American. The only folks who can legitimately use this term are those born in an African country, and are now American. E.G., you can rightly claim to be a Jamaican-American. I’m not German-American or Polish-American or Scottish-American. That may be my ancestry, but I’ve never been a German/Pole/Scot.
“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation of all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.” [Teddy Roosevelt in a speech before the Knights of Columbus]
Aleric: Agreed. I was just remarking this to a friend of mine the other day who believes that Pres. B. O. Hussein will begin making mistakes and be flogged for it “eventually”–I maintain that no matter what he does, he’ll be beyond reproach–if it’s ever reported in the first place! And that’s what scares me.
Pasta, if we give you $40 million, will you *not* be the stripper at your little shindig?
OK, maybe not $40 million, maybe more like $40…
That ‘08 SNL sketch with the Obama/Clinton debate keeps coming into my head as I read these comments.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/10231/saturday-night-live-democratic-debate#s-p9-st-i3
We’ll see if the media’s Obama lovefest continues if the recession gets worse.
hey, c’mon…I’m pretty sure that Oprah bankrolled the whole thing as part of her “Big Give”…for the whole country!
Your cynicism will soon be criminalized. Enjoy it while you can.
Chronic Malanga, thank you…it makes me sad when I see just how many people just can’t understand that. /sigh/
I agree Chronic Malanga.
My father always told me that excellence knows no gender or color.
Aleric- honestly, I thank you for pointing that out, as it’s true that little tidbit is pretty danged ignored.
See, that’s what I want to B**ch about- where the money came from. I don’t care if I’m flat out balls to the walls wrong, I just want to argue about non-race issues for once.
My dream is lame, I know, but it’s mine.
Pasta, I’ll bake the giant cake if you jump out of it wearing a Deceiver banner
Ok, Pasta…but I am not paying double for the “special” tratment this time!
Wow. Everytime I come to this site, its the same people whining, whining, whining. Stop whining you republetards.Your guy (rightfully) lost miserably. Why don’t you report on what the right-wing neocons did to eff up and divide this country. You’re just waiting for him to mess up. I bet you’re the same idiots who think he’s Muslim and call him B.Hussein Obama.
Charming as ever, ss.
C’mon MC I’ve taken my clothes off for a lot less than $40.
And I only call him Barak Hussein Obama because, you know, that’s his name.
Hey, ss, I thought this was the way to go! I’m just emulating demo behavior from the last 8 years. They taught me that you don’t have to respect the president if you don’t like him, so . . . If the people who sang “na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, hey-hey-hey, good-bye” to Pres. Bush and flipped him off were doing something that is O.K., then it is equally as O.K. for me to call B. Hussein Obama an incapable hypocrite.
“what the right-wing neocons did to eff up and divide this country”
I hate to break it to you, ss, but the Democrats have been in control of the congress since 2006.
“The days of the do-nothing Congress are over,” declared Democratic Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, in line to become majority leader, adding that Americans spoke “clearly and decisively in favor of Democrats leading this country in a new direction.” http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15620405/
To blame one man or one party for our current situation shows a complete disregard to reality my friend
Media Matters explains where this figure comes from and why its misleading here: http://mediamatters.org/columns/200901170003. Good read.
That’s a big article C. And nowhere in it did I see how much it cost. It answers nothing.
So was it $160,000,000 or not?
The mediamatters page certainly clears up some issues such as how great the difference in cost is, but on the whole it doesn’t remove the hypocrisy. In this case it isn’t hypocritical only if the inauguration cost 4 times the amount of the previous inauguration without significant media complaint. Rather, it’s hypocritical if it costs the same amount or less. Further, it based it’s arguments on the $160 million or less estimated figures rather than the $170 million used here. Either way, of course, it’s hard to make a comparison until the total security costs are also added up for this one which may take awhile. So for now, let’s just go off of the festivities costs. Even going off of the ABC news figures of $49 million for this inauguration compared to the $40 million of the previous one, that would mean that either inflation over those 4 years totalled an expected increase of cost as being 22% or that this inauguration is more expensive. Even by the mediamatters figures (which are indeed biased and also still just estimates (at least in the case of this inauguration). Don’t kid yourself) of $45 million and $42 million there would have needed to be a 7% inflation of costs over those four years. With those figures in place, it’s true that the 2009 parties alone are expected to be just under $2 million less than the 2005 parties inflated costs. In my opinion, that still doesn’t sound like it’s different enough to avoid complaints though, but according to history, it apparently still is. After all, in both sources (ABC and mediamatters.com) it’s agreed that $33 million was used for the 1993 inaugural parties. I went back and checked those annual inflation rates as well and discovered that their inflated cost would have been almost $48 million in 2005. That is to say, something like a 14% difference. Now, some might argue that we had a war going on in 2005 but not in 1993. That’s because most people can’t remember that far back or they would perhaps recall the Gulf War. It’s a moot point either way since much has been suggested that the money could go to the poor or “other things” rather than the war effort. So the remaining question is, were there more people living below the poverty line in 1993 than in 2005? The answer is yes at 15% compared to 12.6% for a total difference in 2.4%. This probably goes without saying, but the 1993 was greater than the 2005 cost by several million even after taking into account the difference in impoverished individuals.
Conclusion: Either there’s some retroactive hypocrisy in that people shouldn’t have ever complained about the 2005 cost in the first place due to it being significantly lower than the inflated 1993 cost or the hypocrisy of now still stands since the difference is apparently still enough to make a fuss about even if the number is a little bit lower and yet the media simply isn’t willing to make their fuss.
Pasta: The tl;dr read is this:
The base cost of Bush’s inauguration was $40 million. That number doesn’t include travel costs, security, flying vets in, whatever. That figure wasn’t released.
The base cost for Obama’s inauguration was $45 million. The $160 million number we’re DOES include travel costs, security, and all that jazz.
So it’s not just out and out gross overspending, although Hmmmm… is mostly correct.
So it was $160,000,000? Seems like an awful lot of money during a time of war, and recession.
Or at least that’s what would be trumpeted all over Huffington Post if it was for McCain instead, no?
“lawyers (well, okay … nobody likes lawyers)”
Why don’t people like lawyers? I’m going to uni this year to do law, what’s wrong with law, I studied damn hard to get enough marks to do law and now after I finish my six year course, people aren’t going to like me for it? Well, f*ck you.
Okay then, nobody likes lawyers without a sense of humor about themselves.
Here’s a lawyer joke for you LYTEUP
How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?
I don’t know either because I just wanna kick them all in the balls.
LYTEUP – nobody likes lawyers because way to many are ambulance chasers or use nuances in the law to get murderous thugs off.
Personally I tend to enjoy lawyers, they make good clients who lack the technical savvy to know when I am overbilling them….haha
Pastafarian – What happens if I’m a lawyer who doesn’t have balls, you know, what if I’m a girl?
What happens then? Do you still want to kick me?
You people (Simon, Pastafarian and D-) are making me wish I had applied to study medicine instead.
Good luck finding your funny bone.
Do it! The world needs more doctors and fewer lawyers anyway.
Listen, Simon, I’ll find my funny bone when you find your Obama appreciation bone.
It’s just not gonna happen.
Based on your response, I believe you.