February 25, 2009
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You may have already seen this, but check this shit out:
http://gigapan.org/viewGigapanFullscreen.php?auth=033ef14483ee899496648c2b4b06233c
In case you were too lazy to copy and past the link, let me tell you what it was. Its a panoramic picture of Barack Obama’s inauguration. The secret service used these cameras for security. The coolest part about it is that you can zoom in literally from over a mile away. I got lost checking this out, I was going all around the crowd looking for people. If you look towards the stage, the first thing you will notice is Aretha Franklin’s massive hat, which blocked out the sun for the people in her section. Still, this camera is amazing. I was scanning the crowd seeing so many famous people. Its like you can play “Where’s Waldo” with the presidential inauguration. Oh wow, look, there’s Puff State Marshmallow P Diddy Daddy or whatever the fuck he is calling himself this hour. And there’s Newt Gingrich. Holy shit, is that Stephen Spielberg? And there’s Bill Clinton hitting on the Bush twins. Who is that man sitting next to the first President Bush? Oh shit, that’s not a man, its Barbarba Bush. The picture does have some inconsistencies though, for example there appears to be a rather large animal living on the first Bush’s head. And the image of Dick Chaney is there sitting in a wheelchair which we know can’t be real because exposure to daylight would kill the real Dick Chaney. But the picture it truly amazing, I was floored by how far out you could see and how much you could zoom in on the slightest thing. It reminded me of the time I took a tour of Wrigley Field and got to see how good their security cameras were. The cameras at Wrigley are able to zoom in on a beer bottle that is across the stadium and you are able to read the label. These cameras that the secret service used blew away the cameras at Wrigley.
Time to send you on another field trip to watch this clip of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal responding to Obama’s speech to Congress.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFK8aTpYAmg
I’m pretty sure that this is the person the GOP is going to push to run against Obama in 2012. In fact, I think its quite obvious that they want him to run especially since Sarah Palin decided to stop paying her taxes. When you watched his speech, is it just me or was he talking to us like we are a nation of five year olds. Honestly, he was talking down to us on a level that even Bush didn’t do. He spoke in slow sentences just like a teacher would when reading a book to a classroom full of students. And he kept saying “Americans can do anything” just like a parent would tell their kids “oh honey, of course you can be an astronaut, you can do anything you want!” He was disgustingly condescending. The problem is Republicans LOVE when people talk down to them, maybe because most of them are backwoods rednecks who can’t understand big sentences. Scary thought, but because of this, somebody like him could actually win.
Oh and did anybody notice that when he spoke he had a whistle in his voice? You know, like he was missing a tooth. With his whistle and his condescending attitude, I kept waiting for him to break into “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” in an adorable way a child would read it.
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I didn’t notice the whistle in Jindal’s voice, but he definitely talked down to his audience. After I saw this, I told my wife this man is an idiot. She reminded me he had been a Rhodes Scholar. I reminded her he used to regularly preside at exorcisms. She said, “I see your point.”