Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Making history. . . ..even in Washington

Sifting thru the abundance of commentary about yesterday's Presidential Inauguration, occasionally something significant is high-lighted.  Here is one
large and important one. . . .

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-lauds-progress-gay-civil-rights-inaugural-address-003753892.html


Btw, no one asked me what I thought about the vocalists (and their style) featured
in yesterday's program. . . .and I won't be so brash as to post them here.  LOL

justin

2 comments:

Gary Kelly said...

There's no way in the world a crowd the size of the one that gathered for Obama's second term inaugural speech (let alone the first) would gather in Oz for our Prime Minister's swearing-in ceremony. Ours could be held in a phone box. Hehe. I'm afraid our convict background doesn't allow the elevation of pollies to such dizzy heights. We're not big fans of bureaucracy.

And don't listen to Greg from Adelaide when he says South Oz has no convict heritage. His lot is as bad as the rest. Just another bunch of larrikins and cricket tragics.

Even our national song - the unofficial anthem of Australia - Waltzing Matilda, is about a thief who stole a sheep and got into trouble with the law.

Up rode the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred.
Down came the troopers, one, two, and three.
"Whose is that jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?
You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me."

Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda
"You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me",
"Whose is that jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?
You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me."

Up jumped the swagman and sprang into the billabong.
"You'll never take me alive!" said he
And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong:
"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me?"

Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda
"You'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me",
And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong:
"Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me?"

GreginAdelaide said...

Heehee Gary, our lot were just the smarter ones.... they left the "mother country" before they were arrested and convicted and moved here.