No room at the inn
Bookworm on Dec 21 2008 at 12:24 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
Do you find it as ironic as I do that the most outspokenly anti-capitalist President elect in American history is sparking a huge capitalist boom? I refer, of course, to the black market in lodging for the inauguration. I can’t find it, but my husband swears he saw an article in which a man is trying to charge up to $25,000 for his apartment overlooking the parade route. More power to him, I say, although I wonder who would be foolish enough to pay that kind of money.
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Well, if you want it bad enough, I suppose you’d pay what the gentleman is charging. People who live near Churchill Downs make lots of money by charging Kentucky Derby fans to park in their yards.
I figure you’d get a pretty good view just watching it on TV, although you will have to contend with the announcers drooling over The One.
“I can’t find it, but my husband swears he saw an article in which a man is trying to charge up to $25,000 for his apartment overlooking the parade route.” – Book
He was probably referring to former GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson’s plan to charge $30,000 for five days in his condo, which overlooks the inaugural parade route.
From the New York Post:
FORMER Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson is cashing in on next month’s inauguration. A source tells us the ex-Republican presidential candidate and part-time actor, who did 142 episodes of “Law & Order,” is offering to rent his luxury one-bedroom condo in Washington, DC, for five days. The price: $30,000. “It has a balcony overlooking the inaugural parade route, the Navy Memorial and the US Capitol, and comes with a reserved parking space,” said our insider.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12082008/gossip/pagesix/fleecing_dems_143154.htm
Hi, Oz, welcome back.
I think it’s swell what Fred is trying to do. Anytime a Republican can make some bucks at the expense of a Democrat fanatic, I’m pleased as punch!
Ozzie has returned from congratulating her buddies over at Leftist sites. Welcome back, Ozzie. Helen has been getting tired of us, so you should be able to relieve her.
I bet Oz thinks it would work better if people like Oz simply “redistributed” these pesky spaces in private hands to the worthy, so des neh.
Anytime a Republican can make some bucks at the expense of a Democrat fanatic, I’m pleased as punch!
Well, Charles, nobody would claim that you are a progressive specimen of homo sapien sapien, now would they?
Ymarsakar, I’m hoping Oz appreciates the “pleased as punch” reference. It was one of Hubert Humphrey’s favorite phrases.
Well, as he said, Asia is rich in many things, trouble not least among them.
Go Fred!
I’m SO sorry I don’t live in D.C. anymore. I’d love nothing more than helping separate Obama supporters from their money.
Deana
It is time to redistribute the wealth to those that need, Deana. Us. Right?
Ozzie has returned from congratulating her buddies over at Leftist sites. – Ymar
Ha Ymar, You crack me up.
Actually, I’ve been really busy.
But I spent some time watching “Drunk History” at Funny or Die. Does that count?
Something has to pull you back time and again.
“Hi, Oz, welcome back.”
Thanks Charles
I think it’s swell what Fred is trying to do. Anytime a Republican can make some bucks at the expense of a Democrat fanatic, I’m pleased as punch!- Charles
Are you a big sports fan, by any chance?
But hey, if anyone has an extra $30,000 to blow, might as well do it now, before the dollar becomes worthless, no?
“Ymarsakar, I’m hoping Oz appreciates the “pleased as punch” reference. It was one of Hubert Humphrey’s favorite phrases.” Charles
I’m thinking more of Herbert Hoover these days, CM. But no, I didnt realize that Hubert Humphrey had a favorite phase.
See, Charles? Oz can’t be kept down even if she and her husband’s selected candidate, Obama, has been elected. Things will still blow up in a great nihilist adventure!
See, Charles? Oz can’t be kept down even if she and her husband’s selected candidate, Obama, has been elected. Things will still blow up in a great nihilist adventure!- Ymar
Well, my husband didn’t vote, but the latest news of of Wasilla kind of makes me miss ol Sarah Palin. That’s what we need in the White House. More drug dealin in-laws!
Ah. But though the news can be amusing, today Bloomberg featured an article saying that there is a 50% chance the U.S will face a depression within the next three years.
There have been other articles saying that, thanks to the Fed ginning up the printing press, the dollar could very well lose its value.
And Peter Schiff, who’s been right all along, has not painted a pretty picture.
If things turn out well, I’ll be pleasantly surpised. And if they don’t, well, there’s not much any of us can do about it.
But no matter. Life is an adventure, Ymar. It’s a glorious adventure. Even for someone as nefarious and shady as me!
Oz, anybody who has $30,000 to blow on a parade route window is way beyond dollars. He/she certainly doesn’t move in our world.
The rich (GOP and Demo alike) during the Great Depression hardly noticed it. I’m sure George Soros will not care a whit if the dollar doesn’t work anymore for us peons.
Well, my husband didn’t vote, but the latest news of of Wasilla kind of makes me miss ol Sarah Palin
I suppose you have to find your entertainment somewhere.
And if they don’t, well, there’s not much any of us can do about it.
You could teach the Arabs a thing or two about inshallah, Oz.
Gosh, Oz, when you do snark (which seems inevitable with you), you might try for accurate snark. See, I wasn’t aware that vice presidents live in the White House.
Come on, Charles, you know that they thought of Sarah Palin as President and McCain as her VP. That is why they got so freaked about her.
Gosh, Oz, when you do snark (which seems inevitable with you), you might try for accurate snark. See, I wasn’t aware that vice presidents live in the White House. – CM
I was imaging her in the White House, CM, for all those who were hoping that John McCain would win the election, keel over and give us President Palin.
I once thought those people were awful, but the latest news makes me long for a President Palin, too!
“Come on, Charles, you know that they thought of Sarah Palin as President and McCain as her VP. That is why they got so freaked about her.- Ym
I’m not sure who “they” are but as for me? Yeah. The job if the vice president is to become president. And then there were those people praying that McCain would pull a William Henry Harrison.
I believe in the power of prayer. And that bad things happen to inconvenient people. (RIP, Mike Connell)
Now I realize that my problem with Palin was due to my elitist nature. And some of it had to due with her famliy (like the fact that her two oldest children didn’t even make it through high school, which is how ignorant I was of the culture they come from. College is for suckas in Wasilla!)
This latest news makes me realize what a snob I’ve been and makes me long for more..
Sarah Palin is the gift that keeps giving.
“That’s what we need in the White House. More drug dealin in-laws” – Ozzie.
Who did you have in mind, Ozzie?
Also, would you recommend that there by a minimum education standard for holding an executive position in the White House? If so, what should it be? Just askin’.
I once thought those people were awful
You are one of those “people”, Oz. Come on, who do you think you are fooling here?
but the latest news makes me long for a President Palin, too!
Given that you have no faith in Palin, Obama, or the American people put together, your nihilistic jokes about “longing” for a savior falls pretty flat.
I believe in the power of prayer.
That’s too much, Oz, even for you. Now you are an evangelical or Born Again religious follower? Hack any electronic voting machines, lately?
Sarah Palin is the gift that keeps giving.
For people who hate humanity and like to stomp on us productive workers, Oz, yes, she is the gift that keeps on giving for you all.
Oz:
It always amuses me that folks like you, who are constantly getting caught in one logical howler after another, keep pushing a college degree as some sort of indication of intelligence, education or ability to think.
I’ve found that where I live the more “educated” people are, the more close-minded and snobbish they tend to be. I can’t quite figure out what they’re so all-fired snobby about because with few exceptions they are almost total dunderheads when it comes to matters educated people are to know a smidgen about: history, economy, theology, philosophy, science or logic.
Their “humor” tends to be like yours, too — all snark and irony, but with no real ability to have a belly laugh, especially at their own expense.
I take that back: They will laugh real hard if the joke’s at the expense of somebody they hate, like George Bush or Sarah Palin. I guess hatred’s a good thing if it can bring out their otherwise nonexistent senses of humor.
Hey Charles, don’t knock it until you have tried it.
Do you know how many therapy sessions the hatred of Bush have saved folks? Man and talk about the suicide rates and life insurance payouts that diverting self-hatred to Bush hatred prevented!
Until you have created an entire fear mongering campaign based upon imagination, like McCain dying, you will never understand just how much the Left admired and envied Bush’s “smoking gun” and opportunity to take Emergency Powers under the “threat of Al Qaeda”.
The Left would have given the lives of their first born for such an opportunity and it is insulting to their intelligence that Bush didn’t take it. In fact, not only the Left would have done so, but the propaganda cannon fodder “moderates” and the isolationist Right would have jumped on board as well. Everybody likes a winner, especially if favors are being handed out for each other’s children and districts.
I guess hatred’s a good thing if it can bring out their otherwise nonexistent senses of humor.
You should see the things I find funny concerning the people I hate. You might even like some of em ; )
Ozzie,
So Ozzie, say opposed as having a real drug user as president?
http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/truth_slant/im_a_midnight_t.php
Includes pictures for the non believers.
So Ozzie, more guilt by association for the Republicans but a complete pass for the Democrats ?
The only corrupt people are not Republicans or Democrats, Rock. Oz isn’t partisan. No, the only corrupt people are the people Oz decides is corrupt. See, nothing partisan in that.