The government agency was actually using the flying disc to test a prototype flare launcher back in 1968. They created a test facility in Utah using wind tunnels and a special Frisbee launching machine, which was also connected to computers and cameras to record the launches.

Well… it’s finally over. There is a new President seated at the helm of the USS America and the nation can now get on with it’s daily grind, The hype and hoopla will slowly become a distant memory. A memory of the past.

Speaking of the past, let’s set the “Way Back” machine for a time in the not so distant long ago.

The date is somewhere in January 2005. The time is??? Well… How about that. It’s President Bush’s second inauguration. It also was a very grand day. The whole inauguration agenda was very expensive tho. It cost a whopping $50 million dollars to put on this January 2005 shindig. Most of it coming from unused campaign funds, private party donations and some allocated government expenditure dollars.

And the press and persons of interest were absolutely appalled at the expense. In January 2005, articles were published and stated by many news services expressing their disbelief that the 2005 Bush inauguration was going to cost an “unprecedented $50 million.” The articles and comments then went on to state that the money could have been better spent on funding the Iraq war.

Let’s see… How does that compare to January 2009.

The White House released information that the Obama inauguration could cost as much as $198 million.

Given the media responsibility to report honestly and without bias, why has the media not published a corresponding article on the truly unprecedented cost of $198 million for Obama’s inauguration and how that money could be better spent on funding the military in Afghanistan — or better yet, on the financial crisis that exists today.

Anger does not even state how I am feeling about all of this new “president elect” business. The inauguration of Barack Obama was an abomination. Some of it I didn’t even get… A poem… THAT WASN’T EVEN REALLY A POEM!

“Each day we go about our business, walking past each other, catching each others’ eyes or not, about to speak or speaking. All about us is noise. All about us is noise and bramble, thorn and din, each one of our ancestors on our tongues. Someone is stitching up a hem, darning a hole in a uniform, patching a tire, repairing the things in need of repair.

“Someone is trying to make music somewhere with a pair of wooden spoons on an oil drum with cello, boom box, harmonica, voice.

A woman and her son wait for the bus.”

What? Wait a sec… What the hell was that?  I’ll tell you what it was to me…   PAINFUL!

And wasn’t this supposed to be an upbeat inauguration? What was that dirge they played before Mr. Obama took the oath?

“Performing “Air and Simple Gifts”, composed by John Williams, Yo-Yo MA, Anthony McGill, Gabriela Montero and Itzhak Perlmen preceded President Barack Obama’s oath of office.

Their performance laid a peaceful tone over the National Mall, just following the oath taken by Vice President Joe Biden.”

Hell, half the people in the audience had fallen asleep. I got so depressed. As it dragged on, I was wondering where the 21 gun salute was going to come in and when the trumpet would sound “Taps”. I think the heck out of John Williams and I respect Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlmen… but a dirge????  Sounded like it to me.  There is nothing like a “Welcome Mr. President, we prerecorded this dirge for you!” musical interlude, doncha think?

Who built this inauguration mess? They ought to be horse whipped.

Oh… and here’s a dandy… The prayer after the oath…

“We ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to give (get) back, when brown can stick around, when yellow will be mellow, when the red man can get ahead, man, and when white will embrace what is right.”

… and when white will embrace what is right??? Gee zuz…

The only way we can get over this white/black thing is to just get over it. It’s done. It’s in the past, not the future. Isn’t that what Mr. Obama asked for in his campaign? No, I guess not. Let’s get all cutesy and fuzzy about the brown man and the red man and the yellow man, but let’s make sure that all white men fully understand that their place right now is the back of the bus. I’m sorry, but that racist statement in that supposed prayer bothers the hell out of me.

There are no white men, red men, brown men or yellow men. There are just men… and women… and children… AS AMERICAN’S. Dredge up the past if you want, but don’t throw it in my face when all I want to do is look towards the future with those who want to share the American dream.

Thank God this political inauguration “build-up” bullshit is finally over and thank God it’s something I have gotten off my chest.

I didn’t vote for Mr. Obama. Career “get elected” people don’t have the longevity or “time of purpose” that I like. But he is the 44th President and I will defend the hell out of him, support the decisions he will make and push the American beliefs and understandings that a democratic society understands.

I am now going to go out and throw my Frisbee around and try and understand how it could be made into a flare launching device…

Until next week…