The best article for us West Coasters is from the LA Times at:
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-inaug-tv19-2009jan19,0,4516299.story
Programming starts this evening with a Disney Concert. I'll bet the First Daughters are jazzed!
The swearing in ceremony starts at 8:30 Pacific Standard Time.
Instead of cutting and pasting the entire article, please just check it out. It has the schedules for all the major channels.
Taken directly from the official website. Additional information there.
http://inaugural.senate.gov/media/releases/release-12172008-inauguralwebsite.cfm
you can also watch it live online at: http://inaugural.senate.gov
WASHINGTON, DC - The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, today announced the program for the 56th Presidential Inauguration, which will take place on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2009.
The program participants were based on requests from the President-elect and the Vice President-elect.
The order of the program will be as follows:
Musical Selections
The United States Marine Band
Musical Selections
The San Francisco Boys Chorus and the San Francisco Girls Chorus
Call to Order and Welcoming Remarks
The Honorable Dianne Feinstein
Invocation
Dr. Rick Warren, Saddleback Church, Lake Forest, CA
Musical Selection
Aretha Franklin
Oath of Office Administered to Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
By Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
The Honorable John Paul Stevens
Musical Selection, John Williams, composer/arranger
Itzhak Perlman, Violin
Yo-Yo Ma, Cello
Gabriela Montero, Piano
Anthony McGill, Clarinet
Oath of Office Administered to President-elect Barack H. Obama
By the Chief Justice of the United States
The Honorable John G. Roberts, Jr.
Inaugural Address
The President of the United States, The Honorable Barack H. Obama
Poem
Elizabeth Alexander
Benediction
The Reverend Dr. Joseph E. Lowery
The National Anthem
The United States Navy Band "Sea Chanters
Taken directly from Kim Komando's email...
"Watch live coverage of the Inauguration
America is preparing for a big change. Tomorrow, we bid adieu to the Bush administration and welcome in Barack Obama.
Most of us will not be braving the Washington cold to attend the inauguration. That’s OK. You can catch it no matter where you are.
As you would expect, all of the major news outlets will cover the festivities. You’ll be able to watch the inauguration live on the Web.
Live coverage begins at 7 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on some sites. So, you’ll need to be up early if you want to catch it all. The coverage should last all day.
Here are just a few sites that are broadcasting the inauguration.
• Hulu is providing live coverage from Fox News. You can also watch the inauguration on-demand after the live coverage.
• CBS will have live coverage. Katie Couric is also hosting a Webcast Tuesday night. Viewers can submit questions.
• Joost will also stream CBS’s coverage on its Everything Obama page. You can also watch interviews and satire clips.
• C-SPAN visitors can select from four live feeds. In addition to the inauguration, you can watch the parade and inaugural balls.
• CNN is also broadcasting live. But, it has teamed up with Facebook. You can share your thoughts via Facebook as you watch the events.
• MSNBC is featuring clips of past inaugurations in addition to Obama’s.
• You can also watch via ABC News, the New York Times and the Associated Press’ Online Video Network."
Last night I teared up when watching both the Concession speech of John McCain and The Acceptance Speech of Barrack Obama. I am so grateful to both of them for their commitment to public service. It is one of those moments that made me proud to be an American. Yes, the patriotism swelled. There was one moment after the the speech that the Obama and Biden families were on the stage. I turned to Carm and said "That is the way it is suppose to be."
Back in the very early 1970's our family and the Bailey family went out to have a burger at Big Boy's on the corner of Shaw and Blackstone in Fresno. I liked palling with Vicky who was my age and Mom had found a confidant in Ethel. It was just a nice meal with two families. What made the meal memorable was two 20 somethings that came up to us with smiles. A Man and a Woman, they were wearing matching clothes. They introduced themselves as working for a civil rights organization and that they had to tell us that watching our two families, black and white, laughing and eating together was what they wanted for the country. It was puzzling to me as a preteen that it was an event at all, but caused me to reflect about what was going on politically.
Curses to those nicknames we get as kids. They are always there in the back of our minds. Of course there is always family get-together's to remind us that we were kids once. Yes, family still calls me Kimmy and I still call my big brother Timmy. But what about the next Gen down that are now old enough to bestowing those names on the newer models.
My boys had the names in the title. I don't know if they haunt the first two, but poor Kythe was burdened with Corporal Ky-Puppy during his service in the US Marine Corps. What can I say, Mom's are foolish that way.
After the 9-11-2001 attacks, I had not heard from Kythe and wanted to know if he was okay. For all I knew, they had immediately sent him to NYC. I called his room down at Camp Pendleton and left what I thought was an inconspicuous message "Hey, Ky Puppy. Its your mom, just want to know if you are okay." Unfortunately he was out on maneuvers and his roommate heard the message first. When he came in from the Field, everyone was calling him Corporal Ky-Puppy and letting him know his Mommy called.
He had a promotion and even though Sergeant Stillwell has a better ring to it, he is still known as Ky-Puppy.
Family boos on Halloween. Boos, not booze. But lots of food like always and apparently too much candy this year. So here is the Trick, a new post after 2 plus years and a new device to make it easier to load the blog. I am giving live writer a test run.
And now the treat. A memory of childhood.
Once upon a time in the late sixties, Timmy wanted to be a Hippy for Halloween. Fig Garden Village was our shopping grounds and they happened to have a store that was something of a tame Head Shop. Located next to the Library, it sold posters and buttons to the teens. I was less than 10 years old at the time, so I have no idea if it sold more than that. Matronly Mom decided Timmy needed some buttons to wear on his costume and spent some time reading all the buttons to find ones that weren't too objectionable. She finally decided on a mild anti-war button and one that sounded nice about some girl. So the two buttons I remember were "Peace" and "I Love Mary Jane"
My 26 year old sister thought it was hilarious.
