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NOT FUNNY Aides recently told Obama about our unicorn cover

Tomorrow, CL staffers will hunker down in front of TVs and laptops to witness and participate in a historic moment in our nation’s history — Rick Warren leading a large crowd of people in  prayer. No wait, I mean, we’ll be liveblogging the inauguration of Barack Obama, the nation’s first African-American president!

If you’re stuck at work or sitting at home and looking for a place to comment, make snide remarks, celebrate, or even commiserate, this is it. We go live at 10:45 a.m. and plan to type until we’re so full of hope and change we’re inspired to become decent, law-abiding citizens.  We’ll have polls, funny photos of large men on mopeds, and maybe even some special guests. (Vernon Jones, call us back!)

It’s been a long eight years. And the next four — hopefully eight? — will be tough. But regardless of your politics, it’ll be a ceremony you won’t want to say you missed.

(Photo by Joeff Davis)

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The former U.S. Congresswoman from DeKalb County — who now resides in the heady hills of California and is running for president as a Green Party candidate — spoke at an event in the Golden State sponsored by Project Censored. Fun crazy talk was uttered!

From the Washington Examiner:

• “For those of you who know about the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, everything you think you know isn’t true. It’s a lie.”

• “Georgia isn’t the most advanced place. I’ll be like Hillary [Clinton], trying to retract that in a minute.”

• “Bush said he was clicking around on the Internet. Well, Spitzer was clicking around, too, all over America.”

• “I’ve learned so much on so many issues since I’ve been here in California about the forest fires and how the forest fires might not be unpurposeful events. That there is a purpose. A public policy purpose that comes at the end of a forest fire experience that allows developers to go into pristine areas where they were previously denied access.”

To be fair, I don’t know if I can fault her for that second statement.

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Gov. Sonny Perdue kicked open the saloon doors in Washington, D.C., and will have a sit-down with the governors of Florida and Alabama today, as well as meeting with the Department of the Interior and the White House Council on Environmental Quality. There’s a phone-in press conference at 2:15 p.m. in which we’ll participate, so if you’ve got questions, leave them in the comments and we’ll try to get ‘em in for you.

The Corps announced that it may adjust the water releases from Buford Dam at Lake Lanier, but don’t look for a quick fix. Gov. Perdue continues to frame the crisis as man versus mussels while our neighbors to the west and south have requested that President Bush see past his rhetoric and take into account the thousands of homes, businesses and economies at stake.

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