The Bums will come out, tomorrow. Bet your bottom dollar.

Four years ago the secret service and Washington DC were bracing themselves against numerous protests and demonstrations during the inauguration of George W. Bush. This year, the love in the air is thicker than the back hair on your average Italian tourist at the beach and the press coverage will be fuller than the mustache of said tourist's wife.

The lack of planned protests hasn't calmed the fears of the Secret Service and conservative groups are being watched closer than the bums of cute Swedish girls tanning themselves on the sand. It is also yet another example of how those on the right seem to "go along to get along" and it is the left that flies off the handle. The only group planning a protest is the nut job, whacked out, needs to be slapped upside their head Westboro Baptist Church. Conservative these freaks are not. Neither are neo-NAZIs but they too are receiving scrutiny even though they've kept most of their comments under their sheets. Perennial protesters, and equally nutty, Code Pink will be hoisting signs but theirs are celebratory in design.

Everything that can possibly be done to ensure the day is perfect for the coronation of PEBO is being done. Even an economy that is floundering like a fat guy trying to don a wetsuit won't stop this party. DC police have posted No Prostitution signs. I am sure this effort will guarantee illegal activity of the carnal variety will cease. I've heard rumor that Congressman, upon seeing these signs, thought an early recess of government was called and went home. The homeless are being rounded up by police and given one way bus rides to the outskirts of town faster than mothers grab their young sons and pull them away from fellow sun worshipers exercising a clothing optional option. After all, we can't have the inauguration visitors seeing hookers and bums along the parade route. That year round joy is reserved for the locals. It will be hard enough on those coming to the festivities to subject them to the dregs of society that have washed up on the shores of the Potomac. The only hitch in the plan is that Mother Nature is not cooperating as our warming globe is forecast to receive snow.

I feel certain only the most positive of images of the day will make it to the airwaves this Tuesday. We are entering another stage of image over substance and those of us sensitive to the rash of idiocy this surely will cause need to protect ourselves just like the fair skinned family slathers on the sun screen and dons dark glasses against the harsh sun of summer. Our glasses will not contain the rose colored optics of the true believers. They are the prescription we need to keep an eye on those in charge and be ever vigilant so that the freedoms our forefathers realized were guaranteed by our creator are not washed away like the footprints in the sand during a high tide. For surely there will be a new tide soon.