Barry, We Hardly Knew Ye (Or Wanted To)

Obama whines to Hearst Magazine about the burdens of life in the White House:

The president said he loves his life in the White House but doesn't enjoy some of the ways of Washington, such as the "kabuki dance" among political partisans before serious policy discussions begin. He also regrets his loss of personal privacy.

"I just miss - I miss being anonymous," he said at the meeting in the White House.

Millions of others share the wish that he was stilll anonymous.

Comments

[PD]

If the job is too tough, Mr. Precious, feel free to step down.

[Neo]

If he hates the "kabuki dance" so much, why is it that virtually all of his staff are "kabuki choreographers" ?
.. perhaps it's because his "Kung Fu" is not superior.

[Neo]

Barry is like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in the 1978 film, Game of Death. Bruce Lee's brand of "Kung Fu" beat his butt.

[clarice]

Really pathetic.
when do we begin chiseling his name off all the buildings?

If you haven't seen it ranger has an interesting cite about the Wisconsin election.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/119574509.html?page=1

[bgates]

Barry is like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

One of them is an egotistical Muslim convert who likes nothing better than playing basketball.

The other was in "Airplane".

[Danube of Thought]

What a phony shithead.

[Danube of Thought]

Ranger's cite is tantalizing but inscrutable. Anybody have a clue? Henry?

[clarice]

A few months ago that DA joined up with others , the wis DOJ and the election commission to investigate vote fraud in the state. There has been significant fraud in recent elections in Milwaukee by the D's.
I suspect they found some evidence of it but whether it was in this election or an earlier one I cannot say.

[Neo]

I noticed the last GAB press release cited changes during the canvass process in Milwaukee

[Porchlight]

What a phony shithead.

LOL. Can't top that.

Just imagine this pr*ck in his Dignified Former President role, gracing the dais of international function after function, giving interview after interview at conference after conference. It's gonna be grand.

[Comanche Voter]

Poor baby.

[jimmyk]

Dunno, DoT, but I must say, the comments are pretty amusing. I particularly liked the speculation on what the announcement would be: "Schrodinger's cat is really dead." "Grant is buried in Grant's tomb." "Hoffa' body was found (but he still voted twice)." And so on.

[clarice]

randy melchert says the announcement is not related to this election.
http://randallmelchert.com/

[Porchlight]

From Twitter, just saw this linked at HotAir:

Director of Government Accountability Board confirms tomorrows investigation announcement is NOT related to last week's election. about 1 hour ago via web

news3jessica
Jessica Arp

I think Arp is with one of the local stations.

[narciso]

Now, my feelings on Trump are fairly clear, but this is sub par criticism:

http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Trump-is-Final-Proof-that-the-Political-Class-Has-Failed

[Sue]

Wow, are they going to tell us democrats cheated in an election? That would be totally...anticlimatic. A real 'duh' moment.

[Sue]

Kennedy is about to be shot. I want to tell him not to go. Or duck. Or take off his back brace so he slumps after the first shot. Or something. I wonder how history would have turned out had Kennedy not been killed that day?

[Jim Rhoads a/k/a vnjagvet]

A commenter to the article Ranger linked says:

Fresh from the rumor mill....
The results of the “significant investigation” that will be released today have to do with the investigation by the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s office into alleged illegal campaign work on the part of Tim Russell and Darlene Wink, both of whom worked in Scott Walker’s office during Walker’s time as Milwaukee County Executive. Both Russell and Wink have allegedly been under investigation by the Milwaukee County DA’s office due to allegations they engaged in illegal campaign work on behalf of Walker’s gubernatorial campaign from their County offices and on County time. Russell’s county-provided computer had previously been seized by the Milwaukee DA’s office, and if I remember correctly, Wink’s personal laptop may have been seized as well.

[Sue]

Oh great. I should have known it was going to be about a republican. Never a democrat.

[Jim Rhoads a/k/a vnjagvet]

There's always the possibility (as remote as it might be) that the investigation found no wrongdoing:>)

[Porchlight]

Jim Rhoads,

Melchert mentioned that possibility in his speculation on the investigation. He commented underneath: "Problem: Why would GAB be involved if it was County Exec?"

[Porchlight]

Melchert mentioned that possibility

Possibility that it was Walker's employees who were the subject of this particular investigation, that is.

Where's Henry when we need him? :)

[Jim Rhoads a/k/a vnjagvet]

I think I will not lose sleep over it. The announcement won't be until late afternoon Eastern.

[Danube of Thought]

How would the worst case compare with Charlie Trie? With Al Gore's "no controlling legal authority" White House solicitations? With the cattle futures? And etc....

[narciso]

Could be this as well, also mentioned by Melchert;

http://num6ersgame.blogspot.com/2010/06/da-investigates-taxpayer-funded.html

Somehow after death and bomb threats became part of the political discussion in Wisconsin
I'm kind of non plussed.

[bgates]

giving interview after interview

Being confronted with smartphone after smartphone in the hands of angry young conservatives who are somehow less impressed by his skin color than with the size of the tax bill they've inherited from him. Everywhere he goes. The pro shop. The basketball arena. Asking him what his biggest mistakes were. Asking him how to say "May 4th" in Spanish. Asking him to give his unvarnished opinion of America, without any handlers to clean it up.

He'll end up looking so stupid even his supporters have to admit it.

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

My former boss once said that a politician can survive graft, lies, infidelities, sexual perversions, and just about any other negative and scandal, but they can not survive ridicule.

[JM Hanes]

"I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks. I can't take a walk."

This comment over at Ace's should win some kind of prize:

I know how he feels. This morning I mowed the lawn and washed my car, but all I really wanted to do was launch an airstrike on Syria.

ROTFL!

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

The Kennedys has been a wonderful movie. I only have one complaint. There is no way Jackie would have ever worn such ill-fitting gloves that they have Katie Holmes wearing. Nobody wears gloves anymore, however, so maybe only those of us old enough to have had to suffer glove inspections in our own youth would notice.

[Stephanie]

Thanks for all the BD wishes!

We went out of town on Thursday for a short Spring Break to Charlotte and Carowinds amusement park for a few days and just got back. Awesome! The Intimidator (named after Earnhardt) 200+ foot lift hill and 80+ degree descent. Whee! Yeah, I'm a coaster junkie. Plus go-carts and bungie jumping... wicked fun!

Fortunately, I was able to keep up with reading the threads late at night in the hotel room and giggled with glee as the Prosser sh!t hit the fan.

Unfortunately, we got stuck at Carowinds yesterday just as a horrific thunderstorm came rolling in dumping hail on us with a tornado warning thrown in for good measure. The daughter's new 08 Ford Escape now has hail damage and looks like a golf ball - totally dimpled on the hood and roof and we've only had it for a week. She's totally bummed about it. Poor baby.

On the bright side, Carowinds took pity on us for enduring the storm under their ticket booth's eaves (we didn't quite make the parking lot before returning to the tix booth's quasisafety before they ran out with umbrellas and rescued us during the tornado warning) and, hearing we were from out of town, gifted us with complimentary passes for a return trip later this summer.

And wasn't that Master's great!!! Tiger finally got his mojo back. I hope it lasts.

My prediction for a winner is.... Charl Schwartzel. :grin:

[Sara (Pal2Pal)]

So was George Elliot looking in the future when she made this quote:

"The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth."

[daddy]

So we can conclude from this interview that when Obama went running thru the Lincoln Memorial yesterday morning he wasn't seeking votes or applause or headlines or adulation or a bump in the polls---what he was really seeking was anonymity. Got it.

[daddy]

For anyone interested in that "What Is a Planet" stuff we talked about this weekend, here's a link to an interesting page at Astronomy Picture Of The Day. The new Space telescope Kepler, that is floating around way out there since 2009, has been taking shots of distant stars in an effort to find Extra-Solar Planets. This page I've linked to has each of the 1,235 candidate planets Kepler may have discovered, imposed upon a simulated image of the Star they are circling. It provides an idea of the sizes of planets and stars they've been looking at, and gives our Sun, Earth and Jupiter for comparison, (though I personally can't make out Earth even in magnification.)

[henry]

Good morning all. I have no idea what the Milwaukee DA and the GAB are up to, but going after Walker's county exec assistants rings a bell. Somebody gets nailed for campaigning on the taxpayer dime every election, and the investigations take a while. Search for ex assembly leader Scott Jensen for an example of this. Also both parties get caught from time to time. I'll check the radio this morning for better rumors.

[Osaserial]

O should take his green lantern and go live with lucifer's perversions.If he wasnt pres he would be saving us by torturing us until he can lead us.Planets and existence are toys for O and his lantern.

[Extraneus]

It's gonna be grand.

Especially if his Dignified Former President role begins in 2013.

[sbw]

Sara, what a great quotation.

[Jane (sit on the couch or save your country)]

MSNBC is beside itself over Donald Trump's birtherism. They want to make Morning Joe a Trump free zone. I'm sure they did then same thing when Dan Rather was lying about President Bush's military record.

[hit and run]

If he wasnt pres he would be saving us by torturing us until he can lead us.

Sometimes I feel like we share a brain.

[Extraneus]

Obama to Put Taxes on Table in Spending Plan

No kidding?

[clarice]

Jane, Charlie Blow of the NYT wants to censor talk of birthism off the air.

[Janet]

The latest incarnation of the JournOlist is gonna have to ban talking about/with Trump too...like they did Sarah Palin.
Someone contact Milbank & tell him to spread the word!

[Jack is Back!]

Has anyone seen that article written by a purported ex-IRS examiner that claims that Barry is really a dope smuggling jihadi criminal using someone elses past and identity? It is so outrageous that it makes TK's NBC argument sanely realistic. If anyone has read it and has any comment beside ROTFLMAO please let us know.

[Janet]

Charlie Blow of the NYT wants to censor talk of birthism off the air.

Good Lord, our MFM is rotten. Banning topics?

[Captain Hate]

Has anyone seen that article written by a purported ex-IRS examiner that claims that Barry is really a dope smuggling jihadi criminal using someone elses past and identity?

One of the luciferian nutjob posters got published? Hopefully it will stay away from here....

[hit and run]

Janet:
Good Lord, our MFM is rotten. Banning topics?

When CNN anchor John Roberts interviewed Obama in 2008, he reassured the candidate that the entire network was a "Wright-free zone".

[Janet]

Democrats will yield on everything but abortion

How can anyone be a Dem? Their most important issue is forcing others to pay for someone choosing to kill their baby.
It's not enough for abortion to be legal...no, we all have to pay.
Why can't they set up some abortion funding charity?...record a star studded song & the proceeds can fund their abortion charity.
♪ ♫ "We Aren't The World"
We aren't the world
We aren't the children
We aren't the ones who make a brighter day
So you better start giving
There's a choice you're making
You're taking our own lives
It's true we'll never see the day
Just you and ... well, just you

[maryrose]

Janet:
You are so right in what you are saying.They are anti-life for humans and pro-life for animals. This whole re-wording of pro-choice is a scam. We know what the real agenda is,legalized murder.

[Jack is Back!]

Now if this had been 1961 in Hawaii, we'd be on to something:) LUN

[narciso]

It's really more in the nature of the coverage, as this example shows:

http://conservatives4palin.com/2011/04/the-left-wing-extremists-at-politicususa-lie-again-about-governor-palin-and-fox-news.html

[narciso]

This is how skewed the perspective, is from last's profile, by a contributor from one of 'Serge's' favorite sites

http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/conservative_pundit_jennifer_rubin.php

[Extraneus]

Well it's not as if Trump has any impact on viewership. If he did, they'd surely be covering his antics in depth.

Btw, even Foxnews.com goes with the MSM's favorite "birther" definition:

Trump has drawn attention in recent weeks by questioning the authenticity of official documents showing Obama was born in Hawaii -- appealing to a fringe movement that suspects Obama was not born in the United States. Most mainstream politicians have rejected this conspiracy theory as hokum, but Trump has embraced it.

Anyone who questions the authenticity of the documents, or questions why the official birth certificate remains hidden, is by definition doubting Obama's US birth, and is therefore a crackpot, according to most mainstream politicians.

[Danube of Thought]

Drudge is showing a Minus 20 at Raz for today, with a record-low 19% strongly approve. "Developing..."

[Janet]

The Dems have to force people to give to their causes...taxing all of us for their abortions, having the government collect union dues,...the carbon taxing nonsense is to make us give money to their environmental organizations.

[matt]

i'l n'est pas un homme serieux.....

[Janet]

I'm more of a "whole-lifer".

[Ranger]

Here is your morning Kinetic Military Action update.

French troops enter centre of Abidjan

French ground troops have entered the centre of the main Ivory Coast city of Abidjan for the fist time as incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo refuses to quit.

Helicopter gunships are firing in the area around Mr Gbagbo's residence.

It seems that the local boys the French were backing were unwilling to advance in the face of actual resistance, so the French have simply dropped any pretense. But have no fear, in the end the credit will go to the local leadership. The French are just lending a helping hand.

A spokesman for Mr Ouattara has said his troops were involved as well, and that this was the largest joint attack since the conflict began.

The action will not stop until Mr Gbagbo steps down, the spokesman added.

[narciso]

There's no byline to that piece, Ext, ubt it does convey the Journolist viewpoint, as does
this, I don't link to Politico,

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/264360/waiting-godot-capitol-hill-jonah-goldberg

[Jim Ryan]

A Dem can't go back to his blue district after voting to defund Planned Parenthood. It just isn't possible. It's like a conservative Republican going back to his red district after voting to socialize private industry. How's he going to face his base?

[Jane (sit on the couch or save your country)]

Jane, Charlie Blow of the NYT wants to censor talk of birthism off the air.

I want to censor Charles Blow.

[Jane (sit on the couch or save your country)]

How can anyone be a Dem? Their most important issue is forcing others to pay for someone choosing to kill their baby.

As abhorrent as that is, it can be a blessing not a curse.

D: WE want to raise taxes!

R: not if you want abortions

D: We want to raise the debt ceiling

R: Not if you want abortions

D: WE want to fund Obamacare

R: Not if you want abortions

Then comes the election - If the only thing you care about is abortion, vote D. Everyone else, vote R.

[Danube of Thought]

It's at least a little bit of comfort to know that Robert Samuelson sees things exactly as I do:

We in America have created suicidal government; the threatened federal shutdown and stubborn budget deficits are but symptoms. By suicidal, I mean that government has promised more than it can realistically deliver and, as a result, repeatedly disappoints by providing less than people expect or jeopardizing what they already have. But government can’t easily correct its excesses, because Americans depend on it for so much that any effort to change the status arouses a firestorm of opposition that virtually ensures defeat. Government’s very expansion has brought it into disrepute, paralyzed politics and impeded it from acting in the national interest.

[Captain Hate]

Today's WSJ editorial features a bunch of commiecrats and RINO Susan Collins who voted against McConnell's ban against the EPA regulating carbon (which even John Dingell has opposed) but instead offered their own bills which had no chance of passing so assholes like Sherrod Brown, who are up for election next year, could claim to their coal dependent constituents that "they did what they could" to not screw them over. Included in the group of Senators was Janet's large headed "blue dog" puke who's not running for re-election and had the opportunity to vote his "conscience" which some here claim is more conservative than any evidence dictates. Good riddance to Webb when he goes; even if Tim "Bad Hair Day" Kaine replaces him he'll at least not claim to be something he's not.

C'mon guys; let's hear the excuses for Webb.

[narciso]

Like I made clear, early in the last thread, it's a real tragedy, that anybody backs any of these two, if BHL is involved, I'd like to know how he squares this.

[Janet]

A Dem can't go back to his blue district after voting to defund Planned Parenthood.

They could frame it as a positive.
Dear constituents,
Although government funding of PP has ended, we can still give them money! Now that the Republicans are taxing you less & you get to keep some of your own money...you can cough it up for PP.
Let the killing continue unabated!!!!

As sincere as I can be,
Senator Loser (D)

[Threadkiller]

--“MSNBC is beside itself over Donald Trump's birtherism. They want to make Morning Joe a Trump free zone. I'm sure they did then same thing when Dan Rather was lying about President Bush's military record.”--

--“Charlie Blow of the NYT wants to censor talk of birthism off the air.”--

They can join Hugh Hewitt, Michael Medved, Bill O’Reiley, Glen Beck, Hannity, James Taranto, and others in the media. Or they can come here and join JOM. :-)

[Neo]

CHARLES BLOW: . . . Every time someone allows Donald Trump to come on the air and talk about this issue, they're being exploited by Donald Trump. We know that this is not true. Every time we mention his name in relation to this issue, we're being exploited.

I know the Jesus is my Lord and Saviour.
I know that I am happy that my dog is finally getting cheese.
I know that Barney Frank did everything possible to cause the financial collapse of 2008
I know that there is always a big future in computer maintenance.
I know that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone to shoot JFK.
I know that we are not alone.

... but all I know is that Barack Obama has a certificate of live birth that in no way proves he is a natural born US citizen.
Every Kenyan knows this to be true.

[Danube of Thought]

Here it is, officially:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 19% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Thirty-nine percent (39%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -20 (see trends).

Today’s numbers reflect the lowest level of Strong Approval yet recorded for this president. There has been a sharp decline in enthusiasm among liberal voters.

Currently, just 37% of liberals Strongly Approve of the president’s performance. That’s down from 63% a year ago, 57% at the beginning of 2011, and 52% a week ago.

Dare we hope that at long last the scales have dropped, forever, from the eyes of another large group of people?

[maryrose]

Obama needs to realize when an issue is a loser for him. the birth certificate is a big fat loser for him.I predict we will see the the real thing or facsimile very soon.
His new budget has tax increases in it. Also a big fat loser as you do NOT raise taxes in a recession. He's stuck on stupid as usual.

[DebinNC]

Unless I'm missing it, The WH Blog doesn't indicate Obama will be giving a big budget speech this week. He's being stretched to the limit today with a daily briefing at 10:00 and a Libya update at 11:30.

[narciso]

Relax, Captain, all is well, at Duke and Duke,

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/tim-pawlenty-lands-a-presidential-campaign-manager/2011/04/10/AFFHIPHD_blog.html

[Captain Hate]

Yeah I saw that mentioned over at AoS's daily headlines thread. I'm real interested in hearing teh Tam's comments on that since she's such a big T-Paw fan. Especially now that they're putting TOP MEN on it.

[PD]

DoT, the libs might have dropped in enthusiasm, but I suspect they'll go right back up given the slightest excuse, such as a report that he succeeded in putting his socks on by himself.

[PD]

Democrats will yield on everything but abortion

Didn't they assure us last year during the ObamaCare debate that no Federal funds would be used to pay for abortions?

By not yielding on this, isn't it the same as saying, "yes, Federal funds are paying for abortion"?

[PD]

First order of business for the Pawlenty campaign manager should be to remove Pawlenty's Valium IV drip.

[DebinNC]

Dare we hope that at long last the scales have dropped, forever, from the eyes of another large droup of people?

If Obama is stupid and/or narcissistic enough to preempt the highest rated tv show, American Idol, to spite FOX, he'll blast off quite a few remaining scales.

[clarice]

DoT, Such lovely news. But you mustn't misread it. The voters heard that O missed his privacy and because they love him so much they want him to get his wish of anonymity asap.

[PD]

It's hilarious that the leftists want to ban talk of birtherism on the talk shows. Who keeps bringing it up? Leftists!

[Rick Ballard]

I believe that's a cornered rat reaction from the proglodyte base. They know BOzo got rolled by Tan Man and they also know what the utter defeat (in the sense that all troops had been committed to a loss) means in Wisconsin. There's probably some $4 gas reaction from the Muddle as well but most of it is just prog revulsion to having a spineless cretin leading the 'movement'.

I doubt its permanence but I'm very pleased to see it.

[Captain Hate]

Exactly PD; they bring it up to try and flummox people like TPaw or Boehner and then Trump screws up their plan by gleefully addressing it at every opportunity while not holding elected office.

[narciso]

Here's that comment you were pointing out Capt;

Born in 1982, Ayers' parents are democrats and he told The New Republic he was "high on Clinton" back in the 90's. He's from Cobb County, Georgia.

So, Pawlenty has hired a 28-year old from one of the few Cobb County residents that actually liked Bill Clinton. This does not sound like a "big get" to me. It sounds like most of the campaign people know that Pawlenty doesn't have a chance.

Pawlenty is basically blanc mange, it's an open question whether he's from the galaxy
of Andromeda, Conant was having the vapors
at Politico, back when the slightest signs
of resistance to Obama, were being felt,
Terry Nelson another of Maverick's crew,
well I don't recall well enough to have an impression,

[maryrose]

Trump is asking the questions normal people would ask. I was born in 1950 and I know that I was born at Huron Road Hospital in Cleveland. Everyone should know the name of the hospital, the time they were born, my entire family knows this about everyone in the family and they use their REAL birth certificate to obtain a passport. Why is he hiding all this and other information? Until he comes clean it's a loser for him.

[hit and run]

I'd add that Libya is wearing on the prog base (he needs to reassure them that he's committed to losing,that'll bring 'em home) -- as well as the news of the secret prisons* in Afghanistan that dropped on Friday.

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*Don't call 'em black sites,you racist

[Alice]

You know what? I think this happens to all of that ordinary people that became famous. They dream to be famous and after that they want back their ordinary life. To bad that this is impossible.

[DebinNC]

Chutzpah alert via the Chicago Sun Times:

"On Tuesday, the President and the Vice President will deliver remarks at the launch of the First Lady and Dr. Jill Biden's national initiative to support and honor America's service members and their families at the White House. The initiative aims to educate, challenge, and spark action from all sectors of our society -- citizens, communities, businesses, non-profits, faith based institutions, philanthropic organizations, and government -- to ensure military families have the support they have earned."

It's reassuring for military families to know that private support might be there next time Obama is willing to stop their paychecks to win a political argument.

[clarice]

I'm picturing O vamping about the Lincoln Memorial muttering, "I vant to be alone."

[Threadkiller]

Speaking of Trump. I played a trump card on the previous birther thread.

I will now do my best to keep my promise.

Thanks for your patience.

[Army of Davids]

Waiting for Superman?

You won't find him here in Los Angeles...where teachers took Caesar Chavez Day (April Fool's day appropriately) off from school.

[Army of Davids]

Khadhafy endorsing Obama's 2012 re-election campaign?

Trying to remember the last U.S. president he felt so fondly for. Think it was the guy we had in 79.

[Danube of Thought]

I know that I was born at Huron Road Hospital in Cleveland

Not really. You know what's on a piece of paper, and what you've been told all your life.

[Easy]

Everyone's Green and wants to save the planet,probably O,designated by lucifer's creations as earth leader trading for the light of the green lantern turning humans green as servants and adopted creations of Lucifer,his ultimate perversion of God's creation.If O s traded the humans of earth for his using creation to run existence like God,making Lucifer's creations show up and claim us to as servants of lucifer,will he go to other planets,etc.and not come back?Will he be our ruler in other worlds or more like an ambassador with limited powers?Will he claim his birthing as off earth and as a creaion of Lucifer or an equal world created by God?

[Ranger]

The Corner has an interesting take on budget battle:

Budget Politics and Spending Realities

It foceses on this one quote from a Politico story:

A top Democratic official, insisting on anonymity in order to be candid, said: “The fundamental problem of the whole process is Democrats have zero ability to describe what our view of government really is. So basically all we do is defend the status quo against attacks from the right-wing fringe of the GOP.”

I don't take this as an admission that Democrats have to lie about their view of government. I think we have gotten to the point that after 40 years of watering down education and eliminating any real debate in higher education about the role of government in people's lives, Democrats today simply don't know what their view of government is. To them, government 'does good things.' Therefore, spending more on government means doing more good things. When confronted with alternate viewpoints, or even simply asked to realy explain their view of government, they are at a total loss.

[Extraneus]

We need video proof from now on. Mom, doctor and hospital administrator mugging for the cameras right there at the last push with the front page of the NYT clearly shown.

[Threadkiller]

--"Will he claim his birthing as off earth and as a creaion of Lucifer or an equal world created by God?"--

As long as he has a piece of paper that tells him different, he is OK in my book.

[Ranger]

Meanwhile, back in Ivory Coast, one well trained French battalion accomplishes what weeks of local fighting and UN airstrikes can't:

Ivory Coast's Laurent Gbagbo arrested

[Army of Davids]

The grocery store and paying at the pump are obvious.

But inflation is coming fast to retail and rents as well.

[clarice]

For just years I was certain I was a princess the hospital erroneously delivered to my parents' house/

[Janet]

The initiative aims to educate, challenge, and spark action from all sectors of our society

WE don't need to be educated by government. My church already has a military ministry...care pkgs., care for the wounded & their visiting families at Walter Reed, babysitting, airport shuttle, supporting small groups for military families that attend MBC, ... all kinds of stuff.

[Ann]

Twitter today:

If you voted for Barack to prove you're not a racist, vote against him to prove you're not a moron.

[hit and run]

From Deb's quote:
On Tuesday, the President and the Vice President will deliver remarks at the launch of the First Lady and Dr. Jill Biden's national initiative to support and honor America's service members and their families at the White House.

And they've tapped Stanley McChrystal to help lead it.

That right there is a job created or saved.