March 19, 2010
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March 19, 2010
Just like it sounds.
Chess boxing match consists of 11 alternating rounds: 4 minutes of speed chess followed by 3 minutes of boxing.1 minute between rounds. Win by KO or checkmate or referee’s decision.
Brainchild of Dutch artist lepe Rubingh who was inspired by French comic book artist Enki Bilal.
March 19, 2010
Campbell Brown Show
Ms Brown speaks with Rep Bart Stupak about the healthcare vote. He is concerned about the abortion language and at this point cannot vote yes and as a consequence he and his family are being harassed. You can bet he has no sexual secrets in the closet or they would have been made known.
‘New Washington’ = Chicago East
Except folks in Washington need to learn how to keep their mouths shut.
Take note of her tone.
March 19, 2010
Seems all the wining and dining, including a Super Bowl party at the WH, couldn’t buy Rep Ahn “Joseph” Cao’s (R-LA) final vote. He at this time is a “firm no” with the abortion language the problem. Rep Coa is a former Jesuit Seminarian so the issue comes from his conscience – not political grandstanding – and therefore not likely going to change under duress.
REP CAO:
It is not wrong to vote against what my constituents want but it is wrong to vote against my own conscience.
Right now, I am a firm no, because I do believe that the Senate language on the abortion issue is insufficient for me to support the Senate bill.
The present language in the Senate bill provides a tremendous loophole for federal funds of abortion and will eventually expand abortion services. Based on my reading of the Senate bill, many of the fundings through the health care reform bill will not be subject to the Hyde Amendment.
Hyde Amendment = the longstanding policy against federal funding of abortions.
He deserves props for even reading it. While the vote is being taken, each House Member should have to go on record as to whether they read the bill.
March 19, 2010
DADT posts
Lt Choi arrested outside WH
updated
Second round of Senate hearings re: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. First round testimony can be found following the link above.
USAF Major Mike Almy, discharged because of DADT, was on Rachel Maddow to give an update and discuss today’s hearing. He didn’t tell and nobody asked – a 3rd party went through his emails. He was subsequently discharged – at the height of the Iraq insurgency (2006) – leaving a less-experienced person in charge. Begging the question: how could his presence be “inconsistent with good order, discipline and morale” when no one knew?
He was the third service member to come out on Maddow’s show (the three I know about) and tell his story. First Lt Choi and then Lt Col Fehrenbach.
Maj Almy’s initial appearance (video/text)
Maj Almy’s story in his own words (Maddow Blog)
Maj Almy on NPR (Feb 2)
Here’s tonite’s video which includes retired former Supreme NATO Commander USMC Gen John Sheehan (pictured below) making the most bizarre accusation. He actually blamed gays in the Dutch Army for the “largest massacre in Europe since World War II” aka the execution of 8K Muslims by Serbs in Srebrenica, Bosnia in 1995.
Senator Roland Burris of the Senate Armed Services Committee is the questioner.
See CNN for full story.
I’ll add the text when it becomes available.
March 18, 2010
DADT posts
Rachel Maddow – Maj Mike Almy (video)
updated
Washington Post headline announcing Lt Dan Choi’s protest and arrest outside the WH:
Two gay men arrested in White House protest.
What does that sound like to you?
Two random gay dudes draped in rainbow flags decided, after smoking a few bongs and snorting a little coke–like POTUS once did–what the hell, let’s handcuff ourselves to the WH gate and sing a little Gaga while we wait for the big bad policemen to come arrest and frisk us?
Or a West Point grad, Arab language specialist, Lt in the NY Army National Guard with two tours in Iraq and a former US Army captain protesting DADT?
The names of the generic “two gay men”?
Lt Dan Choi and Capt James Pietrangelo.
Lt Choi was “discharged” for saying “I am gay” on the Rachel Maddow Show but it’s not official. Capt Pietrangelo has already been discharged.
So what did they do?
Dressed in what appeared it be official Army fatigues and beret, the two led approx 100 protesters to the WH following the Human Rights Campaign rally for DADT repeal at Freedom Plaza. Choi and Pietrangelo then proceeded to handcuff themselves to the WH gate. When they refused to leave, they were arrested on the charge of “failure to obey a lawful order.” They also didn’t have a protest permit.
Not sure why the drastic measure since Lt Choi had been invited back to train with his unit. Now one wonders how soon his discharge will be finalized.
CNN Video
March 19, 2010
March 18, 2010
The AP decided to research the WH’s claim of transparency and it seems barry’s “most transparent administration in history” really isn’t. Surprise. They turned down more FOIA requests than Pres Bush: 70,779 (9 months) vs 47,395. One can imagine a great deal were about his birth certificate and the other records he refuses to release.
Freedom of Information Act annual reports: www.justice.gov/oip.
POTUS/DOJ new (10-09) State Secrets Policies and Procedures
He put the visitor log online because they were being sued.
POTUS statement re: Sunshine Week [emphasis added]
As Sunshine Week begins, I want to applaud everyone who has worked to increase transparency in government and recommit my administration to be the most open and transparent ever, an effort that will strengthen our democracy and ensure the public’s trust in their government.
We came to Washington to change the way business was done, and part of that was making ourselves accountable to the American people by opening up our government.
We’ve put our White House visitor records on the Internet for the first time in history; opened up more government information than ever before on Data.gov, Recovery.gov and USAspending.gov; and issued an Executive Order fighting unnecessary secrecy, to name a few.
We are proud of these accomplishments, but our work is not done. We will continue to work toward an unmatched level of transparency, participation and accountability across the entire Administration.
March 18, 2010
March 19, 2010
Nina Marie Kleivan (b 1960) is a Norwegian-Danish painter who chose to use her own infant to portray evil dictators. How a mother can immortalize her child in such clothing and all it stands for defies…can’t find the words. All I can do is shake my head.
When I first saw the photos I thought it was Jill Greenberg, who has her own warped mind when it comes to photographing children and Sen McCain.
Kleivan did an interview with Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, published March 16th. Photo and quotes from TIME. Emphasis added. Follow the photo link for pix of infant dressed as other dictators.
KLEIVAN: Nobody reacts to any picture other than the one of ‘mini Hitler’. Even though my generation doesn’t speak out about the war, silently our cultural circle sees Hitler as evil incarnate.
Silently?
Nina Maria Kleivan / Whitehotpix / Zuma
The outfits prove it was not a spur of the moment idea.
The goal of the photos?
Kleivan explores the definition of evil in her photo series “Potency.” To make the series, she photographed her months-old daughter dressed in the iconic garb of infamous dictators past and present. Asked what motivated her to undertake such a project, Kleivan replied, “We all have evil within us. Even small children are evil toward each other.”
Was a translator needed for the interview?
Mean, yes. Evil, no.
Evil requires a developed sense of what is right and wrong, what is acceptable and what is not, and then the conscious choice to do evil. Small children are not cognitively developed enough to choose to be evil.
How does one explore the definition of evil using a complete innocent?
Curious:
KLEVIAN: You need to be conscious that your actions have consequences that impact your fellow human beings. The people I let my daughter portray didn’t give a damn about the human cost, the casualties their thoughts caused.
She doesn’t seem to be conscious of the potential casualties of her own thoughts or the consequences of her own actions or the human cost her photos will have on her “mini-Hitler” as an adolescent and adult.
And if one believes no human is born evil, what does this say?
KLEIVAN: Even my daughter could end up ruling Denmark with an iron fist. The possibility is still there. You never know.
Released March 15, 2010
Rasmussen Poll
March 7-8, 1000 likely voters, MoSE +/- 3
Opinion of FLOTUS
Favorable 55
Very favorable 32
Unfavorable 37
Very unfavorable 16
FLOTUS involved in policy decisions?
At least somewhat 51
Very 13
Not very 35
Not at all 10
Success of “Let’s Move” anti-childhood obesity campaign
Significant impact?
At least somewhat likely 44
Not at all likely 45
March 18, 2010
Disapprove 55
At least somewhat approve 45
Strongly disapprove 43
Strongly approve 23
March 4, 2010
updated
This is fantastic progress.
A Belgian woman who had her trachea crushed in a car accident in 1977 received a tracheal transplant and thus far is doing well. A cadaver trachea was implanted in her forearm and wrapped in her own connective tissue. Once it developed its own blood supply throughout, the lining was gradually replaced with her own buccal mucosa (cheek cells). Once those took hold, she was withdrawn from immunosuppressive therapy. The graft was then transplanted from her forearm to its correct anatomical location, without the need for further anti-rejection medication.
Amazing really.
It’s called a “chimeric trachea” since it has the respiratory cells and physical structure (cartilage) of the donor trachea and the mucosal lining and blood supply of the host.
Source: New England Journal of Medicine abstract. Need a subscription to read the entire article.
Chimera (Greek mythology)
A fire-breathing female lion-goat-serpent creature.
Nothing at all graphic in video. It’s an anatomical model.
*Reminded me of the case of a Massachusetts woman who was told by doctors that 2 of her 3 sons were not hers. She had needed a kidney transplant and all four had been tested for compatability and their blood typing didn’t match up. The woman insisted they were all her children. The doctors said it was impossible. Her insistence led the doctors to looking further and they found her to be a genetic chimera. Her mother had unknowingly been pregnant with non-identical twins that had fused at some point to become one, mixing their DNA. One twin’s DNA in the blood – one in the female reproductive tract – which explained the results.
Glad I found the source. (BBC) It was back in 2003. Article also mentions a 1998 artifically created genetic chimera from multiple embryo implantations with in vitro fertilization. (Like Nadya Suleman) Two embryos – one male, one female had fused. He had grown up as a male and his chimerism wasn’t discovered until he was evaluated for an undescended testis. One side a testicle, the other an ovary and fallopian tube.
March 16, 2010
updated
Attorney General Eric Holder can’t seem to grasp why folks are upset about terrorists being tried in US civilian courts. According to NPR, he had a rather contentious discussion with the GOP members of the House Appropriations subcommittee:
HOLDER: [Terrorists] have the same rights that Charles Manson would have, any other kind of mass murderer. It doesn’t mean that they’re going to be coddled, it doesn’t mean that they’re going to be treated with kid gloves.
No, it means they will be given rights that only Americans should have. Rights Americans have died to defend – some slaughtered by the terrorists. And with those rights comes the possibility of being set free. The first thing the defense attorney would do is ask that the confession be tossed out because it was obtained under duress aka “enhanced interrogation”. And if KSM was never read his rights before his confession, the judge would have no choice…if the same civil rules of law would apply.
And why is KSM even being afforded a trial when he already asked to plead guilty?
And they are not simply “mass murderers”. They are terrorists who exist only to kill as many Americans as possible. Savage inhumane beasts raised only to hate and kill. There is absolutely no possibility of being tried by a “jury of their peers” unless they were tried by other mass murderers on death row.
Imagine Dr Mengele or Hitler being tried in a regular courtroom. They were mass torturers and mass murderers. Charles Manson is an American and in that regard was judged by a jury of his peers.
And how many mass murderers’ trial cost $72M?
Money that if spent should go to the 9-11 workers who are sick and dying out of proportion to their ages and past medical history.
So what is it Mr AG doesn’t get?
He is seriously delusional if the thinks a civil trial in a US court is going to do anything to dissuade the next generation of terrorists.
I wonder if he has actually thought of the impact on the individual American citizens who will be forced to sit in judgment. Whether he has ever sat and pondered the physical, mental, emotional, psychological and spiritual toll it would take on each and every one of the jurors (and their families and those around them) for no reason other than kumbaya barry wants to prove to the world our system of justice works. The entire world is not more important than the well-being of American citizens – something barry doesn’t grasp – nor it seems Mr Holder.
The chances of finding 12 jury members in NYC who do not know of someone who was murdered on September 11, 2001 is ZERO. It would be like asking cousins or neighbors or coworkers of the mass murderer’s victims to sit in judgment.
And how many mass murderers by their mere presence in the area would cause extreme mental suffering to millions of people outside the courtroom?
Why should New Yorkers who were directly affected by the terrorists’ evil have to sit in the same room with that evil day after day, week after week?
Why should they have to look through the exhibits of the fallen towers knowing their loved ones and NY’s finest were incinerated and mixed in with the ash?
Why should they have to watch videos and listen to the thudding of bodies of the people who jumped rather than be burned alive?
Why should they have to revisit that horrific day and its aftermath in any fashion?
And most of all, why should they have to be concerned for their own safety for the rest of their lives?
If it is a public trial, the jurors’ names will be public record and every terrorist wannabe will have access to the information. For the rest of their lives, the jury members will have that in the back of their mind. And it won’t matter if the judge “seals” the jurors’ names because the press would leak their names. And in the infinitesimal chance the names weren’t leaked – anyone sitting in the courtroom would be able to see their faces.
No New Yorker should have to be re-traumatized like that.
Those terrorists should never be allowed on US soil. Folks are absolutely delusional if they believe there won’t be something attempted by other evil muslims. Why allow that possibility to exist?
Another bizarre comment:
HOLDER: Let’s deal with reality. [Bin Laden] will never appear in an American courtroom. The possibility of catching him alive is infinitesimal. He will be killed by us or he will be killed by his own people so he can’t be captured by us.
Why does he believe bin laden is still alive?
To be clear Mr AG – the problem is declaring them simple criminals. They are not. Nor will they ever be. They are enemy combatants and what they did was an act of war. Whatever they do, it will always be an act of war. The diaper bomber’s failure was an act of war. Period.
They do not now or ever belong in a civilian court nor do they deserve Miranda rights. They belong in the military system of justice – no matter how long or how ineffectual – compared to criminal courts. And until you understand that, you are not acting on behalf of the majority of Americans – Americans who will be paying for their trial and security and meals and lodging.
ps. How much DOJ manpower has been/is being wasted on defending barry when all he needs to do is spend $20?
March 12, 2010
Scottish singer/songwriter Amy MacDonald clears up the Susan Boyle doesn’t deserve a Brit Award (UK Grammys) controversy in an interview with STV.TV
Or does she?
Here’s Ms MacDonald’s initial comments from January. She went well beyond what she admits to here.
Video won’t embed. Starts at (0:45).
Q: So were your comments taken out of context?
MCDONALD:
It totally was taken out of context. Yeah, I got asked about the Brit Awards and was it right if she didn’t get nomination? And I simply said, that in my opinion, someone like Lily Allen winning would be a better representation of the British music scene. And that was it. [laughs]
Q: Are you a fan of Ms Boyle’s?
I’m not a massive fan – I think it’s great that she’s had this fairy tale. I think her dreams have came true, and if she’s happy, then that’s brilliant. And obviously, there’s millions of people around the world that really love her.
For me, I prefer to write my own songs and play a guitar and things like that. But, I mean, she’s making people happy. I’m sure she’s very happy, and that’s brilliant…how can we complain about that?
So what did she really mean?
Listen closely.
I just think that with the British music awards–the Brits are our main awards–and I think that it’s a better thing for the British music scene if somebody’s that’s winning is:
a girl who’s really cool,
who writes her own songs,
who people like,
who have had a number one album -
as opposed to a kind of older woman who’s singing cover versions.
Ms Boyle’s fans like her, they think she’s really cool, her album debuted at #1 in 8 countries, including the UK, she set all sorts of records for, yes, the British music scene (fastest selling debut album ever in the UK) and the fastest selling global female debut album (debut week 2M worldwide) and who knows if she will write her own music down the line.
She has not even been around for a year and in four months has sold more albums than Ms MacDonald’s will likely sell in her entire lifetime.
Ms MacDonald’s version of the British music scene clearly has no connection to the people listening to – and buying – British music.
I think it shows the British music scene off to be much more diverse the fact that Lily Allen won. But I was never criticizing, it’s just my personal opinions on who should have won.
How honest and insightful do you think Ms MacDonald’s lyrics are?
Seriously.
Read what she said previously about Ms Boyle being “fragile” and having “some problems” and that “it is not right for someone like that to have this life thrust upon them”.
Lyrics mean nothing – no matter who pens them – unless the singer can convey their meaning and connect with the audience. And this kind of older woman is not singing all cover songs. She is singing “Who I was Born to Be” expressly written for her by a young American singer songwriter, Audra Mae.
Do you think Ms Mae cares how many covers Ms Boyle sings when 10 million people have paid to hear Ms Boyle sing her original song with potentially millions more paying to hear it in concert should Ms Boyle actually tour? How much money has Ms Mae already made in royalties?
And do you think Ms MacDonald’s record label would care what the singer looked like or how old they were or how much they were liked or whether they wrote the songs if the album sold 10M copies in 4 months?
Hi Maybelle – just found these that weren’t posted. A common occurrence lately.
March 12, 2o10
According to STV, the intruder who Ms Boyle happened upon in her home back in January has been identified (16 y/o boy) and charged with alleged theft. No idea of what.
The day following the break-in, she said on video that she wouldn’t be forced out but has since agreed to move to London.
Update: 3-15
STV is now reporting that since the intruder was “charged with breaking into her home and stealing cash” Ms Boyle is having second thoughts about leaving her home.
One wonders why they haven’t gotten a male caretaker to live there 24/7 and a female companion to accompany her wherever she goes.
From one of those “inside sources” (who aren’t very often accurate):
Susan was being encouraged to move to London, but her heart is in Scotland. [She would be able to] go back as often as she likes safe in the knowledge that the intruder has been caught.
There’s only one potential intruder in all of Scotland?
March 16, 2010
Rep Sestak refused to state who offered him the job
Robert Gibbs is still ducking the question about Rep Sestak’s claim that he was offered a job in the administration if he didn’t challenge Sen Arlen Specter in the senate primary. On Friday (12th), both Specter and Sestak were on Newsradio WSBA in York, PA – (Sestak followed Specter) and the radio hosts tried to get Sestak to admit who offered him a job. Sestak refused. It’s clear at least to me from his words that he was offered a deal and the culprit was Rahm Emanuel. My interpretation. Follow the link above to listen for yourself. Gibbs’ one sentence video response on the 12th is in the same post.
It would have been nice to hear Specter’s exact words because there was a suggestion from the hosts that if an offer was made and Sestak didn’t report it he’d be guilty of a felony….and so would Gibbs if he knew about it and said nothing – hence his dodge.
Didn’t see a transcript from the 15th if there was one.
Not aware of Rep Issa’s accusations.
Bill.
Q Robert, perhaps a sore point, but Congressman Darrell Issa has accused you, Robert Gibbs, of being part of a cover-up because you will not say whether the White House offered Joe Sestak a job for not running against Arlen Specter. Guilty or not guilty?
MR. GIBBS: Look, I’ve talked to several people in the White House; I’ve talked to people that have talked to others in the White House. I’m told that whatever conversations have been had are not problematic. I think Congressman Sestak has discussed that this is — whatever happened is in the past, and he’s focused on his primary election.
Stephen.
Q Did the White House Counsel’s Office look into whether this was a crime –
MR. GIBBS: I’d refer you to my previous lines.
Q Sestak says he was offered something.
MR. GIBBS: I’ll refer you to what I just said a minute ago.
And that was it.
March 17, 2010
Happy St Patrick’s Day!
updated x 2
barry’s constantly evolving Irish heritage
March 2009 (3)
“my great-great-great grandfather”
(Photo)
March 2010 (5)
Speaker Pelosi’s Friends of Ireland Luncheon
“great-great-great-great-great grandfather”
Evening Reception (4)
“my great-great-great-great grandfather on my mother’s side”
If it wasn’t on his mother’s side he’d have a lot of ‘splaining to do.
(Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)
How many Irish walked in the back door of the White House to scrub the floors and do the laundry…or were they even allowed in?
-PHOTO REMOVED AT SOURCE-
And no problem spelling it out in the paper: “Also, young man wanted, from 16 to 18 years of age. NO IRISH NEED APPLY”.
And if it were: “No blacks need apply?”
Black monkeys an outrage but not Irish monkeys.
(Source)
Especially drunk Irish monkeys.
(photo)
Irish had that white entitlement when they arrived in the US dontcha know. Just lookie here.
March 15, 2010
States allowing same-gender marriage (AZ is not one)
Sen McCain challenger, on again/off again birther JD Hayworth’s comments re: same-sex marriage made during a radio interview on WORL in Orlando on Sunday (14th). This is only a small sound bite so I don’t know what else was said or in what context – but there is no doubt what he meant here.
HAYWORTH:
You see, the Massachusetts Supreme Court, when it started this move toward same-sex marriage, actually defined marriage. Now get this, it defined marriage as simply, quote, ‘the establishment of intimacy.’
Now, how dangerous is that?
I mean, I don’t mean to be absurd about, but I guess I can make the point of absurdity with an absurd point.
I guess that would mean if you really had affection for your horse, I guess you could marry your horse.
It’s just the wrong way to go. And the only way to protect the institution of marriage is with that federal marriage amendment that I support.
March 14, 2010
A little comedy?
Victoria Jackson (SNL alumna) with her ukelele sings about the Communist in the White House.
forbesofindy
Taking back the WH – One Tea Party at a time
March 12, 2010
To fulfill his bet with his Canadian counterpart (Dimitri Soudas), Robert Gibbs wore a Team Canada hockey jersey (#39 Ryan Miller, US goalie and tournament MVP) with a little surprise underneath. Payback also included a case of Molson Canadian and Yuengling lager from Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Seems the WH got enough flak about their previous beer selections that they went with the oldest brewery in US.
No mention of the women’s hockey teams.
Without the US, Canada’s win wouldn’t have been as much fun. And remember, we beat Canada in 3 periods – it took Canada 7 periods to finally beat us.
Someone in the audience was wearing a jersey as well.
Gibbs also makes a joke about naked Rahm Emanuel.
WH
TRANSCRIPT FOLLOWS
(more…)
March 12, 2010
(Announced before the triple murder in Juarez on Saturday)
First Lady Michelle Obama will travel to Mexico City next month (April 13-15) on her first official trip representing the United States.
What will she be doing you ask?
Whatever this is:
Mrs. Obama’s international agenda will amplify the President’s commitment to advancing mutual interests, mutual respect and mutual responsibility between nations and peoples around the world.
Kinda sounds like having tea with ambassadors. As expected, she will not be accompanying her husband to yet another Muslim country. Wonder how she feels about walking back into H1N1 land precisely a year later.
FULL STATEMENT FOLLOWS
March 12, 2010
Secy Clinton speaks at the United Nations on the status of women throughout the world. Also present Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, members of the diplomatic corps and representatives to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, elected officials from New York, including Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, several of the US State Dept International Women of Courage Awardees and Chelsea Clinton.
Discussed: problems and challenges women face throughout the world and their importance to the economy and overall prosperity of their countries. Also, the three major foreign policy initiatives: the Global Health Initiative, the global food security program and the nebulously worded “our government’s response to the challenge of climate change“.
Best line:
Now, I know there are those – hard to believe – but there are those who still dispute the importance of women to local, national, and global progress.
FULL TRANSCRIPT FOLLOWS
March 8, 2010
Secy Clinton’s remarks re: International Women’s Day. She mentions her “Women’s Rights are Human Rights” speech in Beijing, which was named #35 of 100 greatest speeches of the 20th Century.
FULL TRANSCRIPT FOLLOWS
March 15, 2010
updated
Hello doggielovver.
You thought I was kidding about the searches for “naked” and “full frontal” and folks ending up here? Here’s a look of some of the searches just since midnight (3 hrs ago). 7 of 21 are for naked pix of someone – only 3 names I recognize – and only Chevy Chase has been mentioned on this blog.
What I would like to know is how they ended up here with these terms.
The last few days (only 2 have been named in this blog): rahm emanuel naked, turkish nude man, henry rollins naked, perry moore nude, naked greg, naked man, chris klein naked, scott foley naked, full frontal nudity, ricky martin naked, brian van holt naked, henrick stenson full frontal nudity, barney harwood naked, bobby deen naked, full frontal naked, adam rodriguez naked, donald schultz naked, dylan walsh naked, andrew lee potts naked. Most disturbing: brother and sister intercourse and “girl 12y and dad”. And in a league of its own: hermaphrodite xray images.
March 14, 2010
Washington, DC
HIV infection rate 6 times national average
Approx 30% infected are women
HIV/AIDS – leading cause of death in black women age 25-34
So DC is trying to educate women.
The MAC AIDS Fund, the DC Department of Health, the Female Health Company, Washington AIDS Partnership, and CVS/pharmacy Launch Innovative Partnership to Provide Access to Female Condoms in Washington, D.C. (Full press release)
500K FC2 female condoms will be handed out free of charge at salons and community centers throughout DC as part of a $500K grant from MAC cosmetics MAC AIDS Fund. Informal training sessions to teach women how to use them will also be offered.
The program will be implemented by Calvary Healthcare, Inc., Community Education Group, Our Place, DC, Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, and the Women’s Collective.
Hard to believe 3 decades in folks still aren’t taking HIV/AIDS seriously.
March 8, 2010
POTUS & FLOTUS at International Women’s Day Reception.
Get the impression he doesn’t listen to her much?
UpTakeVideo
FLOTUS: So I get to speak first while he stands and watches. I love this part.
(Laughter)
FLOTUS looks at POTUS: Look at me adoringly!
(nervous laughter)
POTUS: I can do that.
(laughter)
FLOTUS: With sincerity!
updated
3-16 Gibbs still evading
March 12, 2010
Newsradio WSBA 910 AM in York, PA.
Rep Sestak follows Sen Arlen Specter
Hosts: Jim Horn & Gary Sutton
Radio ‘discussion’ about whether Rep Joe Sestak (D-PA) was offered a job (allegedly a high-ranking government job) not to run for senate against Arlen Specter, who barry promised to do everything to get re-elected. That was at a time when barry might have helped. At this point – following VA, NJ, Mass and soon to be NV – he is no more help than Pres Bush was to Sen McCain. The hosts mainly want Sestak to admit whether it was Rahm Emanuel or Jim Messina who went to him with the offer.
“Donkey in the room”
[hand transcribed relevant quotes]
RADIO: At any time did White House Chief of Staff Rahm or Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina have communications with you about this job?
SESTAK: The word liar was used. I was asked a direct question and I answered it honestly.
People are not all caught up with this…I answered a question that no one had asked for 7 month...I’m not a politician I’m a public servant.
RADIO: You’re deflecting…
SESTAK: It doesn’t have to do with working families.
—
This makes it perfectly clear the deal was offered:
SESTAK: I would never get out of this for a deal.
—
RADIO (10:00): Gary asked you: Did Rahm Emanuel or Jim Messina contact you regarding a job? So which one was it?
SESTAK: He asked me if someone had offered me a job. I said ‘yes’. And I said, I’ll go no further because that politics and I’m in this for policy. So guess what guys? I’m going to keep my word. Ohmigosh, a public servant who’s going to keep his word after answering a question honestly!
After first saying only Washington and pundits care – not the unemployed – he changed tack.
SESTAK: They do care that people are honest and they do care that deal-making isn’t done. And I said I won’t be part of a deal.
RADIO (12:48): Did WH Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel have contact with you about the 2010 race for senate?
SESTAK: And here’s what the people heard me say. I’m honest and I’ll never do a deal….What they heard is what matters to them: I’m honest and I don’t get into politics for deals.
Sure sounds like it was Emanuel.
Then they get into a discussion about Sestak’s brothers and sister working for him. If Specter keeps pounding on it, Sestak will come clean because he said he would do anything for his family.
———
(3-12) WH press briefing
GIBBS saying he doesn’t have an answer. The reason he has on a USA jersey is here.
oversightandreform
Q And the other thing: Do you have an answer yet on Mr. Sestak’s charge?
MR. GIBBS: I don’t have any more information on that.
March 12, 2010
barrymedia – this time CBS – is trying to cover for Michelle Obama’s Freudian slip, even when we can see and hear it ourselves.
The title of the video is: “Michelle Obama Thanks ‘President Clinton’”
But that was not the case – she thanked her “dear friend, Senator Clinton” and after a few seconds tried to fix things.
International Women of Courage Awards – March 10
FLOTUS: Let me thank my dear friend, Senator Clinton, uh, Secretary Clinton.
[Laughter]
Recovers: I almost said President Clinton.
March 14, 2010
Hello HillarysGreatestFan.
I can see why you don’t want to go to the WH or State Dept websites. I’ve included the video and transcripts of what you were looking for. Fortunately, someone told me how to put the transcript on the next page so it won’t take up so much room. Once you click on it it goes to a full page of the whole post. His proclamation consists mainly of what his administration has done.
A couple of quotes:
And we are following through on the commitments I made in Cairo to promote access to education, improve literacy, and expand employment opportunities for women and girls.
Note there were no such comments in his Inauguration Speech.
This month, let us carry forth the legacy of our mothers and grandmothers. As we honor the women who have shaped our Nation, we must remember that we are tasked with writing the next chapter of women’s history. Only if we teach our daughters that no obstacle is too great for them, that no ceiling can block their ascent, will we inspire them to reach for their highest aspirations and achieve true equality.
His coronation made sure of the ceiling for another 20 years.
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