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“How low can he go? Symbolic submission implies will to submit”–Washington Times week-late head and sub-head to column on Obama’s bowing to Japanese emperor, 11/21/09

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

 Luckily, I found the contact sheets which demonstrate a wholly other sequence of events.  The six photographs show that the deep bow was but the aiding the emperor to his feet after the body slam and nostril spread. The empress displayed a stony silence throughout at the ordeal. The royal palace blamed the emperor’s bizarre, […]

Posted in Japan, Barack Obama |

The New York Times’ Gail Collins a drops nasty curve over to expose the weakness in the swing of the innumerable cable-tv news yammerers

Saturday, November 7th, 2009

Op-Ed Columnist
Hark! The Voters Speak!
By GAIL COLLINS
Published: November 4, 2009
Cincinnati
In Ohio, citizens marched to the polls on Tuesday and voted to allow gambling casinos in the state. This was obviously a message to President Obama that independent voters are not happy with the way the health care bill is going.
Really, I don’t see how else […]

Posted in Cable News, Barack Obama, 2009 Elections |

At the G-20 Meetings in Pittsburgh…

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

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Image: (Photo) via huffingtonpost.com;  (Big Slurpee) via image.dailyradar.com via showhype.com

Posted in Business, Cuisine, Economics, World, Barack Obama, Pittsburgh, Michelle Obama, Silvio Berlusconi |

Only 51 percent of Kentucky residents believe Obama was born in U.S. –Think Progress headline

Monday, September 7th, 2009

A new Research 2000 poll released by Daily Kos shows that only a slight majority — 51 percent — of Kentuckians believe President Obama was born in this country.

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100% of  Kentucky Residents Have These Two Birds As Senators.

Jim Ignatowski-Bunning & Red Queen McConnell
–David Barillari pere headline.

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Remember, Iggy is the man who misspelled Ginsburg in his […]

Posted in Republicans, Cong-SENATE, Barack Obama, Kentucky |

The Waffle Shop

Monday, August 10th, 2009

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Drug Industry to Run Ads Favoring White House Plan
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: August 8, 2009
WASHINGTON — The drug industry has authorized its lobbyists to spend as much as $150 million on television commercials supporting President Obama’s health care overhaul, beginning over the August Congressional recess, people briefed on the plans said Saturday.
The unusually large scale […]

Posted in Health, Politics, Barack Obama, Dick Durbin |

Rick “Moms” Santorum tells the Obamas how to be Black.

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Moms used Fox News as the forum from which to complain
about the president’s date in New York.
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A rare photo of Minnie and Moms honing their act in 2006.
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Image: silverts.com; (AP Photo/Mark Stehle); (Minnie’s hat) via morethings.com;(Moms’ hat) via obit-mag.com;

Posted in Republicans, Santorum, Barack Obama |

This isn’t the first time the NASA boss raised eyebrows.

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Early friction plagues talks between NASA, Obama team
By STEWART M. POWELL and MARK CARREAU Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau
Dec. 11, 2008, 7:08PMWASHINGTON — Officials with NASA and President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team on Thursday tried to paper over tensions that have arisen as the agency defended a chronically underfunded blueprint for space exploration.The officials […]

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What ever gets you through the night…

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

December 6, 2008
Obama speechwriter Favreau learns the perils of Facebook
Posted: 04:40 PM ET

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This photo of Favreau and Clinton (cut-out) appeared on Facebook Friday.

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(CNN) — Jon Favreau, future White House director of speechwriting, has so far been at a loss for words over Facebook pictures of him at a recent party.
Pictures of Favreau, 27, at a […]

Posted in Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama |

Thank goodness, they’re prevented from keeping bullets.

Monday, November 24th, 2008

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Novemeber 24, 2008
NRA Propaganda At Nation’s Largest Gun Show: Obama Is An ‘Enemy Of Your Gun Rights’
Since Barack Obama’s election, the National Rifle Association (NRA) and other pro-gun groups have been warning that the new president will take away their second amendment rights. This multi-million dollar campaign is already having effects. Not only is the […]

Posted in Business, Weapons, Barack Obama, N.R.A., Guns, Joe Biden |

President Obama chooses Inaugural theme…

Friday, November 7th, 2008

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Image: (BACK TO THE FUTURE) via ytmnd.com

Story is at huffingtonpost.com

Posted in Movies, Barack Obama, 2009 Inauguration |

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