…. for old time’s sake
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Sunday/Monday:
The President, the First Lady and their daughters depart for Belfast, Northern Ireland tomorrow (Sunday) at 9:20 PM.
They arrive in Belfast on Monday morning.
The First Lady will introduce the President at an event at the Waterfront Convention Centre in Belfast where he will deliver remarks.
While the President then travels to Lough Erne for the G8 Summit, the First Lady and her daughters will leave for Dublin in the Republic of Ireland.
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Handy map:
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The President’s Northern Ireland schedule:
Monday: Arrives Belfast. Delivers remarks at the Waterfront Convention Centre in the city when he will address his support for the peace process in Northern Ireland.
Meets Prime Minister David Cameron ahead of the G8 Summit. Later, he attends the G-8 Summit at Lough Erne.
On Monday evening, the President will hold a bilateral meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
Tuesday: In the evening, following the G-8, the President and the First Family will travel to Berlin, Germany.
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The First Lady and her daughters will visit Trinity College shortly after their arrival in Dublin Monday, lunchtime (local time)…..
(…. remember one of our fave pics from the President’s speech in Dublin? That’s Trinity College behind the very very excited young women)…..
(Trinity’s graduates include Jonathan Swift, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, among many other famous folk)
The First Lady and her daughters will view the world-famous Book of Kells:
Later in the day, the First Lady will meet the staff and families of the US Embassy in Dublin and attend a special performance of Riverdance at the Gaiety Theatre….
….oh, go on then:
….. where teenagers and children from a number of youth groups and schools will be invited to join the First Lady and her daughters.
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Tuesday:
Following an overnight stay in the Shelbourne Hotel ….. (LL? Deep breath: the Shelbourne is mentioned in James Joyce’s Ulysses)…..
….. they will go walking in the Wicklow Hills on Tuesday morning…..
…. this might be weather dependent – it is, after all, summer in Ireland:
….. and will visit the very lovely local lakes and Glendalough….
…… Glendalough is famous for its Early Medieval monastic settlement which was founded in the 6th century, around the time the GOP formulated its policy on women….
…..where they will also see the historical monastic site and round tower.
The First Lady and her daughters will then rejoin President Obama for their visit to Germany.
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And in Germany:
Wednesday: The President will have a meeting with President Gauck and Chancellor Merkel to discuss a wide range of bilateral and global issues.
Later that afternoon, at the invitation of Chancellor Merkel, President Obama will speak at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
On Wednesday evening, the President and the First Family will return to Washington.
The Obama Diary 
can’t wait to see the love!
Congrats on 1st!
Thanks, GB:) How you feeling today???
I am currently eating a cheeseburger and french fries. What do you think? 🙂 😉
I think that sounds great and you’re on the mend! Sick people don’t WANT to eat:)
Good point.
That is wonderful. How are you doing?
Good day today especially after being able to have some outside food. It really means a lot. Short physical therapy session today but still progressing.
You had a good Saturday?
DF!!!!!!!!!
My foot was in the door…..
HEY!
You must be feeling better: cheeseburger and fries PLUS practically dead-heating with DF for first
watch out!! 🙂
Thanks.
Congrats on first df!
Ok, Chips, now you’re going to make me re-read “Ulysses”. You know how to get to a lit geek. I’ve been meaning to re-read it anyway, after I finish the second volume of Proust.
Litty geeky LL!!! 🙂
The best ad on US TV I ever saw was for an sleeping pill. After about 30 seconds of the commercial went by, in the last 1 second the camera focused on the book the (now sleeping) person read: “Ulysses, by James Joyce”.
🙂
Hah! That person obviously didn’t appreciate the greatness of Ulysses!
In common with billions of others. 😉
We are a small but hearty band.
I bow in awe. I can do Trollope and Hardy guys like that, but Prouse and Joyce defeat me.
I’m in your camp, LL. It’s the most magnificent book I’ve ever read, but I’ve learned not to tell people that, or they look at me funny forevermore.
Can’t wait for their trip to Ireland.
Have to admit GB, I’m disappointed with the southern Ireland schedule, there are honestly 1,000 lovelier places the First Lady and the girls could have been taken to, but because the trip is short I understand, there wasn’t time to take them too far from Dublin – the west/north-west cost of Ireland is, in my VERY (!) humble opinion, endlessly more beautiful than the places they’ll visit, I’d love to have seen them taken there, but time governs these things.
Lookachu with your regional pride.
Everything looks gorgeous. Thanks!
Fess up…you are the girl doing the river dance right? And that man with the very questionable blouse is Wayne Rooney’s ancestor…right?
🙂 Okay, okay, this is me….
Eh, Chips, the Wicklow Mountains this time of the year can be gorgeous, specially if the Rhodys are blooming. Glendaloch is fascinating even in the rain [please gods don’t let it rain!] I still have hopes they will sneakily copter into Moneygall even for an hour. Could be that is staying off the schedule to keep the crowds down, making it possible. We’ll know if Henry shows up in Dublin perhaps.
Loved this whole post.
Ha, I’m just HOPELESSLY biased OSG!!!! North-west Ireland RULES!!! 🙂
Donegal is one of my favorite places, but my heart is here in Tipperary with the Galtees on my doorstep.
OSG, we need to meet up in Donegal one day for an Irish coffee or eight, it’s paradise. And then we’ll move on to Tipp to sober up!!
Chips, I’m still laughing about your comment on the GOP formulating its policy on women in the 6th century. Perfect!
One look at that monastery says it all.
One day Chips. One day, POTUS will make it to your house. 🙂
https://twitter.com/Earth_Pics/status/345984842300813312
Wow! What an impressive sight. Thanks, GB.
Beautiful.
ok – this may be a stupid question… but it’s asked with the intent of eliminating the stupidity… Do those panels get hot while they’re absorbing the sun?
I don’t know but with today’s technology, it’s probably possible to make them cool or warm to the touch. What if they have to do repairs and someone has to access one of those panels?
Total speculation of course. I really have no idea. 🙂
Thanks for the excellent attempt, gobrooklyn! 🙂
ha!
Wow GB, that’s an impressive site to see. Thanks for sharing.
you’re welcome.
GG is in deep shit. Adept2U has a piece on TPV: http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2013/06/the-nsa-fisa-and-glenn-greenwald-did-he.html
I don’t think there’s any doubt that GG put Snowden into a position where he could not just leak classified data, but give it to the Chinese.
For the record, I am still not convinced that we know who played who, and for what purpose.
In my opinion, Snowden entered Booz(e) Allen Hamiltion (HI) much, much too easily, given his credentials (note that he earned – according to BAH, $122K/y, about double *my* salary, and I have been a systems administrator for 7 years).
Yep.
Would be amusing, given the distorted claims about PRISM, if the Chinese are being sold a boat load of red herrings & a couple of Brooklyn Bridges 😉 In any event, crimes have been committed and GG is smack in the middle of it.
Of course there’s always THIS….
http://bobcesca.thedailybanter.com/blog-archives/2013/06/why-wasnt-i-told-about-this.html
And the question if those seats were empty *on purpose* (EEEE-III-DOOONT-HEEEAAR-YOOUOUOUOU).
Who the hell knows. They knew about all this, they just never wanted to be found out that they knew….that way they wouldn’t have to be responsible. Idiots. Big ass waste of taxpayer $$ to pay their paychecks they don’t work for.
Agree 100% df. And, if any of them think they can pull the ‘plausible deniability’ stunt they’re both incompetent and crazy. #PBO will not be kind to those who skipped. We can be sure we’ll be hearing more about this stunt.
That would be amusing and raise a whole set of questions about a multidimensional game being played. In the meantime this little Snowden/GG team has given China the pretext to express outrage and thus mask it’s own role in the massive hacking of US military systems. It also further strains China/US tensions at a time when the US is planning an expanded presence in the Pacific. So who benefits? 1.) China, which gets to show the world how bad the US is. 2) Those who want US focus and resources to remain in ME and not shift to the Pacific benefit, temporarily at least. 3) And dear mother Russia, who gets to upset a budding alliance between two giant powers. Whoever is shifting the pieces, I still believe Snowden and GG are little pawns in some giant chess game, whose real players have yet to emerge. Unfortunately for the chess players, their pawns are very weak and pathetically inept.
Jackie, great analysis. I am convinced that those Dems who claimed they knew nothing about the NSA programs (i.e., Sen. Merkel Sen. Udall, Rep. Ellison MN. et. al.) want you to believe that they were living under some rock.
The most likely excuse for their unawareness is Plausible Deniability. It’s shameful that they would stoop that low and play that game on very important constitutional and security matter. I don’t trust them nor do I respect them.
They are more dangerous to this country, than any outsider that wants to do harm. At least you know where the enemy is coming from.
On the ridiculous Naomi Wolfe piece on an earlier thread, one of the people commenting mentioned that the filmmaker Laura P??? and GG are set to collaborate on a film about whistleblowers…he thought it looked a bit Hmmmm…
A person commenting on the Naomi Wolfe screed on an early post noted that the filmmaker, Laura P???, and Greenwald are collaborating on a film about whistleblowers. Hmmm.
I wonder if this guy is a manchurian candidate?
These tweets are freaking awesome. Science! Gotta love it.
HA! HA!
🙂 🙂
So Schrodinger and Heisenberg were driving in a car. Eventually, a cop pulled them over and ask Heisenberg, “Sir, do you know how fast you were going?” Heisenberg replied, “No, but I can tell you exactly where I was.” Thinking this was a weird response, the cop decided to check the vehicle. He come back up to Schrodinger and asks, “Sir, did you know you had a dead cat in your trunk?” Schrodinger replied, “I do now.”
And on the topic of immigration (sorts of).
Two USSR physicists (does this reveal my age ?) attend a conference in the US. They drive their car on to the parking lot of the University that holds the conference. Unfortunately, they park in a reserved space. So a police officer comes up to their car and asks: Sirs, this is not a valid parking lot, I have to write you a ticket. The Russkies argue with hands and feet … the police officer seems to be convinced that they couldn’t possibly understand the No Parking signs.
Until he finds the tome on the backseat entitled “Statistical Quantum Mechanics”.
🙂 :)!
Bahahahahahahahahahahaha. Good one.
Not mine originally, of course!
Wow! Love the travel itinerary – no Moneygall ?
How far is Moneygall from where the G-8 summit is to be held?
It’s only around 100 miles from the G8 Summit to Moneygall Anniebella, but separate ‘countries’ – if you count Northern Ireland and the Republic as separate (!)
Nice pictures of Glendalough and the Wicklow Mountains here:
http://www.declanmccarthy.ie/index.php?view=thumbnailList&category=9
Is it possible to talk about the inequities in our justice system without mentioning race?
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2013/06/is-it-possible-to-talk-about-inequities.html
I wonder why the schedules of FLOTUS and POTUS are so *insane* this week. Each of their trips has the “If it’s Tuesday, This Must be Belgium” feel about them (1970s movie with Suzanne Pleshette and others).
You’d think they could squeeze Moneygall into FLOTUS’s trip. 😦
If you want to vicariously celebrate, check out @ThomasErdbrink (Tehran bureau chief for NYT) timeline. Here’s a sampling:
this is actually a very creepy cover:) WTH were they thinking? Pervs in a sauna….
I don’t mind.
I am a native of Amsterdam.
Could someone explain to me what’s the problem with this image ?
….
I heart Jon Favreau.
Keep sharing the JF tweets UT. I love reading them. 🙂
And more…
It sounds like this is like November 4-5th 2008 for those in Tehran:
How we felt after GWB. Glad they can feel that elation 🙂
Very happy for them.
This sounds like great fun, I´ve been to Ireland myself, beautiful country 🙂
I also like that there will be a speech at the Brandenburg Gate, but I heard there will be restricted access, limited to 4500 people unlike in 2009. But I might be mistaken… I think it´s for security reasons.
Probably I´ll not be able to watch it live, because I´ll have oral exams in the afternoon, but I´m still excited. 🙂 Let´s hope the so far crappy weather for a “summer” will be a bit kinder. Not that I mind wet shirts on that man…
Hi everyone! Work done, yeah!!!! I see some good “stuff” happened today..going to catch up now.
Does anyone with Irish background know if Irish dancing strengthens, or weakens, the knees? I am curious to know what effect it has on the knees of those terrific dancers, like I know ballet, though pretty, leads to ugly feet.
I don’t know about the knees, but it really makes them go through the shoes!
I’m curious about the knees, Df, because if the answer is ‘strengthens’ I may have to look into lessons since mine sporadically protest when asked to do basic stuff.
not sure
Don’t take it seriously, Df. These knees probably wouldn’t make it through lesson 1.
I know mine wouldn’t!
😀 Maybe you and I should ask for private lessons tailored to
oldermore mature beginners.Hey! I resemble that remark!
Me too! 😆 😆
🙂
Oh, dear VC, must we talk about knees….???? 😉
Apologies, MP. Didn’t mean to be insensitive, only desperate to preserve what’s left of mine.
I read elsewhere that you had a setback – how’s that going?
I sent you an email early today, waiting for your reply! No hurry….
Oh, only now seeing this. 😳 Checking email gets forgotten days on end!
I truly fully and warm-heartedly understand that, {{{{VC}}}} 😉
But to answer your question: today is not such a good day… I’m struggling with nerve pain, arm more so than leg. ;(
Take good care of yourself and WHEN YOU FEEL BETTER email me – I answered you.
VC, I can personally confirm that it banjaxes the knees – if you don’t do it right. 😕
When I was a tiny person, we had to (try) learn the one-two-three, the basic Irish dancing step thingie.
Everyone mastered it in, oh, four minutes – many years later I’m still working on it.
And my knees still ache.
so that would be a “No” for vc to learn to step dance!
That does it (since my knees are about the same age as yours; now, not then), thanks for the warning, Ms Chips!
I have been told by two orthopedic surgeons and a orthopedic physical therapist: no dancing, for a while… No worries mateys, I replied! 😆
Why Wasn’t I Told About This?
By JM Ashby
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Less than half of the Senate actually attended this all-hands-on-deck briefing, much to the dismay of Intelligence Committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).
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http://bobcesca.thedailybanter.com/blog-archives/2013/06/why-wasnt-i-told-about-this.html
Nice karmic touch, well done Mr President! They are never in their seats, even when ” in session”… How much more have they ‘not been told’? Eff’ers…..
These Senators and Congress people have spent the last several years ignoring the state of the country and its people, and chose instead to attempt 37 times to repeal a law that helps people and the country’s bottom line, and naming numerous post offices – how could they possibly be expected to find time to attend important briefings negating their accusations of tyranny.
An Outbreak of Reasonableness in Tehran: Top Ten Conclusions from Iran’s Early Election Returns
http://www.juancole.com/2013/06/reasonableness-conclusions-election.html
http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013/06/14/2160241/veep-creator-armando-iannucci-on-dick-cheney-being-in-your-twenties-in-dc-and-hbo-sitcoms/
Oh…I don’t know. It just stuck out to me…
I’ve always wondered if Dick Cheney was more powerful because he appeared to have no desire to run for futher office; that, you know, he was unconcerned about his reputation.
Exactly. He had no one to pander to, so, and he had a president who was happy to accept all his, well in the first term anyway, all of his advice. I was told that when Obama moved in they discovered that Cheney had set up an operation in the White House. They had a whole team of staff monitoring emails, anyone within the administration who emailed someone else within the administration, a copy was automatically sent to Cheney’s team so he could oversee everything. That’s an extraordinary, I mean , he was probably the most powerful vice president in recent times.
I still remember the shock when I read that Truman had to be told of the Atomic Bomb after FDR died …
He was/is an evil SOB
The first time I flew to England, we were over Ireland, and someone said “Look out the window.” I looked, and saw such GREEN…..I’d never seen that color before…..it is a green I could never have imagined, and have never seen anywhere else. There’s a reason it is called the Emerald Isle! And for someone who lives where the predominant ground color is brown…..it was absolutely wonderful. I hope this trip is wonderful for them. The German people are highly favorable toward President Obama too. In fact, traveling in Europe has become much more enjoyable since the election of 2008!!!
That green is why I would love to go to Ireland someday.
Just a comment before I go attend my guests: It’s quite ironic that all the moderate Presidents of Iran — Rafsanjani, Khatami, and now the president-elect — have all been clerics.
Why we need to STRENGTHEN VOTING RIGHTS, not take them away!! ARE YOU LISTENING SUPREMES?????
http://stevemuratore.blogspot.com/2013/06/voter-suppression-bill-sent-to-brewer.html
Huge news.
They have called for a close of their embassy and would No Longer do business with Syria.
Huge news in a bad way?
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Islamist president announced Saturday that he was cutting off diplomatic relations with Syria and closing Damascus’ embassy in Cairo, decisions made amid growing calls from hard-line Sunni clerics in Egypt and elsewhere to launch a “holy war” against Syria’s embattled regime.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/egypt-cuts-relations-syrian-government
Barack Obama ✔ @BarackObama
“I try every day to be for Michelle and my girls what my father was not for my mother and me.” —President Obama http://OFA.BO/AXiZca
Ok, the cream my doctor prescribed is working like a charm. Thank goodness; I feel almost human.
Cheers to “the cream”!!
So glad you’re starting to feel better! I guess all those years of medical school actually serve a purpose…
Bob Cesca @bobcesca_go 2h
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Greenwald isn’t revising or clarifying his story, he’s entirely denying the existence of his story. Absolutely bizarre.
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Oh no, another scandal! I think there’s some substance to this one…
Ha! In Issa’s poor excuse for a “mind” he thought that said “Michael” and he was on to something! Finally! 🙂
Bob Cesca @bobcesca_go 1h
Now: “we did not claim that the NSA document alleging direct collection from the servers was true.” Which is it? http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/42134_Greenwald-_We_never_claimed_direct_access_was_true …
Bob Cesca @bobcesca_go 1h
GG: “they’re tapping into the servers of the largest Internet companies that ppl around the world use to communicate” http://goo.gl/i40Mp
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Stinks to high heaven. Anyone else notice that the administration and PBO haven’t been running around with their hair on fire….haven’t read anything about US trying to capture Snowden. All very low key…maybe on purpose, or maybe what he thought he got was planted there for him to find? Remember the police went to his house before we even knew about this…I think they knew about him much earlier and were watching him to see what he’s do…..plausible?
“maybe what he thought he got was planted there for him to find” DF this is what I have thought and stated all along.
They try too hard. Their projection to tarnish this POTUS from day one falls apart and instead crying Uncle, they dig deeper.
Thank goodness, Karma, Prudence, Fate, and even a twist of Poetic Justice……can’t all be fooled at the same time…….Hence their Bumbling, Crumbling, Fumbling, Tumbling, etc.
Haha—did a babystitting stint with my sweet adorable 3 yr. old grandson today—laughing about my daughter telling about taking him bowling for the first time yesterday. Said it took about 20 minutes for his ball to roll down the alley and some of them didn’t make it—but he thought the whole thing was so awesome he asked if he could have a ball return for his “birfday”—–thought that device would be nifty to have around—-all balls coming right back atcha from wherever they had landed. When daughter said that wasn’t going to happen, he asked her if she could get on the computer—now—-and order a bowling alley for his house—–and he said “please”. Wish I could post the cutest of all time photo from her facebook page—without all the personal stuff—-of this little guy in his khaki cargo shorts hanging below his knees with about 6 inches of leg visible and his Hawaiian “bowling shirt”, looking down the lane in awe. Historic cuteness—-I promise, not lyin’.
Wonderful dotster 😉
Keep enjoying your 3yrs old grandson
Sounds adorable. Kids are so darn cute at that age.
I know you said you were on twitter, but don’t like your moniker, so maybe you don’t use it much, but I think you can down a pic on any Internet page (except copyright protected, like annoying enough, Flickr) and save the pic to your hard drive as a JPEG or similar image. You can then upload to a tweet by clicking on the camera icon in the lower left corner of the tweet you’re composing. Make sure you see your image near the bottom of your tweet before sending, then, voila, a sharable image.
😆 HaHa! Hilarious! 3 is a great age, still like to be cuddled, unlike the fiercely independent 4 year old!
Great memory for you to cherish, dotster!
OUR “Father of the Year” is a kind, caring, empathetic man – always has been. Remember this ‘prequel’?
http://theobamadiary.com/2010/11/08/the-kindness-of-strangers/
My favorite story of all time.
Thank you for linking to this wonderful story that the MSM ignored.
Funny that there were only 17 comments on that thread. Guess TODville wasn’t as chatty then, LOL.
😀 Oh there are some goodies in the archives with only one comment! Mama Chips has patiently nurtured our village through its growing pains and I notice that Vitamin Lover has been by her side from real early on.
Waiting for the mea culpa from MSM and all the self-righteous emoprogs who ennobled the Snowden traitor. Let’s keep a tally.
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1260306/edward-snowden-classified-us-data-shows-hong-kong-hacking-targets
Poor Tiger Woods…..it is just Not Happening today. Started at +3 then with Birdie at 1 and then down goes everything…..I stopped watching at his +6.
Morris the cat runs for mayor of Mexican city
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MEXICO CITY — This mayoral hopeful in Mexico promises to eat, sleep most of the day and donate his leftover litter to fill potholes.
Morris, a black-and-white kitten with orange eyes, is running for mayor of Xalapa in eastern Mexico with the campaign slogan “Tired of Voting for Rats? Vote for a Cat.” And he is attracting tens of thousands of politician-weary, two-legged supporters on social media.
“He sleeps almost all day and does nothing, and that fits the profile of a politician,” said 35-year-old office worker Sergio Chamorro, who adopted the 10-month-old feline last year.
Put forth as candidate by Chamorro and a group of friends after they became disillusioned with the empty promises of politicians, Morris’ candidacy has resonated across Mexico, where citizens frustrated with human candidates are nominating their pets and farm animals to run in July 7 elections being held in 14 states.
Also running for mayor are “Chon the Donkey” in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, “Tina the Chicken” in Tepic, the capital of the Pacific coast state of Nayarit, “Maya the Cat” in the city of Puebla and “Tintan the Dog” in Oaxaca City, though their campaigns are not as well organized as that of Morris.
Politicians repeatedly rank at the bottom of polls about citizens’ trust in institutions. A survey last year by Mitofsky polling agency ranking Mexicans’ trust in 15 institutions put politicians and government officials among the bottom five. Universities and the Catholic Church were the top two, respectively.
Morris’ cuteness, the clever campaign and promises to donate money collected from the sales of campaign stickers and T-shirts to an animal shelter has attracted cat lovers, but Chamorro said most of his supporters are citizens tired of corrupt politicians and fraudulent elections.
“Morris has been a catalyst to show the discontent that exists in our society,” Chamorro said. “Our message from the beginning has been `if none of the candidates represent you, vote for the cat’ and it seems people are responding to that.”
Shipping magnate Paul Soros dies in NYC at 87
June 15, 2013 06:04 PM EST |
NEW YORK — Paul Soros, a successful innovator in shipping and the older brother of billionaire financier George Soros, has died in New York City. He was 87.
Soros’ son, Peter, says his father died early Saturday after a long bout with a host of illnesses, including cancer, diabetes and Parkinson’s disease.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20130615/us-obit-paul-soros/?utm_hp_ref=homepage&ir=homepage
Sounds like the administration is just letting Snowden run himself out, get himself into more and more trouble. I bet he thought they’d be after him as soon as he got that first bit out. Instead, the administration is acting like he doesn’t exist, which I know is not what he wanted. If he had stopped, or they had picked him up immediately, there would not have been as much to charge him with, and he would indeed have been a hero to many groups. But, by letting him stay free, and perpetrating more deeds, he is digging himself a deeper well, and when the time comes there will be many more charges for him. Now, he’s sharing details of US spying, not just saying the US does it…..his info has been highly questionable, and what is his purpose now, but treason?
Obviously he does not have a grasp about diplomatic relations and treaties between countries.
It’s not hard to accumulate public evidence against Snowden (posted on previous Dad-in-Chief thread):
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1261715/us-hasnt-made-requests-hong-kong-over-snowden-say-sources
I don’t think this is playing out like his Jason Bourne dreams…
I just imagine him barricaded in a room with the door surrounded by pillows, hiding under a desk, waiting for the knock of the FBI agents. That it hasn’t happened, must be pretty disappointing. Nothing before its time.
In weird news—-hanging bras from the ceiling tradition resumes at 105 yr. old Milwaukee bar. Gals either liberate themselves or with help from their bar companions—–as they slip out of the harness and it gets hoisted and hung——-get a cowbell in recognition—–with cheers all around. Gesture now includes a $5 donation to breast cancer research, so —-all for a good cause, I guess. Freedom!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-milwaukee-brasbre95e09n-20130615,0,3836719.story
Reminder to self….not going there. Great cause. Wrong woman.
Of course, there’s this:) Equal opportunity, I say:)
http://pinnaclepeaksteakhouse.com/No_Ties_Allowed.html
Not good news for Turkey.
So much news from the Middle East west Asia today.
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/everyone-who-enters-taksim-square-will-be-treated-as-a-terrorist-turkish-eu-minister.aspx?pageID=238&nID=48875&NewsCatID=338
Has anyone seen this?
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-difference-between-lightening-bug.html
If not please read and pass on .
GG completely exposed. He is a total charlatan.
Oh – I love the sound of this. I might buy the book just for this reason. That’s if I can’t just read the chapter in the book store, of course…
Boy Wonder has a sad
Former vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan told conservatives Friday that Obamacare helped President Obama defeat Mitt Romney in the 2012 election, decrying the “empty promises” of the law that hadn’t yet been implemented.
“This was our challenge that Mitt Romney and I had in this last election,” Ryan said in a speech at the annual Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Washington, DC. “We had to argue against the promise and the rhetoric of President Obama. The great soaring rhetoric, all of the empty promises.”
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/06/paul-ryan-obamacare-helped-obama-defeat-romney.php?ref=fpb
Unfortunately for Romney and Ryan, the majority of the people did not think it was soaring empty rhetoric. They never learn.
Forget “empty promises”. Paul Ryan is an empty suit.
Paul Ryan will be with his family this Thanksgiving washing clean pots and pans in a soup kitchen.
Ha! That’s about the only thing he’s actually qualified to do, and he didn’t even actually do it the last time he tried to pull a fast one on the public. The dishes were already clean!
#TrustBarack
I share the excitement about The Obama family in Ireland.
Possibly I’m even more excited to see how POTUS is greeted in Germany. Remember summer of 2008, then Senator Obama, greeted by 100,000 cheering Germans waving America flags?
Cue the RW/MSM “Only 50,000 Germans greeted PBO this time. See, he’s losing popularity. Last time TEN MIILION showed up.”
Or something equally untrue and ridiculous.
we will see.
Someone upthread or in a prior post mentioned that they may be limiting the crowd to 4500.
200K…..but who is counting ❓
Here it is…… 😉
New post!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/06/15/the-week-in-review-4/
MO DOO DOO is at it again…. “Bill Schools Barry” Ignorant hack