January 20, 2009
January 19, 2009
Obama inauguration concert on the mall
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Washington DC today reminded me of the streets of Bangkok during the first days of the coup in 2006. The streets were closed to traffic. Humvees had been parked at every intersection manned by GIs.The first two photos capture the US military presence in the capital.1. Soldiers gather in near the ...
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Funny how things work out
Aggregated from: England for Obama
If I hadn’t spotted that I’d left my iPod on my tube train seat, I wouldn’t have jumped back on the train just before the doors shut, and had to stay on until the next stop; and then got back on the line going back to my original stop. If I hadn’t been delayed by those 10 min...
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Photos thus far
Aggregated from: England for Obama
Click on the photo below for shots I’ve taken since arriving Washington. The weather/light wasn’t great today - very grey and overcast - which never makes for very good pictures (at least on a little 800 ISO Ixus), but still. There are ones from the inaugural concert - I watched it from ...
go to article »January 13, 2009
JLo and Skeletor: Vile “Aprovechadores”?
Aggregated from: VivirLatino
That's what gossip blogger Perez Hilton is reporting is on the tongues of Latino democrats: that JLo and old Skelly-Skell are all about getting some spotlight at Obama's inaugural ball when they never supported the Illinois senator in the first place: Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez are scheduled to...
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All the presidents men
Aggregated from: England for Obama
This is quite something: And here they are walking and talking and such. Well, talking, at least: .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !im...
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Beyond cute
Aggregated from: England for Obama
The six-year-old son of the new Alaskan Senator, Mark Begich, screamed “Obama!” when he saw him in Washington on Monday (when all the new Senators were sworn in). And Obama, of course, responded to his call: ...
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December 14, 2008
Obama Cartoons in arabic newspapers
Aggregated from: Rantings of a Sandmonkey » American politics
Ta3beer has a collection of Obama cartoons from arabic newspapers. Some of them are negative: Some are appallingly racist and some are positive and self-critical at the same time: American Obama –His father is an African migrant who abandoned him in his childhood. ...
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