Back in January, while filling in as guest blogger on the Pet Rock blog, I wrote about the capitalization of the Obamas, from Malia and Sasha Beanie Babies (which have since been renamed) to the Obama Chia Pet. Why I didn't think to post it here -- Chias are plants, after all -- is beyond me. I stand humbled before you. Mea culpa.
The Obama Chia is enjoying its national rollout this week, and I wanted to be sure you were the first to know.
Obamaphiles now can purchase an Obama Chia, available in both "Happy" and "Determined" poses. Happy Obama sports a wide grin, while Determined Obama has that head-held-high presidential quality about it.
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I doubt this will happen at this time, but it did bring out some funny comments from Young Conservatives of Texas
If State Sen. Royce West (D-Dallas) has his way, a portion of Interstate 20 in Dallas County will be renamed the "President Barack Obama Freeway," 1200 WOAI news reports.
West's bill was introduced in conjunction with fellow Dallas Democrat John Carona, who heads the senate Transportation Committee. West's measure attempts to bypass current laws which state that Texas freeways are named only in honor of 'deceased people,' and only people who 'were significant in the state's history, or in the lives of people in this state.'
Opponents, like Laura Elizabeth Morales of the Young Conservatives of Texas, joked that any road named after Obama should be a toll road, with tolls that 'increase with a driver's income.'
"Checkpoints should be set up every three miles to make sure that everyone's tires are inflated properly," she joked.
Morales also suggested that, in keeping with President Obama's philosophy, SUV's should be banned from the President Barack Obama Freeway, that all tolls should include 'carbon offsets,' and efforts should be made to insure that any lanes which are not HOV lanes are 'constantly congested.'
There are freeways in Dallas currently honoring President George H.W. Bush, and Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston is named in honor for the first President Bush, who, of course, lives in Texas and once represented Texas in Congress.
"Texans support naming freeways after Texas heroes, not after liberal Chicago machine politicians who oppose our state's values," Morales said.
There's a reason he refuses to accept repayment of TARP money.
By STUART VARNEY - Wall Street Journal
I must be naive. I really thought the administration would welcome the return of bank bailout money. Some $340 million in TARP cash flowed back this week from four small banks in Louisiana, New York, Indiana and California. This isn't much when we routinely talk in trillions, but clearly that money has not been wasted or otherwise sunk down Wall Street's black hole. So why no cheering as the cash comes back?
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I must be naive. I really thought the administration would welcome the return of bank bailout money.
Yes you are naive. You don't even know socialism/marxism while it is hitting you in the face. This marxist needs nationalised opertions to share with his cronies, so he can stay in power. The more companies he can hand over to HIS thugs, the better chance of beating America and staying in power as long as he can.
Besides, this is not scary. We have been fighting tyrants and dictators for centuries. This one got into the White House because the stupidest generation in American History voted him in, but the other half of the country will throw him out on his boney ass if they ever realize what he is doing before he gets too much ahead of them.
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Mr Obama devoted much of his speech to calling for a greater bond between Americans and Muslims, admitting that "the trust that binds us has been strained".
"Let me say this as clearly as I can: the United States is not and will never be at war with Islam," he stated.
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"We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over so many centuries to shape the world for the better, including my own country," Obama said.
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The most naive, incompetent charlatan of a politician we have ever had as President. He makes Jimmy Carter look like a founding father. Boy, was Rush and Hannity wrong in stoking the Project Chaos and Stop Hillary Express. I guarantee you that Willie would have kept Hillary on short leash and under a verbal microscope.
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That doesn't bother me all that much. The law in TN says that drinking establishments w/in 300 ft. of churches may be prohibited. Such laws shouldn't exist but if they do they're fine if equally enforced (or not enforced as the case may be).
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My point was the law does allow exceptions and several churches in Knoxville have compromised with Restaurant owners. The Muslims will not compromise.
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It seems to me that someone sinking upwards of $1M in rennovations into a property would consider the local zoning laws prior to commencement of the work. I don't have much sympathy for the restaurant owner if he sunk the money into the project with a mosque already extant on his doorstep and if Knoxville's ordinance was in place when he began the work.
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Knoxville's local beer ordinance establishes a 300-foot buffer zone around churches and other similar institutions for a beer permit but waives the requirement if the establishment is granted a liquor license by the state of Tennessee.
Wanda Day, an employee with the Knoxville Beer Board, said in the past year one or two other establishments have obtained liquor licenses and subsequently beer permits, despite being within 300 feet of a church or school.
Hill is busy completing the last steps toward getting local Alcoholic Beverage Commission approval for his liquor license.
Virginia Stooksbury, administrative secretary at the Knoxville ABC office, said she's heard complaints from a couple members of the Knoxville Muslim community, but unless there's a legal reason to deny Hill a permit, the office will give him the go-ahead.
The local office's recommendation is being sent on to the Nashville office, where the assistant director will make the final decision.
Deny the permit at your own risk of career, AD. Let's see how "tolerant" the religion of peace is
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There are the heathen muslims believers (al-Qaeda) and then there are the true muslim believers. Tell me again what the differences are?
Privacy Groups And Small Web Companies Are Raising Concerns About The Company's Ubiquity On Government Sitesby Neil Munro
Executives at online-advertising giant Google are helping President Obama and Capitol Hill legislators get their messages out to the public, but they're facing nascent opposition from privacy advocates and small competitors who say Google is inappropriately using its presence on government Web sites to track users' political activities online.
These critics say that Google, aided by the White House, is using "cookie" software and the popular goal of government transparency to boost its own revenues and to build a vast database of citizens' political attitudes.
Google's expanding role in government is illustrated by the deals that Google struck with the Democratic-controlled Congress and with President Obama's White House. Both allow Google's data-collecting cookies -- compact files automatically downloaded onto Web-surfers' computers when they visit a site -- to be placed on citizens' computers when they view politicians' video speeches, or even when they merely view the pages where the speeches can be watched.
In a short statement to National Journal, a White House spokesman said "we aren't using [Internet] data for political purposes, nor do we have any plans to."
But it is clear that the administration's use of cookies blurs traditional distinctions between government and corporate information, and between public outreach and political campaigning. It's also clear that the White House's use of cookies is very different from the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, both of whom minimized tracking of citizens' online activities by sharply limiting the use of federal and corporate cookies.
The current system "allows one company to collect huge amounts of data.... The idea that the government would be endorsing any corporation having access to citizens' political concerns... is a concern," said Jeff Chester, founder of the D.C.-based Center for Digital Democracy. The data collected from government Web sites, he said, "can then feed into the very sophisticated political campaign-ads products that Google is peddling to legislators all across the country."
Even without any role for Google, the government's use of data-collecting cookie software on its Web sites and those of its affiliates is questionable, said David Sohn, a privacy-advocate at the left-leaning Center for Democracy & Technology. "It's something we're going to be looking at... there will be, and there should be, scrutiny."
From their first day in office, White House officials used Google's YouTube software to display videos of Obama's speeches on WhiteHouse.gov. Because of this choice, some pages on the site inserted Google's cookies onto visitors' computers, even if the visitor did not watch the YouTube videos.
After a spurt of protests from privacy advocates, White House officials and Google officials modified the system so that YouTube cookies were inserted only if visitors watched the videos, said Christopher Soghoian, a computer expert at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, who discovered the YouTube cookies on the White House Web site.
Next, the White House began using commercial software made by Akamai to display the videos. But this service is expensive, and it too inserted cookies into each browser that displayed the Web page, even when the visitor did not watch the video. By March 10, White House officials stopped the transfer of those cookies and restarted use of YouTube software -- and YouTube cookies -- after National Journal asked for details about the White House's policies. Balance at the link. Few surprises here.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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