RTFA: http://afrospear.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/californ…
Dean Grose, the mayor of Los Alamitos, sent an email with this photo of the White House lawn covered with watermelons, under the title: “No Easter egg hunt this year.”
Ehh, it’s a stupid thing to do but I don’t think he should lose his job over this.
Oh man. I know fumf has been waiting for this day… I’m not exactly sure this is good for the NRA, however, since Nugent has a bit of a reputation for, well, being completely bat shit psychotic. Sure, he will connect with a big portion of the audience, but part of the problem will be reaching out to anti-gun advocates, and I don’t really see that working out.
RTFA: http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/20…
Barack Obama jumped over a bunch of longer-experienced presidential candidates to win the White House, so will that pattern take at the National Rifle Association? It might, considering rocker and hunter Ted Nugent’s popularity among NRA members. We hear that the Nuge is being urged to get into the race, and a key NRA insider tells us: “He does have a grass-roots following.” That’s for sure. The singer of “Cat Scratch Fever” fame and 23 albums is being promoted on Facebook. While Nugent is an NRA board member, he doesn’t have the type of top slot in the organization normally needed to springboard somebody into the presidency. Even Charlton Heston, who played Moses in Hollywood, worked his way up to the presidency.
RTFA: http://whitehousefarmer.com/
The United States has a White House chef . . . and now is the time for a White House Farmer.
Everyone, from your family and friends to our First Family and their guests, needs to know who grew their food and how it was grown.
Thank you for your 100 nominations of knowledgeable, passionate farmers out there who could fill this post. Nominations are now Closed, but PLEASE VOTE for the farmer of your choice. The Poll will close at Midnight on January 31.
Names of the top three vote-getters, plus all their information and comments, will be forward to an Obama staffer and we will keep you updated as to any developments. We are heartened that Sam Kass, a proponent of local food, will become one of the White House chefs . . . can a White House Farmer be far behind?
raison d’être: This site is a forum to follow up on Michael Pollan’s call for a White House Farmer. The farmer will be charged with transforming “five prime south-facing acres of the White House lawn and plant[ing] in their place an organic fruit and vegetable garden” whose produce will be used by the White House Chef, and given to area food banks.
It’s official: Obama is the President.
RTFA: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/6222353…
Chief Justice John Roberts has administered the presidential oath of office to Barack Obama for a second time, just to be on the safe side.
The unusual step came after Roberts flubbed the oath a bit on Tuesday, causing Obama to repeat the wording differently than as prescribed in the Constitution.
White House counsel Greg Craig said Obama took the oath from Roberts again out of an “abundance of caution.”
The chief justice and the president handled the matter privately in the Map Room on Wednesday night.
I’m going to trust that they got the wording right this time.
For another dose of the train wreck Roberts unleashed during the inauguration, check out the previous coverage on RTFA:
Roberts double-flubs: Obama can retake Oath of Office, just like Coolidge and Arthur
RTFA: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/art…
Former House speaker Thomas M. Finneran, seeking to cleanse the stain left by his 2007 conviction for obstruction of justice, is angling for a last-minute pardon from President Bush and has lined up a group of former Massachusetts governors to back his request.
Finneran submitted an application for a presidential pardon last month, and the four governors – Democrat Michael Dukakis and Republicans William F. Weld, Paul Cellucci, and Jane Swift – followed up with a letter to the White House praising his integrity.
Finneran has already been “severely punished,” the governors wrote, citing the loss of his state pension, the suspension of his license to practice law, and his firing from a lucrative private-sector job.
“And he has suffered daily taunts and ridicule of those who believe that every elected official is the equivalent of a common thief,” the governors told the president in their letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Globe. They assured Bush that Finneran has “seen the error of this episode” and is truly sorry.
…he is sorry he got caught …and sorry that the current law prevents Bush from granting this pardon.
Of course, a law preventing something hasn’t stopped Bush in the past!