Jack & Jill Politics

Hee, hee, Joe said Palin is a great leader - "It's so sweet of you, Tom to show these clips!" Clips of Joe the backstabber at the RNC.

Meet The Press-Tom Brokaw is bitch -slapping Joe Liberman.

rikyrah: From POLITICO 44:

Sunday Nov. 23, 2008
All Times Eastern8:00 AM
9:00 AM
10:00 AM
10:00 AM

Senior Adviser David Axelrod appears on "Fox News Sunday."
10:30 AM

Economic adviser Austan Goolsbee on "Face the Nation," Axelrod on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."
11:00 AM
12:00 PM
1:00 PM
2:00 PM
3:00 PM
4:00 PM

Partial Schedule from the activities of the Office of the President-Elect Obama

It's a tad scare at this moment. More L8R. :>) :>)

President-Elect Obama! :>) First Lady Michelle! :>)

Religion sure is funny...

Christian Right Prays to the Golden Calf
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=btBF8jp6IgE&featu...

rikyrah: This B-longs on the SUNDAY THREAD: :>)

This came from the POLITICO 44 SITE: :>) TRUST!! :>)

Moran to run press shop

The Obama transition just announced part of the White House press office, confirming that Robert Gibbs will take the high-profile job of press secretary and making Dan Pfeiffer, the largely behind-the-scenes communications director and manager of the campaign press shop, deputy White House communications director.

Anita Dunn, another key figure in the campaign, isn't going to the White House, but the administration will be bringing in an outsider in the senior job of communications director: Emily's List executive director Ellen Moran.

By Ben Smith 03:44 PM

Annnnnnd, this from the Change.gov site:

White House Communications and Press Secretary positions announced TRUST! :>)

Washington – President-elect Barack Obama today announced the following White House staff: Ellen Moran, Director of Communications; Robert Gibbs, Press Secretary; and Dan Pfeiffer, Deputy Director of Communications.

President-Elect Obama said, "These individuals will fill essential roles, and bring a breadth and depth of experience that can help our administration advance prosperity and security for the American people. This dedicated and impressive group of public servants includes longtime advisors and a talented new addition to our team, and together we will work to serve our country and meet the challenges of this defining moment in history."

President-Elect Obama! :>) TRANSITION TRAIL Update!

Spelman students sparkle in sciences
Atlanta women’s college No. 2 in sending black graduates on to Ph.D.s in fields such as math, chemistry

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/...

rikyrah: THANK YOU for this post!! This is my FIELD and I've been teaching especially for the PURPOSE of ENCOURAGING AA's INTO the FIELD!! :>)

I am ECSTATIC over this announcement!! :>)

The SCIENCES/MATH ROCK!!! :>) :>)

rikyrah and greenladyhere: thank you too! I have been circulating this article to the young people in our Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn Program. Our youth can be the innovators and inventors of the future, not just the consumers of new sciences and technologies!

Here in Boston, we have been working with a multi-level role modeling program to get youth of color exposed to and engaged with emerging technologies and sciences. We hire teenagers, get them trained with project-based modules with help from the MIT Media Lab, have them design and build projects that solve a community issue important to them, then send them out to seventeen different community organizations to teach summer technology and science camps to elementary and middle school youth. Youngers always want to be doing what the teenagers find cool, so the teens are much more better at recruiting youth than adults. . . smile. The great staff and college mentors all look like our youth and that is really important too. Mel King is the founder and director.

In six years, we have gotten over 180 teenagers and over 2000 elementary and middle school youth involved in the program. We are creating a critical mass of 3-5000 youth exposed to and engaged with emerging technologies and sciences who can catalyze cultural change in the community about what is possible to achieve!

Schools are not yet able to reform education fast enough to really impact the STEM aspirations of youth of color, so these kind of programs are a big help. The out of school time model is very effective (and provides much-need meaningful summer and afterschool jobs for teenagers) and we are beginning to have other cities show interest in replicating it.

So if you know folks who are interested in organizing around this, tell them about what is going on in Boston!

Hi Susan, I wanted to thank you for sharing. I thanked GreeLady ealier instead of you so:

Thanks for the share. I mentor 8t grade girls, and will share this with the school. Being a Registered Nurse, with a Master Degree, Science is a passion of mine too.

susan: HEY! :>) You have engaged in a powerful program! :>)

Best wishes to the STUDENTS and to you! :>)

Good morning, GreenLadyHere. Thanks for the share. I mentor 8t grade girls, and will share this with the school. Being a Registered Nurse, with a Master Degree, Science is a passion of mine too.

spirit: Good (now) evening!! Actually, SUSAN posted the program.

I use to teach Anatomy & Physiology and Microbiology to "NURSING STUDENTS!" A NOBLE and NEEDED profession! :>)

THANK YOU for YOUR WORK! :>) :>)

Finally... some Latinos:

Grijalva emerges as contender for Interior Secretary — Richardson now leading candidate for Secretary of Commerce - http://latinopoliticsblog.com/?p=375

adriana: GREAT NEWS!!! :>) :>) Whoooo! Hooo! :>)

Nice blog 2! :>) :>) I'll bookmark it! :>)

You are too kind GreenLady. :) Hey, we need to show the powers that be that this black-brown divide is just a bunch of bushit!

It is adriana!

I went canvassing in Nevada with Latinos for Obama/African-Americans for Obama and it was the best experience. So yes, it is bs

adriana: TRUE DAT! :>) VIRTUAL 'DAP'!! :>)

rikyrah: "Field Trip" to ALASKA:

Seems as IFFF they are setting up plans AGAINST the UN-VETTED ONE for any "run" she might attempt in 2010.

Interesting Rumors from a Reliable Source…

And the contents of the mystery note? A clue. A clue, which addressed one of the very questions I had just been pondering, and it wasn’t the one about the turkey, which won’t be answered until Thanksgiving Day.

The question? Who will step up to be the dragon slayer in 2010? Who has the smarts, the experience, the integrity, and the chutzpah to go toe-to-toe with Sarah Palin, whether she runs for governor, or senator. And there was the answer, scrawled in unfamiliar penmanship - Democratic State Senator Hollis French.

Ahhh. This is good. He is very qualified, has an impressive resume, and is one of the White Knights of the Legislature. Before he gets the official Mudflats endorsement, however (not that this endorsement is particularly coveted), I’m going to wait and watch and see what happens when the Legislature meets again. They have much on their plates, and they need to know they are supported, but they have some tough decisions ahead and people will be watching.

I saw Hollis French on Thursday. He was on line at Costco. That’s why I love this state. Our representatives aren’t somewhere distant, holed up in a marble tower. They don’t seem alien and unapproachable. They are on line at Costco, buying fruit. LOTS of fruit. The man really loves fruit. So, when it becomes appropriate to send something to Hollis French when he becomes our next Governor, or Senator, I’ll make it a fruit basket, and make it under $250.

Interesting! THEY ARE WATCHING!!! :>) :>)

rikyrah: Another POSSIBLE, MAYBE, PERHAPS, NOT CONFIRMED:

LARRY SUMMERS: Director of National Economic Council, Top Adviser To Obama


ABC News reports that Obama has tapped Larry Summers to be his top economic adviser:

ABC News has learned that President-elect Obama has decided to name former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers the director of the National Economic Council, essentially the president's senior economic adviser.


Part of the Executive Office of the President, the NEC was created for the purpose of advising the President on matters related to U.S. and global economic policy. The NEC has four functions, by executive order: ensuring that programs and policy decisions are consistent with the President's economic goals, monitoring the implementation of the President's economic policy agenda, coordinating policy-making for domestic and international economic issues, and coordinating economic policy advice for the President.

Earlier AP reported that Tim Geithner, the current president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, has been chosen as Secretary of the Treasury.

Read complete coverage of Obama's transition here.

POSSIBLE, MAYBE, PERHAPS, NOT CONFIRMED. :>) :>)

rikyrah: Another APPOINTMENT - under CONSIDERATION - POSSIBLY - PERHAPS: :>)

Brown considered for VA chief

WASHINGTON - Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown, a rising star in Maryland politics, appears to be under serious consideration for secretary of veterans affairs in President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet, according to a news account published yesterday.

Brown, an Iraq war veteran, was named this month as co-chairman of an Obama transition team overseeing veterans policy. He is now being vetted for the job of VA secretary, according to the National Journal, which quoted an anonymous source close to the Obama transition effort as saying that Brown was being seriously considered.

Former Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia, who suffered the loss of both legs and an arm in the Vietnam War, and Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, an Iraq war veteran who lost both legs in combat, have also been mentioned as possible choices for the post.

The Obama-Biden transition office would not confirm the report. Michael Raia, Brown's spokesman, declined to comment, saying the lieutenant governor's "primary focus remains serving the people of Maryland."

If selected, he would become at least the second African-American in the Obama Cabinet. Former Justice Department official Eric Holder is in line to become the nation's first African-American attorney general.

Brown, who turned 47 yesterday, served a 10-month tour of duty in Iraq as a member of an Army civil affairs team out of New York in 2004 and 2005 and is a colonel in the Army Reserve. According to his official biography, he is the highest-ranking public official in the nation to have served a tour of duty in Iraq.

MAYBE - POSSIBLY - PERHAPS - NOT CONFIRMED! I'm HEDGING NOW! :>) :>)

Hey, D: What's the word? :>)

P.S. Oh! The SONG:?

MAYBE (The Chantels)

Brown supported Hillpatine during the primary season.

I'm rooting for Cleland or Duckworth - both would beso powerful in the position.

rikyrah: THANK YOU. :>)

I was rooting for Duckworth 2.

BUT, I believe that President-Elect Obama will make room for all qualified in some form or another. :>)

Like I said, THEY haven't called me a firm decision - - YET! :>) :>)

rikyrah: "They'll Be Dancin' In/ON The Street" NAMED - "BARACK OBAMA!:

South Florida Street Expected To Be Renamed For Obama

South Florida Local 10

- One South Florida city is planning to honor the president-elect with his own street.

Opa-locka plans to rename Perviz Avenue to Barack Obama Avenue on President’s Day in February. The city commission voted on the name change last week and officials say it is expected to finalize the approval next month.

Opa-locka is a predominantly heavily African-American community north of downtown Miami.


DANCING IN THE STREET (Martha Reeves & The Vandellas)


P.S. My sister (DETROIT) reports that Ms. Reeves is on the City Council THERE! Sometimes she comes to meeting in her sequined dresses. Oooo-Kaaaaay! :>)

P.P.S: D: It's BEGINNING!!! :>) :>)

rikyrah: "People All Over The World. . . . . ."

LOVE TRAIN (O'Jays)

THEY LOVE HIM annnnnd HIS FAMILY!!! :>) :>)

That's a serious sand castle. LOL