Jack & Jill Politics

rikyrah: Mr. President-Elect Obama SPEAKS in OHIO:

Beginning His Address in OHIO

ENJOY!! :>)

Justice58: Amen!

Friday, January 16 -KO COUNTDOWN

BUSH Presidency- 8 years in 8 minutes (What a DISASTER)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/28585168...

Rahm Emmanuel is on the Charlie Rose Show.

I just walked out of a movie 10 minutes after it started. I live in CT and for a long time they didn't show "urban" movies at my local theater. Well, I went to see "Notorious" tonight; they had POLICE OFFICERS, they were double checking IDs and tickets, and just acting a damn fool, treating the patrons of that specific movie as though they were dirt beneath their feet.

I was YELLED at by a movie theater employee to turn off my phone, TWICE, because it was "interrupting the projector."

I had to get the hell up and walk the hell out and ask for a refund. I already called the local paper and am soon to write my letter to the company.

If this is true then there is about to be a hot mess on televisions everywhere...

Psst! Mrs. Usher to "Real Housewives"?

I posted this morning about the Housewife they threw off the show to make room for her.

Lawd, it's going to be insane next season.

You already know!

Losing That Special Spark
No Fireworks in Obama Festivities

For the first time in 28 years, there will be no fireworks on the Mall during inaugural festivities.

In repeated public announcements, the committee has promised that Barack Obama's inauguration will be "the most open and accessible inauguration in American history." But the lack of fireworks represents a departure from one of the most accessible traditions that accompany the celebration of a new presidency. A fireworks display has been a feature of the past seven consecutive inaugurations, starting with Ronald Reagan's in 1981.

And this year, other than the traditional inaugural parade, opportunities for free entertainment accessible to Washingtonians and those visiting for the festivities seem sparse when compared with some previous inaugurations, particularly Bill Clinton's first. blah blah blah

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...

All of that costs money. I thought they wanted Obama to "tone down" his inauguration and have a peanut butter sammich and potato chip reception. Now they're complaining that his inauguration isn't abundant like everybody elses?

...peanut butter sammich and potato chip reception...

:: Gasp :: You mean they aren't serving tuna macaroni salad or that g-fab tri-color corkscrew pasta salad ??!

Let's hope they at least have plenty
huggies juice dranks on hand. Don't want to run out of those. LOL

Those mofos just NEED something to complain about.

They're also kicking out the prostitutes.
Everybody can make a buck off of Obama except the working girls.

DC To Erect Prostitution-Free Zones During Inaugural Weekend

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/16/dc-to-...

What! they closed the House and Senate.

DC To Erect Prostitution... umm

OMG..........*choking*...........ROFLMAO.........i cant breathe........LMAO

I know Bill Clinton is pissed about this.

BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

carolinagirl: LOL!! :>) ***shakin' my head waaaay 2 much**** :>) :>)

*dead*

SPASMS!!!!! ROTFLMBAO!!!! Ahhhh, BWHAAAAAAAAAA!!!! OK I'm coming up for air...Haaaaaaaaa! hooooo!

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*flatline*.................................you know you going to hell over this......ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG..........LOL

lamh: THANK YOU VERY MUCH for this HISTORICAL "GET!" :>) :>) NICE!!

lahm: Just about ta post this. I'm sure that Mr. Sullenberg and his family are "cordially invited" to the Inauguration. As should B the case. :>)

Commendations to Mr. Sullenberg. :>) :>)

rikyrah: Kezia Obama, Obama's Stepmother, Travels To DC, Launches Bingo Game (PHOTOS)

Barack Obama's extended and largely international family is gathering in Washington to celebrate his inauguration. Kezia Obama, a 67-year-old native of Kenyan who was married to Barack Obama Sr., is among them, traveling from her home in Bracknell, England to Washington, DC Thursday. Scroll down for slideshow.

According to The Daily Telegraph, she also has business interests in Washington:

Mrs Obama has also launched an online bingo game called Mrs Obama's Online Bingo in honour of her step-son Barack's inauguration.


She is helping launch the online Gala bingo game to raise £1 million for Sue Ryder Care, which helps people in the UK suffering from Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's and Multiple Sclerosis.

She is launching Mrs Obama's Online Bingo as the US President-Elect prepares for his inauguration in Washington, DC, on Tuesday 20.

The Daily Mail profiled Kezia last year, and she recounted her first meeting with Barack in 1985 in Kenya, and her relationship with Barack's mother Ann Dunham.

"Barack Jr was really happy to meet us. He was really eager to see the family home and to see where his father was buried. He was quiet and was always reading history books.


"Now, still, he can be quiet but he has a good sense of humour and is good with people. He treats everybody the same, whether it is the cleaner or the managing director. He has the common touch.

"I'm very proud that he wants to include us in his life. As a family, we are very friendly, very close.
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"The family are still very important to him. That would make Barack Sr very happy.

"We have seen each other many times since that first visit, in the US, in Kenya and in England. I was very fond of Barack Jr's mother, Ann.

"She came to Kenya after Barack Snr died and she and I became great friends. She was like a sister to me."

See photos and video of Barack Obama's step-grandmother, Sarah Obama, who has also traveled to DC.

Nice! :>)

BTW, Richard Parsons was on some PBS show and he said that he was not asked to be Commerce Secretary.

Hey Chicago Foks,

If you are at home right now, Channel 11 (PBS, WTTW) is reairing a "Check Please" on which Obama appeared.

This is too bizarre.

Craig, is Mr. Hickman a relative?

Any relation to you? If so? Wow!

Is this your dad? (or granddad, I can remember which was the airman)

rikyrah: "But, but, but. . . .What I meant was . . . . . . "

Detroit's top lawyer resigns over 'ghetto' remarks

The City of Detroit’s top lawyer resigned Thursday, a day after she allegedly said the city’s predominantly black 36th District Court was “acting like a ghetto court.”

Deputy Mayor Saul Green accepted her resignation Thursday, the same day that 36th District Court Chief Judge Marylin Atkins sent a letter to Kathleen Leavey and other city officials protesting her alleged remarks.

Leavey said in an interview this morning that her remarks were taken out of context.

Leavey, who is white, said she got into a heated discussion Wednesday with a court administrator about the court’s handling of a lawsuit against the court in which it asked the city to pay the judgment of $400,000 against it without warning.

“I told her people regard this as a ghetto court because of the way they treat people,” Leavey said.

Leavey said she was referring to long lines and slow service at the court – not it’s predominately African-American group of judges and rejected Atkins’ labeling of her as a racist. The administrator contacted Atkins, who contacted Deputy Mayor Saul Green, Leavey said.

“In her mind it was racist, and the mayor and deputy mayor also felt it was racist and felt I had to resign,” she said.

Atkins said today her letter speaks for itself.

A letter she wrote to Leavey said the remarks came during a Jan. 14 meeting between Leavey, Chief Assistant Corporation Counsel Dennis Mazurek and members of the court staff. They met to discuss funding for the court.

Atkins said in the letter that Leavey told court staffers that “when the court stopped ‘acting like a ghetto court,’ the city would be more inclined to pay for our operations” – a claim Leavey denied.

The letter said Mazurek called the court a “part-time” operation because judges are unavailable in the afternoons and that the court is uncooperative with the city.

Atkins said in the letter that she was “absolutely offended by your characterization of this court as ‘ghetto.’ How dare you! Not only are your words insulting and racist to this court and the entire city, but they are highly unprofessional coming from the highest ranking attorney for the City of Detroit.

“This entire court has worked too hard under my leadership for the past nine years to be denigrated by you or anyone else. Our court enjoys a positive reputation in the city and we have the hardest-working, most dedicated judges and employees that you can find in any other court in the State of Michigan. Just because you cannot dictate your wishes to us is no basis for you to ignore your legal responsibility as our funding unit or stoop to racially charged insults.

“I am not asking for an apology because I know it would not be sincere,” Atkins continued. The letter was addressed to Mayor Ken Cockrel Jr., Green, judges and magistrates of the court, City Council President Monica Conyers and Council President Pro Tem JoAnn Watson.

Leavey said she will return to her former post as an attorney for the Law Department, a move allowed by union rules that let appointees, if they lose their mayoral appointment, revert to their previous civil servant position, if they had one.

Cockrel spokesman Daniel Cherrin said Leavey was asked to resign because her comments were “inappropriate.”

“It’s an unfortunate development in Kathy’s long and productive career as a city employee,” he said. “The mayor was disappointed by her comments, which were unacceptable and do not reflect the values and policies of the City of Detroit or his administration.”

Leavey, former head of the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, was put in charge of the Law Department following the departure of John Johnson in the text-messaging scandal involving former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.

Contact DAVID ASHENFELTER at dashenfelter@freepress.com.

On the surface, this ain't lookin' 2 good given the recent "tone" of the day.

Sooo, I talked to my sister in Detroit and she said that there is a lot of "stuff" happening with respect to the "WATER DISTRICT" and its servicing the CITY annnnnnd the outer areas. The attorney usta work for the "Water District."

At any rate, she's gonna get some additional details! ***shakin' my head***

Congress, Obama Weigh Shift in Approach to Health Insurance

Congress and the incoming Obama administration are contemplating profound shifts in the government's role in health insurance to try to alleviate a significant ripple effect of the damaged economy: Americans losing health coverage as they lose jobs.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...

So celebrating diversity and a committment to respect each other bothered this conservative??

Their heads are just gonna totally explode right around noon on Tuesday.....I can't wait!

There'll be many of garbage recepticles to dispose of the HEADS!

LMAO!!!

they need to get real. This is HISTORY.

Period.