Jack & Jill Politics

rikyrah: CAPTIONS: 1.Now Let us pray!
2. I called you all here to show you how you betta NOT appear on camera! Is this CLEAR?? :>)

omg, what is that on my president's feet????

lololololol

RAOTFLMAO. Go Ahead with your bad self Rikyrah. lol

You did post the picture. lololololol Cracks me up EVERYTIME. tee hee hee

My caption is -- Did Michelle see PO leave the residence this morning?

LOL...and who let Rahm put on those black socks?

Old School Friday: Songs That Should've Never Been Made.

Well I only have so much web space but I came up with some harmless songs....
http://snipurl.com/glz2i

I thought this article in Newsweek was interesting, the videos with current Princeton students about their experiences were more revealing than the article. Between the two students in the article, I thought that class was a bigger issue than race imho.

Postracial at Princeton
Black in the Age of Obama
Life at Princeton may be more complex now than it was in Michelle's day.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/194592

Whatever. Where's all this post-racial at Princeton with the students that printed racial obscenities at Dr. Yolanda Pierce at the Seminary school? Which the administration STILL hasn't properly outed and punished them for.

Don't know if this was posted yet, but I had to share this Newsweek article. Serious WTF, gping on here.

"Raising Katie
What adopting a white girl taught a black family about race in the Obama era"
http://www.newsweek.com/id/194886

I'm going to be mean here..

they couldn't find a BLACK CHILD TO ADOPT?

The wife's mother is her legal guardian and foster parent, but the parents raise her as well.

I'm trying to be understanding, but don't tell me that there weren't 10 'troubled' Black children in that system for that one 'troubled' White girl.

SMH also. No smiles and hugs from the whites, oh gee, so sorry.

Why adopt a white child to test out the racist, bigoted attitudes of whites. I guess they got the answers, huh?

I can't come up with a good caption on the stop for this, but I love how Obama looks like his just came in from the gym to handle business...LOL

This is a change for us at JJP:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/23/naked-...

Yes, quite a change. "Three Cops, a tazer and a Vienna Sausage"

Geez, they could have covered the dude from jump.

Stupid is as stupid does.

I do not mean to be rude but could you ladies and gentleman credit the photographer?

I'll try.

Hairy angel no more: Britain's Got Talent star Susan Boyle reveals her shock
makeover

By Lizzie SmithLizLizzie Sithzi Lizzie Smith
Last updated at 1:35 PM on 24th April 2009e Smith

Britain's Got Talent star Susan Boyle unveiled the dramatic results of her image makeover today.
The Scottish spinster, who previously insisted stardom wouldn't change her, left her home in Blackburn, West Lothian, with a spring in her step after swapping her unruly grey mane for a chestnut brown hue.
In another sign she was raising her game in the style stakes, the reality TV contestant was also seen wearing make-up and a pair of high heels.
Her matronly attire had been traded in for a pair of crisply ironed trousers, a white shift shirt, her favourite new leather jacket and Burberry inspired
Read on.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11...

Michelle Obama Visits, John Berry Sworn In at OPM

Making her ninth visit to a federal agency, First Lady Michelle Obama lent her star wattage today to the ceremonial swearing in ceremony for Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry.

Berry, the most senior gay person in the Obama administration, noted the historical significance of his ascension by inviting Dr. Franklin E. Kameny to attend the event. The military veteran turned civil rights activist was fired by the Army in 1957 because of his homosexuality, a personnel move that was legal and official government policy at the time, Berry said.

Today, "It is the president's and my opinion, that employees should only be judged by their ability to do the job and their performance while on the job and not by any other irrelevant factors," Berry said. "In no small part, Dr. Kameny's work and other leaders like him made it possible for me and other leaders like him to stand here today."

Obama later echoed Berry's remarks, telling the 300 assembled employees and guests at OPM headquarters that "Our nation is best served when the principles of excellence and diversity guide the federal government’s hiring processes. It all starts there."

The first lady recounted her appearance earlier in the day at a White House event with the children of employees of the Executive Office of the President, the White House Military Office and the Secret Service.

"They asked some tough questions. They were hard. I think that was my first official press conference," she said to laughs.

Obama said she told the children about the importance of public service, noting that "it’s never too early to encourage children to make service an integral part of their lives."

During her remarks, Obama also singled out OPM Deputy Chief of Staff Jennifer Mason, who was one of the first people hired by then-candidate Obama when he ran for the Illinois State Senate.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/20...

Has anyone else received this email?

http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advoc...

Was Madoff 'Victim' and Best Friend an Accomplice?
By Lucinda Franks

New evidence suggests Bernie had powerful accomplices in his scheme—philanthropist Norman Levy and a second accountant. Lucinda Franks reports on the international investigation.
It has always been hard to believe that Bernie Madoff acted alone to carry off his labyrinthine conspiracy. Now new evidence about two key associates—the late Norman Levy, a real-estate mogul and philanthropist who has previously been portrayed as a victim, and Paul Konigsberg, a second accountant for Madoff—begins to reveal that he may have had a powerful network of accomplices whom investigators on a U.S.-U.K. task force believe were involved in an international transfer of money.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/...

There are many accomplices....many more people need to be in cells besides ole Bernie.

In Obama's Inner Circle, Debate Over Memos' Release Was Intense
Some Feared That a Partisan Outcry Could Obstruct Larger Agenda

By R. Jeffrey Smith, Michael D. Shear and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, April 24, 2009

As President Obama met with top advisers on the evening of April 15, he faced one of the sharpest policy divides of his young administration.
Five CIA directors -- including Leon E. Panetta and his four immediate predecessors -- and Obama's top counterterrorism adviser had expressed firm opposition to the release of interrogation details in four "top secret" memos in which Bush administration lawyers sanctioned harsh tactics.

On the other side of the issue were Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair and White House counsel Gregory B. Craig, whose colleagues during the campaign recall him expressing enthusiasm for fixing U.S. detainee policy.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates had said he supported the disclosures because he saw the information's release as inevitable and because the White House was willing to promise that CIA officers would not be prosecuted for any abuse. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen sided with Gates.

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

i wish this debate had taken place prior to the approval of waterboarding and these other tactics.

Common sense isn't common. I'm afraid to start talking about this, I am PISSED OFF by this whole thing. We've known about this from jump, why are we NOW talking about this?! Why did this even happen in the first place?!?!?!

See, that's what I'm talking about, I'm gonna go sit down somewhere...maybe go back to work, lol!

Please, stop making sense.

I cant muster up the strength to care I mean if they were terrorist and were looking to hurt Americans or just fighting the wrong war then oh well.

I can still hear the Jet engine of the 2nd plane entering the WTC from my office in the World Financial Center and I am not ready to forget or forgive

Then be prepared for American soldiers to be tortured and for their captors to say and do the same thing. As long as we are okay with telling the world that torture is a good thing then we need to be prepared for the consequences. It might not be as palatable when it's one of our own.

oh wait - you mean besides chopping american soldiers heads off, dragging them through the streets naked, shooting helpless american prisoners?

I second that!

Vacation planning guide: where not to walk around after dark or in Detroit's case, out of sight of a police officer.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/23/most-dangerous...

Edgy Banks Start to Get Word Today on Stress Tests
Wall Street is stressed out about stress tests.

After a two-month wait, the nation’s 19 largest banks will start learning on Friday how they fared in important federal examinations — and which among them will need another bailout from the government or private investors.

While many of the banks reported surprisingly strong first-quarter earnings, they are by no means out of the woods. A number of them are likely to need more capital to weather a prolonged recession, and the losses that might accompany it.

The Federal Reserve intends to disclose, in general terms, how it conducted the stress tests on Friday afternoon, but the government will not publicly reveal the results until May 4. In between, Wall Street is bracing for a possible roller-coaster ride in financial stocks as investors scramble to do their own assessment of the financial industry’s strongest and the weakest players.

“The headlines, not the details, seem to be driving the markets,” said Frederick Cannon, who is in charge of equity research at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, a boutique investment bank.

Analysts are already betting that the stress tests will show that banks need to raise significant amounts of new capital, as profits made in the first three months of the year give way to more losses, tied to credit card, commercial real estate and corporate loans. An assessment by Mr. Cannon’s firm, which calculated its own stress test for the industry, concluded Thursday that United States banks might need as much as an additional $1 trillion in capital.

As part of their exam, regulators have been poring over bank balance sheets to spot financial problems that may not surface for months. Officials are assessing the financial condition of the banks based on their potential losses and earnings over the next two years. That is why some banks that recently announced blockbuster earnings may still need to raise sizable amounts of fresh money.

Read on.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/business/econ...

A CALL TO ACTION

MSNBC has a poll up about the President's job so far for the first 100 days.? Republicans are flooding it with "F" votes.? Pass this address on and go to it to vote:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29493093/

I voted and passed the link thru Twitter

The Rethugs know what they can do with that "F."

They can take that "F" inside of a parachute and jump off of Mount Kilimanjaro and accidentally leave the parachute on the top of the friggin' mountain.

So much for "country first" and "respect your leaders", shooooooooot. Hippo, Hyppo, Hypo, Hypocrites!!!!!!!

Why couldn't we work for a president who was an absentee parent just like the last one?

damn, that's Mike Tysonesqe right there!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was thinking the same thing, LOL!

Caption:

"Dang, I know Black folk have to work twice as hard, but we don't. Why are we here?"

LOL!

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You win!! LOL

hilarious. seriously hilarious.

Y'all know that's what's on their mind. Just look at Geith-No's face.

You know they thought it was going to be a cakewalk. They have this look of I can't beleive this dude wants to work on Sunday... for crying out loud.

Krugman's a must read today.

I don’t know about you, but I think America is capable of uncovering the truth and enforcing the law even while it goes about its other business.

Still, you might argue — and many do — that revisiting the abuses of the Bush years would undermine the political consensus the president needs to pursue his agenda.

But the answer to that is, what political consensus? There are still, alas, a significant number of people in our political life who stand on the side of the torturers. But these are the same people who have been relentless in their efforts to block President Obama’s attempt to deal with our economic crisis and will be equally relentless in their opposition when he endeavors to deal with health care and climate change. The president cannot lose their good will, because they never offered any.

[then he writes]
For the fact is that officials in the Bush administration instituted torture as a policy, misled the nation into a war they wanted to fight and, probably, tortured people in the attempt to extract “confessions” that would justify that war. And during the march to war, most of the political and media establishment looked the other way.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/opinion/24kru...

Lawrence O'Donnell is THE.TRUTH. KO had him on Countdown.

Olbermann Calls Hannity's Bluff: $1000 For Every Second Of Waterboarding (VIDEO)

ROTFLMMFBAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i think we new need to give him a nickname, The Law is what im calling him lol. The Law was on Countdown and he said something that i think alot of people wanted to say for so long, heres the passage

I am like Sean Hannity, one of those cowards, just like Dick Cheney who has refused throughout my life to enter the military and ever subject myself to anything dangerous occupationally where I might lose a tooth. That is exactly Sean Hannity's approach to life and he has exactly the same cowardly fear that I do of combat or submitting myself to anything of the kind of risk the American military does. And so people who live where Sean Hannity lives and those safe places and the safe Cheney home where no one in the Cheney family would ever submit themselves to military service, ever submit themselves to the risk of torture. They think torture works because it would work on them.

I love that Olberman promised to donate 1k to charity for each second that he lasts.

Sean Hannity wouldn't last a nano second. He needs a fire hydrant turned on his ass.
Sean thinks waterboarding is like surfing a fucking wave. he needs a hydrant turned on him from all direction........, oh, sorry, I got carried away.... That would be like.. TORTURE!

Lawrence "The Law" O'Donnell.

I like.

Officer 'Unpopular' For Opposing Interrogations
All Things Considered, April 23, 2009 · An Air Force interrogator tried to stop the harsh techniques he witnessed in Iraq when he went there in 2003. But his efforts to halt abusive interrogations were rebuffed and, in his words, made him "the most unpopular officer" in Iraq.
Col. Steven Kleinman
Read More
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?st...

44 minutter dage siden

Love the socks.

The Criagslist Killer: Just A Normal Guy: Though Markoff is yet to be convicted, unlike so many men of color who daily interact with the criminal justice system the presumption of innocence actually applies to him. Even if he is found guilty Markoff will never be understood as representative of his race; no his actions will be deemed an aberration as whiteness cannot afford to own such a taint. White women will continue to grab their purses when they see young men of colour totally ignoring the threat that exists from white males.

Isn't it sad!!

Yes, and Stupid too.

On this planet who committed the creepiest crime against humanity, but do not forget who lately (yes lately only!, i mean after Europe's middle age) has contributed more to humanity?

This is so true. I have to ask: have you done a piece on the Sunday School Teacher that murdered the little girl?

I actually just heard about it for the first time last night and I just might.

Good Morning The weekend is here.If this band ever tour in your city go check them out.Now I present to you Winston Rodney and IMO the best Reggae Band
Burning Spear "Happy Day" Paris 1988
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6txTYkdvMz8

The "100 million" cost reduction:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs...

Cuban Relations:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs...