Friday, April 10, 2009
Conservatives Go Teabagging
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EXCLUSIVE PIC: Clinton and Obama, in the Sandbox Again
Another busy day at the White House: First Lady Michelle Obama hosted students from Bancroft High School in Washington, who helped her plant and water the brand-new White House garden. She and Agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack spoke to the students about the healthy fruits and veggies that would grow there. “It’s all brain food,” Obama said. She cheered the kids for bringing good weather and then sent them (and the press) home with cookies.
The weather was so nice in fact, that, after President Obama received his economic briefing and met with Defense Secretary Robert Gates in the Oval Office, the POTUS and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton decided to hold their 4:15 meeting out behind the White House—next to the swing set installed for the Obama girls in March.
Striding out from the West Wing, the two seemed thick as thieves—smiling, Secretary Clinton casually swung her leg over the bench on the east side of the playground, and the president grinned and waved to gawking reporters and staff as he sat down across from her. After all, it was just a year ago that Clinton could be seen crying, "Shame on you, Barack Obama."
This is the first meeting of the two former rivals since Obama returned from Turkey and Iraq.
—DAYO OLOPADE
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Vermont Legislature overturns governor's veto of marriage bill
Vermont's gay and lesbian couples can marry, after the Legislature today overrode Gov. Jim Douglas' veto of a bill converting its civil-union system to marriage. The state Senate voted 23-5 in favor of the override, and the House voted 100-49. Vermont is now the fourth state in the U.S. to legalize marriage for all couples and the first to do so by a vote of the Legislature. Google (04/07) Reuters (04/07)
'Simpsons' stamps to hit post offices (d'oh!)
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Homer Simpson and his cartoon family soon will help you get letters, bills and packages to their destinations.
Homer Simpson is one of the "Simpsons" characters that will appear on a stamp.
On Thursday, the U.S. Postal Service revealed five first-class stamps featuring characters from the Fox animated series "The Simpsons" -- Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie -- that will hit a post office near you May 7.
"This is the biggest and most adhesive honor 'The Simpsons' has ever received," creator Matt Groening said.
The TV show, the longest running prime-time sitcom, was chosen from about 50,000 stamp subject suggestions submitted last year, the Postal Service said.
"We are emotionally moved by the Postal Service selecting us rather than making the lazy choice of someone who has benefited society," said"Simpsons" producer James L. Brooks.
Bart Simpson, who is known to collect stamps, "will serve as a great opportunity to interest youngsters into stamp collecting," said David Failor, executive director of stamp services for the Postal Service.
Failor added, "eyebrow-raising to say the least, this witty, well-written pop icon continues to irreverently satire its parody of a middle-class family as it lampoons American culture."
The new stamps can been seen and pre-ordered at USPS.com.
