Bank Notes: a collection of Bank Robbery Notes - it's a collection of mug shots with notes to bank tellers. How they got them I don't know, but there's a book too. This innocent-looking but simultaneously guilty-looking robber is 30.
Need $300 or I’ll kill you.
I’m serious.
female, 30, Wells Fargo, Hillsborough OR
She saw a conspiracy in the new dollar coins. She believes "In God We Trust" had been removed recently as part of "change" of the Obama administration. Politico attended the fundraiser (closed to the press) and took notes. Noting there had been “change” of late, Palin talked about a conversation with a friend about how “In God We Trust” had been moved to the edge of the new dollar. “Who calls a shot like that?” she demanded. “Who makes a decision like that?” She added: “It’s a disturbing trend.”
In actuality, the decision to put "IN GOD WE TRUST" on the edges of presidential dollar coins was reversed in 2007, before President Barack Obama took office. Sens. Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Robert Byrd (D-WV) sponsored legislation to move the motto back to the front face of the coins.
Snopes.com outlines what happened. Would love to have a few of the "edgy" coins, as they might gain in value if they are quite rare.
The former incarnation of the "Lusty Lady was "The Amusement Center" and was located up the street nearer the Pike Market. The then-manager June Cade said that such places do well in times of conservatism. I'm wondering how they doing in times of recession? The boutique next door had marked everything down by half and appeared to be going out of business. "Lusty Lady" is in the habit of satirizing the signs on the Seattle Art Museum across the street, but this time they echoed the sign next door.
Bush’s motivational speech: Market is ‘fair,’ ‘equitable’ and ‘democratic | Raw Story
He sent them this memo:
To the Members of the California State Assembly:
I am returning Assembly Bill 1176 without my signature.
For some time now I have lamented the fact that major issues are overlooked while many unnecessary bills come to me for consideration. Water reform, prison reform, and health care are major issues my Administration has brought to the table, but the Legislature just kicks the can down the alley.
Yet another legislative year has come and gone without the major reforms Californians overwhelmingly deserve. In light of this, and after careful consideration, I believe it is unnecessary to sign this measure at this time.
Sincerely,
Arnold Schwarzenegger
A veto message from Schwarzenegger, regarding a bill from Assemblymember Tom Ammiano of San Francisco, raised eyebrows when the first letters of sequential lines in the left-hand margin spelled out the words "F--- You.
http://gov.ca.gov/pdf/press/2009bills/AB1176_Ammiano_Veto_Message.pdf
Schwarzenegger Rep: Profane Term in Veto Message Is "Strange Coincidence"
The first little guy, Alex, was just above the 99th percentile and completely breastfed. He was denied insurance on the basis of "obesity" but the insurance company eventually had to reconsider and cover him.
The other little baby, Aislin, was too thin and was also denied insurance coverage. She is 22 pounds at two years. (My own son was 24 pounds at two years.)
Both babies live in Colorado and both articles appeared within about a week of each other. Only in America.
Colorado Fat Baby Article Shown here is 19 pound baby Akbar of Indonesia, born recently. (According to Unicef, 2/3 of Indonesian children are undernourished.)
He appeared in Edmonton and was heavily protested, and he's headed to Saskatoon and Montreal, where more protests are planned. The same thing happened when he went to Calgary and Toronto. There were a handful of supporters.
From the article:
While former U.S. president George W. Bush talked about democracy inside a downtown Edmonton conference centre on Tuesday, hundreds of protesters were outside exercising their right to free speech with signs, songs and screams.
"Stop the killing, stop the war," the protesters chanted to the beat of a drum. They held signs that said "Bush is a war criminal;" "Bush lied, 1,000s died;" and "Canada is not Bush Country."
Several dozen police officers kept protesters away from the front of the Shaw Conference Centre and as the crowd grew, metal barricades went up between the police and the crowd.
Marilyn Gaa, who holds both American and Canadian citizenship, held a three-metre-tall black-clad Grim Reaper with a sign on his back that said: "GWB I am your biggest fan" and on the front, "Thanks for 8 great years." "For the eight years that George Bush was president I was profoundly ashamed and alarmed and angry and now it seems so unfair that he's making a world tour trying to share his 'wisdom' and make a lot of money," said Gaa.
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