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ladyhistory:

For class tomorrow, I compiled a 13-minute video of U.S. presidential voices from Harrison to Eisenhower—here is a sample.

Some of this audio is over 120 years old. FLIPPIN’ HISTORY PEOPLE.

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"President Alexander Lukashenko is on a list of people whose entry to the European Union is banned. This ban will be in force during the Olympics. There will be no change in this decision."

A spokesperson at the British embassy in Minsk, explaining why the president of Belarus will not be attending the Olympics.

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ourpresidents:

When Bill met Jack

A young Bill Clinton shaking hands with President Kennedy on July 24, 1963 in the Rose Garden of the White House. He was in Washington, D.C. as a delegate from Arkansas to the Boys Nation Convention. 7/24/63

-from the Presidential Timeline

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did-you-kno:

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hamburgerjack:

WASHINGTON — A District of Columbia police officer has been taken off a motorcycle escort for White House officials after he allegedly said he’d shoot first lady Michelle Obama and “then used his phone to retrieve a picture of the firearm he said he would use,” according to The Washington Post.

Oddly enough in my searches for this, the only source I immediately recognized reporting this was Huffington Post.

Even though I heard it in a quick little headline type read off on CNN, they apparently aren’t on this story, nor any of the other media outlets.

That’s problematic.

And they’re all these short little articles too.

Here’s another source I could find, but with similar information.

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WHY WASN’T I TOLD ABOUT THIS

historical-nonfiction:

Twenty-two out of the forty-four presidents of the United States have been of Irish descent. The first was Andrew Jackson, the latest Barak Obama.

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barackobama:

Happy Mother’s Day.

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thepoliticalfreakshow:

The Mitt Romney Bullying Story

The sad, troubling tale of when a teenage Mitt Romney attacked one of his classmates. The Washington Post found numerous eyewitnesses to verify this incident from 1965. Romney has since apologized.

Mitt Romney, left, with George and Lenore Romney in 1962.

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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. — Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome campus, studded with Tudor brick buildings and manicured fields, he spotted something he thought did not belong at a school where the boys wore ties and carried briefcases. John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. Now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasn’t having it.

Source: washingtonpost.com

Cranbrook School.

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“He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann’s recollection. Mitt, the teenaged son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Lauber’s look, Friedemann recalled.

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Cranbrook School.

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A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.

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Cranbrook School.

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The incident transpired in a flash, and Friedemann said Romney then led his cheering schoolmates back to his bay-windowed room in Stevens Hall.

Friedemann, guilt ridden, made a point of not talking about it with his friend and waited to see what form of discipline would befall Romney at the famously strict institution. Nothing happened.

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Cranbrook School.

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After the incident, Lauber seemed to disappear. He returned days later with his shortened hair back to its natural brown. He finished the year, but ultimately left the school before graduation — thrown out for smoking a cigarette.

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Cranbrook School.

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“It happened very quickly, and to this day it troubles me,” said (Thomas) Buford, the school’s wrestling champion, who said he joined Romney in restraining Lauber. Buford subsequently apologized to Lauber, who was “terrified,” he said. “What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do.”

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Cranbrook School.

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Sometime in the mid-1990s, (Romney’s classmate at Cranbrook) David Seed noticed a familiar face at the end of a bar at Chicago O’Hare International Airport.

“Hey, you’re John Lauber,” Seed recalled saying at the start of a brief conversation. Seed, also among those who witnessed the Romney-led incident, had gone on to a career as a teacher and principal. Now he had something to get off his chest.

“I’m sorry that I didn’t do more to help in the situation,” he said.

Lauber paused, then responded, “It was horrible.” He went on to explain how frightened he was during the incident, and acknowledged to Seed, “It’s something I have thought about a lot since then.”

…

Lauber died in 2004 (of liver cancer), according to his three sisters.

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underthemountainbunker:

MITT ROMNEY: “I’ll take a lot of credit” for auto industry recovery — Romney said his views helped save the industry. “I pushed the idea of a managed bankruptcy,” Romney said. “And finally, when that was done, and help was given, the companies got back on their feet. So I’ll take a lot of credit for the fact that this industry’s come back.” […] Romney’s stance on the bailouts and his infamous 2008 New York Times op-ed “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt,” have come up throughout the campaign, especially ahead of February’s primary in Michigan. In that editorial, Romney argued that a government bailout for ailing auto giants Chrysler and General Motors would do more harm than good. […] Romney also spoke out on his opposition to the government loaning money to the industry in 2009, placing some of the blame on Bush. —HuffPo [image: drunkonstevphen]

• John Kerry laughed: “I just – he cannot be serious.”
• Former auto czar Steve Rattner reacts to Mitt Romney taking credit for the auto bailout: “I’ve read, I think, everything Romney’s had to say on this subject, and the level of flip flopping and dissembling is truly mindboggling. He’s been on every side of the auto rescue at different times and said different things, so it’s hard to know what he honestly thinks.”
• Another point – Before we even got to the managed bankruptcy in 2009 that Romney says he called for all along, there were a series of emergency loans in late 2008 to the carmakers from the federal government that Romney opposed. […] If Romney’s position had prevailed, there would have been no emergency loans and no auto industry left to put through a managed bankruptcy.
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• Image: “This is outside Romney’s Lansing event,” Reuters correspondent Sam Youngman tweets. – reuters

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thenewrepublic:

Did Biden’s statement on Meet The Press prompt the president to come out in favor of gay marriage?

“President Obama has earned himself plenty of goodwill today for finally announcing his support for marriage equality. But Vice President Biden deserves a lot of credit for steering the administration in the right direction, however inadvertently.”

Nathan Pippenger, “In defense of Biden’s big mouth”

mydaywithd:

Goodnight Moon Colony, by Comedy Central’s INDECISION

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weweretwokids:

President Obama | 2012 White House Correspondents’ Dinner

 #when will the leader of your country

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Miti-miti en to’… (get it? ah ah ah?)

aja Mitt Romney. 

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zainyk:

Karl Rove has issued his first election map of 2012.

Solid/Lean EVs:#Obama 284, #Mitt 172, Toss-up 82

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