Just saw an article about poor people getting "pet food stamps" and of course there's outrage because the organization running it is try to get federal (i.e. taxpayer) funding.
Well, on the face of it I suppose you could be outraged, but think about it...
Where do OUR taxpayer dollars go now? To fund a program in some African country to teach the males to wash their genitals before sex? (Or after sex? I forget which one. In any event, apparently they were trying to see if this would prevent AIDS, and just handing out free condoms didn't seem to occur.)
Then there's the study of prostitute behavior in some other foreign country to see what can be done to make the sex worker profession more safe.
All these ridiculous things.
Then we've got people, poor people, and they've got a kid and they want a puppy or a cat or something but they can't afford to feed it. I say, go for it.
Obviously I don't think our taxes should go to feed Great Danes or Mastiffs or more than 3 dogs in any one home - in the same way we shouldn't be paying for any kids born *after* a person goes on welfare - get an education first, get off the temporary stopgap that welfare was supposed to be - and *then* start or resume your family. But if you're accepting tax payer funds, you have no right to increase our burden by continuing to have kids.
Get a dog instead. Much less expensive, and provides unconditional love. Will never break your heart when they turn into teenagers!
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Never agree to transcribe 20 hours of a meeting for an Australian
That's what I've been doing for the last 4 days...utter nightmare. Could NOT understand their accents. Making it worse were the bad audio levels and the fact that a lot of the people preesnt insisted on talking over each other from all around the room except in front of the microphone... I will never transcribe ANYTHING every again.
Anyway, so sorry to be MIA from my blogs.
Friday, February 22, 2013
"He's white and rich" so he'll get off
I've been reading the messages left on the news reports of the Oscar Pistorius tragedy in South Africa...the tragedy of a young woman being killed by a boyfriend, mark you...
Pistorious has admitted to shooting his girlfriend while she was in the bathroom... with the door locked.
He says he thought it was an intruder in his home. I say he lived in a gated community and had to know his girlfriend wasn't in bed with him and why shoot 4 times, anyway?
But all the folks are saying, "He's rich and white, so he'll get off."
I've pointed out a couple of times that he may be white but he lives in black-ruled South Africa, so his whiteness cuts no ice.
But it's interesting that that's what everyone's saying. White guilt is being inculcated into us... I didn't share it a few days ago but there are now apparently *two* universities that have classes teaching college students that white people only get what they've got because their white...interesting both schools are in cities that have only a few percentage points of black population...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
The Fall of Jesse Jackson Jr
Sadly, he's like any other politician, white or black. They are all crooks.
But I suppose it is worse for Jackson, since "his people" looked up to him. Since his father was a minister who should have instilled in him values of right and wrong.... just like you'd have to be surprised that Jesse Jackson sr was too dumb to wear a condom so he wouldn't get a woman pregnant out of wedlock...a source of *his* shame when growing up....of course children who don't know their daddy's names let alone what he looks like is all the rage these days...
Anyway, a media person said a stupid thing and Rush makes some very good points:
But I suppose it is worse for Jackson, since "his people" looked up to him. Since his father was a minister who should have instilled in him values of right and wrong.... just like you'd have to be surprised that Jesse Jackson sr was too dumb to wear a condom so he wouldn't get a woman pregnant out of wedlock...a source of *his* shame when growing up....of course children who don't know their daddy's names let alone what he looks like is all the rage these days...
Anyway, a media person said a stupid thing and Rush makes some very good points:
RUSH: I'm surprised they even reported it, Snerdley.
Snerdley's in there having a cow right now over what CNN's doing. CNN's got a graphic up there: "Jesse Jackson Jr. Pleads Guilty, Sad Day for the Civil Rights Community." Snerdley's very cynical today. "What the hell did he ever do for the civil rights community?" You ought to be thankful they're even reporting it! Do you realize how few people care? The son of the Reverend Jackson, Jesse Jackson Jr. -- and his wife -- are pleading guilty here to the inappropriate use of campaign funds, fur capes and who knows whatever else.
And it's a "Sad Day for the Civil Rights Community." (interruption) I don't know why it's a sad day. See, you and I don't think in these terms. You know, when Ronald Reagan died, did anyone say, "Oh, it's a bad day for the white community"? People just don't think this way, but they do. So Jesse Jackson Jr. engages in some criminal activities. Does that taint the whole civil rights community? Not to me it doesn't. What did he ever do for it anyway? He wasn't at Selma.
Anyway, it's part and parcel of the way CNN sees the world. "Sad Day for the Civil Rights Community." If the Reverend Jackson had a son, wouldn't he look like Jesse Jackson Jr.? (laughing) I wonder. You know, I say these things, and you know the left's out there, and they have outrageous reactions, and they just have no sense of humor. They don't understand that we relate things to things other people have said months or years ago.
You people listen every day and you're up to speed. You know the context of things in this program. But if you happen to be a Democrat and you just turned the radio on and you heard me say that you are probably smoking now. (laughing) You're writing letters to the FCC and whoever else. Low-information voter voters are scratching their heads. "He does have a son, and it is Jesse Jackson Jr., and Jesse Jackson Jr. looks like Jesse Jackson Jr.! What does Limbaugh mean?"
We have an audio sound bite from CNN newsroom this afternoon. This is Suzanne Malveaux talking to Mary Mitchell of the Chicago Sun-Times about the tragic decline of Jesse Jackson Jr. Suzanne Malveaux said, "You know the Jackson family very well. Why did this happen? Why did this just go downhill and deteriorate, Mary? I mean, Jesse Jackson Jr. comes from a very prominent family. His father's had his own problems, yeah, but why did he succumb to all of this?"
MITCHELL: I see an American tragedy. You have Jesse Jackson Sr. and you have a son who was raised at his feet, the feet of civil rights leaders. Great education, great opportunity, Chicago royalty. I have to say this, that even in Chicago there were signs than that was not quite right. The high living, the going to Washington and immediately buying a very expensive house in a very expensive neighborhood. Those things should have been red flags. I don't think we asked enough questions that could have gotten to the heart of this before it got way down this road. We never put the dots together. I think not putting the dots together allowed him to go on down that path. It's his own responsibility, but as media people, we should have seen it coming.
RUSH: Well!
So there you have Mary Mitchell of the Chicago Sun-Times, saying (summarized), "We coulda stopped it in the media if we'da connected the dots. It's our fault he's a crook. If we'da seen those dots being connected... We saw the dots. We didn't connect 'em, and we in the media -- I mean, it's his own responsibility, but we in the media -- as media people, we shoulda seen it coming and we could have stopped it. Why, he's out there buying houses in neighborhoods he shouldn't be living in."
Why not?
Let me ask a simple question: With all the shakedown operations that have taken place over the years, why would anybody in the media assume that Jesse Jackson Jr. doesn't have any money? Wouldn't it be quite natural to assume that Jesse Jackson Jr. has access to all kinds of money? You media people in Chicago, you're putting way too much pressure on yourselves. The media in Chicago is beating themselves up for allowing this to happen. They saw the dots. They just didn't connect 'em. The high living? Well, he's Jesse Jackson Jr.'s son. What's he supposed to do? Live in a slum? He goes out there and buys "a very expensive house in a very expensive neighborhood."
Well didn't he grow up in one?
Where's he supposed to live?
He's Jesse Jackson Jr. There should have been red flags. I don't think we asked enough questions. Coulda gotten to the heart of this before it got way down the road. So they coulda stopped him. They coulda saved him if they'da just asked. What are you doing in this neighborhood? Can you imagine if they had asked that? Ms. Mitchell, are you supposed to do a story in the Chicago Sun-Times saying, "Did Jesse Jackson Jr. buy that Rolex himself?" Is that what you shoulda done?
RUSH: You know, I'm sitting here in uncontrollable mirth, ladies and gentlemen. Mary Mitchell of the Chicago Sun-Times said the media shoulda connected the dots on Jesse Jackson Jr. You mean just like they did on John Edwards? Just like they did on Bob Menendez? Just like they did on Bill Clinton? They never connect the dots. They never ask the questions about Democrats. They never expose any of this. All she's upset about is they weren't able to cover it up. That would be my guess.
Just how much did Obama's golf trip cost US?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2280855/Obama-pictured-leaving-1m-golfing-weekend-Tiger-Woods-imposed-controversial-photo-black-out.html
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Pictures finally appeared of President Obama on Monday evening as he headed home to Washington after a relaxing golf weekend which was kept heavily under wraps.
The President was on the course on Monday for the third and final day of a Florida vacation with departing US Trade Representative Ron Kirk, the president's Chicago pal Eric Whitaker and White House aide Marvin Nicholson.
The President had enjoyed a round of golf with Tiger Woods on Sunday - a fact that only emerged by chance after media were banned from attending the event. The traveling pool of journalists who follow the President's every move were reportedly furious after being shut out of his round of golf and not being allowed on to the club grounds.
It has long been a White House tradition that pool reporters cover the President's rounds of golf and even have the opportunity for a few questions on the course.
The President waved as he jogged up the steps of Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport on Monday evening while a White House aide heaved golf clubs and large bags on board.
When he landed back in Washington and walked across the White House lawn, several frustrated reporters collectively shouted to the President to ask if he had beaten Tiger Woods.
Despite appearing to have heard the question, the Daily Caller reported, Obama did not answer and just smiled.
The President was relaxing on a trip to the Floridian, an exclusive club along Florida's Treasure Coast. Obama arrived in Florida late on Friday and returned to Washington on Monday night
The club's owner is Jim Crane, a Houston businessman who also owns baseball's Houston Astros. Crane also has given money to Obama's political campaigns.
The White House had barred media coverage of the president's golf holiday but released the names of his partners.
The Huffington Post reports that the President tried to make amends with the traveling press by spending a quick 10 to 15 minutes with them in the back of Air Force One as they headed back to D.C.
Proving that he was not dropping the secrecy act anytime soon, all of the reporters involved had to agree that the conversation was off the record, meaning that they could not officially report anything that he said and had to keep their reflections of the conversation in extremely vague terms.
'He didn't come back because he had to tell us something. He came back to hang out,' reporter Scott Wilson from The Washington Post, who was serving as the pool reporter on Monday.
The weekend is the latest in a string of incidents that have prompted press backlash against the self-titled 'transparent' President, with Politico reporting today that withholding access is just one of the ways in which his administration works to avoid the tough questions and promote their brand.
The outrage over the lack of transparency comes as much of the bill for the pricey trip will be paid for by tax payers, yet President Obama did not feel it appropriate to even release one photo of his time out on the course.
The President played with the notorious philanderer on Sunday after getting a private lesson from Woods' former coach the day before.
President finally shows his face after $1m golfing weekend with Tiger Woods that White House didn't want world to see
- Obama played at exclusive Florida course on Sunday with Tiger Woods
- President refused to say if he had been beaten by the champion golfer
- Cost of Air Force One trips to and from Florida, along with hotel rooms, greens fees and exclusive golf lessons comes to $989,207
- Tried to mend fraught relationship with traveling press corps by 'hanging out' with them for 10 minutes on the flight back
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Pictures finally appeared of President Obama on Monday evening as he headed home to Washington after a relaxing golf weekend which was kept heavily under wraps.
The President was on the course on Monday for the third and final day of a Florida vacation with departing US Trade Representative Ron Kirk, the president's Chicago pal Eric Whitaker and White House aide Marvin Nicholson.
The President had enjoyed a round of golf with Tiger Woods on Sunday - a fact that only emerged by chance after media were banned from attending the event. The traveling pool of journalists who follow the President's every move were reportedly furious after being shut out of his round of golf and not being allowed on to the club grounds.
Back in the swing of things: President Obama waves in the doorway of Air Force One as he departs from Palm Beach International Airport on Monday
Back to business: Obama jogs up the stairs of Air Force One upon his departure from Florida heading for D.C. (left) as an aide carries on the golf back of Obama's friend Eric Whitaker
Bags of fun: An aide heaves several golf bags up the stairs of Air Force One after weekend on the course with friends
It has long been a White House tradition that pool reporters cover the President's rounds of golf and even have the opportunity for a few questions on the course.
The President waved as he jogged up the steps of Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport on Monday evening while a White House aide heaved golf clubs and large bags on board.
When he landed back in Washington and walked across the White House lawn, several frustrated reporters collectively shouted to the President to ask if he had beaten Tiger Woods.
Despite appearing to have heard the question, the Daily Caller reported, Obama did not answer and just smiled.
Home again: President Barack Obama waves to members of the media as walks across the South Lawn of the White House following his arrival on Marine One helicopter on Monday night
The club's owner is Jim Crane, a Houston businessman who also owns baseball's Houston Astros. Crane also has given money to Obama's political campaigns.
The White House had barred media coverage of the president's golf holiday but released the names of his partners.
The Huffington Post reports that the President tried to make amends with the traveling press by spending a quick 10 to 15 minutes with them in the back of Air Force One as they headed back to D.C.
Proving that he was not dropping the secrecy act anytime soon, all of the reporters involved had to agree that the conversation was off the record, meaning that they could not officially report anything that he said and had to keep their reflections of the conversation in extremely vague terms.
'He didn't come back because he had to tell us something. He came back to hang out,' reporter Scott Wilson from The Washington Post, who was serving as the pool reporter on Monday.
The weekend is the latest in a string of incidents that have prompted press backlash against the self-titled 'transparent' President, with Politico reporting today that withholding access is just one of the ways in which his administration works to avoid the tough questions and promote their brand.
The outrage over the lack of transparency comes as much of the bill for the pricey trip will be paid for by tax payers, yet President Obama did not feel it appropriate to even release one photo of his time out on the course.
The President played with the notorious philanderer on Sunday after getting a private lesson from Woods' former coach the day before.
Low Information People - the Death of America
Rush was talking yesterday (Tuesday), about the "low information news" that the networks give us these days.
I'll go further than that and say it's all deliberate. Take a look at every single channel - if you get cable or satellite. Doesn't matter if its AMC, CBS, the Sci Fi channel or what have you. Every single one has "reality series" these days.
Yes, they're cheapter to make than real TV series where you have to pay actors the big bucks... but these things are such utter garbage...and yet people must watch them.
Then there's the utter, utter garbage of shows like Maury Povich and others, where women whose husbands have cheated on them with their sisters or mothers or what have you, come on and have shouting matches while an actual audience starts shouting too, or giving *their* advice, but no doubt hoping for a couple of big ol' fat women to have a catfight. Which happens quite a bit if the trailers for the episodes are to be believed.
That method of solving problems is being inculcated into our youth as *the* method of solving problems, which is so evil.
I mean, come on. You husband cheats on you with your sister - what is their to discuss? Kick them both out. End of problem.
19 Feb, Rush's headlines
--Delusional Politico Journalists: Obama is Our Puppet Master
--Our Hero President Sets Out to Save America from the Sequester Meat Cleaver
--Obama Doesn't Have Courage to Lead
--CNN Slips Up on Sequester Coverage
--Obama Didn't Want to be Seen with Tiger Woods, Rich One-Percenter
--Low-Information News is All the Rage
--Republicans Waiting for Obama to Reach Out? Really?
--Our Hero President Sets Out to Save America from the Sequester Meat Cleaver
--Obama Doesn't Have Courage to Lead
--CNN Slips Up on Sequester Coverage
--Obama Didn't Want to be Seen with Tiger Woods, Rich One-Percenter
--Low-Information News is All the Rage
--Republicans Waiting for Obama to Reach Out? Really?
20 Feb 2013, Wed, SoS Kerry and Staff Schedule
SECRETARY JOHN KERRY
11:00 a.m. Secretary Kerry delivers his first major public address, at the University of Virginia. Please click here for more information.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
PM Secretary Kerry meets with President Obama and Vice President Biden, at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
PM Secretary Kerry attends meetings and briefings, at the Department of State.
DEPUTY SECRETARY BILL BURNS
10:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with Iceland Deputy Foreign Minister Einar Gunnarsson, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
12:30 p.m. Deputy Secretary Burns attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
2:00 p.m. Deputy Secretary Burns attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT ROBERT HORMATS
9:00 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats holds a conference call with Ambassador Demetrios Marantis, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
10:00 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats holds an Ambassadorial Roundtable on Wildlife Trafficking and Conservation, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
6:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends 52nd Anniversary of the National Day of the State of Kuwait, at the Four Seasons Hotel.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS TARA SONENSHINE
11:00 a.m. Under Secretary Sonenshine addresses students from the Public Diplomacy module of the Foreign Service’s 170th A-100 class, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
CHIEF OF PROTOCOL AMBASSADOR CAPRICIA PENAVIC MARSHALL
4:00 p.m. Ambassador Marshall attends the program launch for the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, at Georgetown University. Please click here for more information.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR CONFLICT AND STABILIZATION OPERATIONS FREDERICK BARTON
8:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Barton attends a roundtable discussion titled “Breakfast of Champions” hosted by City Year, in Washington, DC.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
12:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Barton hosts a roundtable to discuss civilian response and conflict in the wake of Iraq and Afghanistan, at the Council on Foreign Relations.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS ESTHER BRIMMER
12:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Brimmer meets with Deputy Secretary of the Australian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Gillian Bird, Ambassador Kim Beazley and Counselor Cameron Archer, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND NONPROLIFERATION THOMAS COUNTRYMAN
10:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Countryman hosts an NGO roundtable to discuss the UN Arms Trade Treaty, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS MIKE HAMMER
11:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Hammer attends Secretary Kerry’s remarks at the University of Virginia. Please click here for more information.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ROBERTA JACOBSON
9:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson meets with Guatemalan Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
12:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson meets with Uruguayan Ambassador to the U.S. Carlos Pita, in Washington.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
2:45 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson meets with Eric Farnsworth, Vice President of the Council of the Americas and Americas Society, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson attends the program launch for the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, at Georgetown University. Please click here for more information.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR OCEANS AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS KERRI-ANN JONES
10:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Jones participates in an Ambassadorial Roundtable on Wildlife Trafficking and Conservation hosted by Under Secretary Hormats, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
2:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jones meets with the Canadian Deputy Minister of the Environment Bob Hamilton, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jones meets with Canadian First Nation tribal representatives, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR MICHAEL POSNER
Assistant Secretary Posner is on foreign travel to Rangoon, Burma through February 23 to meet with government officials and civil society representatives on a range of issues, including on human rights and democracy promotion.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR THE BUREAU OF POPULATION, REFUGEES, AND MIGRATION ANNE RICHARD
10:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Richard, along with Mexican UN Permanent Representative Luis Alfonso de Alba, co-hosts an International Organization on Migration High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development, at the United Nations. Please click here to view a live webcast of the event.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
3:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Richard meets with Gregory Mantis of the Migration Policy Institute, in New York City.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE AND U.S. GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR ERIC GOOSBY
1:00 p.m. Ambassador Goosby meets with Congressional staff on the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR GLOBAL INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS RETA JO LEWIS
6:00 p.m. Special Representative Lewis attends an event for Executive Women in Government (EWG), in Washington, DC.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
11:00 a.m. Secretary Kerry delivers his first major public address, at the University of Virginia. Please click here for more information.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
PM Secretary Kerry meets with President Obama and Vice President Biden, at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
PM Secretary Kerry attends meetings and briefings, at the Department of State.
DEPUTY SECRETARY BILL BURNS
10:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with Iceland Deputy Foreign Minister Einar Gunnarsson, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
12:30 p.m. Deputy Secretary Burns attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
2:00 p.m. Deputy Secretary Burns attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT ROBERT HORMATS
9:00 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats holds a conference call with Ambassador Demetrios Marantis, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
10:00 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats holds an Ambassadorial Roundtable on Wildlife Trafficking and Conservation, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
6:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends 52nd Anniversary of the National Day of the State of Kuwait, at the Four Seasons Hotel.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS TARA SONENSHINE
11:00 a.m. Under Secretary Sonenshine addresses students from the Public Diplomacy module of the Foreign Service’s 170th A-100 class, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
CHIEF OF PROTOCOL AMBASSADOR CAPRICIA PENAVIC MARSHALL
4:00 p.m. Ambassador Marshall attends the program launch for the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, at Georgetown University. Please click here for more information.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR CONFLICT AND STABILIZATION OPERATIONS FREDERICK BARTON
8:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Barton attends a roundtable discussion titled “Breakfast of Champions” hosted by City Year, in Washington, DC.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
12:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Barton hosts a roundtable to discuss civilian response and conflict in the wake of Iraq and Afghanistan, at the Council on Foreign Relations.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS ESTHER BRIMMER
12:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Brimmer meets with Deputy Secretary of the Australian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Gillian Bird, Ambassador Kim Beazley and Counselor Cameron Archer, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND NONPROLIFERATION THOMAS COUNTRYMAN
10:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Countryman hosts an NGO roundtable to discuss the UN Arms Trade Treaty, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS MIKE HAMMER
11:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Hammer attends Secretary Kerry’s remarks at the University of Virginia. Please click here for more information.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ROBERTA JACOBSON
9:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson meets with Guatemalan Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
12:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson meets with Uruguayan Ambassador to the U.S. Carlos Pita, in Washington.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
2:45 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson meets with Eric Farnsworth, Vice President of the Council of the Americas and Americas Society, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson attends the program launch for the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, at Georgetown University. Please click here for more information.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR OCEANS AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS KERRI-ANN JONES
10:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Jones participates in an Ambassadorial Roundtable on Wildlife Trafficking and Conservation hosted by Under Secretary Hormats, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
2:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jones meets with the Canadian Deputy Minister of the Environment Bob Hamilton, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jones meets with Canadian First Nation tribal representatives, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR MICHAEL POSNER
Assistant Secretary Posner is on foreign travel to Rangoon, Burma through February 23 to meet with government officials and civil society representatives on a range of issues, including on human rights and democracy promotion.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR THE BUREAU OF POPULATION, REFUGEES, AND MIGRATION ANNE RICHARD
10:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Richard, along with Mexican UN Permanent Representative Luis Alfonso de Alba, co-hosts an International Organization on Migration High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development, at the United Nations. Please click here to view a live webcast of the event.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
3:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Richard meets with Gregory Mantis of the Migration Policy Institute, in New York City.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE AND U.S. GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR ERIC GOOSBY
1:00 p.m. Ambassador Goosby meets with Congressional staff on the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR GLOBAL INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS RETA JO LEWIS
6:00 p.m. Special Representative Lewis attends an event for Executive Women in Government (EWG), in Washington, DC.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
20 Feb 2013, Wed, Pres and VP Schedule
10:30 am The President and the Vice President receive the Presidential Daily Briefing
Oval Office
Closed Press
Oval Office
Closed Press
12:30 pm The President and the Vice President meet for lunch
Private Dining Room
Closed Press
2:20 pm The President is interviewed by regional television outlets
Diplomatic Room
Closed Press
4:00 pm The President and the Vice President meet with Secretary of State Kerry
Oval Office
Closed Press
NO OTHER SCHEDULE FOR VP
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Just how dangerous is South Africa?
If you look at the Oscar Pistorius situation objectively (he's the double amputee who shot his girlfriend in their home in a gated compound in the city of Pretoria.)
I checked Pretoria at Wikipedia and it doesn't list any crime statistics. I think Johannesburg is the crime capital of the world these days as regards murders and car jackings...
Point is this. If you live in a gated compound, why would your first thought about someone moving in your bathroom be a burglar rather than the girlfriend who is not in bed with you?
Pistorius says he didn't have his legs on and so felt very vulnerable, which is why he shot through a closed door instead of teling whoever was in the bathroom to come out with their hands up. (ANd of coures if it had been a crook, they could have had a gun and shot through the door on *their* end - but with a heckuva less chance of hitting someone. Especially if Pistorius had put himself on the other side of the bed frm the door of the bathroom to use that for cover.)
No...I'm inclined to think that Pistorius shot into the bthroom because his girlfriend made him angry, and ended up killing her.
I checked Pretoria at Wikipedia and it doesn't list any crime statistics. I think Johannesburg is the crime capital of the world these days as regards murders and car jackings...
Point is this. If you live in a gated compound, why would your first thought about someone moving in your bathroom be a burglar rather than the girlfriend who is not in bed with you?
Pistorius says he didn't have his legs on and so felt very vulnerable, which is why he shot through a closed door instead of teling whoever was in the bathroom to come out with their hands up. (ANd of coures if it had been a crook, they could have had a gun and shot through the door on *their* end - but with a heckuva less chance of hitting someone. Especially if Pistorius had put himself on the other side of the bed frm the door of the bathroom to use that for cover.)
No...I'm inclined to think that Pistorius shot into the bthroom because his girlfriend made him angry, and ended up killing her.
Rush's Immigration Bill
We're a bankrupt country...blame it on two wars and rebuilding countries who don't repay us...blame it on giving welfare immediately to ILLEGALS who haven't done anything to earn it...
We can't pay for anything now and we're going ti reward these guys forbreaking our laws???
RUSH: I think the president... As I said earlier: Forget the sequester. That's a distraction, and forget all these other tiny little things that are made to look gigantic. The thing everybody needs to have their sights set on is 2014 and the House races. If the Democrats win the House, then it's back to the way it was for Obama's first two years -- and there's nothing, even if they want to, that the Republicans can do legislatively to stop Obama. If the Democrats win the House, he doesn't have to go the executive order route to get what's he wants. That's why 2014 House races, that's the next big thing.
I wish it weren't.
The presidential race last November, that was ball game in terms of being able to repeal Obamacare. Now the House races of 2014, who's gonna control the House, is actually ball game for the kind of country we're gonna be. Now, I said earlier -- I agree with you -- Obama thinks that there is much more value in doing battle with the Republicans over amnesty than actually getting a bill that grants it. I think the Democrats have calculated that they'll get many more votes by having the Republicans out there as this mean-spirited, racist, extremist, anti-immigrant bunch than they will get if they get a bill that grants amnesty.
The Democrats begged Obama not to submit his own immigration bill. The Democrats and the Gang of Eight, those senators went up there. They announced their bill. They all stood there on the podium. They attached their names and their faces to the bill. What's Obama do? Obama is here in Florida this weekend playing golf, and his immigration plan is leaked to the USA Today, and his chief of staff is on TV yesterday morning talking about it? It's not even his, as far as perception is concerned. It's not Obama's bill. Obama's picture isn't anywhere near it. Obama didn't talk about it. He didn't have a big ceremony where he presented it.
It's the administration's immigration bill. But it was leaked. It sort of just dribbled out there. The whole purpose of this bill is to gum up the works. This is a wrench thrown into the gears, by design. 'Cause I really believe... I'll say it again. I think Obama calculates there are many more votes to get in the 2014 election with the Republicans as the usual bogeymen than there are votes to get by actually passing an immigration reform bill. Now, some Republicans, on the other hand, they think -- and this is the danger point -- that a panacea for them awaits passage of an immigration bill, and that's where they're dead wrong.
If they think passing an immigration bill with something that looks like amnesty in it is going to result in a massive shift of Hispanic votes for them, then they're listening to the wrong people. They're listening to the wrong consultants, the wrong advisers. They're listening to the same people who've advised them on nominating the wrong presidential candidates over the years. It would be the same mistake. What the Republicans need to be doing with immigration in my mind, just off the top of my head here? They need to fight for something they know they can't get simply because they don't have the numbers.
They need to be fighting for something called the sovereignty of United States border. It ought to have something in it like this. Again, I'm just thinking of the moment, but I'm not thinking about something passing. I'm thinking about the Republicans needing something to be seen fighting for, even if they are gonna lose it -- and it's something like this: "You know, we've got ten to 12, 20, whatever it is, million immigrants in the country. We're not talking about deporting 'em. Nobody is. But we're gonna lock down this border, and we are going to reestablish this distinct American culture that immigrants in the past came to this country for.
We can't pay for anything now and we're going ti reward these guys forbreaking our laws???
RUSH: I think the president... As I said earlier: Forget the sequester. That's a distraction, and forget all these other tiny little things that are made to look gigantic. The thing everybody needs to have their sights set on is 2014 and the House races. If the Democrats win the House, then it's back to the way it was for Obama's first two years -- and there's nothing, even if they want to, that the Republicans can do legislatively to stop Obama. If the Democrats win the House, he doesn't have to go the executive order route to get what's he wants. That's why 2014 House races, that's the next big thing.
I wish it weren't.
The presidential race last November, that was ball game in terms of being able to repeal Obamacare. Now the House races of 2014, who's gonna control the House, is actually ball game for the kind of country we're gonna be. Now, I said earlier -- I agree with you -- Obama thinks that there is much more value in doing battle with the Republicans over amnesty than actually getting a bill that grants it. I think the Democrats have calculated that they'll get many more votes by having the Republicans out there as this mean-spirited, racist, extremist, anti-immigrant bunch than they will get if they get a bill that grants amnesty.
The Democrats begged Obama not to submit his own immigration bill. The Democrats and the Gang of Eight, those senators went up there. They announced their bill. They all stood there on the podium. They attached their names and their faces to the bill. What's Obama do? Obama is here in Florida this weekend playing golf, and his immigration plan is leaked to the USA Today, and his chief of staff is on TV yesterday morning talking about it? It's not even his, as far as perception is concerned. It's not Obama's bill. Obama's picture isn't anywhere near it. Obama didn't talk about it. He didn't have a big ceremony where he presented it.
It's the administration's immigration bill. But it was leaked. It sort of just dribbled out there. The whole purpose of this bill is to gum up the works. This is a wrench thrown into the gears, by design. 'Cause I really believe... I'll say it again. I think Obama calculates there are many more votes to get in the 2014 election with the Republicans as the usual bogeymen than there are votes to get by actually passing an immigration reform bill. Now, some Republicans, on the other hand, they think -- and this is the danger point -- that a panacea for them awaits passage of an immigration bill, and that's where they're dead wrong.
If they think passing an immigration bill with something that looks like amnesty in it is going to result in a massive shift of Hispanic votes for them, then they're listening to the wrong people. They're listening to the wrong consultants, the wrong advisers. They're listening to the same people who've advised them on nominating the wrong presidential candidates over the years. It would be the same mistake. What the Republicans need to be doing with immigration in my mind, just off the top of my head here? They need to fight for something they know they can't get simply because they don't have the numbers.
They need to be fighting for something called the sovereignty of United States border. It ought to have something in it like this. Again, I'm just thinking of the moment, but I'm not thinking about something passing. I'm thinking about the Republicans needing something to be seen fighting for, even if they are gonna lose it -- and it's something like this: "You know, we've got ten to 12, 20, whatever it is, million immigrants in the country. We're not talking about deporting 'em. Nobody is. But we're gonna lock down this border, and we are going to reestablish this distinct American culture that immigrants in the past came to this country for.
18 Feb 2013, Rush's headlines from Monday
--Obama's Weekend with Tiger Upsets Press
--Obama's Governing Philosophy: Plausible Deniability
--Jesse Jr. Pulls a Torch
--Fight Over Amnesty with Republicans is Worth More to Obama Than Amnesty
--Illustrating the Humorlessness of the Left
--The Obamacare Time Bomb
--Redefining the Low-Information Voter
--Caller to Host: Berate GOP Guests
--CNN Goes Upscale Celeb Trash
--My Immigration Bill: Sovereignty and Assimilation
--Overblown Sequester Hysteria
Stack of Stuff
--NYC's Free Condom Plan Turns Five
--Dr. Jerry Buss Passes Away
--Global Warming Activists Protest in Freezing Cold Washington...
--Obama's Governing Philosophy: Plausible Deniability
--Jesse Jr. Pulls a Torch
--Fight Over Amnesty with Republicans is Worth More to Obama Than Amnesty
--Illustrating the Humorlessness of the Left
--The Obamacare Time Bomb
--Redefining the Low-Information Voter
--Caller to Host: Berate GOP Guests
--CNN Goes Upscale Celeb Trash
--My Immigration Bill: Sovereignty and Assimilation
--Overblown Sequester Hysteria
Stack of Stuff
--NYC's Free Condom Plan Turns Five
--Dr. Jerry Buss Passes Away
--Global Warming Activists Protest in Freezing Cold Washington...
19 Feb 2013, Tues, SoS Kerry and Staff Schedule
SECRETARY JOHN KERRY
AM/PM Secretary Kerry attends meetings and briefings, at the Department of State.
****
DEPUTY SECRETARY BILL BURNS
10:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns receives credentials from Argentine Ambassador-designate to the U.S. Maria Cecilia Nahon, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS WENDY SHERMAN
11:00 a.m. Under Secretary Sherman meets with Deputy Secretary of the Australian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Gillian Bird, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT ROBERT HORMATS
10:20 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats delivers remarks at the Post-Harvest Losses Conference, at the Department of State. Please click here for more information.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
11:00 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with Ambassador Alan Wm. Wolff, Chairman, Committee on Comparative Innovation Policies, Science Technology and Economic Policy Board, The National Academies and Dr. Charles Wessner, Director of Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, The National Academies, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
1:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. Zhang Yesui, in Washington, DC.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
CHIEF OF PROTOCOL AMBASSADOR CAPRICIA PENAVIC MARSHALL
10:30 a.m. Ambassador Marshall delivers remarks at the 13th Annual North American Association of Commencement Officers (NAACO) Conference, in Washington, D.C.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
2:00 p.m. Ambassador Marshall hosts a reception in honor of the departing Ambassador of Georgia, His Excellency Temuri Yakobashvili, in Washington, DC.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
6:00 p.m. Ambassador Marshall attends the opening celebration of the 2013 Nordic Cool Exhibition and Reception, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Please click here for more information.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS ESTHER BRIMMER
6:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Brimmer attends attends the opening celebration of the 2013 Nordic Cool Exhibition and Reception, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Please click here for more information.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS JOSE FERNANDEZ
9:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Fernandez delivers remarks at the Food Security and Minimizing Postharvest Loss: Markets, Applied Research, and Innovation event, at the Department of State. Please click here for more information.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
2:45 p.m. Assistant Secretary Fernandez meets with the Council of the Americas for a discussion with COA members and special guests, at the Council of the Americas.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ROBERTA JACOBSON
10:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson attends the credentialing ceremony for Argentine Ambassador-designate to the U.S. Maria Cecilia Nahon, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
12:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson meets with Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. Eduardo Medina Mora, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR MICHAEL POSNER
Assistant Secretary Posner is on foreign travel to Phnom Penh, Cambodia and Rangoon, Burma through February 23 to meet with government officials and civil society representatives on a range of issues, including on human rights and democracy promotion.
SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR GLOBAL INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS RETA JO LEWIS
11:30 a.m. Special Representative Lewis speaks with Gail Becker, Chair of Canada, Latin America, and the U.S. for the Edelman Group.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
2:00 p.m. Special Representative Lewis delivers remarks at an event for Figure Skating in Harlem, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
3:30 p.m. Special Representative Lewis meets with Teresa Clarke, CEO of Africa.com, and Shawna Watley, Senior Policy Advisor at Holland & Knight, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
AM/PM Secretary Kerry attends meetings and briefings, at the Department of State.
****
DEPUTY SECRETARY BILL BURNS
10:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns receives credentials from Argentine Ambassador-designate to the U.S. Maria Cecilia Nahon, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS WENDY SHERMAN
11:00 a.m. Under Secretary Sherman meets with Deputy Secretary of the Australian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Gillian Bird, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT ROBERT HORMATS
10:20 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats delivers remarks at the Post-Harvest Losses Conference, at the Department of State. Please click here for more information.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
11:00 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with Ambassador Alan Wm. Wolff, Chairman, Committee on Comparative Innovation Policies, Science Technology and Economic Policy Board, The National Academies and Dr. Charles Wessner, Director of Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, The National Academies, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
1:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. Zhang Yesui, in Washington, DC.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
CHIEF OF PROTOCOL AMBASSADOR CAPRICIA PENAVIC MARSHALL
10:30 a.m. Ambassador Marshall delivers remarks at the 13th Annual North American Association of Commencement Officers (NAACO) Conference, in Washington, D.C.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
2:00 p.m. Ambassador Marshall hosts a reception in honor of the departing Ambassador of Georgia, His Excellency Temuri Yakobashvili, in Washington, DC.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
6:00 p.m. Ambassador Marshall attends the opening celebration of the 2013 Nordic Cool Exhibition and Reception, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Please click here for more information.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS ESTHER BRIMMER
6:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Brimmer attends attends the opening celebration of the 2013 Nordic Cool Exhibition and Reception, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Please click here for more information.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS JOSE FERNANDEZ
9:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Fernandez delivers remarks at the Food Security and Minimizing Postharvest Loss: Markets, Applied Research, and Innovation event, at the Department of State. Please click here for more information.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
2:45 p.m. Assistant Secretary Fernandez meets with the Council of the Americas for a discussion with COA members and special guests, at the Council of the Americas.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ROBERTA JACOBSON
10:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson attends the credentialing ceremony for Argentine Ambassador-designate to the U.S. Maria Cecilia Nahon, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
12:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson meets with Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. Eduardo Medina Mora, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR MICHAEL POSNER
Assistant Secretary Posner is on foreign travel to Phnom Penh, Cambodia and Rangoon, Burma through February 23 to meet with government officials and civil society representatives on a range of issues, including on human rights and democracy promotion.
SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR GLOBAL INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS RETA JO LEWIS
11:30 a.m. Special Representative Lewis speaks with Gail Becker, Chair of Canada, Latin America, and the U.S. for the Edelman Group.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
2:00 p.m. Special Representative Lewis delivers remarks at an event for Figure Skating in Harlem, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
3:30 p.m. Special Representative Lewis meets with Teresa Clarke, CEO of Africa.com, and Shawna Watley, Senior Policy Advisor at Holland & Knight, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
19 Feb 2013, Tues, Pres and VP Schedules
9:45 am The President receives the Presidential Daily Briefing
Oval Office
Closed Press
Oval Office
10:45 am The President delivers remarks at the White House to urge action to avoid the automatic budget cuts scheduled to hit next Friday if Congress fails to find a path forward on balanced deficit reduction
South Court Auditorium
Open Press
Vice President's Schedyuule
3:30 pm The Vice President participates in a Facebook Town Hall hosted by Parents Magazine about the Administration’s efforts to reduce gun violence.
Monday, February 18, 2013
18 Feb 2013, Mon, SoS Kerry and Staff Schedule
The schedule has not neen posted...doubtless the person responsible to do so has also gone on vacation for the day.
18 Feb 2013, Mon, Pres and VP Schedules
Neither the Prez or VP have a public schedule today.
Must be President's day.
Must be President's day.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
17 Feb 2013, Sun, My goodness time goes by fast!@
I knew I had missed a few days posting here, but I hadn't realized it was so many!
Apologies to my many loyal readers for being AWOL for the last week.
When you make your living as a freelance writer, and have two clients who give you time cnsuming work at the same time...it kind of gets away from you every now and again.
Regular posting schedule resumes tomorrow.
Apologies to my many loyal readers for being AWOL for the last week.
When you make your living as a freelance writer, and have two clients who give you time cnsuming work at the same time...it kind of gets away from you every now and again.
Regular posting schedule resumes tomorrow.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
"Them or us"
One thing the Republicans really dropped the ball on, I think, was allowing the media to say "Republicans want to stop immigration."
Republicans want to stop ILLEGAL immigration, but whenever you hear the media talk about or reference it for the last 8 years, it's always "Republicans hate immigration" nothing about the specific fact that it's specially ILLEGAL immigration they are trying to stop.
That's one of the things every Republican should have always done - stopped anyone who asked them about immigration and pointed out that it was ILLEGAL immigration that was bad.
They should start it now. Better late than never.
Meanwhile:
Many African-Americans Concerned About Obama's Focus on Immigrant Rights
RUSH: Now, let's see. We had Reginald from Atlanta, and Reginald was another in a significant number of African-Americans who have called here over the years embarrassed that so many blacks vote Obama and vote for the Democrat Party. I pointed out that unemployment for both women and African-Americans is higher today than it was when Obama took office in 2009. That's federal government data, by the way. It's not anybody analyzing it. It is actual federal government data. In addition, McClatchy News has a story: "Many African-Americans Concerned About Obama's Focus on Immigrant Rights."
You know, this is a story that is underreported, and it's underreported for a reason, because race is the primary component in the media bias. Given that Obama's a liberal Democrat, given that, add to it that he is black, and that's the primary component of their bias. Don't doubt me on this. What this story is about is a number of African-American groups who are publicly expressing concern about Obama's focus on amnesty. Now, why do you think that is? (interruption) Well, no. Well, partially because they're unemployed.
But it's all about competition to be the number one beneficiary of government benefits. It's about being the top dog minority, and what these African-American groups are upset about is Obama's gonna go out and focus on the illegals. By definition, they're gonna not have jobs and they're need benefits, and these African-American groups are getting jealous. Obama's gonna be more focused on the needs of Hispanics and Latinos than he is blacks. They're getting nervous. They're concerned about his focus on immigrant rights. They might be forgotten, or not forgotten, but they might be relegated to "secondary status," if you will.
And that's happened before, too. That is actually not a new story.
Republicans want to stop ILLEGAL immigration, but whenever you hear the media talk about or reference it for the last 8 years, it's always "Republicans hate immigration" nothing about the specific fact that it's specially ILLEGAL immigration they are trying to stop.
That's one of the things every Republican should have always done - stopped anyone who asked them about immigration and pointed out that it was ILLEGAL immigration that was bad.
They should start it now. Better late than never.
Meanwhile:
Many African-Americans Concerned About Obama's Focus on Immigrant Rights
RUSH: Now, let's see. We had Reginald from Atlanta, and Reginald was another in a significant number of African-Americans who have called here over the years embarrassed that so many blacks vote Obama and vote for the Democrat Party. I pointed out that unemployment for both women and African-Americans is higher today than it was when Obama took office in 2009. That's federal government data, by the way. It's not anybody analyzing it. It is actual federal government data. In addition, McClatchy News has a story: "Many African-Americans Concerned About Obama's Focus on Immigrant Rights."
You know, this is a story that is underreported, and it's underreported for a reason, because race is the primary component in the media bias. Given that Obama's a liberal Democrat, given that, add to it that he is black, and that's the primary component of their bias. Don't doubt me on this. What this story is about is a number of African-American groups who are publicly expressing concern about Obama's focus on amnesty. Now, why do you think that is? (interruption) Well, no. Well, partially because they're unemployed.
But it's all about competition to be the number one beneficiary of government benefits. It's about being the top dog minority, and what these African-American groups are upset about is Obama's gonna go out and focus on the illegals. By definition, they're gonna not have jobs and they're need benefits, and these African-American groups are getting jealous. Obama's gonna be more focused on the needs of Hispanics and Latinos than he is blacks. They're getting nervous. They're concerned about his focus on immigrant rights. They might be forgotten, or not forgotten, but they might be relegated to "secondary status," if you will.
And that's happened before, too. That is actually not a new story.
Talk about instilling a little white guilt!
I think Rush covered this story a few months ago, but apparently the University is going through with it...
University Teaches: It's Unfair to be White
RUSH: I have a story from the website Campus Reform: "The University of Wisconsin -- Superior (UWS) is sponsoring a campaign that teaches students it is 'unfair' to be white, a university spokesperson confirmed to Campus Reform last Wednesday. The controversial project, named the 'Unfair Campaign,' exists to teach students that 'systems and institutions are set up for us [whites]' and as such are 'unfair.' The campaign’s slogan, as it appears on its official website, is 'it’s hard to see racism when you’re White.'"
But here we have essentially a university teaching students how unfair it is to be white. Well, that's how you get to a bunch of white liberals thinking that Chris Dorner, the murdering ex-cop in LA, is some kind of vigilante hero. He's only getting even with a bunch of evil old white people that have been running around running the show for all these years. It's unfair to be white. It's unfair. They gotta be gotten even with. The playing field has to be leveled.
"The project disseminates its controversial message through an aggressive campaign of online videos, billboards, and lectures. Posters produced by the group feature a number of Caucasians with slogans like 'is white skin really a fair skin?' sharpied on their faces."
They have a picture of one of those posters right here, too small for you to see on the Dittocam. "The campaign was initially sponsored by the University of Minnesota -- Duluth (UMD), but the school dropped their partnership and labeled the campaign 'divisive' and 'alienating' after a Campus Reform investigation brought unwanted national attention to the school."
If they hadn't been discovered doing it, they woulda kept on. "Lynn Williams, a spokeswoman for UWS, told Campus on Wednesday UWS does not 'exactly' share UMD’s concerns. The school is using the campaign as an 'opportunity on our campus to talk about all privilege and to create conversation,' she told Campus Reform." It's unfair to be white. White people have an unfair advantage, and white people are being taught this. Well, all students are being taught this, but this kind of stuff never gets countered. Well, you know, people aren't gonna believe that, just absurd, it's ridiculous, nobody's gonna ever gonna believe it.
University Teaches: It's Unfair to be White
RUSH: I have a story from the website Campus Reform: "The University of Wisconsin -- Superior (UWS) is sponsoring a campaign that teaches students it is 'unfair' to be white, a university spokesperson confirmed to Campus Reform last Wednesday. The controversial project, named the 'Unfair Campaign,' exists to teach students that 'systems and institutions are set up for us [whites]' and as such are 'unfair.' The campaign’s slogan, as it appears on its official website, is 'it’s hard to see racism when you’re White.'"
But here we have essentially a university teaching students how unfair it is to be white. Well, that's how you get to a bunch of white liberals thinking that Chris Dorner, the murdering ex-cop in LA, is some kind of vigilante hero. He's only getting even with a bunch of evil old white people that have been running around running the show for all these years. It's unfair to be white. It's unfair. They gotta be gotten even with. The playing field has to be leveled.
"The project disseminates its controversial message through an aggressive campaign of online videos, billboards, and lectures. Posters produced by the group feature a number of Caucasians with slogans like 'is white skin really a fair skin?' sharpied on their faces."
They have a picture of one of those posters right here, too small for you to see on the Dittocam. "The campaign was initially sponsored by the University of Minnesota -- Duluth (UMD), but the school dropped their partnership and labeled the campaign 'divisive' and 'alienating' after a Campus Reform investigation brought unwanted national attention to the school."
If they hadn't been discovered doing it, they woulda kept on. "Lynn Williams, a spokeswoman for UWS, told Campus on Wednesday UWS does not 'exactly' share UMD’s concerns. The school is using the campaign as an 'opportunity on our campus to talk about all privilege and to create conversation,' she told Campus Reform." It's unfair to be white. White people have an unfair advantage, and white people are being taught this. Well, all students are being taught this, but this kind of stuff never gets countered. Well, you know, people aren't gonna believe that, just absurd, it's ridiculous, nobody's gonna ever gonna believe it.
Rush...don't make a story where there is none!
Medal of Honor winner Clint Romesha said nothing about his opinion of Obama, positive or negative, just that he wanted to be with his family and friends.
Yet Rush tries to make it like it is some kind of criticism of the President.
Would be nice if it were, but if Romesha doesn't come right out and say it, why try to imply it?
Medal of Honor Winner Turns Down Obama Invite
RUSH: From TheHill.com: "Former Army staff sergeant Clint Romesha, who was awarded the Medal of Honor at the White House on Monday, has declined the first lady's invitation to sit in her box on Tuesday night during the [Misstatement] of the Union address. Clint Romesha told CNN he will watch the speech with friends from his former unit and his wife. 'I've done some soul searching,' he said. 'As much as a great honor it would be to be a guest of the first lady, it's also kind of hard to break away from the friends and the family and all the great guys here.'" So this Medal of Honor winner is saying: No mas. No mas.
12 Feb 2013, Tues, Rush Limbaugh headlines
--Who Really Wants to Watch This?
--Steny Hoyer: We Don't Have a "Spending" Problem; We Have a "Paying for" Problem
--Depraved CNN Pundits Defend Dorner
--Gallup: Obama's Policies are Unpopular
--Media Fears They've Created a Monster
--Regime's Fakery Will Be Exposed Eventually
--The Endless Quest for Fame
--Why Dr. Carson Moved So Many
--Obama's Lies About Romney Worked Because Republicans Were Afraid to Define Obama
Stack of Stuff
--Untrue Esquire Story About SEAL Who Shot Bin Laden
--WaPo Fooled by Parody Palin Story
--Medal of Honor Winner Turns Down Obama Invite
--University Teaches: It's Unfair to be White
--Sir David Attenborough Accused of Snubbing Gay Animals
--DC Ranks First in Extramarital Affairs
--.Many African-Americans Concerned About Obama's Focus on Immigrant Rights...
--Steny Hoyer: We Don't Have a "Spending" Problem; We Have a "Paying for" Problem
--Depraved CNN Pundits Defend Dorner
--Gallup: Obama's Policies are Unpopular
--Media Fears They've Created a Monster
--Regime's Fakery Will Be Exposed Eventually
--The Endless Quest for Fame
--Why Dr. Carson Moved So Many
--Obama's Lies About Romney Worked Because Republicans Were Afraid to Define Obama
Stack of Stuff
--Untrue Esquire Story About SEAL Who Shot Bin Laden
--WaPo Fooled by Parody Palin Story
--Medal of Honor Winner Turns Down Obama Invite
--University Teaches: It's Unfair to be White
--Sir David Attenborough Accused of Snubbing Gay Animals
--DC Ranks First in Extramarital Affairs
--.Many African-Americans Concerned About Obama's Focus on Immigrant Rights...
12 Feb 2013, Tues, SoS Kerry and Staff Schedule
SECRETARY JOHN KERRY
AM/PM Secretary Kerry attends meetings and briefings and places calls to foreign leaders, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
9:00 p.m. Secretary Kerry attends the State of the Union speech, at the U.S. Capitol.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY VENUE)
DEPUTY SECRETARY BILL BURNS
9:45 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with Ambassador Peter Woolcott, President-designate, UN Conference on Disarmament, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
10:30 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with Ambassador João Vale de Almeida, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the U.S., at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
11:15 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with U.S. Ambassador to Italy David Thorne, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
DEPUTY SECRETARY TOM NIDES
8:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Nides participates in a secure video conference with Embassy Islamabad and USAID.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
10:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Nides participates in a secure video conference with Embassy Baghdad.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS WENDY SHERMAN
Under Secretary Sherman leads the U.S. delegation to the Libya Ministerial Meeting, in Paris, France.
UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT ROBERT HORMATS
10:30 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats delivers a speech on Burma and a readout on his recent trip to India with the U.S.-India Business Council, at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
2:15 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats holds a conference call with John Chambers, Cisco CEO, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
3:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with David Quam, Director of Federal Relations Office of the National Governors Association, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:30 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends a US Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITTI) Reception, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
7:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends a dinner with Bruce Mehlman, Tech CEO Council, as well as other CEOs from the Tech CEO Council, in Washington, DC.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS TARA SONENSHINE
10:15 a.m. Under Secretary Sonenshine delivers remarks to 100 Youth Exchange and Study (YES) and 15 American, Serbian and Montenegrin Youth Leadership Exchange (A-SMYLE) international students attending a Civic Education Workshop, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
6:00 p.m. Under Secretary Sonenshine attends a dinner on the occasion of the State of the Union Address with the Chiefs of Diplomatic Missions, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ACTING UNDER SECRETARY FOR ARMS CONTROL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ROSE GOTTEMOELLER
Acting Under Secretary Gottemoeller is on foreign travel to Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, Israel, and Russia to discuss arms control, nonproliferation and international security issues. Please click here for more information.
9:00 a.m. LOCAL Acting Under Secretary Gottemoeller delivers remarks titled, “Forging Ahead: Challenges and Opportunities for the NPT” at the Institute for National Security Studies’ Conference: The Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime at a Crossroads, in Tel Aviv, Israel.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
CHIEF OF PROTOCOL AMBASSADOR CAPRICIA PENAVIC MARSHALL
6:00 p.m. Ambassador Marshall accompanies the Diplomatic Corps to President Obama’s State of the Union address, at the U.S. Capitol Building.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR CONFLICT AND STABILIZATION OPERATIONS FREDERICK BARTON
2:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Barton meets with George Halvorson, Chairman and CEO of Kaiser Foundation, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
3:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Barton meets with Ambassador David Johnson at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS ESTHER BRIMMER
10:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Brimmer meets with U.S. Representative to the United Nations for Management and Reform Ambassador Joseph Torsella, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
1:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Brimmer hosts an interagency roundtable with the UNSC Somalia/Eritrea Monitoring Group, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ROBERTA JACOBSON
6:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson attends a dinner on the occasion of the State of the Union Address with the Chiefs of Diplomatic Missions, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR OCEANS AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS KERRI-ANN JONES )
9:15 a.m. Assistant Secretary Jones leads the U.S. Delegation at the U.S. – European Union’s Science and Technology Joint Consultative Group Meeting, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR MICHAEL POSNER
Assistant Secretary Posner is on foreign travel to Islamabad, Pakistan; and Cairo, Egypt through February 13 to meet with government officials and civil society representatives on a range of issues, including human rights and democracy promotion.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR POPULATION, REFUGEES, AND MIGRATION ANNE RICHARD
2:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Richard meets with staffers from the office of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, on Capitol Hill.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ANN STOCK
Assistant Secretary Stock is on foreign travel to Nepal, Bangladesh and Burma through February 15 to meet with program participants and discuss and strengthen ECA programming. Please click here for more information.
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE AND U.S. GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR ERIC GOOSBY
10:00 a.m. Ambassador Goosby meets with Ethiopian Minister of Health Dr. Kesete-Berhan Admasu, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE
AM/PM Secretary Kerry attends meetings and briefings and places calls to foreign leaders, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
9:00 p.m. Secretary Kerry attends the State of the Union speech, at the U.S. Capitol.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY VENUE)
DEPUTY SECRETARY BILL BURNS
9:45 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with Ambassador Peter Woolcott, President-designate, UN Conference on Disarmament, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
10:30 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with Ambassador João Vale de Almeida, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the U.S., at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
11:15 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with U.S. Ambassador to Italy David Thorne, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
DEPUTY SECRETARY TOM NIDES
8:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Nides participates in a secure video conference with Embassy Islamabad and USAID.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
10:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Nides participates in a secure video conference with Embassy Baghdad.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS WENDY SHERMAN
Under Secretary Sherman leads the U.S. delegation to the Libya Ministerial Meeting, in Paris, France.
UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT ROBERT HORMATS
10:30 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats delivers a speech on Burma and a readout on his recent trip to India with the U.S.-India Business Council, at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
2:15 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats holds a conference call with John Chambers, Cisco CEO, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
3:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with David Quam, Director of Federal Relations Office of the National Governors Association, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:30 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends a US Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITTI) Reception, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
7:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends a dinner with Bruce Mehlman, Tech CEO Council, as well as other CEOs from the Tech CEO Council, in Washington, DC.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS TARA SONENSHINE
10:15 a.m. Under Secretary Sonenshine delivers remarks to 100 Youth Exchange and Study (YES) and 15 American, Serbian and Montenegrin Youth Leadership Exchange (A-SMYLE) international students attending a Civic Education Workshop, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
6:00 p.m. Under Secretary Sonenshine attends a dinner on the occasion of the State of the Union Address with the Chiefs of Diplomatic Missions, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ACTING UNDER SECRETARY FOR ARMS CONTROL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ROSE GOTTEMOELLER
Acting Under Secretary Gottemoeller is on foreign travel to Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, Israel, and Russia to discuss arms control, nonproliferation and international security issues. Please click here for more information.
9:00 a.m. LOCAL Acting Under Secretary Gottemoeller delivers remarks titled, “Forging Ahead: Challenges and Opportunities for the NPT” at the Institute for National Security Studies’ Conference: The Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime at a Crossroads, in Tel Aviv, Israel.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
CHIEF OF PROTOCOL AMBASSADOR CAPRICIA PENAVIC MARSHALL
6:00 p.m. Ambassador Marshall accompanies the Diplomatic Corps to President Obama’s State of the Union address, at the U.S. Capitol Building.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR CONFLICT AND STABILIZATION OPERATIONS FREDERICK BARTON
2:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Barton meets with George Halvorson, Chairman and CEO of Kaiser Foundation, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
3:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Barton meets with Ambassador David Johnson at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS ESTHER BRIMMER
10:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Brimmer meets with U.S. Representative to the United Nations for Management and Reform Ambassador Joseph Torsella, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
1:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Brimmer hosts an interagency roundtable with the UNSC Somalia/Eritrea Monitoring Group, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ROBERTA JACOBSON
6:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson attends a dinner on the occasion of the State of the Union Address with the Chiefs of Diplomatic Missions, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR OCEANS AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS KERRI-ANN JONES )
9:15 a.m. Assistant Secretary Jones leads the U.S. Delegation at the U.S. – European Union’s Science and Technology Joint Consultative Group Meeting, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR MICHAEL POSNER
Assistant Secretary Posner is on foreign travel to Islamabad, Pakistan; and Cairo, Egypt through February 13 to meet with government officials and civil society representatives on a range of issues, including human rights and democracy promotion.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR POPULATION, REFUGEES, AND MIGRATION ANNE RICHARD
2:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Richard meets with staffers from the office of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, on Capitol Hill.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ANN STOCK
Assistant Secretary Stock is on foreign travel to Nepal, Bangladesh and Burma through February 15 to meet with program participants and discuss and strengthen ECA programming. Please click here for more information.
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE AND U.S. GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR ERIC GOOSBY
10:00 a.m. Ambassador Goosby meets with Ethiopian Minister of Health Dr. Kesete-Berhan Admasu, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE
12 Feb 2013, Tues, Pres and VP Schedule
10:15 am The President and the Vice President receive the Presidential Daily Briefing
Oval Office
Closed Press
Oval Office
Closed Press
THATS IT FOR BOTH
Monday, February 11, 2013
Jobs bill targeted to black Americans?
I caught just a snippet of the BIll O'Reilly show tonight. I don't normally watch him but my dad does, so all I ever do see are snippets as I go into the kitchen on a periodic basis to get a Pepsi...
O'Reilly was talking to a black guy - not sure of his name or position, presumably an economist of some kind.
O'Reilly was saying that Obama hadn't done anything for the black community, their job numbers are still abysmal.
The black guy said Obama should create a jobs program targeted for black Americans...
And I was thinking to myself...why are so many black teenagers out of work? Is it because they are being discriminated against by white America?
Or is it because most black teenagers drop out of school, or barely skate on faked test results (I think it was in Atlanta that a fantastic turn around in schools actually turned out to be the teachers faking results).
They can't do math, they speak Ebonics rather than English, they don't know manners (and yes, I know most teeenagers don't know any manners) ...could *that* explain why they can't find jobs?
So of what would this job bill consist? "Hire a black person and we'll give you the money to educate him or her up to high school level so that one day they'll actually be able to do the job you give them?"
Does that sound racist? I don't think it is. I have shared a few examples here of African Americans being giving jobs that they weren't qualified for. The test score minimum was lowered so they could be hired, as per Eric Holder's orders.
Don't get me wrong, blacks as a whole are just as smart and ethical and able to do good and achieve as white folks, Asian, Mexican, ...anybody else on the planet. I'm NOT saying otherwise.
All I'm saying is that in the black community, there has long seemed to be a movement afoot to not "accept middleclassness," to be "other." {They actually excoriate members of their community who *do* accept middle classness, calling them "Uncle Toms" or people who want to be "white" when all they're doing is embracing the American way and working toward getting that brass ring that we all want.}
And when they do that, they shouldn't blame the prejudice of white America when they can't get jobs!
O'Reilly was talking to a black guy - not sure of his name or position, presumably an economist of some kind.
O'Reilly was saying that Obama hadn't done anything for the black community, their job numbers are still abysmal.
The black guy said Obama should create a jobs program targeted for black Americans...
And I was thinking to myself...why are so many black teenagers out of work? Is it because they are being discriminated against by white America?
Or is it because most black teenagers drop out of school, or barely skate on faked test results (I think it was in Atlanta that a fantastic turn around in schools actually turned out to be the teachers faking results).
They can't do math, they speak Ebonics rather than English, they don't know manners (and yes, I know most teeenagers don't know any manners) ...could *that* explain why they can't find jobs?
So of what would this job bill consist? "Hire a black person and we'll give you the money to educate him or her up to high school level so that one day they'll actually be able to do the job you give them?"
Does that sound racist? I don't think it is. I have shared a few examples here of African Americans being giving jobs that they weren't qualified for. The test score minimum was lowered so they could be hired, as per Eric Holder's orders.
Don't get me wrong, blacks as a whole are just as smart and ethical and able to do good and achieve as white folks, Asian, Mexican, ...anybody else on the planet. I'm NOT saying otherwise.
All I'm saying is that in the black community, there has long seemed to be a movement afoot to not "accept middleclassness," to be "other." {They actually excoriate members of their community who *do* accept middle classness, calling them "Uncle Toms" or people who want to be "white" when all they're doing is embracing the American way and working toward getting that brass ring that we all want.}
And when they do that, they shouldn't blame the prejudice of white America when they can't get jobs!
11 Feb 2013, Mon, SoS Kerry and Staff Schedule
SECRETARY JOHN KERRY
AM Secretary Kerry attends meetings and briefings and places calls to foreign leaders, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
11:00 a.m. Secretary Kerry meets with Employee Affinity Groups, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
11:45 a.m. Secretary Kerry attends a weekly lunch with National Security Advisor Donilon and Defense Secretary Panetta, at the White House
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY THE WHITE HOUSE)
1:30 p.m. Secretary Kerry meets with representatives from the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) and the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
PM Secretary Kerry attends meetings and briefings and places calls to foreign leaders, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
DEPUTY SECRETARY BILL BURNS
12:00 p.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with Ambassador of China to the U.S. Zhang Yesui, at the State Department.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
DEPUTY SECRETARY TOM NIDES
10:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Nides meets with USAID Administrator Raj Shah, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT ROBERT HORMATS
3:30 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with Hernando De Soto, President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, at Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:30 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats holds a conference call with Amanda J. Dory, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ACTING UNDER SECRETARY FOR ARMS CONTROL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ROSE GOTTEMOELLER
Acting Under Secretary Gottemoeller is on foreign travel to Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, Israel, and Russia to discuss arms control, nonproliferation and international security issues. Please click here for more information.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR CONFLICT AND STABILIZATION OPERATIONS FREDERICK BARTON
11:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Barton attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIAN AFFAIRS ROBERT BLAKE
10:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Blake meets with Indian members of Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND NONPROLIFERATION TOM COUNTRYMAN
11:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Countryman attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS JOSE FERNANDEZ
12:10 p.m. Assistant Secretary Fernandez meets with Costa Rican Minister of Trade, Anabel Gonzalez, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR OCEANS AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS KERRI-ANN JONES
5:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jones participates in a working dinner with the European Commission’s Director General for Research Robert-Jan Smits, in Washington DC.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR MICHAEL POSNER
Assistant Secretary Posner is on foreign travel to Islamabad, Pakistan and Cairo, Egypt through February 13 to meet with government officials and civil society representatives on a range of issues, including on human rights and democracy promotion.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS ANN STOCK
Assistant Secretary Stock is on foreign travel to Bangladesh and Burma through February 15 to meet with program participants and discuss and strengthen ECA programming.
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE TO MONITOR AND COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS LUIS CDEBACA
12:00 p.m. Ambassador CdeBaca delivers opening remarks for the National Youth Summit on Abolition, at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE AND U.S. GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR ERIC GOOSBY
2:15 p.m. Ambassador Goosby participates in a Town Hall Conversation on Africa with Senator Chris Coons, at Delaware State University in Dover, Delaware.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR GLOBAL INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS RETA JO LEWIS
11:00 a.m. Special Representative Lewis meets with Odilon Frazao, Senior Advisor for International Affairs, Federal District Government, Brasilia, to discuss U.S. – Brazil subnational engagement, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
5:00 p.m. Special Representative Lewis hosts the Global Engagement Series-Smart Partnership Dialogue with Brazilian State Secretaries, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
AM Secretary Kerry attends meetings and briefings and places calls to foreign leaders, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
11:00 a.m. Secretary Kerry meets with Employee Affinity Groups, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
11:45 a.m. Secretary Kerry attends a weekly lunch with National Security Advisor Donilon and Defense Secretary Panetta, at the White House
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY THE WHITE HOUSE)
1:30 p.m. Secretary Kerry meets with representatives from the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) and the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
PM Secretary Kerry attends meetings and briefings and places calls to foreign leaders, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
DEPUTY SECRETARY BILL BURNS
12:00 p.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with Ambassador of China to the U.S. Zhang Yesui, at the State Department.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
DEPUTY SECRETARY TOM NIDES
10:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Nides meets with USAID Administrator Raj Shah, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT ROBERT HORMATS
3:30 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with Hernando De Soto, President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy, at Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:30 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats holds a conference call with Amanda J. Dory, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for African Affairs, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ACTING UNDER SECRETARY FOR ARMS CONTROL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ROSE GOTTEMOELLER
Acting Under Secretary Gottemoeller is on foreign travel to Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, Israel, and Russia to discuss arms control, nonproliferation and international security issues. Please click here for more information.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR CONFLICT AND STABILIZATION OPERATIONS FREDERICK BARTON
11:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Barton attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIAN AFFAIRS ROBERT BLAKE
10:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Blake meets with Indian members of Professional Assistance for Development Action (PRADAN), at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND NONPROLIFERATION TOM COUNTRYMAN
11:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Countryman attends a meeting at the White House.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY WHITE HOUSE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS JOSE FERNANDEZ
12:10 p.m. Assistant Secretary Fernandez meets with Costa Rican Minister of Trade, Anabel Gonzalez, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR OCEANS AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS KERRI-ANN JONES
5:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jones participates in a working dinner with the European Commission’s Director General for Research Robert-Jan Smits, in Washington DC.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR MICHAEL POSNER
Assistant Secretary Posner is on foreign travel to Islamabad, Pakistan and Cairo, Egypt through February 13 to meet with government officials and civil society representatives on a range of issues, including on human rights and democracy promotion.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS ANN STOCK
Assistant Secretary Stock is on foreign travel to Bangladesh and Burma through February 15 to meet with program participants and discuss and strengthen ECA programming.
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE TO MONITOR AND COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS LUIS CDEBACA
12:00 p.m. Ambassador CdeBaca delivers opening remarks for the National Youth Summit on Abolition, at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE AND U.S. GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR ERIC GOOSBY
2:15 p.m. Ambassador Goosby participates in a Town Hall Conversation on Africa with Senator Chris Coons, at Delaware State University in Dover, Delaware.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR GLOBAL INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS RETA JO LEWIS
11:00 a.m. Special Representative Lewis meets with Odilon Frazao, Senior Advisor for International Affairs, Federal District Government, Brasilia, to discuss U.S. – Brazil subnational engagement, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
5:00 p.m. Special Representative Lewis hosts the Global Engagement Series-Smart Partnership Dialogue with Brazilian State Secretaries, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
11 Feb 2013, Mon, Pres and VP Schedule
http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule
10:10 am The President receives the Presidential Daily Briefing
Oval Office
Closed Press
1:45 pm The President awards Clinton Romesha, a former active duty Army Staff Sergeant, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry; the First Lady also attends
The East Room
Open Press
http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president
11:00 am The Vice President holds a roundtable discussion with law enforcement officials and Members of Congress on gun safety at Girard College
Girard College
Open Press
Friday, February 8, 2013
Very interesting comment frm MAxine Waters
RUSH: Here's Maxine Waters. This was last Sunday on TV One's Washington Watch with Roland Martin. Maxine Waters, Democrat from California. Her district is basically the Watts area of Los Angeles, and Roland Martin said, "The reality is like anything else, you'd better get what you can while Obama's there because, look, come 2016, that's it." Now, what Roland Martin's saying here is all of you who are looking for prosperity from the government, you better get it and get it now. Get it while you can, get it while Obama's there, because come 2016, he's not gonna be there, and then you're gonna be on your own. You better get what you can get now. And here's what Maxine Waters said in reply.
WATERS: Well, you know, I don't know. And I think some people are missing something here. The president has put in place an organization that contains the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life. That's going to be very, very powerful. That database will have information about everything on every individual in ways that it's never been done before.
RUSH: Hmm. Okay. Cool. Fine. What's that got to do with getting benefits after 2016? Maybe she didn't understand what he was talking about. He's talking about, you better get in there, get your goodies right now because in 2016 he's gone. Better get it while you can. She says, "I don't know, Roland, he's got this database." Maybe she means he's not going anywhere. Maybe that's what she means, folks. He's not going anywhere, 'cause he's got this database with information about everything on every individual. I'll bet that's what she meant, Snerdley. That 2016 isn't a big deal 'cause he's not going anywhere. That has to be it.
I wonder what database she is talking about.
The Obamacare database, which is going to ensure that we are taxed into our graves?
Obama's approval "plummets"
According to Rush:
What I want to know is...who are these 46% who think he's doing a good job? All Democrats, I suppose, but considering that he hasn't helped anyone....who in the world thinks he or the Dems are doing a good job?
Obama Approval Falls
RUSH: Anyway, folks, Obama's approval numbers (according to Quinnipiac) have plummeted. He's down to 46/45 job approval, according to the Quinnipiac University poll. That's down from 53-40 in December.
What I want to know is...who are these 46% who think he's doing a good job? All Democrats, I suppose, but considering that he hasn't helped anyone....who in the world thinks he or the Dems are doing a good job?
8 Feb 2013, Fri, Rush Limbaugh headlines
--How to Survive the Northeast Snowstorm
--Turn in Your Guns to Stop the Wacko Left-Wing Killer on the Loose in California
--CNN Strategists Strategerize About Republicans Kissing El Rushbo's Ring
--New York Times Commits Random Act of Journalism, Reports on Impact of Obama's Payroll Tax Hike
--Doomberg Stole My Snowstorm Tips!
--What Was Obama Doing While Americans Were Dying in Benghazi?
--Blizzard Survivors Tell Their Stories
--Maxine Waters: Obama Has a Database on Everything About Every Individual
--Why Democrats Get Away with Lying
Stack of Stuff
--Mystery Illness Strikes Philly Women
--Conservatives Cause Stress
--Three Parents Listed in Miami Adoption
--Obama Approval Falls...
--Turn in Your Guns to Stop the Wacko Left-Wing Killer on the Loose in California
--CNN Strategists Strategerize About Republicans Kissing El Rushbo's Ring
--New York Times Commits Random Act of Journalism, Reports on Impact of Obama's Payroll Tax Hike
--Doomberg Stole My Snowstorm Tips!
--What Was Obama Doing While Americans Were Dying in Benghazi?
--Blizzard Survivors Tell Their Stories
--Maxine Waters: Obama Has a Database on Everything About Every Individual
--Why Democrats Get Away with Lying
Stack of Stuff
--Mystery Illness Strikes Philly Women
--Conservatives Cause Stress
--Three Parents Listed in Miami Adoption
--Obama Approval Falls...
Hypocrisy in Action
Two Broke Girls is an offensive little TV show on some channel...I've never watched it but I've seen the trailers.
Very rich dumb blond has lost all her money, and apparently can't do anyting except get a job as a waitress, with a streetwise New York-ish girl who likes to use her assets (her breasts) to get what she wants.
So for the Super Bowl there's a commercial of this disgusting show with the two women pole dancing for the delight of the boys and men in the audience who, once again, are confirmed in their lifelong instruction that girls were put on this earth merely to be eye candy for them.
So some idiot staffer for some politician tweets, "Me likey Broke Girls" and he has been fired. Why???
Because he said "Me likey" which is pidgin English I guess and thus offensive to the Chinese?
Or because he made a personal comment on a politician's official tweet account?
It was hardly any more offensive than the show itself, which is designed to appeal to the male demographic who think women can't do a damn thing except be waitresses and give them sex or at least eye candy.
A spokesman for Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador has reportedly been fired for mistakenly tweeting from his boss' account during the Super Bowl about a risque ad for the CBS sitcom "2 Broke Girls."
“Me likey Broke Girls,” Phil Hardy, who had been operating Labrador's Twitter account, tweeted Sunday after seeing the spot that featured the show's stars—Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs—pole-dancing to Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me."
The tweet was deleted within 14 seconds but was quickly archived by Politwoops, a website that collects deleted tweets from politicians.
“For Rep. Raúl R. Labrador, the most memorable moment seemed to come during an ad for CBS's 2 Broke Girls involving a stripper pole, clothes being ripped off, and a cherry being seductively consumed," Politwoops cheerily explained.
Labrador's office issued a public apology for the tweet on Monday. According to the Idaho Statesman, Labrador then fired Hardy, who had worked for the Republican congressman since 2010.
A receptionist at Labrador's office in Meridian, Idaho, referred a call from Yahoo News to his office on Capitol Hill, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Toggling between personal and work-related social media accounts can be tricky.
"For those familiar with managing multiple Twitter accounts on Tweetdeck, this is a mistake of nightmares," Mashable.com noted. "It's all-too easy to confuse your organization's account with your personal one."
And in this case, the confusion apparently cost a Hill staffer his job.
According to the paper, Hardy previously "worked in the music industry, including a stint in London, specializing in heavy metal bands, before coming to Idaho"—which may partially explain his momentary lapse in judgment at the sight of two women gyrating to the hard rock tune.
Very rich dumb blond has lost all her money, and apparently can't do anyting except get a job as a waitress, with a streetwise New York-ish girl who likes to use her assets (her breasts) to get what she wants.
So for the Super Bowl there's a commercial of this disgusting show with the two women pole dancing for the delight of the boys and men in the audience who, once again, are confirmed in their lifelong instruction that girls were put on this earth merely to be eye candy for them.
So some idiot staffer for some politician tweets, "Me likey Broke Girls" and he has been fired. Why???
Because he said "Me likey" which is pidgin English I guess and thus offensive to the Chinese?
Or because he made a personal comment on a politician's official tweet account?
It was hardly any more offensive than the show itself, which is designed to appeal to the male demographic who think women can't do a damn thing except be waitresses and give them sex or at least eye candy.
A spokesman for Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador has reportedly been fired for mistakenly tweeting from his boss' account during the Super Bowl about a risque ad for the CBS sitcom "2 Broke Girls."
“Me likey Broke Girls,” Phil Hardy, who had been operating Labrador's Twitter account, tweeted Sunday after seeing the spot that featured the show's stars—Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs—pole-dancing to Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me."
The tweet was deleted within 14 seconds but was quickly archived by Politwoops, a website that collects deleted tweets from politicians.
“For Rep. Raúl R. Labrador, the most memorable moment seemed to come during an ad for CBS's 2 Broke Girls involving a stripper pole, clothes being ripped off, and a cherry being seductively consumed," Politwoops cheerily explained.
Labrador's office issued a public apology for the tweet on Monday. According to the Idaho Statesman, Labrador then fired Hardy, who had worked for the Republican congressman since 2010.
A receptionist at Labrador's office in Meridian, Idaho, referred a call from Yahoo News to his office on Capitol Hill, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Toggling between personal and work-related social media accounts can be tricky.
"For those familiar with managing multiple Twitter accounts on Tweetdeck, this is a mistake of nightmares," Mashable.com noted. "It's all-too easy to confuse your organization's account with your personal one."
And in this case, the confusion apparently cost a Hill staffer his job.
According to the paper, Hardy previously "worked in the music industry, including a stint in London, specializing in heavy metal bands, before coming to Idaho"—which may partially explain his momentary lapse in judgment at the sight of two women gyrating to the hard rock tune.
8 Feb 2013, Fri, SoS Kerry and Staff schedule
SECRETARY JOHN KERRY
AM Secretary Kerry attends meetings and briefings, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
2:00 p.m. Secretary Kerry holds a bilateral meeting with Foreign Minister of Canada John Baird, at the Department of State.
(PRESS AVAIL FOLLOWING BILATERAL MEETING AT APPROXIMATELY 2:30 PM)
Pre set for video cameras: 1:30 p.m. from the 23rd Street Entrance Lobby.
Final access time for journalists and still photographers: 2:15 p. m. 23rd Street Entrance Lobby.
DEPUTY SECRETARY BILL BURNS
10:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Augustin Matata Ponyo Mapon, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
10:30 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with Admiral James G. Stavridis, Commander USEUCOM and SACEUR, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00 p.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with the Republic of Korea Delegation, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT ROBERT HORMATS
8:30 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends breakfast with Myron Brilliant, Senior Vice President, International Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, at the Hay-Adams.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
10:00 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends the Econ Statecraft Meeting, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
12:30 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends a roundtable discussion/luncheon with the Washington Export Council, at the City Club.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
8:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends dinner with Masood Ahmed, Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International Monetary Fund, at Mr. Ahmed’s residence.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ACTING UNDER SECRETARY FOR ARMS CONTROL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ROSE GOTTEMOELLER
Acting Under Secretary Gottemoeller is on foreign travel to Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, Israel, and Russia to discuss arms control, nonproliferation and international security issues. Please click here for more information.
CHIEF OF PROTOCOL AMBASSADOR CAPRICIA PENAVIC MARSHALL
12:00 p.m. Ambassador Marshall hosts a luncheon in honor of recently accredited Ambassadors to the United States and their spouses, at Blair House.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
2:00 p.m. Ambassador Marshall assists with the bilateral meeting of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, The Honorable John Baird, P.C., M.P., at the U.S. Department of State.
(PRESS AVAIL FOLLOWING BILATERAL MEETING AT APRPOXIMATELY 2:30 PM)
Pre set for video cameras: 1:30 p.m. from the 23rd Street Entrance Lobby.
Final access time for journalists and still photographers: 2:15 p. m. 23rd Street Entrance Lobby.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIAN AFFAIRS ROBERT BLAKE
10:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Blake meets with Former President of Bangladesh Hussain Muhammad Ershad, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS ESTHER BRIMMER
2:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Brimmer attends a luncheon in honor of recently accredited Ambassadors to the United States and their spouses, at the Blair House.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ROBERTA JACOBSON
10:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson meets with U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Jacobson, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
12:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson attends a luncheon in honor of recently accredited Ambassadors to the United States and their spouses, at Blair House.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
2:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson participates in the Secretary’s bilateral meeting with Foreign Minister of Canada John Baird, at the Department of State.
(PRESS AVAIL FOLLOWING BILATERAL MEETING AT APRPOXIMATELY 2:30 PM)
Pre set for video cameras: 1:30 p.m. from the 23rd Street Entrance Lobby.
Final access time for journalists and still photographers: 2:15 p. m. 23rd Street Entrance Lobby.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR OCEANS AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS KERRI-ANN JONES
12:15 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jones meets with the Chief Executive of New Zealand’s Ministry for the Environment Dr. Paul Reynolds to discuss environmental issues, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR MICHAEL POSNER
Assistant Secretary Posner is on foreign travel to Islamabad, Pakistan; and Cairo, Egypt through February 13 to meet with government officials and civil society representatives on a range of issues, including on human rights and democracy promotion.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ANN STOCK
Assistant Secretary Stock is on foreign travel to Bangladesh and Burma through February 15 to meet with program participants and discuss and strengthen ECA programming. Please click here for more information.
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE STEPHEN RAPP, OFFICE OF GLOBAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Ambassador Rapp is on foreign travel in Freetown, Sierra Leone to participate in a conference on “Exploring the Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone” and meet with Sierra Leone officials regarding global criminal justice issues.
AM Secretary Kerry attends meetings and briefings, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
2:00 p.m. Secretary Kerry holds a bilateral meeting with Foreign Minister of Canada John Baird, at the Department of State.
(PRESS AVAIL FOLLOWING BILATERAL MEETING AT APPROXIMATELY 2:30 PM)
Pre set for video cameras: 1:30 p.m. from the 23rd Street Entrance Lobby.
Final access time for journalists and still photographers: 2:15 p. m. 23rd Street Entrance Lobby.
DEPUTY SECRETARY BILL BURNS
10:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Augustin Matata Ponyo Mapon, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
10:30 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with Admiral James G. Stavridis, Commander USEUCOM and SACEUR, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00 p.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with the Republic of Korea Delegation, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT ROBERT HORMATS
8:30 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends breakfast with Myron Brilliant, Senior Vice President, International Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, at the Hay-Adams.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
10:00 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends the Econ Statecraft Meeting, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
12:30 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends a roundtable discussion/luncheon with the Washington Export Council, at the City Club.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
8:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends dinner with Masood Ahmed, Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International Monetary Fund, at Mr. Ahmed’s residence.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ACTING UNDER SECRETARY FOR ARMS CONTROL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ROSE GOTTEMOELLER
Acting Under Secretary Gottemoeller is on foreign travel to Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, Israel, and Russia to discuss arms control, nonproliferation and international security issues. Please click here for more information.
CHIEF OF PROTOCOL AMBASSADOR CAPRICIA PENAVIC MARSHALL
12:00 p.m. Ambassador Marshall hosts a luncheon in honor of recently accredited Ambassadors to the United States and their spouses, at Blair House.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
2:00 p.m. Ambassador Marshall assists with the bilateral meeting of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, The Honorable John Baird, P.C., M.P., at the U.S. Department of State.
(PRESS AVAIL FOLLOWING BILATERAL MEETING AT APRPOXIMATELY 2:30 PM)
Pre set for video cameras: 1:30 p.m. from the 23rd Street Entrance Lobby.
Final access time for journalists and still photographers: 2:15 p. m. 23rd Street Entrance Lobby.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIAN AFFAIRS ROBERT BLAKE
10:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Blake meets with Former President of Bangladesh Hussain Muhammad Ershad, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS ESTHER BRIMMER
2:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Brimmer attends a luncheon in honor of recently accredited Ambassadors to the United States and their spouses, at the Blair House.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ROBERTA JACOBSON
10:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson meets with U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Jacobson, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
12:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson attends a luncheon in honor of recently accredited Ambassadors to the United States and their spouses, at Blair House.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
2:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson participates in the Secretary’s bilateral meeting with Foreign Minister of Canada John Baird, at the Department of State.
(PRESS AVAIL FOLLOWING BILATERAL MEETING AT APRPOXIMATELY 2:30 PM)
Pre set for video cameras: 1:30 p.m. from the 23rd Street Entrance Lobby.
Final access time for journalists and still photographers: 2:15 p. m. 23rd Street Entrance Lobby.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR OCEANS AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS KERRI-ANN JONES
12:15 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jones meets with the Chief Executive of New Zealand’s Ministry for the Environment Dr. Paul Reynolds to discuss environmental issues, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR MICHAEL POSNER
Assistant Secretary Posner is on foreign travel to Islamabad, Pakistan; and Cairo, Egypt through February 13 to meet with government officials and civil society representatives on a range of issues, including on human rights and democracy promotion.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ANN STOCK
Assistant Secretary Stock is on foreign travel to Bangladesh and Burma through February 15 to meet with program participants and discuss and strengthen ECA programming. Please click here for more information.
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE STEPHEN RAPP, OFFICE OF GLOBAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Ambassador Rapp is on foreign travel in Freetown, Sierra Leone to participate in a conference on “Exploring the Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone” and meet with Sierra Leone officials regarding global criminal justice issues.
8 Feb 2013, Fri, Pres and VP Schedules
http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule
10:30 am The President and the Vice President receive the Presidential Daily Briefing
Oval Office
Closed Press
1:00 pm The President and Vice President meet for lunch
Private Dining Room
Closed Press
3:55 pm The President delivers remarks at the Armed Forces Farewell Tribute in honor of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta
Joint Base Myer-Henderson
Pooled TV, Open to Correspondents
THE VP has no other schedule than what is listed above.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
This gun hysteria is just getting out of control...
Kid Suspended for Pretend Game
RUSH: Loveland, Colorado. "A 2nd grader has been suspended from school in Loveland for a make believe game he was playing. The 7-year-old says he was trying to save the world. But school administrators say he broke a key rule during his pretend play." This is a perfect story as we find ourselves in the midst of an anti-gun hysteria.
A seven-year-old kid, Alex Evans: "'I was trying to save people and I just can’t believe I got dispended [sic]. It’s called "rescue the world,"' he says. He was playing a game during recess at Loveland’s Mary Blair Elementary School and threw an imaginary grenade into a box with pretend evil forces inside. 'I pretended the box, there’s something shaking in it, and I go "pshhh."'" He fake threw a grenade. "The boy didn’t throw anything real or make any threats against anyone. He explains he was pretending to be the hero. 'So nothing can get out and destroy the world.'" Inside that box is all the evil. And he was saving the world. He's in a pretend game, little boys do this. You women may not be aware of this. But little boys play these pretend games all the time.
They pretend to be cowboys. They pretend to be soldiers, GI Joe. They pretend to be superheroes. They pretend to be saving the world. Sometimes they even pretend to be saving women! And this little kid has been called on it. His imaginary playacting broke the school's rules. "The school lists 'absolutes' designed to keep a safe environment. The list includes absolutely no fighting, real or imaginary; no weapons, real or imaginary.
And so, ladies and gentlemen, the left wing's war on boys continues. They have almost succeeded now in removing any semblance of masculinity from boys. Young Alex ought to consider himself lucky. If anybody knows young Alex, tell him that he's just lucky that the president didn't whack him with a drone.
RUSH: You know, I have a great idea for young Alex Evans who got in trouble out there in Loveland, Colorado, for pretending to save the world. He was in recess, playing in a schoolyard, pretending to throw a hand grenade to save the world, and they suspended him. He violated the rules. You can't pretend to be fighting, can't pretend to be using weapons, can't pretend. Well, Alex likes to pretend. That means for him, it's off to ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Washington Post, New York Times! They do a lot of pretending there, and young Alex would fit right in.
Student Turned in for Desktop Gun Photo
RUSH:
From Florence, Arizona. "A high school student in Florence said he has been suspended because of a picture of a gun. Daniel McClaine Jr., a freshman at Poston Butte High School, said he saved the picture as his desktop background on his school-issued computer. A teacher noticed it and turned him in." That'll teach him! So the desktop picture on the guy's computer is a gun. A teacher sees it and "turns him in."
Do you know what this reminds me of?
A Los Angeles firehouse back in the early nineties. A fireman had, in his cubicle, somewhere in his private space, a Playboy magazine. A newly commissioned female firewoman walked by and saw it on his desk or whatever. It was there. It wasn't open. It was just a Playboy. She reported him. He got in some kind of trouble. I don't remember if he was suspended or whatever. It was just for having a Playboy, for use in his private time, in his private space. So now here comes this high school student with a desktop picture of a gun. "A teacher noticed it and turned him in. The picture shows an AK-47 on top of a flag. McClaine said the school initially suspended him for three days Friday."
He's a freshman.
RUSH: Loveland, Colorado. "A 2nd grader has been suspended from school in Loveland for a make believe game he was playing. The 7-year-old says he was trying to save the world. But school administrators say he broke a key rule during his pretend play." This is a perfect story as we find ourselves in the midst of an anti-gun hysteria.
A seven-year-old kid, Alex Evans: "'I was trying to save people and I just can’t believe I got dispended [sic]. It’s called "rescue the world,"' he says. He was playing a game during recess at Loveland’s Mary Blair Elementary School and threw an imaginary grenade into a box with pretend evil forces inside. 'I pretended the box, there’s something shaking in it, and I go "pshhh."'" He fake threw a grenade. "The boy didn’t throw anything real or make any threats against anyone. He explains he was pretending to be the hero. 'So nothing can get out and destroy the world.'" Inside that box is all the evil. And he was saving the world. He's in a pretend game, little boys do this. You women may not be aware of this. But little boys play these pretend games all the time.
They pretend to be cowboys. They pretend to be soldiers, GI Joe. They pretend to be superheroes. They pretend to be saving the world. Sometimes they even pretend to be saving women! And this little kid has been called on it. His imaginary playacting broke the school's rules. "The school lists 'absolutes' designed to keep a safe environment. The list includes absolutely no fighting, real or imaginary; no weapons, real or imaginary.
And so, ladies and gentlemen, the left wing's war on boys continues. They have almost succeeded now in removing any semblance of masculinity from boys. Young Alex ought to consider himself lucky. If anybody knows young Alex, tell him that he's just lucky that the president didn't whack him with a drone.
RUSH: You know, I have a great idea for young Alex Evans who got in trouble out there in Loveland, Colorado, for pretending to save the world. He was in recess, playing in a schoolyard, pretending to throw a hand grenade to save the world, and they suspended him. He violated the rules. You can't pretend to be fighting, can't pretend to be using weapons, can't pretend. Well, Alex likes to pretend. That means for him, it's off to ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Washington Post, New York Times! They do a lot of pretending there, and young Alex would fit right in.
Student Turned in for Desktop Gun Photo
RUSH:
From Florence, Arizona. "A high school student in Florence said he has been suspended because of a picture of a gun. Daniel McClaine Jr., a freshman at Poston Butte High School, said he saved the picture as his desktop background on his school-issued computer. A teacher noticed it and turned him in." That'll teach him! So the desktop picture on the guy's computer is a gun. A teacher sees it and "turns him in."
Do you know what this reminds me of?
A Los Angeles firehouse back in the early nineties. A fireman had, in his cubicle, somewhere in his private space, a Playboy magazine. A newly commissioned female firewoman walked by and saw it on his desk or whatever. It was there. It wasn't open. It was just a Playboy. She reported him. He got in some kind of trouble. I don't remember if he was suspended or whatever. It was just for having a Playboy, for use in his private time, in his private space. So now here comes this high school student with a desktop picture of a gun. "A teacher noticed it and turned him in. The picture shows an AK-47 on top of a flag. McClaine said the school initially suspended him for three days Friday."
He's a freshman.
6 Feb Rush headlines
A day late, sorry.
--"Fairness" and Phil Mickelson
--It's Only February and I'm Already One of HuffPo's Worst People of 2013
--CBO Update: Obamacare Will Cost $1.3T, Account for 53% of All Federal Spending -- and 7 Million People Will Lose Insurance
--Media Puts Chris Christie in Grave
--Caller: GOP Wants to Wreck the Country
--Liberals Nervous Over Sequester
--The Regime Will Entertain Your Questions on How and When It Kills American Citizens
stack of stuff
--Ahmadinejad Says Iran Has Bomb
--Kids Lose Fingers in Tug-of-War... The Fruit of the Arab Spring?
--Shocking Pre-School Sex Story... Oreo Teams Up with Krispy Kreme
--Push to Federally Legalize Pot
--Kid Suspended for Pretend Game
--Student Turned in for Desktop Gun Photo
--Kim K. Tweets Pretty Pistol Pic
7 Feb 2013, Thur, SoS Kerry and Staff
SECRETARY JOHN KERRY
7:30 a.m. Secretary Kerry attends the National Prayer breakfast, at the Washington Hilton.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
11:15 a.m. Secretary Kerry drops-by a Foreign Policy Classroom, a Bureau of Public Affairs outreach program which brings college students from around the country to the Department to hear from subject-matter experts on foreign policy topics, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
Pre set for video cameras: 9:45a.m. from the 21st Street Entrance Lobby.
Final access time for journalists and still photographers: 10:15 a. m. 21st Street Entrance Lobby.
12:00 p.m. Secretary Kerry attends the swearing-in ceremony of Senator Cowan, on Capitol Hill.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY THE SENATE)
PM Secretary Kerry attends meetings and briefings and places calls to foreign leaders, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
DEPUTY SECRETARY BILL BURNS
10:30 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with U.S. Ambassador to Jordan Stuart Jones, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
11:15 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with Prime Minister of Serbia Ivica Dacic, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
6:00 p.m. Deputy Secretary Burns delivers remarks at the Performance of the Ensembles of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, at the Kennedy Center.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS WENDY SHERMAN
7:30 a.m. Under Secretary Sherman hosts a breakfast for the Republic of Korea’s Transition Delegation, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT ROBERT HORMATS
8:15 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends the Atlantic Magazine: Manufacturing's Next Chapter Working Summit with Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GE, at the Newseum.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
1:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with U.S. Ambassador to Gabon Eric Benjaminson, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
2:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with representatives of the Council of State Governments, Chris Whatley and Sasha Sutcliffe-Stephenson, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS TARA SONENSHINE
Under Secretary Sonenshine is on foreign travel to New Delhi, India. Please click here for more information.
ACTING UNDER SECRETARY FOR ARMS CONTROL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ROSE GOTTEMOELLER
Acting Under Secretary Gottemoeller is on foreign travel to Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, Israel, and Russia to discuss arms control, nonproliferation and international security issues. Please click here for more information.
9:15 a.m. LOCAL Acting Under Secretary Gottemoeller delivers remarks at the “Warsaw Workshop: Prospects for information-sharing and confidence-building on Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons in Europe” hosted by the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), together with the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in Warsaw, Poland.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIAN AFFAIRS ROBERT BLAKE
10:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Blakes meets with Indian Deputy Chief of Mission Arun K. Singh, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS ESTHER BRIMMER
7:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Brimmer attends a breakfast hosted by Under Secretary Sherman for the Republic of Korea’s Transition Delegation, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND NONPROLIFERATION TOM COUNTRYMAN
Assistant Secretary Countryman is on foreign travel to China and Israel through February 7 to discuss nonproliferation issues. Please click here for more information.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS JOSE FERNANDEZ
12:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Fernandez delivers keynote remarks at “Outlook on the Americas” hosted by the Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America, in Miami, FL. Please click here for more information.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
6:45 p.m. Assistant Secretary Fernandez delivers keynote remarks at the Johns Hopkins University Model United Nations Conference, in Baltimore, MD. Please click here for more information.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS MIKE HAMMER
11:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Hammer participates in the Foreign Policy Classroom, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
Pre set for video cameras: 9:45a.m. from the 21st Street Entrance Lobby.
Final access time for journalists and still photographers: 10:15 a. m. 21st Street Entrance Lobby.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ROBERTA JACOBSON
8:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson is interviewed by Univision Radio, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR OCEANS AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS KERRI-ANN JONES
2:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jones meets with TransCanada CEO Russ Girling, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR MICHAEL POSNER
Assistant Secretary Posner is on foreign travel to Islamabad, Pakistan; and Cairo, Egypt through February 13 to meet with government officials and civil society representatives on a range of issues, including on human rights and democracy promotion.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR POLITICAL-MILITARY AFFAIRS ANDREW SHAPIRO
10:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Shapiro meets with Lieutenant General Robert Caslen, Chief of the Office of Security Cooperation – Iraq (OSC-I), at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ANN STOCK
Assistant Secretary Stock is on foreign travel to Nepal, Bangladesh and Burma through February 15 to meet with program participants and discuss and strengthen ECA programming. Please click here for more information.
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE AND U.S. GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR ERIC GOOSBY
Ambassador Goosby attends the Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE STEPHEN RAPP, OFFICE OF GLOBAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Ambassador Rapp is on foreign travel in Freetown, Sierra Leone to participate in a conference on “Exploring the Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone” and meet Sierra Leone officials regarding global criminal justice issues.
DIRECTOR OF POLICY PLANNING JAKE SULLIVAN
10:30 a.m. Director Sullivan meets with Humphrey School Policy Fellows, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
7:30 a.m. Secretary Kerry attends the National Prayer breakfast, at the Washington Hilton.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
11:15 a.m. Secretary Kerry drops-by a Foreign Policy Classroom, a Bureau of Public Affairs outreach program which brings college students from around the country to the Department to hear from subject-matter experts on foreign policy topics, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
Pre set for video cameras: 9:45a.m. from the 21st Street Entrance Lobby.
Final access time for journalists and still photographers: 10:15 a. m. 21st Street Entrance Lobby.
12:00 p.m. Secretary Kerry attends the swearing-in ceremony of Senator Cowan, on Capitol Hill.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY THE SENATE)
PM Secretary Kerry attends meetings and briefings and places calls to foreign leaders, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
DEPUTY SECRETARY BILL BURNS
10:30 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with U.S. Ambassador to Jordan Stuart Jones, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
11:15 a.m. Deputy Secretary Burns meets with Prime Minister of Serbia Ivica Dacic, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
6:00 p.m. Deputy Secretary Burns delivers remarks at the Performance of the Ensembles of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, at the Kennedy Center.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS WENDY SHERMAN
7:30 a.m. Under Secretary Sherman hosts a breakfast for the Republic of Korea’s Transition Delegation, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT ROBERT HORMATS
8:15 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends the Atlantic Magazine: Manufacturing's Next Chapter Working Summit with Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GE, at the Newseum.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
1:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with U.S. Ambassador to Gabon Eric Benjaminson, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
2:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with representatives of the Council of State Governments, Chris Whatley and Sasha Sutcliffe-Stephenson, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS TARA SONENSHINE
Under Secretary Sonenshine is on foreign travel to New Delhi, India. Please click here for more information.
ACTING UNDER SECRETARY FOR ARMS CONTROL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ROSE GOTTEMOELLER
Acting Under Secretary Gottemoeller is on foreign travel to Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, Israel, and Russia to discuss arms control, nonproliferation and international security issues. Please click here for more information.
9:15 a.m. LOCAL Acting Under Secretary Gottemoeller delivers remarks at the “Warsaw Workshop: Prospects for information-sharing and confidence-building on Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons in Europe” hosted by the Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM), together with the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in Warsaw, Poland.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIAN AFFAIRS ROBERT BLAKE
10:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Blakes meets with Indian Deputy Chief of Mission Arun K. Singh, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS ESTHER BRIMMER
7:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Brimmer attends a breakfast hosted by Under Secretary Sherman for the Republic of Korea’s Transition Delegation, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND NONPROLIFERATION TOM COUNTRYMAN
Assistant Secretary Countryman is on foreign travel to China and Israel through February 7 to discuss nonproliferation issues. Please click here for more information.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS JOSE FERNANDEZ
12:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Fernandez delivers keynote remarks at “Outlook on the Americas” hosted by the Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America, in Miami, FL. Please click here for more information.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
6:45 p.m. Assistant Secretary Fernandez delivers keynote remarks at the Johns Hopkins University Model United Nations Conference, in Baltimore, MD. Please click here for more information.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS MIKE HAMMER
11:00 a.m. Assistant Secretary Hammer participates in the Foreign Policy Classroom, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
Pre set for video cameras: 9:45a.m. from the 21st Street Entrance Lobby.
Final access time for journalists and still photographers: 10:15 a. m. 21st Street Entrance Lobby.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ROBERTA JACOBSON
8:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson is interviewed by Univision Radio, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR OCEANS AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS KERRI-ANN JONES
2:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jones meets with TransCanada CEO Russ Girling, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR MICHAEL POSNER
Assistant Secretary Posner is on foreign travel to Islamabad, Pakistan; and Cairo, Egypt through February 13 to meet with government officials and civil society representatives on a range of issues, including on human rights and democracy promotion.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR POLITICAL-MILITARY AFFAIRS ANDREW SHAPIRO
10:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Shapiro meets with Lieutenant General Robert Caslen, Chief of the Office of Security Cooperation – Iraq (OSC-I), at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY ANN STOCK
Assistant Secretary Stock is on foreign travel to Nepal, Bangladesh and Burma through February 15 to meet with program participants and discuss and strengthen ECA programming. Please click here for more information.
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE AND U.S. GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR ERIC GOOSBY
Ambassador Goosby attends the Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE STEPHEN RAPP, OFFICE OF GLOBAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Ambassador Rapp is on foreign travel in Freetown, Sierra Leone to participate in a conference on “Exploring the Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone” and meet Sierra Leone officials regarding global criminal justice issues.
DIRECTOR OF POLICY PLANNING JAKE SULLIVAN
10:30 a.m. Director Sullivan meets with Humphrey School Policy Fellows, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
7 Feb 2013, Thu, Pres and VP Schedules
http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule
8:05 am The President, the Vice President, and the First Lady attend the National Prayer Breakfast; the President delivers remarks
Washington Hilton
Pooled Press
(In-Town Travel Pool Gather 7:20AM – North Doors of the Palm Room)
8:05 am The President, the Vice President, and the First Lady attend the National Prayer Breakfast; the President delivers remarks
Washington Hilton
Pooled Press
(In-Town Travel Pool Gather 7:20AM – North Doors of the Palm Room)
11:15 am The President departs the White House en route Leesburg, Virginia
South Lawn
Open Press
(Final Gather 10:55AM – North Doors of the Palm Room)
12:30 pm The President arrives Leesburg, Virginia
Lansdowne, Lansdowne Resort, Virginia
Pooled Press
1:55 pm The President departs Leesburg, Virginia
Leesburg, Leesburg Executive Airport Landing Zone, Virginia Commonwealth University
Travel Pool Coverage
2:20 pm The President arrives the White House
South Lawn
Open Press
THE VP has no other schedule
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
6 Feb 2013, WEd, SoS Kerry and Staff Schedule
SECRETARY JOHN KERRY
AM Secretary Kerry attends meetings and briefings and places calls to foreign leaders, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00 p.m. Secretary Kerry is ceremonially sworn-in by Vice President Biden, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
DEPUTY SECRETARY BILL BURNS
4:00p.m. Deputy Secretary Burns attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of John Kerry as Secretary of State, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
DEPUTY SECRETARY TOM NIDES
9:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Nides meets with Department of Defense Under Secretary for Policy Dr. Jim Miller, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00 p.m. Deputy Secretary Nides attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of John Kerry as Secretary of State, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT ROBERT HORMATS
8:30 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats holds a conference call with U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic Norman Eisen, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
2:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with Kevin Smith, Chief Executive Officer of SolarReserve, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of John Kerry as Secretary of State, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE).
UNDER SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS TARA SONENSHINE
Under Secretary Sonenshine is on foreign travel to New Delhi, India.
ACTING UNDER SECRETARY FOR ARMS CONTROL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ROSE GOTTEMOELLER
Acting Under Secretary Gottemoeller is on foreign travel to Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, Israel, and Russia to discuss arms control, nonproliferation and international security issues.
CHIEF OF PROTOCOL AMBASSADOR CAPRICIA PENAVIC MARSHALL
10:00 a.m. Ambassador Marshall hosts a roundtable discussion featuring The Honorable Madeleine K. Albright as part of the Women in Diplomacy Series, at Blair House.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00 p.m. Ambassador Marshall serves as the Master of Ceremonies at the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of John Kerry as Secretary of State, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR CONFLICT AND STABILIZATION OPERATIONS FREDERICK BARTON
1:15 p.m. Assistant Secretary Barton meets with Aaron Williams, Executive Vice President of International Development at RTI International, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00 p.m. Assistant Barton attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of John Kerry as Secretary of State, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIAN AFFAIRS ROBERT BLAKE
10:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Blake meets with a group of Sri Lankan parliamentarians, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00p.m. Assistant Secretary Blake attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of John Kerry as Secretary of State, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS ESTHER BRIMMER
10:45 a.m. Assistant Secretary Brimmer participates in the High Level Meeting of the Humanitarian Policy Working Group, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND NONPROLIFERATION TOM COUNTRYMAN
Assistant Secretary Countryman is on foreign travel to China and Israel through February 7 to discuss nonproliferation issues.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS JOSE FERNANDEZ
8:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Fernandez meets with the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, in Miami, FL.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
7:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Fernandez meets with the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, in Miami, FL.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS MIKE HAMMER
7:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Hammer attends the Washington Press Club Foundation dinner at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, in Washington, DC.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
4:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Hammer attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of John Kerry as Secretary of State, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ROBERTA JACOBSON
3:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson meets with Juan Orduz, President and CEO of the Colombian Coffee Federation, Inc., at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of John Kerry as Secretary of State, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
5:15 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson meets with General Jacoby, Commander of U.S. Northern Command, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR MICHAEL POSNER
Assistant Secretary Posner is on foreign travel to Kabul, Afghanistan; Islamabad, Pakistan; and Cairo, Egypt through February 13 to meet with government officials and civil society representatives on a range of issues, including on human rights and democracy promotion.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR POPULATION, REFUGEES, AND MIGRATION ANNE RICHARD
4:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Richard attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of John Kerry as Secretary of State, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE).
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS ANN STOCK
4:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Stock attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of John Kerry as Secretary of State, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE).
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE STEPHEN RAPP, OFFICE OF GLOBAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Ambassador Rapp is on foreign travel in Freetown, Sierra Leone to participate in a conference on “Exploring the Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone” and meet with Sierra Leone officials regarding global criminal justice issues.
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE FOR GLOBAL WOMEN’S ISSUES MELANNE VERVEER
7:00 a.m. Ambassador Verveer participates in a VTC discussion with Afghan women leaders from Herat.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
9:30 a.m. Ambassador Verveer delivers remarks on the 10th Anniversary of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C), at the Department of State.
(MEDIA TO BE DETERMINED)
2:00 p.m. Ambassador Verveer speaks at a roundtable with a delegation of Burmese women hosted by Goldman Sachs and the McCain Institute, at the Meridian Center.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
5:00 p.m. Ambassador Verveer attends a meeting on Capitol Hill.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
AM Secretary Kerry attends meetings and briefings and places calls to foreign leaders, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00 p.m. Secretary Kerry is ceremonially sworn-in by Vice President Biden, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
DEPUTY SECRETARY BILL BURNS
4:00p.m. Deputy Secretary Burns attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of John Kerry as Secretary of State, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
DEPUTY SECRETARY TOM NIDES
9:00 a.m. Deputy Secretary Nides meets with Department of Defense Under Secretary for Policy Dr. Jim Miller, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00 p.m. Deputy Secretary Nides attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of John Kerry as Secretary of State, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
UNDER SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENERGY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT ROBERT HORMATS
8:30 a.m. Under Secretary Hormats holds a conference call with U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic Norman Eisen, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
2:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats meets with Kevin Smith, Chief Executive Officer of SolarReserve, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00 p.m. Under Secretary Hormats attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of John Kerry as Secretary of State, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE).
UNDER SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS TARA SONENSHINE
Under Secretary Sonenshine is on foreign travel to New Delhi, India.
ACTING UNDER SECRETARY FOR ARMS CONTROL AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ROSE GOTTEMOELLER
Acting Under Secretary Gottemoeller is on foreign travel to Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, Israel, and Russia to discuss arms control, nonproliferation and international security issues.
CHIEF OF PROTOCOL AMBASSADOR CAPRICIA PENAVIC MARSHALL
10:00 a.m. Ambassador Marshall hosts a roundtable discussion featuring The Honorable Madeleine K. Albright as part of the Women in Diplomacy Series, at Blair House.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00 p.m. Ambassador Marshall serves as the Master of Ceremonies at the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of John Kerry as Secretary of State, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR CONFLICT AND STABILIZATION OPERATIONS FREDERICK BARTON
1:15 p.m. Assistant Secretary Barton meets with Aaron Williams, Executive Vice President of International Development at RTI International, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00 p.m. Assistant Barton attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of John Kerry as Secretary of State, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIAN AFFAIRS ROBERT BLAKE
10:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Blake meets with a group of Sri Lankan parliamentarians, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00p.m. Assistant Secretary Blake attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of John Kerry as Secretary of State, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION AFFAIRS ESTHER BRIMMER
10:45 a.m. Assistant Secretary Brimmer participates in the High Level Meeting of the Humanitarian Policy Working Group, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AND NONPROLIFERATION TOM COUNTRYMAN
Assistant Secretary Countryman is on foreign travel to China and Israel through February 7 to discuss nonproliferation issues.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS AFFAIRS JOSE FERNANDEZ
8:30 a.m. Assistant Secretary Fernandez meets with the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, in Miami, FL.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
7:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Fernandez meets with the Americas Society/Council of the Americas, in Miami, FL.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS MIKE HAMMER
7:30 p.m. Assistant Secretary Hammer attends the Washington Press Club Foundation dinner at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, in Washington, DC.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
4:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Hammer attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of John Kerry as Secretary of State, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE AFFAIRS ROBERTA JACOBSON
3:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson meets with Juan Orduz, President and CEO of the Colombian Coffee Federation, Inc., at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
4:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of John Kerry as Secretary of State, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE)
5:15 p.m. Assistant Secretary Jacobson meets with General Jacoby, Commander of U.S. Northern Command, at the Department of State.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS AND LABOR MICHAEL POSNER
Assistant Secretary Posner is on foreign travel to Kabul, Afghanistan; Islamabad, Pakistan; and Cairo, Egypt through February 13 to meet with government officials and civil society representatives on a range of issues, including on human rights and democracy promotion.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR POPULATION, REFUGEES, AND MIGRATION ANNE RICHARD
4:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Richard attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of John Kerry as Secretary of State, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE).
ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS ANN STOCK
4:00 p.m. Assistant Secretary Stock attends the ceremonial swearing-in ceremony of John Kerry as Secretary of State, at the Department of State.
(OPEN PRESS COVERAGE).
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE STEPHEN RAPP, OFFICE OF GLOBAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Ambassador Rapp is on foreign travel in Freetown, Sierra Leone to participate in a conference on “Exploring the Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone” and meet with Sierra Leone officials regarding global criminal justice issues.
AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE FOR GLOBAL WOMEN’S ISSUES MELANNE VERVEER
7:00 a.m. Ambassador Verveer participates in a VTC discussion with Afghan women leaders from Herat.
(CLOSED PRESS COVERAGE)
9:30 a.m. Ambassador Verveer delivers remarks on the 10th Anniversary of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C), at the Department of State.
(MEDIA TO BE DETERMINED)
2:00 p.m. Ambassador Verveer speaks at a roundtable with a delegation of Burmese women hosted by Goldman Sachs and the McCain Institute, at the Meridian Center.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
5:00 p.m. Ambassador Verveer attends a meeting on Capitol Hill.
(MEDIA DETERMINED BY HOST)
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