Lunch Break - photo from London, Make Them Accountable Headlines, Music.

A friend sent me the photo to the left it is from protests in London today. The signs say "Quit Iraq and Afghanistan: Yes we Can"

Agree or not - as my friend said "I am so glad that slogan is being used against them."


Me too.




Politics and Media Headlines 4/1/09

BREAKING: Obama apologizes to Democrats, vows to become a liberal!*
*Ha, ha, April Fool

The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest (by myiq2xu at The Confluence)

The Museum of Hoaxes lists the top 100 April Fools jokes of all time. Here's their number one: "1957: The respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers were taken in. Many called the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this the BBC diplomatically replied, 'place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.'"
Absolutely, the best. I saw it years ago, and it has always been my favorite - Caro

Harvesting Pasta

Obama tries to rally world to cope with downturn (AP)
President Barack Obama sought Wednesday to rally the world's top and emerging powers to help cope with a global economic downturn, saying, "We can only meet this challenge together."

Obama Adviser Invokes Great Depression in Warning of Need for Nations to Cooperate (by Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller at Political Punch, ABC News)
"The stakes for this summit are very high," said Mike Froman, the deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs today in an OFF CAMERA briefing for reporters. "They are magnified by the fact that much as happened since the G-20 summit in November. The last summit focused largely and importantly on a number of regulatory issues. But the economy has declined, and in November and December the crisis has spread and the countries of the G-20 have been focused on restoring demand and restoring growth."

Invoking the Great Depression-and the failure back then of the world's industrialized nations to cooperate-Froman said it was critical that the challenges of the summit be met.

Obama turns on charm to smooth ruffled British feathers (McClatchy)
With a salute, a smile and maybe just a little sucking up, President Barack Obama worked hard Wednesday to make up for any diplomatic rift he may have caused several weeks ago in the special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom.

Obama, Medvedev hail 'fresh start' in U.S.-Russia relations (McClatchy)
President Barack Obama will travel to Moscow in July, part of what he and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, are calling a "fresh start" in strained relations between the nuclear powers.

We're doomed, part XXXV (by Paul Krugman)
The Daily Beast: Sizzling G-20 wives.

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Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

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