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Sunday, November 11, 2012
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
OBAMA RE ELECTION and RETWEET VICTORY: victory tweet becomes most retweeted ever!
US president tweets 'four more years' with picture of himself hugging Michelle
Barack Obama's photo posted on his Twitter account. Photograph: Obama campaign
Barack Obama has celebrated winning another term as US president by tweeting a photograph of himself hugging his wife, Michelle – which almost immediately became the most popular tweet of all time.
Obama brought his sophisticated social media campaign to an emotional climax, proclaiming his victory on Twitter and Facebook just as TV networks were breaking the news.The tweet, captioned "Four more years", was his most re-tweeted — 472,000 shares in three hours and marked as a favourite by more than 70,000— according to Twitter’s politics account @gov. It was also the most popular ever, topping a message from singer Justin Bieber, website BuzzFeed said.
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Michigan man dies at the poll, revived—makes sure he voted
Odd news from Yahoo! News: Michigan man dies, is revived, at poll—and makes sure he voted By Lylah M. Alphonse.
Tags: Yahoo! News, Michigan , Lylah M. Alphonse, Southfield Township Michigan, Southfield Township, Michigan, The Detroit News, Detroit , William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak
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Even a near-death experience couldn't keep one elderly voter away from the polls during early voting in Southfield Township in Michigan. "I was filling out the form as were an elderly couple sitting at a nearby table," Ty Houston, 48, a registered home-care nurse, told The Detroit News on Tuesday. "His wife, who was helping him fill out the ballot..........screamed for help and I went over to see what I could do."
Houston responded immediately, moving the victim to the floor and assessing the situation. "He was dead," Houston said. "He had no heartbeat and he wasn't breathing." He started performing CPR and a few minutes later the man started breathing again. He had a tracheotomy tube in his throat, but could speak."He knew his name and his wife's name," Houston said.
But the victim's first question after his near-death experience took everyone by surprise. "Did I vote?" he asked astonished onlookers.The man's wife tried to reassure him that it wasn't important, but Houston says the man responded that only two things were important: "That I love you and that I finished what I came here to do—vote."
They checked. He had.
EMS arrived on the scene and took the couple to William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, The Detroit News reported. Though the county clerk, Sharon Tischler, confirmed the event, neither she nor Houston knew the name of the victim or his wife. Houston said that he's just glad he decided to vote when he did. "It was God's divine word that I be there," he said. "Originally, I was just going skip the ballot and just go to lunch that day."
Strange US Election Polling Stations- 2012 US Presidential Race
This is a collection of pictures of very unusual Polling places for the on going 2012 US Presidential Elections. US polling stations have been found in casinos, shopping centres, a pet store, beauty salons and and even home garages! By force of circumstance on the East Coast, the devastation caused by hurricane Sandy forced authorities to find alternative safe locations for people to vote.
Below is a selection from US Presidential Elections: America’s Weird Polling Stations [PHOTOS]By Umberto Bacchi and Laundrettes, temples and a garage: America's strangest polling stations:
Tags: US Presidential Elections, US , Polling Stations, America, Presidential Elections, Elections, laundrette , ballots, voters, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago,, Chicago, Illinois, Urbanimal Pet Store , Salt Lake City, Krishna Temple, AFP/ Robyn Beck, AFP, Pressure Billiards hall, Billiards hall, Billiards, South Carolina, Sam's Auto Sales , Bay Head Fire Company, Bay Head, New Jersey, Bay Head, New Jersey, Gordies Foundation Barber School , Mission District in San Francisco, Mission District , San Francisco, Delias Beauty Salon, Beauty Salon
Below is a selection from US Presidential Elections: America’s Weird Polling Stations [PHOTOS]By Umberto Bacchi and Laundrettes, temples and a garage: America's strangest polling stations:
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| In Chicago, Illinois, voters cast their ballots in a laundrette (AFP/ Robyn Beck) |
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| Urbanimal Pet Store polling place in Chicago |
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| at the Krishna Temple in Salt Lake City (AFP/ Robyn Beck) |
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| at Pressure Billiards hall during the US presidential election in Chicago |
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| David Smith oversaw matters in his father Vincent’s front room in South Carolina, whose house has been used as a polling station for decades, and in the front room for the last 30 years |
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| at Sam's Auto Sales in Chicago |
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| at the Bay Head Fire Company in Bay Head, New Jersey |
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| Gordies Foundation Barber School at Sam's Auto Sales in Chicago |
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| at temple in the Mission District in San Francisco |
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| at Delias Beauty Salon in Chicago |
Tags: US Presidential Elections, US , Polling Stations, America, Presidential Elections, Elections, laundrette , ballots, voters, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago,, Chicago, Illinois, Urbanimal Pet Store , Salt Lake City, Krishna Temple, AFP/ Robyn Beck, AFP, Pressure Billiards hall, Billiards hall, Billiards, South Carolina, Sam's Auto Sales , Bay Head Fire Company, Bay Head, New Jersey, Bay Head, New Jersey, Gordies Foundation Barber School , Mission District in San Francisco, Mission District , San Francisco, Delias Beauty Salon, Beauty Salon
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Mitt Romney's ODD Orbit- Crazy, Stupid and Bizarre Quotes from Mitt
1. “I was born and raised here. I love the state. It seems right here. Trees are the right height. I like — I like seeing the lakes. I love the lakes. Something very special here. The Great Lakes but also all the little inland lakes that dot the parts of Michigan. I love cars. I don’t know — I mean, I grew up totally in love with cars…. I love cars. I love American cars.”
—Mitt Romney, campaigning in Michigan (February 2012)
Watch the video. The transcript doesn’t do it justice.
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| from shitrepublicancandidatessay.tumblr.com |
2. ''Who let the dogs out? Who, who.''
—Mitt Romney, during an awkward photo op with a group of African Americans kids at a Martin Luther King Day parade (January 2008)3. ''Can you see that one of those chocolate, um, uh, chocolate goodies finds its way to our ride?''
—Mitt Romney, struggling to identify a doughnut while visiting an Iowa restaurant, June 8, 2012.
Watch Mitt Romney struggle to identify a chocolate doughnut:
5. Mitt Romney in 2002: ''I respect and will protect a woman's right to choose.''
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| from underthemountainbunker.com |
4. 'I like those fancy raincoats you bought. Really sprung for the big bucks.''
—Mitt Romney, making fun of fans wearing plastic ponchos during a visit to the site of the Daytona 500 Nascar race in Florida, Feb. 26, 2012
5. Mitt Romney in 2002: ''I respect and will protect a woman's right to choose.''
Mitt Romney in 2007: ''Look, I was pro-choice. I am pro-life. You can go back to YouTube and look at what I said in 1994. I never said I was pro-choice, but my position was effectively pro-choice. I changed my position. And I get tired of people that are holier-than-thou because they've been pro-life longer than I have.''
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| from mittromneyforpresident2012.org |
6. ''When you have a fire in an aircraft, there's no place to go, exactly, there's no -- and you can't find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don't open. I don't know why they don't do that. It's a real problem.''
—Mitt Romney, suggesting it would be a good idea to crack a window in a pressurized cabin at 35,000 feet with 500-mile-an-hour winds (Beverly Hills fundraiser, Sept. 22, 2012)7. ''We've always encouraged young people: Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business.''
—Mitt Romney, offering advice to students, citing a friend who borrowed $20,000 from his parents to start and business and suggesting anyone in the audience could do the same (Otterbein University in Ohio, April 27, 2012) |
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8. ''I hope people understand this, your friends who like Obamacare, you remind them of this, if they want more stuff from government tell them to go vote for the other guy — more free stuff. But don't forget nothing is really free. ''
—Mitt Romney, reacting to getting booed at his speech during the annual NAACP Convention after he pledged to repeal Obamacare, July 11, 2012.9. ''When you give a speech you don't go through a laundry list, you talk about the things that you think are important.''
—Mitt Romney, when asked about failing to mention the troops in his nomination speech at the Republican National Convention, Fox News interview, Sept. 7, 201210. ''We have a president, who I think is a nice guy, but he spent too much time at Harvard, perhaps.''
—Mitt Romney, who has two Harvard degrees (April 5, 2012) |
| from ivygateblog.com |
Friday, November 2, 2012
Amazing Anniversary Coincidence: Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech AND Obama's bin Laden death announcement.
Talk about an amazing anniversary coincidence from toptenz.net:
May 1, 2003- Mission Accomplished?
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| May 1, 2003-George W. Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and gave a speech announcing the end of major combat operations in Iraq. Visible in the background was a banner stating “Mission Accomplished.” |
The Iraq War began on March 20, 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by the United States under President George W. Bush and the United Kingdom under Prime Minister Tony Blair. Two months after the war started, on May 1, 2003 following the speech, the image above became internationally recognized. Bush was criticized for suggesting the war was over, when in fact it was just beginning.
The controversy surrounding the speech and the banner made video clips and pictures of the speech famous. As criticism mounted, the White House released a statement saying that they didn't mean to imply the Iraq War was over. Pentagon said the banner referred to the aircraft carrier’s 10-month deployment and not the war itself. The banner and picture have come to symbolize the irony of the President giving a victory speech only a few weeks after the beginning of a relatively long war.
May 1, 2011- Mission Accomplished!
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| May 1, 2011, exactly eight years after the speech, President Barack Obama announced that U.S. Navy SEALs had killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. |
Tags: Mission Accomplished, George W. Bush , Bush , USS Abraham Lincoln, Iraq War, Iraq, Prime Minister Tony Blair, Tony Blair, Prime Minister , President Barack Obama , Barack Obama , Obama , Osama bin Laden, bin Laden
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Superstorm Sandy breakout star- the sign language lady!
The sign language lady- one of the storm's biggest breakout stars!
Watch Lydia Callis in action , the sign-language interpreter who appeared at New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's side whenever he made a public statement. Bloomberg's live storm updates were translated by Callis who underlined the drama with extremely committed facial expressions that became an immediate Twitter hit. Her mesmerizing display inspired gifs and her own Tumblr.
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