But a friend of mine got to drive the press bus and met Obama - super jealous.

Obama talks jobs to NC audience; Payrolls improve

As a senator, Barack Obama has been a strong leader on clean water issues. He fought against offshore drilling in the U.S. Senate, and he supports maintaining current moratoriums on new offshore oil and natural gas drilling.

Doctor tells Obama supporters: Go elsewhere for health care

The sign reads: "If you voted for Obama ... seek urologic care elsewhere. Changes to your healthcare begin right now, not in four years."

Cassell, whose lawyer wife, Leslie Campione, has declared herself a Republican candidate for Lake County commissioner, said three patients have complained, but most have been "overwhelmingly supportive" of his position.

The MCM (Mainstream Corporate Media) hates to give up a good narrative, even when it's proved false. Or someone at TIME has a brain worm she can't get rid of.

TIME made a list of the Top Ten Expensive Haircuts.  Bill's haircut in LA  was placed second after Rubio's (FL Repub US Senate primary candidate).  Of course, TIME printed the debunked initial story, a pile of lies.

  Media Matters caught them on this journmalism. The original article's wording is at the MM link. (Via Atrios)

Today, TIME wrote a correction, but it's so snarky it's almost not a correction:  

Hairgate by Kathy Steinmetz  

Correction Appended: April 2, 2010  

For about an hour in May 1993, two of LAX's four runways were shut down. Then President Bill Clinton never heard the end of it. The reason for the closure was the presence of Air Force One, inside of which, the President was in the throes of a $200 trim from a glamorati stylist named, fabulously, Christophe.  

The media widely reported that scheduled flights had been forced to circle, that runways were jammed and that people were made hours late, though a Newsday report later that year showed that there were no significant delays. By then, however, "Hairgate" had already become a public-relations nightmare and solidified an opinion in some quarters of Clinton's out-of-touch excesses. What made it doubly awkward was that it occurred while the President was struggling to get Congress to pass a deficit-reduction bill.  

An earlier version of this item incorrectly stated that flights and passengers had been delayed several hours by the President's haircut.

This is your MCM on brain worm. Or stupidity. Or misuse of the English language and publishing.

What the hell is all this snark about? Sheesh.

Reporting from Washington - Lt. Robin R. Chaurasiya wasn't exactly asked, but she told anyway: She is a lesbian, and in a civil union with another woman.

Her commander at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, Lt. Gen. Robert R. Allardice, could have discharged her under the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Instead, he determined in February that she should remain in the Air Force because she acknowledged her sexual orientation for the purpose of "avoiding and terminating military service."

Chaurasiya says that is not true. But the general's reasoning has the flavor of a Catch-22: If you admit to being homosexual you can be discharged from the military, but if you admit it for the purposes of being discharged you won't be.

Deep in the heart of Aisle 7 (the action figure aisle), all throughout the 70's, 80's, and 90's, something waited. No one knew it was there, until toy stores began their turn of the century renovations. Then the Monolith Action Figure was discovered (the first given the name "TRU-1"). What was it for? Where did it come from? Why wouldn't its barcode scan? No one knew. And no one knows to this day.

In about 24 hours, Apple stores across the east coast will open and the eager public will finally get a chance to purchase the company's latest computing creation: the iPad. My feelings for the table device have changed dramatically over the past few months, from "It's too expensive, it doesn't do anything I need it to do, it doesn't have flash, and it's kind of lame," to "WANT NOW!"

In the past couple of days, a spate of iPad-related news has whet my appetite even further. Specifically, the iTunes store already has Netflix and ABC apps for the iPad, and a Hulu app is on the way.

The Netflix app duplicates the experience of browsing Netflix on the web, but perhaps most importantly, it streams video through its "Watch Instantly" service to your iPad! In a move that is probably too awesome to be a coincidence, Netflix's Watch Instantly service recently added a ton of television shows to its roster, including Rescue Me, Lie to Me, and the entire series of 24 (you can check them out here if you have a Netflix login).

Officials from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that they had sent out an intelligence note with information about potential threats made to governors by a group calling itself Guardians of the Free Republics.

The note was sent to state law enforcement officials in the last few days.

A homeland security official said the federal agencies were not aware of "an immediate or credible threat."

"No specific information indicates that violence is intended," the official said. "These threat assessments are issued regularly out of an abundance of caution."

State officials said they were taking the threat seriously because it came at a time of increased attention to antigovernment groups.

Nine members of a militant Christian militia group were arrested in Michigan last weekend and accused of plotting an uprising against the government.

American Jewish leaders on Friday denounced a Vatican official's likening of anti-Catholicism during the church's escalating abuse crisis to "collective violence" against Jews, but predicted it would not deal a severe blow to the two faiths' often-strained relationship.
"What a sad irony this would be on Good Friday, where so much of the anti-Semitism was brought about by the church against Jews," said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League. "Anti-Semitism was pogroms, inquisitions, expulsions that led to death ... What a grotesque comparison."

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But things are getting better between the Vatican and the jews, because at least this time there was no mention of blood libel, a myth perpetuated for centuries by the church.  They could have said 'we identify with the jews as they have had to suffer due to misunderstanding stemming from their ritual practice of blood libel', yet they showed great restraint this time around.

"A most barbarous secret for a long time suspected in the Jewish nation...at last came to light in the city of Damascus, that of serving themselves of Christian blood in their unleavened bread...a secret which these 1,840 years must have made many unfortunate victims."  Jasper Chasseaud, US vice-consul, Beirut, Lebanon, 1840 CE.