In this week’s address, filmed aboard Air Force One between vital diplomatic engagements abroad, the President discusses the breadth and depth of the global challenges we face. Recapping his trip, though, it is clear just how much opportunity lies in reshaping America’s relationships around the world. On everything from turning our economy around -- which shed hundreds of thousands more jobs last month -- to ending the threat of nuclear arms, "The only way forward is through shared and persistent efforts to combat fear and want wherever they exist..."
As is well-known, President Obama presented Queen Elizabeth with an iPod when they met last week. What inquiring minds want to know is, did he populate it with selections from his personal play list? From what I've read, she should be so lucky...
Up next, Jeffrey Lebowski...
There are fourteen -- that's right, fourteen -- festivals in the New Orleans area this weekend, including the Old Algiers River Fest and the Lousiana Oyster Jubilee in the French Quarter. Is this a great town or what?...
Hey, these people shouldn't have lived near a beaver dam. It's all their own fault:
A breached dam built by a family of beavers sent a 10-foot cascade of water, trees and debris crashing through a little beachfront community here Friday morning.
Eight homes in Clinton were hit, one left tilting after tons of water pushed it from its foundation.
Up the hill, the rushing water left a crater 60 feet wide and 40 feet deep where a blocked culvert caused the road to give way.
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