Hey isn’t that…? Michelle Obama at Target; Jose Andres and Ferran Adria
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 30th, 2011 4:35 am by HL
Hey isn’t that…? Michelle Obama at Target; Jose Andres and Ferran Adria
• Michelle Obama shopping at Target Thursday. An AP photographer (small world!) happened upon the first lady at the Alexandria store, pushing a cart and carrying bags. (See images below..)
• Chefs Jose Andres and Ferran Adria at the White House Farmer’s Market Thursday afternoon. The two Spanish superstars — Andres has created a restaurant empire in Washington; Adria is world famous for the recently closed El Bulli — dropped by for the “Stuff the Bus” drive to collect 5,000 pounds of fresh food for D.C. Central Kitchen.
With historic losses looming, Postal Service launches new ad campaign
On the verge of reporting historic losses, the U.S. Postal Service is launching a new TV advertising campaign designed to slow the migration away from snail mail.
Americans watching college football games and news broadcasts in the next week may notice new ads from the agency — long known for its campy messages promoting Priority Mail shipping services. Now, the “If it fits, it ships” campaign will share airtime with two 30-second spots designed to remind customers that paper mail, unlike e-mail, can’t be hacked, and that letter carriers are still providing reliable and safe deliveries to doorsteps.
House passes budget extension to avert government shutdown — by doing nothing
On Capitol Hill, Thursday was a rare day in which the House could do something important by doing nothing at all.
The task: stave off a federal government shutdown by passing a budget extension that would get the government through the weekend. It wouldn’t require a vote. It wouldn’t even take the whole 435-member House.
Romney‘s claim that ‘right to work’ states get more ‘good jobs’
“And the right course politically at this stage is to have states carry out their own right-to-work legislation. And as you know, right-to-work states, those 22, have created 3 million jobs over the last 10 years. The union states have lost about half a million jobs. So right to work is the way to go if you want good jobs.”
Herman Cain: The GOP’s next big thing?
Almost lost amid the buzz this week over the possibility that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie may seek the Republican nomination for president was the potential rise of a candidate already in the race: Herman Cain.
After a series of impressive debate performances and a new poll showing him in third place, he is the latest GOP candidate to ride the boom and bust, we-love-you-we-love-you-not cycle of this year’s volatile race.
