Daily Archives: September 30, 2009

Barack Obama’s Smile Never Changes

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Eric Spiegelman, of the blog “Bus Your Own Tray,” noticed something fabulous while scanning the State Department’s flickr page: Barack Obama’s smile is amazingly consistent:

Ladies and gentlemen, your President is a robot. Or a wax sculpture. Maybe a cardboard cutout. All I know is no human being has a photo smile this amazingly consistent.

On Wednesday, the Obamas hosted a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, during which they stood for 130 photographs with visiting foreign dignitaries in town for the UN meeting. The President has exactly the same smile in every single shot. See for yourself — the pictures are up on the State Department’s flickr. And, of course, compressed above into 20 seconds for your viewing pleasure.

[Bus Your Own Tray | via]

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    Media Changing: Nobody knows how to pay for it

    Posted on September 30, 2009 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

    Summary:
    Conversation between Jon Taplin (Professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication) and Peter Chermin (former President of News Corp) and Gordon Crawford (Managing Director of Capital Group) – Media is changing, nobody knows how to pay for it
    [video aprox 1 hour]

    “Newspapers are so dead. Aside from the Wall Street Journal and stuff. Honestly just think about the concept of a newspaper. You cut down a bunch of trees, you boil them, you make paper out of them. In the old days oyou used to have lead movable type, and a bunch of ink and a unionized shop printing them out. Then you get a bunch of trucks and you drive around the neighborhood and you throw them onto somebody’s driveway, you throw onto somebody’s driveway yesterday’s news. That’s what we’re trying to defend.”

    [via Alper]

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      IRGC – Iran’s true leaders…?

      Posted on September 30, 2009 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

      IRGC

      It is becoming increasingly clear that Iran is governed not by “Supreme Leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei or the “supreme” council of mullahs — which would be bad enough — but by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its political allies, comprising the most extreme elements of Iran’s society, military and government. This is doubly frightening given recent revelations that Iran has for years been concealing the existence of a second uranium enrichment plant and over the weekend test-fired a new array of missiles.

      Read more @ www.nationalpost.com [via]

      Please note: This article is part of the opinion section of the National Post

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