• Barack Obama,  Los Angeles,  President 2012

    President 2012 Obama Jam: Another Fundraising Day and Another Obama Traffic Jam for Los Angeles

    October 24, 2011 /

    About three plus hours to go but here is the latest about street closures for this afternoon and tomorrow.

    President arrives at 4:45pm at LAX

    • Usually he is helicoptered to the VA from where the motorcade departs
    • He will motorcade across the Westside to  sometime between 5pm and 6pm to two seperate events in Hancock Park – Santa Monica, Sunset, Olympic, Pico, Wilshire are all subject to rolling closures
    • He usually stays at the Beverly Hilton.  So sometime around 9-10pm he’ll probably head back from Hancock Park

    Metro has not provided bus advisories yet – but they will release as the afternoon continues.

    Santa Monica’s Big Blue Bus is alerting riders to delays on routes 1, 2, 3, 8, and 12.

    We’re still figuring out the Burbank portion of the trip – but we have received word the actual Tonight Show taping will be at 9am at NBC Studios near Olive and Alameda.  That means Obama will be on the move sometime between 8am and 9am from possibly the Beverly Hilton to Burbank.
    Obama is scheduled to leave for San Francisco at noon from LAX.

    Good luck out there.

    I will be leaving from downtown Los Angeles around 5 PM.

    Oh Joy!

  • Barack Obama,  John McCain

    Senator John McCain Tweets Top Ten Pork Projects in Omnibus Spending Bill

    February 27, 2009 /
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    Here is GOP Senator John McCain’s list of the top ten porkiest projects in the Omnibus Spending Bill.

    1. $1.7 million for pig odor research in Iowa
    2. $2 million “for the promotion of astronomy” in Hawaii – because nothing says new jobs for average Americans like investing in astronomy
    3. $332,000 for the design and construction of a school sidewalk in Franklin, Texas – not enough $ for schools in the stimulus?
    4. $2.1 million for the Center for Grape Genetics in New York – quick peel me a grape.
    5. $650,000 for beaver management in North Carolina and Mississippi
    6. $1 million for mormon cricket control in Utah – is that the species of cricket or a game played by the brits?
    7. $300,000 for the Montana World Trade Center – enough said
    8. $200,000 “tattoo removal violence outreach program to could help gang members or others shed visible signs of their past” REALLY?
    9. $475,000 to build a parking garage in Provo City, Utah
    10. $1.7M “for a honey bee factory” in Weslaco, TX

    Tax and spend = Obama Administration and his Democrat cronies in Congress.

    The next time you purchase a gallon of gas or see your paycheck with its witholds of payroll taxes remember all of those tattoos you are helping remove.

    How ridiculous is this?

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