Obama for America stiffing Durham, NH for… $30,000. Wait, WHAT?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  June 24th at 02:30 PM  | 

The very short version: President Barack Obama is scheduled to make a campaign speech on Monday, in the town of Durham, NH. This will cost the town an estimated sixteen to thirty thousand dollars in additional overtime for cops and fire officials and whatnot. The town is taking the position that while they’d be happy to eat the cost for a Presidential visit, a campaign | Read More »

President Obama gives PM Brown… DVDs.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  March 5th at 01:38 PM  | 

What did Brown give us? Mr Brown’s gifts included an ornamental desk pen holder made from the oak timbers of Victorian anti-slaver HMS Gannet, once named HMS President. Mr Obama was so delighted he has already put it in pride of place in the Oval Office on the Resolute desk which was carved from timbers of Gannet’s sister ship, HMS Resolute. Another treasure given to | Read More »