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I am a native Eadt St. Louisain, would love to contact Ms. Francis Moore for a Radio host. My number is 618 444-7590.
David Remnick: Going The Distance
Obama really is skilled at this kind of thing, the kibbitzing and the expressions of sympathy, the hugging and the eulogizing and the celebrating, the sheer animal activity of human politics—but he suffers an anxiety of comparison. Bill Clinton was, and is, the master, a hyper-extrovert whose freakish memory for names and faces, and whose indomitable will to enfold and charm everyone in his path, remains unmatched. Obama can be a dynamic speaker before large audiences and charming in very small groups, but, like a normal human being and unlike the near-pathological personalities who have so often held the office, he is depleted by the act of schmoozing a group of a hundred as if it were an intimate gathering. At fund-raisers, he would rather eat privately with a couple of aides before going out to perform.
According to the Wall Street Journal, when Jeffrey Katzenberg threw a multi-million-dollar fund-raiser in Los Angeles two years ago, he told the President’s staff that he expected Obama to stop at each of the fourteen tables and talk for a while. No one would have had to ask Clinton. Obama’s staffers were alarmed. When you talk about this with people in Obamaland, they let on that Clinton borders on the obsessive—as if the appetite for connection were related to what got him in such deep trouble. “Obama is a genuinely respectful person, but he doesn’t try to seduce everyone,” Axelrod said. “It’s never going to be who he’ll be.”
Obama’s thoughts have been down in the city. The drama of racial inequality, in his mind, has come to presage a larger, transracial form of economic disparity, a deepening of the class divide. Indeed, if there is a theme for the remaining days of his term, it is inequality. In 2011, he went to Osawatomie, Kansas, the site of Theodore Roosevelt’s 1910 New Nationalism speech—a signal moment in the history of Progressivism—and declared inequality the “defining issue of our time.” He repeated the message at length, late last year, in Anacostia, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., this time noting that the gap between the rich and the poor in America now resembled that in Argentina and Jamaica, rather than that in France, Germany, or Canada. American C.E.O.s once made, on average, thirty times as much as workers; now they make about two hundred and seventy times as much. The wealthy hire lobbyists; they try to secure their interests with campaign donations. Even as Obama travels for campaign alms and is as entangled in the funding system at least as much as any other politician, he insists that his commitment is to the middle class and the disadvantaged. Last summer, he received a letter from a single mother struggling to support herself and her daughter on a minimal income. She was drowning: “I need help. I can’t imagine being out in the streets with my daughter and if I don’t get some type of relief soon, I’m afraid that’s what may happen.” “Copy to Senior Advisers,” Obama wrote at the bottom of the letter. “This is the person we are working for.”
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/27/140127fa_fact_remnick?currentPage=all
ALmost forgot..
The Following Returns tonight on Fox.
Barton Gellman ✔ @bartongellman
New @SteveKornacki scoop. If Hoboken mayor Zimmer is lying, she just did it under oath. Christie’s turn. http://on.msnbc.com/1jk6Yst
6:03 PM – 19 Jan 2014
Beyoncé Performs at Michelle Obama’s 50th Birthday Party, Barack Does “The Dougie”—All the Details!
by Zach Johnson
…In addition to Beyoncé, John Legend also performed at the White House party. Famous attendees includied Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Hudson, Samuel L. Jackson, Magic Johnson, Gayle King, Gladys Knight, Michael Kors, Rachael Ray, Smokey Robinson, Al Roker, Sheryl Sandberg and Stevie Wonder.
…The leaked invitation promised “Snacks & Sips & Dancing & Dessert” and asked guests to refrain from taking photos inside the
event. Attendees were also encouraged to wear comfortable shoes, as the entire state floor—including the gilded east room, the formal parlors and the state dining room—was transformed into a dance floor. At one point, POTUS, 52, taught guests how to do “The Dougie!”
For some, however, the president’s remarks about his wife of 21 years were the highlight of the night. “It was really beautiful and really touching,” musician Herbie Hancock said. “He said something—his
voice almost cracked like he was crying. It was just beautiful, a
husband speaking about his wife.”
http://www.eonline.com/news/501401/beyonce-performs-at-michelle-obama-s-50th-birthday-party-barack-does-the-dougie-all-the-details
They’re coming for you, Chris Christie!
Tee heehee,where’s that jail cell?
BWA HA HA HA
Tom Brady is going HOME! And that’s all!
LOL I want to see the 49ers take down the BRONCOS in th eSuper Bowl, sooooooo BAD!
I want to see this exhibit:
Exhibit Shows Adelman’s Civil Rights-Era Photos
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JAN. 19, 2014, 11:39 A.M. E.S.T.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Flipping through a stack of color images he shot during a 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., photographer Bob Adelman is casual about the history they represent.
He pauses at the image of a group of people with clasped hands raised in victory at a Montgomery, Ala., cab stand, where people had gathered during the city’s long bus boycott a decade earlier, and calls them “real King fans.” Pointing to the second floor of the Alabama Capitol, behind a line of green-helmeted troops, he chuckles as he remembers, “Gov. Wallace was hiding behind the curtains up there.”
Then there’s the man with his fist raised in mid-speech, whom he calls “Doc” — better known as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Now they seem like momentous events. At the time, they were covered in the back pages of newspapers, for the most part. The only time blacks appeared in newspapers at that time was when there was violence,” Adelman said.
The images are among roughly 150 assembled at Nova Southeastern University’s Museum of Art-Fort Lauderdale for an exhibit marking the half-century since the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964.
Adelman volunteered his services as a photographer to the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He went on to shoot the covers of national magazines and the front pages of national newspapers, but he always considered himself an activist.
“Unlike photojournalists trying to get the shot, this is somebody that is part of the circle really recognizing the role he can play in bringing about change through his images,” museum director Bonnie Clearwater said.
The exhibit is titled “The Movement,” referring to both the efforts to end segregation in America and Adelman’s aesthetic as a photographer, Clearwater said.
Adelman wanted to capture the spirit of the demonstrations on film, but frame after frame focuses on bodies — how the people in the movement physically moved.
Another image from the march to Montgomery shows King and his wife at the front of a crowd that seems endless behind them, in spite of the rain that has dampened their clothes. The descendants of enslaved people who had no rights to their own bodies were marching en masse across a landscape in which signs and white people told black people where they could and could not go.
“I told my friends, ‘This is history,’ even though it was not apparent to many people,” Adelman said. “I thought this using your body to try to change things, whether you tried to vote or went to the bathroom or you were trying to go into a movie theater or whatever — that was inescapable and it was I guess very, very provocative and confrontational.”
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/01/19/us/ap-us-civil-rights-photography.html?hp
Reminder..
SHERLOCK returns to PBS tonight!!
Got The Butler from Redbox and just finished watching it.
Forrest Whitaker and Oprah were robbed of Oscar Noms….period.
Damn right they were robbed!
Yes, the academy gave The movie and the actors the middle finger.
Political Animal Blog
January 19, 2014 11:29 AM
One Model Does Not Analysis Make
By Martin Longman
Associate Professor of Political Science at George Washington University, John Sides, attempts to rebut Dan Balz’s fine analysis yesterday that the Republican Party has an uphill battle to win the presidency in 2016. I find his argument unconvincing.
He begins by providing his credentials.
He then notes that his model would predict a Republican victory if the election were held today. He follows this with a suspect assertion:
It’s true that states behave less idiosyncratically than they used to, but that doesn’t solve the Republicans’ Electoral College math problem. As I highlighted yesterday, no amount of swing over the last six elections has prevented the Democrats from winning at least 251 electoral votes, which is just 19 votes shy of victory. Things may swing one way or another, but when you start out one large state short of victory, you have a large structural advantage. Remember, the argument isn’t that the Republican Party cannot conceivably pull off the narrowest of victories, but that that is the very best they can hope for, and that it would be exceedingly difficult. This is before we even talk about factors unique to the cycle, like the candidates (including their races, genders, and regional bases), state of election law, relative revenues, campaign team quality, the economy, the incumbent president’s popularity, or the relative popularity of the two parties in Congress.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_01/one_model_does_not_analysis_ma048693.php
Eagle Scout. Idealist. Drug Trafficker?
By DAVID SEGAL
JAN. 18, 2014
Ross Ulbricht’s last moments as a free man were noisy enough to draw a crowd. Employees at the Glen Park branch of the San Francisco library heard a crashing sound and rushed to the science fiction section, expecting to find a patron had hit the floor. Instead, they found a handful of federal agents surrounding a slender 29-year-old man with light brown hair and wearing a T-shirt and jeans.
The goal of the arrest, at 3:15 p.m. on Oct. 1, 2013, was not simply to apprehend Mr. Ulbricht, but also to prevent him from performing the most mundane of tasks: closing his laptop. That computer, according to the F.B.I., was the command center of Silk Road, the world’s largest and most notorious black market for drugs. In just two and a half years, the government says, Silk Road had become a hub for more than $1.2 billion worth of transactions, many of them in cocaine, heroin and LSD.
The site was like an eBay for the illicit, celebrated by drug enthusiasts, denounced by United States senators and stalked by four federal agencies. But because it was run on Tor, an encrypted Internet network, and because it merely connected buyers and sellers — rather than warehousing any products — it seemed to operate in a vaporous cloud. It was a business without infrastructure, other than a few servers and that laptop, which on 3:14 that October afternoon sat on a library desk, open.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/business/eagle-scout-idealist-drug-trafficker.html?ribbon-ad-idx=6&src=me&module=Ribbon&version=origin®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Most%20Emailed&pgtype=article
For the Love of Money
By SAM POLK
JAN. 18, 2014
IN my last year on Wall Street my bonus was $3.6 million — and I was angry because it wasn’t big enough. I was 30 years old, had no children to raise, no debts to pay, no philanthropic goal in mind. I wanted more money for exactly the same reason an alcoholic needs another drink: I was addicted.
Eight years earlier, I’d walked onto the trading floor at Credit Suisse First Boston to begin my summer internship. I already knew I wanted to be rich, but when I started out I had a different idea about what wealth meant. I’d come to Wall Street after reading in the book “Liar’s Poker” how Michael Lewis earned a $225,000 bonus after just two years of work on a trading floor. That seemed like a fortune. Every January and February, I think about that time, because these are the months when bonuses are decided and distributed, when fortunes are made.
I’d learned about the importance of being rich from my dad. He was a modern-day Willy Loman, a salesman with huge dreams that never seemed to materialize. “Imagine what life will be like,” he’d say, “when I make a million dollars.” While he dreamed of selling a screenplay, in reality he sold kitchen cabinets. And not that well. We sometimes lived paycheck to paycheck off my mom’s nurse-practitioner salary.
Dad believed money would solve all his problems. At 22, so did I. When I walked onto that trading floor for the first time and saw the glowing flat-screen TVs, high-tech computer monitors and phone turrets with enough dials, knobs and buttons to make it seem like the cockpit of a fighter plane, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. It looked as if the traders were playing a video game inside a spaceship; if you won this video game, you became what I most wanted to be — rich.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/opinion/sunday/for-the-love-of-money.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=1
Inspecting a Student Loan Spigot
A few days after Christmas, ITT Educational Services, one of the nation’s largest operators of for-profit technical schools, reported some unwelcome news. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had warned the company that it might seek penalties and remedies against it for possible student loan violations.
ITT maintained that its practices were legal and said it would vigorously defend itself. Happily for the company, its shareholders seem unworried: last week, the stock hit a new 52-week high, closing at $45.27.
ITT is not the only for-profit educator under scrutiny, of course. But it is among the largest. At 149 institutes in 39 states (and online), ITT offers nursing, criminal justice, business, information technology and other programs to 61,000 students. Based in Carmel, Ind., the company generated $800 million in revenue in the first nine months of 2013, down 18 percent from the year-earlier period.
The consumer bureau, ITT’s filing said, wants to determine whether lenders and student loan servicers working with for-profit colleges “are engaging in unlawful acts or practices relating to the advertising, marketing, or origination of private student loans.”
That’s a pretty broad purview. Asked for more details last week, Rohit Chopra, student loan ombudsman at the consumer protection bureau, said he couldn’t comment on individual companies.
But with total student debt topping $1 trillion today, regulators are clearly on the alert for abusive practices. And with jobs scarce for recent graduates, these loads loom even larger.
Debt carried by students at for-profit colleges can be especially onerous when compared with what attendees make after graduation. Nicole Elam, an ITT spokeswoman, said the average annual salary reported by its 2012 graduates was $32,612. Their average debt burden was around $30,000, she said. By comparison, the average student loan balance nationwide and across all institutions was $24,803, Federal Reserve research shows.
Ms. Elam declined to comment further on the consumer bureau’s warning. But delving into ITT’s financial statements provides clues to what the regulator may be looking at. First, though, a tutorial in the student loan industry may be in order.
The United States government is by far the largest lender to students. In 2012, it provided 73 percent of the $236.7 billion in total student aid offered that year, up from 67 percent a decade earlier.
Private-sector loans, meanwhile, have plummeted in recent years — to $6.4 billion last year from $22.9 billion in 2008 — as investors retreated from the market.
Among for-profit institutions like ITT, student access to private loans is crucial. Under Department of Education rules, no more than 90 percent of tuition payments can come from federal funding. At least 10 percent must come from private sources like family savings or other lending institutions. Veterans’ tuition costs, however, can be fully paid by federal programs.
Inspecting a Student Loan Spigot
A few days after Christmas, ITT Educational Services, one of the nation’s largest operators of for-profit technical schools, reported some unwelcome news. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had warned the company that it might seek penalties and remedies against it for possible student loan violations.
ITT maintained that its practices were legal and said it would vigorously defend itself. Happily for the company, its shareholders seem unworried: last week, the stock hit a new 52-week high, closing at $45.27.
ITT is not the only for-profit educator under scrutiny, of course. But it is among the largest. At 149 institutes in 39 states (and online), ITT offers nursing, criminal justice, business, information technology and other programs to 61,000 students. Based in Carmel, Ind., the company generated $800 million in revenue in the first nine months of 2013, down 18 percent from the year-earlier period.
The consumer bureau, ITT’s filing said, wants to determine whether lenders and student loan servicers working with for-profit colleges “are engaging in unlawful acts or practices relating to the advertising, marketing, or origination of private student loans.”
That’s a pretty broad purview. Asked for more details last week, Rohit Chopra, student loan ombudsman at the consumer protection bureau, said he couldn’t comment on individual companies.
But with total student debt topping $1 trillion today, regulators are clearly on the alert for abusive practices. And with jobs scarce for recent graduates, these loads loom even larger.
Debt carried by students at for-profit colleges can be especially onerous when compared with what attendees make after graduation. Nicole Elam, an ITT spokeswoman, said the average annual salary reported by its 2012 graduates was $32,612. Their average debt burden was around $30,000, she said. By comparison, the average student loan balance nationwide and across all institutions was $24,803, Federal Reserve research shows.
Ms. Elam declined to comment further on the consumer bureau’s warning. But delving into ITT’s financial statements provides clues to what the regulator may be looking at. First, though, a tutorial in the student loan industry may be in order.
The United States government is by far the largest lender to students. In 2012, it provided 73 percent of the $236.7 billion in total student aid offered that year, up from 67 percent a decade earlier.
Private-sector loans, meanwhile, have plummeted in recent years — to $6.4 billion last year from $22.9 billion in 2008 — as investors retreated from the market.
Among for-profit institutions like ITT, student access to private loans is crucial. Under Department of Education rules, no more than 90 percent of tuition payments can come from federal funding. At least 10 percent must come from private sources like family savings or other lending institutions. Veterans’ tuition costs, however, can be fully paid by federal programs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/business/inspecting-a-student-loan-spigot.html?hp
Hoboken residents blast Christie administration amid mayor’s allegations of strong-arming
Residents ripped the governor’s administration over Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer’s claims that she was squeezed to support a local development deal in order to get more Hurricane Sandy relief funds. Some felt it was New Jersey politics as usual, but doubted Christie’s presidential hopes could survive this and the Bridgegate scandal: ‘I don’t think he stands a chance now.’
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/hoboken-residents-react-mayor-dawn-zimmer-claims-christie-administration-article-1.1584466#ixzz2qrxTRd7r
Nooo!
Human Remains May Be Those of Missing Autistic New York Teen, Avonte Oquendo
http://blackamericaweb.com/207808/avonte-oquendo-missing/
Authorities say there may be a break in the case of missing New York autistic teen, Avonte Oquendo. Police received a 911 call from a 19-year-old photographer who discovered the human remains near College Point. The remains, which included a human arm, legs, ribs and a pelvic bone were found Thursday night, about 11 miles from where Avonte was last seen.
Police divers are searching the East River Saturday for more remains.
Police found a striped shirt in the water Saturday, according to the Oquendo family attorney. Avonte was wearing a striped shirt when he went missing.
An identification on the remains could come on Wednesday.
Black Royalty! Meet “The Czar of Black Hollywood”
He won a Directors Guild of America Award. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and his own commemorative stamp.
And now Oscar Micheaux is getting his own series.
“The Czar of Black Hollywood” is an upcoming documentary series chronicling the first 20 years of film pioneer Oscar Micheaux.
more here: http://www.eurweb.com/2014/01/…
Oprah in Azzedine Alaïa at the 2014 Critics’ Choice Movie Awards
Posted on January 17, 2014
Miss Oprah says, “I don’t need any damn Oscar nomination. Check my shit out.”
http://tomandlorenzo.com/2014/01/oprah-in-azzedine-alaia-at-the-2014-critics-choice-movie-awards/
Fifty, Fierce and the First Lady
Michaela Angela Davis on the significance of Michelle Obama at that special age
“I love your wife.”
I’ve had one chance to say one thing to the president of these whole United States and that’s what I said? He was Senator Barack Obama at the time, a presidential hopeful. It was summer 2007 and the hope of Black, young and progressive America was so fresh and thick on him he left some in my palm after I shook his hand, the dew of hope in my grip.
“Well, I do too” he said, then shot me that sly spectacular smile.
We snapped a photo and that was last I saw of that Illinois senator.
That one thing I said to the President, was the truth. I did love his wife.
I loved what she symbolized, I loved her station, her stature, her style, her skin, and I loved her big, smart smile.
I remember like it was today, the moment I learned I loved her.
A small cadre of significant sisters had an event: “Women of Harlem present Michelle Obama.” It was early Spring and the uptown air held a bit of a chilly sting, so her supple kid leather gloves were so appropriate, so old school chic and new school gangster. I noticed her details. I watched as she entered the room of leading women most of whom she had never met, as if we were her besties and this was her birthday tea. She wore a light wool topcoat with a perfectly modern sheath dress beneath. She was taller than I had imagined—actually, I’d never really imagined her. I dared not imagine a First Lady like this: warm, engaging, funny and Black from a distance (a description I boosted from Melissa Harris Perry, who borrowed it from her BFF Professor Blair L.M. Kelley). I was pleased she wasn’t delicate; she had a substantial physical presence that had to be reckoned with. Nope, she was “not his little wife.” She glided her way around the room with purpose, no wasted moves. When it came time to give her campaign pep talk she got loose, giving us real talk. Though I can’t quote anything she said that day, I’ll never forget how she made me feel: relevant. She was not yet the First Lady, not restrained by the enormity and complexity of what the Obama White House would become. There were no big cameras, no official press; she was not squeezed under the global media microscope. She brought Michelle, the Black girl from Chicago to the party— sarcastic but not mean spirited, possessing a couture type swag that let’s you know she could be a boss without being bougie.
http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-culture/fifty-fierce-and-the-first-lady-405#.UttWR7RMGM-
50 and fashionable: How Michelle Obama used style to move a nation
By Harriette Cole
updated 9:12 AM EST, Fri January 17, 2014
And yet, for many women, 50 is the age when we reach our stride. It’s when we begin to love our maturing bodies. When we claim our personal style. When we step into our own power.
So, what does the new 50 look like? Two words: Michelle Obama.
When you go through the endless scroll of photos of the first lady — from Inauguration Day, when she first was cloaked in edgy designer Isabel Toledo, to a recent state dinner honoring the British Prime Minister where she was wearing a sleek, off-the-shoulder dress from American design house Marchesa — you see a fabulous and undeniable evolution.
Obama has the nerve to look younger, fitter, and more comfortable in her skin than she did seven years ago. How she does it is an inspiration to all of us over 50.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/17/opinion/cole-michelle-obama-fashion/index.html?sr=tw011614michelleobamabirthday1p
She IS fly.
Michelle Obama:
A Woman of Substance
by André Leon Talley
From the causes she supports to her democratic fashion choices, which have elevated White House style, First Lady Michelle Obama sets an example in the national spotlight.
Like all of First Lady Michelle Obama’s endeavors—fighting childhood obesity, supporting military families, balancing work and life—her personal, impassioned speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, in September was awesome and inspiring. She brought it! To deliver her powerful message (which clocked nearly 30,000 tweets per minute), she wore a sleeveless framboise-and-gray Baroque-print silk-jacquard dress by Tracy Reese and a pair of J.Crew bois de rose court pumps. The night showcased the evolution of Obama from a rookie clad in conservative Maria Pinto at the 2008 convention to polished political dynamo in 2012.
“She is a modern First Lady, unrestricted by outdated codes or fussy ideas of what a woman in her position should wear—that is so refreshing!” says Reese. “Her style is feminine yet strong, fashion-forward yet accessible. She blends mass retail with a mix of known and up-and-coming American designers. It’s an important message for modern women everywhere, who are learning by her example to wear what you love and feel confident in. You can enjoy fashion while still always looking appropriate.”
By day, Obama is pragmatic in her choice of labels, including working-woman staples like Talbots and Ann Taylor. Or else she recycles her fave-rave fit-and-flare dresses in standout prints: a marine blue–and–turquoise mosaic-tile print Barbara Tfank for a visit to an after-school program in Gainesville, Florida; an incredibly elegant black-and-white outscale floral Tracy Reese on the campaign trail in Philadelphia (in addition to Reese, she chooses African-American designers Laura Smalls and Mimi Plange); and a graphic geometric print Diane von Furstenberg for her convention run-through. But nothing beats the sleeveless full-skirted red check ASOS dress she wore to a rally in Iowa. (It was first seen last year at a military-families event in New Hampshire. Her message: Wear a dress often; just change up the accessories.)
http://www.vogue.com/magazine/article/michelle-obama-a-woman-of-substance/#1
Michelle Obama’s Star-Studded 50th Birthday Party
Family and friends left the White House at 2 a.m.
BY: LYNETTE HOLLOWAY
Posted: Jan. 19 2014 10:25 AM
Stars like Beyoncé, former NBA superstar Magic Johnson, singer Smokey Robinson and actor Samuel L. Jackson showed up at the White House Saturday evening to help Michelle Obama celebrate her 50th birthday, CNN reports.
Family and friends left the gathering about 2 a.m. The celebration reportedly featured entertainment by Beyoncé, who performed several songs.
The first lady’s invitations generated controversy earlier after it was revealed that they advised guests that only drinks and light snacks would be served.
But the food menu, or lack thereof, didn’t appear to bother any of those who attended. They mostly wanted to talk about how great the 50-year-old first lady looked, and how much in love President Obama is with his wife, the report says.
Michelle Obama donned red and black and looked stunning, CNN reports.
http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/01/michelle_obama_s_star_studded_50th_birthday_party.html?wpisrc=topstories
Michelle Obama parties for her 50th birthday
http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2014/01/19/obama-barack-michelle-50th-birthday-party/4647103/
The White House kept a pretty tight public lid on Michelle Obama’s 50th birthday party Saturday night, but some details are starting to leak out.
Beyonce did indeed sing some of the first lady’s favorite songs, and the party lasted until at least 2 a.m.
The soiree also featured such stars — and Obama supporters — as actor Samuel L. Jackson, singer Smokey Robinson and basketball legend Magic Johnson, reports CNN.
Presumably Beyonce’s spouse — musician and businessman Jay Z — also attended. He held a concert in Washington on Thursday.
President Obama himself also held court.
While the first lady actually turned 50 on Friday, the White House held the party on Saturday night.
During the week, Mrs. Obama joked about the milestone, at one point holding up her brand new AARP card.
Also reports CNN:
“Michelle Obama’s invitations caused a little controversy last week when it was revealed they said only drinks and light snacks would be served.
“The food choices didn’t appear to bother any of those who went. They mostly wanted to talk about how great the 50-year-old first lady looked, and how much in love President Obama is with his wife.
“Guests said Michelle Obama wore red and black, and looked stunning.”
Heads up, 3ChicsPolitico
Please consider contributing to the Sherry Sanford House Fire Recovery Fund in DC. The Sanford home was completely burned out in a fire on 1/16/16. They lost everything. The Red Cross was called for temporary shelter, but they need help with clothing, coats, baby formula, and other essentials for 3 kids, Brianna – 6, Blake -5mos, Sheyanna – 12, Parents (Sherrelle and Bill) and Sherry (grandmother).
Any help will be most appreciated.
This fire was posted by the Metropolitan Police on its facebook page on 1/16/14
1. https://www.facebook.com/dcpolice/posts/10152106683560256
Thank you kindly!
I have personally suffered from a devastating house fire back in 2011 and had so many beautiful and generous people online and my community to contribute to our recovery. I am so grateful! Whatever anyone can contribute will mean everything to this family. It certainly did for me.
DONE! Thanks for the link with information, SG2.
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