The list of over 10 million from President Barack Obama’s campaign has already received the call to host Economic Recovery Plan meetings in their homes and communities. Go to this link: http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/economicmeetings/.
To review the $819 billion stimulus bill (H.R. 5140) passed by the [partisan] Congress this week, go to this link: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5140/show
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Sunday February 1 will be Langston Hughes’s birthday. He would’ve been 107 years old. My how time flies. In The Big Sea, Langston articulated the real deal about Washington’s black bourgeoisie of the 1920s. The chapter is titled “Washington Society.”
These upper class colored people consisted largely of government workers, professors and [...]
The Root.com published my article about my failed documentary project today. Sort of like Spike Lee’s “The Messenger” story minus the crying in the bathtub. I was on a bench on the patio of the Hotel Nacional in Havana. Maybe I’ll do a serial online of the people I met and the places I [...]
I love, love, love Asian cuisine. Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Indian, Chinese preferably Sichuan. The first Sichuan dish I ever had was Kung Pao chicken. I thought my mouth was on fire. I was in love.
I’m no expert or purist about Chinese food. I just like what I like. The [...]
Note: The recovery.gov site is still under construction as of 8:25 am this morning. OpenCongress’s blog has more information about the mandate for creating the site where everyone can get information and monitor government spending from the stimulus package.
Update: I just checked back and now the recovery.gov site has posted this slide:
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The free “We Are One” Sunday concert on the Mall during the Inaugural weekend began with an opening prayer by Bishop Gene Robinson. I missed it live and on the HBO replay. My sister emailed the following message with the prayer text.
Millions of people heard Rev. Rick Warren deliver the Invocation at the [...]
Artist/illustrator John Maviroudis snag the cover for the upcoming print edition of The Nation magazine. Maviroudis will be offering limited prints of the cover. (for info. check his web page: www.zenpop.com)
A picture may speak a thousand words, however, in this case it speaks 66 chapters of American freedom, civil, and equal rights [...]
The change.gov website has now taken up residence at the whitehouse.gov address redecorated and renovated with those “Yes We Can” flourishes.
The Eclectique Citizen needs to do some transitioning as well from the campaign information on the citizen page, to some citizen tools for staying informed and involved. A good place to start [...]
I usually do my tearing up before I meet the public. My family and I are going to an inauguraation watch party at Station 9 on U Street hosted by the DC for Obama volunteers. DC for Obama paddled my sanity canoe to safe shores when we were going down the rapids of [...]
As tickled, inspired, and proud I am about Barack Obama taking the oath of office tomorrow morning, the one change that didn’t happen as the campaign vibe shifted into the transition vibe was the Washington pecking order. This is not the Obamas’ fault; don’t get me wrong. Personally, I think they do model [...]
