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March 19, 2009

Posted in March 19th, 2009

The White House will have its own vegetable garden.
The long feud between France’s First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and former Justice Minister Rachida Dati appears to be over.
President George Bush’s memoirs will be available in 2010. Bush said, “I want people to get a sense of how decisions were made.”
Russia announced that it is banning the hunting of baby seals.
Georgia’s Governor Sonny Perdue said that Barack Obama’s showing in the 2008 Presidential election means that Georgia shouldn’t be under the jurisdiction of the Voting Rights Act.
Hugo Chavez is readying his “diplomatic artillery” for next month’s Summit of the Americas. It is likely to be the first encounter between Chavez and Barack Obama.
Diplomats are part of the Afghan surge.
The Vatican defended the Pope’s condemnation of condoms by declaring that he was “maintaining the position of his predecessors.”
Two U.S. journalists have been detained by North Korea.
Kuwait’s emir has dissolved parliament, accusing some lawmakers of abusing democracy.
It appears that President Barack Obama is backsliding on a campaign promise. For fear of offending Turkey, He has delayed a Presidential statement designating the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 as genocide.
Italy’s left has found a leader to confront Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
If HR875 passes, some believe it will be the end of organic farming.
Guadalajara, Mexico has Mexico’s first openly gay mayoral candidate.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood denied that he said Illinois’ workers had an “awful” work ethic.
UK’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown has a little problem with the DVD’s Barack Obama gave him as a gift. They only play on DVD players made in North America.