Obama as Indiana Jones in Cairo, Egypt. Original here.
It might not seem like much, but this current administration is really taking advantage of social media for a "greater sense of transparency in the American government." Personally, I just like seeing Obama in an Indiana Jones-esque hat, and a glimpse of "Special Assistant to the President", fellow Korean and fellow Wolverine, Eugene Kang.
Official White House Flickr Photostream here.
The Barcelona star striker, Samuel Eto'o, is being offered £250,000/week salary for the next four years from Manchester City. If you google "250,000 pounds to dollars" you'll get 414,000. A week. That will make him the highest paid footballer, surpassing Cristiano Ronaldo's absurd £212,000/week salary from Real Madrid.
But, Eto'o will have none of that. He is demanding more, or threatening to stay on in Barcelona and wait out the remainder of his contract so he can be a free agent next year. £250,000/week is indeed too little. I mean, almost-half-a-million a week? At least make it an even half million a week and I might consider it.
More from The Sun.
Over 100 beers on tap. Good burgers. Sweet potato fries. Mission blonde.
Good times.
My Scottish buddy got me hooked on the virtues of Scottish oatmeal.
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Found this while catching up with soccer news.
Celebrities, sometimes.
Over the weekend I met another young Marine at this wedding in Berkeley. He was an infrantryman who decided to fight in the frontlines instead of taking the relatively more comfortable route of OCS (officer candidate school). He completed his tour of duty in Iraq.
He knew of Andy.
It made me think how two very similar persons (both Korean American, college educated, love for country, and a strong sense of duty) went to Iraq and experienced very different fates.
Many Iranians have died and are dying for a free Iran. One can argue American boys and girls are dying for a war (in Iraq) that is not theirs. Is it wasted? Perhaps. But without their heroism, sacrifice and a sense of calling, we would not have a free America.
So to that, their labor (and death) is not in vain. Providence is hard to understand at times.
I went to a wedding in Berkeley. The banquet room next door was holding a reception for a couple’s 50th wedding anniversary.
It’s strangely good to know that some marriages are thriving.
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