I’ve kept tabs on Obama’s Flickr page throughout the campaign. The latest set has some rare and intimate behind the scenes election night pictures.
The one in particular caught my attention.
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A pilot who suddenly went blind while flying his plane at 5,500ft (1,676m) was guided in to land by an RAF plane.
A plane was scrambled from the RAF base at Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire to help stricken pilot Jim O’Neill, 65.
He was flying a two-seater Cessna aircraft from Prestwick airport in Scotland to Colchester, Essex, when he suffered a stroke and lost his sight.
The RAF plane flew alongside Mr O’Neill and the pilot shepherded him to the base with instructions over the radio.
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A racial slur posted on Facebook by former Texas backup center Buck Burnette led to the player’s dismissal from the team.
Burnette was dismissed Wednesday by coach Mack Brown, who cited an unspecified violation of team rules. Although Burnette’s Facebook page had been deleted Thursday, screen grabs posted on message boards mentioned the slur and showed Burnette’s subsequent apology.
Shortly after Barack Obama was elected president Tuesday night, Burnette wrote on his Facebook status: “All the hunters gather up, we have a [racial epithet] in the White House.”
Screen captures showed this apology from Burnette before his Facebook page was taken down: “Clearly, I have made a mistake and apologized for it and will pay for it. I received it as a text message from an acquaintance and immaturely put it up on facebook [sic] in the light of the election
. Im [sic] not racist and apologize for offending you. I grew up on a ranch in a small town where that was a real thing and I need to grow up. I sincerely am sorry for being ignorant in thinking that it would be ok [sic] to write that publicly and apologize to you in particular. … I have to be more mature than to put the reputation of my team at stake and to spread that kind of hate which I dont [sic] even believe in. Once again, I sincerely apologize.”
This story reminds me of the 18 year old New England Patriots cheerleader that got dismissed from the squad because of her Facebook photos [Article]. I don’t condone either of these actions, but I think these young adults just don’t quite understand the implications of what they may say and do around their inner circle and the power and influence of the Intertubes.
Imagine when they apply for a job, lets say in the near future or even ten years from now and a prospective employer does a simple Google search on their name. A mistake in their youth may just haunt them for the rest of their life.
I have to admit, not thinking things though and the potential ramifications was a fault of mine when I was their age.
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The 52% that voted Obama send encouraging messages to the 48% that voted McCain.
Many pics here. Some are actually pretty touching.
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That chorus is going to be stuck in my head all day. Elbows out, hands up high . . . .
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It wasn’t even close. DenverPost.com
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Change has come to America! Well, change.gov, that is.
President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday unveiled change.gov, a Web site that will provide details on the presidential transition.
“Change.gov provides resources to better understand the transition process and the decisions being made as part of it,” according to a blog post. “The Obama administration will reflect an essential lesson from the success of the Obama campaign: that people united around a common purpose can achieve great things.”
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The National Peasant Games have opened in China, with sporting events including the 60-metre rice-transplanting race and the tyre-pushing race.
Two months after the 2008 Olympics were staged in Beijing – the most expensive in history – China’s 750 million peasants are keeping an eye on what they consider to be the real games.
About 3,500 farmworkers are competing in the National Peasant Games, which have taken place every four years since 1988, in the southern city of Quanzhou.
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MILWAUKEE – Police in Milwaukee say a teenage boy has survived after being accidentally dumped into the back of a recycling truck and compacted.
Police say the 14-year-old ran away from a boot camp-style school for teens Monday and hid in a recycling bin filled with cardboard.
The bin was picked up by a Waste Management truck and dumped into the vehicle’s rear compactor.
Waste Management spokeswoman Lynn Morgan says the truck continued on its collection route, compacting cardboard several times.
The boy wasn’t discovered until the truck dumped its load at a recycling processing center.
He was semiconscious and was taken to a hospital, but police say his injuries aren’t life-threatening.
In high school I had a coach who served in the Army. He said one of the guys he served with had one of those special American Airlines cards that he could use to fly anywhere for free because his father invented that process of how a garbage truck picks up a dumpster and dumps in the area behind the truck.
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