Obama gives Queen Elizabeth an iPod as a gift

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 Evidence that  Barack Obama is cool as a green t-shirt on St. Patrick’s day keeps pouring in. The latest tidbit is that a gift , that was apparently an iPod, was given to none other than Queen Elizabeth II on his recent trip to Buckingham Palace. And Michelle Obama is doubley as cool for not curtseying.

Last time he visited London Obama gave Sarah “hide her” Brown a set of DVD’s that were not from the same region. So, she couldn’t view them in the UK unless she has a regionless DVD player. And, being in the UK, the rules are the rules. But she could probably get them for 19.99 pounds on an HMV sale in Oxford Street.

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Album Alert: Lira

 

Album: Feel Good 

Artist: Lira

Released: Only in South Africa.

Singles: “Feel Good” and “Ixesha.”

Sound: Zulu queen re-interprets Jazz.

Listening Time: While having a daytime glass of white.

Highlights: “Ixesha,” “Feel Good,” “Crush” and “Ngiyazifela”

Loft965 Rating: B

Why Obama might lose…

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Those folks at BBC News always come up with new and forgotten aspects to the election unlike other news agencies that seem to be concerned with the bigger picture. Nitpicking the details can be just as resourceful, as indicated by this article. According to the study, Black candidates for any type of office in the US usually have higher polling numbers than that of the vote box. That is because white voters have “betrayed” black candidates before. There have been stories of candidates who run buy a wide lead only to see that the voting numbers dip. This is what the BBC calls “closet racism.” This phenomenon is known as the Bradley or Wilder Effect. Read on.