Hillary Sundae: Giant-sized!
Posted: February 5, 2012 Filed under: just because | Tags: Hillary Clinton 19 CommentsHey news junkies, welcome to a new weekend treat at Sky Dancing — Hillary Sundaes! (I’ll post them every Sunday as often as permitted.)
From Hillary’s photostream on zimbio:
Hillary Clinton Meets With Cultural Ambassador Kareem Abdul Jabbar At State Dept.
In This Photo: Hillary Clinton, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meets with Cultural Ambassador Kareem Abdul Jabbar at the State Department January 18, 2012 in Washington, DC. According to the State Department, Jabbar, a National Basketball Association superstar and hall of fame player, “will lead conversations with young people on the importance of education, social and racial tolerance, cultural understanding, and using sports as a means of empowerment.”
(January 17, 2012 – Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images North America)
Links:
- February 5, 2012, Munich, Germany — Secretary Clinton’s Remarks at Women’s Breakfast:
And in the last two decades, dozens of conflicts have persisted because peace efforts were unsuccessful. Talks broke down, agreements were broken, parties found it easier to fight than to negotiate. And far too often in these failed efforts women were marginalized, making up, by one estimate, just eight percent of all peace negotiators. And when you look around the world, as a number of us are privileged to do in the positions that we hold now, or that we have held in the past, you see how hard it is to make peace under any circumstance. But the exclusion of women, I argue, makes it even harder.
Because there is a great story about an effort to try to resolve aspects of the conflict in Darfur a few years ago. And the men had been arguing and arguing for days about authority over a particular riverbed. And finally, a woman heard about this and just made herself walk in and say, “But that river dried up. There is no water in that river.”
- FP’s Josh Rogin — Coming on The Cable: Live coverage of the Munich Security Conference…for a rolling archive of Rogin’s posts, see here.
- Pictures of Hillary at the Munich Security Conference: Here she is speaking and here she is with Leon Panetta.
- ABC’s The Note — Hillary Clinton to Russia: ‘Whose Side Are You On?’
- Wapo — Clinton tells Egyptian foreign minister that US aid threatened by NGO dispute
- Times of India — US, EU must deepen economic ties to fight crisis: Hillary Clinton
- Jane Ahlin — From headband to diplomat: Hillary Clinton impresses
- Bloomberg/The Ticker — Hillary Clinton’s Popular ‘High Wire’ Act
- Bulgarian newspaper headline — Over 250,000 Bulgarians May Benefit from Hillary Clinton’s Visit; Bozhidar Dimitrov has prepared a precious gift for the USA Secretary of State
- Very fun read from the same Bulgarian paper — Hillary Clinton Marvels at Ancient Frescoes in the Boyana Church
- Boston Globe: Clinton urges Bulgaria to be energy independent
- Not one of Hillary’s finer moments… The Armenian Reporter: ANCA condemns Sec. Clinton’s comments on Armenian Genocide
- ThinkProgress — LGBT Activists In UAE Cite Hillary Clinton’s Historic Equality Address In Fight Against Ex-Gay Therapy
- ThinkProgress —State Department Working With ‘Private Sector’ To Advance LGBT Equality Around The World
- I find this next headline out of New Zealand particularly delightful for two reasons: a) I remember that wonderful picture of Hillary receiving a Maori greeting in NZ, 2010, and b) it takes an “example of resilience to the world” to know one… NZ resilience example to world – Clinton (ahead of Waitangi Day…)
More lovely photos:
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 25, 2012. (State Department photo/ Public Domain)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Indian Ambassador to the U.S. Nirupama Rao at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 25, 2012. (State Department photo/ Public Domain)
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton hosts the inaugural meeting of the International Council on Women's Business Leadership at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 24, 2012. (State Department photo/ Public Domain)
Dipnote has a bunch of great posts right now! I’ll just highlight a couple:
- Jonathan Shrier: Keeping Promises on Food Security
- Kris Balderston: Honoring American Diaspora Leaders With Roots in the Horn of Africa
I’d like to close by directing your attention to (and shamelessly plugging!) my first post in a series that I’ll be doing over at Taylor Marsh’s — Cinematherapy in Feminist Perspective: Daisy Bates. Teaser:
Click to view my post over at TaylorMarsh.com...
Can I just say that I am so glad PBS chose to kick black history month off by spotlighting a *feminist* leader of the civil rights movement? (The late Dorothy Height would have been an excellent choice too!)
Funny how women always pay “dearly” for ego in anything political, but today’s Newts and Romneys and–yes, Obamas, too–all self-inflate with reckless abandon and don’t seem to suffer for it all that much–or have their names disappeared from the history books.
Oh, and though I was rooting for the Patriots… congrats to Hillary’s NY Giants!
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Great post by Blue Lyon on the Komen debacle btw:
http://bluelyon.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/saying-good-bye-to-the-pink-ribbon-but-not-the-cause/
Wonderful!
Thank you, Minx 🙂
Ok, this settles it… I have got to catch my derriere up on this series….
SNL parody of Downton Abbey:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBEcAwmnfGI
That was funny Wonk…
Yes, that just about sums up Downton Abbey, my favorite TV show! I watched it ( and Antiques Roadshow ) last night instead of the Super Bowl.
“Dear Olden Times,
You’re boring.
Love,
Everyone”
And thanks for another great Hillary post, Wonk. Keep them coming. They make me feel like the world may not be spinning out of control after all.
Downton Abbey helps, too. That woman who “looks like a chicken” ( Maggie Smith ) is so grounded. 🙂
I enjoy Downton Abbey and anything with Maggie Smith, a major favourite of mine.
Her “Bed Among the Lentils” monologue is something to see.
One last…
via Jezebel:
Sheryl Sandberg Thinks Women Need to Pick Themselves Up by Their Bootstraps:
http://jezebel.com/5882434/sheryl-sandberg-thinks-women-need-to-pick-themselves-up-by-their-bootstraps
Thanks Wonk. Hillary posts always leave me feeling better.
Writing them always leaves me feeling better too!
“There is no water in that river.”
Love it!
Thanks for a wonderful dose of Hillary.
🙂 Good to see you, NW!
Yes, I laughed out loud, literally, at that one too. I can just see it.
It reminds me of that story about one of Hitler’s generals telling his mistress about the soon-to-be glorious push to the East and victory against the Soviet Union. The story goes that she said, “But, liebchen, have you looked at the map?”
Didn’t listen to her, of course. And we all know how that worked out.
oh man… that’s a lot funnier than all those “Hitler finds out …” youtubes that littered the political blogosphere for awhile.
Thank you for the Hillary fest, Wonk.
Just wonderful.
smiling here. thanks for a great Hillary post, Wonk. 🙂
Wonderful Hillary-packed post, Wonk. Sorry I didn’t get to read it till now. I’ve been under the weather and haven’t quite kept up with all the posts. I’m so glad to have one of your Hillary posts to read again! Thank you for all your hard work. I look forward to next Sunday’s edition.