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Bag’s Take-Away:
Two weddings, two wedding pictures taken at inopportune moments (depending on how you look at it).
I have more hope for the couple in front of the tornado.
Top photo via Time Newsfeed
Bottom photo via NBC Today Show
(Top photo credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images caption: Newly married couple Tim and Beth Alberts get caught-up in a protest in downtown Chicago on the eve of the NATO summit on May 19, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Bottom photo credit: Cate Eighmey Photography caption: Kansas couple catches tornado in wedding photo. When Candra and Caleb walked down the aisle for the first time together as husband and wife, the bride, a Nebraska native, also saw her very first tornado, and the photographer snapped her first wedding twister.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Pikachu is very disappointed in you. A child’s backpack surveys the scene of his owner’s detention at NATO summit demonstrations in Chicago.
(credit: Andrees Latif/Reuters caption: A protester lies detained after clashing with police during the start of the NATO Summit in Chicago May 20, 2012. Baton-swinging police officers clashed with anti-war protesters at the start of the NATO summit on Sunday, beating some and dragging others away.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Good thing he’s not running for president, this photo would kill his campaign. Yeah, jobless claims are at a four-year low, but tell that to this country’s still unemployed and underemployed population. You could tell it to Geithner, but …
via DayLife
(credit: John Gress/Getty Images caption: CHICAGO HEIGHTS - APRIL 4: U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner (C) tours Ford Motor Company’s Chicago Stamping Plant April 4, 2012 in Chicago Heights, Illinois. In a speech at the Economic Club of Chicago, Geithner reportedly criticized Republicans for not supporting economic growth and for too much focus on cutting taxes and spending.)
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