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Bag’s Take-Away:
Upstaged by a building, outshone by portrait unveilings and verdicts, Mitt Romney poses in front of Solyndra, the solar energy company that went under after receiving millions in federal loan guarantees in an attack on President Obama’s management of the economy.
(credit: Jim Wilson/The New York Times caption: Mitt Romney in California, at the headquarters of Solyndra, a failed solar company that got millions in federal loan guarantees.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
What it looks like: Unfazed and totally used to the idea that attacking soldiers are part of the landscape. Seriously, when you look at this photo is it any surprise that civilians get killed on a regular basis. Makes you question the distinction the word “civilian” implies. Time to get out.
(credit: Shamil Zhumatov /Reuters caption: An Afghan boy pushes a wheelbarrow next to U.S. Army soldiers of the Battle company, 1-508 Parachute Infantry battalion, 4th Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division who are securing an area during a joint patrol with the Afghan Army in the town of Senjaray, Zahri district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan May 23, 2012.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Somewhere between our self- perception (U.S.) and what others think of us (Etats Unis) , Obama prepares to throw a Hail Mary pass or spike the ball, depending on your viewpoint.
(credit: Pete Souza/Official White House Photo caption: President Barack Obama throws a football on the field at Soldier Field following the NATO working dinner in Chicago, Illinois, May 20, 2012.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
A flag from a Muslim country at the Air Force Academy graduation? Interesting. Must be some tradition as there is an airman with the Slovenian national flag (reversed) in the background.
(credit: Pablo Martinez Monsivais /AP Photo caption: Riadh Hairi, stands up and waves a Tunisian flag after being acknowledged during the graduation ceremony of the 2012 class of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Wednesday, May 23, 2012, in Colorado Springs, Colo.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Judging from the interior photos of hot babes in bikinis, it must be a male brain.
(credit: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images caption: BRAIN CALL: A man used a public phone booth decorated as a brain in São Paulo, Brazil, on Monday. One hundred phone booths are being replaced with art works by a local phone company.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
It’s not the piñata or the hitting of the piñata, it’s how much this AFL/CIO official is enjoying hitting the piñata of S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley.
via Mediaite
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Of all the beautiful photos of Falcon 9 this week, this one is my favorite as the rocket seems to soar out of a model of NASA’s space shuttle. As far as budgets and continuity goes, brilliant propaganda.
via Los Angeles Times Framework
(credit: Craig Rubadoux / Florida Today caption: Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — The Falcon 9 rocket streaks into the sky behind a model of NASA’s space shuttle, heading for a rendezvous with the International Space Station and opening a new era of dollar-driven spaceflight.)
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It will not, of course, fit under the seat. Maybe he gets an employee discount.
via The New York Times Lens Blog
(credit: Ted S. Warren/Associated Press caption: Capt. Trent Davey of Alaska Airlines with a 55-pound Copper River king salmon, after having flown the year’s first shipment of the fish from Alaska to Seattle. Copper River salmon are prized for their high oil content and flavor, and typically bring the highest prices at restaurants and fish markets.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Souza’s Camp David Obama/Cameron pic striking as much for conjuring otherwise forgotten Bush & (poodle) Blair.
(credit: Pete Souza/Official White House Photo caption: President Barack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom talk as they walk to Laurel Cabin during the G8 Summit at Camp David, Md., May 19, 2012.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
1. The monument glut continues. 2. Barrack, as in Canberra (see caption.)
via DayLife
(credit: AP Photo caption: This June 7, 2010 image from television supplied by Network 10 shows a commemorative coffee mug of the 2010 presidential visit by Barack Obama sitting on a stone pillar in front of Parliament House in Canberra, Australia. A Parliament House official told senators on Monday, May 21, 2012 that 198 mugs were smashed and buried under wet concrete at a loading dock behind the building. One senator called it a “mafia-style execution” for the mugs, which had an extra “r” printed in Obama’s first name.)
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