Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Odd, I thought the President was on vacation.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle today, carrying out their first royal duty as a married couple.


I find it disturbing the Royal couple is assigned the subject of fashion when they have gone out of their way in many instances to be conscience of worldly events.  I am confident Prince William has more on his mind when speaking with President Obama than what his wife is wearing.  I am quite confident the ladies had much to discuss including military families.  I mean this is just disrespect beyond belief for people at the center of decisions regarding quality of life for so many.  I find it more than interesting that President Obama touches down in Great Britain and NATO gets serious about Libya. 

...Michelle donned a pale green, embroidered dress by Barbara Tfank, (click here) paired with a cropped pink jacket, while Kate wore a geometric-cut beige dress by Reiss that showed off a glowing tan from the royal couple's 10-day honeymoon in the Seychelles....
NATO Bombs Tripoli in Heaviest Strikes Yet  (click title to entry - thank you)

...The strikes, within a 30-minute period around 1 a.m., caused thunderous explosions and fireballs that leapt high into the night sky, causing people in neighborhoods a mile or more away to cry out in alarm.
Just as one strike ended, the sound of jet engines from low-flying aircraft in the stormy skies above the capital signaled the imminence of another. Huge plumes of black smoke rose and converged over the darkened cityscape.
“We thought it was the day of judgment,” one enraged Libyan said.
The intensity of the attacks, and their focus on the area of the Bab al-Aziziya command compound in central Tripoli, appeared to reflect a NATO decision to step up the tempo of the air war over the Libyan capital, perhaps with a view to breaking the stalemate that has threatened to settle over the three-month-old Libyan conflict....