Related: Obama tweets Putin on missile shield treaty … developing
From the comments, RFC notices that the “Persian version has that nasty little American flag edited out.”

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

California, an important supplier of fresh fruits, dried fruits and nuts to Mexico, will be hit hard. Table grapes will face a 45% duty at the Mexican border; wine, almonds and juices among other agricultural products will pay 20%. Some 90% of Christmas-tree exports from California and 65% from Oregon go to Mexico. It’s doubtful volumes will hold up beneath a 20% tariff.
Alongside Oregon, Washington state will pay dearly to protect the Teamsters. Four out of 10 pears that the U.S. exports go to Mexico and half of those come from Washington. Under the new rules, American pears now face a 20% tariff, as do a host of paper products from the Pacific Northwest and Wisconsin.
Wisconsin’s scrap battery industry, which exports $128 million annually to Mexico, won’t be as competitive after it pays a 20% tariff. Nor will New York’s $24 million annual exports in personal hygiene products or its exports of $250 million in precious-metals jewelry. President Obama’s home state of Illinois can’t be happy to learn it will lose competitiveness under a 20% tariff on its plastic tableware and kitchenware exports to Mexico ($57 million annually) and on its printed leaflets and brochures ($68.7 million).
North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan sponsored the amendment that closed the border and his constituents will pay. North Dakota only exports $1 million in oil seeds annually but 80% of that goes to Mexico. They now face a 15% tariff.

At first glance, this last point looks like good news for us.
h/t Michele.

Already stinging over DVDgate, White House officials called a hastily arranged news conference Thursday evening to announce that the doors of the White House bowling alley had been thrown open to the DC Chapter of the American Quadriplegic Association.
Update: Lay off, you stupid right-wingers! Get a sense of humour.

Upperdate! SDA gets results premonitions! – “Before the taped interview had even aired, the president telephoned the Special Olympics chairman Tim Shriver from Air Force One to apologise and invite some of the association’s bowlers to the White House to show him how it was done.”

T.O.T.U.S.

March 6th : – CHAVEZ CALLS ON OBAMA TO FOLLOW PATH OF SOCIALISM
March 19th : – House Passes 90% Bonus Tax
A must read, at the Wall Street Journal – “AIG’s managers may be this week’s political target of choice, but the message to every banker in America, indeed every business in America, is that you could be next. At least we haven’t yet seen the resolution that was proposed in the English parliament, in 1720 in the aftermath of the South Sea bubble, that bankers be tied in sacks filled with snakes and tipped into the Thames. But it’s still early days.”
(BTW – AIG donations to lawmakers “include Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), $103,100;then-Senator, now President Barack Obama(D-Ill.), $101,332 …”)

Heh!

I don’t think I’m breaking any confidences here by saying that things are a bit tense around here. Ever since the White House announced that Big Boy was going to do another prime time presser next week, people have been waiting for the backlash. Sure, we could’ve done it during the day, but then we wouldn’t get any attention. We couldn’t do it on Thursday night, because that would cut into our watching the NCAA tourney. So instead we cut into “American Idol.” If you ask me that sucks … me needs what only Ryan Seacrest can bring.

This also marks the first time a blogspot site has been linked by Drudge…. developing…
Flashback! (h/t JackM)