Record-breaking auction for Obamas’ book deal tops $60m

What fool would pay $60 million for what is sure to be a pack of lies... when we were lied to 8 years for free? 

Of course, Chapter 10:

How I Created More Debt Than All The Other Presidents Combined

Will be left out. 

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A blockbuster auction for the global rights to two books by Barack and Michelle Obama has reached more than $60 million, according to people with knowledge of the sales process, a record sum for US presidential memoirs.

The Obamas are writing separate books but selling the rights jointly.

Several publishers including Penguin Random House, which published Mr. Obama's previous three books, and HarperCollins, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, have expressed interest in the most hotly anticipated publishing deal of the year.

Simon & Schuster, which is owned by CBS, and Macmillan, are also in the mix for the joint deal. A win by HarperCollins would bring the Obamas into the same publishing house as Bill O'Reilly, the author and Fox News Channel presenter who has been one of the former president's fiercest critics.

Penguin Random House is leading the pack for the Obamas' joint publishing deal, according to those briefed on the auction, with a decision on the winning bid expected imminently. The publisher declined to comment, as did Robert Barnett, Mr. Obama's literary agent, who is fielding offers on behalf of the former president. A spokesman for Mr. Obama also declined to comment.

The sum offered would eclipse other book deals secured by departing presidents. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House, paid $15 million for the rights to Bill Clinton's 2004 memoirs My Life when he left the White House, while George W Bush made an estimated $10 million from his book Decision Points, which was published by Crown.

One executive from a publisher interested in acquiring the rights, who asked not to be named, said that while Penguin Random House had made a "big move" to secure the books, other publishers were watching the situation closely before deciding their next steps. "It's live," the executive added.

Mr Barnett has become a power player for politicians seeking big book deals. He brokered Tony Blair's £4.5 million contract with Penguin Random House, which is jointly owned by UK education group Pearson and Bertelsmann, the German media company. Pearson last month said it had exercised an option to sell its stake in the company; discussions between the two sides are said to be ongoing.

The Obamas have kept a low profile since leaving the White House. They recently holidayed in Palm Springs and visited Necker Island, where Mr. Obama kite-boarded with Sir Richard Branson.

Having gained a reputation as a writer before entering the White House with his best selling books Dreams From My Father and The Audacity of Hope, Mr. Obama's story of his two terms as president was always likely to attract huge offers from publishing groups.

But the prospect of a joint book deal with his wife Michelle has propelled the auction to record-breaking levels and has set the publishing industry alight.

Mr. Obama earned $8.8 million from The Audacity of Hope, a 2006 bestseller, and the children's book Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters, according to a report by Forbes. Sales of his first memoir, Dreams from My Father, published in paperback in 2004, brought in a further $6.8 million in royalties, according to Forbes.

Record-breaking auction for Obamas’ book deal tops $60m

Ahmadinejad to Trump: US belongs to everyone

Ex-Iranian president pens letter to President Trump blasts American 'dominance', says US 'belongs to all nations'.

Really now...try getting into Iran illegally! Your life expectancy would be about 5 minutes. 

Iranian border:

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Former Iranian President wrote a 3,500-word letter to President Donald Trump in which he slams the new administration’s restrictions on immigration and US “dominance” of the United Nations.

The letter was transferred to the US via the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, which serves as the point of contact between the United States and Iran.

In the document, Ahmadinejad congratulated President Trump’s November win and praised his 2016 campaign, which the former Iranian leader said, “truthfully described the US political system and electoral structure as corrupt."

But Ahmadinejad, who during his tenure as president threatened to “wipe Israel off the map” and publicly suggested the Holocaust was a hoax, chided Trump over his recent executive order temporarily restricting immigration from seven high-risk countries, saying the US must “value respect toward the diversity of nations and races.”

Ahmadinejad went on to argue that the United States “belongs to all nations”, suggesting the US has no right to regulate immigration into the country.

"In other words, the contemporary US belongs to all nations, including the natives of the land," Ahmadinejad wrote. "No one may consider themselves the owner and view others as guests or immigrants."

You know like they do in Iran. What a vile hypocrite piece of shit he truly is.

The former Iranian leader made no reference in the letter to Iran’s nuclear program or tensions with the West stemming from Iran’s recent ballistic missile tests. Instead, Ahmadinejad berated American “dominance” of the United Nations, assailing it as the cause of "insecurity, war, division, killing, and displacement of nations."

Ahmadinejad to Trump: US belongs to everyone

Warren Beatty read out the wrong winner for Best Picture at the Oscars

The La La Land cast and crew did a full speech before being told Moonlight had in fact won. The bastards were so into bashing Trump they got it all wrong. They presented themselves for what they really are. Irrelevant fools.

CNN is conducting an investigation.

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Just when you think the whole thing's over and you can go to bed, something incredible happens and The Oscars 2017 goes down in history.

It was time for the very last award of the evening: Best Picture. Everyone was ready to clap and applaud for La La Land, which is the film the whole world expected to win.

Warren Beatty, who was presenting the award with Faye Dunaway, read out La La Land, and the cast and crew jumped up to accept their award. Just as their acceptance speech was coming to an end, there was a kerfuffle onstage, and it was revealed that the wrong film had been announced as the winner of the prestigious award. Moonlight was, in fact, the winner.

So, so awkward…

"This was not a joke," Warren assured everyone, after admitting to the mistake.

"I wasn't trying to be funny," he added, explaining that they had been handed the previous winner's envelope. "That's why I looked at Faye for a really long time," said Beatty.

He told the audience that they had read the wrong envelope, seeing Emma Stone won for La La Land, who was actually the winner for Best Actress.

Warren Beatty read out the wrong winner for Best Picture at the Oscars

Trump administration makes first tangible step to building border wall

According to this article, there seems to be some hesitation from Congress concerning the funding. Funny when you think about it. We spend billions each year housing, feeding, and giving 'free' medical care to illegals. Not to mention 38% of federal prisons are composed of illegals. Why is it we can find the money for that but for the wall it might be a problem? They'll never do it. But if they got rid of the illegals here now the wall would pay for itself.

BTW...how many miles of border wall could have been built with the billions Barry gave Iran?

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President Trump’s administration on Friday made its first tangible step towards developing and implementing one of the president’s chief campaign promises: to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican border.

Bloomberg reported that the administration issued a preliminary request for proposals to contractors. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it plans to start awarding contracts by mid-April.

The agency said it will request bids on or around March 6 and that companies would have to submit "concept papers" to design and build prototypes by March 10.

The field of candidates will be narrowed by March 20, and finalists must submit offers with their proposed costs by March 24.

VIDEO: DHS SECRETARY KELLY WANTS A SURGE IN BORDER RESOURCES 

The president told the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday that construction will start "very soon" and is "way, way, way ahead of schedule."

The agency's notice gave no details on where the wall would be built first and how many miles would be covered initially. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has sought employees' opinions during border tours of California, Arizona and Texas.

It is unclear how soon Congress would provide funding and how much.

The Government Accountability Office estimates it would cost on average $6.5 million a mile for a fence to keep out people who try to enter on foot and $1.8 million a mile for vehicle barriers. There are currently 354 miles of pedestrian fencing and 300 miles of vehicle barriers, much of it built during President George W. Bush's second term.

Republican leaders in Congress have said Trump's wall would cost between $12 billion and $15 billion. Trump has suggested $12 billion.

An internal Homeland Security Department report prepared for Kelly estimates the cost of extending the wall along the entire U.S.-Mexico border at about $21 billion, according to a U.S. government official who is involved in border issues. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the report has not been made public.

The Homeland Security report proposes an initial phase that would extend fences 26 miles and a second wave that would add 151 miles, plus 272 "replacement" miles where fences are already installed, according to the official. Those two phases would cost $5 billion.

The price tag will depend largely on the height, materials and other specifications that have not yet been defined.

Granite Construction Inc., Vulcan Materials Co. and Martin Marrieta Materials Inc. are seen as potential bidders. Kiewit Corp. built one of the more expensive stretches of fencing so far at a cost of about $16 million a mile, a project in San Diego that involved filling a deep canyon known as Smuggler's Gulch.

Cement maker Cemex SAB is also seen as a potential beneficiary even though it is based in Mexico.

Trump administration makes first tangible step to building border wall

This Muslim is primed to head the DNC

And why not? He has the one attribute held in high regard in the Democratic party. A world class liar.

Please watch to the end.

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This Muslim is primed to head the DNC