your free gift: White House Baby Congrats

your baby might be a kid by the time you get the greeting!

(U.S. citizens only)

Free Congratulatory Greetings from the White House.

The President and First Lady will send a card to you for the birth of your new baby, or some other occasion, officially from the White House with their signatures!

Send a birth announcement or your baby’s name, address and birth date to:

The White House
Attn: Greetings Office
Washington, D.C. 20502-0039

Make sure to also include:
1. Name of honoree(s). (The Baby’s Name)
2. Address of honoree(s).
3. Form of address (Mr., Mrs., Ms., Miss).
4. Date (month, day, year) of birth, birthday, wedding, or anniversary.
5. Requestor’s name and daytime phone number.

You can also send it by FAX: 202-395-1232

Please note: email requests will not be honored.

You can also try to submit it online HERE (which is just a Contact page). Type “Greetings request” in the message box. Give the required details for the greeting. However, you will probably have better luck if you do it by regular mail.
This is a wonderful addition to your child’s baby book, and a great keepsake. The president will also send a congratulatory greeting for other special occasions in addition to welcoming your new baby.
Please note that the White House Greetings Office is currently swamped and it may take several months for your Presidential greeting to arrive for the birth of your new baby. This free service is for US citizens only.

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Collywobbles

Definition:

pain in the abdomen and especially in the stomach; a bellyache

Example:

"... unfortunately I awoke this morning with collywobbles, and had to take a small dose of laudanum with the usual consequences of dry throat, intoxicated legs, partial madness and total imbecility..." — Robert Louis Stevenson, Vailima Letters, 1890-1894

About the Word:

Etymologist believe that collywobbles most likely has its origin in cholera morbus, the Latin term for the disease cholera (the symptoms of which include severe gastrointestinal disturbance).
How would cholera morbus have shifted into collywobbles? By folk etymology – a process in which speakers make an unfamiliar term sound more familiar. In this case, the transformation was probably influenced by the words colic and wobble.

more power?

Should we be working to stop Google and Facebook from becoming even more powerful?

Well:

If it’s clear that Facebook and Google can’t manage what they already control, why let those corporations own more? America’s antitrust enforcers can impose such a rule almost immediately.
For one thing, there is no doubt these corporations qualify for antitrust regulation. Facebook, for instance, has 77% of mobile social networking traffic in the United States, with just over half of all American adults using Facebook every day.
Nearly all new online advertising spending goes to just Facebook and Google, and those two companies refer over half of all traffic to news websites. In all, Facebook has some 2 billion users around the world.