London is very excited about President Obama coming to town Tuesday evening for the G-20 economic summit.
Local papers and newscasts are filled with stories about him, his wife, even his car. Did we know that his armored car carries shotguns, tear gas, a night vision camera and bags of Obama’s blood, type AB? 
Among the other things Londoners are learning today:
-Air Force One will not fly into Heathrow Airport as President Bush did a few years back, because that was “as bit of a nightmare” for commercial flights. It will fly into Stansted Airport for security reasons;
-The president and First Lady will stay at Winfield House, the residence of the U.S. ambassador. Sold to the government for $1 after World War II by American heiress Barbara Hutton, it has the second largest private gardens in London (after Buckingham Palace);
-The president’s Secret Service code name is Renegade. The Guardian newspaper notes, in a way that would delight the conspiracy cabals in the United States, that the word renegade comes from an old Spanish word for a Christian who’s converted to Islam;
-That Secret Service agents wear sunglasses…get ready for this …to shade their eyes from the sun.