President Barack Obama does push ups on the White House Basketball Court after a member of the Harlem Globetrotters made a shot, April 9, 2012. The President participated in “Shoot for Strength”, a game where children did push ups for every basketball shot made by the pros, during the 2012 White House Easter Egg Roll festivities. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
When they walked on stage that night, they look like a million dollars. And FLOTUS, WOW!!!! I’m sure POTUS is always telling FLOTUS how good she looks.
seeing our kay there is great, but i just noticed something when watching this again. about the 42 second mark, one of those freakazoid parents comes running into the frame from the left side (her daughter has a red jacket), who treat their child(ren) as accessories. i assume many of the parents here know what i’m talking since you see a handful of these parents at any school function or playground. the mom literally throws her daughter into the picture (actually hitting another kid who was already there), and the daughter is obviously having a really hard time (probably just overstimulated).
PBO seems to notice what’s happening, and goes out of his way to try and calm the girl and give the mom what she wants at the same time (a picture with her daughter and PBO). it’s amazing to me to see the president of the united states, amidst all that chaos at the event, be so in touch with what’s happening around him with each individual, and still trying to make things better for each person. not that any of us here are surprised by it, but it’s always great to see! amazing.
What a great spot 4more, I was too busy looking for Collegekay, I completely missed that! Freakazoid is just about the perfect description, the mother was so hyper it’s hardly a wonder that her girl was stressed. And it is amazing how PBO noticed and tried to calm the girl with pats on the back and then on her head.
Great spotting 4more. I hate pushy moms like her. If I were him, I would be giving her the witch eyes. But Obama hardly gives her a glance and seems concerned about the girl.
4more: That wasn’t me, but to tell the truth if I was that close to the President-this President, I might have just acted that crazy too. I was looking for Collegekay. Which one was she? I am just guessing-was she the short girl that had on the uniform and a hat with the ponytail at the end? I am so curious.
Do NOT wash that hand!! 🙂 You’re adorable, and what a great way to spend the day…helping others and meeting the President and all the First Family. What a wonderful memory.
I know right? Hey ck, at the very least, you should make a plaster cast of “The Hand” before you wash it!
Heck, if anybody was sweating, you might have actual Obama DNA on you. LOL! 🙂
I heard that. I might talk a good game online, but in person, I’d be a big puddle of goo. You handled yourself quite admirably out there today. We’re all very proud of you.
Collegekay, what a terrific day for you!!!!! “Yes You Did.” Wow, my heart is still beating so fast everytime I see you there. I better calm down before I get a speeding ticket. But that will be okay, because the ticket will be a beautiful historical one for our own Collegekay!!. I will pay the ticket.
I am so proud of you, Collegekay!!!! What a day. (((((((((( Thank you for being there and being a part of the TOD Family.))))))))) HZ
Each day the Obamas re-write the book on First Couples. I hope that the couple that comes after they have completed 8 years is as authentic, open, caring, and as much fun as they are, but I do not see how it is possible. I just really respect and admire the entire family, Bo included.
It was also nice to hear the girls’ voices as they read.
Father, In the Name of Jesus, I pray for President Obama’s safe trip all the way to, during and all the way back from Colombia. God, thank You for show such lovingkindness and tender mercy to him even more coming from him. Keep him always in safe places and in the right places at the right times. Lord, thank You for granting him wisdom, protection, safety and complete and total favor in dealing with the leaders of this country. Thank you that the warring angels are continually around him and thwarting every possible danger. Keep him from all hurt harm and danger and I bind any hindrances from him and loose blessings to him and First Lady Obama, Malia, Sasha, Mrs. Robinson and Bo. To You is all the power and glory for answering this prayer. AMEN!!!!
Vitaminlover, thank you for such a beautiful prayer. I will sing:’Hear our prayer, O Lord, Hear our prayer O Lord, incline Thine ear to us, and grant us Thy peace. Amen.” HZ
Thank you, GGail! Sometimes it comes on so strongly that I have to share with my TOD family because I know we are in his corner and want the best for our President.
Amen, GGail. Hope that you are enjoying the beautiful weather that we are having as well. Just beautiful. Did LL say that it is going to rain on Wed.? Well, we need the rain as well. Pushing my potted plants out to drink from the heavens. Have a lovely evening, GGail. HZ
Hi Chips, CollegeKay (you lucky duck) & Everyone! Haven’t had a long enough moment to leave comments because teh internet connection is being very stank. Especially yesterday but its been acting up for several days. I can do without TV but don’t mess my internet.
I was looking at the photos at work and had to stifle my squeals. Good stuff. 🙂
In other words, [Crossroads’] research shows that Obama’s campaign to frame the economic debate is working. It’s genuinely quite rare for campaigns (or, in this case, quasi-campaigns) to make that sort of confession.
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Karl Rove’s group concedes that the populist element of Obama’s economic message is currently winning.
Good idea Hope…….df, they are hoping that all their lies will change that. It’s going to be brutal, but there’s no way that it’s going to work this time.
Karl Rove announced a $300mil plan 2destroy PresObama’s standing with voters in key states
Essentially the ads are a “shield” that protect Romney from attacks he can’t afford to answer at a time when he needs to schmooze his millionaire friends. By directing negative attention towards Barack Obama it allows Romney to go about his business for a short period of time.
I’m old enough, and I do remember Gumby the toy and his TV show, but Eddie Murphy’s SNL Gumby character keeps clouding my memory. Sweet and lovable on camera, but when the cameras stopped rolling: “I’m Gumby, Dammit.” 🙂
Co-sign a Letter to Florida State Attorney Angela Corey
Since word first broke of Trayvon Martin’s murder, your actions along with thousands of others have helped get the wheels of justice in motion. We know Trayvon and his family have been in your thoughts and prayers. Now stand up publicly and send those thoughts to Angela Corey, the prosecutor on the case who announced she will forego a grand jury in Trayvon Martin’s case. Urge her compassion and swift pursuit of justice.
Elena Holmes Norton, to hold a Hearing Tuesday for Trayvon.
We shall see what is made of it. The law needs to be changed, Rubio is taking a lot of heat for the Stand your Ground law, which he pushed!
Residents and visitors of Washington, D.C., might see an unfamiliar sight in the sky next Tuesday: a space shuttle.
NASA announced Monday that the Space Shuttle Discovery will fly approximately 1,500 feet above various parts of the nation’s capital on April 17. As a point of reference, the Washington Monument is about 555 feet tall.
While the exact route is still to be determined, the shuttle — strapped atop the space agency’s custom Boeing 747 — should fly over the National Mall, National Harbor and Reagan National Airport. The shuttle will end its journey at Dulles International Airport, where it will be transferred to the Smithsonian’s nearby Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Center.
By Ben Geman – 04/09/12 05:11 PM ET
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A majority of U.S. adults back mandatory controls on greenhouse gas emissions, but support is far higher among Democrats than Republicans, according to a newly released Gallup poll.
The survey conducted March 8-11 finds that 65 percent of adults surveyed support mandatory greenhouse gas controls.
Eighty-two percent of Democrats and 50 percent of Republicans support controls, according to the poll.
By JONATHAN FAHEY, AP Energy Writer – 1 day ago
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. natural gas market is bursting at the seams.
So much natural gas is being produced that soon there may be nowhere left to put the country’s swelling surplus. After years of explosive growth, natural gas producers are retrenching.
The underground salt caverns, depleted oil fields and aquifers that store natural gas are rapidly filling up after a balmy winter depressed demand for home heating.
The glut has benefited businesses and homeowners that use natural gas. But with natural gas prices at a 10-year low — and falling — companies that produce the fuel are becoming victims of their drilling successes. Their stock prices are falling in anticipation of declining profits and scaled-back growth plans.
Some of the nation’s biggest natural gas producers, including Chesapeake Energy, ConocoPhillips and Encana Corp., have announced plans to slow down.
“They’ve gotten way ahead of themselves, and winter got way ahead of them too,” says Jen Snyder, head of North American gas for the research firm Wood Mackenzie. “There hasn’t been enough demand to use up all the supply being pushed into the market.”
Willard hires “illegals” to do his push-ups for him. Then he fires them if they don’t do them well enough. Or if they ask for a raise. Or ask for anything.
oh but i saw a photo today of myth rmoney in a wetsuit and holding a boogieboard as if he was on his way to do some surfing from his shack on the ocean in la jolla, ca. the reports i’ve seen say “someone” took the photo and posted it. funny enough, i can’t find any additional photos of him actually surfing.
my guess is it was like everything else he does – completely 100% phony and staged. he probably didn’t even go in the water. PBO, being an excellent body surfer (with all kinds of photo proof!) will be “hanging 10” on myth come november – 10% or more of the vote that is!
I love this deconstructing of the reagan god. If nothing else they’ll shut up about putting him on a $50 bill or Rushmore. Maybe even go back to National Airport!
ACLU, NAACP will sue over Pennsylvania voter-ID law
By Amy Worden INQUIRER HARRISBURG BUREAU
HARRISBURG – Critics of the month-old voter-identification law are poised to challenge it in the courts and General Assembly.
The American Civil Liberties Union says it will file suit over the law’s constitutionality by the end of April, and two Philadelphia Democrats are set to introduce a bill Tuesday that would repeal the controversial measure.
“There is no basis for the law in the first place. No clear fraud across the state was ever demonstrated,” said Rep. Dwight Evans, who is to appear with Rep. John Myers at a news conference Tuesday at the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation office at 7121 Ogontz Ave. in West Oak Lane.
The ACLU, along with the NAACP, says it will sue on grounds the law discriminates against voters, especially the elderly, the poor, urban residents, and the disabled.
Oh, please God let this result in at least a “stay” of this awful law. An ACLU rep is coming to talk to local Democrats this month and I hope to get more insight into the lawsuit. The more you look at this outrageous law, the worse it seems. It is flat-out discriminatory and the state is doing a terrible job explain it to people.
Lawd. Lawrence is leading off with the most hilarious mashup of Willard’s nuttiness/weirdness/awkwardness/unlikability/out-of-touchness/emptiness/lack-of-core-ness, and just general, overall horribleness as a candidate.
Hilarious – Saturday Night Live is going in. This dude is gonna be roadkill by the end of the campaign. Brutal.
He’s got it coming alright. He’s truly one of the worst candidates in presidential campaign history. We still don’t know exactly why this near-human is running for president. He has no message, no core, no vision. He just thinks he should be president.
I’m soooo going to enjoy the takedown of this clown. Greatly.
Unlike John McCain, Willard doesn’t even have a day job to go back to. He doesn’t hold an elected office (which is why I find his briefings with foreign heads of state appalling), he’s just been running for office for 5+ years. Once he gets run over by the Obama Express, what’s he gonna do?
Hide from public view? Work in a laundry (because apparently he washes his own clothes)? Hand out free sandwiches at Subway (when it’s no longer illegal)?
I guess I’m back to hoping it’s “Hide from public view.”
Run over…I sincerely hope so. I also want Ryan, Rove, Sanitorium, aaand, McConnell, Limpballs, cry -baby orange man and his side kick back stabber………I have not heard so many LIARS in a long time.
Just dawned on me with Mike Wallace’s passing that once – as a civilian public affairs officer working at a Navy organization in the late ’90s – I had to tell a reporter from 60 Minutes that we weren’t interested in their sharing our story on their upcoming show. It was a good story, but not something headquarters folks wanted to put on that show, at that time, because they wanted coverage of something more broad and “high tech,” for better bragging rights (the one they wanted to cover was more a local story), which was totally reasonable.
The reporter said to me on the phone when I told her, “Well, when I tell my producer, he’s going to wonder what your organization has to hide from 60 Minutes.” And I said, “Well, obviously, we’re not hiding anything because we just allowed that entire story to run on Jim Lehrer’s show, and we thought that coverage was excellent. And we would love to invite you back for an exclusive on something else. May I call you?”
And then my whole short, dull life flashed before my eyes.
So, after I had to make several phone calls up the public affairs chain to report how it went, I then had to sit and wait for the Sunday show, through the whole hour, wondering if they were going to mention my organization, because I was pretty sure I’d be fired if I hadn’t handled it right and embarrassed the Navy!!! Luckily, no mention, and I could just happily report to work on Monday, still gainfully employed. That show scared lots of people, even the “not guilty”!
I think I need a little wine, just replaying that in my mind. Ha!
I’ve never been a fan of 60 minutes. I’ve talked to people who have told me how they’ve watched actual interviews in person be butchered and edited to support a meme. We’ve seen it happen to President Obama…we seen a complete interview turned into a hatchet job. 60 minutes did a number on Jeffery Wigand. Their credibility was shot with me back in the 80’s. NOT a Mike Wallace fan at all.
Hence, my thoughts about the wine, due to the memory, since I hardly ever drink. They don’t always play fair, that’s for sure. And sometimes it’s extremely hurtful to innocent people.
Tien, I use to be an avid fan and never missed 60 minutes. Now I randomly watch it. One of the interviews done with PBO turned me off. I get so sick of the MSM parroting republican talking points.
I’ve always felt that Mike Wallace was a bastard, but I have to give him his due now. He would have never allowed these sorry assed Repugs to get away with lies and bullshit. The current crop of so-called “journalists” care about nothing but who’s paying their salary. Whores one and all.
F-ing Karl Rove. That toolbag should be in jail! F-ing Cit U. Biggest miscarriage of justice ever. Shame on you SC! Shame on you for selling our democracy.
This week, Americans around the country are finishing up their taxes for the year. But tax season is just beginning for Mitt Romney, as Democrats put his personal finances front and center in their general election campaign.
Romney hit arguably the low point of his presidential campaign when he told Republican voters in South Carolina that he wouldn’t release his tax returns yet out of fear the Obama campaign would pick them apart. GOP voters weren’t happy with his explanation and dealt him a devastating primary loss days later. Romney backtracked and released his 2010 return and 2011 estimate shortly afterward.
Now as the nomination seems close, Romney’s prediction has come true. The Obama campaign is launching a multi-pronged effort to highlight Romney’s low 13.9 percent tax rate, demand close to two dozen years of additional returns and request more information about his foreign assets.
collegekay–I’m having a hard time getting my mind around that the cute little girl in the pictures at the White House is the same person who writes such knowledgeable and well thought out posts. It can be your secret weapon. You look all young and sweet—then BAM–here comes the article that exposes corruption and fraud. HA!
Award-winning broadcaster Tavis Smiley and Cornel West, one of the nation’s leading intellectuals are touring the country addressing the issue of rising poverty in the United States.
The dynamic pair will be in Los Angeles on April 15th as part of their book tour, “The Rich and The Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto Book Tour“.
I guess they replaced their bus tour for a book tour…….I thought they were done with that.
Amk for obama, how right you are in your comment. At least ‘poor people’ do not sell their souls so they can be fed. The poor have a goodness within their spirit to know the difference between being ‘real humans’ and not having, or having ‘a shell ‘ with ugly flesh covering it with nothing but hate and bitterness to survive on. And that is truly sad.
Tavis and Cornel have become as stinking rotten souls that no man, poor or rich should ever have to listen to.
If one can’t bring provisions, hope, and compassion of good deeds to a “poor” person’s spirit, body, mind, and soul, then do not bother, my brothers: Tavis and Dr. Cornel. The humble and meek shall inherit the earth, not Tavis and Cornel’s empty platitudes.HZ
One of the sadder aspects of Trayvon Martin’s death is how it’s becoming a touchstone for a nebulous and unresolvable “conversation around race” instead of a touchstone for discussing the horrendous job Martin’s local police department did in investigating his death…
…For some reason there’s this notion out there that Trayvon was killed on Monday, Al Sharpton showed up on Tuesday, and there were marches on Wednesday. There’s an entire contingent of critics who are much more comfortable attacking Sharpton, or wondering why “black on black” crime doesn’t attract any protests.
… more importantly the protests aren’t merely about Trayvon Martin’s killing, they are about the failure of a police department to rigorously investigate a crime… At its root, Trayvon Martin’s killing is a law and order case, and you would think conservatives would latch on to that. Instead, with few exceptions, we are being told that the true calamity here is the presence of Al Sharpton.
Those silly SuperPAC ads that Rove et al plan waste $300M to “destroy” PBO’s voting advantage? – I say go ahead. The ads will just provide fodder for our President when he gives his WHCD roast…
Hopefruit2, how right you are in your observations. I have to really, really, pray hard, when I am praying for POB’s enemies. It hurts so badly at times, but I have faith that we will get through all of the pits the likes of Rove, Koch bros. are putting forth. I really do sit and pray out loud Ps. 37 during my devotional and quiet time. It hurts like hell, but I know that we will win this also.
I know that it is the prayers, meditations, hopes, faith, and constantly lifting POB up daily that gets him through each day. Also this gets each of us through each day as well. That is why we must stay close to each other so we are there when one of us need to be lifted above it all, because they do plan some mess. But we are greater than their attacks. We have to PRESSON with purpose of goodness in our hearts, and a steady movement in our feet to the hardwork that is before, getting POB re-elected on Nov. 6, 2012.
I learned something new and pleasant tonight. I’ve seen Daryl Parks on several shows on MSNBC, speaking out as one of the attorneys for the Martin family. But, tonight, Mr. Parks mentioned when he was on The Ed Show, and I don’t remember hearing it before as part of his various introductions, that he is the President of the National Bar Association, and I found out he has been since August of last year. For those of us who may not follow the Nat’l Bar, this was news and adds even more credibility to the Martin team of attorneys, which is doing a great job. I’m glad to see that top attorneys who practice in Florida and are representing the Martin family have national creds, as well. Good. Let’s get it done.
Why Ed and the others don’t acknowledge this is my only thought (or maybe they have and perhaps I missed it) – their punditry gets in the way of anything more than touching the surface on these stories, methinks. Lazy reporting.
Hi! I went back and looked and the NBA, in this case, is a national organization of African-American attorneys – guess I was thinking the American Bar Association – but it’s still a huge office, which I wasn’t aware of. Later tonight, I saw Mr. Parks on the Dr. Drew show on HLN, and he again brought up the fact he’s Pres of the NBA, so maybe he realizes they’re not mentioning it and will ask them to, in future! I think it’s important and should be known. I’ll try to remember to tweet Ed and Drew tomorrow. Good night, y’all.
The Obama Diary 
Howdy folks
Hi GG! Nice first!!-)
Yup yup! thanks Dudette
WooHoot!
thank you Pamela!
Yay for CJs eggselent adventure
That was supposed to be CK’s, doggone autocorrect! Congrats on first GGail!
LOL! Elle, I figured you were trying to spell CK.
Thanks for the congrats.
This is such a lovely place to play…..isn’t it!
I just left a comment on the last thread about these push-up photo’s making my temperature rise…..and what do you post AGAIN????
😆
Winner!!!
How handsome a couple they are!
Thank you Chipsticks
When they walked on stage that night, they look like a million dollars. And FLOTUS, WOW!!!! I’m sure POTUS is always telling FLOTUS how good she looks.
Gorgeous….one of my all-time favorite pics of FLOTUS.
Love it.
Hahahahaha……
lol
I always wonder if he wears cologne, too, whenever I see people hanging on to a hug extra tight, extra long… 😳
Collegekay? Are you out there?!
This is the video from the link you gave me earlier, but the quality of my version is pretty poor – I’ll try again tomorrow, maybe I can improve it.
Look at you, chatting with FLOTUS and Sasha, and shaking hands with the President….. what a day!!!!!
Thanks a bunch Chips.
Yay, go kay. You look so cute.
That is so cool ck!!!!!
lmao @ flotus chasing that shy little boy.
seeing our kay there is great, but i just noticed something when watching this again. about the 42 second mark, one of those freakazoid parents comes running into the frame from the left side (her daughter has a red jacket), who treat their child(ren) as accessories. i assume many of the parents here know what i’m talking since you see a handful of these parents at any school function or playground. the mom literally throws her daughter into the picture (actually hitting another kid who was already there), and the daughter is obviously having a really hard time (probably just overstimulated).
PBO seems to notice what’s happening, and goes out of his way to try and calm the girl and give the mom what she wants at the same time (a picture with her daughter and PBO). it’s amazing to me to see the president of the united states, amidst all that chaos at the event, be so in touch with what’s happening around him with each individual, and still trying to make things better for each person. not that any of us here are surprised by it, but it’s always great to see! amazing.
and congrats again to collegekay!
What a great spot 4more, I was too busy looking for Collegekay, I completely missed that! Freakazoid is just about the perfect description, the mother was so hyper it’s hardly a wonder that her girl was stressed. And it is amazing how PBO noticed and tried to calm the girl with pats on the back and then on her head.
Great spotting 4more. I hate pushy moms like her. If I were him, I would be giving her the witch eyes. But Obama hardly gives her a glance and seems concerned about the girl.
4more: That wasn’t me, but to tell the truth if I was that close to the President-this President, I might have just acted that crazy too. I was looking for Collegekay. Which one was she? I am just guessing-was she the short girl that had on the uniform and a hat with the ponytail at the end? I am so curious.
Ck, you did such an awesome job, I was shrieking with delight while watching! Good on ya’!
Collegekay – you are so cute. I see you drop your head in shyness when the President shakes your hand.
Yes I just couldn’t look at him in the eye. In retrospect, I wish I would have.
Do NOT wash that hand!! 🙂 You’re adorable, and what a great way to spend the day…helping others and meeting the President and all the First Family. What a wonderful memory.
I know right? Hey ck, at the very least, you should make a plaster cast of “The Hand” before you wash it!
Heck, if anybody was sweating, you might have actual Obama DNA on you. LOL! 🙂
It must have overwhelming as well as exciting at the same time. Please forgive me but I’m so jealous.
Good for you. Sigh!
Actually, in all honesty, it’s hard to look someone in the eye when you have a huge crush on them. Lol : – )
I feel you!
I heard that. I might talk a good game online, but in person, I’d be a big puddle of goo. You handled yourself quite admirably out there today. We’re all very proud of you.
I would likely resemble Chips fainting picture, you know, flat out, cold, stars circling around my head, and someone calling the paramedics!
Oh, how sweet. 🙂
Collegekay, what a terrific day for you!!!!! “Yes You Did.” Wow, my heart is still beating so fast everytime I see you there. I better calm down before I get a speeding ticket. But that will be okay, because the ticket will be a beautiful historical one for our own Collegekay!!. I will pay the ticket.
I am so proud of you, Collegekay!!!! What a day. (((((((((( Thank you for being there and being a part of the TOD Family.))))))))) HZ
Each day the Obamas re-write the book on First Couples. I hope that the couple that comes after they have completed 8 years is as authentic, open, caring, and as much fun as they are, but I do not see how it is possible. I just really respect and admire the entire family, Bo included.
It was also nice to hear the girls’ voices as they read.
I want 4 more years for POTUS and FLOTUS. I also wish POTUS could serve more than four more years. I don’t ever want to think of them leaving.
annie, what will we do in 2017? 🙂
hopefruit2,I do not know. I can’t let my mind even think about that.
Tomorrow:
9:10 AM: PBO departs the White House en route Joint Base Andrews
11:25 AM: Arrives West Palm Beach, Fla
1:15 PM: Delivers remarks at a campaign event
2:55 PM: Delivers remarks on the economy at Florida Atlantic University
6:00 PM: Delivers remarks at a campaign event
8:05 PM: Delivers remarks at a campaign event
9:20 PM: Departs Hollywood, Florida, en route Joint Base Andrews
11:45 PM: Arrives at the White House
What a rosy schedule!
I’m going to miss the 1:15 and 2:55 speeches. But will his 6PM and 8PM speeches be livestreamed or televised?
Father, In the Name of Jesus, I pray for President Obama’s safe trip all the way to, during and all the way back from Colombia. God, thank You for show such lovingkindness and tender mercy to him even more coming from him. Keep him always in safe places and in the right places at the right times. Lord, thank You for granting him wisdom, protection, safety and complete and total favor in dealing with the leaders of this country. Thank you that the warring angels are continually around him and thwarting every possible danger. Keep him from all hurt harm and danger and I bind any hindrances from him and loose blessings to him and First Lady Obama, Malia, Sasha, Mrs. Robinson and Bo. To You is all the power and glory for answering this prayer. AMEN!!!!
Amen….Amen…Amen
you pray real good vitaminlover!
Vitaminlover, thank you for such a beautiful prayer. I will sing:’Hear our prayer, O Lord, Hear our prayer O Lord, incline Thine ear to us, and grant us Thy peace. Amen.” HZ
Thank you! We are called to pray for our leaders and I am definitely praying for our Beloved President and his family.
Yes, we are vitaminlover. ITimothy 2: 1-7. It is good to do so. I try to do the same daily. Thank you again for sharing with us. HZ
Thank you, GGail! Sometimes it comes on so strongly that I have to share with my TOD family because I know we are in his corner and want the best for our President.
Let the Spirit continue to guide you vitaminlover.
Amen, GGail. Hope that you are enjoying the beautiful weather that we are having as well. Just beautiful. Did LL say that it is going to rain on Wed.? Well, we need the rain as well. Pushing my potted plants out to drink from the heavens. Have a lovely evening, GGail. HZ
Amen and amen! Weapons formed against him shall not stand!
Amen.
Beautiful, vitaminlover. Thank you.
Amen
Thank you for that vitaminlover! Nicely done.
OT but too cute not to share
http://gawker.com/5900418/acme-of-cuteness-attained-its-all-downhill-from-here
Awww….so cute.
That is double cute. Puppy and baby cute. Thanks dotster3 for a smile break.
Cuteness-squared!
They were playing for real — didn’t go easy on PBO just because he is the President. Good thing for us!
Wonderful, eggcellent coverage today, Chips. THANKS!
You are eggceedingly kind PJ 😉
Hey guys, I just left the WH and I must say I am exhausted.
I know how you feel. Where were you stationed?
I was at eggtivity the obstacle course. Where were you?
Wondered where you’ve been:) Glad you got to share in the festivities today!
How are you? I’ve been as busy as a bumble bee!
Hanging in …one day at a time. So glad that you’ve been busy, and glad that you got to enjoy the celebration at the WH!
Hi Chips, CollegeKay (you lucky duck) & Everyone! Haven’t had a long enough moment to leave comments because teh internet connection is being very stank. Especially yesterday but its been acting up for several days. I can do without TV but don’t mess my internet.
I was looking at the photos at work and had to stifle my squeals. Good stuff. 🙂
fyi ….
#AmericaThisIsNotATest
#LandslideOBAMA2012
#LandslideDEMS2012
#YesWeMust
You know CollegeKay, I have a couple of friends that volunteer at the WH. I’m not sure if they did this event though. I will have to ask.
I don’t get it….what’s that all about?…Roves’ SUPERPAC launch? I thought they launched their SUPERPAC a while ago…..I’m confused.
Regardless of how many SUPERPAC Rove lauches, let’s do this:
They’re a bit nervous..
http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/09/11100172-american-crossroads-sees-obama-winning-tax-debate?lite
In other words, [Crossroads’] research shows that Obama’s campaign to frame the economic debate is working. It’s genuinely quite rare for campaigns (or, in this case, quasi-campaigns) to make that sort of confession.
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Karl Rove’s group concedes that the populist element of Obama’s economic message is currently winning.
Good idea Hope…….df, they are hoping that all their lies will change that. It’s going to be brutal, but there’s no way that it’s going to work this time.
I just saw this on twitter.
Karl Rove announced a $300mil plan 2destroy PresObama’s standing with voters in key states
Essentially the ads are a “shield” that protect Romney from attacks he can’t afford to answer at a time when he needs to schmooze his millionaire friends. By directing negative attention towards Barack Obama it allows Romney to go about his business for a short period of time.
Brawwawawaaa.. rofl. willard’s big A$$, lying sociopathic, pathological mouth is taking a big ol bite out of rove’s filthly money box.
Another good one – retweeted THAT!
from Washington Monthly:
Shape-shifting alert: Mitt Romney to address NRA later this week.
Wonder what kind of pander he’ll come up with for these bozos.
Tell them how he LOVES guns. How he was born with a golden gun in his mouth.
I’m gonna start calling that guy, “GUMBY”…anyone old enough to remember Gumby? Completely moldable….make it do what ever you wanted….sounds familiar
Gumby was my favorite toy when I was little! and the little poney….
Pokey!
I’m old enough, and I do remember Gumby the toy and his TV show, but Eddie Murphy’s SNL Gumby character keeps clouding my memory. Sweet and lovable on camera, but when the cameras stopped rolling: “I’m Gumby, Dammit.” 🙂
🙂
willard will ask to kiss their guns to prove he’s as serverely stupid as is rumored.
Co-sign a Letter to Florida State Attorney Angela Corey
Since word first broke of Trayvon Martin’s murder, your actions along with thousands of others have helped get the wheels of justice in motion. We know Trayvon and his family have been in your thoughts and prayers. Now stand up publicly and send those thoughts to Angela Corey, the prosecutor on the case who announced she will forego a grand jury in Trayvon Martin’s case. Urge her compassion and swift pursuit of justice.
http://action.naacp.org/page/s/letter-to-florida-prosecutor-angela-corey
Elena Holmes Norton, to hold a Hearing Tuesday for Trayvon.
We shall see what is made of it. The law needs to be changed, Rubio is taking a lot of heat for the Stand your Ground law, which he pushed!
Good to hear Jovie, the more heat that creep takes the better.
done
just did – thanks Chipsticks. and I’m sending the link to family and friends.
Done. Shared on FB.
Oo-signed, shared on Facebook and tweeted.
Residents and visitors of Washington, D.C., might see an unfamiliar sight in the sky next Tuesday: a space shuttle.
NASA announced Monday that the Space Shuttle Discovery will fly approximately 1,500 feet above various parts of the nation’s capital on April 17. As a point of reference, the Washington Monument is about 555 feet tall.
While the exact route is still to be determined, the shuttle — strapped atop the space agency’s custom Boeing 747 — should fly over the National Mall, National Harbor and Reagan National Airport. The shuttle will end its journey at Dulles International Airport, where it will be transferred to the Smithsonian’s nearby Udvar-Hazy Air and Space Center.
http://thehill.com/blogs/transportation-report/1093-nasa/220613-space-shuttle-to-fly-over-dc-landmarks-next-tuesday
Great picture at the link, Chips.
#PRESSON
That is just absolutely brilliant Bob:
Love it amk, loved these too:
That second toon is dead on. The ugliness of the rightwing since 2008 is stunning. Fuck the media who spawned and nurtured them.
‘Sack O’ Stupid’ – says it all.
You are so right amk…the hypocrisy is out of this world. I’ve never seen anything like this…2 sets of rules…they’re sick.
“SACK OF STUPID”! Right F**king ON.
This is good news for John McCain–
By Ben Geman – 04/09/12 05:11 PM ET
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A majority of U.S. adults back mandatory controls on greenhouse gas emissions, but support is far higher among Democrats than Republicans, according to a newly released Gallup poll.
The survey conducted March 8-11 finds that 65 percent of adults surveyed support mandatory greenhouse gas controls.
Eighty-two percent of Democrats and 50 percent of Republicans support controls, according to the poll.
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/220615-poll-shows-majority-support-for-carbon-controls-but-partisan-split-persists
By JONATHAN FAHEY, AP Energy Writer – 1 day ago
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. natural gas market is bursting at the seams.
So much natural gas is being produced that soon there may be nowhere left to put the country’s swelling surplus. After years of explosive growth, natural gas producers are retrenching.
The underground salt caverns, depleted oil fields and aquifers that store natural gas are rapidly filling up after a balmy winter depressed demand for home heating.
The glut has benefited businesses and homeowners that use natural gas. But with natural gas prices at a 10-year low — and falling — companies that produce the fuel are becoming victims of their drilling successes. Their stock prices are falling in anticipation of declining profits and scaled-back growth plans.
Some of the nation’s biggest natural gas producers, including Chesapeake Energy, ConocoPhillips and Encana Corp., have announced plans to slow down.
“They’ve gotten way ahead of themselves, and winter got way ahead of them too,” says Jen Snyder, head of North American gas for the research firm Wood Mackenzie. “There hasn’t been enough demand to use up all the supply being pushed into the market.”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5haQlA-oNeXqU1oURtMIF_Qzzu3Kg?docId=bdfac10c4c0a4a8eb7d7b3a4eb586fac
That maybe the answer? Natural gas instead of oil. It burns 50% cleaner and their is an abundance of it.
Hmmm!
Willard hires “illegals” to do his push-ups for him. Then he fires them if they don’t do them well enough. Or if they ask for a raise. Or ask for anything.
“Willard hires “illegals” to do his push-ups for him.”
😆 No doubt he could do 100 press-ups in 30 seconds ….. 🙄 ….. he just wouldn’t want his hair disturbed.
oh but i saw a photo today of myth rmoney in a wetsuit and holding a boogieboard as if he was on his way to do some surfing from his shack on the ocean in la jolla, ca. the reports i’ve seen say “someone” took the photo and posted it. funny enough, i can’t find any additional photos of him actually surfing.
my guess is it was like everything else he does – completely 100% phony and staged. he probably didn’t even go in the water. PBO, being an excellent body surfer (with all kinds of photo proof!) will be “hanging 10” on myth come november – 10% or more of the vote that is!
Yes, the “someone” who got past the Secret Service, to photograph myth. Yeah, we believe ’em.
Love your Obama-Biden Landslide prediction, with our help, of course!
I am telling you, the Obama Team has some mad video on everything. They are good investigators!
I love this deconstructing of the reagan god. If nothing else they’ll shut up about putting him on a $50 bill or Rushmore. Maybe even go back to National Airport!
Waiting for his tax returns from the last 10 years………or whatever he gave the McCain’s campaign…….
That is a big weakness for Robney, and it will be an issue, one of these days!
If they choose Palin after checking his record, I wonder what the heck is in it…..it’s very suspecious.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Mon, Apr. 9, 2012, 8:34 PM
ACLU, NAACP will sue over Pennsylvania voter-ID law
By Amy Worden INQUIRER HARRISBURG BUREAU
HARRISBURG – Critics of the month-old voter-identification law are poised to challenge it in the courts and General Assembly.
The American Civil Liberties Union says it will file suit over the law’s constitutionality by the end of April, and two Philadelphia Democrats are set to introduce a bill Tuesday that would repeal the controversial measure.
“There is no basis for the law in the first place. No clear fraud across the state was ever demonstrated,” said Rep. Dwight Evans, who is to appear with Rep. John Myers at a news conference Tuesday at the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation office at 7121 Ogontz Ave. in West Oak Lane.
The ACLU, along with the NAACP, says it will sue on grounds the law discriminates against voters, especially the elderly, the poor, urban residents, and the disabled.
more ———-> http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20120409_ACLU__NAACP_will_sue_over_Pennsylvania_voter-ID_law.html
Tweeted Alycee.
Thanks!
Oh, please God let this result in at least a “stay” of this awful law. An ACLU rep is coming to talk to local Democrats this month and I hope to get more insight into the lawsuit. The more you look at this outrageous law, the worse it seems. It is flat-out discriminatory and the state is doing a terrible job explain it to people.
Are reason and sanity coming back to corporates ?
Hardly…they just want to avoid the inevitable bad press. They are all claiming they didn’t know what was going on. Whatever.
I’m extremely disappointed that Bill and Melinda Gates were ever a part of this traitorous group.
automatic spell check doesn’t work in fvcking wp anymore.
Congratulations collegekay. That’s awesome!!! 🙂
Lawd. Lawrence is leading off with the most hilarious mashup of Willard’s nuttiness/weirdness/awkwardness/unlikability/out-of-touchness/emptiness/lack-of-core-ness, and just general, overall horribleness as a candidate.
Hilarious – Saturday Night Live is going in. This dude is gonna be roadkill by the end of the campaign. Brutal.
Well, it is hard to feel sorry for him, he’s got it coming. IMHO.
He’s got it coming alright. He’s truly one of the worst candidates in presidential campaign history. We still don’t know exactly why this near-human is running for president. He has no message, no core, no vision. He just thinks he should be president.
I’m soooo going to enjoy the takedown of this clown. Greatly.
He running so he can be the Koch/Norquist errand boy and bill signer. He’s not expected to be anything but a nonentity.
*near-human* Oh, yeah – but about as “near” as ET.
Willard = campaign *roadkill*
I shouldn’t laugh, but I shall.
😆 😆 😆
Unlike John McCain, Willard doesn’t even have a day job to go back to. He doesn’t hold an elected office (which is why I find his briefings with foreign heads of state appalling), he’s just been running for office for 5+ years. Once he gets run over by the Obama Express, what’s he gonna do?
Hide from public view? Work in a laundry (because apparently he washes his own clothes)? Hand out free sandwiches at Subway (when it’s no longer illegal)?
I guess I’m back to hoping it’s “Hide from public view.”
Ha! He’ll probably run for president again in 2016 — as a super-liberal Democrat.
Yes, or maybe he’ll move to one of the places offshore where he keeps the family money. I’ll vote for that!
Run over…I sincerely hope so. I also want Ryan, Rove, Sanitorium, aaand, McConnell, Limpballs, cry -baby orange man and his side kick back stabber………I have not heard so many LIARS in a long time.
Just dawned on me with Mike Wallace’s passing that once – as a civilian public affairs officer working at a Navy organization in the late ’90s – I had to tell a reporter from 60 Minutes that we weren’t interested in their sharing our story on their upcoming show. It was a good story, but not something headquarters folks wanted to put on that show, at that time, because they wanted coverage of something more broad and “high tech,” for better bragging rights (the one they wanted to cover was more a local story), which was totally reasonable.
The reporter said to me on the phone when I told her, “Well, when I tell my producer, he’s going to wonder what your organization has to hide from 60 Minutes.” And I said, “Well, obviously, we’re not hiding anything because we just allowed that entire story to run on Jim Lehrer’s show, and we thought that coverage was excellent. And we would love to invite you back for an exclusive on something else. May I call you?”
And then my whole short, dull life flashed before my eyes.
So, after I had to make several phone calls up the public affairs chain to report how it went, I then had to sit and wait for the Sunday show, through the whole hour, wondering if they were going to mention my organization, because I was pretty sure I’d be fired if I hadn’t handled it right and embarrassed the Navy!!! Luckily, no mention, and I could just happily report to work on Monday, still gainfully employed. That show scared lots of people, even the “not guilty”!
I think I need a little wine, just replaying that in my mind. Ha!
I’ve never been a fan of 60 minutes. I’ve talked to people who have told me how they’ve watched actual interviews in person be butchered and edited to support a meme. We’ve seen it happen to President Obama…we seen a complete interview turned into a hatchet job. 60 minutes did a number on Jeffery Wigand. Their credibility was shot with me back in the 80’s. NOT a Mike Wallace fan at all.
Hence, my thoughts about the wine, due to the memory, since I hardly ever drink. They don’t always play fair, that’s for sure. And sometimes it’s extremely hurtful to innocent people.
Tien, I use to be an avid fan and never missed 60 minutes. Now I randomly watch it. One of the interviews done with PBO turned me off. I get so sick of the MSM parroting republican talking points.
I’ve always felt that Mike Wallace was a bastard, but I have to give him his due now. He would have never allowed these sorry assed Repugs to get away with lies and bullshit. The current crop of so-called “journalists” care about nothing but who’s paying their salary. Whores one and all.
Totally agree. I do think Mike was a Democrat, wasn’t he? Didn’t that come out and cause embarrassment to his son Chris over on FOX? Not sure.
F-ing Karl Rove. That toolbag should be in jail! F-ing Cit U. Biggest miscarriage of justice ever. Shame on you SC! Shame on you for selling our democracy.
What are you watching?
Once again, Lisa. You said it all and said it best.!
This week, Americans around the country are finishing up their taxes for the year. But tax season is just beginning for Mitt Romney, as Democrats put his personal finances front and center in their general election campaign.
Romney hit arguably the low point of his presidential campaign when he told Republican voters in South Carolina that he wouldn’t release his tax returns yet out of fear the Obama campaign would pick them apart. GOP voters weren’t happy with his explanation and dealt him a devastating primary loss days later. Romney backtracked and released his 2010 return and 2011 estimate shortly afterward.
Now as the nomination seems close, Romney’s prediction has come true. The Obama campaign is launching a multi-pronged effort to highlight Romney’s low 13.9 percent tax rate, demand close to two dozen years of additional returns and request more information about his foreign assets.
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/04/obama-camp-brings-back-romneys-tax-issues-in-a-major-way.php?m=1
Trump to Keynote NC GOP dinner. Will this Guy ever go away?
Not as long as he keeps seeing his reflection in his various narcissistic mirrors or reflecting pools. Yuck.
collegekay–I’m having a hard time getting my mind around that the cute little girl in the pictures at the White House is the same person who writes such knowledgeable and well thought out posts. It can be your secret weapon. You look all young and sweet—then BAM–here comes the article that exposes corruption and fraud. HA!
I agree, auni. She is as cute as a button. A great mind underneath all that cuteness.
X2 whatever
Arrgh!
Damned phone. I was replying to Tien’s note about the Gates’ pulling support from ALEC.
Award-winning broadcaster Tavis Smiley and Cornel West, one of the nation’s leading intellectuals are touring the country addressing the issue of rising poverty in the United States.
The dynamic pair will be in Los Angeles on April 15th as part of their book tour, “The Rich and The Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto Book Tour“.
I guess they replaced their bus tour for a book tour…….I thought they were done with that.
Money money money
I can’t stand them…..grrrrrr
Poverty pimps
Wow, these two clowns are “glutton for punishment”. When will they learn?
And they will blame the President. Absent, they were, during the Bush administration, all crickets.
“The Rest of Us” ??? Suddenly these grifters are ‘rest of us’?
Hope their audience is ready with rotten eggs.
Amk for obama, how right you are in your comment. At least ‘poor people’ do not sell their souls so they can be fed. The poor have a goodness within their spirit to know the difference between being ‘real humans’ and not having, or having ‘a shell ‘ with ugly flesh covering it with nothing but hate and bitterness to survive on. And that is truly sad.
Tavis and Cornel have become as stinking rotten souls that no man, poor or rich should ever have to listen to.
If one can’t bring provisions, hope, and compassion of good deeds to a “poor” person’s spirit, body, mind, and soul, then do not bother, my brothers: Tavis and Dr. Cornel. The humble and meek shall inherit the earth, not Tavis and Cornel’s empty platitudes.HZ
Focusing on What’s Important in the Trayvon Martin Case
I just wish we could clone Rev. Al. His reputation continues to grow each year, which is why the conservatives are concentrating more and more on him.
Trying to get used to switch from Blackberry to iPhone. Man, this frustrating!
So you can just imagine how frustrated Willard must be switching from one thing to another and then back on a daily basis.
Good thing he has health insurance…that whiplash he gets everyday would put the rest of us in the poorhouse
Those silly SuperPAC ads that Rove et al plan waste $300M to “destroy” PBO’s voting advantage? – I say go ahead. The ads will just provide fodder for our President when he gives his WHCD roast…
Hopefruit2, how right you are in your observations. I have to really, really, pray hard, when I am praying for POB’s enemies. It hurts so badly at times, but I have faith that we will get through all of the pits the likes of Rove, Koch bros. are putting forth. I really do sit and pray out loud Ps. 37 during my devotional and quiet time. It hurts like hell, but I know that we will win this also.
I know that it is the prayers, meditations, hopes, faith, and constantly lifting POB up daily that gets him through each day. Also this gets each of us through each day as well. That is why we must stay close to each other so we are there when one of us need to be lifted above it all, because they do plan some mess. But we are greater than their attacks. We have to PRESSON with purpose of goodness in our hearts, and a steady movement in our feet to the hardwork that is before, getting POB re-elected on Nov. 6, 2012.
FYI –
http://www.barackobama.com/buffett-rule?source=20120408_ofa_EMS
Pass it on! Tweet…..oh, Bob!
I learned something new and pleasant tonight. I’ve seen Daryl Parks on several shows on MSNBC, speaking out as one of the attorneys for the Martin family. But, tonight, Mr. Parks mentioned when he was on The Ed Show, and I don’t remember hearing it before as part of his various introductions, that he is the President of the National Bar Association, and I found out he has been since August of last year. For those of us who may not follow the Nat’l Bar, this was news and adds even more credibility to the Martin team of attorneys, which is doing a great job. I’m glad to see that top attorneys who practice in Florida and are representing the Martin family have national creds, as well. Good. Let’s get it done.
Why Ed and the others don’t acknowledge this is my only thought (or maybe they have and perhaps I missed it) – their punditry gets in the way of anything more than touching the surface on these stories, methinks. Lazy reporting.
Here’s Mr. Parks’ website: http://www.nationalbar.net/president
Mahalos for this very important news, jacqueboomer!
Hi! I went back and looked and the NBA, in this case, is a national organization of African-American attorneys – guess I was thinking the American Bar Association – but it’s still a huge office, which I wasn’t aware of. Later tonight, I saw Mr. Parks on the Dr. Drew show on HLN, and he again brought up the fact he’s Pres of the NBA, so maybe he realizes they’re not mentioning it and will ask them to, in future! I think it’s important and should be known. I’ll try to remember to tweet Ed and Drew tomorrow. Good night, y’all.
New post everyone:
http://theobamadiary.com/2012/04/09/hey-ya-flotus/