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And, happy 236th everyone!!
Yes, bob FR! still hanging in with youse guys when I can, watching the Orioles hand it to the Mariners, pretty day tho!
No, no, the other way around in baseball-speak I suppose, the M’s are handing it to the Orioles! I’ll be quiet now….
Happy 4th Pamela … glad you are enjoying the day 🙂
Yay!
Following you Bobfr!
We’re side by side in this endeavor, friend 🙂 Happy 4th!!
You too! 😆
VC, made it back around to answer you in the last thread…
Got it! The fact mail delivery has been vastly improved is the only WordPress change that I really like. 😆
Give ’em hell Lootenant! 😀
Happy Fourth of July Yardarm!!!!!
Back atcha Admiral. Just tryin’ to stay cool.
Hey, you’re always cool.
How are you doing mustering up your working party?
It’s going well Yardarm, a mighty fine army is assembling! Severely good folk around these parts 🙂
I’ve got a damage control party standing-by if the hull springs a leak.
I’m depending on you, shipmate. 🙂 But I should clarify, you’ll be stuck with me 99.999999999999999% of the time, it’ll only be the odd afternoon here and morning there between now and November that you’ll get a break from me. So don’t you get any notions about being spared of my company, you hear?
PERISH THE THOUGHT MADAM!
Will do, my friend, & Happy 4th to you and yours 🙂
Hey Rikyrah, I see you are like me – when someone shares a good video, I also check out some of the ones that show up with it! After I watched Kasai’s offering I also enjoyed a few others, looking for the pic when Malia looked so mature in that striped blouse and dark skirt, etc. I found it too. Man, I love these Obamas – any of them, all of them. /Sigh of pure pleasure/
Hey, Chips, so cool that you are pushing this video!!!
https://twitter.com/___Chips___/status/220633110390378496
Happiest of 4ths to you and your family and thank you, once again, for creating this exceptional community.
Hey you, honored to know ya! 😉
Likewise, Chips, likewise!! 🙂
Chips, that Download Helper for Firefox works like a charm – no surprise since you recommended it!! Thank you.
Bob, I should have mentioned: every time someone adds it to their Firefox I get $25,000 😎
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😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
Now that’s transparency that #BainMitt should emulate …..
Has Pres. Obama spoken yet?
I haven’t been able to watch a single YouTube video since I’ve been in Shanghai. So excited that the WhiteHouse live link is working. As always, thanks Chips. And Happy 4th everyone! Don’t know what I would have done these past couple of weeks without your insights, humor, observations, wisdom, comradeship, persistence, snark and love for our president and first family.
CBS feed said 6:30 Looking forward to it. Been in the studio all day. too hot for much else. Did see the Pres award citizenship tho
Good west coast evening Chipsticks & TOD family.
HAPPY 4th of July everyone!
It’s so nice to have a day off and be able to hang with my TOD peeps.
I had a great Phone Bank last night. Three new people joined my Jefferson Park Team!
YES.WE.CAN!
Chipsticks, I don’t know what I would do without this site to keep be up-to-date with reliable information – Thank you very much!!!!!
2 new #BainMitt logos …
https://twitter.com/rollingingraves/status/220641623619534849
Can someone change that to Darcy Burner for Congress, please?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Consumer Product Safety Commission has approved new federal mandatory safety standards for children’s play yards.
The requirements will include latches and locks that keep the play yard from folding on a child when it’s in use and minimum height requirements so children can’t get out on their own.
The play yards will have to be tested to ensure they’re stable and that a child can’t be trapped by an accessory attachment, in a flimsy floor or a top rail that folds down.
The CPSC says it’s received reports of more than 2,100 incidents involving play yards, including 60 fatalities and 170 injuries, between November 2007 and December 2011.
The new standards go into effect six months after the final rule is published in the Federal Register.
© 2012 The Associated Press.
This is so cute, Bo Obama in the garden with Michelle.
http://animaltracks.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/13/12188009-bo-obama-is-very-busy-supervising-the-white-house-garden?lite
Wish I had half of one of her green thumbs. I’m lucky if I can keep a basil plant alive for more than a week.
What a lovely dog he is.. Uncle Teddy did well to choose him!
Ah, LOVE this one Edwina:
Totes adorb, I agree.
Love FLOTUS and Bo.
finally, the eyes.
This is so funny, I sent you a tweet about the eyes before seeing this comment!
That has to be one of the most photogenic dogs in history. He is just too cute.
And he’s a complete pro Donna, look at him pose!!! 😆
When PBO, aboard Air Force One, called Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma on her release from house arrest one of the first things she asked was how was Bo.
Are you serious Bill? Flippin’ hilarious! 😆
She was under house arrest for 15 out of 21 years and her only companions were her dogs. So I am certain she has a real affection for the canine persuasion. She is a fascinating woman.
She is, Bill. Her lack of bitterness is what astounds me most, any interview I saw with her recently showed that, she’s amazing.
Everybody loves Bo.
The Obamas ALL seem to be ‘good’ and ‘charming’ and ‘photogenic’.
The good fairy was very certainly alert and active at each of their christening.
I heard Michelle say that Bo enjoyed going out early in the morning and joining the gardeners.
And he’s a good doggie and doesn’t dig up or trample any of the bounty there. Michelle amusingly said that Bo thinks it’s his job—–to help in the garden.
honestly…he is the cutest little ball of fluff ever!
Thx, edwina! “Who’s a good, Bo?” 😛
I love seeing PBO work the rope line. Did you see him pick up that little girl twice? So cute. She must have asked him for another hug.
TeaNN didn’t even cover the President speaking few minutes ago, how about that?
Every time I check that station, Willard is on the screen there. CNN couldn’t get enough of Willard vacay and parade photos. Hey CNN!—what about the President of the United States? Can’t be bothered? You are really dumb, CNN. Fox viewers aren’t leaving Fox to watch you. Your ratings will continue to tumble, as you lose all credibility with the high information voters.
Nooooo…coverage gone..I haz a sad
I thought Id missed it.
Me too. Missed it. Me haz a sad too!
I’m not sure what went on there. First I got a bit of the band playing, then nothing, then a message that it was over. i was on the WH site using it as background info while I read here and there. Kinda weird.
Aw, poor VC 😦 So you missed the President singing all of ‘What a wonderful world’, with Michelle joining in, before they both broke in to ‘Call me maybe’? Flip.
Flip is right, but I know my friend Chips will have taped the entire duet, so I`m not too worried. Taped is the next best thing to live, I believe. The Obamas didn`t happen to do a final quintet to wrap up, did they? THAT would be double Flip! Say it ain’t so. 😦
Ah no VC, there was no quintet. They only sang along to the entire Marine band, that’s all.
Phew! That’s reassuring. I was afraid I had missed PBO, FLOTUS, the girls, AND Bo doing an Independence number. Is there anything live going on NOW ’cause I can’t seem to locate anything.
Well ….. I didn’t want to mention Bo, Malia and Sasha joining in, I was afraid that might break ya.
Boink!!! Crash!!
😆
They were probably afraid the nuns would beat the hell out of them.
and wouldn’t that be fun to watch?
Cluck, Cluck, cluck, cluck, CLUCK CLUCK!!
Happy 4th of July America!
Everyone wants their kid to connect with President Obama—-shake hands, hold them. I see Pete Souza there snapping away. I am expecting some great photos. Michelle was very patriotic in her great red, white and blue outfit and leading the applause. I love President Obama in the navy polo style shirt—much better than that blue checked number, which may have finally retired. It served him well and long. I like that there is always music playing at all the WH gatherings. It’s key to any gathering. Hope weather cooperates for the fireworks and program later.
Where exactly are you watching, Dotster?
🙂
Ouch!! 🙂
I feel guilty for laughing at that….
This American will not be rooting for Ann Romney’s dancing horse.
LOL!
wimbledon semis lineup – Fedex-Joker & Murray-Tsonga
Okay, my confident prediction: Fedex v Tsonga.
What d’ya mean you’re gonna put a tenner on Joker v Murray? 😯
oh boy. quick, change it. I’m rooting for fedex. So is my daughter.
Are you doubting my sporty crystal ball, amk?
Doubting? no, I’m dreading it. Hope it’s not too late for fedex now.
Well that’s a dagger through my heart right there. Oh ye of little faith. I put a lot of my mystic powers in to that prediction, you know:
That ball is trying to run away from you. Poor thing.
Wayne knows the feeling 😥
ruiney knows jacksquat.
Bottom flash.
typical manu maniac.
Guilty, m’lord 😎
The women semis is who? I know Serena is one, the one I am pulling for to win it all.
Radwanska / Kerber & Williams / Azarenka
Go Serena Go.
Just saw a report about electric cars in OR. It was a very positive and forward looking report!!!!
I live in Salem, Or. At the Walgreen’s drug store nearby there are electric rechargers for your car. They are all over time. The future is here in Oregon.
I feel so incredibly inspired that the hip-hop singer,Frank Ocean, came out as gay/bi on Independence Day. His coming-out words will make you cry.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/b-singer-frank-ocean-odd-future-summer-romance-a-man-changed-life-article-1.1107779
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jul/04/frank-ocean-courage-come-out?newsfeed=true
“….. on the days we were together, time would glide. Most of the day I’d see him, and his smile. I’d hear his conversation and his silence.”
Gorgeous, Edwina. What a brave decision by him, considering the area he works in. It truly seems like PBO’s words have inspired so many. Yet more historical change I believe in.
Yes, PBO has really helped make the shift towards greater acceptance.
Yes he has, edwina! Thank you for sharing the story. Let us hope the day will soon arrive when it doesn’t take courage to tell the world of one’s love of another, but rather that everyone has become courageously open and accepting of each person’s right to love, unbounded.
Lawd my #2 loved him and thought every word he wrote was to her. She has gone to every one of his concerts, met his manager, and tour manager, even his booking agent. She doesn’t stalk him, but her dream is to work for that organization. I just got off the phone with her, poor thing. She’s proud of him for coming out, but devastated at what she calls a personal lost.
When did Mitt Romney become a constitutional scholar?
If this ‘swings’ that fucker roberts to left, I’m all for it.
Ha Ha!
The only thing Mitt Romney is constitutional on is…..LYING.
haha—–Mr. Dotster keeps saying he wants Romney to go back to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. (and leave us alone)
We have heard him sing. They would kick him out unless he paid his way into it.
OMG. Naked men are driving around Phoenix causing trouble. Twice in a week…different men crashing cars into a house…the other one crashed into 3 other cars. Good grief.
New post everyone:
http://theobamadiary.com/2012/07/04/july-4-at-the-white-house/
Seriously? read this. Wrong on so many levels…
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57466477/fla-lifeguard-aids-drowning-man-gets-fired/?tag=stack
I hope a door just opened for this lifeguard. He was getting screwed…and there’s that “outsourcing” thing again:) Good for the guards.Hope they find a job where they will be appreciated.
What about the pay- $8.25/(entry level) for the 4 lifeguards, and a supervisor year round, plus park pools around the city. The bulk of That $334,000.00 must be paid to the top. I hope the city steps in on this, and reassigns that contract. I could see if he left his area unsupervised because there was no one. But according to the article other lifeguards watched over his stretch of beach while he used his judgement, good heart and ethics to actually help save a life elsewhere.
Music playing on the WH lawn!