One of those flukey things, Theo! Was strolling on twitter to see if anyone was saying anything of note when Chips stepped in and opened the door. Of course, I couldn’t refuse an invitation like that!
Well, as far as I am concerned, in Golden Girls White was all those things you mentioned. Plus a little dumb, which is how I realized you couldn’t be her.
Yeah, well… Sorta. Kinda. It’s it definitely hit and miss, am well out of my comfort zone now, as you know when I was working 60-70 hrs/wk, I knew I had the bills covered! Now, not so much. A test of Faith, I suppose, as most of Life seems to be!
I’m not understanding how the Secret Service would allow Ted Nugent in the building. This Congressman is a sick bastard and I hate to say I can’t stand these Republicans, but I can’t stand these racists right wing Republicans.
Believe it or not, even insane members of Congress still exercise enormous power. I don’t think the SS can veto people invited by members of Congress from attending the SOTU. All they have to do now is to make sure that Nugent and the evil Congressman who invited him are under intense surveillance.
I do believe the Secret Service would do everything in its power to block any potential threats to the President at the SOTU, including even advising the President against attending, if that were ever warranted (and they felt they couldn’t protect him), or clearing the whole building or whatever – no matter how much power an individual member of Congress has. But didn’t they meet with Nugent and “clear” him after his threat, and didn’t he say he was “kidding”? So, there might not be considered to be an active threat out there, on the record. However, I’d like to see a member of the Secret Service sit right next to him. I’d like to see a closed-circuit TV right on Nugent’s ugly face. And we all know the Secret Service hasn’t forgotten his original threat, which I believe to have been real.
I’m out of gas in tolerating the extreme indecency of these nutcase Republicans. They’re all damaged human beings, devoting all their time and effort to damaging this president and this country.
There has been so much evidence that Republican leaders consistently make poor decisions that I don’t get how they win elections so often. I really can’t accept that there are so many idjiit voters in a country that is so ‘advanced’.
@jeffe04: I don't care about .@SteveStockmanTX choice of friends, but I care he's taking this.. to the SOTU. #GOPs have such poor judgement!
I can actually ‘see’ that little live-wire testing the apples! He looks so cute in his ‘formal’ attire though. I confess I’ve a soft spot for nicely dressed children, where appropriate, especially little boys. In truth, if I would get rid of the remaining little boy suits and dress pants/shirts I have around the place I’d go a long way towards having space for moving around! I swear I could easily dress three little boys and without counting the tons of clothing I HAVE passed along. What can I say, I’m a ‘closet’ pack rat!
Republicans are giving a lot of “proceed” moments: dueling responses to SOTU, inviting wack jobs as guest, holding up confirmations for the President’s cabinet, sequester, stuck on Benghazi, voting against aid for storm victims, and on and on…all of which will come back to bite them. If this is their idea of rebranding, PLEASE PROCEED.
Thanks for the concern, it went about as well as having to do an Annotated Bibliography for 10 peer reviewed articles could go! BTW heres a pic to add pic.twitter.com/97S5sZDz Now I get to eat breakfast!!!!
TY, I think I’ll be sending my offspring over to your place to get some tips on writing papers, LovelyP. Congrats on getting two done in one day! It took offspring the entire weekend to PLAN the first draft of a major paper for a poli-science course. In fairness, he had to supply the quotations he will be using and indicate how he will record them, share the chapters from 3 texts that has info supporting his argument, give a paraphrase of another quote and supply a photocopy of the page on which it was found, etc. etc. etc. Of course, I’m hoping all this prep will make the final essay writing easier, because writing is just not his strength and six hours are nothing for him to waste use on two paragraphs in this household. 🙄 Drives me bonkers each time a major paper is due!
Not that I was her biggest fa, but remember when Cindy Sheehan wasn’t allowed to the SOTU because she wore a shirt with the number if Amerricans killed in Iraq? Jus the number, no explanation. ANd she never, ever came close to the rhetoric of Nugent.
Hi VC, post-blizzard normal – means I’m not current at TOD, but at least my house is warm and I don’t have to sleep in the cellar near the wood stove. ‘-)
It does feel like I’m home at TOD, Chips! Everything okay, thanks for asking. Had a chance to peruse your last few posts, but daren’t enter the world of comments lest I live 3 days behind for the rest of my life! Thanks for all the goodies.
Susan…I feel for you. I don’t know how you go days without heat. I can handle weeks without power in South Florida but, I don’t know about freezing for days. I am so happy you are safe and warm
Wood stove kept temp in the house around 49 until the sun brought it up to 55. Thank heavens for microfleece. Wore 3 layers plus ski pants. So glad no one was around to take photos. I did beg my friend to let me move into her cottage in FL next winter. I envy you the warmth in FL, Proud!
That little kid is precious. The President spoke of him and the energy he had in the Oval Office and how he tried every apple till he found one he like. 🙂
I wonder that too COS, because more than anything he’s an attention seeker, desperately seeking even more love from the RWNJs. This guy cannot be allowed in that chamber.
So, for Rolling Stone, threatening the President’s life is the same thing as being an “outspoken Obama opponent…” For me the paper’s refusal to call him President Obama tells me that they share in disrespecting a sitting President.
At first I laughed UT, it was so utterly pathetic, but the thoughts of those families having to be in the presence of that rat, it’s just too much. And as COS wondered, does he plan on shouting out in the middle of the SOTU, in his own delightful attention-seeking way? We all know the cameras will go on him as soon as PBO mentions guns …. actually, I can’t even think about this, it’s ****ing outrageous.
I pray that little boy never has to go to war! He’s a sweetie and I want his future to be free of foreign entanglements. I want his future free of foreign wars like I want my own grandsons’ futures free. I know that is what the President is working toward.
Charges said to be pending, possibly by tonight, in the Pendleton case—-the 2 men, 18 and 20 yrs. old, who have been held for questioning. Reported to be gang related and gang connections to the park where Hadiya was shot.
I am so glad they have got these guys. If they are the guilty ones who kill Hadiya, they don’t need to rot in jail they need the death penalty, and not ten or twenty years from now, but as soon as they are found guilty.
I’ve attained a reputation in my system as a “fixer”: i.e., if there’s a need for a librarian at another library due to a regular employee’s absence, they often send me. Sucks to be so good. 🙂
Today I’m working at a library other than my own, and it’s always so interesting to check out other communities. For the most part, the library is one of those places where the social compact holds. People—again, for the most part—know how to behave. Another reason I love my job.
Read some more about the Navy Seal and his retirement/insurance problems. He and his wife have separated, and it feels like his life went to hell in a handbasket and he just left without any planning. Several people have said that the other service, Army, gives special consideration and shorter stints for their Rangers, which are like the Seals, in recognition of the extra stress. This is a subject that the Navy needs to deal with I feel. Also, several people said there is short term medical insurance available, and it sounds like he was not counseled right on leaving, or was suffering PTSD and just left. We’ll probably never know the whole truth, because he also does not want his name known.
The media ran away with a false story about military benefits – regardless of what is personally going on in this vet’s life. I think going to Esquire Magazine with sketchy information does not help your case if you’re really interested in getting help. If this guy’s mind is so far gone that he has trouble retaining information like health care benefits, etc.., then he should not be exploited by the MSM. The media should know that these veterans are psychologically vulnerable and should instead be obtaining the facts about available benefits and directing the veteran to those resources – not running away with a false report.
I recommend that you follow this former VA administrator who seems to know details about health care benefits for veterans. He has posted some tweets with very informative links.
Yes he does, apparently. I’m not sure why, but I guess it’s a political motivation. The writer – like so many MSM seems to be of Republican lean (at least while PBO is President anyway). He threw shade on FLOTUS’s Joining Forces effort – dismissing it as “gestural” in that same article.
‘After he delivers the State of the Union, please join President Obama for a special online call with supporters on Tuesday, February 12th, at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time. He’ll talk about the plan he laid out and how Organizing for Action will play a key role in making it happen.’
They are voting on this now, so if it goes down you know why. Coburn wants an amendment struck that allows tribal courts to try non-indians accused of rape. Right now If you are non-indian and rape a women nobody has jurisdiction to take you to court and prosecute
This is so pathetic. Coburn is from Oklahoma of all places, where the “Trail of Tears” ended. Will they ever stop screwing over the Native Americans? By the way, they really catch hell voting.
Its pathetic Arapaho415, the shot down Coburns amd, but then John Cornyn spent 10 mins defended it. They have 6 votes to clear tommorw 4 R’s voted w/ D’s today. Murkowski, Collins, Kirk, forgot the other. They are waiting for rest to come in town b/c of weather.
I was watching Euronews this morning, where they were running a long retrospective on Benedict XVI. They showed one clip where his election was announced in St. Peter’s Square, and the throngs literally went mad with joy. And I thought to myself: How can anyone be so happy at a decision in which THEY HAD NO VOICE?! None of those people voted for him, none of them chose him. They gave authority over their spiritual lives to a man of whom they knew next to nothing, and were overjoyed by it. I know, I know, the cardinals were supposed to have come to their decision by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. But as a small “d” democrat, I’m a firm believer that sovereignty comes from me, not from a conclave of 120 men in red hats. I guess that’s why I never was a very good Catholic.
Well, a lot of people around the world celebrated PBO’s election and reelection in which they had no voice, and, in actuality, what PBO does has more impact on people around the world than what the Pope does.
Apparently in the new documentary about pedophilia in the church, they have evidence that this Pope Benedict 16 played a major role in the cover up for decades. As a Cardinal and now Pope he was key in moving the men in red hats around the world to different Parrish’s to avoid exposure to their sick crimes of raping boys. Pope’s do not “resign” no matter how ill. They take to their beds and the sheeple gather and wait for the end. Months if they have to, then they celebrate the life and sit vigil again for the white smoke stack when the grand poo-bah men in red hats pick a new Pope. Bottom line: I smell a big rat!
The pope was so thrilled to be PBO’s presence. His Holiness was just tingling all over. And look at the priest with the pink sash back there. You can tell he’s smiling even though you can’t really see his face.
I remember when POTUS and FLOTUS was talking to Oprah, and FLOTUS mention that one of their high lights of their trips overseas is Malia and Sasha meeting the Pope.
I used to work around the corner from this location. Believe it or not this location is less than 15 minutes away from the Riverdale Gun store that pumps out weapons.
I have slugged through changes to Congress up to and including New York. Whew. P,ease post below if you have found an error in those states. I hope to make one more push in the next few days that will allow me to finish. It will be great to have up to date information so we can push Congress on gun vilence, VAWA, immigration and the budget.
Linda, I followed the link to say ‘thank you’ in your own back yard, but couldn’t find the ‘comments’ section. I admit it’s been a while since I’ve paid you a visit. Anyway, ‘thank you’ for your continued and helpful organization, it’s good to know contact info is there if I ever need it.
President Obama is expected to issue an executive order Wednesday that would create a voluntary cybersecurity program for critical infrastructure networks, such as the electric grid.
The order would allow companies, such as electric utilities, to opt into an initiative that outlines best standards and practices for preventing attacks on networks. (Hillicon Valley’s Jennifer Martinez, citing sources close to the situation, has more on the order here.)
The anticipated order comes after congressional efforts to pass cybersecurity legislation stalled last summer, in part because of disagreements on how to treat such networks.
Republicans wanted to avoid setting standards — even voluntary ones — because they were concerned about adding regulations.
Alright amateur interior decorators. I’ve got my sofa sectional, but it has a left-sided chaise attachment. so I have in my living room, at least a 5×11 area of space in the living room section of my front room that I need to fill. So along the long part of the wall, there is a large window that’s basically floor to ceiling. I’d like to put some more seating in that area, but I think it’d look weird. My moms said I should put some plants there, my sister says a desk, but I’m using the 2nd bedroom as an office so their will be a desk there. Here’s a picture, so go at it. BTW, I haven’t bought the dining room set yet, but the table I got in the pic is how I envision it.
sure you can. just remember, I’ll probably have to move it by myself, so I’d prefer to just leave it where it is, but I’m am completely open to moving it.
Checked your diagram…..can’t create the room of your dreams, ala Chipsticks…..I can just remember advice from my favorite old HGTV show, Room by Room. The decorator on that show, Sheri, always said look at function first, then she’d say “What is your focal point?” Some rooms have natural ones like fireplaces or giant TVs. So, focus your furniture on that…..also provide for comfortable conversation…..you’ll need something across from major seating somewhere so you can hold a comfortable conversation.
Have fun…..you’re creative, I know because I’ve read your posts 🙂
I’m thinking of either 2 accents chairs, a large recliner, another chaise, or a small loveseat, but I have lots of time so I’m just taking ideas and then looking for good deals where I find ’em.
I agree. Love seat would be too big. One or two low profile chairs would be great. Maybe put a small bench or ottoman on beside the fireplace for extra seating if that’s not going to be used for storage options.
Sofa is in the perfect spot. for TV viewing and for flow of energy. Who wants to be laying on the couch when the door opens and air/energy rushes in? From the current spot, that will have dissipated by the time it reaches your side of the room [it’s a position of power too per feng shui]. Alternative would be placing it in front of the window if there’s room, but then TV would be ackwardly placed on the wall to either side of you – not good for your neck. 🙂
that was my simplest plan gobrooklyn. If push come to shove I’ll settle for just two recliners, but I’m in a decorative mood, since unlike in Texas, I’m staying in Louisiana. My next move will be into my own house if I can manage to save enough money. so i’m getting the hang of decorating with my lil 2 bedroon apt and then on to bigger spaces…lol
Lamb I stage homes so usually I’m within the area: I wld move the sofa/chaise to the left.(just so the sofa back is even with the door on the rite, ..move Table Chairs to corner with the large window. Hopefully some type of view, that would be nice in eve. If ur TV is flat skinny screen you can swing it to get best view. I might want to move TV/Cab more left and add a
entry table/landing for mail/purse/etc near door. I live alone, have four sliders that aid me in moving EVERY thing in my house on a whim. Even my 10ft tall amoire. They work on both carpet and wood floors. Have fun. looks like a nice space
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said that once work on the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is finished the Senate would proceed to a vote on the confirmation of Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense.
Reid said the Senate might have to delay six amendment votes on VAWA until Tuesday because some senators’ flights have been delayed due to bad weather.
The Senate Armed Services Committee is expected to vote on Hagel’s confirmation on Tuesday. Reid said the Senate would take up his confirmation Wednesday or Thursday, assuming he makes it through the committee.
Seriously, is there nothing we can do? I don’t want Ted Nugent at the SOTU address. At the least, it is a distraction. At the most … well, it is just sick and I hope he conducts himself quietly. This is so beneath the dignity of our President and First Lady, I cannot even begin to tell you … and my stomach is knotted up. I don’t want him there; being a free country not withstanding! And he is already getting media time from this? This is a slap in the face of most Americans right now. I will not watch, I just cannot. I love my President and the only thing I will do is come here, to this safe haven and read the comments and try to keep myself composed.
i’m with you daisydem. it makes me sick to picture this wonderful event desecrated by that odious presence. of course, a whole lot of odious rethugs will be there, too–duly elected horrors. my instinct is to just not watch, but i know if we all turn away, it gives the pukes strength. that’s nugent’s role: medusa. so i will watch, and i’ll try to take courage from the president’s courage, and the first lady’s, and the strength of all those family members of victims. that’s my plan. i hope i can do it.
Maybe that’s why he was invited, to drive ratings down? It’s a tough call, but remember we STAND with PBO, and as he has to be there, I know I will be watching for his sake.
Did everyone see this article in the NYTimes today which illustrates why we need a “federal” Violence Against Women Act, much like we needed federal laws to enforce Civil Rights.
“After one of his beatings, she said, he even called the county sheriff himself to prove to her that he could not be stopped. Only after he stormed her office at the federal Bureau of Land Management and opened fire, wounding a co-worker, was he arrested.”
Father, in the Name of Jesus, thankk You for the re-election of President Obama and Vice-President Biden.Tomorrow he will give his State-of-the-Union Adress. Lord, let him speak to the American people with such a power and conviction that it is conveyed convincingly. Let his words strike the right hearts to do right , good and well for this great country. As he is speaking give him strength, confidence and courage. Let him be so very wise and bless him. Thank You, Sir, for the Secret Service continuing to do an excellent and spectacular job guarding and protecting him, Michelle, Malia, Sasha, Mrs. Robinson, Vice-President Biden,Jill, Hunter, Ashley, Beau and their respective spouses and doggies Bo and Champ and that Your Secret Service of mighty Angels continuing to fill in the gaps. Protect his heart and mind and spirit, God and Vice-President Biden’s also. During his speaking silence any vicious outbursts. Cause their tongues to be silenced. Let there be love and respect towards this man tomorrow night. Give him a good night’s sleep tonight and a peaceful heart and mind filled with Your Love. Continue to direct him and love and guide him and let him knock this speech out-of the-park. Thank You for his continued safety and wisdom. AMEN!
These GOPs are not even pretending to hide their lack of interest in what is good for the nation. Decisions are clearly being made with their own ends in mind. smh
So, @mikememoli, as most of us know, McCain and his #GOP colleagues aren't governing for the good of the nation, but for their own good.
The GOP don’t understand the sense of fairness that is sorely lacking in their “Ayn Rand” every-man-for-himself, I-got-mine-Jack party.
Because they grew up with cell phones and social media, Post-9/11 and Millennials are more tuned in to the needs and happiness of other people, and just don’t “get” discrimination or judgement on lifestyle choices. (IMHO)
Good afternoon Chips and TOD family. I wanted to bring this to your attention. My friend who is retired from the govenerment has put my on his email list. Today I recieved this in my email. I thought it was another interesting take on the drone issue. I don’t know anything about Secrecy News but I trust my friend.
This is great commentary by Steve Aftergood of Secrecy News regarding the recently-leaked and then officially released DOJ White Paper, “Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen:”
LEAK OF WHITE PAPER BOOSTS INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT
The unauthorized disclosure last week of a Justice Department White Paper on the legality of targeted killing of senior al Qaida operatives who are Americans had the collateral effect of strengthening congressional oversight of intelligence.
The leak not only fulfilled a stalemated congressional effort to provide information to the public, but it also catalyzed the long-sought disclosure of classified documents to the intelligence committees themselves.
Although the intelligence committees received the White Paper in June 2012, they proved powerless on their own to gain its broader public release, or to acquire their own copies of the underlying legal memoranda.
“I have been calling for the public release of the administration’s legal analysis on the use of lethal force–particularly against U.S. citizens–for more than a year,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee in a February 5 statement. “That analysis is now public….”
In other words, what the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee was unable to accomplish for over a year was achieved by a resourceful reporter (Michael Isikoff of NBC) along with a cooperative source. That is a peculiar fact that ought to prompt some soul-searching on the part of the Committee, which has been relentlessly critical of intelligence-related leaks.
But the disclosure did more than just make the White Paper available to the public and launch a substantial public debate on its contents. It also enhanced the ability of the intelligence committees themselves to gain access to additional classified records on which oversight depends.
Specifically, it was the leak of the White Paper that enabled the belated disclosure of two classified Office of Legal Counsel memoranda to the intelligence committees last week.
The causal relationship between the leak and the release of the OLC memos was made explicit by White House press secretary Jay Carney at a February 7 press gaggle.
“I mean, there has always been some interest, obviously, but there has been heightened interest. I think that what you’ve seen in the — because of the public disclosure of the white paper, is that that interest reached higher levels than in the past, and therefore this decision was made to make this extraordinary accommodation to provide classified Office of Legal Counsel advice,” Mr. Carney said.
This statement neatly illustrates the synergy that can exist among robust national security reporting, public awareness and effective intelligence oversight.
Yet the Senate Intelligence Committee in particular seems to have lost sight of the benefits for its own work of press attention and public engagement. The February 7 hearing on the nomination of John Brennan to be Director of CIA marked the end of a period of more than one year — dating from January 31, 2012 — without a public hearing. This may be an unprecedented hiatus in the history of the Senate Committee. (The House Intelligence Committee has held public hearings more frequently.) In light of last week’s events, the nearly exclusive emphasis on closed hearings should perhaps be reconsidered.
I stopped watching her after her “holier than thou” relentlessness about DADT, like PBO didnt have a methodical, surgical, pinpoint disarmament of the opposition(Richard Burr R-NC voted for it). A year later she ate major crow and tried to make right by saying she was wrong. TOO late, it just displayed her naivete and emotion taking over actual legislative strategy. If someone on TOD post something worthwhile, I let it get filtered through comments to see if its worth the time of day. I will read a Steven Bennen post though. Ok rant over sorry!!!!! I have light on the food intake today…..
She must have seen those ratings, because I just saw a promo for next Monday night’s show. She’s going to do an expose of the runup up to the Iraq War and all the lies told to make people want to go to war. I think it’s called the unnecessary war…..she needs to remember who her audience is.
Me too…..Ed Shultz too. I would rather watch reruns of The Colbert Report and old series like the Andy Griffith Show than watch her “make” news and controversy about the President where their is none.
I wonder if I can be counted in those statistics? Probably not, as I stopped watching Rachel years ago. There’s only so much outrage I want to handle right when I get home.
‘ Vice President Joe Biden on Monday removed his name from consideration for the papacy.
“I am not running,” Biden, a practicing Catholic, told reporters in Philadelphia according to CNN. Biden was attending a round-table discussion on gun violence with law enforcement officials in the city.
The question was likely a play on repeated questions Biden has fielded regarding a 2016 presidential run. The vice president has thus far been evasive, although hinted he is at least considering a bid for the White House.
Truthfully, Biden would have been a long shot for the papacy. The last pope elected from outside the College of Cardinals was Pope Urban VI in 1378, and the last person selected who was not already an ordained priest or monk was Pope Leo X in 1513. ‘
‘ When President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, the biggest question he’ll face will be how to get an ambitious second-term agenda through a divided Congress.
he answer: Go around it.
On climate change, gun control, gay rights, and even immigration, the White House has signaled a willingness to circumvent lawmakers through the use of presidential power. Already, plans are being laid to unleash new executive orders, regulations, signing statements and memorandums designed to push Obama’s programs forward and cement his legacy, according to administration aides and allies.
“The big things that we need to get done, we can’t wait on,” said White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer. “If we can take action, we will take action.”
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
Hi y’all.
Good thing I was strolling by.
The others will soon be along, I’m sure.
I’m hot on your heels vc. 😀
Moving my heels along quickly, then. Don’t want my boots falling off in this weather.
Fo’ real.
It’s been a long time since seeing you on that pedestal, VC! Congratulations!
One of those flukey things, Theo! Was strolling on twitter to see if anyone was saying anything of note when Chips stepped in and opened the door. Of course, I couldn’t refuse an invitation like that!
Our golden girl 😉
VC is really Betty White?
Not ‘golden’ as in age, you! Golden as in beauty, bright, full of sunshine. Jeez, get with the lingo, Japa!
Oh, Hi back at you, Chica. I see you are angling to get me over to Ireland.
Well, as far as I am concerned, in Golden Girls White was all those things you mentioned. Plus a little dumb, which is how I realized you couldn’t be her.
which is how I realized you couldn’t be her.
Nice, recover there, Japa! Last minute addition, eh? Good save. 😆 😆
Cover of my Spring 2013 CAA magazine which arrived today =
IRISH ROVING
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EXPLORING IRELAND’S LUSH COUNTRYSIDE AND URBAN HIDEAWAYS
I’m taking that as a personal hint, CC, even though there’s not enough time to save before spring hits.
😆 Well………….. (you’re in deep trouble, Japa)
And you were right not to refuse! 🙂 Enjoy.
Congrats vc. I thought I might be posting on an old page and I was. 😉
Congrats VC on #1!
Go VC!! Woooot!!
Now you’re talking! Waddle and Crump arriving many hours later! WTG, gurl!
Good evening Pamela. I notice you are back at work and since I know that makes you happy I’ll say ‘good for you’!
Yeah, well… Sorta. Kinda. It’s it definitely hit and miss, am well out of my comfort zone now, as you know when I was working 60-70 hrs/wk, I knew I had the bills covered! Now, not so much. A test of Faith, I suppose, as most of Life seems to be!
Disappeared for a bit! Hang in there, this ‘test’ will lead you to a more sane work week AND bills still covered, one day at a time.
And the GOP invites draft dodger Ted Nugent to the State of the Union Address a day after this wonderful ceremony.
The Secret Service should ban Nugent. How disgusting that he was invited in the first place!
It’s really beyond belief Judith, there is no way in hell he should be allowed in that place.
I’m not understanding how the Secret Service would allow Ted Nugent in the building. This Congressman is a sick bastard and I hate to say I can’t stand these Republicans, but I can’t stand these racists right wing Republicans.
Believe it or not, even insane members of Congress still exercise enormous power. I don’t think the SS can veto people invited by members of Congress from attending the SOTU. All they have to do now is to make sure that Nugent and the evil Congressman who invited him are under intense surveillance.
I do believe the Secret Service would do everything in its power to block any potential threats to the President at the SOTU, including even advising the President against attending, if that were ever warranted (and they felt they couldn’t protect him), or clearing the whole building or whatever – no matter how much power an individual member of Congress has. But didn’t they meet with Nugent and “clear” him after his threat, and didn’t he say he was “kidding”? So, there might not be considered to be an active threat out there, on the record. However, I’d like to see a member of the Secret Service sit right next to him. I’d like to see a closed-circuit TV right on Nugent’s ugly face. And we all know the Secret Service hasn’t forgotten his original threat, which I believe to have been real.
I’m out of gas in tolerating the extreme indecency of these nutcase Republicans. They’re all damaged human beings, devoting all their time and effort to damaging this president and this country.
There has been so much evidence that Republican leaders consistently make poor decisions that I don’t get how they win elections so often. I really can’t accept that there are so many idjiit voters in a country that is so ‘advanced’.
Terrific ceremony, and I think the President was seriously having fun with the son. 😆
Best part was when he said he tried out every apple in the Oval Office, until he found the right one!
Little one was just precious! 🙂
I can actually ‘see’ that little live-wire testing the apples! He looks so cute in his ‘formal’ attire though. I confess I’ve a soft spot for nicely dressed children, where appropriate, especially little boys. In truth, if I would get rid of the remaining little boy suits and dress pants/shirts I have around the place I’d go a long way towards having space for moving around! I swear I could easily dress three little boys and without counting the tons of clothing I HAVE passed along. What can I say, I’m a ‘closet’ pack rat!
Pay it forward………It’s time.
Republicans are giving a lot of “proceed” moments: dueling responses to SOTU, inviting wack jobs as guest, holding up confirmations for the President’s cabinet, sequester, stuck on Benghazi, voting against aid for storm victims, and on and on…all of which will come back to bite them. If this is their idea of rebranding, PLEASE PROCEED.
Very well said!
You got it right – we remember this insanity
Congrats VC #1, I am back from slaving away finishing 2 papers……..free as a bird…..till Wednesday, then a test @$#%(
“free as a bird…..till Wednesday”
You poor thing LP, that’s no stretch of freedom at all! Hope today went well.
Thanks for the concern, it went about as well as having to do an Annotated Bibliography for 10 peer reviewed articles could go! BTW heres a pic to add pic.twitter.com/97S5sZDz Now I get to eat breakfast!!!!
What a beautiful photo, thank you LP – enjoy breakfast!!
TY, I think I’ll be sending my offspring over to your place to get some tips on writing papers, LovelyP. Congrats on getting two done in one day! It took offspring the entire weekend to PLAN the first draft of a major paper for a poli-science course. In fairness, he had to supply the quotations he will be using and indicate how he will record them, share the chapters from 3 texts that has info supporting his argument, give a paraphrase of another quote and supply a photocopy of the page on which it was found, etc. etc. etc. Of course, I’m hoping all this prep will make the final essay writing easier, because writing is just not his strength and six hours are nothing for him to
wasteuse on two paragraphs in this household. 🙄 Drives me bonkers each time a major paper is due!Gabby and Mark’s website if anyone wants to donate.
http://americansforresponsiblesolutions.org/
Not that I was her biggest fa, but remember when Cindy Sheehan wasn’t allowed to the SOTU because she wore a shirt with the number if Amerricans killed in Iraq? Jus the number, no explanation. ANd she never, ever came close to the rhetoric of Nugent.
Yes I do remember that!
OMG I missed you guys. 3 days without power, wifi, cell service, heat. Thank heavens for town water (not private well) and a gas stove.
So, what did I miss? I can’t begin to imagine all the goodies from Chips and the wonderful world of TOD!
{{Susan}} Nice to have you back. Hope your presence means everything is back to ‘normal’.
Hi VC, post-blizzard normal – means I’m not current at TOD, but at least my house is warm and I don’t have to sleep in the cellar near the wood stove. ‘-)
Sounds good to me, Susan. 😉
Welcome home Susan!!!! Yikes, three days without heat (and all the rest), what a misery. Everything okay now?
It does feel like I’m home at TOD, Chips! Everything okay, thanks for asking. Had a chance to peruse your last few posts, but daren’t enter the world of comments lest I live 3 days behind for the rest of my life! Thanks for all the goodies.
Wow. Welcome back to the mothership Susan! Glad you’re safe and sound. 😀
glad things are back to normal for you Susan!
Susan…I feel for you. I don’t know how you go days without heat. I can handle weeks without power in South Florida but, I don’t know about freezing for days. I am so happy you are safe and warm
Wood stove kept temp in the house around 49 until the sun brought it up to 55. Thank heavens for microfleece. Wore 3 layers plus ski pants. So glad no one was around to take photos. I did beg my friend to let me move into her cottage in FL next winter. I envy you the warmth in FL, Proud!
That little kid is precious. The President spoke of him and the energy he had in the Oval Office and how he tried every apple till he found one he like. 🙂
So Rolling Stone describes Nugent as “an outspoken Obama opponent.”
See how our Librul media enables these unhinged and dangerous cretins?
“Outspoken”?
I feel ill. **** them.
So Chips, why would he want to attend PBO’s SOTU? I don’t get it. He hates PBO. I wonder if he plan to interrupt like Joe Wilson?
That would be my guess. A true patriot showing other patriots how to stand up to Obama’s tyranny.
I wonder that too COS, because more than anything he’s an attention seeker, desperately seeking even more love from the RWNJs. This guy cannot be allowed in that chamber.
Exactly my first thought too, he wants to get his ugly self in front of a camera somehow. I hope he fails!
Well, RS does have uber Obama hater Matt Taibi. So you have to remember that.
That’s true LL, he makes Greenwald almost seem balanced. Almost.
I think Taibi hates everyone. Hate is an obssession with him. I can’t stand him and refuse to listen or read anything he has to say.
He shouldn’t be allowed in the same building as the Medal of Honor recipient. As to the ceremony, I love that little boy! so much energy.
So, for Rolling Stone, threatening the President’s life is the same thing as being an “outspoken Obama opponent…” For me the paper’s refusal to call him President Obama tells me that they share in disrespecting a sitting President.
here here aspirational.
Bringing this over for Yadarm…
yardarm756
February 11, 2013 at 4:42 pm
After being married for thirty years, a wife asked her husband to describe her.
He looked at her for a while … then he said,
“You’re A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K.”
She asks … “What does that mean?”
He said, “Adorable, Beautiful, Cute, Delightful, Elegant, Foxy, Gorgeous, Hot.
She smiled happily and said …. “Oh, that’s so lovely … What about I, J, K?”
He said, “I’m Just Kidding!”
The swelling in his eye is going down and the doctor is fairly optimistic about saving his testicles.
ooooooooooooooooooooooooh……wait until Amk sees this one…..
🙂 🙂 🙂
Yeah. It does kinda sound like one of his. 😆
THIS!
yah. just had to RT that.
It sickens me. They shouldn’t have to be in the same presence as scum like Ted Nugent.
This will backfire on the GOP. Things like this always do.
At first I laughed UT, it was so utterly pathetic, but the thoughts of those families having to be in the presence of that rat, it’s just too much. And as COS wondered, does he plan on shouting out in the middle of the SOTU, in his own delightful attention-seeking way? We all know the cameras will go on him as soon as PBO mentions guns …. actually, I can’t even think about this, it’s ****ing outrageous.
I love the little guy. He just wanted to play peek a boo with the podium. And sit in the chair of honor. I was cheering for him. So cute.
I pray that little boy never has to go to war! He’s a sweetie and I want his future to be free of foreign entanglements. I want his future free of foreign wars like I want my own grandsons’ futures free. I know that is what the President is working toward.
This!
Charges said to be pending, possibly by tonight, in the Pendleton case—-the 2 men, 18 and 20 yrs. old, who have been held for questioning. Reported to be gang related and gang connections to the park where Hadiya was shot.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-hadiya-pendleton-20130210,0,3516061.story
I am so glad they have got these guys. If they are the guilty ones who kill Hadiya, they don’t need to rot in jail they need the death penalty, and not ten or twenty years from now, but as soon as they are found guilty.
I do not believe in the death penalty..
but i would add..that the owner of the gun that was used to kill Hadiya should face penalty
I’m kind of in the middle about the death penalty, there are times when I think I could support it.
It’s about time. Hopefully a conviction is obtained, and the necessary punishment followed swiftly.
So, a completely non political comment.
I’ve attained a reputation in my system as a “fixer”: i.e., if there’s a need for a librarian at another library due to a regular employee’s absence, they often send me. Sucks to be so good. 🙂
Today I’m working at a library other than my own, and it’s always so interesting to check out other communities. For the most part, the library is one of those places where the social compact holds. People—again, for the most part—know how to behave. Another reason I love my job.
You are an indispensible employee, LL. 🙂
(But he still has rubbish taste in football)
(And your Sir Alex is a besotted ruddy git. BTW, did you see the NYT article on the fashion faux pas of BPL managers?)
“a besotted ruddy git” 😯
You used to be civil-ish, until UT polluted your mind.
Missed that article, will check it out!
Heh! Don’t make excuses for LL’s dirty mind. Ut is too young to pollute anyone’s mind! 🙂 🙂
Actually – I take that back. The part about UT…
it mercilessly mocks Arsene’s puffy coat.
That’s our guy! Go LL! Show ’em how it’s done!!
Read some more about the Navy Seal and his retirement/insurance problems. He and his wife have separated, and it feels like his life went to hell in a handbasket and he just left without any planning. Several people have said that the other service, Army, gives special consideration and shorter stints for their Rangers, which are like the Seals, in recognition of the extra stress. This is a subject that the Navy needs to deal with I feel. Also, several people said there is short term medical insurance available, and it sounds like he was not counseled right on leaving, or was suffering PTSD and just left. We’ll probably never know the whole truth, because he also does not want his name known.
The media ran away with a false story about military benefits – regardless of what is personally going on in this vet’s life. I think going to Esquire Magazine with sketchy information does not help your case if you’re really interested in getting help. If this guy’s mind is so far gone that he has trouble retaining information like health care benefits, etc.., then he should not be exploited by the MSM. The media should know that these veterans are psychologically vulnerable and should instead be obtaining the facts about available benefits and directing the veteran to those resources – not running away with a false report.
I recommend that you follow this former VA administrator who seems to know details about health care benefits for veterans. He has posted some tweets with very informative links.
I thought that was so…..does the writer have an axe to grind?
Yes he does, apparently. I’m not sure why, but I guess it’s a political motivation. The writer – like so many MSM seems to be of Republican lean (at least while PBO is President anyway). He threw shade on FLOTUS’s Joining Forces effort – dismissing it as “gestural” in that same article.
‘After he delivers the State of the Union, please join President Obama for a special online call with supporters on Tuesday, February 12th, at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time. He’ll talk about the plan he laid out and how Organizing for Action will play a key role in making it happen.’
https://my.barackobama.com/page/s/post-sotu-call
(If I come up as Barb or Jeremy at that link, neither is me 😕 )
Couldnt find the link in between hashbrowns! Thanks best I could do was link Jon Carson OFA twitter account.
They are voting on this now, so if it goes down you know why. Coburn wants an amendment struck that allows tribal courts to try non-indians accused of rape. Right now If you are non-indian and rape a women nobody has jurisdiction to take you to court and prosecute
This is so pathetic. Coburn is from Oklahoma of all places, where the “Trail of Tears” ended. Will they ever stop screwing over the Native Americans? By the way, they really catch hell voting.
It seem the white men ( Republicans) still hate the Indians. It ought to be the other way, considering who took the land from the Native Americans.
Just left a comment with link to the same article.
See my comments downthread re: need for federal law.
I feel so badly for Native Americans; they’re under federal law and jurisdictions, but in most cases the feds are thousands of miles away in DC.
Its pathetic Arapaho415, the shot down Coburns amd, but then John Cornyn spent 10 mins defended it. They have 6 votes to clear tommorw 4 R’s voted w/ D’s today. Murkowski, Collins, Kirk, forgot the other. They are waiting for rest to come in town b/c of weather.
I was watching Euronews this morning, where they were running a long retrospective on Benedict XVI. They showed one clip where his election was announced in St. Peter’s Square, and the throngs literally went mad with joy. And I thought to myself: How can anyone be so happy at a decision in which THEY HAD NO VOICE?! None of those people voted for him, none of them chose him. They gave authority over their spiritual lives to a man of whom they knew next to nothing, and were overjoyed by it. I know, I know, the cardinals were supposed to have come to their decision by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. But as a small “d” democrat, I’m a firm believer that sovereignty comes from me, not from a conclave of 120 men in red hats. I guess that’s why I never was a very good Catholic.
Well, a lot of people around the world celebrated PBO’s election and reelection in which they had no voice, and, in actuality, what PBO does has more impact on people around the world than what the Pope does.
Good point.
Thanks japa – I’m one of those who celebrated from afar – and yes PBO has much more impact in my world than does the Pope.
Apparently in the new documentary about pedophilia in the church, they have evidence that this Pope Benedict 16 played a major role in the cover up for decades. As a Cardinal and now Pope he was key in moving the men in red hats around the world to different Parrish’s to avoid exposure to their sick crimes of raping boys. Pope’s do not “resign” no matter how ill. They take to their beds and the sheeple gather and wait for the end. Months if they have to, then they celebrate the life and sit vigil again for the white smoke stack when the grand poo-bah men in red hats pick a new Pope. Bottom line: I smell a big rat!
A big and very dead, decaying rat. With you on this view Lb4O.
Love how PBO and hard-working team always follow through on promises made (e.g., Second Inaugural Speech mentioned advancing the right to vote).
The pope was so thrilled to be PBO’s presence. His Holiness was just tingling all over. And look at the priest with the pink sash back there. You can tell he’s smiling even though you can’t really see his face.
I remember when POTUS and FLOTUS was talking to Oprah, and FLOTUS mention that one of their high lights of their trips overseas is Malia and Sasha meeting the Pope.
Too bad—-they were likely not aware of pope’s sordid shameful past of covering up years of sexual abuse of children.
A moment of levity:
Ok, now does ANYONE know the story behind that picture? I’m dying to know.
Welcoming Queen Elizabeth(Odd looking Bently) to U.K. ambassador’s home for dinner
I love that picture of POTUS and FLOTUS, being silly as they are about to welcome the Queen.
Before she pulled up, talking with reporters. They were having a good time!!!
Greetings TOD family
Encouraging Quote
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
~Epictetus~
Gun Violence video, please share with others
I used to work around the corner from this location. Believe it or not this location is less than 15 minutes away from the Riverdale Gun store that pumps out weapons.
Amazing, the pain in this woman’s voice is so powerful.
Yes it is.
Contact Congress update,
I have slugged through changes to Congress up to and including New York. Whew. P,ease post below if you have found an error in those states. I hope to make one more push in the next few days that will allow me to finish. It will be great to have up to date information so we can push Congress on gun vilence, VAWA, immigration and the budget.
Cheers
Oops – forgot the URL
http://www.whatisworking.com/2011/05/contact-congress-address-phone-twitter.html
Just fantastic, Linda!!!! Thank you!!!!
Thankyou Linda this is great work! 🙂
Linda, I followed the link to say ‘thank you’ in your own back yard, but couldn’t find the ‘comments’ section. I admit it’s been a while since I’ve paid you a visit. Anyway, ‘thank you’ for your continued and helpful organization, it’s good to know contact info is there if I ever need it.
Linda, this is an extraordinary piece of work. I’m very grateful to you for putting it all together. This is truly invaluable. Thank you so much.
President Obama is expected to issue an executive order Wednesday that would create a voluntary cybersecurity program for critical infrastructure networks, such as the electric grid.
The order would allow companies, such as electric utilities, to opt into an initiative that outlines best standards and practices for preventing attacks on networks. (Hillicon Valley’s Jennifer Martinez, citing sources close to the situation, has more on the order here.)
The anticipated order comes after congressional efforts to pass cybersecurity legislation stalled last summer, in part because of disagreements on how to treat such networks.
Republicans wanted to avoid setting standards — even voluntary ones — because they were concerned about adding regulations.
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/282307-obama-cybersecurity-order-would-create-program-for-power-grid-other-networks
These Libertarian civil liberty freaks are always over the top and nonsensical!
I’m a bit obsessed with forecasting the future, and the BBC has a rather interesting article on emerging megatrends: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20003002
Well worth a read if you have the time.
I am making a pledge to never watch any channel or correspondent who sticks a microphone in front of this disgusting human being.
Make sure they know!
Hey 9t9. Are you gonna be around awhile? I just got a slick jazz link.
http://unlogicdoo.com/lab/periodic-table-of-jazz/
Wow that is AWESOME!! Thanks Yardarm!
awesome
So now there’s a three way reply to the SOTU by the Repubs. Nicely played, Ted; you’ll pull people from both other speakers.
So this turd revealed the real reason why he is going to the SOTU. This is so wrong.
Alright amateur interior decorators. I’ve got my sofa sectional, but it has a left-sided chaise attachment. so I have in my living room, at least a 5×11 area of space in the living room section of my front room that I need to fill. So along the long part of the wall, there is a large window that’s basically floor to ceiling. I’d like to put some more seating in that area, but I think it’d look weird. My moms said I should put some plants there, my sister says a desk, but I’m using the 2nd bedroom as an office so their will be a desk there. Here’s a picture, so go at it. BTW, I haven’t bought the dining room set yet, but the table I got in the pic is how I envision it.
Give me 5 mins Lamh, I will create the room of your dreams. 😎
alright Chips u are on. I seriously gonna be looking at all ideas. I’m stumped right now
Ok, this might take longer than I planned 😳
(1) Can I move your sofa?
(2) Is that a fireplace in the pic?
(3) Do you want a TV in there?
Answers:
!) go ahead and move it. if i like a design, i’ll get my sister to help me move it.
2) not a fireplace, it’s actually a 51inch flat screen on a short tv stand
3) see above…lol
Ah ha – you almost ended up with two TVs! 🙂
i’m in the market for another anyway, from ur design to God’s ears…lol.
BTW, when is the next “super” sale day…President’s Day?
Am I allowed move your sofa sectional?
sure you can. just remember, I’ll probably have to move it by myself, so I’d prefer to just leave it where it is, but I’m am completely open to moving it.
Checked your diagram…..can’t create the room of your dreams, ala Chipsticks…..I can just remember advice from my favorite old HGTV show, Room by Room. The decorator on that show, Sheri, always said look at function first, then she’d say “What is your focal point?” Some rooms have natural ones like fireplaces or giant TVs. So, focus your furniture on that…..also provide for comfortable conversation…..you’ll need something across from major seating somewhere so you can hold a comfortable conversation.
Have fun…..you’re creative, I know because I’ve read your posts 🙂
thx carolyn.
I’m thinking of either 2 accents chairs, a large recliner, another chaise, or a small loveseat, but I have lots of time so I’m just taking ideas and then looking for good deals where I find ’em.
Scratch the love seat. That room is full enough. A coupla chairs will do. I’d switch the tv and sofa.
I agree. Love seat would be too big. One or two low profile chairs would be great. Maybe put a small bench or ottoman on beside the fireplace for extra seating if that’s not going to be used for storage options.
Sofa is in the perfect spot. for TV viewing and for flow of energy. Who wants to be laying on the couch when the door opens and air/energy rushes in? From the current spot, that will have dissipated by the time it reaches your side of the room [it’s a position of power too per feng shui]. Alternative would be placing it in front of the window if there’s room, but then TV would be ackwardly placed on the wall to either side of you – not good for your neck. 🙂
Why would the seating look weird? You can add 1-2 upholstered chairs and a nightstand in between or next to it. A plant won’t be enough.
that was my simplest plan gobrooklyn. If push come to shove I’ll settle for just two recliners, but I’m in a decorative mood, since unlike in Texas, I’m staying in Louisiana. My next move will be into my own house if I can manage to save enough money. so i’m getting the hang of decorating with my lil 2 bedroon apt and then on to bigger spaces…lol
Have fun…… because decorating and moving furniture is fun, and nothing is forever!!!
Have fun. Only buy pieces you love at first sight and don’t rush.
Lamb I stage homes so usually I’m within the area: I wld move the sofa/chaise to the left.(just so the sofa back is even with the door on the rite, ..move Table Chairs to corner with the large window. Hopefully some type of view, that would be nice in eve. If ur TV is flat skinny screen you can swing it to get best view. I might want to move TV/Cab more left and add a
entry table/landing for mail/purse/etc near door. I live alone, have four sliders that aid me in moving EVERY thing in my house on a whim. Even my 10ft tall amoire. They work on both carpet and wood floors. Have fun. looks like a nice space
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said that once work on the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is finished the Senate would proceed to a vote on the confirmation of Chuck Hagel to be Secretary of Defense.
Reid said the Senate might have to delay six amendment votes on VAWA until Tuesday because some senators’ flights have been delayed due to bad weather.
The Senate Armed Services Committee is expected to vote on Hagel’s confirmation on Tuesday. Reid said the Senate would take up his confirmation Wednesday or Thursday, assuming he makes it through the committee.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/282287-reid-after-vawa-senate-will-vote-on-hagel-confirmation
Seriously, is there nothing we can do? I don’t want Ted Nugent at the SOTU address. At the least, it is a distraction. At the most … well, it is just sick and I hope he conducts himself quietly. This is so beneath the dignity of our President and First Lady, I cannot even begin to tell you … and my stomach is knotted up. I don’t want him there; being a free country not withstanding! And he is already getting media time from this? This is a slap in the face of most Americans right now. I will not watch, I just cannot. I love my President and the only thing I will do is come here, to this safe haven and read the comments and try to keep myself composed.
I agree with you, daisy and will be joining you here. I will NOT willing tune in to watch our President disrespected by that slimeball.
i’m with you daisydem. it makes me sick to picture this wonderful event desecrated by that odious presence. of course, a whole lot of odious rethugs will be there, too–duly elected horrors. my instinct is to just not watch, but i know if we all turn away, it gives the pukes strength. that’s nugent’s role: medusa. so i will watch, and i’ll try to take courage from the president’s courage, and the first lady’s, and the strength of all those family members of victims. that’s my plan. i hope i can do it.
Maybe that’s why he was invited, to drive ratings down? It’s a tough call, but remember we STAND with PBO, and as he has to be there, I know I will be watching for his sake.
This adorable and very dapper little chap gives me the impression he was training that officer in the fine art of herding cats! Beautiful! 😆
The officer was doing a wonderful and warm job.
If anybody follows @TheTweetOfGod he is having a field day today. Some salty stuff so I didnt post, plus didnt want to offend anyone.
LOL!! Just looked at his TL. He retweeted someone unfollowing him.
Its one of the best parody accounts out there, bar none! Coming in a close second https://twitter.com/KimJongNumberUn
How do you follow an account that mocks religion/god and get mad when it mocks the pope?! LOL!!
RIght!!!! People………..
Is this for real, or photoshopped?
Charges have been approved for both men held in the Hadiya Pendleton case.
Great news dotster3.
Did everyone see this article in the NYTimes today which illustrates why we need a “federal” Violence Against Women Act, much like we needed federal laws to enforce Civil Rights.
“After one of his beatings, she said, he even called the county sheriff himself to prove to her that he could not be stopped. Only after he stormed her office at the federal Bureau of Land Management and opened fire, wounding a co-worker, was he arrested.”
Father, in the Name of Jesus, thankk You for the re-election of President Obama and Vice-President Biden.Tomorrow he will give his State-of-the-Union Adress. Lord, let him speak to the American people with such a power and conviction that it is conveyed convincingly. Let his words strike the right hearts to do right , good and well for this great country. As he is speaking give him strength, confidence and courage. Let him be so very wise and bless him. Thank You, Sir, for the Secret Service continuing to do an excellent and spectacular job guarding and protecting him, Michelle, Malia, Sasha, Mrs. Robinson, Vice-President Biden,Jill, Hunter, Ashley, Beau and their respective spouses and doggies Bo and Champ and that Your Secret Service of mighty Angels continuing to fill in the gaps. Protect his heart and mind and spirit, God and Vice-President Biden’s also. During his speaking silence any vicious outbursts. Cause their tongues to be silenced. Let there be love and respect towards this man tomorrow night. Give him a good night’s sleep tonight and a peaceful heart and mind filled with Your Love. Continue to direct him and love and guide him and let him knock this speech out-of the-park. Thank You for his continued safety and wisdom. AMEN!
amen.
AMEN.
Amen.
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=PBO
Amen, Amen and AMEN!
Amen.
Also, McBitters is now having a change of heart?
These GOPs are not even pretending to hide their lack of interest in what is good for the nation. Decisions are clearly being made with their own ends in mind. smh
And this sketch is funnier than any that actually aired on SNL two days ago:
I’m waiting for Lindsey to be served on a Graham Cracker. 😉
https://twitter.com/Dudette9t9/status/301129778726051840
Fixed a little error in the image and replaced it with this one:
this is excellent, dudette. it needs to go viral.
R/T’d! Ugly!
(BTW, Dudette, for anyone new to TOD – YOU are a beautiful person; Ted Nugent is UGLY. And now I’ll R/T that ugly image!)
Thank you J. I knew what you meant! But ‘preeshate the clarification for the uninitiated. 😀
Rt’d Dudette. Right on.
The GOP don’t understand the sense of fairness that is sorely lacking in their “Ayn Rand” every-man-for-himself, I-got-mine-Jack party.
Because they grew up with cell phones and social media, Post-9/11 and Millennials are more tuned in to the needs and happiness of other people, and just don’t “get” discrimination or judgement on lifestyle choices. (IMHO)
Good afternoon Chips and TOD family. I wanted to bring this to your attention. My friend who is retired from the govenerment has put my on his email list. Today I recieved this in my email. I thought it was another interesting take on the drone issue. I don’t know anything about Secrecy News but I trust my friend.
This is great commentary by Steve Aftergood of Secrecy News regarding the recently-leaked and then officially released DOJ White Paper, “Lawfulness of a Lethal Operation Directed Against a U.S. Citizen:”
LEAK OF WHITE PAPER BOOSTS INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT
The unauthorized disclosure last week of a Justice Department White Paper on the legality of targeted killing of senior al Qaida operatives who are Americans had the collateral effect of strengthening congressional oversight of intelligence.
The leak not only fulfilled a stalemated congressional effort to provide information to the public, but it also catalyzed the long-sought disclosure of classified documents to the intelligence committees themselves.
Although the intelligence committees received the White Paper in June 2012, they proved powerless on their own to gain its broader public release, or to acquire their own copies of the underlying legal memoranda.
“I have been calling for the public release of the administration’s legal analysis on the use of lethal force–particularly against U.S. citizens–for more than a year,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee in a February 5 statement. “That analysis is now public….”
In other words, what the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee was unable to accomplish for over a year was achieved by a resourceful reporter (Michael Isikoff of NBC) along with a cooperative source. That is a peculiar fact that ought to prompt some soul-searching on the part of the Committee, which has been relentlessly critical of intelligence-related leaks.
But the disclosure did more than just make the White Paper available to the public and launch a substantial public debate on its contents. It also enhanced the ability of the intelligence committees themselves to gain access to additional classified records on which oversight depends.
Specifically, it was the leak of the White Paper that enabled the belated disclosure of two classified Office of Legal Counsel memoranda to the intelligence committees last week.
The causal relationship between the leak and the release of the OLC memos was made explicit by White House press secretary Jay Carney at a February 7 press gaggle.
“I mean, there has always been some interest, obviously, but there has been heightened interest. I think that what you’ve seen in the — because of the public disclosure of the white paper, is that that interest reached higher levels than in the past, and therefore this decision was made to make this extraordinary accommodation to provide classified Office of Legal Counsel advice,” Mr. Carney said.
This statement neatly illustrates the synergy that can exist among robust national security reporting, public awareness and effective intelligence oversight.
Yet the Senate Intelligence Committee in particular seems to have lost sight of the benefits for its own work of press attention and public engagement. The February 7 hearing on the nomination of John Brennan to be Director of CIA marked the end of a period of more than one year — dating from January 31, 2012 — without a public hearing. This may be an unprecedented hiatus in the history of the Senate Committee. (The House Intelligence Committee has held public hearings more frequently.) In light of last week’s events, the nearly exclusive emphasis on closed hearings should perhaps be reconsidered.
is it me or has Josh come out of his emoprog fever?
Every now and then he comes up for air.
LL did you see my post about your question about that pic? Did a little more digging look what I found http://theobamadiary.com/2011/05/25/dinner-hosts/ some blokes http://mirroronamerica.blogspot.com/2011/05/president-and-first-lady-host-queen.html actually had a link to Chipsticks post! The woman is everywhere…..
I did, thank you!
NP
GOOD.
Yes, Good!
I stopped watching her after her “holier than thou” relentlessness about DADT, like PBO didnt have a methodical, surgical, pinpoint disarmament of the opposition(Richard Burr R-NC voted for it). A year later she ate major crow and tried to make right by saying she was wrong. TOO late, it just displayed her naivete and emotion taking over actual legislative strategy. If someone on TOD post something worthwhile, I let it get filtered through comments to see if its worth the time of day. I will read a Steven Bennen post though. Ok rant over sorry!!!!! I have light on the food intake today…..
She must have seen those ratings, because I just saw a promo for next Monday night’s show. She’s going to do an expose of the runup up to the Iraq War and all the lies told to make people want to go to war. I think it’s called the unnecessary war…..she needs to remember who her audience is.
Maddow’s rating will continue to take a hit because I am taking a break from her for a while.
Me too…..Ed Shultz too. I would rather watch reruns of The Colbert Report and old series like the Andy Griffith Show than watch her “make” news and controversy about the President where their is none.
I wonder if I can be counted in those statistics? Probably not, as I stopped watching Rachel years ago. There’s only so much outrage I want to handle right when I get home.
This was bound to happen. Sorry, Rachel, but you’re annoying when you go into emoprogressive mode.
i’m glad this guy has a sense of humor, but what a sad truth, that he’d have to wear such a tee shirt. hope he’s written the same message on the back.
If I saw that guy in line I would have paid for his Brisk Iced Tea just for wearing that shirt!
… and as susanne suggested, make sure the same message is on the back of his shirt.
love our veepee!
‘ Vice President Joe Biden on Monday removed his name from consideration for the papacy.
“I am not running,” Biden, a practicing Catholic, told reporters in Philadelphia according to CNN. Biden was attending a round-table discussion on gun violence with law enforcement officials in the city.
The question was likely a play on repeated questions Biden has fielded regarding a 2016 presidential run. The vice president has thus far been evasive, although hinted he is at least considering a bid for the White House.
Truthfully, Biden would have been a long shot for the papacy. The last pope elected from outside the College of Cardinals was Pope Urban VI in 1378, and the last person selected who was not already an ordained priest or monk was Pope Leo X in 1513. ‘
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/282377-biden-i-am-not-running-for-the-papacy#ixzz2KdwdKtye
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They’ve been charged!!!
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-hadiya-pendleton-charges-20130211,0,631238.story
Um, Michael Andretti — yes, Mario Andretti’s son — is following me. Um, what?
Vroom, vroom!
The thing is, I’m a Formula 1 fan, not Indycar, and certainly not NASCAR.
good article from bloomberg:
‘ When President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, the biggest question he’ll face will be how to get an ambitious second-term agenda through a divided Congress.
he answer: Go around it.
On climate change, gun control, gay rights, and even immigration, the White House has signaled a willingness to circumvent lawmakers through the use of presidential power. Already, plans are being laid to unleash new executive orders, regulations, signing statements and memorandums designed to push Obama’s programs forward and cement his legacy, according to administration aides and allies.
“The big things that we need to get done, we can’t wait on,” said White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer. “If we can take action, we will take action.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-11/obama-poised-to-skirt-congress-to-seal-legacy-in-new-term-agenda.html
Unless the fucking dem voters get their shit together every 2 years, instead of every 4 years, scums like nugent and dc logjam will happen.
No kidding Amk 2014 gotta get Nancy Smash back in!
Incredible!!
Best FLOTUS EVAAAAAH!
President Obama tipped off Oprah(two 2008 campaign volunteers produced the movie) and well……..http://www.oprah.com/own-super-soul-sunday/super-soul-sunday-blog.html?filter_tag=Beasts%20of%20the%20Southern%20Wild Good Cajun/NO recipes too!
This is some bull right there. I hope Hispanics are smart enough to recognize shenanigans…
I thought Univision was part of NBC Universal…
Telemundo
New post!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/02/11/colin-romesha-show-stealer/
Yep.