President Barack Obama talks with Council of Economic Advisers Chair Alan Krueger following a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, March 4 (Photo by Pete Souza)
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Steve Benen shreds Bill Keller’s column here
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John Boehner: ‘There’s no plan from Senate Democrats or the White House to replace the sequester’ …. Pants on fire
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Ezra Klein: This is why Obama can’t make a deal with Republicans – File this under “Jonathan Chait is right”
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President Obama speaks alongside Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel during a Cabinet meeting in the White House on March 4
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Senate poised to move first bill to curb gun violence since Newtown, will be named in honor of Hadiya Pendleton – see here
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Only 6 Of Obama’s 35 Pending Judicial Nominees Are Straight White Men – ThinkProgress
(I love the fact that this could just as easily be a headline on a RWNJ site, in a ‘SHOCKER” kind of way)
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GOP Congresswoman: I Opposed Domestic Violence Bill Because It Protected Too Many Groups – ThinkProgress
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A few reasons to be optimistic about the U.S. economy – Ezra Klein
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Look Who’s Feuding Now – A Map of Conservative Fingerpointing:
See more at The Atlantic
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Watch the First Lady dance to Pitbull’s “Echa Pa’ Lla”:
The First Lady’s interview can be seen on Univision’s “Primer Impacto” on Wednesday, March 6
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@ks44: Here’s a pic from the First Lady’s @letsmove Google+ Hangout in the Blue Room today
Thank you LovelyPlains!
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Normal service resumed tomorrow. Hopefully 😕
The Obama Diary 
Well, hello there
Congrats Mr.! 🙂
Hiya, LL, congrats on 1st.
Supposed to rain in SoCal this week? (I’m just northwest of you).
Hah! I’ll believe that rain when I see it. We were supposed to have an El Niño winter this year with lots of rain. That never happened, needless to say.
Hellooooooooooooooooo LL! How did the concert go? (Apologies if you’ve already filed your report, I’m about 96,000 comments behind!)
Fine, until Morrissey played “Meat is Murder” and showed an animal snuff film to accompany it. Kinda lost me then. But Patti Smith played “Because the Night”, so it wasn’t a completely lost evening.
Good evening! I love the Chart about GOP feud!
So Chips….. your boy Keane got a goal yesterday….. and according to some Chicago fans, “Mike Magee can hopefully be prosecuted under the Violence Against Women Act for what he’s doing to us….” (hat trick!) It was a good opening to the season!
Los Galacticos put the beat down on Chitown.
Just read that Tally!!! Woooooot, Robbie!
Cracked up when I read this (missed it in November) – see the caption under the photo:
http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/robbie-keane-goes-unidentified-fan-la-captain-landon-233029060–sow.html
Hopefully he’s better known now!
Oh yeah. It’s just hilarious to watch the reporters interview him, and look confused because they can’t understand a fokin ting he says.
😆 To be honest Tally, most Irish people can’t understand a fokin ting he says either!
HAAAAAA!!!!
How was your opening, Tally?
Hope all was a big success!
It was awesome. Hoping it’s not a fluke, and we can keep it up all season. No team has ever done three championships in a row – nowhere on earth.
COUGH! SPLUTTER!
1999, 2000, 2001
2007, 08 and 09
😎
And: 2013, 2014 and 2015.
my sources LIED TO ME.
Apparently Real Madrid did a 5-peat from 61 – 65, and 86-90, 91-94.
never mind.
I’ve now schooled the “source” who I thought had a clue.
Why didn’t I get to see a Man U waving his shirt in the air?
I can see, Tally, that it will be best for me to offer congratulations and best of wishes and then back away quietly 🙂
I see you, Bob.
You know, Bobfr, I really respect your smarts. In particular the quick way you can size up a situation. 😉 Standing quietly with you, I am. 😆
Oi, I see you too. We’ll have NO backing-away-quietly in this place when it comes to soccer/football – it’s Manchester United, or I’ll sing at ya. Be warned.
Hi ya, Doll-face! Nice to see more than the back of your head as you zip in and out. Gracias for all your work here. Have to tell you I’ve already marked March 10 on my calendar as the day I’ll be truly ‘backed away’ because I know I won’t be swift enough to dodge the football sparks. BTW, I’m tone deaf so singing at me may not have your intended effect. 😉
What on earth have we done to you that you know March 10 is ***THE*** day? 😆
I am MIGHTILY impressed VC, but if you have any compassion at all, you should appear here just to comfort UT and LL.
I, of course, will be gentle in triumph.
😆 😆 My healthy instincts for self-preservation led me to do preparatory research.
Also, it just ain’t smart to be in the middle of a battle, especially if you bruise easily. Plus, My Very Dear Chips, I have seen both you AND Utal being ‘gentle in triumph’ – no thanks. I’m even considering taking MORE DAYS THAN the 10th off …..to avoid any residual
triumphsparks.COWARD!!!!!!! 😆
I promise VC, I will be a little like President Obama on election night: gracious in victory. I will even put in a kind call to UT and LL congratulating them for doing their best in the face of infinitely superior opposition.
Because, that’s the kind of good person I am.
‘gracious in voctory’ Teeheehe! You’re funny.
BTW, ‘Ms COWARD’, to you. Show a little respect. 😆 😆 😆
Ok, so PBO’s new nominee for Energy Secretary has the SAME.FREAKING.HAIRDO that my oldest brother had in the 70s. When, you know, he still had hair.
😆 I did a double-take today LL, a most excellent do!
So, is this a good thing, or a not so good thing? 😉
Well, it’s definitely not a flattering do. Not sure if the brother unit would take the trade off of still having hair if the condition was that he’d have to keep that style. But then again, I look hot bald, so it’s easy for me to say.
😆 😆 😆 (ps, LL, all bald men think they look hot, just so you know….) 😆
Oh, I look much better with a shaved head than when I had hair. But that’s also due to filling out in weight. Man, I used to be a skinny bastard.
🙂
And.. in about a half an hour, at 9pm EST tonight on Maddow:
Chief Kevin Murphy, Montgomery, AL police (no doubt will discuss bestowing Rep. John Lewis with his badge) and former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
Eleven! 😉
I am not a fan of SDO. She made the statement she was not going to retire as long as a Democrat was the President (talking about President Clinton). She is just as political as the current five conservative SCOTUS.
Speaking of the Atlantic Wire – on Feb 14, they had the audacity to put up an article about the First Daughter going on a “Valentines'” date based on some vague comment PBO had made in a speech earlier that week, and they imagined four possibilities (you won’t believe this nonsense).
1. Rick Santorum’s son
2. John Edward’s son
3. Finn (from the show “Homeland”)
4. A “nice boy” from Sidwell Friends School .
Really, Atlantic Wire, WTF ?!?!?!?
Ha! Don’t they just wish……
Hopefruit2, this is a dam joke right. I don’t think Malia is dating, she is too young. Maybe at 16, but not 14.
And even if she were – what business of Atlantic Wire’s is it to imagine the scenarios, let alone write up an article?
Because everyone wants to be President Obama, and they want to have his family, I guess. That’s the only “sane” reason, although that greenish shade of envy doesn’t look very good on them. At all.
Agree hopefruit2. They never stuck their nose in Jenna and Barbara Bush dating or not dating.
Hey. Exhausting day.
How are you doing DF, had a crazy day?
I did. Tough day at school and then off to tutor….my student was being less than attentive, shall we say…I don’t like wasting my time. Errands after that, now cooking dinner. My bed is calling my name and it’s only 6:38pm 🙂 I’ll be fine….it IS Monday after all!
I feel like a missed a lot here…reading to play catch up. WTF is Marsha Blackburn doing running around the halls of Congress??? TN…boot her sorry ass out! SHE pissed me off today, too!
Pisses me off nearly every day or certainly every time she opens her mouth. She’s perfect example of ‘You can’t fix stupid.’
She’s pathetic and an embarrassment to thinking women.
Ugh DF, what a day you had, hoping the week eases up on you a bit!
I’m sure it will. Thank you though:)
Can you even imagine a Republican First Lady doing anything remotely like this??!
Oh HELL no! 🙂
You guessed correctly!! HHHahahahaaa!!
First of all I’m willing to bet no Republican First Lady, can dance like our FLOTUS. Second of all, they are not friendly and down to earth like FLOTUS is. Every wear FLOTUS go people will be wanting her to dance, even overseas.
She is smart, she is charming, she is warm, she is fearless. She connects with people because they know her intentions and her warmth are genuine. And she does everything with STYLE and class.
She is real. And so so lovely, through and through. No faking that…..
meta, Pamela, I agree 100%..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Every were FLOTUS go.
Yes, yes, me too! I want a picture of me with FLOTUS in my iPhone too! Please please please…..
Can you imagine Ann Romney doing something like that?
Queen Ann . Heck no.
Hahaha. Nah…pigs would fly first.
So, because I’m on Van Morrison kick, I’m listening to “Astral Weeks” right now. Not to sound like an old curmudgeon (shut up, UT), but they really don’t make music like that any more.
Ah, one of the greatest … I honestly can’t listen to Cyprus Avenue and Madame George without feeling faint. Masterpieces!
Too right, LL, that was when music and the whole idea of music was all about CHANGE! and Moving Forward, and seeing the world through a different lens than anything previous to the time….. (Beatles really, wasn’t it…) and were we not the lucky ones to be shaped by all that!?
Now, this isn’t to say there isn’t good music being made now. I grew up on U2 and Elvis Costello and, of course, Springsteen. To be honest, the Internet makes good music able to be created outside of the studio system. But you have to look for it. And few bands approach the sheer ambition of works like “Astral Weeks”.
I’m also a big proponent of contemporary classical music. My computer is often on Q2, WQXR’s contemporary classical music stream. Lots of good stuff on there.
And… There is Adele. I adore Adele.
Another wonderful round-up!! Lots of tweet-ables. Thank you, Chips.
And isn’t FLOTUS terrific dancing to Pit Bull? She totally won the competition on that one!! Glad to see her taking the message to Univision. Brilliant moves, Mrs. O!!
I cheated Meta, only a line per link, rather than an extract!! In other words: a rush job! But thank you, you are very forgiving 🙂
Chips, it’s enough for us! I really hope you know how much we appreciate all the work the goes into each and every assembling!
You know you’re the sweetest thing, right? 🙂 Thank you Meta!
THIS. A million times over:)
Amen to that. Thanks Chips for all you do.
Speaking of the new Energy Sec’y: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/03/04/1625561/ernest-moniz/
academics really do stay out of the hair style fashion scene – I’m sure he is a brilliant scientist – but it takes effort to get past the hair!
Well, it’s nice to see Politifact get something right, but – and maybe this is verrrrrrrrrrry picky – their headline annoyed me:
‘House Speaker John Boehner says Obama, Democrats have no plan to replace sequester’
Why does Boehner get his title, but ‘Obama’ doesn’t?
Why not:
‘House Speaker John Boehner says President, Democrats have no plan to replace sequester’?
This kind of thing seriously pisses me off every time.
Because they are All very rude and bad-mannered people, Chipsticks, with no sense of what is correct.
Does it relate to the new print media “rules” that were introduced because it wasn’t fair that PBO had a better title than Romney (who I can just not respect with any title).
Or could it be that everyone knows the title of “Obama” but it is necessary to remind people why Boehner even has a voice in the discussion. In my world I don’t think anyone I know has a clue as to Boehner – in fact most cannot work out why the President does not have the support of congress – weird politics.
Good questions, 99ts.. I feel it is purely the juvenile nature of the people in question; we all know how thinking people the world over recognize the incredible leader President Obama is, and how right is it for him to be a world influence. These others, mental midgets, emotionally deranged, simply cannot allow themselves to recognize what the rest of the world sees. It must be a form of mental illness, because it is driving them to do incredibly stupid and irresponsible things which are hurting many people.
In my opinion the media simply disrespects President Obama because of who he is. I saw a headline in a local paper which read: “President Clinton comes out strongly for Obama at the Democratic Convention.” A former President is addressed properly, but not the sitting President.
Sadly, nath, I know you are correct in this.
How insane they are – then again President Clinton was a white guy – they hated him for 8 years – and now they love him!
You are right 99ts. The Republicans hated President Clinton and tried to remove him from office using every means. They finally fixated on his infidelity and twisted that into “a high crime and misdemeanor” that justified impeachment. My quarrel, however, is with the U.S. media. Even when President Clinton was being harassed by Republicans, the media still respected the office of the Presidency by referring to him as President Clinton and not just Clinton. It’s the media’s routine disrespect of President Obama by refusing to refer to him by his title that is so blatantly reprehensible.
By the way, I am amused by the hypocrisy of Republicans who hated President Clinton when he was in office, but are now so much in love with him. That includes people like Linsey Graham and Newt Gingrich, who voted to impeach him; and John McCain who voted in the Senate to convict him and remove him from office.
I agree. I see it all the time. It really makes me mad. He is the twice elected President of The United States of America. Give him the respect he has earned and deserves.
I mean we are supposed to swallow the notion that Boehner is pronounced baner. Yea right. No way.
I know, I don’t speak all languages, but I did teach English for a long time, and I do not know of any dipthong ‘oe’ which is pronounced ‘a’. I have always held the suspicion he chooses to pronounce it that way, and in school he was Always called Boner. Because he is, a boner.
hee hee
Reminds me of a headline that read, “Kate Middleton attends wedding while pregnant”; doesn’t she do everything now while pregnant, and isn’t she a Duchess?
Evening TOD…..
Thank you LP, added it to the post, it’s a beaut!
Anytime Chips, I saw you posted a few minutes ago, so I did not bother to DM…..you know, so you would not get it next week!!
😆 My DM pathetic-ness is becoming the stuff of legend! LP, did you see me confess a while ago that I had NO idea what that blue dot, alerting you to DMs, meant …… for, oh, about six months? 😳
In honor of an incoming Pope, my public confession: I did not know what it was until you had you public meltdown on TOD!!! Now that we got that out of the way…..
Em, which public meltdown ….. there have been so many. 😕
She is so beautiful – and so is that room
My version.
Jay Carney-he’s our man, so let’s give him a great big hand! Alright(clap, clap, clap,clap,clap).
china in we-do-the-effing-leadership-thingy-only-once-in-a-decade mode.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-21652640
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17839-how-the-nra-helps-arm-child-soldiers-and-enables-deadly-local-wars
Um, any Spanish speakers here?
Someone just tweeted me this in response to the Michelle dancing video:
“MO es la verga.”
Eh, Google Translate says that means:
“MO is the dick”
…. but I’m sensing it was a friendly tweet. 😕
Solve. Mystery. Please.
http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/verga Ummmmmmmmm…..don’t play the lottery!
YARDARM!!!! 😆 😆
🙂 I saw that…I smiled:)
And there was me thinking it was a shippy term. I want some explanations from that young man. Yardarm? You there?
More like “Michelle is the SHIZ!”
Ah now see: THAT makes sense!!!
Chipsticks explain to me, please.
I have no idea what any of it means.
I know Anniebella, all very confusing!
Okay – and excuse my language:
Saying someone is “the shit” means they’re brilliant, cool, etc.
So, “shiz” is a variation of that – so, the tweet was nice!
Okay…..:)
O/T: Pat Summit’s book, Sum It Up, comes out tomorrow. She’ll be on ABC tomorrow morning. Robin Roberts interviewed her a couple weeks ago. They are pretty ‘tight.’ Sally Quinn (WP) was the ghost writer. Not sure how I feel about that, but I am anxious to get the book and read it.
Why is it that the MSM quotes Gallup, even after their abysmal record last election cycle?
They now have the President upside down, and major publications are reporting on it.
Here we go again!
https://plus.google.com/117511246926599527561/photos?hl=en
Tired of these newstainers…
Thank you Alycee for calling her out. This constant disrespect is tiresome.
Alycee, thats one my biggest pet peeves, particularly toward News anchors. Its seems they have been doing it for so long now they dont even care. I dont ever remember broadcast news anchors, while on air, referring to ” Bush”
I love President Obama and all he stands for. FYI.
I agree with you 200%. FYI.
Alrighty!!
I agree 300%. meta.
I like how your mind works, meta. FYI.
Hheeeee.
Please tweet that and we’ll all get the chance to R/T it!
Over 70% turnout and mile-long queues in a hot, hot day. No, it’s not in friggin’ florida.
Any results yet from Kenya? (I guess I could just go to the BBC site, but I enjoy conversation.)
You mean you’re just lazy, right?
Oh, that Celtic bluntness!
An irish blonde is overweight so her doctor put her on a diet.
“I want you to eat regularly for two days,” he tells her. “Then skip a day and repeat the procedure for two weeks. The next time see you, you’ll have lost at least five pounds.”
When the blonde returns, she’s lost nearly four stone. “Why that’s amazing,” the doctor says. “Did you follow my instructions?”
The blonde nods. “I’ll tell you though, I thought I was going to drop dead that third day.”
“From hunger you mean?” Asks the doctor.
“No,” replies the blonde, “from all that skipping for a whole day.”
oh man, you’re dead. I’m going to go hide now. 😆
what ? I said, “irish blonde”, not “irish green”.
LL, I know you were opining about NY pizza yesterday. If you are ever in D.C., the is the spot ” We the PIzza” where Mrs. O ate tonight https://plus.google.com/117511246926599527561/photos?hl=en Its one of Spike Mendelsohn joints (of Top Chef fame) and his burger joint ” Good Stuf Eatery” http://www.goodstuffeatery.com/menu is the stuff of legend, I hear.
When I’m in the mood for “fancy” pizza, I go to Pizzeria Mozza. Pricey, but delicious.
I have been since that 3 am call from that kenyan muslin usurper (/smh).
Beeb seems to be asleep. Same 10% counted and kenyatta is in a slight lead for the past 4 hours.
Posted on NYtimes 15 minute ago re Kenya: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/world/africa/millions-vote-in-crucial-kenyan-elections.html
Kenya- I think the Presidents brother is running for Governor?
I have no idea, jovie.
Somewhere in Kenya? They were lining up at 2 a.m., I heard earlier today, and one woman went into labor while standing in line.
It’s the poor who turned up in good unmbers while twitterati brigade slept, as per a bbc report.
The poor shall inherit the Earth. Or the meek. Or the voters, anywhere on Earth!
This was a display of democratic engagement that would put most countries to shame.
The queues to vote just went on and on. In some places they stretched for more than a kilometre.
There was frustration in places at the slow progress of the queues.
Many polling stations had to remain open far longer than the official close of voting, because of technical problems.
But, by and large, the mood was upbeat.
In the Kibera district of Nairobi, voters stood patiently in line, shielding themselves from the sun with hats and umbrellas.
The neighbourhood is one of the city’s largest slums. It is the constituency of Raila Odinga, one of the favourites for the presidential contest and the scene of some of the worst violence following the last election in 2007.
Today, many had arrived before dawn.
No problem,” said Anthony Wachira, who had been queuing for nearly four hours.
“We have been waiting for this for the past five years.”
In the shadow of a disputed election that in had caused unprecedented pain and upheaval, there was a strong sense that perhaps today Kenyans might put that dark chapter behind them.
“Above everything we want to vote for peace,” said Mr Wachira.
“Never again. Kenyans have had a very bitter lesson. We will not repeat what happened previously.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21663596
Beautiful.
Also. Too.
Too busy tweeting to vote?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21623062
Very, very interesting.
reminded of the professional poutrage mob in US.
A Dominican woman who was recorded claiming Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) had paid her for sex now says she has never before met the senator and was paid to make the claim, The Washington Post reported Monday.
The woman says in court documents that she and a friend were paid to read from a script, in which they accuse Menendez of offering money in exchange for sex.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/286085-report-woman-says-she-lied-about-menendez
Ah, the plot thickens… I wonder if this was Rove behind this!
why menendez ? is he up for reelection in ’14 ?
NO, just re-elected in 2012. He is Chair of Foreign Service Committee though…….RW tried a hit job.
No, but he is a powerful committee chairman. They may want to impugn him to weaken him or to get him to play ball, so to speak.
Ah ha.
No, reelected in Nov ’12; however, were he to resign, crispy creme would get to appoint a replacement…
Gee, color me surprised that this was a hit job. Wonder if the media will be as rabid in exonerating him as it was in tarring him.
Gee, color me not surprised if it isn’t.
I hope it was Rove, and I hope they can pin it on him….
Sandra Day O’Conner — I won’t be buying the book retail; will wait until it is on the shelf at Dollar Tree…
So many affordable books out there, Alycee!
I’m waiting for this one to go 2/$1.00
Scrooge!!!! 😆
Chips didn’t you promise to get Chuck Todd a copy for his birthday? You better put that on layaway…
🙂 He probably has 100 signed copies already Hopefruit, possibly framed on his bathroom wall.
Yes, and one under his pillow at bedtime. Chuckie’s beddie-bye lovey.
Stop right there Hopefruit, I’m worried where this is going!
Heh! 🙂 🙂 🙂
My mind is now clouded with horrific images. There’s only one thing I can do:
Hey, got Sarah’s for a nickle at a yard sale. No, I don’t plan on reading it. It’s sitting in my craft stack; I sometimes do “altered books,” and bibliophile that I am, there’s NO WAY I’d slice and dice a “real” (read as worthy literature) book for a craft project!
You made me weep Alycee, “it’s sitting in my craft deck”. 😆 I cannot wait to hear how you ‘alter’ it!
Wow, Alycee, you really revealed your feelings about O’connor’s book. 🙂
I’d rather read Sonia Sotomayor.
Yeah, I want to read her’s also. I’ve been badgering my Costco to stock it as I want five copies (gifts), so I’d like a deep discount. I MISS Borders…
i’d rather read ‘goodnight moon’ over and over and over and ….
I agree. Was not impressed……..at all! Especially when Rachel asked her a direct question about Bush v. Gore. All sweet and innocence. GAG!
How are you doing tnmtngirl. Miss reading you on a regular basis. Hope all is well.
This day is ending with the best possible news–the same sister who went through a nightmarish health experience during Christmas underwent a dangerous, but SUCCESSFUL, operation to remove an infected kidney today. Doctors are confident she’ll recover. There is one more operation in her future, but she is proving to be one tough and absolutely indomitable lady. The rest of us are worn out with anxiety, but she keeps batting away at all these impossible odds and coming out ok. She sure has shown us how important it is to just never, ever give up.
The very best of news Jackie, thrilled for you, your family and your sister – she sounds like a warrior! Wishing her strength in her recovery.
Thanks, Chips. She’s my big sister and I’m really trying to model her attitude.
Well, you have an indomitable spirit, too, so that seems to run in the family, Jackie!
And you’re doing just that, Jackie.
Stupendous news!!! 🙂
Wonderful news, Jackie. You certainly have an inspirational sister. Wishing her a steady and complete recovery!
Thank you, Bob. She really is an inspiration.
Thanks for sharing the good news Jackie! Bless you and your resilient sister 🙂
Wow, that is astonishing! Very best wishes for healing and good health.
Great news. Best wishes for her quick recovery.
Good to hear, jg, hang in there.
Outstanding. Will lift you & your’s up in prayer.
congratulations on the good news
Congratssssssssssssssss…and mucho ((((((((hugggs))))))))))… Jackie
Awesome news Jackie.
Happy to hear that. Thanks be to God. Best wishes and speedy recovery to your sister.
Great news, JackieG! I pray and hope that your sister recovers soon and completely. She definitely sounds like she is a very strong-willed individual who doesn’t give up, or give in, easily. Wishing her, you, and your family all the best!
Thanks, Nath.
Florida’s insane gun culture…..
He should be honored in a 3 day long PARADE! A teenager who goes to such a length to be helpful and protect others, hell, he should get to meet President Obama!
The House Judiciary are only considering an Immigration bill for High skilled and well educated Undocumented Workers.
You know, the 30% that vote Republican?
Ugh!
GEEZE.
Yeah, just like the credentials my old great grandparents had when they “came across” from Ireland and Germany, for a better life here in America. Not. (Although they truly were wonderful people to be anybody’s ancestors, of course!)
However, there is a real need for highly skilled and well-educated men and women from other lands, since Republicans don’t really want us to educate our own children in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math – in particular – since they’re “Liberal Arts” to them, I guess. And you know – you can’t be blinded by science if you’re blinded by what the RWNJs are teaching you. There’s that.
Jovie,But what happen to the ones who work in the fields, who pick the fruits, the vegetable, clean and cook for the rich folks,
had one of those days so I missed the feedback on sequeshow much progress has been made about contacting the congressional critters about the sequester cuts?
Take that Dennis Rodman!! uhhh…. I guess?
“Good morning (night) America how are ya?
I say don’t you know me, I’m your native son.
I’m the train they call the City of New Orleans
I’ll be down 500 miles when the day is done.”
Song by Arlo Guthrie.
Remember it well!
Food for thought…..
I’m not sure how many replies to this will show up here, but some are ghastly – and exactly why we must VOTE OUT ALL REPUBLICANS in 2014.
This is the original The Daily Edge tweet that brought out the nasty in this SpreadShit tweeter evil fool and others:
Don’t forget stupid…
Yep. Can’t get much more stupid, that’s for sure.
Yeah .. you go Jeb … we’ve got your number ….just go ahead, give it a try … ha . ha .
His big brother lie our country into an un-necessary war…..IRAQ. No we don’t need or want another Bush.
How are the storm predictions shaping up for all o’ y’all out east there?
And my big surprise of the day was realizing we change the freaking clocks on Sunday, already. Yikes, was I the only one to get this so late? 😳
In the mid-Atlantic we have a 90% chance of snow. #Snowquester, they nicknamed it.
If you have kids, grandkids, nieces, nephew’s you have until 10:00 AM Tommorow to submit artwork, to be selected by Mrs. O http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/2013/02/white-house-announces-theme-for-2013.html
I was NOT sucessful in the ticket lottery. PBO & FLOTUS don’t love me any more….
Um….cook something up w/ some crayons and attribute it to an un-notified relative….Win the contest…..and then show up as their “Guardian”…….best scheme I could come up with?
I’m not that artistic; my painting elicit the comment “well bless her heart.” Don’t want to make a kid look bad…
great ! at least some movement
wondering if some rightwingers will make an issue of the victim its named after.
You can be sure Linda, but then, they make an issue of everything.
Good evening Chips & Tods. I just did a “like” experiment. On my computer, it wouldn’t take, but then I “liked” TOD on my iphone & wordpress let it go through right away. So, anyway, I don’t know why the problem.
About the UniteBlue talk tonight, I just saw someone from Thailand with over 300, 000 followers ask to join UniteBlue. At this rate, the whole world will be on the list….
linda if you are about
got home got off the call for the NTL’s. Sent tweets around to the different guys in MI, MN and WI and made sure to mention “commonsensecaucus”. Lame. I know.
HI Alice
Not lame at all, totally helpful – like you always are. I am bummed I missed the call. I did not even know about it. My RFO left and I didn’t get an email. I hope they will have a taping of the call. Thanks for keeping me posted. You are the best.
RIDDLE: If amk drinks a full bottle of rum on Monday, and a 2nd full bottle of rum on Tuesday, how much rum will amk have drunk in all?
The answer is none at all! 🙂
unless it was a horse named amk.
I didn’t know that horses liked rum? Well maybe Miss Ann’s horse, but which other?
LOSING WITH LATINOS: WILL JEB BUSH REALLY TAKE IMMIGRATION CUES FROM MITT ROMNEY?
by Pili Tobar on 03/04/2013
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Despite the growing number of Republicans supporting immigration reform with a pathway to citizenship, we know that some GOP holdouts still don’t get it regarding good immigration policy, politics, and the GOP rebranding effort to Latino voters. However, we never thought we’d have to count former Florida Governor Jeb Bush in that camp.
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As Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America’s Voice said:
If he stays with this new, ‘let them be workers but not citizens’ stance, it will be a political blunder of huge proportions. At a time when voters are looking for steady, principled leaders and Republicans are supporting citizenship in greater numbers, this should be Jeb Bush’s moment. Yet his disturbing flip-flop on immigration citizenship and tack to the right ahead of a potential presidential primary suggests that he’s misread the moment. By endorsing the failed concept of a permanent underclass for a mostly Latino group of workers, Bush will put a ceiling on potential Latino voter support. Let’s hope he clarifies his position in the coming hours to show that he will be a proponent of reform with citizenship in 2013 and not an obstacle.
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http://americasvoiceonline.org/blog/losing-with-latinos-will-jeb-bush-really-take-immigration-cues-from-mitt-romney-2/
Yep he will…….Jeb needs the teabaggers vote and he won’t get it without bashing the mexicans, blacks, asians, muslims, wimmins, and anyone that is not white.
Was it Rachel who just said the House Republicans is putting forth a bill to do away part of the sequester they don’t like, the defense cuts. Have you ever seen anything like those crazy ass Republicans? O’Donnell is talking to Jimmy Carter grandson who came up with that 47% Mitt’s tape. He talk of when he meet POTUS, and how POTUS thank him.
If anyone is around, Lawrence O is doing a re-write regarding the Senator Menendez business. I’ll be interested to see what he’s got in the way of video.
I’m watching – turned the sound off while Boehner lies were played
Same here, 99ts,
Just had Jay’s answer re Rodman & North Korea. I hope the GOP heard about countries who do no care about the poor and disadvantaged.
Here we go – Lawrence likes the sport diplomacy. They just can’t accept that the President knows what he is doing
I’m almost out of data, so am closing down for the night. Back with y’all tomoz…. Sweet dreams TOD. {{{{Chipsticks}}}} {{{{{PBO}}}}}
Sleep well Pamela, see ya tomorrow!
Well I had NO idea about wordpress flagging replies to post until everyone complained it disappeared – my knowledge seems to be rather limited – wish the GOP would admit that their knowledge is zilch
Do you know how to utilize the function?
I clicked on the message symbol top right & it told me “Pamela replied to your message on “catching up” – How cool is that – what else have I missed?
2 options, click on Pamela, or Lovelyplains now, and reply from just there. Then you dont even have to refresh the TOD page. Another option is go to WordPress login page, click reader. You will see the same Orange symbol for new messages. It will give you an option to view all at the bottom. Then you can reply to people from 2 days ago or even 2 posts ago, never having to load the TOD page. Makes it easy if you are multi-tasking. You can do it w/ the last 9 replies when you are on TOD, but sometimes the button wont work, or stay grey even if you have new replies. I use the reader option in the morning on the WP page, for anybody I missed from the night. Then load “rise and shine” Got any more questions….let me know.
Thank you lp – I will practice – and track you down when needed
Also when clicking on “lovelyplains” replied to your comment. Emphasis on “your comment” i.e. 99ts, you can click on that link in blue. It will load the exact post no matter which thread it was from, and it will go to the exact spot on that thread. Last thing if you are replying from WordPress/loging/reader page, just reply to all comments you feel like. Then click link to TOD thread and they will all show up in order. No refreshing, wasting cache or CPU usage.
For those interested in Kenya election results
http://elections2013.nationmedia.com/
http://vote.iebc.or.ke/
Ever wondered how inequality in America looks on a graph?? Have a look! No wonder all those billionaires have so much money to buy protection against paying taxes:
CALLING UT and all the other super smart college students that post here:
http://www.jeopardy.com/onlinetests/college/?hs308=email
Jeopardy! College Online Test is March 6th. Details at the above link.
Staples is “restructering” & laying off 1500 employees in US-now-E coast wking West- reason-they can hire 2 PT emp&pay mim wage&no benfits
this from a dear friend of mine. She makes UNDER 15. p/h and pays her own health ins. Her manager says tt its better to hire 2 part time employees and pay them mim wage with no vac pay or other bennes. Sad part she is in 60’s and cannot not work for many reasons. Corporations suck!
#RomneysAmerica
Good night all.
The President should just ignore them when it cones to any of this cutting spending or else. If they don’t pass finding bills, it’s on them.
Meanwhile, he should just push his priorities, and so should Reid. That includes immigration, gun control, minimum wage increase, etc.
It’s the only way to discipline children, ignore them.
There’s always something to smile about, if you’re a Liberal!
Great post on Angry Black Lady:
“And there was a time when Chicago’s good will seemed to be spread far and wide. From the Bears’ incredible 1985 season (culminating in a 46-10 win in Super Bowl XX, at the time, the most lopsided in NFL history), to Rich Daley’s impressive revitalization of the city through the 1990s, we entered the 21st century on a high note. Everybody seemed to love us…(snip)
“All the sudden, Chicago was the city they loved to hate. All the sudden, Chicago was inhabited by thugs and gang-bangers and welfare cheats. Chicago was the city of Bill Ayers and Saul Alinsky, not the city of Bill Veeck and Saul Bellow. Chicago was no longer defined by the architecture of Louis Sullivan and Mies van der Rohe, by the University of Chicago, the Chicago Symphony, or the Art Institute of Chicago, but by its murder rate and the number of its politicians who went to jail.
All because Barack Hussein Obama launched his career here, rising from community organizer, to state senator, to United States Senator, to President of the United States.”
http://angryblackladychronicles.com/2013/03/04/haters-gonna-hate/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AngryBlackLady+%28Angry+Black+Lady+Chronicles%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
They hate that a black man could even consider being President – let alone win. I LOVE that Barack Obama is in the white house for 4 more years
Oh, me too! As my state falls apart my big consolation is knowing that Barack Obama is in charge of the country.
A laugh for you — ODS in all it’s glory!
Does anyone else thing the wiper trail looks like a dinosaur about to eat something?
Looks more like a Republican cougar trying to get out of the vehicle and live a free life away from the RWNJ who’s driving. But maybe that’s just me.
I can see that. 🙂
🙂
Amazing! Back in 2010, I asked this guy who hated President Obama so much to tell me what exactly the President had done to him that that affected his livelihood or the livelihood of his family and the the people he knew. He really could not come up with a coherent specific answer. His whole hatred was based on his belief that the President was a socialist radical who hates America, and who, in the future, secretary planned to destroy the country because. Right there and then, I realized how hopeless and unproductive it was trying to have a sane and rational conversation with this person, who based his hatred of President Obama, not on what the President had done, but on what he believed the President was secretly planning to do in the future.
All of which the person either heard on FOX or heard from another person who heard it on FOX. Totally time to walk away when we hear those types of comments … they are unreachable, as you said. It’s worse than talking to a wall, because walls don’t talk back!
You are exactly right, JO! I really sympathize with President Obama because he is trying his best to negotiate with similar minded people who are now exercising so much power in Congress. These people are not interested in having a sane conversation with the President and trying to reach sane compromises that may not be 100% satisfactory to either the Democrats or the Republicans, but may, nonetheless, be able to move the country FORWARD. The bottom line for these right wingers, like the guy I talked to in 2010, is to make sure that President Obama is no longer the President. PERIOD! End of story. As long as he is President they are determined to make his life miserable by making the country ungovernable. They hate President Obama so much that they don’t really care about destroying the country in order to tannish his legacy.
I’m sure you feel the same as I do … I will never understand this phenomenon we’re experiencing, to my dying day … how anybody could waste their time and effort feeling those thoughts and taking those actions. Not only because of one man, but, in particular, this wonderful man who is our President.
His attempted explanation – the truth – blahs don’t live in the white house
This guy may seem funny now, but you wanna bet that the MSM will in fact make the 2016 elections ALL about PBO – even if he’s no longer running?
NO REPUBLICAN 2016 EITHER. Unless they steal it like in 2000.
That is what my sign will say. It also will say, ALL OBAMA WILL DO IS HAND IT OVER TO HILLARY 2016. I know that would eat the racists bastards alive. 🙂
Would someone reply with a hi so I can see if my orange button works. Thanks.
Congrats LL on FIRST.
HI!
😉
I see Orange!
And life is good.
Goodnight, Carol!
😴
Hi CarolMaeWY? I don’t even know what the orange button is all about! I always come to TOD late when most people on the East Coast are already fast asleep. Anyway, I hope my reply helps you with your orange button. If it does, them you must educate me about what the orange button is all about.
nath – In the bar at the top of the thread, on the right hand side, just to the left of your screen name, there should be a dialogue box which will light up to notify you that someone has responded to your comment(s). Then you click on the orange box and it’ll tell you who made a reply and you can click to see the reply (you can also click “your comment” in the box that opens and it’ll bring you directly to your comment on the thread and the reply, if you’ve forgotten the comment or prefer doing it that way, rather than working in the tiny opened box). Anyway, that’s what I do. Hope that helps.
I am entranced – if it hadn’t stopped working I would never have known it existed! LP talks about all sorts of WP things up above – in answer to my somewhat dumb query 🙂 🙂
There is no “dumb” among Obama people. We’re the smartest people on the Earth, because “we get it”! There are just things we haven’t heard of, yet. 🙂
Thank you. If you sign in through WordPress there is a bubble in right hand corner; now that I’ve replied to you, you should see that bubble in orange. If no one replies, the bubble stays grey. Hope that makes sense. I’m on my way to bed. My condition is tired after catching up. I’ll check in a few minutes to see if this helped. Thanks again.
JO & CarolMae, Thanks for educating me about this. I will check it out and see if it works for me. Sleep well!
G’night. 😉
Goodnight, folks. What a great day, with President Obama as our President (just like yesterday and tomorrow).
g’nite Jacqueline – what a wonderful sentiment to send you into dreamtime
🙂 And, when I woke up today, he was still President!
Well, MSNBC had his a hired gun to undermine Krugman. Granted, Krugman didn’t do as well as I thought he would, he made some mistakes, but he win that debate last night.
But, Jeffrey Sachs tears into Krugman, even though he agrees with stimulus spending.
This is stunning, Sachs says yes to stimulus and cutting spending at the same time.
Do they even know how stupid they sound? 🙂
Now, it’s Joe Klein turn. Head Start should be cut, it does not work, get rid of it.
So, Joe Klein says Head start does not work, got it,?
So will Klein support the President’s plan to have high-quality universal preschool?
So, the answer, turn to Ryan budget?-
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/286161-centrists-balk-at-ryan-medicare-shift
See? They eventually will over reach… This will change the narrative.
Morning!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/03/05/rise-and-shine-447/
So now that the 2016 Presidential prospects for GOP dream boy Marco Rubio look increasingly unlikely, the GOP & Media have turned to Jeb Bush for a new round of pimping.
My word of advice to Jeb: Be afraid, be very afraid.
Believe you me, no more Bushes. We have had enough of them. Jeb Bush sign into law that terrible “Stand your ground law in Florida. Now you have seen where Jeb have changed his stance on Immigration just to please the right wing haters. No more Bushes. American and the world is still trying to recover from the older dope of a brother of his.
Don’t forget the young girl in a coma in Florida. The rethugs all flew back to D.C. to pass an unconstitutional law that W flew to Texas to sign. I’m sorry I forget the young woman’s name. That was embarrassing.
Good Morning….Not going to be around to participate but would like to start a discussion(and read later)….there is something bugging me and I can’t quite put my finger on it….and I don’t really know how to express it but here is my attempt…….there is something “different” in PBO’s and administration “handlers” “fact checkers” “message crafters” “advisors” or whoever….there have been too many hiccups lately…across the board…Now don’t slam me when I say this, it’s just so unusual that it disturbs me….I’m not blaming this on PBO but on whoever is handling his information…same with Arne Duncan…and now OFA….I also think Michelle is being over exposed…don’t get me wrong I adore seeing her but if every time the average citizen cuts the tv on and sees Michelle(in one week) they stop paying attention….Don’t tell me this is a long range plan or I’m not seeing the forest for the trees……this is different but I don’t know what or how…..What’s bothering me??????? His approval rating is slipping and R’s rising WHY?????
I’m not going to get on your case, but I will say that I disagree with you. If what you say is true, all it shows is POTUS and his administration is not perfect. Where is POTUS approval rating slipping, I have not seen it, nor have I seen the approval ratings of the Republicans rising. Please show me where you have seen that. As far as too much FLOTUS, I disagree there too. Usually you only see FLOTUS when she have a project she is pushing. It’s the third year Anniversary of “Let’s Move”.If you had something you are trying to get attention to it, what do you do? Hide or appear on tv. She is talking about her “Let’s Move” program. And anyone who don’t want to see FLOTUS, don’t watch her. As for those of us who enjoy seeing her, I’m going to enjoy it because 2017 will be hear before you know it. I got so dam piss off with the big deal the right and others made about her appearing on the Oscars. If they ask her to announce the winner, and she wanted to do it, I’m glad she did it. And whatever show she will be appearing on next, I will do my best to watch her.
What channel do you watch? I never see FLOTUS unless I search for her here or on YouTube.
I saw FLOTUS on GMA, Dr. Oz., they comes on channel 12 ABC. Jimmy Fallon, channel 7 NBC, CBS Morning news channel 9.