I posted a couple of NM items this morning (on R&S, I believe), hoping you’d see (ABQ requires user to answer a question or two before viewing article):
OK, this link takes you to what I was trying to post. Not sure why it messed up w/ that sq. thingy. Did YouTube change stuff while I was in work purgatory? LOL! 🙂
You did, TrumpDog? I’m just seeing a big black sq. Maybe it takes a little time to roll over here? I was used to instant posting. Thanks, let’s see what happens. I promise not to try again, that wouldn’t be savvy! LOL!
What is interesting is that President Obama has raised everyone’s stature. The Russians are being made to vocalize their support for questionable entities, like Iran and Syria – so we all know where they stand and what they value. Europeans are having to account for their policies, and they are being made (to some degree) to pay some share in the military costs of policing the world. China is being brought into the top shelf, but also being made aware of the responsibilities that come with that status. Africa is being encouraged to become entrepreneurial and to reject corruption. Of course, I’ve oversimplified the state of affairs. There’s still a long way to go, but (nearly) everyone is facing forward. And the US isn’t posturing as the only important player on the world stage. Baby steps, but important steps.
theo67 – If half of our country even understood what you meant, much less appreciated the value of it, we’d be a hell of a lot better off! Thank you for expressing this so well.
How did mainstream media get the NSA PRISM story so hopelessly wrong?
By Ed Bott for The Ed Bott Report
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Summary: Last week’s bombshell stories by The Guardian and The Washington Post accused some of the biggest names in tech of willingly working with the NSA to give up your data. It now appears that those stories misread the technical details and got the story wrong.
Please excuse my language, in advance, but how did our “news reporting” become so fucked up that first the erroneous reports and analyses are put out, and then there are the denials and real proof of what’s happening issued, and then the endless stories about how the media didn’t report it correctly are brought forth, all within a week or so, and then we move ahead to the next screw-up.
Tiring, to say the least. Time-wasting and fucked up, in this week’s recap.
Police: Several injured in another La. plant blast
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June 14, 2013 09:17 PM EST | AP
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DONALDSONVILLE, La. — Authorities say one person was killed and several injured in an explosion at a Louisiana chemical plant, only miles from where another blast killed two plant workers a day ago.
Louisiana State Police Capt. Doug Cain said one person was taken by helicopter to a local hospital and several others were being treated for injuries following Friday evening’s explosion at a CF Industries facilities in Donaldsonville.
Cain said the local sheriff told state police that there had been one death.
Cain said a fire sparked by the explosion was quickly extinguished.
CF Industries’ website says the plant can produce roughly 5 million tons of nitrogen for agricultural and industrial uses annually.
On Thursday, an explosion at chemical plant in Geismar owned by Williams Companies Inc. killed two workers and injured dozens of others.
Good info from Facebook’s legal counsel on what they provide to law enforcement
portion of it:
With more than 1.1 billion monthly active users worldwide, this means that a tiny fraction of one percent of our user accounts were the subject of any kind of U.S. state, local, or federal U.S. government request (including criminal and national security-related requests) in the past six months. We hope this helps put into perspective the numbers involved, and lays to rest some of the hyperbolic and false assertions in some recent press accounts about the frequency and scope of the data requests that we receive.
For those following NSA and Prism – FB just released important report showing extent of US gov requests for data. http://t.co/LWAdkDNTd7
JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hi 🙂 It was a little TOO quiet for me, thought I’d better shake the place awake! You like?? 🙂 He really is fabulous…remember WH concert?
Rush sure had a backfire with his attacks on Ms Fluke. She will be very well known when she runs for congress – good to see her relating to many different issues.
STUNNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why have I never seen this before? I’m ashamed of myself! Pride just wells up inside me when I watch this. WE DID THIS!! I love this man. Love him hard. Thanks, vc…blues or no, this was perfect.
Good point! Hello MP. It’s been awhile since we’ve been around at the same time.
Don’t answer here, I’ll see you in the current post sometime during the rest of the weekend (I hope).
Give me 5, Bobfr! This one is a bull’e eye! With precision wording too! 😀 😀
[Why don’t blogs have fine print? Pretend this is fine print = It’s occurred to me that this is a fine example of TOD teamwork.
DD40 put the vid together. CC saved it in the archives. VC stumbled upon it. Bobfr wraps it up nicely and points it at a person in need. 😉 ]
Obama White House.gov
The Obama Diary 
THE WEEKEND!!!!!!
Congrats on first Magpie!
Congrats on 1st magapie!
Great toons, LP 🙂
#TrustBarack
Congrats on #1, magapie!
I posted a couple of NM items this morning (on R&S, I believe), hoping you’d see (ABQ requires user to answer a question or two before viewing article):
Yikes, help! I tried to post this YouTube vid at very end of last thread & it’s kinda blank big square:
What am I doing wrong, thought you just dropped the link & voila!
Uggh, big sq. again: let me try this way. Can you delete all other LP?
OK, this link takes you to what I was trying to post. Not sure why it messed up w/ that sq. thingy. Did YouTube change stuff while I was in work purgatory? LOL! 🙂
Sometimes there’s a slight today. This one’s showing up for us! Thanks!
*slight delay*
(slight today? hmmm … )
I thought I saw it just fine in the last thread…?
You did, TrumpDog? I’m just seeing a big black sq. Maybe it takes a little time to roll over here? I was used to instant posting. Thanks, let’s see what happens. I promise not to try again, that wouldn’t be savvy! LOL!
Great toons, especially the corporates one.
TY AMK….added a few more! How you been?
Congratulations, magapie.
Kind of sad funny today.
Op-ed by Gabby Giffords and mother of Tuscon victim Christina Taylor-Green
Did Rep. Elijah Cummings every release the IRS papers he wanted that lying weasel Darrell Issa to release?
They sent a letter yesterday to Issa, asking him to justify why he wont release the full transcripts…gave him till monday.
Here is a link to a portion of the transcripts that clear the WH of any involvement….
Where is “Saint Fu” from earlier today? Grrr. (Not you, LP – meant Issa, of course!)
Was about to crawl into a fetal position and strart crying……..
Poor baby. You can come out now. You’re among friends!
Deep dive into the relationship between PBO & Merkel….
What is interesting is that President Obama has raised everyone’s stature. The Russians are being made to vocalize their support for questionable entities, like Iran and Syria – so we all know where they stand and what they value. Europeans are having to account for their policies, and they are being made (to some degree) to pay some share in the military costs of policing the world. China is being brought into the top shelf, but also being made aware of the responsibilities that come with that status. Africa is being encouraged to become entrepreneurial and to reject corruption. Of course, I’ve oversimplified the state of affairs. There’s still a long way to go, but (nearly) everyone is facing forward. And the US isn’t posturing as the only important player on the world stage. Baby steps, but important steps.
theo67 – If half of our country even understood what you meant, much less appreciated the value of it, we’d be a hell of a lot better off! Thank you for expressing this so well.
Thanks Jacq! 🙂
In summary ….
#TrustBarack
Absolutely amazing, Bob! Thanks for continuing to expose the unethical MSM.
Thank you, nath. They have no place to hide!!
Bob – Keep these summaries up until 2017, okay? No, really, they are masterful, especially since you take the time to send them to the “cc” folks!
How did mainstream media get the NSA PRISM story so hopelessly wrong?
By Ed Bott for The Ed Bott Report
———————————————–
Summary: Last week’s bombshell stories by The Guardian and The Washington Post accused some of the biggest names in tech of willingly working with the NSA to give up your data. It now appears that those stories misread the technical details and got the story wrong.
—————————————————
http://www.zdnet.com/how-did-mainstream-media-get-the-nsa-prism-story-so-hopelessly-wrong-7000016822/
Please excuse my language, in advance, but how did our “news reporting” become so fucked up that first the erroneous reports and analyses are put out, and then there are the denials and real proof of what’s happening issued, and then the endless stories about how the media didn’t report it correctly are brought forth, all within a week or so, and then we move ahead to the next screw-up.
Tiring, to say the least. Time-wasting and fucked up, in this week’s recap.
The Turkish government says it has agreed to suspend redevelopment plans for an Istanbul park until a court ruling, after talks with protesters.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22902308
The protests worked, I see.
And perhaps the global coverage of the protests, as well.
Never let ’em escape responsibility, Bob! Thank you.
Police: Several injured in another La. plant blast
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June 14, 2013 09:17 PM EST | AP
——————————————————————————–
DONALDSONVILLE, La. — Authorities say one person was killed and several injured in an explosion at a Louisiana chemical plant, only miles from where another blast killed two plant workers a day ago.
Louisiana State Police Capt. Doug Cain said one person was taken by helicopter to a local hospital and several others were being treated for injuries following Friday evening’s explosion at a CF Industries facilities in Donaldsonville.
Cain said the local sheriff told state police that there had been one death.
Cain said a fire sparked by the explosion was quickly extinguished.
CF Industries’ website says the plant can produce roughly 5 million tons of nitrogen for agricultural and industrial uses annually.
On Thursday, an explosion at chemical plant in Geismar owned by Williams Companies Inc. killed two workers and injured dozens of others.
All these recent chemical plant explosions are becoming curiously conspicuous.
Good info from Facebook’s legal counsel on what they provide to law enforcement
portion of it:
With more than 1.1 billion monthly active users worldwide, this means that a tiny fraction of one percent of our user accounts were the subject of any kind of U.S. state, local, or federal U.S. government request (including criminal and national security-related requests) in the past six months. We hope this helps put into perspective the numbers involved, and lays to rest some of the hyperbolic and false assertions in some recent press accounts about the frequency and scope of the data requests that we receive.
That was wonderful rikyah. You are awesome. thanks for sharing.
Looks like President Obama will have some competition for news when he’s in Berlin, LOL.
Looks like we’re getting ready for the two Koreas with our new BFF, Japan.
Click link for pic and details. https://twitter.com/AmbassadorOren/status/345629271697534977
ANYONE HERE 🙂 ??? Awake?? How about some blues???? 🙂
Thank you, df!!!! I’m here.
JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hi 🙂 It was a little TOO quiet for me, thought I’d better shake the place awake! You like?? 🙂 He really is fabulous…remember WH concert?
Haven’t checked it out yet, but I shall! Any music shakes the place awake, that’s for sure, so thanks again.
One more:)
Rush sure had a backfire with his attacks on Ms Fluke. She will be very well known when she runs for congress – good to see her relating to many different issues.
Yes, she’s continuing to select just the right issues for herself. Very smart young woman.
To ALL the fathers out there…Happy Father’s Day
Dept of self promotion:
Remember this? Not the blues, but …. given the unreliability of Bill C’s support, it’s nice to be reminded that many others stand with PBO.
I wonder if the creator of this vid is working on another anytime soon?
STUNNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why have I never seen this before? I’m ashamed of myself! Pride just wells up inside me when I watch this. WE DID THIS!! I love this man. Love him hard. Thanks, vc…blues or no, this was perfect.
Did you notice that our own DD4O was the creator? I don’t think she has done another one since, so maybe we/you should ‘lean on her’ for #2. 😉
Better hurry hurry hurry her up, before those twins arrive, she will be a goner after that!!!! {{{{DD4O}}}}
Good point! Hello MP. It’s been awhile since we’ve been around at the same time.
Don’t answer here, I’ll see you in the current post sometime during the rest of the weekend (I hope).
If you haven’t seen it df – another discussion re “hereditary traits” – I don’t read often on Slate but this makes much sense
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/06/racist_tweets_by_gop_kids_have_everything_to_do_with_politics.html
#TrustBarack Because We Can Count On Him, Always
Mr. Bobfr,
You just know…How to say it. When to say it. Who to sy it to.
I am so loving this! Never stop doing what you do.
Thank you.
Thank you LDS. I promise i will not stop 🙂
Give me 5, Bobfr! This one is a bull’e eye! With precision wording too! 😀 😀
[Why don’t blogs have fine print? Pretend this is fine print = It’s occurred to me that this is a fine example of TOD teamwork.
DD40 put the vid together. CC saved it in the archives. VC stumbled upon it. Bobfr wraps it up nicely and points it at a person in need. 😉 ]
Thanks VC, I don’t remember ever seeing that video. Time for bed. GN folks.
GN R in MN. Sweet dreams!
Time for some music. New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/06/14/night-owls-white-house-performances-countrified-funk/