That's it. Hong Kong is getting a really terse, sarcastic holiday card from us this year and I mean it.
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(@pourmecoffee) June 23, 2013Legend has it if you get super drunk and tweet your deepest, darkest wish during the Supermoon, it will come true.
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(@pourmecoffee) June 23, 2013
If you want to avoid full fury of the U.S., don't leak secrets to public. Play it safe and just wreck the economy to enrich yourself.
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(@pourmecoffee) June 21, 2013Days like today make me second-guess my decision to base my life on the moral teachings of Food Network stars.
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(@pourmecoffee) June 21, 2013Howard Kurtz headed to Fox News where he will host a media show tentatively titled, "Please, I Need This."
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(@pourmecoffee) June 20, 2013I believe the children are our future on account of they're younger and will be around when we're dead so I'm pretty sure I'm right.
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(@pourmecoffee) June 18, 2013Parent Tip: In the toddler community, saying “We’ll see” is the equivalent of knowingly writing a bad check.
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Honest Toddler (@HonestToddler) June 21, 2013“Sit and think about what you did.” I am. Next time I'm going to run faster. Maybe weave through some shrubs I don't know.
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Honest Toddler (@HonestToddler) June 19, 2013Ok so it turns out taking candy from a baby is really easy but outrunning its mom is not.
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Honest Toddler (@HonestToddler) June 19, 2013To understand how toddlers feel about vacuum cleaners imagine turning around and seeing Optimus Prime coming at you.
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Honest Toddler (@HonestToddler) June 18, 2013Happy Father’s Day! Of all the things your toddler has broken, your spirit was probably the most rewarding. Love u.
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Honest Toddler (@HonestToddler) June 16, 2013I'd love to see Republicans in Congress get by for a week on food stamps. No, Speaker Boner, you can not buy gin with the EBT card...
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kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) June 21, 2013*******
The Obama Diary 
1st
w00t Don!
Hiya, Don, congrats on 1st!
When UTA is in charge, things move at LIGHTNING speed.
Was going to leave a comment on R&S to say how much I love the top photo, with the baby boy wearing an oversized tie.
He’s too cute for words, and I love how excited he is to engage our President. He’s too young to understand the importance of POTUS’s office, so it’s obviously POTUS’s sheer magnetism that draws that response.
Of course, we at TOD know this already.
Congrats on 1st, Don (a little late!) ~
Good afternoon, TODville!
hello!
Congrats Don! Thank you ut!
GA TODers 😉
Gold for Don, Congrats 🙂
At this point in time not even Blofeld can save Snowden.
HF2, where are you???
Reposting HF2’s very interesting tweet from the end of the last thread:
and this:
Yep, Russia and Hong Kong you two guys make sure your stories are straight.
So how is one without a valid passport go from Hong Kong to Russia? Hmm? Without an arrest? Did that private plane reportedly waiting for Snowden fly him to Russia?
He took a regularly scheduled non-stop Aeroflot flight along with a WikiLeaks attorney.
Unless his lawyer is Johnny Cochran reincarnated, Snowden is still up shit creek.
Yes, a WikiLeaks attorney will do little for him at this point. I do not understand how any country benefits itself by helping Snowden.
In anticipation of Tuesday’s speech:
Did you see this from yesterday?
“Unlike his other signature second-term initiatives, such as immigration legislation, gun-control measures and entitlement reform, Obama can undertake all of these policies without congressional input. ”
good catch arapaho. I started following this man yesterday after your recommend. – today he’s having an interesting discussion on journalism i see as his comments go by on my time line.
Yay.
We’re probably in a lull from #SnowWhite coverage now, a good time for chores.
Hey UT – looks like others are backing up the women of Texas as well:
Thanks!
Thanks a gazillion UT, you’re the BEST!
No problemo Boss Cheesy Puffs. It’s handled. 😀
Can’t believe how happy it makes me to see women of NC on
this tweet. YES!
Jimmy Fallon is cool.
word
re: Greenwald v Gregory (from last post):
MSM knee-jerk reaction:
evidence of MSM fracturing:
Just waiting for the lightbulb to go off in the heads of GG’s dimwitted cheerleaders like @ron_fournier and @chrislhayes.
I’m willing to bet that there is someone or some country out there that wants to get on President Obama’s good side and is willing to give Snowden up.
Don, don’t count on it:
I wish Mr. Roberts would explain his reasoning. China and Russia are showing a lack of desire to cooperate with international law.
and let us not forget:
We all know that the GOP could care less about creating jobs for average Americans. Thank goodness that we don’t have a President Romneybot to deal with. At least President Obama can do his best to keep the focus on creating jobs if the media can get past all the “scandals”.
for all the nay sayers in your lives:
Great website. Have to bookmark it so that when the store opens, I can support it.
It’s been a blast, but it’s time for me to go, but before I do, I simply must comment about Paula Deen.
Who thought Paula Deen was a racial diplomat and is shocked by revelations that she is a bigot? That Crisco critter is a conservative confederate from Savannah.
I was always totally unimpressed by a woman who’s claim to fame is cooking the food my Mama turned out every single day…with her eyes closed. But it’s what we do. We turn every ignorant person who gains success into overnight icons, based solely on their ability to command a few dollars and then are surprised when they do something we consider idiotic. Why would anyone be surprised there are naked photos of Kim Kardashian, or that some gang banger turned rapper is also a drug user? We take folks with no political, intellectual or diplomatic skills and elect them to chair sensitive international concerns.
And don’t get the idea that Deen lost her job because she insulted Black folks. If she commanded an audience, had impressive numbers, the Food Network would have gone through hell and high water to renew her show. My guess, she was already on the way out.
‘And don’t get the idea that Deen lost her job because she insulted Black folks. If she commanded an audience, had impressive numbers, the Food Network would have gone through hell and high water to renew her show. My guess, she was already on the way out.’
That was my thought too, FayP. Food Network’s response was so ‘quick,’ it made me wonder if they had been trying to find a way for a goodbye without too many legal repercussions and this played right into their hands. In fact, it would not surprise me to find out they had already told her she was on the way out and this was a nice way to publicize that by letting public assume her racist behaviour was the reason.
I agree with you. I think after it came out that she had diabetes, her stock went way down. The kind of food she cooks is disgustingly unhealthy and her critics came out of the woodwork after her diabetes announcement and her subsequent shilling for diabetic companies. Never watched her show because I don’t believe in promoting fried donut sandwiches and food that is full of butter.
I never watched her show either, but don’t be knocking butter, pk. 🙂
did someone say…… butter?
Here’s some butter for you. If you live in Minnesota by the Twin Cities I command you to buy a pound of Hope Creamery Butter. Best damn butter you will ever put in your mouth. 🙂
http://www.aquariusmoon.info/frontpage/2013/06/23/snowdensworldtour/
Naked photos of Kim Kardashian? And no, that wasn’t the only thing I took from your well thought-out comment.
We believe you, Don.
All the Political Nuts are seriously in the TBGOPer party.
Perhaps for Comic relief, during Halloween, have nothing but a night of all the Nuts in the GOP for at least over the 21st century.
Okay, how about after TOD has gotten 20M hits….then that night, we finish up the night with a beverage of our respective choice and dive into exposing the Nuts in the TBGOPers just for the Fun 🙄 of it?
Works for me!
Definitely works for me as well, Mr. Yardarm!!
I saw this – this is a tired old argument from the folks that oppose food stamp programs. from all i have heard programs like SNAP, EBT are very highly effective ways of stimulating the economy, besides the OBVIOUS – helping people in need. I don’t get it. But then again Yard I don’t get most Republicans……
It hurts the brain to try.
Look at that face!!! if that’s what that is…..
Why doesn’t Gohmert try living off food stamps for a month and let us know if he could afford king crab legs on the pittance that beneficiaries receive?
I am sick of the demonization of the poor. Most of us, even those not on food stamps, live from pay check to pay check.
Hmmmmm
Hmmmmmm…..indeed! Good morning everyone!
SnowWhite has no passport. He’s flown to Russia. John Brennan has flown to Russia. Ecuador is still waiting to speak with him. Hmmmmm….
John King? The Boston Marathon Bombing misinformer? Hmm?
Thank you. Was just about to post a similar comment but about CNN and accuracy in general.
Yes, I’m wondering if John King will report next that Snowball has “brown skin” and was last seen “wearing a hoodie” “in Boston.”
CNN is pathetic….
They are re-running State of the Union with the “live ” cryon…….
MSNBC is even worse now. At least CNN has a live feed at the Moscow airport.
Oops! Had to come back to pose a question. I was just asked why using the “n” word is so much worse than calling someone a “faggot”. Why are Blacks so touchy? I told the person I will pose the question to my wise council and let them know. I’ll be back. 🙂
And I expect some answers! 🙂
Here’s your answer:
Nobody says that you can’t say ‘Nigger’
But, accept the consequences.
If you roll upon the wrong Black person, and they slap the shyt out of you…
Accept the consequences of your actions.
Nigger is frought with racial animus and part of a system of racial supremacy.
Show me how faggot is part of a system of ‘sexual supremacy’.
There will be people who will argue there are historical differences, and while true, does not somehow make one slur ‘more acceptable’ than another. Hateful words are hateful words, period.
I hear the word “nigger” on a daily basis, but then again I’m surrounded by murderers, rapists, child-molesters, drug dealers, bank robbers, white collar criminals and the like. And yet the word still has an effect on me. I wish I could say that when I hear that word coming from someone that is white that it didn’t affect me as much as hearing it coming from someone that is black, but it does.
Chris Rock best said it. Race trumps EVERYTHING in America, and I mean EVERYTHING. Ask any white gay person, if they would rather be black instead of gay. The answer will tell you all you need to know.
I guarantee you that virtually no one will respond affirmatively to that question – unless they are lying to themselves and to you.
Thanks, everyone. My white friends and I let it all hang out, so I will often mention something racially crazy or naive we’re spatting about. I shared your thoughtful answers with her, but added…the slur “nigger” is unique in it’s history and intent. Faggot can refer to anyone…Black, white, Hispanic, old, young. Faggot can mean weak, indecisive, silly or feminine. Whereas “nigger” has a specific, negative and historical context directed only towards Black people.
ALRIGHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT…ENOUGH ALREADY WITH THE N WORD…..
IF YOU THINK THAT IT IS ALRIGHT TO USE THIS WORD…WHY THE HELL DID EVERYONE GET UPSET WITH PAULA DEAN….
Prettyfoot…did you miss the point of this exchange? We’re discussing it precisely because the use of the word isn’t okay, and why it isn’t.
FayPax, I understand what you’re saying, but pleeeeeeeease don’t use the N word here, under any circumstances. Thanks.
Both the “f” and the “n” word are inappropriate slurs. Don’t see either one as okay.
From The Guardian’s Miriam Elder in Moscow:
I just talked to Ecuador’s ambassador, Patricio Chavez, inside Sheremtyevo airport, outside the ‘capsule hotel’ where Snowden is said to take a room.
He has not spoken to Snowden yet, he does not know where he is, and he would not confirm these reports that Ecuadorian doctors have examined him.
Asked why he was here, Chavez said: “We have an interest in knowing what is happening to him,” but would not go further.
let’s see here…president obama takes down the clinton machine, then the republican party twice in national elections with a mainstream media doing everything they can to stop him, quickly staves off another great depression, expertly takes down those somali pirates keeping americans hostage, gets major healthcare legislation passed with republicans and “the news” trying to stop him every second, eliminates the osama bin laden boogeyman which was the justification for the trillions spent and hundreds of thousands dead in iraq, starts with approximately 140K troops in iraq now to down to zero with afghanistan almost there too, and on and on…
i think he’ll handle this traitor-on-the-loose story just fine, and in short order.
EggZackly 4more .. Snowden= that fly POTUS so effortlessly swatted.
yes, perfect! our president is getting annoyed at the buzzing of this booz allen traitor, and we know what happens next.
love how it’s republican water carrier john harwood asking the questions too.
Outstanding! especially that you were able to come up with that video so quickly. Well done!
Probably not unexpected, but the MSM is treating the Snowden affair as an insult to PBO. It seems to be nothing but an attempt by a few bad acting countries looking for a political one-upmanship.
And as is always the case, PBO will have the last laugh.
Totally agree, hopefruit, that he WILL have the last laugh.
Is that what’s happening? (Not near a TV set now.)
Journalists need to get off their knee-jerk horse and take a look at GG’s twitter timeline, and search for “Obama.”
Every GG tweet about our President drips with personal vemon and hatred.
But instead, almost all journalists in my twitter timeline are defending GG (even some surprising ones, like @politicalwire and @davidcorndc).
I really don’t understand why they don’t think it’s suspicious:
1) GG and Poitras were in contact with #Snowden before he worked for #BAH
2) That the fugitive #Snowden is obviously being abetted by the person that GG has most vocally defended (Assange).
greenwald was full-on personal hatred toward president obama before he was even inaugurated. it was all so strange.
Of course they know damn well that this is about GG’s hatred for PBO. But they have to pretend and feign otherwise. They don’t want to lose their jobs, and they all have compromised standards of integrity.
“Every GG tweet about our President drips with personal venom and hatred.”
Unfortunately for GG, Snowden is eclipsing the NSA “scandal”. President Obama may be damaged by the NSA revelations but GG was looking for a knockout punch and that’s not going to happen now that Snowden has become the focus.
that was a weird part about this for me right at the beginning. the first stories i saw about this were all embedded with a sense of this brave no-name standing up that that eeeeevil president we have. ironic that this “national conversation” the snowdenwald claims it wanted to start, basically shows president obama has made things better on this topic since he took over from the republicans. of course the snowdenwald or the “the news” have no interest in explaining that to the voting public though.
president obama is driving them crazy by not falling into their tried and true traps from the past, and he’s not going to do any bill clinton-type nonsense, so i think they’re freaking out since their running out of time, and so now they just simply need to create some storylines on their own with which they can (falsely) hammer president obama. instead of “false flags,” maybe we should start calling these snowdenwald things things, “False Flies.” and we know what our president does with those!
Very well said.
Couldn’t agree more, 4more. Just add in “saved the US Auto Industry”
allright allright ALLRIGHT. I gotta go do some chores. blah. Move me lazy bum..
later. 😉
He has requested asylum in Ecuador….latest development.
Yup..
..did you mean “to be put in an asylum”..
😀
LOL What would Ecuador have to gain by letting this fool stay there?
http://cpj.org/killed/europe/russia/ 55 Journalists Killed in Russia since 1992/Motive Confirmed
Greenwald’s philosophy: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Ironic since Russia is strongly anti-gay.
Even @JakeTapper seems to be slowly cluing in on #Snowden / #Assange hypocrisy.
The only thing missing is the white bronco.
Sorry Don – but GG has already tweeted about the white bronco.
🙂
I’m sorry I didn’t know GG likened this situation to the OJ situation.
This is the kind of crap Texans face. People have the right to petition their government and not be subject to veiled threats by their representatives. HB60, HB16, and SB5 are horrible, destructive anti-women bills and the GOP is scared that they’ve gotten national attention.
Isn’t it amazing how these privileged fucks suddenly want to play “victim” once their dirty games have been exposed? So equality for women requires “protection” against?!?!? WTF?!?!?
Amen. But I don’t think PBO will do it. They’ll want to at least publicly work through our legal system. What the CIA etc do behind closed doors, though? I support 1000%.
I think PBO and AG Holder will do it, They are working through the legal system. Snowman is a fugitive charged with serious crimes.
F-14s have been decommissioned sometime ago.
F-18s and now F-35s are onboard carriers.
In case he deletes it. Scumbag.
What exactly is that moron referring to when he talks about “protect ourselves?” Who and what are these horrendous bills “protecting?”
Any legal experts here re above…..
re: Snowden, from yesterday.
MSM seem “shocked” by #Snowden’s full-on fugitive turn of events, but they should have been clued in when #Snowden and GG grandiosely “unveiled” #Snowden as the traitor.
Joy Ann Reid is doing a fabulous job connecting the dots with the Assange (Wikileaks) folks and the Snowden affair.
Call me stupid. I can’t seem to figure what they think they’re accomplishing. The thing I admire most about my President is that while everyone else is busy fussing, cussin and getting their panties all in a bunch…he just keeps on swaggin along.
So true, Fay!!
And, we know AG Holder & crew are on the job …
… 🙂
LL, the timeline suggests that he went to the NSA with the intent of gathering info. Seems he made his contacts beforehand.
Greenwald & Poitras are both on record, bragging how they were interacting with him before he was hired by Booz Allen. The folk at Booz Allen are undoubtedly being intensively scrutinized regarding every aspect of who hired Snowden, who recommended him, etc. But, all that aside, the nature of what Snowden was doing with Greenwald, Poitras and perhaps others like Assange is the core of the issue of why and how Snowden did what he did – and who’s been paying the bills during the entire interval of his first contact with GG and Poitras.
One has to wonder just how vulnerable the NSA was, since they knew they had leakers in their midst.
Exactly, if Snowden is arrested fine, if not he spends his life running, and China, Russia, and some Latin American country are seen as acting outside international law.
Joy, you are a direct line to sanity!!!
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/06/23/sunday-is-for-funny/
Rand Paul turning on Snowden
Hehe